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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
2
James H Manning, with a decade in Winnipeg laundries, buys the Crows Nest Laundry. He plans modern methods and a sound business basis in Cranbrook, praising the location and pledging to please patrons. He asks local people for a fair trial.
A colorful Roosville gathering celebrates Young Chief Mighty Rolls the Thunder with a horse gift funded by braves. The event features a banquet with exotic dishes, a village parade, and races won by Running Wolf and Yellow Shirt among others, with music and floral decorations.
Winnipeg June 20 The CP OR trainmen committee and head officials completed their days long conference. Chairman Peltier of Fort William directed the delegates with Cully McNeill of Cy a Western interests aiding. Eighteen members represented trainmen from Fort William to Laggan. The four year old schedule was not opened and some rules were adjusted to ease relations with the company.
A shadowy host greets a beef packer at a busy port of call. The packer asks about his seating, and the shade explains the arrangement. The exchange leads to a satirical jab linking the packer to Herod the Great and his biblical atrocities.
Montreal June 20 report says Prince Rupert is planned as a perfectly laid out city owned by Grand Trunk Pacific. Surveyors and landscape gardeners shape streets and parks for a modern, orderly metropolis with planned lots for sale next spring. The terminus aims to become a trading hub and tourist headquarters along the coast line.
In Ottawa the private bills committee threw out Eileen Mackintosh divorce from Charles St Lawrence Mackintosh and referred the report back for further consideration. Hon Aylesworth and Justice Minister urged grant of divorce citing intolerable life. evidence supported dissolution of marriage contracted seven years ago with Charles Mackintosh, son of ex governor Mackintosh. Motion for reconsideration approved due to small committee attendance and lack of due deliberation time.
James Cronin tells the Leader there is more ore in sight at the St Eugene mine than ever before while production shifts to include lower grade ore thanks to the plant owning its smelter. William White named superintendent, returning after earlier mining at St Eugene with Cronin.
In Philadelphia on June 19 John Joseph Kean received twenty years of solitary confinement with hard labor for abducting Freddie Muth. He was arrested yesterday, photographed, measured, and committed to court without bail. If he behaves, the sentence could be reduced to 12 years and 8 months.
The applicant declares readiness for tough work and claims endurance by citing long appetite for canned meat, signaling swift engagement after no better proof is available.
Grand Forks B region reports West Kootenay Power and Light plans a sixty mile model pole line from Rossland to Boundary Falls. The project aims to supply power to dozens of mines and towns, with three cables rated at 60 thousand volts. Estimated cost reaches half a million dollars. charter expansion sought for Yale county operation.
Seattle reports higher lumber rates from Puget Sound to California points due to vessel shortages. Shippers expect prices to stay high as fewer ships load cargo to coastal ports. Many Sanneranes schooners tied up and Aberdeen area mills face output constraints amid the shipping slowdown.
The Tineher Creek Beho reports Si Saunders flourishing in Pineher Creek with plans for a new Meho office addition 1h by 24 on the east side to house a press room water motor and a new job press. He also plans sunlit residence lots including a 20 by 21 foot stable carriage house and harness room and a stone cottage in weeks ahead.
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