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Newspaper
Ymir Mirror
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1904
Page
2
The Ymir Mirror announces weekly publication with home delivery and mail subscriptions at two dollars per year. Advertising rates are one dollar fifty cents per inch monthly. No public entertainment with an admission fee will be noticed unless advertised, and the paper reserves space for merit while guarding readers from irresponsible persons. Commercial printing available on premises.
In Ymir British Columbia a hospital run by local miners union men is accused of mismanagement and hiding finances. The editor claims a conspiracy caused an advertising boycott and government records show the hospital may profit from its operation rather than incur losses.
The board of directors and the miners union faced a boycott over hospital accounts. Auditors chosen from Grobe Campbell and Coffey refused to certify the books, prompting McIsaac to continue as secretary pending scrutiny. The piece questions whether boycott or conspiracy reflects honest action.
The figures for the year ending June 30, 1905 show expenditures of 2 442 854 and revenue of 2 522 076, projecting a revenue surplus. The McBride administration reduces debt burden, raises revenue via taxes and growth, and aims for an 825 000 balance with lowered service costs and new short term debt to clear liabilities.
Cabinet members, who once denounced private cars, now favor private rail cars for comfort and convenience. They praise a $30,000 traveling home provided by the Canadian people, noting growing demand for such arrangements over Pullman or Wagner cars.
Mr Fielding and his family return from Florida by private car. Mr Emmerson travels to Ottawa from St John in a private car while critiquing the electorate. Sir William Mulock and family head home from Mexico by private car. Mr Sifton joins the private car trend to Texas with wife and friends for a two week absence.
A despatch from Vladivostock in January outlined Admiral Alexieff preparing to delay diplomacy until March then attack, destroy much of the Japanese navy with torpedo craft, and block landing with ships at Chemulpo. enemy swift action thwarted the plan. Denmark to adopt new surnames amid common repeats. Chinese anatomy beliefs sighted in curious dissection notes.
The Grand Forks Sun laments past dispatches from Port Arthur and calls for war coverage by the Lorento Mail and Empire. It notes Marcus A Hanna's estate valued at seven to eight million dollars and his substantial Cleveland Electric Railway stock stake.
The article describes an all rail network from 18 Gust West to Ross and South, with connections at Spokane to the Great Northern Northern Pacific and O R N Co. to points east and west. It lists connections at Ross Nelson to Canadian Pacific and at Nelson to P R N Co for Kuslo and Kalions, with various listed arrival times from 6.45 p m to 11.06 a m.
No. 34 dollars and 25 cents has been expended in labor on the Goodenough Fraction mineral claim near Wild Horse Creek four miles from Ymir. If contributors do not pay within ninety days their interests may vest in O. A. Lovell under the Mineral Act. Dated Ymir B C February 17 1904.
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