PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Scemaaadii MARGH 1,

1916.

 

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THE DAILY NEWS

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PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

TWO SUBMARINE VICTIMS THIS MORNING

 

 

 

GERMAN OF FENSIVE AT VERDUN SUSPENDED — BRITISH ARE ACTIVE AT YPRES

 

 

 

THO STEAMERS
TORPEDOED OFF
ENGLISH COAST

Hun Submarine Campaign Opened
Last Night—White Star Line
Cancels Sailings for

' Liverpool.

—

(6pecial t» The Deilly News.)
March 1.——The steam-

ers Thornsby, 1,437 toms, and the
Malvina, 1,244 tons, were torpe-
Aoed after midnight. All the crew
of the Thornsby were drowned.
There are no particulars as to the
fate of the crew of the Malvina.
It is not determined whether the
vessels were armed.

The Malvina, which was sunk
off the coast of Kent, was one of
the regular passenger and cargo
sailing between Leith,
feotland, and London, and
owned by the London & Edinburgh
Shipping company.

Sailings Cancelled.

New York, March 1.—The White
Star Line has cancelled all sail-
ings for Liverpool until the sec-|
ond week. of April, on the ground
that there is heavy congestion on
the dock at Liverpool,

New Allied Army.

Passengers on the steamer Ro-
chambeau, which has just reached
port from* Eurape, state that the
Allies are massing an army of a
Bordeaux for

 

 

London,

steamers
was

million men. at
emergencies.

KITCHEN SYMPHONY
AT ANGLICAN CHURC

 

 

The following is the program
for the concert in the English
Church tonight:

Piano Solo,...Selected....Mrs. L. J. Bay.

Anthem. ..‘Hark, Hark My Soul’... Choir.

Song “The Slave Song’’...Mr. C. A. G,
Armstrong.

Song....The Carnival’....Mrs, Norman}
Mackintosh.

Duet..“Oh That We Two Were Maying’’..
Miss C, Barnsley and Mr, CG. A. G. Arm-
strong.

Part Song...Greeting’...Ladies’ Choir.
HumorousDuet ..“The Beggars’... Messrs.
Jones and Clapperton.

KITCHEN SYMPHONY,...... THE CHOIR
Violin Solo..“The Broken Melody’. . Miss
L, King.

Song..Melisande In the Wood’. .Miss C.
Barnsley.

Song “Mother Machree” Mr W. H. Melliar.
Part Song..“Sleep Gentle Lady’. . Choir.
Accompanists, Miss L, M. Ellett, L. R. C. M.,
and Mrs, CG, A, G, Armstrofig.

“GOD SAVE THE KING.”
laichaepesll cise ie taal

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WESTHOLME

OPERA HOUSE
_ Rupert's Popular Play House

 

Special feature for Weds. and Thurs.

Jesse L. Lasky, in association with

David Belasco, presents
Blanche Sweet

In

“THE CASE OF BECKY”
Five Acts—By Edward Locke.
EOLAIR GAZETTE
Showing latest war news from ‘the

ee Allied front,

“SUSIE'S NEW SHOES”

Side-splitting Comedy,

Come Early, Box Office opens 6: 148.
Show Starts at 7 Sharp.

Coming for Friday “and Saturday,
si Edith Storey and Leah Baird in
The Ruling Power,” Three acts.

 

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AKERBERG THOMSON
COMPANY

Sole Agents for the
PALMER gas ENGINE COMPANY
PHONE 626

 

 

 

BOWSER PROMISES
PROHIBITION BILL

(Special to The Daily News.)
Victoria, March 14,
Bowser, in reply to a prohibition

delegation, has announced
the government will draft a pro-
hibition measure along the lines
the Manitoba bill. |

laid down jn

ings of the house when it will be
submitted to a referendum vote
of the people in a general election
which will take place before June
ist. The act will become effective
on January ist, 1917.

