THE WEATHER Twenty-four hours ending May 26. MAX, TEMP, MIN, TEMP. BAR. 60.0 43,0 30,194 56 a. m., 1N. RAIN Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist OL. U, NO. 117 PRINCE RuPERT, B.C., Fripay, May 26, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS ae ENERAL STRIKE on Tonight Canadian Press Despatch) May 26.—A Vancouver, ade. It will come up Trades and Labor «1 endorsed by the nmittee of that body. SOUTH MAIL TOMORROW rth She will take mail for AT VANCOUVER artling Proposal to be Voted | organised trades in Vancouver rting on June 5th has been | for dis- ssion and action tonight before leaked out. Council. fe resolution has been prepared |tO injure the Hydro-Electric System, which after great public expense was opened for service a month ago. At noon tomorrow the State of | is due from Vancouver on Monday. | lifornia is due here from the FIENDISH PLOT UNCOVERED AT TORONTO (Canadian Press Despatch) | Toronto, May 26---All Toronto is alarmed today over the discovery of a huge quantity of dynamite pro-|under the cables of the Hydro-Electric System on Front Street. There was dynamite enough in the cavity to Bsal to have a general strike of | ‘blow up, not merely the Hydro-Electric property, but the entire downtown neighborhood. The police were keeping the matter quiet in the expectation of catching the culprits, but the matter The public are at loss to attribute the motive which could have prompted any fiendish plot | executive | | DUNCAN ROSS IN TOWN | | j a a = = ee - ae z = | the south. The Camosun arrives! | tonight with mail from the south, | jand the C. P, R. SS. Princess May | | Mr. Duncan Ross is in the city |today. He returned from up | The G Canadian Press Despat« h) cattle, May 26. the courts between A great fight the s of the Seattle Times and Seattle rival Post-Intelligencer is the -vice campaign that since last king. It is an outcome of ver has kept the public mind Seattle agitated Alden Times en morning, Colonel n, editor of the iction for libel in the criminal the Post damages, irom neer $100,000 en claiming the arrest for HIDE AND SEEK IN JAIL Imperial Naval Defence--Premier Asquith Supported Conten-. bD|. Alden Blethen of the Times, Freed Yesterday, has| Three Esteemed Contemporaries Put Behind Bars Today—Sues Post-Intelligencer Ste roe OF IMPERIAL COUNCIL :"""""" EATTLE EDITORS PLAY ——Prenier Ward Wanted Central Naval Board to Dictate Ptcy of MAKES SCATHING AGAINST WESTERN MORALS tions of Sir Wilfrid---Conference Starts Deliberations. | He said the need was apparent| naval defense purposes, but with- | Brigadier Graves, Editor of London, May 26.—The Imperial by the fact that two of the Dom-| out power to provide the necessary | (Canadian Press Despatch) for business|inions had already embarked on} revenue. | this morning all the colonial Pre-| national criminal libel of the editor, chief | miers being in attendance. The|He said it would be owner and manager of the Post-| first communication read was a|to co-ordinate and harmonise a Intelligencer. letter from his Majesty thanking | policy of naval defence for Im- Last Tuesday, Colonel Alden] the members of the conference for|perial purposes Blethen was indicted by the special | assurances of loyalty they had Idea Was Opposed grand jury on three charges arising | conveyed to him on the previous} ,., ‘ out of the anti-vice campaign. | day. The suggestion.wes opposed:.by |Conference opened pa . ‘ | policies of their own. | | Premier Asquith Agrees n ecessary : ; __ | (Canadian Press Despatch) Premier Asquith agreed with} Calgary, May 26—‘‘Your Wes- |Sir Wilfrid Laurier, saying that) 2 ; |tern country gives me a jar, when such a scheme he feared would | : impair and perhaps destroy the|/ look over your population and authority of the Imperial govern | behold the number of depraved ment on such grave matters as|young women in your midst.’’ the continuance of a foreign policy, | This was the praise that Brig- the conclusion of treaties and the|adier Graves of the Salvation declaration of peace or war. Premier Ward withdrew his reso-| Cry, bestowed upon Calgary and | Western Canada when he was interviewed here last night. He said he blamed for this condition not the thoughtless |practically all of the members. |Sir Wilfrid Laurier spoke against | Premier of New Zealand Ward | the proposal of Premier Ward, He was vigorously excoriated in| Post editorial is Unify Naval Defence the editorial columns of the This the chief gyound on which Colona Intelligenc er, urged on the conference the need | saying it would create a body with Blethen bases his action for dam-|t2 create an Imperial Council.