‘ancouver, June 2.—A _ general

H go out to join their comrades| welfare of the citizens in a severe

of Injuries

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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L. Il, NO. 128 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Fripay, ‘June 2, 1911. _/cTort PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

 

 

 

 

3USH FIRE THREATENS TO D

 

 

 

BIG BUSH FIRE
AT ARROWHEAD

Fifty Men Unequal to Task—
Flames are Spreading. Un-
less Wind Changes Town is
Doomed.

WORKERS TO

TANCOUVER
STOP WORK ON MONDAY

ades and Labor Council Declared Last Night in Favor of a Gen-
eral Strike to Start on Monday---Street Railway Employees
Will Vote Tonight About Joining Them---If They Do All
Factories Using Electrical Energy Will Have to Stop Work.

the Master Builders’ Association.
The Only Hope

The only hope now, is that

when the matter is discussed and

voted on in the individual unions

tonight at special meetings, that

(Can~‘ian Press Despatch)

Victoria,~ June 2.—At Arrow-
head, B. C., a bad bush fire is
raging. All day yesterday fifty
fire fighters were engaged and
were unable to copewith the flames
which are spreading.

Help has been summoned from
of the stree|neighboriftowns. No lives have
They are to|been lost but unless the wind
The|changes the town of Arrowhead
will be destroyed.

TAKEN ILL

 

Especial
the
men’s

Canadian Press Despatch) apprehension is felt

over question
car
vote on the question tonight.
B. C. Electric
of electric

ke will take place in Vancouver. action.
at was decided by the meeting
the Trades and Labor Council

night, which ratified the pro-

lings the special meeting held

Railway is a vendor
to most of the
Included in

power
Vancouver factories.

. the men will refuse to obey the
peek ago ne consider the best dictates of their leaders. ; But the men’s union are the power-
ans of helping the carpenters this is regarded as a faint hope,|™e" employed at the sources of SUDDENLY
Vancouver to enforce their as it is certain that most of the electrical energy.

nands Guest of Premier Hotel Has to

What It May Mean

delegates on the Trades and Labor

 

 

 

Starts on Monday Council had mandates from their} If the car men decide to join Postpone Journey South
‘he strike will start on Monday | unions. ithe strike, then not only the — "
rning. It was reported at the Public is Alarmed street transportation but Nia sup- | Late last night Mr. Robert
ting that several thousand work| The public is very apprehensive | ply of power for the factories will | Bright, a guest at the Premier
m are ready to throw down their|of the step threatened, as it is|come to a stop. Thousands of Hotal, was taken suddenly ill.
Is at the word of conimand | evident it will affect the general |workers who would otherwise. con- No time was lost in sending for

Dr. MeNeill who arrived promptly,

vnion, unless a|manner, It will mean practically | quit. and advised the removal of the

in the mean-|a stoppage of the entire industrial | be handed out either late tonight | tr. Brigh the General Hospital.
|or tomorrow morning. Mr. Bright had intended to. pro-

}ceed sough with the Prince Ru-
| pert this morning, but was advised

| tinue at work will be obliged to|
the carpenters The car men’s decision will}
lement is made

e between the carpenters and | activity of Vancouver.

 

RINCE JOACHIM wsuReD T() KNIFE RECIPROCITY |by the doctor not to ateempt
cas * - ithe jourrey. His illness is not
ser's Son May Die as Result | lumderstood to be severe, but he

He
may require some days rest and

medical attention.

=" BY SPLITTING DEMOCRATS:

Canadian Press Despatch)

[a Opponents of the Pisees Trade Measures Making a TO BUILD . SHIPS:
irmy manoeuvres today. . He| Final Effort—President Taft Trying to Keep
fin a dangerous condition and Forces Together—Debate Wednesday FOR OUR NAVY

) dic

STOMS STILL

|Commander Hie’ Goes to Brit-
ain to Discuss Tenders with
British Ship Builders.

jhis attention. He is holding daily |
lconferences at the White House|
lin an effort to keep the Republican |

(Canadian Press Despatch)
2.—A

'
|
| Washington, June crisis

 

in the Senate fight on Canadian |
) at

ON THE CLIMB} reciprocity is expected to be reach- and Democratic Senators in line c ae * ak

