Pre Good Watch Do your Eyes Trouble ou 2 I ~--SEE--- G. M. RIOCH Graduate Optician, KENORA % Rs 0 wigs mr i 3 Said 1,00 FINANCIAL. Katablished ) sme sank a Montreal won TREAL _ HEAD. EvICE , $43.09.000 7,000,000 Copal, all paid up. Reserve Fund : : Profit a and Loss. Account ; SRT WILLIAM BRANCH A General Banking Business transacted. C ade ou favorable terms Ta Jong deposits at current rates. L available at ali points in Europe, tates and Canada. ir cluding Yukon LWBOTL Uity and other. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT of one dollar ard upwards received 1 a ads on withdrawing and de- 0 ang hue, No Charge positiag mona} : La Ww. StaveNso, Manager Naam i S. WW. RAY oe : 3G, Ww. Jarvis. RAY, STREET & CO. EsTABLISHED 1884 ¥ Bankers Insurance General Agents) -- Insurance a special featur business. © Port Arthur ant ; Fart Willan . - 876,531 Kgons in Great Britain int our IMPERIAL Ta OF CANADA Capi tal pa up wy (9g. 200, oo¢ 00 Rest. .: ¥ 700,000.0¢ ToRONIO HEAD OFFICE : D.R.W 1LKIE, Prolident, : Hox. R. Japexay, Vice: President Limited, Head Office, Lombard Street, Londen Brancheds in Provi inces of British Col- umbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani: toba, Ontario and Quebec. - bs atm SAVINGS PEPARTMENT Interest allowed on Deposits of One | Dollar and Upwards, (at highest current rates) from date of opening of account and'compounded half- yearly. ; Kenora Branch etl FE K POULIBEE Manager. Te mttind and nh 0 Ag fly MEN'S CLOTHES Are made by : UTHBERT, Importing Tailor, ay ONT. |; RAT PORTAGE Le ie ) =A ard will teach ug o . such business w ni Bl Kenora Branch i Ww. ch Interest will be pa a qual ter y THE BANK OF OTTAWA N. 0. LEE, Acting Manager + EY N WM. SHOVELL Late Superintendent of Big Master Mine, : Gold Rock, ont. 90 Mining Propositions Inspected and Reported on + Development w ork Saperitended, ail es fo Contract it tu Locations Prospected in : Exploration Outfits. Organ For Wablgoon, Dryden or Conate Yo > Address Wablgoon, ont. LEGAL. ia G 'PL. D RA P E = (Sucenssor to Boyce & Depend. BARRISTER-AT=LAW, 1 Solicitor, Notary Public, RAT PORTAGE = ONT., We ly : --_-- Solleltor or the Dominton Permanent Loan Co. The Bank of Dita, = : References exchanged Gorrepndonced invited |porT ARTHUR : Etc., | MORAY ¢ MACKENZIE, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries, ete. ffices, Imperial Bank Chambers, RaT PORTAGE. -- W J. MORax, PB, MacKENz: Crown Attorney "for District 'of Rainy Rives 3 I MACGILLIVRAY, : Barrister, Solicitor, Ete. -- Imperial Bank Chambers RAT PORTAGE, ONT. Office: NONEY TO LOAN Money to Loan on first-class security Fine Liguors and 6 Tigars J. BEAUDRO & sox, MINING, ble Addres de J Gable hei Meets Neals' Alston," W igen HUG H D. D. ALSTON | Wabigoon + - Ontario Mining. proposidont in the i and Manitou Regions Inspected and Reported on. Prospecting and Development Work Superintended Contracts Let 'References Dxchansed F. HILLE, Mining Eagness, Assayer and Analytical Chemise Terms and Conditions forwarded ona vplication ne] ; Mines and M ful Lands Examined and Yu i Boner on. A , CAN. A E. AN N 1S, Notary Public "i Conveyancer . i - Dryden. Ont. Fire and Life Insurance Collections a Dats collected. an CenToaL House, MATHESON ay WDprslin 0, .P. R. Depot) RAT PORTAGE Rares, $n. oc To $1 50. PER DAY --- en Good! Table -- AQ ERY AMT . Provs. - 7 Lloyds Bank | | been. published, _| people who have secured an option it was not quite big enough. Siders for tenders to sink PERTINENT go PARAGRAPHS be k Waban Ty to xd Opened Up--More Evi- "dence of Coming Activity. | T here is every prospect of the estab- lishme -t of a mining camp within a mile of Wibigoon Postoffice .in the course of a week or two. As a result of negotiations. whic h have been pend ing since the visit of Roy Brisco, of Chatham, last fall, a number of eastern | people fave been approached regard ing the property of J. [), Aaron, on Aarons point, close to Wabigoon de- pot. These negotiations have. pro- ceeded so sucessfully that the proper- | ty will probably opened up toa depth of 100 feet in the fitst instance to fur NM ther test the quality and quantity of the ore bodies, of. which surface sam. ples have given such Satisfactory values pegond hriet bedi he returns he will purchase a' number the Manitou, as wei team 'of as a horses 7 The 15th annual el of the On: tario Bureau of. Mines, which has. just contains the usual 'quantity of statistics" and other data regarding the mineral - production of Ontario, some nf whieh was spichme ed two weeks co, : The location adjoining the Lavren tian is being prospected' for. Detroit from the 'original owners, It is'stated that the owners of the Laurentian made a big bid for the location, but The Detola Development Co. are the in for the summer - and were taken | other points. ariiving eve y day ! it Before of miscellaneous items lof machinery - | for