In the the
ment will. pass stringent laws for
the reduction of the hours during
may be
prohibition becomes effective.

meantime, govern.

which liquor sold, until

ACTIVITY AROUND THE
ALICE ARM DISTRIC(

The Dolly Varden mine at Alice
Arm is likely to be one of the

busiest spots on the coast this
summer, it being the intention of
R, B. McGinnis to start the con-
struction of a wharf and a road
into the mine.
ably be about a thousand men em-
ployed in that district soon and
the Dolly

properties

sized town.

There will prob-

adjacent
good

Varden and

will support a

 

MINING NOTES

 

Mining in the Hazelton district
this season promises to be more

active than ever before in the
history of the country. The
Rocher de Boule property is be-

ing steadily developed and large
ready for
Granby smelter.

quantities of ore are
shipment to the
The management is
shaft to test the ore at depth.
There is no doubt that this mine
for

sinking a
will be a big producer

years

to come,

McAdams, of the Red Rose
other

the
reports that develop-

Mr.
group,
mountain,
ment work is being carried for-
ward steadily and it is expected
that the summer months will see
the Red Rose a shipper.

on side of the

The Highland Boy property,
which is being developed by Mr.
EK. P. Spaulding, of Spokane, will
see vigorous work carried om this
summer and everything points to
its being equal to the older prop-

erty, the Rocher de Boule.

 

RED CROSS DANCE

The ladies in charge of the
English, Scotch, Irish and Welsh

branches of the Carnival of the
Allies, which takes place in the
Exhibition Building during Easter
week, will hold a dance on Thurs-
‘day evening in the Catholig Hall.
A good time is assured, Tickets
50 cents.

 

First showing of New Spring
Hats, Wednesday, March 1st, at
Demers’. 54.

 

 

Furniture for sale, phone Green
838, 254 Sth Ave.,

—_——

Colonel Warden wants a
tinctive Prince Rupert

vo
dis-
company

 

~ Premier |

that!

The measure will pass three read- |

West. tf.

in his battalion. tf.

 

‘CORRUPTION CHARGES
ARE MADE IN REGINA

(Special to The Daily News.)
March
been

|
Regina, 1.—More war-
jrants have issued in con-
nection with the charges of cor-
| ruption brought against Liberal
of the Saskatchewan
in connection with liquor
| legislation.

A Catholic hotel keeper at Webb

swears

| members

| House

that hg was called upon
by a license inspector and a Pres-
byterian minister and forced to
contribute $1,000 to a new church
building and to contribute $5 per
to the minister’s salary,

threat of trouble.

month
under

 

ODDFELLOWS LEAP YEAR
BALL A BIG SUCCESS

Year Ball
the
last night was one
of the season.
were about two hundred
folks and every-
body seemed to thoroughly enjoy

The Leap
the
Hall
jolliest
There
young

given by
McIntyre
of the

Oddfellows in
dances
present
every minute, The music was of
the finest.- In the early part of
the evening, Mrs. Wells presided
at the piano and later Messrs.
Balagno, Harvey and Lasalle pro-
vided of their best.

The hall was beautifully deco-
rated with evergreens and colored
of the
taste-
there.
the

most

while the emblem
of Oddfellows
here
refreshments
and
successful functions of the season
the
The proceeds went to the
Fund.

lights,
Order
fully
The
daintiest

was
displayed and
were of
one of the

terminated in “wee sma’
‘oors.”

Patriotic

JAPANESE SHIPPING

The
shipping

banishment of German
the high-
ways has had a remarkable effect

from ocean
upon the Japanese shipping trade.
Its latest effect
ment in Great Britain of a great

is the establish-

Japanese shipbuilding firm.