) . : | anadian Press Despatch

: ed when the Democratic farmers |!" the pact. Mu > Pack
. ss . . att » Ss > Lee > 2 2.—C a e
rease of May Over April Is free list bill is offered as an amend-| The debate in the Senate on} ontreal, June Commander
$3425.87 ment to the bill carrying the| the reciprocity bill is scheduled | ne * the toe Navy
aE proposed agreement into effect. | to open next Wednesday. a ed last er mee to
a : eo ae Pe ee discuss tenders Sa acun akin tre:
it Prince Rupert's trade is That such an amendment will Ata 7 Maar or it acs
‘ : é ‘ tion of men-of-ws yhich Canadé
tinually’ ‘onthe increase is| 22 offered for the purpose of They Are Here O90}. PER -Ol-WAr White -anace
: ; ee ; ka : a ea ROS | . will build during the next three

ily proved by the figures of the embarrassing the Democratic sup-| A great range of classy shoes year “
aon el sans fOP . fears,

Astoms Department returns from | Porters to the reciprocity bill | have just arrived. See us today.—|~ _, 3

Six tenders have been received,

seems certain.
Toward this critical contingency
Taft is now devoting |

nth tomonth, They are always

adily climbing upwards,

<eturns for the month of May
just been issued. They show

otal of $13112.64 for Customs

cipts during the month. Fof

month of April the figures were

several of whom expressed their
willingness to construct the vessels

lScott, Froud & Co.
|

President Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, "Phone 4

STRIKE WITNESSES MUST |
WAIT UNTIL MONDAY

in Canada.

EIGHTH AVENUE
IS JOINED UP

 

86.77, thus the increase of

hy'’s receipts over April's is eee

825.87 quite a substantial sum. |Govt. Agent McMullin Received Wire Today From|Plankway Completed Tonight
oticeable to the Customs Offi- Victoria That They Need Not Leave—An- From McBride to the Circle

‘leveland 8, Philadelphia 14.

 

Is this spring is the vast increase

dealings with settlers’
Home-makers keep pour-
into Prince Rupert and bring-

other Hardship on Them

Government Agent MecMullin
received a telgram late last night

Work has been pressing on
apace on Eighth avenue which is
being planked from McBride street
round to Hays Cove Circle where

their
provisions supplied them which

they could arrange to sue as they
themselves. This arrange-

cts,

chose

their goods with them, Every-|stating that it would be unneces- <

ng is done to facilitate their |sary for the witnesses in the strike}ment met with approval, but/j¢ links up with Seventh avenue.

ling. It is not their money|case to leave Prince Rupert until|after further consideration it ap-|This linking up will be completed

t Prince Rupert needs so much|Monday. One or two of the|pears that the men decided not} tonight, and the new plankway will

themselves and their earning | Special Constables summonsed, | to avail themselves of it. Support] pe a great convenience to residents

er to Relea up the-city. however, left by the Prince Ru-|was not asked for all, but only|in this district, Messrs. J. A.
| pert this morning. The others) for a few of the eighty witnesses; Meeker & Co. are the contractors

waiting to go south. for the work.

Don't Read This
Because you will be convinced
that our stock of boots and shoes
are unequalled in Northern B, C.—
Scott, Froud & Co.
On June 5

It is expected that navigation

will go south by the Prince George
on Monday.

Defence Inconvenienced

About eighty witnesses for the
defence are in town and were
ready to go below with the Prince
Rupert this morning. On hearing
that they would not be required
to leave until Monday they were
faced with the commissariat prob-

7th tees a Ps et rt Pe Os

BASEBALL SCORES |

+ mpsitieanaieii Si Miia

SEARCHERS FIND
DEAD BODIES

All were Victims cf the Myster-
ious Fire at Silverton Yester-
day—Ten were Injured.

