-_ four hours ending 5 a.m., MIN. TREY + 42. vit THE DAILY NEW Formerly The_Prince Rupert Optimist PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1911. * RRB ~~ NEXT MAILS Legislative Asse coved ince Gags . Friday, 8 a.m. Camosun...&. \\Sunday, 9 p.m. Gil @ J Ona, B. Ci eee Lb PrIcE Five CENTS oer ES AS SS Se SS Se Se a a A a ae ae ae ee OT ia {ten the Council de- : investigation of | shortage of some s, Which e¢ame up re-|} led to by the Council. | remarked last night eal of time had been as suggested and investigation d ayer di uate oe Engineer Arthur Aaiiitin, Who Recently Resigned | From the Light Plant, Claims That There is a Shortage of From Fifty to Eighty Tons , who resigned | cordingly resign. that he was wrong and would ac- City Solicitor Peters suggested | that the notes of proceedings at the committee's investigations taken in shorthand should be! itranscribed and placed before the Alderman Morrissey told of a chance interview he had in a friend’s office with Mr. Allison, in!‘ od wish to.#0e which under close and skeptical engineer, Mr. Allison had made statements which he. was pre pared to substantiate under oath and which had a very deep bear- ing on the cily'’s economy in this respect } the right of any citizen to have 1 public investigation of a mat- ter.such as this coal shortage, on which he had wide information, as was alleged in this case The ot n was carried, and a. public nvestigation will be held, date to be announced later | ‘Disastrous spectacular in Prinee Rupert} direction of the » of Second avenue certainly have] police, Chief Owen of the Pro- \lderman Newton emphasized town to hold|into his office and saved a great} » to look for a| many documents from the Land in which to hold it. The} Registry department, as well as habitable now, and|own department and his office in order, have to| wall le }as many as possible lain Rie ee a ee G Spark From Government Building | Carried to Waterfront. Hay's Creek Sewer Bylaw. Ca MORE CARS FOR GRAND TRUNK Cars Arrived by Scow Yester- day—New Rolling Stock An- ticipates Opening of Hazelton. Four lhursday night, T. P. SHEDS ON FIRE excitement ove! those wh ire breaking intil it blazed, a ina few minutes * Was burned in vole was re- War k’s north ‘ gifts in solid gold and St. Andrew's Ball. ‘is ‘the time to get Xmas for friends oversea. Mok, Wish can be supplied at WILL POSTPONE SECTION 2 SALE Owing to am ate: Departure of, the Prince Rupert This Trip the Sale Will Not Start Until Thursday Morning. he sale of Section 2 lots, ad vertised to start on wWedhesdny, will not start unti Phursday morning This announcement was made to the News this morn-|, ing by Mr. David H. Hays rhe reason for the postpone- ment is that the Prince Rupert vhich is bringing up a large mber of investors for the salt velve h rs la r i g Van vi and the ‘ W i unt ? p. m ile I xa h I rhursday’s S \ I inl ed later Letters to the Editor PROTECTING DRUNKEN MEN rhe Bowser Act enacts that ne iquor shall be sold to @& man ap- arently nae the influence of strong drink The City Bylaw « icts that no man under the influence of liquor shall be allowed to leave licensed | bite |premises where he has obtained drink unaccompanied hese are the “fences” intend Tt I t f falling ff our stilted streets Why do our Police Commis sioners n i fences shall be kept up Why d ir Licens Commis > sioners not cancel the licenses of these barriers down? F. H. Du VERNET Prince Rupert's leading hotel Savoy. TO DISCUSS SETTLEMENT. City Council Will Confer Today | Over Contractors’ Lawsuits. At a private session ol! the Gity Council in committee of the whole today at 4 p, m, City Eng! neer Davis, City Se { Peters the and the contractors sulhe city will appear for of the matter of the lawsuits over grading contract payments The result came from motions | of Aldermen Newton and Morrissey to have public reports City made by on the subject made by the Engineer and City Solicit rhe Mayor objected to the rep: ik be nig made in public and on ame nd ment supported — by the May Aldermen