! _ Read The Daily News THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News Formeriy The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DAILy, 50c per month, or $5.00 e year, in advance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OUTSIDE CANADA— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DiSPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Cortract rates on application. 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—Puget Sound News Co. eden ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar juare. “The newspaper, with the law, should assume the accused innccent 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. a “THE FOOLISH VIRGINS” On the day that Mr. Manson and his colleagues were elected to office—January 12th, 191]—there was a water shortage in Prince Rupert. For several weeks the water shortage continued. In some of the more elevated parts of the city there was not enough pressure to send drinking water to the residents. At a Third avenue fire, there was so little water that the firemen could not after connecting up their hose, get a stream to play upon the flames. In a hundred ways the need of arranging for additional water supply was driven home to the council. DamLy EDITION. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 Now in the middle of July, another water shortage confronts the city. The information is given to the citizens, that despite all the warnings and all the dangers that the city passed through last midsummer and last midwinter, no steps have been taken to enlarge the water supply. Although hundreds of new citizens have entered the city since last midsummer, nothing has been done to even provide for the water needs of the increased population. Plans and estimates were prepared by the City Engineer for obtaining additional water from Morse 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?’ Holmes questions Mortimer Tre- gennis closely about the details of the affair, but gets little help. So, in compnny with Dr. Watson he proceeds to the scene of tragedy. (CONTINUED) Our proceedings of that first morning did little to advance the investigation. It was marked, however, at the outset by an incident which left the most sinis- ter impression upon my mind. The approach to the spot at which the tragedy occurred is down a narrow, winding country lane. While we made our way along it we heard the rattle of a carriage coming towards us, and stood aside to let it pass. As it drove by us I caught a glimpse through the closed window of a horribly-con- torted, grinning face glaring out at-us. Those staring eyes and gnashing teeth flashed like a dreadful vision. "My brothers!"’ cried Mortimer Tregennis, white to the lips. ‘‘They past us Creek, but these were simply pigeon holed. Nothing was done to carry the plans into effect. - It is quite true that the city council has been busy with other things. But nothing the aldermen have done has been of so much importance as. the providing of an adequate water supply. Most of us could have managed at a pinch without the extra| hour to the hotel bars; we cannot manage without water. Even} the appointment of a rat catcher, one of the most useful and distinctive works of the council, is of far less importance than providing the city with proper drinking water. Our temperance Mayor has becn very active in arranging for an adequate supply of bottle lice ses in preparation for a thirsty summer. But bottled beer, however good, is a poor substitute for lits way. are taking them to Helston.” We looked with horror after the gblack carriage, lumbering upon Then we turned steps towards this ill-omered house in which they had met their strange fate. It was a large and bright dwel- ling, rather a villa than a cottage, with a considerable garden which was already, in that Cornish air, well filled with spring flowers. out . . . *a* | Towards this garden the wirdow | examined the floor, the ceiling and | off, of the sitting-room fronted, andjthe fireplace; but never once did |™#" from it, according to Mortimer cold water. It is more expensive too. No matter how grateful we