ss ee Sn ee . | Read The Daily News The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY r year, in advance, SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DalLy, 50c per month, or $5.00 WwW per year; Weekly, BEKLY, $2.00 ear. OUTSIDE CANADA— Daily, $8. $2.50 per year, ittietly in advance. ¥ TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—650 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 York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. Pr hen ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar ag. THE COAL DUTIES—AND RECIPROCITY WEDNESAY, JULY 26 DaILy EDITION. There is a shortage of coal in Saskatchewan and Alberta at present owing to the coal strike. If the strike continues Saskatchewan and Alberta will have a coal famine this winter. And coal in winter-time is as necessary as food. There is a lot of coal in Pennsylvania—more in fact than the people of Pennsylvania need for themselves. They want to sell some of it, in order to use the money to purchase things from other parts of the world. If the people of Saskatchewan and Alberta need coal, and the people of Pennsylvania have coal to sell, why do not the people of Saskatchewan and Alberta buy coal in Pennsylvania? The reason they do not buy coal from Pennsylvania is because in Canada there is a self-imposed tax on coal from Pennsylvania. This tax makes Pennsylvania coal too dear for the people of Saskat- chewan and Alberta to buy. It was purposely made high, in order to prevent the people of Saskatchewan and Alberta and the other Canadian Provinces from buying coal across the border. Fearing lest some of their people should perish from cold in winter unless coal was obtained, the Governments of Saskatchewan and Alberta on Monday asked for the removal of the tax on coal so as to enable them to buy what they needed. The Federal Government is considering the request, and will likely grant it. For the Federal Government has showed frequent desire of late to repeal taxation from the necessities of life. They have even gone to the trouble to combat the false arguments and the ‘‘appeals to patriotism’’ of those who profit by keeping taxation on the necessities of life. ' If the taxation is kept on coal, the people of Saskatchewan and Alberta will go short of coal this winter. If the taxation is removed they will get all the coal they need. That is the effect of taxation— to make it more difficult to get hold of the things that are taxed. Food is just as much a necessity of life as coal. Food that is taxed is subject to the same economic laws as coal that is taxed—i.e., it is more difficult to procure it, when it is taxed. British Columbia cannot raise as yet all the food she needs. It is necessary for her to purchase from her neighbors. Yet in our foolishness, we impose taxes upon the very thing we need most. Then to cap the foolishness we pay the tax ourselves. The only consolation is that our neighbors are equally as foolish. : The reciprocity bill is a measure designed to end this piece of economic foolishness. The two nations who have to interchange food products, agree to mutually abolish the taxes on food. When reciprocity passes, as it will pass, food will be cheaper, the dealers will be able to make more profits, and the margin of savings will be larger. Only those who at present receive parasitic nourish- ment from the tariff will go short. What Saskatchewan and Alberta are driven to do in order to make coal more plentiful, the whole of Canada should do to make food more plentiful. NOTES DUE The attitude of the British Unionist party in Great Britain is cleverly hit off by ‘“Buck’’ in a cartoon in the Morning Albertan. He shows a figure of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. Jekyl is saying ‘‘Recip- rocity is a device to ruin the Empire.’’ Mr. Hyde is saying ‘‘What right have Canadians to interfere with. our politics?” The cartoon hits off the British Unionists’ views on the political relationships of Canada and Britain very well. By the way, how consistent the Conservatives are in trying to get away from their name and get the word Liberal tacked on. In Great Britain they call themselves Liberal-Unionists, in Canada, Liberal-Conservatives. In British Columbia some of them call them- selves ‘independent Liberals.” The Continental Trust Co., Lid. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $500 ,000 | OFFICERS: WM. T. KERGIN, M.D., President DAVID H. HAYS, | st Vice-Pres. , M. J. HOBIN, 2nd Vice-Pres. and Manager JAY KUGLER, Secretary- Treasurer C. B. PETERSON, Ass’t.-Manager Receiver or Assignee Farm Lands and Mines Real Estate and Insurance _ Agent For Care of Real Estate Escrow Agents Fiscal Agents Teoma Registrar and Transfer Agent Trustee Under Mortgage and Deeds of Trust Safe Deposit Vault and Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, 4 per cent. on Deposits ‘We will be pleased to answer any inquiries regarding | tments in Pri pi! paver Sry ina lee romancing laves nts in Prince Rupert The Continental Trust Compeny, Limit Executor and Administrator Collections BECOND AVENUE... PRINCE RUPERT, B.C, 3 - ve si VES ees GRAND TRUNK CO. AND SEAL COVE Mr. 