Clayton, Hilditeh aia decided to Kirkpatrick, it was hold the session in private. Scientific eye examination at Gamer ones, Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners, Phone 4, out, or nearly experience was at » he wasn Is were almost four winds it flames caught ip with dyna-| Started to Wreck Building. tt insist that these SALE OF SECT. 2 LOTS POSTPONED T — WILL HOLD INVESTIGATION ABOUT CITY COAL SUPPLY REGISTRY OFFICE IS IN RUINS Provincial Fire Sweeps Out of Existence the Government’s Fine Building MANY BOOKS OF RECORDS ARE DESTROYED Clerks Managed to Hurl Many Valuable Books Into the Vault Before Leaving the Doomed Building, But Others Are De-troyed—Incidents of the Fire the Provincial To Avoid Fireworks. ‘ment the reason building yesterday Revolvers and belts crammed | Shortage at first was that the fire thing| Wil cartridges were hastily|department had snatched up from the Provincial | first line of hose that anyone) volice office by the first men to|drant at Third explosions passed unnoticed, ing this dead | Chief Owen on Job. With Chief Vickers of the city |When the the fortunate vincial force was one of the first Justice Cle-|to see the fire start. He dashed ti Government|the typwriter belonging to his COICK, of the Govern- Work for Phone Men. Eee lp : had sioant } only leaving their | by the merine of : 1e leat rhe 4 fire was devouring the His Second Experience. ubes containing the insulated) )\.. them. a nd time Goy-|telephone wires a whole section most valuable H. MeMullin) 0f the ‘phone district was cut off.| 44 4, Phone manager E, Love was on the job as quickly as possible t ex-| With a full gang of linemen re- storing communication. Saved His ‘‘Home.” Thanks, Chief Vickers. You thing. did well. You've saved my home but as his steel doors the} nis, an old friend of the police looked as if|foree, who was doing penance go. too, the| for a D. and D. in the cell at the to ‘have the | time of the fire. John lent a will- jing hand to put out the blaze. Second avnue.| fice, Chief Vickers ordered the] pecognizable Lost Legal Library. prison cell doors in’ the court] pots melted into solid lumps and] chief clerk at} building to be thrown open, and}all sorts of charred ‘ffices. has lost i the few at rguents detained] |je in the ashes. bra of legal | there to be released. They work- Valuable Salvage. valued at sev-|¢d like Trojans helping the fire- Charred pages ars and vrye| men, and all got drenched. Land Registry Praised Asst. Chief. the most important salvage | Bystanders were full of}ruins. Chief extinguish the|o¢ the fight all the time. Once contents can be two of them lost) 4 ehimney stack collopsed at his] fied, little Somebody feet, but the Asst. Chief kept on Temporary Offices. MeMullin’s at his work without wincing. | Gouneil of war nee started to Some Quiet Heroes | emiine rary offices was held in the ustrade on the Half a dozen nameless heroes | police court room Exactly how not clear, the powder house close by on the] office on Fulton Saved Police Records. reserve. There was a lot of pow-/ occupied by the the smoulder-|der and dynamite inside, but they}the Provincial » Provineial Po-| didn't stop to think of what might|/ {to the Stephens liam Gouson of the| have happened to them if it had!/avenue and the drenched and} gone off. Their conduct probably | department to of the Provin-| averted a greater disaster. |Trust Co,’s building, as ¢ book The Water Shortage still readable. | According to the water depat (-} ment, connected the to a dead hy- The fle ames |e in there, -A rifle and some | Street. FsDUneS sie V > ary, giant tongues of ariridges had to be left, but the! fireman turned a gate valve serv- doing sent the the stream down to Fraser & was connected at and Second and hose Third and Sixth, Sixth hydrants, get full pressure. Saved Documents. By the prompt and courageous work of the Land employees, who of the books land papers in use have been saved. Vault Still The brick and of the Land Registry still warm this morning, ¢ jammed. _The staff exe of doors this forenoon, To Dynamite Residency. anyway!’’ remarked John Mun- opinion that the y opened until tomorrow, Searching the Ashes. Ruins of a typewriter, f volvers, hundreds cartridges, remnants of a pencil save the Bank Ordered Prisoners Release sharpening -machine, Westenhaver| The instant the fire showed a] steel copying presses, uld have sent the} grip on the Land Registry of-| metal stamping two warped | all kinds of} LL THURSDAY MUTINY ON SNIFF YACHT QUELLED BY STERN HAND According to the Commodore’s Story, the Rear-Ad- miral: Quit in High Dudgeon Because He Was Asked to Put to Sea at Regular Intervals Trouble has arisen over the{that Thomas Reid had been ap- Sniff Yacht. Pat Carey, until re-| pointed in his place. Mr. Reid cently shore admiral of the in-| W@8 Prepared to do what Mr. i Cary would not—that is, to go cense-breathing craft, has com-|;,, Joa in the Sniff Yacht and aid plained to the Council that Com-| jn discharging her cargo in open modore Macfarlane, sanitary in-} seq, One of the duties of the spector, has treated him in a} Shore Admiral was to let the manner unbecoming the dignity} water out of the yacht’s bilge. of the sérvice, He asked that} Mp, Macfarlane held that this the Council supply a lantern for| duty had been neglected to the use in the darksome depths of] jeopardy of the yacht’s crew in the Sniff Yacht’s hold and/time of peril on the sea. claimed consideration. as an old- Another matter in connection timer of the city. with the Sniff Yacht: viz., the en- There was more talk of re-| gaging of extra hands to help ferring the matter to the Health} discharge her at sea, was with Committee, but Mr. Macfarlane, j; jhe letter from Mr. Cary laid on who was present, asked leave to] the table on the motion of Alder- address the Council on the mat-| man Morrissey and will be dis- ter. The Commodore’s tale was] eyssed later. that Admiral Cary had turned the poor Sniff Yacht into a hog ranch Fresh cut flowers at Wark’s and was only in attendance on her Wednesday when the hogs wanted feeding. The Sanitary Inspector went on Specialists in fitting glasses.—Cam- to say that Mr. Cary had quit, and | eron’s. SKEENA RIVER _ AI). CLAYTON TIMBER DEAL" 46’ Coon IDEA Twenty Thaiianne Acres Close, Sa to Prince Rupert Bought by Run an “All-Mayor” Ticket at A. B. Tennant, Brother-in-| at Next Municipal Election and law of Premier Asquith. | Pick Aldermen From the Re- ate a | jected Mayors in Order of | Votes Polled. “Why not select Mayor and Council out of the shoal of would-be mayors which seems to be on the way and run them all on the plan that the man polling |the most votes shall be mayor and those following him shall be (Special to Daily News.) Vancouver, Nov. 28—Archibald B. Tennant, brother-in-law of Premier | Asquith, has purchased 33 timber lim- | its of approximately 20,000 acres situ- | ated on the Skeena River close to| Prince Rupert. The vendors are Na-| tional Timber Company. Clerk _ |praise for the cool and courag-|anxiously collecting the townspeople} gous conduct of Asst. Fire Chief morning. The book constituted | 80 serious that on recommendation of the way they! Macdonald. He was in the thick] the only official its | Dr. Kergin his deposition was taken traced and veri- to decide upon | set to work with buckets to ex-| The probabilities vault is essential for this depart- investigation His remarks on the Alderman Newton that the whole| Woods, who rose and explained system of pubchasing for the city|at some length that he really did with “the hollow} not know until after the purchase employed and fed by were making|had beenmade who to hold re-|the lake camp. » pansactions of the} City admitted this.” “rf the City Clerk has said any-|marked as follows: “Is Mr.