| | cor nal OUR re ee ae een ema nea RRR ii eRe THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH Published > ata ie THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. THE DAILY NEWS THE HUGE CASH SURPLUS OF THE C-P.R. THIS ¥ EAR, AND TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—® cents per inch. Contract rates | on application. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—DaiLy, We per month, or $5.00 per year, inadvance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New YorkK—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., SeaTTLe—Puget Sound News Co. — ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate. Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar are. Susscrisers wil! greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. New York City = oe — —_ —===—=— ———————————_—_[_=—_=__—_—_—_—_=_—_— DaiLy Eprrion. agg = TUESDAY, Sepremeer 3 Daily News on Daily Doings THE PRESS AND circumstances, proving THE PEOPLE. for citizens and for many new- In no city in Canada, or per- comers that the boast made for the district that it is second to recreation place, well as from the point of view criticism than in this very city of the haps in the world, has the loca! i none as a press come in for more severe} business doer, is ne ae tan & | . . ‘ of Prinee Rupert. In other! empty one Sa nsion fund, is 217,560,519. The| holders’ bank accounts may pre-| pailway Commission. which will] words, in no city in Canada, or| }eorresponding cash surplus for] vail. compe rate reductions? The perhaps in the world, has |THE ANNOYANCE oF the preceding twelve months was} Steamship Profits. placing of the whole scale of| / THE UNFINISHED. | $11,873,242. The Emperors of | The steamsh Pp siness, *-s/rates in this eountry on a just higher compliment been paid : Ta leave things at a ragged|/Urmus and of Ind had no such!well as the railway business, of basis will not mean less, but to the power of the press than edge. inconvenient. unsightlv,|™®@nificent revenues pouring into|this great corporation is highly|more business for the Pailways P » > Ip “— oT , ese . ’ . ’ i . f mos mare tm Syne, Bupert. is the unfortunat haractet their treasuries profitable. But vastly the greater'The railways will have to deal mee ‘ . » > = : r ate character- Intensely applicable to the “Meion Cutting.” amount of the earnings are de-| justly with the people sooner or press life of Prince Rupert are istic of the present municipal the words of the Denver Post on the place of the press in publie life: “No city is saner, administration. From _ the earliest days of the City Council stronger,| ©! 1912 the city’s undertakings cleaner than its press. The have been jerking along spas- safety of the lies in printers’ ink. the voice of God. It cannot be aborted or tampered with. The press belongs to the people and an editor is no more proprietor of the property of which he is steward than a judge is owner | of the court over which he} presides, or a chief of police! proprietor of the force which) he supervises. We cannot please all men always. - Thumb commonwealth modically, two steps forward, News is} one back, and then as a rule while the waits without indufging in ap- plause. Not one single com- pleted undertaking of import- ance can be credited yet to the present City Council, though many an incomplete bit of work can be seen. The city hall is unfurnished, Second avenue is still rough and a halt community 18} di vidends for the year tumble toward McBride street prints and personal opinion are : McBride street in Section One individual and unique. No two} , : since the sun -Gret| still a reekery, Third avenue glorified this sphere ever com- ne ae = only half fin- pletely agreed on everything errs Phe rock crushers, two How then can we hope for gen of them, stand disconsolate at - e arke Jiagge . * ets > eral approbation and support| Market Place eut, ju t started on all issues and at all times?} °%°¢ stopped. The wagon road We have made enemies And! to Woodworth Lake is incom- when we cease to arouse op plete, and need never have been position we will cease ta be al begun for this year. Sunda) persons ‘ i ies j saw an important funeral! pro- meting rameters: cession distressed by the left- A ia, off state of the cemetery road A SUCCESSFUL To begin things and leave them LABOR DAY. off in characteristic of incom- petence. Even one little under- taking complete is better than é many half done. Sunday passed completely away in when Monday, the long looked THE PROSPECTOR for holiday, dawned with per- | 4ND THE HEN. fect serenity, a real Prince Hereafter the common, or gar- Rupert day of ideal conditions.| en, fowl should be recognized addition to Anxious expressions during the rain showers of Saturday and Sunshine blazed down and the as a@ necessary picnic every prospector’s equipment. early, parties, out bright and prepared for the gayest We are informed that as a re- of good times. For the best sult of the discovery of gold in part of the day the cily was the crops of a number of practically deserted, so many chickens several rich claims of the people had taken advan- were recently staked near Win- tage of the pienies planned nipeg There can be no doubt The Methodist Church Men's that with a little direction Own went to Porcher Island where to scratch fowls could and the St. Andrew's Society to be made to play a very useful Tugwell Island, while of small- part in aiding the prospector. er picnics there were scores. They could also be eaten if they Hunting parties, too, set out didn't do their duty or when for the bush, prepared for the other grub was at a discount. opening of the deer season The eggs, too, would come in Prince Rupert made holiday handy. — Canadian