THE WEATHER geo Tw = h endi D iaeie wer our hours ending 6 a m.,, City of Seattle. MAX. TEMP. nn, Feat. ofits, IN. RAIN ; For v2. el. 9, 9 Prigicess May. >>>:. ot anand wt { WANT Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist % ee Ze TOR. VOL. Il, NO. 102 PrRINcE Rupert, B.C., Monpay, May 8, 1911. 2 ON U.S. SENATE CONSIDERS RECIPROCITY QUI PRESIDENT DIAZ TO RETIRE FRANCHISE FOR MEXICANS President and Cabinet of Mexico Will Capitulate to) the Radical Demands-—Issue a Manifesto in Which They Offer to Retire from Office - | ‘anadian Press Dispatch) Mexico City, May 8.—President RIOTING eo Diaz and his Cabinet announced today the terms upon which they) OKLAHOMA are willing to vacate office. It is practically an acceptance of Mad- eaapes dimes s om~sor heats apg Gun Play Indulged in Over . ero's demands i yortan 3 ; i aig P Street Car Strike Dispute particulars, The Cabinet will con- it, text as published shows sider the draft later and revise ee ONE MAN KILLED are that they willing to step out Four Other Men are Seriously | of office and grant all the leading Annan te ime Bittakt ei 8: ties Injured—Union Men Tried | to Stop the Company from|,, On ee Running Its Own Cars. The draft manifesto announces that the Cabinet will grant to (Canadian Press Dispatch) the people of Mexico a free and Oklahoma City, May 8 One| pty iffrage, and an election man was shot dead, and four| The ele is to be conducted | others seriously injured here this pnaSs ovisions which will pre mornivg, when the striking unioi vent the re-election oo President | pen attempted to stop the street BDiaz or any of the existing exe-| paijway company from operating j , its cars with strike breakers The company had engaged Miss’ Mabel Beatty leaves on} number of special police who were We day to spend a few weeks) armed with guns. These opened in Port Simpson, consequently she fire and a battle resulted in the will not receive that day streets { TO CONSIDER RECIPROCITY U. S. Senate are Now Busy with the Great Subject sNOMIN ATION LIST TODAY J. Alder, H. Douglas and Ronald Ferguson “ANVASSING IN PROGRESS FARMERS’ DELEGATION Two Thousand Wheat Growers from Minnesota Expected To- morrow to Present Their Views. Closed at Two p-m. Deputations Waited on H. Douglas but W. J. Alder's Supporters Are Confident That He Will Go In. Som Ominations Canadian Press Dispatch rhe Up to two o'clock today nomi Washington, May 8 con- \ s were recivable at the City| sideration of the Canadian recip- 1 for the aldermanic vacancy} rocity bill began in earnest this 1 by the resignation of Ald-| morning in the Senate, when the Pattullo At ten a.m., only! Finance Committee of the Senate e nomination of W. ], Alder was|took up the bill to consider and : e hands of the City Clerk, but|report. It is expected that they c ore eleven o'¢ lock Mr H Doug | will report tomorrow s presented his nomination signed A monster delegation of Min- Messrs. | M. Woodworth ard! nesota and Dakota farmers, two G. Scott thousand strong is expected at the several deputations of citizens| Capital tomorrow to present their vaited on Mr, Douglas since his| views ( I n trom Vancouver, requestii R LEFT FOR ENGLAND FIRE AT NEW YORK | BASEBALL SCORES | [Metropolitan Tobaese Co. Are the Victims. Loss $200,000 Premier McBride Sails from New York on Wednesday es eae Northwestern League ; ‘ . . g (Canadian Press Dispatch) (Canadiav Press Dispatch) | New Vancouver 0, Portland 3. Ottawa, May 8.--Premier Me-| co ie 19. Vi 0 York, May 67 — ime. iss 2 ag > ctoria : ° Bride and Hon. W. J. Bowser left ek : i 9 ; warehouse of the Metropolitan aTLe « acoma by . [this morning for New York on errr Kc: | Tobacco Company was destroyed i ‘ . aE P RIS Ce: hy fire yesterday Fort ately | their way to England for the Taare ee ete = : ISSING MAN §S | ‘ ms |Coronation. They will sail on M G OUGHT | there was no loss of life. The ithe White Sitar Liner Baltic on , damage to the building and con Aun tIe 2. n Xavier Violette Nnown as Cog- tents is placed at $200,000. |W ednesday nette’’ Has Disappeared morning. LOS ANGELES TRIAL FIRE AT DETROIT Chief Owen of the Provinciz all J, o4, aH . $ y ‘ f é Policezis looking out for a man| | Question of Giving Bail Will be in tones ranging from the sa‘test feminine dulcet to the roughest masculine roar over Prince Ru- pert’s ‘phones during the months between August 15th, 1910, and April 30th, 1911. There were also five hundred and eighty-four thou- said polite little feminine in- Rrunswick-Balke Warehouse is | named Xavier Violette, known also| edT : hat Decid omorrow Gutted—-$75,000 Damage as ‘“Cognette’ who formerly re-| 3 sided at Grand Islands, Maine. | ; f ; (Canadian Press Di | ola a ee Los A:vgeles, May 8.