'DArcy Tate Writes that There is no Intention to Fill up the Cove—G. T. P. Hopes to Have a Lumber Co. There Soon. A letter from Mr. D'Arcy Tate received by the city council last night gives the assurance that it is not the intention of the Grand Trunk Pacific Company to fill up Seal Cove. On the contrary, it is hoped that a lumber cor- poration may locate there shortly, and the Company suggests that the City should do something to encourage any lumber company anxious to come. CHARGE AGAINST ICE TRUST Alleged to Have Withheld Ice from Dealers During Heat Wave. New York, July 25.—The dis- trict attorney and the city police today began an investigation of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, which does by far the largest ice business here. The charge is that the so-called ice truct has withheld ice from independent dealers during the recent prolonged heat wave. In other words, conducted its busi- ness in restraint of trade. The situation in the tenement district, where the poor found it almost impossible to buy small quantities of ice desired for their humble homes, has attracted at- tention and spurred the authorities to action. ASYLUM BURNED AT WICHITA Two Main Buildings in Ashes— Feared that Many Inmates Have Perished. (Canadian Press De patch) Wichita, Kansas, July 25.—The state hospital for the feeble-minded is on fire and the entire institution is doomed. The two main build- ings are already in ashes. Details are lacking bu’ it is fearcd the loss of life is heavy among the un- fortunate :ma es. ARE GIVEN FREEDOM Empress of India and Many Passengers Released from Qu- arantine. (Canadian Press Despatch) Victoria, July 25-—-Th steamer Empress of India which was quar- antined on her arrival on Saturday was released at 2 o’cloclk Tuesday with thi iy-three saloon and many of the s eerage passengers. Light Plant Coal Tenders for coal for the electric light plant were opened in council Monday. The amount tendered for is 225 tons. Messrs. Rochester & Munro tendered $8.85 cents for supplying and delivering. Messrs. Rogers & Black and the Union Transfer Co. each tendered $8.25. The coal is to be of special screened lump quality for steam production. HAD TO QUIT Intrepid Barrel Navigator was not Allowed to go over Niaga- ra Falls. (Canadian Press Despatch) Niagara Falls, July 25.—With the police on both sides of the border looking for him, Bobbie Leach, the barrel naviagtor who announced his intention of going over the Falls yesterday after- noon in a barrel, was forced to abandon the trip. PEACH CROP SUFFERS High Winds in Ontario Destroy Twenty Per Cent of the Ripe Fruit. (Canadian Press Despatch) Niagara Falls, July 25.—Over $100,000 damage has been oc- casioned in the fruit belt by the winds yesterday. Twenty per cent of the ripe peach crop is now on the | ground. THE DAILY NEWS A Holmes smiled at the com- pliment. “It took two, or pos- sibly three, handfuls before the lodger came to the window. You beckoned him to down. come He dressed hurriedly and de- scended to his sitting-room. You entered by the window. There was an interview—a short one— during which you walked up and down the room. Then you passed out and closed the window, stand- ing on the lawn outside smoking a cigar and. watching what oc- curred. Finally; after the death of Tregennis, you withdrew as you had come. Now, Dr. Stern- dale, how do you justify such conduct, and what were the mo- tives for your actions? If you prevaricate or trifle with me, I will give you my assurance that) the matter will pass out of my! hands for ever." Our visitor's face had turned ashen grey as he listened to the words of his accuser. Now he sat for some time in thought with his face sunk in his hands. Then, wih a sudden impulsive gesture, he plucked a photograph from his breast-pocket and threw it on the rustic table before us. “That is why I have don it,’’ said he. It showed the bust and face of a very beautiful woman. Holmes stoopeed over it. “Brenda Tregennis,"’ said he. “Ves, Breida Tregennis,”’ peated our visitor. ‘‘For years I have loved her. For years she has loved me. There is the secret of that Cornish seclusidn which people have marvelled at. It has brought me close to the one thing on earth that was dear to me. I could not marry her, for 1 have a wife who has left me for re- years, and yet whom, by the deplorable laws of England, I could not divorce. For years Brenda waited. For years I waited And this is what we have waited for.’ A terrible sob shook his great frame, and he clutched his throat under his brindled beard. Then with a effort he mastered himself and spoke on. “The vicar knew. He was in our confidence. He would tell you she was an angel upon earth. That was why he telegraphed to me and I returned. What was my baggage to Arfica to me when I learned that fate had come upon my darling? There you have the missing clue to my action, Mr. Holmes."’ “Proceed,’’ said my friend. Dr. Sterndale drew from _ his pocket a. paper packet and laid it upon the table. On the outside was written, ‘Radix pedish dia- boli,” with a red poison i. bel beneath it. He pushed it towards me. “I understand that are a doctor, sir. Have you ever heard of this preparation?” “Devil’s-foot root! No, I h:ve never heard of it.” *““It is no reflection upon your professional knowledge,” said he, “for I believe that, save for one sample in a laboratory in Buda, there is no other specimen in Europe. It has not yet found its way either into the pharma- copoeia or into’ the literature of toxicology. The root is shaped like a foot, half human, half goatlike; hence the fanciful name given by a botanical missionary. It is used as an ordeal poison by the medicine-men in certain districts of West Africa, and is kept as a secret among them. This particular specimen I obtain- ed under very extraordinary cir- cumstances in the Ubanghi coun- try." He opened the peper as he spoke, and disclosed a heap of reddish-brown, snuff-like powder. “Well, sir?’’ asked Holmes, stern- ly. “Tl am about to tell you, Mr. Holmes, all that actually occur- red, for you already know so much that it is clearly to my interest that ‘you should know all. I have already explained the rela- tionship in which I stood to the Tregennis family, For the sake of the sister I was friendly with such a you BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE quarrel about money which es- tranged this man Mortimer, but it was supposed to be made up, and I afterwards: met him as I did the others. He was a sly, subtle, scheming man, and several things arose which gave me a suspicion of him, but I had no cause for any positive quarrel. “One day, only a couple of weeks ago, he came down to my cottage and I showed him some of my African curiosities. Among other things, I exhibited this powder, and I told him of its strange prop- erties, how it stimulates those brain centres which control the emotion of fear, and how either madness or death is the fate of the unhappy native who is sub- jected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe. I told him also how powerless European science would be to detect it. How he took it T cannot say, for I never left the room, but there is no doubt that it was then, while I was opening cabinets and stooping to boxes, that he managed to abstract some of the devil's-foot root. I well remember how he plied me with questions as to the amount and the time that was needed for its effect, but I little dreamed that he could have a personal reason for asking. “IT thought no more of the matter until the vicar’s telegram reacked me at Plymouth. This ; Copyright, 1911, by the Century Syndicate any rate, | am in yeur hands. You can take what steps you like. As I have already said, there is no man living who can fear death less than | do.’ Holmes sat for some little time in silence. “What asked at last. “T had intended to bury myself in Central Africa. My work there is but half finished.” “Go and do the other half,” “T, at least, am not were your plans?’ he said Holmes. prepared to prevent you.” Dr. Sterndale raised his giant figure, bowed gravely, and walked from the arbour. Holmes lit his pipe and handed me his pouch. “Some fumes which are poisonous would be a welcome change,” said he. “I think you must agree, Watson, that it is not a case in which we called upon to interfere. Oor investiga- tion has been independent, and our action shall be so also. You would not denounce the man?” “Certainly not,"’ I answered. “T have never loved, Watson, but if I did, and if the woman | loved had met such an end, I might even our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows? Well, Watson, I will offend your intelligence by explaining what is obvious. the window-sill was, of course, the It not are act as not The gravel upon starting-point of my research. villain had thought that I would |'was unlike anything in the vic- be at sea before the news could | arage garden. reach me, and that I should be lost for years in Africa. But I returned at once. Of course, I could not listen to the details without feeling assured that my poison had been used. I came round to see you on the chance that some other explanation had suggested itself to you. But there could be none. I was convinced that Mortimer Tregennis was the murderer: that for the of money, and with the idea, perhaps, that if the ether members of his family were all insane he would be the sole guardian of their joint property, he had used the devil’s-foot powder upon them, driven two of them out of their senses, and killed his sister Brenda, the one human being whom I have ever loved or who has ever loved me. There was his crime; what was to be his punishment? “Should I appeal to the law? Where were my proofs? I knew that the facts were true, but culd I help to make a jury of country- men believe so fantastic a story? I might or I might not. But I could not afford to fail. My soul cried out for revenge. I have said to you once before, Mr. Holines, that I have spent much of my life outside the law, and that I have come at last to be a law to myself. So it was now. I determined that the fate which he had given to others should be shared by himself. Either that, or I would do justice upon him with my own hand. In all England there can be no man who sets less value upon his own life that | do at the present moment. “Now, I have told you all. You have yourself supplied the rest. I did, as you say, after a restless night, set off early from my