FAQ- I VtQ THE DAILY NEWS. rRINCE RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Dally News. Limited, Third Avenue H. F. PULL EN - - - Managing-Editor . , . i. i " City delivery, by mall or carrier, yearly period, paid in advante M Per lesser periods, paid In advance, per week 10c By mall to all parts ol Northern and Central British OoiumMa, paid In advance for yearly period . 2M By mall to all other parts of British Columbia, the Brltttfc Em pire And United States, paid in advance, per year By mail to all other countries, per year r it-i rui"j i iui i i r i ' j i w nun i nic a 1 1 rn m icinn irn nnnAinrnn run . . monopoly in radio had everything in its -favor money, social and political prestige, the open support of powerful trade interests, the services of an active and able lobby except the backing of public opinion ; lacking this, it lacked everything and went down o complete defeat. Far ftiore formidable, aggressive and angry will be the massing of nuJblic. opinion if it is ever proposed that this country should be turned over to a private railway monopoly under; . an illusory pledge 01 public control, 11 any government or; 5- public man seeks a short way to oblivion, advocacy of pri vate railway monopoly will supply the facility. This reality is now being widely recognized, and there I is a corresponding falling off in the vehemence with which 1 ... $coo consolidation of the two systems is being advocated. Pos-j 9m sibly virtues in a competitive system are being admitted advertising rates in quarters where formerly there was reluctance to con- qassified advertiaine. per insertion, per word L' .o? cede them. An expression like the following from the Mon-j Local readers, per insertion, per line . 2h treal Gazette is not without its significance : Legal notices, each insertion, per agate line .. J5 "When the time comes for the Government and rarfia- Transiet display advertising, per inch, per insertion . mo ment to deal definitely with this railway situation, it may contract rates on application. found that the competitive principle can be preserved; Editor and Reporters Telephone 86 it is an absolute necessity, however, that the country be Advertising and Circulation Telephone .98 ireea ITOm me Kind 01 competition wnicn 11 nas wiuie&MJU, Member ot Audit Bureau oi circulation. ' recent years and which has been so largely responsible i for the impasse which has been reached. The competition 555,, of the past few years, to which the Gazette refers, was un-; daily edition !S$gPs' Wednesday, Jane 8, iw2 rfoubtedly uneconomic, extravagant and based upon an: optimism which is now seen to have been without f ounda-! ; responsibility it is pretty evenly divided ; COMPETITION OK PUBLIC MONOPOLY ?'n rr,, .. , . . .' ; , . between the two companies. The theory that the Canadian . The expected interim report of the Royal Commission f National, with the backing of the country, made war wan-! on Transportation did not make its appearance before the tonIv upon the Canadian Pacific might as well go into the! close of Parliament, says the Winnipeg Free Press. It will discard with the other fliusiong. Reasonable co-operation' .vvu. vu v wo uD aiJHuiiiCu, tac between the roads may enable the two systems k expectation was that it would have a suggested solution 0Deratinr indenendenUv. vvhich is creatly to be ready lor consideration by Parliament. When this pros- ta ;f 0ct . ht if tbi efinitpW hroV vtifisv Price 51c a box Sorry To See Right Coming She Could Not Sleep Mia. K. MeElroy, Kirkfield, Ont., writ "I wm very Mrroua sod run down, was short of lrrth, Mid hd mnoUiering feelitiKS, and wm sorry to in night coming u I could not lie down or go io sleep. 1 wm sdTiaed to use Milburn's Heart and Nerrs PilU. I took term boxoa and am now completely relieved: ean dro fine all nichL and L&v runad is weight." Sold l U init .ut f mmtjJ atom, r uM iinH m rwaipl l frU by TU T. HiTli oconunuei desired in rlnwn. ' pect disappeared, the hope was held out that before Par- uaa .;n -n;nff f- it t t rm fnwrA tn thp nn.i liament rose there would be an interim report which tionalization of all Canadian railway facilities, would be before the public for their consideration during the parliamentary recess. But no report is forthcoming, " -- and none is likely at any time in the near future. Popular rumor, for which there appears to be a sound basis, is that there are deep divergencies of opinion among the Commissioners and that if the Commission were now to complete its labors, there would be more than one report. The appointment of the Commission and its labors even though they have been largely veiled in secrecy, have been useful in serving to keep the mind of the public' on the railway problem. There have been other agencies working to the same end: the discouraging series of -.M4-U1.. - 1 1.1 1 il J! -r NEWS OF THE MINES AROUND PRINCE RUPERT Food Shortage in McConnell Creek Camp Veteran Mining Man of Interior Dies Asbestos Deposits H. K. Henry, deputy mining recorder at McConnell inumiuy Macemems uy uie roaus, me aiscussions in rar- f,!