J | H : ‘ ye 3 eS et The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DAILy, 60c per month, or $5.00 WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OUTSIDE CANADA—Daily, $8. $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. r year, in advance. per year; Weekly, HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98, BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES , New YorkK—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEaTTLE—Paget Sound News Co. ~e ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar juare, “The newspaper, with the law, shoud 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. aR GARDENS FOR PRINCE RUPERT The interesting story in yesterday's News of how two residents near the General Hospital have succeeded in making a fertile and useful kitchen garden on their lots, ought to stimulate a number of other people to follow their example. By the liberal use of elbow grease and a spade, many a sour looking patch of muskeg might be turned into a pleasing garden, producing flowers and vegetables. Drainage, air and a mixture of sand and clay with the muskeg will accomplish wonders in the way of making a garden. Mr. George Naden last year experimented with potato growing in the drained muskeg, and many people will remember the large sized, tempting looking potatoes which later on were exhibited in his window as an example of what could be accomplished. Many people this year are noticing the changed aspect of the townsite. The muskeg patches are drying up, and where moss banks used only to grow, patches of thick grass are appearing. This is a direct effect of the wholesale clearing of trees, and the letting in of sunlight on the townsite. The rays of the sun decomposing the muskeg and turning it into soil again, are telling. They can be very much helped by a little draining of wet spots and by turning over with a spade. An eminent journalist who toured the prairie provinces a few years ago declared that the grendest work he saw was the tree-planting on tiny townsites and on the prairie farms. He saw not only the value of the growing trees as wird breaks for prairie storms and shade for cattle on summer days; he realised the great value of the trees as a relief to the eyes of generations to come, from the monotony of | featureless prairies. There is a plentiful lack of flower gardens in Prince Rupert at pres- ent. In showing what it is possible to get out of the muskeg, Mus- sallem Brothers have done a good work. There is no reason why a hundred other men at least, should not get busy with spade and barrow and help turn the wilderness of muskeg into a flower or vegetable garden. DAILY EDITION. TUESDAY, JULY 18 A FIFTY YEAR OLD CRY Synopsis Brenda Tregennis is found dead in her chair at her home in Corn- wall, stricken dead with horror. Her two brothers, Owen and George are found insane from hor- ror. What has caused it? The remaining brother Mortimer Tre- gennis calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate ‘‘the Cornish Horror?’ Continued from Yesterday I had hoped that in some way I could coax my companion back into the quiet which had been the object of our journey; but one glance at his intense face and contracted eyebrows told me how vain was the now expectation. He for some time little in silence, absorbed in the strange drama which had broken in upon our peace. “T will look into this matter,” he said at last. ‘‘On the face of if, it would appear to be a case of a very exceptional nature. Have you been there yourself, Mr. Ro- undhay?”’ “No, Mr. Holmes. Mr. Tre- gennis brought back the account to the vicarage, and I at once hurried over with him to consult you.” sat where this singular tragedy oc- curred?” “About a mile inland.” “Then we shall walk over to- gether. But, before we start, I must ask you a few questions, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis.” The other had been silent all this time, but I had observed that his more controlled excitement was even greater than the ob- trusive emotion of the clergyman. He sat with a pale, drawn face, his anxious gaze fixed upon Hol- mes, and his thin hands clasped conclusively together. lips quivered as he listened to the dreadful experience which had befallen his family, and his dark eyes seemed to reflect something of the horror of the scene. It is nearly forty-five years si: ce Confederation, which is a form of reciprocity between the Proviices of Canada. Prior to Confed- | eration the provinces had tariffs against one another. It is interesting to note that the same appeals to ignorance and selfishness that are used today, were unwuccessfully invoked fifty years ago. We read in Parkin’s ‘‘Life of Sir John A. Macdonald.” Scotia,” prominent bankers and merchants in Halifax, who saw that the pro- posed union would throw open the province, hitherto their preserve, to commercial and financial rivals from Montreal and Toronto.’ | They prophesied ruin upon the removal of the customs barriers erected | in every province which checked the free interchange of products | and the full development of industry.” It is interesting and important to be reminded that less than | fifty years ago there were hostile interprovincial tariffs behind which | monopoly sheltered and grew rich at the expense of national welfare. | “In Nova | When the financial and commercial pessimist bids us see disaster in | the reciprocity pact, the optimist of history will help us to despise the warning, for we know that as prosperity followed the sweeping away of interprovincial restriction, so will progress attend the removal of further trade obstruction. ABOUT THE “OPTIMIST JOB” Recently this paper changed its name from the Optimist to the Daily News. Its job department, accordingly changed its name from Optimist Job to News Job department. Within the last few days, a new concern has started and assumed the name of the Optimist Job. It is not the job depart- ment of any newspaper, and its assumption of this misleading title is an obvious attempt tc infringe on the goodwill and patronage of the job department of this paper, earned under its former title. ; In assuming the discarded name of this paper's job depart- ment, the new concern may be within its legal rights. But on the point of honor which lies behind it, the public is en- titled to pass its own judgment. The entire plant and equipment of the job plant of the Optimist is in the News printshops, and is being operated under skilled management. The youthful optimists who have started operations, under the cast-off title, are in no way con nected with the original Optimist job plant. To The Ladies of Prince Rupert Did you ever stop to think how much easier it would be for 7 if at the end of each month, you could pay all - by check. We solicit your account and have 1 facilities for handling it. Private writing rooms are provided for the use of customers and individual attention is given each I . We allow 4 per cent. on deposits and use of checks. ED The Continental Trust Company, “2nd Avene kO%k OK OKO TO SAVE DISAPPOINTMENT AND ERROR Will our customers please notice that the Job Plant of the Prince Rupert Publishing Co., ‘‘Ask what you like, Mr. Hol- mes,’’ said he, eagerly. ‘“‘It’s a | bad thing to speak of, but I will | answer you the truth,” “Tell me about last night.” “Well, Mr. Holmes, I supped Parkin says, ‘‘opposition was organized by a number of|there, as the vicar has said, and | jmy elder brother George proposed | We It a game of whist afterwards. sat down about nine o'clock. was a quarter-past ten when I} moved to go. I left them all round the table as merry as could be.” “How far is it to the house} His pale | THE DAILY NEWS A REMINISCENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLME THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVIL’S FOOT BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1911, by the Century Syndicate “Who let you out?” “Mrs. Porter had gone to bed, | so I let myself out, 1 shut the hall | door behind me. The window of | the room in which they sat closed, but the blind drawn down. There was no change | in door or window this morning, nor any reason to think that any stranger had been to the house. Yet there they sat, driven clean jmad with terror, and Brenda} lying dead of fright, with her head | hanging over the arm of the chair. | I'll never get the sight of that room out of my mind so long as I live.”’ was | was not) | “The facts, as you state them, are certainly most remarkable,” said Holmes. “‘I take it that you have no theory yourself which | can in any way account for them?” “It's devilish. Mr. Holmes;” he said. “It is not of this world. | Something has come into that | room which has dashed the light | of reason from their minds. What human contrivance could do that?” “T fear,”’ said Holmes, “chat | if the matter is beyond Siedaahityt it is certainly beyond me. Ye we must exhaust all natural ex- planantions before we fall back l upon such a theory as this. As I take some they | | to yourself, Mr. Tregennis, jit you were divided in |way from your family, since |lived together and you had rooms | |apart?”’ | ‘That isso, Mr. Holmes, though | ithe matter is past and done with. | |We were a family of tin-miners jat Reduth, but we sold out our} | Venture to a company ard so| |retired with enough to keep us.| | I won't deny that there was some feeling about the division of the} ‘money and it stood between for time, but it iforgiven and forgotten, | were the best of friends together. all we some was and “Looking back’ at the evening which you spent together, does anything stand out in your mem- lory as throwing any possible light lupon the tragedy? Think | fully, Mr. Tregennis, for any clue which can help me.” care- ‘There is nothing at all, sir.’ “Your were in their usual spirits.?’’ people ‘Never better.” ‘Were |Did they | prehension of coming danger?” “Nothing of the kind.”’ “You have nothing to add, then, which could assist me?” people? ap- they ever nervous show | any la boy down with an urgent mes-| us | PRAYER OF A HORSE | Dumb Helpers will Like This of Acting Police Bugher there was every horses By direction Commissioner the other day police posted in stable where are kept in New York a card bearing Mortimer Tregennis considered | a copy of ‘The Prayer of a Horse.4J earnestly for a moment. “There is one thing occurs to me,” said he at last. ‘As we | sat at the table my back was to} the window, and my brother Geor- ge, he being my partner at cards, was facing it. I saw him look hard over my shoulder, so 1 turned round and looked also. The blind was up and the window shut, but I could just make out the bushes on the lawn, and it| seemed to me for a moment that I saw something moving among | them. I couldn't even say if} it were man or animal, but I just | thought there was something there. | When I asked him what he was} looking at, he told me that he had the same feeling. That is all that | I can say.” “Did you not investigate?” This is it: “To Thee, My Master, I offer my prayer “Feed me, water and care for me, and when the day's work is done, provide me with shelter, a clean, dry bed, and a stall wide enough for me to lie down in com- fort. Talk to me. Your voice often means as much to me as the reins. Pet me sometimes, that I may serve you the more gladly and learn to love you. “Do not jerk the reins, and do not whip me when going uphill, Never strike, beat, or kick me when