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Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist

 

25

\L. II, NO.

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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TuespDay,

TY THE WA

JANUARY 30, 1912.

WORD OF BOARD

Paice FIVE Cente

OF TRADE

 

BOARD OF

TRADE ELECTS

F. H. MOBLEY PRESID

~veral New Members Added to the Roll
and Renewed Enthusiasm Demonstrated

CUTS NO ICE YET

‘Citizens Seek to Use Shawatlans|
Lake Ice Commercially.

——

ROAD AROUND KAIEN ISLAND 2s» tou ic tr om

Shawatlans
last night

j mae ercial

i Lake

purposes on

was asked for

A sident Tells of New Enterprises Coming to Prince) from the City Council by Mr.

Rupert and Suggests That Contracts for Power
be Made With Tsimpsean Co. While Reas-
onable Rates Can be Obtained

H. Mobley, who
to be a candidate for the

was last night elected
of the Board of Trade
mation It fhe
of the board,
officers elected
president; J.
and as
Messrs.
presi-

was an-
and

were:

Naden,

McLaren,

vice
secrelary,
of the couneil,
the retiring
M. Sandals, H. P. Wil-
loan, J. H. Pillsbury,
R. A. White, F. G,
H, Thompson, W. P.
ork, W. E.
McLenan.
members were voted
elected: J. R. Miller,
klin, J. B. Roerig, W. J.
ils, J. Lorne MeLaren, J.

WJ

S

ore,

The fol-

large attendance
oceedings, though pro-

interesting through-
of the

was

vas

a

interest-
ihe report of
g president, A. J. Mor-
will be found the

He said in his intro-
that there had not
deal to do the
and the
was bound to be
om the naturally

most

it

eat
this

past

twice]

Williams, |

succeeding |
much |
rapid]

| Morrison and others.
Alderman Morrissey is against}
the permission being granted on}
jaccount of possible insanitary
Board| conditions arising to affect the}
water, Other aldermen held this
unlikely to be at all serious. The
matter referred to the As-
sistant City Engineer and the City

| Solicitor.

RETAIN MR. E. ouncil Bucks at Cost and Sug-|
LOVE AS SUPT. beat ile oe Connetsey,

n estimate of the of
temporary

Report to This Effect by Phone hoipitat for Prince Rupert
Committee Is Adopted by Coun~ i;brought into Council last
cil Last Night—Salary $200 per j)... fieure being $3,380.
Month. the

and Council,

part of the
plankways to reach
site beyond Hays

growth of the The
had had a very successful career
organization in 1908 and}
snag it had encountered}
was in the matter of finances. It
had spent many th of
dollars before since incor-|
poration in advertising the city,
and he believed the time now ripe}
for the representative
men to sho the

in their own affairs
of the city as they pre

by

city.

since tf

the was

only

FRANK H. MOBLEY
|New President of Bi

Trade,

yard of

yusands

ISOLATION HOSPITAL

busines
faieresel
and in at
yuslv he
adver-

Ww same

vit the

cost
renewed activily along ere
was
Mr. Mo been president
‘for two and it was
upon him to again accept a nom-}|
ination, but he declined on the}
ground that new blood was want-|
ed in the Board, | of the Tele-
When Mr. Mobley took the|phone at $200 a
chair he was greeted with hearty | month was the recommendation
applause. He said he felt the lof the phone committee last
position of president of the Board| night,
of the highest honors of it] There
because it came so unexpectedly, | audience
He also pointed out the need of | Discussion followed, Alderman
publicity, as he had found that in| Mo taking part, he creepy
the eastern and central parts of} said he had had quite enough of
Canada very little this telephone business. The
Prince Rupert. louteome of the was
Another matter he | that an amendment to the
sia ; coed —jto adopt the
i ballot be called for on the ques-
bigerman Maitland sought}

tising lines. |
rris

urged This was
the
and because
cost seemed to be
the place
Creek,
that the
somewhere along
id, which al-
that new
in accordingly.

felt a_ little
iving the hospital
to the
proposal

years

vuught excessive by

That
retained as manager
department

Superintendent Love be

a
proposal was made
be altered to
the cemetery
ready built,
brought
Clayton
about h
placed half way
to speak, but
be acted upon,

FIRE, FIRE, FIRE

ro is

the
repr rt was read

one were cheers from and eati_
as the mates be

Alderman

rrissey no as

grave,

was known of} the is to

discussion

to motion]

Page 4. |!
j tion.

which

34 report suggested that

Continued on

 

RE DEPT.
SAVES CITY

ost Dangerous Outbreak Sub-|
dued in a few Minutes—Whole |
Eusiness Section in Peril Last
Night.