- f A0D nrrn tm'Ua hament and the performances of the Special Railway ern goldfield, states that, in his opinion, report as to the Committee of the House of Commons. There has been, it t iQ tnA t MPooii rw,i. n ' vtrr"" - P""" uHliiun upuxi exaggerated. Mr. Henry came out from McC tii- lamwijr 4utiun wmui poiaw ie way, not io a soiu- primarily to bring word of a serious situati lion OI Uie prOJiiemrJOr inainWIXUnaieiy IS not POSSlble develotkne amone thermerf theronK onnell Creek on which was at the present time, DUt to thfr practical policies that Will account of food shortage. Since his dirty. The tromollte was found by be followed while the depression lasts. The picture, pleasing to some people, of the Canadian people pulled from the railway slough of despond by the gallant, patriotic and all-powerful Canadian Pacific Railway, has just about faded away. There is no end of evi dence that there was a widespread, concerted and vigor. arrival, a plane, piloted by E. P. H. an Indian on the upper slope of Weils, has gone north and, being Tslnkut Mountain and was submlt-unable to land at McConnell Creek ted by George Ogaton of Vander-owiag to ice, dropped much-needed hoof. The available data on the as provisions to the camp from the air. bestos .deposlts of the province are (not enoouraglng for the develop- Eugese fOmineca Ed ) Sullivan, ment -of tkls branch of non-metal- mwiy aireoiea movement intended to Mil the Idea to the Known prespecior irom Mexico w mmeraia. me nore oeing un- Canadian people that public ownership of railways in Can- t0 Yukon' away at Bura,ited to any but the loweat grade ""i " 86 " a yieVtia vicuoi oi of cancer ciMicrr 01 0f the ine stom- wun- ii iousjv encouracea jii.ii that the countrv , could , . aton its . ft.n . rP oK T)rr In TralnrtH n vtrl -i-.v-,1 " A Avu u. .itiauu iiU MUiliiI W M Josses I and J m some way recover part of its past logsef bj' Canada at the age of six months. Spninr I tlUflPC tllf-Ml'nrr ilia C'onnrlinn XTnfin-.nl . Ji il.. anlllvan ho1 ini.nl nv n,.r,,,.fl- UaAtUA VJUIUCd openly or by camouflage, over to the direction of the Cana- year 1,1 Manson Cmk strict dian Paciffc Railway or to interests closely related to it. 3 SJTKSTS 22 The responsibility for this movement and for the tactical Lake and entered into nartnenhip campaign bv which it has been supported must rest upon with a. m. Ruddy in the purchase those linked interests which have a fanatical hatred and of tne Cheaiatta Hotel. Mr. Ruddy a deep-seated apprehension of public ownership in all its toter buylne out tne whoIe b,wln forme; to slay it In its most formidable manifestation, the lfoC X Canadian National Railways, physically the greatest mil- way system in the world, would be, as they thought, to rid view Hotel which he subsequently Canada forever of the heresy. raW 10 J- J- Hepner. For the past To put the policy over, it was necessary -connected to put the Cana- flve Jear sf an- h a. os- Mrs. J. A. ZrnTmiznU McMaster. Mr, Sfi fflmn- dian National Railways and everybody with it TaSZ1 " "P" na presoeeUng bn between in tho u-nvct nnoci-Wo Ifn-Vit A A l;, u: j u .. a u-iii(jHigu iu una niu ii Burns Lake and the Babine During been waged which for unscrupulousness and mendacity his years in the omineca. Sullivan has put the achievements of even our most savage political " storekeeper for the KUdeer contests to shame. But we think it can be said that, though MlnlnK 00 and J deputy mining it has resulted in some considerable damage to the Cana-' e' a"d0,Una,LerM1 He L dian National the campaign haf definitely failed ; and we ZXZlLZ xn" fS do not think that the public could be induced to change its took place t Burns Lake with Rev. opinion even though there flhonld he a majority report Father oodfrey officiating, from the Commission on Transportation favoring the re i tirement by the state from the railway business in the in Mn mleB 01 abeatiform min-toreste of private monopoly. ' ''rr,': from w,de,v scatterpd of The Canadian popk u P U to , Z SXTJSS not Inendly to monopoly in ubhc services. They orefei i Hentifteation but. in most in-competltion if thJLs can be had on bearable terms. But if tanes. the -amnie have been of monopoly there must be, the public tendency is to demand ,th" mrt'he varieties of fibre .x- it Un ...t.1 ? 1 J l 1 - ... wttftl vdMl4taFlKlBi waIiiac eoti a n. i.ua. at uc jjuuuuy owneu ana puDiiciy operated; and this ' . , ":" v .1 . . cent baUle at Ottawa over radio i an illustration of what m. Rib-nond nd hwn bv the will happen when this issue is joined. The cause for private "wvindai diwrt-iim nf mine ; oceuipe of chHsntHe 1; fouod at Sldouth In th Revel-1 rtok Mlntn Olvislon and fal- -m-1 iWtifVrfBsi-f thre -un received late ! In Iftil froirjrthe Kmloonsjjre and I to the sonlnf that city. Otbr ar- i cw from which fibrous samnles have been recel"e1 1nriud VndT-hoof Ttilam-n T.wtton Hw and Hs.rrlon Lake Th amnlM oi tromDWe lamohtnolei from r de-nolt elihwn rollefi south of Van-dMtooof In th1 Omineca Mining Division were emmlned but. wrre of no economic value, the fibre belntr eaally powdered, very brittle and At Anyox Form Ranker Group ANYOX. Jttne 8 Senior dir. ' Guides of Anyox have organlzec1. ' themselves loto a body kntwn a Rangers under the leadersMp of Mr. J. W. Lang. A committee! consisting of Mrs. J. L. Stewart.' CJiJL TRAINS For th East Mondays, Wednesdays and Tit ay 8 p.m From tb-Cast Tuesdays, Thursdays ano flatur days (. 10:40 sjm AFTER. EVERY Ml E A L Jit EACH KtTE A tEUCHT AND St ST OF Alt J 'r TM co,T ' SMAU WRIGLEYS Mail Schedul for the East-Monday. Wednesday and Fi.-day 2 p.r; From the East- TRY THIS CIGARETTE TOBACCO Greater enjoyment . . . greater satisfaction . . . greater ease and speed for all who "roll their own". 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