may all be to the Mayor for forcing bottled beer and spirit shops | upon the citizens, most of us would rather have had the water supply attended to first. It could have been accomplished with much less bother and | excitement, than the work of forcing additional licenses on the city. The courxcil cannot plead that they have been tod busy to attend to the water supply. They could find time—and money | too—to fight A. J. Prudhomme in his efforts to earn a living; they could find time enough to make out lists of all the civic employees, with the number of their wives ard children, where they were born, how long they have been in the city, etc.; they have had time to | consider a host of matters of very negligible importance. With the ample and repeated warnings they have had, they | should have found time to consider the question of an adequate water supply. , If a water famine, a fever epidemic or an outbreak of fire were to visit the city as a result of the water shortage, the citizens would have good grounds for accusing the council of criminal negligence. ABOUT THE “OPTIMIST JOB’”’ Recently this paper changed its name from the Optimist to the Daily News. 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 to 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 rnay be within its legal rights. But on the point of hcnor 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 for oe a6 Be ond of ance: monte. you could poy oft nates, hold by check. We solicit your account and have facilities for handling it. Private writing rooms led are for the use of customers and individual attention is given each depositor. We allow 4 per cent. on deposits and use of checks. LIMITED 2nd Avenue The Continental Trust Company, Its job department, accordingly changed | Tregennis, must have come that thing of evil which’ had by sheer horror in a single instant blasted |their minds. Holmes walked slow- ly and thoughtfully among the flower-pots and along the path before we entered the porch. So absorbed was he in his thoughts, I remember, the he stumbled over the watering-pot, upset its con- tents, and deluged both our feet and the garden path. Inside the house we were met by the elderly Cornish housekeeper, Mrs. Porter, who, with the aid of a young girl, looked after the wants A REMINISCENCE OF THE ADVENTURE OF T BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Copyright, 1911, by the Century Syndicate of the family. She readily an swered all Holmes’s questions. She excellent spirits lately, and she had never known them more cheer- ful and prosperous. She had fainted with horror upon entering the room in the morning and seeing that deadful company round the table. She had, when she re- covered, thrown open the window to let the morning air in and had run down to the lane, where she sent a farm hand for the doctor. The lady was on her bed upstairs, if we cared to see her. It took four strong men to get the brothers into the asylum carriage. She would vot herself in the house another day, ard was start- ing that very afternoon to rejoin her family at St. Ives. We ascerded the stairs ai viewed the body. Miss Brenda Tregennis had been a very beau- tiful girl, though verging upon middle age. Her dark, clear- cut face was handsome, even in death, but there stili lingered upon it stay now somethr g of that convulsion & of horror which had been her last human emotion. From _ her |bedroom we descerded to the sitting-room where this tragedy had actually The charred ashes of the overnight fire in the On the table were the four guttered and strange occurred. lay grate. burned-out candles, with the cards The chairs had been moved back ag- }scattered over its surface. lainst the wells, but all else was as} night before. light, swift he the paced wich the various had been | Holmes lsteps about in the jthem up ard reconstructing their |positions. He tested how much jof the garden was visible; | it room; sat chairs, drawing I see that sudden brightening of eyes tightening of lips which would have told me that he saw some gleam of light in this utter darkness. “Why a fire?’”’ he asked. they always a fire