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One of the greatest needs of Prince Rupert at the present! time is a_ public library | equipped with standard works | of fiction, history, science, etec., and no better start could be made in this direction than to provide a public reading room. While the new City Council now enter the United Kingdom|/late, but how late no means of undoubtedly has a great many free of duty. They cannot re. | ascertaining were available. At problems of importance to ceive preferential treatment|Keswick, Cal., on the Shasta grapple with, they should lose unless foreign food is taxed. Route, eighty feet of track was no time in taking action on in his despair Mr. Bonar|buried twenty-five feet deep by a this matter. If they will show Law called upon the colonies landslide. At Anderson, Cal., a their willingness to make some to demand food taxes. It is|church was unroofed by the substantial grent toward the even suggested § that Canada | heavy wind. Two inches of rain mamtenance of such an insti- should ask for them in return fell and the Sacramento River tution, there are organiza- for its battleships. We are re-|rose 9 feet 7 inches over night tions of various kinds in the luctant to believe Mr. Borden|at Kennett. pad Bs gre See hie inde would connect himself with —— amen > . spe gp the shameful bargain. To zen of Prince Rupert will be- pretend to give boliehid, and LARGE INCREASE nefit either directly or indir- then to proceed to get our IN IMMIGRATION eclly from a _ public reading money back by squeezing FoCep. pennies out of the English During Last Nine Months of 1912 THE FOOD o poor is a suggestion so mean It Was 14 Per Cent. Greater that it must have come from Than for Same Period TAXERS. the wealthy and aristocratic " the Previous Year. The food taxation proposals tax dodgers who swear at have got the Unionist party Lioyd-George.—Toronto Globe. Otteea, Sou. 60—Vering the into a mess so deplorable that ——_—_——_0-—-—— : ee only a hard hearted opponent | BRITAIN AND GERMANY nine months, April ist to Decem- can laugh. The London Times’ WORLD PEACEMAKERS. ber 3ist, 1912, 334,083 immi- correspondent in Toronto talks Bi Wel ene i grants arrived in Canada. Of this of the unexpected manoeuvring present moment the) number 229,285 arrived at ocean leading statesmen of Great/ports and 113,798 from the and curious ulterances of the Unionist leaders, and this is putting it very mildly. Yet the difficulty is due, not so much to the biundering of the lead- ers as to inherent difficulties. Here is the situation: The people of Great Britain not want taxes on food. Even intelligent protectionists do not want them. They want protection on manufactures. The very manufacturers who would be benefited by protec- tion on their products would also be benefited by untaxed food, which is virtually a part of the material on which these industries are based. But the tariff reformers, so- called, besides advocating pro- tection, have been advocating preferential treatment of col- onia! products entering the do RUSSIA PRESSING CHINA FOR PAYMENT OF INDEMNITY Peking, Jan. 21.—Russia has presented two notes to China. The first presses for the arrears of the Boxer indemnities. The second note protests against the losses suffered by Russian merchants in the Kulda region because of depreciation of the Chinese paper currency, aris- ing through the absence of proper silver reserves. It is supposed that Russia's object is to bring home to China the necessity of a speedy conclu- «i= Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1913. United States and Mexico—DaiLy, 0c "| RUPERT WEATHER IS NOT TO BE DESPISED 'California in the Grip of a Bliz- zard—Snowslides and Land- | slides Block Trains. For ten days, ending Saturday, Prince Rupert experienced a spell of weather that most residents’ looked upon as rather severe, but | United miegtom. This is the imperial side of their policy, as the protection of manufac- tures is the ecomemic side. The London Times, in an ef-| fort to bridge over the difli- culty, advocates a preference | without food taxes: But how can this be dome? The pro- ducts of the colonies are chietly food, such as grain and meat and dairy products. They Britain and Germany are work- ing hand in hand at the Lon- don peace conference between the Balkan allies and Turkey in an effort to preserve the peace of Europe. Both are powerful and are in position to make good what they unitedly demand. It must be discon- certing to Canadian Tory emergency shouters to see the two countries, instead of blow ing each other's ships and men out of the North Sea, using the whole moral force of their combined armies and navies to prevent the dreaded European war. Events im Europe just now must give some hard thinking to those whose busi- ness it is to bolster up Mr. ; jae. Borden's efforts to hide his eae aon can —_ — ‘ 5, »/ > & other wh emerge ’ . oa countries, 92,410; total, 334,083. Corresponding months of the pre- BELIEVED ROCKIES vious year: British, 120,137; TO CONTAIN RADIUM Washington, Jan. 21.