VOL. I, NO, 32

_ HAZELTON, 3B, nO SATURDAY, APRIL 12 Agts ©

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" Weariéd of Obstructive Tac-
‘| ties,. Government ‘Intends

“to. Limit. Naval Debate

- * Against Killing Measure -

‘of the continued obstructive
'. Borden introduced a resolution to

apply the-closure to the debate
~ onthe naval bill. This. action
yesulted in- uproar, Presaging a
; long and bitter fight. Mr. Bor-
a deri, in a dignified: speech, ex-
_ plained the necessity. of” limiting
’ the debate, The Liberals made a

- hostile demonstration and there |

were many lively seenes,

~ Ottawa, April 11: A state-
ment from the Japanese consul-
general, to the effect, that Japan
- would adhere to. the’ ‘agreement | —
cwith: the Dominion, was. present-
ed today. by Premier Borden.

-- Closure ig expected to carry by

“Pe,

-on the naval question, Mr. Bor.

“+ den: ‘Btated that the senate would’ -
7 he réformed if the naval bill were
- killed i in the upper house.-

on a ke . "
. Iedian Commisioner
(Apectal to Tha: Miner):

_. Nietoria, April 10:—Former

Chief Justice Wetmare, who has

_ been chosen fifth memebr of the

_ commission on Indian affairs, has

‘hag arrived. here, and will make

Lp Victoria hjs home. Commissioners

" White and McKenna, represent:

— the Dominion. ‘government, . are

expected “to arrive from Van-

couver next week, Organization,

of the commission will comménce
on their arrival.

~~ HURSES AND MACHINES
~ > FOR BULDING ROADS

“Road Superiitendent, ‘Willis. |
- eroft returned. trom= “Victoria on
. .Wednesday, bringing a large. a-

mount of additional, road making ;

os equipment for his district’ “and |.”
-jthat of W. J. Carr. . Mr: Willis-
ort ‘personally selected nine
splendid: horses’ for the govern-
7 work, and. ‘the “ animals
if reached Hazelton i in good fettle.
». New:machinery. for the. roads in-
~ eludes one’ four he e prader, one|.
two-horse. grader, roller,” Bix
~~ Fresno serapers, 4 nuifiber-. of |:
_ slush: ‘scrapers and séveral plow’
“Four tons of. stumping... powde
WR also brought up. ‘These’ ‘ede |
ditions bring the road equipment
of the. interior districts ap. to the
standard, ‘and. will - enable ‘the||
De supépintendents . to obtain. ax-
1.7 odllent’results. from’ the: expend:
_ wf itare of the appropriations,

~ “THE CLOSURE:

: “THREATEN. BITTER FIGHT

“Liberals ( Contest Enforcement of.
~ :Rule—Expected to Pass Next
-“Week-—-Premier Warns Senate |:

“< Ottawa, April 10:—As’a result

“tactics of the opposition, Premier

the end ofthe week. Speaking]

, Canadian Club. yesterday, Chief
" Justice Hunter, made a- remark-

ltrack and made the transfer of|

lin, prepartory-to’ making a per-|

had. much trouble east of Hagel-

VICTORS-QUARRELING —

OVER SPOILS OF WAR
Bulgaria and Greece at Logger-|: |
heads-—Balkan War. Believed
to be Nearing an End. o

’

‘London, April 11:—The Balkan|

the. division of the apoils of war.
Both. Greeks and Bulgarians claim
Saloniki, which was occupied by
the former,

London, Apeil 10: ~The Balkan
war is rapidly drawing: toa close,
the attitude of the great powers
tending to hasten the consumma-
tion of peace, When the war is
ended it is - probable that Hon.
Winston Churchill will visit Ger-
many with the object of arrang-
ing. an agreement to halt. the
battleship building race between
the two: countries for the next
two years..

