a 4 . ve ; NEXT MAILS tive Library urs ending 5 a.m., if ; ek abe a N-TEMP. BAR. IN. RAIN Camosun, Sunday......... 9 a.m. = i "49,0 90.218 4 Princess May......Monday, p.m. Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist WOL. II, NO. 251 PRINCE Rupert, B.C., Fripay, November 3, 1911. PRICE Five CENTS EPORT OF A CH E MASSACRE CONFIRMED ~OBBERS LOOT FOUND AT NEW WESTMINSTER um of $24,000 in Bills and Gold Discovered by Workmen this Morning Underneath a Sidewalk, one Block from the Bank of Montreal of an endeavor to connect them with the robbery. Canadian Press Despatch) New Westminster, Nov. 3.—Tearing ) tne lewalk mt Saturday Specials at Shrubsall’s tant from the scene of the| Market f Mor this morning a fe treal robbery of September of workmen found four A large quantity of venison received ve and ten dollar bills|today, many choice cuts ready for f gold amounting to $24,380. | delivery. is identified as part of | e loot taken from the bank. Great} when the dis- | Some choice specimens of spring broilers and roasting chickens 85.c up. Another shipment of those large jchoice shrimp tomorrow. Bring your table troubles to Shrubsall’s where you will find it task to make a selection for Sunday dinner. eitemer prevailed e known s one block from Trapp’s the robbers unsuccessfully | teal an automobile on the robbery Two mé ire under arrest in an easy The new G.T.P. News Stand for Lowney’s delicious Choco- ler by the police to be part| lates, fresh from the factory. tf ONSERVATIVES | _ CITY NEEDS NEWSPAPERS MAKE GAINS |. Hilditch Has Brilliant Idea. City Should Buy a PaPer of Its | berta By-elections Give Three Con- | Own for Wouldn't servative Gains at Gleichen, Leth- , 8 oe bridge and Pincher Creek. neue Freer Van- arge of vagrancy which Municipal Advertising. the Council Reports Tenders for advertising the local he wieules of | UMPorvement achedule for Section One élections dance Lezislature | ¥'!! be called for from the two daily 0 resulted in Veer tie mann Con- | P&Pers- Alderman Hilditch thinks it inl Calgary, Tlaichsn. would pay the council to buy a news- Pineher Grodin This paper to do the work as the advertising 18 extensive. ervatives a gain of three : & ; It was agreed to advertise for tenders. Calgary being formerly Press Despatch) Nov. 2. ridge and Con- ao S. A. FAREWELL COULDN'T BUS T NEW YORK Parting Social for Ensign Johnstone wo Reckless Youths in a Vain At- and roraty Shortly tempt to Burn up Broadway are ; On the fifteenth of November the Laid out Within a Week—Ani. -" he fifteenth 1 Expensive Death Salvation Army corps under Ensign Johnstone here, will hold a farewell social for the Ensign and his family. I After spending $1,-|,,. "6 ; or 1 The details of this social which will rk in a week, William ‘ . . be the best ever held in the S. A. citadel irles Percival lie dead, : ‘ yet, will be announced later. Farewell ( ec ; services will be held on Thursday, 11th, ‘ ed the money and ; ; , f : and on the Sunday following unless BEE riend that they take]. 7 ‘ es ss Ensign Jehnstone cannot get a _ boat up Broadway. » 1 south on the Monday in which case ‘New York they drank | ; b 7 he will leave by the Camosun on the nd night. They were Sund ne Sunday morning. critically ill and their |°U" y e far gone for recovery. €«] e {¢ ecovery The trawler Kingsway berthed at the Davis wharf yesterday with a big D ¢ ” os fore ? ind D” came before} aul of cod which were boxed for Van- Thomas r his little jag. COs TAOTRANg couver Here at last Our delayed shipment Latest models, many styles, Wallace's. lano with general cargo | of corsets. t the G. T. P. wharf. 31. M. S. COLOSSUS FIRED | ON THE PRINCE’S WARSHIP Pensational Incident Marked Recent Gunnery Trials in England—Young Prince Was Below at the Time and No Harm Resulted 1 Press Despatch) | 3.—A London cable | all sizes. AWFUL LIGHTNING FLASH \ Nov A \ “ ecked out of a sensational Rent the Top of Copper Mountain a : in Califernia in an_ Instant ceurred off Portsmouth | when the battleship Hin- | h the Prinee of Wales (Canadian Press Despatch PARTNERS DISAGREE Charges and Countercharges Laid by Members of Pony Express Co. Against Each other. Case Pending | of A somewhat complicated of disagreement in partnership has come before the magistrates. The principal parties involved are M. Rootjes and E. A. Elliott of the Pony Express Com- pany. The case first came up when a charge of misappropriation of the sum of $825 was laid by M. Rootjes against E. A. Elliott, his partner. It wes stated that the money had been withdrawn from the bank account of the firm by Elliott while M. Rootjes was up river. Blank signed cheques had been left by Mr. Rootjes for the purposes of the firm and one of these had been used so the case at re’ complainer says, for the withdrawal a the authorised Carss when he heard the circumstances | without | the limits of a criminal charge, and the | case remained pending until a counter-| charge was entered by Elliott, that M.