— LARGEST CIRCULATION In THE CITY AND NORT Ff ome -MBIA v a oer a eet : ye | vob. IV, NO. 159. ; —_——_—___—_——— PRINCE RUPERT, B, C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1913. Dey elop No great seaport can point BBPRINCE RUPERT'S NEWEST NEIGHBOR ON RAILROAD RAINS WILL SOON BE RUNNING TO SMITHERS, THE NEXT GENERAL FREIGHT AND PASSENGER DIVISION POINT EAST OF HERE. fhe Bulkley Valley -|alone to its excellent harbor and Association is evidently|railway connections as reasons ed with a full measure of|for its commercial supremacy, he suthful enthusiasm s0 es-/A position that gives distributive tial in an institution of that/advantages to a wide tributary icler, as evidenced by thejcountry is equally important, ving article. In a _ letter} Prince Rupert, happily, can claim ipanying it Clark Williams,}unequalled good fortune in its secretary, writes: “We ex-/location in this respect. Lying he organization to be af-|at its back are the great water- lialed very soon with the Pro-|sheus of the Skeena and Bulkley Club of Yancouver, and|/rivers, with their tributaries, a the Jatter organization is|country of very large extent and ig an excursion this year| prov: soil fertilities and min- ce Rupert an dthe Bulk-/eral wealth. niry I can send you con As five years ago Prince Ru- ible news on that subject.”|pert was but a few tents. on \s big an asset to Prince Ru-|a sparsely inhabited island, while the Fraser River valley today it is a thriving modern city Vancouver, is the estimate of] of nearly 10,000 people, just 80 lkley valley made by expert|js the Bulkley Valley, long a re- urists after a careful in-| gion only thinly populated by of this newest big|occasional pre-emptors on widely g section of British Co-|scattered ranches, coming into a Directly tributary tolits own The progress of the Rupert, the Grand Trunk] Grand Trunk Pacific across s western seaport, the|Northern British Columbia is farming Jands and mines of|pringing to this region, so re- Bulkley will, in the future,jeently an isolated frontier, large their soil products and min-|pumbers of settlers who are se- wealth to that market and|eyring the rich lands to be found ve in return supplies and|(here and the transformation of chandise of every descrip-| the idle virgin prairies of the KS CAPTURE SUPPLY POINT FROM B NEXT MAILS Prince George..Wednesday, 9 a.m. Per Sou Chelohsin......Wednesday, 2 p.m. PRICE FIVE CENTS ULGARS (Continued on page 4) OF FOUR OF special to The Daily News. Washington, July 9 The ed States wins three oul otf st four Gases of claims s bmitted to the American- sh tribunal, rhe claim of William Harran, British subjeet, for compensa- on for the destruction of his roperty during the war in Cuba eiween the United States and Poin was disallowed. NCLE SAMMY WINS THREE OUT LAIM OF BRITISH SUBJECT FOR COMPENSATION FOR DE- STRUCTION OF PROPERTY DURING THE CUBAN WAR IS DISALLOWED. CENTURY CLAIMS The claim ‘against the United States for crown tees amounting to $4,000 for timber purchased iby the war department from a contractor for the building of a fort Alaska was disallowed. A British $150 compensation in claimant secures for collision be- passen- loss sus- tained by a steamer itween a warship and a |ger boat in New York harbor. SERVIA MAKES FORMAL Special to The Daily News.) July 9.—The Balkan aris now regularized by formal The great re making an attempt to medi- le London, eclarations, powers Servia today has proclaimed formal declaration of war meainst Bulgaria, News from He front is lacking. The Bul- 4arians invaded Servia yester- ay at \- Konagevath, ‘There has eeh an outbreak of cholera in elgrade, carried in by the Ounded, The Greeks claim a reat vielory over the Bulgarians ' Doriran and assert that a Whole division of Bulgars has een de stroyed, As Doriran is a rovisioning point, the centre of he Bulgars’ supplies in the lands of the Greeks, is CG onstantinople, J 8, * uly 18 already preparing to Tur- take A PIANO BARGAIN For Bale—Qernara Hel ntzman Up- ight Grand, nearly new, cost 00. For quick dale, cash only, GEO. WERNER 2 Westhoime Theatre or P. O. Box 168 ENTRE OF BULGAR SUPPLIES IS CAPTURED BY THE GR ORIRAN 18 REPORTED To HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY GREEKS— AGAINST BULGARIA, EEKS DECLARATION OF WAR advantage of the situation that has developed in the Balkans, where the allies are at war with The Otloman Em- to regain the allies during one another, will attempt lost to the pire terrilory the war, OLDEST FREEMASON Hundred and Four Years Old and Attends Wedding. (Special to The Daily News.) London, Ont., July 9.