his company's Victory proper' y an Satu gathering, of Sh on ciel] property another 100 feet. ; The Wes! Gold Vining Co. opened an office in Boston, Mass. CONSTRUCTION POSTPONED. Contractor of Transcontinen- "tal Railway Receives 18 ° Months Extension-- Labor Scarce. It is announced from Ottawa that J D. McArthur, contractor for the conscruction of the 'I'ranscontinental Railway from Winnipeg to Lake Supetior. Junction, has heen given 18 months extension in which to com plete his contract. This step has been taken owing to the difficulty ex. perienced in procuring the thousands |: of laborers necessary for an undertak ing of this magnitude. On the Grand runk Lake Superior branch, east of McArthur's terminus, work is proceeding at a record rate. of | speed, and with the coming of spring i large gangs of men are being 'rushed work, the latest gang consisting of 500 men, which were brought from the old country | into the ine Dimorwic, Dryden J and Cther smaller gi from eastern. Ontario and Quebec are and an immense' £ of workmen will be employed from Wabigoon, on the line in this vicinity during thre coming months D, Railroad Men Con- ler. nl ' great. Way On Satutday ne hehe was a maintenance | of men at Dryden, where was congregat. ed nearly all the section men on the | Kenora - Ienace | division. "The mesting was heid in Humphry's hall and was presided over by P. C ontini, of Ingace No reporters were admit ted, but it is understood that the gaih- eang was held merely to aGjust mat- ters relative to their. own order and other routine business, It was the largest gathering beld in this section for many years. 3 - 7 B undon's Stanley Cup aspirations went flickering out on Monday when the Kenora Thistles won the second game in the play off series by 4101 on Winnipeg ice. ah i ee 3 ® 8 You feel in. Eas tL) © and Fresh Mears, Dry EL) CJ ® / 2 od Gent' s Furnishings Drugs and Patent Hedicmes or whatever else you can think of ive us and you will be sure to get i iL natn es, Provisions, Cured Goods, Clothing and a a call - w % . 5 The Wabigoon &0o Wabigoon ld Rock Trading Go. has. : acess sossesscasas sesecs Ba MINES ACT 8 PASSED. Three Per Cent ol Pro fits and Two Cents Per , Acre on Minicg Locations. | LS into committee of the Mines Act Hon. Mr. in the blanks in section 6 so that the bill now reads that a tax of 3 per cent shall be imposed on the profits of all mines over the sum of $10,000. M. A. G. Mackay raised the ques tion of the legality of the present bill in view of previous legislation doing whole on the lands held under patents 'from the Crown. Ha 'Mr. Cochrane said that the question had been submitted to the Attorney General, who, after careful consideration, had decided that the enactment to which Mr. Mackay re ferred, was intended to repeal royal ties existing at the time and not to [prevent any future taxation. This present taxation was not a royalty, but ataxon profi;s. | zy The acreage tax on mining locations : Til ny cents per ning rah Won acre, and the se ction i thout any ob jee, ections S get ith. « Mr. «; or the. sir or Mines was th resird to se viral Se Gli 2 This. he urged in oregard: to, an 'amendment I placing in the Bandy: of the duty of ordering Investigations re. tquired to determine "profits. © the clause as it stood, power to initiate. enquiries wis vested in the SEsSOr. mine ase Now the statement as to pro- he facts until te Aister an investigation. Hon. Mr. Cochrans aid Mer: vo ] nthoigey ter fre m the politica officer' altogether but the miners who had' waited the responsibility, The clauses were vsseds | gi A new Clause was ac ided to the bill providing that the tax on should "be remitted where such was smelted anywhere in of Cuvada. Just befor the Premier said in ' ore' the D. mine fon SH bili was assed the regard toa point mines already paying royalties to the government woul depend altogether on the agreements made in cach case. In any future «les of the kind the tax | would be imposed and' would have to. be figured on by tenaerers. OBITUMRY. "The duh hy on. Sunday last | of J. E Palmer, for five years C.P.R | axent at Tache, at the early age of st years. The deceased, who had con- tracted heart trouble while young, had been ill for three weeks before his Jeath. His father and aunt arrive at Poche on Monday to make prepara- tions for conveying the body to Ux tides for imerment. At the section i ouse on Teesdoyi Rev, Hu 1). Cooper. mducted a shure funeral service, John D. Rockfeller lve $50, 000, 000 lifting the C hit ry, to: Eine ie pine sing to When the Ontario Legislature went J Cochrane filled ; away with royalties on certain mining - xu of an wb was > ; asked . to 'pry the with? ks 'the Minister wo Under ; fits 1s taken as prima facie evidence a would have 1 Red to remove the - ate ! n him felt that the Mister should tuke. : Siron ore raised that the questior of the tax on po