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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
2
The Cranbrook Herald urges moving government offices onto the railroad to serve the South East Kootenay region. It celebrates Cranbrook’s rapid growth, bustling trade, and a buoyant outlook for 1900, praising the Rossland Miner and noting wartime global talk and Christmas plans.
A jumbled recap notes Sir Walter Scott’s schooldays and a prank of a dunce crowned for warm cheeks. It also reports resignations in Victoria, blocked ships at Sioux, a CPR conductor killed in Montreal, Queensland labor ministry defeat, Gulf storms damage, and Queen Wilhelmina possible marriage to a German crown prince as Lord Rosebery replied to Chamberlain’s Leicester speech.
An assortment of reflective prose and anecdotes mixes verse memories and humorous hunting tales. The narrator recalls evenings with family and church, then shifts to a macabre hunting misadventure where a bear a deer and pheasants are involved in a single shot misfortune and a comic exchange with a Sinnemahoning hunter.
A man recalls Reu ben Pettibone, famed hunter, describing precise, humane kill principles. He warns against chasing exposed shots, praising targeted shots to end a animal quickly and without suffering. The tale includes vivid anecdotes about deer hearts, bear kidneys, pheasant nerves, and the ethics of hunting.
A Youth's Companion excerpt recalls three North Carolina Quaker brothers, importing merchants, who paid wartime debts to the state treasury. After peace, English creditors pursued the debt, but the Burcourte brothers again paid the amounts, leaving them poor in old age, illustrating private honor over public policy.
A fragment from the New York Ledger describes sweet Poklen pickling with five hundred small cucumbers three quarts alder vinegar two ounces each cinnamon allspice and cloves three pounds light brown sugar and red peppers. Soak in salt water overnight then heat in cold vinegar boil two to three minutes add water if vinegar is too strong.
The License Commissioners of Southeast Kootenay will meet in Cranbrook on December 15 to consider applications to retail liquor licenses. Names listed include Robert Mather Fort Steele Harry Drew Kimberley D. Griffith Wild Horse Ko Hogarth Albert Mutz Tracy Win Stewart Fort Steele and others across Cranbrook Kimberley Fort Steele Wardner Moyle Marysville James Ryan Thomas Forrest and more. Clef License Inspector H W Barnes notes the pending actions.
Archibald W McVittie acting for Pay Roll Gold Mining and Milling Co Cranbrook applies for certificate of improvements to obtain crown grant for Paymaster Mineral Claim CNO W561 in Fort Steele Mining Division near Nigger Creek within sixty days. Action under section 37 to commence before certificate issuance. December 2, 1899.
Archibald W. McVittie acting as agent for the Tay Roll Gold Mining and Milling Company of Cranbrook intends sixty digs from this date to apply for a certificate of improvements to obtain a crown grant for the specified claim in the Fort Steele Mining Division, section 37 must be commenced before issuance. Dated December 2, 189.
Archibald W. McVittie free miner’s certificate 10870 acting as agent for May Poll Gold Mining and Milly Company Limited of Creston. Certificate No W070 stand 60 days from date for a certificate of improvements to obtain a crown grant in section 47. Commencement required before issuance. Dated December 1890.
Notice by I A W McVittie agent for Arthur Phillips to apply within sixty days for a certificate of improvement to obtain a Crown Grant for the claim located north of ANC A adjoining the south side of the west fork of St Marys River about five miles from Law. Dated November 16 1899.
Walter Van Arsdalen Robert Dempsey David Newell and Elgin K Jones file notice for Certificate of Improvements on the Nitrate claim at Huck Lebkery Hill in the South East Kootenay District. They intend to apply within sixty days from the date and warn against commencing before a patent. Dated November 7, 1800.
Notice by A W McVittie agent for Win Millican Free Miners Cert 110 and Hugh McCool local claimholders concerning Unterprise Mineral Claim No 650 in Fort Steple Mining Division south of and adjoining Welcome on the Hout ale of the neat fork of Ht Marys river about Nye miles from Sawyer's Pass. Intent to improve for sixty days from the date to obtain a grant and action under section 37 must commence before certificate of improvement. Dated November 16, 1809.
Notice by T. G. Holt dated Cranbrook October 17 1809 intent to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lads and Works for permission to purchase 160 acres near the Wecome ming at the fork of the St Marya river in East Kootenny district. Description starts at a post marked I G Holt’s southwest corner then north ay chains east 40 chains south 40 chains west 40 chains to start.
A printed or engraved card is the proper thing the Herald prints then with type of the latest design call and see samples and designs for ladies cards offered by local printers.
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