IWiK TWO i Scientifically PacKed ii SALADA TEA' Classified Advertising, per insertion per word n TC8 As free from dust as tea can be. The Daily News PRINCE' RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIA. Published. Every Afternoon, except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Daily News, Limited, Third Avenue. H. F. PULLEN - - .Managing Editor. Legal Notices, each insertion per agate line 15 Contract Rates on Application. Advertising and Circulation Telephone Editor and Reporters Telephone - - DAILY EDITION. PUBLIC SPIRIT OF ALASKAN TOWNS. Egggtrr - SS - 86 towns do, was the raising from the residents of the city of Juneau of $150,000 to build u new cold storage plant. For some reason or GETTING THINGS DONE IS WHAT COUNTS. In the list of what may be called the chief characteristics FULLNESS OF LIFE. NOT LENGTH WANTED. It might he worth while if those persons who' are' always loolc-. ing for the "oldest man or woman living" were to give a little thought as to what It means when they find such an individual Miuid Merely as an object of interest the oldest inhabitnat deserves MAIL ROBBERY ! TRIAL, ALASKA U3.INMI IX coin IS INVOl.ttO IN CASE YYIIKKK .NELLIE IIEATTIE ! is .(TlKI FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Feb. 18. Reproduction of on of those dramas of the Far North which have become fa mous In poetry and tong was started here, yesterday when Nellie Beattle. known In the gold camps ot Alaska lor; a quarter ot a century as "The Black Bear." was put on trial, accused ot steal-Ing (33,000 In gold from a dog sled carrying United States mall across the Interior four years ago. Accused with the Fifty-year-old woman Is William C. Shlrmeyer, seventy, an Innkeeper, who Is said to hare confessed to federal officials that Nellie Beattle and he "pinched the poke." His case Is : scheduled for a later date. , The story ot the theft and the subsequent four years' search which took SUBSCRIITION RATES: leading from Alaska to Mexico and north City Delivery, by mall or carrier, per month , $1.00 again, dates back to December 30. 192a. By mail to all parts of th6 British Empire, and the United On that night wuiiam f. Duffy, gor- States, in advance, per year t. $5.00 eminent mail driver, stopped with hi To all other countries, in advance, per year ' $7&0 Ao t'am l Shirmeyen roadhouse on the 300-mlle trail which runs north Tpnn.lont nisnlnv A rlt-orttcinfr o- Ju .. .. i., 'roai Kobe, south of here, on the Alaska Transient Advertising on Front Page, per Inch $2.80 I,ocal Keaders, per insertion per line 25c railroad, to the Idltarod mining district. rami ihmappeakui On the sled he carried 130.000 which 2c was being sent north. The "Black Bear" and another woman were passengers on the sled. ! The next morning the pouch and Its contents were missing. Postal Inspector T. Plnkham of Seattle spent three months travelling snow-cov- .. . . . ercd trails of Alaska investigating. 11 j l 1 j 1 All advertising should be m The Daily News Office before 2 p.m. Po5t office investigators continued to on day preceding publication. All advertising received subject search the north tor the next three to approval. years. In the spring of 1923 Plnkham suddenly dropped all ether lines ot ln- Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations. l""7 nd hurried to Mexico. After several weeks be went to Los Angeles . and arrested Shlrmeyer.' . it j j Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1927 As rfUled by tne government Shlrmeyer's story was that In the middle ot the night. whUe the mall earlier slept, he and the "Black Bear" stole the maU. cached the money and Another example of the enterprize and public spirit which the destroyed everything of no value to feople of the Alaska towns seem to possess to a marked degree and th'm' i which to an equally marked degree seems to be lacking