Phillips & Lindquist WORLD'S NEWS Builders and Contractors Plans, and i Specifications, Store and tures a Specialty. Pp, 0. ne 812 Hazelton ry: For Sale Cordwood Sawed in Stove Lengths if so desired Enquire of H. COPPOCK, Hazelton The Fast Launch 'Kit-Ex-Chen' Sealey-Hazelton Route Leaves Hazelton at 9 and 11 a. m, and 3:30 and 6:30 p. m. Leaves Sealey 9:30 a. m., and 1, 4 and Tp. m Express Service. O'Neill & Larocque, Props. tt td ert Hotel Premier Prince Rupert . It is the best place to stay, European and American plan. Electri¢ lights, hot and cold run- ning water on every floor. No extra charge for bath. 3 Rates: $1 to $3 per day Fred W. Henning, manager OF THE WEEK Brief and Newsy Paragraphs Covering the Activities of All Nations TOPICS INTERESTING ALL Steamer Ramona Wrecked—Mount Etna In Eruption—Cholera Riots In Italy Legal Battle Between Mackenzie-Mann Intererests and Dunsmuirs— Bullion Robber Caught The Canadian Pacific has inaugurated a system of forest protection along its lines, St, Andrew’s university, of Scotland, has just celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of its founding. By a close vote Maine has de- cided to repeal the prohibition law, which has been in operation for nearly fifty years. Sir Donald. Mann denies that the Canadian Northern has made any deal for an interchange of traffic with American roads. The first party of refugees from the disaffected Cheng Tu district in China has found pro- tection on a British gunboat. Vancouver city council has de- eided not to allow Sunday con- certs, the churches having ob- jected to the entertainments. A unique flood swept several streets in New Orleans wher: a tank containing a million—gallons of molasses burst with a tre- mendous report. Market street THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1911, People in the villages flanking Mount Etna are abandoning their homes, in fear of destruction from the eruption of the volcano. France stands firm in her re- fusal to submit to the conditions proposed by Germany for the settlement of the Moraccan dis- pute. Officers of the ill-fated Cottage City have been committed for trial on charges of looting the vessel after it was wrecked near Cape Mudge. Edmonton Conservatives claim thirty ballot boxes designed to allow of ballots being switched were gent to outlying polling places for the election. Representatives of two thou- sand retail cooperative stores in Great Britain are now in British Columbia, buying products of this province for their trade. Captain Ota, a prominent Jap- anese neval officer, has resigned because the authorities paid no heed to his report on the defi- ciencies of the Japanese navy. A large party of prominent British journalists, which has been touring Canada, spent some time in southern British Colum- bia, and is now returning to England. Resenting cholera regulations, mobs in the Italian city of Massa- fra have burned the cholera hos- off the Martial law has been pital and carried . patients, proclaimed, The International Waterways Commission, a new bodv formed to determine disputed questions between the United States and Canada, is now complete and a date for its first meeting will} soon be set by Canadian section. of many aliases, who admitted to robbery. detectives. which acquired the Dunsmuir coal mines, have brought suit against Dunsmuir, claiming mon- ey and plant to the value of a million. On the other hand, Dunsmuir is suing the new com- pany.to recover money alleged to have been collected by it and to be due to him. The wooden steamer Ramona of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, bound from Skagway to“Seattle with passengers and freight, went ashore on one of the’ Spanish Islands,’ opposite Cape Decision, Alaska, and is a tatal loss. The passengers and the crew were taken off by the steamer Northwestern, BRITISH COLUMBIA AHEAD Qur Road System Will Eclipse Any In the West—Our Share In the Pacific Highway — California Following Our Example The road policy of British Col- umbia is the envy of Washington and Oregon: Without burdening the people with taxes, this pros- perous province is carrying out a program of highway improve- ment which will in afew years give us the best system of roads in the west. We talk about good roads, says tish Columbia builds them. Burns detectives that he had/}{ been concerned in the bullion Gold amounting