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Thursday p.m. , fs Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist yon No. ees) pone Ror RO Teo, Nome fi PHGARE'E rox COUNCIL ABUSED DAILY NEWS") GE PME y Cn rien at work Are Very Much Incensed Over the Exposure of the Woodworth! px,“ ss Depa LAST BOAT OF SEASON Constantinople, Nov. 2. y the Government today from reads: accompanied by my Volunteers le a lt upon the enemy, who ere out of their entrenchments, Foday I am marching on Tripoli. nks to the Divine Assistance I ll enter the town.” A despatch a commander of the Arab Voluhtiors | “Have reached the er 26th we delivered a formid- Someone Places Dynamite on the Seuthern Pacific Tracks | +t trains on the Southern Pacific at Ell- wood have been passing over seventy- the frogs switches, Only ignorance of the use of explosives prevented the consummation of a terrible outrage. APPOINTING A CITY FIREMAN Id. Newton Wants Him to be a Real Citizen not an Importation from ‘SIX ELECTIONS ARE CONTESTED | Three of Them are in Quebec and Three in Ontario May Have Legal | | | | | Santa Barbara, Cal., Nov. 2, ‘For | Several days it has been discovered that | Tells Him That the Biggest Curse City is Laboring Under Today is the Influence of five sticks of dynamite, placed between | Pekin, Nov. 2.—The appointment of Yuan Shi Kai today as Premier of China will be followed by the cessation of hostilities on the part of the Imper- alists, and the opening of negotiations with General Li Heng, the leader o the revolutionists. , An edict today provides for important administrative changes. Prince Ching until the arrival of the new premier will continue to perform the duties of the present cabinet and remain in office. SEALING RAID PROVED FATAL Steamer Victoria Leaves Nome with Cargo of Treasure and Many Passengers. Lake Clearing Fiasco---Would Like Press to be Driven Out NEWTON MAKES ATTACK ON HILDITCH (Canadian Press Despatch) Nome, Alaska, Nov, 2.—The steamer Victoria, the last steamer till next June, left here today for Seattle with a large consignment of treasure and a large list of passengers. Ald. Hilditch—Little Clayton Came in at the Tail End With Some Char- acteristic Phrases—Vote of Censure Was Dropped in Face of the Opposition it Aroused—No Contracts Were Awarded HOLD MONTHLY SALES OF FUR Business Men of Vancouver are * Planning to Make Their City the Rising to the defence of the City | tised for tenders in the usual way—the past months the City Engineer and I Engineer over the matter of the criticism | lowest or any tender not necessarily | have had oceasion to consult together, directed at him in last night’s News|to be accepted, I think it perfectly) and very often I have disagreed with editorial, Alderman Hilditch not only|proper for the council now to satisfy |the City Engineer, as might be seen| condemned the Daily News, but fell | themselves regarding the relative cost | when I have voted against the adoption | foul of Alderman Newton and included|of these tenders and days’ labor by|of his reports. Let me tell Alderman | Russian Patrol his paper, the Empire, in the whole-]our own department, when the lowest | Newton that if I was a good enough | Opened Fire on Japanese at Kommanderofski Is- Outside. Fight Over Them. sale denunciation of Prince Rupert's | or any tender was not necessarily to|man to keep the City Engineer under lands—Some Taken Prisoners Northern Fur Mart. Ot daily press, |be accepted. I quite appreciate Alder- ;my thumb I wouldn't be standing here pice Quite a lot of talk took place at the (Canadian Press Despatch Pointing out that the City Engineer|man Hilditch’s remarks about the | talking to him. I want to say that the (Canadian Press Despatch) (Canadian Press Despatch) | meeting last night over the Toronto, Nov. 2.—Yesterday was the| W885 unable to take personal action to| criticism of Colonel Davis, and repeat | greatest drawback Prince Rupert has Victoria, Nov. 1.—News of a fatal Vancouver, Nov. 2.