THE OMINECA uN SATU RDAY, MAY 20, ; 1916. “da - ee oe ait tet Taam dS at aie Me ps nn “The World’s "Doings | i News Notes from Many Sources - Mount #8tna_ is veported in éerpption. Crews of B,C. coast steamer ask for higher wared/: A provincial bodyd: df, trade for, B.C. has been formed, - Peace propagandista: were: ‘mrioh-: bed in London on Saturday. Seven aeroplane. mall routes, will he established in. Alaska, * Winston Churchill hag left the army and returned: ta. polities: ° The Chinese government hag deéclared a partial moratoriumi,- ° |: _A citizens’ recruiting league has been:formed in Vancouver. Nine persons were killed in the collapse of a building at Akron, 0, on. Monday. ‘A Russian living in South Van- couver has been found to be afflicted with leprosy, The ©.P.R. liner. Metagama is due today at Quebee, with a large number of invalided soldiers, ‘Headed by Mayor: Gill, Seattle police made a‘’raid and seized $75,000 worth of illicit: liquor. B.O. druggists have protested | against being required to handle liquor under the prohibition law.. _ ‘The total military casualties { in|: the Dublin uprising were 124 kil- led, 888 wounded and 9 missing, A large shipment, of Canadian farm machinery is being sent ' from Vancouver to Viadivustok. Representatives of the Ameri- dan embassy will: ‘visit- Rugsian‘|i amps in which prisoners of war are held. " ‘ “G. T. P, officials predict - very heavy travel frorit the United. States into and through Canada this year, Australia will assist the Shack- elton relief expedition: by supply-| ing officers and 26 men provision- ed for 18 months. “The LaPointe resolution, by which the bi- lingtial issue was | -fotroduced into parliament, was voted down by. 107 to 60, oo :: The new Dominion.. grain ele- vator i in Vancouver, which has a storage capacity of 1,250,000 bu- | shels, has been completed. Carl Luderitz, German consul : at Baltimore, indieted in connec: ‘tion Wwith- ‘passport frauds, has. gurrendered to the New York authorities. \. The Chinese situation is be- coming very critical. Japan is .. ¥eported to have the backing of . ‘Ruasia, in return for ajd . in ihe we ‘resent war. ae ’, After discussion of the report of. the select committees which inquived into the matter of sold- ere’ pensions, the Dominion: a: Hament prorogued on Thursday.’ § ” Swedish ‘anarchists are sgid to “have plotted, aguinat. the Iie if King Gustave, in revenge for the conviction of three Socialist lead- ers of. the ; -anti-militariatig cone 4 press, oe “i ‘An swering American objections tg further use. .by Canadians of -water from the: ‘Niagara river above the falta: the attorney-gen- eral of Ontario. sugdests. that __ + Ganuda may prohibit exportation . Of ‘power to, the’ United States,. Sacha action would Hie mp hundreds hk: Jpower from the Canadian plants, | lof American industries which, use, Outstanding ‘differences be~ tween thé Alliéacand the Greek, ‘government haye been ‘settled, with, the Testi that there will bi no violation of the neutrality of. Greece, *....! on 2 The U, 8. congress has agreed]. pot: dy -arrty: reorganization bill providing for a regular army with a peace strength of 206,000, cap- able. of-expirigiqn in war time to, 254,000.. : An earthquake of particular violence occurred on Thursday, along the Adriatic coast of Italy, between Rimini and Cesena, It. the fatter town twelve persons, were injured. - Ragputin, the Russian monk. who was famous as the Czar’s| confidant, is reported to have. been shot by a woman. st was ‘believed he was working for a Separate peace with Germany. Despatches . say the (rerman, desire to take Verdun arises from the fear that it may be made the base for a movement to capture the great Briey ‘steel district, which liés between Verdun and. Metz. Vancouver harbor board has. offered half a million for the Kitsilano reserve, purchased by. the provincial government for $300,000. ‘The Dominion govern- ment demands $1,250,000, The matter wiil, be arbitrated, Peter Annance was convicted in "Vancoliver’ ‘Palice court. of at: tempting to procure impersona- tion of: .voters.-on behalf of the! Liberal candidate in the late by- election, and wus sentenced £6 Serve nine mouths at hard labor .