The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Dalty, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance, WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OuTSIDE CANADA— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. on application. Contract rates HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New YorK—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. THE COMING OF THE INDIANS. DalLy EDITION. THURSDAY, MAY 26 Less than forty years ago—well within the lifetime of the good Queen Victoria whose reign we celebrated yesterday—the coming of the Indians was heralded as a sign of terror down the coast. As far south as San Francisco has the word of warning travelled that the fierce Hydahs in their war canoes were out lusting for blood. With- in the memory of men now living around Prince Rupert—and in one case at least, before his eyes—human sacrifices were offered, and human flesh and blood devoured upon the sands of the Tsimpsean peninsula. Yesterday the Indians came again. From Metlakatla, Kitkatlah, Kincolith, Port Simpson, the Naas River, even from Skidegate in the Graham Island, the tribesmen came. Clad they were for the most part, not in war paint and feathers, but in smartly dressed uni- forms bedecked with gold braid. Armed they were, not with toma- hawk and club and scalping knife, but with musical instruments. Not in primitive dug out war canoes did they come, but in smart, rakish- looking fishing boats with comfortable cabins and speedy gasoline engines. As an anti-climax to the scenes of savagery of forty years ago, the scene was magnificent. Rey. John Duncan it was who brought the first set of brass band instruments into the north. He was the pioneer missionary to the Indians, and one Indian who lives among us today, James Pearce, the Methodist missionary, tells that it was the sight of the good man's tears as he beheld the sacrifice of a female slave on the beach at Port Simpson, that made himself, then a little Indian boy,set apart to be a flesh-eater, question the righteousness of murder and cannibalism. With what feelings would that sainted pioneer missionary have watched that scene on the wharf yesterday morning when the nine massed bands of Indians gave a festival of music for the citizens, or that later scene in the theatre when the individual bands delighted the audience with selections of such classical music as Gouned's Faust, the overture to William Tell, and Hartmann's ‘‘A Night in Berlin.”’ What satisfaction would it not have given him to have seen men of the tribes, all well dressed, well groomed, and a model of quiet and law-abiding behaviour, peacefully strolling about the town. There is a festival of Empire in progress at the present moment in London. In it, with elaborate stage mummings and trappings, are represented a succession of scenes, visualising great dramatic moments and epochs in the life of the Empire. We need not envy them. In Prince Rupert yesterday we had, not a tinsel and buckram memory of something past: we had the real thing in dramatic pageantry of Empire. The sports, the band contests, the good fellowship and merry making—these were all very well by themselves. But the great thing, the significant thing, the Imperial thing, lay in the demonstration of the advance which the Indians of Northern British Columbia have made in the arts of life, and that greater art of peace. ~ NOTES DUE Yesterday's sports were a great success. It was a happy gathering that basked’ in the sunshine as spectators, or sweated with energy as competitors in the races at the wharf. Finer weather there could not have been anywhere in the Dominion, than that combination of cloudless blue sky, warm sun, and gentle Pacific breeze. a great day. It was Keen regret was felt at the News office last night at learning that our own Mack did not face the starter in the fat man’s race. For weeks the staff have been feeling a pride in Mack's growing propor- tions. Noone had been allowed to interrupt him as he mused, for fear lest he should worry and go off his feed. After having nurtured him to the point where he might have brought honor to his friends and glory to the paper, it was disappointing to learn that he wasan ‘‘also did not ran.” YUKON MAY OPEN VERY LATE River Not to be Navigable Until June 7 Owing to the peculiar conditions prevailing this year, it is almost impossible to predict with any degree of certainty the probable date of the opening of navigation. It looks now as if the ice would