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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1900
Page
4
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Victoria civil servants delay urgent road work after a $100 appropriation for the Galena Mines road. Road Inspector Moore wired the sum, but the Department of Lands and Works has not replied. Private parties built a wagon road to aid delivery that is blocked by unresolved government action on Red Mountain road and related projects. The piece notes daily delays and a bleak outlook for fall progress amid booster talk for Silverton.
The Nelson Tribune defends its independence amid criticism from labor leaders. It praises John Houston for stand by workers and laments attacks from Igbo leaders and followers who accuse him for diverging from their political views.
Rumor fits BC government may block the Kettle River Railroad Bill. Grand Forks and Kettle River Railway supporters press for the line’s completion, arguing locals must judge the project, not Ottawa.
A fragment questions the Kettle River location and the purpose of a company plan to build a road there and take tips from the C P 8. The text hints at uncertainty about geography and the project rationale.
The piece discusses Canada gaining Imperial approval to set up a branch mint for bullion and contemplates a Canadian gold coin. It then segments three political voter classes in the riding: indifferent, earnest, and bitter partisans, judging citizen worth and national loyalty.
Poem praising a man famed for punctuality. It notes his strict timekeeping yet humorously contrasts that others are late when he arrives. The piece, from The Soeioriette Journal, humorously explores irony between his reliability and others being delayed.
The platform lists eleven planks including free compulsory education eight hour working day government inspection abolition of public works contracts public franchise ownership abolition of Asiatic immigration educational test ban on foreign settlement child labor ban for underage workers removal of $250 deposit for Dominion House candidates compulsory arbitration of labor disputes prohibition of prison labor in competition with free labor and compulsory franchise exercise.
The notice warns Independent Voters to vote in their registered Provincial Riding and not anywhere in the Riding. It also states the Yule Cariboo Kootenay election occurs on or about November 21, with exact date to be published. Issued by the Independent Labor Party Committee in Silverton on October 24, 1900.
Under Justice Irving’s order, tenders close November 20 1900 for the purchase of Crown Granted mineral claims near Silverton in the Slocan district named Ruby Trust Kentucky Girl Silver Chief Comstock Blue Peter Fraction Silver Cup Seabel Fraction and for the companys concentrator machinery either as a whole or in parcels. Official Liquidator William Stein dated October 16 1900 at Vancouver British Columbia.
To James ANDERSON you are notified of expended one hundred dollars in labor and improvements on the Oakland Mineral Claim at Four Mile Creek Slovan Mining Division dated August 6 1896 and recorded September 12 1803 to hold the claim for year ending September 12 1900 If you do not contribute your share and advertising costs within ninety days your interest will vest in the subscribers under the Mineral Act 1900 as amended by Section 4. Signed by F Lignecuer H Wises W KR Gorpon dated September 15.
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