EST CIRCULATION THE CITY AND NORTHERN BRITIBH COLUMBIA HE DAILY NEWS Avrett_— ative } vV., ‘NO. 22 PRINCE RUPERT, Seem — B.C,, TUESDAY, JANUARY, 27, 1914 GRUNTY GRUNDY SAYS: — Dr. Clayton says the antis want to help the council develop the city hydro-electric. Why not dig up the money? PRICE FIVE CENTS DE KILLS THREE PE —_ NS AND BURIED HOU OTSMEN CELEBRATE BURNS NIGHT;,WITH GREAT GOOD CHEER—CITY POWER SEPT. FIRST anti-bylaw party almost solid’ front again ght. The absentees were fanson, M. L. A., and J. C. an They had no lar message to give to the hand down to posterity; were? they after money, just wanted to tell the they really wanted the electric scheme devel- n as possible gation was a little late bul the mayor was ex hem and delayed pro until they turned’ up. mnel of the party was ( V. Bennett, Dr. Clay- A. Kirkpatrick and Mz said they represented committee and were the council to go or cits hydro-electric rhe did the couneil, had a clear wish but mandate not cone ens to go ahead, ited with he council was already is Lo go ahead with the Hle pieas- ting statistics. this would on the way had con- business, they lle id 1d he city hydro-electric It was vital to the in- 1 growth of the city. Stephens, while not a ©, expressed himself as in accord with the sentiments Bed, eMcPherson and Mr. also spoke briefly. nayor was pleased to have imitlee show sufficient in- in the undertaking to ap- the council. Most after assuming office are Kirk- efore paddle theirtown canoe. If > opinion is offered it prove a great aid to the Be He had no definite ent to make on the scheme, have for days been getting fown to hard jan as far as mancial Gondition is con- and have referred the problem to the head office cial to The Daily News Rhipeg, Jan, 26,—Offering untary confession before oval commission, Sebert city constable and ene of ficers guarding Krafehenko, 4 clean breast of the whote » He also implicated Peres » John Buxton gnd John ake, His fellow guard, ible Flower, he cleared of Spileion, Ki gave the rope, key and re- to Krafchenko two days p the escape, when Flower's was turned, The loosened n the window had been tame with while Ryan, the day , Was asleep in the cell, All rrangements for the escape made in the office of Perey , Krafchenko'’s counsel. He the remarkable statement He did not know what had ed him to help Krafchenko, the office, gun to and the ton had given n Hagel's to} him, If the city fails to finance the city’s treasury notes or bonds the finance commitlee have an- other plan about matured The city engineer and light superin- tendent have’ already sent for quotations on machinery and plant. The finance committee will be disappointed if they jeannot start by the middle of February. Ald. Morrissey said no time is jbeing lost and they hope from encouragement they received lo- ally to aecomplish a debenture e through headquarters. The be a great to the citizens at they could be of any to the city they would be do it Bennett congratulated the | thought the | have no finer publicity eption they got when they | new ed in publie and the habit|out ing on them. They turned|council's letter will be ER BY SEPTEMBER FIRST DECLRATION OF CITY COUNCIL SAYS FINANCE COMMITTEE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WORK ON CITY HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME DOES NOT START BY MIDDLE OF FEBRUARY liked|of the of manager sank general is the awaiting from England and city heads of the eit departments have been requested to get terms machinery and plant These might be purehased on time Lumber might also be purcuased he same way In this way with it small first payment all the cash hat would be necessary would be the cost of labor. By the assur- inces of the superintendent of light he expected to have power by September first He pointed sul that by installing the gravity system for the waterworks 828,- 000 would be saved in operating expenses and another $25,000 saving would be made by not having to burn coal. These sums would help to pay for the labor of installation The various sources of saving will in a_ short time recoup the treasury for tak- ng the money out of the general fund Ald Montgomery said the | shows good for a persper- sus vear in Prinee Rupert. He thought this committee should be cept posted on the doings of the ‘council concerning this matter. He offered a motion to extend a special privilege to the citizens’ The motion passed. . »wnittee Commitee Ald. Morrissey said in case it might give a wrong impression the council was bound to grant the same concession to every ‘itizen. The mavor asked Magistrate larss if he was one of the dele- gation. He said he was not. He merely came up to get his im- yression of the council first hand, He was interested in the ivdro-electric scheme. After mutual thanks and hesi- tating courtesies the delegation withdrew, STABLES HAVE CONFESSED HELPING PLUM COULE! DED HIM WITH ROPE AND GUN AND AIDED IN HIS ESCAPE E BANDIT filed off Hagel in had number had been Hagel's presence. gone to Plum Coulee to get $400, he said, to handle the case. He did not know whether he got it or not, Krafchenko had told him he had a car of his own which he had stolen in the States, and this would be waiting for him on his escape. Krafehenko had told him he had given $500 to Ward Brooks, who lived near Plum Coulee. Brooks had an under- between his ground passage granary and his haystacks. Brooks was an ex-conviet, From him Hagel was to get the money to conduct the defence. Concert at Seal Cove church at} 8 o'clock tomorrow night, Ad- mission 26 cents. 