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General Hardware

Builders’ Material —
Miners’ Supplies

Hazelton, B. C.

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Clearing Sale of
Confectionery

We have too large a stock of
Candy, Chocolates and Bonbons.
To reduce it we offer bargains in
all Confectionery and will sell in

Quantities at Cost

Lowney’s and Peter's Chocolates

The Best of Everything

Overland Cigar Store

Slinger & Ayerde

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Miners Attention!
_ Mining Picks a Specialty
Ore Cars, all sizes

Ore car can be seen in service at
Harris Mines, Ltd.

Best material
Competent mechanics

C, F. Willis

Blacksmith, Horseshoer
Hazelton, B.C.

Qreiresrwsires

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Sawed To Order and Delivered

Jack Goold

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All kinds of
Dry Birch
and Soft uu.

For Fine Cigars, Cigarettes
and Tobaccos go to

G.T. P.
Cigar Store and
Pool Room

Soft Drinks, Confectionery,
Books and Magazines

Baths In Connection

J. B. Bran, Proprietor

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We Are Sole Agents for

“National Cash Registers
Dayton Computing Scales
'  Heintzman Pianos

| In Northern B. C.

W. Wark & Son

JEWELERS
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LEAP YEAR
PROPOSAL

‘WE will give to every pur-
chaser. of a Suit of
oe Clothes ot Overcoat during
a January ‘and February his

TE pick ot any: hat i in ‘our r stock. ;

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Local and Personal

The G.T. P, rails have veached | |
3 The Funeral of the Late Mrs‘ //f

the tunnel at mile 140.
N. D, MeMillan is spending a
few days up the valley.

C. W. Calhoun returned on|i

Tuesday froma trip downriver,
on land business,

Captain Gardner will have com-

mend of the H. B. C, steamer

Port Simpson this season.

A. C. Aldousand J. W. Morison '#
drove to Chicken lake on Mon-/i

day, returning on Thursday
morning.

D. J. McDougall and E. J. Tate,
of the Galena Club, left on Wed-~-
nesday for a business trip to the
Bulkley valley,

Hueh Taylor yesterday brought

fifty fine steelheads down from
Kispiox, where they are caught
in nets stretched under the river
ice,
. G, Macdonell, of the Bulkley
Valley Lumber Co, returned
yesterday froma business visit to
Vancouver, where he spent the
last month.

The Telkwa hockey team
arrived yesterday. An interest-
ing game should result when the
valley men meet the local players
on the rink this afternoon.

Thomas Harrison and Charles
Munro left on Thursday with dog
toboggans loaded with supplies
for their seasons work on their
placer claims on Quartz creek, in
the Omineca river district,

J. T. Bates, B. Bowerman and
Gus Olson took the toboggan trail
for their prospecting ground in
the Omineca river country on
Thursday. They will probably
spend six months in that district.

The last dance of the pre-
Lenten season was held in the
auditorium on Monday evening.
There was the-sual good attend-
ance-and the excellent music
made the event an enjoyable one.

While arresting an intoxicated
Indian on Thursday evening,
Constable Hartley was set upon
by other natives and severely in-
jured by blows on the head.
May, the constable’s prisoner, is
in custody.

Duncan Ross is now on his way
to Vancouver, to represent the
the local Liberals at the conven-
tion to be held in the Terminal
City on the 29th. He will be
joined by Frank McKinnon, the
other delegate, who is now in
Vancouver, ;

Among the new enterprises to
be established in New Hazelton
in the near future is a branch of
the Hazelton Bakery and Coffee-
house, A building ig now in
course of erection, adjcining the

Grand, and the coffee house will,

be ready in a very short time,
Some iden of the magnitude of
Hazelton’s. business may he
gained from the postoffice statis-
ties, which show sales of stampd

‘ {in the local office for last year to

total $3,066,32, while the money
order business aggregated $201,-
680.56, exclusive of postal -notés,

In the police court Thomas
Hanbury was sentenced to six
months in jail for supplying
liquor to Charles Lewis, an In-
dian. The native was sent down
for a month. for drunkenness.
For carrying a revolver, Alfonzo
Amorato was fined $5 and costs.
An unpronounceable foreigner,
for taking liquor on the ‘reserve,
waa fined $50 and costs.

