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VOL. VIE. 112.

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PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916.

 

 

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

PARIS IS PREPARING FOR FINAL TRIUMPH

 

 

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SENS:ATIO

NAL EVIDENCE IS GIVEN BY YOAKUM_ IN FUSE ENQUIRY AT OTTAWA

 

PARISIAN:SARE

PREPARING SYR
FINAL TRIUMPH

Landlords Preparing Against the
Great March Past—Germans
Repulsed Again—-British
Line in Trouble.

 

(Special to The Daily Newe.)
Paris, May 13.—In anticipation

of an Allied final vietory, all
leases of apartments facing on
the Champs Elysees, the most
famous boulevard in Paris, now
contain a clause reserving the
right of the land-lords to sub-let
the windows and balconies to

sight-seers “WHEN THE VIUGTO-
RIOUS ARMIES OF THE FRENCH
REPUBLIC AND HER ALLIES
MARCH PAST IN TRIUMPH.”
Germans Again Repulsed.
rhe French trenches southwest
of Fort Douamont have been vio-
den All

man attacks have been repulsed.

tly bombarded, the Ger-
Artillery fighting continues along
eft bank of the
Small German Success.
May 13,—A
heavy offensive against the Brit-

the Meuse,

London, German

sh line around Hulluch has be-
un, A heavy artillery bombard-

ment

preceded an infantry at-

al Vermilles.
he 500

Germans captured

yards of the first line of trenches,
but these were partially recaptur-
ed in a British attack.

Berlin claims Germans

counter
that the
and

prisoners machine

 

COLLINGWOOD SCHRIEBER
IS AMONG THE MISSING

rhe Collingwood Sehrieber who
ligured in one of the recent casu-

ally lists is a grand-nephew of

‘ir Collingwood Sehrieber, gen™
eral consulting engineer to the
Dominion government, and a son
of iH. H, Sehrieber of Clarkson,
Unt, He is reported as missing.
Mr. Schrieber is twenty years of
‘ge and enlisted in Vancouver
about a year ago. Before enlist-
lg, he was an engineer on the
© N. R. construction.

Janes MeMillan, son of W. J.
McMillan.

formerly a wholesale
Merchant here, passed through
this morning on his way south

rom Granby, where he has been
store the

Granby,

Keeper for company.
he

Presented with a handsome gold

Refors

leaving was

Watch by his fellow employees as
“Mark of esteem. Jim,was wel
~BOWwN here, having assisted his
father here in the early days.
THE CRAL..
Born to Mr, and Mrs, Kenneth
Rood 733 Borden Street,

a ‘he Seneral hospital yesterday.

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GO TO

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FOR THE BEST MEALS
STRICTLY UNION HOUSE
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A. J. PRUDHOMME IS
ENTHUSIASTIC FARMER

A. J. Prudhomme returned last

evening after having

spent
month on his raneh at the end of
Telkwa.
the

Tyee #Lake near

Prudhomme, who owns

R. Driver ranch, has spent a very

busy time plowing and harrow

and breaking new land,

ing,
looks it. He is bronzed with the
fit.

of

looks remarkably

is full

sun and

Mr. Prudhomme en-

thusiasm in regard to the future

and makes no secret of his ambi-
tion to gain some of tne prizes al
the
September, in any case he is sat-
isfied that the Bulkley will get its
full share,

Agricultural Exbibition in

He has two men and two teams

busy all the time, and while at
the ranch, he drove a team him-
self and is already laying plans
to return there at an early date
to carry on the good work. He
says every man and every uorse

in that district is busy and this

year should see the finest crops
yet. He expects to have at least
{00 acres of the finest timothy
hay. Since going in he has pre-

pared 26 acres of new land for
crop and left his men putting in
season's * vegetable crops.
Along in the summer he will bring
in a carload of young cattle.

There are several new settlers
of the right stamp there now, the
Dunnigan ranch being handled by
a Mr. Duff who is working hard
to produce a bumper crop, while
the Caldwell Okla-
homa are doing splendid work on
the
was
that

every

family from

the ranch adjoining Driver.
Mr.
struck by the fact

greatly
the

minute

Prudhomme

set-

tlers are devoting
to the land and
about work from the government
He

looks

not worrying
or any other outside source.
that

are

says wherever one

there clearing fires which
mean new acreage ready for the
plow.

George W. Davis, representing
returned
to the

He is en-

Canadian Explosives,

last evening from a visit

camps.

the

interior mining

thusiastie over mining out-

look.

The three boys, who have been
playing hayoe In several unoc-

cupied houses around thwn, were

brought up before Judge Young
this morning. ‘The parents of

the youngsters were bound over
in their personal bonds for $500

a guarantee of the good be-

as

haviop of the boys in the future,

to the Kilt.
Highlandep was

Loyal

One Canadian
in the arrest barracks at Giessen,
in Hesse, Germany, when visited
recently by the United States rep-
he had

—Tit Bits.

