THE WEATHER
Twenty-four hours ending 5 a,m.,

July 14 .
~~ TREP. BAR.
war, TEMP: wise 30.109

IN, RAIN

 

   

OL. I, NO. 159

 
 
 
 
 
  

 

NEXT MAILS
For Norta
Seattle.. Wednesday, pm.
For Sout
ary...Tonight 6 p. m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Vein of Quartz—-Some ‘“

ON NINTH AVENUE LOT:

Grading his Lots Mr. Thomas Sproatt Ran Into a

Dirt’? That Was Panned

Proves Very Rich—An Interesting Story

ing gold strike was

An interest
Bde on Ninth avenue on Satur-
y afternoon, by Mr. Thomas
roatt, while he was at work
uding on his lots. Whether the
trike’ will turn out to be of
nmercial value or not remains
be seen. At present it id being
arded more as a scientific cur-
ity, though experienced miners
o were called in and who
sisted in panning some of the
agree that it made a richer
wing than anything they had

nin the mining camps.
May Have Assay Made

‘he gold is showing in the blue

and ia in the decayed con-
merate rock About a_ ton
juartz was taken from the
Zk on Saturday afternoon, all
which shows minute particles

| under the microscope.

Hree yold

uld undoubtedly assay high,

 
   
    
  

owne;?r

is being urged to
some of the properly

t for the fun of it.”

ore

Avenue
| enough
istill within

Will Investigate Further

the
garden,
gold

suggestion
the

On an adjoining lot, where
building

indications

owner a

was
ot
The

miner that,

some were
previously found.

was made a

c aunch Sun

beam. They have gone
|}to attend to business relating to

s there, and will be
away some three weeks or more.

three
D. and D. cases were disposed of.
Joe Langly, and H. Kargila for-
feiied bail of $8 and $2 cosis each.
A mean
warbler
of
offer ce paid $5 and $2 costs.

Promptly this morning

aruso( not such a
prisoner in
his second

amed (

as former

a

spite his name) for

 

Seskatehewens Wants to Bring)
in Harvesting Help from the)
States-—Afraid of a Shortage |

(Canadian Pr ss Despatch)
Regina, Sask., July 17.—
to the scarcity of help the Sas-
katchewan government has taken

up with the Dominion Govern-|

ment the question regarding the|
amount of money immigrants must |

Owing

ja short time, as negotiaitions are
lunder way between the govern-
ment and the railways practically

assuring a sufficient supply of
|harvesters if the monetary barrier
|can be removed.

In the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kan-
sas and Oklahoma there are some
|thousands of men unemployed as
the crops there were very small.
These will be brought in if the
| money qualification is removed.

 

 

by
was investigating

that ¢

“strike” worth
further, the
sufficient quantity of the prec ious |
be found make it
for the 3

enter

on chance

might to

ore
worth while eighbouring

lot-owners iv into a co-
mining scheme

of

rich

operative
The

instances

annals mining centein
of
found within very

In the meantime,
Gold Strike’
and genuine

the stage

 

deposits being

lirnited areas.

“Ninth
rich

the

while

enough, is

of a neigh-
bourhood joke

|

Look out for the special coron-

Relief Committees Do Splendid Work—Danger is Now All Past and Work of | rather quiet now, and he gives

COCHRANE STARTS TO REBUILD HER TOWN

 

 

Rebuilding Commences—Relief Fund Grows

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Cochrane, Ont 17.—Here
in the heart of the zone of ¢
few days ago a hundred people are
bare ground |
is no lack|

July

 

> hire

 

now sleeping on: the

or hard floor but there

of food. ~ A carload of supplies}
from the Toronto Board of Trade |
has been distributed. The Gov-|
lernment, the railway officials, and |
the contractors for the Trans-|

ation films that will be shown at continental have all done splendid
the Phenix Theatre next Wed-| work. The settlers in this district
nesday. Good vaudeville and are reported safe with only three

pictures tonight.

