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ure of. relief for the unemployed, an

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seene-of. the: axe’ world’s gold}
excitement, . Prof, Bogdanow:

hotels, in Montreal, were serious-
ly damaged by ‘simultaneous
fires, ‘Damage, $125,000.

Vancouver has set aside $21, -
000 ‘for immediate: expenditure

Every- train “on- the. entire
mountain section of the Canadian
Pacific Railway system will he

, operated with oil fuel next spring.

Hon, Dr, Young, minister of
education, announces that he
will shortly call the first convoc-
ation- for the formation ‘of a pro-
vineial university, the convoca-
tion to consist of all the university
graduates of the British domin-

Bf decided to open a prigon camp on

Just
Arrived

5 Over four thousand §
pounds of HARNESS and §

JB SADDLERY Stocks have
f just arrived from the end
g of steel,

itch, who hag” been: making a
ions who have béen- two years in| geological survey, says he: found
the province,” a numberof. areas. whiere aurifer-
“|sou layers: ocenr, and: he. Bays
“Speaker Champ ‘Clarke in algold. occurs in Kamchatka as:

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‘| public statement at Washington

mierty in Burnaby for prisoners
mifor whom accommodation can
{|not be provided at the city jail in
| Vancouver.

Blextended, according to a special
Nidespatch from. Pekin,

Bl part of the country under repub-
A | lican rule and the Manchus hold-
jing the horthern end.

declared he was a candidate for
the Democratic presidential nom-
ination, ‘standing on his own feet.

‘According to present plans the
Canadian Pacific: Railway, the
Grand Trunk Pacific. and the
Canadian Northern Railways will
spend fifty million. dollars in
-western Canada thig-year, .

’ The alleged. gold discovery at
Minitonas, Man., is now declared
to be a swindle. Investigation
shows that although 8,000 claims
have been staked, there is pirac-
tically no gold in the creeks,

Attorney-General Bowser has.

the provincial government prop-|:

' la bulletin.

freely, plentifally, .
Klondike...

characteristically. -

seashore formerly stretched,

G8, Malloch, of the Dominion

Geological Survey, who spent the

greater part of last - summer in
the Groundhog coal district; has
‘made a.very conservative report
on his work, which has been is-
sued by the mines department as

formation ..hag a thickness of
about.8,000 feet and contains coal
in commercial quantities near the
top and bottom, the intermediate
beds containing thin seams. The
upper section of beds contains

_|seven’seams of a thickness vary-

ing from 2 feet to 6 feet, and as:

The Armistice in.China has been | far as is at present known is limn-

opinion is said to favor the revol-
utionists retaining the southern

A Manchester despatch Says;

| Harness

Saddles

Witime for a week or so,

| observe a truce fora year, during
j| which the question of the employ-|morning, flames were seen igsu-

work has been resumed’ every-

Public | miles.

ited to an area of about 20 square
The lower section con-
tains at least three sedina from
4to 6 feet thick, and extends
over most of the area occupied
by the coal measures.

Another Stable Burned

. The fire at Coppock’s. stable

@) where in the cotton trade with |three weeks ago was duplicated
| the exception of afew spinning/on Thursday morning, when the
| ‘nlis which will be run on short|stable used by Jack Goold was
The op-| burned, with the loss of a horse

eratives and employers are to|and 4 mule.

Shortly before four in the

ing from the roof of the building

and under
identical circumstances with. the
It may seem atrange
he said; that gold should be found
in voleanic layers on a soil so
voleanic as
Kamchatka, but inspection of the
auriferous strata shows that. the
gold ia found in zones where the

He. states that the

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‘| ment of non-unionist labor is to

of all descriptions, a temain in abeyance,

‘WHIPS, long and short &
@ ones. uo

#66 CHIMES and SLEIGH §
| BELLS for ‘cutter and &
a sleigh, |

M HORSE BLANKETS,
m Couble breasted and extra §
-long.

gress in Washington,

= ‘In fact, everything in,f
@ the line of harness ‘and §
Af saddlery is included in this

| shipment, |

# «€©>6- OF course the shipment

m is late, for this reason, as |
a much of. the stock is for &
mH winter use, we will sell at

tically become

‘Send us your order- by [J merely nominal,

a letter or wire. a
 AMous |
&

Murray

Haxelton, B.C.

