“Everything in Canvas”

Prince Rupert Tent and Awning Co.
Prince Rupert, B.C.

J. W. AUSTIN
Provincial Assayer

Prompt and Reliable Work
Hincelton, H.C.

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General Hardware
Builders’ Material
Miners’ Supplies

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Club Special $68.00 per 1000
Arabela $63.00 per 1000
Irving $58.00 per 1000
Marguerite $58 per 1000

Overland Cigar Store
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requirements of your feet, the
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FOOTWEAR

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Hazelton, B, C.

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Call or Send for Catalogs and Prices

Canadian Rand Co.’s Products

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Local and Personal

Harris Mines-are now con-
nected with the local telephone
system.

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Simpson
have gone to California for an ex-
tended visit,

A.D, MePhaden, of Vancou-
ver, registered at the Ingineca
hotel on Tuesday.

Ed. V. McBeth left on Tuesday
with an engine and planing mill
machinery for Smith & Egples-
ton, Telkwa,

Mark Cary came in from the
Bulkley valley on Tuesday, He
left on Thursday for a visit to
Prince Rupert. .

+ | participate in the matches which

x pital was held on Tuesday even-
Ting.
: showed-é record attendance for
Hl! decided to offer the use of the
a hospital grounds to the board of
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R expected visit to Hazelton.

bil| fourteen members of the Hud-
Fl tained by the local manager, J.

ij| The affair, which was of a most

{/pany has sent Mr. Boyd a hand-
ij long and meritorious service, and

a( testifying his appreciation of the

1 ceologist, ‘who is preparing a
i handbook on the geology of ‘the

E Rupert and Aldermere,
is and other points ‘on the river,
Ki] Mr... McConnell

j;and expressed regret that the
i|necesaity for completing the

The rifle association marksmen
j will hold hold the final shoot fort
the Dominion of Canada prize
this afternoon,

Alex McMillan and Fred Ken-
nedy returned early in the week
from a prospecting trip in the
 Twenty-mile district,

G. A. Rosenthal left on Wed-
nesday with an outfit of mach-
inery for the Rosenthal-DeVoin
ranch near Chicken lake,

Attention is called tothe hours
of closing for outgoing mails,
Hereafter atl mails will close at
7p. m., registered letters being
received until 6 p.m, .

Among the passengers who
left for Vancouver on last Sun-
day’s Inlander were W. Me
Millan, the popular outfielder of
the Hazelton Tigers, and Bert
Hughes,

Charles McKinnon, the veteran
placer miner, has returned from
the Omineca river, He reports
greater activity than the district
has scen for many years, with
excellent prospects fora highly
Profitable season.

F. 8. Wright, a Stewart man,
arrived on Tuesday, coming over
the telegraph trail from the Naas
headwaters. He has been ex-
ploring the Naas country with
the object of finding a route for
a trail from Stewart to the coal
fields.

Prince Rupert rifle association
has invited the local rifiemen to
send a team to the coast town to

will be held. on Thanksgiving
Day, The Hazelton association
will, if possible, aecept the in-
vitation.

Thomas King and Martin Cain
have returned from the Tete
Jaune Cache district, having
made the trip overland from
Fort George in 11 days, They
pleased to he back in Hazelton,
having seen nothing as good as
this district in their. summer
travels. ;

The Victoria Colonist containg
the announcement of the engage-
ment of Miss Eunice V. Erskine,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R,
Erskine, of the capital, to~ Mr.
Robert J.- Rock, the popular
young -merchant of Hazelton,
The marriage will take place in
Victoria in the first week -in
September.

The launch Rambler is now
making regular trips between
the head of Decker lake and the
foot of Burns lake, a distance of
28 miles, leaving the former
point at 9:30 a.m. and the latter
at 3p.m. every Tuesday and
Friday. R. H. Gerow, the own-
er of the vessel, anticipates con-
siderable traffie on the route.

The quarterly meeting of the
advisory board of Hazelton hos-
The secretary’s report

the month of June. ‘The board

e for the proposed reception
to the Governor-General -on his

On Wednesday evening the
son’s Bay Co. staff were enter-
Boyd, at an informal dinner,

enjoyable character, took place
at the Ingineca hotel. The com-

George Swan has gone to Vie-
toria for a brief visit.--

R. P. Trimble has gone to
Portland for a brief visit,

P. J. Wilkinson, of Duluth, was
among the visitors of the week,

George Sandifer, of Ootsa lake,
was in Hazelton during the week.

_ BR. F, Rintoul, of South: Bulk-
ley, was in town during the
week, .