 

 
 
   

OUT OF THE

venue—Are Now Growin

ADE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN

RAW MUSKEG :

Riseworthy Work of Mussallem Brothers on Fourth

g All Kinds of Vegetables

Where Only Skunk Cabbage Bloomed Before

Anyone C

© turn the sour into

muskeg
rden. in
the
k of the brothers Mussallem,
tras tore on Fourth
ral Hospital.

d j

Bt to y lot «
ii h

rich

} vegetable has been

avenue
Their
) encourage- |
wher who is |
garden,

A Fertile Patch
Ne ws walked
Mat way recently was pleased
he

by

ave i

reporter who

at

with what
1 ab fifty
nmed full

{ vegetable

lighted saw.
ut

all
The

with
produce.
el is th piece
l could grow so much
All Kinds of Things
bere are iumerable
d radishes
of growth, but all
cabbage,
spinach,

imi rows of|
ng ttuce a
us slages
7 ’ !

e well potatoes,

n ubarb,

, beans, corn, and some

}
howe;
car-
onion

reve
try

getables from their own
Ol Syria, which the
& to raise in Canada.
Grapes Look Good

t. co with

are tryu

ntent vegetables

fifty |

of earth so}

bro- |

an Do It
alone, the brothers are. trying
what fruits will grow her Some
apples nd pear trees imported
from Vancouver have died, but
some apple seedlings look prom-
ising Several grape vines are
planted and appear very healthy.
The brothers are experienced in
|vine-culture ard quice expect to
ibe gathering grapes off their little
vines next year

rhe experiment shows whet can

be done with the muskeg patches. |

The ground was prepared by dig
|

| gir g a trel ch alongside to drain
ithe excess water I muskeg
was turred up with a spede and
imixed with sard and cow mesure,
| Now it looks like a strong loar
land the strength of the vegetable}
, | growth is wonderful
Any One Can Do It
In its way the resuli is vastly
| more ercoureging than if it h had |‘
i been accomplished by Gover--
linent Experimental farm. Ary-
. |
one can do it and be rewarded, like
lthe Mussallem brothers with a
harvest of tender, luscious vege-
tables for the dinner table

 

ANCOUVER’S BIG STRIKE

IS NO

Ctural Steel Workers

orning and the Carpenters Are Negotiating For
‘rms to End the Disastrous Labor War

Panadian Press Despatch)
sUver, July 17.—All the
HONS now appear that the
anions are losing out in
uilding trades strike, which
“1 On here for some time.
morning the structural steel
et the struggle and
had held ae Taste’ ab-
“up the progress

ic
lramye work of man

™
rapers here,

y of the

t Carpen: 1
‘penters and the other

 

W FIZZLING OUT

Went Back to Work This

allied unions are still holding out
however, and are negotiating for
terms with the independent
It is the general opinion

cCOn-

trectors,

that the strike is broken, and that
the other strikers will follow the
of the structural steel

example
workers soon,

| dismayed.

 

The Presbyterian Young Peo-
ple’s picnic will be held on Wed-
nesday evening. Launches will
leave at 6.15 p.m,

 

italities reported. Business men

are starting business up anew un-
One enterprising Italian mer- |
ant has opened up a small stock. |

The Northland,

the started |

publisher of the
local

newspaper, has

jon forty smail. structures.

He is getting his paper printed
in Toronto in the meantime.
Start Rebuilding
North Bay.—Superintendent BI-
ack, of the T. and N. O. Railway,
and General Passenger Agent Perr
just returned from Por-
cupine and Cochrane, and report
that the relief committees are
doing good work. Splendid or-
ganisation is at and
everybody is being fed and shel-
A lunch counter has been
Building
started
Several

and

have

Cochrane

tered.
opened at the station.
operations have already
tents

of blankets

|} from the militia department reach-

carloads

ed Porcupine today.

Mattewson is reported safe, but

jan the erection of a new building. | twelve settlers with their families

lost everything. They are bein
cared for in town. There is no
real hardship in the fire zone
| now, and everybody is being cared |
lfor. Rain fell at Cochrane and |
| Porcupine last night which helped
the situation. Nearly all the
missing miners prospectors
are accounted The total
death list will not exceed 75. Ex-
perienced bushmen have been over
the burned area and their search
shows that prospectors in a great
many instances escaped. As quick-

and
for.

ly as dead bodies are found in
Porcupine they are either shipped
or buried there. On Saturday

afternoon all the men who perished

in the west Dome mine were

buried.

