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BLASTS FROM THE PAST Jan. 30 - New ‘public morals’ to be enforced

Chronicles of Boundary Country from the pages of the Boundary Creek Times - Volume IV, No.9 – May 7, 1898

Chronicles of Boundary Country from the pages of the Boundary Creek Times - Volume IV, No.9 – May 7, 1898

  • Public Morals By- Law Enacted – Here are a few of the new ‘Public Morals’ to be enforced by the City of Greenwood:

  1. No person shall sell or give any intoxicating drink to any child or apprentice without the consent of the parents, master or legal protector of such child or apprentice.
  2. No person shall make use of any profane swearing, obscene, blasphemous or grossly insulting language, or be guilty of any other vice, immorality or indecency on, in or about the streets or in any public place in the City.
  3. No person shall indecently expose any part of his or her person in any street or public place, nor shall the plea of answering the call of nature be considered a palliation of the offence.
  4. No person driving any carriage or other vehicle drawn by a horse, horses or other animal in any of the streets shall permit the animal which he be so driving or riding to go at a gallop or other immoderate rate exceeding 8 miles an hour.

  • Sunset Claim Sold – “It is reported that the Sunset claim in the Similkameen district has been secured by the British American Corporation. The price paid for the 7/8th interest is said to be $55,000. The Sunset was owned by Robert Allan Brown of Grand Forks. (ed. - Mr. Brown was always known by his colourful nicknames— Volcanic and Sunset.) Mr. Brown passed through Midway on Wednesday and stated that the sale had been made. He had an earnest of the sale in the shape of a big roll of bills.”
  • The Rush to the Klondyke – “Dominion Veterinary Surgeon John Christie returned from Osoyoos, where he had been kept busy for a week examining the horses of the many argonauts who are rushing to the northern land of gold. During the week, he passed 741 horses, rejected 11, and ordered three killed due to lung problems. The rush across the overland route to the Yukon appears crazy. The majority of the men have plenty of horses, but little money. They do not seem to know how they are going to reach the Yukon, and care less. Dr. Christie returns to Osoyoos to await the arrival of about 1,000 horses which belong to prospectors coming from Utah.” ‘Pure as a Lily Advertisement’ – Rendell & Co. ran the following full-page advertisement: “PURE AS A ‘LILY’ and as Sweet as the Flowers in May. ‘Lily’ Cream contains no substance but fresh, pure, sweet Milk evaporated to a rich Cream, containing 8% of Butter fat and thoroughly sterilized.”
  • An Enemy of Boundary Creek – “Member of Parliament W.W.B. McInnes has left Ottawa for home, to take a hand in the British Columbia provincial election in support of the Turner government. If he should happen to come into this district campaigning, the people should remember that he told the railway committee of the House of Commons that Midway, Greenwood and Grand Forks were ‘fake American boom paper towns.