—There is anadian Press Dispatch) He is 65 years old, 5 feet 6 inches} thi loi ‘al a a . ; ; “ "kel i nothing doing today with 1e Detroit, May 8.—-Fire broke out| in height, weighs about 165 pounds, : s y i . j a ; cases against McNamara brethers here last night aid completely | and is_most likely to be exmployed j ca. " 7 : and their friends who are chz arged | |destroyed the warehouse of the|in lumber or railway camps. Rel- ‘ ; a. a with having blown up the Times}. Srunswick-Balke Co., manufact-|atives are enquiring for him, aie weft ; ; : : |building. Tomorrow all the atl urers of billiard and pool tables.|any information regarding him : - ah i . come up in court, and _ their the loss is put at $75,000. will be welcomed counsel will renew the applic ation) y them released on bail. to have ALL FAVOR HOME RULE Asquith Says the Dominions Are Solid for It | HAS NO DOUBT ‘Tells Manchester Audience Evy- ery Premier Would Vote for| | | London, May 8.—Premier As-} }quith speaking at | | it if He Voted According to, His Constituents. } Manchester on} quiries of ‘‘Number Please’ from “Central.” Not a single compalint of any serious nature was received in that time. Minor interruptions of the service were few, | promp ytly put right, and | and subscri-| ers all over are well pleased. Fire Alarms in Order Today Mr. Love, manager of| | the Light and Phone Department, | mentions that the old fire alarm peymese throughout the city again in working order. Properly is and the system so arranged as to | be urder control of the Telephone This LOSES SEAT BY ONE VOTE! | Exciting Political Action in Great Britain Department Central. will j UNFAIRN ESS CHARGED Liberal Candidate at Exeter | After a Week's Recount befo- re Two Judges Loses His Seat by One Vote. | Saturday night told his audience} that not one premier of any of the Dominions ove rthe seas but} would vote to give Ireland Home Rule, if he voyed according to the} rhe steel cage in which Camorrist prisoners sit during the progress|way his constituencies fetl. The} of their trial at Viterbo, Italy, So desperate are these criminals| Dominions were all united as to} considered that the Italian Government deemed it necessary to| the expediercy of giving Ireland | enclose them in a cage even while in court. | Home Rule. GRAHAM ISLAND SETTLERS HAVE MANY GRIEVANCES Complain That the Island is Given Over to Coal Stakers and Ab- sentee Owners---Want to Make a Living But Cannot---Are Angry and Discontented With the Government (Special to the Daily News) London, May 8.--One of the |most exciting political trials has just been concluded at Exeter, |with the result that Mr. St. Maur, | the Liberal member was unseated, towards which mz last } was Mr. seat land his opponent at the Mr. Duke, K. C., declared elected by one vote. St. by besiege Muar previously held the four votes. the At two votes was Maur, last four | For an entire week seat had hung in the balance. an moment the loss of to unseat Mr, St. declared by a majority The invidious task of de-| ciding whether this vote or that} bad, much depended on a single ballot| enough who was elected December of only. vote were good or whei paper, fell to the lot of Judges! Ridley and Channel], and the} course of the trial was of such a| see-saw nature that by the last | day excitement had risen to fever pitch. When the decision became kno- Duke's supporters and the bitterness of Mr. St. unbounded, and an unprecedented Judge Ridley took it wn the enthusiasm of Mr. Maur's sympathisers were between unseated the stood in the station, encounter and the place in member London train as Smarting under