in his ard his “Had this small room on a spring evening?” that the night was cold and damp. |For that reason, after his arrival, “What are Mr. | . . |the fire was li. goir g to said. you do, hard upon my arm. “I think Watson, that I shall resum~ that SHERLOCK HOLMES HE DEVIL’S FOOT had heard nothing in the night. |condemned,” said he. ‘‘With your Her employers had all been in | permission, gentlemen, we will row ew Knox Hotel BESNER & BESNER, Proprietors Hotel is runon the European ae et ces service. All the Latest Modern mprovements. otete BEDS S0e UP FIRST AVENUE, PRINCE RUPERT course of tobacco-poisoning which you have so often and so justly return to our cottage, for I am not that any new factcr E. EBY ®& Co. aware 1s ; : FAL ESTATE likely to come to our notice here. R ; I will turn the facts over in my Kitsumkalum Land For Sale mind, Mr. Tregennis, and should| xirsuMKALUM - B. C. anything occur to me I will com- . incl municate with you. In the mean-| <= OE BS time I wish tou both good morn- + er eee The Prince Rupert Lodge, No. 318, Sona of ing.” England, meets the first and third Tuesdays in each month in the Carpenters Hall, at 8 pm. F. V. CLARK, See., P. O. Box 812. Prince Rupert It was not until long after we were back in Poldhu Cottage that Holmes broke his complete and | absorbed silence. He coiled | in his arm-chair, his haggard and | ascetic face hardly visible amid | the blue swirl of his smoke, his black brows drawn | |down, his forehead contracted, his | |eyes vacant and faraway. Finally, he sprang to his feet. sat r ROCHESTER & 3° .. MONROE LADYSMITH tobacco "8 COAL | nN ra) ate et deel Lan (TO BE CONTINUED) , LAND PURCHASE Nomice Coast Range 4 Take notice that ic a } sumkalum, Occupation ( . bara “ky ep for permissio hae mets inte tande:. in tO purchase the tollowng jn Commencing at a ~~ corner of Lo ssa {ce he ag south 40 chains, t % on ~ chalea, perce Sc enaine t } sameeee tee “ " + peste arch | JOHN | EPRI pril 16. MEP ro Land Distrio: | istrict of 6 hot at l, Perr ; Rupert, b. ae 1p tlon t eee apply for permis. ag tn lands ommencing at a of Goose Bay. about | of the mouth of « on the easterly $6261 or No 2 the the easterly limit of aia or No. $6250 4 Gowe Bay, @ distance of thence northerly » 40 chains more o; more or leas to poi 160 acres more or Dated March 7, 19) Pub. April 7 TOs PFORDeEtOF, inten pur ’ Skeena Land Datric Take pwlice tt Mupert, Bb. O., ox a {Or permission to jands Commencing at « mules weet and iw Stanley Creek ' . Harbor, Graham isand 7 thence 50 chains west, . thence 50 chans cay 4 and containing oe ee Vated Maret | GEU r Pub. April 7 N 4 ot Dosey Skeens Land District — District of ¢ Lake notice that } ' i. Mees Clady Val, Cecupation bookreeper ‘Ur periummon vo toe lollowing \anus 6 Ceara Commencing at a wat nted ‘ miles west and (wo miles souin d eae Stanley Creek where it emptin igi ms harbour, Uranam ina hence £. Cheney 80 Chains east, thence . code a thenoe SU enw n 3 eiat of ecsmeentil and sontaning 640 acr e Vated Maren 17, ly Pup. Apru 7. + Wntends | ae ° Sheena Land District Take notice tnat Gienr B. U., occupation real apply for permission tu Gescribed lands Commeneng and 5U chains « No. west corner, thence sou OU chains, thence north 40 OU chains to pot agent intend § urchase the ‘ory —ALL KINDS OF Fortune Because She Had Low Wages. Fur d S| - S Fraulein Wardyss, a girl em- Tanned, Mounted and Lined for Muffs, Etc. EXPERT WORKMEN CHARGES REASONABLE WORK GUARANTEED ployed as a saleswoman in a boot | and shoe store in the smell town of Kisujszallas, in Hungery, has | just inherited a fortune of $130,-| under extraordinary circumsiences. | Vancouver Fur Dressing Company 1843 Granville St. Herr Croney, an elderly bache-| Van., B.C. he | Mortimer Tregenris explained | Holmes?” he My friend smiled ard laid his| lor, was among the customers at} POS AL NS |the shop, and expressed indigna- ichases and siad that he intended} | }to make Fraulein Wardyss heiress | /to all his property. She laughed, | i s we las she believed him to be badly }tion at the small wages paid vo her. Recently the shop to make some small pur-| he