THE DAILY NEWS. : | —s aa — | THE DatLy News ‘beta =Toy'7-V hes HOW MILITARY CONTRACTS | S. S. Pri nce Geo rge, Sails for Vancouver, Vie. toria and Seattie on Fridays at 9 A. M. THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly ' Guaranteed Largest Circulation Hi. F. MeRAR, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. HELP SOME CANADIAN FIRMS BELIEVED THAT PATRONAGE LIST OF THE GOVERNMENT 18 LETTING CONTRACTS—LARGE FIRMS SAID To BE INVOLVED. YEAST MAKES PERFE( Through Service to The F — Telephone 98. | RESERVIST TALE OF HORRORS. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. ast Contract | Soe Ses. S.nSor socks, ete. Stanflelds, ; Over the Ottawa, various |wear, Caps, rates on application. (Germans Bridged River With) | de iste ethan to be ex-|Ltd., Penman’s of Paris, the | GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RaAiLWway ee —=— Corpses of Own Dead. Rctbi t ties contracts should|Monarch Knitting Co., the King-| Passenger trains carrying Standard Bleeping Cars. p ; : ; ‘eatin pedient that war mow | Co the Renfrew Gare leave Prince Rupert on Weitnesdays and Saturday, mne Parlor DAILY EDITION asi Sue Thursday, Dec. 3, 1914. | sontreat D r ne | De distributed among as manyjston Knitting Co., Edmonton, Saskatoon, Melville, Winnipeg, oc Am | Montreal, ec. 2 Sugene firms as possible. By so doing | Knitting Co. and others have par-| St, Paul, Duluth, Chicago and ali Eastern Centres a ee (reanniene, a Belgian reservist, tateene oe oi eeereenesiananeee i otis a For points EAST of OHICAGO use the ana E I T I L S every point in. the Dominion |ti ipated in ieee. Make your Sleeping Car Reservations Pommae 4 Ny ten fe Mee D OR A has arrived back hom here, hav-| would benefit; industries now| The Ford and the Russell com- Pull tntormation apply to @. T. P. Ticket OMce, Thire avers. p ing been injured in action in struggling for an existence would | panies have figured extensfvely AGENCY ALL ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP Lines Flanders. ar stor cks and! » four ' erp be eng i to keep their wheels|in contracts for motor trucks and} A number of people are} But as a people we in this He fought at Antwer] iabled te eep é oe | oc ame” cdidinaell wal _ " writing letters to The Star and| suntry are partisans in re-|and in several other engagements. turning, and their employees autos, ih el > — mane i ther daily papers in thi rd t th war and do not'He was kicked in the chest by a working, while in addition equip | Brantford wagon companies ha i 0 Oo er dat yapers 7 gare 0 is é ane ao io « y¢é pi e ou 1 c ick-|supplied heavy contracts in ve- {Por city denouncing the Literary; want to be anything else. It;}German charger on the Ripell ™ nt w a ree a ag + > ms MUSIC Box pes » Sature *n-| jakes ¢ i “ K ad to River Geanniene possesses as|!¥y as possible. t cannot be de-j|hicies. , Digest and r wanes fay < _ } ae ee ; aoe = . tt f Ne i jum nied that complaints are register It is dimeult to procure infor i Teacher of Violin and All ALAN ING ing post and urging that these; read in the Literary Digest/souvenirs of his fights a dum “itieh | Band Instruments | i § 5 in ec om t » time to the effect|mation concerning the British { publications ‘ve excluded from some of the articles reproduc-| bullet, which he says was fired o ros ime to ne ree eis ae han Til the | A. PE TT 1 i > ‘ = course is no vein - | co racts, os 0 sco [SHIN circulation in Canada. | ed from German newspapers, | by the enemy, and a German belt *"@ nga tm ‘ . ; blelothef® allied countries, as these| “Anon arcen B27 WA TINT : We understood that the Ot-' or the articleo.by Profeasor|with the legend of “Got Wit Us” sued, and that many reputable joth f ‘ , \ TINTING tawa government has received Dernbi in the S vn lay Eve. on it firms are not receiving their sharejare attended to by their vomal | é é ove nh as rece DB ie ure 2 Se ae uve- J ‘ : : : a0 “0 . awarded, while|agents Mr. Fred Stobart is the| =~ i similar uréings, but does not} ning Post. Most people do not From Antwerp, Geanniene says [ contracts : x . . t. Tt Britis? nt with headquarter | . : ) arvest. The| British agen ea arters ‘ feel warranted in resorting to want to read such stuff at ali,;he was sent to Lierre, and the others are an . ras ‘ + : 1 and Winnipeg The | Martin Swansor : i ie » he af , government declines to give outla ontyeal ane eg : the extreme measure of ex-| do not want to know what the) Mmosé of his fighting he saw in the © - a ‘ati ; j ; ti “0 lothing, boots, saddlery and har-| av cluding the journals mention-| German newspapers are say-|Series of battles about the Rupell for publication information con-jclothing, » 6 ‘ ie Se te wide on Rattete the wake, | ing. nor with what line of réa.