The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DAILyY, &¢ per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. per year; Weekly, WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OUTSIDE CANADA—Daily, $8. $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch, 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, LonpDon, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. Contract rates DAILy EDITION. wg Monpbay, JULY 24 THE SCAVENGING MONOPOLY Tonight the city council will meet in session. One of the items of the business will be the final disposition of Alderman Hilditch’s The by-law has passed by-law to create a scavenging monopoly. three readings, and will come up for ratification—or rejection. The old method of collecting and disposing of garbage by licensed No one is anxious to It was a crude and costly way, and only utilised Nothing herein said is to be construed as an argument for reviving the old As a system, it was almost as obnoxious as the creation of the scavenging monopoly, for while theoretically in competition with each other, scavengers, like competing railroads, soon learn the value of making a gentleman's agreement to maintain rates and get all they can out of the public. scavenging firms was not a satisfactory one. have it continued. in emergency until the city could formulate a better plan. system of collection by private scavenging firms. The creation of the scavenging monopoly under a private con- tractor, is all the more suspicious, because the council do not believe in the private contract system. Alderman Hilditch himself, led the council’s cry for a public works department. Yet on the question of city scavenging—a work which owing to its relation to public health and comfort should above all others be looked after by the city—Alderman Hilditch has fathered the by-law to create a scavenging monopoly under a private contractor. What is the reason—? —? If it is possible for a private citizen to undertake the collection of garbage for a sum which pays for the cost of the service rendered and leaves him a surplus as profits, why should not the city undertake Any other plan makes the city a party to a scheme whereby the citizens will have to pay for the actual cost of the work, plus an extra sum for the work and save that surplus-profit for the citizens. take off or profits. It is true that the council have offered as an explanation for their action that they were obliged to give the work to a private con- But this is quite too thin for acceptance. A council which feels it is capable of under- taking a $500,000 hydro-electric scheme, knows enough to buy a team and divide it, even if it were really impossible for anyone to buy tractor as they could not buy horses, only teams. single horses. Already complaints are coming in from citizens of alleged high- handed treatment from the scavengers. Several people in small shacks The schedule states that the total cost of garbage and night soil collection is to have been told that the charge will be 50 cents a visit. be 50 cents per month. Does this mean that the contractors will only call once a month at shacks and cabins? If so, the council had better vote $50,000 for a new typhoid wing to the Hospital, in readiness for the inevitable. The News does not expect that the proposed by-law will be rejected. It is all too much of a kind with the extra hour to the hotels, the reduction of theatre license, the reduction of bar-tenders’ licenses, the creation of bottle licenses, the payment of the disputed printing account, the patronage system, and the other distinctive works of There are not enough public-spirited the Manson administration. men on the council to defeat it. It will pass through all right. But before the council pass the scavenging monopoly by-law, we invite them to take up the clause which states how often the scaven- ging is to be done. At present the clause reads ‘‘as often as is neces- That means nothing. That may mean once a year, or once It will more likely mean once a month than sary.” a month, or once a week. once a week. If a pig ranch is to be run in connection with the monopoly, ‘t may mean “‘as often as is necessary to procure swill for the pigs.”’ There is another question that should be settled before the city is bound over to the garbage monopoly. That refers to the right of citizens to destroy their own garbage, if the monopoly fails to give proper service. If trouble ensues, or a once-a-month service is inaugurated, can a citizen be fined or a private carter be fined if they undertake to protect the public health by destroying their own garbage? Or if a public spirited citizen, prefers to build an incinerator at the back of his lot and destroy his own garbage rather than con- tribute to the coffers of the garbage monopoly, is he to be made the subject of a police prosecution? The Continental Trust Co., Lid. | AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $500 ,000 | OFFICERS: M.ENG Mt DAP JAY KUGLER, Secretary- Treasurer CB PETE! —— Executor and Administrator Receiver Teast tects ond broceenes dane fees Gore'el Reel Eptate Escrow Trustees samara ong I venefae Agent Trustee Under Morlg Deeds of T: Safe Deposit Vault and Boxes sf <1 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, 4 per cent. on Deposits We will he plenced to antes’ Slarthare fieitich Galumbin ne” Prince Rupert The Continental Trust Company, Limited, ‘icon wveun DAVID H. HAYS, lt Vice-Pres. ON, Ass't.-Manager THE DAILY NEWS “You will remember, Watson,” he remarked one afternoon, ‘‘that there is a single common point of resemblance in the varying reports This concerns the effect of the at- which have reached us. mosphere of the room in each case upon those who have first entered it. You will recollect that Mortimer Tregennis, in de- scribing the episode of his last visit ot his brothers’ house, re- marked that the doctor on en- tering the room fell into a chair? You had forgotten? Well, I can answer for it that it was so. Now, you will remember also that Mrs. Porter, the housekeeper, told us that she herself fainted upon en- tering the room and had after- wards opened the window. In the second case—that of Mor- timer Tregennis himself—you can- not have forgotten the horrible stuffiness of the room when we arrived, though the servant had thrown open the window. That servant, I found upon inquiry, was so ill that she had gone to her bed. You will admit, Watson, that these facts are very sug- gestive. In each case there is evidence of a poisonous atmos- phere. In each case, also, there is combustion going on in the room—in the one case a fire, in the other a lamp. The fire was needed, but the lamp was lit—as a comparison of the oil consumed will show—long after it was broad daylight. Why? Surely because there is some connection between three things—the burning, the stuf- fy atmosphere, and, finally, the madness or death of those un- fortunate people. That is clear, is it not?” “Tt would appear so.”’ At least we may accept it as a working hypothesis. We will sup- pose, then, that something was burned in each case which pro- duced an atmosphere causing str- ange toxic effects. Very good. In the first instance—ithat of the Tregennis family—this substance was placed in the fire. Now, the window was shut, but the fire would naturally carry fumes to some extent up the chimney. Hence one would expect that the effects of the poison to be less in the second case, where there was less escape for the vapour. The re- sult seems to indicate that it was $0, since in the first case only the woman, who had presumably the more sensitive organism, was killed, the others exhibiting that temporary or permanent “lunacy which is evidently the first effect of the drug. In the second case the result was complete. The facts, therefore, seem to bear out the theory of a poison which worked by combustion. “With this train of reasoning in my head I naturally looked about in Mortimer Tregennis’s room to find some remains of this substance. The obvious place to look was the tale shield or smoke guard of the lamp. There, sure enough I perceived a number of flaky ashes, and round the edges a fringe of brownish powder, which had not yet been consumed. Half of this I took, as you saw, and I placed it in an envelope.” ‘Why half, Holmes?” “It is not for me, my dear Watson, to stand in the way of the official police force. I leave them all the evidence which I found. The poison still remained upon the talc, had they the wit to find it. Now, Watson, we will light our lamp; we will, however, take the precaution to open our window to avoid the premature decease of two deserving members of society, and you will seat yourself near that open