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OL. ll, NO. 194

Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist

  

 

 

PiINCE RUPERT, B.C., Saturpay, AuGusT 26, 1911. 4

 

PRICE FIVE CEN’Ys

 

  
  

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CANADIAN TRIP FOR BRITISH MLP’S-

 

 

 

 

   
  
   
   
    
  
    
   
    
    
 
    
    
    
   
      
       
    
   
    
     
    
 
  
  
    
    
     

HOLE BRITISH HOUSE

Members of Parliament May Make Canadian Trip
Next Fall Under Auspices of the Immigra-
tion Department

Canadian Press Despatch)
\ug. One of

st colossal conducted party feats
ttempted in the history of
ight seeing under the

pices ¢ ne De-
has been conceived by
, Superintendent of

465 for England,
Scottish, and 32 Welsh.

25. ihe

will have to be mede.

immigration

0 Smith
vanced.

All British and Canadian
The idea the

ion who passed through |v
the great
Journalises now
The

7s pe wssible

rday with

Britis!

Dominion.

is to have
plan
in order to ensure the

pearly

British House of Com-

to Caneda during
recess in order that
British

for themselves the

schedule it will

necessary to have

tives of the cise time

 

he great Dominion |ship stretches of the journey

‘ |
fields are whiten-| perfect accord.
in favor of the

| made by one of the palatial C. P.R

|
he harvest. lare

Details Being Arranged

ry discussion, and
yet all

670 members

re not ar-

 

are Canadian waters.

WILL TOUR DOMINION

slossal Conducted Party a hi Six Hundred and Seventy

of the British House of Commons,
103 Irish, 72
Pre-
perations for et least 600 of these
Mr. J.|
Obed Smith wes not prepared to
discuss the details yet though they
are already sufficiently far ad-

tour
All British and All Canadian, and }
transpor-
tation of such a huge party from |
the Old Country and beck again
in accordance with a strictly pre-
be |
rail and steam- |
in |
The probabilities
trip's being

o the Superintendent} Empress boats running in con-|
1 ion the plan will prob-| junction with special trains to|
into effect next fall.|}and from Montreal. The liner}
carry out such ejwill probably be escorted across |

heme requires a good | the Atlantic.hy two British cruisers |
and met by vessels of the Cana- |
dian nevy which will pilot her into |

 

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SEVEN MINERS DEAD EXEMPLARY VANCOUVER

ed Mines, Nevada
day Reception.

Aug. 26 (Canadian Press Despatch)

{ r Press Despatch) |
, Seven men |

cancelled by the city council today

}such an affair on the Sabbath.

most marvellous |

be almost impossible |

| proof pack on the continent, Scott,

lives and breathes

Froud & Co have just got a big

snot

 

shipment in.

 

apply P. O.| Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners,
tf| Phone 4.

EFUSED TO LOWER RATES
ON WHITE HORSE RAILROAD

xed Question Still Undecided--Now in the Hands of

p.ailway Commission—-Has Been Oscillating Owing

to Question of Jurisdiction--Local Matters
Still in Balance

the
Pass railroad
li
the
the govern-
he Dominion and the

Want money

 

  

 
 

question
Whit
euiled,

between

over chief engineer to the Commission
was sent to take a physical value
of the White Horse Road and when
the Board sat in White Horse on
Wednesday they the evi-
dence of Mr. Mountain as welt as

has been
courts of

 

ad States, heard

passed on to the|some given by the officials of the
y Commission, railroad, It will be some time
vv Commissioners left here | before a decision is given.
Monday for White Horse to Made Record Trip
more evidenee in the case.| The Commissioners made rather
a ‘he board ordered the}a record trip from Skagway to
“ Olclals to lower their] White Horse. On the arrival of the

Princess May at Skagway a special
train was waiting for the members
the Board and the journey
to White Horse, which usually
takes over six hours was covered
in four, Three hours later the
Commissioners again left for Skag-
way and caught the Princess May

senger rates thirty-
third per cent,
‘Dine Appealed
* Cie lors Of the road ob-
( led to the Cabinet
Dominion Govern-
that turned ik
Railway Com-
he railroad men said | for the south,
: W Nore evidence to be Judge Mabee
not give a decision on the que stions
here for some time to cone,

of

ppea
CH of the

body
‘Nn 0 the
PION When t

said he would

Mr

 

George Mountain,

     

as a result of many protests against

re when fire swept the} Vancouver, Aug. 26.—The pro-
ft of the Con-| pesed reception of Admiral Togo
M Three were in-| 0M his arrival next Sunday has been |

What kind of glasses

 

 

 

SHADE OF SIR JOHN—Say, Robert, I preached Reciprocity for fifteen years andfnever saw any
annexation danger in it.

do you wear?