THE WEATHER

By F. W. Dowling.
For 24 hours ending 5 a, m.
March 1st.
Barometer ....csevccecs 29
Highest temperature ...... 38.0
Lowest temperature ...... 26.0
Summary for February.
Mean temperature .......-. 36.3
Highest temp. (on 18th . 60.0
Lowest temp. (on 1st)..... 14.0
Precipitation .......+++06. 6.91
J. H. Hilditch has gone to Alice
Arm where there is promise of

big mining activity this year.

of the Union Bank

S.J. Winsby,

staff, is expected to arrive from
Victoria on the Prince Rupert to-
morrow, accompanied by his
bride,

The Chief Zibassa of the Cold
Storage Company, Captain Par-

sons, brought in 58,000 pounds
of halibut yesterday.

 

Superintendent ‘Jack’ Beatty
is back in his old quarters at the
government wharf, the repairs to
the roof having been completed.

 

PROPOSED | CLOSE
SEASON FOR HALIBUT

In view of the interest Prince
Rupert has in the halibut fishing
fol-
lowing article which appeared in

a Seattle

industry we’ reproduce , the

paper recently regard-
ing a halibut close season:

Halibut, big and husky as they

are, need protection, in the opin-
ion of the United States bureau of
Halibut cannot be
artificially propagated,.as salmon
can, because halibut deposit their
eggs on the deep sea bottom and
not far up fresh water streams,
as salmon deposit. Hence there
is no way to rod the halibut and
incubate the eggs, and the supply

fisheries.

may run out.

Accordingly legislation is pro-
posed to adopt a closed season
for halibut in the North Pacific
off the Alaskan coast, and also
to provide an ocean sanctuary
covering what has been determin-
ed to be the favorite breeding
place of the big fish, But this
legislation, to be of any practical
use, must be legislation not by
the United States alone but by
Canadh as well. . Hence in the
proposed measure it is provided
that it shall not take effect until
“after the enactment of concur-
rent or essentially similar regu-
lations by the government of the
Dominion of Canada, either by
act of

council, or

parliament,
other proper
Prepared by Fisheries Bureau.

The bill has been prepared in
sult of representations
interested in maintaining the
halibut Tt has
been approved by the solicitor of

great industry.
the department of commerce and
soon will be before congress.

It fixes December and January
as a closed season, during which
months it is to be unlawful to
ish fop halibut in all waters of
the Pacific, its bays,
tributaries within American juris-
diction, or to land, dehiver or offer
for sale in the United States any
halibut taken
those months.

sounds and

in such waters in

W. M. LAW TO LOCATE
IN ALICE ARM DISTRICT

.
Law, lives at

has just

W. M. who now
Houston, returned from
a visit to Alice Arm where he has
looking over the business
situation. Mr, Law is so favor-
impressed with the outlook
district that he
and

been

ably
‘im that. mining
has decided to erect
put in a stock of general mer-
chandise,

a store

DR. L. W. KERGIN LEAVES
TOMORROW FOR EUROPE

Dr. L. W. Kergin received a
wire this morning to report im-
mediately for overseas. service
with the Army Medical Corps. He
will leave for the east tomorrow
morning, accompanied by Mrs.
Kergin, who will reside in Toronto
while the doctor is at the front.
The hearty good wishes of the
whole community will go with
him in his work for the Empire.

 

or order in!
means.’,

 

 

GRAND TRUNK STATION
AT MONTREAL DESTROYED

(Special to The Dally Newe>)

Montreal, March 1.—The Grand
Trunk station was destroyed by
fire this morning, the damage
done amounting to $300,000, The
fire started in the top storey of
the about five o'clock.
Half an hour later the roof fell
in. The cause of the outbreak is
unknown.

building

FORMER CITY AUDITOR
1s ARMY PAYMASTER

Mr. Patrick Robertson, former-
ly city auditor of Prince Rupert
is now an army paymaster and is
stationed at Shrewsbury, England,
where he has a payroll of 45,000
handle. Mr. Robertson
that the Canadians have
earned a great reputation on the
western front and rank with the
Australians and New Zealanders
did such valiant work at
Anzac, in the estimation of the
British people.

