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Fk TO PROVE GREAT LAKES

ARE LOWERING THEIR LEVEL

ED BY PRACTICAL TEST—SHIPPING CIRCLES
ARE KEENLY INTERESTED.

DRAINAGE OPERATIONS WILL BE DEMONSTRAT-

Aug. 4.—The claimythe instructions of the specia
equently been made]commission appomtead to make
rs and others, and]|the required tests,
been confirmed to a This commission consists of
extent by official] Professor Haskell, of Cornell Uni-
by the marine and|versity; W. V Forneret, chief
variment and by the}engineer of the ship canal, and
issioners, that the|W. J. Stewart, chief hydrographer

 

ver and Great Lakes|to the marine department.

nstantly lowered, As the United States minisfer
drainage operations of war did not grant the applica-
scale, is about to be]tion made by the Chicago drain-
a practical test|age authorities last year for per
d prove convineing to | mission to increase the quantity
eptical of water they are entitled to take

information ob-|from Lake Michigan, and as
Thomas Robb,|/has been admitted that more
he shipping federa-| water ts being taken than is le
y between Port|gally permissible, the res if
eb which are to|the practica tests which = ar

ge the test, are labout be made are awa
lwith interest in local shipping

their laying |

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)UARTER MILLION IN GEMS

STOLEN DURING ONE DAY

DETECTIVES ARE WATCHING HOUSE NEAR PROVIDENCE, R. I.,

SUCCESSFUL THIEVES.

WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE “FENCE” FOR GANG OF

Pier, BR. 1, Aug. fon, believing it to be either the
eclives are watcn | headquarters of the jewellers
e in a suburb Of) sealing band or the home of
This home is the
nee” for the gang|'"e!r agents.
wh obtained more Mrs. J H. Hanal, who lost
of a million dol-|$150,000 worth of jewels, has
ewellery here dur-|placed her case in the hands of
four hours end-ja firm of detectives at Providence
Ss rdav at midnight,|New York detectives are entrust-
he theory of one of|ed with the mission of recoyel
agencies en-|ing the jewels of Mrs. Charles
Phe man in| R stated to be worth $125,-
escape surveil- | 000 Several de es are st
rm police have n but a great number whe
pon which have been here were sent » New
hi \ Boston and other -points to
wreNnes es: which more r les vague clues
h se in South Bos led

 

A

Aviator Falls from Height of |

Within Two Thousand Mile to
the Northwest of Seattle.

CCIDENT AT CARNIVAL

Three Hundred Feet.

 

REBEL LEADER FLED

LAST PERFORMANCES

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Boards Japanese
Steamer for Formosa.

; The Daily News. | Special to The Daily News.)
Aug. 7.—-While flying | Peking, Aug. 7.—It is again
carnival yesterday after- | currently reported that Dr. Sun
the aviator, was|Yat Sen, the former president of
led His machine | the Chinese republie, and now
dow and he feii froii Blane of the leaders of the south-
liree hundred feet, ern rebellion, has fled the coun-
liry. It is believed that he has
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE | boarded a Japanese sieaier

jipound for Formosa,

Special to The Daily News.) ‘Stay of Griffith Company Ends on
\Us, 7-—A peven earth. | Saturday.
ling at 4:25 and : z

until 4 yesterday at-| The many citizens of Prince

vas recorded, Hts focal | Rupert who have beep patroniz-

i estimated’ 40 be ano ping the performances of the Grif

\ ind miles northwest of] Ath Stock Company will regret bo

liearn that the stay of that com-

j pany im this eity will end on Sat-

Birth. laadiny cvoning. This leaves only

oi J lo Rev. and Mra.|fhree more nighis on which the

 MoLeod, a daughter, }GriMith Company will appeal here

 

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LAST THREE

NIGHTS

Westholme Opera House
The Griffith Stock Company

Presents

Co-N ight

“THE MAN FROM KOKOMO”

Curtain 8,36

Prices: Bde t

oho
25¢c,

Keserved Seats on Sale at (

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und 50c
rrime’s

Drug

Friday and Saturday

“BOUGHT AND PAID FOR"

Store

PEACE PATCHED UP
| BY BALKAN ALLIES

Delegates Arrive a4 Basis of What
ts Hoped May Prove Satisfac-

tory Settlement.

Special to The Daily News.

Bucharest, Aug, 7 The

peace
delegates of Servia, Greece,
Montenegro, Rourmania and Bul-
aria last night concluded the
sittings by agreement upon the
terms of peace. The frontier de-
cided upon is practical) that
which was reported yesterday
and by formal! resolutioneGreece,

Bervia and
war
seeing that under this disposition

Roumania wi
from

ask no

indemnity Bulgaria,

of affairs she loses so much ter-
ritory.

It is expected that the allies
will shortly be once more united
to drive the Turks from Adrian-
ople and from Europe generalls

CHINA’S REBELLION
FINALLY SUPPRESSED

Canton Celebrating the Ending of
the Uprising with Public
Rejoicings.

