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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dairy, 50c per month, or $6.00 per year, in advance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. on application. “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. Lonpon, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Svupscriwers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. ie DAILY EDITION Monday, Feb. 3, 1913. Editorial Notes and Clippings THE COAL QUESTION. The coast cities, and especi- ally Vancouver, are being treated to a good deal of hum- bug in regard to the coal situ- ation by the Provincial govern- ment. It is admitted by the government and its supporters both in the House and in the party press that Vancouver is in a very serious situation be- cause of the inadequate coal supply and because of the ex- tortionate prices charged for what is available. Within forty miles by water from the coal mines, the citi- zens of Vancouver are com- pelled to pay from seven to nine dollars a ton for coal, and in most cases they must pay in advance and book their or- ders weeks ahead. In hun- dreds of cases actual suffering has been caused for want of fuel and much i/iness has been oceasioned because coal could not be obtained. Today there is not a dealer in the city who will agree to deliver coal under three weeks, others wart seven weeks, and one concern re- fuses to take orders at all. We cannot believe this situa- tion has the approval of the dealers themselves, who, nat- urally, want to sell all the coal they can, that being their busi- ness. Coal from Princeton is now selling for $8.50 a ton, being hauled over the Great Northern via Spokane. When the Liberal govern- ment was in power at Ottawa large heroics were indulged in by the Provincial government, which asked for a commission to investigate the coal situa- tion. The Dominion govern- ment quite properly answered that the quesiton was a local one and should be dealt with by the Provincial authorities. Sir Richard McBride's last grandstand play was to tele- graph Sir Thomas Shaughnessy asking for a reduction on the rates from Nicola. As the rate is $1.80, it can be seen that no cut which the company could make in the rate would have any appreciable effect upon the prices charged here. If coal hauled forty miles by water commands $7 to $9, any cut that could be made im the Nicola rate would have very little effect upon local prices. Were the Hope Mountain Rail- way now in operation a cheaper route than the present one from Nicola would be provided, and in addition to that advan- tage there would be the com- petition of two other sources of supply, the mines at Prince- ton and at Coalmont. This was one of the chief arguments advanced by the Liberals for the Hope Mountain route in 1909 when, it will be remem- bered, Premier McBride had nothing to say for it but heap upon it contumely and abuse of those who advocated it. The fact of the matter is that the Provincial government almost wholly responsible for the present coal situation in Vancouver. The strike the island mines has been caused by the appointment by Sir Richard McBride, in his capacity as minister of mines, of incompetent mine officials, under whose administration the men refuse to work. The miners have asked for an in- vestigation and although Sir Richard, during the last elec- tion campaign, promised that the miners should always be given a fair hearing when they had a grievance, he has not yet seen fit to implement that promise. Instead of doing so, he has exasperated them by appointing a commission which has been sent away into the in- terior, where its services are not nearly so badly required as they are on the isiand. If the demand of the men were ac- ceded to and the facts ascer- tained by a competent and im- partial investigation, it is not unlikely that the strike would be easily and quickly termin- ated. We assert that this is a question which is wholly up to the government to grapple with. The McBride govern- ment has not only headed off any investigation, but it has consented to a capitalization nearly double the price paid for the mines by the present owners. That in itself means the maintenance of the high cost of producing coal. The watering of the coal company’s capitalization to the extent of $10,000,000 should never have been permitted. Coal is as much a public utility as a rail- way or a bank and should be subject to regulations in the publie interest just as those institutions are. The situation has got to a point, and the public has be- come 80 exasperated, that pa- is in Contract rates Se now well nigh ex. The government might very properly consider the opening of new mines to be worked in competition with tience is hausted the present ones. The result should be a very substantial reduction in the cost to the consumer and an assurance of a stable and ample supply The consumer should be the first to be considered, for it is he who produces the revenues THE DAILY NEWS 'AUSTRALIA’S CRUISER HAS SAILED FOR HOME. First of the Commonwealth Fleet Left Devonport Today. London, Jan, 20-—The second class protected cruiser Melbourne, the first completed ship of the Australian naval programme, left of the government and pays the interest on the exorbitant capitalization of the mines eneanecesininsliilililinesil The annual report of the! Minister of Mines for British Columbia shows a bad state of affairs in regard to the sults of the examination for coal mine officials. The re-| port remarks: “The number} of failures at this examination type. displaces 15,400 tons, has ja main armament of eight six- inch guns and a speed of 25 knots Two sister ships, the Sydney and Brisbane, are under jeonstruction, re- | was both unprecedented and unaccountable.” This condi- tion of affairs is a serious re- flection on the administration of the Provincia) Bureau of Mines. It proves the neces- sity of action by the Bureau to establish schools of mines in the mining centres, a policy that has been consistently ad- vocated by the Nelson Board of Trade, the Mining and En- gineering Record, and repre- sentatives of the mining in- terests.—-Mining and Engin- eering Record. GOOD FRIDAY COMES EARLY THIS YEAR Another Century Will Pass Be- fore the Festival Will Fall on the Same Date. All sober, upright mathema- ticians and chronologists of the George Washington agreed that Easter Day bennets should bloom earlier than for 57 years, century, or since 1856. The earliest possible date of Easter Day, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar, March but that has not happened since 1818. This year Easter Day will be March 23. the date on which it fell in 1845 and 1856. Tables of computations by mathematicians have as yet not been carried far enough to show just how long it will be before Easter again falls on so early a date, but that it will not oceur until some time after the year 2000 chronologists are agreed. The rules for making definite the day of Easter Day, upon which depends the rest of the moveable feasts, is that it shall fall on the Sunday after the full moon following the spring equi- nox. The equinox for the spring of 1913 falls on March 21, which is Friday, and there being a full moon on Saturday, March 22, it brings Easter on the following day, Sunday, March 23. varieiy are this year over half a 99, is A three storey concrete build- ing is to be erected at Ketchikan for the Tongrass Trading This makes the third concrete Co. building in the Alaskan town. customers at $20). Please mention th: Scoop May Never Live to See His Shadow MISSING! 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A sister ship to her is the battle cruiser New Zealand. presented by that dominion to the admiralty, and this warship be honored next week by a private visit from His Majesty, who will unveil the carved Do- minion of New Zealand coat-of- arms. will THEY USED HERRING FOR THEIR FUEL ame? Cc. O. Julien is in receipt of bad news regarding shipment of salt herring shipped to the or- ient on the steamer Fitz Clar- ence. It appears that when the vessel was within a couple of hundred miles or so of the Jap- anese she encountered such severe gales that she was driven back almost all the way to Alaska, and in the struggle to hold her own against the winds and eventually make her way to Yokohama she was compelled to tear out and burn every parti- tion and other wooden fixture on board, following it up with thou- sands of sacks of flour, and wind up with 700 tons of salt herring Mr. Julian's company, Oriental Import & Export Co., had on board. 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