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THE DAILY NEWS

Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist

PRINCE Rupert, B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3,

1911.

 

NEXT MAILS
FoR SOUTH
Prince Rupert Friday, a.m.
FOR NORTH
Princess Royal..Thursday, p.m.

 

 

 

PRICE FivE CENTS

RKEY NOW PREPARING FOR A LONG CAMPAIGN

 

 

TURKEY

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( in Pres& De spatch)
Cons? ple, Oct 3 The
rities are now taking
ich show that they

Italy to the finish.
being
four
with

 

a f K 1 are
a I ile a fleet of

cruiser

troops

ad one

is at anchor in the}

Afraid of Greece
yacihie assurances

Government, a fear
Cc wat is prolonged,
it that
it will enable

gainst Turkey
the

a frontier

memories of

Vat
Wat

Is Afraid That Her Old Enemy Will Take the Opportunity tte Avenge the
War---Turks and Arabs Entrench Themselves Outside Tripoli and Prepare For a
Big Land Battle With the Italians---Bombardment to Start on Wednesday

the city preparing for a long fight.
| Telegrams received by the Porte Arabs to
| ese the outlying Turkish provin-| be armed with Mausers are holding

said

People in Clamor |
| Sixty thousand

| ces say that feeling is running very |a strong position fifty miles behind |statement that the bombardment

|
the town in

excellent natural

try which is an
The

advance guards are stationed thirty

the

resistance

|high and that are a cour
for the
[talian forces, and reprisals against
| the Italisan.

Frontier is Manned
The Government is despatching

Macedonia

Greek frontier in the

pe opk

 

| clamoring to tronghold.

miles from the city

The Turkish garrison has left |
the forts to join the troops in the
After the Italian

irs a (

oc-

the

into order | country.

the

event of troubles with Greece

(troops in

cupation oc¢ ige of

be

to man

town will gin.

BOMBARDMENT TOMOR-
ROW

WAR AT TRIPOLI!
Matla, Oct. 2 Word
has just been received here from
Tripoli that the Arabs and Turks

entrenching thenmselves behid

p.m.,

On board an |

Tripoli, Oct

lian warship off

j are 2nd:

fea yet taken place.

IS'SENDING OUT TROOPS
TO OCCUPY THE GREEK FRONTIER

“No bombardment of Tripoli
The Italian
Consul is my authority for the

is to be begun three days after
the expiration of the notification
given on Saturday.”

J eekas
yesterday evening
‘May. Mr. Rogers

and

Rogers returned to town
by the Princess
has been on %
tive trip to

business recre

California.
The City of Seattle is expec ted

here on Friday with U. S. mail,

| passengers and freight

Turko-Greek |™°" who had been found guilty

 

7 se |

ere 10 BE MADE. PRESIDENT

John S. Day, Prominent Vic-
| toria Resident Sentenced for

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Victoria, Oct. 3.—John S. Day,
|a prominent hotel and marine

According to the Montre

of receiving naval stores was today
sentenced to serve cighteen months (Canadian Press Despatch)

in the penitentiary at New West-| Montreal, Oct.3.—The Montreal
nite. Herald, the leading Liberal paper,
published the followirg last night

THEY OBJECT _
TO POLL TAX

future:
“It was given out by a man
; prominent in the counsels and in
|New Westminster Witnesses Fa-
for Taxing Lands and Natural

Resources.

rier, that the ex-Premier would
be offered the position of President

of the Hague Peace Tribunal

| ‘ .
! (Canadian Press Despatch)

Vancouver. Oct. 3.—After taking
New Westminster the
Commission left last
night for Revelstoke and
to Nelson and Cranbrook.

choice of President Taft ard
the English authorities.

Both of the great nations have
expressed their complete cor fiderce
in Sir Wilfrid To offer
the Premier this position on behalf

eviderce at
Taxation

thence z
Laurier.

 

in reference to Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s

the friendship of Sir Wilfrid Lau-

very soon, he being the unarimous

of

“catch” QF THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

Great Honor to be Conferred on Sir Wilfrid Laurier

al Herald—Is Unanimous

Choice of Great Britain and United States

to have -beer the object of Lord
Strathcona’s recent visit to Ot-
tawa.”’