Spe ial to The Daily News.
Hongkong, Aug The South-
Chine

tically

ern ‘se rebellion has prac-
the
of
In

been suppressed and
declaration of

Canton

independence
abrogated.
the populace’ today
celebrating the ending of the
rising with public rejoicings and
the explosion of firecrackers.

provinces

up-

The htdrographic steamer Lil-

looet arrived in port yesterday
evening from. Dixon Entrance.
Captain Musgrave has been en-
gaged there in surveying the en-
trances to this port.

J. H. MeMullin left this morn-
ing for a short trip to Stewart.

The Borealis has come in with

35,000 pounds of fish.
NINETY-THIRD BIRTHDAY
Lord Strathcona Now in His
Ninety-fourth Year.

Special to The Daily News.
London, Aug. 7 Lord Strath-
celebrated his

cona yesterday

 

 

ninety-third@birthday and al a
banquet in the evening he de-
clared that there was no standstil]

in the prosperity of Canada, but
that ii would continue for many
vears to come, , Ganada’s grand
old man was. the recipient of
many messages of congratula-

tion, some of them from royalty,
ATHABASCA LANDING FIRE

Four Men Were Arrested Charged
with Looting.
Athabasca Landing, Aug. 7.
rains saved the town from
of any further
tire. Four men
charged with

Heavy
the
outbreak

possibility
from
arrest,

are unde!

looting,

 

Methodist Meeting.

A meeting of the representa-
ltives of the various stations
lithe Simpson district of the Meth-
dist Chureh will be held here on
\ugust 14th for the transaction
lof eeneral buisness. It will take

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National League.

Chicago 4, Brooklyn 3.
Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 4.
Pittsburg 9, New York 4.

American League.
Detroit 2, New York 14.
Boston 4, St. Louis 14.
Philadelphia 7, Cleveland 4,
Washington 11, Chicago 2,

Northwestern League.
Vancouver 3, Tacoma 4.
Victoria 4, Seattle 2.
Spokane 41, Portland 2.

Coast League.
Portland 4, Venice 0.
San Francisco 5, Sacramento 3.
Oakland 4, Los Angeles 3.

WILL NOT RESIGN

Reports as to Ministers Coderre
and Cochrane Denied.

Special to The Daily News.

7.—The

that Hon. Franeis Cochrane, min-

Ottawa, Aug. reports

ister of railways and canals, and

Hon, Louis Coderre were soon to
retire from the cabinet are now
denied, and it is officially stated
that there will be no cabinet

changes.
CHINA NOT EXHIBITING
Making Third Great Power to
Turn Down Panama Fair.
(Special to The Daily News.)
Pekin, Aug. 7—+China has no-
tified the United States govern-
ment that it will be unable to
participate in the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco, This,
it is urged, is owing to the finan-
cial conditions in the country.

ONE OF BODIES FOUND
Grewsome Reminder of Hote! Fire
at Revelstoke.

Special to The Daily News.
Of

at

Revelstoke, Asie %:, the
three laborers boarding the
City Hotel before the fire the body
of one was found yesterday in
the ruins. The remains were so
badly charred that he has not yet
been identified.

SHUSHANNA STAMPEDE
Prospectors from Skagway Dis-
trict on the Hike.

Special to The Daily News.
“Skagway, Aug. 7.—Many of the
prospectors of this town and dis-
for the Shu-

trict are leaving
shanna diggings. Quite a num-
ber are at building

Whitehorse
their own boats ,
RELIEF SHIP SUNK

Further Mishap to Schroeders-
Strauz Expedition.

(Special to” The Daily News.)

Aug. 7.—A further
mishap, it reported, has be-
fallen the Schroeders-Strauz ex-
pedition, bound for the Aretic re-
gions. It is reported that the re-
lief ship has sunk, The crew
have all been saved, it is believed,

Christiania,

is

Grant—At Vancouver, on July
31st, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy
Fraser Grant, a daughter.

 

THE WEATHER.

The weather report at 5 o'clock

this morning read: Barometer,
80,009; maximum temperature,
58: minimum temperature, 54;

precipitation, .84 inch.
Hospital Board.

A meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Prinee Rupert Gen-
eral Hospital Association will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 4

TWENTY-ONE SECTIONS
OPENED NEAR MASSET

Coal Licenses Revoked and the
Land Now Available for Pre-
emption Purposes.

(Special to The Daily News.)
Victoria, Aug. 7.—
of the

As the result
of a of
coal on Graham Island
held 1907 have been re-
voked and the land formerly cov-
ered by twenty-one coal

revision number
licenses

since

licenses

is now available for occupation
by pre-emptors. This land is
adjoining Delkatlah, on the east

shore of Masset Inlet.

OFFICERS ELECTED BY
THE REALTY EXCHANGE

Estate Men Hold Annual
Meeting—Grant Money
for Fair.

At the annual meeting of the
Prince Rupert Real Estate Ex-
change, held on Tuesday after-
noon, the following officers were
elected for the year Angust, 1913,
to August, 1914: President, David

H. Hays; vice president, J. D.
Westenhaver; secretary, Lee L.
Baker; treasurer, M. P. McCaf-
fery; directors, C. E.. Bainter, W.
H. Kinkade, T. Collart, J. Dyb-
havn, J. Christiansen, W. Fisher.

