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•> Another terrific bump occurred yes- ROBERT NICHOLSON, 25 years, l terday morning in number two mine,' single. „ ,' ' Ooal Creek, which resulted in the . B. B. HANSON, 22 years, single.' entombment for ;'j hours of twenty- ARTHUR HOOTEN, 24 years, three miners., This is pne of the single. " worst that has * occurred for years:. DAVE POWELL, 32 years, married.' -The bump occurred-at eight o'clock ARCHIE MCMASTER, "35 years, and was'terrific, 'ihe dust shot,1 out married, four, children. of the mouth of the entry fully a ' GEO.* BOOTH,'30 years, married, quarter of a mile uway - from the one child., bump or cave. The terrible news JOE ^RADFORD, 26, years, marspread rapidly, and, Anxious, -, eager 9 ried. ' .' .', '• -',-,; . people rushed up to learn whether or • WM.; LAWRENCE, 28 years; marnot their loved, ones were amongst ried,' three children. " the entombed. . '&''" • ' '-' •, ' , * . - ; • . '. • ••**!. JOHN HODGSON, 40 years, marThe management,of the company ried, three children. did all in their power to- get to the •JOHN'WILLIAMS, 33 years,1 marmen, but it took;'hours to get ried, three children, through the. immense,,cave in. WM. MONCTON, 25 years, single. ' " "• "' ' h , ••> JOHN TAYLOR, 34 years, married, six children... RESCUERS AT. WORK. Among the first lo enter the mine DAN-BRISBO, 29 years, single, m PETE ATKINSON, 33 years, marwas President P. H. Sherman and ' ° Vice President John'Galvin, who'just ried, two children. arrived on the 'morning train. Presi- R. R. MCQUARRIE,' 27 years, „ • "i • ', dent, _ G. , G. S.,Lindsay, Manager single, Hurd,' Thos. v Biggs,", mine superin- . JAS. ..BLAKEMORE, 38 , years, -J tendent Simister/Dr.iBonnell, W. H. married, six children. Evans "and, Mr. Wilkes, did all that JOHN DUNN, 24 years, single. ' : a mile 0 into the mine the way. ' was One particularly sad feature was' was possible to reach:the men but when a lad of sixteen met^Tom Biggs found that after going a quarter of at-the entry and tearfully asked him i)adly__blocked,_^TJiey-th en-.tr ied-to- if he had seen his father. Tom ango in by the return' way, but could swered that he"had not as yet, and not go as near, that'.way as by the the boy said he,knew,his father "was main' entry.*. Besides these men a in there. ". • . , "' v *•

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large force were working hard and . REACHED'THE M B N . l ^ willingly to effect.:^!rescue.j., -. Tho glad tidings that the men had The' city , is cast' into .deep gloom been reached spread almost-as rapover this sad.1 catastrophe, and it idly as the first report, which stated will be days before,the full force that there was ,no hope of recovery. will be at. work. , There are four men still' in the The following is a list of the men mine and it is feared these will not who were entombed: bo rescued alive, as the gus is , too VICTOR KONTA,:20 years, single. strong to permit of tho rescuers getWALTER HEAD,, 25 years, mar- ting to them. The names ot these, ried, two children. four unfortunate men are: ,

and' others particularly interested In the important subjects of irrigation and irrigation colonisation. It is hoped that irrigation, and irrigation colonisation" companies, agricultural! horticultural, forestry and live stock associations, municipal corporatlonss, boards of trade and similar organisations, will lose no' timo In appointing the number of delegates to which each is entitled. ZEN. WOODYGA, 17 years, single.' FRANK BEEVER. There is scarcely a section of Canada PHILIP CALDWELL. , FRANK BEEVER, 24 years, single. which Is not directly intorestcd in BERT HITCHMOUGH. ' BERT HITOI-IMOUGH, 23 years, problems cohnccted with'tho distribuDAVE POWELL. ' tion of water, forestry, etc., and nil single. * , should mnko a point of taking ad' The other ' men have all been res• PHILIP CALDWELL, 40 years, vantage of their right of representacued aud aro safe. .. ,, married, six children. tion a t this Important convention. Dologatofl and their wives mako the return trip to Vernon, tho centre of the premium fruit growing district of British Columbia, for single faro,

BLACK HANDS ARE CAPTURED Are Safely Lodged in lail-To be Sent up for Trial

