The Omineca Miner

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. AT ||
‘HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE|

Great Omrneca DISTRICT OF ‘(From Our Special carrespondent) “Printing of Merit” f
BRITISH COLUMBIA, | pat A. MePhee and Miss| 7 : ,
By R. S. Sargent, Ltd... ‘Mildred Rowe, formerly of Kis-}. FARM LANDS th you can t fight you can at least |

SUBSCRIPTION R, RATRS: Canada
and British Possessions, Two Dollars a
year: Foreign, Three Dollurs a year.

ADVERTISING RATES: Display,
$1.50 per inch per month; Reading

Notices, 18 cents per line for each| breakfast .was served ‘by Mrs, a h fis ht fe ee oie
‘insertion. Legal notices inserted atlS) C. Jones, and friends’ and to be opened for Homesteads and sale. Ww 0. em S or You. ie we :
BR, G. Gazette rates. oo * Agricultural and Timber Lands. .Con- 4

' SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1917.

{t is full time we began to pro-
vide for contingencies we cannot
escape. With Unele Sam for
receiver, John Bull for residuary

' legatee, Signor Macaroni and our
dear Johnny Crapaud for expert
accountants and reliable notaries
public to draw up.the documents

‘k, the Liberal candidate for |and SKEENA MINERAL CLAIMS, sit-
and witness the preceedings, we Sore Nas held in Kennedy uate in the Omineca Mining Division Which assists the wives and families of Canada’s gallant
. oa . , : - a assiar Dis Lic
shall have no more invisible dip-| Fatyon Tuesday, A good crowd liber loeated:—On the weat slope of soldiers, requires millions of dol lars to keep the. soldiers’
os . . . Rocher de Boule Mountain, : . =
lomacy, no more international/ attended, and proceedings were TAKE NOTICE that Dalby B Mor- ~ home fires burning. :

hoeus - pocus--no scrap-of-paper
slips of tongue or sleights of
hands—no Schleswig - Holstein
conundrams nor Balkan problems
—but a fair divide—-Alsace-Lor-
raine back to France, the Tren-

tino to Italy—the just collection}

and distribution of theindemnities
to Belgium and Serhia—home
rule for Ireland and Poland free
—presaging, if not the milleniutn,
a foretaste of (hat blessed time

: - ‘Certificate. of Title for Lot 32 : _
premised us by “the Prophet] won by Fred. Rogers. | : ; sp
Isaiah in the Holy Writ, when a . ae Town ‘of Telkwa, (Map Honorary Presidents: Mrs, (Rev.) John Field: Mrs. (Rer.) | 7
be eh halle du : \ ai Satisfactory: evidence having been| #- Ho an z=
“the wolf also shall- dwell with| Mrs. La Croix, of Round Lake, | , SRHBS sory aviene of eee areen 7 W. Hog ;
the lamb and the leopard liedown ‘spent a couple of days, in town | cate.of Title to the above lands, notice a Chairman: Dr. H.C. Wrineh

with the kid.??
—Louisville Courier Journal.

Many changes and ,improve-

Pin PRR CREA heeieiegesd not ae

SMITHERS — .|

piox, were married.at the Angli-
ean Church on Tuesday last, Dec.
4, Alarge crowd was present
at the ceremony. The wedding

relatives attended, The happy
couple left in the evening for
their home at the ranch,
t+ + fF

The ladies of the Anglican
Church held their annual sale of
work on Thursday evening, Re-
freshments and a concert prog-
ram were provided, -

. 7; Tt TF
A meeting addressed by Fred..

harmonious throughout.
FOF OT
Miss Ella Reed, who has. been
visiting her sister, Mrs, Fother-
by, left on Tuesday morning for
Prince Rupert. =. .
ot oF Ft
Pal Carr left on Monday night
for Prince George, to visit rela-
tives and friends. |
, tT OF t
Two chickens, raffled for the
Red Gross, brought $24 and were

this’ week, on: business. .
te FF,
Jennings ‘Bros, expect to start

work. on the Lone Star group in
the near future.

