7 CIRCULATION LAROEs oiry AND NORTHERN in THE pririsH COLUMBIA very = ef yvoL os” PO - Allye ‘i caw ee vi PRINCE, —niiepcd PERT, B. CHURCHILL TAKING PART IN CANADIAN POLITICS | 1, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS ——__—_—— 10AN AT THE BANKERS’ TRUST TRIAL — —THREE MEN COMMITTED—MORE FLOOD HORRORS FAVORING A Pt HAVE YOU REGISTERED? Eve fled person who shes e at the next Dominion elee egister anew e our name 1s the i list makes no dif- the old Pro- inion voters’ fere! s a \ nhand Don : cancelled. Those to register will have voice in the put iffairs of the country. Registrat must be made ion or before April 7th, 1943. Registration formes can be following persons wh fail secured t the from = Same Rh. Naden & td W. Anderson H. B. Campbell H. Mobley Geo, J. Frizzell 1, Morris J. J. Sloan 4. McKinnon i. R. Morgan W. MeLea HURCHILL CHARGED WITH POLITICAL PARTY JER HARDIE'S STRONG TALK ON THE “ALLEGED” OFFER OF | BATTLESHIPS BY CANADA. estimates, Kier Hardie, the So cialist, made a strong address, and in regard to the alleged offer of a contribution of ships from Canada said that Churchill | had placed the government of | Great Britain in an embarrass jing position by supporting jof the political parties of Canada jat the expense of the othe: He | deplored the necessity for in jereased armaments and at the same time must denounce the un lfairnes to Germany shown by Churchill Lord Charles Beresford feared Mr. Hardie's remarks would cause more mischief in Canada’ than had been done by the communi leation sent to that government | by Mr. Churchill He held no ibrief for Churchill, but he cer ltainly did like to see fair play | Germany Increases Army. | Berlin, March 29 ty a vote - =iin the Reichstag last night the vecial to The Daily News. iGerman army is to be imereased March 20.-—In the! by 135,000 officers and men. This se f ons last night,| brings the peace footing of the ge the bate on the- navaljreguiar army up to 870,000 men PORTS OF OHIO FLOODS ADD HORRORS TO HORRORS DVERNOR NOW ESTIMATES THAT A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS mains uncertain but reports con- -|Young, FI SUMMER SCHEDULE IS NOW IN FORCE Prince Rupert Looked Spick and Span as She Glided in This Morning. The steamer Prinee Rupert, Captain Dunean MacKenzie, ar- rived on time this morning with 58 passengers and a fair cargo of freight. This is the first trip of the Prince Rupert on the new jsummer schedule. For the past five of six weeks the vessel has been laid off, during whieh time she has been thoroughly over- hauled. This morning she looked spick and span both inside and outside and is in splendid shape for the season's heavy trafilic. |The Prince Rupert will leave for the south at 9 o'clock on Monday morning. Starting Sunday, April 6th, she will make the weekly trip to Granby. Below is a list of the saloon passengers: J. H. Horne, Miss Verne Cliff, O. W. Voge, W. E. Elliott, W. L. Perrier, 8S. HH. Hoskins, John Leibert, Paul Herbert Heal, Ernest | Ferguson, N. Scheinman, ©. Mor- ris, Miss Helen Hargett, L. Mohen, Mrs. W. A. Meacham, Mrs. Fred R. Hunt and son, Mrs. L. Duckett, R. E. Williams, W. E. Pafford, Captain George Roe, F. A. Me- Martin, Mrs. H. Hewitt, K C Murray, Neal Williams, George | H. Collins, J. C. Shepherd. If are of jfurnishing goods, can them at from 10c¢ on the & Hart's Last Call Sale. MEN’S OWN REOPENS ON MONDAY EVENING Subscribers to Gymnasium Fund, Naylor, |W. J. Alder, house buy at need you you in Special to The Daily News. imbus, Ohio, March 29 firm the most conservative state- and Public Generally, Cor- i . ntinually eoming| ments of the loss of life The dially Invited. mere dd to the horrors of| White and Wabash rivers § are a situat From Lake Erie|/now on the rampage and a re- The Men's Own executive ex- the Ohio river and from the|petition of upstate horrors are/tends a hearty invitation to the lana | dary to the Penn-| threatening. general public, and also to all ania ‘ Ohio . today is —_— subseribers to their gymnasium tl vilh the worst flood Dayton, March 29-—While the} fund, to attend the reopening so- state | ever known. An/loss of life is believed not to ex-|cial evening on Monday night at alling loss of life at Dayton|ceed 800 the property loss will|8 o'clock. Come and bring your wed almost every city|easily run into fifty millions lady or gentlemen friends. The B Villag bh a death roll that|The eight hundred dead are es-| new gymnasium is finished and Phot | talled until the rag-|titmated by undertakers. There| wil be open with its complete waters subside, is great difficulty in reaching the! equipment of paraphernalia, Bhi rious news today| marooned ones with food and it/with baths and showers and § that wn of Miamisbure|is feared that many will die of|reading room, hay ition of four thou-| starvation. There will be a short musical Mt had been washed away. —_—_—_—— program