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Porcupine Advance, 11 Jul 1917, 1, p. 7

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Opportunities are again offered where a small investment may possibly develop into a large fortune. T. J Fitzsimmons, E.M., Editor of Western Mining Finanâ€" cial Review recently \unted th is camp «and made the most oompiete report on this camp to date. It is published in the April issue of the Review. Western Mining Financial Review is an: independent monthly magazine giving reliable news of the mining industry of the States of California, Nevada and Arizona. Suhscnptxon $1.00 per year. Athree months trial subscriptâ€" ijon will be sent for 10 cents. . WEBFERH «MENING â€" ‘ FINANCIAL "REVIEW ° 525 Market Street, . . . San Francisco, Cal. Ore Reserves now valued at $600,000,000. Coal Deposits valued at $216,000, 000,000. New Minss Openmg Every Vear. Mineral production this year estimated at $46,000,000. ‘* %=â€"6‘‘* Dodge Crusher. The Way you want it,â€"â€"â€" At the Time you want it Established 1895 _ Subscription $3.00 per annum now in Canada Published at 303 World Bldg., Vancouver, B.C. For Rates apply to the Publishers PRINTING PHONE 26 DOOR TO CANADIAN CLUB CAFE THAT‘S THE ADVANCE /orld News in Brief 4 ...m) 5. 4 MONTREAL, P.Q. TAILOR Pss ) (Greece, under the Premiership of aanmemmmzmem» | Venizclos, 11as DrOKEN off diplomatic eeeeeee | relations with Germfny, Austria and Turkey. ‘An offensive against the {Bulgarians is also said to be planned for the very near future by the reâ€" oreanized Greek army. There is a probability that exâ€"Presâ€" ident Theodore Roosevelt will visit Toronto during the National Exhibâ€" ition there this year. Sir Herbert Beersbobm Tree, the famous English actorâ€"manager, died on July 2nd in London, England. He was in his 63rd year, and had ‘been on the stage since 1887. There is a decided note of pessiâ€" misniâ€"in the German newspapers that get through to neutral countries these days. . Germany, however, is said to be preparing now for another winter According to Toronto and other Ontarioâ€"coal dealers a coal scearcity is threatened for next year, as dealâ€" ers can not yet get their orders deâ€" livered from the mines. The National Council of the Y.M. C.A. announce that the recent camâ€" paign tlroughout Canada for funds for the military and other work of the Association has netted approximâ€" ately a million dollars. Binns, wireless hero of a White Star liner on January 23rd, 1914, when he saved hundreds of lives throutrh his calls for aid, last week joined the â€" British Ro\'al Fl\md Corps and has come to Canada to train. : ' Toronto had a monster demonstraâ€" tion on Dominion Day, ‘There weré 8,000 troops in the parade, a. fleet of ten aeroplanes soaring over the city, 1,000 veterans of the Great War, 250 of the veterans of ‘66, ‘70, ‘85 and South Affica, 100 boys from H\I C ssOm!l AIPIGC@, LUVV DVYS LLUGILM _ S. Niobe, chorus of 3,000 school clnl- dren, who sang patriotie songs, patâ€" riotic addresses delivered by Premier Sir William Hearst and other promâ€" inent citizens. Riots have, been occuring in Holâ€" land over the price of foodstuffs and their scarcity. In one ‘riot, shops were plundered and â€" railroad â€" cars emptied. German residents of Holâ€" land are said to have taken an active part in the urging to rioting, and the police have been instructed to deal severely with all offering resistance to the law.. Saloons and amuse ent places in Amsterdam have been orâ€" dered to close at 9 o‘celock, an excepâ€" tion only being made for the Muniâ€" cipal Theatre and Opera House. It is believed that the disorders are largely by the Germans who hope in this way to delay Holland‘s ’entry into the war, or at. least ‘to injure Holland by the disorders. : In the House of Commons last veek Mr. A. Claude Macdonell made apt reference to the silly argument that because a Methodist® minister had been appointed as recruiting officer in Montreal therefore recruiting \in Quebec might be expected to be poor. He pointed out that Majorâ€"General Lessard, a _ Frenchâ€"Canadian, had been Inspectorâ€"General at Toronto, and General Fiset, another Frenchâ€" Canadian, had been Deputy Minister of Militia, yet no one was foolish enâ€" ough to suggest that these appointâ€" ments had a bad efféct on recruiting in Toronto. ‘‘It is time such piffling arguments were dropped,"‘ said the Toronto Member. And all the good Canadians in Canada will | say, +<<Amen!*" planes, valued at $22,500, has been received by the Canadian Aviation Fund from Mr. James Carruthers, the wellâ€"known grain exporter, of Monâ€" treal. Mr. Carruthers suggests that the machines bear the names ‘‘Torâ€" onto,‘‘ *‘Montreal,""‘ and ‘*Winniâ€" adian Aviation Fund. A handsome gift of three aeroâ€" years. William Winter, for fifty years a noted U.S. dramatic critic and a writâ€" er of powerful.and pleasing style, died last week in New York, aged 81 Toronto‘s only Chinese doctor was recently fined $500 for ilegally having opium. ° About $1,000 worth of the drug was found concealed beneath the flooring of his premises. Last week China ceased to. be a republifc, the former emperor being replaced on the throne. As tims was accomplished only through the miliâ€" tary power of one royalist general, it is feared that civil war may result. On Dominion Day, the neaw parliaâ€" ment buildings at Ottawa, being built to replace the ones destroyed by fire were formally dedicated by his Exâ€" cellency the