PAGE TWO 1 Safe, Spcsdi) Relief GOLD RUSH TO j PAIN THE DIGGINGS- m aaaaaaaav -m HHLMHHLMaHHa? Rheumatic M W CAPSUtCS RHEUMATISM f'curtls lumiuQo Sciatica NEURALGIA, - HEADACHE MAIL tO FOR GENEROUS siMPLfr TmpItonf 122 King Wt, Toront FOR SALE BY ORES LIMITED The Daily News - PRINCE RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afjernoon, except Sunday, the Prince Rupert Daily News, Limited, Third Avenue. . U F. PULLEN, Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cilv Delivery, bv mail or carrier, per mouth $1.0() Ry mail to all parts of the Rrilish Empire and Hie United Stale, in advance, per year ffl.00 To nil other countries' in advance, per year , .! ?7."(i Transient Display Advertising. . .'.$1.40 per inch per insertion Transient Advertising On Front Page,. ......... .$2.80 per inch Local Readers, per insertion 25c per linn Classified Advertising, per insertion..... 2c per word Legal Notices, each insertion lfc per agate line Contract Rates on Application. Advertising and Circulation Telephone Editor and Reporters Telephone - - . 98 - 86 Member, pf. Audit. Bureau of Circulations, DAILY EDITION Saturday. Feb. 21, 1 023. Canada Sloughing Off Her Swaddling Clothes. Canada is gradually sloughing off her swaddling chillies and Ihe sturdy infant is learning to walk alone. Scarce a week passes hul sohie cpiestioii having to do with the powers and rights of the country is discussed somewhere. The effect is not confined to any one political parly or to people originating from any one country. ' First it is Liberal, then Conservative. Now it coujes froni the native tms and again from recently naturalized citizens'. Xfl have afv'!iial a.iii the mailer ami all M'em to taktt pari t some time in ;the di'sriisious as to CanadaV posiliou or powers. Danger Of Children Being Too Careless. Tlie attentioiMif the Daily News has-been drawn to the fact thalichifUTfir.:'ieer often tiiii "after- 'passing niilnni'oiiit- uml in inner uivimw iiiiw iiuriug uiey are mey staiiu nui in ineroau or pre I e n il fu rim in front of cars. TJiis is niil nnlv verV dah- gennis ui ilelf hut is a very had example to the smaller ones wliu , have not the judgment that older ones Jiiay exercise. .Many cases of cars almost meeting with accidents and also of children filniiVst being run down are related. Iif connection with this parents of children could ue Jhcir influence to good advanlage. School teachers' are already doing if as. know. Here our streets are not yery wide in the resi-denljal districts and often there are no sidewalks. That makes it alt Ihe inure necessary that care should he exercised. R'a'dlo Discoveries Daily Occurrences. , Radio disciiveries are being made almost every day. People are experimenting and are constantly finding out new (lungs about Che radio waves, Ihe receivers or the broadcasting stations. It is tlirficull to say what the future, of Ibis wonderful natural phenomena may be. The. more it is studied the more useful it is likely to become. The popularity of radio is endangered by its abuses. Some of the little, sets are very niiimyiiig when they in receiving or trying to receive tliemsvlves become broadcasters of horrible sipieals. Complaint is alsd made of some iif the stations in Ihe south 'whit)i use their broadcasters for propaganda and drown out the good music nr instructive addresses whiftlr the fans wish to hear. Something will have o lie done bv the l).i-iiiiuion Ooveiiinicnl to regulate these things. Have To. Pay Loss' ' . i. On Eastern Lines. to 1 (ii I'siially there are. comilaints that the-West is nu expense Ihe hast. Now it is' 4hVvji. l'ta1(Vnv:rvlilrhs)ivl , I lie-fin una railways in the fai ther'c'asf niicxi5o'ii'trtMlV-rV?f;it- me couniry. ine railways in Ontario pav a good profit and so drt lhos6 operated by the. Canadian National in Ihe Unit'ei) States. There Is a loss of something over a million in the West whereas in Ihe Maritime provinces the loss is over five million dollars. The West is in a fair wav to wine mil its iimm.