THE DAILY NEWS PHE DAILY NEWS Friday, Januar, | TT ‘ ~ DISASTROUS FIRE AT CALGARY PROMOTERS INDICTED AT LOS ANGELES) THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Los Angeles, Jan, 15 rhe} o THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. ldietments against five promoters | cea aaa connected with the Seaboard On) SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dat.y, 60c!/ TWENTY THOUSAND CARCASSES oF BEEF BURNED TO ASH- (| ¢ Pransit Company, a corpora, ' per month, or $5.00 per year, inadvance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per:year. All, ES — LOSS AGGREGATES TWO MILLION DOLLARS tion capitalized at & 9, 000,000; 1 (i Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly | the C. P. Bowers Land Company, v H in advance. Calgary, Alta, Jan. 43,—The|the bunkhouses and kitchen and], eoncern interested in Mexiean fi P HEAD OFFICE lmost disastrous fire in the his-|a few other small buildings, in}jand promotions, and the Ameri er ri Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. tory of Western Canada occurred which they were successful can Brokerage Company aA q ; The charge is at of having i f BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES yesterday when the large pack- Hydrants are Frozen eee ae - ao’ euenon 4 : . ; se e mails for fre e H | New York —National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City jing plant of P. Burns & Co. was A nufnber of the company’s|" 7 \ . wo ae tale - pe dre oe , ; P f _| purposes Nicholas ‘iy ae: SHATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. tous uly destroyed by fire. The | yd . aah frosen pe ; oe formerly of San Francisco, who ‘ } ‘ cappet e remen unti ey ‘ ¥ } LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar, loss, including carcasses in cold) 1 thawed out. Still, when|'® Said to be interested in th oh i I Square. storage, will probably be in exX-|ip, fy supply of water was Seaboard Oil Company, Was al a a TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates | cess of $2,000,000. available it, was entirely inade.|"ested. Warrants were issued ‘ . le larence P 4 on application. On account of the low water)quate for the purpose. One of for oe o a org i Po > » Ara anar » ae i niin s ’ 10 TS, « igezins an eu Supscripers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of |Pressure the fire departinent was ihe first aets of the company’s S a “ Créoanal was arreat ‘il non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. unable to do much work and al @/department was to draw off as ra ' tl a ‘te lict oi late hour last night the fire was|/many of the ammonia tanks as ed vesterday on another indi it ==> === ' still raging. possible, otherwise there might ment relating to the operations DAILY EDITION eG 0> Friday, Jan. 17, 1913. The loss is serious in that the/paye been a disastrous explo- of the American Brokerage Gom / a ee SSS! local plant was the largest insti-/sion, aceompanied possible by|P@"Y- / Hd RUSSIA URGES MONGOLIA MANY PASSENGERS tution of its kind in the west,}jogs of life. - ; , i > 7 . . arg: s » eve department | Hi TO ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN GO SOUTH ON RUPERT) from which all of the western] Portunately, there was very ng eis + ° al 4H ‘ee eee a cities, including Vancouver and |jittle wind or the loss doubtless Curing the or ee "a aa a H St. Petersburg, Jan. 15.