CY egislative Library! Try The News Way. a ree ; LK LESISLA I) Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist NEXT MAILS For North PYINCOSS Mayo. eis oi 66 Tonight For South Prince Rupert....... Friday 8 a.m. je * Ag5 N { al Co. MANS No ee i 1" ed Sameer nsumcrarage )L. TH, O,: j PRINCE RuPERT, B.C., MONDay, Fepruary 12, 1912. Puen Five Cesttts LE DROWNING: MOTHER LOST W tiful Disaster Befell Lighthouse Keeper Elsterman Island---Helpless, He Watched His Loved Ones Perish WIRELESS FLASHES FATAL NEWS | tracts, which are being managed pther and Son in Only Small Boat Available Were Swamped in Seaway Not Far|by 3 J. Lorne MeLaren of the Mack| |Realty Co. After some t » had | From the Lighthouse, But Beyond Father’s Reach—Sole Surviving Daughter "8!" Oo. Aller Bome time Had Well Known in Rupert, Hurries in Rover to Her Father’s Side whole matter was left to the City To stand helpless on his) | before his eyes, and the empty] Broadhurst in the Rover set me for report. ock and watch within a (upturned boat drifted away be-lfor Lawyer Island, taking with 25) Sigh ee Sara j hort distance of him the | youd his reach. Attention! Come and enjoy | him Miss Elstermann, who alone e que eresting and } ‘ ; h the unique, interesting and hum ife and boy, whose boat Unable to communicate with] laft-of to diahtt 1 og itartas Beara ati d been capsized in a sea- jis left of the lighthouse keeper’s| vrous entertainment and socia eo the land, Elstermann was left] ¢, . ig given by the Baptist Ladies’ Aid ay near the lighthouse, was jfamily. Miss Elstermann is well) #!ven b l apti a Al e awful fot of Lighthouse there alone with the sorrow that};Known in Prince Rupert, as she|in MeIntyre Hall tonight. Admis- eeper Elstermann of Loyal had sprung into bitter being for|was employed in Mrs. Frizzell’s|sion, including refreshments, 25 land light yesterday morn- him in one brief moment. He re-| store, Her mother and brother | cents, g. Miss Elsterman, his turned to tend the light, which} were well known also, and Light, — le surviving daughter, who burned last night bright as ever} Keeper Elstermann is an old-' ‘New Lot of Ladies’ ’ neckwear. before, and this morning was/ timer on the coast. | Wallace 8. as employed in Mrs. Friz- the Alaska | of Lawyer IFE AND SON DROWNED BEFORE HIS EYES ™+* HORRIGAN CONTRACTS City Engineer to Report Upon the Whole Matter in Dispute. in com- mittee of the whole Saturday afternoon to go into the | A meeting of Council of the matter Dan Horrigan con- was held on; ‘KLY TRAIN AGAIN Continued Increase of Up River Traffic Warrants Increase of Train Service—Will Be Daily Service Soon. Announcement is made today} jthat the train service up river three times a week will be re- newed on Monday, February. 19th. | Trains will run Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. This service ran for a short time in the |height of the rush to get sup- up river before the winter and its renewal so early season as this shows how the increase of News from Kit- selas today says that the steel is past that point, and there are shutting transferring stock to Kitselas will principally in plies set in, in the great has been up river traflic, ww well jusinesses down and the Bulkley do its Rupert valley. shopping now. pli's store, left for the |able to flag passing land in the Rover this ee Company’s steamer] orning. Bertha, rthbound, which he izhthouse keoper was turn faahad the sad news Digby Island wireless station g them rowing when a sea iiss: Canine vel the little craft, capsizing | morning that the mother: pear son| linging mother and son|had been spending a week at | into the water, Frantic} Porcher Island, and that it was horror, the father could do|on their eturn trip to the light- g to save them. There was | house that the distaster hap ther boat and the distance} pened. The lighthouse keeper far | great for him to hope|himself has not been able to ach them by swimming. They} reach shore yet. Digby Island Wireless Sta- hed a few seconds right) This morning Captain Norman tion—(10:45 a. m.)