BUY AT HOME
Get your letterheads printed at
THE MINER OFFICE

OREGON’& CALIFORNIA ,RAIL-

same reveated in United States by Act
of Congress dated June 9,- 1916.
million, three hundred thousand Acres

servative estimate Forty Billion feet of.
commercial lumber. Containing. same
of best land left in United States.
Large Map shoWing land, by sections
and Description of svil, climate, rain-
fall, elevations, etc. Postpaid One
Dollar, : Grant Lands Locating Co.,
Box 610, Portland, Oregon, °

MINERAL ACT
Certificate of Improvements
NOTICE “
LITTLE HELEN, COPPER ‘HILL,

kill, of Hazelton, B.C,, acting as agent
for H. 8. Lavery (Can. Lixped. Foree)

.and Andrew Fairbairn, of Telkwa,.B.C:,

Free Miner's Certificate “No. bRERC,
intend sixty days from the date hereof,

a Certificate of Improvements, for.the

the above claims,
And further take notice that action,

of Improvements.

Dated this 24th day of September,
A.D, 1917. - -. 4-12

N THE MATTER OF AN APPLIC-
ATION for the issue of a fresh

is hereby g'ven, that it is my intention
to issue after the expiration of thirty

~ .|days after the first publication hereof a

fresh Certificate of Title to the above
lots in’ the name of Pete Saari, which

tember, “1914, ‘und is. numbered 6523-1.

ROAD CO. GRANT LANDS, Title to]!

Two ||

Certificate’ of Title is’ dated BUit Sep- |:

to apply to the Mining Recorder for |

purpose of obtaining a Crawn Grant of | §

under section 85, must be commenced |
before thé issuance of such Certificate | f

_Dalby B.: Morkill L
NOTICE _ “ih

| ad
in

i

-
fe

stand behind the man

and J. G. Powell.

ae

The Canadian Patriotic Fund

The Canadian Red. Cross

organization. <

‘Honorary Secretary: Miss W. Soal

Honorary Treasurer: H. H. Little; ‘Manager. Union Bank

The Hazelton - ‘Branch requests the support of all in nits.
_stiorts to assist i iy the noble work of this. gvedt humanitarian

Vice-Presidents: J, F. Maguire, Mrs. Chappell, wm. Grant .

. District ‘Treasurer: Stephen. H. Hoskins, Government Agent—| a
; Hazelton. Committee: ‘ :

“I. iE. Kirby, R. ‘E, Allen. J. K, Frost, J R, Barker,

Monthly Subseriptions are Solicited

|

’

ments have been made in Bagdad
and vicinity since the-capture of , 7 tT 7T

that city by the British forces in| Axel Peterson left-on Thursday
March. The river banks have for Prince Rupert - to “Appear
‘been repaired; the Euplirates before the medical board,

wo eye Executive Committee: + 27 ot. |

- Mesdames Wattie, Writich, “Sealy, ‘and Glasgey; Rev. John.
Field, W.  Wattie, John’ Newick -

“Large or 1° Small Contr ibutions will be Gratotully Reseived”

» Land Registry. Office, Prince Rupert, |
-B.C., 20th November, 1917,
H. F.. MACLEOD,,

14-18 wey ce District Registrar.

” relatives, “old ai
"1 heavy: gnowstoria ‘added” to the):
“> gufferings © of*.the- “wounded an

has been made naviguble and t + F
floods. prevented for the first
lime in centuries; two, railroads
have been built from the mouth
of the Tigris viver, and are being
~ extended far north of Baydrd.
A swamp of forty-eight square
miles has ‘been converted into
wheat fields, gardens and poultry
and duiry farma-by farmers from

India, who supply. the British
forces ‘and who are preparing to]:

export food to England, -

INDESCRIBABLE SCENES ~~
_ MARK HALIFAX DISASTER | 5

Halifax; Dec, ec, T—The appalling
~ death toll here as the.resuit of
the explosion of the French mu.

B26, injend sixty days from. the accounting for the full guantity of al |
. ” chantable - coal. mined «an ay the||§ :
nition ship Mont Blane when. she date hereof to apply to the Mining [royalty thereon. If ‘the coal minin TH. HL Little, Re EB :Allén,. FB: Chettleburgh.

waa rammed by the Belgian relief
ship Imo here yesterday, was
steadily increasing early. ‘today.
- Conservative ‘estimates place the

.° dead at 2600. The scene as dawn 1981,

“brokeover the city was indes-|:
. ctilmble.” ‘Here and there about

the smoking: ruihs, of what! ‘had aL

been’ homes, - men and women,
; scantily. clad, élawed at’. the]

a -wreckage. frantically with pleed-

“ing. hands i in an effort to find. ‘Tost
Freezin; "t

‘(Continued Page Three),

P,P, BURDEN, .