} and. to pay a fine of $300, Swiss despatches say food con- ditions in ‘the Rhine towns are ‘becoming intolerable. A feeling of resentinent is growing among the populace,owing to the failure of tha goveinment to force the great agrarian proprietors to re- leabe large quantities of potutoes which they have on hand. A NEW. SWEDE ~~ IN THE HILLS, Tacked toa tree near the sev- en-mile post on the ‘Nine-mile road, the first prospector: of the season .on his way into do sory assessment work, either wit pigk. .or pencil, found the folloyy=|o ing notice. ° At this point twa stringers of quartz were cut y the road graders, and these evi: dently caught the eye of sone poving Swede with a name sug- gestive of manual labor. It @| ed identity of this pseudo-prospectar remaine a mystery to the old. timers who have been puzzii € over the matter, “Das har ban mae miner! bar- ren clin, i ef enybody yu at Ay. tall Iitake his yaw, "i rons cop.des hell to. ets top, en den turns round en rons down hell to ) Sammon river. Ay akh| | te poot ¢ en von sammon kannery an konsekrater mill, claim. ban low Kated ban. ! body’a dem bizniss, mon Ay sk ite tall eta name,es ban “Bell Marpi.. Ay ban Svenska yentleman, 4h); gude. -palwanized Canadian om Jear, ).! Ovar Haulgon, | subscriptions, received by S. H,. Hosking, district. treasurer. of the “ Ven dis hi If ae " Following is.a,statement of the Patriotic: Fund, - since the last) balance. sheet, was prepared, on Oct. 18, 1915, a regarding the losses of the Aus- tro-Hungarian armies in the war, ‘He gays from the beginning of the war to August 1 of last year, on the Russian. front, ‘431,000 were killed, 1,741,000 wounded, and 580,000 lost’ as prisoners. The Balkan and other losses brought the totala 501.060 killed, 1,915,000 wounded, and 572,000 prisoners, In the six months from August 1, 1915,to February 1, 1916, the losses’ were lighter, Ibeing 222,500 “Killed; 685.000 -wounded, and 87,000 prisoners, The total to ‘February 1 last, therefore, ig, roughly, 4,000,000. The average of “wounded who recover fur further service is 60 per cent,, sa that the net impairmentof Austria-Hungary’s fighting strength is "2,500,000: Synopsis of Coal Mining Regn: lations. Coal mining rights of the Dominion, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and. Alberta, the” Yukon Territory, the Northwest Tersitories and in a portion of the Province of British Columbia, may be lensed for # terth of twenty-one years ‘at an anual, rental of- be leased to.one appli cant, ie applicant for a lease must be made ' by the applicant in. \ Person to the A: gent of Uiatrict in wi the rights applies tied for are situated.” In surveyed ‘territory be desctibed by soctlony divisions of sections, , ‘and in ungury 'tertitory the tract Srplied fo for cba be staked out by the app cant himself; ° ed Tae pitencie rhch i d- a fea'o fl e refund- it the. iy ne whie lied’ wer are not available, b int at otherwise, - A royal- | { ty shall be paid ich cenfs poy ton. The person operatin furnish the Agent secounting forthe til i quantity © 0 chantabl ie coal’ mine, sh royal 6réeon,. 2 Tights are’ Tot being rlahel 4 veburng a be Furn: hed at one oThe ibe ri hs only, irtiseth nia vale mining ‘auc Wwhafeve f in ; ormation _tppltention sous tcr the™ hate bans triers the : _ Bort i ror: Sab-Agent mal ’ c WW 0 ESET ocean with 1,000,000 in non-combhatant service, and to get this foree the Vienna authorities have had to call in all men from eighteen up to 55 years. Exemptions donot exceed 5 per cent,, so that. all scone Nae LPATR: pr sEUND, oo men, The -Auatro + Hungarian At Liberty Six Hours in ‘Brief - | USTILL, GROWING | forces now consist, of 3,000,000, ; Sam Morris, the’ mulatto who was sent tothe New Westminster periitentiary a year or so ago, for assaulting a section’ foreman in the - Bulkley Valley, escaped from a guard, but waa recaptured within six hours, In police court, Hudson's Bay Company _ HAZELTON, B.C. Balance on hand, ~ $ 268,25 available men are now taken for charged, with escaping from cus- — Hagelion i 17.98 military service. tody, Mortis. elected ta be tried elton. —-—— co : Rother de eno Ottawa: Sir Wilfrid Laurier |#t thé next assizes, owe mane seh |has resigned, as the result, of the Chicago Group Mine 55,35 ; “a ow . : Babine Bonanza’ 3000 - °° revolt of many of his followers THE ROYAL ‘LUNCH ; Red Rose Group’? 14.25. on the bi-lingual. issue, “Giese Bat Mea _.Kitwangah "45,00 SO nr, ives the. Best Mea Lorne Greek © 43,00 Almost every known variety of For the Lowest Price Kispiox : tae . iron ore is found i in Newfound- Opp. Police Office, Hazelton Haguelget ~ 32,60 1,980.48 land, . LEE anche a Prop. ” Bulkley Valléy Dist: Pat, Fund 409,00 : = ; = es New Hazelton - seg 820,50 | Breer ve . siadbaahed nrrrerennerreererereretsi) Smithers oe gg )= 28O.BB] E eet cae - Boe es Bank interest ° : 7 5.021 — EAIT ISTRY - gq. Total ¥3,205,10] f DENT 72 EX _ 7 Remitted to Headquarters 2,700.00) # ' } Balanee on hand _ § 506.10 3 nm Dr. BADGERO, w will be. leated in ¢ ustria-Hungary’ 's Losses oar