—Joseph Mantle, the oldest Mason of Can- ada, who is in his 104th year, Is here from Toronto to attend the wedding of his niece to Arthur Essery of Vancouver, HAS TO PAY A FORFEIT Halifax Dredging Company Fails to Proceed with Contract. -—— (Special to The Daily News) Ottawa, July 9——The Halifax Dredging Company has forfeited a cheque for $75,000 for failure to proceed with the contract for Prince Kdward Island terminals, STRIKE THREATENS ON FORTY-FIVE RAILWAYS One Hundred Thousand Em- ployees Debate Whether to Strike for Higher Wages. _ (Special to The Daily News.) York, July 9. threatens New A gigantic strike which cripple transportation and injure interests all the The peace overtures one hundred thousand railway employees and forty-five eastern railways have been dis- eontinued. A meeting will be held on Sunday next to decide whether or not this whole body of employees will go on strike for higher wages. may business country, between over Mr. Rey. Banks arrived on the steamer Prince George this morning. Mr, Banks will be in charge of the Anglican church at Porcher Island. BASEBALL. Northwestern Vancouver Victoria 9, Portland 2, Coast Angeles 6, Oakland 5. Venice 4. 8, Spokane 4. Seattle 6. Tacoma 0, Los Portland 2, National Chicago 5, New York 6. Brooklyn 4. Louis 2. Cincinnati 2, Boston 6, St. Pittsburg 5, Philladelphia 4. American No games{ Mr. and Mrs. Arinur Hamilton have announced the en- Powis of gagement of their daughter Mon- ica to Mr. George H. Kohl, of the firm of Ritchie & Agnew. TWO MEN DROWNED IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER McLennan Pliunged to Aid Ham- lin, Who Clutched, and Both Were Drowned. (Special to The Daily News.) Invermere, B. C., July 9.—Two of the crew of the Nowilka were drowned in the Columbia River at Athelmere. The victims were resident of Golden, Frank Ham- lin, a deckhand, and his attempt- ed rescuer, Fireman John Me- Lennan, Hamlin went for a swim, but became exhausted and gave oul. McLennan plunged to his rescue, but Hamlin grabbed him in such a elutch that both sank. The bodies were recovered shortly after. members steamer yesterday Pantorium Phone 4, Pioneer Cleaners. The story that Reginald Seeley of Vancouver had been cut adrift during a fog in Wright Sound by his companions is denied by the latter, Rupert this morning. The account of Seeley's alleged experiences was published a fortnight ago in this paper on the authority of Mr.| Chapple of this city. Mr. Chapple had just returned from Lowe In- let, where Seeley was said to have. been taken in-a condiiion of extreme exhaustion from hunger, The whole story appears both ridiculous and preposterous to the skipper of the launch Lavie and his mates, Messrs. W. and G, Brunnell, They are highly in- dignant that such an actidn should be implied to them cutting adrift a helpless man and sailing off with a boat in which he was reputed to have an interest. Seeley had, by their account, no interest whatever in the launch Lavie. He had been, when they last had seen him, getting along well in his scow, the Cliff Patrol, which was going under her own power. He had _ had, however, practically the whole of the Messrs, Brunells’ stores in his boat, as this had been found more convenient for cooking in. These should have been sufficient to keep him for six weeks, More- over, he bad had an ample sup- ply of water aboard, Seeley had been anxious to take his seow up to the northern coast, as he was advised by the Brunell that he could find a better market for her there. He had been towed by them as far as Swanson Bay and he had tanked up with gasoline there. After that he had run the scow by its own power, said Skipper Brunell. “From Swanson Bay we ran up to Wark Island and eased down there to give him a chance to follow without mistake, We hove to again at Kingeome Point and waited till he had rounded the point. A little later we hailed the boat of the Pacifle & Oriental Fish Company, which had sighted him. We hove ta again about the middle of Wright Scund to see if he was coming out of Mackay Reach. We met three forestry who were in Prince as Messrs on Wright Sound boats there and spoke