Mining under the most pleasureable Journal, At the August meeting of the board of directors of the Can- adian Pacific Railway Company at Montreal the anual report of « the company was considered. The figures of that report set f a cash surplus for the year which completely eclipses anything pre- vious in the companys aiready wonderful record of huge annua eash surpluses Each f these twelve months’ accumulations of surplus cush, which are of neces- sity disclosed once a year in the fannual report, towers over the lone before, like one after andther in an ascending rangé Mountain peaks. Treasures Untoid. For the twelve months ended iJune 30th last the | surplus eash accumulated by the iC. P. R., not including the $5,- 158,585 realized from the land business of that corporation, but ag sin | being the excess of the earnings ifrom the transportation business over all operating and mainte. }Mance expenses, fixed charges to steamship replacement ac- ount and $125,000 to employers both have for ournals on Atlantic Financial sides of the itain ofi¢ me that there was to be another directors are as yet meion cutting” for the fC. P. R. share holders, and the! it will be impossible to say what stock has been scaling higher and| proportion of th $17,560,519) higher altitudes. In all the sper cash surplus for the twelvel lative comment about the pros.|months covered by the report | pect of a melon cutting the derived from the railway earn. western rates investigat has | ings It is entirely safe to say figured largely, especially in the| that that proport s greater London financial papers has the|than the entire cash surplus of view Deen taken that the dire the preceding twelv months tors would be likely, considering Mountains of Cash. the effects which another “melo rhes ntains fea a cutting’ would have on the people) cash realized fro silway rf at large in this country, to decide | g,, proof that th ates are ex that it would be wisest t absta orbitant They are Pe uf from any such slicing up of extra) Ossa in the way of p f of the profits for distribut ar ng the|iniustice of the burden of rail shareholders. Of « se it 18 NOtl way rates f which by far the rtain that there w not be &/ heavier end is laid up the backs yous occasion of that hara f the peopl f Western Canada for the holders of C. P. R.ift is not time that the board #1.000,000/ the the public in regard to the di-jiry are tled to something in rectors’ meeting said nothing/the way f a “melon cutting? about anything of the sort ItiwWould it not be both mors may be announced later on that|ejous and more wise for the be ta directors have decided on alu¢s directors t \ intarily order| ‘melon cutting ‘ the wiser) ra reductions than to wait ar counsel not to fatt the share! have to submit to the rived from the railway business.) later Only the summary RATE REDUC TION CHANCES' ynsidered by the mths past been full of rumors|annual report e available; benefit | unt they are before the publi ock, all that is know bein€| directors of the C. P. R. ree that the announcement given ed that the people of this coun Might it not be wiser to figures of the = this fish was often colored be cause of the demand for the red dest variety. be beforehand with the inevitable? j ROYALTY The salmon of the FOR CANNED vec IS HIGHLY |lighter color, as wel! as of a mor _ SALMON’: licate texture jecause of the great demand for it and because of certain jrather interesting but arbitrary A leading grocer says it is a] egng i eeaed: “« ofa je ndition connec 1 with the Berlin. Aug. 28 According to low estimate to say that he selis|canning, the price of canned sa!- he T ' ' ; the agebDiatt, the Czar is sured | 100 cases of canned salmon. 48| Mon has risen a good dea , iliac il ate in an English company for near eans to the case, during the sum-| ' : 5 £5.000,000 ‘he insura mer season alone per haps 5,000 Snap in Realty. cans in all. He does a large busi-| Twenty-five feet by 62 feet in|taken out when he was sands selling this product we can Degin lo imagine fish. The demand for canned salmon|make a successful grows every year and the call for it is far greater than for canned meats, makeshift meals, but now it is much used as a salad or other accessory to fine repasts. It is popular with chafing dish cooks, who serve it with little or much garnished made dainty with grated bread crumbs. Buyers now know the red salmon is not the best grade. sauces, They used to think it was, unless they happened to be brought up in a salmon region, and before the pure food laws prevented it Lester W. David ‘to, Ltd LUMBER First Ave. and McBride St. PHONE 25 Box 865 statistically | what is the consumption of this! sardines, or any of the} other fish. This was formerly| Savoy. used chiefly by people who served | om iness, but when we realize that he|Seetion 8, lis but one of the tens of tho _jeash, rest in 12 months leaving town, P. O. Box 812 King Victor Emmanuel I f} Block 6: £350 half and the annua premium Owner! 000 has been i paid regular — j Italy * insured for jwhile the late King Hu Chief Requisite £2? 500.000 ‘ It takes an easy going man to|ried double that ame angler Da!l- rhe late King I eueed was las News. sured for $4,500,000 during the SE j last two years of his life Choicest liquors and cigars— | o Try a Daily News Want ad. Portland Cement VANCOUVER BRAND We are now carrying a stock and can make Immediate Deliveries Recently tested on the city’s cement testing machine. This cement showed tensile strength as follows: In 7 days, 792 pounds to the square inch; in 28 days 1007 Ibs to square ineh PRICES ON APPLICATION C. B. Schreiber & Co., Ltd. FOURTH STREET Sole Agents for Prince Rupert Prince Rupert, B.C. 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