THE. LEADING. for IN NORTHERN. By ty
HOTEL L PRINCE RUPERT

ng]. cal!

‘We HL: “Smith,
G. L. Davie were business visit-
avs in Smithers during the week.

7 7 Tot

“The ladies of the Methodist
Church held their annual sale of
work last weel. Gray's orches-
tra, was in attendence, Over
$100 was realized. -

». °, MINERAL ACT .
Certificate. of Improvements

_ NOTICE ~. |

RIGHT RIM and CENTER FRAC-

‘| TIONAL MINERAL CLAIMS, situated | -

in Omineca mining division ‘of "Range 6,

Bahine range, about:24° miles east of
| Moricetown.

kill, of Hazelton, B.C,, acting os agent | .
for Debenture Creek _Minea,. Ltd,,
Special ‘Pree Miner's Certificate No.

‘Recorder for a Certificate of Improve-
ments for the Purpose, of obtaining. a
‘Crown Grant of the above claims...

And further take notica’ that- action, |,
undey seetion 85, must be commenced
before the issuance of such Certificate
of Improvements, -

Dated this first day of August, A. D.

Green Blos, Burden &. Co.

Civil Engineers

; and Alberta Land Surveyors

and New Haxelton :.

a

Roy Hobart and

Coastdistrietslocated on Debenturécreek,:

TAKE NOTICE that. Dalby B. Mor-|

a Dalby B. Morkilt

* Dominion,” British Ectambia, my

Offices at, ‘Victoria, Nelson, Fort George -
“Now. Hazelton : oS

L Spnopas 0 Of Coal Minisg Regulailons °

CoaLt mining rights af the Nominion,
in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and

Alberta, the Yukon ‘Territory, the
Northwest Territories ‘and in a portion
of the Province of British Columbia,
may be leased fora term of twenty-one
years at an annual rental. of $1 an
acre, .
be leased to one_app! plicant.

Application for a lease must be’ made

Sub-Agent of the district in- which

the rights applied for-are situated,
In surveye territory the land must
be deseribed by sections or legal sub-
divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed

’ | territory the tract applied for shall be

staked out by the applicant himself,

ed if the rights. applied for -ara not.

available, but not otherwise, .A roydl-
ty shalt be paid on the merchantable

foants parton, —_-
The person: ‘operating

the mine Bhall
furnish the Agent wit)

‘sworn returns

rights are ‘not ‘being “operated, - suc’
returns should. be furnished at, Keast
once a year, .-

“The lease will include. the coal mining
rights only, but the lesaee may be per-

essary. for the working: of.. the mine at
the rate of $10.00 on acre. - |.
For. ‘full’ information” application
should be made to,the Secretary of the
Department of the Interior,
or to- any
Dominion ‘Lan
WwW, 1 W,' CORY,

Commenzial ‘Paeieg at.
THE’ MINER: OFFICE |

bist, :

Not more than 2,540 acres-will

eutput of .the mine at the ‘rate, of five

mitted to ‘purchase whatever’ availablo,
surface righta may-bé: ‘considered nec- |}

ttawa, |
ae Sub-Agent.. 8 |

yt 1 applicant in peraun to the Apont |

Each application must be accompani-| ij

ed by-a fea of $5, which-will be retund- | §

H. B. . Campbell, AL iF Glesseys G. Ww. MeKay

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ERS’ AID & EMPLOYMENT | .
~ COMMITTEE

Endeavors - ‘to supply soldiers: from Hazelton district with!
“such ‘comforts and: necessities as cannot be: ‘readily obtained
at the fr ont, and wi i dssiat them’ to re-establish: themselves,
“in civil life when, they return:
co -. operation. with ‘thé: ‘Provineial

Cotnmission and: the Military Hospitals Commission, oh
" Contributions, to the Soldiers” ‘Aid Tobacco Fund ure. Welecine

~The Committee i is acting in. 7
‘Returned’ Soldiers! 2 oo

. “Chairman: “AY R. Macdonald - ey oe
Honorary Secretary-‘Trensurer: J. XK, Prost: _