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Newspaper
Cascade Record
Location
Cascade, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
2
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The itemized notes cover diverse topics including Moyie BC mine payroll and shipments, Ottawa dairy expert visits, Marconi’s age and wireless origins, a quip about cooking by chimney smoke, Halifax temperance steps, a Vancouver fatality, a Seattle Chinese man fined for laundry water squirting, imperial war setbacks in South Africa, Kitchener and Roberts, local society mentions in Cascade and Rock Creek, a stolen snips notice, and the Cudahy kidnapping ransom outcome.
The steamer Alpha wrecked on a Union Bay reef in British Columbia with 84 crew aboard. Drowned are owner Samuel Sarbor of Vancouver, Captain FN Yorke of Victoria, Chief Engineer Matterson of Vancouver, Assistant Engineer Dunn of Victoria, Second Assistant Murray of Vancouver, purser H J White of Vancouver, and seamen Crosby and Sullivan. a stowaway perished, while one unknown crewman saved others from the wreck.
Notice that an application will be made to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada for an Act to incorporate a company to construct operate and maintain a standard gauge railway from Cascade City on the Canadian side near the International Boundary to Carson near the Boundary Line, with branches telegraph lines tramways power plants and authority to expropriate lands and levy tolls, dated Rossland British Columbia December 10 190.
In a McCall's Magazine story a German empress gifts her daughter 20 marks for Christmas shopping in Berlin. The little princess buys a 19 mark doll and sends a one mark box of hairpins to Queen Victoria, who laughs at the tale of the thoughtful gift.
The notice outlines the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway, Nelson and St Sheppart Railway Co, and Red Mountain Railway Co as the sole at rail link between nil points east, with connections at Spokane to the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and O R N. It lists timetable times for Spokane Rossland Nelson and notes the night rain and signatures of H A Jackson General Passenger Agent.
A note from W Forrest J P of Gladstone reports his town visit this week. The passage critiques government and suggests public injunctions alongside playful old tongue observations on society and politics.
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