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B.C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21,

 

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GRUNTY GRUNDY SAYS:

 

That explosion at noon was al-
most as big at that made by the
first giant cracker the average
small boy shoots.

 

 

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSANDS WATCHED THE LAST BiG SHOT GO UP

 

 

  

 

 

DLICY OF WAITING F OR NAVAL BILL TILL SENATE CHANGES CRITICIZED See DEAD

 

  
    
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
    
 
    
   
  
   
  
  
   
    
 
   
  
  
  
   
    
 

L CANADA IN MOURNING
VER DEATH LORD STRATHCONA

ADA’S HIGH COMMISSIONER IN LONDON WAS A GREAT
CANADIAN AND AN INTERNATIONAL FIGURE

death. In 1903 he
Baron Stratheona and

was crea-
Mount

News \!
ted

ecial to The
Jan, 20

at 1.5

Daily
Lord Strath-
Ile

sleep.

 

died 5 a.m, passed
fully
those

PCanadian

ror
the

Commis-

away in

 

in allendance on
High

thal the end was

ealized

Smith,

born

ald Alexander
K.G.V.O.,,
Mi

Do
was in
Scotland,

that

rayshire, in

cated at place

first the

Bay. Cor

ed
» Canada in

the Hudson

such favor bys
to be
company in
factor he

history

won

made Gov

as
that {888
Hudson Bay

early

saw
radian i
honorary president
of Montreal
the Canadian
it Northern
an LL.D
universities
of the House
for several terms
o Selkirk and
Montreal In 1896
High

t he

 

 

a dir-
Pacific
Rails

of ¢

anda

Vays

THE LATE LORD STRATHCONA
aa as ee ree

ol in lc fault

am
d Yale mainder

a specia re
his
Ho-
heirs. Mrs.
ndon, E

of mate
Margaret |
male
in Lo

; issue,
oa only daughter,
ward, ar her
Howard resides
land,

he a

Commis-
held

was

Canadian
pos

RANCE RATES DROPPING
UT YET LONG WAY FROM BOTTOM

BUSINESS MAN SHOWS HOW FIRE WALLS IN BUSI-
SS SECTION WOULD SAVE THEIR COST IN PREMIUMS

mm which until

 

late of the ten per cent.)[f another wall was put in on the
ance rate in Prince Ru-/east side of the Law-Butler
almost over,’ said ajbuilding it would reduce the
ment fire insurance man ites $3
3 ning. “Only a few of It is estimated that one of
Jjown town congested diS-|these walls would cost about
have the big rate now and) ggo9.
those bloeks under the ten} Another hazard which has kept
ent. rate could eut it down pup the rate on one of the central
little eo-operation among yjoexK. was the Prince Ruper!
usiness men who ¢ inbed the | pjaning Mill. Now that the busi-
pada: ness has been disposed of the
' afinual meeting of the! i, has dropped $1.80 on ad.
board of the Fire Under- joining property.
rs’ Association is called for)” my, jocal insurance men
lock this afternoon, and it strongly advocate that no more
the mention of this fact building permits for this class of

mn caused the insurance man
press some facts on fire in-
to The Daily News.
you know," said the in-
man, “that if the busi-
men who are carrying heavy
insurance on buildings and
in the congested blocks
d club together and build a
fire’ walls, they would save
Price of the walls by the re-
premiums on one year’s
rance?”
fire wall is a brick or fire-
wf wall 148 inches at the bot-
and 12 inches at the top pro-
ing three feet above the roofs
ic adjoining buildings,
illustration was given, If
wall was built on the west
of the Majestic Theatre all
other risks in the block
ld be reduced $2.20 per hun-
1! on the east side and $4.70
the west side. if a fire wall
erected between P, Burns’
‘her shop and Wark's store it
ld lower the rates $2.40 on
side and $1.85 on the other,

permitted in the
business or any congested dis-
triet. The key rate of the whole
town is affected by the city’s
treatment of this class of risks

The local insurance — board,
representing all tariff compan-
has done much during the
year to get the rates re-

It was through their ef-
that the inspector of the
Mainland Fire Underwriters
made an official in
the city, which re-
sulted in a new rate book being
issued last week.