men to

says

who

INTERESTING DRAMA
AT MAJESTIC THEATRE

“Counsel for the Defense," the
three-act drama at the Majestic
tonight, is a most remarkable
play of retribution. Steve Flan-
ders, in stealing valuable jewels,
shoots a woman, Richard Morgan,
his counsel, becomes aware of
the hiding place of the jewels and
takes them. Morgan becomes

famous and, on his wedding day,

 

| presents the stolen jewels to his
the bureau of fisheries as the re-

bride. Flanders break into the

thich!] .
which |}ouse and accidentally shoots the
have been made by those who are! jawyer’s wife.

The climax, when
the thieves recognise each other
and realise the remarkable coin-
cidence, is dramatic in the ex-
treme.

There are also two reels of Max
“Hits
with disastrous
A good

very

Linder’s fun, in which Max
the High Spots,”
results and no end of fun.
Pathe

fine show.

Gazette completes a

 

‘ FISH DAY

Fish which’ was obseryed
throughout Canada yesterday, was
appropriately the day which
halibut in the Prince Rupert mar-
ket touched a new record, the
price being 8%cts,’at the wharf.
The high price was not the re-
sultjof the extraordinary demand
but because of the light fares be-
ing brought in by the fishing
boats. Mr. H. O, Roberts, of the
San Juan Company, beught 20,000
pounds at this price.

Day,

on

 

POLICE COURT
At the police court this morn-
ing, John Carlson charged
with assaulting Fred. Olson on
the street some days ago. Accused
was released on paying the court
costs.

was

Prince Rupert must have that
complete company in the 102nd
Battalion,

 

 

-

The Eagles Club will hold a so-
cial evening in the K. of P. Hall
tonight.

When hope keeps pace with

at ee ee

 

love the race is nearly won,

HUN OFFENSIVE
AROUND VERDUN
NOW SUSPENDED

German Activity Lessening—The
French Artillery Hinders
All Preparations for
Further Advance.

 

(Special to The Dally News.)
Paris, March 1.—The activity
around Verdun is lessening. The
French artillery is preventing the
Germans from making prepara-
tions for a further advance on the
fortress.

The action is spreading on both
wings towards the Champagne and
Woevre distriets, but the fighting
on the wings is purely local.
Offensive Suspended.

The German offensive is sus-
pended, but it is still uncertain as
to whether it has stopped. There
is activity on the front held by
the British in Belgium, and an
Allied offensive at Ypres and Dix-
mude is anticipated.

Douamont. ‘
The Rupert Hotel bulletin says
that the Brandenburg regiment is
entrapped by the French in the
fort of Douamont and that the
Germans are making desperate
efforts to save it. -

 

 

RIOTOUS BERLIN CROWD
CHARGED BY CAVALRY

Amsterdam, Feb. 27.--The Echo
Belge, a copy of which has been
received here, says it learns that
outbreak occurred in
Berlin @hree days ago. Cavalry
charged ‘the crowd, and in the
fight which ensued over one hun-
dred persons were killed.

a serious

 

WEDDING BELLS

At the Catholic Chureh this
morning Miss Clara Auriol was
united in holy matrimony to Mr,
Oscar Berg, the Rev. Father Bunoz
conducting the ceremony in the
presence of a few friends of the
contracting parties. Mr, and Mrs.
Berg will take up their residence
in the city,

MAJESTIC :: THEATRE

Tonight and Tomorrew
eA WHALE OF A PROGRAM

“MAX HITS THE HIGH
SPOTS”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featuring Max Linder in 4 master-
piece Two-reel Comedy,
PATHE GAZETTE

Latest Interesting War News.
“COUNSEL FOR THE
DEFENSE’:

Three-reel Powerful Modern Drama,

 

 

 

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ADMISSION 10 and 165 cents.

Coming soon, the great Serial “God-
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