News’ Legialativg ve Library out OF WORK TODAY? Want Ad. x Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist NEXT MAILS “* For South Prince Rupert....... Friday @ a.m. TTIZENS DEMAND COMP PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, Fepruary 21, 1912. PRICE Five Cents ON IG TORNADO IN LOUISIANA ight People Known to Have Been Killed and Hundred Thousand Dollars’ Damage Done to Prop- erty Around Shreveport. S} to Daily News. S chreveport, La., Feb. 24 Hight known to have been é thers to have met Bo fate a property valued at be y $100,000 was de- ‘list 1 tornado that swept wes tskirts of Shreve- ast ght. CAMOSUN’S NEXT TRIP , ill Leave for South at 9 o’Clock HAS NEW RECTOR Rev. H. Edwards ‘Returns After Twenty Years’ Absence. Special to Daily Vancoi Feb. News.) 24. Rey. iver, rectorship of St. James Church in lo the late Rev. The new rector is froin Truro, England, and worked in British Columbia twenty-eight ago. success Fynes Clinton. years MIRACLE OF MODERN bay New York Woman Had Been To-| tally Blind for Two Years—Cry | |during the j Henry Edwards has accepted the The BIC COAL STRIKE ELECTIONS NEXT MONTH. Harry Rochester Returns. After absence of two —_—_—__ months Harry Roehester returned| British Cabinet Endeavoring to steamer Vadso came in night and is discharg- | an ing coal, diiaaihinigisiinalale te eal (Special to The Daily News.) on the Prinee Rupert this morn-| Prevent National Catastrophe. The steamer Celtic arrived thid! Vancouver, Feb. Bee ing. During his vacation he vis- ly: anenmra Word is being sent out ited Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal (Special to Daily News.) morning with &-cargo Of Goal. from the Conservative head=- ain oiher large cities, London, Feb. 24.—The British | | | | | | | a conan quarters that Provincial Cabinet last night decided to take For row boats and launches elections are certain before The Prineess Beatrice arrived| @ band in the endeavor to prevent telephone 320 green. Davis boat the end of March. from the south at 7 o’clock this}the threatened national coal ss nerad: bly Sie nioriseie. strike. Following the cabinet meeting Premier Asquith issued an invitation to the leading mine operators and miners for a con- ference tomorrow. Eight hundred thousand miners are affected. AN ALL-STAR MANSON AND THE GOVT. WHARF WICKEDNESS OF SEATTLE Instance of How Numerically Strong Is the Underworld of Vice as Compared with Decent Citizenship in Seattle. (Special to Daily News.) Seattle, Feb. 24.—Hiram Gill, ex-mayor of this city, who was recalled from that office less than two years ago, last night prac- tically secured his election, the nominating primary giving him Property Owners Still Anxiously Awaiting Reply to Their Petition Urging Speedy Completion of Work HOCKEY TEAM May Be Some Changes as Selec- 25,000 votes to his nearest op- ponent’s 13,000. Three other candidates were away behind. DEBATE TONIGHT. Sunday Morning This Time. of “She’s Dead” Restores Her | DAILY NEWS TELEGRAM AND THE REPLY tion of Players Does Not Ex-|That Municipal Ownership Is, sitio Sight. actly Suit the Fans of Victoria. After All, a Failure. zg s, agent for the epplaigjinit fee epee | : hip Company, has Canadian Press Despatch. } Victoria, Feb. 16.—Jir y Hew- » Pres rig ie ‘int the Camosun| New. York, Feb. 20 _=she's|Qur Member States That He Made Answer to the Petitioners on the Sixteenth—He eh . a yer a night ore ieastinasot to shoes i} ( at | I é 20. 8} 0 1e ancouver rovince z ‘epresentée 28s 0 e "ee i! Ocean Falls on}dead,” cried some one as Mrs.| Probably Dispatched This Answer by Slow Freight to Arrive has selected what he considers|Churches engaging in debates in here and that Anna Churchill, 57 years old, to-} on Completion of the Wharf Itself to be the all-star hockey team of Rupert will take part in another , about midnight} tally blind for and partially para-| lthe Pacific coast. Here it is: interesting discussion, the sub- ; eave for the | lyzed for two years, was about to y \' spretibe, wii, w ject being “That Municipal , Sunday} be taken from a wagon where she $ TELEGRAM No. 1. TELEGRAM No. 2. TELEGRAM No. 3. nae. ae eee = Ownership Has Turned Out a Chelohsin, the new|lay prone into the family’s new | ‘i Failure.» The debate w si pron to the famil new Feb. 12th, 1912. Feb. 20th, 1942. Feb. 20th, 1912. | Point Frank @aliok Wisteria rilur The debate will be in , pany, is to sailj/home in Brooklyn today. The To Daily News, ; ’ ‘|the hands of capable leaders and this