THE WEATHER Penontuefour hours ending 5 a.m., : Legislative Library 45 : IN ——— HE DAILY NEWS a. eee \ Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist NEXT MAILS For, souTH Prince Rupert....Friday, 8 a.m. For Norti Princess May,.... Thursday p.m. VOL. Il, NO. 249 { " f= i¥t \ > F —— i sapasnlieicseatatipeiptiiiaiie F PRICE FIvE CENTS Th tibe = 5 Prince Rupert, B.C., WEDNESDAY, Novempeer 1, 1911. ERALS TRY A CHANGE OF LEADERS HAVE CITY BAND FOR RUPERT Live Effort on Foot to Organise a Proper Brass and Reed Instrument Band of Musicians to Form Reg- ular Prince Rupert’s Own Band. Determined to organise if possible th - a city band, a number of Bho players of band instruments both rass i reed, got together the other ening and discussed the proposition. t of enquiry it is found that ME cre are already over a score of residents § Prince Rupert who not only can y band instruments, bu who are ng to join the city band, and are » have the band organised. h{ Prince Rupert rather a reproach that the band at iir gatherings on Dominion music uld have to be supplied by Indians when the more educated residents might so easily have { their own. The excellence he bands available is only he more pointedly a hint to Prince Rupert te population to have a it not let the Indians show her M business men have prom upport if the band is lot going winter, and the fund for he su nstruments if once started The idea is to have h a substantial nncleus vhen the busines en nd the bands men you will play up. Meanwhile all interested especially play band instruments ymmunicate with William | Provincial Government | FATAL TENDENCY and Race Track Wreck Fine Career | ards, Women, Nov. 1.—With reputation as an accountant an n, and having establish- okkeeping in Sing Sing rison st exsitence there, and after Canada to life Wer ag ind rising from menial hat of expert accountant Richard forged Start Goods company, t igain when he 2,000 He and the race br He was blames cards, track sent to prison Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, Phone 4 HINESE ROYAL FAMILY _ |sox 10 40 cons, ne men are said to SAID TO HAVE FLED Despatch) 1 Fighting between the e Imperialists continues, ONTARIO L. nsidered by many residents | wre ROYAL WEDDING | Archduke of Austria Weds Princess | Zita of Parma Bru Woman. Bride Most Beauti- | Vienna, Noy. 1.—-In the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph, the Archduke Earl Franz Josef, heir to the throne of } | | | | found about the headwaters of the] Skeena, the Naas, the Stikine, and the | Klappan rivers is situated a coal field eventy miles long by thirty miles wide, rich of anthracite non-coking and smokeless the most suitable of all for for the mercantile, and for domestic § | containing wide deep, seams fine coa coal t purposes, marine In cities. The seams of this unbroken by us€ coal field laid in the for cneap mining known to mining engineers huge are rock, volcanic most geological formation perfect frequent y a Synclines’’ which give out-croppings and make the seams 3 of access for working without need for | de ep shaft-sinking. Th of the coal is between 84 and 85 per cent ‘4 | fixed carbon giving from 6 to 8 per t of ash. Second to None in America field is known analysis cen The coal P by its discoverer R. Campbell Johnson, the best known mining engineer in Northern British Columbia to be second i to on the | American continent and in fact, the only coal field in the world equal to the Pennsylvania coal fields and the British Welsh coal country from which the coal SS supplies of the navies of the world are today supplied. magnificent none ever yet discovered THE ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA A GREAT STRIKE OF ANTHRACITE COAL IS MADE ‘Area Seventy Miles by Thirty at the Head | and Stikine Rivers is a Great Bed of the Finest Anthracite Coal Seams, Unbroken by Volcanic Rocks---Great Find by Mr. R. Campbell Johnstone | (DECLARED GREATEST COAL FIELD IN AMERICA The Coal is Hard, Smokeles- Carbon, Showing 84 Per Cent. Burning Quality— Rivals the Quality of Welsh and Pennsylvania Coals—Five Railroads Will be Used to Develop the District—Stewart is the Nearest Port of Shipment, But Prince Rupert Will Benefit by Shipments Via Hazelton—-Company Will Build Bunker Ports on Coast Great Commercial Location From its position the new coal field can command and control the whole coal market of the Pacific Ocean in- cluding the markets of the Orient where the Hankow and Japanese coal is soft and smoky unsuitable f va use. The marvellously cheap mining possible owing to the formation will place this coal in a position to compete to good purpose with both the Welsh and Pennsylvania coal. Will Build a Railway Means of communication with the coal fields are at present lacking, but the Mackenzie & Mann short line for Stewart to the interior is one of the quickest means of development at present under construction. Ste8art