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UNLESS TRIPOLI IS SURRENDERED|: ... stale AN ALDERMAN DEMANDS TO KNOW
x New York, Oct. 17. x
iati : # (Specia!)—Philadelphia Am- % sanonn-sslbdiiadatiipscccasiaal
ace Negotiations at Rome Fall ’ Through Owing’ td to Italy’s Attitude— Demands an se ane defeated the New y| Although the City Has a Purchasing Agent It Trahtpives That He Has Been In-
Unconditional Surrender Without Compensation for Turkey—Turkish mu York Giants again by - structed to Make No Purchases Until Ald. Hilditch Has Seen the Requisi-
Troops Are Repulsed in an Attack on Italians Outside Tripoli se score of 8 toBtoday in an gg tions—Inquiry Reveals a Very Strange State of Affairs
Car Press Despatch) on Sunday a body of Turkish| Young Turks in Power x eleven inning contest which #] Prince Rupert’s purchasing|does the ordering in this town?| finance committee has had occasion
O 17.—The nego- Infantry attacked the entrenched | Constantinople, Oct. 16.—The]# was probably the most &) agent problem again vexed Alder-|If not the purchasing agent, then|to consult the purchasirg agent
ins for peece between Italy and advanced posts of the Italian jopenirg of the new Parlaiment|* bitterly fought battle in ¥%]man Newton last night. He sum-| who?” on bills ard he has admitted that
@ Turkey have failed, and hos-}@rmy west of Boumelaine. After|on Saturday showed the Young] eny of the world’s series in #/) med up the situation regarding the} In various ways during the|he did not order the goods.”
bies will n. This has been {several hours fighting, the Italian) Turks—the war party—to be in| recent years. %/ ordering of supplies in these words:} lengthy discussion Alderman New-| City Clerk Woeds, the purchasing
| from high authority by|Infantry backed by field gurs|the majority. Ahmaed Riza, one] Matthewson and Coombs &|‘'The chairman of a committee hn Kectioratid the question with- | @gent, nodded assent.
ndon Daily Chronicle’s Vien-|landed from the fleet and forced | of the most militant of them, was|# pitched. Baker tied the #|/0, K.’s the bills. The finance] out getting ary definite reply.| Alderman Newtor declared that
pondent, end is announced the Turks to beat a retreat. Four|elected to be president. The| score by a home run in the | committee passes them upon his| [p a ge nerel way the statement was|during his rire morths term as
n edition. The|Italians were wounded, ard the|Sultan’s speech from the throne,|# ninth. #/O. K. But we have a purchasing | ma, sde by Acting Meyor Hilditch|@lderman he had never been in a
lomatic negotiations entered in- | dead body of one of the Turks was|charged Italy with breach of | ® Kjagent in this town. It is his|that the City Engineer did a good| position, though chairman of a
Rome have ended in failure. |left behind. | the international laws. MMMM MMM OR MM Moo a MX) duty to make the purchase. Who! deal of ordeds g of supplies end|committee, to hard out eny pat-
Italy is Obdurate —=— |thet the superinterdert of public] ronege whatever, but allowed him-
} the stumbling | Does It Mean Peace? TY- | works also ordered supplies. The self to be corrected by Acting
is Italy's firm) Berlin, Oct. 17.—The Kaiser THIR SEVEN AND A HALF CENTS PER HOUR | city purchasing eagert ordered the nex Hilditch, reme mberir g a
ler eny thing but lh ie titted the Itallin Aiitieueedi se supplies passe d upor in committee, ee a eae : tt eeu with
urrender of Trip [Signor Ps ee ae r Ba F | under ir struction of the chairman city ge : erg . eters: ;
nd the refusatie oe , toa conference today Minimum Wage Set by Council for Labor on Woodworth Lake Waterworks lof committee, ard it wes his duty| Alderman Clayton hinted that
ny compensation lon me politcal ees he Last night the city council dis-|day penalty clause is leviable| precautions against fire. Two | look efter: the interests of the ETNA ee pour ae
g Tripoli. pernias hence: 36 ‘alag” to cussed the City Eng lans|for delayed work. months is the time limit set for|“''Y end see that the prices of sects epi nae peeve
Etidalls: | Sdaculatin . ie tite. as ; ity reer’s plans | sia ets vs sion] the -ccaaglintiin “ol aie eae a4 epee were rezsoreble. lem wes due to his growing am-
Fighting at Tripoli to the meaning of this It Jor pe oe for the cleating eae ck ee - don't. enpecti’ he Seon be|, “But orly this everirg,” ex. | bifions tows rds the mayoral chair,
v 17. Betore dawn | German conference. Ta uP vert re |to be responsible each personally done by station gang,” said. Al- | cle imed Alderman Newton “the! (Continued on page +.)
worth Lake, =e today the City lfor the completion of the work. derman Hilditch fast right.’’ | ———
| Hall is busy with would be bidders | Extra men may be hired by the] ‘Why not just do it by days|
| | A | U hide over these, |station gangs in the event of|labor anyway?’’ asked Alderman | DASTARDLY PLOT FOILED
The minimum wege arrived at | dela iy. Private contractors are| Kirkpatrick.

