Payne Mine Developments Show Strong Growth Prospects
A. C. Garde, Payne mine manager, reports last week’s successful link between No 5 and No 8 levels enabling access to a larger ore zone below No 5. The No 6 tunnel shows promise, the concentrator targets May 1 startup, and electric drills prove effective as a 60‑man development push continues toward June readiness. The Slocan site benefits from local water power and ongoing modernization for mining operations.
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A. C. Garde
Payne
Slocan
the Phair
No. 8
No 5
Garde
Rossland
Mr. Jarde
City Council Moves to Extend Limits and Tackle Health Issues
At last night’s meeting the council approved paying invoices and an initial city hall expansion estimate. They discussed annexing land, street work, and a new Edgewood Road name, while planning to enforce health rules, curb shacks, and improve water and milk regulations with a formal dehyde generator for the health officer.
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Hendryx Street
Mill
Hendryx
Cedar Streets
Carbonate
Board of Works
Cedar
Hoover
Lake Street
Edgewood Road
Cottonwood Creek
Board of Health
Dr. McLennan
Fagan
Ald. Selous
Anderson Creek
Canadian statesmen praised for able, quick perception and tariff insight
The speaker commends bright, pleasant leaders like Cart wgt Fielding Templenan and Blair, noting their deep interest in addressing Canada’s bad situation and tariff legislation. He highlights Canada’s able and brilliant coterie of statesmen guiding affairs.
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Cartwgt
Fielding
Templenan
Blair
Canada
Britain At Last Puts Tax On Food In Budget Speech
London April 14 The budget proposes indirect taxation on grain and flour to cover a large deficit from war costs. Sir Michael Hicks Beach defends the measure while other MPs and observers warn of hardships on the common people. The proposal includes a penny rise in income tax, increased stamp duties, and a plan to restock Boer and colonial farms after the war. Reactions span Liberal, Irish, and Imperial voices with questions about peace funding and future finance.
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London
Great Britain
Michael Hicks-Beach
Transvaal
South Africa
Mr. Lowe
William Vernon Harcourt
Sir William
Treasury
Pretoria
Chamberlain
Associated Press
House of Commons
Charles Dilke
John Redmond
Ireland
America
Michael Hicks
John Burns
Henry Norman
Brussels Day Ends Quietly After Socialist Speeches
In Brussels on April 14 peaceful daylong calm prevailed with several suburban meetings in the evening. Socialist leaders including M. Van der Velde delivered forceful speeches near the Maison de Peuple yet order remained maintained.
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Brussels
M. van der Velde
Maison de Peuple
Crimean veteran James Crawford dies in London
London April 14 James Crawford ex sergeant of the London police is dead of convulsions A Crimean veteran he took part in the Fenian troubles of 1860 and served on the front line during those events.
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London
Ont
James Crawford
London Police
Arch of Wheat Heads East For Coronation Arch
Five carloads of Manitoba wheat sheaves sent to London for a coronation arch, similar to the Duke of York arches, with forty cases including seven foot long sheaves. Shipment from St John to Liverpool, car load provided by the immigration department from last year’s stock.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
London
Duke of York
East
St. John
Liverpool
Immigration Department
Strathcona Presents Montreal Medal to King Edward
In London Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Canadian High Commissioner, met King Edward I and delivered an address and a Montreal citizens gold medal honoring the Prince of Wales visit to Montreal. Reports also note metal quotations with lead and silver prices in London and New York markets.
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London
Edward I
Lord Strathcona
Mount Royal
Montreal
Prince of Wales
New York
All Was Not Above Board in Greenshields Case
Ministers ordered to decipher telegrams produced in Gode. Christie of the OPR Telegraph Co admitted destroying telegrams between government and Greenshields to protect customers. Western Union manager also asked to disclose messages. W C Hayward may abstain on railway matters bill. ministers faced routine day as wreckage from Danube arrives near Anistasaple island. Kamloops hosts Miners Convention with 60 delegates. G F Dougherty elected president. city officials extend welcome.
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James Cronin
St. Eugene
G. C. Buchanan
W. H. Aldridgs
Associated Boards of Trade
Laurier
Cartwright
Fielding
Templeman
Molock
Mr. Cronin
Moasa
Victoria
Commission Today
Christie
O.P.R. Telegraph Co
Greenshields
Western Union
W. C. Hayward
Esquimalt
McBride
Danube
Anistasaple Island
Windsor Cantery
Red Rocks
Beechdale
Bristol
Kamloops
Western Federation of Miners
Gordon
Ald. Stevens
G. D. Brown
G. F. Dougherty
Greenwood
Angus J. McDonald
Sandon
Frank Wonilsida
Rossland
Boer Peace Talks Outline New South Africa Proposals
Despatch from Pretoria outlines Boer and British terms for settlement. Proposals call for a British lord commissioner and Boer executive resident at Pretoria, district division with British officers, Boer polling, veto by Britain, Johannesburg back under British control, a 10 million pound indemnity, disarmament after early Boer prisoner repatriation, no war tax, bilingual schools and courts, and British funding for garrisons. Boer leaders to keep posts as far as possible.
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the Hague
South Africa
Pretoria
Evening News
Edinburgh
Retoria
Johannesburg
Great Britain
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City Limits
Britain
Strathcona
Gode
W. Ff. M
Miners’ Convention
James Wilks
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