go out of the lake fairly early, but there may not be water sufficient to start a through boat from White Horse to Dawson before between the sixth and the seventh of June at the very earliest. Owing to the ice on Lake Le Barge and the continued rain, the ice on the lake seems to be in a rather rotten condition for about two miles. From the head of the lake there is a strip of open water for a distance of about two miles. The freighters are having consider- able difficulty, as the ice is in bad shape for freighting. They have still about a hundred and _ fifty tons to move, and, although they will have some difficulty in getting it over probably it will be all cleaned up. HUNDREDS OUT OF WORK (Canadian Press Despatch) Nelson, May 25.—All the large mines and smelters are closed down and will not resume until the coal strike is settled. Hundreds of men are thrown out of employ- ment. A REVOLUTION IS NOW FEARED Portuguese may now Overthrow the Republic (Canadian Press Despatch) London, May 25.—Portuguese residents in London today received advuces telling of a counter revo- lution against the republican gov- ernment. It is stated an outbreak is likely any minute. BEAR HUNTER ~ IS IN THE CITY Many Valuable Skins, and Two Live Little Bear Cubs On Tuesday Alex Yuille ar- rived in town after a spell of bear hunting up the Naas. He has some fine skins with him, one of which a silver tip, he sold for THE DAILY NEWS HAD GOOD SHOOT | PRINCE | RUPERT BOY SCOUTS Have an Easier Time Than Their Comrades in Finland ere } Citizens’ Rifle Club Members | Enthusiastic On Sunday afternoon members of the Citizen’s Civilian Rifle Club crossed the harbor to the ranges and spent a very successful afternoon there. Scme capital scoring was done, and the scores |!5 made by some of the men_ less|!™&S : experienced in the handling of the| It has taken the Russian au- rifle were most creditable, and all | thorities some little time to realize the men are enthusiastic over the | the headway that the Boy Scout spirit of the club and the pros-| movement has been making in pective competition shoots | Finland; but now that the gov- /ernor general has ascertained the existence of the Scouts, he administered a check which likely to prove the death-blow to the movement in that part of Boy Scouts in Prince Rupert |will be surprised perhaps to learn ‘that their organisation in Finland is not welcomed by the author- BULKLEY COAL | LANDS SOLD has 1s Valuable Property Nearly Lost the world. In the probable event Through Telegraph Break lof the governor general's demands i B | being ratified by the bureau at A deal has just been consum- | St. Petersburg, the Boy Scouts of ated whereby Mr. F. W. Law, | Finland will be obliged to give manager of the B. C. Life In-|UP their parades unless they con- surance Company, becomes joint | sent to send a daily record of owner with Mr. H. P. Jones, | their doings to the local police. Mrs. Jones and M, A. Cullon, in 26 sections of coal lands in the Bulkley River district. The coal crops along Driftwood creek, and enough work has been done to prove that it gives every assurance of being a very valuable deposit. The main seam shows four feet, seven inches of clean bi- tuminous coal, capped by 32 feet of coal seams and carbonaceous shale. The Grand Trunk kailway will pass within two the property, and there are wo phy- difficulties to prevent the construction of a spur direct to FELL TO HIS DEATH | Duncan Wilkins Meets His End at Nelson (Canadian Press Despatch) Nelson, May 23.—Duncan Wil- kins, a fitters helper from Revel- the train at Sicamous this morning while the stoke, stepped off train was standing on the bridge, and dropped to his death in the lake The body not yet been recovered, miles of below. has sical ANATID? _ the mine. NEW COUR The original owners of the prop- erty retain a controlling ieee OLD STAGER With Mr. Law they will incor- | cm porate and proceed with the de- | Prince Rupert's Police Station velopments of their holdings. Al- | Welcoms Its First Case dermere, in the Bulkley valley, is| the nearest postoffice, and is ten | miles distant from the mine. | There interesting bit of | der promise to behave himself, history connected with this prop-|John Hill } erty, it having been bearly lost} the first ‘‘case’’ to be tried in the to the discoverers at one time | new police court. He was treated through the telegraph line to Haz-| to twenty days by Magistrate elton being down. The money |McMullin. required for holding the property|