This rate is still far from e-
ing satisfactory in the opinion of
the local board, but they deserve
eredit for what they have accom-
plished, and they hope that with
the co-operation of the city au-
thorities and the business men
{themselves they will get a fur-
ther reduction in the near future,

These problems will be dis-
at the meeting this atfer-

fire risk be

ies,
past
duced.
forts
B. C.
Associat ion
speetion of

cussed

noon.

“@ourt at Hazelton

 

 

 

 

Judge Young and Crown At-

BURNS BANQUET torney W. E. Fisher left this

: - — morning for Hazelton. The judge
will open the county court ses-

Bate pen podem pecan sion there tomorrow, Several

lety will be held in
CENTRAL HOTEL
Monday Evening, January 26th

criminal cases are on the docket
but they are of a minor char-
acter,

ha uihtere: of the Empire dance
in the St. Andrew's Society Hall
January 23. Tickets on sale at
Orme's. 15.20

Tickets, $4.00, can be had at Wil-

jiams & MeMeekin'’s and George P.
MecColl’s

 

 

 

PREMIER WHITNEY
BACK IN TORONTO

Sir James Sinking According to
Last Despatch—Wanted to

 

Go Home
Toronto, Jan. 20.—After lying
sick in a strange hotel in a
strange cily since December 14.

sir James Whitney is hack in To-
ronto and resting
fortably in a private ward at-«
General Hospital.

With total

James was

Is now com-

unexpectedness Sir
last night
holel in New York and
transferred to the New York
train for Toronto The
was rende possible by
improve-
condition,
came

removed
from the

Central
move red
two days of continuous
in the
though the

omplete

ment patient's

change as a
surprise.

minutes behind
the train which
Ontario government
“Sir James” arrived
this morn-
premier was

Thirty-five
schedule time
carried the
private car

the Union
ig, and
transfer

station

the sick
red to an €
n to

mergzencey

am-

bulanee and take General

Hospital.
Toronto,

from the

Sir

Jar 21.—A_ bulletin
General Hospital where
James Whitney,
has been
says that Sir
His condition

unsatisfactory

premier of

Intario, removed from
New Ye

nuch

rk, James is
weak

warded as very

SAFETY SHIPS AT SEA

International Conference Makes
Recommendations—Wireless
for All Passenger Boats

Special to The Daily News.)

compartments. The convention

provided that the degree of safe-

ty should ingrease in a regular
and continuous manner with the
length of vessels and that ves-
sels should be as efficiently
subdivided as possible. It was
explicitly stated that the re-
quirements imposed by the con-

vention are minimum require-
ments. The convention provides
that all merchant ships engaged
in international or colonial trade,
whether sycamores or windjam-
ners carrying passengers or
net, must have a wireless equip-
ment if they have fifty or more
aboard. It is possible to make
suitable exeptions in certain
cases, the most important of
which applies to ships on voy-
ages not more than 150 miles
from land.

 

Remanded Till Friday

The “rolling’’ charge against
Wm. George which has occupied
the major portion of the police
court sittings for three days, has
now been Jaid over until Friday.
The prosecution has completed
its evidence and anticipating
the case going to the higher
court, the defenee will probably
not submit any evidence in po-
lice court,

A City Joy Ride

“Speaking of joyrides abroad,”
remarked a civic politician yes-
terday afternoon, “look at that
personally conducted tour of the
mayor's in the city fire wagon,”

He referring to the trial
trip of the new fire auto. The
speaker wa sa member of the
anti-hydro agreement party and
evidently he had not been invited
to the ‘“joyride.”

was

“Valhalla,” S.H. & E. F.
Meets on Thursday, the 22nd
al 8 p.m. at 319 Third Avenue,
l Insti allation of officers, ete. Mem-

|bers please attend.
{7-18 JOHN DYBHAYN, Sec,

 

NEW REGULATIONS

London, Jan. 21 The task of}
securing greater security of|
ships at sea and of passengers
was dealt with in a_ thorough
manner by the international
conference on safety at sea
which ended today

The most difficult point the}

ymmittee had to deal with was
the ‘division of ship's watertight

 

 

 

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SIR JAMES WHITNEY, WHO

 

 

LIES AT DEATH'S DOOR

 

 

A thousand

loaded with the powder and back-
filled. The shot was fired by an
electric battery in the hands of
a man who was located behind
ihe -railway yard house.

