: * V,, No, #08. NOGATA MARU T0 LEAVE VANCOUVER BY END OF WEEK OUVER HINDUS CALLING FOR FOUR HUNDRED VOL- UNTEERS TO GO BACK WITH PASSENGERS OF THE JAPANESE STEAMER uver, July 15 Four|the boat. There were five or six ed Hindu volunteers are|Hindus on the launch and they | to @o back with the pas-learried on a rapid conversation ers of the Japanese steamer l with those on the Maru until the egata Maru, which has been| immigration patrol boat spied by the immigration oflicers | the m and put them to flight ancouver harbor. Mr. J. KE. Bird, counsel for the re volunteers age wanted to] Hindus, went out to the Maru yes back and preach sedition |terday for a conference with his net the British Empire. Ajclients relative to the proposed ammedan priest preached injdeportation proceedings. ikh Témple here on Saturday \ from the Maru tg his hearers to join in the| Hindus was sent yesterday to the ment. Governor-General, aceording to x Hindus Sohan Lal, one of the members of en, B.C., the ¢ He states the essing a telegram read: telegram just arrived from where they had been meeting ufging the olony here thing. They propose to Have sent many telegrams and as Vancouver, Victoria and|received answer that matter was himo, and other centres injunder consideration Afterwards sh Columbia. there was no final and definite an cording to those who are in| swer We are being shut in on » with and are following the|the ship from four months and ment, it is intended to raise|are becoming sick. There is no thousand seditionary mis-|good food and water or exercise ncluding the four hun- | Dying Decide immediately. We volunteers. The 350 Komo-lare ignorant whether do not Maru, passengers will short-|answer or immigrat men do deported it tell us, Committee Komagata Maru ] y 15 The im Mr. Lal also says that the fol thoriti he ure ving lette has bee sent to e h rious pa il gra ' Superintendent M j ! ! cs le W ive the honor to inform : rtation of that we are suffering without . th kK aeata ! nm vesterday morning dit ex ted that the| wae no light from the last boat w eave the ha days The Japanese are al th the next two or three 1 to take water from the tainly before the end of|sh while we are kept thirsty inless something un-|TI elty of the immigration ps up in en to allow Japanese water and dus have made two|keeping Hindus thirsty is an ex to get into con nica- | traordina one. This is a cause se on the ship, onee|of great rest of which we shall ight about 8 o'clock} uct be responsible it about 11 o'clock on} We have made many requests wht rhey went out in| but useless. Take pity on our t, too small to carry east wretched condition otherwise we nber of men, so it is not} shall be compelled to get ashore ed that the intention was|te quench our raging thirst. Com- ff any of the Hindus on | mittee Komogata Maru.” JOSE JAW LIBERAL M.P. HERE ---HAS GREAT FAITH IN RUPERT INTERVIEW WITH NEWS SAYS POLITICAL SITUATION IS VERY FAVORABLE TO LIBERALS—QUEBEC NOW RETURNING TO FIRST LOVE A’. EE. Knowles, M.P. for Moose|values as soon as the road is Sask., is in the city making mpleted round trip on the Prince Ru Mr. Knowles is one of the stal 1. This is Mr. Knowles first trip| wart followers of Sir Wilfrid his city and he is very much Pauries He says that the feeling pressed wilh what he sees. He in Quebec has turned very strong- juite confident that we will ly an onal Sir Wilfrid sipee the e a big city he ind that the} i. .t election. He says that if an Plopment will come very soon ldlection was called to-day thé peaking of realty values, Mr iConservatives would not get any pwies says that they are very) ore than seven seats in that Ke looks for a rapid rise in | Province The middle West is ~ almost solid in favor of the lower coccccooccoccvocooooooooooooes (ariff doctrine of the Liberals Mr. Knowles believes that a gen- MINUTES OF COMEDY AT THE eral election would show a_ big hange in the whole eountry and EST HO LM la certain vietory for Sir Wilfrid Laurier, ed orm $| From the South > F E R A HOUSE Among the passengers arriv- ing on the Prinee Rupert this TO-NIGHT morning were J. ©. Knight, J Kh, Graham, W J MeAllen, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, W. H. Jones, . E iMrs. Balfour, W rhompson, H. “JERRY'S MOTHER-IN- Ih Costigan, lr. Tolmie, Mr. ” Shephard, Mr. and Mrs. MeGaf- 7. poe lees ur " ooster, Miss Wooster ‘ ” Mr. Knowles, BE. P, Fenham, Fred “WHEN MEN LEFT TOWN EW “ag eet ag ety Two Reels Carss, Miss Caras, UH. P. Wilson, 'Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith, Missa C, And a Most Interesting | Petit, J. W Newman, Mr, and Mrs. 8. Elkins, G. D, Galoway, D, WEEKLY GAZETTE iA, MeKinnon ' } fron bed, spring and mattress Pémicsion = 00 and We lfor $10, at