|of $130 from Frank Morris was laid Rootjes and the third partner in the| against Mike Miskavitch yesterday, and business had unlawfully appropriated | Mike who has every appearance of being one of the firm’s essential documents. | honest is detainea by the police pending The case comes up for investigation | investigation. before Magistrate MeMullin this evening | meanwhile granted a involved which withdrawal. sum was not the case held that it was 8.30 p.m. and will ferred to the civil court. probably A Million Feet The S.S. Washtucna with million feet of lumber for the G. T. P.| Telephone 820 green. is lying at the tie wharf this morning. nearly CHARGE OF THEFT an | Magistrate | Remand for Honest Looking Foreign- In- er This Morning Pending vestigation. Magistrate Carss having remand. be|was some drinking mixed up in the | business and the charge may be cleared | up without serious trouble. a| For row boats and launches Davis Boat House. How the Trouble Arose public through sat obligation not to embarrass the council | | It will be remembered that the News | criticised the hydro-electric by-law, and out ant together, pointed that by grouping two/|¢ separate penditure The reason for the law] If two distinct objects of | Act. is obvious. Clauses the Executive Council of British Col-| Power Company, umbia had finally declared its illegality. | quite aware of the defect in the city’s enc by-law, took the ground that if the cit-| Were brought to bear on the Provincial lizens did not want them to enter the| Premier to secure his promise to pass WATERWORKS BY-LAW ILLEGAL Now that the matter has been made|in order to get the utility he wants the news despatches | Voter would have to vote for the other the News is released from its self-imposed utility whether he wanted it or not. City Solicitor Peters Has a Trip to Victoria to Try and Induce the Provincial Cabinet to Pass Legislation to Tinker the Job Up MUST GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE AGAIN Mayor Refuses to Let Daily News Readers Know the Exact Contents of City Soli- citor’s Telegram to the City, but Makes a Statement of His Own—Banks Had Refused to Advance Money on the Bylaw on the Ground That It Was Illegal—If the City Should Ratify the Bylaw Again, Then B. C. Legislature of 1912 Will Consider It Special to The Daily News Victoria, Nov. 2--It is reported here that the application of! the city of Prince Rupert for special legislation to legalize an il- legal hydro-electric by-law has been heard, Mr. F. Peters, city solicitor of Prince Rupert making the application. The Executive Council decided that the by-law will have to be submitted to the people again for ratification, and that if the by-law is thus ratified, the government will consent to the pas- sing of a private bill to legalize the hydro-electric by-law. |expenditure are grouped together, then | advances from the bank to start the a|undertaking. The bank’s lawyers who PeRanines the by-law before advancing | any money on it, detected its illegality, No one filed any objection against | 2nd advised the bank not to advance ty thne they would not take any |Special legislation to legalise the by-law. | chance of the season to secure a supply occupation. against the provisions of the Municipal | taking. It is understood on good authority " that the first trouble arose over securing by discussing the illegal by-law until) the by-Iaw, not even the Tsimpsean ; ®2y of its funds on the security of the} who while probably | by-law. It is also understood that influences |the banks refused to make advances CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Nov. 3.—-The opening of the | British Parliament has revived all manner of rumors as to the future of | the British Liberal party, as well of the Conservatives. The hatred of} Balfour is the chief topic of talk in the| as clubs and committee rooms, The Hallsbury club brings to 2 cli- | max all the hatred of Balfour of the} San Bernardino, Cal., Nov. 3. The truck by a shot from whole of Copper Mountain Collosius, while engaged top an was here, and the topography of the entire the stationed near effect of the curing a slight mist a hell from the oe rd on the after . the shell was harmless but narrowly note of earth overwhelmed two miners who Colossius | managed, however, to escape, one being | deck, badly injured. missed a INVADES BRITISH COLUMBIA the only person on : : e deck, Duke of Sutherland Acquires Lanc Near Victoria to Settle His Tenants on, The Prince was he time $200 AN ACRE (Canadian Press Despate>) Victoria, Nov. 2.