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_ THE OMINECA MUNER, SATURDA

¥, JANUARY 18, 1917

World’s Doings in Brief | |

; News Notes from Many Sources) :

Wheat is two dollars in Chicago.
Canadian. casualties in
were 63,837,

An .eartliquake in Formosa

killed 300 persons.

The cost of the war to date has

been fifty billiong. . 7
. Sir Douglas Haig has been
created a field-marshal;

More than six feet of snow fell
in Vancouver last year,

The French..partiament re-as-
sembled on Wednesday,

Carranza is said to be buying
munitions and arms in Japan,

Victoria observatory. recorded

127 earthquake shocks in 1916,
Mayor McBeath of. Vancouver

was re-elected by acclamation. |.

Sir Hibbert Tupper says Canada
‘Should. have compulsory service,
Minnesota lumber camps are
closed, owing to I. W.W. troubles,

Much loss was caused by a fire
in the business section of Valdez.

Sixty thousand persons in Mus-
sachusetts are addicted to drug
hahits,

Sir Frederick Borden, minister
of militia in the Laurier cabinet,
is dead. Oo

Australia has resumed exports
of mutton, but only to Great
Britain. ” ;

Captain John Lauder, only son
of Harry Lauder; has been killed
in action, :

Captain F,C.Selous,the famous

hunter, wae killed in action in
East Africa,

‘Roosevelt calls Wilson’s peace |.

_ hote- immoral, dishonest, and an
aid to Germany,
The British government. has
in Philadelphia.
‘Three hundred invalided' sol-
diers are expected to arrive in
‘Canada each week.

All stocks of alcohol in Great
Britain have been requisitioned
._ by the government; =

Gol, W. F, Cody (“Buffalo
Bill”) died at Denver on Waed-
nesday, at the age of 73. |

ordered 125 freight locomotives |

Hungaty has.only one-seventh
of, the amount of grain required
by. the nation between now and
August.

- Ottawa city council asks for
the restriction ‘of dairy exports
to. any but British and Allied

‘Undat Nebraska's naw prohic
hifion law it is a criminal offense
to. inform a man where he may
~ obtain Hquor,, ©

-Plang for reconstruction in the

i our ae On aie Dee ue

sie ot francs arg
eng, Prepared .: by. al, French
cabinet éimmnittes, oe

wy hk

‘To increase railway efficiency,

1916] fares, except; for working people,

Complaints, against. the. Cana-|
dian army medical corps. were} :

‘| which declared the charges were
‘Unjustjfiable, mischievous, .op-|. .

from service, and has increased

fifty per cent.

‘The U.S. may be asked to an-
nex Lower California, a Mexican
from the revolution, —
_ In expectation 'of early peace,
German steamship agents are
soliciting freight in Scandinavian
countries for the U.S. |

-Rasputin, the Russian monk

to have been murdered.

Delegates to the Allied war.
council in Rome were given a
great ovation at the close of the
cenference on Saturday,

Hon. P. E. Blondin has been
made .postmaster general, being
succeeded ag secretary of state
by Hon. F. L, Patenaude.

An appeal for the Canadian
Patriotic Fund has been issued
by the Duke of Devonshire,
Canada’s new governor-general.

Besides supplying a good deal
of war material to her allies,
Great Britain has advanced them
over £600,000,000 for war pur-
poses,
A three-year-old Jersey cow
owned in Portland produced an
average of 24 pounds of butter a
‘day in 1916, This is the world’s
record, °

The grand sherif of Mecca, who
supports the Allies, has been
declared ‘King of the Hejaz”,
and will rule over 100,000 square
miles of Arabia,
The Brewster government has
appointed three Liberals, E. 8.
Winn, .H, B, Gilmour,and Parker
Williams, as members’ of the
Workmen’s Compensation Board,
The Pall Malt Gazette has been
purchased by Sir Henry Daiziel,
& prominent supporter of Lloyd
George, and is likely to become
the British premier’s mouthpiece,

On Jan. 1 the whole island of
Newfoundland went ‘‘dry’’.. The

prohibited, and-patent medicines
containing alcohol'are also ban-
ned. .