cottage. I foresaw the difficulty of arousing him, so I gathered some gravel from the pile which you have mentioned, and I used it to throw up to his window. He came down and admitted me through the window of the sitting- room. I laid his offence before him. I told him that I had come both as judge and executioner, The wretch sank into a chair paralyzed at the sight of my revolver, I lit the lamp, put the powder above it, and stood out- side the window, ready to carry out my threat to shoot him should he try to leave the room, In five minutes he died. My God! how he died! But my heart was flint, for he endured nothing which my innocent darling had not felt before him. There is my story, Mr. Holmes, Perhaps, if you loved a woman, you would sake the brothers. There was a family have done as much yourself. At | j | | | } | | Only when my attention had been drawn to Dr. Sterndale and his cottage did I find its counterpart. The lamp shining in broad daylight and the remains of powder upon the shield were successive links in a fairly obvious chain. And now, my dear Watson, I think we may dismiss the matter from our mind;, and go back with a clear conscience to the study of those Chaldean which surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech." (THE END) NEXT STORY “The Mystery of The Red Circle” roots are WAS NOT CHOLERA Men from Steamer Bendu at Quebec are Released after Medical Examination. (Canadian Press Despatch) Quebec, July 25.—The two men taken from the Bendu and believed to be suffering from cholera were allowed their freedom today. Thd eXx- aminations proved steamer bacteriological their was not what it was suspected to disease be. CABIN WATER RATES Ald. Newton Doesn't Agree with Ald. Hilditch on the Matter Last moved aight Alderman Newton that the water rates for one room cabins be put on the same basis as hotel water rates, that is, on a room basis. Alder- man Hilditch thought that cabin dwellers are far less in need of consideration than small families living in two and three roomed houses. Alderman Newton re- marked “Mr, Mayor, Alderman Hilditch may be right m7 “That's a great admission,"’ put in Alderman Hilditch, The water committee has this in hand, Want to Put in Sewers An application from he Prince Rupert Building and Inves ment Company. for pe mission to put in sewers with the recommenda- tion of the City Engineer that per- mission be granted was referred to the Works Department last night. For row boats and launches telephone 3820 green. Davis’ Boat House. REMINISCENCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES "9510, THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEVIL’S FOOT South African ¢, Gold Co. will St, Company in Yu Nsolidated rt $8,000,099 kon, (Canadian P; De patch London, July 2 t here that the (Co, dated OE Company of S:\; \frica _ the advice of Joby 1 H “a have acquired cre terest in Yuko: nd te to flox ta compar with cual of $8,000,000 Bs MASQUERADED AS A BOY Woman Has Posed as Her Huy. band’s Brother for Seven Years. Long Beach, (a! ily 95 Mrs. Roy Bal i cs ’ longer a ‘boy, ifter years of posing as her d's brother during which time shy worked as a boy on B crawfish craft. Mrs. Bal on Monday walked into polic: headquarters and told her story, Sh said she was being followed by a man she thought was a detective, and she decided to end her duplicity, Mrs. Ballou says she got along much easier as a lx than she could by wearing skirts, as scarcely any attention is paid to boy whereas, she clain an lot on the sea is anyt} ng but pleasant. Her last experience wa in San Diego, when she wa arrested on coming ashore from the steamer Yal n wi boat she was cabin | After telling ¢ Was released by the police RECEPTION FOR PTE. CLIFFORD Winner of King’s Prize will be Well Feted on His Return to Toronto. (Canadian Pri despatch Toronto, July 25.—Great ceptions are b ae ed i honor o Private Clifford. whe carried off K I Bisley on Satur The qty council has planned a great ame reception at w! wil be invited to; In addition ¢ Queen's Ova Rifles and the an planning a milit Fire Department Enquiry Alderman ( t n that a special com: »pointed to enquire int Fire By-law and the Fire VD t al was altered so as 0 leave the matter estat fire committer Honey Crop a Failure Toronto, | 24,—Dealets , “Y re {rought honey deel: be in June and « a_ shortage pounds in Ont vi i sume the hives | ul 1 1 cropl of-the smal g « i i The honey is given a i i vere yield in some \ DISASTROUS FIRE AT SEDRO-WOOLE! Two Whole Blocks in Business Section are ireswept age Totals $200,000. ech Despatch (Canadia Le ) ; Bellingha: “ all which started n an % ria in the Hard ] store a tne Brothers la t are ‘on 4 ; lee in the main busi oT of Sedro-W: ( ” "the * g £900, 00 estimated ath owt . 000. gurance is given at $10 . yere U jured dus eral people \ the fire. ats j Rough on R infect vton's Alderman ge shu! Complaints } ‘i a 2 ts mi council last 1's tae isi j yecauuol vision is lor ad : warming taken agau Ve of the rats [rom wry he by’ ne ¥? at the whar!. ©! pies of isi are to be printed and : sil ot 108 as other provisio™ ¥ importa in the city, and at ‘il in view of th serious © »(jous any outbreak 0! inter il the city: would cause |