and the Portland Canal form the nearest means of easy access, but five railways are completing charter arrangements into that district of them being R. Campbell Johnstone's own concern. He himself went into the district from Hazelton to the Ground Hog Mountain, two hundred miles beyond, with a big pack train. His wife panied him on of the most extensive, one and son accom- interesting, and arduous journeys ever The treme eed value and possi-| stood that the play which is one of the bilities of the discovery may be exti- 1 3 ‘i - . ai 'mated by the far-reaching plan under |} ent the CODA es Sees TREO DI) Ve 7 OLS peti c mere |night much below their standard. The of the Naas, Skeena CH ee Principal Subjects for Council Dis- cussion According to the Mayor This Morning. “Tonight the city council will meet to discuss and perhaps settle the water- works clearing contract,” says the Mayor. “The other principal item of dis- cussion is the apoointment of the waterworks engineer which will probably be made.” ACTOR WAS VERY UNWELL And Members of the May Roberts Company Were Much Upset by Occurrence. completed this summer in a land where} It is a well accepted truism that the conscientious actor or speaker or preach- er knows no critic so severe as himself. | This morning several members of the} May Roberts Company were very much | verturbed lest their performance of ‘La Belle Russe” last night might have such big journeys are not unusual. How Coal Was Hardened | son for the splendid | is that hundreds of | The geological re: quality of the coal thousands of years ago, after the coal |! forming era, the soft coal measures : } } bs 49 fic } | been considered as below their standard became carbonised by the terrific heat ; F of superheated steam generated during of cs ome indeed used harder Ww 8 the tertiary period. OEOEs In fairness to the public and to the To Build Coast Bunkers " E Pee | company alike, they wished it under- “ontenplation to have bunkers erected | : mend arent cy hs ae nke ae }explanation is made that one of the along the entire Pacific Coast list CREOSOTED TIES FOR THE C. N. R. G. T. P. is Not Likely to Require Them for Several Years Yet Says Gen. Supt. Mehan, but C. N. R. Erects Plant to Make Them. » } While General Superintendent Mehan does not believe that creosoted ties will be needed on the G. T. P. for some years yet, a creosoting plant for the treating of ties for the Canadian Northern Rail- way is being established at Fort Francis by a Scottish firm. It is the intention of the company to have all their ties creosoted in future in order to prolong their life. It is also probable that ex- periments will be made with creosoted poplar ties owing the the growing scarcity and consequently increased cost of harder wood now used. Sir William Mackenzie has been con- sidering the adoption of poplar sleepers hand as had tests with creosote treat- ment under observation. Railway men have heen growing quite concerned about this matter of tie supply. Year by year ties are becoming more costly and something will have to be done before the price becomes prohibitive. A great fortune awaits the man who will find asubstitute com- bining cheapness and durability for the present wooden ties the supply of which will not last many more years at the present rate of consumption. ONCE TOO OFTEN B.C. Electric Railway Employee Cut to Pieces in Fog of | actors cast for an important part, arrived ports fo the supply of shipping both jat the theatre in a rather unwell con- naval and mercantile. |dition. Not wishing to disappoint Will Build up the North the audience, they decided to go on, Mr. Campbell Johnstone confidently | but the mental anxiety of the situation, believes that owing to the splendid| preyed on the minds of the company quality of the anthracite, its ease of|and prevented the play from being as access by mining, and the fact that) convincing as was desired. the seams are unbroken by volcanic The céMpany have always prided rock these coal beds will completely | themselves on their good faith in pre- out do those of Alaska which are badly senting their very best to the public, impaired by voleanic rock. Develop-| and wish the public to be assured ment of the great mining |that no accidents will mar the perfor- istrict is now striding towards the stage | m; " ; * district is no ig t &€ | mance for tonight and for the remainder new coal ‘of commercial activity as fast as railway |of their engagement. onstruction can go. MONTREAL CHURCH BURNED Austria, and the Princess Zita, of LOCAL LONGSHOREMEN DECLARE A STRIKE es: %'::s:usce Parma, one of the most beautiful women of Europe, were marred the other day. The king of Saxony and} ea é : vege othe embers o 1e royal family were ° . . o:ae | anadian Press espatch) ther members of the royal family were) Nts oe of Reduction of Wage Scale from Fifty to Forty Cents an Hour Precipitates : . present. | f M be T ble Wh al R iad Tod Montreal, Nov. 1.