—The business ; tment of a fireman. The main|last date for the reception of petitions defend himself, Alderman Hilditch blam-| that it is quite right of the council to}ever had has been two of the most | nealisiahchaed saris Aas ain: er Islands thes | ™en of Vancouver will consider tonight the discussion was that brought|in contestation of the late Federal|/@4 Alderman Newton for the position. | take this method of finding out whether | ragged eyed serog dh mA EA Labeda) ; : re : & proposal to make the city the fur Alderman Newton, viz., that jelections. Three seats are to be con-| The City Engineer had not had time] the tender prices are exorbitant or not.’ cursed with. That is Alderman New- reached here. Some Japanese sealers | sting mart. The idea is to collect gaged from the city’s own|tested in Quebec, namely Lotbiniere, | t© put in a bid of his own for the clearing| Ald. Newton- “And how do we know | ton’s paper and this man Cowper's, | on ee way back ro Japan invaded the the northern furs and hold sales monthly . 1 not from the outside.| Levis and Quebec West,’and three ir | of the Lakeside. Alderman Newton had/that these prices are not exorbitant | As fast as the citizens bcost the town Kommanderofeki Islands when a Russian during the spring, summer and autumn his A 1 Douglas supported, but Ontario; Norfolk, West Kent and East| first asked why, and then moved baat jwhen the ( ity Engineer has never | these papers knock it. I an. that ee ee hese A battle eneued seasons. dermar iyton thought it a childish| Elgin. There were no petitions from | he should do so after the other tenders | submitted a figure? ; |the citizens were doing their duty, oe oe ee the: gnardamen ea ped Piatt eet Mayor suggested referring] Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or the|b#d been opened. The Mayor—“That is a matter for/these two papers would be driven| The sealers were taken as Peer IN AIR FOR SIX HOURS be e thing to the fire committee! West. Read Editoria’ Aloud | investigation.” | outside the city limits,” pamrontersor where they will be tried pie f ; ay ‘ Referring directly to the News edi-| Hilditch’s Defence Or Is It Hilditch? as de si sae American Birdman Breaks All Re- Fol ng the list of applicants: TOOK HIS LIFE torial which he read out aloud, Alder- Ald. Newton—‘‘I do not think it is. i i cords for Susutained Flights rorge Martin, William B. Cornish, | man Hilditch said “Mr. Mayor, it is}We are playing the Engineer a arge| Ald. Newton—“If both newspapers | A CLEAR CASE nd Vv ( e, James Forbes, Arthur! WITH REVOLVER time the council did something to|salary to advise us, and it is his duty | bad done as much harm with their | F (Canadian Press Despatch) C. Peck, Thomas Hall, protect our City Engineer from this sort | to advise us in this way. It is all very | joint efforts 2s one particular alderman— 0 MURDER Wilcox, Arizona, Nov. 2.—In a trans- Duram, E. Wainard, And. Scully, ves of thing. It’s all very well for this|well for Alderman Hilditch to find | that is Alderman Hilditch “hes done | ayers continental flight Aviator Rodgers flew pelt W William §, Sweet, E. L.| 4 We Johnson, of Portland, Com- stuff to appear in Prince Rupert. We} fault with the press and defend Colonel | would say they Were: SOINg. SOMO] Olah te Parti With Which Man was|225 miles yesterday remaining in the rgan, A Fraser, Leo Curtain, H, P. mitted Suicide at the Sherman know these papers, and don’t give much| Davis, but there is no denying the fact | The biggest curse this city. is laboring | Foully Murdered Near Creston and | aif for six hours and four minutes and homas, Charles A, Couture, J, F,| Hotel in Vancouver—Was a Rail- weight to what they say. But the/ that for months past Aldermen Hilditch | U2der today is the influence of this one | Then Hidden under a Pile of Logs. | breaking the American record for sus- Leod, And. McKenzie, Thomas H.| road Contractor. people outside don’t know them as we/has had the City Engineer by the alderman, Alderman Hilditch, — tained flight. Odges, Ardid MeNeil, Tom Lloyd, : ee do, and stuff like this editorial going | throat, and what is the result? Criticism | “A Perfect Gentleman” | (Canadian Press Despatch) oo homas Kurkham, Neil McDonald. 7 (Canadian Press Despatch) east where the City Engineer has a first | like we have tonight. I have no wisk | This ended the war of the council Nelson, B. C., Nov. 1.