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Hart- ley, whose term as mayor expired the first of the year, maintains that when he stepped from office jhe turned over to his successor $17,806 after all bills for the year had been paid. Mayor R. B. Hassell | financial statement in jexplains that the left ministration that could be used of makes a which he outgoing ad- exactly $229.25 for the main- | Llenance administrative de- | partments. He does not intend | to imply that the remainder of {the cash mentioned by Mr. Hart- {ley is not on hand, but the two take issue regarding legal au- thority for utilizing the money, Mayor Hassell contending that aside from the $229.25 referred }Lo there is no money available for maintenance, if the law is to be lived up to. Mr. Hartley is positive that the | $17,806 under the head lof general funds and may be ex- pended for any purpose that represents an emergency. 9 comes Sale of Good Household Furniture Mr. Frank A. Ellis will sell by public auction on Tuesday next, without reserve, at the residence corner of Fifth and Dunsmuir, a splendid lot of household furni- ture and effects, Sale at 2 p.m. See handbills. 4t ME PRPIORAN DUP Per Cent. to Build This House PEPRON DLP) DPN) HOES The Paper for |Your Home! | It gives you all the news of your own city and district as well as the principal happenings in all parts of the world. The news is well edited, its news columns are clean and whole- isay The advertising columns of the News bring some, It isa paper you need in your home. you in touch with opportunities for getting the full value for your money. :- >: 3 3 Let us loai you the moazy to buy or build a house or pay offa mortgage. CANADIAN HOME INVESTMENT CO. McIntyre Block, Third Avenue, Prince Rupert. Head Office: Pacific Building, Vancouver, B. C. 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That most beautiful picture en- titled ‘Home Again,” has brought such an enormous amount of new subscriptions to the Family Her ald and Weekly Star that the pub- lishers are finding it impossible to keep up with the filling of or- ders, but in the columns of that paper this week we notice a posi- tive guarantee from the pub- lishers that every subscriber to that great weekly for 1912 will receive a copy of the picture, “Home Again.” Their guarantee is sufficient and subscribers need not feel anxious although the pie- ture may be delayed a few weeks. Those who have not yet sub- scribed to the Family Herald and Weekly Star should do so at once and make sure of having a copy of the picture, Again.” We learn that the publishers are contemplating something for next season that will make this picture even more valuable than al present. One dollar pays for a full year’s subscription to the paper, and the picture. it corr 10imme Something New. 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Davis boat house. “Figures can't lie’ is an epi- gram that might have been true once—but not since the inyen- tion of the coal scales 1836 The Bank of British North America 75 Years in Business, Capital and Reserve Over $7,300,000 Letters of Credit For our customers’ convenience we issue Letters of Credit payable in Pounds Sterling for use in Great Britain and all parts of the world, and payable in Dollars for use in Canada, United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, Cuba and the West Indies. We buy and sell Drafts on France, Germauy, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, China and the West Indies. Prince Rupert Branch — F. S. LONG, Manager. UNION 5.5, COMPANY OF 8.6., Ltd The new steel Passenger Steamer “Camosun ” leaves Prince Rupert every Sunday at 6 p.m. for Vancouver, arriving Tuesday morning. For Stewart City on arrival from Vancouver Friday night. Northbound, leaves Vancou- ver Wednesdays at 9 p.m. Steerage Fare - $6.00 The ‘‘Camosun”’ is the only steame on the run having water-tight bulk- heads and double bottom, thus en suring safety of passengers in case of collision or wreck. J. H. Rogers, Ticket Agent. - Church Services - FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Services every Sunday in the Empress Theatre, ll a.m. and 730p.m, Sunday School and PRNGE. RUPERT IAN. | _ ANNEX Owned and operated by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway on the American and European plan. Excellently furnished, with J) steam heat, electric light, and ail | modern conveniences, being abso- lutely first-class in every respect. | The appointments and service are equal to any hotel on the ff} coast. G. A. Sweet, Manager. |! New Knox Hotel BESNER & BESNER, PRoprRIETORS The New Knox Hotel is runon the European lan. First-class service. 