-.i i.w possibly Ibis year, hut the Knst cannot lu.pe to do so ,for some lime lo mine. In fuel Ihe units of the t irn Mnpilimnu mm asking (hat Ihe railway rales be reduced to a verv low point so that grain may be shipped through their ports. That would pro-Iiablv add fo the railway hiss and would be an additional bonus In the people (here. fiial Mirror Told Him oif Exhausted Condition Mr. R. Paulin, Toutet Aides, Man., writes: "I became to run down and weak that my fieart becamt affe'ete'd, ind I would lonif time 'have to remain in bed for leviral dayf. Some one advised me to use Dr, Chaie t Nerve Food, so I did, and loon began to gain in Weight and feel be't'te"r. I have taken a great many boxei of thie' wonderful pill, and am feeling ten yeari younger. Dr. Chaie't Medicinei, at well at hit Receipt Book, are a great help to us, for we live 40 miles from doctors and railroads." Dr. Chase's Nerve Food SO eta. a bot f 10 pllla, KdnuuiMm, Ilatm A Co., lAi., Toronto Department of Mines Officials Give Opinions as to Where Gold Found WOULD TRY BENCHES Experienced Men In no Hurry to Reach Scene of Promised Activity VICTOHI.V, Feb. 21. Fortune may smile on (lie. gold seekers preparing lo gel away at the earliest opportunity to (iol.l fan Creek or the neighborhood, according lo experts am.l others hero, ennuis'led with the iMovin-cial llureau of .Mines. Ilul these well-informed professional observers declare the eon fen Is of the benches there much more likely lo prove golden dividend payers Ihau I lie sands of llie creeks flowing at their base. This view is based on a Ihrce-inpe argument: -II is plain lo any seienllt competent lo read llie. story of the rocks that the creeks flow ing uiio or continuous in nease f.ake and Liard Itiver. from a-Ii felt r.,nnn.nno lo $7,oon,non in lust was recovered in Ihe sev en lies, have not long (as geolo gies measure lime) followed their-present courses. 'flip old stream-beds are (here, cloe at liaml, wilh every natural likeli hood that I hey will be round well lined with dust and pitpgef. II is simply a case of accurately judging where Ihe old course nf Ihe creeps lay, and lapping Ihe treasury. These benches nr cliffs. "rising to considerable heights from each nf the historic placer rree,ks of the section, have neither been worked nor scienlifially pros- peeled. They are ns yet virgin territory in a region iroven ricti in alluvial, gold deposits creeks .on llie oilier band, both on the Dense Lake , side of the kree Hills and acrnss those bills in the country drained, by the F.asle lliver. of which Gold pan ;.'anS its "pups" are tributaries, nof only were cxploijed nt Ihe linie nf. the Cassia'r rush and in iinniedia(el- subseipient " years, by j men straight from practical experience in the Cariboo zone, but ever since the roaring seven- lies' they liave been worked in a dpsullory fashion by Chinese miners who remained on the ground In "mop up" after their racial fashion. These have been wa'shint' a little . gold each season in .virtually alt Ihe streamlets from the. SlikinC to the Liard. The Muddy Rig and Liltle and ilsi feeders, are said to have generally escaped Asiatic allen- fion, as well as any very thor ough exploration by the Cnssinr veterans. Ryan Here With Nuggets Nor ! I here lacking support for Ibis scientifically-grounded summary of expert opinion: A pioneer miner. Ryan, who fnr a score of years has been working a claim on flense Creek, va mile Or so up stream from Lakelnn,. wh'eye IhV creek debouches Inln' llie lake through an extensive flat. Is now in Victoria, buying not only supplies but such wnrk-fng.4nipeillnSenta as, would he necessary In carry forward bench operations on an extensive scale. He is not enu.rling publicity, and he is paying for his rcquit'enicnfs with dust and nug-iets, liltle waler-wnrn, and which wriii bf seem In have come frofiY fairly neap (heir fdace of origin. Hyiin has fnr years been Inn nelling, season iifler( seas n, to where he has calculated the ancient creCk-bed should tie the cost nf his operations, prnsCcul ed wilh abounding faith, being paid for by interinillent harvest ing of the limited remnant nf Ihe creek gold. Ills tunnel has been driven straight Into Ine bench from not more IJir.n 20 then Provincial Mineralogist, visiled the Ryan Claim a few-years ago, good progress was being made with Ihe tunnel, assays of the iron sulphides removed in the boring to the supposed .source of riches showing an average gold content of $90 a ton. "It seems In. me?' Mr. Robertson reported, and he is not usually charged with excessive optimism, "that the old