| power to create expenditure for | lution. i ages. He was only released from | - externals DOG WILL PLEAD THE MAYOR'S IDEA custody on bail yesterday after-| present day society of exalted at the |Army, and editor of the War A, GENERAL STRIKE IS URGED IN VANCOUVER BASEBALL SCORES Northwestern League Spokane 4, Vancouver 2. Portland 11, Victoria 7. Seattle 7, Tacoma 2. Pacific Coast League San Francisco 4, Portland 0. Los Angeles 3, Sacramento 2. Vernon 4, Oakland 1.» American League Boston 9, St. Louis 5. Chicago 3, New York’2. Cleveland 6, Philadelphia 12. Washington 6, Detrcit 2. National League Pittsburg 7, Brooklyn 2. St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 4. Pee U U PALACE OF SWEETS for pure ice cream. Third avenue, ‘phone 274. CHARGES the War Cry, Handed Cal- gary Interviewer a Big Bouquet—Blames Responsible Men of the Cities boys but the responsible men, who should be punished with the maximum penalty of the law for their crimes against society. He said it would be impossible for him. to forget the startling con- ditions he had found, not in one place, but throughout the entire western cities. Brigadier Graves leaves this morning en route for the Pacific coast cities. Buy on Sixth Street for $1500 Cash. H. F. McRae & Co. Bartlett, M.A. . ; Prince Rupert is your Jeru- just as the Jewish Jeru was to the Apostles,” sO e Rey r. S. Bartlett, M.A,, the Methodist Bit to a large audience interested work of the Epworth gue and Sunday Schools of Methodist Church in Canada. You have ur own Church last the your Jerusalem in heart,’’ went on the cher, “and work you do in Ince Rupert is of far greater portance than that you might in the the Speaking of the import- larger centres of ol work amongst thechildren IGHT HERE IN RUPERT LIES YOUR JERUSALEM =: arching Sermon Preached Last Night by Rev. T. S. Is Head of the Methodist Epworth League Movement. sition This Morning aa a of iavrials, SBM oe ood i “NOT GUILTY”? city Hatt Notice Board in Po- IONE of catechism, bits of Bible, bits| PRINCE ALBERT City Clerk Woods Appeared | "5 This Morning. Case Adjourn) In |the City Hall this morning there In the police court this morning| appears a new and _ highly bur- Clerk Woods appeared tojnished black notice board. This| In the Past Eight Days Sh warning his hearers} explain the matter of the alleged|is the first tangible evidence that| of doctrine, do not make a Chris- tian. You can make a Methodist a commanding position in way, or a Baptist, or a -resbyterian, but you cannot make a Christian,’ he said, and con-| City cluded by not to neglect the great work they biting of Jack Christiansen by|the Mayor's Procedure By-law} by Hand and To had before them in Prince Rupert.|his dog. Complainer did not/has come into forc The fine he said, ‘I never knew a man yet jappear and the case was ad-|new board has a reminiscence of| To have covered one thousand Have you tried the strawberry] journed. Mr. Woods will enter! happy school boy days about it./@nd seventy miles, made landings jice cream and the ice cream cones/a plea of ‘Not Guilty’? on behalf |It looks like a blackboard for the} at twenty-eight ports, loaded by at the PALACE OF SWEETS, | of the dog which has not been|education of obstreperous alder- hand 600 tons of coal, and towed Third avenue?,'phone 274 2t/known to bite on any former}men, Aldermen Hilditch, Doug-| two vessels long distances, besides las, and Newton are suspected | doing all her ordinary freight and who was so bad that he did not want his children to be good, and I never knew a man who was so that he did children to be better.” want his rhe first | good not | occasion, a | | his father's | Stoke's ice cream sold at the} Seems a Bit Queer lof being in conspiracy to cut|Passenger work is the achieve- 00K a OY reads 1s his tathetr . . . ick ; : a f ie. >» -@ec ene life.” decl 1 Mr. Bartl “"*) Palace Ice Cream Parlor, Second} A man named Frank Perown is| their names on it, and Mayor|ment of the G. T, P. S.S. Prince ile, deciared Mr, artlett, | ° : 9 : : : ats .r for > as — ave a door to the old}detained under surveillance at the}Manson, it is said, will invest in| Albert for the past eight days p javenue, next He spoke of the test applied by , pie : ; : : : : ” | office of the Optimist, is made from} police station today. the psychic consciousness of every | ? ” | pure . " cream in Seattle and not!examined by the Medical Health | Captain Wearmouth’s log. congregation to its pastor : ; congregation its pastor 2t | Officer. A Busy Steamer as eXx-|¢ | from canned goods, He will be/a cane. eres to the plain entries in pressed by the Rev. J. Campbell | Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, ’Phone 4 steamer traffic Morgan, showing that a preacher experienced an knows that this | record means a mighty busy steam- ler, and a mighty busy who is not real cannot convince | 9 his hearers. Towards the cons! clusion of his address the pastor : | |/Every one of those twenty-eight | referred to the danger besetting | | coastwise | Any crew. ‘A VERY BUSY CRAFT THESE DAYS e Has Travelled 1070 Miles, Landed at 28 Ports, Loaded 600 Tons of Coal wed 1 wo Vessels landings must have been smartly made, freight and passenger traffic must have been quickly and clever- ly handled. Crew and officers must have been working in unison for the credit of the boat and their own satisfaction. Two Heavy Tows All in the day’s work was the towing of the big North Bend to Skidegate from Prince Rupert for a cargo of 500,000 feet of lumber, and the towing out of Skidegate harbor of the schooner Thos. F. Baird. To tow a big CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 (Canadian Press Despatch) Mexico City, May 26—At last, fulfilment of repeated pro- ‘eS, President Diaz has resign- _The document making his cial resignation was received the President of the Chamber Jeputies late yesterday after- n. It was brief and formally ted that the maker, Porfirio % resigned the Presidency of Republic of Mexico, It was lediately read aloud before assembled deputies, and at PP. m, its acceptance by the mber of Deputies was an- need, €ws that the Chamber had ELLS PEAL FOR JOY AS DIAZ STEPS DOWN AND OUT exican President Has Outlived His Welcome—Resig- nation Accepted by Chamber of Deputies People Cheered His Downfall! An official assurance for communication to the Indians of the Tsimpsean Penin- sula has been received by Mr. Charles Clifton Perry, the Indian agent at Metlakatla, ito the effect that the Dominion Government is taking the necessary action to submit to ithe Imperial Government the report of the interview of the Indians and their friends 'with the Dominion Government and the Provincial Government of British Columbia. assembled spread like wildfire, | In the letter, it is understood that Sir Wilfrid Laurier states that he thinks it is ee ee oe «| only right that a decision should be obtained as to the rights of the Indians, and that that every road to the hall was lif a way can be found to force the Provincial Government into the courts on this ques-|as the Conservative mouthpiece |e packed solid with masses of | tion, it will certainly be done. et ; at the capital : that : people, This communication is in reply to a deputation of Indians and their friends which leaders of the Conserv Sate eee When the news was shouted] waited, first on the McBride Government, and later on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Allan|"*¥® "ved wy, alge ere out over the crowds that Diaz | 4 vlesworth, Minister of Justice, and Hon, Frank Oliver, Superintendent General of that there will be a wes DQ mote. president, ie ‘Indian affairs at Ottawa, to present the claims of the Indians in relation to the land cheers and frantic shouting took | *’ : : : place. From their belfries the title, and to ask that the question of the land title be submitted to the courts. church bells were rung, and in| Premier McBride refused to allow the matter to be decided by the courts of jus- the open squares salvos of cannon | tice, but according to his verbal reply to the deputation, and the official communication were fired, On every hand were |¢9 the Indian agents referred to above, it is the intention of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to force manifestations of joy that ay ‘the issue and allow the courts of justice to decide the matter. for over thirty years the « oie At an early date the men of the Indian tribes will be called together and the con- tor of Mexico, was no longer in power. itents of Sir Wiitrid Laurier’s letter made known to them. Ottawa, May 26.—The ‘‘Even-ja ing Journal,’’ which is recognised | I states assurances in August or September. This statement was conveyed to the Jcurnal from the party head- quarters, MESSSAGE TO THE INDIANS wut ge an exection EARLY IN SEPTEMBER Ottawa Evening Journal, Which Has Inside Informa- tion, Says Positive Assurances Have Been Given Conservative Leaders (Canadian Press Despatch) lland early in July, Earl Grey will nnounce the prorogation of the louse. The leaders would then ommence active steps to cam- the| paign through the country. GRAND TRUNK APPEAL Federal election some time either | Formal Notice of Appeal against Assessment Entered by Co. Mayor Manson mentioned this morning that the formal notice The opinion is vouchsafed that|of appeal against the G. T, P. Parliament will not meet on July| Assessment had been received by 18th as arranged, but that before| the City from the Grand Trunk that date, immediately after Sir| Pacific Railway company, Wilfrid Laurier’s return from Eng-|Court of Revision will sit June 5, The y &