ADRIFT AND HELPLESS
Cruiser Snohomish Speeding to

Rescue of Fishing Boat Yu-

kon.

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Victoria. Oct. 3.—A_ wireless
report has beer received stating
that the gasoline fishing schooner
Yukon is off the Vancouver Island
|coast near Nootka, drifting help-
lessly with a broken shaft. The
U.S. A. fishery cruiser Snohomish
is coming at full speed to rescue
the smell craft.

 

 

| Among those giving evidence ae eta }
lat the Royal City, th general |°! the English authorities is said
opinion was that the personal| 7
property tax worked a hardship | DIED IN HOUR

—j}2@nd that the poll tax was ob- |

 

4 CITY SOLICITOR

Ist que stion, like |
will not

it stalked through |

down
mber, being raised
\lderman Clayton,
Solicitor
the legal

the public mind.

e City

on

City Solicitor

itors in the cas¢
the council who}
his Opinion in|

the
of the

public as!
License |
occurred when |
suggested that}
r be asked
on all three

to

some
id that it moult
ish to ask the City

been

Hilditch with

the legal

these cases to

LW.W. PROTESTS AGAINST =:
PRISON LABOR ON PARK

Secretar

‘etary’s Letter to Counc
Will

rial Workers of the
Rupert branch have

Mayor and council
ystem of employing
the
r and level ground

Ing sentence in

ion Park. The prison-
erred to in the I. W. W.
and
designated ‘‘con-
The I, W. W. branch
they would

Is sort of thing,
Kirkpatrick who is
the police commis-
plained that

With the terms of the

chain * gang’

not

in order

lmposed on some prison-
hecessary to give them
Chief Vickers had no

!
labor for them about

rd

ton and the proposal
uld be set to breaking
impracticable. There-

idea that the prisoners

employed on Summit

 

REPORT ON THE LICENSES

Quaint Action of the City Council Over the Bottle
Bottle Licenses—Aldermen Indulge in Some More
Childish Squabbles at the Council Board

j things didn’t suit

Not Stand for the Employment of a ‘Chain
Gang”’ to Lay Out Recrealion Park

IS TO TO RESIGN TOMORROW

Mr. Borden Will Probably An- |
nounce His New Cabinet!
Then.

(Caradian Press Despatch)
Ottawa, Oct. 3.—Wednesday has

now been agreed upon as the most

furnish a report upon the legality |likely day for the resignation of
of the licences. the Laurier Government. The
The suggestion of childishness|announcement of the personnel

of the Borden Ministry will prob-
ably be made at the same time.

brought Alderman Newton to his
He the

application of the term

{re quent
‘childish”’

council

feet. resented

NEW METHODIST CHURCH

members of
Hilditch

him.

to the other
Alderman

by whenever

Meeting of Building Committee

“You are worse than childish,’
oT tracts.
interrupted Alderman Hilditch

“People probably accuse you}

t re SO Oo hat ou ‘ ; :
with more rei - of ah al Church building committee is to
Bree 8 oF eee "be held tonight in Messrs. Williams
derman Newton OU CAN. Ole Nene te ofices dah the purpose |

1 f r and hear] , .
to your own preach¢ of awarding the contracts for the

what he has to SA) about you new church building. Rev. Charles
Laughter in council) Sing referrirg to the rew church |

Alderman Newton went on t0/ihe other day, said that every-
say that he believed G. Sutherland | thing was in pretty straight order
had not had a square deal because | now for the work to go right
he believed that defects alleged in ahead. The committec hi ve been |

‘ ; ; :, |Waiting to make certain of

Sutherlard's applic ution 8190: emtety necessary sum of about $8000

ed in the other application required in addition to the fund

ranted them by the church in the
but this sum is practically
them now, and progress

can be made at once with the}

new building. The Methodist
Chureh will be th<
il Last Night says Members | &).).¢)) buildings in the city when|

ore ol best

} compl ted.

