THE DAILY NEWS Wednesda 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. Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone ¢ BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York——National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., York City. Seattie—Puget Sound News Co 8. New London, England—-The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. Subscribers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of non-delivery or inattention on the part of The News carriers. DAILY EDITION ag FBO Wednesda: , March 19, 1913. WHY AN ELECTION of the Government's majority, 1S NECESSARY for the Navy Bill—Messrs. The sstion is being asked Blondin, Nantel, Paquet, Pelle- pam sencevrs: * tier, Rainville, Coderre, For- why has the Opposition the get. Gauthier, Girard, Laval- right to demand an appeal to lee, Lesperance, Sevigny-—vo- the people on this question of ting directly contrary to the a permanent policy of naval pledges under which they were tribute as presented by Prem- elected. Had they been true to their ier Borden. Tt is because the pledges and really represented Government, if its supporters their constituents they would had voted according to their have opposed the Naval Bill. pledges to their constituents and reduced the government before the election’ of 1911, majority to six. Had Mr. Monk would have had but a majority been in the House, he has of 6 instead of 30, while had| since stated that he also would Hon. Mr. Monk been in_ the have opposed the bill, whieh House their majority would would have reduced the ma- have only been 5 That is,| Jority to five. while they have a House ma- Therefore had the members jority, they have not a popu- of Parliament all been present lar majority. This also in a and voted according to the dic- Parliament 13 members short tates of their Constituents of the constitutional re- the government's majority quirements aceording to last would have been but five—and census. It is therefore evid- the opposition would have re- ent that the Government has presented a large majority of not a popular majority behind the popular vote. And this in it on this question. a House 13 members short of On February 27th, when the second reading of the Naval according to the last census. Bill was carried the Govern- The Opposition position is ment hada majority of 30—| that a government so situated 118 to 84, has no right to attempt = to In Parliament there are 20 force through Parliament a Nationalists—that is members measure making s0 great a who were elected to Parlia- change in the ment pledged to their fon- procedure of the country with-| the interests out appealing to Therefore in the stituents to oppose any kind of taxation for a navy. These twenty Nationalists are | the people, a majority of whom Messrs.- Achim, Barette, Bel-| they really represent on this lemare, Boulay, Blondin, Cod- question, they are in duty} erre, Forget, Gauthier (Gas-| bound to use every means in} pe), Girard (who ran as a sup- their power to see that the} porter of a Canadian navy and voice of the people is heard. It | suddenly at the end of the >|. is because of the very force of | against it), Guil hankt, Lavallee, Lesperanee, | Lamarche, Mondou, Monk, Se-! vieny, Nantel, Pauquef, Pelle- | @tier and Rainville. . | Twelve of these formed part} ’ ection turned determined throug ernment is so force the measure and even to invoke to shut off the people. voice of th what the Constitution calls for constitutional} tion to the plant of of these arguments that the Gov. to h, the closure 1e | Provincial Elections Act NOTICE is hereby given that the List of Voters for the Skeena Electoral Distriet has been cancelled, and that ap- plications to be placed on the Voters’ List will be reeeived at my office at thre Government Buildings, Prince Rupert, B. C., where printed forms of affidavit to be used in support of an application to vote will be supplied. The list of persons claiming to vote will be suspended from and ‘after the 7th day of April, 1913, and a Court of Revision will be held on the 19th day of May 1913, and no- tice of objeetiéns to the insertion of any name on the regis- ter of voter® must be given to me thirty clear days before the holding of the Court of Revision. Dated this 3rd day of March, 1913. J. H. MoMULLIN. Registrar of Voters for the Skeena Electoral District. Find It Through.a News Want Ad. SCOOP 66 DRAMATIC CRITIC-I WANT You To OVER ‘Yo THE Q. | ACTOREEN ano THaTs To Dok PRINCE RUPERT PIONEER DIED AT VANCOUVER : thousands of miners and lum bermen, not only in British Go! umbia, but also in Alaska, Mon tana, Idaho and as far south as Mexico. In the eourse of a ui tive and chequered career he had of superintended the building many of the largest plants on the continent as having been active in the lum mining well as ber business of the province Mr. Lothian, who was bor: in Breadabane, Glengarry County, Ontario, 59 years ago, came west in the seventies as a young man, one of his travelling