Just after the passenger train
left .this morning the railway
section gang began tearing
the tracks in front of the
hill, These were removed
save the rails, as experience has
shown that a big shot
twists the rails beyond
repair

Promptly

big

al noon, the adver-
tised hour, the warving whistle
of a big locomotive announced
that it was time for those in the
danger zone to run to cover,
few venturesome — spirits
out on the end of the G.
wharf but were
When the
there
the } owder

T. P.
chased away
explosion

 

great black cloud burst from the}

cliff side; another white
rolled southward, a rumble and|
a hissing, and the hill
stood on the waterfront side of
the Knox Hotel had burst into a}
million fragments.

It was the last “big shot" to
be fired in Prince Rupert, ac-
cording to present plans. It was

also the biggest shot ever fired
in the city. There were some-
thing like 110,000 eubie yards of}
rock “lifted,” and this took about
95 tons of powder, ineluding
over one ton of dynamite. There
were six ..coyote holes in the
face of the hill and five cross
tunnels inside. These were al!

which | tidal wave on the harbor

 

up|

to |

tears andia
hope ofjeach end of the rock pile,

A}jscene of the blow-up
went

CAMO!
was very little noise trom|only a couple of broken panes of
itself, but the rocks! glass,

DISINTEGRATING A HILL
NINETY-FIVE TONS POWDER

BIG SHOT BEHIND KNOX HOTEL FIRED AT NOON TODAY—
THOUSANDS WATCHED THE LIFTING OF 100,000
TONS OF ROCK

It was noon hour. hurled into the water for hun-
people were scattered along the} dreds of yards out kept up 2 re-
cliffs and view points of the | pov! like a rifle battery fer a
whole waterfront. Suddenly a}jminute or more.

When the dense clond of dust

cloud|and powder fumes rolied away,

the A small
showed
that muth of had gone into
the salt chuck, and a scattered
ma-s of broken rock covered Lhe
railway grade.

hill had disappeared.

it

The G. 'T. P. slip was blown tuo
pieces, only a few twisted piles
iheing left to show were it had

been. The old warehouse on the
grade in front of the shot was
completely shattered and carried
into the harbor. Not a stick or
plank of it was left. The whole
hill was well broken up and the
remains will be easy to move,

So well regulated was the shot
that some small tool houses
which stood within a few feet of

the hill on the east end had not
even a pane of glass broken.
Everything fell on the water-
front side.

It is estimated that the shot
cost in the neighborhood = of
$35,000.

Contractor McDougall is well
pleased with the results. He has

steam shovel now working on
clear-
ing a track space that the
| railway company will be able to
ran their trains through = to-
morrow,
Several

sO

the
the

visited
after

hundreds

shot was fired.
“The damage to the Knox Ho-
tel, which is situated just behind

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|the hill broken up, amounted to

COLLUSION OF PROWIDENC

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PT. Gr rOREUNSTS

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LIBERAL
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MEMBER EXPRESSES HIS OPPOSITION TO CON-

SERVATIVES WAITING UNTIL THEY GET MAJORITY

Special to The Daily News

Ottawa, Jan. 21.—The debate
on the address was resumed by
Mr. McLean of Halifax, who
commended the government's
announced policy of bringing
down the estimates at an early
date in the session.

Referring to Premier Borden’s
remarks on the issue in the sen-
ate Mr. Maclean suggested that
if there is a conflict between the
people now is a good time to
have it settled.

 

IN THE SENATE

 

Referring to the Naval Bill, he
said no one was bold enough to
talk emergency today, but he
would like to know whether
Henri Bourassa and Armand La-
vergne are as powerful today in
shaping the policies of the Con-
servative party as they were in
1914,

He criticized the government's
policy of waiting until they got
a majority in the senate as ¢6l-
lusion between providence and
political opportunists.

