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VOL 4, NO. 45.

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ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNEESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1809.

PRICE FIVE CENTS.

mbrellas--—

We have- J just:

lot of .U

with Storling Silver Handles, for Ladies. and

Gentlemen.

Call aud see them.

J. W. SPRING,

NEXT DOOR TO THE POST: OEFICE,

THE LEADING JEWELER,

BARGAINS

BARGAINS!

BARGAINS!

I mean Genuine Bargains. and the Largent aud Most Complete Stock of .

Teady-Made Clothing, Men’s :Furnishings, -Boots and § Shoee, Hate and Caps, z

Youths and- Children’s Wear,

To Select, froin in the City

ROOM MUST BE MADE OR XW GOODS - ARRIVING. —

CIAL ‘MENTION:

= Men’s Nobby Suite, in English, Scotch ‘and Caiadian Tweeds reduced 20 per.cent, to Clear Out.

..An Immense Line of Boys’ Suits; at Coat and Under

Must_Be-Sold,

JUST ARRIVED:

A Large Consignment of Lateat ‘American Hats, Newest Shades and Styles

‘| aelf and him, that you-_can do better

Call and inepect nyv.etock-and you will be convinced Bick Carefully, Selected,

and reslize more value for your inonev:than: elsewhere. ware Dealing... No

Rock Bottom Prices,

“MJ. OMEARN, THE CLOTHIER

CORNER “COLUMBIA AVENUE. AND \LANCOLN-: ATREET:

BY THE PISTOL ROUT

‘Mrs. "Dumas Shoots Herself Through the Heart.

SAID T0 BE TEMPORARILY INSANE. She Haa Led a Varied Life—Leaves Two Little Children—Inquest

THE EDITORS ARE COMING,

Ono Hundred of the Craft to Visit Rossland Noxt Friday.

About one hundred editors, their wives and sweethearts, of the. Canadian Prose Association, are scheduled to arrive in Rossland on the 7:45 p.m. train Friday over the C. P, R. They will-be met at the depot by the city council and band and escorted to thir reepective hotels. Satarday morning carriages will he in waiting to take the excursioniste to the inines, and every courtesy and attention will be shown them possible. ‘The fol- lowing is a complete list of the party:

W.8 Dingman, Serald, Stratford; E B H Penge, Whig, Kingston; O W Young,

this

At a few minutes before 11 ovelock this morning Mrs. Ivy Dumas

hold Cornwall; George. P Gra-

ham, Mrs Graham, Recorder, Brockville;

Ww Ireland, North Star, Parry Sound; Dr.

Sylvester, Mrs Sylvester, Lancet, Toron-

to; B Way, Mre Way, hon. member, Mra

auicide by. shooting herself through the heart'at the head of the stairs in the Collinge house. She was’ the wife of W. E. Dumas, whois engaged in the buel- ness of repairing-slot machines in town. | Mr. Dumas says hia wife was evidently temporarily insane. Her mother, Mrs. Cramer, is now in the asylum at Med- ical Lake, 14 miles-from Spokane. “Mr. Dames saya they had often talked of her going to Medical Lake for treatment, but ahe atrongly objected, sometimes saying she would kill- anyone who sent’ her there... She has upon two occasions re- cently tried to commit suicide, once by poison aid once with a razor. Only a short time ago Dumas took a razor from under.her pillow while she was asleep, and laat night she tried to poison her-| That is his opinion. Upon his return home last evening ehe prepared.a warm toddy for them, which he‘ refusedand threw out. She after- wards made ‘two lemonaies for them, which he also threw out. She then in- sisted upon them going to sleep, ‘so. she. coald® talkxto him.” *:She has many

times eaid they would. both go: together,

Banner, Orangeville: H_8 Scott, Globe, Toronto; Geo Wrigley, Mra Wrigley, Citizen and Country; W.-H Keller, Jour- nal, Uxbridge; Lud--K Cameron, Mra Cameron, Queen’s Printers, Toronto; A F Pirie, lirs Pirie, Banner, Dundas; H ¥F Gardiner, Mrs Gardner, Times, Hamil- ton; JW Eddy,. Journal, St Mary’s; Wm Watt, jr , Miss Watt, hon. member, Brantford; A T Wilgress, Times Brock- ville; Chas Clark, Review, Kincardine; Mra Weld, Farmer’a Advocate, London; HB Elliott, Times, Winghamr A Mc- Nee, Mrs McNee, ‘Record, Windsor; Thos Hilliard, Mra Hilliard, hon. mem- ber, Waterloo; Jon= A Cooper, Can- adian Magazine, Toronto: D. Williams, Mra Willizms, Bulletin, Collingwood; W M_O’Beirne, Beacon, Stratford; Chas N Robertson; Mrs Robertson, Journal, Ottawa;- Misa . Withrow, -Methodist Magazine, Toronto;..H-—Hough, hon.

ies

Toronto, Aug. 23.—Tho following is record of today’s call on’ the: Toronto stock exchange, and of ‘the sales made:

Waterloo. ... . CARIBOO DISTHICT. Cariboo Hydraulic... $1 50 FAIRVIEW CAMP. Fairview Smuggler. ROUNDARY CREEK. Od id Troneidess 72 . Hil Rathanailen = Brandon & G. Crown Morrison .. Winnipeg.

