a o ed e atty AR e—_—_ee ——— \HAMISLAND PLACER MAY + BE DEVELOPED ON LARGE SCALE = PRINGE Rt PERT, B. ¢ TURSDAY, APRIL , 1915 a Se BRITISH NAVAL BASE MAY HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY ZEPPELINS GE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY WHE! WHERE “PAY DIRT” CAN BE MEAGRE REPORTS TELL OF BIG EXPLOSION AT LERICK ON FOUND—FORMER COMPANY HAD MATTER IN HAND BUT CASH FAILED. known that Island joint on the eastern tant placer beds exist being continually y the action of the been Graham prospector, who been doing some work over e of late, has been in the city days and interest has revived the proposition by ‘ports he has given. with the expects to put in a few glowing so well pleased that he develop the property is Wine ant anu large scale. iese placer beds are associat- itha story that is full of local rest. Mr. A. C, Garde, a min- engineer of this city, was in- din 1919 to look over this erly and was so well pleased he proceeded to San Fran- » and induced a capitalist fo join him in its develop- Machinery was secured ng many thousands of dol- and shipped to Prinee Ru- and Mr. Garde was told that by would be ahead of him in e Rupert to pay for the in- ing. The capitalist, Colonel ', however, had a financial rtune at this time with Ol Wells whieh he owned Was unable to put up the rest \s a result, the ma- for several finally sold for it. Last year Mr. Garde had suit for e cash laid and was ry here over the the ugh he has se- damages r, but AupiTor’ S REPORT. * report of the Finanee Com- " asking that the report of uditor be accepted and print- s adopted by the Council last The extra fee for making changes in the city account- 4s ordered paid, They also ed t ’ him $41,200 net for year instead of $4,600, LT HOSPITAL MEETING. © Hospital Board wrote the til stating that they intend- plding a public meeting in the Hall on Thursday evening the view of advocating some m of raising money or sell- More hospital tickets, COUNCIL'S Pay, ind ily bylaw for the pe of the members of the , Wa Passed last night. fayo Will get $2,000 for the “nd the aldermen 8400 each, "lS Will be made monthly, f those present seemed to = an ‘honey, Indeed, the ! seemed to restore a oe in lion like a well. Yard Lo every face. ny : ‘hin Carpets, ete,, BPSt-Class job see am ‘all and = deliver. 85.87 cured judgments of British California has not yet secured a both Columbia the and in courts settlement. Mr. still dent that this placer Garde is very property very valuable and could be devel- oped into a very good thing. In the knows how to use meantime a man a shovel miner’s pan can make wages and there miles of the shore to work on. of the ployed of this province try are line Some worse than a hand game, BOARD OF TRADE MONTHLY MEETING 18 | who | blown up by and a|‘ unem- SHETLAND ISLANDS—NORTH SEA FLEET SUP- PLIED AT THIS PLACE. (Special to The Dally News.) Lond April 43 Ace m, irding have the at meagre reports which reached here it looks as if confi- | British naval reserve station Lerick, on the Shetland inorth of Seotland, has been j a German aeroplane rv Zeppelin. rhe report says that there | been a terrible explosion and that many lives have been lost. This might do | at the CRUISERS SEARCHING | COAST FOR DYNAMITE (Special to The Dally News) can only be accounted for by the attack of a German airman or the work of a German spy. Large Islands, | the has / supplies amounts of ed at the ammunition are stor- station. In the has develo last ped few years Lerwick into an naval Firth of past n the Ni to that During of the of rth Sea fleet has drawn its auxiliary Forth. ionths a large portion from there ITALY PREPARING FOR MOBILIZATION (Special to The Daily News) Vancouver, April 13.—H. M. ‘| Rome, April 13—Military head- | New astle and Shearwater arrived | The monthly meeting of the iarters odrers army officers to Board of Trade took place last/here last night, went out again/use dull metal work on their uni- evening. The auditor, Mr. C. L.|today and will return It is ru-| forms and scabbards. In case of Peterson, reported for the year | mored that they are searching for |mobilization, schoolhouses will be 1915, and showed the standing of}, boat laden with dynamite from|used for troops, the school ses- the board to be quite satisfactory./| pigine, Wash. The visit heralds!sions to continue in hired build- In view of the fact that Mr. Pet- the early return of the Newcastle | ing. the board was extended erson’s work was gratuitous, thanks of the to him and he was made 1915. Some took about the future financing of the board. Wr. Wright, the commis- sioner, suggested that they operate with the Agricultural So- orary member for discussion place CO- ciety and thus save the expense of The tary and quarters could be an extra man, same secre- used and the affairs at the same time kept quite distinct. decided to have the civic City It was also commit- Council to England. “°° BRITISH AVIATORS _ AGAIN SUCCESSFUL (Special to The Dally News.) Paris, April 413.