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Mn = Thompson and Wilson are ge mam ting quite a: pile o me track now. It is becoming qiute common em io see a car sp ae Out. otted for loadin mee tools? " @ taxes as well as the Quick grouch mers. Misery likes company. mhome again. . ~ profitable season... m he operating occount, mt a complete loss, and Easter not here yet. Ehe Dome still shows an oppor- munity for being hopeful. We meed them and many more. m We are rather nutty on co- maperation, but our ideas of it menciude everybody—not farmers Seaone. . m Wasn't the editor nice, and mdn’t he let us down easily, others? aea.We hope that detective who meett Smithers for Vateouver will er US know how Vancouver: put eemover on Rupert and the interior, mam With so many dead rabbits spout isn’t it going to be rather safe to drink surface water xt spring? What would be the Assibilities of a well drill where Bter is hard toget? — " mlhe rabbits must acéount for Mt large flock of crows that has me around this winter. mVe could- use that platform warehouse nicely these days, w about it? Eew .camps are now being t near Skeena Crossing ‘for’ R, McGregor is putting up the f ties to the A good number of the farmers fee are putting up ice this winter. & How about a hittle co-operation next season, and getting a few Thank Heayen! Toronto and ® Montreal are getting fed up on & All the farmer tie hackers and gcontractors are drifting back Hope they had a ma One of our farmers, who keeps eeeoooks, has figured up his season’s mpusiness. On a 40-acre tract his Expenses were just $125 more @aehan receipts, showing a loss on The only ahing that let him out at all was the fact that he paid himself the ages and thus he did not farm @. Eggs down almost 50 per cent @ Weare verv glad to note that | 48 soon as the roads are fit to use | During the winter he was able to |ties.- Nearly all the, ties will week or so Hon: A. M. Manson, t, Skeena. poles and piling is being made from New Hazelton this week. T. T. Dunlop, district engineer, was in town the first of the week, but so far as road work was concerned he said he knew nothing, except.that the appro- priation this year was the same as last year. He could not say where any money would be spent. Numerous travellers were in town this week adding to th cost of living. V. C. Clauson, who has been gathering data on the mineral resources of the northern in- terior for several months, spent seyeral days here this week with Duke Harris and together they visited several properties, Frank Purvis arrived last week after a three-months’ honeymoon in California, Mrs. Purvis went on to Prince George to visit her mother and returned this morn- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Purvis have taken Paddy Ardagh’s house and will be here until the Magoffin contract west of town has been finished, _ ‘Duke Harris is a patient at the hospital, having broken the small bone of his leg. He was_on his horse on Wednesday afternoon and the animal slipped and Duke followed suit, with painful, al- though pleasant, results. It’s an ill wind that blows no good, al- though it will be about six weeks before Duke hits the kills again. The C.G.1.T. group of the Sthithers Union Church won the pennant this year for Northern B.C, Last vear it was won by New Hazelton. Chief Engineer Burbank of the C.N.R.-was a business visitor to New Hazelton on Wednesday. t- 4 attorney-general, will visit the north and after looking over the ground will announce whieh rid- ing he will stand for in the forth- eoming election—his old riding of Omineca or the new riding of Another big shipment of cedar dollars to repair, and the boat several months. vestigation, and the Prince Ru- pert people would like to learn, also, why Vancouver pilots are sent to take boats in and out of Prince Rupert harbor, a harbor that a boy navigator can success- fully navigate and w ling himself a pilot, among the pioneers and vrospee- tors of the Northern. Interior owing to the death of Joseph ing does not detract from th regret. : finished a world tour and wen took on a cargo of a million fee of lumber for export. A Van any ship out of. But the Van just where the Scottish went on the rocks, The damage to the ship will cost over a hundred thousand will be out of commission for There will doubtless be an in- ithout cal- There is general regret felt Many Cedar Poles to Haul Mike George will this week finish hauling the season’s cut of cedar poles from the bush to the road. He ‘has 2,700 pieces and several teams with wagons will be put on to haul to the depot, get only a little oyer 700 pieces hauled on sleighs and only: 1000 have to stay in the bush’ until the snow comes again next’ win- ter." Mike will be prepared to k Fisher, which oeeurred in Smith- era last Sunday. He staked and developed. the Fisher ‘claims on Hudson Bay mountain a dozen years or more ago. The. funeral was held on Tuesday ‘and in- terment took place at Smithers. took ‘in the opening of the new Masonic Hall in Prince ‘Rupert last Thursday