threatened the entire
the co
The blaze
premises of Geo.
The fire
ompt and in a few
fire oul,

lire started through
flue and was burning for
before discovered
of the city
returning home.
work was done by
Webster who lent a hand
property. “Doc” De-
his excitement, tried to

section of last

it 44
the
Ave,

ity
broke
Leek, |

30,

minu-
was
a de-

minutes

members

a

vil

in a glass door with his fist |
several |

received
hands.

a result
on the
the
all
the
was

The

od
eK

fortune loss
fire was
surance with
Go. The claim
today,

which has only
added to their list the
for the Gommercial
Jnsurance Co.,, of London,
with a reserve of $111,000,-
for rates
settlement their

cove afd
Mack

sel-
Mack
re-
lo-

by noon

ty Cay

eney

famous easy

of

prompt

om and Taree at the Savoy.

bus-|

brigade |

Ald. |

. but the Maye
rules a ae a secret bal-|

The and the
motio to
Mi

an open veé said

ithe

ts THE FIRE CHIEF
Report Requesting the 34
tion of Chief Moinnes Adopted
by Council

amendment lost
adopt the report
Love services

MORE RAILWAY
COMMSISIONERS,

| Bi to Enlarge Its Membership ct
That It Can Be Divided and me °
in Two Places at the Same)

| Time.

Special to Daily News.

30,

was

taining
carried,

“FULL OF BLIND PIGS" |

Temporarily.
ty Solicitor Sweepingly Con-|

demns Foreign Liquor Clubs.

Peters
General

Chief MelInnes_ be
the pith of a
Fire and
ight to
geht,
the reason
Maitland.
ch of
action expressed

Chief

That Fire

asked to ré

has writ- the
re- | Gommittee bre
4D) council le I
Liquor Act for-|

of large quan-|
by foreigners In;
who

is

City Solicitor
jten to the Attorney
The Govern-|questing him to
amendment of the

Railway | bidding

divid-| tities of
j} common + iia;

have been clubbing their funds to
Ibuy drink. “The city,” Mr.
“is full of blind pigs-
clubbing

‘report by

in
consider

Ottawa, Jan,

| ment will bring down its bill this|
enlarging the
It will not be
oue for west ant
first
enough so that}

\W ae of

tasked
In a
Ald.
of
stated

storage

liquor

session d
some length,
all kinds
MeInnes, but
ihat the Fire De-
ede re-organizing
discipline
that

Commission,

fed in two lodging

jone for

}but be made
lit can be aiittin into two parts| Peters,
at different places at the} 9 the
time, A. Goodeve of|sether
it is believed, will be
the new appointees
G. Thompson of Cran-
B. G., Was been appointed
the Kootenay district.

parts,

eas at, proposed, |

as says regard for

aree Simpy
I

partment
badly, that
there and

like

nd sit foreigners to-
and s hes as
Ss in this way.’ wa lax
we modern city

the risk was
to take. The Fire
and a

|same in a
Kootenay,
one of

George
| brook,

*rince ipert

Water for industry
Atlin

|
Me.

reaily to grea
| Ghiet though
asked when they can | | worthy Snough siBie
from the city for the Lei shi man for the
plant and how much} ' me
highest

was all
Referred to the}
but

The Construction Com-
pany have
have water
cold storage
they can have.

city engineer.

an old timer
was nol
and

Person-

j}judge for job,

E the:
had the
Melt
ked to re
Mort
the

Thank You, George!

behalf of the Fire depart-
lment, Chief MeInnis desires to
lthank Mr, George Leek for the
$95 bill handed him by Mr. Leek
in consideration of the smart
service performed by the brigade

regard
must

ally he

for Chief
be as
Ald
}eption of

he

nes,

ae

sign,

moved the ad-

Pantcrium Pioneer Cleaners. ssey

Phone 4. report.

last night.

Government Contract.

It is announced today that the
contract for the erection of the
warehouses and sheds on the Police Commissioner and Business Man of
lnew Provincial Government wharf
has been let to Emil Kauffman
lof this city, his tender being just

over $10,000,

rented from Police

 

In a long and eloquently word-

 

PRINCE RUPERT TWENTY MINUTES AGO

City has to pay $2,563 customs duty on the

for electric light plant.

Shrubsall catches record
harbor,

E. C,

One
wharf

Gibbons reports sal

hundred people

were

M, M.