SPRUCE FOR OARS

Hill clearing the level space for |
a Recreation Park was proposed.) British Admiralty Place Large |
to a] Orders with Queen Charlotte
Firm.

was no semblance

There
“chain gang”
The prisoners were under |

about the arrange- |
ment,
guard but were much more health- The British Admiralty recently |
ily employed at work in the ope MN! gave to the Moresby Island Lum-|
the alternative Of} ber Company, of Queen Charlotte, |

|
fe order for 200,000 feet of white }

!
his spruce,

|
air than under
being confined in the cells

Alderman raised
voice against the scheme declaring }jn the manufacture of oars for |

Douglas Ihe material will be used |
that working men supporters Of) <})e row boats of the warships.
ob-| The quality of the}

white spruce grown in the Queen |

his in the city had strong superior

jections to it,

Alderman Clayton declared the} Charlotte group was discovered |
letter from the I. W. W. branch] years ago by British naval officers |
was couched in arrogant and dic-| on the North Station.
tatorial terms and should not be| This kind of lumber was found |
noticed at all by the council. }to be ideally adapted for making

Alderman Newton said that the}oars and it is now used for that

Pacific

idea had got abroad that he had} purpose in His Majesty's vessels

originated the idea of employing}

throughout the world,
This he entirely} —_————

3 wisoners, 7" . . |
the pris The Cetriana left for the south |
|

disclaimed, 4
The I. W. W-ietter was received today with mail, passengers, anal

 

and filed. cargo.

| Qprmermermerms re irsrmermsrmsrmsrmermede | JeCctionable.

l

BASEBALL, SCORES '

ete sere essere eh

MONDAY BASEBALL

se

Northwestern League
The season ended with no games
today.
Vancouver 7, All-Stars 3.
National League
New York 3, Pittsburg 0.
Philadelphia 6, Boston 3.
American League
Cleveland 7, Detroit i.

PERT

\ meeting of the Methodist) First Letter Sent by British Air} BIG DEAL PUT THROUGH

Post Delivered at Digby Is-
land.

Mr. S. Jennings, engireer in

charge of the Digby Island Marine |

works, has been

Station

cipient an interesting com-

munication from London, England. |

first
It is

The missive is of the

aerial post cards ever sent.

one

a specially light card sold in Lon-

|don at sixpence (twelve cents) and

bearing an ordinary penny stamp
Sent by
was transhipped to ordinary mail

aerial mail to Windsor it

so forwarded to Rupert.
actual

and
Before
delivery may be seen effected in

bags,

very long aerial
Canada across the Prairies.

SAVED JAIL FARM

|Lack of Prison Labor Promptly| WELL DONE, GEO. TITE

Supplied to Order

of the Mid-

Cenn.,

Jailer George West,

dlesex County, prison at
Haddam, has reason to believe

ihat it pays to advertise.

the re-|}

Recently

They favored all the}

revenue the provmce

; % : : being | aviator Cromwell Dixon After
teised by the taxation of lands and | Topping Mountains Fell from
Distance of One Hundred
Feet.

natural resources.

ee (Canadian Press Despatch)
Jos. Bernier. Niember for St.) Spokane, Oct. 3.
Boniface, Enters the Mani-{his great triumph last Saturday
toba Cabinet.
} .
|
|

ere |
HE SUCCEEDS ROGERS __ |

tains in his successful flight here

(Canadian Press Despatch) from Helena, Cromwell Dixon

Winnipeg, Oct. 3.
the

jin Provincial Cabinet as aj|tor, dropped to death from a

result of the Robert Rogers ap-|height of one hundred feet. The
|pointment to. be Minister of the] tragic event occurred at the Inter- |

| Interior on the Borden Cabinet,|state Fair yesterday afternoor.
|

| Jos. COUNTY COURT TODAY

 

Bernier, the member for St.

This Evening to Award Con- AERIAL MAIL REACHES RU-| Boriface, is to be taken into the}

¥ ° ° . $F !
Provincial Cabinet. Judge Young will Endeavor to

Clear up Oldstanding Cases

 

This morning Judge Young was
lengaged with Court Registrar Bur-
| rit recently appointed in place
lof Mr. Arthur Cuthbert, in ar-
l ranging the courty court docket
for the present session. A number
lof cases fall to be dealt with, but

|: McLeod's Property on Third
| Avenue Fetches $14,000 Out-
side.

have

Victoria

purchased the property comprising

just

capitalists

Lots 18 and 19, Block 34, Section! nore is of unusual interest. Judge
11, for $14,000. The property is} Young said this morning that he
the residential site occupied by hoped to be able to settle at this

| Mr. D. McLeod of Foley, Welch &| session of court, as many as pos-

Stewart

big contracting firm to New Haz- |:

sible of the cases on the docket so
1s to have ro old standing cases
mext court.

