Local Arrest Over Saddle Theft Ties Cascade Burglaries
John Earle identified a saddle as stolen from his stable after three Cascade burglaries last May. A. H. Thompson was arrested on theft charges, denying the crime and claiming the saddle came from a freighter. The Cane adjourned for one week. Earle keeps the saddle, Pierre retrieves his horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade
John Earle
B. C
Earle
Marcel Pierre
Thompson
Pierre
Paris Exposition English Speakers Very Few
About one per cent of visitors speak English at the Paris exposition. Breesi, the murderer of King Humbert, had many accomplices with a dozen or more placed under arrest.
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Breesi
Humbert
Boundary Boards Press Rail and Redistribution Demands
The Associated Boards of Trade at Nelson urged a general railway act permitting interprovincial lines and supported by majorities, with minority views on railway expansion. It also backed elected road boards, self-funded local work on trails, and a redistribution bill to give the Boundary district at least one legislative member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Boards of Trade
Nelson
Victoria
Boundary
Carson
Greenwood
Messrs. Ross and Cummings
Board of Commissioners
Kootenay
Vancouver Island
Vancouver
Rossland
Spokane Visitor and Local Business Notes
Mrs M M Kern of Spokane visits her sister Mrs H S Turner and will stay in Cascade several weeks. The Sunday school picnic is postponed indefinitely due to damp weather. A new smelter scheme is rumored in Greenwood Massam and Laidlaw are said to be working on it. Ferguson Ritchie announce several new patent medicine lines. Mrs Mies 8 Frye of Spokane stays as guest of Mrs G K Stocker at Laurel Ridge.
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Greenwood
Massam
Laidlaw
Messrs. Ferguson & Ritchie
Mies
Frye
Spokane
G. K. Stocker
Laurel Ridge
Power, Labor Strife Across Canada and U S Lines
The piece notes judges of the peace profiting from fisheries canneries, a California electrical plant serving 125 miles away, and a Niagara Falls Toronto power question. It reports a machinists strike on the C P R from Winnipeg to Vancouver, rooted in unions versus non unions and railway policy, arguing the movement remains limited in scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Toronto World
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Niagara
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Horrible Tale of Russian Atrocities in China Told by Mrs Drew
Mrs E B Drew wife of the British commissioner of customs at Tientsin arrives on the Logan with claims of Russian brutality. She describes pillage torture and mass killings of Chinese villagers bayonet murders and drownings near Tientsin Pei Ho and Yellow rivers. She alleges widespread barbarous conduct and notes the Chinese commander’s murder at Taku during surrender.
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China
E. B. Drew
Tientsin
Orient
Logan
Pei Ho
Yellow
Teiitsin
Taku
Teintsin
Rail collision near Hillyard causes one death
A Spokane Falls and Northern line accident two to three miles north of Hillyard on Tuesday night left fireman Fletcher Hall dead. His brother A. J. Hall was badly injured while engineers Quill and Vetter escaped by jumping. No passengers were hurt.
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Spokane Falls & Northern Railway
Hillyard
Fletcher Hall
A. J. Hall
Quill and Vetter
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A. H. Thompson
Columbia
Grand Forks Townsite Co
Grand Forke
Angus Cameron
Gen. McKago
Strathcona Horse
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