On ca

Stephens,
Hing Mr.
tion to the state
Matthews

ied letter, James

Matthews

Superintendent
of the light
jcomplained to the Council
of serious difficulty
has come in contact with
icourse of his duties

A customer, Mr, Demers, had
complained of the extraordinary
high reading of his electric light
meter, Investigation showed
that the current was being tapped
steadily by the adjoining prem-
used as club and

Stephens’
of

mel

city plant

last affairs,

was with eee

is

he
the

j night a

new machin- Se recieaa: suit
he
lappil
eleetric

to be

in
lo pursue
x of the
light regulations ap
defective in this re

eourse
to the
the
peat
spect,
Mr.
for the
Matthews

breaking spring salmon in the current,

e of business property.

off the Stephens had offered to pay
but Mr.

olf

fishing for herring

used,
fo eut

current

rooms wished

 

 

jises,

isolation}
|

night, }

|

Mayor

a large|
for |
on |

site}

so

Light}
the |

this ?}

the}
that|

DID M. M. STEPHENS TAP THE JUICE WIRE?

Lighting Premises Through Another Man’s Meter
---Full Investigation Demanded

Commissioner

atten-

and asks what}
in regard}

as

IS CITY TO APPEAL OR PAY
CONTRACTORS AS ORDERED?

matter For po.ice |Burning Question Came up in Council Last

Night Arousing Vexed Discussion

A MAYOR CALLS DOWN ALD. KERR

night, Akerman Morrissey ‘took! Ad. Clayton Loses Patience Over Over Free and Full Dis-
Ginn or foreienets vad WKe aeat cussion and Demands Something Doing—Ald.
offenders in this respect, He sug- | Montgomery Figures as Champion of
Contractors’ Rights

Ald. Morrissey Says Foreigners
Are Not Worst Blind Piggers.

of the

hae

blind
So-

the matter
pigs mentioned in
licitor’s letter to the

Over

gested that there are worse of-|
fenders whose doings are winked |

The Mayor declared that until}
the Government had deigned to}
appoint the police and license |
commissioners authority rested!
with himself and he
- he could at present.

Whether or not the city should; have followed but
appeal the Watson and Kelly con-|ton impatiently said: “Let us
Cle-| et something done! This sort
ments ruled so decidedly against of thing keeps on happening over

' ‘ and over again. We have got
j the of the nothing done. Are we to appeal
tions brought up in Council las thing or not? That the
night. The decision was come

to} question.”
iby vote in Council that the City
}Solicitor should today

BILLIARDS ON ot
THE SABBATH iiicn oie wee! see

Messrs. Wil-
| liams & Manse to a meeting be-|Kerr moved that the matter
tween the contractors and the|left in the hands of the City
City Council, to be held tonight.|licitor to go to the Court of
At the outset of the discussion | peal.
City Solicitor Peters said that the! The Mayor: “Would you
“Bither | think it wiser to have these two
to the|contractors come down to the
city hall tomorrow night and talk

Alderman Clay-

tract cases, in which Judge

wa sdoing

cily, was one ques-

is

Impatiently Alderman
suggested that the matter
Then

Clayton
be left
Alderman
be

So-

Ap-

 

unconsidered.

rs,

my,

|\City Solici tor ‘ts After Sunday
Billiard Saloons—Hours to Be,
| Restricted and Youths Prevent-|
ed from Loitering or Playing. | question was simply this:
lappeal or pay according
City Solicitor has written|judgment of the Court.”
to the Mayor explaining the state] Messrs. Williams & Manson|it all over?”
of the law regarding billiard|had in a letter on behalf of the| Alderman Kerr softly snickered
playing on Sundays and suggest-|contractor Watson offered to} and made sotto voce comments to
ing the drafting of a bylaw to|abate claim by about $50. [ Alderman Clayton.
cover the matter of Sunday bil-|This was absurd. The question| “Will you kindly
liard playing in Rupert. He ar-| was what would be a fair offer.; peace, Alderman Kerr?" said the
gues that the city empowered|Mr. Peters thought himself that! Mayor in aggrieved tones. “Will
to prohibit the game under a by-|half the claim and half the costs|you kindly keep the peace of the
law which can be framed, or under} would be about fair. board to that extent that we can
the Lord's Day Act. A draft by- “What about the Judge’s|get along. I am sorry to inter-
law was endorsed by the City So-|phrase: ‘The city has not a leg|rupt you, but we want to get
licitor concerning three points,|to stand asked Alderman|something done.”
viz: Sunday playing, closing of} Morrissey. Alderman Kerr
billiard saloons: at hour as}
bars: and prohibition play by} various
callow minors |

not

The
tiie

keep the

Is

on’?

hastily pulled

 

followed on|
more would

discussion
and

same some

of

t

sides, Continued on Page 4.