The members of the exchange
were addressed at the conclusion
of the annual meeting by
He reviewed the work accom-
plished up to date and pointed out
the exhibition’s financial needs.

The real estate men ‘showed
that they realized the import-
ance of making the fair a success
by contributing the sum of $400
to the exhibition. This handsome

grant will materially strengthen
the exhibition funds and should
serve as an example to other

business men in the city.

TO MEET THE MINISTER

Commissioner of Yukon Awaits
Hazen at Skagway.

(Special to The Daily News.
Aug. 7.—Governor
George Black arrived here from
Dawson on last night's train to
escort the minister of marine and
fisheries into the Yukon Terri-
tory. Mr. Hazen is expected t
arrive here this morning.

Skagway,

Launch Alice B for hire. Tele-
phone Green 394, Davis’ Float.

 

 

Percy
Godenrath on behalf of the fair.

. —_———_.

Prince Arthur Frederick Pat-
rick Albert, who is engaged to the
Duchess of Fife, is the only son
of the Duke of Gonnaught, and
was born at Windsor Castle on
January 13, 1883. Like his
father, he was brought up to a
military career. On leaving Eton

he passed through Sandhurst,
and was gazetted as a* second
lieutenant in ihe Tih» (Queen's
Own Hussars ni 1904. Two
years later he joined his regi-
ment in South Africa, but was
invalided home. He has also

served with the Royai Horse Ar-

tillery, and now holds the rank
of captain in the Royal Seots
Greys. When his father was

commander-in-chief in the Medi-

terranean Arthur served

 

Prince
on his staff. He is also A. D. CG.
to the King.
During tbe minority of the
Prince of Wales and in the ab-

ORD STRATHCONA’S NINETY—THIRD BIRTHDAY—PEACE IN BALKANS ONCE MORE ASSURED

SKETCH OF PRINCE ARTHUR
AND THE DUCHESS OF FIFE

SOME FACTS CONCERNING THE ROYAL PAIR RECENTLY EN-
GAGED—THE DUCHESS PREFERS OUTDOOR
SPORTS TO SOCIAL WHIRL.

sence of the Duke of Connaught

in Canada and élsewhere Prince
Arthur has been the chosen rep-
resentative of the King on many

occasions, both at home and
abroad. He has undertakeh im-
portant missions te most of the

e@apitals of Europe and to several
farther afield. Among the “most
important was his journey to
Japan in 1966 to invest the late
Mikado with the Order of the Gar-
ter, of which he is himself a
knight. While the King and
Queen were out of the country on
the occasion of the Delhi Durbar,
Prince Arthur was the head of
the council of state, which repre-
sented His Majesty.

Among varied distinctions the
prince holds those of being the
youngest privy councillor, an

elder brother of Trinity. House, a

 

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Montreal, Aug. 4.—Petro Ceilli,
a foreman employed by the city,
was placed under arrest late yes-
terday afternoon warrant
technically charging him with ob-
taining money under, false pre-
The the out-

wholesale charges of
inti-

on a

tenses. arrest is

of

among

come
graft city foremen,
mations being made that city la-
borers were compelled to pay for
their jobs.

Ceilli was taken to police head-
quarters and searched. A bank
book showing deposits during the
present month of $1,000 were
found on him, as well as $76 in
Notwithstanding his pro-
test, he was locked in the cells,
where he will be compelled to re-
main until he is arraigned today.

cash.

 

a shortly.

155-tf' between

Other arrests are likely to fol-

for Geilli’s arrest
consultation
Lackapelle,

The warrant
issiied afler a
Controllers

was

WHOLESALE GRAFT CHARGES
AGAINST MONTREAL FOREMEN

ONE OF CITY FOREMEN HAS BEEN ALREADY PUT IN CELLS—
HE PUT FORTUNE IN BANK—OTHER ARRESTS
LIKELY TO FOLLOW.

Godfrey and Ainey, Chief Engi-
neer Janin, City Attorney Lauron-
deau and Chief of Police Campeou.

 

MACDONALD ELECTION

Morrison Must Produce Docu-
ments or Go to Prison.

In the Winnipeg court Mr. Jus-
tice Cameron made an
order that Alex. Morrison, mem-
ber of parliament for Macdonald,

recently

must produce certain documents

relating to the petition entered

against his suit or go to jail. Mr.
Morrison has been dodging the

petition ever since the close of
parliament, refusing to obey sub-

| poenas.—Moosejaw Times.

Se eenianeeso-meineneiaaheee
Office Closed

The office of C. H. Handasyde

will be closed until August 43th

owing to absence from the city.
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to the grave,

Impressive funeral al Mount Pleasant cemetery of Vietor Plant,
the collapse of a cliff at Scarboro Heights,

BURIAL OF A BOY SCOUT.

the Boy Seout who lost his life in
Comrades of Scout Plant are carrying the coflin

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