Chief Gook had a rather exciting Thrco of tho four Italians who but uncnvlablo exporlenco early on broko jail wore captured noar HlkThursday morning. He had just como from the flyer when a man mouth on Sunday. They wero trailwho gives his name as Stambuck ed and finally surrounded on their started to abuso him and used some way across the bridge, Policeman very strong language Tho Chief Clark of tho city forco got in front cautioned tho man, whereupon ho of thorn and hold them a t bay whilo whipped out a 41 revolver and covorod tho chief. Tho Chief grabbed at Constable Kempton of Coal Crock' tho revolver nnd the man flrcd and and Laccy. closed In and captured THAT Critic hopes tho commlttoo tho bullot Just grazed his hand. I t them, Constablo Kempton was bad* who havo tho choosing of a recrea- was so noar that his hand was Michel, July 29—Tho flrst fatal ac- Nelson, July 30--Word has been rely hurt in thc search as ho slipped tion ground in hand will lose no burned by . tho powder. Tho man cldont on tho eastern British Colum- ceived from Phoenix that the well 1 known Snowshoo Mino of that camp on a largo boulder and foil down tho time, Tho placo should bo started flrod ono moro and thon ran, Tho at at onco, Chief followed nnd locatod him in a bia railway, lenown as tho Gorbin Is about to resume operations. Up to rock, falling on his arm, bruising It An "Indignant husband" writing to now bolng built from tho tho middle of last November 125,000 room in tho King's. Tho Chief and road, • • . *, tons of oro had boon shipped from tho editor ol tho Victoria Wcok says: badly. Orow's Nost lino to tho Flathead THAT onco moro tho correspondent Stove Podbiolnnslk had to forco opon tho Snowshoo, but slnco that dato Blr—You aro t o bo congratulated Ior tho Nelson Nows has strayed tho door, und tho man' was found occurrod yostordny morning claiming all shipment coasod, It 1B under- upon tho Hovoro robuko you havo ad;, Tho fugitives mado desperate at* from tho paths of truth. Whon will undor tho bod, Ho was thon takon as its victim Allan McPhco, a native stood from unquoBtlonablo sourcos mlnlstoted Miss Murcutt ovor hor un* tempts to got away, but tho police to the polico station whoro ho roTho Crow's NoBt Pass Ooat 001*1- ho get wlso and scud in true reports, fuoos to toll what part ho Is from, ot Nova Scotia, agod twonty-sovon thnt a forco of at least 150 men will warrantable falsehoods regarding wore too hot on thoir trail to allow • «» be immediately engaged for tbo opmomllty conditions ln our HritlBh them to do RO, Tho polico hud a years. , pany are going to upend over six THAT lots of pooplo saw snakes He had a bolt of 41 cartridges and eration of this famous property and Columbia towns. It is with ploasuro vory exciting and thrilling'exporlenco hundrod thousand , dollars tn and this wook. When eight pooplo can tho royolvor. His wlfo was stopping McPhco had started to work at it is oxpected tho output will bo ro* that I nolo that your views aro sup- At ono timo the fugitives wero seen around Fomie. The Improvements Ilvo off two Biinkos their must bu a at tho hotel also, Sho refused to Murphy He Miller's camp ut sovon in sumed on tho scnlo a t which it loft ported by correspondent** of tho and when tho polico got near ono of toll what thoir buslnoRH was or contemplatod will mean a lot to tho lot of suckors around, tho morning and wltli othor mon off, that Is to say, on a scale of dally ju'cuB—ovcn In tho Victoria whoro thoy aro from, tho mon ho jumped Into tho river und • • '• city in moro ways than ono. Thoy was ongngod in cutting down troos, about ten thousand tons weekly, Tlmos, THAT rumor say's mat both Dill swam down stream toward the other Mr, Oharlos IIlossol, who for somo Intend to build twcnty-olRlit more and tho Postmaster nro on tho clearing tho right of way, whon a timo past has boon noting as pur- A foattuo of tli In disgusting affair Jack , McNoll Bhot at a woman ln which IIUH Hcarcoly been touched upon side. Constable Bob Clark jumped coko ovons hero, and twenty-two a t water waggon now, ono of tho hoiiBos of ill roputo, nndsuddon gust of wind promaturoly chasing agent for tho Consolidated is tho criminal indlfforenco with in after htm nnd had an exciting