 

21.—-Thou-
watched every

Winnipeg, Jan.
sands of eyes have

movement of the Winnipeg police

as they have been drawing the
dragnet about the notorious

John Krafchenko,
with the murder
ager, and who eseaped a few
days ago,--and the ~concluding
chapter of the sensational series
of events came on Sunday night,
at 11:08 o'clock, when he was
once more placed behind the
iron bars, and the $13,000 re-
ward earned.
Along with his
that of his counsel, Percy Hagel,
and Constable Reid, the latter of
whom was one of Krafchenko’s
guards. The charge of complic-
ity in the escape will be laid
against Reir, while no charge so
far has been preferred against
Hagel until the circumstances in
connection with the escape have
been more fully investigated.
How the police secured the in-
formation leading up to the ar-
rest has not become known as
yet, but it was tearned late last
night that the fugitive had only
been in the apartment house two
days. His companion there was
John Westlake, an employee of
the Security Storage Company,
and he, too, was placed under
arrest and must answer to a
charge of “aiding, abetting and
comforting’ Krafchenko.
Krafchenko was placed within
the walls of the provincial jail,
as he is wanted for a crime com-
mitted outside the city and he is
therefore a provincial prisoner.
At the conclusion of the royal
commission investigation, CGon-
stable Reid was surrounded by

who is charged
of a bank man-

arrest comes

OF ALL OIL

OR BRITISH

(Special to The Daily News
Ottawa, Jan 21.—New oil
regulations have been prepared

Dr.
by the Dominion cabinet council.

by Hon. Roche and approved

One of the regulations is that
any company holding a lease
under the regulations shall at all

times remain a British company,
registered in Great Britain or
Canada. The company shall not

at any time be or become directly
controlled by foreigners oreby a
foreign corporation. This is to
enable the crown to obtain in
time of war a reliable supply of
fuel oil when it is most needed.
It also prevents speculators put-
ting prohibitive prices in force
in times of necessity, Another

 

PRAIRIE BANDIT CAUGHT
$13,000 REWARD CLAIMED

ROBBER WHO ESCAPED “WINNIPEG | JAIL INJURED HIMSELF
IN FALL—HID IN STORAGE WAREHOUSE

 

officers, who took him to a smal!

room and read to him a warrant
charging him with complicity in
the escape of his prisoner. Reid
had been the prisoner’s constant
guard practically the whole time

since he had been confined in
the city jail.
Hew Krafchenko made. his

break for liberty was told by the
gunman himself to the chief of
police after his arrest tonight,
but by no manner of persuasion
could he be got to implicate any
confederate, or sav where he got
the rope and. key.

After gaining the photograph-
er’s room he threw up the’sash,

tied his rope and_ climbed
through the window. He was
only a third’ of the way down

when the rope broke, and he fell

to the ground, hurting his leg.
He struggled to his feet and

limped along the lane behind the

station until he gained Main
Street where the police signal
lights were already flickering.

He crossed to William Avenue
where he got a big scare, a big
touring car pulling up beside
him and offering him a “lift.” It
was not a police car, however,
the driver being a stranger, who,
seeing the mar limping painfully
along, had offered him a ride out
of charity. The man took him
along William Avenue for some
distance and set him down not
far from Toronto Street, where
he made his way to the Burriss
Block, where he remained in
hiding all the time, save for
some days when he found refuge
in the Security Storage ware--
house. As to his friends in the
Burriss block or the warehouse

 

 

he would say ic

CANADA TO MAINTAIN CONTROL

FOR EMERGENCY

NO OIL COMPANY WILL BE PERMITTED TO FALL INTO THE
HANDS OF FOREIGNERS--MUST BE OF CANADIAN

REGISTER

seclion gives the crown the right
to assume at any time of emer-
geney the control of any lease or
works, to operate and maintain

them at a compensation to be
fixed by the exchequer court.

Cc. H, 1. C.

Contract holders are hereby
requested to attend a meeting to
be held Wednesday, 21st, at 8 p.

m. in the hall at 819 Third Ave-
for the purpose of signing a pe-

 

tition, 16-17
Mr. J. C. Oliphant and son, of
Victoria, went through to Smi-

thers today, They expect to in-
vest in some real estate there.

 

 

 

 

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