“Whitefish for B.C: © Waters

(Special to The Minar)

Victoria, Apri! 10:— Millions of |
‘Ontario and United States white-
fish are'to be liberated in. Harti-
son lake, Later large numbers
will be secured and placed in
Vancouver Island waters,

JUSTICE HUNTER.SAYS..
BORDEN POLICY RIGHT

- (Bpectal, to The: Miner) - see
Victoria, April's; ~ Replying ib
the toast of the Empire, at. the

able speech, in which he strong-
ly supported the Horden naval|'
policy, He maintained that naval
defence was an imperial quest ion,
aifecting the peace of the world, |.
andso far above party politics,
Detlaring his belief that an‘emer-
gency existed, he said it. was not
necessary for a member ‘of the
judiciary to apologize for refer-| -
ring to: the question and he knew
no power: to muzzle him... It was
ashamé that Capada had fiot con
tributing | to imperial: defence in
her fifty years of autonoiny. The
place for Canada’ 8- “warships, he
added, was on the firing.ling, not
» | rusting in Victoria” harbor While
their officers disported " theni-
selves on golf links,

7 “Trains j in Trouble a
The inauguration of a regular

train service to the end of: steel
has. been, ‘delayed by. varlous mis-
haps along. the newer part of the
line, which: were, to be expected.
with the opening. of’ spring. A
gumbo slide. -at’ South Hazelton
took out a’ ‘settion. of the side

t

passengers and freight newessary,
A temporary bridge: ig, being. put:
Mianent. fill, . _ Work traing have|
ton, owing to the softening of the

toadbed, . Thursday’ $ train: was
delayed ‘at Carnaby,’ a anal mud

iseting of the
AB mee on Tues. }

b

allies are now quarreling | over |,

copper ore in the bottom. .

|the drift in its face, This is per-
|haps the richest ore yet uncover-

in Hazelton,

$70 4 ton after paying all charges
and deductions. While this figure
may be regarded as Satisfactory,
the ‘management believes : still
better results will be: ‘obtained
in the future, asa reduction in
the high freight rares looked for
and . more ‘favorable smelting
rates have been bffered, while
the ore which is now being taken
out is of higher ‘grade than that
previously shipped.

smelter next week a car of high
grade silver-lead oye of very fire
appearance, Duke
Thursday reported that the cross-
cut tunnel had been driven thir-:
ty feet from the face of the open
eut, giving a total length of 100);
feet. The tunnel will be driven
7 250 feet further, dvcording to ex-
: pectations, before reaching the
In the meantime. the high’;
grade ore already on the dump
will be shipped. A Trvax ore car
and three hundred - feet of track
have: been’ delivered at the mine,
and their installation will enable ,
he working. force to take even :
hetter time, ~ :

ore,

mine has been- suspended, peénd-
ing the installation of mathinery,
Enginect Green, ‘who examined

made decidedly favorable report
with. the result, ag Superintens
dant Cowan informed the Miner, |,
that.
swith: a power plant and drills has
; _ {been detided | upon, The, propett:

toa point. where the installation |
jofa plant; is not ‘only justifiable

| work being ‘excessive, Mr.Co watt '
Ay | “wasall:

ia MINES’

_ be Exhibited at Imperial

proper ty. On number three’ vein

carries “good ore, sh owed two
feet of.clean silver-lead and. ‘Bray
The
shoot is proving continous, and
now: extends nearly to the. top. ‘of

ed in, this promising «mine, and
the local people whe- are interest:
ed -in- the property are much
pleased with the showing. Harris
brothers and Jack Mullan i are the’
principle owners, practically all
the c company? s stock being’ owned

. “ ys :
- Returns have ‘been repeived
from. Trail smelter’ for : the first

; shipment -of Harris Mines ore, |

which brought the. pany“over|*

The Erie will ship to Tacoma

Harris |. on

Oey

Work on the Rocher de Boule
e property. for the’ company,

equipment. of the mine

“corsidered't tobe devetpéd |

ut: necdigary), the cost of ° hadi

The latest developments ih the ’
Harris Mines workings. show be-
yond a doubt the value'\of. “the
a drift i ig being run to the north;

on the 185-foot level. Afew days
ago’ the vein, which throughout

|REPORT PLEASED AL

by the G.T.P. by autumn, when

Jin 1895 to $50, 000,000,

1 The. province today. paid each of

NEW ORE BODY.