by the best city talent, AVY y continued all over Chicago, Mareh 29—Definite| followed by a luncheon, There at of state last night. figures as to loss of life from/is no admission eharge. The pOvert Cox estimated that!the great floods which havejpublic are cordially invited to tha 0,000 persons have swept Indiana and Ohio were not| come and investigate what the rendered homeless, Har-|available today, but latest esti-|Men’s Own are doing and spend ne tales are filtering thro-| mates, based on reports from the/a_ pleasant social evening in h of fa es who spent the|seenes of disaster, of! from|these up-to-date quarters. All nt enching rain in| points as near them as possible|young men of the city specially tops i the roofs of their/did not diminish the earlier|asked to come. Come and see. ded homes minimum of practically 1334. ED Many those marooned in| Figures available early this af- Jack Horne Is Back. “OPS are believed to havelternoon were as follows: J. H, Horne, who has spent the ‘ by eold and fati-|Dayton ..... 1000 to 10,000|}past four oer five months at Col- r And to have dropped to death | Piqua........++++++-50 to 540/ton, Cal, returned to Prince Ru- he flood below, aan a Par 50 to 300/pert this morning. Mr. Horne Supt ' every, deseription | Middletown....... .--50 to 100;has extensive interests in and nv00 ns were rushed to| Sidney..........+++++-25 to 50/around Prinee Rupert, but he al- ghboring towns, | Hamilton BET ee TS SRA {2} ways spends his winters in his em of penetrating| Fremont .......0+05+052+% 11/California home, Plex Oerae was only less| Tippecanoe ......5+6eee eres 3 CO ee ee eee ee _ in at Dayton, At) Peru .......-seerpeeee 20 to 50 LOCAL JOTTINGS . vas said that the! Neweastle ......+5+++++2 +8: 3 pera z reaching the city,Lafayette .......+++> ahve Hart's “Last Call Sale” will oats, since ordin-| Indianapolis ........ 100 to 200}take place Monday, 74 & ‘boats stood small|Noblesville .......>- < kets 4a 2 aw : *asting the currents,| Seattering .......++> 53 to 125 Mrs. Harry Pearsall of Van- Ina -aaeD SOR Oi ce noes 1.331 to 41,298]}couver is a guest of her: sister, ye March 29—~In- Mrs. Hugh Dunn, for a few weeks. a death toll still re. FLOODS IN NEW YORK are hs aN Mr Dingwell, representing a ===" | "Troy Under Water and Has Pro-| Woods, Limited, of Ottawa, who iii Teen claimed Martial Law. has been making one of his reg- Cowichan Clly Fresh Eggs Market, chan Bees and u Get Them, the That ¥y qd at , . ‘All First Class Stores (Special to The Daily News. Albany, Mareh 29,—-The Hud ison River has reached the high est point in history lt 22 feet at Troy Martial law has | been proclaimed there and the | members of two militia companies are patrolling the For ‘the first time in history news papers were unable to The waters are receding streets pub ish bul the i streets are still inundated is over | business trips through the will return to Vancouver Princess Mary tomorrow ular interior, on the jevening. Lieutenant Fritg Peters, who has been the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frederick Peters, for some weeks, left yesterday lfor Vernon, where he will spend a month with his sister, Mrs, E |E L. Dewdney, before regaining | his ship in England, AMERICAN “AN WOMEN JOIN LONDON MILITANTS Head a Delegation to Holloway Jail to Serenade Detroit Militant. (‘Special to The Daily News. London, March 29.—Protected by a bodyguard of husky dock workers, Miss Scott-Troy, of San Francisco, heading a delegation of American and English suffrag- ettes, last night serenaded Miss Emerson, of Detroit, the militant who undergoing the hunger strike in Holloway jail for win- dow smashing. There was no trouble. ARREST TWO AGENTS OVER BANKERS’ TRUST Manager and Employee of Nego- tiators, Limited, Brought Up and Remanded. is 26.—Further made in con- Victoria, March arrests have been nection with the Bankers’ Trust affair in Victoria, while two men who are wanted by the police have got away the line and are being sought by the American po- lice. The newly arrested here are J. O'Hearn, manager of the Negoti- ators, Ltd., and R. N. O'Connor, of the agents of that pany. O’Connor was arrested on Sunday in Seattle, whither he had gone while the trouble was yet youre. “When taken by the po- he waived extradition and returned voluntarily on the boat. Franklin C. Cook has also béen rearrested on a second charge and, with the others, released on bail. They will answer a charge that they did “unlawfully conspire to- gether to defraud the public by false pretences and by diverse and indirect means to purchase stock in the Bankers’ Trust Cor- poration, Limited, contrary to the criminal code.” The charge of conspiracy was laid by Robert Hetherington, one of the shareholders of the Bank- ers’ Trust. over one com- lice NEW TUBERCULOSIS CURE Friedmann's Canadian Pa- tients Show No Signs of improvement. (Special