aresayl earvetertey | Open Day and * Night New Management (Special to The News via .T.P. Telegrapns.) WASHINGTON, November 4.—Official Washington is firm) the belief that the end of the coal strike is near. There is, stity the hope, but everywhere the feeling prevails that in- ences are being brought to bear to have the strikers, number- 400,000, return to work. Confidential reports to the Department of Justice from the strikers. Scattered reports from the coal fields of 28 states ginia and Colorado. Advices to the Washington headquarters of the operators said non-union mines were working to capacity and turning out siderably more coal than on Saturday. Some of the operators’ orts said that the union men had gone to work in non-union es and that there was a growing sentiment that the men them- es should have had the right to vote on the strike before it lied. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—(Noon). The Government officials very hopeful that the injunction issued out of the Federal rt at Indianapolis which will shut off strike funds from the ers will operate in bringing the present coal strike to a speedy lusion before its effects are too far-reaching and damaging. D.PATTULLO == EXCHANGE WITH PRESSING FOR ASIA CHANGES ROUNDHOG LINE a Silver Now at High Price and Purchasing Power Corres- Gone to Ottawa to Take up Pondingly Great. Matter With Dominion ; sleries ol exchange Government. fhe imysterse 1g were explained to the Board of Telegraphe.) Trade yesterday afternoon by oo Moreton Frewen in connection LTO Nov. 4.—hHon, T. D. Si ' { lands, left with an address on Prince Rupert. , tt ae 6 P There had been a revolution in wr ( Ni o ress » or awe (0. 00a or the value of silver in Asia. In n Government the de- : four years the value of the metai bility of Constructing a branch a : a had gone up from 23 pence to 6( he Grand Trunk Pacifie Rail- ea : “ fo the Groundhog coal area pence and the change was caus- ' ey ing a revolution in trade. rhe he headquarters of the Naas ° . r ‘ i] ould coolie coming to this country for- ye ls Hesell ~— merly paid 800 taels for the $500 I hi mm Haze ) oe head tax. Now he could liquidat: r. Pattullo wilt also try to ; i} s this debt with 300 taels, ie Indian lands question od , : , The Chinaman ecame_ here to a View securing for eulti- n manv t f tt best **ve his wages and send it home ym Mar acts ’ » 2 held A ee I > ve to China, After he had earned ‘ } e ahe ves in a wild ‘a — $500 he sent it home and got 800 ae >. els for it. Now he got only 300 sak taels and thought he was being OR MEN ASK CITY swindled by the bankers. In matters of trade the change ashington is Hopeful of Settlement in Coal Strike Break in Union Ranks at West Virginia and Colorado; Opinion Expressed That Men Should Have Been Consulted Before Strike Called. | } thing definite or tangible in the way of actual developments to . ' | fields are said to show many defections from the ranks of | pwed the first breaks in the ranks of organized labor in West When J. B. Coates went shooting ,|of administering FOR AN AMBULANCE in value was an aid to us. If an} order was sent from China fol Matter ‘Renee Had Been %.000 taels worth he was sent Considered by Hospital lumber valued at $414,000, This tended to en om this coast rstate its difference courage exports ff the It was Hip built her for a quarter of HOt a ! in publie taxis, @ million dollars could be sold it Thad ind Labor Couneil ex. “hina for a third ol Vinat the ped its lingness to eo. Prive would formerly have been - in yay with the eity ae t ‘ehicle might FOUR JAPANESE | | ~ reported by Ald. MeRae | \ssociation had <8" ARE MURDERED : | ' the matte and ¥ but ‘stinates and 's yet had received no : Woman and Three. Sons Found | | -* “oMnection Ald. Casey Dead in Bed With Their HlOned i ; : at ' : he ny a ‘© thought that Throats Cut Par the hepith | Would my ; - ee (Special via G, 7. P. Telegraph.) * @& hepor P be Would oceill Ae VANCOUVER, Nov, 4. The wife 8 , ince and olfian and three sons aged seven and| : & new ‘Lion hospital five years and eight months re- Bh tone wa Neither large spectively, of Buta Sakata, a the ort ‘ ’ re sad in the pj . “TBCNCY Nor was Japanese, were found «de - “ lioned “ The mayor | their beds with their throats eu - nm ~ t re ~ : MMal altho igh the Gar. | Buta Sakata is in jail charged Mon Hall had bee with the murder and it is alleged Ade toy id heen put : Mal fo) “S® 45 an isalation| DY the police that he has cen PMs, th, th irlet fever fessed. ° bby ' ! “as now in me the ' ; : el * he Ould not he Ihe Seal Cove W, A. will hol their Bazaar in St, Peter's Chureh 1 forget th, n Wednesday, November 5, Open- Raraa, \ hans ® at theling ceremony at 3 o'clock 967 4 halt “inesday ava Dast ni mn. " ‘ ne me 258! B, ©. Undertakers, Phone 41. PRINCE RUPERT ; 1919. —_—— PRINGI i RU B RUPERT, B. mo TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Ss LARGER GRANT FOR HOSPITAL Report of Finance Committee Recommended Increase to 70c per capita. \ report from the Finance Gom- mittee in regard to the Hospital