in Prince Rupert, which competes for the same business as these Alaskan TUG OWNERS ARE AWARDED DAMAGES other, such a thing as that would probably be impossible in Prince Mr- JaKt,n ""i-n Kuie steamer Rupert. Perhaps the main reason is the fact that we people here are An-V,,x " Wrong l1 lrt Vancouver too suspicious of each other and too fearsome that somebody else coiiwon might accomplish something." There is a decided lack ofHhe rower to get together and win Vancouver. - "-Holding that things. The only factor that saves the place and makes it a fishing town is that it is strategically located. Were ViTS. bZ! ... . o tfce cotnnel and solely to to blame j tu &.. t t a i. t not for that, the Alaskan towns would get everything we have and when ,ne nmmea ,nd ,unk tne tug they would deserve it, too, because we here have neither the inclin- Radius, m August. 1925. in First Nar-ation nor the energy to go out and get things for ourselves. If the rows, Mr. justice Morrison gave judg-right public spirit and enterprise existed here, as it does in such ment for the plaintiffs, the Capt. J. towns as Ketchikan, Petersburg and Juneau, it would lead to a pros- A- Cates Tug company, agiinst the perity which no one can estimate. Coastwise steamship and Barge com pany, in the Supreme Court the amount of damages to be adjusted by the registrar. The plaintiffs claimed 30.000 Capt. W. Bell and Capt. R. W. McMur- our present era may De iouna tne assertion that this is an age when ihe position of the .respective vessels1 "nobody has any time." On this point practically all the observers farmed the point of dispute, and the; and critics of our social order are agreed. Rsdius. inbound and sunk 200 yards' They draw their proof for this assertion from the ever-increaa- t of Prospect Point, was held to hatej Ing speed of our means of transportation. A half-hour reduction in beta m her ProPfr eourae Bv tne coun: ! the time it takes to go from Chicago to New York; a mile added to nd the Anr"- utx"1. V. the record of the number per hour in airplane travel; a half hour !"Te obd"! n th u,th': or 'l"! gained in a frans-Atlantic trip-these are events that our hurrying Z? Z age greets with joy. We have no time to dally. reYfed ner enjlne, uuiy upon! Thus runs the lament of the critics. But . is it indeed a matter finding the Radius off her bows,. as' r 1 m rti st 01 sucn grave concern 1 true, mere was a lime wnen men naa more directed by the navigation rules, a eoi-leisure than they take to' themselves today, but we have yet to learn lt"lon might have been avoided, that in those days men had a greater abundance either in social pro- "Tbt Roiu towing a scow of gravel, gress or human happiness than we have today. w 'truck hortiy after midnight. We can't deny that we are In a hurry, but as compared to more Aujurt 25 im nd ,ink ln ,ew leianrplv nprloH In hisfnrv It i.n't In ha HphIoiI tW i a-o oll t minutes, to be partially salvaged some get things done. And after all that's what counts. weeks later. BEER BY GLASS IN Home. ; 7IIt2 DAILT NEWS nate still is he who can make these years count for something in that when th u,uor Act w" Pnetl Winnipeg Feb service to his fellowmen. We do not begrudge the oldest inhabitant ,"!n e ou,,d ffi0V '' Pres.,Eiimin.tion the years he has accumulated But the individuals who seek to ilrMB wjder he enlist our Ihterest in him could more easily get it, if we could feel pna could' .. no reason why they that they were not unmindful 01 the words of the poet: should not have them. "We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths; ; "A man's club u his home and he In feelings, not in figures on a dial." should be allowed to have beer there If he wants It." said Mr. Uphill. i The Penile member renewed his old Hot Porridge for Cold Days SHREDDED WHEAT -Simmer the biscuits and serve with hot milk. Delicious. :nlft