Michel, Two of tho ovens to bo blow down a lnrgo troo that was bo* at Trail, will loavo for Phoenix which other women who formed MISH has boon nrroBtod. • • » built horo will bo what IH known as THAT if. Bomo of our city knockors ing cut down by somo of tho mon, about tho beginning of next month, Murcutt's ii.ldlnnccM and listened to timo. Whon captured tlio man wns to resume tho siiporintondcncy of the hor fnlsoliooils. This is not a new utterly exhausted and had to bo tho longitudinal stylo, which aro bo* would got their hammers and drivo Frod Varlow, tho Jailor got a Whon warned by tho othor men Mc* Hnowflhoo. thing. When Messrs, CroHiiloy n and helped Wlong, Great credit in duo Inft built an an experiment and tho the nails down that aro sttcklnR up nasty bruise ln the stomach while Phoo Jumped, but ..instead of Rotting Hunter mmlo ccrtnln indecent atnto- to all tho pollro who assisted in the In thr sidewalks thoy would bo nolnj* rout will bo tho hoc hlvo stylo, Sovarresting n rufllan in' ono of tho red away from tlio falling troo he Jump* Thoro Is a gcnornl fooling In this monts n low months ago in rogard capture, who were as follows: Chief a goody act. light housos on Wednosdny night. od straight in Its path. Tho falling camp that tho resumption of the to, 'lunclni*, these samo women Bat (look, Hob Clark, Fred Varlow, Peto oral additions anil nncoRsory altera• « • flnowshoo means tho final clinching tions will be made a t Coal Creek, THAT a certain party wns hoard' Tho man pulled u gun on Frod, nnd troo HiniiHlioil bin , huad to a pulp, of tho renewed good fortunes uf tho and listened in nilen«v\ though thrlr Murphy, special const able Jackson, Fred knockod it out of his hnnd, the constablo Kempston of Coal Creek nnd a now tipple Is also contemplat- to remnrk that police work was mnn then kicked him vldouBly in killing him Instantly. Tlio nccldont dlHtrlct. Ono result of tbo Snowshoo own datiRlilcrs in many rnnei- wore and constable Lneey Tbe men were od for Michel. This will considerably away ahead of attending to horses, tho stomach, nnd made his escnpo, happened eight miles from tho rail- starting up will bo tho blowing in the victims of insinuations. Under tlicse circumstances people captured at 2,1 (i o'clock on Sunday • • * help tho output of their lmmenwo Fred was unable to move and had to way and hlu body had to bo brought of another coppor-gol«l furnaco at tho arc beginning to IIHII what kind of | morning, Just about nine mllns from supply. Most of this work Is ox* THAT all games will havo to be bo brought up In a waggon. He Is out ovor an old "prospectors' train ComiolldatoirB big nmolter nt Trail, women cnnipopo the«e rotorien In I tho boundary lino. Thefifthman and thin will bn dorm at once. played before August tho 10th, HH on still soro an a result of tho kick, our city , Obviously they am unfit T5rnont Hantoro h»H not been crip* pocted to be completed this year. and was brought horo for interment. thnt date the grounds will bo torn asRorlatofi for young girls, or mnr* | tared up to the, hour of golnf* to to pieces. Oh' Fernie where Is thy UtitMiATiUiN XsU,\\ imbuxji*. :Ott&O^]tf0^ *"B tluccwhuu i •.ui. iii> mcniio ui »iiricil women. romuiiHiiy, J nav* ior-, »"*••' I'lenmire ground, TopoTtr* eixmn In I/i-Wc*. mt ir.lt Ic* .'it 1 ind nnj' .nrirr cot fiVft-f. VTIId '" * iutiVvIn at,."* all-* liuii.i.'.-,m Uu.iWti i)l UUVUK HANUri, from time to time that he was Present Indications aro that Uic '• ,,f \] .\ mnWnKtt, nnd T lmve withir r him except tliut ho is from Nova Irrigation convention to bo held ' In I ,irnwn my nnnunl subscription t o thn neon, wns shot nnd raptured, but ! Scotia. Chicago, July 30-The police benono of these are true ns yet. n. 0„ during the wcok beginning' w. c. T, II, llvo they a t last have In custody ono i r 10th, will bo ono of tho most ImNo resiMtnliln woman would reThe report In tho Nelson News that A mooting!!of tbo TrniloB and Labor of tho leaders of the Ulncl: Hand soTuirtnnt rntbrrlnfR of tbe kind that mnln fnr n mnmcnf In n rrtfim v?!