- The final result of the soldiers’

not be known for several weeks, |

for the measure may be much}
reduced,

investigated by an official board, |

posed, td. Canadian’ sentiment, |
unwise, 8nd regrettable,”
" One of thé richest mines ever|
opened.in England—the Levant!

ly under the sea,

we

greater. part .lie directly under}. .
the water, the lower-gallery but|*
e running out over a mile from]: -
ie ahore,. “Not far from. the| !

{ Levant lies another:#chiaubmar- | |:
ine copper mine, the Bottallack, [> .
which began to leak so badly|:.

provirice which has held aloofld

reputed to have had much influ-|}
ence with the Czar, is reported |.

ed by a fee ¢

ed if the rights applied. for are not
available

ty shall be paid on the: merchentable |i
output of the mine at the rate of five |
cents per ton,

"MINERAL ACT
Certificate of: Improvements
, NOTICE

Omingea
districk locate

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- On Rocher ‘de Boul
the lowa mineral claim on the south.

| _TAKE NOTICE that'l, Jaa.B, Dean
of Hazeltin, Free Miner’s Certificate

No. 481748, actit
F. Booth, Free
45178B, i
ate hereof

ments for the
‘Crown. Grant

orthe above claims, .
under section
of Improvements.

Jas. E. Dean,

Se omic itt ti

AJAX MINERAL CLAIM, situated in Hudson’s Bay Company |

mining ‘division of Omineca

REEL CODA

e
mowhtain,--on: Jaciper creak, ‘adjoining }

a9 agent for Charles
, liner’s Certificate No.
intend sixty days from the
to-apply ta the Mining
Recorder for ‘a Certificate of Improve-
brpose of obtaining a

And further take notice that action,
c 85, muat be commenced
before the issuance of auch Certificate

Dated this second day of December,
A.D, 1916.

ais of Coal Mining
lations.

(oan mining rights of the Dominion,
in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, the Yukon Territory, - the
Northwest Territories and in a portion
of. the Province of British Columbia,
may be leased for a term of twenty-one
years at an annual rental of §1 an
acre,
be leased to ane applicant, .
lication. for & lease must ba made

App
by the applicant in peraon to the Agent
or Sub-Agent of the district in which
the rights applied for are situated. |

In-surveyed: territory the land must

be described by sections, or legal -sub-
divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed
territory the tract applied for ahall be
ataked out b

oy the applicant himeelf,.
plication must be accompani-
ee Of $5, which will be refund-

Each ay

but not otherwise,

The person operating the mine shall

furnish the Agent with. aworn returns
accounting forthe fall quantity of mer-|§
‘chantable coal mine

royalty thereon. If the coal minin
rights are not being operated, such{§
returns ahould be furnished at least | il
once eB year, .

The lense willinclude the coal mining

rights only, but the lessee may be per
mitted to purchase whatever available | @
surface rights may be considered nec-

essary for the working of. the mine at
the rate of $10.0 an acre, . os
information application | i

should be made to the Secretary of the| ¥
Department of the Interior, ' -
or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of |. '
Dominion Lan . ,

Por full

ttawa,
a. ¢
W. W. CORY,

. Deputy Minister of the Interior,
N.B.—Unauthorized publication of

thia advertisement will not be paid for. |
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manufacture and sale of liquor is}

Commercial: Printing at
THE MINER OFFICE

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a _ HAZELTON, B.C.
Grocertes, Drygoods, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Wholesale Liquors |

HB, STOUT, XXXX, quarts, per 6 bottles, $1.39
VICTORIA PHENIX BEER “ «4,59
SCHLITZ BEER, quarts, “ “ $2.40

We are still able to supply our FAMOUS RUM
Mail orders promptly attended to .
Ask for our LIQUOR
PRICE LIST.