—The jury in CENTENARY OF STEAM Alderman Morrissey, with more of | vancouver, Noy. 1, J. Ww, Johnson rate reputation is apt to be misunder-| to cross swords with Alderman Hilditch |. : G f S notivite, | the inquest on the body of the man = be picturesque perhaps than the ap-| Who registered at the Sherman Hotel stood, and to do harm to Colonel Davis. | on this particular issue but there it is,” | ions, but with the worrying activity found dead under a pile of logs near| President Taft Took Part in Great referred to the list as “A| ‘WO days ugo, was found dead a he It is absolutely cowardly of this paper] Ald. Douglas--‘The City Engineer{Of the jackal Aldezman Clayton got Creston brought in a verdict that the} Celebration at Pittsburg in Honor jongre! crowd of names.” It is up to|"om yesterday afternoon with a bullet to attack, and I say to attack maliciously, | should have been asked to tender before | his bark in at the tail of the discussion. man was murdered. The club with} of the Occasion. Be apy to forgive him. Tae sap oe In his hand. was the reputation of a man like Colonel|the other bids were opened. I think | «yyp. Mayor,” he said, “I just want to| which the deed was done was found lw SRT UE Oe FOVOLVOR Davis whose reputation in the east/this work should be done by days’|say before this matter closes, that I} colose by. The motive is believed to (Canadian Press Despatch) ALD. MORRISSEY BACK omplemented by Mayor and Coun- cil on His Return eech the Mayor con- uncil last night on Be re \lderman Morrissey from | East. The with the congratu- by applause, which Alder- sey acknowledged the com- tably, expres ing himself e council work, and glad to visit to the Pantorium | ioneer Cleaners, Phone 4, When found Johnson was dressed | jin a fur lined coat with a heavy fur | jcollar. He registered as from Portland, | | and from remarks he made | was evidently a railway contractor. | | Oregon, | Engineer's Leave C. T, Heward has applied for and been | | granted leave of absence with pay from | the city engineering staff from November | |4th to 11th. | Want Their Cheque | J. R. Morgan & Co. have written the city council asking for settlement of grading account. Referred to Board of Works. OW THE CITY’S MONEY IS BURIED OUT OF SIGHT Id. Newton Unearths Som e Extravagances on Ceme-| tery Road-Broken Down Culvert Costs $1200 to Repair Lo the cemetery according ‘tions of Alderman New- oney is being buried by Ducketful He went forth on y t ver things and “took a 1 a8 he said in council th the result that he found culvert costing $1200 to costly retaining wall Park question, ralr, and some n on avenue near He thought of the fact that finances to be so low, the city should ing. Was there any con- " this work being done? he ‘o this Alderman Hilditch the culvert in question ever built by the city. ed because it had been hill and the rainfall had Utites ™ Of Water which had swept all Ala l a As for the retaining ea Meet ' Hilditch asked if Alder- Ot to ‘le Was really so childish as buncil 7 ; alter so many months in ‘tall retaining walls were "CUO One bylaw. Not until ‘ning walls were completed rt of Revision be held. The ind to go on with this work, t hed j Cations, Al ler Would tel, Newton declared that it iscovey wh * Philadelphia lawer to hat fan. b re all the money was going Norks Do ® SPent by the Public ring t, partment. He had been * © Hind this out for all his term Costly Retaining Wall Work he had failed Alderman Hilditch called just because they into some of his all childern to dig down doings. Alderman Newton maintained | that the Park avenue retaining wall} was a waste of money which might | be applied to other parts of the city more urgently needing improvements, Hilditeh had said so himself twelve but Alderman Newton discovered that it was a waste of money to carry Section One grading beyond | the junction, money he admitted, but it was the fault of the first council, not this council, | and to suit the local impormement | scheme under which the Section One them in counc'] and it was not his fault ) began | Alderman declared he months ago had only just Court of Revision, the