fnr th nrt Mtt 1rrt nt rnarl tn with the construction of the road t ment of lass forcing employers to pay their workera twice a month. He said that as a result of the collapse ot a large lumber companyy In his riding workers had been left penniless with large sums In back wages owing to them. . I The House rocked with laughter as the genial Labor representative told of the j big game paradise created In the East iKootenay district by the presence of circus elephants roaming the woods at will there. Freedom; Once the made her own frocks; now she works and makes the money to buy ready-mades. 1867 ' diamond: JUBILEE SERIES f Copyrich!. C r.'J.-, iV.7 CLUBS IS DEMANDED MAKE PRAIRIE Have lrlt liege a In' Says I phlll no more comment than the tallest man, the stingiest woman or the victoria. Feb. i. Amendments to' most mischievous boy. These are traits or characteristics which the oovemment Liquor Act to give clubs literati ke uring lime creait to mm or to the community. beer by the glass privueges were advo- It is fullness of life we want; not mere length. Fortunate In- cate1 ,n th Legislature by Thomas deed is he whose years cover a lonir SDan df life: but more fnrtn- Upbui. Labor, rernie. He indicated SPEECH BETTER AM) AllTX CLIU or HESTEKX CANADA TO Lit NCII CAMPAIflN ButharUnd d toured a! see resresefttAttvea- of MRS. ORMISTON IS Colourful Dtymcs Throng Canada 's 'Pages of Sixty Years aAgo Palmer, Carter, Dickey, WhaLea', Hvrv, Fisher, Barnard, SrtBvu, O alt, Shra, Chandler, Cmapam, Campbell, I.voeviv, Geo roes EtiEjVme C artier, Mitchell, IIavilavo, Oickborx, Pope, Joiivon, Thus i D'ARcvMcOR,McCDLLr,GeoROE ProW.nv'Tache, Johv A. Mactkinali), William McI)olt.all,Ouvfr M , Charles Topper, Samuil Ijw.vard Tillct, Adams G. Archibald, Colonel Grav, Georre Giles. Fathers r,f Ct,ftdrra;i n. an inspiration to Canadians of today it the What mcmor- of these men, who welded the scattered communities of Victoria's subjects in British North America into one magnificent whole, and laid down the basic principles of the Empire's largest unit I We honour their names now in this Diamond Jubilee year of the Confederation, which they achieved by forming a Dominion from "sea to sea." Prrsidinif over the Conference which resolved on Union vrat Eticnne Pascal Tache, a veteran of the War of 1 8zi, who expressed the loyalty of his fellow-couritrymcn when he said, "The but gun to be fired for Hritish supremacy in America would be fired by a French-Canadian." John A. MacdoruU wu a commanding figure in the would Use to dlflcrtat n prairie need have a voice on a dead level. Tbe OrmHtons were married In beauty of speech In all Its forms. Mis AM Safb Speedy Rclkf St Yeur Rhsuiriatlim Bmi lOt ff Ct out tflsl to Trmi.W-t(u,Turmito. SCc lid llbotrs t Jrnur Ortritrl l T-RrC's :3 SAWED BEAR IN TWO WHEN CUTTING TREE 1 REVELBTOKE. Peb, l.Ah unusual experience befell Parkstrom toroe., ot Malakwa, near her, while cutting icedar post near Malakwa. WhIU saw-I Ing a hollow cedar log they were ,amaed to find that m th operation Conference, with hk miight into tharscter and h-i knowledge of IlritUh institutions. By his side w--e ' George Brown, df the Toronto Ghif, a "dyed-in-rhe wool" Liberal.who forgot party in his desire for t'nionj T. Alexander Gait, matter of financef Thomai T)'r v McGer, poet, hwtorUn, onuor; .IIHarnMcDous.1 dbtintfutshed eon of a loyalist; Oliver Mowat, a '. . .1 giant, who afterwards bean Premier of Onrar ; Charles Tupper, matter delMttr; his political opponent, Samuel Ixortard TiHey, a power in the Mariri: Provinces; Adams G. Archibald, great part;amentaru.v. These are the men who foresaw the necessity of a trans-continental railway that would connect sea with va, and their vision became t reality in the subsequent achievement of the Canadian Pacific KtiUay. CJLf Can AD I AN Jff$J3 A C I F I c IM IT spans' V