to The Daily News. London, Ont., Mareh = 29. There are not any signs of im- provement in any of the patients given the Friedmann tubercular treatment here. BANDITS ELECTROCUTED. (Special to The Daily News.) Richmond, Va., March 29. Floyd Allen and his son, Claude Allen, the famous bandits, were electrocuted here this morning. DISTANCE FLYING RECORD. (Special to The Daily News.) Lyons, March 29.Gilbert, French aviator, flies 318 miles at a rate of 93% miles an hour, Another Frenchman had attained 114 miles an hour, which was the best record up to yesterday. THE : WEATHER, The weather report at 5 o'clock this morning read: Barometer, 28.927; maximum temperature, 42; minimum temperature, 38; precipitation, .68 inch Storm Expected. Friday and Saturday prices will be so low that we ex- pect to be stormed by bargain seekers, Seott, Froud & shoe Co.'s Great Shoe Sale ends this week.| at $2.75 and $3.75. 73.74 Wanted to let, contracts getting out a large number cedar telegraph poles For information eall at the rea! estate and brokerage office Bainter. Phone 387, of) SEAL COVE SCHOOL IS NEARLY COMPLETED will Probably Be Be ¢ Opened a Week from Monday—Total Cost About $65,000 Had it pointment not in been for a disap- the arrival of the heating plant from Toronto the new school at Seal Cove would have been ready for opening on Monday next. A _ representative of the “News” visited the schoo! yesterday afternoon and was sur- prised at the splendid progress that has been made. Although work was not started on the building until about the middle of January, it is now practically completed, Practically all that remains to done is the installation of the furnace, The two class rooms on the main floor on opposite sides be of a large hall are bright, airy and roomy. In the basement are lavatories, furnace room and ample space for two large play rooms. The original estimate for the building, including heating plant, was $5,000, and notwithstanding that there have been a number of extras it is expected that the work will be completed within that figure. The contractors, Meeker & Clark, are to be con- gratulated upon the progress that has been made and upon. the general appearance of the work. It is possible that a class will be opened in the new school a week from Monday. Although several applications for the po- sition of teacher have been re- ceived, no appointment has yet been made. PRINCESS SOPHIA IS AGAIN ON THIS RUN Princess May Is Laying Over One Trip to Be Thoroughly Overhauled. The C. P. R. steamer Princess Sophia, with Captain Campbell! in command, left Vancouver yester- day on the Skagway run in place of the Princess May. The latter vessel arrived there day previous and will lay over for one trip in order to have a few little repairs completed and a thorough over- hauling. The accommodation on the Sophia and the speed she can attain are to all intents and pur- poses the same as those of her sister ship, so that the schedule will in no wise be departed from. U. 8. WARSHIP LOST Battleship Baltimore, with Four Hundred Soldiers, Sinks Off Guayamas. Mexico City, March 29.—It, is reported here that the | United States battleship Baltimore, with four hundred soldiers aboard, has sunk off Guayamas in the Gulf of California. The acci- dent was the result of an explo- sion, Hotel Clerk Resigns. Mr. Joe Keller, the genial clerk at the G. T. P. Inn, has resigned his position to take a similar one with his brother in a hotel in the vicinity of Burns Lake. Joe has been a familiar figure around the Inn for the past two or three years. He will be succeeded as day clerk by W. Christiansen, who has been on night duty for some months past, Joe will leave for the interior about the first of April. Did You Get Yours? If you have not bought some ADRIANOPLE CAPTURED BY BULGARS AFTER FIERCE FIGHT SHUKRI PASHA, TURKISH - COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, suICIDES— THE CITY IN FLAMES. were raging in various sections |of the beleagured city. The mad- |dened population, whose nerves had been shattered by the almost incessant bombardment for a period of over five months, were fleeing about the streets, not knowing where to find shelter. (Special to The Daily News.) Mustapha Pasha, March 26,— The fortress of Adrianople was taken by storm by the Bulgarians this morning after fighting of the most terrible character since Monday. Flames are devastating the city. comeentnwcests HIS LAST STAND London, March 26. — Shukri Pasha, the Turkish commander- in-chief of Adrianople, com- mitted suicide after the capture of the city, according to a news agency despatch from Sofia. Federal Mexican Qe General Is Sur- rounded by Insurgents. (Special to The Daily News.) Naco, Ariz., March 29.