Turkey. would indeed presént

gradually disappear in ‘Europe.

Senator Crawford introduced a| without delay, but the fire had
g| bill in Congress to provide for;Zained such headway in the
a|the appointment by. the United |log structure that it was impos-
States'of members of an inter-|sible to extinguish it, and the
#\national commission to investi-|stable burned to the ground..
gate the general increase of the | Those who first arrived found the
cost of living. The measure/interior of the building a mass of
g| would provide for a general in-|flame, and could not even at-
quiry relative to the wages, the |temptthe rescue of the two ani-
effect of trusts, andthe influence | mals within. -

of the increase volume of gold. |
H|The bill is in line with suggest. | directed to preventing the spread
fjions at the recent economic con-|of thefire, and they were so suc-

“The Turkish empire: seems to
be fast crumbling to pieces, Tri-
poli'may be regarded as finally
s)severed from Ottoman authority
and Yemen, in Arabia, has prac-
independent,
Turkish authority in Macedonia
and Albania hangs by a thread
and in many other aot Renuka evening before the fire, and leit
a | succeed in gaining passage of the
Dardanelles ‘for her warships,.

Pitiable spectacle in the eyes of| W89 Of incendiary origin, but no
m™) the world; her power would then

” Russian mining engineers who}
have been doing some exploratory
B;work in Kamchatka, have re-
ajturned to Vladivostok, and . re-
port that Kamchatka will be the

and an alarm was given. The
fire brigade reached the seene

PCC

’ The efforts of the fremen were

cessful that Harry Sykes’ stable,
a canvas roofed building within
three feet of the Goold stable,
was saved intact., Sykes’ valua-
ble team was taken out of danger
when the fire was discovered..

- Wm, Richardson, who owned:
the team which was burned, and
Jack Goold, who used the ani-
mals in his wood business, were
in the stable at 10 o’elock on the

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everything in ita usual condition,
but did not lock the door, It is
| Suggested by some that the fire
evidence ‘supporting that. theory
has transpired,

To Register Voters
To. facilitate the registration
of citizens who are entitled to
have their names added to the
voters list in this district, a num-
ber of commissioners for the tak-

- Do You Want A Pre-emption?

Pm

x=" Tf so, now is the time to get, one.
| have. some: choice selections.

_Reginl Leake Gale, J P. .

Red Estate, Financial and Insurance -
Telkwe, B. Cc.

_ Agent for G. T. p. Towneite Os
Gray & Mitigan Brothers, Surveyors, go
Prompth To:

gos

T garding game will. be. gladly
peaivel.b iby. W ‘4.  - Hasris, cat

ing of affidavits under the Elect-
ion Act have been appointed in
Hazelton and the Bulkley valley.
The appointments gazetted on
January 25. were: Hazelton, A.
R. Macdonald, W. H. Larmer,
and J. -A. Macdonald; Twenty-
Mile, Jack Ward; Chicken Lake,
John Wander; Aldermere, Rev.
F..L, Stephenson and James
Davey; Pleasant Valley, John
Adaing! South Bulkley, D. Me-
Glashan and W. Mitchell.

Try a fresh Oyster Cocktail: at
the Galena Club. —-

. Strayed
+ From Kitwangak, oneiron grey
gelding, branded 10C. W, on
left hip, property of Ritchie &
Agnew. ~Any informiatién re-

QuR SPRING. ‘and SUMMER
SAMPLES are to hand. They

and attractive patterns.

_ Brown shades in small check are
prominent. The smart and at-
tractive patterns in light and dark
grays will find favor among the
more conservative dressers.

of Toronto, are the leading wholesale
tailors in Canada.

We are: making the prices very
attractive so as to introduce this
fine make. |

Orders placed now.
the sleighing is good:

Come in while

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Cream allover lace, at $1.25 and $1 50 a yard,
| White frilling at 25c a yard.

collar lengths, in assorted colors at 50¢ a box.

Also j in boxes: of six

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