them. One hove to and replied in answer to our question that they had passed a gas boat in .Mackay Reach coming along without ap- parent difficulty. This was at 8 in the evening and the was clear. We were waiting for him at these points to make sure he had not got off the course. We couldn't afford to lose sight of him as he had most of our supplies, clothes and gasoline aboard his boat, o'clock weather “We laid to off the end of Promise Island until 4 o’clock in the morning and then ran back to about five miles south of Kingcome River. We spoke there two Indian boats and left word in case they saw him to say that we had gone to Port Essington. We then went up to Lowe Inlet, replenished our gasoline tanks, which were nearly empty, and af- ter leaving the same word for Seeley as we had given the In- dians, with a request to put him on the right course, we proceed- ed to Port Essington. “The story of Seeley’s subse- quent sufferings and of his drift- ing for several days in a power- less boat remarkably absurd. He had plenty of food, water and gasoline aboard, and a small sail which he might have used had his engine broken down, We were the people who had to go for a couple of days on short supplies, as he had our provi- sions. We saw him up here later and he was looking in de- appears EXCEPTIONALLY Good Programme AT THE MAJ ESTIC THEATRE ; All This Week ' No Advance in Prices Admission 10c and 15c TALE OF SEELEY’S DESERTION IS DENIED BY THE BRUNELLS Skipper of Launch Davie Tells His Side of Story---Indignant at Report That He Had Cut Seeley Adrift cidedly good health. How he can have drifted for five days in a narrow channel which tra- versed by numerous vessels is a thing strange enough to puzzle anybody. At any rate, the yarn about our deserting him is abso- lutely false. The Brunells launch Lavie now son, THE SUCCESSOR OF MR. M’MASTER CHOSEN Fred Davidwans! the he General Agent Here of the Grand Trunk - Pacific. (Special to The Daily News.) Winnipeg, July 9.—Further changes in the Grand Trunk Pa- cilie have been announced, Among them is that of the ap- pointment of Fred Davidson, con- tracting freight agent at Van- couver, to Prince Rupert. He will succeed A, E, McMaster as general agent there on the trans- fer of Mr. MeMaster to Regina, Mr. Davidson is to be succeeded in Vaneouver by R. N. Gard, the present clerk there. Is are taking their to Port Simp- Davidson has been with Trunk since the in- auguration of their steamship service in 1910. Before that he was a travelling freight agent on the CG, P. RR. He is a popular young man who has many friends in Prince Rupert. DIED IN MAINE Mr. the Grand A wire addressed to M. P. Me- Gaffery reached the city today stating that his brother had died quite unexpectedly at Millin- ocket, Maine. Mr. McCaffery left the city Monday morning on the Prince Rupert for the purpose of visiting his mother at ™ ihn. ocket. The telegram with the sad intelligence has been forwarded to him at Seattle William J. O'Neill and A. J. Costello, representing an insur- ance company recently incorpor- ated in Canada, were arrivals by the steamer Prince George this morning, They are leoking over the city, with a view of establishing here, no doubt, an ageney W. E. Burns, commissioner of the Provincial government to in- quire into the question of the supply and demand of coal, ar- rived here this morning on the steamer Prince George. He will sit in the court house this after- noon and ail day tomorrow, after which he will return to hold ses- sions in New Westminster. Mr. Burns has been holding sittings in Vancouver and Vic- toria from time to time since last March. So far he has been taking the evidence of the gen- eral public as to the cost of coal and its quality, and the evidence of coal merchants as to the price. .paid by the middlemen, the cost of transportation and the degrees of difficulty experi- enced in getting coal. He ex- pects shortly to start taking the evidence of the producers as to the cost of mining coal and the actors determining it, such as scarcity of labor and the like. At present, however, he solely concerned with the cost to the middleman and to the consumer. Mr. Burns is the only member of the coal commission and bears the whole burden of the investi- = is gation on his own shoulders. He has found that the most satisfac- tory method of procedure is to Montreal, dian