a Laept ee a aee kno tpeey ie: hte 1! ‘ ae ; ay id DaILy EDITION. THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B.C. Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY ANJ) WEEKLY By Clive Phillips Wolley (AUTHOR OF GOLD, @ if A TENDERFOOTS WOOING o~e OLD IN CARIBOO, ETC.) i | td j & SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Damy, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. Al! Other Countries— Daily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance} CHAPTER XIV, It seemed to the doctor that his pace In his Was suddenly accelerated. ~@-~ nnsttetiiesaene ll “You might as well untie my hands whilst you are abont !:. They are nearly frozen already,” said Protheroe dream flight he began to move with | as matter-of-fact ton looked at him in some surprise. ring TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates quite phenomenal rapidity. In all pre-| me sobe tt of the ride had on application. READ OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New Yorx—National Newspapzr Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SeaTTLe—Puget Sound News Co. Lonpon, ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trank Building, Trafalgar Square. ‘vious expeditions v? the kind, the mo- tion had been a steady sailing, so Steady that if he had not seen the/ Steeples and towns going by below him, he would have considered him- self absoiutely stationary in space. But now he was going at a great speed and jerkily. Yes, certainly jerkily, | and the atmosphere was becoming dis- tinctly colder. He had entered a | stratum of cold air. Ah, yes, that must be it. He was getting higher; he was jin fact rocketting. That was it, he SUBSCRIBERS will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of W85 Tocketting. Quite natural, he non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. ages WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, WILL McBRIDE ACCEPT? | flected. You hit a bird in the healt ; and it rockets. The whiskey has hit | me in the head and it rockets. Cer- | tainly I dm »ocketting. But as his thoughts grew less vague The spirit was dying out in his blood, and his tightly bound extremities were | beginning to freeze. |. He became conscious that he was no Rumor is again rife that Premier McBride is to be offered a seat} 3onger in the streets of Soda Creek. ‘He could hear horses’ feet and gravel in the Federal Cabinet. Rumor even goes further. It says that alitee < rattled and slid beneath them, arrangements have been made for Premier McBride's acceptance of the post, and nam:s the reward that Mr. Stevens, the member- elect for Vancouver, is to receive fer vacating his seat to allow Mr. McBride to enter.the Ottawa House. It looks as if British Columbie is soon to lose her “picturesque Premier.” Many observers thought thet Mr. McBride hed forfeited his chance of entering the Federal Cabinet by declining to enter the Federal lists. Possibly in Mr. Borden's estimation, caution is esteemed a political virtue. Apparently Hon. Robert Rogers’ stock did rot go down at Ottawa as a consequerce of his reconsidering his intention to contest the Winnipeg seat. That which is not considered 2 vice in the case of the Manitoba Mirister of Public Works, might very well be considered a virtue in the case of the Premier of British Col- umbia. Certainly the gods were on Mr. Borden's side, when Premier McBride announced that he would not enter the Federal fight. How different might have been the interpretation of the national turnover had Mr. McBride entered the field. Mr. McBride with his record for having changed the political complexion of British Columbie would then have received most of the credit for the change in the political complexion of the Dominion. his brows. The Premiership of Canada would have been his, are and kicked himself for not getting rid of Borden before. In these things the public judges unfairly. on the crest of the wave more frequently than by fighting ard con quering the tide. Mr. McBride was Forture’s favorite when the popular wave threw him into the leadership of an almost solidly Con- servative Legislature two years ego. Fortune gave him another ard @ greater chance two months ago but he did not take it. Premier McBride must be angry with himself now for not accepting her invi- tation. It is not likely that she will repeatit. But all lovers of justice must feel glad that the coquette had to return and bestow her favors | on Mr. Border. It would have been tragic in its irony, if his fifteer years of toil and waiting had gore unrewarded, ard the jede had} gone off arm in ami to the altar with his younger, more picturesque but less deserving riva!. If the Fates have decreed that Richard McBride is to enter Federe! politics, then it is fit and proper that he entez as a subordinate to Mr. Borden, who has fully earned his title to the Premiership. Whether Mr. McBride will consent portfolio urder Mr. Borden remains to be seen. The reports from Victoria ard Vancouver suggest that he is quite willing if the offer