  

after a lengthy discussion will be | also open to bid giving a ten per

(OF JAPANESE PLOTS : at 1-2 ‘mats pee hour contract | | cent cheque as guarantee.
Beg aa TN abor, and the same for station Briefly the work calls for straight
leangs hiring mer. Eight hour|close cutting, cleating and logging

hey Have Discovered That Tokio Was Informed in

|
“Oh, come, the people expec ss
|

TO KILL PRESIDENT TAFT

Quantity of Dynamite Was Discovered in the Footwork

little business sense from us surely,’
Hilditch.
the work will probably be carried

replied Alderman So

 
 

Advance About the Chinese Revolution—For-
mer President of Chinese Council is

|

being a'lowed to work more than
leight hours, and no shift being |
more than eight hours, Con-}
|tractors will be responsible

Suspected of Sympathy
Press Despatch) | that the former leader is really
0 17 aid “Ch Wines in sympat! hy with the revolt, and
her are anxiously | !8 only waiting foi few more}
| te) > i r in is
movements, hev-| Success: before thre wing it hi
olsa’ want well Hlot with the revolutioraries.
It, long before] All telegrams to Hankow ar
now censored. The foreign consuls
stra heave protested #gainst their official
Yuansi Kai, the I ;
' ; messages being butchered
ie Couacil, will

the Government
hand in carrying

It is freely stated |

| for

News Stand
Choco-

The new G.T.P.
Lowney’s delicious
lates, fresh from the factory.

 

VANCOUVER DETECTIVE
KILLS ESCAPING PRISONER |

ather Than Let His Man Run Away in the Fog, De-

tective Campbell Shot a

Suspected Thief Dead

Happened in Lane Behind Hastings St.

Pre D« spatch)
Y et. 17,—V
the

ancouver
killing
Webb by Detective

over

local police force.

he act of escaping |

the time of his
bb was wanted on
{t by the detective

 

who located him in billiard
parlor on Hastings street east, and
asked him to come out in the lane
The man but outside
he bolted and wa
the fog. The fired severa!
times but with no effect. Finally
he raised the gun and took ca

bullet the

wert, OTr CE

s getting away in

otheer

reful

aim, the entering left

side neer the heart.

