: ~ THE WEATHER 556, >» “pen mall diy \ oR SouTH “he hours ending 5 a m., City Ges “ .. Thursday, MAX. TEMP. ‘MIN. TROP, BAR. IN. RAIN ' Prine€ Ru . ....Friday, 47.0 34.0 30.095 2.05 1 Soa Nort State ot 9 falifornia.....Friday, M Ul s *. . ——_ Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist VOL. IL, NO. 104 PRINCE RuPert, B.C., Wennespay, May 10, 1911. PRICE FivE CENTS Island---Capt. BFISHING BOAT “FISH MAID” TURNS TURTLE IN STORM apsized Last Night in Deep Water Four. Miles from Dundas Chris. Johnson and His Crew of Five Men Were Saved by the Fishtug ‘‘Muirneag” of Claxton---Were Clinging to the Keel When Rescued by Capt. Macdonald. BASEBALL SCORES | + |! Le Northwestern League : pokane 6, Victoria 3 Tacoma 1, Seattle 0 Vancouver and Portland: National League New York 5, ©} 3. Pittsburg 8, Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati 6, DB. a; St. Louis 2, Brookiyn 0. American League Detroit, 10, New York 0. Boston 5, Cleveland 4. rain. icago ston At Fs Os es ~——~¢ the Provincial Government’s Treatment of the Organize for Action---Had Some Kind Words The Daily News | sDON'T FORGET IT IS ELECTION DAY TOMORROW ———$_—_—_ KITSELAS MEN START A LIBERAL ASSOCIATION Satisfied That Reciprocity i is a Good Think, and as a Protest to Settler They to Say About for Espousing the Cause of the Settler While fishing off the banks four|harbor, which she often visited Engineer Charlie Landry and four | (Special Correspondence) Mr R. C. Macdonald, Vice! timber, petroleum and coal. A Biles out from Dundas Island] with cargoes of fish. At the time }other men from the Fish Maid BIGGER NATIONAL PARK | Kitselas, May 1.—An organ- President. number of settlers who had hither- night the gasoline fishingboat |of the disaster she had a cargo of | struggling in the waves. At great | isation to be known as the Kitselas Mr. J. D. Wells, Secretary and|to been Conservatives, joined the Maid turned turtle, throwing|}seven thousand pounds of fish|risk to his own boat he brought i |Liberal Association was formed| /Te@surer. association, and voiced their pro- er crew into the water. After|in her holds, and was on her way|her alongside the wreck and got | Bill ntroduced by Hon. Frank |here last night at a meeting or} Mr. Frank R. Angers, Mr. W.| test against the bitter partiality 1 exciting time, during which the| home from the banks. The weath-|the men off. The vessel he had Oliver settlers and business men. There] !iam E. Cannon, Mr. L. H. Kenny;| and discrimination that had been fortunate men only saved them-|er was a and the sea} to okt a i” the a of the a M i 10.—Und bil | W484 large attendance, and before| Organizer Executive. used to coerce voters, ves by clinging onto keel of the} heavy. aptain Chris Johnson|storm that broke it was ¢ angerous | tlawa, Way 1. nder a bi ; ‘ > were : 3 ‘ turned boat, the crew were! then ar his boat a mile or so|to stay there | introduced by the Hon. Frank} shitiy ons Ct Beate ele Favor Reciprocity Words of Praise ed by the gasoline fish-tug)ahead of the Muirneag, whit The Vessel | Gliver the areas of the national | rolled. Waite earnestness and| Speeches were delivered by sey-| The secretary was instructed irncag Of Claxton which was|was to follow her on her way| The Fish Maid was a two masted} parks and reserves on the eastern enthusiasm was evinced, and the eral of those present in apprecia-|}to express the thanks of the i ear by. The men, suffer | home before the storm broke ketch built in Vancouver. She| slope of the Rockies are to UG ccortn tien expects to become a| tion of Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s work| association to the Prince Rupert exhaustion and exposure Seusail Struck Her came to Rupert year ago, as|increased to 16,760,640 acres. strong force in the district. \for the country, and of the ben-| Daily News for its help in voicing r seas, were cared for| Cantal “Dotald: Macdovaid: of} | the property of McKay and Butter- tenes . 