George McBean left on the In-
lander on Thursday, for a trip to
Vancouver.

W. J, Larkworthy returned
on Thursday from a six-weeks
visit to coast, cities, :

Rev. Father Hartman, of
Prince Rupert, was a visitor in
Hazelton during the week,

A. O. Franks left on Thursday
for Prince Rupert, where his
family is at present residing.

_Local machinery men are ship-
ping wagons and farm machinery
to the Bulkley valley every day.

Waiter Noel and 0. A. Ragstad
paid a visit to Port Essington on
Sunday, returning on Monday’s

rain,

J. H. Keefe hasreturned to his
ranch at South Francois, after
spending several weeks in Ha-
Zelton. '

H. H, Little, local manager of
the Union Bank, left on Tuesday
for a business trip to Prince
Rupert.

Theodore Jennings - returned
on Thursday from Rocher de
Boule, where he was engaged in
surveying. a

L. A. Graef, formerly of the
local telezrvaph staff, left on the
Port Simpson on Thursday, bound
for South America.

Fred H. Collins, of the Hud-
son’s Bay staff, is leaving to take
the position of fisheries guardian
in the Babine district,

. A. E. McMaster, general agent
of theG. T. P., came up from
Prince Rupert on Saturday even-
ing, returning on Tuesday,

Jack Mitchell, for some time a
member of The Miner typogra-
phical force, left .on Thursday
for an extended visit to Vancou-
ver,

Miss Rose Anger arrived from
Montreal on Saturday evening’ ta
spend the remainder of the surti-

Anger.

passengers who arrived on Thurs-

its usnal complement,

Gray & Milligan Bros’ survey
party in South Bulkley, is about
to go to the head of Decker lake,

site laid out,

After an extended visit to Vic-
toria, W. H. Sharpe has returned
to Hazelton, accompanied by his

Master Lancaster, of Victoria,
who will spend a short time in
Hazelton.

C. H. Handasyde, Jr., the
Prince Rupert man who handles
mining machinery for this dis.
trict, spent the early part of the
week in town. He is much
pleased with the development of
the camp. -— - :

tive of the National’ Drug &
Chemical Co., is here from Van-

enthusiastic ~photographer, “Mr.
Armstrong is spending his spare

esque scenes around Hazelton.

' Smoke from a number of for-
eat fires has shrouded the. hill

fires,
ing campfires burning, The blaze

started near Sixteen-mile creek,

some cheque, in recognition of
the dinner was his manner of

loyalty of his assistants,
R, G. McConnell, the noted

T, P. line ‘betweeti Prince
. spent
several days in town, leaving on

Thursday for Skeena Crossing

is, naturally,
much interested in. this district,

work assigned to him prevented

far was not valuable, and the

in check before any serious

damage is done.

"_ Trout-fishing is again a favor-
ite recreation, -_

spent Thursday afternoon at
Haguel-get canyon.
To add to their misfortune,

nesta® The. burning kisses im-
planted on their ‘cheeks ‘by ‘the

alonger stay in Hazelton and
an examination of the various

hospitable occupants caused them
to hasten upon ‘their homeward

way, a

mer with Mr, and Mrs, Isadore.

Alderman G. W. Kerr, of be
Prince Rupert, was among the Me

day, when the Inlander brought | fs

J. Curtis Watson, in charge of f

where a number of Victoria peo- Y
ple, it is said, will have a town- i

daughter and grandson, Mrs, and Ke

C. W. Armstrong, representa-|i@u
couver, on business, Being an ||P

time in taking views of. pictur- Ie

for several days. Fire Warden:
Larmer and his men have gub-., are
dued'a large number of small||# ;
supposed to have been | {i
caused by careless Bohunks leav- | {ig

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and is still burning on the Bear a
nver. The timber destroyed go ||

warden expects to have the fire | ia}

Two of Hazel-|If
ton’s most enthusiastic disciples |
of the piscatorial art, as exem.-||
plified by the late Izaak Walton, ||}

Sad: to say, jae)
they returned with baskets much | fa oe
lighter than- when they started, a

. they | al:
ventured to close to a hornets’ | fs

W. P. Murray returned on Tues-
day from a business yisit to
Bulkley.

Miss Carr of Bulkley Valley
visited Hazelton friends during
the week, . moos

J. Mason Adams has -instulled
handsome new showcases in his
drugstore.’ . ae

Walter Borns spent afew days
in the Bulkley valley, returning
by auto on Tuesday. Oy

Mrs. L. DeVoin is spending a
few days in Telkwa as guest of
Bulkley valley friends. .