Tite’s | furniture sale, 1oitf PRINCE I : . DISTINGUISHED MEN VISIT PRINCE RUPERT Several Shareholders of Wallace Fisheries Making Tour of Coast Col, A. D. MeRtae, Mr. Howell, father-in-la f Mr. MeRae, and Senator Ja of Nebraska, were in the city for a few hours yesterday They were making a d triy n the steamer Chel- ohsin and visited the city while the steamer was in port All three are interested in the Wallace Fisheries, owners of the Claxton cannery on the Skeena, the Naden Harbor cannery, the Strathcona cannery on Rivers In- let, Island. rhe is making the trip to see some of their plants. Col. A. D. MeRae has Rupert several and sees marked each time. Senator Jansen has not been here in a lo He was here ago and admitted that he would certainly not recog- and one on Vancouver party visited times improvement ne time. some six years nize anything but the harbor. At that time there was just a small wharf and a few docks. Today he sees a cits “He expects to see rapid development with the open- ing of the railway. INTENSE HEAT IN MISSOURI AND KANSAS Sunday Hottest Day of Year in Topeka-—Relief Said to be in Sight Kansas Some that City, Mo., July 15 relief from the intense heat has prevailed over Missouri Kansas during the last two was indicated latest reports to the weather bureau. Cooling breezes reported of points, and the temperature generally was sever- days in the were at a number i] degrees lower than yesterday. night was the hottest of the year in Kansas. At Topeka it was the warmest night of July {2 in the the Topeka weather has been in ex- minimum temperature 77 degrees being recorded. A slight thunderstorm early today caused the mercury to drop sev- eral degrees at Topeka. 130 CITIZENS WILL MAKE MERRY PARTY Board of Trade Excursion Off Sunday 28 years bureau istence, a of For Granby Bay Tonight Leaving at midnight the = s,s Prince Rupert will have aboard ver 130 members and guests of the Board of Trade bound for Anyox and Stewart. On the same boat there arrived this morning from Victoria Mr, Ernest MeGat fey, secretary of the Bureau of Provincial Information, who is accompanied by his wife, daugh ter and little son My. MeGal fey will be the speaker at the luncheon on board tomorrow at 1 o'clock rhis morning he was taken for an f&iuto ride round the city by the Board's Commissioner and also visited the Cold Storage plant and the Dry Dock On account of the large num ber of people leaving tonight ar- rangements have been made to permit exeursionists to board the Prinee Rupert at 9.30 p.m MAY ELEVATE TAFT To SUPREME COURT BENCH Washington, July 15.——Diseus sion as to whom President Wil son will appoint to fll the va. on the Supreme Court bench, caused by the death of As. sociate Justice Lurton, eontinu ed here today, The names of those mentioned in connection with the vaeancy include Former President Wm, H, Taft, members of the cabinet and others, Caney Pantorium ee Cleaners tf Pioneer : \UPERT, B. C., WESTWARD HO IS TAKING BIG SLUMP Large Floating Population Leav- ing Canada This Year London, July 15 westward, which has off Emigration been gradu- ally falling since the begin- ning of the year, has now shown a decided tendency towards a slump. The shipping companies of both the United Kingdom the continent are feeling the fects The yvear 1914 will almost cer- tainly poorly with the record of 1913 and not even show up favorably in comparison with any recent normal year. Ship hoping that the autumn season may show bet- ter fikures and though it is true that the emigrant stream usually considerably augmented during the autumn, there is every reason to fear that the coming autumn will not in any sense make up for the defieiency of the earlier part of the year. Emigration’s Ebb Tide Ottawa, July 15.—For the first time in Canadian immigration history it believed that this year emigration from Canada will and ef- very severely. compare owners are is is oMcials believe next few months will see r emigration of this class | No attempt is made to tabulate | the immigration that the an even bigge emigration from Canada but it is| believed that it will be fully as} heavy as tl mmigration. The immicrat for the year will like ly ru ibout 150,000 whieh will be a drop of from 65 to 70 per cent, as last year the total was nearly 400,000. However, while the total will drop more than half the class of settlers who are com ing are very superior, being al- British and Ameri can settlers with money who their own farms. most entirely are buying N. H. STOCKHOLDERS ARE GOING TO SUE MORGAN ESTATE, Boston, Mass., July 15.