Webb died within a

few minutes,

 

0 ABOLISH
WARD SYSTEM

Iderman N

 

‘ ewton Brings up
ne Question Acting Mayor

Hilditch Grows Scornful at
the Press of Prince Rupert.
“ one of my con-
exceedingly anxious
a d do something in
4 a away with the
', said Alderman New-
: “I think I may
bi, | th great mandate
| pay some attention
E '. I would not mind
et tuuion that the coun-
h matter in hand and
ae em done away with,”
ba Mayor Hilditch explained

Olicitor had already

 

 

taken the matter in herd when
the G. T. P. officials were here
last, and all that could be done
was being done. If they hed
waited for the press to begin the
work, he declared, the city would
have been too late. As it w

the press had left it to poor,
hard-worked aldermen like him-

self to take the first steps, the press

reserving to itself the sole right
to unjust criticism, It was the
newspapers’ business to take up
this question rather than leaving

it to be handled by ‘‘pick-me-up
councillors whom you pick up on
the streets,’ he said. The city
solicitor will ascertain whether
the petition rd
system mailed to

to abolish the we
legally

lot owners, @5

can be

outside all possible

signatures will be needed for 1t,

tf

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accidents to men, and

|
for| sanitation are to be enforced during
a $25 per} the

| lay will be enforced ro employee | lover an area of &bout 160 acres

divided up into sections of from
26 to 36

Strictest

acres each,

regulations regarding

work, and_ similarly strict

out by contract

cents per hour, and already 2

prominent labor organiser in the
city has vowed that his followers

will know the reason why.

 

TAFT THE ATTRACTION ‘ARE AG AINST

Los Angeles People Desert the |

McNamara Trial to See the!

President.

Canadian Press Despatch)

Angeles, Oct. 16 The Mc-
Namara trial is in the background
today Pre
There is little interest ta
hitty

Los

because
he re.
trial, while

in the over

sand people gathered to see

President arrive.

WORK STOPPED
ON G. T. P.

| Trans-continental Commission
Order Western Contractors
to Stop Work—May Hold In-

vestigation.

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Ottawa. Oct. 17.—A report that
the Government had ordered the
cessation of work on the National
Trans-continental Railway from
Winnipeg to Moncton has been
denied here. The report stated
that the Government intended to

hold an investigation regarding the
expenditure and construction and
that all work is to be held up as
the

The truth is that the commission-
the Western
work,
especially on the Western section,
but the order was not made by the

result of the order.

ers have ordered

contractors to stop more

Government.
FIND SEAM OF COAL

Grading Gang on C. N. R. near
Battle Bluff Have a Lucky
Find.

Kamloops, Oct. 17.—-While grad-
ing near Battle Bluff on the line
of the C. N. R. yesterday, a
gang uncovered a
big seam of coal which is said to

construction

be of commerical proportions,

sident Taft is}
ken |
thou- |
the}

 

 

PRISON LABOR

Longshoremen’'s Union Protest
Against Publicly Punishing
“The Victims of a Badly Ad-

ministered Liquor License

System.”

Prince Rupert branch of the
Lorgshoreman's Union has pro-
tested to the city council against
the system of employirg prison
labor to grade the proposed recre-
ation park on Acropolis Hill. They
refer to the men employed as
“the chain gang" and say that it

that the victims of a
badly administered liquor license

should be thus to
They the
system is em-
ployment at
fair re-

is a shame

made
that
fair
labor
was

system

toil. also argue
against the
of legitimate
wages. The letter

ferred to the police commission.

TRAIN WRECK
NEAR OMAHA

Missouri Pacific Passenger
Train Ran into Fast Freight
Seven Killed and Twenty In-
jured.

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Omaha, Oct. 17.—Seven persons
were killed and twenty
yesterday when a Missouri Pacific

injured

passenger train crashed into a fast
freight train at Fort Crook, The
Florida was among
Mistaken
caused the

governor of
ore lers

dus-

those injured.
are said to have
aster,

C. P. R. Royal Arrived
The Princess Royal last night
brought about fifty tons of freight
and twenty-five passengers. She
proceeded north at midnight. Mail

 

ANOTHER SEWER FACTORY |

Local Man Who Makes Cement |

Flues Would Embark on Sew- |

er Pipe Enterprise.