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U., occupation engineer hg student, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: | Commencing at a post planted 52 chains east of Naas River and 40 chains south ef pre-emption No. 897 (SEC), thence 40 chains north, thence 24 chains west, thence 40 chains south, following the Naas River; thence 52 chains east to point of com- mencement; containing 160 acres, more or less, J. T. FULLERTON. RK. H. Stewart, Agent. Dated Prince Rupert, Dec. 11, 1911. Pub. Dec. 13. Skeena Land District—District of Coast, c Range 5 Take notice that 1, Abraham H, Barber, | of Prince Rupert, B. intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands; Commencing at @ post planted at the southwest corner of @ smal! tsiand about} twenty-five (25) chains north and two (2) chains east of the northwest corner of Lot| 1323, Hange 6, Coast District, Porcher | island, thence following the shore line in 4 hortheasterly direction about twenty (20) chains to the north end of the island, thence in a southwesterly direction along the shore line about twenty (20) chains to the point of commencement, being an island containing about forty (49) acres, more or less, ,» Occupation miner, ABRAHAM H, BARBER, Dated Dec. 6th, 1911, Pub. Dec. 13. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar , Take notice that Angus James McKenzie of Vancouver, B. C., cecupation bookkeeper, intednas to apply bi ead to purchase the following ands: Commencing at a post planted at the con- fluence of Blackwater river with Naas river, about two miles south from the sixth Dominion ‘lelegrapn cabin. Post marked A - N. W. Corner, thence 80 chains south, thenee 80 chains east thence 80 chains north, thence 80 chains west to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less, ANGUS JAMES McKENZIE Dated Sept. 23, 1911. Pub. Nov. 2. Skeena Land District—District of Coast Range 5 Take notice that Miss Mary Mulville of Ciare, Ireland, occupation spinster, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following desribed Commencing at a post planted one chains north of the southeast corner of Lot 532, thence north 40 chains, thence east 20 chains, thence south 40 chains, thence west 20 chains to point of com- mencement; containing eighty acres, more or less Dated Oct. 11, 1911, Miss MARY MULVILLE Pub, Nov, 11. John C. Mulville, Agent Skeena Land District—District of Coast, a ange 6. _ Take notice that 1, Dagobert Auriol, of Nanaimo, B. C., occupation miner, intend to apply for permission to purchase the rollowing described lands; Commencing at @ post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 4484, thence south 40 chains, thence west 40 Chains, thence north 40 chains, thence east 40 chains to point of commencement, containing 160 acres, more or less, DAGOBERT AURIOL, Fred E. Cowell, Agent. Date Nov. 10th, 1911, Pub, Dec. 9. Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Kiuange 5, Take notice that 1, Theodore Nichalis, | driver, of Victoria, B. C., Can., intend to apply for permission to purchase the fol- towing described lands; Commencing at Ssoulhwest corner east 8U Chains, & post planted at the of Lot No, 2287, thence thence south 40 chains, thence west 40 Chains, thence south 40 chains, thence west 40 chains, thence north | 30 chains to point cf commencement, con- laining 480 acres, more or less, THEODORE NICHALIS, % Fred E, Cowell, Agent, Dated Oct, 31, 1911, Pub. Dec. 9. Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Take notice that 1, Paul Curtiss, clerk of Victoria, intend to apply for permission te purchase the loliowing described lands; Commencing at @ post planted on the east boundary and about live (5) Chains from the southeast corner of Lot 4484, thence north 60 Chains, thence east 30 chains, thence south 60 Chains, thence west 3U Chains to point of commencement, con- iainiug 180 acres, more or less, PAUL CURTISS. Fred E, Cowell, Agent. Dated Oct, 31, 1911. Pub. Dec, 9. Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5. Take notice that 1, Michas Beganis, cook, of Victoria, B, C,, intend to apply for per- mission to purchase the following de- scribed lands; Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Willams Creek, where the kitiinat branch of the G, T, P. Ry. crosses Williams Creek, and about ten (10) chains LAND LEAS NOTICE Skeena Land District—District of Coast Range 6 Take notice that we the undersigned, Alfred Christian Garde and Wm. M. Johnston of Prince Rupert, B.C., occupation mining engineer and prospector, intend to apply for permission to lease the following described land: Commencing at a post planted 1-4 mile east of the Tyee Station,G.T.P.Ry.Station and approxim- ately 27 miles east of Prince Rupert, thence north 40 chains, thence east 20 chains, thence south 26 chains more or less to railway grade, thence westerly 25 chains more or less following said grade to point of commencement and containing 70 acres or less, ALFRED CHRISTIAN, GARDE WILLIAM M. JOHNSON Date Nov. 23, 1911 Pub. Dec. 5, 1911 Skeena Land District—District. of Queen Charlotte Islands. Take notice that Arthur Tremaine, of Saanich, B, C,, occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to lease the fol- lowing described lands: Commencing. at @ post planted at the southeast corner, being eighty cha:as south of the northwest corner of Lot 1555, Mas- set Inlet; thence west forty chains, thence north eighty chains, thence east forty chains, thence south eighty chains to the point of commencement, containing three ee and twenty