THE OMINEGA MINER, SATURDAY, JANUARY $, 1916 ~The. Omineca Miner. | PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA DisTric? of BRITISH COLUMBIA, a aaa me seeriesrenacaneonatas mm Tt OA mx a AO ane as a The F avorite. § | GENT g eit i Shopping place. — " MINERS’. PROSPECTORS™ ‘and. ‘SETTLERS’ ‘SUPPLIES. A SRESIALTY, a ial A. R Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. s SUBSCRIPTION “KATES: | ‘Canada andl British Pésuesaions, Two Dollars a year} Foreign; Three Dollars a year." ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $2.60 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 20 éents per line for each insertion. Legal notices inuerted at B.C, ". Gazette rates; : “ é “Vor. TV. no - SATURDAY, JANUARY.9, 1916. . No. 19 _ A year or 86 ago, it was generally believed in thia vicinity that the: Herald, published in New Hazelton, was owned, or at. least controlled, by a‘firm.of railway contractors heavily interested in the New Hazelton townsite, - For our concurrence In. this belief, we “owe an. apology. to our r contemporary. We are convinced that the =fdea was érfoneous, ‘Lhe members’ ‘of the company in question “have; aundoubtédly, dome claim to ‘the possession of intelligence, “white the columns of the Herald bear indubitable evidence that its “Boliy is not dictated by any intelligence, corporate or otherwise, While ostensibly boosting the ‘‘New, Hazelton’ district, our ‘esteemed contemporary fas won its chief renown as a wielder of ‘the: Knocker’ 3 hammer. * Persistently, in season and out of season, it has. belabored with cheap sarcasm, with: sneer and innuendo, any ‘péizon,: town or government whieh did not- fit into the. acheme of Sings as devised by the Herald.” © =‘ ‘Latterly: the New Hazelton paner has been devoting’ its atten- tion to the government’ officials in this district, with numerous references to the operations of the public, works department; but while its articles are admirable examples of the art of accusation ‘by’ inference, it has not once made a definite charge against any _ goverment ‘official, being content, evidently, with efforts to stir! up sentiment against. the provincial -government and its officials, without bringing forward any facts whieh would call for explana- tion or action on the part of those made objects of its malice. We. are familiar enough with: the. methods of conducting public All Ou Friends. ond - Castomers: A a 2 Hope py vand Prosperons | «New Year.” Pr e. charged against any. of. the - departments ‘whieh have e their’ eadauaries in Hazelton. If the = Rrerald his’ ‘any. grounds for sptecific’ ‘complaint ageinat any govern-/ _ Merit official in thia-district, we-considey it the duty of that paper to make the facts public, rather. than to. continve the campaign. of “Inginuation and. innuendo which has earned for-our eontémporary— Vand incidentally for the town which supports it—the unenviahle ‘ettnton which is the knocker’s only. reward, . ” Where War. Started ~ “it Gught hot to. go unrecorded - - that: the most gineintic “war the ‘aivilized world has. ever. “known! * _ began by the. simple, ringing of]. s an; old, chyreh.. hell, The. ‘small vas . Belgian. town. of, Vise, ip pitanted | * on-the banks: of the. river, Meuse, TCCCECeeer enceeneneneeenetcnEKERGETE Tit. = Mere ot POE ae sera SEM IE Deere meee | NOTICE ; , OMEINEGA ASSESSMENT - 1 AS DIST American. Silk - American Cag} iat 'Princa denne leaves Prites Ra It.ig-within three, or: four miles ‘of the Dutch’ frontier, “-whieh some 700° Vige refugees ~ hurried to the neighboring” town | ui of Meastritch, ‘and it ‘ta ‘éight ta “pine ‘miles. north, of Leige (since |} ” made . famous . by ‘its, defensive | _ fortifications.). -- ~ Vise. was invaded bya. atream of ; motor cars crowded with German infantry. o on. the day war was de- ; 7 : dared.’ wey on * This nie was: adopted in the ACLOSS |.oq {. levied tnder the ‘Taxation Act’. are}, due and payable ‘on the second of Jan-| “NOTICE i ig wars viven, in accord- ance with the Statutes, that all-asseza- taxes and income-tax’ absessed and ¥, 19ib.:- All ‘taxes “collectable for the Omineca: Asdessment: District are Sine and payable at my office, situated in the Provincial Government Building, : nthe Town of Hazelton, . B.C. “This, notice, | ‘in terms of, law, . ig equivalent to. personal demand by me : upon ‘all persone liable’ for taxes, - Dated at -Harelton, B, C., ‘ Decambar'24th, 1914, HH WELCH, : ‘Abnesnor Collector for ” Omineca Assessment District. * bape ‘of obtaining posession ‘of a a " ¥aluable passage without Girlie alt gots: put. before an entry. to, ‘thei town could ‘be. made the eure of the perish ‘alarmed:,.the town] , - by ringing his ehureh ‘bell; thus}... -the town guard and-in- |. — enn “abitatita to-delay ‘the enemy and | ae ‘dive! the’ defending mp to destroy two tidportait bridges, . “Mout briital / condtiet towards the’ tawhapeople® followed,’ ~The » burgomaster ‘atid’ dhilet ‘ ‘citizens a8 welF ‘as the'faithfir ‘Glefgymen. were” immediately’ *'shot,” But]. he ‘had dove thelr. ‘memories “ghould ba held in- honor ~ ‘though oa the conning: years.’ ie “OMIN ON ASSESSMENT “HOTT CE ne yung ‘piven: that. a ‘Court’ Of. Revision “and “Appdal, under the’ provisions of ‘the'“/Taxation : Act'’, respecting: the. gaseaament rolls of, the Omineca, Acsessmont District for thal vehr 1915, will’ be held in the Govern: : ware= |: ment! Offices; Hazelton, B. C., on day, -the- 14th: January, 1916... at; the hour, of 29'clock in-the. afterncon. a \: Rated lah szelton, nA Po» rs) 7 . ‘| December 24th, . ‘STEPHEN. He HOSKING, - » | ‘Judge of the . ea 1 pita PEAY one mplrea | ch your ‘sbeauiey: ‘ia wail American Cotta n-Lisle ‘HOSIERY. . Thay haye, atood the teat, Give: : real foot comfart.”’ ‘No-seams to’ vip, Never-become looge or’ . £y. 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