—-Whip- ple, Sears & Oyden, attorneys representing minority stockhold- | ers of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, have de- manded that the directors join their clients in the suit to recoy- er about $125,000 alleged to have been wasted by the management The which it is said will filed this week, is to be direet- the estate of J. P, Rockefeller, Lewis others, who were the New Haven directorate at the time that trans- action that have been the subject of inquiry by the interstate com made, In directors, made publie today, the attorneys refer to the testimony concerning New Haven investments which proved unprofitable, brought out by the suit be ed Morgan, against Wim Cass Ladvard and members of merce CQminission were a letter to the wilh marvellous interstate commerce Commission Wellington ‘We, therefore, in behalf of our clients," the letter reads uarching into battle, The “respeetfully demand that you in Vassil Deimege 7" . stitute proper legal proeeedings : to enforee the liability of direc- |The collection elerk of the aes tors to the corporation which we chants’ Bank, Montreal, who is | ; s 4 . Ous have pointed out, and such othe charged with stealing $150,006 | — liability as may be diselosed as a from the bank's funds, A young | Br . result of a eareful and thorongh woman, namdd Miss “Buster am Une st minute detail, investigation of the company's Legault” whe has been travel with affairs. x around with the abseondet | Siu idiers, Notice of the preposal of the is his wife, eame to the jaii| Thies historic event, which took minority stockholders to file such to see him, and they indulgea military plotures a suit was given several weeks ! ich strenuous love scenes | ago that the oMeitals deeided to take | Launch Ranger, Phone 4. jmarine pilot. Ph. Blue 400, fou WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1944. ANOTHER CO. TO DRILL ON WEST COAST GRAHAM Will Put Diamond Drill Develop Their Oi! Leases in to The Vancouver Daily Oil Ga zette in speaking of F. ¢ Wright, who recently was in that city :— 2 On account of his reputation as a diamond drill expert, Mr Wright was consulted by the pro- of the Graham Island Oil Syndicate, organized here by loeal men to form a company to develop 1,280 acres of land on the West Coast. There onsideration this says moter being is under by syndicate the use of a diamond drill to prove the property. Mr. Wright said it could be done much cheaper with a diamond drill. On his adviée negotiations have been opened for the purchase of a diamond drill already on the isl- and, which a firm in existence a year ago, was using, If oil struck as it is believed it will be, the company can then well afford to put down a regulation oil well, and the property will have been proven at a minimum expense. ‘SKY PILOT REFUSED IT—- is be greater than the immigration | MARINE PILOT GETS IT into the Dominion. However, the | an emigration toe — Dominion | Prince Rupert Pulpit Is Making will not be of Canadians, but o Trouble for Skeena Trans- Ruthenians, Polanders, Bulgari- port ans and what are known as “for- eigners ES ea During the past couple of rhe Laura F., the popular months the has been a big emi_|Skeena river transport, the prop- gration of this unskilled labor|@Tty of George Frazzell, is top which ebbs and flows any way and| heavy these days with super structure. She has a new pilot house that was originally intend- ed for a sky pilot instead of a It does not add to appearanee of the craft but » cannot get rid of it. The cause of the trouble is a big pulpit which was made in the city and shipped to a parson on the Skeena. The parson when he saw it refused to aecept it claim- ng it was ordered made of cedar and this is a fir pulpit. George had to bring it baek and the own- er of the dock refuses to have it sack on the wharf. Thus the de- ed pilot) house stands amid- hips on the Laura F., about as seless an article as a sore ap- vendix, the Geor Piano Tuner Mr. ©. L. Spurrier, from Vie- toria will be here again this week, Leave orders for piano tuning or repairing at Kauff- ‘’s Music Sire, opposite the Player and electric pianos a spetialty. 160.2 mann postotce. the pulekeeping, Delmege to Bordeaux jail ==] THE DAILY NEWS — HE BIG EXCURSION LEAVES FOR GRANBY TO-N CRUNTY GRUNDY SAYS: Following the heavy rain the road around the teland ie said to be in an impassable condition. PRICE FIVE CENTS — = = ———— ANCOUVER HINDUS PREACHING SEDITION -—- MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN VISITING THE CITY KENDALL SATISFIED WITH DD ECISION--ANDERSON ANGRY | | TWO CAPTAINS COMMENT ON THE FINDING OF THE EMPRESS London, July 15.