3 : | efits to be derived throughout the| the feeling of the settlers, for its 1 into the port i Mitirnebe ‘was. watching her | field, owners of a line of fishing | TORONTO BISHOP DEAD List of Officers |eatire Dominion by the passage hight to have the public lands Shida ha “eeikc Waaual “otis hes! | boats, whose names all end in| : : : the following offic werk abel: of the reciprocity bill. administered in the interest of Had Hente tases eee ve oe |‘Maid.” She was at the wharf | Archbishop McEvoy Died Early oe D d Land Poli the bona fide settler, and to broadside, and the little craft}. Prince Runert aaiy' Waaedes This Morning ed: a enounce nd Policy secure fair government. Fich Maid was a boat of|with her cargo lay down aMONg |b afore yesterday, before leaving 5 Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Hon. | Emphatic protests were made| The meeting closed with the forty feet in length, long} the seas and disappeared from | 5. the ‘halibut: Genie, (Canadian Press Dispatch) | President. andnee the administration of the|singing of “God Save the King,” ‘im of build—not a very|sight. Leaving his nets he made! A Narrow Escape Toronto, May 10.—Archbishop | Hon. William Templeman, Hon.| natural resources of British Col- and with a feeling of great hope- boat in bad weather She/all haste to the scene, and there| The rescued men are all grateful McEvoy of tha aces, sy atholic| Vice President. umbia under the Conservative re-|{ulness for the future of the well known in Prince Rupert} discovered Captain ( *hris Johnson, | [for their rescue. They had no church died ‘at 12.15 this morning. | Mr. J. E. McEwen, President. ee more ais in lands,| Kitselas district. time to prepare for the disaster = jit came so suddenly. Their vessel American Staanseont Due ; Fishmaid 10.33 last night, a mile ! is morning J. W. Strom-| pretty well, realise that Mr. Strom- from Tree Point and righted her. his brother Charles G.| beck must have a wonderful know- Sea too heavy to tow, let her drift. k left Prince Rupert for ledge ‘of the tides and coast! Message from Baughman, master. \r a prospecting tour Ki ‘ , ; conditions to enable him to run re travelling in ope of the teresting gasolit e boats his tiny craft so successfu Ily The} ever visited Prince Rupert boat is a fine little sea-boat, and it is an eighteen foot|has faced very severe weather dy Linton” 5 ft. 8 In. beam, | safely in the course of her j journey- ded, and fitted with a ings. Her ‘skipper’ carries charts 2 H Pp Palmer gasoline and all the equipmel t needed for In it J. W. Stromberg navigation. He sleeps aboard his eyed from Prince Rupert boat, running her into the sheltered With eighteen years militi wry Campbell River only about 100} nooks he knows of better than advice haliind Nim -Colok Sergeant! from Vancouver, to within} most people along the coast. With avd Grete Radiat les of Stewart, and all/ pis: little stove going, and his| “08 > Leek, of Earl Grey's spre) ese coasts craft dry as a bone inside, he can|Will leave on the S, S. Prince] Snugly Equipped defy the worst weather. Should}; Rupert on Friday morning to/ | house, he has devised a| his gasoline give out, he can make | officially represent the regiment} light curved covering of sail and get along almost as/and the city at the coronation of | rips arched, and thin plank-| merrily in a breeze as he could King George V. in London, Eng- } vas-covered, Within, the} Under engine-power. An ingenious j land, on June 22. | most compactly fitted, All| sliding mast 6 fitted to the boat, No better type of a man will | stores are snugged away land she carries the usual sprit| stand in that long various colored | er lockers and racks along | sail common on these coasts, ;uniformed line of soldiers of all} vs of the boat. At bow and Mr. Strombeck and his brother|nations that will stretch from} ere is room for any amount fare to make a cruise en teoe ig to| the gates of Buckingham Palace | INY GASOLINE LAUNCH MAKES VERY LONG TRIPS «: W. Strombeck Starts This Morning on Prospecting | Trip After Having Navigated These Coasts from Cape Mudge to Stewart in an 18 ft. Open Boat With a1 1-2 h. p. Motor i : two dories but they had been down the »ned to decks in |preparation for the bad weather. ee the Fish Maid turned turtle he crew only saved themselves 'y crawling out of the windows of their boat as she lay floating on her side. | By wirelass at Humboldt 3 p.m, Str. sighted capsized THE DYNAMITE TRIAL A. F. L. Has Called on Unions | For Aid (Canadian Press Dispatch) Washington, May 10.