I
resentative,
fused to wear trou

because re-
sers.
Wells will tell of his
as a prisoner of war
at the Westholme to-

Sergeant
experiences
in Germany

night,

 

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Mr. |
| Sensational Evidence Given Yes-

of this great farming district in|

TOAKUMS FS
PROFITS SPLIT

| terday in Fuse Enquiry—An-
nance Goes to Prison—C.

a N, R. Vote is Held up.

and |

| eke alias
(Special to The Dally News.)
May 13.—Sensational

' Ottawa

kum,

!

| i . ,
iaanene was given by B. F. Yoa-,
|

enquiry yesterday.

that Colonel Allison had an ar-

the interior, and expects to have|rangement to split Yoakum’s half!
{50 acres under crop this year, jof the profit on the fuse gcon-|

| tracts. He also stated that Aili-

son from lime to time gave orders!

on the Shell Commissicn for pay-
ments amounting in all to $195,-
000, against Yoakum’s profit ac-
count.
Annance to Prison,

Vancouver, May 13.—Failing to
procure the necessary bondsmen,
Peter
to the Oakhalla prison farm where

Annance has been removed

he will serve his sentence of nine
months.
Railroad Vote.
May 13.—The
mons yesterday passed the vote
of for the
Trunk Pacific Railway, but post-
the
millions to

Ottawa, Com-

eight millions Grand
question of granting
the

Northern until today.

poned

fifteen Canadian

SUMMER TRAIN SERVICE
WILL START JUNE 11TH

Morley
dent of the Grand Trunk Pacific,
the

announces

Donaldson, vice-presi-

train last
that
trains

who arrived on

evening, there

will be three a

week afler June 141th, each train

express

having an observation car at-
tached.

Mr. Donaldson said that con-
ditions on the prairie are not

the weather

being cold and seeding delayed in

ideal this spring,

some quarters. In speaking of
agriculture, he emphasized the
opinion that the intérior of

northern British Columbia is well
to the
He feels
to the
sugar factories, while the land is
the

raising..of- sugar
that
establishment

suited
this would
of

beets.
lead
also splendidly adapted to
raising of cattle and hogs.
Mr. Donaldson looks for a large
inerease in the tourist trafic this
summer, He will return east on
his private car, Transcontinental,
some time this afternoon,
WEDDING BELLS
Miss Aldine Bowen,
a resident of this city
some time, was united in matri-

who has

been for
mony to Mr. Thomas Thompson,
of Portland, Ore., at the Metho-
the
ceremony being performed by the
Rey. J. EF, Dimmick. Mr, Thomp-
son was a resident of Prince Ru-

dist parsonage yesterday,

pert in the early days. The happy
left for Portland this
morning on the Prince Rupert.

couple

 

 

Se. zeant Wells is a most enter
taining speaker, Hear him at the

Westholme tonight,

 

WITH ALLISON

of New York, at the fuse!

Yoakum says!

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RT. HON. AUGUSTUS BIRRELL

Ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland
who resigned as a result of the
It will be seen

that he is an aged and care-worn

recent rebellion,

man. Photo was taken when he

was out on a recent stroll.

SERGEANT WELLS
MAKES BIG HIT

full

evening

 

There

Westholme

house at the

to

was a
last hear
Sergeant Wells, and there is cer-

tain to be an even larger audience

tonight, while there should also
be a large attendance at the mat-
inee,

The pictures of the various

movements of the Canadian forces

were very fine, particularly the

review scene in England, while

the various views of convalescent

homes in the old country were
extremely interesting, especially
as “Doc” Wells had interesting

things to say about many of the

patients,
The most striking feature in
the films was the series of dia-

the
Canadian,

grams explanatory of move-
ments of the
and British troops from April
to 24, when the boys of the Maple
Leaf saved the at St.
Julien. Another
was that of the Canadian officers

French

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situation
splendid scene

in Flanders being presented to a

Cardinal behind the firing line.
Sergeant Wells’ remarks re-

garding the various scenes were

always interesting and. often

highly amusing. His lecture was
a soldierly talk, studded with wit-
humorous anecdotes
the

while his deseription of
the

received in Germany was funnier

ticisms and
trenches,
the

Canadian prisoners

of experiences in
re-

ception

than if seemed to him at the
time. It is impossible to ade-
quately the
it that
heard and not described.