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‘CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. |
Lowest rates Prince Rupert to all Eastern: Points via steamer
to Vancouver and Canadian Pacifie Rail

ilway.
eals and berth included on steamer

For VANCOUVER, VICTORIA and SEATTLE

5.5. “Princess Maquinna” leaves Prince Rupert every SUNDAY, at 6 pam. |
5.5. “Princess Sophia” leaves Prince Rupert 6 p.m, Nov. 11th,

25th; Dec. 9th, 23rd; Jan, Gth, 20th; Feb, 3rd. .
J. 1. Peters, General Agent, rd Ave. & 4th St., Prince Rupert, B.C

A royal- |

aad

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| LIVERY and STAGES Ws, =2,ptevsred t0 suppty private g,

fai ni ght.

Our stoges mest all trains at South Hazelton or New Hazelton, P

and pay the | |

BEST DRY BIRCH, $6.50 A CORD

@| Consign your ‘shipments in Our
Care for Storage or- Delivery,

Ruddy & MacKa

a] Addresa all communications to Hiss elton,

_ HAZELTON and NEW HAZELTO!

Leaye Princé Rupert for Ocean Falls, Vancouver Victoria
Friday at 9:00 a.m, For
Ketchikan, Wran
February 7, 21,

Simpson, Stewart, and

Arrive Prince Rupert from the South every Wednesday at 10:80 A, .
Enetbound traing leave Hezelton: Passenger, Wednesday and Saturday,
7:10 P.M, Mixed 1:56 p.m, Tuesday.

Westbound trains leave Hazelton: “Passenger Tuesday and Thursday,
946 A.M, Mixed.6-a.m, Sunday, )
For further information apply to any Grand Trunk Pacifie Agent, or to ,
G. A. MeNicholl, Asst. Gen. Freight and Passenger Agent,Prince Rupert, BC.

RAILWAY and STEAMSHIP LINES,.
Steamers sailing between Skagway, Juneau,

Wrangell; Ketehikan, Anyox, Prince Rupert,
Ocean Falls, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, —

Seattle, -

f Anyox Wednesday at 12 midnight. For
Il, Janeau, Skagway, Wednesday, January 10,. 24,
arch 7, 21, at:t p.m. Fortnightly. sailinga to Port
Queen Charlotte Ialand points,

Wayfreight 12:30 p.m, Saturday.

Wayfreight 11:96 a:u. Sunday.

yote on prohibition for B.C. will a

It is. now thought the majority | -

Mine, Cornwall—lies almost whol-|.
Tin and cop-| -
per to the value of over two}.
Giillions have been. exteactad -by}:
the Levant miners from beneath]: :
the ocean, for of the 40 miles oft
galleries . inthe famoys mine. the} :

overnment -h a s|yeard Bgo that it had to be aban-|
‘hihdied! dedigel donde

| TO_INVEsToRS |

FUNDS REQUIRING, INVESTMENT 7
: MAY PURCHASE A? PAR acer

Domo oF caaon never sree]

Principal repayab’o Ist October, 1919, 7
+ Tutereat payable half-yenrly, i
7 cheque (frea of oxchnuge ni any chartered Hank in Canada) at -
“fe the rate of five per cen per unnjai fromthe -dute af, purchase, |
"Holders of thia ctock wit have the privilega of surrendering
& . at.-par and accrued
ment of any allotment mado under any future war loan issue in
. Canada other than an isaue of Treasury Bills or otherlike hort /
. date security, , we

Ma Re hay Wy oD AP ge
Pracceda of thia stool are for war purposes only,
‘+ -A-commission of one-quarter of one per centawill.be allowed
it keedgnized bond and ator -brokers “on .allotnedita made in.
_ teapect uf. applications for this stock which bear.their tamp,

For epplication forms apply to. tha Deputy Minister of
Finance, Ottawa. | - a ae | ;

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, OTTAWA.
oo.) OCPORRR 7th, 1016. |

Ist, April and Ist Octoher hy

intorest, aa the equivalent of énsh, in pay-

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