—By in- struction of the Marine and Fisheries department, the lighthouse tender Newington has left Victoria to proceed without delay to the Queen ISH CONTRIBUTION TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PANAMA CANAL. Charlotte Islands in search | of the missing schooner | King George and _taunch Josephine with Henry Eden- shaw and party. The New- ington is to go direct to Masset and reach there to- a ' Henry Edenshaw’s launch Joseph- THE ;}days ago for Otard Bay the of the the island. With Mr. ral Indian be McLaren oil boring party. oil boring Operations on Edenshaw were sey- vatmen and Messrs. Slater, and Stake They were tak- ng new appliances and stores to Brisk weather blew their camp. up after the party left, and the boats were last seen off Tiahn Point driving before a breeze with a sea running which vould have them to at- to Otard Bay for itrance made it unsafe tempt the « morrow. She is able to go Nothing has been seen or heard | where the Quadra could not; if the boats sine They did not } has powerful engines and is arrive at the ‘amp at Otard | equipped with recelving wire- Bay, and they did not,get back less apparatus. to Masset. Search is being made on the Efforts were stituted on the outer coast of Graham Island injislands to find them, and a mes-}/li jthe neighborhood of Otard Bay|sage was sent Prince Rupert land from there to Masset for the! to Government Agent MeMullin schoon King George and Mr.jand Provincial Constable Owen rhelp. After orts to get into scene] j} John to of the] » NEWINGTON SENT TO SEEK LOST LAUNCHES Fast, Light Draught Lighthouse Tender, Equipped With Wireless, Will Search for Henry Edenshaw’s Party off Queen Charlotte fempt to secure the services of} the launch Phippen, the author) ities planned to get the Prince make a search on her sland trip. While fear that the lost, the some are opinion of such expert launchmen on the coast as Cap- tains Babington and Norman much that a matter eyen fifteen days’ launch in Broadhurst are more hopeful. They of nine, ten or say absence in a gasoline such waters as we have about here is by no means any indica- that the overdue craft are ost. There are countless cases if “missing” gasoline boats which have returned with the defeets de- shelter usual story of engine iying them, or spells for in coves and estuaries along the coast. That Edenshaw and his party have run for shelter into one of the bays beyond Otard Bay GREAT DREDGER CORO ZAL, BUILT ON THE CLYDI re With the sehooner in tow} communicat th the Quadra/and possibly been delayed by the hough the United States|}been named Corozal, She is] hea, aden with supplies, thejand the Willia Jolliffe, which|beaching of the laden schooner is ss is about passing a jbill|/ crossing the Atlantic under her|Jaunch left Maset some fifteen}are south boun ow, and an at-| the opinion of Captain Babington, g preferential rates of tor own steam at 10 knots an ho ! through the Panama Canal} ® ™°5! unusual thing for ae ers, and is now about due ompleted, she had to go to Colon. She is about the only * OFFICERS PIPE LINE COST NEW ATHLETIC at Britain for the building of] (hing needed in digging the Pan f the largest dredgers to be} ama Canal which has not been| | TA FN IS ESTIMATED CLUB FORMED ( in the clearing of the big| produced in the United States. | ALsLsb h before any vessels can|The Corozal was built on the] | in through. This dredger has| Clyde and weighs 1,560 tons. REAT DAM AT LAKE UNION |Supreme Delegate of Sons of Installation Ceremony. 1 of office bearers of was effected with due Rh. Waite, Lodge cere- VEN LIVES ARE LOST AND THIRTY BUILDINGS sweer| mon; by Mr. J, AWAY—MANY RESCUED FROM FLOATING ROOFS OF THE DESTROYED HOMES. supreme | Who arrived by the Camosun and was welcomed by members of the Special to Daily News. )}Gastown, a collection of shacks] lodge here, Following are’ the ria, Feb, 12.—It was re-|near Union. The Chinese, who| names of the officers for the ecom- here Saturday that the} had five minutes’ warning, escap-|ing year: President, F, A. Ellis; f f the lake at Union B. C.,}ed, with the exception of three.