Grant was read at last night's *jcouncil meeting. In this report the Finance Committee reeom- DOG STAYS BY mended that a grant of .ve per patient per day be paid instead of $5,000 per annum which was > the &5, @ grant present grant, of 87,700 yearly and Pouid be a great assistance to the Rospital fiMances. The grant to Hie hospital was really a means ot caning for indigents that were Public charges anyway. Nov. 4, It was resolved unanimously that the present couneil go on When J. B. Coates of New West- minster Died Dog Led Search Party to Place. NEW WESTMINSTER, a week ago he took his dog with! record as being in favor of the ‘him. The dog showed up after, 76c per day grant. It was pointed having steod by the body for a) out that in the city of Vancouver week and led a search party to! the General Hospital received a the place where his master had le rant of 60¢. died from exhaustion, lost in the storm. after being Ask for Atkins’ Sausages. _ Grand Trunk Third Reading Wednesday Bill will then go to the Senate; Large Supplementary Estimates Tabled by Government to Provide for Soldiers. (Special to fhe News via G.T. 2%. Teiegraphs.) November 4.—The ‘House of Commons third reading to the grand Trunk Bill last Senate before Wednesday. It developed that on Friday a tentative agreement that the would not be taken until Tuesday in order to all members going home for the week-end to be back. Failure of the Grand Trunk Bill to receive its third reading last night makes it certain that prorogation cannot be reached until next week, The tabling of the estimates is another obstacle n the way of early prorogation. — : Supplementary estimates for the COMMITTED T0 current fiscal year have been tabled to the amount of $62,346,- ovo, Of this, forty millions tol Chinaman Accused of Obtaining wloney Under False Pretenses From Grocers. OTTAWA, five the cannot now reach the did not night and it had been made vote allow carry out the recommendations of the report of the committee on soldiers’ civil re-establishment is the biggest vote submitted to the House, while twenty millions is provided for advances to settle! soldiers upon land and the cost the Soldiers’, in the police court this morning ~ettlement Aet. Mah Kee was given a preliminary Hon, Martin Burrell, Secretary! earing on the charge of having of State, tabled the report of the/Obtained money by false pre- ltoyal Commission which inquired tenses. It is alleged that he Che Daily News Northern and Central British Columbia’s ee grain port in the world,” the Board of Trade yesterday should try to get wheat shipped business, of the last five years.” the streets, Seattle had a popula- tion of 6,000, smaller than Prince Rupert of today, and there was not a tree cut where Vancouver now stands. He came to Vancou- ver again in 1906 with Charles Rivers Wilson and Charles Haye, and Mr. Hays told him of the fu- ture of Prince Rupert. “People sometimes wonder if he was wrong in his judgment,” said the speaker, ‘Carry Out Pledges. Mr. Frewin then outlined arguments, pects? he inquired. Mr. Hays was a good railway man and he said that the Yellowhead Pass was the key to the Northwest freight situation. to the the Orient and the higher, speeds that might be made on the by this route than by any other Unfortunately like other roads the fill the promises that had been made, Now instead of an insol- vent corporation, the port had be- hind it a sound, solid government and that government was in honor bound to carry out the pledges made to the purchasers at the time the townsite lots were sold. The speaker recounted J. J. Hill's opinion of the railway and port and then told of the inten- tion of Harriman, the greatest railwayman of the age, to come to Prince Rupert. He sent Dr. Farqyharson to go over the road and if possible to secure running rights or to acquire a control- ling interest in it. Had he lived he would have made an attempt to link his railways up with the G. T. P, From this they would see that if they had erred in their judgment of this place, they were in good company, “The American trade with the Orient must flow through this port.” into the Guelph Novitiate charge. | {alsely endorsed a check made out rhe report exonerates Hon, ©, J.|y Kim Mah. There is no account Minister of. Justice, and |i the bank for Kim Mah and none roherty eee General Mewburn, Minister| Of the parties are known by the/| of Militia, and declares that “upen bank officials, the evidenee before us we think| Mah Kee took the: check to the that the conduct of jthis raid was;store of a Japanese,’T, Nakana, | open to all the adverse criticism]Who, in partnership ‘with W ati.