window in an arm-chair—unless, like a sensible man, you determine to Farm Lands and Mines Agents Collections have nothing to do with the affair, Oh, you will see it out, will you? I thought I knew my Watson. This chair I will place Opposite yours, so that we may be the same distance from the poison, and face to face. The door we will leave ajar. Each is now in a position to watch the other and —— BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE to bring the experiment to an end should the symptoms seem alarm- ing. Is thatall clear? Well, then, I take our powder—or what re- mains of it—from the envelope, and I lay it above the burning lamp. So? No, Watson, let us sit down and await developments.” They were not long in coming. I had hardly settled in my chair before I was conscious of a thick, musky odour, subtle and nauseous. At the very first whiff of it my brain and my imagination were beyond all control. A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe. Vague shapes swirled and swam amid the dark cloud- bank, each a menace and a warning of something coming, the advent of some unspeakable dweller upori the threshold, whose very shadow would blast my soul. A freezing horror took possession of me. I felt that my hair was rising, that my eyes were protuding, that my mouth was opened, and my tongue like leather. The turmoil within my brain was such that something must surely snap. I tried to scream, and was vaguely aware of some hoarse croak which was my own voice, but distant and detached from myself. At the same moment, in some effort of escape, I broke through that cloud of despair, and had a glimpse of Holmes'’s face, white, rigid, and drawn with horror—the very look which I had seen upon the features of the dead. It was that vision which gave me an instant of sanity and of strength. I dashed from my chair, threw my arms round Holmes, and together we lurched through the door, and an instant afterwards had thrown ourselves down upon the grassplot and were lying side by side, con- scious only of the glorious sun- shine which was bursting its way through the hellish cloud of terror which had girt us in. Slowly it rose from our souls like the mists from a landscape, until peace and reason had returned, and we were sitting up on the grass, wiping our clammy foreheads, and looking with apprehension at each other to mark the last traces of that terrific experience which we had undergone. “Upon my word, Watson!’’ said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, ‘‘] owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an un- justifiable experiment even for one- self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.” “You know,” I answered, with some emotion, for I had never so much of Holmes’s heart before, ‘‘that if is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.” seen He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him. “It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson,” said he. ‘A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment. I confess that I never imagined that the effect could be so sudden and so severe." He dashed into the cottage, and, reappearing with the burning lamp held at full arm's length, he threw it among a bank of brambles. ‘We must give the room a little time to clear. I take it Watson, that you have no longer a shadow of a doubt as to how these traged- ies were produced?” ‘‘None whatever.” “But the cause renaims as ob- scure as before. Come into the arbour here, and let us discuss it together. That villainous stuff seems to still linger round my throat. I think we must admit that all the evidence points to this man, Mortimer Tregennis, having been the criminal in the first tragedy, though he was the victim in the second one. We must remember, in the first place, ————___—_—_—— Copyright, 1911, by the Century Syndicate that there is some story of a family quarrel, followed by a reconcilia- tion. How bitter that quarrel may have been, or how hollow the reconciliation, we cannot tell. Whh reconciliation, we cannot tell. When I think of Mortimer Tre- gennis, with the foxy face and the small shrewd, beady eyes behind the spectacles, he is not a man whom I should judge to be of a particularly forgiving dis- position. Well, in the next place you will remember that this idea of someone moving in the gar- den, which took our attention for a moment from the real cause of the tragedy, emanated from him. He had a motive in mis- leading us. Finally, if he hid not throw this substance into the fire at the moment of leaving the room, who did so? The affair happened immediately after his departure. Had anyone else come in, the family would certainly have risen from the table. Be- sides, in peaceful Cornwall, visi- tors do not arrive after ten o'clock at night. We may take it, then, | that all the evidence points to Mortimer Tregennis as the cul- prit.”’ “Then his own death was sui- cide!" (TO BE CONTINUED) UNCLE JERRY ATTRACTS NOTICE Vancouver ‘‘World'’ Reporter Spies Him Motoring in Van- couver. A cloud of dust chased behind a big six-cylinder auto car. A big genial-faced man in a specially made Stetson hat leaned back on the cushions beside his wife and hinted to the chaffeur that none of the occupants of the car would be frightened if the throttle was thrown wide open. In a word “Uncle Jerry"’ had come to town from Prince Rupert, and was enjoying his first auto ride in this several thousand dollar car, which he had been laying up in a local garage summer. Mr. Jeremiah H. Kugler is, so the human compediums from the Skeena River country maintain, the livest wire up there. He is a real estate agent, and is here to see 30 put at the bottom of some fair sized sales of fruit lands and Rupert real estate. Before going to Prince Rupert Mr. Kugler was a banker back in that financial hive known Wall street. The advantages of the fruit lands he owns along the Skeena River have been advertised in every leading paper published several months in since he went north last as in Canada and the country to the south, As to the future of Prince Rupert and the surrounding .coun- try, Uncle Jerry says that the best testimony that he can offer is the fact that he is in business there and is going back next week to stay.—Vancouver World. DR. KERGIN IS BACK Had Delightful Trip in Sun- beam This morning Dr. Kergin re- turned from an exceedingly pleas- ant holiday trip in the launch “Sunbeam,”’ He travelled on the out journey with Mr. G. R. Naden and an impression existed that he was to be away for several weeks. It was only a week's holiday jaunt, however, and all who have enquired where the doctor would be back are informed that he is now in town. Latest Shipping From Ikeda by wireless this morning came the report that the C. P. R. SS. Princess Beatrice had passed northbound at 1 a.m. Cape Lazo reported the §,S, Queen at 10.20, and Point Grey reported the 5.8. Queen City in at 6.30 a.m. A REMINISCENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVIL’S FOOT — Se LANI) PURCHASE NOTICES Se il Skeena Land ‘ . oa Skeena Land Distriet—District of Cassiar Take notice thet te D intr ot © i Take notice that I, John Unwin of Prince Vv ry Beaton Gout Rang intend to ria. B. C., oe on Gild Rupert ¥. C., occupation laborer, daeaten’ | to apply. for porn ecuPstion housekanaaeh for permission to purchase the betlowing described lander "Mt" '© purchase theta Commenci of LAND PURCHASE NOT CE Commencing at a poat ata post pinated about (2) two | pormer of Lot B96, Ron the White and Flat thence east 80 plant ee B, Creat the 7 Houth 80 chains south therce 40 cham Diatret tne 40 chains weet, fee Bh *0 acres more chains north, thence: he Containing g: ARY BEA’ Dated April 17, Wii.” Pub. May 6. JOHN UNWIN \ GILDERe Froncis %. Preston, Agent SILDERS chains. Dated pees tS 1911. Line Pub. May Skeena Land District Take notice that Fred W kalum, occupation farmer ve to purchan Land Distriet—Distriet of Coast WR ys “that I, William John Corley of Rupert, 4. C., occupation rar-her, intend eee tor permission to purchase the following descri lands: 5 ing at a post planted at the southwest Commencing at rest pb ewan aia 068, Range 6, Coast Distriet, thence | east corner of A uM sLeod ins, thence east 40 chains, thence | 20 chains south, th <— bf thenes west 40 chains to point | chains north, th of commencement, containing 80 seres, more or | commencement con lens. wane Dated April 10, 19) Dated April 8, 1911. WILLIAM JCiit! CORLEY | Pub. April 22 Pub. April 29. Skeena Land Distriet —Distrist of Cassiar Skeena Land District . | a District of ¢ ‘Take notice that William Cameron | Take notice that 1, Heil Hay oom Re of Prince Rupert, B, C., occupation carpenter, | mouth, Nova Scotia