~-ERIE WILL SHIP NEXT WEEK

. Power Plant and Machines for Roche for Rocher de Boule - -~ Another
. Hydraulic Company to. Work i in Omineca River District
‘This Season---Board af: Trade Preparing Ore Display to

Institute j in London

" Oniineca Development
Co. 1 A Vancouver .corporotion
holding hydraulic leases ‘on Fall
river, a tributary of the Omineca,
intends to proceed with the de-
velopment. ofits placer ground
this season. R.'D. Featherston-
haugh, .well known here as ‘an
expert hydralic operator, is in-
terested in the proposition, and
is expected to leave’ Hazelton
with a crew of minersin June.
to. bégia work on the. property,

The board of ‘trade ‘is: prepar-
ing an exhibit of Omineca dia-
trict ores and coal, to be sent to
the Imperial Institute i in London,
where the display will be given
the prominence it deserves, Min-
ing men. throughout the district
haye signified their intention to
contribute specimens,

. GT. P, SHAREHOLDERS

Landon, Abii 10: wit 10:--At the hali-
yearly meeting of the Grand
Tronk shareholders, Chairman
Smithers said that satisfactory
progress was being made with
the. work. of grading on the Paci-
fie section of the Grand Trunk
Pacific. If no labor troubles in-
tervene, he expects ‘to see east-
ern and western Canada linked

the road would probably be able
to handle the. crop as well aa
general traffic both ways.

During the past year, the'chair-
man said, there had been more
western landseekers than ever,
The gross receipts of the company
have increased from $20,000,000
The re-
port was received with gratifica-
tion, not a: ‘shareholder offering
any criticism. The president ‘an-
nounced a ‘dividend increase of
one per cent., ‘making 24 per cent.
for the year on third preference
stock. ‘

«B.C Buys Valuable Reserve

(Special to The Miner) __

' Vancouver, April 8:--Kitsilano
Indian reserve, -which is in the|
heart of Vancouver, has been
transfered from the Dominion tb
the: provincial government. It
comprises eighty acres and is es-
timated to' worth over. a million,

thirty-three . Indiana *: $11, 250,
which. was placed to their’. credit
it the bank. The natives will go
ry other: reserves, Part of the
nd: is. reserved for - a drill hall.

. ‘No Licensés‘on P.G. E.

: (Spécial to: The "Miner)

jetoria; April 10 a
Getieral aaa has announeed

station is built here,

Jis still in jail,

RAILWAY OFFICIALS.
TO INSPECT THE ROAD

Prominent G.T. P. T. P.Men on Way

tel and Terminal Planf

, (Special to The Miner}
Vancouver, April 11:—A party
of prominent. G, ¥. P. ‘officials,
including Vice - President Dal-
rymple; the assistant passenger
traffic manager; General Pas-
senger Agent Hinton, of Winni-
peg; and General F Fréight Agent

today. They will leave on: the
Prince George on Monday eve-
ning for Prince Rupert, Hazelton
and the railhead. . After inspect-
ing the line, they will return to
Vancouver on April 19, going to
Victoria to confer with’ Architect
Rattenbury regarding the new
hotel at Prince Rupert, and with
Engineer Bogue regarding ter-
minals, The Seattle agencies
will also be inspected, The offici-
als look for largely increased busi-
ness for the company’s steam-
ers, which areall to be oil burn-
ers. The G.T. P. will have a
hotel at Mount Robson Park and
one. in Vancouver when the

