——— prety ve a et OULATION i vy ano NORTHERN in THE OFF Tish COLUMBIA eri THE DAILY NEWS Tuesday, Wednesday, 9 South Wednesday, 2 p.m. am a. ™. for Venture MRS. PANKHURST PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., MONDAY, ———_— APRIL 7, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS STARVING HERSELF IN PRISON eS ———— — —————————— ALF MILLION DOLLAR FIRE IN CHICAGO—TWENTY-THREE KILLED IN RAILWAY COLLISION CONSUL OF PERU AT VANCOUVER DISCOVERED DEAD IN HIS BED. ROBERT JACKSON WAS AN EXPERT ON SOUTH AMERICAN HALF MILLION FIRE r Firemen Fatally Injured in) oo at Armour’s Packing Plant | (Special to The Daily News.) | iby FIRST BOATING TRAGEDY | Young Man ana His Girl Drown- Seventy Other ed by Upsetting of Skiff (Special to The Daily News. Vancouver, April 7—The first of the boating oceurred here yesterday Ek. Lanbeek and Miss A. were the north the overturning of their tragedy season when C Green ari drowned in skiff. | | TWENTY-THREE KILLED Persons Injured In a Coliision Near Karis- tadt (Special to The Daily News. OVER THREE HOURS AHEAD IN REACHING VANCOUVER |PRINCE GEORGE PASSED INTO | The departure Friday morning same two | Budapest, April 7—Twenty- three persons were killed and 70 others injured in a collision be- tween express and freight trains} near Karlstadt yesterday. POLITICS AND A HISTORIAN OF CONSIDERABLE NOTE. Chicago, April 7th—Four fire- nae were injured, two of them Special to The Daily News. had filled the bedroom and was | Probably fatally in a fire yester- taechaant April 7 Robert | declared by the physician called | “4? which cuneeres pare oF the ; iin to have been the cause of rmour Packing pliant here. The ks re! in consul = at death Whethet the cosh easit0e8 i estimated at %500,000 an historian of con- left open accidentally or turned is well @8 @M @X-jon by the deceased with suicidal t South American poli- lintent there is nothing to show vas discovered dead in his| Mr. Jackson leaves a wife and ; at 1748 Davie street last | several children, hi. The om was in the iment of F. M, Hack, a close| Demand for Train Dogs. i with whom he had spent | There has been a big demand veral nights jfor sleigh dogs around Hazelton Mr. Hack during the afternoon|the past few weeks on account of ft his friend in the apart-|the new gold strike at Teslin he latter being then in his|Lake. Some valuable dogs have iulih and showing noj|been stolen and sold or sent to {despondency. When he | the new strike. A lot of worth- yned at 8 o'clock he looked| less dogs have also disappeared Vr. Jackson and found him | and the district is that much bet. g ul his bed quite dead, ter off. Twenty-five dollars has as was gushing from an open prevailing price to date ck in a nearby heater. This Omineca Herald SIILDING OF RAILWAY HOTEL HERE TO BEGIN THIS SUMMER ILL REPRESENT AN EXPENDITURE OF ABOUT TWO MIL- LIONS—GOLDEN SPIKE TO BE DRIVEN IN EARLY AUTUMN OF NEXT YEAR. April 4—“Tf ito un-;tauway Company to operate its s oceur, the lasti)line between Vancouver and Fort main line will be| George as soon as it is finished p west of Fort\and there also exists statutory : the autumn of 1944! provision for the Grand Trunk d be able to inaug-| Pacific Company acquiring the through train service|same line by purchase,” the offi- 19415 cial said. is the opinion expres- It is however, a little pre- a) Mr. Morley Donald. | ™4ture to announce thal we con- esident and general|template erecting a large hotel g f the Grand Trunk Pa_|im Vancouver,” added Mr. Don- Company, following|4ldson in reply to another ques P from an inspection | on. i is railhead, nine Went to Rail Head tast of New Hazelton. Dur- “T am well pleased with the I in the north Mr.|physical condition of the coast als ceived detailed re-j|section of our line, stated Mr s of the progress of con-| Donaldson. My trip iniand the western divi.