The Daily News The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B. C. Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY QRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING— = on application, J, 50 cents per inch. Contract rates BSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Datry, 50c 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 YorK—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar ' i Square. i / Supscripers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of i non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. uF DAILY POITION. oe" SATURDAY, OcT. 28 ft THE ‘COUNCIL AND THE CONTRACTORS # One experience is not enough for some people. Not content with the lesson they got over the Prudhomme affair over the the danger of playing politics in license administration, the politicians on the city counci! are evidently intent on letting the citizens in for another unecessary legal bill, over the deductions from the contractors. There are well recognised legal objections to the penalty ¢lause in the contracts, upon which the contractors may possibly be advised to rest their case, but outside of all legal technicalities, the sense of fairness which most people possess will enable them to see the impro- priety of deducting sums of money from the contractors for delays arising out of a strike brought on by the city council themselves. The council-not only brought about the strike, they denied police protection to those contractors who were willing to go on with their contracts. Their present attempt to bait the contractors, is only a vain effort to atone to the workingmen for the way they lifted up their hopes and then dashed them to the ground. If the individual members of the council want to play politics they should do so at their own expense. It is the citizens, who in the end will have to pay dearly for the game of baiting the contractors, just as they had to pay dearly for the game of fooling the workingmen. “MAKING A GREAT CANADIAN RAILWAY” While we have been casting around for a man to write the history | of British Columbia, an historian from over the seas has been making | a flank attack upon the situation. Mr. F. A. Talbot has not written a history of British Columbia, but he has written a history of the great enterprises that promise to be the most potent factor in the future history of the Province—the building of the Grand Trunk | Pacific. His recently published book, ‘“The making of a great Can-| adian Railway,” is so comprehensive and authoritative that it will probably stand alone as the authentic history of the building of the G. T. P. Mr. Talbot qualified himself well for the task before commencing his book. He was well acquainted with Canada, having previously written his book on “The New Garden of Canada.” He travelled over practically every inch of the road from end to end. “The greater part of year 1910,’ he says, “I spent on the spot, fraternising with THE DAILY NEWS ee — pioneer surveying parties, of the obstacles they had to meet, and of north of Edmonton, in the land of eighty-five day wheat, and of the} great clay belt in Northern Ontario. ~Of the latter te?ritory, as Mr. Talbot says, ‘‘more was known about the land lying round the North Pole ‘than of the northern stretches of Ontario and Quel The story of the pursuit through the wildemess of that “four-tenths of one per cent grade” is an epic full of great deeds and heroic action. The story of how our present harbor of Prince Rupert was passed over by the surveyors who pointed out on the chart that a big sunke rock blocked the entrance, of the pertinancity with which Mr. Hays insisted on soundings being taken, with the result that was dis- covered that the sunken rock had been placed by the compilers of the Admiralty chart in the wrong bay—all this is told by Mr. Talbot who grows very enthusiastic in recounting all that P: Rupert enterprise ard determination has done in making a cit) on the banks of Kaien Island. Mining, fruit raising and sightseeing, will be the three principal sources of Skeena River traffic thinks Mr. Talbot, who declares that large numbers of travellers will make the combined river and raij journey from Prince Rupert to Kitselas Canyon to adn this mag- nificent spectacle of mountain and waterfall just as they no\ the Grand Canyon of Arizona or ascend the mountain Switzerland. Mr. Talbot’s book, like