Forty young pigs, consigned to
Broughton & McNeil, are await-
ing transportation to Aldermere,

W. W. Wrathall has enlarged
his business premises, by adding
a new darkroom for photographie
WOrk. .

A. J. Morris, of Piercy, Morris
& Co., the Prince Rupert. whole-
galers, paida visit to Hazelton
during the week.

C. Bransby Williams, of Killay
ranch, Francois lake, “has re-
turned frorn an extended visit to
eastern parts, and is now on his

way to the lake districts

Collingwood Schreiber, consult-
ing engineer to the Dominion
government, paid a visit of in-
spection to this district during
the week, : .

Cataline, the veteran packer,
arrived on Tuesday from- the
Fort George country, with sixty
pack animals. He expects to
leave today with supplies for the
telegraph cabins on the Yukon
line, going as fay as Ninth Cabin.

' In consequence of representa-
tions made to the department of
Indian affairs, instructions have
been issued to delay action on the
order for the removal of Whites
from the reserve, pending a re-
port on the situation, to be pre-
pared by Indian Agent Loring.

A Friendly Arrangement

_An arrangement which has
just been entered into between
the local representatives of the
Presbyterian and Methodist
churches is indicative of the
amicable feeling which exists be-
tween the two denominations,
It has been felt by some-of those
adhering to the Methodist
church that services under the
auspices of that denomination

should be held in Hazelton,’ and

Rev, R.W. Lee, of Kispiox, with

‘Dr. Wrinch; constilted with Rev. |."
the /D. “R.A
‘Fpastor,- the: result of the ‘confer-

‘Re McLean, the Presbytertan

ence ‘being an arrangement for
Methodist services in. the audi-
torium on the first-Sunday even-
ing- of: each month, . under the
conduet of Mr, Lee. The Meth-:

odist services conducted at’ the’

hospital by.Dr. Wrinch will be
discontinued, to allow members
of the ‘staff and church-going
patients to attend the services in
the auditorium every Sunday
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STEAMBOAT DOINGS q

Still Plenty of
~ Skeena—Omineca Leaves River ~

Water for Navigation On

The river water. ig gradually
falling, but-is still a couple of
feet above the minimun naviga-
tion stage. The two boats re-
maining on_the river, the Port
Simpson ‘and Inlander, aré. mak-
ing regular trips and -giving ex-
cellent service. The former,
which has considerable Hudson’s
Bay Co, freight to bring from
Gitwangak, where it- connects
with the. railway, will be kept
on the Skeena as long as possible;
carrying passengers and general
freight as well as the company’s
business. The Inlander will con-
tinue to ply between Skeena
Crossing and Hazelton.as long as
the stage of water and the volume
of business allows. The Foley,
Welch & Stewart steamer Omin-
eca. has been taken off the
Skeena, and is now en route to
Howe Sound, where she will
probably be used in connection
with the construction. of the
Pacific Great Eastern,

A Promitient Visit

_ Among recent. visitors “to, th
district, is’ Frank, -Crawford,”:
prominent ‘lawyer of - Omaha
who has for years taken an-active- .

Hazelton, and-he is greatly ‘im:
pressed by the natural resources

district.
able interest in the exploitation
of the big anthracite coal. fields ©

.of the upper Skeena, and will ~
probably become interested: in a -

group of claims near the center

formed’ The Miner that. men of
capital in his state. are looking. ©

of capital in the near future, | > °

_ Churchill Coming To Canada

‘Loridon, Aug.'3:— Hon: Wins: -
ton Churchill, first lord of the = |

admiralty, has accepted the’ in---
visit Canada, and -will leave for
ship, on a date not yet announced,

invited, is unable fo accept,

You cannot drive home a stout
nail by asingle blow of the ham- —

repeatedly in the same spot is
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— Represented by
J. A. Edwards, Hazelton

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“at Closing Out, Prices. ~Including footwear suitable to all
Tn ths lot.a'few of the. Celebrated Leckies,

To your advantage, to our disadvantage _ . -.
_ Cleaning out an entire-line of ©.

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Whips, &c.
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General Merchant mo 7 - a

interest-in “the: development. of .°-:”
the interior districts of “British: ~~
Columbia, and who has, valuable =...
land interests in the Fraser lake -
and Fort George districts. This...
is Mr., Crawford's : first visit‘to.

which are being developed inthis. <
He is taking consider- ....

of activity, Mr, Crawford ine {

towards’ Hazelton as a most .—
Promising field for investment;* .
and he looks for a notable, influx ~.

vitation of Hon. R. L: Borden to | = fl
the Dominion, probably ona war.”

Premier Asquith, who was also

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