U t" WO R L D "ffi Xhtf bad cttttdttt tad I a br. The trat ,vu abut three feet In dl- tionaliti In the West t together In anvttrr. and was growing tree. The an effort to improve the prasralent errors . ber was nldeaUy seven month okl at of speech today. the time of Bis deslh and la believed to nave been In the tree since, the summer of 1025. It l believed that the bear had el imbed NftlV AWINL1 TiIVflRPE UD ,rom UBdw ih root- eerBtchlDg ro: from the tree behind him and blocking ,up hts entrance. Ills body was in Wife of lormer Un Angeles Tfriiple roUed-uo txnIUoli as If be had been 18. By Canadian 1 Itadlo JUit llrlngs Mill In California negotlstlug a turn, suffocating in the of tha prairie" . , operation. voice will be one tt tot mlaslsns to be ANOE4B8. Feb. I9-Mr. Ruth accomplished by the Literature and Peters OrmfefMi has riled ner heralded ! Adrettis In tin gaily Arts Club of Western Canada, a the lur unvrct nrre against Kenneth result of a program recently adopted. - Ormtoton. radio man who figured In Miss Edna Sutherland, who has been tn Aimee Bempie Mcpherson ease. a prime mover ln getting tha "better ' Mr- Ormiaton eharges her husband EnglUh" movement launched, has out- wlth lertton and seeks the custody lined the course of action which will ' lhetr six-year-old son. Frederick K. P"" during the icorbln. la the Crow's Nest Pa... One year. of the world'a greatest coal bodies existed there, he said, and yet the Inhabl- tnts wr wlthmll nrnivp rnftrt farllltlM I asked the government to proceed ""PUnC,tUt,';d bT h1" ".f did not believe Mr. Uphill advocated stricter enforce- ""a" r "'P1"" Ormliten. Western Canadians were aecused by ! " reference to the MePherson case, Miss Sutherland of having a voice on ,n Wh Ormiaton figured as a co-a plane with their vast acres of Itnd, defendant In criminal conspiracy that dwellers on the fia charges, now dismissed. 1 made in the News NOTICE OP INTENTION TO AITt.Y TO I.E.I "E LNH In Prince Rupert Ind Recordint District, and situate at Huston Inlet, Queen Charlotte Itlanda. TAKE NOTICE that Robert U. Currle, of Vancouver, B.C.. occupation Ufi packer. Intends to apply tor a leaje tt 1 the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted; at ! northeast corner about 1,066 feet r I tirly from miners' cabins at he( of 1 uusion iniet; tnence westerly 20 3,n chains; thence southerly about 12 chain; 1 ir zu cnaini; tnence nor-1 Tone of rranetseo April 10. 1M0. They separated ! VhVAV mrnce easterly 1 LAND ACT TO voice, she said, meant mra than mere nury 31, 102a. when. Mra. Ormiiton24 acres, more or lem. words,and the course ot leetures to be Charges the former Angelm Temple radio ROBERT M. CUItlUK, given, will be directed to draw out the perator "deserted and abandoned her I . . 2'!i!!?. beauty of modulation possible to the permanently live apart from her and i LAND ACT human yolce. hever again provide tor her a home to I The purpose of the new eourse was hot hr " husband and wife " Ch"lott?anS'trlCt' D1,tr,et ' Qu"n to do away with "accent but to develop . . take NOncK that sixty day after qate. 1 intend to apply to the Chief commissioner of Lands for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over 640 acres of land bounded a follow: Commencing at a pott planted at the southwest corner of Section 38, Township 3. Orhm Iilind, tnd marked outhwet eorner"i thence rait -.-y3; 60 chains: thence north nr -h,in.. tv,.,,.. jwet 60 chain; thence outh 80 chatm jo puiut 01 commencement, being 8ec-tlon 38, Townihtp 3, Graham Island, B.C. A. J. OOROON, cl"- Dated DeeunUr 17, 12. V Newbuppnes of mm 5 Clothing arriving rr?ul-r'! I V I'rlre-s nnd 0,i,, Don't rorsa Montreal Importers Third Avenue rrPPrit,tr 1 i( Millar LINDSAY'S Cartage and Storage Phone 63 1 Cartape. Wnrehouslnjr, or Distributing. Team .Motor Servic. Coal, Sand and Cri- t We Spectolle In P Turn lure