acres (320), more or ess. ARTHUR TREMAINE, George Young, Agent, Dated Nov. 15, 1911. Pub. Dec, 15, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte’ Islands, _ Take notice that Alfred McGregor, of Victoria, B. C., occupation broker, intends to apply for permission to lease the fol- lowing described lands; Commencing at 4@ post planted about three-quarters of a mile southwest from the southwest corner of Lot 1548, Masset Inlet, thence east forty chains, thence south to the north boundary of Lot 1557, thence west one hundred chains, more or less, thence north ninety chains, thence east to the beach, thence along beach to point of commencement, containing six hundred and forty acres (640), more or less. ALFRED M’GREGOR. George Young, Agent. Dated Nov, 15, 1911, Pub. Dec, 15, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands, Take notice that Maleolm Wright Young, of Saanich, B. C., occupation farmer, in- tends to apply for permission to lease the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner, being out one mile east of the northwest corner of Lot 1551 thence north to the south boundary of Lot 1550, thence west to the east boundary ef Lot 1550, thence south along the said boundary to the southeast corner of said Lot 1550, thence west aiong said boun- dary to the east boundary of Lot 1549, thence sodth along the said boundary to the north boundary of Lot 1552, thence east to the northeast corner of Lot 1552 thence north to the northwest corner of Lot 1551, thence east to the point of com- mencement, containing six hundred (600) acres, more or less, MALCOLM WRIGHT YOUNG, George Young, Agent, 16, 1911. 15, 1911. District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands, notice that William Moore, of Saanich, B. C., occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to lease the fol- lowing described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southwest corner of Lot 1548, Masset In- let, thence east one hundred chains, thence south sixty-four chains, thence west to the beach, thence along beach to point of commencement, containing six hundred and forty (640) acres, more or less. WILLIAM MOORE, George Young, Agent, Dated Nov, 14, 1911. Pub. Dec. 15, 10114. Dated Noy, Pub. Dec, Skeena Land Take LAND PURCHASE NOTICES, Skeena Land District—District of Coast Range 5 Take notice that LeRoy F. Grant of Prince Rupert, B, C, occupation civil enginee:, intends to Som, for permission to purchase the following deseri lands: Commencing at a post planted about 3 1-2 miles in a northerly direction from the northeast corner post of Lot 13¢9, Range 5, Coast Dietrict, thence east 30 chains, thence north 60 chains, thence west to bank of river, thence south following bank of river to point of commencement: con- taining 160 acres, more or less. LEROY F. GRANT Dated Sept. 9, 1911. Pub, Oct. 10, Gordon C, Emmerson, Agent Land District—-District Range 5. Take notice that I, Louis Caleris, driver, of Victoria, B. C., intend to apply for per- mission to purchase the following de- scribed lands: Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 1729, thence south Skeena of Coast, from the creek shore, thence south 30 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence north 30 chains, thence west 40 Chains to point| of commencement, containing 120 acres, more or ess. MICHAS BEGANIS, . | Fred E, Cowell, Agent. | Dated Oct, 31, 1041, Pub. Dec, 9, Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5, Take notice that I, Samuel Beiltees, gardener, of Victoria, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following de- scribed lands: Commencing at a post planted on the north side of Williams Creek, about ten chains back from the creek bank, and} about fifty chains southeast from where | the Kitimat branch of the G. T. P, right- | of-way crosses Williams Creek, thence south 40 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence north 40 chains, thence west 4U chains to point of commencement, con- | more or less, SAMUEL BEILTEES, Fred E, Cowell, Agent. Dated Oct, 31, 1011. Pub, Dec, 9 taining 1¢ 0 acres, District—District Charlotte Islands, | lake notice that Ellen Marion Young, of | Victoria, B. C., occupation spinster, intends | Skeena Land of Queen to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands; Commencing at @ post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 1552, thence west to the northeast corner of Lot 1553, thence} south to beach, thence along beach to} point of commencement, containing one | hundred and four (104) acres, more or less. ELLEN MARION YOUNG. George Young, Agent. Dated Noy. 15, 1911, | Pub, Dec, 16, 1011. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte islands. | Take notice that John Scott Young, of} Saanich, B. C,, occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the | following described lands; Commencing at & post planted at the northeast corner of Lot 1550, thence south to the north boundary of Lot 1551, thence east along the said boundary to the sea- } | Georgetown | Sawmuill Co. Ltd. Lumber and . Mouldings | A large stock of dry finish- j ing lumber on hand. Boat lumber a specialty, Delivery made at short notice, Our prices are as low as any, Call on us before ordering, miles OFFICE: EMPRESS THEATRE BLDG. | | Cor. 6th St. and 2nd Ave. | shore, thence following along the shore to |} the point of commencement, containing three hundred and sixty-one (361) acres, more or less, JOHN SCOTT YOUNG. George Young, Agent. Dated Nov. 15, 1011. Pub, Dec, 15, 10414, | Dated Sept. 23, 1911 80 chains, thence west 40 chains, thence north 80 chains, thence east 40 chains to point of commencement, containing 320 acres, more or less, LOUIS CALERIS. Fred E. Cowell, Agent. Dated Oct. 31, 1941, Pub, Dec. 9. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar Take notice that Herbert McLennan of Van- couver, B, C., occupation real estate agent, intends to ap oly for permission to purchase the following deseri lands: Commencing at a post planted at the con- fluence of Blackwater river with the Naas river about two miles south of the sixth Dominion Telegraph cabin. Post marked H. M. N. E, Corner, thence 80 chains south, thence 80 chains west, thence 80 chains north, thence 80 chains vast to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. HERBERT McLENNAN Pub. Noy. 2. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar Take notice that Thomas Arthu, White of Van- couver, B. C., occupation carpenter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted at the con- fluence of Blackwater river with Naas river, about two miles south of the sixth Dominion Telegraph cabin. Post marked T, A. W. 8. E. Corner, thence 80 chains north, thence 80 chains west, thence 80 chains south, thence 80 chains east to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. THOMAS ARTHUR WHITE Dated Sept. 23, 1911. Pub Noy. 2. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar Take notice that Charles William Ham of Vancouver, B. C., occupation inspector, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following deseribed lands: Commencing at a post planted at the con- fluence of Blackwater river with the Naas river about two miles south from the sixth Dominion Telegraph cabin. Post marked C, W. H. 8S. W. Corner, thence 80 chains north, thence 80 chains east, thence 80 chains south, thence 80 chains west to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less. CHARLES WILLIAM HAM 1 | Dated Fopteraber 23, 1911, Pub. Nov. 2. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar, Take notice that James Ewing Macrae, of Vancouver, occupation real estate agent, intends to apply for permission to pur- chase the following described lands; Commencing at a post planted about seven miles distant and in an easterly direction from the Naas River, and about eight miles north of Aiyansh Indian village, thence north eighty chains, thence east eighty chains, thence south eighty chains thence west eighty chains to point of | commencement, District—District of Coast, Range 5, Take notice that I, John Argiraclis, car- | penter, of Victoria, B. C., intend to apply | for permission to purchase the following | described lands: } Commencing at a post planted about one | and one-half miles northeast from the | intake of Trout River, on the west side | of Lakelse Lake, and about five (5) chains | back from the waterfront, thence south s0 chains, thence west 80,chains, thenee | north 80 chains, thence east 80 chains to Skeena Land point of commencement, containing 640 acres, more or less. JOHN ARGIRACLIS Fred £. Cowell, Agent. Dated Oct, 31, 1041, Pub, Dec, 9. Skeena Land District-—-District of Cassiar, Take notice that Frank Furey, of Seattle, Wash,, occupation chainman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the fol- | lowing described lands; Commencing at @ post planted about six east of the Naas River and about seven miles north of Alyansh, thence north elghty chains, east sipaly chains, south elgity chains, west eighty chains to point of commencement, FRANK PUREY. H, P, Rutter, Agent. Dated Oct, 31, 191414, Pub, Dec, 14, JAMES EWING MACRAE, H, P. Rutter, Agent, Dated Oct, 31, 1911, Pub, Dec, 14, Skeena Land District—District of Casstar, Take notice that Clarence Bowen, of Se- attle, Wash., occupation woodsman, in- tends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands; Commencing at @ post planted four miles east of the Naas River and about five miles north of Alyansh, thence west cighty chains, thence south eighty chains, thence east eighty chains, thence north eighty chains to point of commencement, ARENCE BOWEN, H, P, Rutter, Agent. 31, 190141. 14. Dated Oct. Pub, Dec, Skeena Land District-—District of Coast Range 5 Take notice that Benjamin Russel Rice of Prince Rupert, B. C., occupation waiter, intends to apply, for permission to purchase the following deseri lands: Commencing at a post planted 65 chains south from the southeast corner of Lot 3060, Post marked B, R. RS. E. Corner, thence 70 chains west, thence 65 chains north, thence 70 chains east, thence 65 chains south to point of com- mencement, containing 455 acres more or less. * BENJAMIN RUSSEL RICE Dated October 21, 1911 Pub, Nov, 2,