the subject is a large one, a: ~ | adequately presented by the publishers, Messrs. Seeley, Company of London, Forty-three splendid illustrations from photo- graphs taken by the author illumine the pages of this handsome and excellent volume, which has more than ordinary interest to we who live in Prince Rupert. penetrate ilways of Service and PEPEPEPEPEEEP PEEP EPEPPY PERE EH PEPPPEPEPEREPYPPPPPAREY The Graham Island Oil Fields, Limited CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000 We are offering for sale a very limited amount of shares of stock at 25¢ per share; par value $1.00. These shares are going quickly and will soon be off the market THE MACK REALTY & INSURANCE COMPANY SELLING AGENTS AVACCRC CCAR CEE E484 00044400444 004404044444444 4 Howe & McNulty HARDWARE to do business in their new Hattvine store on Second Ave. and Fifth St., with a complete stock of heavy ana shelf hardware, stoves and ran- ges, granite and tinware, paints and oils, ship pe eery SPPEAOE, goods, etc, Are now rea All orders will receive prompt attention PHONE 364 the glowing reports they brought of the great Peace River country} d has biel I THE ilar Licht Indeed,’ a falnt wall, suggestive of a kitten, now. came from beneath the tumbled canvas quite near to Jim. But the Royal Navy does not encour- age neurosis, The lighthouse keep- er felt that a minor crisis had arriv- ed, It must be dealt with promptly. The evil odor which still adhered to the boat told him that Brand had} exchanged one Inferno for another, when he clambered out of reach of | | the blindly vengeful shark, He looked up at Jones. “Lower away,” he said, promptly. By tok Tracy “Swing the derrick until I grab the % % primordial thesis, he left the foragers {ng the pr« ate ee een ake slone. Hauling the sail out of the entertained walk owing to his wounted limb, Jim, | Water he discovered that the stern: | lation of th a 8 rv***| board was missing, broken off proba-| “Ijjad.” and « clinging to a rope, had the easy ac- D ad, 1 ity t terol, r | bly when the mast fell. His trained Jim Spence when a Now, Sear = ie with some bran- | Scrutiny soon solved a puzzle suggest-| nect the exp! lay. He's dead beat,” he added. | ed by the state of the cordage. Under | Trojan hero te ordinary conditions the upper part of of her Majesty's s Whilst Jones hastened for the spir- it, the sailor stooped.and threw back the sail, Lying in the bottom of the boat, wrapped in a blanket which unavail- ing struggles had rumpled into a roll beneath the arms, was an infant | wnose precise age it was impdSssibie to estimate forthwith owing to the emaciated condition of its body. With the rocking of the boat, the | foul bilge-water washed around the | child’s limbs and back. Instinct alone had saved it from drowning. Perhaps, | during the first hours of vigor after abandonment the little one might have rolled over in infantile search for food and human attendance, but the rush of salt water into eyes and mouth must have driven the tiny euf- ferer to seek instantly the only posl- tion ip which life was possible. So far as the man could judge in a first hasty glance, the child's cloth- ing was of excellent quality. gave slight heed to such considera tions. Jim was the father of three lusty youngsters who were snugly bed in Penzance, and the sight this forlorn little sea-waif made eyes misty. He reached down, unpinned the blanket, which was secured with a brooch, and lifted the infant out of its unpleasing environment. It was piteous to see the way in which the shrunken hands at once strove to tlasp his wrists, though they were all too feeble to achieve more than a gentle clutch which relaxed almost as toon as the effort was made Jones, also a husband and father, bethought him when he reached the ptore-room. Hence, when the wind; of his lass lowered a basket, there was not | only a supply of brandy within, but also a bottle of fresh milk, which reached the Gulf Rock, by arrange | ment with a fisherman, whenever wea- | ther permitted. the engineers, teamsters, graders, and others engaged upon the work. I travelled from point to point by whatever vehicle was available, from pack horse to Pulfman express, from canoe to river steamer, from team waggon to construction locomotive. When all other means of trans- portation failed, I walked. In this way I covered not only the ground where work is completed and in actual progress, but pushed across the gap of 840 miles then remaining to be built through the Rocky Mountains and the Northwestern wilderness, by the only means possible—by pack horse and canoe.’’ Many people in Prince Rupert will remember Mr. Tablot from the occasion of his visit here. Many others will remember the excellent series of articles he contributed to World's Work, as special commissioner for that magazine. Mr. Talbot's story justly starts with the coming of Charles M, Hays in 1899 from the Wabash Railroad to reorganise the Grand Trunk Railroad in Canada—of his prompt perception that the line was suffering from lack of feeders, and that the only hope for the profitable reconstruction of the road was to enlarge it into a trans-continental road, opening up new territories and having terminals on both coasts of the Dominion. Then follows the story of the silent planning, the arousing of public interest, the fight for a charter, the pledging of the Liberal Government to the scheme, and its adoption by the Canadian people as a national undertaking Afterwards comes the romance of construction, the story of the Cae SS | SSeS CREE PELE 1 THE. EMPRESS - THEATRE ¢ i q = Se: bw RETURN OF MAY ROBERTS and her company Opening Monday, Oct. 30 in a special matinee at 2.30 p.m. “The Judge and the Girl”’ EVENING PERFORMANCE Victorien Sardou’s “ DIVORCONS ” Matinee Prices: 25c., 50c. 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Terms of one-third cash, balance in 12 and 18 months. —INSURANCE-— McCaffery & Gibbons THIRD AVENUE SECOND - AVENUE | e+ 6 @-¢ © #© +o o> ie BOYS! START IN BUSINESS Sell the Daily News, It's the easiest and quick- ent way of earning money of yourown. Apply at Seats sale now open at Theatre office =r es pe) ese Fess THE ) NEWS V3 OFFICE TRY THE “NEWS’? WANT p= AD. WAY OF FINDING Prince Rupert Lodge, 1.0.0.F. Two Bay: view Lots on 4th Ave., See. | 6. ; | aoa ‘ | Jim handed the jug to his exhaust- | ed companion. | “Here, cap’n,” he said, cheerfully. '"Take a couple of mouthfuls of this. {t’ll warm the cockles of your heart. An’ the sooner you shin up the lad- fer and get them soaked rags off you the better. Can you manage? It's a near thing for the kid, if not too late now.” Brand needed no second bidding. He did not wish to collapse utterly, jand the soft breeze, somewhat. The resourceful sailor did not at- tempt the foolish process of pouring even the smallest quantity of milk in- to the baby’s mouth. He produced a |handkerchief, steeped a twisted cor- ner in the milk, and placed it between the parched, salt-blackened lips. This rough expedient for a feeding- bottle served admirably. The child's |}eagerness to gulp in the finid was only matched by the tender |care of the sailor in his efforts to ap- | Pease its ravenous hunger. | He was s0 | task for a little while he paid no heed ito Brand. Jones, forty feet over- head, took the keenest interest in the baby’s nurture. “Mind you don't Ic’ it suck the handkerchief into its little throat,” he | cried. “Not too much, Jim. It’s on’y @ young ‘un. ‘Half milk, half water, | an’ a lump of sugar,’ my missus says, | Pore little dear! However did it ;come to live, when that man must | ha’ been dead for days? Now, Jim, | slow an’ sure is the motter. 8'pose | you shove it into the basket an’ let me hoist it up here? A warm bath | an ‘a blanket ils the next best th “ing | \ milk an’ water.” “All right, skipper. ‘ais She’s doin’ fine.” “Is it a he or a she?” “I dunno. But 1 guess it’s a gal |by the duds.” The baby, in the sheer joy of liy- ing again, uttered a gurgling cry, a Just hold on a | compound of milk, happiness and | pain, “There! ! told you!” shouted Jones }angrily, “You think every kid is a T | Rasay young savage like your own, | You're overdoin’ it, I say. “Overdoin’ what?” demanded the sailor, “You don't know who you're talkin’ to. Why, when I was on the | West Coast, I reared | monkeys this way.” Soon these firm friends would have |quarréled—so Unbounded was their | }@nxiety to rescue the fluttering ex- istence of the tiny atom of human- |ity so mirac ulously snatched from the perils of the sea, | But Stephen Brand’s dominant per- |ponality was rapic 3 7 Peet ant pidly recovering its “Jim,” he said, |Her skin is raw | with inflammation, |8he has already obta for a few minutes, two week-old | “Mr, Jones is right. and her eyes sore The little food ined will suffice Send