/ from Manson creek. .
Mrs. Wm. Grant'went down-to

. in'the. trenches,

considerable: delay.in the build-
_’ ing of the Cronin mine: road and
: the road to the Santa: Maria

‘  went-to the coast on yesterday's

: building: of tralls, for. "mu

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‘VOL. VI, NO. 49 ae

HAZELTON, B. G., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917

PRICE $2.00 A YEAR |

- LOCAL NEWS. PARAGRAPHS

Items OF General Interest From
Hazelton and Surround.
ing District

G. G. Wall, ‘of Vancouver, was
here this week. , -

* Dave Purvis came in this week

Prince Rupert this week.

Miss Gertrude Martin left last
evening for cher home in New-
foundland.

A. M. Manson, M. L. A. for
Omineca, went up to Smithers
on - Friday,

‘Mrs. Chas. Reid left on Mon-
day’ 8 train to join her-busbaind
in Smithers.

Miss’ Barbeau, of Prince Ru-
pert, is. visiting Mr. and Mrs.
R. §. Sargent.

John Newick returned on 'Tueg-

day from a week-end trip to the
Bulkley Valley, -

Don’t forget the commemora-
service tomorrow: evening at 8 in
Assembly Hall.

Assistant Forester F, Chettle-
burgh left on: Friday morning
for. Prince Rupert, °

Stewart Norrie, fisheries. in-
‘spector, of: Prince Rupert, Was
in town: on Wednesday.

HE, Carlton, the well-known
railroad contractor of Prinee|
George, was in town. this ‘week,

L. Wheeler, _ schoolteacher at
Pacific, and’ ‘Miss N. Wheeler, -of
Victoria, were here during the
week.

Lieut, K. B, Forster, one of
Hazelton’s” soldiers, who was
wounded some time ARO, i is again

Road Superintendent Dun top

‘| proved,

; against the French positions near

London’ . Fighting as much!
| against thé engulfing sea of mud:
as against the enemy, the British | :
are still consolidating their gains
by local attacks today.
The weather has, slightly im-
but’ massed infantry
actions are practically out of the
question. Our-artillery is pound-
ing the. German line, Early
today further counter-attacks by
picked German forces on aeverdl
points of the front were thrown
back. ,
Reports from Holland declare.
that the Teutons are moving
their | headquarters in Flanders
further. east,

According to official commun-
iques 420 airplanes were lost on
the western front jn July. Of
these the enemy lost 291,

8

Paris: Troops of the German
erown prince, after an intense
artillery bombardment, last night
delivered several violent attacks

Cerny, i in the Aisne region.
attacks were repulsed, -
‘Bad weather ‘continues on the

All

[Belgian front.

NL
Large squadrons of

Itatan airplanes yesterday effec-
tively 'pombarded the arsenal and
‘| military works of Pola, the chief
naval station of Austro-Hungary,

‘Rome:

‘Berlin; Czernowitz, the cap-
rital of Bukowina, has been cap-

tured by: the Teutonic forces,

Petrograd : : Kimpolung, in
Bukowina, has. been evacuated
by the Russians, who are"now
engaged with the Austro-German
forces on the Bystriéza river.
Between the “Dniester and. the
Pruth, ‘the Russian retirement

continues,

Washington: '
in the Balkan. theater are expect-
ed soon,
- According to positive informa-
tion received here, Germany had

Big operations

possession of Austria’s ultimatum |.
to Serbia fourteen houra befare
it was deliver ed in Belgrade,
Nev York: More than %5
per cent of Americans called up
for national \army- examinations

claim exemption, according to

dentHuysman of the internation-

ENTENTE FIGHTING TWO ENEMIES

M UD CONSPIRES AGAINS T THEM IN FRANCE
~-RUSSIAN RE TROGRADE MQVE CONTINUES

Disqualifications
for physical disahility vary con-

the country.

free from congestion,
the exemption elaims are based
on the plea of “dependents,”

Chicago: Canada would be

one of the first prizes demanded
by Germany were she victorious
in the war, is the opinion of
ex-president Taft, who is on his
way west to speak on ‘““Why We
~The Monroe doc-
trine, he said, would be warth-
less and the indemnities demand-
ed would bankrupt the Allies ‘for
years.

are at War’’,

om

; Arfisterdam: Russia and J Aus-
tria. are *‘on the verge of an
understanding,’’ according to a
declaration attributed. to presi-

al Socialist bureau,

“Borie: The central powers

expect to draw one hundred car-|

loads of cereals from the occu-

pied territory of Roumania, . -
“Uy

. came down from Smithers yes-

terday on a trip of inspection to|.

this end of his district,

“Billy” Burken came vin on
Tuesday from Mine-mile moun-
tain, where he has been develop-
‘ing his silvertead. claims:

A ‘shortage of Jabor is. causing:

property, at Telkwa,

A. -Clive Denrnan, paymaster|
“on board one of His Majesty’s
warships, who has been the guest
of: Mr, and Mrs, 8. H. Hosking,

train, - -

“Tt vs Tepoited: from - Télkwa
that. the Alec. S, Miller property
on. Hudson: ‘Bay ‘mountain has
been bonded to g. H. Sproat, who
will begih the, immediate devel.
opment: of the group. .