high chaii- llienel which has. been found on the other side oj the creek coming down the valley had at the canyon cut into the hillside lo the north of llie present creek and continued through to the lo'w benrh hinds to Ihe north of the Huts, and that it is ipiile. possible these benches wil be found very welt worth prospecting." Indians Have Plenty Gold ireo'logical icondltions on I lease Creek are, in the majn, similar to (hose on fiold fan, where (irady uncovered his bedrock al from eight to teji feet from the surface, the stream here culling through a red porphyry dyke, with walK risfn'i? almost perpendicularly , to af- proximalely 'i no feet. , Colors undeniably may. be got in any and all the creeks of Ihe district, and the Indians sVem lo have no difficulty in locating ntluU' a specie bank somewhere? Uy region upon which Ihey Ihe'yVy'in 'ryin t draw for virgin gold when I h'ey need ils purchasable equivalents. It is somewhere in this part of the country (hat Ihe Indians Simon (iuu-a-'Nool and I'eler l!i-ma-dan. brothers-in-law and eorn-panions In flight, a repufed lii have found rich placers , during their exile froni 'itiort, Ip' tn'lu. After hleir trial aibl acipiittal, (un-a-Noof banked' a cash balance; of ahoiil 75.f)f)p. Re cjairii-i-d le:.had ipjide lif spnsiderabte fortune Irapping in ,e hills during Ihe years' nf his relirer menl the police for a considerable pari nf the lime keeping hint, constantly on the move, so that he could have had nn opportunity fo allend properly to an extended trap-liu'c (live him as much ns six years of cnncenlra-fion upon his trapping and it would overtax Credulity lo accept Ihe suggestion that his tangible fortune came nut of fur in a country where the lynx and beaver me ihe most valuable pells obtained. To his inlfinates r'nin-n-Nont confided thai lie had placers nf his own discovery upon which he could draw for the sinews nf feet above the summer Tovel oflAJral WHr: ""'I when lie doter-Dea'e f'.reek. The bench herel"1'"0'' ' surrender himself np extends rpiile a dislance lietween'tn u'inl 11 va not until after be mi- i-M-i-K ii ii o me 1 1 n i . iiirougn which (I empties into Dense Lake. It is Jtyan's hypoll'iesis and ntruirly tit II., t t long a?o assured liim 'hat il was a remaikably safe one Ilia! Die stream had not always followed its present sinunus course, bill has been forced In il by llie ancient channel becoming obstructed and that Ihe original rreck-hed, when laid bare or tapped, will he found gobl-e:ii'-peted. When Mr. W. Fleet JViberlson, 9m W also in 2IK pr VACUUMZED TINS VANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL TOBACCO COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED. had secured Counsel wholly to liis liking. This counsel, Stuart Henderson, bears witness that I ivhcu lie undertook the defence. t was repeatedly emphasized to j lim thai "money wa no objeet."! Are .Not Hurrying North I Ryan, whose bench claim on! !ease Creek is believed by those vise in mining lore to be a much nine dependable guide to fortune than H rady's placer on iobl Pan. llreaily superficially worked, by '.h'inese, is not himself leaving or his properly until May. Nor s Hamilton, another veteran of lassiar's palmy days, who goes tack there in his company, shar-ng. secrets with him. Nor is J. Mcllonald, the Telegraph Ireek-hease Lake freighter who, villi Curraii and twa others, fol-'owed eloe on- Grady's heels and staked claims two. three, 'our and five, on Gobi Ran II-elf. Of Ihe determination of the iwners of twenty-five odd dog 'earns, now muslcr.cil at Wran-2el, lo dash in by way nf Telegraph Creek ns soon as the ice in tlie Slikine is set, as reported i iy. II. Gartley, Ihe W ran gel lum-lerman, Mr. McDonald says: "I don't crave to be of the larly. There is, of course, some .vinler travel on the Slikine, lull j it is a risky river to trust. Audi besides, what can Ihey do if they Tet lo the creeks bill wait fnr, 'he spring? I d rattier do myj lecessary wailing here in Vie-i 'nria, and I fancy I'll be on the, around as soon as anyone or as inyllnng can lie ilnne. llie same view or Ihe qncs-1 ionable wisdom of 'Inking the ice-bound Slikine as a dog learn 'lighway is held by the field men v if the Rureau of Mines, "I. should not exactly care In risk II',"! says Harold Nation. 