Governorâ€"General, Premâ€" ier Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilâ€" frid Laurier also delivering notable addresses. Three men in Toronto are held on charges of murder, and two women and a man detained as material witâ€" nesses, in connection with the death of a Macedonian named Numoff, who was terribly beaten and battered. It is said that the assault that led to the death of the man came from an inâ€" sult he gave to a 16â€"yearâ€"old girl on the street. All the parties concerned are foreign born. One detective was killed and sevâ€" eral others injured last week by a neâ€" gro mob at East St. Louis, Tllinois. The negroes, numbering about 200, armed with various types of w eapons. assembled at a church and marched down streat, attacking all white perâ€" sons they met. The police seattered them aftér a brief encounter,. _ The riot is said to be the result of a deâ€" sire for revenge for injury done to about two dozen negroes on May 28 lby white men who were resenting the ‘mbblnfIP of two whites by blacka on that date. After a white man hbad been shot last week by a band of neâ€" groes, the whites took a turn at the rioting. About 75 negroes were lilâ€" Buy Your Counter Check Books in Timmins The price will not be any more, and it often will be something less, than charged by outside firms for a less convenient service, e A full line of samples may be seen at The Advance Office. Just call up Phone 26 and have these facts proved to your enâ€" tire satisfaction. _ led, large number injured and. abâ€"| out three million dollars worth of proâ€" | § perty damage done to the negro quarâ€" Cochranos Board of Trade is taking a special interest in the menace from forest fires, and are seeking the coâ€" operation of the T. N. 0. to seeure bettir protection for Cochrane, which town has already been wiped out twice by fire. Premier Hughes of Australia has announced that his Government will continue the voluntary system, if that system can furnish recruits at the rate of 7,000 per month. â€" Sport is to be restricted with a view to husbanding the financial resources and use of the man-powex of nation. Welland, Ontario attained the digâ€" nity of becoming a city on July 1st, the change being made by Orderâ€"in Council of the Provincial Lieutenantâ€" Governor, Sir John Hendrie, who on Monday of last week formally . deâ€" clared Welland a city. _ Of course, there was a big demonstration with much happy specchmaking and celeâ€" bration. AKccording to Copenhagen desâ€" patches the German authorities broke the recent strike at. the shipyards in Stettin by the same means they used to erush the April strike. _ They threatened to muster the strikers as soldiers and subject them to punishâ€" ment meted out to mutineers, unless the men resumed work. Secret investigations by the U.S. and Canadian Government agents®has disclosed the existence of a gigantic conspiracy to destroy or hinder shipâ€" ping on the Great Lakes arfd thereby delay the organization of U.S. war armies and check the flow of food and miunitions from the Western States. This plot, engineered by German agâ€" ents, assisted by U.S. sympathizers is believed to be responsible for the several ‘‘accidents‘‘ that have this season resulted to lake shipping, inâ€" cluding the sinking of two steamers at the mouth of the Soo, the sinking of another boat in the Detroit River, the blowing up and burning of anâ€" other vessel, and attempts to injure several others. The authorities on both sides of the border are making strenuous efforts to get to the ringâ€" leaders of the conspiracy. | At the Canadian ‘Press Association meeting recently in Toronto, Mr. John R.Rithom, the famous editorâ€"of the great U.S8. newspaper, The Proviâ€" dence Journal, told many inside. inciâ€" dents regarding his fight against Hun intrigue on this continent. _ Among other things he said :â€" as "I have a personal satisfaction in having exposed the late unâ€"lamented William Jennings Bryan,‘‘ said Mr. Rathom. ‘*He was employed by the German pacifists in the States to come to our town and lecture against the Providence Journal,. They paid him $1,000. Later we were able~ to show the President the actual agreeâ€" meiit he had made with the Austrian Ambassador to use his influence with President Wilson to \suggest that Amâ€" ‘ericans keep off passenger ships carâ€" rying munitions to the Allies. And ho _ i ~ m C N + we were able to quote from the orâ€" iginal memorandum to Bernstorff his exact remarks when he advised his Teutonic friends to pay no attention to the Presidentâ€"who was at that time writing his protests against unâ€" restricted submarine warfareâ€"as he meant nothing. Within a week Mr. Bryan resigned from his position in the Cabinect as Secretary of State. And he has not said a word since. of Mr. Bryan â€" reminds me of a story.. Bryan was down in Mexico and was invited to a bull fight where he sat in the governor‘s box. Three bulls were killed, but the fourth killed a matador, gored a horse al; most to death, and made straight for the governor‘s box. Bryan drew a lexol\ er.â€" He had two â€" alternatives and but second to decide., Should he kill the dying horse and put it out of its agonies, or should he kill the infuriated beast charging straight at him â€" Bryan did not he31tate a momâ€" ent. He up with his gun and killed the horse. â€" He knew he could shoot the bull any time."‘ At a recent meeting of the Teimsâ€" kammrr Motor League, Mr. N. J. Mecâ€" Aulay was elected 1)1‘Ealdellt for the ensuing year.

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