city had to go | on and complete these retaining walls. | This the Mayor corroberated asking Alderman Newton how they could hold a Court of Revision on Section One| property with one man’s street frontage graded and complete, and the next} man’s left in the rough. | Alderman Kerr in the endeavor to satisfy Alderman Newton that the particular retaining wall objected to was needed to make possible to use the street for fill required. Alderman Newton did not carry the} discussion farther and the allowed to drop by the council. suggested | it} | | | ” is worth dollars and cents to him. Let | labor, the papers attack the aldermen as much | Ald. Hildicth as they please, but not the city officials} man Newton that | } |think this mean, cowardly editorial| be robbery. There is no clue to the Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 1.—The centen- “I want to tell Alder- | shows the cowardly, dirty, mongrel stuff murderer. nial of steam navigation in western I am ready to cross|the man who presumes to occupy the ———— rivers was celebrated here today, when }swords with him on any issue at 8ny | editor’s chair is made of when he has The Medical Health Officer has made} President Taft viewed a great fleet of |to have recourse prehistoric | application that the council give au-| craft. methods of criticism.” thority to the Sanitary Iaspector to have|_ Mrs. Alice Longworth, nee Rooseve ts Somewhat wearily it seemed the Mayor | g shack having no known owner re-|a granddaughter of a skipper of one | heard Alderman Clayton and _ then moved from the city reserve near Fraser | hundred years ago at New Orleans, Ald. Hilditch—‘‘Very often during the | passed on to the next order of business. | street as it is in an unsanitary con-| christened a replica of the old vessel. dition. Authority granted. who cannot defend themselves.” The Mayor's Move Here the Mayor remarked “This is | a case where criticism meade in| this very paper at a time previous to The city council adver- | | time he likes, or every night if he likes.’ Ald. Newton—‘‘You are a very brave man.”’ (Laughter), Blamed the Papers to these was this incident. ” nenerenrarne | Mr. Carmichael, clerk in the City Club’s Thanks Assessor’s department, has been granted The Secretary of the Kaien Island|a $10 raise per month on the recom LA K } CLEARING CONTRA CTS Club wrote the city. council last night |mendation of the: Assessor approved by thanking for the use of he city flags|the finance committee and council last | at the club’s recent smoker. night. The Mayor’s Exact Words Upon Topic of Interest, as Taken from the News Short- — hand Report of Last Night’s Council Meeting MAY TAKE PROBATIONERS | AT THE HOSPITAL SOON Idea is Not Popular With the Medical Men But Ob- eat “The tenders received for the work of clearing Woodworth Lake shores have been gone over, and the lowest of them is considerably in excess of the estimates made by the City Engi- neer previously for this work. There is about $10,000 difference between the lowest estimate and that first made by the City jections May be Overcome—Proposal is Made to Engineer. It may be that the council will negotiate with some ° . of the lowest bidders in the course of a few days, but I do not Erect a Wing to the Hospital think the council is ready to tackle this now.''-~Mayor Manson. Increase of work at the hospital, and | the need for more help has given rise of typhoid fever patients’ appliances will be outfitted on the recommendation of the Medical Health Officer, CHEHALIS POWDER FACTORY IS BLOWN UP Terrible Disaster to Washington Village—Eight Young Women Employed in the If it was a waste of | blew }to the idea that the institution should | | now open out and undertake the training of probationers who help out the work| P. of the trained nurses, at less cost. This }idea is not welcomed by medical men |} or by the matron at the present stage of |the hospital, but the objections to it | are likely to be overcome, and at yes- | terday’s meeting of the Hospital Board | the president, Mr, D. G. Stewart thought | | the time had come to institute the pro- paraffin he was heating to boil over| reaching the hospital. Her