port shock the words gave her roused To Wm. Manson, M. L. A., To Wm. Manson, M. P. P., Prince Rupert, B. C a Ber? ote — Ernie Johnson, should prove an intensely inter- , ‘ ‘ rotes g effo | j i ; Pee estminster, : é a the woman to a protesting effort, Victoria, B. C. Victoria. Replied to Committee's Rosak —Deatek: Matlab = weal esting one, — and in a twinkling she had re-| Property owner’s meeting _ When can merchants pe- telegram on the sixteenth ae “we . ’ , reece gained her sight. assembled urge you to make titioning you completion inst. WM. MANSON. Cente édie Leicdaa” Mr. Joseph Martin’s only ob- Jim, Jim,’ she cried to her emphatic request for early wharf expect reply? Answer “| have had no reply yet , e—HEiddie alonde, aN-| jection to the Right Hon. Mr. As- husband “I can see.’ Her loss completion government prepaid. DAILY NEWS. from Mr. Mansen, and know mn Wikio “Hawi tatanh quith as premier is that he does of vision was caused by paralysis)$ wharf. When here Deputy Above was sent by The nothing further about the 3) yo ciminctor. : “jnot consult Mr. Martin on’ all jand the shor k she sustained on Commissioner expected com- News yesterday on first pub- matter. The reply I should Left Wisie<=J iano Oedtiser. Fast and seep inad let questions. pine — er a corpse ape pletion last December. lication of telegram No. 1, judge would come addressed Wastanihatan J } is believed to have restored her Signed: David H. Hays no answer to which had been to me as chairman of the : abet : . ‘ : From a Vancouver man's int ey Beat Crescents. Last Night! sight. and Committee. received to date. committee.”—David H. Hays f ae tt at a aia = ea t: by 45-30 at the Auditorium eee ea Of ECW Vet SOCCER ae Sar se0 indoor Baseball Match. OPPOSED ‘To PENSIONS | but it would hardly suit Victor- — Littered with lumber, cement,,;month. Old timers hailed it with, ferro concrete had to be sawed, | 1405. ¢ \ pid match was ‘Sir Richard Thinks Them Pauper-|grave!, derrick framing, iron) admiration and passed the news! chipped and filed through labor- ht between the izing and Degrading. | bol Its, spikes, etec., the Provincial) along from one to another with} iously. This happened with sev- INVITED TO NELSON —_—— : pes | silieegiiced Government wharf looks this} jubilation Then there was a/eral of the first few piles placed. CTame eas Started on Flight Over Frozen d. the Crescents| Ottawa, Feb. 16.—Sir Richard|morning about as far off the fin-|iong pause. The effort of getting} All the while the struggle of the | What Is Prince Rupert’s Canadian Lake Erie, but Found Severely am The eer sl ; lished state as it did over three|that first pile in place seemed al-| construction gangs was to place Club Doing? Injured on the American Shore. \ Cartwright im the Senate said the : : | for the Quills.} months ago. This wharf has been! most too much for the Provincial| the piles each in its appointed] —-—-— hard through- rst enemies of the working} inder construction for years. Government, and a spell of rest! place by the method approved by| Nelson, Feb. 16.—The Nelson} (Special to Daily News. the play, and ex-/classes were those who seek to} There has been a conspicuous) Was proclaimed while engineers; government, which was a patent) Canadian Club has sent a cordial Erie, Pa.. Feb. 24.—Earl Sandt, The two|pauperize or degrade them into] apsence of frost recently, but the| and experts bandied words about} process supposed to do away with | invitation to His Royal Highness| 23 years old, started on an aero- ugh matched,|being recipients of pensions they|gang of men ¢ nployed laying) how the job was to be carried out.) the need for ramming down the | the Duke of “onnaught to visit/piane flight from Erie to Port hot style, and had not earned, and further that ner pay has succeeded Time and Tide. plies It turned out that owing | Nelson as the guest of the club.) Rowan, Canada, last night over gned among} Canada should 1 make prepara-| jy getting down ¢ ya few squal es ae + aa thi Oval to the amount of rock blasied into|]f the Governor General accepts;the frozen Lake Erie. He went tions to relieve the submerged} yapds Work on the Manson : wee : , *"\the water at this point the bot-|he will be asked to formally open|up at 5:50 p. m., but up to mid- Ite nth, but to see that no sub-| way the angular access to the|/P'UC &PP ared the work of build-/{om was unsuitable for this|Nelson’s new $30,000 rifle range, night had not arrived. so expensive injmerged tenth exists in Canada.