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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1898
Page
2
Nelson Miner Printing and Publishing Co of Nelson BC announces subscriptions for Daily and Weekly editions with rates and terms. Notices of Births Deaths and Marriages posted for a fixed price. Copy changes due by 4 p.m. Advertising rates available on request.
A London firm argues Canada offers strong trade potential for British manufacturers. It contrasts per capita import activity and total trade with the United States, noting Canada’s higher imports per person and urging Britain to leverage the tariff preference. Talks between Canadian and American commissioners hint at a possible treaty, with lumber and agricultural terms as sticking points.
Provincial exchanges debate the century’s end with earnestness and learned discussion. Most say the Nineteenth ends at midnight on December 31, 1800, leaving more than a year before the Twentieth begins.
A cautious note expresses hope that participants will deliberate carefully, taking time to thresh out the subject thoroughly and reach a well considered conclusion.
The Ottawa and Minneapolis editors debate high pay for Peace Commissioners and possible warship incentives. The New Westminster Columbian lauds Westminsters citizens for rebuilding after the fire and previews a $30,000 railway station and main line extension to Vancouver, promising a revived city within a year.
OCROW'S NEST OPEN announces regular passenger trains on the Crow's Nest Pass line from Kootenay Landing to Cranbrook with east bound service on Mon Wed Fri at 2 pm and arrival 10 pm. West bound trains depart Cranbrook Tue Thu Sat at 7 am arriving 8 pm. The Moyie steamer links Nelson and Kootenay Landing with sailings Mon Wed Sat at 5 am from Nelson and 2 15 pm from Kootenay Landing Pacific time.
C W Chesterton of the Bank of Montreal was elected captain of the Rossland Hockey team at a recent meeting. A W Davis joined the executive, succeeding A W Strickland. The club plans two teams for winter practice and schedules a December 31 match with Victoria at the Skating rink.
A discussion on why city firms subscribe to local papers and pull advertising. The New York Times is cited with a grocer who theories that credit sales lead to editorial support, while withdrawal of ads signals business trouble and prompts tightened relations with debtors.
A lengthy directory listing Dominion Governor-General Karl of Aberdeen Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier and various ministers in the Dominion Parliament West Kootenay region officers including Inland Revenue F W Swannell provincial officials Lieut Governor T R McInnes and lawmakers J F Hume Chas Semlin J F Hume and others. Also details of city officials in Houston and surrounding posts, school trustees, the South Kootenay Board of Trade, provincial officers including mining and jail authorities, and a Time Card for the Cody Branch stage and railway connections with notes on stations, trains, and staff in 1898.
Miscellaneous notice offers a furnished room with private family and seeks employment by a strong, young man English and experienced on a farm. Applications directed to Mrs. Owen-Jones care Mrs. Frank Jaubert on Pender Street Vancouver.
London reports revived talks of a Russian loan in New York with skepticism. Analysts concede American capitalists may soon face New York as a rival in high finance and note their willingness to bet on European winners.
Robert K. Lemon announces his intention to apply to the Board of Licensing Commissioners of Nelson B C at the January session 1899 for a retail liquor license to sell liquor by retail in a Ward Street room. The application cites the building on Lot 12 Block 1 City of Nelson B C as the premises. Date December 1898.
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