|'The matter was allowed to drop sort he has not; Voods aware that there are only|at this. CITY HAS NO PROPER PURCHASING AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CIVIC PURCHASES | Investigation That Started With the Wéddieaiity face Camp Grocery Bill, satisfactory State of Affairs—City Clerk Just Orders What He is Told ko. groceries and other; spoken the truth,” said Alderman; 14 men out at purchased for survey| Hilditch, “for every member's ‘O, | just now, and ies in city employ came under| K.’ has the name of the person} pickles have 1 last night at the Coun-|ordering the goods mentioned|that camp? Is Lon 16.3 |those 14 men have Alderman Mor-| Alderman Newton suggested] those pickles or have prices asked|that Mr, Woods should state ex-| been subdivided * than those asked of} actly how he stood as regards the| way?” purchasing. It fell to Alderman Clayton to statement by The Mayor gave the cue to Mr, explain that : transactions of the|sponsible for the purechase.| pickles had been Though nominally “purchasing| because the firm “The city has|agent” he did very little of the} pickles could agent,” he de-/actual purchasing. case, but he had their ¢ the Council of} ‘May I ask one question of Mr.| that they would his previous investigation of the; Woods?” asked Alderman Mor-|thing undamaged which had been Clerk has |rissey. ordered in excess of the require- | Permission granted, he re-|ments of the Reveals Un- consumed all minimum number 36 bottles of 5 aldrmen in order of the number Serious Assault Case |}of votes they poll?” The idea In danger of his life, with a number } w; as expressed by Alderman Clay- | of jagged wounds on his head, Robert} ;,,, . hardly serious, of course. | Brandt is in the General Hospital. His| «Candidates for the office of | injuries are said to be the result of a| mayor,” he said, “may surely be form | quarrel with Valentino Stella who is in| aynoeeted to possess the qualifi- |prison charged with murderously as-/ oations-for aldermen.” McLeod was |saulting Brandt by striking him on the | this | head with a rock Brandt’s conditionis; CONVENIENCE FOR BIDDERS Intending Purchasers of Section | before he went into the hospital. Two May Make Deposit. A plan which will be found S.S. Rupert a Day Late convenient by those intending to A tel : {caRiidnin make purchases of Section 2 lots elegram was receive rom | at th coming sale is provided by | Vancouver this morning by Mr.| mr, D. H. Hays, who has ar- “ eae hata the| A. E. McMaster stating that the| ranged to receive deposits from this would he'p '0)tinguish the sparks that fell on] Provincial police will locate in the | Prince Rupert will be a day late| intending purchasers to cover formerly Jin leaving that port. The boat the initial payment on _ their probable investments. Any sum will arrive here Thursday instead | jones of that’ neseséase ae T hird | |of Wednesday. Every available} cover the payment will be refund- | berth in the boat has been taken} ed without delay, and accurate by intending investors in section| and smooth working of the plan two. is guaranteed by Mr; Hays, who will have a large force of special ‘ - clerks on to deal with the sale Inhumanity Punished matters: Vancouver, Noy, 28—Attorney- General Bowser has cancelled the} THE LESSON OF THE FIRE liquor licence of Mr. and Mrs,| _ TTD Bell, of the Giliitbn hotel, thirty; The lesson of the One. thas ey Ea apie eR aa em Se swept away the Provincial Gov- mi PS ‘ ernment office yesterday is that quence of their inhumanity and} yo business man or householder callous indifference on the occa-|is safe unless insured—and in- sion of the death several weeks} sured in a good company, Only ago of Mrs. Barlow, of Victoria, the fore Seabee in ee wind while in the throes of consump-| S2¥°O ‘8° Cly trom mueh more , : " serious loss. The fire should be tion. She died in a motor car} warning to every one who has outside the hostelery in intense| neglected to insure against fire, cold after being refused admis-| ‘he safe thing to do is to call sion. up the Mack Realty Company and get them to write you up a pol- Warm, clean rooms al Savoy. ]/icy in one of their reliable com- a ee ert ae panies. Do not leave it until to- INVESTIGATION TONIGHT. morrow. Tomorrow may be too Circumstances of Death of John |!ale. Do it now, Crawford Will Be Further