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MOUNT BAKER HOTEL

I. CLAUSON, Proprietor

Cranbrook’s Newest Hotel. All Brick, Fire-
proof. Residential. No Bar in Connection.

TOURIST HEADQUARTERS
CRANBROOK. B. C.

CO. LIMITED .

Manufacturers of

LUMBER and MILLWORK
CRANBROOK AND KIMBERLEY, B. C.

Let Us Clean and Press For You
WE CALL AND DELIVER

BEN’S CLEANERS

CRANBROOK, B.C.

CRANBROOK SASH & DOOR

Stop at

L. A. HOLMES
Green & White Tourist Court

Y4-mile east of City Limits, on the Main Highway
OPPOSITE AIRPORT

Modern Cabins, Best in the West, from $1.00 up.
Running Water, All equipped to do your own
cooking. Store in connection. Showers.

TEXACO GAS AND PRODUCTS

Compliments of

Cranbrook Branch, No. 24,
Canadian Legion, B. E. S. L.

Secretary, ARTHUR KEMBALL

WHEN VISITING CRANBROOK

do you in the dark. The “hardest” man
I ever had was Charley Phillips 14 or Benton
from the American side in the Okanagan,
who served 12 years in Walla Walla
Penitentiary for the murder (or perhaps the
jury called it “the manslaughter”) of a
policeman in Seattle. His father was white,
his mother a half breed and he came from
Oroville, Washington. His sister was col-
lege educated and he could have had the
same, and got a good start in life, but he
didn’t want education. He got in with a
bad crowd of young fellows and of course
it doesn’t take much to start a breed going
to the bad. He went from bad to worse
and did time in Washington for various
offences and got in bad with the police over
there generally. He told me “if all police
officers were like you constables in British
Columbia I would be an honest man.” He
also did time in Kamloops gaol and was put
in Westminster Penitentiary for rape.
Charley Rose, a Cariboo half breed met
him there, and they struck up an acquaint-
ance that served Phillips afterwards.

When Phillips was let out of the peni-
tentiary he went to Seattle, got into some
trouble with the police, ran down a chute
at the coal bunkers, jumped into the salt
chuck and hung on by his hands to a pile.
Coming along with lights the police saw a
hand and shot the right hand off and cap-
tured him. He had killed the fellow who
was taking him to gaol. In those days the
sidewalks in Seattle were high above the
gullies in some places, and as he was being
taken along one of these up-standing side-
walks Phillips suddenly broke away and
jumped down. They found the marks where
he had run along a little ways and hid
behind one of the trestles the sidewalk
rested on and while the policeman was look-
ing for him Phillips shot him. He had not
been handcuffed or searched. Patrolman
Wells was the policeman he shot dead from
ambush and afterwards they got him, as I
say. He served 12 years for it. Finally he
sawed himself out.

Charley went back to his old stamping
ground along the boundary between Wash-
ington and British Columbia. He knew
every foot of that country, all the trails,
and the Indians and half breeds sheltered
and shielded him, some from sympathy and
others from fear. But even the ones that

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SAM DELUCA, Proprietor
MODERN BRICK BUILDING
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EACH ROOM
Bowling Alley in Connection

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G. B. FIORENTINO, Proprietor
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CLEAN AND COMFORTABLE
Fully Licensed

Cranbrook, B. C.

Millar & Brown Transfer Co,
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COAL — WOOD — ICE

Local and Long Distance Furniture Moving |
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CRANBROOK, B. C.

gave him shelter through fear were no
likely to inform on him, so he. had litte
to be scared of. The few white settlers in
that part of the State had little to do with
him for he was looked upon as an ugly
customer and was known to be a dead shot
A good deal of his trouble then, as it had
been earlier, came from getting his eye on
somebody else’s wife or girl.

Amongst others he fell foul of was

“Featured in THE SHOULDER Strap, 10th
edition, p. 67.

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J. W. BEECH, Proprietor
Dealer in Chrysler and Plymouth Motor

Cars  -+. General Repairs and Parts
@
NATAL, BRITISH COLUMBIA

B. ALBRECHT, Proprietor
AMERICAN PLAN
REASONABLE RATES
FULLY LICENSED

and Has an Unexcelled Cuisine
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King George Hotel

COMFORTABLE ROOMS

The King George Offers Classy Accommodations to All Visitors
Travellers’ Sample Rooms

Kaslo and District Offers Superior Attractions to Tourists Including
Mountain Scenery, Golf, Fishing and Hunting

B.C.

Kootenay Hotel

AND

EMPRESS THEATRE

J. A. Altomare, Proprietor

Steam Heated

Hot and Cold Running Water
LICENSED PARLOUR

COMPLETELY REFURNISHED

Natal, British Columbia

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