JUDGE MABEE’S OPINION

e Swept Shaft of Consolidat-| | Scottish ith tales Influence |
Prevails Against Togo Sun-|

OF RECENT GOLD STRIKE

Skagway and District Badly ‘Smitten by by the Gold Fever---Every-
one Rushing For McLentock Creek---Outfitters’ Scores De-
pleted---White Pass Railway Shop Shorthanded--Judge

| Mabee, More Collected, Calls it in a Flash

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Telegraphic

the world is a Jap- | What's a Penetang?
cerved a figure in| If you mean a Penetang Pack |
ike himself that when | ma ide by the C. G. Gendron, it is |
placed side by side]ihe pest wi iterproof and wear-|

| Skagway, Aug. 25.
|reports received here declare that
lthe great gold strike on Mc-
| Lintock Creek, at Lake Marsh,
inear Carcross is a genuine one.
| Everybody has gone wild
of the news. Skagway

as a

|
| result

. {
"isuffering from a bad attack of |

| gold fever, and is being rapidly
| deserted in consequence. All sorts
of wildly exaggerated reports are
going the reunds, and every hour
adds to them. The scramble for
outfits is being met by supply
stores so far fairly adequately.
Leave White Pass Shops
Smitten by the gold fever num-
bers of the railway workers em-
ployed in the White Pass Railway
threw down their tools, and joined
in the rush for the new goldfield.
Others more cautious are waiting
to hear of solid’ results from
McLintock Creek before throwing

 

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Manchester, N. Y., Aug. 26.-
‘At least thirty-seven persons were
| killed and over sixty were injured
today when a Lehigh Valley pas-
senger train No, 4 was wrecked
near here, She was steaming along
at a fifty-mile an hour clip when
she struck a spread rail on the
very edge of a forty-foot embank-
ment. Ina second the great train
had plunged down the gorge carry-
ing with it scores of schrieking

 

 

passengers,

is |

in the Pan

|up their employment. Meanwhile
| the shortage of men due to the
| sudden rush for the goldfield is
j felt badly in the White Pass Rail-
The
felt
crowded
trip to
of the

| way shops, and on the line.
all the more
trains are
the

|shortage is
the

limit

|

| because
to the
Carcross and the

on out

scene

gold strike.

Judge Mabee's Opinion

As in the present excitement
| the tendency to exaggerate the

Mabee, Chairman of the Railway

Commission yesterday afternoon

when’ the S.S. Princess May ar-
rived from Skagway.

‘From what I learned it has
not proven up very wonderful
and the two men from whom the
news was obtained about the
strike did not claim it to be a
bonanze. It is the opinion of
old timers up there that the
strike is one of these everyday

affairs that savors of the wild cat

 

strike

amongst

is very pre-
men of ex-
perience on the spot, the opinion
formed of the situation by Judge
Mabee, Chairman of the Railway
Commission, who was at White
Horse and Skagway at the time
the two men brought in the first
news of the find, is valuable.
“What did you hear about the
gold strike?’’ was one of the first

worth of the

valent even

variety. Colonel Conrad told me

| that his men quit in his mine

when they heard the news of the
strike and hurried off to see it for
themselves.”

Further direct

personal news

of

Several responsible

from the scene the strike is

expected soon,
persons have gone in for the purpo-
of estimating the

se prospects

 

 

questions the News asked of Judge

The two day coaches forming

the mid section of the train were

 

 

AFF “ECTS YOUR POCKET

One week inns ead you will
be asked to vote on the G. T. P.
Assessment Settlement and the
City Council's plan to combine
the water supply and electric
plant schemes in one propo-
sition to cost $550,000. Read
the Bylaws carefully today and

 

 

take a week to think over them.

of the place fairly as far as genie

APPALLING WRECK ON LEHIGH VALLEY RLY.

shattered to pieces and it is
believed that every occupant of
the cars was either killed or

terribly injured,

Doctors and nurses were rushed
to the scene and everything pos-
sible was done. The line is not
yet cleared.

It is believed the heat had so
expanded the steel rails that a
buckle or sharp bend occurred.
Both rails bent sharply about a
foot out of line, carrying the
ties with them.

NO DEFERRED ELECTIONS
FOR B.C. CONSTITUENCIES

Fact Definitely Announced Today For Kootenay—
Nominations September 4th—Same Course Prob-
able in Comox-Atlin, Yale and Cariboo—Sir
Wilfrid Attracting Great Gatherings

celibre of MacDonald, and Certier
and Chepleau. At the close of
an eloquent specch, in support of
his great measure for ihe pios-
perity of the Dominion Siz Wilfrid
seid that in the everi of his
policy’s not being aeccepted by the
Canadian people he was ready
then to retire frcm public life.

