x sglative I i LARGEST CIRCULATION In THE CITY AND NORTHERN BRITIGH COLUMBIA Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Iv. NO. 40. VoL MEXICO C ———_—_——— $$ PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1913. THE DAILY NEWS S CUT OFF BY RIGID ¢ Venture........ Wednesday, 2 p.m. From Seuth Venture. . Tuesday, am. PRICE FIVE CENTS SS NS ORSHIP TROUBLE BREWING BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA—J. P. MORGAN SERIOUSLY TRICTEST. CENSORSHIP IGHTING IS OF A DESPERATE CHARACTER AND AMERICAN INTERVENTION SEEMS NECESSARY. Special to The Daily News. Vera Cruz, Feb, 17.—Hostilities Washington, Feb. 17.—Mexico|in Mexico City were resumed this ty is virtually eut off from the |!0rh'ns The fighting is of a desperate character. by the most rigid censor United States Minister D ‘ reports that fighting is a in progress. President} ‘JUS! arrived, an advance ship- ind his.cabinet are greatly|™ment of the famous Gage hats. ed s0tf | WILL HELP PRINCE RUPERT HE DEVELOPMENT OF VALUABLE MINING PROPERTIES IN THE INTERIOR WILL MEAN MUCH TO THE GROWTH AND PROGPERITY OF PRINCE RUPERT \ the future of Prince Ru-|lowing report of work being done ne of the most import.|at a few of the mines in the vic- mercial eentres on the inity of Hazelton, taken from the Coast is undoubtedly.| OM neca Miner, is therefore of it is gratifying to know |*"terest. advancement does not When W. B. Clark, who has any one circumstance | Spent so Inany summers in Haz n. There are many|elton and vicinity that Be has of which will work|ceased to be referred to as from vards the building up| Montana, ok the bond on the in port and = railway;“reen Mountain group of claims f no mean import i Bear River, some eighteen N the least of these is} Miles east of Hazelton it attract- neral wealth which is/@d 80 little attention that — the exist all through Nor.|™atter was promptly forgotten British Columbia and Work has been continued for : nly in the early stages| Several months and = Mr, Clark development The ores|now says that he proved the se mines, many of which| Property to be something far dif- ited in close proximity ferent from anything he evel G.T.P. railway, will nat. | expected. Instead of having a ne to Prince Rupert to; vel four to eight feet wide there rans-shipped to the most}!s5 4 mineralized zone at least 150 nt smelter, or to be| feet wide, carrying more or 1e8s ted here, as it is not impro- all the way The mineral is « that a smelter may be er-/|@ arsenical iron, with some ga- the immediate vicinity jlena and a zine and antim- continued development oefteony. The values are in the gold vealth of mine is naturally ajvceurring it the iron, and silver that cofiéerns every citi- of Prinee Rupert. The on) Continued on Page 4. y that baking would have to cease ERT WEATHER IS while hotels and private resid- NOT LIKE VANCOUVER ences were also up against it oneinee The strike at the Vancouver Is- rter Was Thinking of the jand mines practically cul off our Feet of Snow in Van- ithe supply for Prince Rupert as couver when He Wrote Vancouver has been taking every | This Story available ton. Wood fuel is hard “a to get at in Prince Rupert and hen the Vancouver news-|the heavy snowfall makes it most eporter wrote the follow-| difficult to @et cordwood down to ry concerning the recent|the city. The Princess Ena took of coal in Prince Rupert} 100 tons of coal north as well as hed in the “Provinee,” his|a large shipment of bridge ma- Was evidently deranged] terial and the coal was discharg the effeets of the four feet] ed late at night. Despite the hou whieh fell in the south-|teams were waiting on the whart during the first twoland earted the 100 hundred tous f this year. His refer-|away and delivered it the same ihe deep snow here pre-(night. Later the steamer British le hauling of wood to} Columbia arrived with 200 Lons musing on account ofjand relieved the situation even y. more. ‘The situation has called dents of Prinee Rup-|the attention of the Prince Rup Suquash coal between facing a coal the eutly, according to the serious ertonians to mines which are midway ight by the C.P.R, stea-| Alert Bay and Hardy Bay, Coal ess Ena, Capt. Georgelis available al that point al t Whieh arrived at 4/though steamers can not Bel Sunday from the northern|elose enough in to load but it is rhe condition was most suggested that scows might be ‘nd bakeries were faced| loaded and the fuel lightered of ‘uation which indieated'to steamers.” TO THE PUBLIC We have this day lower than lenicab you a 26% inaugurated a Taxicab Service in the city with rates fates in Vancouver. As a special inducement we of- ation tick reduction over our own tariff, By buying $5... worth of com= chets we give $6.75 in fares. if the public appreciation and nage is such that a a tariff very early date “* Sf@ able we shall submit « much reduce Our care are on call 24 bh your door within 10 minutes. 