- maar cnentntnnr iinet NNER RE A THE DAILY NEWS Thursday, Deeember 26, jo THE DaiLy News ‘| THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. "| MORGAN SAYS HE DOES NOT CONTROL FINANCE torial Committee Disclaims Any Power with Money. Dee, 24 J, Pier-| SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—DAalILy, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. WerErKLY, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly | Washington, vont Morgan told the money trust} im advance. it ! a a 1 Z ie ion ‘ Thursday, Editorial Notes and Clippings iS ier e iar: an : ie ea eee ae AN UNHAPPY the mature age of thirteen or EE Gab ge dt 8 | LOT. fourteen years, and then see std geag gi ceil is Sveryone is hépey at this him disappear into the inky ia geek if 3 : blackness of the mine and ‘ season and little Johnny and grope his way some three or Mary more than the older four miles from the light of folks, for Christmas, with its day. presents, its feasting and joy, What real childhood can be crowded into the before the And what would it this strike is to them the event of their period before smal! lives. To the older folks the real unadulterated happi- ness of the babes is the source MORGAN'S STOREHOUSE, New Bank of Commerce Building, New York, where Morgan keeps his millions. advent to the mine? have cost to make Christmas of extreme pleasure. Take one to be remembered and them from Christmas and it cherished in the black reaches would be a bare, hollow imita- of the slopes by the solitary| declared emphatically that he} : > j tion, little fellows guarding the trap| sought no such power. | Is it not sad to think that doors and the safety of hun-)} For nearly five hours the chief while your children had their dreds? One Christmas cup) witness called by the committee} Christmas tree, decorated with with the “boys”; one cigar, the! jn jts probe of the intricacies of tinsel and bent beneath the price of a show ticket, would! the modern finance stood a run- load of good things, that sev- never have. been missed by you, | ning fire of questions that cov-| eral thousand little tots’ in but would have been appreci-|ered every phase of financial | British Columbia had to forego ated by those little boys and) operation. | the pleasure of Christmas, girls, suffering because their; Mr, Morgan gave at length his} through no fault of their own? fathers and brothers are strik-|yjews on competition, combina. | In the joy of self-satisfaction ing for their lives. jtion, co-operation and control in| the little children of the strik- It is not too late yet. New) jindustry and finance, particularly ing coal miners at Cumberland Year Day is celebrated in the|the latter. He declared that he and Ladysmith are forgotten. coal camps, and especially!“did not mind competition,” but It is too bad, their child life is amongst the Scottish miners |that he preferred “combination so meagre in any case. is it a sacred day, and even|jn his operations He was em- Imagine your little son, now those drinks, cigars and phatic in his declarator that your wee brother, or nephew, odd quarters can be collected| there is no way one man can get being handed a lunch bucket and telegraphed to the strike|a monopoly of money.” and a pit‘lamp when he reaches committee. | ET EPO —_ - MOVING SLOW ON THE LAST LAP OF CANAL |More Than 40,000 Men are Now i Engaged on the Work “FROM HOME TO HOME." Washington, Dee. 24-—As the HOTEL ELYSIUM | Panama canal nears conipletion Sid. Sykes, Manager fand on December i. only one The Finest, Newest and Most Up-to-date Hotel in Vancouver. jseventh of the entire excava- Excellent Cafe. Moderate Prices. tion remaining to be completed j}the work force is increasing in 1142 Pender Street West - - Vancouver, B.C. |number. There are now at work Phone 8500, lon the canal and the railroad the |largest foree in the canal his- tory, 40,150 persons, according eneenes to the canal figures. Of these, | except a few women, all are men, Find It Through a News Want Ad. and 30,196 are white Amerioads lof Graham Island, la 2 x 6 seantling, |of a Seventh Day BIG MILL AT MASSET STARTED LAST WEEK J. Pierpont Morgan Before Sena- Seven Day Adventists Colony at Sewell City Commence Operations Last Menday with a great tooting of whistles the mill of the Masset Inlet Lumber Com pany started operations, A large erowd was present to witness the turning of the first wheel on the largest mill in the northern part The first loge and the of timber was pres nted was a first splendid cedar completed stick to who brought it Magistrate Harrison, to Masset Wednesday launch Westover Masset Inlet Lumber com of Adventist col- ony that has taken up land near on the The pany is comprised members Sewell, the new town soon to be placed on the market by the Star Realty Company of Vancouver jand Masset, G H, Crane is |manager of the sawmill and was on the ground to witness its first work. He announeed = that ultimately his eompany will have lumber yards at various places on the northern part of the island. One of the conditions in the jagreement between the company was that the lumber must be sold at Vancouver prices—which will prove. a considerable b n | to settlers who have been pay- | ing very high prices for their lumber Masset Leader new Heintziman the land Wark'’s 2906tf Do you want a the best in See us today piano cheap? Magazines :: Periodicals :: Newspapers | CIGARS TOBACCOS :: FRUITS) | 2nd Ave. Below Kalen Island Club, SMITH & MALLETT THIRD AVE. Plumbing, Heating, Steamfitting and Sheet Metal Work Office: 8rd Ave shop Phone 174 ve. Work 2nd Ave. bet. 7th and 8th Ste ——_—_»— Young Wife's Death a Mystery. San Francisco, Det 4 Sur rounding the death of Mrs. Lillian wife of Ralph W. Ar known Armitage mitage, well the by being investigated by following an aut Cor oner’s Physician David FE. Staf ford, who declared death resulted from subtle poison Mrs. | Armitage was a bride of a year According to relatives, Mrs Ar closet pss some mitawe went to a medicine Wednesday to take a Shortly necessitated She died without regaining o'clock that morning, supposedly harmless remedy afterward her condition calling in a physi cian consciousness at 3 afternoon. Silversides Bros. The up-to-date House Decora-| tors of Prince Rupert Sign Writing.. Paper-Hanging — Our Specialties “We always deliver the goods.” 2nd Street Phone 166 Green WALLPAPERS { To make room for our large stock of next sea son's goods we are offer- ing: White backs from 7'2c up | per roll SEE OUR HIGH GRADE BURLAPS Tex-ta double dy- yd..20e fill .30c Dor-na ed, soft burlap, per Imperial and Colonial ed, dyed, per yard... 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