I do not understand what you mean, but give me a chance} to understand you. Watch once “No; the matter passed as) me, and if I fail to do your unimportant.” | bidding, see if something is “You left them, without any! not wrong with my harness or feet. “Examine my teeth when I do not eat. I may have an ulcerated tooth and that, you know, is very painful. | Do not tie my head in an. unnatural position or take | away my best defence against | flies and mosquitoes by cut- ting off my tail. “And, finally, O my master, when my useful strength is gone, do not turn me out to starve or freeze, or sell me to ‘some cruel owner to be slowly tortured and starv- ed to death; but do thou, premonition of evil?” “None att.” “T am not clear how you came hear the news so early this} “IT am an early riser, and gen-| erally take a walk before break- | fast. This morning I hed hardly | started when the doctor in his carriage overtook me. He told} me that old Mrs. Porter hed sent to morning.” sage. I in beside him | and we drove on. When we got there we looked into that dreadful the sprang The candles and fire hours be- room. must have burned out fore and they had been sitting) my master, take my life in there in the dark until dawn had the kindest way and your broken. The doctor said Brenda God will reward you here imust have been dead at least’ and hereafter. You may not consider me irreverent ask this in the name of Him lsix hours. There were no signs of violence.. She lay just across | . . ° |the arm of the chair with that who was born in a stable. ilook on her face. George and Amen.” Owen were singing snatches of songs and gibbering like two great The Acting Commissioner found apes. Oh, it was awful to see! I couldn't stand it, and the doctor the prayer in Pittsburg recently, and it struck him so forcibly that d arra ged the Indeed, he obtained a of was as white as a sheet. he fell copy, @! into a chair in a sort to have it reproduced for faint, and we nearly had him on) police department. He thinks it our hands as well.” will serve to obtain better treat ment of the horses by men who ‘*Remarkable, most remarkable!"’ sometimes lose their tempers and lsaid Holmes, rising and taking his hat. “O think perhaps we abuse them had better go down to Tredannick Wartha without further delay At the Fountain 1 | I confess that I have seldom known |, first | Ice Cream Cones 5c, Ice Cream Sodas 10c, Sundaes 15e¢ and 20c, Ice Cream 25c pint, 50c¢ quart.- C. H. Orme, Pioneer Druggist, Phone 82. which at sight sented a more singular problem.”’ ;a Case pre- (TO BE CONTINUED) | | | | | | | | KOKO KOK OK OKO KOOKO KOKO KOKO KO KON OK To watch the want ads is t learn to appreciate any sort of 7 real estate buying opportunity val, S that is exceptioi * O ava tai _ ’ MONROE NAT aaa) ot es Fe mere "*& Coat P aa formerly the Optimist Job, is now operated under the name of the ‘‘ NEWS JOB. ”’ in no way connected with a company now soliciting business under our discarded name. 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District Dutriet Take notice that ot ( I, Pe Amsler Rupert, B. C., occupation pra ee@* ot Pigg apply for permission to pu Petr, intend deseribed latcis: Commencing at a st of Goose Bay, atx ut 't of the mouth of th on the easterly tx $6261 of No. 85280, ther the easterly limit of said 4 or No. $6250 40 et he Goose Bay, a di theace northerly 40 chains more o more or leas to po’ 160 acres more of Dated Mareh 7, \91 Pub, April 7 Skeena Land Datrict —Distric: or Take pvtice that Georg hupert, Bb. O., « pati : for permission to purch ase ianas ” Commencing at a post ted mee weal aud two miles » sth Stanley Creek where Harbor, Graham isiand, a thence 50 chains west, thence thence 80 chans east (! and containing 640 acres i Dated Maren 17, 1yi1 Pub. April 7 Skeena Land District ri dake Holice hal Frank Le Unt, Gcoupation bookkeeper ‘ut perinemon to purchase jands: VLommencing at a post miles west and two otaniey Creek where tiarbor, Graham isla thence 50 chains eas thence 5V chaing we and contaning O40 acres ated Maren 17, 1vii Pub. April 7. PRANK Lieviog Vurma Demers, Age Skeena Land District istrict of Take notice tnat | 1 apply for permission to Gescribed lands Commencog at & post planted and 50 chains south of tne south dat No. 1784 marked | weet corher, thence » ov chains, thence nu 6U chains to pot $20 ucres more or lous Vated March 20, 1911 GLENN MecARTED Pub. April 16, T. D abt fe | Skeena Land District District of Queen tara lake notice that lube Crew of Prag Rupert, B. U., cccupats agent, WWends to apy lor permission to purchas Wing Cemcraad | junds: Commencing at a ; panted about ¢ Hf mies weet and hail « 4 noms Dianiey Creek where empues ino Neg Harbor, Uraha a as, 40 chai thence nortt thence south and containing Dated Maren 17, ivi) Pub. April 7 Skeons Land Distr Queen Chat Take notice that Catherine Harry Cage Alberta, occupal, spinster code for perminsion lo purchax 4 oon lands Om ine: a ado 4 mies weet ia u ae wt Stanley Creek, where emptes Nett tlarbor, Graham [ela ene 0 cen oo thenes 40 chains cas 2 we =» » re and coptaining 16v # t - Vaeted Mareb |i, ARMS Pub Apr. 7. Skeena Land District — District of Ques Ga Islands Take notice that J. V ancoame, B. OC, oceu al trevelle, to apply for hase described lan Commencng st a po anted about mm miles weet and one ™ , r toe Ba of Stanly Creek, Nade arbor ore chaina, thence a o oe f chains, thence « . Dated March 17, ), o. MUM Pub. April 22. a Demers Age Skeena Land Lwtrict we Take notice tt as Macgona f Stewart, B. C., occur al for permimion to > ase the al lands Commencing at « ; bank of the r os aon forks of t & thence we thence east 5U cha containing 640 ecre Dated March 25, | Frank 1% Pub. May 17 Skeena La: