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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
2
Advertisers and subscribers are reminded the Golden Era is published every Friday. Rates include $2.00 per year in advance, display ads of 1.5 per inch, legal ads 10 cents per line, and reading notices 12 cents per line. Correspondence to the Managing Director and Editor. letters must be brief and include name and address. Deadline notes: letters after Wednesday hold for next year.
Navigation opens at Fort William. Mrs Emmao Marshall is dead. Klondike river shows rich wash gravel deposits. Miners at Denso Lake starving and eat horses and dogs. Hostilities cease in Samoa until commission arrives. St Regis Indians gather firearms and trouble looms. Prof Iverach spoke on Gain in Life at Manitoba College. Premier Hardy of Ontario returns from Atlantic City. A large delegation of Kansas Iowa and Missouri land hunters arrives in Winnipeg.
Archishop O Connor of Toronto urged Catholics to uphold their duties amid war and upheaval. Reports mention miners fled, troops securing prisoners, taxes in Winnipeg, and various international events including Spanish prisoners, Alaska boundary talks, and imperial affairs. The message sits among wartime dispatches and domestic notices.
General Ota refuses to recognize the insurgent government and fighting continues. The committee handling the Douglas Gentty bill adjourns for a week to hear elevator owners.
A parliamentary paper released at St London outlines Britain's position on the Pacific cable. It states Canada and Australasia would build and operate the cable with Britain providing an annual subsidy up to £20,000 for up to twenty years after completion. The plan ties subsidy to opening traffic and imposes imperial priority and approval conditions.
A syndicate of 86 aliens, excluded from Atlin, is forming in Seattle to sue the Canadian government for 15 million dollars. Each claimant seeks 175000 dollars for lost profits from mining development and property value in the district.
Thomas W. Shackelford, sentenced to be hanged today for a man's murder, received a thirty day respite from Governor Stephens after Nettie Taylor filed an affidavit confessing she was guilty. She asked Shackelford be pardoned. Taylor had been tried and acquitted. In Scranton, Geo. K. Van Horn was hanged for killing Mrs. Josephine Wescott, meeting his fate calmly.
Toronto May 6 Ponton's re trial will be postponed mainly due to the illness of B B Osler and partly because Pare and Holden have escaped. No definite word has been received about the convicts.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as transforming childless wives into mothers of healthy children. It claims the medicine strengthens reproductive organs, calms inflammation, heals ulcers, and eases pregnancy, with testimonials and a pitch for its comprehensive medical adviser.
In Toronto on Tuesday a blacksmith named McKelvey reported two men resembling escaped prisoners Pare and Holden borrowed a tin can for a drink and later found the can in his shop with a picked lock. The tale, likely trivial, reflects on Pare’s locksmith reputation and remains unverified.
C. P. R. Stock of Montreal May 5 notes the history of the Canadian Pacific dividend. The common stock has seen figures from 5 percent per year down to zero, with the 5 percent dividend first issued in 1884.
The text details dividend rates for common stock across years 1886 to 1897, noting 214 percent in 1894 and 4 percent in 1895, with 8 percent in 1886 and 1889, 21⁄2 percent in 1896 and 1897, and predictions of a rise to 5 percent. It cites record highs and lows such as 081 as the peak and 83 as a low after 1895, with brief orient note.
London reports a campaign to obtain England's guarantee of Transvaal independence if President Kruger concedes to Uitlanders. Proponents view this as a curb on potential Anglo Boer crisis and oppose coercive action to secure burgher rights for English residents.
The drowned man's body found at Sale Aux Corbeaux is believed to be Dr. Ireland who vanished on the Montreal wharf last October under mysterious circumstances, with suspicions of foul play and his wife present at the time.
Reports from Vancouver May 5 state the Dowager Empress will hold a grand Pekin review in June with nearly 2,000,000 armed men. Russians push Manchuria and Jiao Tong delimitation. Dewey salutes the French Jean Bart in Manila. Formosa rebellion persists amid heavy taxes and local abuses. Japanese punitive expedition remains in South Formosa. Hong Kong papers note few banditti killed, but many respectable residents suffer.
Brief dispatches report ambush killings in Union county by William Osborne and pursuit by officers, a Russian engagement of Mrs Julian Dent with Prince Cantacuzone, Ottawa railway safe blowout yielding 800, bank robbers Pare and Holden linked, Emma Marshall the novelist dead, anti imperialistic leaflets seized at San Francisco post office, and Idaho jail detentions of 104 prisoners including dynamite ringleaders awaiting further action.
Lieut. Col. J. B. Maclean commanding the Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars of Montreal was presented to the Duke of Connaught at Friday's levee by General Sir Evelyn Wood. In Philadelphia the Portuguese bark Industria sailed for Lisbon with 186 080 gallons of refined oil and is presumed lost with all hands.
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