—-The Duke of Sutherland has purchased 1,000 acres near here at Royal Oak to settle with Scotch farmers from the Sutherland estates. Co tract is Awarded for Clearing the l : "versity Site at Point Grey ian Press Despatch) “A contract was y to the Cotton Company ‘ving of the university site he price was $200 per Five Months’ Sentence William Vincent was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment cat New Westminster for vagrancy- Vincent 18 Panto muorium an old offender. Pioneer Cleaners, Phone 4, was | be blown off by a terrible lightning fiash | mountian is changed. Thousands of tons | Tory, and especially the extreme tariff | reformers’ ranks. | Balfour is Hated becomes a | | “Balfour must go,’’ now | public battleery instead of being sup- | ported in private conclave. This new | anti-Balfour’ movement is more likely to do him good than harm. Gross | stupidity chiefly representative the new meleontents, especially by the |men whose policy has brought the Tory party to its present position. | 18 ol} The Insurance Bill Lloyd-George’s position has become | | uncertain during the last few weeks, | land it is said he had pledged himself | | : : : ito resign if the insurance bill is not) | Many thought his doom was | | | |sealed, Today the sky suddenly cleared and Lloyd-George was able to announce | ithat he has squared all opposition by | la timely amendment, Lloyd-George Will be Premier carried, | | This is another proof of the extra- will. make him the inevitable prime | it would not be a matter for surprise ordinary nimbleness and adroitness of | the remarkable man and if the ! pill insurance passes, BRITISH PARLIAMENT HAS OPENED AGAIN Ls PREMIER ASQUITH Who may shortly hand over the reigns of office to Lloyd-George ,|minister whenever Asquith goes, Mr,|to find Mr. Lloyd-George Premier of | dismissed. as now seems certain, it| Asquith’s health is not of the best and | England within a year, A charge of having stolen the sum There They Got Completely Out of (Canadian Press Despatch) Pekin, Nov. 3.—Owing to a massacre at Hankow by the Imperial troops, word of which has reached both the war department and the German lega- tion, a great hindrance to the peace negotiations may ensue. The Imperialists have got beyond control and further fighting is feared. In such a case the lives of foreigners are jeopardized and it may be difficult to protect the foreign concessions us they are only separated by streets fifty to sixty feet wide. Further details of the fighting at Hankow state that hand to hand fighting took place in the streets, the quarters being too close for shooting. The rebels were driven back with great slaughter. CHINESE IMPERIAL TROOPS — PERPETRATE ATROCITIES Hand After their Victory at Hankow — Grave Fears for the Safety of Europeans _A Hindrance to Peace Negotiations CHURCH MILITANT Injured Pastor Gave Sermon From Bea Denver, Nov. 2.—Rev. Walter Ru- dolph, pastor of the Union Presbyterian Church here, severely injured in a factional fight in his church Tuesday night, delivered a sermon last night from the bed on which he is confined, while members of his flock, representing his following from the congregation proper, knelt or stood about his bedside. The C. P. R. S.S. Princess Ena with over 600 tons of freight is at the G. T. P. wharf discharging. FOREIGNERS SCRAPPED Vociferous and Lacrimose Evidence in Police Court Today—Fines In- flicted. J. Bonna appeared before Magistrate Carss this morning charged with creating a disturbance. Accused became very vociferous when charged declaring that his house had been invaded by another man. Accused’s sister Alice—a middle aged ma-tied woman whose name the Magistrate had to require it writing | as it was so hard to spell, appeared, giving tearful evidence. She told how the accused and another man had WILL DO HIM SOME GOOD Son of a Millionaire Lumberman Sentenced to Work at a Gravel Pit During His Youth—Is Better Than a Broadway Existence. (Canadian Press Despatch) Bellingham, Wash., Nov. 2.