| .narr. which was started montha|ing a sea wall to retain the ma-j|prooess to work effectively, and| just completed. A late report states that he was of the leading|Senator Lougheed thought Old) anq months ago, is jogging along|terial blasted out of the railway|not until it was abandoned and a found this morning near here on g them for des-|age pensions were a long way Off) with gradual, almost impercept-|cut at the wharf site had pro- the older method of fitting steel | For sale—Soda fountain and|/the American shore of Lake Erie, in Ganada ible growth The iron bollards|ceeded with the speed of the shoes to the piles and driving) all appurtenances. C. H. Orme. tf|severely injured. | siad< inet: dalle mam aap P them was instituted, was there j whic : arrive = a . ervstal growing in the rock, At any rapid progress shown in th = = jwharf are mostly in position, but that timo wy stated that the ; ‘ee PORT f IETY jare not all bolted down, work was slow because it had to pile plé ig “NEW 8 LAUNC On ticeable feature appears|pe qd betw tides and that Timbering Done. fo be complete, That is the long) when low | happened at an un- The timbering of the structure | GRO IN T0 BE HIGH TONED row of spring buffers faced with) earthiv he he morning the| after the piles were placed went | heavy lumber booms which are}, could né any sort of use-jalong pretty fast, and then it! intended to relieve the concrete) fy) wor! ob Apparently| seemed the wharf took another| 7 ae HAS THE AMBITION TO HOLD A DICKENS CENTENARY ALL “!ructure of the wharf from jar-|jow tide in tI days (lhe sum- easy spell, during which time|NEW CRAFT IS FLAT BOTTOMED AND OF LIGHT DRAUGHT THE SAME AS THE LARGER CITIES AND MAKE |jring impact when large steam-jmer befor: i had a perfect/petween last fall and the present| SUITABLE FOR WORK IN TIDAL WATERS A SUCCESS OF IT. ships come alongside. habit of h g in the small} day, the patent spring buffer} AND FOR RIVER DUTY. The First Pile. hours of the ing, for the sea) equipment was put in, a little ca . : | was 1 pleted until after! eonerete work was done and the Yet another gasoline launc h enjoyable en- | All praise and credit 1s duc All the reinforced concrete|**'' : Pra : ; r promoted in|Mrs. A. G, Harris in her efforts piles really are in place. This the firs ‘ as in position,|Manson Way was advanced a|has been added to the ever are) RECIPROCITY BOBS UP. eee g » together such splendid rag ee many al h later plank or two and a stairway. The rm ni “nee r ( Essington: B, | 12 getting together such splen seems too good to be true, but : PII re haitane a se ing fleet of Prince Rupert POW°" | Senate Committee to Report What talent and on whose shoulders} j, jg so, Way back in the spring The Second Pile. Cast “Iron DONBNGS) ho arre boats. The latest addition is a hich was give ning large ; 1c wasland were teamed o place and|-°2'*: ‘ ‘ Canada Lost. i ven IN} ihe success of the evening larg time last year the first pile was in Before he cond pile was|and w teamed into place | little Ja a t : ghar Hall last|ly depended i wing tha fir fs tip! ks elapsed. Then| partly fixed down, stout little launch as ye ee | marooned ly dependec place t was 1@ first sign of/ placed wi N ‘ oe lnamed, which was built by Cap-| Ottawa, Feb. 16.—A. commis- g when local Musical selections were given pr wress that had been seen'!it was 1 that one of the|— i ee ee ee " 5 . om Fades of thirteen members of the that well known | throughout the evening by} about the wharf for many a weary) piles was g, and the tough Continued on Page 4.) }tain Kohrt over at Wolf Manors Tae aahias Bbnate’ eiik “dasaceaeaen sus Pickwick,’ |A. E. Noel and Louis Haptons hatt| ! — | and launched the other day. The : ‘xactly. what the Dominion losps Dickens. A large audi-|and a dance fo llowed wae was | boat now lies at the Rupert Ma-|jyy the rejection of reciprocity | together to witness|heartily joined in by and vine wharf being engined, lwith the United States. The ; he different mem-| young alike until oe eh a Jn several respects this new|¢ommission was appointed on a ving of “ sang Syne : a. Senator Edwards ; mpany, and. their |the singing 0! moat . and de- boat is an interesting departure, |motion made by Senator Edwards, . imply rewarded as| brought a most pleasan? & tt She is flat bottomed and therefote|@ Liberal from eof the At the al part was done inj|lightful evening's enoyment bo L of very light draught, making her eureeaticn of one of the western d reflected great | finish. ‘ Number of Old-Timers From the Nearby Island Take Scow Load 0 v0" ht draught, making her oie nt oe eae asbed to re ! cals.” Special Those who took part in this} tidal waters aro 1 th harbor| Port what Canada gained in de- TW aly ‘ tidal waters arounc re ~harbor| M it be made of Miss|centenary RepreRensyee? see | of Supplies and Building Material to Start Up New Colony or for river duty. “Bhe is broad feating this peaposed trade pact, captured the hearts | Messrs, C. F, Morison ee Poreher at Wel-) religious services oftener, and to|in the beam and very roomy in- “= - by her charming|V. Noble, . G. Harris, J. Smith, | Quite an emigrant ship set out| sta yreher a . i eC ( o. Sler alia: hediiaend ae Pantorium Pioneer aceaaie th ; ’ J. L. Chris-|from the Davis wharf yesterday] ¢ome Harb mw, Some dozen’ (his end the Presbyterian pastor| $14 i mar Pl » 4 \ le role of the young A Taylor, - Forsyth, J. b. © , : : "lon so of stalwarts, mostly Scotch rinab R tte F. w,|room are forward, after the de-| Phone 4. } early de monstrated | tie, Master Y Inrig, Miss V. Mori-/afternoon bound — for Porcher || Sisto : laine anaes a of Prinee upert, ev. . eto found by tar ihe most aes) ; : a fs > ads ( \ ss ‘ e othe , 4 PERS i : a j Sign found Dy Wh abilities in the|son, Miss F. Noble, Miss M. PhiND/ y;ojandq with supplies and many Pet heasi ii inal shal Laine Kerr, has arranged that the Pres-! 4), for these waters, and she is THE WEATHER. Bo. San amateurs, and Mrs. A. G, Harris. | Poreher Islanders who had come] materia ind their colony, | byterian deaconess, Miss Buther- strongly decked and roofed over| weddidignics dare wntsnle over to replenish their stores and|They are hard at work now get-|land ,shall pay occasional visits} houses. eB Peet ee a ; a ; pe ‘ : Y he bow the}/@ ™., February 24, 1942: Bar., PP do business in Prince Rupert. The] ting their houses up and will have to the island, making longer stays Somewhat bluff in the bow th« loan is Senet ume is havea party included Walter Warnerj|a good | f their acreage | there than pis own time permite.)new boat has a amoots, ! ‘saa '97.0; preci alin 44 PRINCE RUPERT TWENTY MINUTES AGO and ‘W. Sims, who are amongst! broken vetable gardening | Miss Sutherland is over there at | glide over the water and is like! y| re es ; {he very earliest located of old| this spring jpresent and conducted service | to make a very good speed, pies Pare timers on Poreher, Judging by} In every way Porcher Island}over there last Thursday and on| is being fitted with an eig ht NOTICE. aati : the amount of stuff faken across! shows ig if advance and| Sunday, }horse power Palmer engine. As y 18 irying hard to look busy. yesterday the island is rapidly| proves worth every atten-| By yesterday's scow, which} yet the interior fittings of the A general meeting of the Prince ( . R ssing ‘ a4 Be a at Re . are ¢ j “yp Westenhaver boasts that he alone saw our missing settling up. l4ion that a ‘ronment can give}was ferried oyer to Porcher by} laun h ars a to ae ae Rupert Liberal Asscolation will “Very different from the day I/toward development and the con-| the Davis launehn Knox, there|framing and strong crooks o Maycr Douglas « lers sending out that tracer first went over,” said W. Sims as|venien (tlers near a centre| traveled also a small survey party|natural yellow cedar are plainly|be held in the K. of P. Hall on ry Rochest % ee i home when he scanned the scowload of pro-|like Princes Rupert. There is a | whic bh is to run lines in connec 7} vielble at present, and the. sub- Thursday eve., Feb. 22nd, at 8 } ester says thyre’s no place like hé visions and building material./thriving school with pupils fast/tion with new extensions of pre-| stantial quality of the workman- p. m. An invitation is extended nee Rupert, Phen I could have packed all my/outgrowing its aceommdations,|emptions and agricultural land.| ship put into her over the winter to all Liberals to be present. perly owners still await Mr. Manson's delayed rep!) stuff in one load, Now there’s|but not outgrowing their liking}There are also valuable gravel/by her owner is seen, On trial ; } T ’ sits bei jeveloped|trips to test engines She has be- P. W. ANDERSON, "ument wharf still setting the pace. fons of stuff to take over,” for an energetic teacher, The|and clay deposits being developed | trips : Bnes e has ee There is a& new. settlement! settlers are desirous of haying] tentatively at present on Porcher.| haved very well indeed, ' Secretary.