—The fixing of the blame on the Storstad was what I knew from the first must happen,” said Capt. Kendall when seen yesterday regarding the find- ing of the Commission on the Empress of [reland disaster, Ask. ed as to the suggestion that the should have given the Storstad a wider berth, Captain Kendall said that if the Storstad had not altered her course, nwo acident would have happened. It was immaterial how close’ the vessels were, if each had kept her In the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence, ships have to pass quite close, and so long as they keep their proper course there is no danger. “I am satis- fied with the findings,” said Capt. Kendall, “for | know the enquiry was conducted by brilliant and able men in the most impartial manner.” Regarding Empress course, his future Capt. Kendall said he had no definite plans. “I am still with the €. P. R., who, T must say, have acted splendidly and most kindly tow- ard me.” Capt. Anderson Indignant July 15-——A very in- dignant man was Capt. Anderson of the Storstad when he left the courtroom Saturday after hearing his vessel blamed for sinking the Empress of Ireland, and he was anxious to borrow the Quebec, on ROYAL COMMISSION—STORSTAD COMMANDER SPEAKS K STRONGLY AGAINST LORD MERSEY “ tradition which permits counsel three days in which to express an opinion about the judge after los- ing a case, “IT did not think Lord Mersey would be such a fool,” he angrily exclaimed to a reporter, “and you can say so in your paper if you like. Me may be Lord Mersey, but I.can tell you if he ever had any reputation he is going to lose it over this case. It is my opinion that he was trying to find in favor of the C.P.R., and you can say that, too. “But,” declared Capt. Ander- son, “don’t you imagine that this thing will stop here. We people in Norway are too much interest- ed in seeing it through, There will be plenty of work in the courts, both in Canada and Brit- ain. We shall start a suit for damages against the C. P. R.-here at onee. Then we shall take ac- tion in the Admiralty Court —in Britain, and that is where we shall get at everything out in the open. There will be no Lord Mersey to run things there.” Lord Mersey Returns Tomorrow Montreal, July 15.—When told of the eriticisms levelled against him by Capt. Anderson, Lord Mer_ sey remarked: “I am not surpris- ed.” Lord Mersey and his British assessors and assistants will re- turn to London tomorrow by the Calgarian. FAR-REACHING EFFECT OF ALASKAN LINES Detroit Money Man Optimistic After Trip to the North Vancouver, July 15 ing of government railways in Alaska will have a far-reaching effect on the development of that northern country and on the en- tire Pacific Coast, in the opinion of Colone! Frank J. Heeker, a wealthy retired manufacturer of Detroit, who has arrived in Van- couver from the North. Col. Hecker paid a warm tribute to the capability of Capt. Mears, one of the members of the United States commission which is pro- the big government rail. way scheme, planned to cost $35,- 000,000 and which will open up large tracts of territory hitherto The build- jecting = - ee $30,000 FIRE AT NANAIMO YESTERDAY Loss Estimated at $30,000 Fully Covered by Insurance— Was Close in Nanaimo, B. C., July 15.—Fire completely destroyed the mill of the New Ladysmith Company here yesterday, It was erected within three hundred yards of the post- offfee and within one block of the main business section of the city. The loss is estimated at $30,000, It was fully covered by insurance, The inconsistency of man is proved by the fact that he objects to the extreme fashions of the day only when worn by some member of his own family. Leather easy chairs and rock- without regular means of trans-|ers at prices cut in twa. Geo. D. portation, Tile’s summer sale. 161tf - —_—_—. —— Probably of the world productiot in the history NO ADVANCE IN PRICES The Empress Theatre TO-NIGHT THE GREATEST WAR PICTURE EVER MADE “THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO” 4 - FOUR MASSIVE PARTS - 4 Phousands of soldiers and hundreds of horses used in the the most dramatic series of events in the battle of Waterloo and put an end to the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, This wonderful set of pietures shows fidelity all details of this titanic struggle. seen marshalling. his forees. Regiment af- ter rewiment of the flower of the Bnglish soldiery is seen great superhuman energy is apparently every place on the deld of battle al the same moment, Mapeleon is seen seated on white charger directing the movements of the 1. Hegiment upon rewiment of both the English and ufantey in charges and counter charges is shown ivrival of General Blucher and his army of Prus- undred is rerenacted on such @ gore soale that even the hus far produced sink inte com paritive insignificance were those which culminated English general with This great war drama closes place one bh TEN & FIFTEEN CENTS OCCT ES at be lh