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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
4
The Golden Era notes advertising and subscription details for East Kootenay with rates for display ads legal notices and reading notices. It outlines responsibility limits for errors, payment to managing director, and submission guidelines including requirement for real names with anonymous letters. Letters received after Wednesday will be deferred.
Telegraphic briefs report Fort William navigation opening in May. Emma Marshall the novelist dies aged 18. Klondike river gravel deposits found. Dease Lake miners starving resort to horses and dogs. Samoa hostilities pause awaiting commission. Lt Regia Indiana gathers fires as trouble looms. Prof Iverach speaks on Pain in Life at Manitoba College Winnipeg. Premier Hardy returns from Atlantic City. A large delegation of Kansas Iowa Missouri land hunters visits Winnipeg.
Archbishops in Toronto oversee clerical duties as unrest spreads. workers at Wirdner mine flee with 104 prisoners captured by troops. Winnipeg tax take for the year totals 587 409.47 after discounts. Filipinos rebuff prisoner exchanges amid peace talks and Canadian boundary talks drag. Bridges east of Winnipeg awarded to William Garneau. Pacific cable study favors government operation. U S troops push north in the Philippines with San Tomas taken. Yukon output cited at 20 million dollars. Italian immigrants exceed four thousand arrivals. St ock in New York’s OG P. P.S. climbs on London market. China tensions grow as Washington demand rises. President Hyde dies in New York. Fire razes the Buffalo woollen mill at Kittanning. British Columbia Presbyterians meet in Calgary. Dowager Empress to review 000,000 Chinese soldiers in Pekin in June. Caspeden a Cuban presidential hopeful. Martin notes Gritled Columbia owns Deadman's Island. Chief Sherwood exonerated in St Regis Indian death.
General Oda refuses to recognize the insurgent government and says fighting continues. The Douglas Grain bill committee adjourns for a week to hear elevator owners.
A parliamentary paper released at St London outlines correspondence on the Pacific cable. It reports Joseph Chamberlain’s April 28 statement that Britain proposed a Canada and Australasia funded plan with a UK subsidy not exceeding 20 000 pounds for up to twenty years, contingent on the cable’s completion and operation, with priority for imperial messages and required imperial approval.
A Seattle report states that a group of 86 aliens, excluded from Atlin, formed to sue the Canadian government for 16 million dollars. Damages seek compensation for property loss from mining district exclusion. one claimant seeks 175 thousand dollars as fair profits from development.
In St Louis on May 5 Thomas W Shackelford, sentenced to be hanged for murder, received a thirty day respite from Governor Stephens after Nettie Taylor filed an affidavit admitting culpability and asking for Shackelford’s pardon. The Taylor woman had been tried and acquitted. In Scranton on May 6 Geo K Van Horn, murderer of Mrs Josephine Wescott, was hanged, meeting his fate calmly.
Ponton's re trial will be postponed due to illness of B B Osler and the escape of Pare and Halden. No definite word yet on the whereabouts of the convicts.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as improving fertility, easing pregnancy symptoms, and producing healthy children. It features testimonials, urges honest dealers, and offers medical advice via the Common Sense Medical Adviser with priced formats.
Report from Toronto notes rumors of Pare and Holden seen in the city after a blacksmith McKelvey saw two men resembling the escapees. They borrowed a tin can for a drink, did not return it, and the can was later found in his shop with a picked lock, a tale judged ludicrous but highlighting Pare's locksmith reputation.
Montreal May 6 The rise in Canadian Pacific stock makes a glance at its record interesting. The dividend history shows a checkered pattern from 5 percent per annum to zero. The first year of the 5 percent dividend was in 1884.
The article traces dividend rates from 184 to 1898 with a current 4 percent on common stock and forecasts a rise to 5 percent. It reports a record high earnings figure of 98 14 and the stock’s lowest mark of 85 in prior years, with notable 25 percent in 184 and 8 percent in 1886 and 1889. Advices from Orient.
A London report May 4 says a campaign aims to win England's pledge to Transvaal independence if Kruger concessions to Uitlanders are offered. Proponents view this as a curb on potential Anglo Boer crisis and oppose coercive action for burgher rights.
Montreal May 4. The drowned man found last Saturday at Isle aux Cor Beaux in advanced decomposition is believed to be Dr Ireland. He disappeared very mysteriously on the Montreal wharf last October, nearly in view of his wife, with hints the disappearance may not have been accidental.
From The Orient reports that the Dowager Empress plans a grand Pekin review in June with up to two million armed men. Russia’s Manchuria demarcation unsettled. Dewey’s clash over a French salute. Formosa rebellion fuels taxes and local abuses. a Japanese punitive expedition presses south, with Hong Kong noting harsher impacts on respectable residents.
Feud killing in Union county leaves Arthur and R. Kittson dead, Wm. Osborne at large. Mrs Julian Dent, granddaughter of General Grant, engaged to Prince Cantacuzone of Russia. Ottawa railway safe blown, $800 stolen. Pare and Holden suspected. Emma Marshall dies, noted English novelist. Edward Atkinson’s pamphlets seized at San Francisco post office. Idaho jail holds 104 prisoners as authorities track dynamiter leaders fleeing the country.
Lieut. Col. J. B. Macklean commanding officer of the Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hangars at Montreal was presented to the Duke of Connaught at Friday’s levee by Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood. In Philadelphia a separate Portguese Park Industria vessel Capt. Concalves is missing after sailing from Philadelphia January 16 for Lisbon with 136080 gallons of refined oil and is believed to have foundered with all hands lost.
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