A serial of the mines, the law, and the women who made their own

ROSSLAND WEEKLY MINER.

A New Serial. Free to Read. Rossland, B.C., Archive Edition. First Year, Number 1.
Layout model: Rossland Weekly Miner, July 15, 1897 ↗

Serial fiction edition. Headlines below describe THE LINE; they are not transcriptions of the historical newspaper.

The chief report—Illustrated serial No. 0.

Thirty Dollars.

Women of Vancouver House Question the Price of Rossland Morality.

Miss Heatley and Mr. Kirkup upon Upper Lincoln Street.

Rossland has this week been presented with an account of a singular compact between the town and certain women from whom money is collected with great regularity, though protection is afforded with rather less dispatch.

A woman having been carried injured across the threshold of Vancouver House, Stella Heatley closed her ledger and sought an answer from the authorities. The city complaint was put aside; the city’s demand for money was not.

Upon the wet street Mr. John Kirkup was asked what, precisely, the payment purchased. The reply was plain enough. It bought neither safety nor a hearing, and the women returned to make an order of their own.

The whole account, with the persons concerned and the circumstances at McGregor Terrace, is contained in the present eleven-page illustrated number.

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For a later number.

Where the Ore Goes.

A Sealed Car Loses Its Rich Stone Between Mine and Smelter.

A car-load may leave Red Mountain under one valuation and arrive under another. The broken seal, the sampler’s figures and the road selected will be made to answer.

Further particulars in a later number.

For a later number.

The House in the Creek.

Constable Kirkup Removes an Obstruction—What the Broken Wall Disclosed.

A hut too near the water is said to have yielded to Mr. Kirkup’s shoulder. The crowd enjoyed the performance until a concealed article came out with the timbers.

The report is not yet issued.

Proposed serial No. 1.

Nothing on the Record.

Charges Against the Police—Chief Ingram’s Conduct to Be the Subject of Enquiry—Witnesses Not Easily Heard.

Miss Lee carries the public report into the civic offices.

The town is again occupied with the question of money paid under the names of fines, warnings and protection. A formal record is promised, but some who might fill it have already found reason to keep their counsel.

Annie Lee is sent from Vancouver House to see that one woman shall not face the corridor alone. Papers multiply while the useful truth grows smaller.

This number is in preparation and cannot yet be opened.

From the saloons.

Eleven O’Clock.

Sunday Closing Ordered—The Law to Visit Every Door Alike.

Mr. Kirkup proposes to enforce an old rule at the hour named. Rossland approves of order in the abstract and objects to it vigorously when the lamps are put out.

To appear in a later number.

A question for the city.

The Price of Snow.

Fines Collected Below—The Respectable Streets Cleared First.

One coin passes to the city as the shovels go out.

One marked coin is to be followed from Vancouver House through the police and city books. By winter morning it has become a shovel-man’s wage, though the path before the house that paid it remains deep under snow.

Miss Rosa Martinez proposes that money taken from Vancouver House shall at least be required to give an account of itself.

The report is not yet issued.

Among working women.

A Working Girl.

Men’s Clothing Adopted—Two Dollars and Fifty Cents Earned in a Day.

A woman whom household employment would not maintain has obtained better wages under another appearance. Maggie O’Reilly must decide whether aid means speech or silence.

To appear in a later number.

Labour intelligence.

Eight Hours.

The mine whistle, the company clock and an injured man do not give the same account of a working day. When the dispute reaches Vancouver House, neutrality proves dearer than allegiance.

The report is not yet issued.

Two establishments compared.

Two Hotels.

Business Ability Praised on One Street and Condemned on Another.

Two houses upon the same muddy street.

A supplier’s difficulty is expected to bring the Hotel Allan and Vancouver House into the same account. Each is managed by a woman of property and judgment; the town does not employ the same words for both.

Respectability will be asked to show whether it is a virtue, a licence, or merely a better address.

Further particulars in a later number.

By rail to the boundary.

The Special Train.

Mine Papers Hurried South While Rival Orders Follow.

Men who cannot agree upon the ownership of the LeRoi are prepared to settle the matter with proxies, injunctions and a locomotive. Miss Martinez hears one fact worth more than a car of ore.

The report is not yet issued.

From the census desk.

Occupation: Nurse.

One respectable word is demanded for a woman’s whole livelihood. Before the enumerator’s ink is dry, an injury requires Sarah Blackwell to supply the truer answer.

To appear in a later number.

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