21.22 Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners Phone 4. Montreal. A| coming The Cox mausoleum, one of the finest in the Dominion, where on the morning of January 19th the LAST RESTING PLACE OF SENATOR COX, IN MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY, TORONTO late Senator was laid to rest FALL FAIR SOCIETY WANTS $5,000 GRANT Delegation Waited on City Coun- cil and Made Modest Request M. M. Stephens appeared be- fore the city council last even- ing, vice the president of the ag- ricultural society, asking for a grant of $5,000 to aid the fall fair. He said he was making the request early as the society wanted to know where they were it financially before they got out their prize list. He spoke of the success of last year’s fair. The mayor thought the fair a good advertisement and expected inother fair this He expected the chairman of the fi- nance committee would do his for the fair. He knew he was in sympathy with it. If the hy- dro-electric scheme is floated in- dependently he knew they would find Ald. Morrissey liberal. Ald. Morrissey recognized the necessity of the grant and real- ized that the council cannot hold the purse strings against the general interests of the people. He considered the request mod- est. The people had heard in the recent campaign that there was a surplus of $137,000 and he was proud to it was fact. He thought a portion of this could be applied for the fair- and for advertising. The request was left to the fi- nance committee to report on, good vear best say a Concert and Social A coneert and social will be held in. St. Peter's church, Seal Cove, on Tuesday evening, Jan- uary 27th, at 8 o'clock, A splen- did programme has been arran- ged and with Mayor Newton in the chair, a most pleasant time is promised, Admission, in- cluding refreshments, 25c. 22 The has been “digging down deep into the mayor financial situation” and has struck “hard pan.” He told the anti-bylaw delegates last evening that he had put his troubles in a letter and sent it to the general man. ager of the Bank of Mon- treal. The general manager is a new man just on his way out from England. Probably the mayor thinks that being new on the job and being an Englishman he “fall guy.’ Anyway the is a mayor asked him to wire immediately if he could have the money. \MAYOR IN A HURRY SESSION WAS SHORT Nevertheless There Was Quite a Lot of Talking With the Chair Doing Most of It The hour city council] sat just one last evening, and a session which had all the promise of be- ing a conversational drive turned to be a small-talk fest. Th: in five minutes late out mayor came the hall in an evening suit and a mouri- He somewhere. That probably ac- counted for his late arrival and early departure. There was no heavy business transacted although the ecounci) for fifteen minutes discussec the question as to whether the of sanitary inspector is vacant. by clock. He appeared ing tie. was evidently going ri fice The city hydro-electric scheme was talked of freely and Ald. Morrissey bravely said there would be power by September 1. A couple of delegations waited on the council and presented then with some metaphorical bou- quets. On the Scene Early H. E,. Gammp wants to get his before all the Pattullo surplus ts gone. He made application for a four-foot sidewalk on Jeffery street, section seven, and along Seventh Avenue and Emanuel. He commented that five houses would be served and that he wanted to build a $1,500 house there. Back Taxes H. G,. Helgerson, Ltd., asked the council to take up the ques- tion of back taxes and rebates for the Swanson Bay Company, who had received no tax notices. The local company had just re- cently been appointed agents for the company here. The commu- nication went to the finance con- mittee to report on, More Applications The clerk reported eighteen more applications for the office of sanitary inspector. They were sent to the health committee. Reading Room Committee The reading room committee was formally appointed: Rev. Rix, J. Brady, O. Hansen, Victor Basso-Bert and J. H. Thompson. Survey for City Hydro Scheme On motion the city engineer was instructed to make the sur- vey for the city hydro-electric scheme and to report on the nec- essary plant and machinery re- quired, Miscellaneous Business The Premier Hotel was grant- ed the privilege of putting up a 37-foot marquee on the Second’ CLOUDBURST DROWNED BANKER AND HIS WIFE Floods Carry Out Bridges and Destroy Many California Homes (‘Special to the Daily News) Santa Barbara, Jan. 26.— Louis Jones, a wealthy retired banker, and his wife, resident at Montecito were drowned in a flood from the mountains caus- ed by a cloudburst. Half a dozen houses in the city were wrecked and nearly every bridge in the county, including the rail- way bridges north and south of the city, were washed away. The telephone wires were put com- pletely out of commission. If you are in the market for a good reliable engine for busi- or pleasure, see Akerberg, Thomson & Co., machinists, cor. Manson Way and ist Avenue. 