2 from a visit to the front. . J fruit inspector, is dead, aged 78. ML Rossland will be held on Feb, 26. He ee ous MINER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916 ~The World’ s Doings i in Brief ’ News Notes from Many Sources Treo has a deficit of $37,-|. ; 500,000 this year. ; Be = The halibut catch in B. C. last me year was 25,000,000 lbs.” : Kitchener returned on Monday |’ | The British navy has‘aceounted y for 69 German submarines, Monday’s despatches: told’ of| @ 22 deaths in Arkansas floods, -Former Premier. Venizelos. of Greece will return to politics. ‘President Wilson has formally consented to his re-nomination. " ‘Thomas’ Cunninghaw,provincial By-elections in Vancouver and ‘Box and box-shook manufaec- turers in B.C. are experiencing a boom. ‘iment store, swept the business ‘Twenty-one miners perished i in a fire in the Philadelphia mine at Butte. Germany i is extracting’ nitrogen from the air for fertilizer and powder-making. * . The first big consignment of fish for Canadian troops is on its ‘way to England. ‘Tt has been announced that the Panama canal will not be Tewpen- ed for six months. " The British government is con- sidering the appointment of a minister of aviation, ‘Search for the fishing steamer Onward Ho! and her crew of 37 haa been unavailing... - _ Enquiry into the parliament tuildings fire shows its origin t to ‘have been accidental, cA Mennonite colony “from ‘the prairies is expected to settle ‘n the Fort George district, _ | What was reported as a record gate did considerable damage in Prince Rupert on Saturday. . Eighteen men were killed and six entombed by a gas explosion _ {n-a coal mine at Indiana, Pa. ~The next vote of’ credit will _bring Britain’s total war credits up to nearly two billion: ‘pounds. : < August - Kastella, “guperinten- dent. of Dominion’ dredges, has been dismissed. Heis a German, * Germans allege - ‘that ‘Allied “warships have taken 8,400 Teu- toni¢e civilians from ineutral ves- gels, ?The noted eruiser~ Avethusa apruck a mine off the éast coast of England and may: ‘bea: total) loss. ~ A Boston grand jury is inves-. _ tigating an alleged German con- . Bpiracy.. to commit, outrages in ° Ganada. ESwiss teports say two large German: ‘banks ‘have ‘failed, one faving’ liabilities: of over r $126, - = 000, 000. here a UA Yeppelin™ blown : ‘adit ina : gate’ “on Wednesday. landed. in ., Holland, where it’ was apized and) Thterned, - A dynamite bomb" ‘was iscov: . ered viear the N. P: tracks at Seattle: by. men guarding’ Russian . ‘anunitions. Pa ‘Hague’ despatch: Says ‘the “b Berlin, “sl ofall profits: over 7 per cent:from “fg jerman | ‘brown -prinee, has: beer Ai Australia will give ‘‘within the Empire’ manufactures-a ten per cent preference in purchasing publie supplies. - 7 Fifty-five ‘Teutonic hyphenates Francisco grand. Jury for breach- es of neutrality. - Discussion in parliament of the Stevens resolution in favor of Dominion-wide prohibition is ex- nected next week, / Hans Schmidt, the German priest convicted of the murder of Anna Aumuller, in New York, was electrocuted yesterday. Mississippi flood waters pour- ing through a crevasse in the ‘Limerick levee have inundated a large portion of ‘Tensas parish, La. At Fall River, Mass., a fire starting in the Steiger depart- _ The loss is $2,000,000. A provincial. auditor will bé|o appointed to investigate expen- ditures in connection with. the liquidation of the Dominion Trust. H.C-Brewster has been nomin- ated to oppose Hon. A.C. Flumer- felt in Vietoria. The by-election will . probably take place, on March 4. i The British government will prohibit the importation of bar- ley for distilling purposes, and| ‘will take over all whiskey distil- leries for use as munition plants. The Mississippi levee broke at Newallton, La., on Thursday,and district. J over 1000 persons were marooned |-- 58782 by the flood. The inundation | covers 75,000 acres of farm land, In view of the success of the] Canadian aeroplane mail service to Hudson Bay, an aerial service ‘between Fairbanks and Brooks, in Alaska, -is projected by Am- ericans.