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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1911.

 

PRICE FIVE CENTS

 

 

‘HINESE MISSIONARIES
ARE FOULLY MURDERED

ress Despatch.)

  
   
   

|and five of the Mission children.
Pe Nov, 22—The killing of | Mr. Breckman escaped
Ri at Sian Fu has been|wounds. The surviving foreign-
rth nfirmed by Chinese |ers are being sheltered by the
t

with

ydents. arriving from ~there. | Chinese Christians.
that during the fight- —_——
ie mob attacked the} Now is the time to get Xmas
‘na Inland Mission outside the| cards for friends oversea. Your
irdered Mrs. Breck-|every wish can be supplied at
American missionary McRae Bros.

   

 

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HON. A.G. MACKAY IMMIGRANTS ARE WOULD ABOLISH
GETS NOMINATED COMINGINFAST WARD SYSTEM

(Canadian | (Canadian Press Despatch.) The Victoria Trades and
Owen Sound, Noy. 22.- Ottawa, Nov. 22—During seven | Labor Council has passed a
Hon. A. G. Mackay, who re-|™onths of 1911 a total of 265,833| resolution favoring the ab-
Ta lls , oe immigrants arrived in Canada. |olishing of the ward svstem
o ntly resigned the leader- 172,260 were from Europe, and d + y
ship of the Liberal party in jand has sent a request to

: : 12) 93,973 from the States. In the | th Vietoria ‘Cit C i]
Ontario, has been again giv-| period of 1910 the total was 227... | r ICVOFIG, Avy ouncl
en the unanimous nomina-|805, being 142,529 from Europe|@Sking that they submit a
tion for North Grey.

and 85,276 from the States. referendum to the people at
Dr. W. A. Henderson has

 

Press Despatch.)

 

 
  
  

EW STEAMER “PRINCESS SOPHIA’’
WILL BE PUT ON THE ISLAND RUN

make 14 knots an hour.

As a passenger vessel the
Princess Sophia will be one
of the best in the northern
trade. She will have 80
staterooms opening on deck
and seating arrangements
for 108 passengers. There
will be accommodation for

Thenew steamer ‘Princess |
ophia’, which the C, P. R.|
B having built at Bow Mce-
’s yards at Paisley,
otland, for the Queen Char-
tte, run was launched last
She is expected to
r maiden trip in the

of April. In ap-

he much resembles
May. Her
245 feet., 44 foot
nd 1,200 tonnage.
have oil burners and

CAPT. DAN LINDEBURG IS ONE OF
THE BEST SEAMEN ON THE COAST

built to sail as well as her gaso-
line auxiliary drives her.

Before regular steamers were
running up to Stewart and Port
Simpson Mr. Lindberg did a
good deal of work ferrying pas-
fsengers in his boat. This is the
first time he has had a mishap,
and the reason for the trouble in

    
 

and
the

deck
on

aft on the main
special apartments

rrincess

ientals.

 

tranding of the launch
ce at Halibut Bay the
is an example of the
litions under which
ork is done on the
iring the winter.
eberg, the owner of
as one of the very

on the coast. He) this case is said to be the excep-

as these parts for fully| severity of the squall which
u more. He built the} caught the boat. Navigation of
! ‘ort Simpson in 1907, | the waters around Prince Rupert
{her a great deal. | js no child’s play as launch own-

The 30 feet jong and | ers here know.

V.C. HERO HELD |BANK REWARDS
AS A SUSPECT LUCKY FINDERS

Dally News:) New Westminster, Nov. 22—A
John! reward of ten per cent. has been

sant Cisco, Nov.
» Who won the Victoria} paid by the bank of Montreal to

 

99

e South African war, | the six workmen who found $24.-
as received presenta-|370 of stolen money recently.
for life saving, is und-| Bach man gets a little over $400.

er ar He is thought to be |
Want murder in Bloemfon- |

alr irge of cruelty in con-| BIG STEAMER IS

ect th his children led to| ON THE ROCKS

his a and a search through |}

ed to his connection (Canadian Press Despatch.)

itive from Bloemfon-

New York, Nov. 22.—The
passenger steamer Prinz
Joachin, which sailed for
Jamaica, is reported on the
rocks two hundred miles
north of Hayti. She carried
a large number of excursion-
ists. No details are avail-
able yet.