—Fred Nolte, the 16 year old son of a million- aire banker and timberman, must go to »ork on a gravel pit on Lummi Island and report at regular intervals to the court. Otherwise he must serve come home raging crazy drunk and|a sentence of from one to fifteen years raised Cain. The charge was amended to plain d. and d. and Bonna was fined $5 and costs or seven days. He still | protested, and the Magistrate warned |him that not even in his own house | couled he make such a row as had been | complained of. The other party to |the racket, Mike Bokavich, was also |fined $5 and costs. Bonna’s sister |refused to pay his fine so Bonna will go to gaol for a week. Chief Vickers | {remarked that the row had almost | lended in clubbing when the police| arrived. | j Preserving Pears A large shipment of preserving pears | | has just been received at Shrubsalls’ | | Market to be sold at the low price of| $2.00 a box. This will be the last! 1 distinct objects of ex- advantage of technicalities in the law to | It is understood that the Premier's of this fine preserving fruit. the by-law was | embarrass the city council in their under- | Verbal consent was obtained, but that | They are also displaying an attractive | display of Jonathan apples, and many | very reasonable prices. Call up phone| in Munroe Reformatory. The youth had confessed to a burglary at a local store. BRING BRITISH FARMERS Syndicate Headed by Duke of Suther- land Secure Land in Alberta Nov. 2.—-British Columbia men, including F. L. Carter-Cotton, were mentioned by the Duke of Suther- land as interested in a syndicate to promote the immigration of English and Scottish farmers to the Canadian Northwest. Some 2,000 acres have been purchased in Southern Alberta, near Clyde. This land has been divided into twelve farms and is ready for Picked farmers from the duke’s estate in Scotland will be placed on them next spring. Sir William Mackenzie, Sir Edmund Toronto, —_______...| other varieties of seasonable fruits at | Walker, Sir Henry Pellatt, Toronto, and Mayor Sanford Evans of Winnipeg, are also to be in the syndicate. 275 and ask them about them. | | | Mayor as Member for Distri Commission Intends to Here of a Proper Cost of conveying prisoners and their |guards from Prince Rupert to New | Westminster when the prisoners are {sentenced to long terms, and the cost |of bringing the guards back to the city is a heavy item in the expenditure of the | city police work. The fact was brought up by Chief Vickers at the meet- jing of the police commissioners held yesterday afternoon in the City Hall. Mayor Manson remarked that he had | been considering that very point once or twice of late, and he felt that the time |}had come for Prince Rupert to have a more suitable Provincial gaol fit for the accommodation of prisone’s from | the city and surrounding districts who | might have incurred long sentences for |serious offences. It is probable that Mr. Manson may use his influence with {the Provincial authorities to have a proper building erected within a reason- able time for this purpose, Chief Vickers was able to report only one fairly serious municipal criminal ease, that of Philip Nicholas who was sent below for five months for cheque \forgery. Twenty-five cases in all came before the magistrate. There were twenty-two convictions and three dis- missais. Seventeen cases of “D and D” on SENDING PRISONERS SOUTH — COSTS CITY TOO MUCH Lloyd-George by a Clever Amendment Silences Opposition to His Insurance Bill—| Conservatives Rebel Against Balfour—Lloyd-George May be Premier Shortly ct, and Chairman of Police Move for the Erection Provincial Gaol for the month amourted to $178.00 and the monthly pay roll was $604.25. A number of accounts were passed the heaviest amongst them being that of J. E. Merryfield $32,85, and the interest- ing reminder of the strike riot period last srping in the shape of an account for $33.50 for sandwiches supplied the constables then on night duty by the Exchange Grill. Eleven dollars and sixty cents fell to be paid Miss Nyland for stenographic work done at the time of the Chinese gambling case which was dismissed. Resolutions from the I. W. W. branch here, and from the Longshoremen’s Union protesting against the so-called “Chain gang ’ system of getting prisoners to help grade the Athletic Park Ground were read, They expressed the opinion that the system was “the degrading result of a badly administered licence system,” and said its effect was bad on the rising generation, besides being the thin end of the wedge for cheap labor. On the motion of Commissioner M. M. Stephens these documents were filed without comment. Applications from Eli W. MacCullach, James Keith) and M. J. Teague for positions on the police force were handed were dealt with one of these being There were two cases of giving liquor to Indians, Total fines | over to Chief Vickers along with others for consideration, eaud report when vacacancies were available. 4 a eA Hilo dail a me aes Lo. ae.