oe Oe nD ee { 3 bik + as The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Dalixy, 50¢ per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. Outsip= CANADA— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch, Contract rates on application. HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98, BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co, a ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar juare. ‘The newspaper, with the law, should assume the accused innocent until proven guilty; should be the friend, not the enemy of the general public; the defender, not the invader of private life and the assailant of personal character. It should be, as it were, a keeper of the public conscience.’’—Henry Watterson. Saal WANTED—A LIQUOR POLICY ~ DAILY EDITION. TUESDAY, JULY 4 = Between now, and the time when the city council meet again to discuss the amendment to the licensing by-law and thus remove the disability from those applicants who erred in their application for hotel license renewals, they should do some serious thinking and enunciate a clear policy in regard to the liquor traffic. If it is not possible to agree upon a mutual policy, they might enunciate individual policies and argue them out in public session without restraint or evasion. Most of the confusion, both in and out of the council, arises from the fact that no clear policy has been laid down. The Mayor is both a temperance man and a liquor man. On very good authority he was declared to have pledged himself to both sides during the Scott Act campaign. His conduct, in staying away from the city after the Legislature adjourned until the extra hour to the hotelmen had been assured, his action in countenancing the opening of the hotel bars on Good Friday and on the day of the civic by-election, and his present efforts to put two more bottle licenses on the city, all lend color to the supposition that he is very friendly to the liquor men. There is no reason in the word why the Mayor without loss of prestige or honor should not become an advocate of making Prince Rupert a wide-open town. Many men honestly believe that a wide open town policy is a good thing commercially. Only a few days ago in one of the hotel parlors it was debated with great energy and plausibility, that just at the present time, when Prince Rupert has no manufactures, and the Pacific Coast gambling fraternity is casting about for a home of refuge, that the best commercial policy for the city would be to invite the gambling fraternity from Washington, Oregon and Nevada to Prince Rupert, and run a wide open gambling town until the railway is through. It was even defended on moral grounds as being better morally than the present condition of affairs. At present Prince Rupert has licenses sufficient for the legal requirements of a town of 6500 people. A census recently taken,— one that is more comprehensive even than the government census,— shows that the population is still below 5,000. The question of whether more licenses should be granted or not, depends not on making amend- ments to the license by-law, but on the simple question of whether more licenses are wanted by the council. To expedite matters, and to prevent another fruitless meeting would it not be better for the members of the council beginning at the Mayor, to frankly and explicitly declare where they stand on the license question. If we are to have a wide open town, let us do it openly, and get whatever commercial benefit may accrue. If the sentiment is in favor of a law abiding town, then let the law be properly observed. A little frankness on the part of the aldermen would be much appreciated by the hotelmen, the temperance people, and the citizens at large. VENDRINE WINS DYING OF HEAT . ANOTHER PRIZE IN NEW YORK Daring French Aviator Crosses|Ten Deaths Recorded Today— English Channel in a 960} Two Hundred Thousand Chi- Mile Flight—Gets $14 000 cago People. Slept on the Prize. Pavements. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, July 4.—Sweeping ac- ross the English channel ahead of all other contestants, Vendrine, the victor of the Paris to Madrid contest, landed at Hendon today the winner of a fourteen thousand dollar prize for a nine hundred and fifty mile flight. There were eight other legs to the contest. Most of the others landed at different points on the south coast of England. ALAS, POOR AUSTIN Britain's Political Poet Laure- ate Laid the Mush on Too Thick. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, July 4.—The where- abouts of the Coronation ode that the poet laureate is supposed to write on the occasion of a coro- nation has excited great inquiry in literary London. No one has seen it. London is puzzled. Now the novel explanation is given that poet laureate Alfred Austin wrote a'‘poem, but that it was so full of fulsome praise that the sturdy commonsense of Queen Mary rebeiled against it. She used her, influence with the King to have the poem suppressed. The poet is now in a nervous collapse |on the electric light plant. (Canadian Press Despatch) New York, July 4.—The mer- cury is hovering around the hun- dred mark in New York. Ten deaths and sixty prostrations from heat is recorded this morning here. Most of the other American cities as far west as Denver are in the same plight. In Chicago it is estimated that 200,000 slept on the pavements last night. MUCH NEEDED SIDEWALK On Third Avenue Between Fifth and Sixth Appreciating the urgent need of a sidewalk on Third avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets on the Fraser street side of the avenue Messrs. McCaffery & Gib- bons have offered to guarantee the city the payment of the expense of putting in this convenience, or pay for the construction of the sidewalk and have the cost refund- ed to them in the event of the city’s deciding to have this work done. Referred to streets com- mittee with power to act. Light Plant Insurance, ferred to finance committee. at the affront to his dignity. , THE DAILY NEWS Regular Regular %e, 6 MID-SUMMER Men’s Suits $25.00, Now $15.00 $30.00, Now $20.00 Men’s Soft Felt and Straw Hats, regular $3.00 NOW $1.50 Try it now. Working Men’s Shirts in plain or fancy Duck, Drills or Buckskin, Regular $1.50 Men’s Black and Tan Shoes, all sizes, regular $6.00 NOW $4.00 CLEARING SALE Sooner or later you are going to find out that it is to your own best interest to buy your Clothing and Men’s Furnishings here. you the best in Quality, Latest in Style, for THE LEAST MONEY—Prices that are convincing. Our Mid-Summer Clearing Sale offers All Fancy Tweed and Worsted Suits and Pants to be Cleared Regardless of Men’s Pants Regular $5.00, Now $4.00 Regular $7.00, Now $5.00 NOW $1.00 MARTIN O'REILLY Phone 23 Im Soe ga toto oted oot etie tte tye ieee ete ie ieee eel ye ete el 6yet oie e eet ett eto oto et ae et ogee Second Ave. ITEMS OF.. SPORT Harold Cobb of Toronto, well- known in pugilistic sporting circles throughout Canada, but particu- larly in Detroit and Toronto, was killed in Detroit the other week by being caught between two street cars. oo Billy Weeks, middleweight and heavyweight boxing champion of British Columbia, has left for San Francisco where he will enter the professional ranks. He will en- gage in a number of four-round bouts in the south. oe ® Billy Allen is a good sample of the Canuck who has risen to the top of the pugilistic ladder. He has been boxing for four years, half of which time he spent in Canada. His first bout across G. R. Naden has communicated | the line was November, 30, 1908, with the City Council regarding|and_ the following year Charlie renewal of the insurance policy|Husk took a hold of hiim, and he Re-|has climbed since then, He is well ouilt and has many victories in the ring over such men as Knock- out Brown and Abe Attell are not surprising to one who has looked him over. oo & Rules of the game being strictly enforced in the East, lacrosse critics are beginning to wonder what the game will be like when the eastern champions shall meet the winner of the British Columbia Lacrosse association for the Minto cup. The heavy checking with the stick is barred in eastern la- crosse, and players are being made to stick by the rules in that and other respects. In the West every- thing goes according to report. The problem before the eastern association is what will happen when the eastern team which tries to play straight lacrosse for a whole season meets a western team under western officials, and everything is allowed to go, The cup challengers, whoever they may be this year, are likely to insist on one eastern official for the cup series, ow @ Emil Thiry, manager of Packey McFarland, has given up all hope of securing a match with Matt Wells, the English lightweight cha- mpion. Thiry heard from New York that Wells was gone to Connecticut for a short rest after signing articles for three matches in the East. Thiry said he had agreed to have Packey make 133 pounds at 3 o'clock for the English- man, but Wells refused to accept the terms. McFarland'’s manager has nothing in the way of matches for the fighter and it is prehable Packey will not fight again this fall. 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