|and Nethe Rivers. At Wave-St.|cerning the contracts let by the|ness ele - t ae = | CUT PRICES ernment takes the right view,| soning. Professor Dernburg|Catherine, on the Rupell River, sub-committee of the cabinet,jroughly estimated in roe a ot : | » che i i } ven five @ six ions with} as it did also, we think, in de- tries to make ‘a bad cause seem/20,000 Belgians, supported by a/the chairman of which te Hon.|tween five and six mi Brug! Call and Save Money BW ‘ ll lan (0 ciding to exelude from this| good to the American public. | British naval brigade, held off | Pr. Reid, Minister of Customs,|promise of more to oy : a country certain publications | There are Conservatives who|85.000 Germans for days. jand whose membership includes|orders are satisfactorily fi ed. i a re that were started for no other would not let The Globe inside| The Germans, says Geanniene,| on. Frank Cochrane, Hon. Louis|addition, the Russian and French Cleanest, Brightest, Best purpose but to disseminate their doors, and there are Lib- views favorable to the enemy. erals who would not pick up Ss © 6 The Mail and Empire unless As for the two pa they had a pair of mitts on. weeklies, The Disgest and The oe Post, we are as familiar with them as anybody can be. Titey | are merely doing what they | have done fof years. The chane | is not in them; the change is | in the” Canadians who read | those papers, and who are now deeply stirred by this war. The Digest is doing what it has al- ways done. It is not proffer- ing opinions of its own—it is reproducing from newspapers | at home and abroad all kinds | of views on the war. The Post! is doing what it always did. It! is featuring the biggest inter-|! Yet suppressed for such reasons, newspapers cannot be nor would it be wise to apply Prus#ian rigor publications American Canada. They are not British journals. Most of them are, however, pretty strongly with us in this war, and we should not rashly to entering spoil a situation that is, on the whole, extremely gratifying. Nothing please would, perhaps, Professor Dernburg more than to think that he had provoked Canada into taking hostile action against, Ameri- |}were to the hiver by a pontoon bridge. When endeavoring cross ilthe bridge was crowded with Ger- mans, a British officer whistled. That Then the | artillery opened fire, and in a | few seconds the bridge and those on it were swept away. Three times the Germans re- built the bridges and repeated the was the signal. same tactics. Three times the Allies wiped out the advancing hordes. After the third attempt, the little river was so choked with dead that the actually able to march across on the top men and debris German troops were of the corpses. that killed received his In the strugggle had Geanniene followed. and after he two Germans, wound, Geanniene claims to have sure ests of the day in special arti-} - cles and in fiction. can journals that circulate all over the States.—Toronto Star. Royal Standard The Home Industry Flour Over a hundred families in this province are supported by the British Columbia industry of making Royal Stand- ard Flour. If YOU use Royal Standard Flour you are helping to maintain that payroll in British Columbia. Alse if you use Royal Standard Flour you know there is NO BETTER flour : Ro you know you are not enly get- ting good flour, but you are helping to keep over a hun- dred men in That a hundred less applicants for the job your husband may need soon. made. employnient. means The more Royal Standard Flour that is consumed in Brit- ish Columbia the easier it be for to will hold his job or to get another. your husband Every dollar you spend for British Columbia products is a dollar contributed to a patriotic that keeps industry _s0ing at home. fund the one Of course if Royal Standard Flour were not as good as other flours we would have no right to ask you to buy it on any grounds, but we know it is good and it is a home industry. . Vancouver Milling & Grain Company, L'd. Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo and Victoria @iaH4~werL~ symm -Bare -mo. atrovities on women and chil- dren. GUARANTEED American Silk HOSIERY We Want You to Know These Hose They stood the test when all others failed. They give real foot comfort. They have no seams to rip. They never become loose and baggy as the shape is knit in» not pressed in. They are GUAR- ANTEED for fineness, for style, for superiority of ma- terial and workmanship, ab- solulely stainless, and tg wear six months without holes or replaced by new pairs free. OUR FREE OFFER To every one sending us 50c to cover’ shipping charges, we will send, sub- ject to duty, absolutely free: Theee pairs of our famous AMERICAN SILK HOSE with written GUARANTEE, any color, or Three pairs of our Ladies’ Hose in Black, Tan or White colors, with written GUARANTEE, DON’T DELAY—Offer ex- pires when dealer in your locality is selected. Give color and size desired. International Hosiery Co. 21 Bittner Street Dayton, Ohio, U. 8. A. . Is _ The War Coderre, Hon. C. J. Doherty, and | Sir George FE. Foster, who, as |Minister of Trade and Commerce, has a vital interest in the stimu- lating of industry. Just how far |polities enter the is not known, but certain it is that the patronage list is often con- sulted when contracts are let. Certain specifications are pre- sented for the matertals by the government, and the firms lected are asked to submit a statement as to the price and time at which the goods can be manufactured. it is believed, are tenders called for, though the government believes that by the of the middleman the materials can be procured at the lowest price. The work of providing uni- forms for the first contingent was largely secured by the usual mili- tia contractors, Mark Workman of Montreal, and W. E. Sanford of Hamilton. The cost per uni- about $10, and about 89. The tracts for supplying fatigue clothing fell largely to the J. Woods @o. of Ottawa, and J. Mac- kenzie of the same city. The largest contract for boots fell to Ames, Holden & Tereault, of Mon- treal, at $4 per pair. Since then contracts have been let to the Regal firm of Toronto, the two Slater firms, and the J. & T. Bell of Montreal, together with some smaller companies in Win- inipeg. The heavy contract of supply- ling tents for Valcartier Camp fell to the Woeds Co., of Ottawa, of which Col. James Woods, of the |Governor-General’s Foot Guards, jis the head, The of supplying rubber goods, consisting of tar- |paulins, capes, rubbers, top boots jete., fell to various companies, | including the Gutta-Percha and |Rubber Co., of Toronto, the Dun- jlop Tire Co., of Toronto, the Ca- nadian Rubber Co., of Montreal, and others,~ There have been further heavy contracts for knitted goods of various sorts, including under- into question se- In few cases, elimination evidence of the reported German form was per great coat con- Co., privilege | Scoop Peevish "ES SiR?" \S THAT ALL governments have placed orders to the number of nearly thirty thousand. These well among all the saddlery firme for saddles and harness have been divided pretty of the Dominion. More definite information as to the Canadian are being benefitted by the heavy extent industries army contracts which, and are still being placed by the Domin- ion and the allied governments, is not ascertainable here at pres- ent. It is not considered to be the part of wisdom or expediency to make publie official lars of the amounts of contracts given, nor the names of the firms particu- who have secured them. It is con- tended that to do so just now various firms and would result in very considerable worry to the members of the government to the task of con- tracts has been entrusted. whom letting Some idea of the money which is being spent in Canada as a re- sult of the war maybe gained by estimating the cost of equipment of the men who are leaving for the front, having consideration for the fact that all of this equip- ment is manufactured in Canada It is estimated that it costs $150 to equip a soldier with clothing, boots, ammunition, rifle and kit. Canada now contemplates having under arms, at the the 108,000 by the TD equip these men alone it would therefore eost $16,200,000, not taking into ac- their maintenance after- This not motor trucks, wagons, tents, tar- front and in Dominion, New Year. men count wards. does include paulins and the thousand and one other details necessary for the full equipment of an army divi- sion. Altogether it is calculated that Canada’s war expenses will approximate 8100,000,000 year. A large proportion of this, it is to be noted, will be spent in Can- ada, As a matter of fact, it conceivable that a good percent. age of the pay of Canada's sol- diers will be spent in the Do. 28 minion, would cause Jealousy among the | DR. GILMOY, DENTIST Crown and Bridge Work a Speciality. Office: Smith Bik., Third Avenue GENERAL TRANSFER AND STORAGE South Wellington Cos! i PHONES : 36 Office. RESIDENCE 110) 333 Second Avenue PRINCE RURERT JOUNSTON Phone Green 321. i. 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