is made to accept 2 NOTES AND COMMENTS As an example of patriotism grown little, rothing could be mor: peltry than Alderman Clayton's objection on patriotic grounds to loaning the wity’s Union Jack for the McTavish-Craig nuptials. If the News could have its way, it would present every yourg couple with a house and lot as a wet‘ling gift, and defend the tran- saction on economic grounds as intelligen:: petriotiem. But judged merely for the standpoint of the other kird of pat-| riotism, our “heaven-borr ore” mzde 2 bed blunder wher he would have the city of Prince Rupert deny the loan of its Union Jeck to the wedding of the grandson of Sir James Douglas, our greatest | patriot. Alderman Clayton once told 2 Prince Rupert audience that he Was not a British born subject, so he is to be excused for krowing little of British Columbiar history. For his future guidarce our foreign born rvatrint from Detroit. Michigar, is informed that Sir James Douglas was the representative of the British Crown ir the colony of Vancouver Island, ard the First Lieuterart Goverror of the Province of British Columbia. It would hzve been er irsult to the memory of a great ard patriotic gentleman to have refused the use of the Union Jack at his grandson's wedding. r ~~ Do You Want ee net eat luncheon and donee | at the Exchange : Grill | The Pim 3S coos RIGHT | and the cuisine and service up to our well established standard i The Graham Island Oil Fields, Limited CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000 We are offering for sale a very jlimited amount of shares of stock at 25c per share; par value $1.00. These shares are going quickly and will soon be off the market : : THE MACK REALTY & INSURANCE COMPANY SELLING AGENTS | mud a jerk which threw him heavily ;@pon his horse’s neck woke bim to ithe fact that he was riding down an extremely steep incline into a grey sea tot icy vapor. | It has been said that Doctor Pro- | theroe was one of those men who had } the faculty of becoming drunk a dozen i in the twenty-four hours. } almost normally. | He realized that he was riding tied | }am his saddle, his arms pinioned and | his mouth gagged, and that someone, oo riding. was leading his horse along the ¢iige of a grey flood from | Which came a roar and an incessant | grinding sound. Dr. Protheroe's earii- }est impression of a river was the janion of a doren tiny springs which | well up from the earth’s heart amongst }meadow sweet and fritillaries, in his ;mative Wiltshire, or at the wildest a | Jumction of little brown rills which | wind chattering to their meeting place | through the purple heather of that } which English folk cal? a mountain, Fortune would have crowned | and so gathered and united, wander j | OB. picking up a little friend here and a ae ee }@mother more fully grown further on, many a-Conservative politician would have visited the woodshed | until | wheel or dream through lush hay fields together they turn a miller’s ; | to the sea. Men go to victory But the Fraser, by which that silent } figure led him, is not a river of this kind ; Born of the snows in that barren land where earth's ribs show above the last of the black pines, the Fraser is bitter and savage from its birth, | There are no lush grass lands for it to flow through, no miller’s wheels for it to turn. | Its course is through sand and gra- } vel; that it is gold gravel makes it no |More beautiful; past grey benches } Stained in leprous patches by vivid | metallic colors. It has nothine to do | With farming until, weary of iife and | Fetired from business, it reaches its | muddy delta. where it farms because | it is too feeble to do anything elise. Its life’s work was mining. It is the } great sluice box of northern British Columbia, the great water power which eats away the gold-bearing rocks, which builds the sand bars and feeds them year by year with much fine goid, which tempts the strongest of our men with the possi quickiy earned wealtt and sucked their lives t of them, 3 leaves them stranded in such back waters as Seda Creek. The banks of it under which Jim Combe ied the doctor's stumbling horse, were sheer cliffs of gravel, the Taw edges of a great earth wound, through which the river tore its | course, and the brim of it was no place }of primroses, but a fringe of great | boulders, too heavy even for its strong | Waters to move, and here and there } the bones of a stranded pine. | War overhead the two could see a few tall conifers, towering in the night | mist, and behind them. up stream, the Gull red ligut which marked the cen- } tre of such life as there was in Soda Creek. When a cable crossed the river they paused. and Jim dismounting went down to the water's ejge. The (ferry was there, moored to the bank, the ice-cakes gathering rcund it as ft |lay, but there was no boatman by it, jand the little shack in which he siiel- tered was empty. Jim got into the ferry and tried to move it, but the ace was secured by a great ped- lt was kept for the public’s con- }wenlence and the ferryman’s profit, jand the ferryman had cone. | “Curse it. That's what I might have jazpected,” Jim muttered, “but I didn’t j}pee bim in the saloon whea we left.” a time he wrestied with the lock even took out his revolver and fired shot, but for awhile there was no 'Pesponse. The ferryman had con- }eluded that bis cowboy passenger of ‘the morning was as other cowboys he | bad known, and would be as long over ies ferryman might be within ' r BEE : ! a i FE ey ; : i t i was no use keeping bim jin Hl : bis body grew more and more cold.) His , rried?”’ recovery from the effects of drink was. wa as rapid as his lapse into drunkenness | and now his brain began to work again | been even greater tha: be had antict- pated | “I guess ; * be remarked ithe rope which bound bis | tees, before freeing his hands. |“Steady! Don’t fall off as you ride | Dack, and don’t try any monkey *ricks | with me. It ain’t worth it,” and then, | reassured by the doctor's appearance, jhe let hfs hands go. | “Now you might as well ride back j@nd finish the might with your pals. |Sorry I troubled you.’ ;, But the doctor rez |where he was. on then by anfastening captive's YOU c&n sit ined sitting “You ain't afraid about finding your Way. are you?” asked Combe. “They'll }Be here pretty soon now, !f they don't fall in and get drowned. I'm not com- | {as along. Soda Creek might not be | healthy for me just now | Still the doctor sa: where he WAs, ) stretching his crampe: iecs, feeling the stifftmed muscles of his arms, swaying a little in his saddle, and look- | ing at Combe. “You must have wanted me pretty badly.” be said at k and there Was no trace of anger his voice, no | Protest against his at:< “Guess I did, or I shouldn't have took you.” “What is it? A woman’? You aren't Jim laughed a hard iaugh. “What is it then? You aren't drunk or a fool.” “Ain't I? That new tenderfoot, An- struther, has broke himself up pretty badly. Miss Clifford is nursing him and wants a doctor.” “Ah!” grunted the doctor, and whis- tled a strange hollow whistle like that of a fog horn he had on occasions of insight. knew the Risky Ranch pretty well, though he was no favorite there, and / he knew its internal history, and could have made shrewd guesses about Misa Clifford and Jim Combe and even about Mr. Anstruther. The ways of the world are very yauch alike every- where, and doctors know them better than most men. “What is the matter with Anstru- ther?” “Ribs broke, two or three, and may be something worse inside.” “Well he will get over that without my assistance or dic Does it mat- ter?” Jim looked at him stupidly “To you,” the doctor added. “No, I don’t know as it does matter a whole heap. I rode that devi] here in a day and a night to get you. He wasn't broke when we left.” and he pointed to the weary roan. “I've lied to poor old Bill; and done my best to steal a man. I don’t suppose it does matter,” and he sat down on one side of the boulders! whilst the hue and cry came nearer. He could see their ianterns flashing now like drunker stars along the edge vu? the bauk not half a mile away. “If you had told me that it was for a woman I would have come.” “But it wasn’t.” “No?” hesitating questioningly on the monosyliable, “but you told Bill so. Why didn’t you lie to me?” “It wouldn't have helped. You didn't go for Bill's woman.” The doctor flinched for the first time, and opened his mouth as if to defend himself, but thought better of it, and shrugging his shoulders asked “Have you £0Ot aii my instruments and things there That is my bag, I think,” and be pointed to the satche! strapped upen Jim's horse. “Yes, I got them before “Very thoughtful of you. up for me to look at. I'm get off my horse yet.” Jim obeyed, and by the faint light of a match, which Jim had to hold for him, the doctor explored the interior of his grip-sack “Our friend Bill gine,” he said I left.” Hand them too stiff to got these, I ima- “He was thinking of his own case. He always is. Wrap them up in this and put them on the bank. Someone will find them and we shan't have any use for them on this trip. We don’t want to carry any more than we are obliged to.” Jim struck another match and the doctor finished his examination. “They have all the ordinary appii- ances for cases of accident at Rolt's, I / He was quiet pow and suppose *” business-like. “I guess so.” “Well. these wil] do then. We shall make them all in a devil of a mess, Rut the waterproof case will save some of them. I'm glad you brought that, Mr. Combe.” tened the bag in its place again, the lights were growing very chose now, and the voices of the searchers pisin- ly audible. Combe could distieguish bis own name, uttered from time to time. (TO BE CONTINUED) Oh, You Empire! A search perty hes beer at work | for the Inst week looking for ‘‘the ithiréy road,” | ported in the “‘Empire”’ 2s having | beer corsiructecdt bewween Masset Rose Spit, ‘but up the miles of wagon re- jand to present litile trace had been dis-| perverse) ~Queer Charlotie Islen- ~~~? o~——~— (Letters to the Editor rapted abduc- | It was a curious trick | He |} | ehh A LIBERAL VIEW OF THE OUTLOOK During the pest few days, doubtless due to the unexpected over- Ithrow of the government, I have heard some gloomy predictions s to the welfare of the country end of Prince Rupert in perticular 1 do not share such views, but on the contrary, am inclired to be While I believe in reciprocity and look *S a priceless boon, yet it is something we have rot hitherto joptimistic of our future upon it < been enjoying and the Conservatives may give us something sub- tential as a substitute. Mr. Border holds a repoutatior for honesty and fair-minderdes ! ard m:y be depended upor to do his utmost to govern our country wisely. set of men is indispes sable to its existence or progress ir the sens jthet ihe elder Pitt was, erd it is pre bable that in the immediate { iture ithirgs will go along very much the seme as in the pest. Mr. Borden | : |may revise the tariff, thereby approeching the benefits which we would have received under reciprocity Pacific reilway completed without eny unnecessary délay, and, wher the time comes to ship fresh fish from Prince Rupert, th« the duty against Canadian fish, or be granted to erable fish to be shipped from this port. coniirent Americens may have thrown off ise special bending privileges may I believe is nodoubt whatever but that the fish }will be shipped from Prince Rupert I am less sanguine upor the Alaskan trade, but it position to go after thet trade, ard ther will be some time before we are ir li is very rare it the hisiory of a nation that any man or} I look to see the Grend Trunk | and other commodities zcross the | the re ' caught in these northern waters | as to the effect of the quictus to reciprocity | conditions may have adjusted | PONY EXPREss | SYSTEMATIC ues Baggage, Storey: Rigs om M Seventh Ave. an ——— v . ~~ Gasoline Launctes, Sz. For Hir S > wo Seats / ww, and Canoe; | ' } | ’ | } | maaan ' aaa | eer. eh eel . - ' ! ; r.} / ' the News j ! |@-O-9-0-0--» — + +444. themselves. We have been looki: 2 ai corditions as they are, but }we must remember that this vote does mot conclude our trade arrange-|* FRED STORK ‘ jmexts with the United States. These is such a thing as evolution |¢ - ‘ . -.* . . . : - j jin the world of politics just as real as in the orgaric work! lo aoa Hardware i To these who have thought differently from me upon the questior id . i . . ° > . : ’ Suikders’ Har of reciprocity, I wish to say that I do not decry their victory ror}! _ i cia ‘ . ‘ r le Valves & Pipes rd Stowes * resent their celebrations or songs of triumph. They have won a great | ¢ : ar i i . ; Granitewar I r victory and | am pleased to see thet they appreciate it. Power sterds/# ‘ ifor opportunity ard is to be desirecl, but it also involves responsibility. | ‘ Vt 2 | It is up to them to legislate for and administer this greatest of youthful | . SECOND - AVENUE ‘ I've stolen a horse | countries with wisdont ard integrity, end I wish them God speed, for so long es the country is well and progressively governed, the cold shades .xf opposition heave ro horrors for m« What makes out people happy and cortented, pleeses me; what makes our country Wospeious, benefits me; whet mekes our country great, makes m: prouder to be 2 Canadia Theirs is the task, be unto them the wisdom ard courage. For the grard old man wno steps fron wheel of state, I hav rothirg but the most sympathetic feelirgs erd highest admiratior He has proved himself to be a great Caerediar a broed minded ard sincere statesman; wise and progressive ir policy, fearless in pursui {3 firm and upright in admivristratior mighty in honesty of purpose ard robility of soul; clezn ard wholesome in private life; gertle erd considerzie ir conduc adorred ard embellished with dignity ard culture; ripered and mellowed by time—he leaves the wheel, but his white plume i rnished, his glory undimmed, our love sirorger—God bless Sir Wilfr i rier W. E. WILLIAMS SAMUEL HARRISON ¥, F. G. GAMBLE (NOTARY PUBLIC Samuel Harrison & Co. Real Estate and Stock Brokers APPROVED AGREEMENTS FOR SALE PURCHASED and - Stewart Prince Rupert - FIRE! What Would it Mean to You? Have you considered the loss and inconvenience it would caure you? possible but probable in any new city. Such a thing is not only In our vault you will find the only absolute protection for your valuables. Renta safe deposit box to- day. To-morrow it may be too late - - - Tha Codtincatsl Tiuct Ca. Second Avenue Wark’s Closing Mussallem & Company Jewelry S ale ~Good Fresh Groceries at City Prices. We have just put in a complete stock of groceries and will be able Three Only, $6.00 Kitchen to give our customers the best of Clocks $2.90 Oe tall at our store will be ap- Three Only, $12.50 Mantle preciated. Clocks Dozens of Other Gne-half Price. sean as Mussallem & Company | Phone 225 Black Sth Ave. East of MeBride See the bargains in the West Window today. Your choice NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION - for $2.50 Take rotice that the partnership iC. B. 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