\lexander, the young iererss 4
got into trouble yester- Reciprocity Not Dea
(Canadian Press Despatch.)

handling of a

valued at some| Ottawa, Nov.
property of J. S.|}the leading Liberal
eweller, Sixth street, is
’ be released from his

inder arrest. A few
ends of his have got to-
nd planned that by the

of the missing ring,
can be located easily
Gra By its return to Mr.
by “» (he trouble for George can
dant et Mr. Gray was not
Saal, at pressing the charge
» he young man,

MAY NOT PRESS CHARGE

 

Friends of George Alexander’s
Are Anxious to Give the
Young Man a Chance and

_ Recovering the Diamond
ing,

 

his
99

ring

$175 a

sue.

A Good Move

eno

neighbor,

the McIntyre Hall.
and music in town,—Coms
Gent’s $1.00, ladies free.

ae ( tome anc
gland—new shipment of lad- ;
its. Wallace's,

 

see,

 

orlop deck forward for Or-

Several of

members |
here have expressed their belief
that Reciprocity is not a dead is-

Ald. Hilditch has taken up res-

7 re

idence next door to the News
office and gives promise of a good

Don’t you forget the regular
weekly Dance tomorrow night in
Best floor |

nm | the coming municipal elec-
been given the Liberal nom- MORE MINERS tion dealing with the aboli-
| ination at West Lambton to

FROM GOOSE BAY ‘ion &f the ward system of
|oppose Provincial Secretary

| voting.
|W. J. Hanna at the Ontario g Res
| elections on Dee, 11th.

 

Inclement weather and snow-
fall are retarding development}
| work at Goose Bay mines. The (Canadian Press Despatch.)
|G.T.P. s.s, Prince Albert brought} Victoria, Nov. 22—Col. Sam
|seventy-seven men from there Hughes, Minister of Militia, has
\last night. The men complain! premised to use his influence to

Victoria, Nov. 22—At the an-|that they were laid off eleven
nual banquet of the British Cam-/| days ago, but could not get trans-| lease of Deadman’s Island.
paigners Association here strong | portation and had to board them-
pleas were made to prepare for|selyes. This is the main griev-
the defence of British Columbia. | ance at Goose Bay.

Col. Sam to the Rescue

 

Anxious to Fight

Ladies’ Home Journal patterns. Wal-
lace’s.,

|

~ |
150 second class passengers

Inu Caxton’s Day, the father of printing
toiled over his types, setting each single
letter by hand.

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| Cuday, the expert compositor with the lat-
est form multiple type-setting machine--
the kind the News is having installed--
j sits on a stool in front of his complicat- |
ed machine and by pressing on his key-
board commands a range of five hundred
and forty types.
‘  @iut, for a few days, while effecting the
|
change, the News will have to fall back
l
on the Caxton method of hand set type. |
It will be a novel newspaper. It will
j have all the local stories and the news
of the world, as usual, but compressed
into tabloid form. !
| Thr present and succeeding copies of the
News will be well worth treasuring |
{ °
among your keepsakes of the evolution
of Prince Rupert.
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LONDON SUFFRAGETTES WAGE

BATTLE AGAINS1T 1800 POLICE

hey Stoned the Windows of the Liberal Club, the Public Offices, the Post Office
and the Bank of England—Worst Riot of Recent Years—223 Arrests Made

(Special to Daily News.) The riot started when the|England. They were ac-
London, Nov. 22. — The|demonstrators tried tostorm|companied by a gang of male
worst riot that London has] the Houseof Commons which rowdies, armed as well as
known for some years took
place last night. It was|ed to gain an entrance to the Several of the women were
promoted by the suffragettes. | House they turned their at-|injured. The
It took 1800 policemen to| tention to smashing the win-| fierce but short.
quell the disorder, In Come | dows of the public offices, the | New chinaware hundreds of pretty
sequence, 320 female and 3) Liberal headquarters, the hcups and saucers 15 cents to $5.00 each,
male suffragists are now in| National Liberal Club, the| Wallace's.
‘post office an dthe Bank of

 

 

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custody.