ions being Mr. Geo D. MeRKas now chief timber inspector fot the provincial government. Being an expert machinist and interest ed in mining Mr. Lothian became the representative of the firm of Fraser & Chalmers, Chi- cago, then the largest manufac- turers pf mining machinery in America. After travelling = for them on the Pacifie coast be- tween Mexico and Alaska = for many years, Mr. Lothian decided to enter the lumber business, and built a mill at Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, he being the first mill owner in that district. After three years of success, a fire de- stroved the entire plant. Coming west again to restore his fortune work, S. Lothian & Co., at Wash., but within a year fire ag- ain reduced his mill to ashes Returning to mining work under his old employers, Mr. Lothian installed a great deal of the ma- chinery at Rossland, also the coneentrating plant at the old Moneyspinner mine on Fire Mountain. At Alaska he built the quartz mill at Bernard Bay and an addition to the plant at the Treadwe!! mines. In Montana he built the Blue Bird mill at | Butte, the Bi-metallie mill at iGranite Mountain and an addi- the Anacon- he started the lumber firm of D.! Buckley, | Amount this Year to $141,100,100 | compan. | | umber business, being the pion eer lamberman on the Skeena ver He was manager of Cun ningham’s mill, near Port Ess- ington, and later acted as mana- ger for the liquidator of the B.C, Tie & Lumber Gompany at Seal Cove on Kaien Island, now a part of the townsite of Prince Rupert Disaster by fire, which had dog- ged his career in lumbering, vis- ited the latter property After the destruction of the mill Mr Lothian joined the Proevincial timber service as official scaler for the Skeena river district. For the past two years he had been in failing health, A strong, firm man, remarkable for his ~ quiet, eourteous manners in dealing with large numbers of men. Mi Lothian was well known and is well remembered by thousands who have worked under him in the various undertakings he was connected with The funeral this afternoon from the deceased's home on 8th Avenue, east to Mount Pleasant cemetery was attended by many old friends. A widow, three dau- ghters and a son, are left to mourn their loss. BRITISH ARMY ESTIMATES —Million for Aviation The the asked to March 18- which London, esti- mated amount House of Commons is to be appropriate this year for expen- on the British army is S141,100,000, against $139.300,. 000 last vear. The sum of &1,- 700,000 is to be devoted to avia- tion. diture Easter Post Cards \ fine assortment of cards at Hyde's. Easter 64-66 = — ——— people. | “THERE FOR “TALKING TO A LEADING ONLY ONE SYSTEM VP AND MAKE 4 NoIse_ LIKE A NATIONAL BANK ! DURBAR IN KINEMACOLOR Princes of ‘the Indian Empire TO BE SHOWN AT THE WESTHOLME OPERA HOUSE CHILLIWACK ADOPTS NOVEL SPEED STOP An Ingenious Method of Raised Crossings Gives Fast occupants of a low wheeled fast driven automobile a severe shock. The approach to them is such that a horse driven vehicle can cross at a moderate speed without discomfort to passen- gers, Some that have already been put in have proved so effective that the eonstruction of | many others in various parts of the city was authorized at the last meeting of the council. In addition to its use as a speed-checker the crossings are much appreciated by residents as protection from muddy streets. oe | The Japanese Budget Tokio, March 18—The Japan-|} ese diet adopted the government budget by a vote of 186 to 181. The total ordinary revenue is estimated at $265,800,825 and the extraordinary revenue %27,- 000,000, Against these the or- dinary expenditures are 8211,- 000,000 and the extraordinary expenditures are $81,500,000. Little's NEWS Agency Magazines :: Periodicals :: Newspapers CIGARS TOBACCOS FRUITS 2nd Ave. Below Kalen island Club 1836 THE Bank of 1913 BritishNorthAmerica TT Years in Business. 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TILE AND LUMBER ©O., DIED aT ore, Sees Cane 5.00 “rr year, a 2. e ; bis ms _ : . “e a Daily, 50¢ per month, or “85.00 per year, in dvance. Weekly VANCOUVER : | Chilliwack, Mareh 18—To stop vor Port Simpeet, Oreaby Bay, Stowari, Nea, 11 0. 1 it $2.00 per year, All Other Countries: Daily, $8.00 per year. lautomobile speeding through the th, 10th, March Sth 191! i : le : iwac ‘ » ol ror M t and Naden Harbor, 12 — i ' Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance, Vancouver, March 1t5—With do Co. In New Mexico he built|' ity = re aa m ag sane: ek on a : - ‘ \-t, . the quartz mi . hije| COUNCH RAS PUl HNO Crrect & Ue- For Skidegate, Aliford Bay and other Queen Charlotte TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING —50 cents per inch. Contract om funeret oF Denver's. Lothian nal i nee vice as novel as it is effective Jan. 19th, 26th, Feb. 9th, 23rd, Marc! { rates on application. this afternoon there passed one : | on eg This consists of a system of @. T. P. 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