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LOCAL NEWS AND GOSSIP.- •J. Roderick Robertson sailed from England on Saturday last, and will be in Nelson on the 24th instant.“BlakeM Wilson was at Cascade on Saturday with a band of sheep.Walter L«\ Askew, at one time a clerk in the mining recorder’s ofiice at Nelson, is at Grand Forks engaged in the real estate and conveyancing * business with John A. Coryell,C. J. Wilson has been over in the Oso-yoos country for three weeks looking at a mineral claim in which he is interested. In his absence “Jack” Kirkpatrick manages to keep the firm’s business running smoothly, but he is getting bald-headed helping the city’s chancellor of the exchequer figure out a surplus for the*first quarter of the financial year.• • ' • ♦There will be three murder cases before justice Irving at the spring assizes. It is likely that another attempt will be 'made to convict Antonio Bruno who has already had two juries disagree as to his guiit of the murder of an Italian on the. grade of the Crow’s Nest railway. TheFort Steele murder case in which-! John*. . * , *Phillips is charged with the murder of a teamster, which went over from the last assize, will come on again. Then there is the recent Craiibrook murder in which an Italian named Paisti is charged with murder, and another Italian named Mer-sico with being an accessory after the fact. The other criminal cases are W. D. Brewster of Trail, for theft; Mary Mai-ette for keeping a gaming house; A. D. McGinty, the San don man, who started in to run the Chinese out of the Slocan; Joseih Iienager of Rossland, for incest; Barrett, for conspi racy to defrand: ai 1 dDavies for theft.
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Nelson Tribune
Nelson, British Columbia, CA
Tue, Apr 11, 1899
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