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Newspaper
Cascade Record
Location
Cascade, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
4
Subscriptions are billed per year with six months noted and a reminder about due payments. Advertising rates are available on application. Names mentioned include Rossi Racelanial, Nelson, and Greenwood in Spokane Washington, with subscription reminders and blue mark notices for overdue payments.
The note catalogs global tensions and crimes, including British seizure effects on German vessels, a Chinaman hanged at San Quentin for murder, December tax figures, Manitoba land and settlement growth, a missing US mint fund, the Loving Cup made from melted US dimes, a mob killing in Newport News, and Murderer Webster awaiting execution after a long US Supreme Court path, with a final blessing.
A Victoria dispatch dated January 9 condemns vigilante actions by locals who punish opponents, risking diplomatic fallout. The report notes Belgian and Swedish citizens facing boycotts over alleged pro Boer sympathy, while Captain Victor Jacobson’s sloop was boated and scuttled as rewards offered for enemies’ identities. It also mentions Senator Hoar blaming General Otis for the Philippine war and a Canadian farmer’s fatal accident from a falling log after stump fencing.
Mr. Elmer D. Hall is expected back in Cascade next Monday. Barber G. Sharp leaves for Spokane and Seattle. Mrs. J. G. Reveler, formerly a Hotel Cascade waitress, went to Gladstone. A sneak thief damaged a store room at Mr. S. Mayall’s residence and stole meats. B. F. Woodman, Walter Spaul and Johnny Lamey left for Trail after working for Mann Foley Bros. & Larson. Rev. D. A. Stewart preached at First Presbyterian in Cascade last Sunday. Construction nears completion on the dam water tank and pump house with river water supply. A contractor notice calls for excavation of about 20 000 cubic yards of rock and 400 feet of tunnel for Cascade Water Power and Light Co.
The provincial public accounts for year ending June 30, 1899 report net revenue of 1 509 581 60 up from 1 420 299 97, while net expenditure rose to 2 156 473 86 from 2 001 031 85. Major rises occurred in works and buildings and in roads and bridges, totaling 881 080 21 for public works. A stray line warns against provoking a weary wasp.
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