4p em We off hotel corn rates for dances, to professional men, for ambulance call at 36 will bring @ oe A Taxicab Service with “Service” a Motto E UNION TRANSFER & STORAGE CO . LTD, —= So —— SSS Sa CUTS OFF MEXICO CITY J, PIERPONT MORGAN IS SERIOUSLY ILL Report from Cairo, Egypt, Tells of His Sudden Iliness— Spe- cial Steamer Is Taking Him to Naples. Special to The Daily News. London, Feb, 17.—J the great financier, taken Pierpont Morgan, has been suddenly and seri- ously ill at Cairo, Egypt, accord- ing to despatches from Rome to the Com- Exchange Telegraph pany. The despatch adds that he being brought to board the steamship Caronia. is Naples on He is accompanied by two physicians nurses. He in his and two 76th year. General Agent J. G. MeNab, of the ©. P, R., accompanied by Mrs. McNab, left on the Princess May on Saturday for Vancouver. Mr. MeNab’s visit to the south will be of a business nature. YOUNG TURK LEADER IS ASSASSINATED Enver Bey Stabbed Three Times by a secret passage and was seri- wounded. FIVE WERE INJURED IN HEAD-ON COLLISION Three Trainmen and Two Pas- sengers Injured in Wreck Near Banff on Saturday Night. ously Special to The Daily News. Calgary, Feb. 17.—Engineer D. McNab, Fireman H. McGee Brakeman Barthers were ously injured and two passengers were slightly injured in a head-on on the GC, P. R. near Banff late on Saturday night VANCOUVER ASKS $49,000 FOR LIBRARY Council Will Be Asked to Provide $49,000 for New Books and to Improve Facilities. and seri. eollision Vancouver, Feb, 15,—It will be necessary to ask the City Council for a $49,000 grant in order to meet the pressing demand for new books and needed facilities Phat this amount is absolutely necessary Was pointed out cently at a library board meeting hk. W, Douglas, librarian, In his report he showed that better by brary facilities were in great demand and that every depart- ment was overcrowded, The cir- iiation of the first year (265,- 000) had worn out many of the books he library had only 34,- 000 volumes, in contrast with Butte, Montana, 50,000; Denver, 102,000, and Seattle, 150,000, The library should have 100,000 volumes-——60,000 in the lending department and 40,000 in the reference department. The li- brarian stated that $20,000 was | th stimated amount asked for and with that he could volumes, In the the total number in January were as against 16,303 for the month last year In the department the cor numbers were 5,547, iwainst 5,481 In the ehil department the figures we 1,608 as against 1,466. Al the four mew branch libraries 45,608 volumes were issued new books, 15,000 library re 1 ks issued hoo 1,406 ate eference responding dren's as He Was Leaving the Sultan’s Harem. Special to The Daily News. London, Feb 17. Turkish soldiers attempted early today to assassinate Enver Bey, the Young Turk leader at Constantinople He was stabbed several times} while leaving the Sultan's harem PROSPECTOR FROM ATLIN WAS FROZEN T0 DEATH Terrible Suffering Endured by a Party of Prospectors Who Set Out from Atlin in the Dead of Winter. to what they believed to be an other rich strike on Silver Cree} the head of Teslin Lake Mushing through the deep snow breaking their own trail, with the bare necessities of erub = and blankets packed on a dog sleizh they set out on what they fu! well knew would be an arduous} trip, right in the dead of winter, | during the shortest days in the} year. Planning on being able to re- plenish their scanty stock of pro-| visions at a trading post they be-| to be open not their goal, they had figured out] they would be able to reach the | lieved creek, do their staking and return| without any misadventure. In| this they were doomed to dis-!} appointment. On reaching the} trading post they found it elosed, | with nothing in the way of grub on hand. One of the party was | deputed to return over their in- coming trail, bringing in more grub, and meet them on their way back. In some way or other this man got lost, finally fetch- ing up at an Indian encampment. the other two pushed on to the creek, putting themselves on the very shortest of rations. Excep- tionally cold and stormy weather retarded their homeward trip, each hour of which they expected to meet their chum with the fresh supplies. As the days weak condition dragged on their coupled with the excessive cold and lack of food, reduced them to almost the last stages. One of the two, a burly Swede named Lindemann, be- came insane and tried to commit suicide by jumping into a roar- ing camp fire. In endeavoring to wrestle with his demented panion, Redmond, the other man, com. burned his feet frightfully, add- ing untold misery and agony to his already unfortunate condi- tion. Lindemann finally died, and Redmond, as a last resource, turned the dogs