fiEB ALD For Mayor and Council -Gity- GourKii l^-tl ad—Bo sy-E veh i ng-an'd Varied Matte rs were: The.re- were .--two Vacant seats at Mo^aay' night(s riieeting' of ...... .. .Council.. Akl.MtUggj^s' instill in the east, on' .a- business trip "and Aid. Livingstone also out of the city. -rfjrht.S. ^Bpth^riiTatt^fS >V_ere ~yeA beyond control; but the efforts' ofJX /erred to-the board oi- words'. -L-~ffi'~~fipl1t'n^ clcY^-na'v.?'- fy~?P success _• It_w?is clecided to adve?tise/f6rlful with^Trerse exceptions, hnd^urthe applications for jl^pbsi (Kn M ^^^M^^^W^ ¦ .,-----.- ——~.> -* "*3It'"" VJ cf the-lslftrKl-^orestmisjIfrR't-jeperfe-n , m jfires,but^here^hre^everni7jTrr In connection'.vvjth .'the. issu4around; ParksyjU"et.\one_ seriousou ance of city bonds. ,t he assessor ""break; neary^ourtejiay and two nea brought in1 a report-that^a rough ^^mahZls\and, which„ are ' bein ""' fought.^ Fires on the, islands betwee^ ^i qhd JLady'simth are mide estimate of city-iirfprovements ivas: as follow^i^City Streets, 5. miles,.; sideWafks, 3 miles; rail- Mr. Fred Hood waited council iji- regard to^the need of a city state. H(vpoipted out that farmers.' brin-ffing/hay into the city at present were handicapped in that there for w^igiiing. that he- was . ^liients for the installation of „ platform, scale atllfc rear of the fire hall. /' S\ ¦ Mr. Hoo^Kalso difew attentio, to thepjtfeed for some com action in order that ,wfigh.t be secured^fof. the lai'tfe bes that would were no facilitips' The mayor stated making afrange-a quantity of be for. sale^in way bracks in city ' liniits^lO mites, ^s ' // Indemnity" Bylaw/!No. 22 providing salaries fdr the mayor and alderrnen-^vas given three readings anfi will be finally passed next Monday night. It provides f6j>aiT annual salary of $1200, .the mayor and $210 forth* men, payable monthly,, / M ayo.r (i illett asked for suggestions on theJsyFrfount;>f rernuner-ation to>bfenxgd'f' £m. /Eagel little thomrfff ^e«t)ugh and %h\s control1.'. ): With the dryingv up ;6£ vegetaUo" and the Jac1cof:rain^the ^^ is increasing, and only bv^Hpt^of th utmost care and. precp^rfioiif^vith fir \yill destruction oX-^tfe/aiid prbpe,vt> and heavy ou^v^bv/jujblic bodies an private jn [usstan Causes Jubilation London, Aug.- 23.—The capitals' o the entente allies are jubilant todu> over the ' uriexp^cted victory' whic jthey have, won' in /the :Gulf of magistrate j.gng]and ^d more than' a synipath unanimously eri- '.]tic"interest .in the baftl the district^ jad ^sugges Mutual admiration and Sll, marine-account between the may- battle C1.uise"r aidermefi. preceded the which nd fall. JJ& thougjit-^Che mdustry shotfld be en cbdraged/^as this /ciistrict w^secondxtojgonein the quality^pf tiibejxproduced.^la or Gillet.t'nanfed the following as aicomrnj^tee to..investigate and repot^on the means of securing an putside- market -for this pro-iduce~x Alflermerf Eagel,. Ellisr and Parks, and Messrs-: Jl16o ceived the unanimous suppoj the board-. . Bylaw ;No. 23. reotflating the. as a BritSsl for the Gernitfi oltke, the^. loss ¦ o to the destruction^.- "6: , .eiglf t^'torpedo ^boafe anc transports^constftutes the great est naval disaster suffe/ed by German-, during/t'he.