BLOOAN, AINSWORTH AND NELSON. Athabasca. if

TRAIL OBEEK, Big Three.. Deer Park.-

member, Toronto;A GF Nowe; A dri ; AW Law, 3 Times, Toronto; IM Walker, Courier, Perth: %G °E--Gibbard, “ Mra. Gib: , baxd, Pharmacentical. Journal, Toronto; ronto; WW Cliff, Mrs Cliff, Central

All we ask 18:

Try!

“We will have your ade alter th that. The average man buys shoes from their.appear- ance and fit... They know little about leath-

er and trnst to their dealers. Hence the advantage of dealing with « repu table house. Our.ehoes strike people by stylish shape and by their quality.” :

CO. LALONDE aS

106 WEST COLUMBIA AVENUE.

7 at East COLUMBIA AVENUE.

and this was looking. for him for the purpose of shooting hiw, Just before the tragedy,. Dumas saw her.

ce} di Carleton Place; George Semler Nk Telegraph, Welland; A J Mathson, hon. member, Perth; OC .W. Rutledge, Mra

on the west side. of W street. He was -in- front of: the Collins house, and seeing her start acrogy the street, :|went upstairs.and into'a‘room where there were four women.

He says they asked him what he wanted, and he replied that his wife waa after him. He was only in a few mo-

Use Dr. Eseljay’s Tiny and Liver Pills

A. Positive Cure. for all. Kidney Diseates. A

Purely Vegetable Medicine for all Diseases of the

4 Kidneys. and Urinary Organs. =

ments when they heard a shot fired. He rushed out and: found: his wife lying at the head of the stairs. Supposing that she had fainted, as she sometimes did, he called for water and ran for the doc-

tor. -When he returned she was dead.

| She was taken to Beatty’s undertaking

ptrlore. The coroner was notified and an inquest. set “for. o’clock this afte:- -{noon.. =

On account of the way the builet en- tered Mrs. Dumas’ breast it is thought likely that she had the pistol cocked and being lame, stumbled and fell upom it; awit would be most difficult for her to fire the shot to take effect as it did.

The Clarendon Cafe. FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT, Open Day and Night.

Rooms for Banquets and Dinner Patties

Mrs.-.Dumas was a cripple, having lost-her right leg when she was six years old. She was swinging her. brother. when the board came back and struck her. Inflammation set in, which re- sulted in’ the omputation of her limb. -She used a crutch and wae occasionally seen upon the street. She yas rather a pretty woman, 23 yeare old, with black curly hair. Her father lives at Cheeney, Wash. sand was the firat pogtinaster there. cruel tothe girl, whi

ran away and get. married. The man

Rossland Labor. Union

Undertaker.

Oldest] atablished;Houre in Kootensy

WILLIAM: Re BEATTY

ROSSLAND, BRITISH COLUMB’A

Cooke’ and: Wasters’ union, Ni Bea, Saturday. evening Unio: Sau

#0. Box 41.

at ‘B: 120, Mine! es, MU! man ROHN, Bres.

0. 40W.L. U., Ht, Sec,

To the General Public

4. G. CREELMAN P. O. BOX 315,

Creelman & Beam,

CONTRACTORS BUILDERS.

GEO. BEAM thelr patronses on th ample,

+ ‘Those who appreciate the mag beso al

he clerks will kind]:

ore ees th ofeach month and ds receeding a1 legal holidays

fae ko eek after? o'clock, ie deri names, which would indicate

Clerk's and Salesmen’s Union,

furnished on all kinds of work. ving promptly attended to.

gren'enne war Rossland BC.

Conger court, > TORT Alhambra Hotel,

“Martin A. Schwieg, the high-clags tailor, will give you a perfect fit. Call and sce him, Spokane street, two aeons

off Columbia avenue.

she married was 46 youre old. His name was Deller.” They did not get along together, and- after the birth of two hi d and were di The children, a boy and a girl, 7 and 6 years old, are now living with relatives at Springdale, Wash. She left yester- day to visit them, but got no farther than Northpert, returning on the after- noon train. Twice befure she has. gone that far, and each time returned. She left a letter to her husband, bid- ding him goodbye and calling him en-

hat she had made up her mind ¢o take tis trip to the great unknown without hin, but Dumas thinks if she had canght him she would have tried tu have it linterent.

|. G. Blackutock, of the War Engle mine, left last evening for the east.

