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Newspaper
Cascade Record
Location
Cascade, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 03, 1900
Page
4
Per Year Six Months No Foreign Country Advertising Rates Murnis on application. The record is on sale at Simpson's Newsstand Rossland Linton Bros Thompson Stationery Co Nelson King Co Greenwood Petrie Grind Works John W. Graham & Co Cascade Drug Co Meadows Casende.
Out of 125 smallpox cases in Spokane only three have died. Local business moves include A M Johnson transferring several mining claims to J A Netherfield. A Toronto officer Lieut J W Osborne was killed in action on Jan 26 at age 27.
Weekly dispatches describe British forces checkmated in South Africa with Spion Kop lost and Tugela retreat. Gen Buller reportedly presses a renewed assault while Imperial plans grow larger, as 213000 troops and 452 guns fail to budge the Boers. Nation awaits developments with hope and fear. Local notes mention wagon road improvements and railway plans in Nelson and Ferry counties, plus business moves in Bertois hotel venture and a San Francisco party eyeing Kettle river hydraulic work.
Constable Darraugh took Rd Johnson to Greenwood hospital on Tuesday after a violent encounter left him badly hurt. He was later found in a deteriorated condition at the Central hotel and removed to medical care on a physician's advice.
The Mother Lode mine era is noted as context. The Cascade Ladies Aid Society shows receipts of 148.55 and disbursements of 120.45 from July 14, 1899 to Feb 1, 1900, leaving 23.10. Disbursements include Church Building Fund 55.75 Home Missions 25.40 Bible lamps and dishes 25.00 Reedike Nurse Fund 2.00 Sundries 12.80. An additional 45.00 raised before organizing was applied to the Building Fund, totaling about 200 raised in six to eight months.
The Hotel Cascade has had brisk business and the town shows frosty sunny weather with snow昨日. Strangers fill the town while flume contracts lure workers. Rossland and Mansion House fund contributions total 2500 and 500 dollars respectively. A new railway depot is under construction west of the current structure. S J Quinlivan plans to move 20000 cubic yards of rock and employ about 50 men next week. Mrs Jos H McDonald arrives from Priceville Ont with Miss Hanna Sullivan bride elect of M J Quinlivan. The couple plan to wed in Grand Forks early next week and Cascade residents will attend.
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