|from Prince Rupert was made in His forecast may there- |company with Mr, Mehan, gener- ¢ be regarded as an accurate | al superintendent, and extended jas far as the end of the track at We} a taeit oo ——_—_———- ---— th the Pacifie Great Eastern Continued on Page 4.) | MILITANT TO BE FREED NTS IN SMITHERS TO BE ON MARKET SOON re, Ermine, panknurat Sentence Thureday Mber and Investment Company Starting Up in New Towne site. I Williams, bles that at the Special to "The Daily News Mrs, Emiline of the militant sentenced April 7 leader who to London, Pankhurst, suffragettes, Thursday of ind T. L, the ind Telkwa, Carr have W illiams-Carr Investment Co., have its headquarters the first a freight he G. T. P,, on rearing was last three years ich w s {} passenger divisional as soon as the market done, building has also the ex. in the They will also lumber yard as real estate and is is so their ew Company Nilraet for "ale Of Lown ‘ rn uM 1OF Mish a retail ‘Ss the lots ine ee , Sntther New Residence. Ve : 'y Cosy six poomed bunga * LOW being erected on Fifth ‘it to the of Manson, for Mr, J, B. F. ‘hief clerk in General Mehan's office, It y that it will be com LS the end of May at MRS, EMELINE PANKHULSI . Mrs, Melville and liaslieeeeaneeaialh :, ' return from the old where they have been past year, The Mitchell & Our residence eX] ed ' ’ Holloway jail, will today hard ltabor in probably be is in @ very the jail infirmary, nothing her he released She tract in rs serious condition having imprison ni are eaten Ad Upward ns , ene since ee dresses, $1.50 very pretty de. house = Pioneer Gleaners USL rece Pantorium of the Saturday af- A special meeting city council was held on all the aldermen ternoon, being present, the occasion being to meet with William MeNeil, general manager of the’ Prince Rupert Hydro-Electric Company, and diseuss with him the ques- tion of supplying the city with electric light and power. The discussion began at 3 o'clock ed lasted until after 5 It started with the handing to Mr. McNeil! by the mayor of a memorandum drawn up by the city in an in- formal and tentative ws and ended with Mr. MeNei'l agreeing to make such suggestivas and alterations in the memorandum as his company would accept and to return it without loss of time when the city would at once act upon it. Mr. McNeill returned to Vancouver on this morning's boat. There were present at the meeting Mr. Patmore, solicitor for the company; Mr. Durant, chief engineer of the company; the city solicitor and Mr. Duncan, the city electrician. At the close of the debate the general manager practically ac- cepted the memorandum with the exception of two clauses, clause 18, relative to the mode of arbi- tration in case the parties to the contract should ever disagree, and that of clause 9, containing the prices the city was willing to pay for light and power. Just to clear the ground a little, he said, the general manager made a view of the situation, The light- ing was not worth going after as the load fluctuated, and for a thousand or two thousand horse power would not be worth his while coming here to wait upon the council. ‘But there was g0- ing to be a good deal of power used here. In the centres of civilization, in the places where was lower, they could de- power cheaper, but here he not asking the men to cut their wages down, or the butcher or baker to cut their prices Prince Rupert cost a great deal more in wages and in the cost of living and everything else than Vancouver, and the rates his company asked here were not paying rates; they were, in fact, below those of Vancouver, yet the company thought the prices asked | labor liver was in Prinee Rupert would probably pay after the development of the town He then ciled the rates | paid in Calgary, Seattle, New) Westminster and other places, | and held that unless the contract | was for a long period, such as} fifty years, it could be made to pay The mayor eonsidered that twenty years, with a revision of the rates every five years, was a| reasonable proposition If the cost for power was higher here than elsewhere the city could not sell the power as we could get no manufactories here, Mr. MeNeill replied that if the city advertised the terms his} ‘ved at Wallace's,|Phone 4, company Offered factories would Definite Conclusion revi- sites. soon be applying for proposition provided for a sion of rates every ten years and this was the best he could do. Money was very dear now. Men in business were paying interest on 81 for every 50 cents they got. They must remember finan- cial conditions. If he had not raised the money for his com- pany last year he could not have raised a cent for it this year. Twenty years was too short a time in which to build up a busi- ness in a country such as this. Alderman’ Kerr: You don't know how fast this country £Tows. Mr. MeNeill asked if the city would make it forty years with a revision of rates every ten years. The mayor said twenty years was a reasonable time because if things worked satisfactorily there would no diMeulty in obtain- ing a fresh contract. Mr. McNeill said spending $10,000 a and he was anxious some arrangement