night were: W, 5, Henry, J. Mason Adams, Geo, Raymond. Hans Olson, Dr, Han- New Hazelton; Dr. H.C. Writich, Those from ‘the interior who inson, Smithers Rupert are agitated over the wreck of the Canadian Scottish, one of the two large ships built at the Prince Rupert drydock, First there is the natural regret that any boat should be damaged, but that the damage was done in the Prince Rupert harbour adds very materially to that regret. There is also regret that it was a Ruvert built boat that was wrecked, and the fact that a Vancouver pilot did the wreek- The Canadian Seottish recently on the dry dock at Rupert for examination. She was found to be in prime condition, She then couver pilot named Brown was Sent up to take the Canadian Seottish out of her own harbor, a harbor that hundreds of people in Rupert could suceessfully take couver pilot was unable to make the’ passage and piled her onto the rocks. off Digby -Island,-just ato mile and a half from her wharf. It was, according to reliable information, an ideal night ‘for navigating and. the lights were all burning. Every rock in the harbor is charted and there is room for half a dozen large stea- mers to pass in very deep water ‘Mission about two months, and the office now busy. wi race, was a visitor on Friday. tions has been made. H. Bourke, left on Friday, e northern part of the province. t Rev. W. J. Parsons, of Terrace, on Thursday. * Mr. and Mrs, R. H. Bourk took a visit to Terrace and baek on Saturday, Geo. W. Armstrong took in the towns along the Skeena, with a view to starting another paper at Terrace. Mr. Armstrong is an old newspaper man of Lower B.C. P. R. Skimner and B. L. Wood- t race early in the week, Land Lines to Go? The Free Press says that the government is to’ abandon the Yukon Telegraph line from Ash- croft and substitute a radio ser- vice with broadcasting stations at Edmonton and elsewhere con- necting with the sending stations now existing at Dawson and Mayo. The cost of the telegraph service is about $200,000 a year. Trade are considering a resolu- tion to be forwarded to the Prime Minister at Ottawa to’ combine the Canadian National and Dominion Telegraph services between Fort Fraser and Prince Rupert and to substitute the Yukon Telegraph fine by an aerial service. It is estimated the savings would amount to at least, $75,000. | | The dry dock at Prince Rupert A. H. Edwards, manager of the Canada Products Co., return- ed from a round trip to Edmon- ton. Supplies are coming in and 4 resumption of building opera- J, Manion, late foreman for R. D. W. McIntosh is leaving Usk for Juneau, Alaska, from where he and other companions will take a long snowshoe trip over- land inte the hinterland of the gave an illustrated lecture here ward made the round trip to Ter- The Prince Rupert Board of | Owing to the warm spell and laek of snow, tie hauling. has come to a sudden stop. - . Messrs, Affleck and: Haig left on Sunday morning’s train for Edmonton. When mining opens to see them back, ” There will be a little variety in _ troduced during the refreshment period in the form-of Irish songs, ete. If we haven’t” anything Breen to wear let’s.ail go .any- way, and just look natural. There is the odd ease of measles bursting forth as yet, but the fad has pretty well run itself out. Const. Fairbairn made one of. his periodical trips to Topley dur- ing the week, The old adage of “water, water everywhere, but not a drop to’ drink” is the order of the day in Telkwa as a number of wells have gone dry, Miss Thompson entertained a number of friends o jevening. .- Bota foes Rev. W. Mawhinney has been abroad from Telkwa for a couple of days visiting some of the out. - lying districts. . - We are sorry to learn that Mrs, Noonan has been very iL Miss Mary Heal is laid up with the measles, _All the ice houses have been filled and we are now waiting for the beer and hot weather. Mr. Brown is éelling out his household effects on Saturday and expects to leave for the Fraser Valley in the near future. ee ae ery o~ Big Lantern Slide Lecture- On Wednesday night, March 19th, Rev. Victor Sansum will Rive a lantern lecture in the Ha- zelton Methodist Church on. “The Church’s -Work in the Mission Fields in Canada.” ‘There are 180 slides of the best type, show- ing the many problems the Church has secured the job of repairing the Canadian Scottish, which went on the rocks a short time ago. It is the biggest repair job yet undertaken at’ Rupert, The ship will be out of com- Dittmer & Robb,. Burns Lake hardware. merchants, are having the second floor of their build. ing converted into offices. MeCill & Tufts‘ will oceupy one of the new offices.: . _The Houston fall. fair’ will. be held on ‘September 18th ‘this T8 and directors are th their plana,. nl 4 ‘Terrace, — MW. - Albart: Meroor wie tiertela & d Griffin and as soon as ready | carry’ on operations next fall and Jas, ‘Turnbull. Hazelton; ° : Albirt Meteor wits yiken | to the be occupied. by the summer winter’ on a larger scale than | McCubbin, Pacific; E. T..Ke fronm..&. severe