THE WE \THER + hours ending 5 a.m., qwenty-four nou Sept pan. «N, RAIN 4 TEMY ; yar. rawr, MIE 29,906 a0.0 ————D Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist NEXT MAILS For souTH Princess Royal....... Fridaya.m FoR NORTH Rite 64. bat Saturday~ PrINcE Ruppert, B.C., TUESDAY, SepremBeER 5, 1911. 05S 08S AND RECIPROCITY” RUPERT'S ROUSING RALLY ° Enthusi Given Mr. Duncan Ross at Open Gathering in McIntyre Hali on His Arrival c ) respective | politics is surely the wisest policy. | ited to hear] to pursue Loud applause). “ R Liberal and Rec-| Dead Ones in Morgue ‘s ndi for Comox-Athir Cy Peck contributed a splendid | a | r Liberal As-| speech which will be found o1 rc Saturday i j au other pege and in @ very amusing the Mcl H The hell was | and common sense speech Tom sled lienee thu- | Durr emphasised the fact that this Sati R nd Reciprocity |is not a cortest of Liberal versus for R | Conservative but one in which Ir C ypened the | the tissue Wa policy affecting s ay ave been a | the prosperity of he people of the tits e but never|country hy | » proud of Tt 4 quite ¢ coinciderce that bh Cheers).|the Corservative should heave | all over|chosen Har old morgue io rally ( e old land {in,”’ he remarked, “for mark my ert he rds they'll evrry 2@ corpse o iprocity. |of there on the nighi « e 21s M } i Loud 1 hier and ap lerri The ple vform p y consisted * were |of Messrs. F. Stork, A. J. Morri y Chee Cy Peck A. M. Marson, Ton Wanted at Ottawa Dunn, D. G. Stewart, L. W. P: 1) n Re more and Dr. Kergi: Musi Mr. 5 rds of numbers by Gray's Orchestra were ‘ 9 Ottawa | given during the intervals H ) I we want y in! LABOR DAY SPREES } V me a shou from 1 jiowed by a) Half a Dozen Joymakers Now I Sadder and Wiser ) K ! speec h Is | were only It wes quit busy session at R Canede I\the police court this morning Bui it is wh with those picked up asleep RX well es ? : ; at R | om anal he glorio sunshine on the t ; sidewalk he Indians and their S nks with | friends and witness Five mei R eral Pre-| were fined variou m nd uw . l Ll C- lone cast entence Wi uspendec ly ) in beng]. pive the Indian a chance t eturn t : ; ' ry get the mat who solid hin ne | Loud ap t brain-fuddler He said it wi Good Man Ross Iman on the steamer Vadso, but " o, in our|he did not know if the man worked , , n Ross is on the ship or w a passenget! a good Those fined were Rountree, $1 WhO can! and costs; Pat Maloney $5 and el IVE | cost | ! 1 I $5 rd cos R woneigh-| Tate, Ind $20 and costs or me diffi- | thirty d Inni Indian, $5 me problems land co lurney $5 and costs ; nd make is the sum] Rec iprocity doesi mflict with vant the Britis! mn which Leu : ect of party|rier nails masthig! COTCH BEATS HACKENSMIDT IN TWO STRAIGHT FALLS Chief of Police Declared All Bets Off Because the Rus- sian Claimed to Have Been Injnred in the Back and Right Leg During Contest | ? Chica Despatch) mpion Fy World's Cha- roved i conclusively Hacke; ; between with to the hight his right former ry cleating his Hatkenechrsicis . raight falls. ed and oy w ul-general- Ol the matc} every phase fall wit) ‘UCN secured first Wrist loc} 1 body and uring hic 4 14.18. After the a oe hold in Was {, he champion MICH hi Mat wh, onent to the Hack 7 lis ci broken leg, Hack © 5,82 the Ry declares that la . back and ti “Stnod an injured ley. ay i : (ons in the right by th chic “fre declared off { of *¥I pol limits again at Seventh stree| astic Support ievenpective of Party a! IMPORTANT G. T. P. SITES Although not official innoune ed yet it is pretty well known in the city today that Mr Hays along with Mr. Kyley the Land Commissioner, consul te d together regarding the site for the Grand Trunk Pacific Company's hotel and the decision was made to alter the location of the big building projected trom the pro posed site on the bluff ove rlooking the harbor to Pillsbury Hill It was also decided according inside information, that Second street is to be carried in a fine sweep round past the Railwey Depot close by the present tem porary one, to re-entel the city VOTE ON BYLAWS CORINTHIANS WIN i Both Carried by the Necessary | British Amateurs Beat Van- Three-fifths Majorities couver All-Star Team } | oe ancouver Defeated at Lacrosse ARE STILLCHAPMIONS _ | | by New Westminster Team | nadian Press Despatch) | Both of the bylews pui up for | (Canadian Press Despatch) 6 | . . t > rote Or e sa w Wes.minster, Sept. 5.