Daily Colonist (1900-01-14) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1900-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

That oiir DUiK>nsinK Derrartjnent is oorapleto and prescriptions eii-tmsted to oiir care will bo fillwi promptly uud accurately.

Always Rem^itiber

That our Drugs arc Fresh and Pnre. Prices rigrht.

HALL & 00.,

imWmns'mo Chemists.

Drowned In

The Jordan.

Prospector Loses His Life Trying to Cross the Treacherous. River.

News from the Sealers Operating Along the California Coa^t*

The necessity of improving the means of communicBtion.., between variouB points' on the West Ooait'bet'weiin Oar-

uianali and Victoria, whicli huH been porsiHteiitly ugitated during .several weeks past by Rev, Mr. Ellison and the rcpresentatiTe shipping men of the port, is further emphasized by the news of still another tragic fatality, of which .Toriian river was the scene yesterday luoniinj,'. A luuii named Wasp had eudcavorod to cross the river in a boat, tuking numerous supplies for his camp; the boat was caught in an eddy, orer-turued and lost—the unfortunate pros-l/cctor drowning. His body has not yet been recovered. This latest uf a series of sad mishaps should be an additional argument to induce the govera-uient to Kraiit the prayer of the petition tliiit has boon iu circiilHtion on tlu' water front (iiiriiis sevi-i-al weeks past, and which reads as lollows:

" We, tlie tindei sif.-m'd residents, jjros-pcctors, merchants and settlers of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, urgt'Ully re(Hiest the local Koverinnent to coinmuaicate with the Doiuiuion Rovern-nient, with the object of obtaining a K'raiit to iiiipruve the c.xistinj; telcKrapb trail lu'twecn SlierrinKliam I'oiiit, .li)r-(laii river, iSnn ,Tuan to AlbiMiii. The cost of clearin)^ a fonr-foot trail ami liridKinK the streams and (,'iillies for foot tralllc is beyond the means of loi'al finids. The frequent sliipwreeks on tbo AVest Ooast. tlie incrensiuK tralllc, both on sen and laud, call for liie early consideration bj' both j,'ovt'rnnicnts of the iu'<'d for such a road, which once inad(> Clin be kept up and improved as occasion may require from annual grunts made by the local government."

ELM. BRANCH SAFE.

Big Freighter Towed Into Port Towns-end With a Brolcen Shaft.

Steamer Elm Branch, from Nngaaaki to Portland, was towed into Port Towns-end yesterday morning by the Piigcft Cound Compnny's tugs Tyee and Tn-coma. In attempting to malcc the cii-'trance of the Straits she broke her shaft and after driftini,' for :i time she iin-cliored about four milcri off Flattery rocks. Tho news \v;is received by despatch from Ncali Bay at the ollice of the tugboat conipan.v, which stated that the Blihti Thomrisou oulward bound with coal had reiK)rt(Ml sijilitiuK the dlsabh?d .steamer at anclior. 'llic Klin Brunch in July last took a carfjo of lumber to Newchang from the Chciniiinns mill, Tlic probability is that slie will be repaired at Esquinialt.

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MAIUNE XOTfcIS,

Petition for the Iinprovcinent of the West Coast Telegraph Trail.

A petition drawn u|) by Ilcv. Mr. Ellison in being signed in tlie Nortliern Pacific Steamship Couipany's olllce asking tlie local Koverninoiit to couimunicate with the Doiiiiiiion government to provide for the iinprovenicnt of the tele;;ra|]l trail on tho West Coast, from KhcrrinK hum iKiint. .fordiui river, to Alherni. Tlii' movement is considered necessary owing to the lar^'e number

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