-,•Tr- tbov wr-re tiiTfd bv tirnvlrn-'M WVPUKrtrt WT(WWn. C o u i i V W ' M k M U « 4 l i U H -.»4JUU4i4> 44,444,4.4. ciety, who is iicniHt'Ci ot \mtiK a In response to tbo W'HIH'H ol ims over lieen held in Western Can-; HIICII flltti IN brine Inlkid. pcillcr? only, was (as usual) falHo as manufacturer of bombs, a murderer Rome bUBlness of, Importance was the citizens of F-*rnlo I hereby tho city polico did most of the work, nda. Among the notablos, 'whoso nt] You arc dolnir a good work, sir. Topeka, -July 31—Tho Santa Vcc and a white slave agent. The aub* brought up. The next mooting will dcclnro and sot nsldo Tuesday piti.Hcni7.or train No, 3, enstbound tendance will conilrlbutn to the prm* j by nxo-mlni! Uio*m who find pleaaure while constables Kr-mpston nnd Lacey Ject IB Jos. nufllno, whose capture bo hold on Monday, August 10. All tlgo of tho gathering are thn T.leut-. in allnwlni* their thnuchfn nnd Oti*lr alRo did thrlr share. tho 4th day of August, as a nt Milwaukee -was made yostordny. deloeatoH aro requested to bo protho California Limited, went Into tho onat Governor Dulyoa ol Alberta and | tontmci In wallow In Insclvloin drnufllno, who la n native of Italy, Is sent.' The Trader* nnd Labor Council civic holiday nnd respectfully ditch a t Wakarusa, 14 miles west of Llcutcnant Governor Forgot of Has- j »alln undor HIP guise of "ien\ tor The last of tho witnesses In ron* snld to be wanted by the police of are going to hold a labor celebrahere today. Tlm flnj-lniinr wni kill-.'! icntehemn. linn. F. ,7, FilUon, rh\et • reform " l1'"'' the enite nl our pnro* nortlon with fhls fane woro. h*ard on request all good citizens to many cities in this country and tion, Prl?.eH will bo nlvnn for tlio nnd several passengers injured. A commiNHioner of lands and works. It w-iinilf1'' Mid t-trnlght llvlni* wlve« Tliuri*ilay morning, and Magistrate observe the same, Italy. Information leading to the best parado and also forsithe h«st relief train vrnn mm\e tip nt Topokn. (.I r-irir-HH nl«o tbnl Ibclr will 1>P a nnd ilnii'dilor-i 1^ would "lie xx't-W jf WblniHtfr hns to look ovi»r tbr *'V|W. W. Tt'TTT.T*}, arrest was furni»lied to police of lloiitn, Aftv." tins iiuiadu a buAul The nccldont Is snld tu have' been pnrtlcularly strong reprpaentntlon of MlflJIP *io I.. • ' mr-rni w r i ^ i f n oflid.' \ lienee, and romand sonco of pottlcoats or undor frlllH of help boost for our F a t t i e s . , any, doscrlptlon, savo for white Bills thnt Is why wo havo so many r n > ; o r UNCONDIIIONALLV t liirst ,'uartor, ..tcorlng a flue course, j n « ! Z ^ In order to control tho local markot ' cliiistic tights, which were moulded to OUARANIBRD to *{lvo tills. plenHcd customers, Let us de* but on l-nHHlng tho island ho utoored | nmlnont medical writers und tonchcra an it In tlio intention of the ntisoclatlon T h e i e c r o t HlactrlcTamperlns; ' the figure from the nock t o the ankle monstrate this fact by a trial RomowhuL widely. Qiien hold HCIIOICH Prof, llurlholow, ofTlclTunon Med, Cpk 1 to ostabllHli Its own retail store for positively merges every parNKAULY ON TOP, • bolng boned a t tlio waist to rnplnco 1'ollto attention nnd prompt logo: l'rof. HnrouHi tlio Unlv, of Piuj well and a t hall dlutiinco hud a! j tho direct wile of fruit from the proticle of cnrlvon (the life of service. Spokane, .July 20--] n the league Hllght load, l-'rom thlH out it was a ' l'rof. Vlnloy-i-Jlltmrwooil, M. l.„ of lien* ducer to tho conmiinincr.~-Commer- i the corset, and forming thn nolo un- steel) ln'0 tho metal—giving Belt Mnd. Collogft, Chlcngoj l'rof. John | dor gnrmont, bnsniml) game barn to-day Vancouver inagnlUccut racu, biit Hcholcu d l n n t o i H l I I k o h n r . i n c . j s Klnpr, M. iKof Cincinnati j l'rof. .tohn wan ' cial, lcnvof* tho Htnndlng of Vnncouvi*. finally boatnn. Ilo tipurtcd Hplondld- i M. HcnildorrM. I)., of Cincinnati | Prof. ! Thn HIOOVOH and upper port, of tho tlirougliout tho blndo—KomoEdwin AyTIuW. M. II., of llahnnmann only throe points behind Hpokane, . ..,; t c o l l U l , l o t r o , J u c c (j f t Z f t - H i o u ,l. ! Mod. Cj/news, Chlcnito, nnd scores of i hodico woro composed of whito ruck* tliliiu alHolutoly Impositlblo with flro tempered steel used 1 w l i l r b hr-ndo t l m l i n t in thn V n r t b w c ' t ' •i {* the hifbem or Cfpiri.'fte" -• able' to increase" the supply of -food a.,shame to interfere with, man's de- you find wages' so