and have matter go to the people. He asked when the city money by- laws were to be voted upon and whether this could not be voted upon at the same time. The mayor said the money by- laws had nothing to do with this question and he _ should never have them voted upon at the same time, as the money bylaws must stand upon their own merits. Also, this was too difi- cult and important a question to be settled in a moment by laymen. Alderman Dybhayn, Alderman Leek and Alderman Kerr said the council must have more informa- they they were month here to come to the tion before would feel pre- pared to vote upon the subjeet, the latter suggesting that the general manager take the mem- orandum and make such counter} as he thought fit.; knew we wanted the power. He asked Mr. MeNeill if he was seeking an exclusive} franchise, and the latter answered | that he was. Mr. MeNeill proposition Every one HYDRO-ELECTRIC MANAGER BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL Discuss for Two Hours Rates at Which City Shall be Supplied With Light and Power Without Reaching Any the members of the council gave the Prince fleet at the moment of jlarge passenger steamers, George of the G. T. P. Princess Sophia of the C. P. R., coupled with the fact that the captain of the Sophia made a grandstand play by cutting a cirele around the Prince George as the latter backed away from the wharf, aroused considerable interest as to which boat would win out in what appeared to be a race to Vancouver. The re- ports received by wireless both Friday and Saturday indicated that the Prince George was lead- ing by several miles. From the local of the G. T. P. it was learned this morn- ing that the Prince George reached Vancouver at 6:30 Sat- urday evening, just half an hour and offices | ahead | be permitted NARROWS AT VANCOUVER AT 6 P. M. AND PRINCESS SOPHIA AT 9:15 P. M. of her seheduled time. A report from Point Grey received Saturday night stated that the Princess Sophia passed into Vaneouver harbor at 9:15 p. m. and that the Prince George passed in at 6 o’elock. Allow- of course, must be made for the Princess Sophia had to stop at Alert Bay. G, T. .P. officials here claim that the Prince George could have reduced its time very consider- ably and that Traflic Manager Nicholson was communicated with for permission to come in ahead of schedule time which was refused. The most that will is one hour ahead wireless ance, the faet that of schedule time. The C. P. R. offices here were not advised officially of the ar- rival of the Sophia. him some assurance that there was any use of his doing so. He was instructed from Montreal to effect a between and 50 years compromise , but he had not Sl PRINCE RUPERTITE 1S NOW LAIRD IN HIS AIN COUNTRIE instructed to lower the rates as} this could only be done at a dead loss. He was authorized by the} president to state that the eom-| GREAT REJOICINGS IN ASSYNT AT NEWS THAT JACK STEW- pany’s engineers wet placed | ART HAD BOUGHT HIS BIRTHPLACE. entirely at the disposa of the ee city free of charge. He knew it Further particulars of the por-, choicest, and #0 more bracing to be a very importa: matter for | chase by Mr. J. W. Stewart, the|and invigorating spot could well the city. He believed that next|well known railway contractor,|be found in the kingdom. A large to the G. T. P. the Prince Rupert|of a portion of the Sutherland|number of shooting tenants are power and light development/estate in Seotland are contained| annually in the district, and ang- would be the biggest thing the|in the North Star and Farmers’}ling is to be had in abundance city would have. Chronicle, published in that dis- Native of Drumbeg. Alderman Leek remarked that|/triet. They are as follows: Mr. Stewart, the purchaser of what the city wanted was to be The Duke of Sutherland has|the area, is a native of Drumbeg. able to advertise cheap power all|/ sold to Mr. J. W. Stewart of Van-/| He left for Canada about thirty over the country so as to get in-/eouver the northwestern part of| Years ago, and from the first dustries to come here the parish of Assynt, in the} fortune smiled upon him, every- Mr. MeNeill replied that at $50,/county of Sutherland. The pur-|t#ing he turned his hand to he- the price he asked, they could ad-|chase extends to an area of over|!!8 successful, with the result vertise all over Canada That /50,000 acres, and embraces the|that in a very short time he be- price would be found to be very|distriets of Stoer, Achmelvieh,|¢@me one