| found in the memorandum of the |}runs the N. and W. Grocery on| Fulton St. He made some smal purchases and offered the check) jin payment. It was accepted, but| on taking it to the bank, Wati, one} of the partners, was unable to get! it cashed, there being no aecount. the matter was then reported | to the police who took it up and|5 Vah Kee was arrested. The evi- dence was heard by Magistrate McMordie and he was committed for trial, He will probably come before the county court judge to. | morrow, Adjutant General, The charges by Sir Sam Hughes are also nade declared to be unfounded. None of the by-election received at the writs have yet been and it will not be possible ; | for the new members to take their eats before Wedne May. rhe attention of the ment was drawn Lo the acute sugat shortage in the West. Sir George } Foster replie d that at I the re was an embargo against the of sugar. He understood that raw sugar Was now coming into Vancouver and the refineries would doubtless be in a position Govern- present ‘xport special clearing sale all this month to make room for Christ- lieve the short- mas goods, at Barrie’s Furniture; tien of this town was unassail- | before long to rele } anneal tf able. He mentioned the experi. age. ences of ‘the C, P. R. The port —_ . oe POO CATHOLIC BAZAAR ie pupils of the Catholic Se hool will assist the ladies Peas their friends and patrons at 3 o'clock a afternoon in St, Andrew's Hall, Bishop Bunez and > . Mullen will open the Bazaar at 8 o'clock tonight, ols @ ood things and a good time for everyone at n St. Andrew’s Hall, Tonight and Tomorrow | of the great value of the silver so that and, given that, undoubtedly ships would gather here like vultures. ars here Queen Persia and the Queen of Norway. Ladysm:th Coal. The best. Prince FPupert Coal Company, Phone 15. Mr. Frewin spoke of the vast resources and of the future growth of the town. to the value of the fisheries and mines of the district which were | just being opened up. Mentioning the almost untap- ped resources of the ocean, the speaker said that in England each person consumed less than an ounce of fish a day and ten ounces of meal Chis should be changed every man should use | four ounces of meat only and up to seven or eight ounces of fish. James Creighton Browne in his fight against tuberculosis had advocated the use of more fish. What are the serv | coming revolution. Owing to the nearness | program for the establishment of good gradient, Hong Kong = brought four days nearer London! G. LT. P. had found itself in finans/ ’ cial difliculties and was unable to TA XI Phone 75 and 95 We Never Sk ep PRINCE RUPERT AUTO 707 Second Avenue M. BH. LARGE | PRIC E Raking “CENTS Rupert Should be Great Grain Port That is Opinion of Moreton Frewen Expressed at Board of Trade Meet- ing Yesterday Afternoon. “Prince Rupert should become a great, if not the greatest, said Moreton Frewen in an address to afternoon. from here. “By all means you It has been shipped successfully from Vancouver and this is the natural port for the I see an immense future to the place in the next five years, that will be ample compensation for the disappointments Mr. Mrewen told of a visit he made to the coast in 1883, when Victoria was a little “Sleepy Hollow” with pheasants oe in FEAR TROUBLE FOLLOWING THE LABOR SUCCESS Program Issued for Plan of Muni- cipal Socialism with Profits to Political Fund. LONDON, Nov. 4.—The labor | vietories in Saturday's municipal ,election are arousing fears of a Labor head- |; quarters in London has issued a |municipal Socialism throughout the country in connection with working class co-operative socie- ties, part of the profits of which ;|are to be given to a labor political fund, HONOR FLAG FOR VANCOUVER Subscribes ou | Seven Million Dollars—Good Showing Throughout the Dominion. TORONTO, last evening Nev. 4.—Up till the total subscrip- tions to the 1919 Victory Loan He referred| ‘Stetcher, amounted to $%164,584,650, as against $175,379;700 for the same period last vear. Yesterday was a bad day but it is hoped that with a number of new communi- ties just getting to work that the average will pick up in a day or so, VANCOUVER, Nov. 4.—The Prinee of Wales Honor Flag has been presented to the city of Van- couver by Sir Henry Drayton. Vancouver has made & wonderful showing in exceeding her quota already. Her quota for the pres- cnt loan campaign was $7,000,000 and $7,710,000 is already sub- scribed. STETCHER THROWS LEWIS OF KENTUCKY Uses Body Scissors and Double Wristlock After Hour and Half. YORK,* Nov. 4.—Joe claimant for the world’s heavyweight wrestler, catch-as- NEW He was going to ask the Govern- ment to put a cold storage plant nto every,village, Labor applied to the ocean brought much more wealth than the same applied to the land. Mr. Frewin said that the posi- here needed 40 ocean-going wharf ROVAL VISITORS (Special via G. 7. P. Telegrapha.) LONDON, Ney, 4.-Royal visit- inelude the King and of Spain, the Shah of ae cateh-can championship, defeated rd, Lewis (Strangler) in a one- fall mateh at Madison Square Gardens, throwing his opponent with a body scissors and double wristlock, after one hour, thirty miyutes and three seconds. The re gular meeting of the Board of Trade will be held on Friday, November 7 at 8 p.m, in the City Hall The following questions will be diseussed---The condition of the streets, and possible improve- ment; and a letter from the Aerial League. ~ 2+ iab? a: - " * wilh Coe ee x Fas