low? .Where, hours as the carrying out of the provisions Tyranny 'and'brutality are no ed and'the man did his work quickly *> v to an enormous' extent. -Prince Kro- sire • to'"work as long as he likes. of.this plank. , Shingles, and Ties. *> . so long? Where children, so tiny? longerHo be condoned. The race has arid' . privately, jmd departed from - potkin and other r/mers have shown We., are- given to-understand that . Go into' the homes. And-where will' • No other political .party makes any already suffered enough from ignor- Frieberg as quickly as he came. .that, these islands would produce suf- every, man, if.'he could thereby immention of the unemployed, although ance. . ; .. will you find misery so hopeless? The executioner is an anonymous - ficieut food for eighty- riiillions^todayT prove his position, would always' be i t .is the., problem of "problems with If Socialism-means • "anything it Yet here the democrats rule. ' Had person,.whp was sent here from Dres0 -And the possibility of • increasing willing to-work longer than, eight they wished it there might have been which - ' the British ' government is means the end of all' such ring. den on the announcement that the hours. Well, " under, socialism, he struggling today, and the position is *.* 'the productivity of-the soil are'_ by This alone abundantly justifies its king of Saxony had; refused to par-' factory legislation ' in the ' south'. All Orders" Promptly Attended no means exhausted.\ Only recently would .be sure of getting ,the fruits There might-have been living wages. even more pressing in America than adoption. . . . " ' don Grete Beir for her crime. in Englaud. But the workers of Bngto Professor Bottomley made a discov- of his work. .- • . o '•'. '; There .might have, been, anl'eight hour _ _T^e_pjrsonalitv_oi_tbe^v_Qun*?_r'iri, 'ia"nd ar5TwoTian"g~aio"ng^mrt^ •^eiy7*wh1^'a7Svrtii--ad"d—'thirty—bo^vfifty" . Man has a natural' instinct for oc- day arid sanitary homes. per cent.' to the.yield of certain cupation. That a man.employs his - They have ruled absolutely, and vocated by the Socialists to such' an GAINING GROUND I N ENGLAND who came of-a. good family, and her thoughtfully arranged murder of her X Tel. 3 Fernie, B . C. • •crops arid-bring into ..cultivation an. time foolishly or wastefully is large- alone. No rival party has had - a extent that the ruling class.realises •I fiance, Her Prefllcr, a rich young enormous* area of waste" land, that • it • must ' act if it will secure The old age pension bill has passed civil engineer, attracted internationly", the result of lack of education, chance to interfere with their rule. ••••••••^^•••••**:*'M*«>^^.J«-II Nearly, all the brains for.the last want ot knowledge\of what to do, or Thoy have denied-votes to "Nig- even a temporary lease of .life - and the house of lords. ' I t is not all that al attention. She was seemingly' a rulership. . the Socialists asked. It places -the happyv and fun-loving" girl. At - her hundred years have been devoted'to how..to do. There are-millions 'of gers," and there nre not enough the "creation .and improvement of people who do not kuow what to do Republicans in the south to .make .The things demanded in this plank age limit very high and the pension trial she admitted with the' utmost LOCAL UNIONS IN DISTRICT 18 U. MlW. of A. ••• .= ', •manufacturing appliances. Had agri- with a holiday". ' They have no inter- their opposition of any importance. arc possible and' attainable, with no is too low. , simplicity that she visited her fundamental change in our political But it is a big improvement on the • .cultural methods»received the same ests, Is it any wonder so many of Yet after the rule of nearly a hun- institutions, yet they would revolu- poorhouso, which is all the broken fiance's houso one evening, gave him attention, we should not no\v have them gravitate to thc pubs? cyanide of potassium in a drink she FERNIE, 2314—.Pres., J . T.Puekdred years the Democratic party in tionise for tho better the lifo of the gets in this country. " to bewail the decay of our prime in- • Socialism would change.all t h a t u . the., south has produced conditions mixed for. him, and then to'make ey; Fin. Sec., Thos. Biggs. working class. They will be done if dustry. This measure was' not passed be•Now it is common knowledge that rivalling the worst in the world. ' . the workers will it noxt November.