- in Holland;causing great anxiety ters. in the dykes, ed by Sir Richard McBride were’ rejected: by: Chile on account of, good and efficient. Great damage. was done in’ London, Ont., ‘on Thursday. by ai B0-mile gale. — - Buildings and: bridges were wrecked, and roads’ in places were covered hy water: to a depth of six feet. od an geria] service across the At- lantie, by multiple planes with’ a speed of 200 miles an “hour, which will cross from London to New. York i in fifteen hours. . changing of the: city’ 8 name. Canada "will tax’all war, profits; Jincluding those on: munitions; ‘the. federal. treasury 25. per cent the outbreale , ‘of the. war: -until nde re: exempt. have béen indicted by a San} a A meas: intfoduced in par- spe AINE NOMINEE 8 liament this week by the govern-|E . =. ment, provides for increased|= u son’ S B a Comr any = ' duties on various imports, includ- |G. Qo jing a-raise af. fifty cents a barrel |E OH AZELTON, B.C. - = on apples, &B. C.' ‘fruit growers |Z = are elated, ‘declaring the added 3 Dry-G . Vente 5 -Goods, Boots & Shoes, Wholesale “Liquors. § protection méans the salvation of eH y , , na = nce’s | : = = the province's apple industry. = Carnation Wheat Flakes ~ . per pke. .40 = : =. . .. [Contains a piece of chinaware in eac package] 4 & | Cream of Wheat . . per pke. 25 2 e = Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes ” 10 = = Grapé Nuts .. . . no 20 = Synopris of ‘Coal Mining “Regu: 5 * Malta-Vita (377 307 ay lations. = ROBIN HOOD Porridge Oats 7 7. BB EB = ” Porridge Wheat an 20 = ‘htsof t = = Coan ining sof the Dominion, |& ” Wheatlets . per Gb. sk. 35 S Alberta the, Yokon, tortor, el& Quaker White Rolled Qats, Putted Rice Z of the Province of, British "Columbia, = & Putfed Wheat per pkg. 15 =z may be leased fora term of twenty-one | & = years at an annual rental of $1 an'|= CORNMEAL, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, PEA MEAL FLOUR, a acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will a RYE FLOUR; “B & K’? ROLLED OATS & OATMEAL... = ea fe one applicant. the mad 4= = Icatlol or 4 1ease mus = ~ by the applicant ‘2 lease must be made/E SPECIAL. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER. Per Ib.45 2 or Sub-Agent of the district'in which Suunto CNNSI NEOUS ‘staked out by the appli icant himself. - Yesterday a storm was raging] |“ and fear of further flood disas-| Thousands of men were}.. working to prevent fresh breaks |” A Chilean naval officer states: ' " thatthe two submarines purehas- |: overweight, but were otherwise: oa - Claude Graham-White rsdlee ri - Ag the culmination of a series of mags. “meetings, the people ‘of |. ‘Ont, “held a monster] al... ‘leitizens’ conference and ‘adopted: "8t'. ” a strong: ‘resolution. urging. the oy transportation, banking, mining . sit and milling, which must pay into ied for are situated. the rights apal territory the land must In: -surveye be described by sections, or legal sub- ‘divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Lowest rates Prince Rupert to all Eastern Points via steamer - to Vancouver and Canadian Pacific Railway. Meals and berth included on steamer Fas VANCOUVER, VICTORIA “and SEATTLE. - SS. "Princess Maquinna” leaves Prince Rupert every SUNDAY, at 6 p.m. 5.5. “Pyincesa May” leaves Prince Rupert at 7 pm, on Feb, 11th) 25th; March 10th, 21st and 31st. x JT Peters, General Agent, Srd Ave. & 4th St., Prince Raper . _/ Each application must be accompani- ed by 2 fee of $5, which will be re ‘and- ed if the rights applied fox are aot available,-but not.otherwise.