—The Church of The bridegroom is : mephers of Arch- | a Conflict ay be lrouble en the Prince Kupert-Arrives loday | et. Tress: = Soknads: Chelballat enakad on 7 ee Sagas Pra aZectheoreprttteh As a result of the action of the Grand|the situation,” he said. The notice] ‘Forty cents an hour,” sad Mr | was totally destroyed by fire thie after- oe his Trunk Pacific, and Pacific Coast Steve-|Simply announces that after the first) McMaster, “was formerly paid here.| noon. The loss is $90,000. of succession because h’s marriage was morganatic. | doring Company's posting a _ notice | reducing the wages paid longshoremen lon the wharf here from 50 cent per | have struck. W. Dinny, secretary of the Long- |shoremen’s Union here, a branch of patch to the Chinese in San Francisco | the I. L. A., positively refused this states that the Emperor has fled from | morning to make any definite statement Pekin and his whereabouts are unknown.|to the News of the men’s attitude or of November the wages paid longshore- men by the G. T. P. and Pacific Coast Stevedoring Company will be 40 cents per hour. From Mr. A. E, tion was obtained of a wharfside rumor that 50 cents per hour for general freight McMaster confirma- the longshoremen are demanding handling, 60 cents an hour for handling coal either by day or by night, and 75 cents per hour for overtime and Sunday work. W. Dinny did not contradict, or affirm this. The men struck for, and obtained fifty (Canadian Press Despatch) New Westminster, Oct. 31.— While walking on the track of the B. C. Electric railway at Cloverdale, Philip» McDonald, an | employee of the company, was overtaken in the fog by a car and cut to pieces. UNPROFITABLE WAR -Italy’s Experience Said to be An Unsatisfactory One (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Oct. 31.—From_ un- censored sources at Tripoli reaching England via Malta it is apparent | that Italy’s campaign for Tripoli |has already cost more lives than | was anticipated while the financial | outlay greatly exceeds the esti- mates. So far the Italians have come off second best. cents. Now it becomes impossible for the G. T. P. to pay this rate and do a reasonably profitable business, and the a position to go back to the old rate. The trouble has, of course, a bearing on the wage rates n the city, and is important according as it is looked at in that light, but no serious difficulty is anticipated over it.” company 15 in (Canadian Press Despatch) occupied the Turkish islands of Rhodes Some idea existed on the waterfront} and Lesbos according to Milan des- th morning that there might be a disturbance on the arrival of the Prince Rupert at four p.m, this afternoon. TURKS HOPE TO RECAPTURE TRIPOLI Trieste, Nov. 1.—Italy has seized and | trian government. demand for expalanations by the Aus” Washington, D. C.—Officials of the | aie s patches. This is part of a naval demon- | Turkish Embassy look for the re-capture stration threatened against Turkey in | retaliation for Turkey’s recent Tripoli | received from Constantinople. of Tripoli in the light of the advices The : SUCCEBS CS. | Turks have taken more forts and been pi ng a determined resis-| Hundreds were killed on both sides} demands, not even admitting that there ere e advices indicate that|in Sunday's fighting. ¢ hurches, offices|js any strike, ‘‘All I can say is that re-taken by the Im-/| 4nd storerooms are being utilized by|the notice posted at the wharf covers cS hough the railway station | the Red Cross Society. | BIG POTATOES have little faith in the! Special clearance prices on lad- | B oa pot constitution made by ies’ embroidered waists. Wal-| FROM DIGBY | o : carried out. A des-| lace’s. | | | Mr. A.W. McLean Demonstrates | That Giant Tubers Can be) : W, ROWELL TO LEAD | Produced There. rr [THE ONTARIO LIBERALS | Just to satisfy himself whether | 2 bai no good potatoes could be | lian Press Despatch) ; , ; | ore wn on Digby Island, Mr. A. W.}| To 1, Following the resig- MARINE JOY RIDER | Mel ean who is assisting: nag ees H “Kay . | Jennings in the supervision of the} ee aoa i | S.S. Iroquois Cuts ‘Two Other Boats] \4" Mig Depot, a his spare time | Mr. N. W. Rowell, K.C.,| Clean Through Within a Few ey this summer planted a few potatoes } . n ‘Toronto lawyer, was | of Each Other. j outside his shack. In due cares ipa epted the leadership of | _ | the plants appeared. They grew] e Or berals in the Legislature. | The steamer Iroquois running from} ig the ordinary size of posata) f vill be drafted tomorrow. | Seattle to Vancouver which yesterday | plants, but Secreto ee ag oe ors ll be one’ of the planks.