(Canadian Press Despatch)~
(ttawa, Aug. 25.—There will
be no deferred election in the
Kootenzy electoral district. Nom-
inations for this district will be
made on September 4th, ten days
ahead of the general date. It is
given out todzy as most probable
that the same course will be taken.
in Comox-Atlir, and the Yale
electoral districts. This is con-
trary to expectation ard previous
usage in these districts, and opinion
up to today wes that the eleciion
date for these outlying districts
would be deferred. The announce-
ment that this will not”be so is
generally accepted.

 

Borden Ontario Tour Ends

Today at Peterboro, R. L. Bor-
den biaaht his Ontario tour to
an end. A good audience gathered
to hear the Conservative leader's
finz.l shots ir the Ontario cem-
paigr. Mr. Borden maintains his
usuel rostrum form, not workirg
up any noteworthy flights of or-
atory but upholdirg the Corserve-
tive standard io the satisfaction
of those who have pinred their
faith to him and his anti-recipeocity
programme.

 

Conservatives Ootclassed
St. Jerome, Aug. 25.—Sir Wilfrid
Laurier todey addressed a huge
gathering, and in the course of his
speech made a strong and critical
attack on the Conservative leaders
of the present campaign against
reciprocity. He declared that the
Conservative leaders of this cem-
paign are but poor turn coats,
and men very far from the same
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S.S. SAGINAW SINKING

 

After searching mery years for a
cure for sore ard tired feet several
persons lately have found just
what they need at Scott, Froud &
Co.'s, the Léadirg Shoe Store.

 

 

 

 

‘COSTLY BUSINESS

 

 

 

Steamer Redondo Has Her in

Tow—Perilous Task Quarter of a Million

 

 

Ottawa, Aug. 25.—Election offi-
Marshfield, Ore., Aug. 26.—The| cials estimate that the balloting on
steamer Saginaw is in a sinking|September 21 will cost the best
condition off Cape Blancho ac-| part of a round million dollars,
cording to a wireless message| probably three-quarters of a mil-
received here. The steamer Re-/lion at Iecast.
dondo has taken the vessel in tow
ie route to Coos Bay but it is
feared that the Saginaw may sink
before reaching there.

(Canadian Press Despatch)

 

which the returning officer ets,
there is a $2 allowance for each
poll over thirty, and other extras
where polls are scattered over a
wide area.

You'll Like It Too
That ‘Something Special’ which
you will always find at the Em-

Grand Drawing
Rogers’ Steamship Agency. Free

press picture show on Saturday|tickets to Seattle and return.
night is something to look forward! Three prizes. Tickets one cent to
to. The ‘Daily News’ drops|one dollar. Sale opens Tuesdey

round to see the show once in a
while and can recommend it.

morning.
116.

Call at office or phone

 

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GEORGE TITE TO REFEREE
THE BIG LACROSSE GAME

Overtures Being Made to Persuade Popular Support-
er of Local Athletics, Who is a Noted Lacrosse
Player and a Splendidly Impartial Referee

 

Owing to the dispute over the|the game on Labor Day at Van-
referee following the lacrosse game|couver then George Tite. He is
last Saturday in Vancouver, it is| deservedly popular amongst ath-
said, that overtures are beirg made|letes in Prince Rupert and hes
to secure Mr, George Tite, of this}done much for the Indoor Baseball
city to referee the big game be-/| League now working for a Recrea-
tween the two teams in question| tion Park. As Chairman of the
on Labor Day ‘Committee to start up the League
Lacrosse Authority he did most valuable work.
He has not yet been officially

 

asked, but advices from below Tite May Act
say that he will, as he is con-| Vancouver, Aug. 26.—(Later)—
sidered to be one of the best|In order to have an impartial

referee at the final match of the
Lacrosse League between Van-
couver and New Westminster Pres-
ident Nelson wired Joe Lalley of
Cornwall to act at the Labor Day
match. It was thought first he
may accept but he has wired he
cannot come,

authorities on lacrosse in the Pro-
vince. He was one of the crack
players for Victoria and was on
the first team that went from the
west to the east looking for honors.
In addition to this Mr. Tite
has refereed some of the biggest
games in the west during the last

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few years.

Popular with the Boys
A more impartial or fairer man
could rot be found to referee

 

For row boats and launches
telephone 320 green. Davis’
Boat House,

 

 

Appeal to Country will Cost a

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