| first vice president, E. A, Woods;} Pp Hurst, killing seven China-! Many got away by floating on the} second vice president, A, RB, 1 rhe dam is three miles|tops of the roofs of destroyed| Clarke; chaplain, T. W. Silver- m Union, A flood of water! houses. Thirty houses were | sides; secretary, F. V. Clarke; down the valley, wiping out|washed away. Damage is re-|treasurer, J. E. Unwin, Some | Chinese quarters and also! | ported to the telegraph oflice and) eighteen new members of the | lodge were initiating at the instal- jlelewraph poles were jand communication I'The property 00, washed out destroyed, about $30,- Acting Mayor show his authority firing the Douglas threatens to Finance Minister, Nesumption of the tri-weekly train service is by the G, 'T, p, officials, loss is announced THE WEATH ER. Increased activity is marked on pipe line excavation. Third ave, More plank sidewalk makes its appearance on = ie o Se, ele coutl: nat died lwenty-four hoists ending 5 | sholn seine Just received says that blind pigh a. M., February 12, 1912: Bar.,! Ss 48 merrily now as they once did, 29.762; max, temp, 46.0: min. ilemp., 38.0; precipitation, .09, England Lodge Visited Prince) | Rupert Branch and Assisted at! | | DEVASTATES THE VALLEY Seger eon | | delegate of the lodge in Toronto, | PRINCE RUPERT TWENTY MINUTES AGO ce : | | Col. Davis supplied Figures Re- lating to Cost of Installing Per- manent Water Supply from Shawatlans to Reservoir. | | Following some of the fig- jures mentioned 1p Col, Davis’ re- jeent report regarding the work in | hand on the pipe line for the pet jimanent water supply: | Cost of completing Acropolis | Hill reservoir, $417,780. Cost of completing pipe ne to this side lof Shawatlans Passage rock trench, $16,000; treneh to be dug, 1$15,000; trench piling to be done, $4,000; hauling and laying pipe, $12,000; back filling, $2,400; jtotal, $49,400 rotal reservoir land pipe line in city limits, $67,- 180; submerged pipe, $6,100; pipe lline from the passage to Shawat- llans Lake, $16,250; erection of boiler and pumping plant with} |building, $38,000; total cost of} Ipermanent water supply con struction as far as Shawatlans |Lake, $92,530; pipe ordered for] i this, 873.874 This does not in-! lclude the pipe between Shawat lans Lake and the passage, which] the Engineer recommends mus st Ibe ordered at once, | Indoor Baseball, Crescents vs. Teddy Bears a Auditorium ‘Tuesday eve., He 15, Game called at 8:15 sharp.| }Admission 25¢c, Skatingy after the} game, 2t (8 panne Rupert: Now Has Two Clubs and Will Be Able to Train Candidates for Outside Events in Athletics. rhe Seal Cove cold sto their employees at te rage plant are proving enterprising citizenship in Last they successful masque! various Ways. week gave a very ade ball and this week it is a pleasure to announce that they have formed an athletic club members the less than forty the with no entered on roll at first meeting, J. F, Mathewson has been eleet- ed provisional, president and Walter Clayton secretary, A committee has been appointed to draft bylaws and = constitution} consisting of Thomas H. Watts,| Thomas Brenner and James} /Glennie, Another committee was app inted to look after the finan cial end and obtain the necessary club outifit ymposed of and J, F. information as to the This is ex Ed, Port and its cost. W. Jones, Mathewson, The company is to provide the club house and the promoters of the scheme are sanguine in their hopes of having a good gym, reading room and so on, Prince Rupert's leading hote Lei inclined to vessels and men are} | tional 5.5 FALCON 10 THE RESCUE; HALIBUT BOAT IN DISTRESS STANDARD FISH CO.’S GASOLINE SCHOONER PRINCESS ViIC- TORIA TOWED OFF A LEESHORE IN HEAVY WEATHER —REACHED RUPERT IN TIME TO SH/P HAUL. Towed in from Dundas talanil) wack, the Princess Victoria met yesterday afternoon, the gasoline| heavy weather, In bucking wind halibut schooner Princess Vic-|and tide in a heavy seaway she toria, belonging to the Standard| strained her machinery so that Fish Company of Pacofi, was just|the engine gave out and refused in time to get her haul of halibut/to start up again. In water too off south by the Camosun. The deep for anchoring and a gale Princess Victoria had exception-| blowing on to a lee shore so that ally apg luck in being saved by|she could not make sail to escape |the D. G, fisheries cruiser Falcon stranding, the schooner was driv- when Ws was in danger