Pacifie July 7—The Cana- Railway Company arranged last Monday to pay off $33,000,000 outstanding first mortgage 5 per cent bonds which do not mature until July 41, 1945 and the company’s outstanding capitalization wil) be made up of common and preferred stock and debenture bonds, which do not carry forclosure right, After this was done, therefore; the C. P. R. stood in the position of being the only railroad of any importance in the world that can boast of having no mortgage in- debtedness. In the United States there is hardly a railroad that has not HUNDRED THOUSAND ‘MEN, ON F ORTY-FIVE AMERICAN RAILWAYS S THREATEN TO STRIKE COAL COMMISSIONER BURNS © IS HOLDING INVESTIGATION HE 1S HERE TAKING EVIDENCE OF GENERAL PUBLIC AND OF COAL MERCHANTS AS TO COST OF THE PRE- CloUuUs COMMODITY. take oral evidence only in the leading cities of the province. From the smaller towns he has found it possible to get a suffi- cient supply of information by correspondence from the mer- chants. He expects to have col- lected the whole body of neces- sary information by the fall and to make his report to the govern- ment in September or October. trade, local coal merchants and business men. He may find it necessary to hold an evening session tonight as he wishes to complete the investigation here by tomorrow evening, Mr. Burns is the senior mem- ber of the firm of Burns & Walkem, barristers and solicitors, of Vancouver. He was born in Milton, Ont., in 1874, the son of Nelson Burns. He received his education at the Toronto Collegi- ate Institute and at the Uni- versity of Toronto, from which institution he graduated in 1895. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1900, came to British Colum- bia in 1904 and practiced alone. He then became senior partner of the firm of Burns & Daly in 1902 and uf his present firm in 1905. added greatly to its fixed char- Paris, 7—Frenech army authorities, who recently got possession of Germany's airship secrets when the Zeppelin dirig- ible landed in Luneville, have succeeded in getting plans devis- ed by the Krupps for a gun to be used against the aeroplane. While it is not admitted dir- ectly by the French Minister of War or by the police it is clear from a story given out here that the French authorities know all details of the newest aeroplane gun and undoubtedly will pro- ceed to manufacture a like gun themselves or improvements up- on it, The fact became public yester- day when the police here told of a German named Rudowky who applied at the police station for aid in finding friends and also for food. The man carried a satchel and finally, through an July FRENCH GOVERNMENT HOLDING SECRETS STOLEN FROM KRUPP MAY NOW SEGIN MANUFACTURE ROPLANES ON PLANS SECURED FROM GERMANY’S FAMOUS FACTORY CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY IS NOW FREE OF ITS BONDED DEBT OF ALL THE BIG RAILWAY CONCERNS IT STANDS ALONE AS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS ASSURED OF FREE- ~ DOM FROM FORECLOSURE. ges during the past decade. The Canadian Pacific has gradually wiped out its bonded debt by us- ing the proceeds from the sale of land; the company still owns 6,000,000 acres. Barring some odd amounts of other bonds of small aggregate value, the capital obligations of the Canadian Pacific will consist of 4 per cent, debenture stock, 4 per cent. preference -stock and common stock. In case of default on the de- benture no forclosure is invol- ved, but surplus income is avail- able for liquidation of the de- faulted: interest until that is tak- en care of, OF ARMAMENTS AND AE- interpreter, he admiited he had walked all the way from Ger- many, carrying with him draw- ings of a gun. He said he had worked as a draughtsman in the Krupp gun works. He had a companion, he said, who had made $2,000 by selling the sec- rets of the Krupp works, and he thought he might make money himself by selling secrets to the French Government. He said he could not gain admission to the French Minister of War, but the impression here is that the Krupp secret is held by the Goy- ernment, THE WEATHER. The weather report at 5 o'clock this morning read: Barometer, 29.687; maximum temperature, 62; minimum temperature, 54; precipitation, .08 ineh, While here Mr. Burns will guestion representatives of the eity council and of the board of A, i nee REINS WH AT one e rs ae AG, ee eee ent Se eer prone