a sense of defeat, | Mr. St. Maur, addressing the crowd on the platform, alluded to ‘unjust judges.” Judge Ridley was seated in the same coach, and he rose and placed a restraining | hand on Mr. St. Maur's shoulder | and closed the window. Before| lm to run for alderman, and with POSTMASTER : ; i | wi mots of fight in him, Mr. Douglas The following letter has been|timber, coal, oil and purchase] will be returned, alter acceptance. eited to his nomination. ARRESTED received by the Daily News. Ow | Stakes, At the present time a party of \s w expected Mr. Rouald IS as to its exceptional importance | ‘The soil is all that can be surveyors are engaged in defining , erguson was nominated shortly, is reproduced in full. Thej|desired for growing fruits and the lines on 180 miles of territory— clore two o'clock today as nom-|Defrauded the Authorities le riter, who has spent several | vegetables; but it is a ‘no-man’s| and that territory is in the hands ation forms had been requisition Fifteen Years months travelliny Among the set- |land today. Hundreds and hun-|of one timber company. One eB! by parties working on his’ be- | tlements on business, describes | dreds of land seckers, men of small | man staked twenty miles, for ‘Wl. Mr. George Phillpotts was|Joseph Kingmar of Cheyenne | ithe settlers as being filled with | means, desiring to make for them-}| purchase, and no surveyor ever lo mentioned as a possible| After Defrauding the Post | discosragement at the way they | selves and their fagailien a home, | went over the ground, Foreign lidate this morning. Office Spent All the Money | are being sacrificed for the spec- | have spent thelr hard earnings | capital has been used in sending ; mvassing has been going on! on Typewriters and Sewing | ulators and foreign capitalists: | in cruising’ for pre-emptions, or|out ‘stakers’ and cruisers,’ while ietly on behullsal-die gacdiddten! Machines. | pl ices to purchase at a reasonable | the men who desire to make a nd today there is a briskening up A Beautiful Place prc e; but their quest has been in| perm inent home on the soil of this direction. | (Canadian Press Dispatch) “Within eighty miles of the} vain. If they do not find ‘stakes’ | their sn Opn ry are driven away aa Cheyenne, May 8.—Postimasier|future terminus of the Grand | Inserted mn their land, ee The Duties of Government Won Suits Joseph Kingman was taken into} Trunk Pacific Railway, on the} consi ~ oe os ~~ a We hear the argument that the ' The winners of Sloan’s Suit!custody this morning on charges|line of the steamer trafhe between | they are met with aM Fapor , | holders of the land pay taxes. lubs on Saturday night was as|of robbing the postal authorities, | the Orient and the Dominion, is et the land office that non That the Government of the Prov- llows: He is said to have invented aja group of islands, indented by | coal and other rights exist, anc |ince can show a surplus of millions No. 6, J. J. Morris. system of fraud in money orders} harbors and waterways that w iil | they have been compelled to seek | of dollars, Is that building up No. 7,—W, T. Morrison. lwhich he had practised for the find no comparison in the world, pastures new ‘nk the country ? Isa government in No, 8. N. Johnstone. past fifteen years He kept an} Virago, Massett and Skidegate Driven , the Lan | power tu speculate, or i it_for No. 9.—A, J, Mallett. account of all the moneys he,;Sounds are all sheltered from ‘Blue print’ after ‘blue print | the purpose of mk king the Province No. 10H, Hamblin, stole, and spent it all on type storms and are safe, for deep water | has been sold to the immigrant, | a home for the thousands who No. 11—T. Brooks. writers, sewing machines and oil vessels from one end to the other, on which is shown spare pieces of | seek the wherewithal to build up NO, 12 celle tae Wynne. stoves. The whole of the west side of land ; but the pre-emptor finds, on| the nation? Truc it is that the No. 13.