—|the vote of the rate peyers on} Vancouver, Sept. 5.—In a stub- Before a crowd that broke all|Saturdey passed by good ma-| : broke ll} a le aie ee |borrly contested encounter here jrecords New Westminster's world |jorities. The vote on the Grand | ke f 1 football | . | ops +f | yestere 1y, before a record foo jchampion lacrosse teem defeated | Trunk Pacific assessment was car- , : : the | Vancouver in the firel game of|ried by 408 to 44 against; and the| | crowd, the famous Corinthian am- |the league series by a score of|Hydro-Electrie bylew by 319 to jateur team decisively defeated a | cight goals io five. Joe Lally of 427 ageinst. It wes a large vote|picked all-star Vancouver team, 1¢ gp reenctes ‘ lin both instarces and more than| the final score being four goals to This leaves the teams tied on : . . : lsufficient to give the necessary | one. the series with five wirs apiece | ne and tiédessitetes ‘an extta .ecties | nee »-fifths majority. - inet r pore shale ‘i Thnk: ene ie Si E of two matches to decide the| Reciprocity would extend the world’s championship ard the pos- | If you want money apply P. O.|metkets for the farmers and dc- session of the Mirto Cup. | Box 953. tf| velop Canadian trade. RECIPROCITY WILL REDUCE THE GROCER AND THE BUTCHER BILL In an Able Argument, oavincbnaler Paliented, Buanakis Ross Appeals to Common Sense of Every Householder, Especially the Wives and Mothers, Showing How Development of Province is Being Retarded by High Cost of Living and thet Market of United States Is a Necessity of Progress Without reediess preliminaries|er food stuffs ard the meesure|the Crown which they had lost Mr. Duncan Ross, the Liberal|which is to make the cost of|through the repeal of the corn candidate, got right down to his/|living as cheap as possible for the|laws, 2 British statesman nego- subject at the smoker in McIntyre} people. | tiated a reciprocity treaty between Hall Saturday everirg ‘This Start of Reciprocity |Careda ard the United States. question of reciprocity,”’ he said,| “‘How was reciprocity brought Its effect was to remove the feeling | “is one which affects the monthly|about first in Canada? Long ago] of discontent that had arisen, and grocery bill. For that reason I|ihe people of England woke up|for twelve years this treaty was} am glad to see that there are some|and said ‘We will no longer pay|in force with the result that the | ladies here. I wish there had been|texes on our food stuffs.’ They | Prosperity of Canada increased an opportunity for me to address| took action and repealed the corn | by strides and there was no more the ladies in a special meetirg for|laws. Before that Canada erd}word of discontent, ro rotten hem, as, if I can convince the|the colonies had a preference,that | egging of the Lieutenant Governor, | ladies of the effect of reciprocity their produce got in to Britain|no more annexation manifestoes. in reducing their grocery bills,|for less than that of other lands.;It was during that time that the I have no fears at all about the| With the repeal! of the corn laws!late King Edward VII as Prince tes of the n Iw this preference was wiped out.|}of Wales visited Canada finding ight here ard now tl he issue| Then a Tory Government in Can- | everywhere unswerving loyalty and in this contest is one that is beyond|ada passed a resolution to the/devotion to himself and Queen party or party interests effect that in view of the effect] Victoria. aks Cost of Living of the repeal of the corn laws the | Effect of Protection “It is an issue where the ore|advantage to Canada of beirg a} ‘‘Meanwhile, however,something side believes that cheeper food|dependency of Great Britain was | happened in the United States. | stuffs are needed to meke it eesier|of no value. At Montreal the|The subtle policy of protection for the people live, while the|people rotten egged the Lieu-|came into force. Canadian ex-| other side represents the protected | tenant Governor representative of | ports were met by increasing tariffs. | interests which are 1aking it | Brit ish Sovereignty, and annexa-|Then Sir John Macdonald _pro- more difficult for the aca to live it tion marifestoes in favor of union|duced his club in the shape of “T want to make the cleaver|with the United States