|yan down and cut clean in two the| Like the beanstal in ie ante King was chosen presi- ithey kept on growing. Not unt oclation, POWER OF PRAYER B| ‘nd Man Prays and His Sight is Restored : oe Mich., Nov, 1,—While lying hi z home and praying that Re ne again see the light of day area ie, Lapere resident who leealy ity ee weeks has been hope- Opens ei trom an apoplectie stroke, Onger blind Bs, find that he was no oration thi e says that the res- Prayer ae eyesight was due to he \ he physicians had told him Would » ~“ never see again, ifreighter Multonmeh has evidently been | having the time of her life lately. Only la day or two before she ran down the }Multonmah according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the Iroquois lfog ran down and cut in two the tug they were as high as a man’s head ldid those plants quit growing. The fear was freely expressed that the plants had'run all to top, and that no tubers would be found at the roots. Yesterday, in a Mr. McLean dug ee of Vancouver. . J i ‘ y a The Noname which was towing |barge went down in eight minutes}up his plants, What he saw so lafter the crash, When the Iroquois) surprised him that in order to save himself from the charge of loomed out of the fog and the Noname’s exaggeration he sent some of the ollision was inevitable crew saw that a ¢ the men rushed into the tug’s bow €0/ notatoes to the News office as escape the flying timbers. Nobody proof. rhe potatoes were big was hurt and it was a great show for] en qugh to match the plants. Scear- the passengers. / long, and some of them touched cashmere} close to eight inches. Fine, tull yr lot of ladies’ } ‘ Another | : i bodied, thin skinned hose at 25c. Wallace’s. | produce potatoes like that, }ought to become the potato he Id leely one was less than six inches} they are choice enough to have been entered for the Stillwell trophy for prize potatoes. If the rest of Digby Island can Digby of British Columbia. | | | | } } EARL DUDLEY | Who is about to visit Canada Oh, You Montreal! | Montreal, Oct. 31.—(Special) | the TO ABOLISH STRIKE METHOD Triests, as it is known to be offensive to Austria, and may be followed by a The action is viewed with alarm in | shelling the town. The Italian losses are said to be enormous while that of the Turks is light by comparison, British Strike Commission of In- vestigation Reports Propounding a New Industrial Plan. London, Eng., Oct. The report of the recently enquired into the working of Railway Board has issued. Commission recom- 31.—4Special) ’ Abie (Canadian Press Despatch) commissioners who Montreal, Nov. 1.—Hon Rudolphe | Lemieux speaking before the St. Louis! Liberal Club last night, said it was! prejudice not reason that won the day | for the Conservatives and gave them an overwhelming majority in Ontario. | Conciliation been The mends the adoption of a new scheme to be operative until November 6, 1914, by which all questions affecting hours, i siti f ; t The presence of Sir Wilfrid Laurier wage ar condition ¢ Service are ot); > oad . . ‘ he os 4 \ a 2 ' ' ' ns at the Eucharistic Congress, he ald, | ) e Se > y egotiatlo ) de sat ' OG Re, TRS On PU had done much to cause religious an- BLAMED FR. VAUGHAN FOR LIBERAL DEFEAT LUMBER INTERESTS President Griggs, of West Coast Lumber Association, Dis- proves Combine. (Canadian Press Despatch) Seattle, Oct. 31.—President referred to the Conciliation Board. The think that with their great responsibilities the companies cannot and should not be expected to permit any intervention between them and the men on the subject of discipline Commissioners and management. CATTLE TRAIN COLLISION | Fifty Steers Killed at Winnipeg. Stockman Injured (Canadian Press Despatch) Winnipeg, Oct. 31,—Thomas Chapman, stockman, Medicine Hat, and several others were ser- iously injured when a C. P. R. stock train was telescoped by a freight train near here. Fifty and dry,| Smallpox has broken out here again! cattle were killed. tagonism, but he attributed the Ontario | Griggs, of the West Coast Lumber vote in a large measure to the indiscreet, | Association, st rongly opposed to- unwise, and impudent sermons of Father | day at the annual meeting ot the Vaughan, whose arraignment of pro-| Association, the formation of the testantism as a soulless religion had} proposed lumber trust of the North- been peculiarlyill-timed. west with a capital of one hundred million. He claimed this would not be a panacea for the troubles the trade is suffering from. Recent curtailment of the cut at Washing- ton Mills has resulted in lessening the market supply by 334,000,000 feet. THE RICHEST BABY But a Few Days Old and She is Worth $30,000,000 New York Novy. 1.—The richest infant in the world is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Anthony Drexel, Jr., born at the end of October at 1015 Fifth avenue. With her inheritances from the Gould and Drexel estates, it is estimated she will have at least $30,000,600, This is the first grandchild born to the George J. Goulds, SAME OLD STORY Golden, B. C,, Oct. 31.—(Spe- cial)——-Three men were badly in- jured here by an explosion of dynamite which was thawing near a stove, ae + pS athens oe mt soe T. = — AS asd gta