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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
3
The provincial government has expanded the travelling library system to 24 libraries of 100 volumes each, from the West Coast to the Cariboo. Golden residents are urged to apply via the provincial librarian Be 0 B Schoulfield, with 25 male residents forming a trustee group to obtain a case of books.
Reports say ten thousand residents in Juskeonville Jacksonville fled as a blaze 13 blocks wide and two miles long destroyed most of old Jacksonville. At least seven deaths are unconfirmed, with rumors of dockside drownings surfacing. Subscriptions pour in from across the north and west.
A man duped by agent Seymour Green invested about 80,000 dollars in California ranches. At a hotel lobby he plotted to arrest Green, then escaped by stationing himself near a telegraph pole to avoid recognition. Green was later arrested and refunded the money.
An old New York Sun account recalls a forger who altered a check by pinning holes in the center of the Os to imitate the original. The bank cashier identified the forgery after Dr Doremus produced a photograph showing the pin holes. The case ended with the guilty party fleeing.
The Gollen Limited is formed under the Companies Act 1897 with authorized capital of five thousand dollars divided into seventy five thousand shares of one dollar each. It aims to wholesale and retail groceries and other goods in British Columbia and to engage in mining real estate financing and various related activities.
A disjointed page lists Golden Post Office arrivals and departures with Windermere trains, local timings, and Pacific standard time notes. It also mentions deaths in London and Dawson, Boer war updates, a medical license case, and local fires and finances.
Sunday services at 11 00 and 1 30 p m with Sunday School at 2 30 p m Prayer meeting on Tuesday at 8 p m Pastor Geo Kasxay listed as contact
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