246-11-38 build- ness Avenue side of their new ing. The wharfinger at the govern- ment dock complained that the price of water for boats was too high, Steamer captains say it is twice as high as in other cities on the coast, The city engineer suggested a price of 12 cents per 100 cubie feet. This was adopted. The Prince Rupert Planing Mills asked for a reduction of the $20 minimum charge for electric power as they had been shut down. The light superintendent recommended the rebate under the special circumstances. It was left to the light committee with power to act, WwW. W, is introducing lature a bill to incorporate the architects and form an- other professional trust. He alveady has a doctor's trust a lawyer's trust and a den- tist’s trust, the principle ob- ject of each to keep out competition. Now the archi- tects want a trust. Next will be the preachers, the real estate men, the bakers, the merchants, the artizans and the ranchers. If this policy is followed up theor- etically every class of citi- zen is entitled to a trust and British Columbia would soon: have a Chinese wall around it, when no one could enter without first convincing these professional trusts that he had no serious in- tentions and only intended distributing a few visiting cards. Foster, M.L.A,, into the Legis- local fitting the a Last night celebrated the Burns. immortal memory A large assembly gath- ered at the Central Hotel and sat which would have done credit to a much larger centre. The president of St. Andrew's Mr. 8. D. Macdonald, acted as toastmaster, and after extending his hospitality to the large gathering, called upon the Rev. Mr. Kerr to propose the toast to the ‘Immortal Memory.” Mr. Kerr did justice to that great theme. He showed how’ Burs was a product of his race, the first real big Scot. He had artic- ulated the best things in Scot- tish life, and even yet across the departed years his voice was speaking. The toast was druvk in silence. “Bonnie Scotland’ was pr.- posed by Mr. W. E. Williams. He had never visited that noted country but he believed that beautiful though it was ithe charm about it was the creation of Sir Walter Seott and Rokert Burns. Knowing the writings of these men, he could understand the wealth of sentiment that tre ierm “Bonnie Scotla.d’’ con- ‘a‘ned. Ald. MeClymont responded and extolled the land of his birth. Scotsmen need no praise from others; they could do that for themselves. He vemoved the stain of meanness cast over his race by explaining that thrift: ness was not meanness, although often confused. Lord Strath- cona was a great example uf Scotsmen who had honered the Society, HONORED GREAT SCOTSMAN Scotsmen manner | that of Robert | down to a sumptuous repast, | which was followed by a large number of speeches and songs} i vinced —————_——— __—____} ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY BANQUET IN MEMORY OF BSURNS WAS MAGNIFICENT SPREAD AND AN EVENING FULL OF ENJOYMENT land of his adoption as wel! as of his birth, The Canada was one of the stirring speeches of the In that Rev. Ganou Pix was seen at his best. In the early part of his speech he show- that he is a good deal of a humorist and later on he con- his hearers that he is a great Imperialist’ as well tle re- viewed part of the early history of Canada and mentioned some of the names made famous therein. He believed a gr.at :+- sponsibility rested on the pres- ent generation to uphold the tra- ditions of the past. The Canon is also a man of war but no doubt toast to evening. the righteous kind. He would like to see a local navy with headquarters at Prince Rupert and with mighty fortresses tow- erings Mounts Morse and Hays. The toast was responded to by H. F. McRae. A. M. Manson proposed toast to Our Province’ and showed the similarity between its physical features and that of the land of Burns. O. H. Nelson and M. M. Ste- phens responded by short im- promptu speeches. The City We Live In was the subject of a stirring speech by P. F. Godenrath, responded to Mayor Newton and Alderman Mec- Clymont. The never failing toast to The Lasses naturally fell to one so well qualified to sound their praises as Principal Brady. His speech was received with great applause, Lee Baker and Cy Peck responded. The Imperial Forces, Kindred Societies and the Press were also proposed and were received in a very fitting manner. the — ee — ——— (Special! to The Daily News.) Storris, Utah, Jan, 26.—With a roar which was. heard for miles around an avalanche swept down the mountain side near here and instantly snuffed out three tives and seriously inujred three oth- DEBATED IN OF PEOPLE ON HIGHWAY (Special to The Daily News) Ottawa, Jan. 27.—The debate on the speech from the throne was resumed today by Mr. La- fortune, member ,for Montcalm, who complained that the govern- ment was not giving sufficient attention to the agricultural Classes, particularly the growers of the of Quebec. Lafortune declared that the Chateauguay by-election had been won by corrupt methods. Agents for the government, ‘he said, had passed from house to house offering to buy the pro- ducts of the farmers. They would pay something down in advance, but needless to say they were never seen after election day. Mr. Broder of Dundas defend- ed the action of the government tobacco in province Ne BIG SNOW SLIDE IN UTAH SNUFFS OUT THREE LIVES RESCUED AN HOUR LATER BURIED UNDER SIX FEET OF SNOW—HOUSES CRUSHED TO SPLINTERS er persons. Four homes are ground to splinters and every tree in the path of the icy mass was snapped off at the roots. An hour after the slide came E, Thorne was rescued six feet : tnalose the surface of the snow. CHATEAUGUAY CORRUPTION HOUSE COMMONS BRODER BLAMES LIBERAL SENATE FOR STANDING IN WAY ; BILL WHICH IS POPULAR e in regard to the Highways Bill. The Liberal senate, he said, stood between the -people and_ this measure, which was undoubtedly popular throughout the country. Fire at Cold Storage At one o'clock today an alarm was sent in from the cold stor- plant and the fire brigade responded, The fire was from an overheated stove in one of the warerooms,, Althuogh the hose wagon could not get within strik- ing distance of the fire the boys took their chemical extinguisher and assisted in putting out the flames with the company's own water hose. Very little damage was done. age Daily News “ads.” get results. a ee