her up.” The “Mr. Jones” was a gentle re- Hnere of authority, No further pro- est ‘vas raised, saye pb y the in- fant when supplies were t | withheld, and Jones was tod hie cek that his opinion should be supported | by Brand to give another thought to | his subordinate’s outburst, “Now, back up to the re “s Brand. “I will dress and nial’ ) quickly, The boat must be thorough | ty éxamined and swabbed out: | tide falls she |mured Jim, admiringly. | be skipper of a battleship, instead of Yet he | in | rendered chilly | by his wet gasments, had revived nim | life-giving | intent on this urgent | Tories Meanwhile, you When the high and acclds adrift o lost twe but sta plumpne pect M died to-day great dar and care late the idly.’ When Br Ppence Wa ponal quest pearly will signal for help. might moor her tightly, will be left dry.” The sailor's momentary annoyance fled. There was much to be done, and no time should be wasted in dia- putes concerning baby culture, “Sure you won't slip?” he asked, a Stephen caught hold of the ladder. “No, no. It was not fatigue sickness Which overcame me. brandy has settled that.” Up he went, as though returning from his customary morning dip. “By jingo, he’s a plucked ‘un,” mur "4 “He ought to Clumsy co past chieved Nps Tor were con Not Thompsor was takir er with t ed to months goon real liked anc the record refused to om Yet he taining with knowledge ar reading—that t rock was coir hailed his rea; a but The da BOUL } log housemaid of a rock-light, sea-crows! I do hate ‘em,” He seized an oar and lunged so hard and true at a cormorant which was invetigating the shark’s liver, that he knocked the bird a yard through the air. Discomfited, it. re- tired, with a scream. Its companion darted to the vacant site and pecked industriously. The neighborhood of the rock was now alive with sea-culls, In the water many varieties of finny shapes were darting to and fro in | great excitement, Jim laughed. “They'd keep me busy,” he growled. “When all’s said an’ done, it's their nater, an’ they can’t help it.’ Unconscious that he had stated the Dash them aa or but ‘ togeth. ze 1 nt 80 rellet the mast would elther have carried the eall clean away with it or be found acting as a sort of sea-anchor at a short distance from the boat. But it had gone altogether, and the strands of the sall-rope were bitten, not torn, asunder. The shark had striven to pull the boat under by tug- ging at the wreckage. Having made the canvas ship-shape, Jim settled the next pressing ques- tion by seizing an empty tin and sluicing the fore part. Then he pass- ed a rope under the after thwart and reeved it through a ring-bolt in a rock placed there for mooring purposes in very calm weather like the present. | When the ‘Trinity tender paid her monthly visit to the lighthouse she/| was moored to £ buoy three cables’ | lengths awa yto the northwest. If there was the least suspicion of a sea over the reef it was indeed a ticklish task landing or embarking stores and men. In private they and @ common agr that his wis! should be resp« name, “the cap’: sion of his hig feared lest drive him fron sipernumerary, who cook of the Trinity was the nephew roughly bidden to or he might catch couldn't eat.” (TO BI ir ] 1 th COAL Bainte bookkeeper, missioner coal Close-hauled, the boat would fill for- word as the tide dropped. This was matterless. By the time all her mov- able contents—she appeared to have plenty of tinned meat and biscuits aboard, but no water—would be re- moved to the store-room, The sailor was sorting the packages —wondering what qieer story of the Dated Sept. 11 Pub. Sept Skeena Land Distri Take notice th Bainter of Prince bookkeeper, inte deep would be forthcoming when the | missioner of La recent history of the rescued child | coal and p« was ascertained—when Brand hailed | ‘"¢ 0" Graham tes cal | him, | . La i . ees Toe C. B. . weld “Look out there, Jim. I am lower} gorner C mee we ce orth ing an ax.” 80 chains, thence ea a: { com The weajon was duly delivered. | Dated Bent. 11,19 ‘ abt “What's the ax for, cap’n?” was the | Pub Sept 23." ; natural query. j Iw : ‘s| ant to chop out that shark's | 5) ona Land District bariotte teeth. They will serve as mementoes fake notice th L for the giri if sie grows up, which is} Bainter of Prince Ku; pane ikely, judging by the way she is yell: | Sommerer, ands cin spats it ing at Jones.” | coal and petroleu