were cir-|retaliatory tariffs. But he made vo beiween myself and my daclentenel ard signed. it clearly to be understood in a ponent as wide as possible in this A Loyal Measure |special clause that ‘These high ligh He stands for the pro-| “In order to restore to the} ected interests. I stand for cheap-]Canadian people the loyalty to} CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 WERE IN DEADLY PERIL AT DAVIS’ FLOAT. Raft Capsized and Eight Men With Fe our Wessel and Two Babies Were Thrown Into Deep Icy Water in the Dark Last Night Miss McLeod and | Baby Almost Died The men with With the pitiful scream of ‘‘Oh, | my baby, my baby!’’ a woman wes |} kept by main strength from throw- | lwith her baby, Mrs. A. Murray them who also had a hard struggle life Alex Mackay, Rod- Day in Prince Rupert SCA nec est ape Labor narrowly 1 being marred by a terrible drowning disaster The float for transferring passenge- | for wert rs to and from the railwey grade}erick McLeod Dave Mackenzie,|ing herself back into the water. | land the Davis beathouses turned|Alex Murray, J. McQueen, Alex] Another, Mrs. McLeod, rose below | turtle at about nine o'clock last | Macdonald, Alien Fraser and R.} the float and would have drowned | night. Fourteen persons including McLelland. The last named was; but for the heroism of Alex Mackay two infants were thrown into ice|the piper to whose merry music|who dived for her groping under landed|the heavy logs of the raft. Her cold water twenty feet deep, and| the picnic party had just hut for the heroism of the men of | on the float. | husband saved the baby swimming the party four women and the} The party was a part of a large | with it in his arms, The other babies might have been drowned | one just returned from Metlakatla little one was rescued in an un- with probably severi il of the men | in ithe launch Roseball. lhey conscious condition, and it took also. Providentially all esc aped | lantled at nine p.m. at the Davis} Dr. McNeill two hours of constant | with their lives, but the result of | float nd crowded to the pulley | work to restore it to a safe state the shock and immersion which | hauled raft. The first crowd got | last night. Both mothers and both threw the women into hysterics | across safely but on the second|the other ladies suffered severely must yet be considered. The | trip, the raft carrying twelve adults from shock and were in hysterics accident was a most serious one,/four women and two infants in| when rescued. Thanks to the One of the ladies was in delicate|arms, upset, Wild shrieks for}prompt action of young Allen health, and is now under medical |help rang out #s the men and|MecRae who ran for Dr. MeNeill attention, One of the babies wes|women struggled in deep waterjafter having plunged to the unconscious When rescued. lin the darkness. Those ashore}rescue of others, the infant's life The Party Imperilled ldid what they could to help the| was saved. The nor-swimmers The names of the ladies who | me Mr. fcthickede te iad ee EE PS ve flung into the water were drowning. I avis was in his amongst e men were saved by Taiiad s: Mrs. Roderick McLeod | office at the moment. He rushed}clinging to the float and up- with her baby, Mrs. Peter Smith ' out to help, turned raft, TORIES HAD PLENTY OF WIND: INSTRUM Two Brass Bands to Assist Candidate Clements in His First Address to Prince Rupert Voters—Pleased to See Two Old Friends at His Smoker The Conservative party secured all the wind instruments possible for their smoker in McIntyre Hall last night, having both the Port Simpson and the Metlekatla brass bands. There was plenty of seat- ing accommodation Candi- date H. F. Clements ascended the platform, followed by Mayor Man- and it was a pleasure to meet them regardless of natiorality as they were meking their bread end butter here and must therefore have the best interests of Careda at heart. This reciprocity pact, he said, was not in the besi interests of Caneda but was ore of the most retrograde steps Canada could pos- when son. There was liearty aplpause as the candidate took his seat,|sibly take. Ii was simply a red followed by a slight hitch in the|jherring thrown ecross the trail proceedings. This was broken|by Sir Wilfrid Leurier to avoid by Mayor Manson requesting that|the discussion of other inportant Aldermen Kirkpatrick, Newton, | issues. If there was to be any Douglas ard Hilditch end O. H.