, Who is moving with the

elton. to carry over to the

| Messrs. S. Harrison & Co, have
recently put through a number of

Some cases heave dragged for quite
a lorg time.

in >

TO START

{successful deals in real estate ee
| Prince Rupert to outside capital-
ists, and are keeping up the good
work through their outside sources

of attraction,

|

|
New Ward at the General Hos-
pital is a Generous and Cred- |

i ift. |
itable Gift George to Lay the

The new ward at the General | (Canadian Press Despatch)

OF TRIUMPH

In the shuffle |nineteen years old, a Curtiss avia-

FIGHT CALLED OFF

sa a
| Johnson-Wells Match Did not
| Take Place Yesterday as Ar-
| ranged.

|

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Lordon, Oct. 2.—The Johnsor-
Wells match arranged for today

Fresh from| Wes called off by the promoters

-jowing to the opposition it was

when he topped the Rocky Moun-}@rousing. Johnson says that after

.| finishing his present contracts he
,| will retire from the ring for good.

THEATRICAL SHOW COMING

Dave Williams Stock Co. Will
Stage Drama and Comedy at
Empress.

| On Wednesday, October 11, there

will be a good theatrical show at
|the Empress Theatre. The Dave
Williams Stock Compary is coming
| from Victoria ard’ will open then
for a week show of drama
jand comedy. The company has
|been having great houses, ard a
fine reception at Victoria, and
something real good may be ex-
pected in Rupert.

The Dave Williams Company
will be the biggest theatrical com-
pany which has yet visited Rupert.
It carries its own scenery, ard a

ore

lfeature of the setting will be
special scenery designed to suit
Prince Rupert. This will be a
}theatrical treat on a par with

Empress Theatre shows generally.

 

UNIVERSITY
CONSTRUCTION NEXT YEAR

‘Dr. Young Announces That the Sum of a Million Dol-
lars is to be Appropriated—Will Try to Get King

Foundation Stone

}event of that failing,a near relative,

it became known through the | Hospital which Mr, George Tite] Vancouver, Oct. 3.—At the open-| presumably the Duke of Con-

there not

h at the prison to

newspapers that were
inmates en

care for the prison farm and that

oug

there was danger of a part of the
crops going to waste if they were
not speedily cared for, Within a
few deys after this infromation
was published nine squads of

prisoners were committed on minor |

sentences and became immediately
for work the farm,
The crops have been saved.

available on

Provincial District Assessor Ar-

| thur Cuthbert is exceptionally busy

at present arranging for the com-
pletion of his assessment schedule

by November Ist.

}generously undertook to furrish|jng of Latimer College last night
| C —F
Hor. Dr. Yourg, Minister

jane thrown open to inspection by} Education, stated that a sum of

was completed yesterday evening,

is proud]one million dollars would be set

the matron’ who
of it. The furnishing of the new
ward is a credit to the good taste | for the purpose of commencing the

very
Lehre . ,
laside out of next year's revenue

j}and good heart of the donor, The} construction of the Provincial Uni-
| furniture is in dark oak, very
jrestful in the effect of its plain

versity at Point Grey.

He said it had been found
lines and subdued color, A hand-| necessary to add fifty more acres
some carpet with a dark green|to the site in addition to the 177

 

leffect was specially selected and|to provide grounds for the pro-

The president

, ® re i NCE
| made up to harmonise with the | ‘oreore gesidences,
of

; : the University would be the

Even the various small |; ;

| best man that morey could get,
He stated that an effort would

furniture,
jmats a id rugs were specially made.
The George Tite ward will be a

 

comfortable place to be ill in, the foundation stone, or in

of |}

be made to have King George lay
the

|naught.

COURTS CROWDED
:

| A Third County Judge is Needed
at Vancouver to Cope With

| Work.
|

(Canadian Press Despatch)
Vancouver, Oct. 38.
have the civil actions become in
the county court that a third
Judge an absolute necessity.
This month 401 cases were entered
the docket and hundreds of
cases will have to stand over.

So heavy

is

on

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