— cause the house of lords love the sure of his death sho "shot him in the 2494—Pres. G. 0. • Well, that is tho first, point. There when ' a man has reached a certain I have been in Russia and I havo mouth with his own revolver. ' She HOSMER, , workers. It was not passed because then' dropped tho" weapon at the Cole; Sec. Wm. S. Reid. , is not the slightest necessity why standard of living, he,is not.anxious been, in the south, and in my opin- Daily Socialist. , " o ;— English workmen bogged for it. It anyone should not have abundant that his children should return to ion'the condition of labor in^ the young man's side, placed a forged MICHEL, 2!.34—Pre*., .Tag. Dou-p was • not passed because English PROBLEMS O F T H E SOIL '.food. No ono denies that. I t .is the hard conditions from which • ,he southern Ptates is no better than will in lier own favor on ids desk, las, S e c , Charles Cramer. . j workmen voted for Llboral or Conmerely a question of organisation started. Ho does not usually plunge that of tin x-tussian peasant. together with a note of good-bye , servative candidates. Hin** and distribution. into execssos and so deprive them of also forged-saying, that ho feared to COLEMAN, 5633--Ptes., "Supply aud demand is tho producer Yet for a party with this kind of Smith, S e o , Wru GtaliAjji,. All theso things Wero tried for the comforts to which ho himself has lose hor lovo through the'revelation But, given the organisation, there labor record fifty-ono .trado union lifting himself by tho bootstraps, As many years. A largo number ol • •'',... leaders have decided to voto. of a dishonorable liaison. In addiis still, wc are told, tho possibility, been accustomed. quantity increases vnluo fall ofi. 1263—Pres., Fr«d Allott; trade's unionists wero oven elected to tion to these papers the young girl FRANK, of such an increase in population S e c , George Nichols. Why? " . . . There is to-day a strong nnd grow- Tho' workingmen of tho north in-, parliament on . the Liberal ticket. that It would eventually outrun thc Well, brother,- farmer, you should But nothing hnpponcd. So long HB also left behind A packngo of forged LILLE, 1233—Pres., T. Evani: ing fooling that largo families aro tend to mako common'cause with productive capacity of tho people. know that you cannot control prices laborers wero liberal or conservatives letters purporting to como from a Sec, A. W. May. not always the blessing people have these aristocrats of tho South. The struggle for existence is in been taught,,to oupposo. undor,capitalism unloBB you can lim- it mado littlo.diflorenco how many ol woman in Italy accusing Preffler of Tho rule,of Tammany Hall and tho desertion and threatening to tell BELLEVUE, 4 3 i - P r e s , , F. L.wis; ceaseless oporation. If you abolish them went to parliament, So long Besides reducing thp standard of other, criminal Democratic organisa- it production. Sec, Fred Chappell. thnt struggle, man will increase in tho parents, the children also have to tions of the north is not onough for If you cannot'limit production un- aa tho capitalists controlled tho poli- Groto everything, numbers, and at .the aamd timo do- sutler; and there 1B nearly all'over theso labor leaders. Thoy apparent- til it is no more than thei amount of tical machines that olectnd PUCII These forgeries wero so skillfully HILLCREST, 1058—Pre8., Robert n tcrlornto, physically, mentally, and tho civilised world' a marked diminu- ly want to go to tho very depths.' Livett; Vice-Pras., J . Lagaca; money tho peoplo havo with which to members tlio members dared not do dono that thoy successfully deceived Soc, Harry T. Cooper .morally. So that his productive tion in'tho birth' rato. buy you can.novcr control-prices. anything to lioip their CIUHH. the- poli re And coroner. Crete fell Well, labor is strong enough to'got Whilo there is moro product than capacity would gradually decrease, 1 ilnder wispMon a month after Tn fact thero was never more Libtbo | LUNDBRECK, 2276-Prcs.. H«§* So frir ai this is duo to efforts to what it wants; and if that is what Just a t the timo whon conditions dollars piicos will l>o named by tho eral-labor membcrH in parliament crime through n iovo letter to an ! cliol Kayo; Soc, Geo Tho«. Wright. raise , tho standard, it is bonoilcial labor wants—well, that , is -what -•called for an increaso. Tho result fellow who sees that ho may not bo than at'the time when tho houso of unworthy man, hinting nt what sho tendency, though there is much evi- labor wants. 