-war. .P'bivthe past week both Petrograd and Berlin'have been sending meager reports of naval operations in the Gull of Riga, which were interpreted to mean that Germany was i land forces for the purpose porting the-left flank of Fie4 von Hindenburg'in his^eflorts to overrun the whole of tptrriand and thereby establish his armies along the route to^the^Kussian capital. ,,. . , ,.,. „„ ... , ^The^rflicial Russian.reporjt^claiming Victoria, Aug. 24.—The minister of j/^. ... . ,\J/ ,,. . a ^decisive; victory -fQrJJre allies, to- iv wTth^the expulsion of the sur-r-jviving. units 'lof/the German naval placing of ne,, telegraph, on the City najpas: departmentReport yon Forest Fires lands is iiiyeceipt ni telegraphic vices .covering the fire situation in the past week throughout, seltd.'n and Prince^Tlupert districts, * ¦ ^S ' /* i where rain jan^riiade the position com-; tfeprov- force from th i tails parativeUKsecure,, the weather gulf, contains few de-enumeration of osses. It is assumed that in- PetrogradN announced ago that her large warships retired from the gulf, the mos- liot and dr&and ^vefy fayoni the ^d-wfth the^xcep>iho^fhat all fires hav, J ^ ^ ^^^0^^ >y the;goyernment with the^. ^ ^ are .under cnn.'to Kovno. y Zs y j trol, >vffhout serious damage being [ British/military/critics regard the "application of^Vrn.Sher-'doffe The harzard' in the Lillooet"5111^^^1^6^^6 Germans a^of mhfv fnr fVio rv^fffnn nf r>VfVT \-"~ ¦¦ ,.> ^ • . .,!supreme ynportance if the mvadefs man for thepesition of city [section .r.^t.Wng to o^as.onal^,, of£ ]ate marching onpetro. scavenger J^afle vacant >y the: strong winds, and. sil«ilar conditipn"s!grad. '^On that; account the Russian . resignation of • E. Cashman, was [prevail in the rKamlbops^ ^dis^ricjt. j naval Victory'.may be of large .effect referred %| the Jboard of health. JTwenty-fi-ve thousand feet ofxtimber on the German plans. ^NewlTpf^-hj^ long-delayed fire .were burnt as.-a result" of two^out- Italy's.declaration 'pticrino Wsic pnnvptfpH- in n Iprtpr I bn Kettle Valley, and six^key has not yet led, so far as it known . ,. ¦., , .. '*i i u other fires were fought m the Vernonihere, to definite results, but it-is .stating that the. engine, had been- f()rest (lis(/kt: Intensely hct;.; and!pect&o have a great effect on-Rou-shipped from Woodstock, OnL, Ury weather, accompanied 'by light|mania, which long has been connected OR August 16th, '¦•• .. , jwituls from the sosth, was responsible" closely with"ltaly.A.i;. ,^ 'The manager of the hotel in for an ^.^^'"K'J' dangerous skua- From the Franco-Belgian front come v Ltion in the'Vancouver district, wnere, reports of artillery "duels uttaccompa- course of erection on fhird Ave., f^ fewei; th:ui 48 ^.^^ fouVhtilhjed by infantry activity. llf frt ' •¦¦ • " '¦ ¦ being approxU ^asked for a: special permit to allow- ¦ of ah upper balcony extending over the^sti-eet.' The, mayor had pointed o.ujE that this yvas ip cpntrayentibhof the building bylaw: Re also asked permission to i n s t a 1 protrudipg no. fewer than 48 fn the -area burnt over riiately five thousand acrcte, principally slash. Much damage was*dpne""to rjroperty, including destruction of *two ^^tlle ,Frdser. Y^ ™d cab- ins..