RAISED WRECK DEATH OF THE
OF GLEN ROSA DUKE OF FIFE

bev esdined Boat Towed with-Scow | Brothér-In-Law of. of King Died in
to Hays Creek, Where She Lies| Egypt as Result of Exposure

Beached Today to Be Examined; Caused by Wreck of Steamer
| Council Elects Its First Perman-| 2+ Low Tide. | He Traveled On.

ent Executive Board peu tai
; At 5 minutes past 5 yesterday |
afternoon the sunken Glen Rosa}
was raised from the bottom of the |
harbor after having been out of
sight for nearly four days. A
huge crowd of citizens thronged}
the G. T. P. wharf and lined the
grade watching the diver
his last descent to secure

 

THE WEATHER.
hours ending 5

30: Bar., 30.425;

min. temp.,

Twenty-four
January
temp.,

ja. M.,

max, 16.0;

Last Night—Asst. | 39
Chief McDonald to Take Charge|

| TRADES AND LABOR

Special to Daily News.
London, Jan. 30.—When the
news reached here of the death
of the Duke of Fife at Assuan,
Egypt, it came as a great national
shock. His demise was due to
ithe exposure following the wreck
make}jof the steamer Delhi, on which
the|he was traveling, accompanied by
|hoisting tackle. ihis wife, the Princess Royal, and
All eyes were fixed on the haul-|two daughters. The royal party
YT Khan ‘aie ten ainnied ing the cables began to}was its way to Khartoun to
Ito iA pregidenoy. wes cathar strain as the winches wound them jattend the consecration of a
| oftlcimase® at hana nin Vice gveat le Slowly the weight cathedral to the memory of Gen-
dant Hie BR Datiar® ae p;| the watchers above | As a result of his
SOP nats Tica aL Suth_| 8°89 glimmer of the submerged!death the plans for the celebra-
lerland; sergeant-at-arms Ww )_| null of the Glen Rosa. Then sud-| ltions upon the return of the King
: Sones . aes ’ denly the top of the huge mast} Queen will have to be
liam Godson. land the rim of her funnel broke modified.
jthe surface.
fin-|) - Lashed to the
Wal-|the wreck was held thus swinging |
tf half supported by the water un-| | Seven Officers Are Being Tried by
| til Captain Norman Broadhurst | Court Martial.
iwith the -Royer got and oo
wreck towed away to Hays Cree k, |
where the Glen Rosa was beached begun this morning on the seven
ee water that to~| officers who created the riot in a
low tide she can be eX-| vaudeville theatre and used their
a nit traced of the drowned) sanres on the police in the lat-

Standing, Accused ol aptain and Victor Fallander. ter’s attempt at ejeetion,

~~ - — |

| J. W. Davis in Town.

Mr. J. Ws Davis,

treasurer of the Interior Lumber
Co. of Hazelton, is in the city, He
and tolre ports business good and is con-
neces-|fident of a big boom during the
Regarding the mining
the upper Skeena,
that two complete com-}
| ‘The City Solicitor has advised | pressor plants have been order-|
off, buted, for Tony McHugh and An-
leus Stewart for their Silver Stan-

that the wiring be cul
this did not satisfy Alde rman ||
dard mine, and one for the Roc bey

mine, Both of these

the special meeting of the
and Labor Council held
in the Carpenter's Hall, D.
|Macdonald, the provisional presi-
jdent was urged for the position
of permanent president, but ex-
plained that he was unable to
give the time needed and accepted
cordial vote of thanks for his
services in connection with the
lorganization of the Council.

At
|'Trades

5.

a

lines as on

Sian
|
the |eral Gordon,

rose,

could see

land eon-

|} siderably

Just Arrived—New scow |

securely
|e rhams and curtain goods

prints THE MADRID RIOTS

lace’s,

scOW

Madrid, Jan. 30.—Court martial

s0

jday

}
ied for

|

&

|
|

secretary-|

GOVERNOR OF YUKON
News.)
30,.—It
official
Black
of the

Specia! to The
Ottawa, . Jan,
from

unauthorized connections te
this it would be
for to have powers

ete., whieh he

said
him

do here
quarters thal
of Dawson,
Conservative party there,
has received the appoint-
ment as commissioner of the
Yukon Territory. He was
strongly opposed for the
position by A, 8, Goodeve,
who will probably be one of
the new appointees to the
Railway Commission.

| earned

jsary to}sumimer, Gaxt
Loree

situation on a¢ £

jhe

rip up {lk pOrihne, was

; lead
HYoth to do, eader

says

matter de

/Montgomery, who desires that}
er
by have

ithe be taken up most) Boule
showings of

t seriously the Council in |properties, Mt. Davis says,

lof the standing in the city of the
jman complained of, ‘The City So
licitor will advise Light
committee

view
Imost remarkable
iore,

Best room in town at the Savoy.

with the

 

on this.