—The Am-| due here from the south on Friday. erican Federation of Labor now}The Camosun as usual this week asks organized workmen every-!on Friday. where to aid in the defence of} See s : McNamara and has appealed to! The Busy Committee all unions for $500,000. It is} This afternoon there will be a trial of the place before believed now that the accused will not take | September. This afternoon the S. S. City o | Seattle will call here on her way south, and will mail fo Vancouver and carry southern meeting of the Streets Committee, the committee which claims credit for being the busiest bunch of all. rhe boat carries gasoline | sever 11 months in : Alice Arm|up and along the broad avenues} lor a 600 mile run. Under | neighborhood, In - calling as; and streets to ancient Westminster | ector’s licence Mr. Strom-| prospectors they have located sev-|Abbey that has stood since the} entitled to shoot for food} eral likely properties. The brothers fourteenth century on the banks} asons and thus he need} came originally from Finland, and|of the Thames and now in the ‘Ty & great store of pro-| finding the life of the cities a poor shadow of the British Houses ot | but the boat is provisioned | investment as regards health, J. W.| Parliament, where the placing of | ordinary needs. Strombeck gave it up, and took the | crown on. the head of His Can Face Rough Weather to his boating life. Hé has never|Majesty, by the Archbishop of © who know these waters Canterbury, will take place. had cause to regret it. No one would think to look at 'O MANAGE FISH PLANT r. Job Rideout Goes to Queen Charlotte Co. Vhig ‘nouncement is made by * Queen Charlotte Cold Storage Bl; i k ( ‘od miled, Fishing Company, Mr, Job Rideout 8 been “‘ppointed superintendent, Rideout is a Newfoundlander, th it eit hh his that ] it is unnecessary to say he knows 8 something about Appointment means that Color Sergeant George Leck that he was a dry goods’ clerk. It's true though. He started his business behind the counter in an and wielded the yard- the actual operations of the com- pany at Queen Charlotte will now The build- secured, once proceed without delay. ings are erected, the boats English city the fishing banks selected and stick until he was 19 years of age. now with a capable and trust Red: bldod .euinmied? throats dite worthy superintendent, everything veins, as it does through the seems destined to proceed sincothly voids. Of all: healthy ‘bova--it'ece and profitably, thousand per cent better than blue blood—-and he pined to wear Seven Dollar's Worth bs red coat. In March 1890 he John Larsen, a Swede, paid the} joined the famous crack regiment : Arsen, a $ usual $5 and cests this morning | the Grenadier Guards and though he was only in the regiment four | years he left with an excellent; and dis for having been drunk orderly last night, | Col,-Sergt. George Leek who leaves | in the morning to attend the Cor- onatien, While away Sergt, Leek will contribute a series of letters | exclusively for readers of The| Daily News. character and with a sergeant’s rank, | Then he joined the Worcester- shire constabulary and helped to} keep the peace in a portion at} the county until 1898, when he joined the Birmingham C ity Police, In 1891 he found himself in Rochester, New York. There he} fell back to his old business for a time as.dry goods clerk. He! stayed with it for twelve months and then transferred to E] Paso, | Texas, where he hung out shingle as a real estate his | dealer. | | will WILL REPRESENT US AT THE CORONATION : | Dysentery and fever drove /out of there, so he went to Everett, | Alaska and | Washington. of gets most the time sightseers some other, got js eek. business as a real estate artist in| | Seward, | roamers or so in time it George | The sight of Canada made him led i oat > ye ag » g ‘ Te) | feel a longing for the old fiz Ug, so | ilton and associates S$ gave an option | suit was filed in the incouver Vancouver his next honie:| There he put in time with | the 6th regiment which he joined. | was some