Three Forks Chips and Local Business Updates
Mr Cole returns from the Eastern States as coal oil sells for 70 cents a gallon and lumber at 28 dollars per thousand. Sloan and Rawlings of Kaslo plan a cigar store opening soon. W Purdue starts a second butcher shop while E Carpenter sells half interest in his saloon to Bert Crane and Jack Law. Williams and Co begin a 20 by 40 building for a boarding and lodging house.
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Bert Crane
Jack Law
Williams& Co
Sayward and Davies: Pious Farewell in Northport News
The Northport News laments Sayward's disappearance and condemns Joshua Davies for earning filthy lucre from trusting victims. The piece intertwines mourning with moral rebuke, promising memory until winter storms erase the “broad-lettered canvas” that bore Sayward’s name. The tone is elegiac and accusatory.
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Sayward
Joshua
Davies
Northport News
Steamer Idaho Captain Discusses Slocan Trade and Snow Route
Captain H S DePuy of the Idaho, en route home from Kaslo, reports the Bonners Ferry to Kootenay lake snow road nearly complete and travel begun. He predicts spring boat service to lake towns and notes Great Northern Railway may build a branch to secure Slocan ore shipments if Spokane & Northern does not divide the trade.
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H.s.depuy
Idaho
Spokane
Kaslo
Bonner’s Ferry
Kootenay Lake
Great Northern Railway
Nelson
Great Northern
Spokane & Northern
President Hill
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Mr. Cole
Sloan & Rawlings of
W. Purdue
Pitts
Jim Hill
Spencer &Wheeler
Nakusp
New Denver
Robson Hotel
Robson,b. C
Louis Levesque
Selkirk Transportation Co
Ing
the Ledge’ Office
The
New
Denver
J. EK. Walsh
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
GALL
Gal
J. B
Rogers
Kaslo,b. C
Trinity University
Toronto
College Physicians and Surgeons
Horace W. Bucke
Buchanan Bik
Kaslo, BC
Columbia House
Nakusp, B. C
Nault
Frashion
B.C
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