—-Appar- entlyeconvinced that the Rocky Mountains constitute a_ store house for radium, the most pre- cious of all metals, the United States Bureau of Mines proposes to merease its force of radium hunters in that section. The Civil Service Commission has an- nounced that examinations wil! be held February 26th next to supply the demand of the bureau for junior chemists in radio-ac- tivity. Subseribe for the Daily News. sion of the six power loan. | between California and the north. wires in the Sierras. States. all other countries, 65,014; when it is considered that the| lowest temperature was four de- grees above zero and that only on the last day, also that the weather was clear with practic- ally no wind during that period, citizens have very little to com- plain about. Since Saturday the weather has moderated, with oc- casional falls of soft snow or! rain. Many sections which boast of} their ideal climate have experi- enced much worse conditions, as the following despatch from Francisco will bear out: San Francisco, Jan. 18 ter gales and blinding storms, landslides and slides, blocked travel today tween California and the east and San Win- snow snow- be- The Southern Pacific and Western Pacific both lost their telegraph United States. These figures show an increase of 14 per cent. as compared with the number of arrivals for the corresponding months of 1914, which were 185,151 at ocean ports and 107,365 from the United States, making a total for the nine months’ period last year of 292,516 persons. During the month of Decem- ber this year there were 10,025 arrivals, 7,262 of them having been at ocean ports and 5,763 from the United States, against 10,642 for December last year, 4,915 of whom were at ocean ports and 5,679 from the United the Varying we have for the same nine months: comparison, from the United Btates, 107,365; total, 292,516. Comparing the calendar year of 1912 with 1911, immigration figures are as follows: 1912—British, 145,859; ean, 140,143; other 109,802; total, 395,804. 1911—-British, 144,076; ean, 131,114; other 75,184; total, 350,374. Ameri. countries, Ameri- countries, Gabe—-What is culture’? Steve—Culture is when you speak of the house beautiful when you mean the beautiful house.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Trains were]* THE DAILY NEWS ‘VALUABLE ESTATE IS LEFT BY THE LATE WHITELAW RE D WIDOW WAS LEFT ALMOST THE ENTIRE ESTATE, INCLUD- ING THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. New York, Jan. 21.—The en-);bassador’s expressed wish that tire estate of the late Whitelaw/his son, Ogden, should he “dis | Reid, ambassador to Great|play capacity and aptitude for Britain, is left unconditionally tolthe work, should ultimate jhis widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mills|succeed to the contre the Reid, with the exception of spe-| Tribune; and that certain pares cifle bequests totalling $110,000] of real estate should jatels under the terms of the will, re- pass to his son and his daugl cently made public. To Ogden|ter, who is now the Hon. Mr Mills Reid and Jean Templeton|John Ward of London Reid, his son and daughter, there Ogden Mills Reid, whoge lis left outright not a penny, al-/|mate control of the Tribune, is though the late ambassador in-|thus described as being depend dicated unmistakeably his wish|ent upon the attitude he should that they should be well provided| show for the work and his mo for by their mother ther’s wishes, was a boy in kn The value of the estate has|ckerbockers when the will was been variously estimated at from|written, thirteen years after his $10,000,000 to 820,000,000 No!'father’s marriage. He is now WIDOW OF LATE WHITELAW REID hint of what the appraisal will;somewhat under thirty and has show is given in the will, how-/|been president of the rribune ever. The will was executed No. /association f vember 4, 1894 continue in control, peaiaiiien i Mrs. Reid thus becomes the/a statement by counsel ywwher of almost the entire issue rhe late ambassador employ- of stock of the Tribune Associa-|ed no lawyer to draft his will but tion, publishers of the New York) sat down in the library of his rribune. New York home and penned it In Mrs. Reid’s hands is placed himself on three sheets of note the management of the entire paper The witnesses were Og- estate without hindrance or sug-\den Miils, his brother-in-law, gestion further than the late am-/and Mary Bertha Scott A wealthy man, well known for Half a guinea, exclawned the his extreme stinginess, drove up| man, for half a minute's work? hurriedly in his carriage to the/ Impossible!’ : door of a celebrated doctor. He But consider for a moment, was in a state of aente discom-j/said the doctor; “it's a salmon! fort and fear, from the simple) bone! fact that at the moment a piece| ‘What has that to do with it?” of fish bone was sticking some- Oh, a great deal,’ replied the} where in the region of his throat.|doctor. “Had it been a halibut The doctor speedily removed the|or fresh haddock I should have dangerous obstacle, and the/|charged less—-perhaps five shil- gentleman breathed freely. lings; for codfish or eels, two- ‘Thank you, doctor,” he ex-|and-six would have been ample | claimed, much relieved. “ll| payment; mackerel, two shillings; never eat salmon again—never.| while a red herring bone I might} And with what ease you removedjeven have removed free of! it—a mere minute's vperation,|charge, but salmon—well, really, was it not? 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