2200-Pros., W, would bo n terrific, struggle'for exable to soil his goods, lords rendered t.lio.Tn(! Vnlo decision, had done, This Jotter was found WOODPECKER, dence, .to show that merely selfish R. Hughes; S o c , John Fletcher. istence, nnd our last state would bo Why, of courso, ho will sell,for any when the man a decision almost as bad as somo of motives'of a lower kind aro.nt work was arrested for a worse than tho pronent, old prlco before ho will let'his pro- thoso of the United states Supremo misdemeanor, IMOIUNVlLiyR, No. 2378-Prcs., Jan. in some, elnsses, T H E SOOIALIST PLATFORM ducts spoil. Now suppose you should court, I havo before pointed out that tho | .Sutherland; Vin. Socy., G. H. bring about an' ndvanco in prices champions of tho eternal Htruggle for , Under Socialism this desire to pre! Alison Then the trades unionists .stopped vont suffering to the young would bo j until farming would soemtii pay, do trying to. elect members on the Liboxlstonce always phut their eyes to ! DIAMOND CITY—Pros., ' certain portinent fricts, Thoy claim HtlU keener, nnd public opinion would• During tho coming days tho Dally you know that such a condition un- eral ticket. They began to voto as a | Sec, T. Entwiitle. strongly rcprobnto any abnormal inj Socialist will tako up ono by ono tho dor a compotltivo system would inthnt all progress to tho struggle for class with the Roclnlltits of Wn gland. crenso in tho population.' Whon i planks In tho gonoral demands of tho vito a calamity upon tho (farmers Tn a very short time that sumo hoiisn existence ignoring tho history ' of 1387~Pr«». A. •^ Don't shake hands with a man ns 'CANMORE, tho human raco, which In every lino evoryono understood thnt all must j' Soclalint Platform and point out from which it would tako years to of lords linseed a bill that not only Thomas; Sec, James Clyuer, If It hurt you. -*u(Ter from the unbridled Instinct of their bearing on tho class Btrugglo in recover. Vox then tlio army of unem- rnvorsiid thu Tall Vnlo cn«o but which announces thnt, progress linn boon 1 S«~Pro8., Wm, Don't allow-your clerks to fimolfc BANKHEAD, caused by tho limitation of tho reproduction, it in eale to nsBort j which wo aro engaged today, ployed and farmers now working in mndc nny such decision In tho future Fisher; S e c , F . Dyson, that restraint would become an cim- ' It must always bo remembered thn cities and living from'hand to lmpo?i-|blo, Moreover, a wbo|c mass whilo on duty. struggle for existence. tomary as restraint in the HHO of al-| that each and ovory ono of theso do* mouth would Immediately rush to tho of legislation was passed that placed Don't show many diflerent kinds of TADER, 102—Pres., T, Boylt} Kvory man dona not strive with cohol, i mantis Is preceded by the preamble. farniB, and prodtico a surplus thnt tho trade** unions of Orrat llrltnln in goods at onco. Sec, Wm, Murdoch, every other "mnn for the mentis of 1 Don't work all tlie. time, nomom* lint there lu another argument j of Hoclnllst principles and tho goner* subsistence. It would be truer to against tho probable lucronHn of pop- jal platform for tho present yeiu*. would flood tlio innrkota to overflow- n far better position before the law bor oven mnchliiury needs tost, •.ETHHIUDCIE, 57-l--Pres, B. G. ing. I than those of this country,. Hamilton; S e c , Charles Pea* say that no mnn in our present noaro tho leuii Hinco it is easier to borrow a fow j nut the lAbnrnrs of Rnglnnd did Don't bo satlslled until you bring ulation undor HOCIIVUHIU. According i TIIOHU principles code. cicty could exist in a constant condition of struggle with IIIH follows, to Herbert Spencer thi; rate at which ! through which tho dciriumlu for im* hundred dollars nnd rent a farm than I not slop then, They kopt right on