F. Shaw who makes concrete
flue pipes in sections at his works
on McBride street between Seventh
and Eighth avenues, has <
sewer

of

city

concrete pipes to

and cith engineer.

rd of works.

council
Referred to boa

HOUSE TO MEET

IN FOUR WEEKS

Date of Opening is Fixed for|

November 15th—Will Have
Brief Adjournment at Christ-
mas—Burrell Sworn In,
(Canadian Press Despatch)
Ottawa, Oct. 17,—Parliament
has been called for the dispatch
November
the

of business to meet on
15th. This date was fixed by
Cabinet in council yesterday after-
and an announcement made
later by Premier Borden,

The session will not be unduly
prolonged. After a brief adjourn-
ment at Christmas,
will be

noon

prorogation

sought probably at the

end of January or the first week
of February.
(Special) —Hon, Martin Burrell,

Minister of Agriculture, was sworn
in this morning by the Duke of
Connaughé.

CONDEMN NE TEMERE

Decree of Roman Church Af-
fecting Marriage Censured by
Methodists.

Toronto, Oct. 17.—By a rising
vote, the Ecumencial Council of
the Methodist Conference today
overwhelmingly condemned the

 

 

was also brought by the Royal.

principle of the Ne Temere decree.

labor at 37 1-2]

ipplied | The
for permission to submit si -mples| =
the | i

 

the train has to pass to enter the

New Mexico border, a quantity
of dynamite had beer placed.|
obvious intention wes

of a Trestle Bridge Over Which the President’s

Train Had to Pas-—Plotter Fled When

J Fired on by Watchman

{

(Canadian Press Despatch) jexplode it*as the train passed

|

San Francisco, Oct. 17.—-A start-| OVE

lling ard dastardly attempt to The discovery of the dastardly

\weanle the ranidentaboiea ee | plot is due to a railroad wetchman

| veying President Patt and his | Who s2w 2@ man at work in the
: : |footwork of the brid Fearing

party has been discovered. Unde r-| ; Me : &

: , hicl that he had sinister designs, the

}neath a trestle bridge over which| watchman fired his gun at the

j}man, who fled ieaving the dyna-

behind. The incident has
a shock to the Californian

mite
caused

to| people.

 

$.S. PRINCESS BEATRICE IS
STILL UPON THE ROCKS

All the Passengers Have Been Transferred and are on
Their Way South—Foreholds are Full of Water
—After Cargo is Removed, Boat Will Float

(Canadian Press Despatch)

Vancouver, Oct. 17.—The latest

news of the steamer Princess
Beatrice is effect
is still fast the
Island, in Christy Passage,
her

These

that
re »cks on

the

on

to
she
Noble

but all
lande d.

dred Chinamer

pessengers are safely
include two hun-
and ore hurdred
whites

The

steamer Salvor reached the

Beatrice yesterdey ard will assist
her. The cargo is to be unloaded,
when it is thought the vessel will
float off the rocks. The passen-
gers are all their wey south
row, havirg been landed at Alert
Bay by the steamer Venture.

on

The foreholds of the Princess
Beatrice are reported to be full of
water.

Pantorlum Biciakos ‘Chashous, Phone 4

 

Weigh Scales at Last
City
chased without further delay. Al-
derman Newton declared last night
that he was surprised that they
had not been installed lorg ago.
He suggested that someone could

weigh sdales will be pur-

on a
basis to do the
scales and installation
to about $500,

be employed
weighing. The

will come

Rossen: Penaiian Cities
An offer from the
Municipal Journal of subscription
rates at $15 for 12 copies was
received by the city courcil last
night. The Jourrel advertises
the cities subscribing, ard requests
only that cities should secure ¢
certain number
in return,

Canadian

of subseriptiors

 

ITALIANS HAVE
A KNIFE FIGHT

 

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Whole Construction Gang Take
a Hand—Dead Body of One
Man Discovered Hidden in a
Bush.

Parry Sound, Oct. 17,—Several

Italians employed in a construction

battle with

camp engaged in a
knives last night with the result
that was one killed ard several

wounded, The dead body of ore
men was found today in a bush
where it had been thrown.

S. Mussallem has applied to
the council for electric light as
he is to erect his store. Referred
to light and phone committee.

 

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