; James K Little, Advertiser, Owen Sound; D F Burk, Herald, Port Arthur; JS O'Bryan, Chronicle, Halifax; W 8S Given, Report- er, Millbrook;.R Matheson, hon. mem- ber, Belleville:-W H Miln, Cycling, To- ronto; D oo Price, Express, Aylmer; 8 Mra d Canadi Baptist, Toronto; -Wm Buckingham, Miss Buckingham, hon.. member, Strat- ford; Miss Lizzie Haycraft, Statesman, Bowmanville; T H Preston, Mrs Pres- ton, Expositor, Brantford; W H Steele, Watchman, Arnprior; D M Grant, En- terprise, ‘Huntsville; W J Taylor, News, Tweeds: Chas E Chapman, News, Rat Portage; Geo E Scroggie, Miss Scroggie, News,. Toronto; Mra Spraggep ‘Mixa Spragge, British Realm, “London, To- ronto;C A McArthur, Mining Gazette, Toronto; A F Wallas, Mail and Empire, Toronto; J J Bell, Mra Bell, hon. mem- ber, Tvronto; Misa Ida Simpson, Tele- gram, * Toronto; © A Matthews, Mrs Matthews, Globe, Toronto; J H L'Pat- terson, Type and Press, Toronto; Fred Cook, Mrs Cook, London Times, Ottawa; Andrew Miller, Citizen, Ottawa; F DL Smith,-World. Toronto; Miss Cameron, Advertiser, London; James Harper, Witness, Montreal;-R A Short, Witness, Montreal: Migs Gunn; Robert J. Har- per, Witness, Montreal; ‘L Schannell, Record, Sherbrooke; JG Holland, Jeur- nel, Stanstead; W J White, representa- tive department of interior; A E La- lande, representative C PR.

Police Commissioners Meet.

The board of polce commissioners, con- sieting of Mayor Goodeve, Alderman Clute and W. F. McNeill, met this after- noon for the purpose of considering the charges against the police department. It was understood that Mr. Clute would hand in a letter declining to serveon the board on account of Mr. McDonald, a member of his firm being employed to defend Chief Ingram. At 4 o’clock the were atill in session.

Later: It was decided to cali a meet- ing of tne board af 11 a. m. Monday, and the Trades and Labor Council will be notified. to appear with witnesses and farther evidence. Mr, Clute’ still, says he will not sei

ing the inv

A. J. Marka, of Nelaon, isin the city. ~ eo

DEVELOPMENT © B. C. Gold F. Canadian G.

Morning Sales: , Wa . Waterloo, 600, 1,500 at 934. Smuggler, 1,000 at 14. Atha- basca, 600, 500, 500 "2,00 at 38g. Van Anda, 600, 500, 500 at 1034. Silver Bell, 600, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500 at. White Bear, 500, 500, 500,500, 500 at 4,

Afternoon Sales: Brandon, 1,000 at 273¢; 500 at 27. Rathmullen, 1,000, 500 73g. . Dardanelles, 3,000, 500 at 13. Van Anda, 600, 500, 6,000 at 11. Silver Bell, 500, 500,600 at8, Northerm Belle, 3,000 at 3; 2,000 at 234. Van Anda, 600, 1,000, 600, 500 at 10. White Bear, 500, 500 at 4, Morrigon, 5,000 at 17.. Athabasca, 1,000, 1,000, 500, 500 at 38.

PERSONAL, -

J adge Walkem came in fromthe Hal- cyon Hot Springs and is registered at the Allen,

Barrister A, C. Sutton, of Grand Forks, came in last evening and will re- turn home tomorrow;

Mr. Williams, of the legal firm of Me- Phillips & Williams, of Veneers is in the city.

Mr. and Mra. Max Karter a are in; town for a few days before geing. to Green- wood, where Mr..Kurter will engage in business. _

H. E. Croasdaile, manager of the Hall’s mines smelter at Nelson, came in on the 11.a.m, train and is at the Allan. Frank Hart left today for Greenwood. George Seals, merchant of Addy, - Wash., is in town for the purpose of buy- ing some resident lets on which to build tenant houees.

John McKane. left today .via Red Mountain road for the Lardeau country. A. P. Brommer, an hotel man of Moyie, who has been:looking for a business here returned to his home for his family. It ig underatoed that he has secured an op- tiod upon one of the leading hotels of the city amd expects to take charge upon hie return.

Harry McIntosh, of the Hoffman, left todny for the west to be away week. Alexaniler Dick left on the 11:25. train for Republic,