death made } hationer system at the hospital, Motions of thanks were accorded to Burns for a gift of Thanksgiving turkeys, and to Rev. H. Des Barres for an office desk gifted. No advice is yet to hand regarding the ambulance. For the month when the matron was away Nurse Moore took charge of the hospiat! and the Board has agreed to pay her at the same rate as the matron for that month’s work as she took entire responsibility for the institution Building Are Dead—-All Men Escaped—-Building Wrecked in a Twinkling (Canadian Press Despatch) a to a workman allowing a pot of] out terribly injured but died soon aftet Cehalis, Wash., Nov. 2.—-By a terrible fire followed by an explosion which] and run into the powder in the mixing | the eighth. | The idea is at present to have three during that time, up the powder factory of the/room. The heat of the melting wax | Three Great Flashes probationers engaged according to the eateries teeta es Imperial Powder Company here, eight|ignited the powder and caused an! Little is known of the disaster, save plan which zhas been found satisfactory READY TO BUILD LINE young women have lost their lives, Men All Escaped two girls out of ten escaped although all of the Only their lives, explosion and more fire. A Mass of Flame | It was only a minute from the first | flash until the whole place was a mass | the testimony of the townspeople that they saw three flashes and explosions | in quick succession, Money Loss $20,000 | pitals, } at the hospital is being considered. at Hazelton and Port Simpson hos- The appointment of one of the temporary nurses to a permanancy A Mackenzie & Mann Wil Construct Road to Hudson's Bay : : . on, and hold the| With grading was undertaken, an twelve men employed there are unhurt. The name of one of the victims is | Bertha Nagle. Co., President of the Board of Trade, wil! | matter was | 1e8 (Canadian Press Despatch) Winnipeg, Nov. 2.—Sir William Mac- kenzie had an interview with Premier Roblin yesterday regarding the Hudson’s Bay Air Line, Afterwards a statement was made by the Premier that every- thing was now ready to commence the of flame. Two of the girls managed} The money loss is not heavy, to escape by a sudden rush for the| about $20,000. The buildings door, but most fo them perished in the} light and fl msy in construction, being | permanent nurse gets $60 per month, were! and a temporary $25 per week. Finan- g *5 18 / cial matters are satisfactory but the Bertha Nagle was broughr | required by law for powder factories., need for a new wing calls for increased ~ activity in the search for funds. Both Mr. W. H. Cullen is a brother of{the G, T, P. and the Government paid | Frank Cullen, of the Journal, and one | over their regular cheques according to It is believed that the accident was | flames. Mr. A. J. Morris, of the Pierey-Morris | IS NOW KING'S PRINTER ) , | Brother, of Reank. Callan’ Landed Soe 5 See ee posses Mayor Manson has ap-| construction of the line as soon as the leave by the Prince Rupert in the) 33s son at Victoria—Is Well|°! ® {@mily of printers, He hes for proved the idea of erecting a new wing, | boundaries of the province are extended, morning for a three months’ business | ae cca Some years foreman of the Victoria) ang promised city aid, and W. W. aaa he| trip to New York and the East. | Colonist. He is well known in lacrosse | Foster, Deputy Minister of Public Ladies Give Thanks (Canadian Press Despatch) cireles, and refereed the Vancouver-| Works, who visited the hospital during} The Ladies’ Aid of the Methodist B Westminster games, In his capacity |his visit here, has promised his own|C Victoria, Noy. 2.—-W. H, Cullen, : — ; Own |(hurch has requested the News to as Grand Master of the B, C, Lodge of the I, O, O. F. he will shortly pay a visit to Prince Rupert, influence at Victoria for Government aid, New special lavatory and dis- infecting apparatus for the treatment thank all those who took part in making the Thanksgiving banquet and enter- tainment so great a success, Special clearance prices on lad- | Mee haan wale. Wal- | formerly assistant, has been appointed vob to be King's Printer, lace’s. ‘ * “eo ae a aed, geez