 

After a three weeks’ visit to
the Salvation Army station beyond
Hazelton, where the army has been
located for over ten years, Captain
Kerr of the Citadel here, has re-
turned to Rupert. He had a
very successful trip, ‘‘mushed it’
all the way from this city to
Hazelton, and returned by boat
jand train. Hazelton, he reports,

 

good accounts of the district gen-
jerally from his personal, and the
| Army point of view. The kindest
of welcomes always greeted him
jat the various camps where he
|stopped and held services on the
way up.

Just beyond Camp 17 Captain
Kerr had the thrilling experience
of helping fight a bush fire which
extended round the slue between
him and his destination. The
men from the camp had been
fighting it for two or three days.
The slue was too deep for Captain
Kerr to ford, and he had to make

OLD STRIKE IS MADE —S: Es ae ant re ‘thats PASSED THROUGH FIRE ON

SALVATION ARMY WORK

Captain Kerr of Prince Rupert S.A. Citadel Returns to
the City After Three Week’s Trip to Hazelton—
Had Thrilling Experience on the Trail

his way around through the burn-
ing area where the still smoulder-
ing trees cume crashing down
unexpectedly every few moments.
Fortunately he got through un-
scathed, but the heat was in-
tolerable at some stages. It took
him fully half an hour to make
the little distance he traversed.

Little Paradise Beyond

Four miles beyond Hazelton
is the long established S. A. sta-
tion, now quite a little village.
Here Captain Kerr found the
prettiest bit of garden he has
seen for many a day. After ten
years’ arduous work amongst the
Indians there during which time
the officers had frequently to
face even the rifle muzzle from
hostile natives, the little station
has begun to blossom beautifully.
Every kind of vegetable is growing
there, and the grassy level spaces
are like English lawns. It is a
little paradise now, and shows
how the country repays effort.

 

 

 

 

 

nd now totals $36,796.

 

“RAINY RUPERT” SLANDER

IS NAILED DOWN TIGHT

 

Dominion Government Officer Frank Dowling Issues his Figures |:

For the Year---Prince Rupert Had Less Rain Than a Host

of Places in England, Sunny Japan, Hawaii and Mexico

Was Only 128 Inches in a Whole Year

At the lie about Prince
Rupert's rainfall has been nailed
to the No longer can
dwellers in rival cities trade upon |
that authentic figures |
existence to correct their]
of the rains in Rupert. |
For a year past, an officer of the |
Dominion Government, Mr. F. W. |
| Dowling, maanger of the Domin- |
ion Government Telegraph service, |
recorder, has|
been patiently at work. Morning
after morning the stroke of
five, he has trudged to the weather
the hill, and there
rainfall for the pre-
And his
com-
till

ex-|

last

counter,

 

the fact no

are in

stories

and meteorological

on
station on
measured the
vious twenty-four hours.
for the year just
pleted since July Ist, 1910,
30th, 1911, show that
128.86 inches of rain fell in

records

June
actly
Prince Rupert.

How This Compares
How does this compare with
the reports? A gentleman writing
to Mr. David H. Hays last week,
said he wished piceise information
on the rainfall as he had heard
that the ranifall in Prince Rupert
247 inches, and that it

too rainy for anyone to

averaged
was far
live there in comfort,

With Other Places

As compared with the rainfall
in other places—which is the only
way most of us can make any

comparative judgment the Prince

Rupert rainfall is nothing at all

 

 

to be afraid of, There are places

the rainfall
Seathwaite,
there

where
At
records
of 145
“Sunny Japan”
a com-

in England
is much heavier.

the
showed a ifall
On of

a rainfall of 115 inches is
In some parts of Japan

for instance,

rai inches.

the coast

mon one.
it reaches 170 inches.

In Sunny Mexico

The man who would be fright-
ened away from Prince Rupert by

reports of the rainfall, and go to
Mexico instead would be badly
mistaken, for in Vera Crux, Mex-
ico, the rainfall is nearly fifty
per cent greater than in Prince
Rupert. The actual figures for
both places are Vera Crux 183

inches, Prince Rupert 128.86 ins.
Hawaii is popular as a pleasure,
health but
Hawaii 216
Prince Ru-
climate.

tourist and resort,
the rainfall
inches, which makes
pert look like a dry
Indeed the further south one goes,
the heavier the rainfalls become.
The Worst Yet
Maury in Physical
graphy of the Sea gives the rain-
fall of Cherraponju, a mountian
in Southeastern Assam as 605
inches, all of which falls between
the months of April and October,
during the South Western Mon-
But the worst yet is given

of is

his Geo-

soon,

by Captains Fitzroy and Hall
of the British Navy who measured
on the West Coast of South
America, near Cape Horn, an

annual rainfall of 1,368 inches,

 

figures month by month as they

Total
An Exploded Story
These figures finally and forever |
explode the absurdly exapecreted |

 

reports of the rain in «Prince |
Rupert. Like all places near the
sea, and backed by mountains,

Prince Rupert has a free rainfall,
but nothing more. The city is
indebted to the Dominion au
thorities for taking steps to cov a-
teract th
had been circulated about the
rainfall in Prince Rupert, by sup-
plying authentic
actual rainfall during the year.

figures of the

 

Toronto.—Porcupine Relief Fu-

all railways to file with the Board

There is another advantage|with dump ash pans to avoid
about Prince Rupert rain. It/the necessity of men going ve-
does not come in deluges creating | neath the locomotive. In the past
|havoe and floods as rain is apt|there have been a number of
to in some parts of the world.|accidents from this cause. The
It divides itself into moderately|second order is that at every
monthly quantities. The exact|crossing where an accident has

| happened since January Ist, 1905,

|
|

| How Their Engines Are

 

RAILWAY BOARD ISSUES
TWO DRASTIC ORDERS

rr | Railway Companies Have to File Statements Showing

Equipped— All Crossings

Where Accidents Have Occurred To Be

|

At Once

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Ottawa, Ont., July 17.—The
Railway Commission has issued
two drastic orders, one for the
ptotection of railroad employees
other for the protection
The first requires

and the
f the public.

within sixty days a _ statement
showing the number, and
weight of each locomotive, and to
state whether they are equipped

class

Protected

SCOTCHMAN MET
DEATH IN WATER

John T. Regbie of Chilliwack,
Got Beyond His Depth and
was Drowned—Boys Start a
Destructive Fire.

 

 

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Chilliwack, July 17.—John T.
Regbie, a Scotchamn aged twenty-
eight and a resident of Chiliwack
for the past four years, was drown-
ed here yesterday while bathing
in the Semiault River.
got beyond his depth and was
His body was

unable to swim.

 

 

 

will appear in the Government ‘or hereafter happens by a moving | rescued too late for resuscitation.
ene as follows: : ee to an person using oi A fire in Chilliwack broke out
uly .50| crossing, such crossing is to be se °

i 4.85 | cai tail protected by a watsh- last Friday night ‘and destroyed
September 8.60} man until the Board has had the | '¥°® dwellings valued a. $2000
October : 18.15} accident investigated and the cros- each and seriously threatened three
November 9. 17| ing en cntaee | others. It is believed to have
December 24.65) pal Cee el | been started by boys playing with
January Peete ees 15.50) To watch the want. ads is to} matches in a vacant house owned
eee “ees - be ‘in’? when opportunity knocks. | by Joseph Sanford,

February 5.22] ee iaeee ORs DE a BRS
March 99:0 i FOREST FIRE IS RAGING —

ASH ici, Ce Fas 8.39)

bit ‘3 FIVE MILES EAST OF YALE

June ome

128. 3 9 | Four Hundred Million Feet of Standing Lumber is

Imperilled and Fire is Making Rapid Headway—

Outbreak Near Lake

Coquitlam on Sat-

urday is Extinguished

(Canadian Press Despatch)
New Westminster, July 17.
According to a report mace

Crown Timber Agent Walmsk y,|ef the power dam there.

urday, but wes got under control
after ‘several hours hard fighting

co}by men employed on construction

The

a serious bush fire is raging five|}week of hot weather has greatly
miles east of Yale, which endang rs|increased the rusk of forest fires.

e injurious stories which four hundred million feet of tim-

ber. Several acres of heavy tim-
ber are already burned over, and
the flames are spreading rapidly.
Another forest fire broke out
west of Lake Coquitlam on Sat-

For row boats and launches
telephone 820 green.” Davis’
Boat House.

Pantorium Pioneer Cleaner, ‘Phone 4

 

Regbie.

 

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