Mrs. Pankhurst Starving
London, April 10:—Mrs.. Em-
meline Pankhurst, the militant

suffragette leader who was sen-
tenced last week to “three years’
imprisonment for inciting felony,
although she has
adopted the usual hunger strike

sen, the polar explorer, arrived
here today. He express eg pleas-
ure at the offer of the United
States to allow his vessel, the
Fram, to be the first other than
awarship to pass through the
PanamaCanal, After making the
passage, in June of next year,
the ‘explorer and his party will
sail’ from San Francisco for a
prolonged stay in the north polar
regions, The ‘expedition -will' be
_|perfectly equipped, even hydro-
aero’ planes .
Amundsen ‘Tepndiates thé claim
of Dr. Cook.

tronomy branch;’
Ottawa on Wednesday, to begin
the work of establishing: the lat-]
itude and longitude of various’
points ‘in. ‘northern ‘British - Co-
lumbia.
accompanied by an assistant and
atelegrapher, have, gone to Mor. ¥
icetown, ‘where operations will |.

begin. Oni: his last: visit two.years|~"™

“| dgo,- he took ‘is obgervations vat a - 4

Hazelton,

ing, necessary | for the checking of
observations the

tactics, Her friendsallege that
she is in a precarious condition of
health. It is believed by many
that her apparent abstention from
food is a pretence and that she
has highly concentrated nouwrish-
ment concealed. Militants every-
where throughout England con-
tinue their violent acts,

Amundson at Victoria
(Special to The Miner}

"Vancouver, April 11:—Amund-

being - taken.

” Astronomer: Here
_ F. A. McDiarmid, of the as-
arrived from

“Mr. McDiarmid, “who i is

ti

s -
A

“Telegraphic communication: te-|; .

To Hazelton—-Company’s Ho-|

Dewey, of Winnipeg, ‘are here|:

miles

4 Ben “appdinted .

WILL CHECK |
~MONOPOLIES |

Democratic Government

President in Person Tells Con-

Big Reduction in Revenus

Washingt®n, April 8: — Presi-
dent Wilson shattered precedents

his message to congress, which
has not been done by any presi-
dent since Adams,

The downward revision of the

articles being placed on the free
list. The checking of mdnopoly

goods is the keynote of the revi-
sion policy. Many monopolistic
industries will lose protection.

Washngton. April 7:—The six-
ty-third congress, the first in
many years with the Democrats
in the majority. .began business
at noontoday. The first day’s
proceedings were principally con-

and as he dropped his gavel
Underwood, the majority leader,
dropped the tariff revision bill
into the legislative | hopper,
officially starting a piece of buss-

iness which is likely to keep con-
gress at work until August,

While the legislators were find-

ing their new seats, a ‘procession
of women suff ragettes, represent-
ing every cohgressional district
in the United States, invaded the
Capital and presented: petitions
demanding a constitutieal amend-
ment for equal suffrage.

CP. R. T@ TUNNEL :
THROUGH THE ROCKIES

Winnipeg, April 10-—It

of “snowsheds

ule
agisttate at Phesnie as
apistiate | for

i. ; the Rivers Inlet, district.

WILSON READS MESSAGE

gress What He Wants~-Many 6
Articles Added to Free List

today when “he personally read |

tariff means a loss of revenue’
amounting to $80,000,000, many

by the admission of competitive |

is |
announced today that in the next
twelve months the.C, P. R, will
spend $46,000,000 in the west, as
against $19,000,000 - for last year.
The cheif itém in the program
which calls for this immense ex-
penditureis a sixteen mile tunnel |
through the Rocky Mountainsat J
Kicking Horse. pass. This tunnel .
which will be the . longest inthe [ae
world, will cost $14,000,000, and .
will reduce the trackage by five
miles, doing” away: with many 7
and .
reducing the grade from two and ~
8 half per cent to- less than one
per cent. Itisalso palnneéd to build
a line through Saskatoon and Ed- |
niontén and by’ way of one of the |
northern passes tito the competi- ..f
ive territory, of British Columbia, 2

nected with organization. Champ [iamem
‘Clark was again elected speaker,