 

-

Northwestern League
Portland 4,
Peattle 8, Victoria 1,
‘ancouver 9, Spokane 1

‘acoma 5,

 

Nasional deague M f the men have|Will be open from White Horse to} Nelson, June 2,—Search among

me ‘ S . A . s e “ ~ e .
imemnati 5, St, Louis 6. lem. oy * : Dawson, Yukon, on June 5. Rogers} ihe ruins of the Winds ,
Picts! ores come from upriver and distant : ved the ruins of the Windsor Hotel
sburg 6, Chicago 8. & Black, steamship agents, received | 4 Sijverton which was destroyed

districts to attend the trial, and
these have no work here. How
to feed them was the question.
Consulted Govt. Agent
In a body they visited the
Government Offices, and laid the
matter before Mr. McMullin who
at once proposed that the men
who wished to be provided for
over the week-end should have

this advice today from Skagway.

by fire yesterday morning pro-
duced a few charred remains.

Apparently they are of the four
men, Robert MecTaggert, Robert
Fairgrieve, one unknown man be-
leived to be a foreigner, and a
fourth whose identity is unknown.
At present there are ten injured
in the hospital at New Denver.

American League

Came Back Broke

That idea was "was returned last
night, but like most borrowed
china, it was broken in several
pieces. However, Reilly will
have it in presentable form by
tomorrow night.

 

Ses 3, Chicago 10,
. Louis 8, New York HH.
vashinaie 7, Detroit 8,
Pacific Coast League
cinon 3, Sacramento 6.
Jakland 1, Portland 8.
08 Angeles 2, 'Frisco 0,

 

 

 

 

In 1915 the Pacific Coast will
see the greatest doings of the
whole century. Prince Rupert
will be in on those doings, a regular
topnotcher. For by that time
Prince Rupert will be linked up
with the East by a line of con-
tinuous steel, and the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans will be linked
by the Panama Canal. Some-
where round San Francisco will
centre the celebration which will
attract all the world and his wife.
A forecast of this great event,
and its significance to Prince Ru-
pert was given by Mr. W. H.
Magee in his lecture last night in
the Empress Theatre on ‘The
Panama Canal.”

On Sound Footing

After giving a brief resume of

 

PRINCE RUPERT'S PRINCELY
PROSPECTS FROM PANAMA ©

Opening Up of World’s Greatest Ca Canal and Linking Up of the
G. T. P. Transcontinental Together Mean Prestige for Prince
Rupert, Says W. H. Magee in His Lecture at the Empress
Theatre Last Night.

the history of this short route
across the continent. -and the
attraction it~has had for the im-
aginative minds amongst com-
mercial men for many years, Mr.
Magee who has studied the canal
thoroughly, told how through the
foresight of Theodore Roosevelt
the Panama Canal Zone ten miles
wide, has been secured for the
United States right across the
Isthmus for $40,000,000 and how
after the lamentable and criminal
mismanagement of the canal works
under the French Company that
first exploited it, the canal scheme
has been set on a sound footing,
and carried to its present pros-
perous stage within three years
of completion, by the American

| nation.

Dismal Failure Once -
Pitiful conditions prevailed dui-
ing the period of mismanagement.
Vast sums~were subscribed in
France. All materials had to be
bought there. Graft flourished,
and tons upon tons of costly
machinery was ordered in France
only to be dumped in swamps
on the Isthmus. Insanitary con-
ditions prevailed amongst the
workers, and plagues of small-pox,
typhoid, and malaria decimated
the camps. Most pitiful is the
grim black and white sketch drawn
in a word or two by the lecturer
of a bright young French engineer
who went out to Panama at that
time with his wife, and _ four
pretty daughters. They had not

 

 

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ed Over the Treaty of Lo

the Anglo-American
(Canadian Press Despatch)
London, June 2—The Imperial |
Conference today debated the mo-
tion introduced by Hon. Andrew |
Fisher, Premier of Australia, re-
gretting that the Overseas Dom-
inions had not been consulted in|
reference to the declaration of
Lendon in regard to the arbitra-
tion treaty with the United States. |

 

Sir Edward Grey promised that}
they should be consulted before
the next Hague conference and
pointed out that not to agree to
its ratification would be a great)

‘A MAIL SERVICE

This afternoon Mr. D. H. Flet-

cher, Post Office Inspector for
the District, is to make a trip
across to Porcher Island to in-

vestigate the conditions over there
as regards mail service. Mr. Flet-
cher intends leaving in the Knox
launch with Mr. F. Davis.