-in Burnaby and North Vancou- v^: TJlc fires at Gordon Pasha Lake and Siamond are burning' fiercely and WORLD. tEST REPUBLIC IN SYNOPSIS OF CQAt MINING REGUJLitTIQNS pi smallest Republic;in . the world; is a\s^ one of th^ , the likl^sta^Gn^the slope's, of th^ Apennines ih;Italy seft**j;67tHe front'her^andipg' army.of 50; men artdJMlCvit keephip^atilome as restvva regulars shp\vn"in photo. \X 1 \ Coal mining jights of the ,iii M^tfitoba, Saskatchewan aad-^Xl-h&rfa, tile Y-ukqn Territory, the "North-West Territories a»m in a portion of the Provincexttf British ;Co-lumbia, may be lptrSed for a term of twenty-one y'(jar?r at an. annual rental of .§.1 an .iwfti- Not more than 2,500 leased to one applicant, for "a lease 'must be •rfiade by the applicant in person to ,theTAgent or Sub^-Ageiit oOhe district, in which the rights applied for are'situated. \y. In surveyed territo-F-y...the land.-must, be desoribed bj^.sei;ti6ns; or legaljiib-tlivisipns of sections, and in^uiJsur-veyed territory the tract ja-p. shall be staked out bj^the applicant himself. >^^ V^ : Each application, must^be accompanied by a fee^of' $5<>vhich will be refunded iMhe rigmXapplied for are. noTTPv'ailable, but not otherwise. ,A roValty shall be paid^dn the merchantable output of the mine at the rate of five-cents per ton.';. . 'fhe. persdri-v-operating1 the mine shall furnish" the' Agent with stydrn returns accounting, for the full, quan-"! tity of 1.nercjiaritable->coai min,ed ..aiidj lsay. the;r ;"¦- '.'.«~~~r •- 'the lea.s,*; vyillvinclude. pei6^a\ itfg r.ig.Ktsi-biily,-but- the lessefi may lie permitted- to purchase, WHatever availiibie surface rights may lie eon>, ^idei-edv.necessary for;the w;ofking -of the mine ;at the rate of ^LOiOO^Mt'ScrC' For- -,-full' ¦ infqrnfation.-; application should be. .rnad* ^to -the r.Secretow..ty* the Pepaiitmeiit of the Interior, waj" or= t»- ahyN Agent ^r §ub-of v Dominion Lands. ~.' • - -U v _-¦¦ ¦! W;#.COKY, :'-Deputy Minister Jofthiv_____ N.B;-r=IJnauthoriccfd publication of this advertisement will not be- paid toQ^small" to receive oniMmm^diate attention. pnt -lam- opportunity u. ljust]I?hone"25 '^jrte'M doj^le^ rest.. And.i ON TIME. -;*& ^ &. ¦ ;\\' *'^ Street :: Telepho UNUSUAL COJOTTIONS of the past ten j^prfths created^ an ^up-hill 'situation for business^>eonsistent ahef I I: I i ... persisten^Tdvertising in the1 proper rpediapa^\yill¦ enableOyou"to-¦¦.^r--;.-;>g "m^ke" the" hill...!a;rgi show^ a .^ajja^or- jfeur®business oveF^^ . w even normal timesrvt: / iThe wis^^eiig'ineer-daes not : cut do^0;lie steam on the.up- a little more is tarnegotiate the hi not let us talk to you^ about; : licity' campaign in the Prince George ^ferald, the 'oldest £s- ^y 1 tablished newspaper in .'Central British Columbia ?-":We can -te--^~ ¦ introduce 4^°^ (to the people wtfo will buy ¦ youT' merchandise^-^Jil^ >£¦ ^ •;f Call "us up and we>snalHbe pleased to-^¦scuss publicity ;,--i''<'i ..;..-.;¦*¦"'''.¦ - .¦? *,•*'• '. ^s^ " ¦¦' —-________ " ¦' "'"¦"¦ ¦"'•'• '• ¦ 1 "' '' V- ¦'• -•Wltli^^yOUi'T^'l'''¦'¦'. • '/S^'i -:~^":>'\ ¦ '^'l ¦'.' ¦ '-i v :".'¦'¦- \-^\ '' i" ¦i^-1 ¦'¦, ;^';:,.',i.'s..4':t|..-> ".' ^ ' ¦"¦."¦¦'•; ¦:¦:¦¦¦'____¦"¦ ., '— '-v I. 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