JY, D. Galloway,. provitelal goy-
ernment: Mining» eiiginesr, has
retufned from the - ‘Usk district,
where -hée examined nymber of
Properties ‘for’ the: bi posa: of]
making’ ‘recommendationg for the

triak* Association held on Monday
évening it was decided to forego
the fall. fair . this year, . . Owing
‘principally’ to the doubtfiil am-
ount ‘of support that it would be
accorded through the great de-|:
pletion in. the population of this
district by the. war,
elation, however, intends to de-|
~vote ita energies‘ in furthering
the request of the Commissiorof
Conservation for greater. produe-
tion on farm lands and- the. fur-
therance of ganeral economy. .

war will he ended,
Admiral . Jellicoe, in reviewing
the naval situation. :
water craft are admittedly the

[only ‘remaining hope of Germany.
More patrol boats are needed to}
join, the punters,’ asserted the
first sen, lord.

‘Brussiloff, edmmader-in- chief of
the Russian: -armids, ling realgned,

FALL FAIR WILL
BE ABANDONED

At an executive ineeting of the
Hazelton Agricultural-and Indus-

The asso-

‘Defeat. the. submarine and the
So declared

The'under-

. “Getteral: Alita |

4

Petrograd

the and will be sucqoeded by General
ns Korniloff. Bh!

{a aveek in Canada iaré recom-

The Golden ‘Wonder .
M."W. Sutherland, ‘who is
directing operations on the Gol-
den Wonder froup, near Car-
naby, was in town this week.
He reports active development on
the ‘property, and says that a
‘shipment -of the high-grade cop-
per ore.of the vein uncovered on
the Golden Wonder will be made}.
to the Ladysmith smelter’ when
his ore sacks. arrive.

| Survey Camp Moves
The Federal government, geo-
logical survey party under J.J.
O'Neil, whieh has beén encamp-
red: for” some time ‘at: Two-Mile
Creel, and which has been Bur-
veying: ‘a’ fifteen-mile strip, of
territory taking in Rocher de
Boule and Nine-mile mountains,
concluded their operations on the
former this, week, and will short
ly: shift’ their camp to Bear
river, where they will continue
their work. : .

. Ottawa:

Two’ ‘meatless days

mended by the food controller. -
Al tailway systéing,- including] ..
hotels, telegraphs, elevators, ex-|
press. and. steamers,. will come
under government control. under

1 [Sir r Thomag ‘White's Hew. Blan,

SIDEWALKS ARE.

evening,

leader, accuses Michaelis of feed-|
ing. the German péople on falla-
cious reports. |
chancellor wad appointed , ag the
nominee of. the ! general , staff.
The fealing among the masses is
that a-republic mugt come.

J cannot count’ much’ on Russia
and: ‘that the burderi maust fall on

A GREAT DANGER

eee

At a general meeting of Hazel-

ton Progress Club on Thursday
among other business |)
dealt with was the question of
the present condition of the side-
walks in Hazelton. |
cided to. take the matter up with
the provincial Rovernment,
the boardwalks now lie, in their
. {rotted state, they are a constant
menace and an actual danger to
the limbs of the citizens, and are
a disgrace and detriment to the we
progress of the town,’ and any |.
appropriation made by the gov-
ernment could not be more‘. use-
fully spent than. in their ‘repair,

It was de-

As

Herre Hasse, minority Socialist

He says that the|:

General Maurice Saya that we

press reports from all parts of

siderably, running much higher
in the big cities than in towns
Most of

| freight and treatment charges of
{the smelters.

"{it 2 hoped that everybody. will ,
_| be presentand j join in the. Note
on the regolution,

1 INSTAL CONCENTRATOR |

Silver Standard Will Increase
_ Its Ore Production by ‘Ad.
. - ditional Plant

W. G. Norrie; manager of the
Silver Standard mine, returned
dn Wednesday from the coast,
where he has been for sume
weeks on business connected
with the mine. He states that
the company has decided and-
will commence upon the econ-
struction ofa concentrating plant -
at‘the property,

‘The completion of the mill will
put this mine—the pioneer ship-
per of silver-lead ore in this dis-
trict—in .a position to operate on

a much more: extensive basis
rthan has been practicable -here-
tofore,

The news that a. concentrator
will be built locally is most grati-
Fying for the whole district, for

if, ‘a3 is expected, arrangements:
are made whereby the ores of
properties other than the Silver |
Standard will be treated at the ,
company’s mill, a new era of
activity in mining on the north
side of the Bulkley should ensue,

as there area numberof prop-
erties in the neighborhood of the
mine and on Nine-mile mountain ‘
remaining idle owing to their
inability to ship their. ores profit-
ably under the high rates de--
manded by the railroads for

He

These handicaps
will be removed when it becomes |
posssible to ahip the silver-lead -
oves in the form of concentrates. '

WILL COMMEMORATE
WAR ‘ANNIVERSARY

‘a =
Resolved that on this the
Third anniversary of the
declaration of a righteous
war, this meeting of citizens
of Hazelton records its in--
. flexible determination to
continue to a victorious end |} |
the struggle in maintenance |.
of those ideals of Liberty
and Justice which are the || .

common and sacred cause

of the Allies,
\

Instead of the usual al gathering’ ae.
held for the past two years on ~~.
August 4in Hazelton, this year

a similar anniversary meeting

ill be called tomorrow evening,’

Atigust 5, in. Assembly Hall, at 8 |

o'clock, to renew our determina. ve
tion to conelude this war Victor- _
iously: for the rights and liberties.
of the world and to endorse the ©
stand. of the Allies under the
above resolution, -
A number of short addresses ,
will be, made and solos ‘rendered, »
As ali church: services for fo-
‘Thorrow, evening : are cancelled "

The collection’ will. ‘be di divided .
among the Various ‘war funds.

7 the ather Allied. Bowers. a

1 All ‘are most cordially’ ‘ipvited,