—An_ aerial bombardment by the British of Antwerp and the German railways Flanders announced The German West officially is in aviators dropped bombs on a concentra tion camp at Bruges, doing much to the railways. Artillery Duels. damage tee wait upon the with a view to securing a little as- Paris, April 13.—The official sistance in the publicity work. dispatches state that between the The New Wellington Coal Co.|5¢@ and the Aisne there are only wrote protesting against certain |artillery duels, with bomb gren- steamship companies supplying ade warefare in the trenches in coal to the government steam-|the Argonne. Between the Meuse land Moselle the Allies are in con- ers at this port. A. Davidson, of the G, T. that the make regular calls the south, board had recently requested. to this, the mining centre dealt ex as the | call P, would | Inlet re- eompany at as the ported Serf on way Prior clusively with Vancouver, boats from the north didn't on the way south, ROAD TO COLD STORAGE. The work of connecting Bighth cold storage will The night. Avenue with the be proceeded with at once, Council decided this last The work will be paid out of gen- eral fund unless some surprlus money from the Eleventh Avenue and Borden Street planking which is left over can be used for or purpose. It appears that the cily eng! neer’s estimate for that work was | $12,000 Moo high and this money has been secured by the of} treasury certificates, It in the bank at 3 1-2 per cent in terest and they propose asking the for permis sale is lyme | municipal inspector sion to loan this to general count at 6 per cent, payable in ithree years. fed tact with the wire defences of the enemy. THE MAYOR R LAUGHED. Newton was back in his He and ike Sam smiles so seldom that Mayor laet night. looked rest- chair and refreshed, once or twice actually br out into a laugh it seems out of place little stick. make it might Iry old a matter of habit, practice he again, man; it's largely ESTHOLME Wisi holm OPERA HOUSE WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY —STAR ATTRACTION— MARY PICKFORD In the Great Five Reel “Paramount” Feature “THE EAGLE'S MATE” Admission —— Lower Fioor, 250; Balloony, 160; Chil- dren, 100; Box Seats, 35c. but with a ihopes to Fi | | | } }funds raised will be | triotic | | CHICAGO INSANE HOSPITAL BURNED (Special to The Dally News) Chicago, Ull., April 413.—Fire has destroyed one building of the Chicago State Insane Hospital. I'wo hundred patients were res- cued, ~~ BACK IN RANKS. \ letter was received yesterday locally from Private W. C. Mac- donald, who was reported ill at Shorncliffe recently. He was greatly improved and hoped to be n the ranks again in a week. He was the only Canadian in the hospital ward, the rest being wounded Belgians, whom he de- scribed as full of contagious cheerfulness. The he poisoning cause of his illness, re- was ptomaine from eating crab. HOLIDAY TRIP. V. A. Cole left this morning for Ketchikan, along with his friends lof the Leonard M. While away he able of Ketchikan fishermen how they be to show some would be profited by moving here. of the I. O, will hold a dance on Friday, Andrew's Hall. The used for pa- 79-80 Girls’ Chapter The April 16, in St. purposes, Pioneer Laundry Third Avenue East Phone 118 the Most Machinery We Laundry In Wednesday and See How We Do It Absolute Satisfaction Is Guaranteed Modern Built. Tuesday Use Come Any or | with the important | THE DAILY NEWS LS PRICE FIVE Sminmaiiiainie SSS BRITISH Ni AVAL BASE IS DESTROYED EEE RITISH AVIATORS $ MAKE SUCCESSFU UL RAID ONG SERMAN RAILWAYS IN F LANDERS —— REFUSES EVIDENCE OF GEN. BY H. F. GADSBY. \ day with Major General Sam ;|Hughes. Not the dull, routinary jday of the Militia Department Major General surround- ed by lonsts, -col- but a day in the open, an so to speak, double-quick marching through the committees and smiting the enemy hip and thigh or any other spot that may be convenient, Being the Minister of Militia, on the greatest amount of limelight has fallen in the his- tory we are naturally how secretaries and near active service day, with our hero whom of Canada, curious to see he behaves. What are the methods so far as we can judge by his public per- which have made him if not the of formances, the equal