to| § $15,000 was recovered by the ; . The Mackenzie-Mann interests, the Portland Telegram, but Brit-| - been cleared ap by the confession # of Charles Everett, a bank forger | j Hudson’ s Bay Companys s. | BLANKETS, When you require a H B.C. Blanket 3 see that’ you get ‘the’ genuine article, Our Blankets have our tradeniark-on them. Don't take a “just as good blanket,” get the real goods. These blankets are all wool. 3: point Blanket 8 Ibs. 3 1-2 point Blanket 10 lbs, 66x 84 in. 4 point Blanket ‘13 Ibs. 74 x 84 in. We also carry other grades of blankets from $51 00 to $10.00 * per pair, Look for the Trade Mark. 66x 72in. Hudson’s Bay Company Omineca Hotel . * Hazelton @ This hotel is headquarters for all mining and commercial men visiting Omineca district. Good Sample Rooms Baths and Barber Shop ~ Het and Coll Water People dediving to visit Balkley Valley and fotnta south may | - travel by the Bulkley Valley Stage, which leaves ;this.hotel.for Alder-....[-... mere and Telkwa every Tuesday and Friday. ; J.C. K. Sealy, Prop. ia Route Your Freight via the _ Steamer “ Inlander” Flat Rate $86 per ton Princa Rupert to Hazelton The agriculturists of the prov- ince favor the proposal of the provincial government to send a potato exhibit to the Madison Square exhibition in New York ‘lin November, to compete for the Stillwell trophy and a _ Prize of was flooded for nearly a mile, SWEEPING REDUCTION IN HOUSE FURNISHINGS That province spent more than $5,000,000 on roads last year. It has also made provision for the| . expenditure of $5,000,000 in 1912, and another $5;000,000 in 1918, making a total of more than $20,000,000 in four years, Fast Freight and Passenger Service R. Cunnirigham’ & ‘Son 7 Hoezelton Agents = H. B. Rochester aed rig l E Macdonald Furniture Dealer, Hazelton Offers a 25 per cent Reduction in the Price of Fumiture for One Month Only Now is the time to purchase your Furniture for the winter. have a large and varied stock to select from, and we are confident that our prices will appeal to you, Give us a call or write for quotations. ‘We guarantee prompt service, satisfaction and attention. $1,000, Vancouver Island coal proper: ties, lying between Nanaimo and Ladysmith, acres and estimated to contain approximately 30,000,000 tons of _ ‘fuel, have just been consolidated into an operating proposition by Spokane capitalists. The mystery of the theft of $96,000 in bullion on the steam- ship Humboldt on August 10, has) embracing 2,400 * British. Columbia’ with about thirds the population of Oregon. Its main item of good roads con- struction is a provincial réad ex- tending from Vancouver, B, C.,- northward to Hazelton, ‘a dis- tance of more than 700 miles, The northern ‘terminus will be within eighty miles of the Alas- kan boundary. A stretch of 200 miles will complete the work, Quality Right SARCENT’S TELKWA STORE Prices Right Having two freight outfits bringing freight to our Telkwa § Store, we are re enabled to camry a full stock Feel AL well assorted and complete stock of General Merchandise including every requirement of prospector, miner and rancher. Buying in carload lots, we can sell the best goods. at ordinary prices. Years of experience in this district enables us to antici- pate the needs of all classes, and “we can supply everything you need. Care is taken in filling mail and telegraphic orders’ and in |. packing goods for shipment by Aver, road or tral. S. SARGENT “Hazelton wimuch they are costing us. 4 | California, the people of the proposed Pacific highway, ex- tending from Hazelton on the north to Tiajuana, Mexico, on the south, Other good roads activity in . ‘Alberta and ultimately to Super- ‘The amount spent for road . purposes ‘in British Columbia is $10 per capita for every man, ‘| woman and child inthe province, “In Oregon we have been trying for years to build roads with hot air, and have lamented about how In state have voted a bond issue of $18,000,000 to beused in building cash, and with a prospect of get- ‘ting roads that will be roads. In Oregon we shall ultiniately decide that good roads are a ‘priceless invesment, and that the only way they can be built is by spending coin in their construc- tion. . aos __. New Train Service * the | ‘train service between Prince Rupert and the, end of steel has been’ increased, the ; achedule now providing for three traing‘a week in-each direction,