Weekly Ore Shipment and Pass Turf Racing Project
This week’s ore shipments from Southern British Columbia totals 2,568 tons with year to date 160 tons, while total receipts reach 41,276 tons week and 1,4877 tons year to date. Blairmore Times reports Pass Turf association forming with 5 000 capital to build a race track and athletic grounds near Blairmore, lease secured with West Canadian Collieries, site west of Blairmore, work to start soon and wide local support urged.
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Blairmore
Pass Turf Association
Whiteside
W. A. Beebe
Harry J. Matheson
H. I. Lyon
James Dougall
D. Drain
Geo. Hunt
West Canadian Collieries Company
Frank
Coleman
Alberta
The
Pass
First Spokane & International train crosses Kootenay bridge
Bonners Ferry Herald reports the Spokane & International railway’s first train reached Bonners Ferry Thursday evening, rails laid by hand across the Kootenay river trestle. The test train, engine No. 2 and several cars, moved slowly. a saluting signal echoed as a Great Northern engine replied. Tracklaying continues westward with a month delay expected seven miles west. The item also notes the death of Alexander Stronach, longtime Winnipeg master mechanic, aged about 93, with ties to Knox church and the Masons.
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Bonners Ferry
Spokane & International Railway
Kootenay
Great Northern
Corbin Road
Winnipeg, Inc
Alexander Stronach
M. F
CPL Re
Elgin Avenue
Stronach
Mr. Stronach
Three Rivers
Quebec
Intercolonial Railway
Winnipeg
C. P. Re
Stranach
Knox Church
Masonic Order
Hector Langevin dies former Canadian minister of public works
Sir Hector Langevin former minister of public works for Canada dies at 84 after broncho pneumonia. A long French Canadian political figure, he helped Confederation and served as postmaster general and secretary of state. His career was later shadowed by a scandal in public works.
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Quebec
T Hector Langevin
Hector
Hector Louis Langevin
John A. Macdonald
Leutenants
Montreal
Legislative Assembly
Tache-Macdonald
Charlottetown
London
Mackenzie
Public Works
Spearmint Takes Grand Prix in Paris Turf Race
Paris June 11 Spearmint bay colt won the Grand Prix de Pa purse of 10 000 and a sweepstakes for 3 year old colts and fillies at one mile seven furlongs Spearmint also won the English Derby on May 30 securing another major classic victory.
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Paris
Spearmint
Fish Drown Whisky Spill Creates Drunken Catsup Tale
In Kentucky farmers rushed to Benson Creek after a Wittgerakt distillery vat leak released over 18 000 gallons of whisky into the stream. Thousands of fish surfaced drunk and capered in the water as the distillery faced repair losses estimated at $25 000.
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Frankfort
Benson Creek
Wittgerakt
Medicine Hat isolated by washouts cutting off C P R traffic
Medicine Hat Alta June reports rail service to the east blocked after washouts on the C P R lines at Walsh and Kinsearth. Heavy rains caused freshets and a bridge washout with 300 yards of track submerged near Walsh. Repairs await water subsidence. eastbound trains held at Medicine Hat.
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Medicine Tat
Alta
Medicine Mat
C. Plr
Walsh
Kinscarth
Kinsearth
Medicine Hat
Frank Smelter in Operation in Canada
The Canadian Metal company at Frank began smelting yesterday and produced a first-class smelter the first in Canada. A large number of expert smelter men arrived from the United States and a few from nearby, with about 18 men to be employed in total.
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Frank
Canada
United States
Neha
al Tongether
Nanaimo Youth Wins Rhodes Scholarship in Victoria
In Victoria this June Larry Bray of Nanaimo, son of government agent Marshall Bray, secured the Rhodes Scholarship. Bray is a B A and earned the prestigious award amid a field of finalists.
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Victoria
Larry Bray
Marshall Bray
Nanaimo
Toenight
Joly Bids Farewell to British Columbia Governor
Sir Henry Joly de Lothine retiring lieutenant governor of British Columbia bade farewell to Victoria this evening as the Dominion government steamer Quadra sailed for Vancouver en route to Quebec due to ill health. Citizens of the capital offered quiet but heartfelt leave takings.
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Victoria
Sir Henry Joly de Lothine
British Columbia
Quadra
Vancouver
Quebec
Henri
Canned Goods Barred by British War and Admiralty Orders
The Daily Telegraph reports that all admiralty and war office contracts placed since the war affect the U.S. meat packing industry, urging that canned meats must be British or colonial products.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Admiralty
War Office
United States
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Walker
Alex, Laird
England
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Cranbrook Branch
Ff. C. Malpas
Imperial Bank
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D. R. Wilkie
Hon. R. Jaffray
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
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Cranbook Branch
J. F. M. Pinkham
Bay Vancouver
Beale & Elwell
W. H. Wilson
Chad
J. D. McBride
WM. F. Tate & Son Cemctins Juicial Watch
CPLR
Crows Nest Pass
GOON
Nelson News
Granby Sies Coves
Mother Lode
Brooklyn
Providence
Rossland
Hall Mines Smelter
Nelson
B.C
Marysville
Sullivan
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Laas
Grand Forks
Granby
Dominion Copper
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Steinwinder
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Trail Smelter
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Payne
Nyimma
Hunter
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Hector Langevin
Public Works OF
New Orleans
T. S Smith
Victus
Herald
Cranbrook
C. PR
Joly
U.S
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Messrs. Arnold & Roberts
Dominion of Canada
Giuarantee and Accident Company
Clyde “Manahan
Arnold & Roberts
Kootenays
Qeattle Atchison
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