entered HAYNER BROS. UNDERTAKERS anp EMBALMERS Funeral Directors Srd Ave. near 6th St Phone No, 86 but to show that he really LAND PURCHASE NOTICES it he unfar ened land laying it flat on the counter ! . | drew out a fountain pen ard He called lapprentices to sign it, and having his cuff, | Skeena Land District—District of Coast Kange 5 Take notice that Mrs. L. C. Putnam of St Paul, Minnesota, occupation married woman intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: Commencing ati post planted at the southwest corner of Lot No, 1734 marked Mrs. L. C. Putnam's northeast corner, thence west 40 chains, thence are : . his “k lef } south 80 chains thence east 40 chains, thener | placed it in his pocket leit the | north 80 chains to post of commencement, con taining 320 acres more or less. Dated March 20 1911. MKS. L. C. PUTNAM Pub. April 15, Geo, KR, Putnam Agen wrote a_ will. two | | | shop. A few minutes later Herr Cro- ey in making a violent effort to | % , Be $ Skeena Land District—District of Coast Range © avoid a motor car in the roadways ‘ Take notice that I, Clara May Little of Prince ,, | Rupert, B. C., occupation spinster, intend to fell apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: On the next day the sh« p Commencing at a post planted at the north that | sole heriess to $130,000. overstrained his heart and | dead. west corner of Lot 17356, Range 5, Coast Vistriet thence east 40 chaina, thence north 25 chains thence west 31 chain’ thence north 20 chains thence west 10 chains, thence south 45 chains to point of commencement, containing 112 acres more or less. Dated April 4, 1911, CLARA MAY LITTLE Pub. April 15. |girl was informed she was launches Davis’ | For row boats and |telephone 320 green. Boat House. Skeena Land District——District of Cassiar Take notice that |, Isaac O'rien Forbes o! Prince Rupert, B. C., occupation carpenter, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following TO SAVE DISAPPOINTMENT AND ERROR described lends: Commencing at a post planted about fiv miles south and one mile west of the forks of theWhite aud Flat rivers, thence north 60 chains, thence west 50 chains, thence south 60 chains, thence east 50 chains. Pub. May 13. Francis 8. Preston, Agent Skeena Land District District of Cassiar Take notice that 1, Swan Hallen of Stewart, B. C, occupation carpenter, intend to apply for _permatenton to purchawve the following described lands: Commencing at a post planted about (5) miles south and one(1) mile west of the forka of Lhe White and Flat rivers, thence 50 chains south, thence 50 Chains east, thenee 50 chains north, thence 50 chains west. SWAN HALLEN Dated Spril 18, 1911. Pub. Mhy 15. Francis 5. l’reston, Agent %x*OxOKXO cy i tt ee Will our customers please notice that the Job Plant of the Prince Rupert Publishing Co., formerly the Optimist Job, is now operated under the name of the ‘‘NEWS JOB.’’ It is in no way connected with a company now soliciting business under our discarded name. Under the superintendance of Mr, S. D. Macdonald, our plant is turning out better work than ever For high-class printing that has style and character to it, see the News Job. Bill Heads Price Lists Memorandum Forms Coinmercial Cards In Commercial Printing we have a large stock of We handle Blank Ledger Forms for Loose Leaf System 3 3 : Skeena Land District Tiplnteiet of Queen Charlotte alan Take notice that George W. Araott of Prince Rupert, 8. C., occupation real estate intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands: miles and one-half mile west aad one mile south from the mouth of Stanly Creek, Naden Harbor, thence east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains, Dated Mareh 17, 1911. GEO. W. ARNOTT Pub, April 22, Numa Demers, Agent Our prices are right too +> Skeena Land District — District of Cassiar ‘Take notice that I, Alice M. Knouse of Prince Rupert, B. C., oceupation married woman, intend to apply iar ermlecion to purchase the following deseri! lands; Commencing at & post planted about two miles O k®OxOKkOKOKOKOk( i * Letterheads O Stock Certificates | oan * bere thenee south 80 chains, thence } oril 20, rn » Articles of Association O | RELIC My AUC i enoose ay Illustrated Pamphl | P ets O | Skeena Land District-—District of Canstar | Take notice that I, Bertie Kdwin Badger of | Stewart, B. C., oceupation plumber, intend to For society printing, we ensure correctness of style and taste in Visiting Cards, Wedding Invitations and Dance Programmes. For any kind of printing from the humble ‘‘dodger’”’ to the highest grades of multi-color printing consult the ‘‘NewsJob”” oo: :_ 4 x | heted Marsh £8. 