—E. D. Johnson. When arrested, his house was|Massett Inlet and the south making application, that others|land on the Islands would support New clubs are being formed, found to be packed with these shore of Virago Sound, 18 UUs have the ground. Men have placed many thousands; but how many articles from top to bottom, habited save for one whaling sta-| their houses on pre-empted ground, will come where so many have Che.0, BRM vir Baie ck Mas '| tion, recently erected at Nadon cleared the land and lived ov it| already gone away disgusted. We rrived from the south this after The store that pays a lot of|Harbor. Roads and trails are for years, only leaving with per heat a great deal of the potentialit- on with a number of passengers |money for space in which to say]i noticeable by their absence, and mission, and today find that they|ies of Vancouver Island. There is nd a consignment of mail. The something to you must believe} the shore line for hundreds of are on timberlimits, Others have; no comparison between the land "acess May leaves this evening | that what it says is important to miles, is in the hands of speculators] paid the government for land and — or Skagway, " ‘plastered,’ to use a term, with | have been informed that the money CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 you. the train left Mr. St. Maur, how- ever, made it clear that he had 110 intention of retracting his words, The “ in this issue would make it a valuable news- paper, even if it contained no other news. stere news" | which \its | coca ta wiring has been installed, | | will | spun HALF A MILLION HELLO’S -QVER RUPERT'S PHONES New Directories Next Week—Manager Love Reports Fire Alarms Again Working and Improved— McBride Stre:t to be Lighted Tonight Five hundred and eighty-four!ensure its being kepi in repair. thousand ‘‘Hellos” were wafted!There are eighteen alarms alto- gether. Section Six is not quite reaay yet. Light up McBride Tonight for the first. time Mc- Bride street will be lighted. Every- thing is in readiness there to turn on the current. Two new switch boards have been installed at the power plant to control four diff- erent circuits. Section Six is now a distinct circuit by itself. So far the street lighting is still in | the same circuit with the domestic }supply, buc later this will | altered. New ‘Phone Directories In a be few short months the *Phore system of Prince Rupert to the American continent, has outgrown latest Directory. Mr .Love that the new directories | will be available by the end of the week, and will be distributed to | subscribers, i THE WORLD WANTS MEN Paul's Wokition’ of the Great | Problem | REV. W. H. McLEOD'S SER- MON 1s second none on reports “Socialistic Ideal Can Only be Attained by the Work of Men Inspired by the Christ Spirit’ | Says This Pastor. | Only by the gradually increasing number of strong and good men jon the earth will this world ever attain to the ideal social state unkind is striving. W.H. night on the World This is the substance of Rev. McLeod's last “Paul's Solution of Problem.” ‘The | McLeod, sermon Rev. Mr. “is waiting aud hoping world,”’ said * | for men like Christ, and the world satisfied until it The Socilaistice Ideal will never be won by finely Ouly men strong for good, for brotherhcod, and the rever be finds such men.’ theories. | acuse of Christ on earth will ever jbring about the ideals of those theories, “You cannot build up the com- monwealth of Canada by mere genius alone. It must be genius plus the Christ-like spirit. Cherish the Ideal and you will live aud you will iive and work for it for the whole of humanity. ‘This the greatest century that ever has been for helpfulness and It is because great is brotherliness. lof the spread cf the Christ Spirit. ¥ This may be denied,’ said the pastor, ‘‘but I believe it.”’ Rev. Mr. McLeod spoke enthu- the influence of moulding for the of men who will bring about the great ideal. ‘*Th- ank God," he said, ‘for Christian mothers, That is where boys get the foundation of character. siastically for the mothers in world the type “Let us become Godlike,” he j concluded, “and we shall never Ibe discouraged in our work. Let jus help up the man who is drifting down. world-problems of sin and society.” The Baptist church was thronged last night, and the brightness of the serv ce was marked throughout, So we shall solve the great