superior Julius Caesar, mankind. Let us answer that riddle at onee and follow it up with de- tails. Speaking broadly, our Ma- jor General's tactics are those of Scipio Africanus—he carries the into the enemy’s country. He does not defend, he attacks. He seizes the dilemma by both horns and shakes it to pieces. He does this with his bare hands, the reg- ulations not permitting him to ap- pear otherwise in full uniform. However, his answers are sharp his remarks cut, and one the Major Gen- his member war enough, way and another eral’s tongue makes up for lack of sidearms. of Parliament, taking his clothes One and his replies into account, de- scribed him as a cross between a and,a snapping turtle, but that seems to be overdrawing the picture. This the Major day for explaining. Naturally the name of the Ministerof Militiahas been mentioned quite often before the peacock is General's investigating committees, so “ . ~\ the Major General has devoted a day to removing the aspersions. Not that the aspersions are of a very violent character, but they nettle the Major General and he won't be happy until he cleans them up. He ealls it explaining but it is really challenging. The Major General dares all and sun- to the tail of his an impossible task, because Major General wears a tunic days and a tunic with a tail would be as much out of place as a bird of paradise with whiskers. Keep step with the Major Gen- He The Major General's vice, dry tread on coat, the these eral. is now in the Shoe Com- mittee, as I have pointed out before, is friendship and friendship for the manufacturers is under a strain this because the Major General has publicly stated that the man who will make rotten shoes for the sol- led out and shot. of the manufac- contracts with prayer wound up with split leather and others skimped their work so dis. shoe wreat in committee, diers should be Moreover, some turers who began their insides and glued gracefully that Doctor Edwards, | way. GEN. SAM HUGHES ON DEFENCE— STANDS BY THE ROTTEN BOOTS ALDERSON — SIR GEO. PERLEY AND OTHERS COME TO DEFENCE OF STENOGRA- PHER WHO PATENTED SHOVEL SHIELD 1 M. P., was moved to say that if the convicts at Kingston peniten- tiary were put to making shoes they would not be competing with honest labor. Now, the Major General knows all this and real- izes that friendship for the manu- facturers, however much he might like to try it on, is an untenable position. With the eye of genius he scans the stricken field and de- cides to change front. He cannot befriend the manufacturers—he ‘will befriend the shoes and thus live up to his reputation for mag- namity. Although this brings him into direct conflict with his own brother, Colonel W. St. Pierre Hughes, who has sworn on oath Marlboro and Na-\that the shoes were rotten, the poleon Bonaparte in the esteem of | Major General does not let a lit- tle thing like that stand in his He has seen the one stroke that will save the situation—for Major General Sam—and like the great commander he is he carries it through, let brothers fall where they may. The underlying plan of Major General Sam's reconnaisance in force is a statement that the Ca- nadian boot may have its faults— the men may have burned the soles trying them out—but take it by and large it’s a blamed sight better boot for the soldiers than the British army boot. To put this surprising statement over requires all the Major General's reserves of warm language and vivid imprecation but he does it with great dash and vigor. The Major General couldn't consider it a victory if he didn’t meet ob- stacles. When he has finished the fleld is strewn with shattered reputations, but the Major Gen- eral has not shed a hair. He be- strides his little world a con- queror, having slain everybody's evidence but his own, “What about General Alder- son's report?” suggests Macdon- ald, M. P. “Second-hand opin- ions,” retorts the Major General. “He probably hadn't seen half a dozen pairs of ‘em in his life. General Alderson has nothing to do with me any more than you have,” “What about Sir George Per- ley’s report?’ Mr. Macdonald presses the question, ‘“Perley’s reports are based on reports sub- mitted to him.” The Major Gen- eral doesn’t even give the High Commissioner his title, “What about the reports of the regimental boards?” “Most of these gentlemen don't know what they're talking about — they'll sign anything.” “Are you serious in that?” this very mildly from Murphy, K. C. “Serious?” the Major General blazes. “Tl take no imperti- nence from you; you're a petti- fogger.” “What about the evidence of Major Doane, of Halifax, who (Cotinued on Page Three.)