loose from the sleigh and blindly followed their lead, suffering intensely all the time, When almost all in and on the point of curling up in the snow to pass off peacefully into the eternal sleep that so many have met in the relentless northland, the dogs scented out an Indian camp. Here he was at once at- tended to by friendly Indians and in a short while taken in to Atlin. Both his feet had to be ampn- tated upon his arrival at the latter place, The third man, who went after the grub and was also found by Indians, did not suffer any ous injury. The Provineial thorities left immediately being notified in search body of Lindemann, Hardly a year passes bul that a tragedy of this nature has to be recorded, Considering the na.! ture of the great frozen north land and the chances which men take with their lives in the quest for gold, it is a remarkae thing that occurrences of this kind are not even more prevalent seri. au. upon of the Brotherhood Intyre Hall o'clock ho Friday x social, Me evening, & i) Demers’. Are showing styles in Gage's famous hats, sou Recent arrivals from Atlin, the well known placer mining camp on the extreme northerly boun- dary of B. C., almost on the line} between this province and the Yukon Territory, repert another tragedy of the frozen north. Shortly after the New Year three prospectors, old timers of the district, set out on a stampede far from| ‘MILLION IN GOLD FROM IDITAROD | Biggest Shipment Ever Sent Out of Interior at this Season j | | of the Year Special to The Daily News. Seattle, Feb. 15—-Gold bullion valued at more than $1,000,000, the biggest consignment of trea- eargo to come out of the | North at this time of the year, is jaboard the Alaska Steamship |Company’s liner Mariposa, which arrived last night. The gold from the Iditarod. On dog sleds and employees of . the sure is | | guarded by Wells-Fargo | ixpress Company, the consign- ment of treasure was hauled from the Iditarod to Tanana, then on the ice down the river to Fairbanks and over the snow covered trail to Chitina, where it was placed aboard train for Cordova. Snowslides orf the Copper Ri- & Northwestern the shipment a month. ver delayed ILL AT CAIRO TROUBLE BREWING BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA RUSSIA CONTINUES TO MASS TROOPS ON AUSTRIAN FRONTIER —RUSSIA’S REPLY TO AUSTRIA SHORT AND DECISIVE. | (Special to The Daily News. | St. Petersburg, Feb, 17 the letter recently sent and decisive. It has impelled Russia to s the interest of her Slav br IN CANADA—PEOPLE DISASTROUS FIRE IN MINING TOWN Three Lives Were Lost in Fire Which Did Much Damage in Northern Ontario Mining Town Special to The Daily News, Cobalt, Feb. 15—Reports from Elk Lake indicate that that town has had a conflagration in which three lives were The dam- age amounted to $100,000. All the prominent business houses have been destroyed. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT ON SUNDAY MORNING 12-Year-Old Boy Shot Through Foot While Playing with lost a Rifle. Jasper Saunder, the 12-year- old son of Mrs. Hudspith, who resides on Summit avenue, met} with a pianful accident on Sun- day morning. While playing on the beach at Port Edward town- site with a .22 calibre rifle the weapon was accidentally dis- charged, the bullet through his ankle and foot. The Kergin. ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY THANKS LOCAL ARTIST D. M. Bain Presented St. Andrew's Society with Two Excel- lent Pictures. At their regular business meet- ing last Friday evening Mr, Db. M Bain, the well known local pho tographer presented two one representing King George \ in highland and the other a splendid crayon drawing pertraying the never to be for- gotten battle of Dargai, which thbok place in Afghanistan some years ago. The thanks of the was officially tendered to Mr. Bain by the President, Mr, Ss. D. Macdonald, Mr. Bain as a photographie ar- tist stands exceptionally high in his having at one time been connected with the world renowned firm of Lafayette, Loairts tigland, He has built up for himself an exeellent elien. whilst in this eity, and his patrons number most of the lead. ing citizens of Prince Rupert and district, He has his generosity and publie spirit on many occa costume society profession, pity shown sions, notably when he presented a splendid photographic group of the late Couneil to the eity hall, The latter work was a most original and artistic character and fills an honored niche in the little lad is under the care of Dr. | Ottawa, Feb, 45. of poverty and depender Pension Committee. the reasons for people bec dependent on others by iowing percentage: lnemperance, 21 per cet efliciency, often congenit per cent.; improvidence, cent.; shiftlessness, 15 per ity, 7 per cent.; ignorance cent. In Ontario, he point aid or otherwise helped. vocated the segregation feeble minded women duri maternity period in refuges, and the applicat reformatory methods to fi fenders. He believed a n woman convicted three tim der the Criminal Code have custodial care |present engaged upon him the .