everything to a complete finish, Don't wnuto valuable moments on TAU1JR, ]*i5U—Pros., Alt, Rob* To live today we must co-operato, organlsniH IncroiiHo IH gum-rally in j mediate action nro to ho considered, it Is to quit farming it would re* j sending morn nnd moro men to par* erta; S e c , Robert Woodson, I Kneh and everyone of the noparnto dctnllfthat a subordlnato can Inverse ratio to tho worth of tho Inqulro yenrs to again level Hiipply | Ilnmont, ami whereas at first they work tnjjollipr, consciously or unnon. ; plnnks nro parts of a symmetrical with demand, dividual lifo. j had been somewhat nlmry of ncceptBclounly, CITY MINER, 2240, E d m o n t o n Don't walk a milo to save n nickel That IH to Hay that tho higher or- .1 program having a» Its object tho UccauHO capitalism can and Joes! ing the Socialist position they now Pres,, T. Jan»e»j, Rvery nation does not -drive with dent of organlKiiiH do not breed MO ownership and control of the earth limit the purclinslng power of the ' declare tbenmelves for floel'iHsm. If you value your timo moro than STRATHCONA. 2 2 4 8 - r r e i . , John every other nation. Many nntlonH fftHt JIB tho lower, Homo fit-hen, for by * iho worker*-*. Hut wo aro in tho city consumers, nnd bocauso yon rnn. pennies. .Saint; S e c , J n s , Poole. co-operate for •ho nrnd'ncttnn nnd ox- limtiuico, dopoiilt million*! of cggn; ' nildHt of a class iitriigKlo and it In not limit production, your caso, un- I Then parliament begnn to do morn Don't wait for fortune to smile on land morn for labor. Tt linn now PUHHrhnnito of good-; nml for other pur- tornilto ants lay eighty. thouuuml , through that class struggle that tho der capitalism, in a hopeless ono. .STAR MINES, 2618, ; ed tbe old n(*o pension bill, Tt Is yui., For turn-., iiHiiaUy fnvon. „ t IIOK? WHITE posed, Pnmpi-I.lt.nn. wide nnd deep fiKKH n day; rabliltii havo enormmiti ' I'tiil net forth in tlio preamble numt Strathcona—rres., J a i . Cbtrl* who liustlo. and mit those who ',v*iit„ Hoelnllsm means thnt the purchas• tulcim* up tbe niii'stioti of thi unemns It IR, IH ronntnntly giving wound (amillcii. Mnn U a HIOW breeder and I bo attained, and for tho present, at er; S e c , Neil Mc Cormiek. ing power of the soeini nnitn of so- | ployed, Tt has already granted nl* Don't show yourself too anxious to lo cn-onerntlon. thoro Is ovl'lonco to HIIOW that an liU leant, the mnln work of nny Hoclallsl doty will bo c'l'i'il to tliolr nodal ! most everything for which the Am- Kflt an order. The customer will nee BTJ4SII MINES, 2055, Edmonton— it in your m.'inner nnd lie will mnke Tf tlio slrugale for existence, had uuMit'il oiiui'i'iutj lucmihu uu icpio-, i must bo to light that CIUHH utrnggle producing power and will apply to • erlcnii Federation of Labor asks, Pi'tvi,., Chas. L. Bryce; See,, the Imn-nln, not you, wltMn exliitlng society, Harper. not. been chocked, society would hnve iliielivfl nnori'lcn decrdiiH't. both farmer nnd inerhiinle nllko, i This fact Is sot forth ln tho open* i Don't bo satiHlleil with customers!i MERRITT-Pres. been impossible. Without socle!y Now, HoclnllHm would Hot free Frank Steel, •4404. I™ 4, , - . . , . , . -I „ , , ! . ft ,, ( 1. •! ii'It limit- nt lom«tlni» tn ,-r.t l I ll.-. l 4-*4 - ,.,-, t , . - , » . , . 'IX , , vnii hn'n ..., 44. 4 , • - % ^ ^ V % ^ 4 ^ 1 % ^ . 4 ^ % ^ 4 ^ . - V ^ ' V ^ - * - ' * * V * V V*4/^^»^14>%.i4V^^%4*VV%'

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them, and ttiat is by getting up a petition, and. ..appointing a "live" : " ',. ' committee t o look after it. The fol; ; ••-•>'*;$ 1 " ; . ^ Issued' everyVsSturd»y-from the*office of lowing paragraph taken from the, -. Publication, Pellatt Ave., Fernio, B. C. city bylaws, will explain what.has - 0 Chtuiges of-advertUements must be in »» t o be done. B u t get up and S o it, follows:—Pages 2.3, G, and 7, Wednesday atlu ,, -ft sfa. Pages 1, *,, A anc*. 8, Friday at 10 a. xn, -._ and; don't" , wait '.to-'be' dragged' to' '-•* L*ga,l advertising^ ,v' 'cents per n'oupariel line first insertion, 8 cents iter line each subse- vote, or yoii will never vote. The quwat, insertion,.•..-, ..••>. . . . . Ledger will be pleased'to have a

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