|reciprocity it should be within Nelson take seats on the platform. the Briiish Empire. The United All complied with the excepuion of |Stetes wes rot 2 natural market Alderman Newton, who jfor our products; the Mother present. Courtry was the only market for Mayor Manson's Welcome Cereade. ard wes all sufficient. The Mayor took it for grar ted | Challenge to Mr. Ross that they were all glad to welcome| His opporert, Mr. Ross, had the his rom-|claimed thet he (Mr. Clements) ination two weeks ago, had spoken in fe.vor of reciprocity |campaigning in the southern part|in the House of Commons. The jof the constituency. They quotation giver was ‘‘While I am sorry he had not reached free trader—fer from it— |Rupert sooner, but there I whould be ready to favor recip- jample time between rocity as beiweer the United States | elec tion day for him erd Carada or seme ratural pro- |rousing majority. ducts.” | Not Much of Reciprocity In fairness Mr. Ross should have | Mr. Clements was cheered quoted more. He would again jhe rose to make the only other) make the statemert thet if it speech of the evening. He began;were prover that he had spoken at 8.25 ard finished at 10.30,/in favor of reciprocity, in Farlia- all the time speaking as rapidly elsewhere, he would im- and hurriedly as if afraid of missing | mediately resign his nomination the But there was less|and permit Mr. Ross to be elected of reciprocity in it than of straight-|by acclematior. Is Against Cheap Food In the his speech |Mr. Clements read certain United showirg that in was not cendidete who, since hed been as were Prince|not a was now ard to obtain a as ment or last boat. out party politics, in the course of which he revived the old-time course of government scandals in which the names of Clifford Sifton and Turiff | States statistics, |were connected. He also devoted|that country of high protection some attention to the naval affairs|the average wage wes $1.53 per of Canada, holding them up for|/day. After he had concluded |} with a brilliant preroration a work- man asked; “You | wes $1.53 in the higher -or party derision. Counts His Old Friends Mr and a the average wage United States; lower Clements said it was two seid half ago was in Prince Rupert, and he was/the average pleased to see several faces among | Canada?”’ the audience that he remembered,| ‘‘I believe it is higher in Canada. particularly -referring to two old | Sir John A. Macdorald once said: Mr. Darling Mr.|‘A country that is cheap to live jin is a good country to get out te You off in that respect that any other country.” is in years since he friends, and better talker It was a pleasure to meet them | are | as Canadians regardless of party.’ DUNC AN ROSS TAKES UP THE GAUNTLET AGAIN Though Mr. deci Failed to Come Through With His Promise to Resign at Alberni He has the Op- portunity of Doing so Next Tuesday “Most certainly I will take! the audience. ard demanded the up Mr. Clement's challenge, | resignation he offered to make. and am ready to meet him “This was the quotation on the evening of Tuesday! I read from Hansard: ‘While 12th inst. on the platform of| I am not a free trader--far the Empress Theatre, Prince| from it—I would be ready to Rupert." | favor reciprocity between the In an interview with Mr. United States and Canada Duncar Ross this morning the above reply| on some natural products.’ to Mr. Clements’ challenge of “This any one can find for Monday night was given by the! themselves in Hansard Vol. I. reciprocity candidate. | 1907-8, pages 204-5." “Once already in answer to his} “Mr. Clements backed down own challenge I have met Mr.| from his challenge. Clements on the same question, “Suill, since he has seen fit to that as recorded in Hanserd he|make another challenge after failing sp ke in favor of reciprocity in|to pley up to the terms of his last th: House at Ottawa in 1907-8. his Though on that oceasion at Al- ; : ; boas 2 ; . |words favoring reciprocity in the berni | made a point of readirg Mr. Clements’ own words in favor|P@8*s Of Hansard, 1 am not of reciprocity from Hanserd, three|tesentful. 1 will meet him again times in his hearing and that of|\at the time and place named, wher confronted with own He saw many Americans present” a