—Rus-| The Prince Rupert left for the| Victoria, and - coast Pie would have been much greater, Wellace’s. ae oF rew large for ‘ir ve SUP-Ilaoce » hewn? pine -_ i. Hy i sia is urging Mongolia to nego-|south this morning on schedule drew largely for their oe ; "P-Jas the firm's kitchen, sleeping re » : reis reaty with | ti 4 ply, and butchering occupation | house, stables, cattle corrals and N i : sinthy PRegamaseagen cet yee Petgeed \eagpdtabee ingles passenger list. may have to be resorted to to feed storehouses are in close SMITH & MALLETT i q ah Japan, so as to interest Japan in}/Among the 85 saloon passengers/prevent a meat famine. Phe proximity to the packing plant. THIRD AVE | ] the maintenance of the new con-|were the following: C. A. Flem-|storage plant contained from 15,- The Burns plant:had its start Plumbing, Heating Steamfitting and cat }) dition of things and to counter- ing, L. Crippen, Frank Joyce, D. 000 to 20,000 carcasses. when P. Burns, then a_ very Sheet Metal Work : balance the efforts of China, A Maas Atiee Lemke: 3. & The fire was discovered about young man, came to Calgary|} omee:srd Ave. Wertuhes ‘ ! which offers to open Mongolia to|** Pie * ""142:30 o’clock Sunday morning.|/apout twenty vears ago. It is|LPbone’™ Sad Ave, Het. Th and HS Bee th i, foreign trade if its sovereignty|Merryfield, H. B. Richards, Mr. The whole of the basement wastegiated thet bin eote aaiea ties iu is restored. and Mrs. H. M. Davie, A. E. Me-/in flames, and the packing plant}]one jone beef-steer. Its growth The Novoe Vremya today says|Master, J. P. Hawkinson, A. E.|department, augmented by all of hag kept pace with the develop- G that Prince Khanda Van, the for-| White, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bar-|the city fire department, was UN-|ment of this section. and it has eorgetown eign minister of the new state of|ton, C. H. Dietz, D. Heay, Mr. and|/able to make any headway against] ade its owner one of the rich- Mongolia and leader of the depu- Mrs. J. H. Sweder, Mrs. Craig, C./the flames. This was due in.djest men in the west. his wealth Saw ill C Ltd tation now in St. Petersburg, is|H. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. G. E.|measure to the low water pres-|peing reputed to be in the neigh- mil oO. ? “proving most amenable to all] Burgess, George Carroll, Mrs.|sure and also the ammonia fumes borhood of 815.000.000 ae the Russian propositions.” Wright, C. Adams, A. W. Agnew,]in the basement, which were so Mr ice , i ih : oe . , Adams, A, . 4 ’ as ’ : Mr. Burns’ company also op- ’ : Khanda Van, it is said, has pri-|A. GC, McKnight, H. R. Corbett, A.|strong that the men could not}oepates plants in Edmonton and Lumber ' vate reasons for hating the Chi-|L, Mack, C. P. Hickman, G. H.Jendure them. Vancouver, but the bulk of the and a nese, who are alleged to have/Kohl, Jack Fang, James Bruce,| Repeatedly the firemen enter-|meat product has been sent out e i | poisoned his only son at Pekin.|]Dan Moore. ed the basement, only to be dri-]of the Calgary plant. Mouldings iB if Russia, on the other hand, has = siaiaianicbicse ven back by the overpowering The plant destroyed was fully} ; paid him $15,000 to compensate THE WEATHER. fumes. In a short time the fire]insured, the insurance on the| a q' him for losses in a cattle deal menses had got into the grease-svaked| stock in storage ‘Seiten my thal & op stock of dry finish- . : with a Russian subject five years The weather report at 5 o’clock]|floors of the upper storeys, and|neighborhood of one million dol.| fouber 0 ean tale ; ago. this morning read: Barometer,|when this occurred the water} lars. | made at short notice. iF | The deputation from , Urga}29.635; maximum temperature,|had no effect whatever. Mr. P. Burns is in Toronto, | ; brought with it a number of|13; minimum temperature, 7. Several of the firemen had|put it is understood that the work Our prices are as low as any. Mongolian thrones and other narrow escapes from exploding}of rebuilding the plant will be Call on us before ordering. characteristic presents for the Find it through a Daily News/ammonia tanks, but no one was|undertaken as soon as the| Emperor of Russia. “Want Ad.” seriously injured. The fire rag-| weather will permit. ! il ——— - - —————— ed furiously all day, and last ai OFFICE: night little remained of the mag- Find it through a Daily News | EMPRESS THEATRE BLDG. ; nificent plant but charred ruins.| ‘Want Ad. 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