ontyital! Kenney af fe ntends to apply for permission to purchase te | Intend to apply for permission ta, Yetaa, eacribed lands: lollowing described lar Purehagy ees ata planted about three) Commencing at « post , anted 7 miles south of the forks of the White and Flat | corner of T. L Lot 38525, (hence rai" tat rivers, thence south 80 chaina, thence west 80 | chains, thence north 60’ chains (iutt wd Chains, thence north 80 chains, thence east 80 | chains, thence south 6) chains it” MW chains. | mencement containing ) acres et tw WILLIAM FREDERICK CAMERON | My post is on south east coms MO", Ot he t of land Dated April 18, 1911. or, marked letters S. E. « a . Franels S. Preston, Agent Lake Lakelse, south side « ne tile Pub. May 18 es | of Const Range 6 e of Skeena tver Disaig Dated April 29, 1911 BELL HALL cme m | Pub. May 19 John Haverty Ake Skeena Land District— District of Coast Range 6 | Y, Agent Take notice that Grace McTavish, of Vancouver, | B. C., oceupation married woman, intends to apply Skeena Land District —Distriet of ( ie for a n to purchase the following deseri eer notice that I, Clara May Little dee i - B ; - + SSCUpation spinster, jn Commencing at a post planted at the southwest | apply for permission to purely piled ty corner 100 chains cont and 20 chains north of | described lands ane the lollowing the northeast corner of Lot 1116, Harvey's Survey | Commencing at a post planted at tie Coast District, Range 5, thence 40 chains east | west corner of Lot 1745, ee 5, Const £ dort thence 80 chains north, thence 40 chains west, | thence east 40 chains,’ thence nory ss nt thence 80 chains south to post of commencement | thence west $1 chain ce north 29 containing 320 acres more or less. thence west 10 chains, t! “haley ence south 45 chain we » Containing 112 gy CLARA MAY Litt Dated May 2, 1911. GRACE MecTAVISH | point of commencement Pub, May 6 Fred W. Bobler, Agent | more or leas. j Dated April 4, 1911, | Pub. A 1 Skeena Land Distriet—District of Camsiar .” Edr ed lands: City of ba Commencing at a pest planted 40 chains west by the most and 120 chains south of the southwest corner of lot) )bar Athabasca Landiliby No 1733, range 5 coast district, marked Wm. Leslie, | ™ y morth-east. of Les N.W. corner, thence south 40 chains, thence east | Westerly no r Loon River wheat 80 chains, thence north 40 chains, thence west 80| Lake to Wabisks ‘ + o snatse $0 peed, of commencement, containing 820 northerly to t R vad with ) acres }. ; : Loon MY more ori’ WM. LESLIE unetion of the Loon os pat T, D, Laird, Agent Yeace River, oF Bt 8 bier with o Dated Mareb 20th, i} junction of the See nt ve ub. Apri . 19) Yeace River elow or orbit ce 0 on the Peace Htiver; thee fe to Fort Smith on the Savy 8 a point on th crossing of the ‘! Loon River eastery on the Athabasca re Skeena Land District-—District of Cassiar Take notice that I, Alfred Berryman Williams of Prince Rupert, B. C., occupa’ merchant intend to apply for permiasion to purchase the following lands: Commencing at a post planted about (2) two miles south of the forks of the White and Flat vera, thence 80 chains south, River crossln he Take notice that I, John Robert Pacey of Prince |to Peace Hiver ©) i on tht tg) Rupert, B, C., occupation cook, intend to a ply River; thence Wer on Laut {or permasion to purchase the following deserit side of the river tare Portal Commencing at a post planted (2) two mites|to Prince Rupert in British (al south and 2) two miles weet of the forks of the| on the Pacific CoM |e and | white and A fivers, fBonee south 80 ehaine with power to const and ¢i sJephon » 07 foenee - SO chains, nee north 80 chains, telegraph and tele purr 80 cha na. Dated Apr | 20, ' PACE and | public, PaaS Bee ae tae AG BgneRT Pacey ee for gous T mnt roe erate boats an 8 1 of the railway ‘ acquire and make | lots, wharves, | dock warehouses, veniences; Skeens Land Distriet—-Distriet of Coast Range 6 Take not ce that I, Martha Leek, of Frince iueery iy i . ot on mare od women jntend P ‘or nm “ Kinin ooo . lollowing ommen, & post plan t three and one-half talles ‘distant in e southweaerl direction from a blind slough from Observatory tote where ie same tonnes the {nd on Reserve, thenes east chains, ce HOU , ¢ 8 . , chains, ‘hence north 80 eha pa to Aalst ol sams Solicitors f his 218 1 WW encement, conta n 640 lena. Dated or} ay i “MARTHA LEK