—The reply of the Russian Emperor to by the Emperor of Austria is short declares Austria's attitude in recent years that upport others, wy in coming fol- it.; in- al, 22 16 per > cent.; immorality, 13 per cent.; stupid- , 5 per ed out, there. are 7,000 people receiving He ad- of all ng the industrial ion of rst of- lan or es un- should for the rest ——— city council chamber. He is at the pro- duction of a group of a similar nature representing the 1913 }Couneil, | Besides being an honored | member of St. Andrew's Society lof Prinee Rupert, Mr. Ba lthe distinetion of being nur the members < |amongst in has nbered of the \Celtie Club of Los Angeles, Cali- lfornia. This elub, which is the nly one of its kind in the world, has two branehes only, one in lLondon and the other in Paris. /1t was formed in Los Angeles jsome years ago and _ includes | many men of the Celtic race who Premises Enlarged In order to be ready large increase of business expected this spring, \Mr Hyde, proprietor of the _ and cigar store on ete,, gazines and papers, ates the Prinee Rupert ger Service, and parations to provide an al service in the near future 8 For sale by MeCaffery race, $550.00 each terms, fine} are famous in the world today. pietures to St. Andrew's Soviety,| for the that is . Wm. popular and up-to-date little news-stand 3rd Avenue, opposite the Union Bank, has lately made an extensive addi- tion to his store. At present this will be used as a reading and ecard room and will doubtless prove a great attraction to his customers, Later in the year it will be fitted up as an ice cream parlor Mr. Hyde, who besides keeping always on hand a large slock of cigars, fruits, eandies, together with the latest ma. also oper. Messen- making pre- ! night & Gib. ibons, two ten aere tracts at Ter. good 36.40 Vienna, Feb. 17.—Russia con- tinues to troops on Rou- Austrian frontiers. mass manian and The outlook for trouble between Austria and Russia is most ominous. . Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners. Phone 4. INSPECTOR OF CHARITIES FAVORS OLD AGE PENSIONS INTEMPERANCE AND IMMORALITY CAUSE OF MUCH POVERTY CONVICTED THREE TIMES UNDER CRIMINAL CODE SHOULD BE IN PERMANENT CUSTODY. The causesjof their lives, not behind prison bars, but with outdoor work, Canada were dealt with in an in-| where they would be self sup- teresting manner recently by Dr.| porting but prevented from re- R. W. Bruce Smith, Ontario in-| producing their kind. spector of public charities, giv-|ored in Canada an old age pen- ing evidence before the Old Age! sion system similar to that which He described immorality as one of the prolific causes of poverty, and divided|he suggested would be $130 a He favy- obtained in New Zealand, but with some additions, The amount year, payable monthly and dim- inishe in proportion to other in- come or the possession of net unencumbered values of pro- perty over $500. By this means a large number would be kept out of the house of refuge. Before the committee rose Mr. Stubbs, president of the United Mine Workers of Alberta, gave evidence in favor of the inaug- uration in Canada of a system of old age pensions. He thought it would result in great benefit to the working classes gener- ally. Mr. Stubbs gave the com- mittee some interesting infor- mation as to the conditions un- der which work is done in the mines of the West. 350 MILES OF STEEL YET TO BE LAID The Gap That Separates Prince Rupert trom the East Is Grad- ually Being Shortened. General Superintendent Me- han, of the G. VT. P. Railway, when asked by The News today for information as to the mile- age on which stee! is not yet laid between Prince Rupert and Winnipeg, gave | the following figures as approximately correct: Whe end of steel! westward is about 125 miles east of Fort George and eastward 225 miles west of the same point. This leaves a gap of about 350 miles separating Prince Rupert from, Winnipeg and the east. On this 350 miles much of the grading is already done, while there are some parts where even the right- of-way has not been cleared, While it is impossible to fix any exact date when the shining steel will connect us with the east, it is pleasing to know that the gap is gradually being les- sened, RIFLE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Prince Rupert Civilian Rifle As. sociation will take place on Wednesday evening next at the court house on Second avenue at 8 o'clock. The election of oMeers will take place and arrangements made for the coming shooting season, Those wishing to be. come members of the association will have an opportunity of join. ing upon that oeeasion,