The long bridge over the outiet b

of Decker lake, on the North
Francois. road, was finished on
Thursday, and Foreman McKin-
non and. his erew are now on
their way down the valley. -. The
bridge over.the Nadina river, at
the head of Francois lake, ia alao
about ready for traffic. These
two bridges, for which the set-

jitiers of the lake: district: ‘have
| been anxiously waiting for’ some

time, afford much-needed con-
nection with the roads‘ of’ the

‘J Bulkley, and give nearly every

resident of the district direct 4

FUNERAL NOTICE

| Helen M. Sealy will be held’
B tomorrow (Sunday) aftemoon .

“ leaving the residence at two -

m o'clock for St. Peter's Church &

2 All friends are invited to attend :
Good Ore at Depth , |
In Recher de Boule

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In the meantime,. a small crew
had started sinking on the -big
upper vein. Work has also begun
on a tunnel to crosseut the
upper vein at adepth of 300 feet.

Steam driilsand equipment are
now in Prince Rupert, and will be
installed on the property as saon
as possible, and a plan of vigor-
ous development will be carried
out, mo,

Three Mails 2 Week

The increase in the amount of
traffic on the Skeena has neces-
sitated increased. train service,
and the G. T. P. is now running
three traing a week out of Prince
Rupert, leaving that city on Mon-
day, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Beirnes & Mulvaney, the mail
contractors, are coping with the
situation by running three stages
a week between Hazelton and the
end of steel. The stages leave
this town on Monday, Thursday
and Saturday, returning, accord-
ing to the present schedule on
Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur-
day. The firm has made plana
for connection by stage with the
end of steel as the rails are laid
into the Bulkley valley, and will
be prepared to carry mails and
passengers between the railhead

and Hazelton thrice a week, with |if

a similar service to Aldermere
and Telkwa. Itis intended, as

soon as conditions allow, to main- ||ié
tain a one-day schedule, and it is |}

quite possible that before long

daily trains will allow mails to be |/a

received and despatched every

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day. George Beirnes expects to |li
leave for the south in the course ||/€

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We take stock at the close ofo our 60. day Sale
| Our object now is to reduce some
of our overstocked lines, |

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Take advantage of ‘this opportunity. and
gave from 10 to 33 1-3 per cent -. 2
on your purchases.

HARDWARE

One set GreenRiver Taps and Dies, complete, i in box: 1-4 inch teh
to 3-4 inch, with two stocks, | - Special price $1 8.00.

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One set of 13 Auger Bits, ranging. in size > from 14 inch to.
| inch. "Special price $5.50.

18-inch japanned ironed double Plumb Level Sale price $25 50. |
Sale price $2. 70..

Disston Hand Saws 6,7 and8 points,

of a few weeks, for the purpose |i

of securing horses and gear for 4

the necessary enlargement of the
stage outfit.

. Emperor Abdicates

Pekin, Feb. 20:—The publica-||#

tion of edicts of abdication and

Bracket Lamps, complete, Sale: price $ 35...

No. A Stand Lamps, complete § Sale pce‘ £904 cts

recognition of the republic has Ae

given profound relief to everyone
in -Pekin, both foreigners and
Chinese, :.
considered a compromise and it

is believed that. the terms will .

satisfy the republicans,

In consideration for abdication, |{§¥

the republicans have made a
number of pledges to the em-

peror, among. which are the fol- il

lowing:

The emperor ‘ghall retain his 8
title and shall be respected ag alfa

foreign monarch.--

The arrangement is | fe

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The emperor. shall receive an ral
annual grant of 4 ,000,000 taels | is

until the currency is: reformed,

after which he shall receive $4,- al

000,000 Mexican, .

Death of W. D. Jardine

The death occurred on Thurs- |hR
day morning of William Douglas |i

Jardine, who has for some time

top at $3. 25...

Men’ 8 , Storm Rubbers, Sale price $1. 00.
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occupied the position of account- a

ant at the Hazelton Hotel. De-

ceased, who was well . known IQ.

throughout the ‘district, having
een: accountant for Jean Caux
(Cataline) and later for the Omi-

neca Hotel, had for years suffer- i ae ». ae.
ed from gsthina, which at times [fi 2° *

caused him muck: suffering, Lat- A —
terly he had been incapatitated (AN

by the affliction, - but “for caveral |i

days seemed better, ‘and had re-
turned to-his duties. On Wednes-
day, however, he was confined to
‘his bed by what proved to be a

| fatal seizure,”

: Though - of quiet. ‘disposition,
deceased had many friends, He
possessed. an exvellént tenor
voice,” which ' was’ frequently
heatd.. in entertainments. He
was & membor of Kamlodps lodge,

A, F&A, Mi, and” of -Omineca

7 Masonic Giub His brother, John

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