(Canadian Press Despatch.) |
Ottawa, Nov. 22 — Following |
Premier Borden’s intimation yes- |
terday that the people of Canada|
will have the naval question pits
mitted to them, Hon. J. D. |

Hazen, Minister of Marine stated |
in the House today that the
tenders offered the late Govern- |

taken charge of the Domin-
ion Govt. S.S. Quadra, light-

 

was in session, Having fail-| the women with large stones. |

battle was

Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, Phone 4,

‘this coast, had command of)
ithe Quadra previous to 1902
|when he was transferred to|
the Marine and Fisheries De- |
/partment. He knows this
‘coast better than most men
‘navigating it, and was the

author of the official work |
‘published giving the names,

ARE TRYING HARD

CAPT. WALBURN IS AN AUTHORITY
ON THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST

Captain Walburn who has'

on it at Victoria.

ment to spend over eleven mil-
lion dollars in six years to con-
struct four cruisers and six de-
stroyers would not be accepted.
He said the whole question from
first to last will be taken up with
the British Admiralty and a plan
announced later that will appeal
to the interests of Canada and
the Empire as well.

every island and point on the
coast. This work took some
eighteen months or two

secure the cancellation of the|house and buoy tender for'| years to prepaae, the Captain

being continuously engaged
It is in-
teresting to note that three
of the islands opposite Riv-
ers Inlet are named after
members of Captain Wal-
burn’s family.

| See Howe & McNulty for the

\and origins of the names of famous Kootenay Ranges.

TO GET WORK

STARTED ON WOODWORTH SCHEME

|

| The City Council is working
jovertime these days trying to
|get some work started on the
| Woodworth Lake scheme. __ Ex-
cavations for the pipe line within
the city limits are necessary. In
a few days Col. Davis expects to
be ready to call for tenders on
this work. The Acropolis Hill
reservoir, which but for absurd
interference would have been
completed years ago, can be re-
commenced shortly, and there is
‘the blasting out of the Shawat-
lans Lake natural rock shelf at

EE a

PRINCE RUPERT

WAS NOT LATE.

Three hours late in leaving
Vancouver according to offi-
cial report, and likely to be
still longer delayed by stress

of weather on her way north| trembled in the gale.
morning a heavy sea was

running on the opposite. side

the 8.S. Prince Rupert kept
on schedule time, reaching
port before noon today.

MINING MEN
ASK FOR HELP

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(Canadian Press Despatch.)

Nelson, Noy. 22.—The
|Mining Convention has pass-

‘ed resolutions asking the|

Federal Government to ap-
| point a commission to invest-
igate the silver, lead and
|zine industry, and to create
'& separate portfolio of mines
to be held by a Minister who
will devote his entire time to
|the work,

Princess Pat Coming
Montreal, Nov. 22—News has
| been received here that Princess
| Patricia of Connaught will leave
|England to join her parents in
/Canada on December lst.

| Diamond Ring Case
| The charge against George
Alexander of having obtained a

|

its outflow to the passage. This
latter work aiso requires Goyern-
ment sanction, which it is hoped
may be obtained swiftly and
without hitch. A meeting of the
cauncil is called for Thursday.

New Fish Sheds

To cope with increasing busi-
ness in their fish trade with
Vancouver, the company operat-
ing the Trawler Kingsway has
commended the erection of a new
fish shed on the Davis wharf
where the Kingsway berths.

NO DAMAGE WAS
DONE LAST NIGHT

From an early hour yester-
day evening the wind and
‘rainstorm increased in viol-

 

 

ence until exposed residences

This

of the harbor, but the hills

\behind the townsite have so

|effectually sheltered the wa-
|tertront that no damage has
been done there, though
news of wrecks was quite

|expected.

Kingsway Faced Gale

Just behind the Prince Rupert
today the trawler Kingsway
steamed into harbor washed from
stem to stern by the spray last
night. Captain Brown’s remark
that it was fine fishing weather
outside may be taken as just a
shade ironical.

Bring Your Purses

A nice variety of candies and
some other good things were
left over from the sale of work
in the Presbyéerian church yes-
terday. These will be put on
sale tonight on the occasion of
great Council vs. Commission
debate.

Don't Buy Coal
Wait! The first week in De-

 

diamond ring from J. 8. Gray,
jeweller, was today dismissed.
The ring was returned to Mr.
Gray.

cember the Westholme Lumber
Company, Limited, will begin
selling Ladysmith Coal for $8.50
|per ton, delivered,

aot eenge: ee

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