Mail Service Sought

Island been

have very

Porcher
service, and have taken every
opportunity to make their desires
in this direction known to the
department. With a rapidly grow-
ing population, and increases of t
basiness every where in these|*
districts just now, it has not been
easy to cope with the needs of
quickly residents
Probably Porche
soon have the

places as as
hayevsvished.
Island will very
desired service now,

Mail by Claxton or Rupert

Up to the present mail com-
munication with Porcher Island
has been either by Claxton or
Prince Rupert whenever a Porcher
Island boat was coming over,

ous.

For some time the residents of THOUSANDS NOT HUNDREDS

g ave a regular mail
anxious to have °8 News Staff is Scared Lest Mack's

a local clerk purchased a property
on Seventh avenue,
all |ago for $82
for $105,000,
+|that he had made thus cleared

This was wrong.

IMPERIAL DELEGATES
WANT TO BE CONSULTED

Want to Know Why the Dominions Were Not Consult-

ndon, Better Known as
Arbitration Treaty

| blow to the cause of arbitration.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he thou-
ight that the claim of the Dom-

inions to be consulted in treaties

| negotiated by the Imperial gov-

ernment was not unjustified even
though the arbitration treaty with
the United States might not be
carried through, if the declaration
was not ratified. The fact that

|the colonies were being consulted

regarding questions of war, placed
them in the position of being
forced to-aid in the event of an
Imperial war.

SOON

FOR PORCHER ISLAND

Post Office Inspector D. H. . D. H. Fletcher Will Visit Island
to Investigate Conditions and Routes—Leaves
by a Launch This Afternoon

ly long and sometimes even peril-
Mr. Fletcher will make a
thorough investigation into routes

populous parts, and will

——-——

 

Muse Should be Aroused

 

In a Calgary news item in yes-
erday’s Daily News telling how

seven years
5, and sold it yesterday
a headline stated

twelve hundred per cent profit.
It was something

STRIKERS GO BACK

 

Structural Ironworkers in To-
ronto Decide to Throw up the

Sponge.

 

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Toronto, June 2.—The bridge
and structural ironworkers who
went out on strike on May first
for an advance of five cents per
hour, have thrown up the sponge
and returned to work at the old
rate of 35 cents.

LAUNCH KNOX
OVERDUE TODAY

Expected Last Night from Kit-
sum with Scow of Gravel

 

 

 

Some anxiety was fexpressed on
the waterfront this morning re-
garding the gasoline launch Knox,
which left for Kitsum yesterday
in charge of F. Davis her owner,
to unload a scow of gravel and
tow it back to Prince Rupert.

The launch and scow were ex-
pected back last night, but did
not arrive, and it was’ thought
that delay might have been oc-
casioned by the state of the tide
hindering the handling of the
scow. Enquiries made about one
o'clock this afternoon resulted in
the statement made at the boat
house that the Knox was still out,

conditions and possible means of/and no news of her was available,
communication. with ‘the Island’s|but that she was expected every

most
devise the best and most frequent}sent out to look for her, though

mail service possible.

hour. Another launcyh has been

there is not believed to be any
reason for serious anxiety, as Mr.
Davis is an experienced launch
owner on these coasts.

Got Them at Last
A splendid line of American
pumps and slippers, none better.—
Scott, Froud & Co.

 

 

 

Where to Go

EMPRESS THEATRE, Second Ave. ;
Pictures and Music, 7.30 p,m.

 

 

 

over twelve thousand five hundred
per cent he cleared.

The staff hastens to make this
explanation before Mack sees
the misleading paragraph and
makes it the subject of his ribald

 

And the trip by beat was frequent-

 

muse,

MAJESTIC THEATRE, Third Ave;

Pictures and songs, 7.30 p. mi,

PHENIX THEATRE, Second Avenue;

Pictures and music, 7.30 p.m.

AUDITORIUM, Sixth Avenne; Roller
Skating, 8 p.m.

PREPARATORY SERVICE, Old Pres-
byterian Church, 8 p.m., tonight.

 

 

 

     
   
 

      

 

 

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