fae popes SE 1a THE DAILY NEWS Se The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Dal ty, 50c per month, or $5.00 per 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. on application. Contract rates 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—Puyet Sound News Co. LONDON, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar ao “FAIR WAGES” AND THE GOVERNMENT SATURDAY, JULY 22 DatLy EDITION. The visits of Mr. J. D. McNiven of Ottawa, ‘'Fair Wages Officer”’ for the Dominion Government, who is in town today, are usually looked upon as heralding the drawing up of specifications for impending public works. Whether this is the case at present, Mr. McNiven of course declines to state. Mr. McNiven, whe is attached to the Department of Labor, has a unique position. He travels from place to place reporting on labor conditions, so that when the Dominion Government architects draw up specifications for public buildings, they are able to insert clauses| defining what hours of labor shall be worked, and what rates of pay shall be guaranteed for the workmen. These figures are based on the reports of Mr. McNiven as to living conditions and fair wage rates in the various districts, on which the Government insists on inde- pendent reports. The value of such an officer is very great, where immense contracts are being given out. It was the absence of such provisions in the contract which the Provincial Government let for the public school in Prince Rupert, which led to trouble between the contractor and labor unions as to the length of the working day. Instead of letting the contractors and the labor unions fight the matter out, the Dom- inion Government specifies the ‘‘fair wage’’ conditions, thus guaran- teeing the workmen fair treatment, and assuring the contractor im- munity from increased liability where the rate of wages or the length of the working day alters during the lifetime of a contract. “When Mr. McNiven or the Government gets tired of the title of Fair Wages Officer, the News suggests that he be called _ the “Square Deal”’ officer. A CASE OF ‘‘THREE IN ONE” The hot weather of the last week has been provocative of a good deal besides perspiration and thirst. In Prince Rupert it helped the gaiety of nations considerably. There was an alderman for instance, who tiraded on Monday night about the need for attending to the water supply of the city for fear of a water famine. steamboat captain at the wharf who after filling his water tank and | fire buckets with city drinking water, turned the hose pipe on his vessel’s decks, and washed his boat down with the precious fluid. Then there was another alderman in the city who neglected to He strongly censured the action of a| turn up at the tour of inspection of the water supply of the city on Wednesday, after having drawn the council’s attention to the need of locking into the question. He did not swallow his own tirade. But worst of all was a third alderman. Not only did he not heed Alderman Clayton's eloquence upon the water shortage; not only did he absent himself from the tour of investigation for water; actually spent his time, and a considérable quantity of the city’s precious aqua pura, in squirting drinking water from a fire hose on to his back veranda. While the Mayor and “Douglas, tender and true’ were toiling through the bush and along the creeks, this par- ticular alderman was emulating the exampie of the steamboat captain whom Alderman Clayton so soundly condemned. It would be cruel to mention the names of the three aldermen. But perhaps our faithful Douglas will take him to task about it on Monday night. NOTES DUE Mr. Walter Nichol, publisher of the Vancouver Province, was a visitor to Prince Rupert during the week. There will be no excuse now for the Province to make any mistakes about Prince Rupert's weather. The British House of Lords allowed the Lords’ Veto Bill to pass its third reading in the Upper Chamber without a division. This is not a sign that the peers could not tolerate the prospect of five hun- | dred new Liberal peers. It is a sign that the wives of the peers could | not tolerate the prospect of five hundred new Liberal peeresses. That story of the sniff yacht’s terrible experiences out at sea brings home the need for the council to bring in a Sniff Yacht By-law as an amendment to the Scavenging By-law, instructing the crew} of the sniff yacht what to do in the hour of peril. In the rneantime, the crew should stand well to windward both coming and going. At the first sign of seasicknessk, the crew should be instructed to sit down and rest under a tree, until the motion passes. As a signal of distress, a bucketful of garbage upside down at the top of the mainmast would be effective. Bea waka A kik kt A kk Prospectors’ and Miners’ Supplies RETAIL | | it iI] WHOLESALE Fishing Tackle | Sporting Goods | | | | Tie desis hipaa | +R 4+ 4X ¥ Everything that should be in a first class Hardware Store i you will find | SEROFIOE NEG OR AT THE Prince Rupert Hardware and Supply Company THIRD AVENUE PHONE 120 | * ml | SX e+e KS he} | window, ~ | jecting, A REMINISCENCE OF SHERLOCK HOU THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVIL’S Foot Copyright, PART II. The lodger occupied two rooms at the vicarage, which were in an angle by themselves, the one above the other. Below was a _ large sitting-room; above, his bedroom. They looked out upon a croquet- lawn which came up to the win- dows. We had arrived before the doctor or the police, so that everything was absolutely undis- turbed. Let me describe exactly the scene as we saw it upon that misty March morning. It has left an impression which can never be effaced from my mind. The atmosphere of the was of a horrible and depressing stuffiness. The servant who had first entered had thrown up the or it would have been even more intolerable. This might partly be due to the fact that a lamp stood flaring and smoking on the centre table. Beside it sat the dead man, leaning back in his chair, his thin beard pro- his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, and his lean, dark face turned towards the window and twisted into the same tortion of terror which had marked the features of his dead His limbs were convulsed and his fingers contorted, though he had died in a very paroxysm of fear. He was fully clothed, though there were signs that his dressing had been done in a hurry. We had already learned that his bed had been slept in, and that the tragic had come to him in the early morning. One realized the red-hot energy} Holmes’s phleg-| when one saw the} sudden change which came over| him from the moment that entered the fatal apartment. an instant he was tense and alert, his face his room dis- sister. as end which underlay matic exterior he In| his eyes shining, set, OM Ae OOK RS Aes Sareea limbs quivering with an eager BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1911, the by He through on the window, out the activity. was lawn, in round the room., and up into the bedroom, for all the world like a dashing foxhound drawing a cover. In the bedroom he made a rapid cast and ended by throwing open the win- dow, which appeared to give him some fresh cause for he leaned out of it with loud ejaculations of interest and delight. around, for excitement, Then he rushed down the stair, out through the open window, threw himself upon his face on the lawn, sprang up and into the room once more, all with the en- ergy of the hunter who is at the The ordinary very heels of his quarry. lamp, which was an standard, he examined with minute care, making certain measurements upon its bowl. He carefully scru- tinized with his lens the talc shield which covered the tops of the chimney, and scraped off some ashes which adhered to its upper surface, putting some of them into an which he placed in his pocketbook. Finally, just as the doctor and the police official put in an appearance, he beckoned all three went envelope, to the vicar and we out upon the lawn. to “1 am my glad that investigz ation has not been entirely | say barren,"’ he remarked. ‘‘I cannot} remain to discuss the matter with | the police, but I should be ex- ceedingly obliged, Mr. Roundhay, | if you would give the inspector my compliments and direct his attention to the bedroom window the lamp Each is suggestive, and to sitting-room they are almost conclusive. the police wouid desire se information I shall be happy to} isee any of them at the cottage And now, Watson, I think that |perhaps we shall be better em- ployed elsewhere.” It may be that the police and toge oe | Century Syndicate sented the int or that they to be investigatio; upor that we hear: for this time Hol; the next few , time the « his in portion he undertook al ter many |} as to wher experimy nt the line of hi had bought « duplicate . burned in the room Tregennis on the n tragedy lr} same oil vicarage, and the period whicl to be periment whic) exha ste a more unple which I am not likel ever tp forget (TO BE CONTINUED) Whites Portland Comal G. 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