1914. Frank Sidney Ween kae | apply for permission to pureh the followi © | eee ee * si - we * Commencing at @ post planted about one mile F* | north of the Naas river and about seven miles C) | above the forks of the Naas River upstream, , | thence north 60 chains, thence east 80 chains, * | thenee south 80 chains, thence weat 80 chains to | point of commencement containing 640 acres | more or lees. BERTIE EDWIN BADGER | Pub. May 17. PHONE 98 KOKOK OKOKOKOKOFOKOKOHOHOO KOK OK OKOMOKXOHOKOKO Daily News Building OkOKOkKOKOKOKO KOKO OOKOKOKOKO KOKOKOKO KOR O| © | aheons Land Distrlot—Distrist © Cosst Range 6 x j 3 Take not ee that Murdock MeRae ol Vanaanber ©) | deserlbed lands: |. Commencing at a vert planted h sb * | bank of Exehunsiks river about five, adlee trom (> | 't# confluence with the Skeena river, thence 40 r | chains west, thence £0 chains north, thenee 40 % | chal 40 chaing west, thence 40 chains north, th chains east, thence 20 chaing avuin! Hye! on t? apply for porulas purebase the following Third Ave PHONE 98 co $20 acres more or ‘em | Vated March 20, 19) ; Pus. April 18, j | | Skeena Land District j dake notice tha | Rupert, B. C., oxx | lor permission to pur janas Commencing 4 mies west and hail | dtanley Creck where | Harber, Graha (hence horth « thence south 4 abd containing |* Dated Maren | Pub. Apri 7 Skwena Land Visine } Take noUce that Catherine | Alberta, vccupat) spinster lor pertminon ur lands | Commencing a 4 post miles west and hall « vw Stanley Creek, where Harbor, Grahem lelaod thence 40 chai thence 40 ch. s east, District of Quece Caaitl) " 1s Skeena Land District Take notice that B, cr miles west and one win from the of Stanly Creek, Naden tar . chains, thence west 4 ans, chaina, thence east 4¥c ine Dated Maren 17, 1¥1) Pub. April 22. Skeena La Take notice Stewart, Bb. ( c : for perminsion to 5 ase (he oe lands Commencing at « pa bank of forks of t thence thence east 80 cha containing 640 acres a Dated Mareh 2 Pub, May 1 Skeena La Take notice t Rupert, B.( to apply for pe described ( and > ah point of « more or less Dated Aprii 18, 1911. ISAAC O'BRIEN FORBES | Date Mar. 2 Pub. Apr. 4, | Gkeena Land 1: Take notice the Ont.’ oecupati mission to pu ands Commeneir west corner more or less, thence west ’ 46 chains more “ ¢ containing 140 scree e 5 s pet Dated March Pub. April 16 gata tp {i Skeena La Take notice Rupert, B. ©. apply for per * described lands broker, | Commencing at post planted about seven | thence east | | Commencing miles south ar the White and | thence weet 5 « Dated April 20 thenes west 40 chains, thence south 80 ehains, | Pub May 15 Skeena Land |) Take not ce tha B. C., occupa permission Ww ands: Commencing # * one-half mile from a blind slove the same touches the 10% 80 cha ns, thence chains, thence * mencement, co ‘ south and two miles west of the forks of White | Dated April 14. | and Fiat rivers, thence north 80 chains, thence | Pub. May 14 Skeena Land List Take notice that Let B. C., occupat apply for per described lands Commencing # west corner |\ ains Lot from the northeast come ie Survey, Coast | south, ther 60 north, ther south, thence chat cement, conta! «4 Lor Dated May ®, ! Pub. May © er 4 riet sf Co Skeena Land | Cache Take notice th horn, Manitoba apply for per’ described land Commencine west corner o! | bout » ©., ovcupation real estate broker, intends to | © suated & rection from Bb: C,, north west ‘ theace east © more or leas | thence west 4 « corner of lot or less to south ° west 40 chains! ment, containins 4 of or less MURDOCK MeRAP | | Chains east, thence 40 chains th to commencement, containing 320 cares