wy sera “Wot's he a-doin’ of?” came the) land on Graham Isia as ah eae es north sharp demand. bot Goan Hh beni 1 reed ahaa ol . EB. B. Coal le wed B. Giving her a bath, and excellently | corner C. BE. B. Coal ence wae well, too. He is evidently quite dom- | 50,chains, thence we eoce 2a esticated.” . chains, thence east ace of Cah od f | mencement. If that means ‘under Mrs. J.’6| Dated Sept. 11,1 Locate thumb,’ you’re right, cap’n. They tell | Pub. Sept. 23. me that when he’s ashore—— “Jim, the first time I met you yOUu| Skeena Land Distr arene vere wheeling a perambulator. Now, | : Take 5 Lage load the skip and I will haul in.” Fhcakenepes, fans : They worked in silence a few min- r of La i tes, Brand descended, and a few o ell-placed cuts relieved the man-eat- er of the serrated rows used to such erious purpose in life that he had at- tained a length of neariy twelve feet. Set double in the lower jaw and sin- gle in the upper, they were of a size "I j}and shape ominously suggestive of the creature's voracity. arlota “It is a good thing,’ said Brand, | Skeena Land Dist ‘ calmly hewing at the huge jaws, “that Belater ‘ol Pr an nature did not build the Carcharodan | pookkeeper, inv ie galeidae on the same lines as the al-| missioner of Land ad ligator. If this big fellow’s sharp | *) n4, Petrole d embroidery were ot situated so close Commer v to his stomach he would have made a}! ©. bb | ra | meal of me, Jim, unless I carried a} oo etiins, th 2 | torpedo.” | chains, thence “He's a blue shark,” commented the ee nent ‘ veal other, ignoring for the nonce what he Pub. Sept termed “some of the cap’n's jaw- aslotte breakers,” | Skeena Land ! L “Yes. It is the only dangerous! , }#*e® — species found so far north.” a it “His teeth are like so many fixed aot bayonets, Of course you would like . “a to keep ‘em, but he would look fine in|; ‘ W the museum Plenty of folk in Pen-| of ‘ ! nt zance, especially visitors, would pay | {orner ©. i a a bob a head to see him.” hains, th nencement cult Brand paused in his labor. “Listen, Jim,’ he said earnestly. “I want both yeu and Jones to oblige me by saying nothing about the shark. Please do not mention my connection with the affair in any way. The story will get into the newspapers a6 it is. The additional sensation of the fight would send reporters here by the score. I don’t wish that to occur.” “Do you mean to say— | Vated Sept Pub, Sept, 2 jkeena La lake not Bainter of | wookkeeper missioner ul and pe land on Graha Comment I t of C, & corner ( 0 et “Mr. Jones will report the picking up of the boat, and the finding of the cat baby, together with the necessary bur- | vated Sept? | ial of a man unknown—”" arlottt “What sort of a chap was he?” in | skeena Lan a Take not aw terrupted Jim, a ae m ~I don’t know—a sailor—that 18 |) cokioop: ‘ r all I can tell you. He must have been | ni of | acre de ad several days.’ Yr orth “Then how in the world did that | "Comment NB baby keep alive?” Jof ©. B. J a “I have been thinking over that | scl * coil problem, I imagine that, in the first) 7 the al | ‘place, there was a survivor, who dis- | menceme ea appeared since the death of the poor] Vsed® sept. 12, devil out there—"” he pointed to the) oa rand | sea, “This person, whether man or| Take no woman, looked after the child until] Bainter of 1 madness came, caused by drinking | beekkeepet, salt water, The next step ts suicide. | Mar undp The little one, left living, fell into the | land on Graha bilge created by the shipping of a} ,Sompen sea, and adopted, by the mercy Of | corner ¢ Providence, a method of avoiding | 50 chains, | death from thirst which ought to bo | % chute more widely appreciated than it 18. | (ated Se She absorbed water through the pores | Pub. Sept tt of the skin, which rejected the salty A t Quest Lt el-ments and took in only those . 1 L thene t i * Skeena Land D pars 1 'Take notice of the compound needed by the blood. | juinter of | You follow me?" bookkeeper missioner of 1 “Quite, It' a siap-up idea.” aot and. pete B “It is not new. It occurred tO | jand on Crane 0 ship's captain who was compelled to Commene ; saiate navigate his passengers and crew @| 2% 2O b 80 chalet thousand miles in open boats ACrOBS| pence west ence the Indian Ocean, as the result of @| thence eat ; pAINTEB fire at sea. Well, the child was well} sontan Sept 13. J aourished, in all likelihood, before. the | Pub. Oct. 7.