The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE, CENTER OF THE GREAT OmiNEcA District or BRITISH CoLumata. ALR. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canade and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year: Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for each insertion. Gazette rates, Legal notices inyerted at B, C. VoL. FI. SATURDAY, MaRcH 21, 1914. No. 29. The stalwart Canadianism and the broad-visioned politics of the late Sir George Ross are well surnamed up in his last public utter- ance, His farewell message to the people of Canada is given in his last words in the senate in concluding his speech'on the address in reply to the speech from the throne on January 22. The physi- cal effort of that speech, delivered in an overheated chamber, had something to do with the illness which immediately follawed, and which resulted in his death. His last words were: . “Now, let us apply our energy to the great problems that lie be- fore us. Canada has Lo confront tremendous problems. That is my polities, whether I am here or elsewhere, We are on the mar- gin of a future which no one ean predict,. We have a country as large as the continent of Europe, Lord Strathcona has predicted that we will have’twenty or thirty millions of a- population within the next ten years. tiny, which should weigh on the minds of every one of us. We are the forerunners of a tremendous. des- Hoa navy is necessary for the defence of the.empire, let us make a bill to which both parties will agree, And, in whatever respect legis- lation is necessary for strengthening the institution of this country, for assimilating our foreign population, for furnishing. suitable transportation, for deepening our harbors, for strengthening the ties between us and the empire, for extending our commerce on the seven seas, for standing as prominently as we ought to stand before the nations of the world as a great commercial people, thoroughly ‘independent, leaning on no arm for assistance, not even the arm.of the empire, let us work out our destiny in our own way. Let us stop quarrelling about matters of mere party difference and let us join hands. Let there be that more than 6000 feet of the’ (& ‘pioneer’ bore has. been:eom- pleted. -. Satisfactory headway, into the main shaft, which’ al- ready has been started from the west end, Work on the ‘‘pioneev’’ Mount Maedonald, in the Illecille- waet Valley, will be commenced at an early date. The right-of- way at the west portal has been finished, and 47 per cent of the excavation has been done from the east side. Work on the trestles and the grading for the lines on each side of the mount- ain is well advanced. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS KIMSUMGALLUM ScHooL SEALED TENDERS, * superscribed “Tender for Kitsumgallum School,"’ willbe received by the Hun. the Minis- ter of Public Works up to noon of Wed- nesday, the 8th day of April, 1914, for tl é erection and completion of a large one-room school at Kitsumgallum, in the Skeena Electoral District, Plans, specifications, contract, and forme of tender may be acen on and af- no discord of race or religion, The task is large enough to demand all the powers that we possess, To that task, this senate, I hope, is willing to address itself, as is the house of commons, or any ’ political body in the Dominion of Canada.”’ The Toronto Globe, the leading Liberal organ of Canada and a newspaper of great influence, deplores what it regards as a tendeney to looseness in political morals, Under the heading “‘We Must Clean House,’ the Globe suys editorially: ‘Phe greatest need in Canada today is a thorough political house-cleaning,”” says the Globe. “We must do our best to improve publie morals from top to bottom. The first step is the purification of the fountain head. How can a Spartan code he required of the executive officers of the govern- ment when the men entrusted by the people with the conduct of the government are themselves | too, open to'censure. The Mous- seau scandal at Quebec, the Evan- turel affair in the Ontario Legis- lature, Mr. Hanna’s unhappy method of collecting political con- tributions.as revealed last year, and Hon. Robert Rogers’ cynical defence of the gift of a valuable piece of urban land to a Prince Albert friend, under the guise of a ‘homestead,’ all indicate the tendeney of the times. After mentioning the Trent Canal and New Brunswick scean- dala, the Globe says: “Here are two concrete exam- _-ples--one to the: discredit of a . Liberal administration, the other to.the discredit of the present Conservative government—of: the |: ‘loose political. morals that obtain in Canada. Unless publie life is _ to become absolutely rotten, , we ~ must clean’ house, not in a “spirit of partizan recrimination, of set- 7 ting. Tory sits against Liberal offences, but with a- sincere ‘desire to raise the moral tone of public life, ‘and to establish the ‘tight principle that public ‘office - ~ must be a public’ ‘trust aliké to]: ‘the parliamentarian aiid to ‘the official who serves the people ‘it executive eapatity."’ are in The Review a few weeks ‘ago, is helping to advertise us to. the world. The Canadian Gazette, published in London, says: ‘Fame, full and running over, has come to ‘‘Smithers, B, C.’’ asmall clearing in almost: prim- eval forest;.today it is a division- al point on the Grand Trunk Paci- fic railway. Only-in- September last were the first lots offered; its averaye since -has been one modern business -building or resi- dence per day until the popula-| : tion is 700, men, -women and babes, and the buildings number “But ‘all this and muclt more pales before the fact that Smith- ers has won its’ way into the classic columns of Punch. Sir Owen Seaman, above his own initialg, is moved in last week’s issue to be mirthful in verse over the Bouncing B, ©. Boy: and the|’ aforesaid B. B. C. B. will be as as pleased as its putative, father, the genial, chairman of the Grand Trunk railway... Itis the name that has tickled '‘Mr. Punch’s” fancy, . In imagination we see ‘the hope- ful Smitherene searching through he is so fortunate as to lay hands. upon those classical repositories— to’ discover what the dear oid “really at,’ Can it be that the euphonidasly’ named’ apot on. the Cockspur. Street map has’ hidden associations with ‘‘storied Lyon-' put aside its: ‘questionings, | and| ita new- found fame,""—Reviow. Big c: P. R. Tunnel made- in the work of. borin tunnel through the. heart ” Selkirk. Mountain. Rang for the One hundred odd‘ days ago it was 29-31 “Brewer” and “‘Harbottle’—if| gentleman of Bouverie Street is} +" ter the 17th day of March, 1914, at the office of Mr. J. H. eMuitin, Government Agent, Prince Rupert; Mr. 8. H. Hoskins, Government Agent, Hazelton; Mr. W. J. Goodwin, Secre- tary. to School Board, Kitsumgallum, B. C.; or the Department of Public Works, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, Intending tenderers can, for the sum of ten dollars ($10), obtain one copy of plans.and specification by applying to the undersigned. This sum will funded when the plans and specifications are returned In good order. Each proposal must be accompanied byan accepted bank cheque or certificate of deposit on a chartered bank of Can- ada, made Payable to the Hon. the Min- ister of Pu to 10 per cent. of tender, which shall be forfeited if the party tenderin, to enter into contract when called upon to do so, or if he fail to complete the work contracted for, certificates of deposit of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them upon the execution of the contract. Tenders will not be considered unless made out on the forms supplied, signed with the actual signature of the tender- or, and enclosed in the envelopes fur- nia - The lowest t or any. tender not neces: sarily _accepte LB GRIFFITH, Public Works Engineer, Department of Publie Works, ~ Vietoria, B.C., March 11,1913, LAND NOTICE “Hazelton ‘cind District. District of : Cassiar, * Take notice that L charles ‘A. Loney, of Prince Rupert, B. C., occupation engineer, intends to enply for_permis- sion ta purchase the fo! wing deseribed lands: Commencin chaing weat of south-east corner of Lot |! 838, Cassiar District, thence west 20 ‘chains, aouth 40 chaing,' east 20. chains, north 40 chains, to point of comrrence- iment, containing 80 acres more or less, Dated, March 11, 1914. M-37 Charles Arthur Loney, at a post planted 40 Department of Agriculture - Live Stock Branch Live Stock, Field Crops and gen- eral Agricultural Information. Write or Call H, E. WALKER, B. 5.A, Provincial Agriculturist - Telkwa, B.C, Assay Office and Mining Office Arts aad Ceafts Building, 578, St Street VANCOU BR, B, J. O’SULLIVAN, F. C 5. Provincal Assayer and Chemist Assayer for 26 years with Vivlan & Sons, Swansea Charges. Moderate: Correspondence Solietled Herold Price; © yo. SR. Graham -- HAROLD PRICE & CO. . 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