208. NY yoL. VI. — PREMIER ian R ISSUES M MANIFESTO 1S NOTABLE FOR | WHAT IT OMITS RAILROAD MEN No Mention of Miners’ Labor Problems, Woman Suffrage, or Liquor Question. In July. | a | lal to The Dally News. | ae ee (Bpeciai to The Daily News.) Vancouver, Dee, 20,—Premier ; togers, Pass, B. C., Dec. 20; | Bows has issued a manifesto ; Det shich indicates the creation of a fhe tunnel under Mount Macdon-| aye portfolic of agricultuee; ald, at the highest point of the} t towards better coloniza-|railroad grade’ through the sel-| nancial retrenchment; an|kirks on the Canadian Pacific Ry. | » to consider means for system has been blown ieusk:| ¢ railroads already be- 3 The building of the tunnel ne-| g » build Jumber carriers, | . ; cessitated boring for five miles | ia Workmen's Compensation det ithrough the heart of the moun- Brewster’s Reply. tains. The new route, which is C. Brewster, the Libe rallexpet ted to be open for traffic in eplies that the manifesto| July, 41916, eliminates a_ very GENERAL WINTER TAKES » for the lack of mention | heavy grade as well as a danger- Photo shows a long line I vincial finances; unem-|ous winter route, and will con- first fall of snow in France this t: miners’ laber prob-|siderably reduce the operating aoe of the learietale tn syste s; woman suffrage, or any|expenses of the C. P. R. on that a a of the attitude of the|seetion of the road. HAZELTON BOY HAS gove ent towards the liquor The work, which has been in estior progress for several years, has Collect from Speculators. ef upon the collection of arrears of payment ie alien speculators LADIES AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION EXAM. The examination of the ladies held the B en Street School on Mon 20th, at 8 p.m hold aid and home lass in first aid will be . nber I ho cates in first already certif nurs- ng and are applying for medal- different the examination will be ions W have a pape! them and place and their Any ed in a day or two. Can | please bring their own nibs All other provided. pen | rs and tes will be table Wallace's. tf. B¢ the Xmas crockery Ss ware pe every evening, MeRae Bros 297 feveerneeeeesee es eeeeeee nese nee’ ® MAJESTIC :: THEATRE, | Tonight and Tomorrow LE 22nd and Last Episode of “THE BROKEN COIN” final, Kitty gains 4 hu sband and a Kingd ym. irvellous ANIMATED WEEKLY _ World and War Latest News “THE WINNERS OF THE GREAT UNIVERSAL BEAUTY CONTEST”— ih two-wet extraordinary comedy. “EASY MONEY”—One thousand feet Of rip roaring laughs, Don't mise it, a big whale of pro- gram. ADMISSION N10 and 16 conte. Progra Wednesday and Thursday— rogram de ‘ luxe, Pathe color his rm "eal Masterpiece, “Pro Patria’, N SIX Spectacular acts. wre LONDON CAFE And Grill oe BOXES FOR LADIES S| =| |= MT. MACDONALD [S PIERCED BY | ‘of Unemployment, ene Borers Meet Meet in Heart of the Selkirks—New Road to | be Open for Traffic THREE RUPERT YOUNG MEN FOR AIR SERVICE Judge F. has applied for ad- Alex. Y¢ son of McB,. Young, mission to the Aero Club Aviation at Vancouver. His name lhas been added to a “waiting” list of about thirty. Hugh Scott and ung, School Alex, Saint also have soaring am- bitions and expect to join the same training school. DIOCESE OF CALEDONIA. On Sunday last, Bishop Du Ver- net held an ordination service 1 Metlakatla, James Gillett was ad- vanced to the The Bishop was assisted by the Rev. Ww. Ss. A. Larter, of Seal Prince Rupert. Before the ordi- Bishop baptized two grandson of the Reader of St. Paul’s Ghureh, when Rey. . priesthood. Cove, nation the infants, one the Lay Morison, highly esteemed Metlakatla, Mr. C. F. In addition to these two special the Bishop invested the eleeted Church Army services three officers with the red cord of office. Mr. Gillett is in charge of the Island Mission and with newly Porcher “Western attered round the coast the Hope” visits the settlers se of this and other adjacent islands, being a Newfoundlander he is at home on the sea. Corporation of the City of Prince Rupert. NOTICE To MERCHANTS accounts against the city them in right up 2ist anyone having will oblige by to date on Decembet sending been carried through by a branch the most severe gale, from the} southeast, felt for years. All wiresS are down. ——_—_— eee P PRING EK : RUPERT, B. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, ——__£_ - 1915 iCDONALD TUNNEL BL —_——— PRICE FIVE CENTS — TT WN THROUGH _=— ANIF ESTO — LIBERALS PREPARING FOR BIG F IGHT of motor COMMAND AT THE FRONT trucks laboring through the Winter adds greatly to the m of all field. year. the armies in the Tommy Brewer, of Hazelton, Mr. Brewster says that thelof the well known firm of Foley, : financial situation depends for|Welch and Stewart. who went to the front with the} forcing of the Severe Storm. first Prince Rupert contingent, throwers, commonly known as a “suicide gang.” On one occasion, the whole company but Tommy le and another was wiped dut. On several occasions he has had a bomb shot out of his hand, with- out his receiving the slightest wound. LIEUT C. S. WRIGHT HONORED IN FRANCE Lieut. GC. 8. Wright, of Toronto, a brother of A. E. Wright, of this city, been awarded the cross of the of Honor for tinguished bravery in France. Lieut. Wright was a physicist with the Scott Antarctic expedition and visited with his brother here has Legion dis- on his return from the far south He has with the Scottish Wireless Corps of the Royal En- the been gineers in France since be- ginning of the war. TWO MONTHS Jack Besforth, who was recent- ly arrested for thefts committed at Granby, was sentenced to two months in jail here for stealing boxing gloves, ete., and two months for stealing a suit of clothes, the sentences to run con- currently. Accused was tried be- fore Judge Young this morning. BASKETBALL Prince Rupert A, A. A. basket- ball team will play a team from New Metlakatlah, Alaska, tonight at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium, A splendid game is assured. Ad- mission 25 cents to defray ex- penses, — For the Xmas Cheer— all kinds—-Wallace’s. tf. glasses ‘UNDERGOES OPERATION HAD NARROW ESCAPES} TO QUALIFY FOR SERVICE | Bert Schooling, who was. one of the mail carriers between this city ‘and Hazelton in the dog team uays land who has lately been a road Vancouver. B.G., Dec. 20.—The|has had many narrow escapes, but | copehwier avs ria Gnitiihler ec ontaebl prairies throughout the north-/has so far escaped without Alte hospital here last night to west provinces are stormswept,|scratch. He has been for some |. ndergo an operation for hernia and Yancouve 1s experiencing | time in company of bomb- in order that he may qualify for 102nd Battalion for Bert is evident - a place in the overseas service. ly made of good fighting stuff. BASKETBALL TEAM ARRIVED SATURDAY The New Metlakatlah basketball team arrived in the city on Sat- urday night. They are a first rate team and the local boys will have to put up a good brand of ball to beat them. GIRLS’ “SEWING CLUB Club held and home A little girls’ a sale of dolls’ Sewing clothes the Linnell on made candy at residence of Mrs. I. N: afternoon. amounted to $10.00, to the Red Cross Fund. Saturday The proceeds, which will be given The mem- bers of the club are Miss Eleanor Peck, Miss Louie Fisher, Miss Frances Cummings, Miss Leona Parker and Miss Margaret Palm- er. XMAS TREE The ladies of the Helping Hand that the boys will be Society: have arranged Xmas tree for the vacant store next to Third Avenue. placed in the Wrathall’s on — oo ANOTHER SOLDIER RETURNS Pte. left withthe first contingent, arrived Cappelle. who here from Victoria this morning. Mr, who has been dis- further of wounds sustained at looks fit and well. Toilet sets, manicures, fountain make suitable gifts for McRae Bros. Chappelle, charged from service &s a result Festubert, pens la- dies. HUN CRUISER AND TORPEDO BOAT ARE SUNK: Allied Submarine does Good Work in the Baltic—Lafge Part of German Crews were Rescued. (Special to The Dally News.) 20.—It is of- Berlin Amsterdam, Dec. ficially announced from that the and a torpedo boat which accom- German cruiser Bremen, | panied her, have been sunk by a Baltic. of the j}submarine in the eastern A considerable portion crews was saved. ie hes Lo ae pena carried a crew of 300, Bremen was built in 1903 ea tert ee ae BORDEN GOVERNMENT'S 18.