—Gen- eral Ojeda, with 400 federals, is surrounded by 1,000 state’ in- surgents of Naco at Sonora, Mex- ico, where he is making a last stand. Six hundred insurgents are on the way to reinforce their comrades. Berlin, March 26—The fall of Adrianople is announced defini- tely by the Sofia» correspondent of the Presse Centrale. The Bul- garian Schripka regiment was the first to enter the city. All the Turkish military depots have been blown up. Last Call Sale. Monday, March 31, will be our Sofia, March 26—It was an-‘last day in our new store, as we nounced from a_ trustworthy|have rented it to the new fish private source today that the|market. Look in our show win- Bulgaria cavalry had succeeded|dows for bargains. Hart's. 74 in entering the besieged Turkish fortress at Adrianople. At an early hour today fires Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners. Phone 4. MANAGER SLOAN TESTIFIES AT BANKERS’ TRUST HEARING THREE MEN, COOK, HEARN AND 0'CC ARD O'CONNOR, ARE cOmmITTED FOR TRIAL ON FRAUD CHARGES. auditor's statement, He had paid $1,000 cash for his shares and given notes for the balance. Some of these notes were in the hands of the Bankers’ Trust. He did not know where the others were. Following brief addresses by Victoria, ‘March 26.—Franklin ©. Cook, J. O. Hearn and R. N. O'Connor were committed for trial yesterday on a charge of theft of $8,000 from F. J. Pop- ham of this city, as a result of a business transaction in connec-|counsel, Magistrate Jay com- hion with the Bankers’ Trust|mitted the accused for trial, Corporation, now defunct, All|pointing out that where there was a conflict in evidence, as there was concerning a reported conversation between Cook and Allen relative to the repayment of the $8,000, he would leave it to a jury to determine. are now out on bail. The case is exciting great in- terest in financial circles in this city and Vancouver, because of the prominence of all the accused parties. Mr, Cook was formerly president of the People’s Trust Company, which went into liqui- dation recently. He came to Brit- ish Columbia ‘several years ago and located in Westminster, where for some time he did a large business not only in his own name, but with the People’s Trust Company. He is a tall, fine lookipg man of about 40. His optimistic views and splendid conversational abilities are un- doubtedly fine personal assets, Mr. Hearn is a younger man, clean shaven and of dark complexion, and is well known, especially in Vancouver, where he has been long engaged as salesman and broker. As Cook was head of the Bankers’ Trust Company, so Hearn was the mainspring of the Negotiators, Lid., another con. cern which worked in close touch with the Bankers’ Trust. Mr. James Sloan, manager of the branch of the Bankers’ Trust at Prince Rupert, testified he had LEAVING FOR VANCOUVER Prince Rupert Loses Popular and Energetic Business Man. Mr. L. GC, Macken, manager of ythe Prince Rupert Hardware and Supply Co., Ltd., for the past two years, has resigned his position and will leave for Vancouver on the Princess Mary tomorrow night to engage in the real estate business in that city. Being ever ready to assist in any movement for the general welfare of the city, Mr. Macken’s departure is a decided loss, That he may meet with every success in his new line of business is the wish of a large number of friends in Prince Ru- pert who sincerely regret his de- parture, Mr. H. J. W. Brooks, who has been connected with the Prince a conversation with Cook and Rupert Hardware and Supply Co. Allen on February 25, the day ; fter a meeting of the directors for some time, sssumes full Oster 8 BigsAe f ’leharge of the management of the and discussed financial matters business of the Bankers’ Trust, especially ; with reference to the Prinee Ru- ee eee pert branch, Mr. Allen had then Circulating Library. told the witness that the Bankers’ There has just been received Trust had on hand at that time|at Hyde's news stand 200 paper of our Shoe Snaps come and see for} of C BE 72.74 us at onee, A fine assortment of sinart shoes for men and women | Sale ends to-| j\day. Seott, Froud & Go., Srd| Ave, ofA a. ao Alder, a former well al! | known real estate dealer of this|that time he could not say off- }city, now resident in Victoria, ar- morning. i stock, ; said, rived on the Prince Rupert this|the company, covered novels for the cireulat- ing library which he is running in connection with his business. Members pay 20 cents for the first book, which if returned in reasonable condition can be ex- changed for another for 5 cents. Members get the reading ef these books practically at 5 cents each, $24,000, though he did not say where the money was. To Publie Prosecutor Harrison Mr. Sloan stated he had pur. chased four hundred shares of As things turned out, he he certainly got those shares under a misrepresentation, At |hand what was the standing of|Remember the place, Hyde's though he had ex-;news stand, opposite Union amined the balance sheet and| Bank. 73 ar aoe aa 2 ~~ ym