The sergeant was introduced
by Canon Rix, while the
Bugle Band played the salute as
he appeared on the stage, A pleas-

lecture, as

deseribe

is something must

Cadets

 

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JAPANESE CONSUL
| GENERAL ARRIVES

Hon. C.
|General at Ottawa, arrived from

Yada, Japanese Consul

and
| met here by the G. T. P, officials.
He was taken to the drydock in

jthe east last evening, was

General Superintendent Mehan’s
car, after which he spent
the

residents of the city.

some
time interviewing Japanese
On being introduced to the local
Mr. Yada
said that he had been in Prince
Rupert eight years ago and

press representatives,
re-
membered meeting John Houston,
Rupert’s pioneer
He pointed out the
spot where the late Mr. Houston’s
office stood on Centre Street, re-
that the looked
vastly different today from what
it did on his former visit,

Prince news-

pererman,

marking town

Later in the evening, Mr. Yada
was conducted over the city in an
auto accempanied by the G. T. P.
officials, winding up with a visit
to the Westholme Theatre to hear

ASQUITH’S IRISH
VISIT HAILED AS
MASTER STROKE

Return to Civil Law Imminent—
United States Army to be re-
organised—Preparedness
Parade.

 

’

(Special to The Daily News.)
London, May 13.—Premier As-
to visit
Dublin hailed by the
press as a stroke of genius, as

quith’s sudden resolve

has been

it has had the effect of assuaging
the political passions which were

rampant.
General Maxwell has reviewed
the troops stationed in Dublin,

and feeling is comparatively quiet.

The restoration of civil law is
imminent. “
United States Army.
Washington, May 13.—The

 

House of Representatives and the
Senate have agreed upon an army

8 Trees ve Ss > ’ is yar : . 2 : :
ee #7! Wells. te Of aaa re-organization bill which gives
see remeeet : ss a regular army of 206,000 men as
I Me morning, Mr. Yada was peace strength, which will be
interviewed by G. A, Woodland

 

and G. R. Naden. He expressed
regret that he was unable to stay
in the city, as
have liked to have discussed com-
mercial matters. Those members
of the Board of Trade
him that they would be delighted

longer he would

assured

capable of an expansion to 254,-

000 in time of war.
Preparedness Parade.

New York, May 13.—145,00v0

men and women took part in a

parade in support of a policy of

preparedness, here today.

 

 

 

 

Tickets 50 cents at Orme’s store
and Benson's Studio. Every ticket
carries a chance of one of twenty
the
view at Benson's
Whist at

4415.

prizes, besides whist prizes,
which
Studio,

9 p. m. sharp.

are on

Refreshments,

 

 

Train Agent Maguire, of the G,
|T. P., arrived from the east

last
jevening, accompanied by Mrs. Ma-
Landa They left for the south
\this morning,

 

be|Rupert’s returned soldiers occu-

pying a box as his guests, and the
greatest tribute to the sergeant’s
descriptive abilities was paid by
the men who had been with him
in the of them

trenches. Each

ing feature was his having Prince \thought it was splendid.

to furnish him with any infor- BURGLARY
mation desired. %

Before going aboard the Prince} Burglars entered the ware-
Rupert fer the south, Mr. Yada/house of F. G. Dawson some time
said it had been a great pleasure}quring the night and made off
to him to travel over the Grand|with a quantity of cigars, con-
Trunk Pacific road and remarked |fectionery and chewing gum. An
on the fact that the train, after|entry was made through one of
losing over foup hours through|{he side windows, the thieves
a small rock slide west of Jasper) making their way out by the side
had arrived in Prince Rupert just|joading door. The matter is in
a few minutes late, the hands of Chief Vickers and

Sere heer eee his staff.
JOLLY DANCE gto a eee

The dance given by the Hill 60 THE WEATHER
Chapter of the I. O. D, E. in the
MeIntyre Hall last evening was By F. W. Dowling.
one of the most enjoyable little For 24 hours ending 5 a. m.
dances ofithe season. The musi¢]saturday, May 43th.
was provided by Harry Harvey|Rarometer ......+++.s+- 30.396
and Alee Grey, and 2 a. m. ar-|Highest Temperature ...... 44.0
rived all too soon for everybody.|Lowest temperature ...... 42.0
The young ladies of the commit-| Rainfall ...... Se anes 2 02
tee provided the daintiest of good ec as ge ts
things to eat and all had a Amongst the soldier guests of
thoroughly good time, Gergeant Wells last evening was

PeaprerE ARR IR Ae ee R. Robertson, formerly a_long-

Unique whist drive and dance] shoreman here, who was on his
by Valhalla Society in K. of P.|.\way south when war was declared,
Hall on Thursday, May 18th.|jfe was in the 7th Battalion with

Sergt. Wells.

 

WESTHOLME

OPERA HOUSE
TONIGHT

 

 

Canadian Government Of-
ficial films of Canada’s

Fighting Forces

thrilling reels taken
overseas by Lieutenant D, J.
Dwyer, 30th Battalion, C.E.F.

Lecture by
SERGEANT FRED. WELLS

Whe lost an arm at Ypres and was
a prisoner of war in Germany
for four months,

Six

 

Prices: Adulte, 50 cents; Children,
25 cents. Matinee: Adults, 25 cents;
Children, 10 cents.