Three years ago he came to Prince Rupert and joined the Provincial | Police. When Earl Grey's Rifles were formed here last April, but} there, you know the rest. Color Sergeant George Leek will | join the the 6th regiment at Vancouver and start the continent with them next Sunday. On the way across, | contingents of other regiments will members of across be picked up and the whole Canadian body of soldiers and police that is going to the big! show will sail from Montreal at the! end of this month, The There will be some stiff drilling to put in, but after the werk is and the other boys, to visit their friends return, This will be trip to the old land for George ee since come to this side of the globe in 1891, He will, of visit the “old folks'’ who are looking forward to seeing their son again, trip will not be all honey. |done, George be free before ie the firs ae course, ports. 'The S. S. State of California is | him | f r GET THE | Particulars are Given of | of | | | | | Vancouver, May 10.—Full par fraud | against Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, li the valued at $20,000,000 were given out this ticulars of the charge ‘of }in regard to coal lands | Queen Charlotte on Islands, morning. are The properties in ques- tion 20,000 acres of coal Col.-Sergt. Geo. Leek of the Earl Grey’s Rifles Will Leave Prince Rupert in the !#"s known as the Robertson and Morning for London—Sketch of His Career—First Trip to His Old Home in Twenty Years—A Popular Representative Wilson tracts on Graham Island. Says Pastor Came Mr. Z. M. | the Hamilton of Victoria, original owner of the prop- alleges that Rev. Dr. Hillis came to him saying that he the representative Mr. Leigh S. J. Hunt, the noted capitalist, erties, was of jhim had equal force as with Mr. | Hunt, he being Mr Hunt's agent, |On the representation made Ham-| on the coal lands valued at $20,- 000,000 to Rev. Hillis, who after- wards sold them to Mr. J. A | Moore, the Western Steel Corporation of Seattle, which yalu- tor es the coal lands in its assets at $20,000,000; in fact, the lands are | stated as the chief assets of the | Corpor ition. DID THE PASTOR LIE TO COAL OPTION? the Sendational Charge Which Mr. Z. M. Hamilton is Bringing Against R:v. Newell Dwight Hillis—Preacher Was Trading in Coal Land Options Charges Fraud Mr. Hamilton charges that these representations of Rey. Dr. Hillis were fraudulent, and he is asking the courts to revoke the contract of sale entered into, on the grounds that it was obtained by mis- representation. _As the ultimate purchasers, the Western Steel Cor- poration are said to purpose float- ing bonds on the security of the property, Mr. Hamilton and _ his associates have secured a lis pen- dens, tieing up the property until their action is disposed of. Has Had Trouble Before | This is the second suit brought He was in/and that any contract made with | against Dr. Hillis in British Col- | umbia courts as a result of his transactions in Graham Island | coal lands. Early last month }court in behalf of Mr, Edward Hodgson, an engineer, who asked for $50,000 stock in the Westera Steel Corporation and $10,000 sal- ary, alleging that Dr. Hillis owed him for this work in developing the coal lands and negotiating the | sale of the property to the Western Steel Corporation, | ASCARE AT | VANCOUVER | Schoolboys Plan to Blow up School with Dynamite PLAN WAS DISCOVERED Four Pupils yt South Vaiicou- ver School Confess They Had Tried to Emulate the Perpe- trators of the Times Outrage. (Canadian Press Dispatch) Vancouver, May 10.—-Two sticks of dynamite and fuses attached were discovered in the basement of the South Vancouver school ter. Four boys have confessed to being guilty to an attempt to }emulate the perpetrators of the Los Angeles Times outrage. Only through the fuse becoming dis- connected, was an explosion and wreck of the botiding averted, RUNNING FIGHT Diamond Robbers Hunted in Utah (Canadian Press Dispatch) Salt Lake City, May 10.—One man was killed and two wounded in a running battle between a posse of police and citizens and two men who robbed a down town pawnshop of diamonds valued this morning by an assistant mas- at $600,