of the leading railway low, and Mr. Duncan's suggestion that the company furnish power to the city at $28.50 was out of the question. The mayor again remarked that he did not consider this was a question they could afford to rush, If the figures quoted by Mr. MeNeill were his ultimatum it were useless for him to wait The Woodworth proposition would supply the city with power at cheaper rates than those quoted and would tide the over for the next four years any rate. Mr. MeNeill at proposed that a committee of the council aecom- | him to Vaneouver and New) pany Westminster into the and go carefully proposition with company’s engineers and would pay all the expenses the committee. The mayor did not see the wis- dom of a committee of laymen making such an investigation but if they did the city would pay their expenses. The diseussion general manager he the the ended = by adopting said he was pre | suggestion of the mayor to take | pared to settle the matter at once, ; the memorandum and submit it hut would stay here all week Majestic Theatre The Balkan War Latest scenes taken at the front Men Who Dare Reliance drama in 2 reels | AM GOING TO HAVE A SHAVE and other pictures as well! NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Admission 10 and 160 . jowned Owing | was if' with his corrections and explana- meanwhile the eity to take steps to all the informa. tion quate on the subject tions, secure HALIBUT SHIPMENT Borealis Brought he Catch of 28,000 Pounds on Saturday. trawler Fisheries, yesterday of halibut the eateh small one Vancouver last night, -new designs, Wallace's The Borealis, the by the Atlin arrived in port 28,000 pounds to bad weather a comparatively The shipment left for by the Princess Mary Wallpaper erate prices, J. Pooler, of P. Burns & Co., was in Granby yesterday on bus! ness, Ltd., with mod - 77tf city | the | Inver and Kylesku. The purchase price has not been disclosed. The land forms one of the most fer- contractors of Canada. It was always his desire to become pos- sessed of a piece of his native MANY TONS OF ORE AWAITING SHIPMENT | The Erie and the Silver Standard Among First Shippers from of} Hazelton. | Duke Harris reports that he jhas over twenty-five tons of the |/Erie ore sacked and on top of Bulkley Hill, where it will remain until the roads are dry enough There will twenty-five tons down to haul to the railway. be another from the mine by that time also, They expect to get it away by the first of May. The work on the property has been making good headway. The seventy-foot open cut has been completed and on Tuesday they started on the erosseut tunnel contract. This tunnel will be over 400 feet long and will tap the vein at 100 feet Six men are now employed on the work, Stoping at the Silver Standard mine will be resumed this week. The st.el for the drills has ar- rived and been sent out to the |property Superintendent Has- | Kins will start at onee getting out| ore, and it will come fast when the drills get busy The ore in ithe north drift is continuing good and it is still two feet wide ¢) The Only Strictly Fresh Eggs and over, NOTICE All barber shops, Monday, April 7th, will 7 p.m., instead of 8, and on Bat-| urdays at 10 p.m. instead of 11, 79.81 commencing | close at} tile spots in the country, and|ceuntry, especially the part where from an agricultural point of|2e was born and reared. That view is ideal, and erofters and|@mbition has now been realized, |farmers are quite’ ‘eomfortable}@8d the intimation that one of and satisfied with the produce of the area. The scenery is of the (Continued on Page 4.) ey RECOMMENDS ONLY SLIGHT ALTERATIONS Consulting Engineér’s Report Will Not Delay Passing of Trunk Sewer Bylaw. The report of A. D. Creer, the consulting engineer engaged in connection with the proposed trunk sewer system, will be read at tonight's meeting of the city council. When Mayor Pattullo was interviewed by the “News” this morning as to the nature of the report, he stated that while | Me Creer had recommended slight changes in the curves and other features of the system worked out by City Engineer Ma. son, the recommendations were such that they would not inter- fere with any formalities in the passing of the bylaw. On the whole Mr, Creer’s report endorses the plans that have been pre- pared by the city engineer. Wallpaper, Wallace's. 7T7tt Housecleaning ? pretty, reasonable, Cowichan Eggs on the Market Ask for Cowichan Begs and See That You Get Them, Sold at All First Class Steres |