— The foxy guessers are predicting that the not invent any new taxes at the coming ses- Ottawa, December government will sion of parliament, the idea being to postpone these burdens on the people until another general elec- ion decides which party is to be the goat. Meanwhile there may be another war loan or two while the is good and the Cana- dian people loosen up readily. borrowing TRUST IN ITS FRIENDS}* LIBERALS GET READY FOR THE BY-ELECTIONS H. C. Brewster will Oppose Fium- erfelt and Mayor Wilson will Contest Rossland—Van- couver décidés Friday. (Special to The Dally News.) Vancouver, Dee. 20.—A Liberal caucus held in Vancouver décides that all by-elections will be con- tested. H. C. Brewster, the Liberal leader, will oppose Mr. Flumer- felt in Victoria, and Mayor Wilson of Rossland, will contest that con™ stituency against Lorne Campbell. The Vancouver Liberals will hold a convention on Friday to select a candidate to oppose Mr. ‘isdall. Rossland Candidate. Mayor Wilson, opposes Lorne Campbell in Rossland, is a labor man of ability and popular- ity, and will put up a strong fight against the president of the Kootenay Light and Power Com- pany. It will be a fight of the people against. the corporations. who sequently it would be safe to trust the Committee at least until it was found out. So the shell game has it that the finance knocked flat to his He had Rumor minister was fairly by the tremendous answer first appeal to the people. no idea that they would bid it up that the amount over it way, and when he saw subscribed twice gave him a new light on the Lib- eral doctrine that the best way for a government to get along is to trust Wonderful things happen, as history knows, the people. when a government makes a policy of trusting the people, but Mr. White had the home to him with great never lesson brought personal force until he floated his Canadian war loan. _He not only got what he asked for twice over, biit a very broad hint with it that there was plenty more where that came from. Up to a month ago the Borden government trusting but the seemed to have got the notion into its head that it had a stroke of luck in 1914, and that the people must not be allowed near what a fluke was every- body Canadian people. It enough to discover it was. At any rate they had little con- fidence in the people at large and when the war came along they proceeded to make it a strictly party affair, only patriots of the right being Conservative complexion admitted to the close com- the un- munion of profiteers. How party patriots behaved was covered by the scandal committee, a sordid story which need not be repeated here. Undaunted by these experiences the government proceeded to trust the was formed after parliament had pro- rogued and the Scandal Commit- tee had It was natural to syppose that thé Shell Shell Committee, whieh shut up shop. Committee would get in most of its fine work before the next ses- rsources went along merrily for months and Sir Sam never had a suspi- cious thought about it, and as for the government, it went on trust- ing from day to day, as the hymn says, simply trusting, that was all. It trusted the steel pirates on the committee not to be too kind to themselves when they were distributing the plunder and it would have gone on trusting them to this day if dear old Mother England had not quit first The Shell Committee had in fact made such a hole in the re- of the British Empire that John Bull, aecustomed as he is to deep calls on his pocket, set up a roar that could be heard across the Atlantic Ocean, Where- David Lloyd George sent Canada his two apostolic dele- (Continued on Page Two) WESTHOLME OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW “FOR LOVE AND MONEY”—1iith Episode of “The Diamond from the Sky.” upon ECLAIR GAZETTE—God Save the King welcome to His Majesty after his accident. In the Belgian trenches, At Saloniki. Nurse Ca- vell. French heroes decorated. HAND AND SEAL” Two-reel Drama. “SNAKEVILLE’S HEN MEDIC” Comedy. POPULAR PRICES, 10 and 16 ote. ote. Wednesday and Thureday — Mary Pickford in “Little Pal’, Charles Chaplin in “Shanghaied.” . Follow the crowd to Sétf's Cafe. There is a reason.. Next sion of Parliament and that con- Majestic Theatre. 102¢f.