of be-|ing fast onto the rocks when the coming a total wreck on an ex-|Faleon steaming past answered posed coast in heavy weather, While fishing on the outer side of Dundas Island not far from Ketchikan boat Prince where the Olav met with disaster the other her signals of distress. No news of the missing boats and men on the coast of the Queen Charlottes was brought in by the Faleon after her cruise. Oil Expert Coovert Anxious About .» BRIDGE ACROSS he misina eee se” CENA IN JULY AN OLD TIME FRIEND The problem George Slater, the expert oil driller, is — lost or not is occasioning great|Cy Peck Tells of the Rush of anxiety to Mr, Coovert, the expert Work Up River—New Hazelton mining engineer. He says they Coming to the Front Rapidly. have been together in the oil business Peck has just returned from a trip up the Skeena as far New Hazeltom and reports the town in a_ thriving condition. Many of the business men in prospecting for nearly Oy Wi forty years and during that period have been prominent in all, or nearly all, the oil discoveries of this continent. as $$ old Hazelton are establishing branches in the new town, and it presents a most flourishing aspect, Foley, Welch & Stewart offices. are. located there and, of it is now the base of dis- CRED of railroad materials _——- jand supplies. Mail service is Application for Additional Ap-j|very good, the twice we ekly stage propriations for Increased | of Birnes & Mulvaney proving Armament Leads Socialist to /satisfactory to the district, Enter Stormy Protest. one hundred teams are were jengaged in freighting construc- Feb. 10.—In the Reich-jtion materials and supplies from Herr Bebel made a|the end of track, which is now against the addi-|seyventeen miles from Newtown. Track laying is proceeding rapid- jly, one -and a half miles of rails laid on the afternoon Mr. and his party were at the end of steel. At Skeena Crossing a good ltown is located. All the men are at work that can possibly be found /or are employed on the big bridge, ithe monthly pay roll being over 1$30,000. Mr. Peck says that the | bridge is certainly a large under- ltaking, but notwithstanding its jmagnitude and difficult engineer- IN GERMANY course Over Berlin, stag yesterday speech famous were Peck |}ing features, it is the general ;Opinion that steel will be’ laid jacross the river by the middle lof July. | Reformer Gomes io Grief. A. Du Berger, the latter name jbeing in French a literal transla- ltion of the word shepherd, was \UGUST BEBEL |picked up in the district over the | Le ader of the German Socialists.) hill and brought before the mag- _\istrate this morning charged with ivagrancy. His excuse was that he met a girl there whom he had |known years back and was trying appropriation asked for armament, pointing out that this continuous outlay, to say nothing |, bring her back to the right ° . i eS ( , ‘rease ap ‘0- hi + the increased Bree - t ae pasture, Thus showing that he ducers that were calle rom) was a real shepherd and not a producing as a consequence,|.i,o. His case was remanded would so impoverish industrial Germany that the nation must become one of the third or Puri until tomorrow, Rag Doll burlesque entertain- rate instead of holding its pres-|jent and social in McIntyre Hall ent high position among the ng- tonight at 8 o’cloek, under au- tions of the world, All the promi-| ons of Ladies’ Aid of Baptist nent newspapers are quoting Or| op ypep Admission, ineluding criticising his speech and it 81m-| oPposhments, 25 cents. ply emphasizes his title to the | rank of leading Socialist of the} 7 ee rn continent, a For Sale. - Furniture of four-room house, Best meal in town at Savoy.!Apply F. D, Keeley. tf Convention of Liberals! A convention of British Columbia Liberals will be held at O'Brien's Hall, Vancouver, on February 1912. Upon purchasing a first-class ticket to Vancouver Cc, P. R. and obtaining at the ticket agent a standard certificate, and upon the signing of this certificate by the Secretary of the Convention, the holder will be entitled to a return ticket at one-third the usual fare, oath 20th, via of purchase the Hastings street, time from Savoy. | i He vi i" oe ; | HF if av ’ ea ie MS i f