'These swift northern rivers are treacherous winter riads." Harry r.'orrest. iinolher.-. sour-ilouph, ventures the prophecy I hat "if many of I hem try ice travel on Ihe Slikine, the news papers can count on a large crop if river tragedies." FIRE AT SM1THERS CAUSED INCONVENIENCE Furniture Had Been Moved From Threatened Premises; Oov-ernmant Records SMITH KltS. Feb. 21 l ...... I i...:ii. . . mii-i'i in iiim iirrs presenieu a very busy aspect Thursday as Ihe mVners of Ihe funillure and lioods Ihiil was pllrtl in Ihe middle of Ihe slreel set ahoul Ihe joh nf gelling il sorted out. and taken In a place of safely nr back inln Ihe houses I bat had not disappeared In (he fire of early morning. The provincial police staff have moved ihelr quarters to the Urn-land building, while Mr. Munro has moved Ihe Land Se 'lenient Iloiint office iiin the Orchard collage on the rear nf lots on which Ihe nlher building stood, The government, nffjee stafr .vere nlso busy as Hie more Val-iial.le reenrds had been moved In a place of safely when thai bulld- WINTER Steamship Service S.S. PRINCE RUPERT Mil Ir-ini ITlmr llirwi't FOR VANCOUVER, VlCTORli. SEATTLE, iiiu-rmiMiaie (minis vh Irlday S.uu am For STEWART and ANVOX VV THE 6.6. "PRINCE JOHN" ! PRINCE RUPERT VANCOUVIR l QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. fc;:r.!(. If I PA8SENQER TRAINS LEAVE PRINCE PUTERT MONDAY, WEDNESDAV, SATURDAY, K.flil p'.lu. for I'ri , EOaOUOH WINNIPEO, nM i -i ii I - Ij-i in ' jiiaila. i:mtr1 Si.il' AOENCY ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES. City Tlckat Olflct, 62S Third Ax, Prlnc Ruparl. PK n i ilcANADIAN VACinc Canadian Pacific Railway B. C. Coast Services Sailings from Prince Rupsrl PRINCESS ALICE PRINCESS MARY For Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau and Skagway Februafjf 23. For Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle February 27. S.S. PRINCESS BEATRICE For Butedale, Swanson Bay, East Bella Bella, Ocean Falls, Nami, Alert Bay, Campbell River, and Vancauvtf. every Saturday, 11 a.m. Agency for all Steamship Lines Full information fropt - t . W. C. ORCHARD, General Agent " 1 Corner of 4th Street and 3rd Avenue, Prince Ruperb, B.t UNI6N steamship company OF B.C., ltd. Salllnra from l'flur.e Rinwrf. , -i 'or. VANCOUVER, VICTORIA, Swonaon 8a, and. Alert Bay, Tuioaf. rt 'or VANCOUVER, VICTORIA, Altrt Bay, and' Swanaon Bay, Saturday, ' For ANYOX, ALICE ARM, STEWART, Sunday, S P.M. For ANVOX, PORT SIMPSON and Naal Rlr Cannarlaa, Friday A.M. , 123 2nd Aianua. t. Barmlay, Acant. Prlnca Rup jing was threatened. Airs. I). II. Ilolslon who has iipartineuls over the Mulch hardware since also had lo rearrange her home, ns diil Mrs. W. Milchell and Mrs. X. P. Mnran. who also lived in Ihe danger .one. NOTICE. IN THE MvTTF.tl III1 AN AITIJC. VTION fnr III Issue nr a rrnuli Orllflrate nr tillfl fnr t.rin thirty 130) nnd thlrtv-nne (31), ninik arvlM (7), SiTiinn five' (5). City nr Prlnre import. Map J3. Siltlsfarlorv nriHif r.r tin. anA An. I'lie innln ',r,l,,,l"n ,l" C(rlirirnt( nf illi rover- "'"".Inn Hip atiiivc IiiiiiI liavlna- lieen pnkIiimmI hi inn ii is my imrnimn in nnr. nrirr llie rtplmilnn nr nnc inniih fri'iii Ihe first IMibllrallnri lii'rnnf, a fn-sh Orllrli'llli- nr lltlr in the naino nf Kilw.ird . Merre. rnr the ali Innrt, nhlcli Critirirnto or llllr l (Ulert Hit- Sfllli Junn 1013, and Is miinhcrod, 3s3 I. II, F. MACI.Fon, , . Ilrrlatrnr nf Titles, M l.nnd rtrRlstry orrio(, Prlnr niiprrl. II. C. Inimarv noth toys LAND ACT. Notlca of Intention Id Apply tdLaaaa Land' In Skrenii l.aud. PUIrlrl, liernnilnir M inri nr I'finco nnplrt, and ltiian ap 1 prox niaicly two rmb'S aoiiUiriLM Juiiettnii T nf Hip si.oim nml orntall nwtt on thrl Takii .Ni.llrr Ihat Ororirs Frltjrll, nf Prlnrr Imprrl. Il.i:., nrriipatlnn inrrrimnt Inlcnrla tn apply r..r prriulialun In Irnsc Urn f.llnwln rtfarrltm.l ,nnrt- Cniiimrnrlmr at a pnt planted on thr anulh Klili- nr Skrna IIIvit, llicnrn aniith. weal t rlinlna; thrnm mmthrnal 10 rlialiu. Ilirnri' nnrlhi'nsl 5 rhaina; thinre norlli jrat 10 rhnins alnnR thr bank of llie Skrrnn lllvrr In tin- pnlnl i.r rntimirnrr JJjent, and rnninlnlnir 16 arrrs, mnrp nr flKonOR 0, FM7.ZF.U., . Nnmr of Applicant i"""'" luted January stti, n5. s I fhone BS6. 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