WINDSOR HOTEL CASE | As was expected, Police Magistrate Carss | has thrown out the charge against the | Windsor%,,°2l. We shall comment on this case as $00“%~, the provincial election is over---when, 11. be hoped, it can bet- ter be viewed in a Wace -parthan light. From the Empire, March 20th. says | to myself Says | oo The News is the paper to buy For South gays | Princess Beatrice. .Saturday, 1 p.m. Camosun,..... .,,. Sunday, 9 a.m. Deal to All;” partisan light. and that he has buried his hatchet ? Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist THERE IS PLAINLY A REASON for the existance of such a comment on a local hotel case should be withheld until after a what extent Ring Rule politics is carried. Mayor Editor Newton’s ing the suffrage of the people a few months ago was “Down with : , yet now he has the effrontery for political reasons to state bitieenly that “com- ment will be withheld until after election,” when it is to be hoped it can be viewed in a non- Is such a procedure a square deal to all? it not apparent to any reasonable person that Mayor Editor Newton had a hatchet te grind We wonder what the funeral cost? \ Is it down with Ring Rule? Is NEXT MAILS —— VOL. Ill, NO. 70 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Paway, MARCH 29, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS Balfour’s Motion for Rejection iction of Mim isin Wage and Bill Passes by Unexpectedly Large Majority---Increasing =». 4 tetier in his povke Destitution Intensified by Extreme Cold---Many en route from England Atlantic Liners Now Lying Idle 7 Special to Daily News. GO UP THE LINE London, March 22.—-Balfour's Ma DISTRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN BECOMING UNPRECEDENTED 3°: a — | BOMBARDIER LINDLEY (Special to Daily News.) Viowonse March 22—-The body Lindley, an old campaigner | Point barracks, who has been} missing since the 18th, we as| Bill i 1s Defeated found floating in the }An inquest has been ordered for| showed that Mrs Lindley was | St. Andrew’s Society rhe regular meeting of the St.} Andrew's Society will be held in} gistrate Carss Away. the Carpenter's Hall tonight at} Rupert Athletic Club to encour- G. T. P. Officials in Special Train motion for the rejection of the In the absence of Magistrate! «:)o¢k. | ag manly sports was a success Make Trip of Inspection. mum wage bill was defeated) Carss, who is visiting the Queen - ease = | from every point of view. Thefe| and the government measure| Charlotte Islands, Magistrate iilway officials passed its mid reading in the} McMullin this morning presided| ser wanted immediately. Sweder| house last night, who went away g Lee MeMaster,| @ymmons last night by a ma-|« the police court. | Bros., Helgerson Block ot thoroughly pleased with the box- | ; r ie Dee anes jority of 123, a larger majority Q endent McNichol than the ministerial leaders =|, 1 special train to} themselves had hoped for. The Sa eee lets nbn ties sali MORE TABLOIDS D lborites and Nationalists voted with the government. The labor FIGHTERS MAY RETURN leaders, though they tabled a Mees number of amendments, one for It is beyond our comprehension why any others than boodlers should band themselves to- Participants in Last Night’s Bout) 1). inclusion of their schedule gether to secure the defeat of an honest, progressive and efficient government.—Empire. Set Sail for Home. fminimum wages, are now expect- ed to be satisfied with the inclu- rally understood sion of. five shillings and two three years. Perhaps if an audit was made the public would learn how much it costs for of the boxing) spijlings as the minimum wages. these changes of front ght that there would Unless, as now expected, the There is no doubt that the McBride government will be returned to power. Surely, there- a: Renee e pays rs resume work at the be- fore, it will be good business for the Skeena district and the city of Prince Rupert to elect a . : ngee ” ee ginning of the week, the disloca- supporter. We do not know what our needs will be in the course of the next four years at eAth. cue ti of trade and the distress re- Empire. eased and look Is the Empire aware of the fact that the public accounts have not been audited in the last essful bout on|~ ting will become unprecedent- Who is the supporter referred to? He does not mention the name of “Spineless William” B left for his og * is announced that the n this connection. Someone has said that Silent William has a spine, Dut there is a saus- this morning on Great Wester Railway, which age in it It is quite easy to tell the Empire what a good many of our needs will be for the d Scott, with his Rs the ‘present Decause off next four years If “Silent William” should by some fluke be returned our needs will never be ) sat eft for Se ’ 1s coal reserves has oer heard of in the Legislature. We will get wha McBride-Bowser think we should have. Only by maintain a fun serv 00, the election of Alex. M. Manson will the peo of this constituency have their needs put to the begin to cut down next ep tia Seeniment 40 & mane an Ban etenond antkian rol all great industrial dis- pig “i oS ais ita ( i tale if increasing | In these days, especially with the prairies as our competitors, settlers will not go far 9 000 fur consign-| destitution, intensified by the cold} ahead of the railway How, therefore, can we hope to settle the province if we do nothing in anded in Prinee| and inclement weather. the way of railway expansion’—-Empire. { the launch Ptarmigan Paisley thread mills closed to- There is no opposition to legitimate railway expansion Mayor-Editor Newton makes a en by T. Davidson of} day, Jetting out 12,000 workers. deadly thrust; surely it is not at the oppos to the present government. Pray, then, who Studio It pictures \ parts of the country are can it be? What the opposition does object to is by pledging the credit of the country to ably the pioneer congested by idle shipping Ii is| parallel! a railroad already built or under ¢ struction. What the northern opposition objects e Rupert's position . Y age 0 fe to principally is endorsing a policy that ds to the upbuilding of the south to the detriment arket as a fur| estimated that tonnage amoun ee INa nant o | 100,000,000 tons Is lying ( phe al experienced boat|cluding the liners Oceanic, Ma- \pply O. M. Helgerson estic, St. Paul, New York and ' Philadelphia. SS t Southampton’ docks, De) ————E———————————— INCREASE IN WAGES | ——_______—— PRINCESS MAY ARRIVED Se Corporation Raise Wag-| THE WEATHER. Liberal es One Cent Per Hour TT ————= | sengers and Freight Last Night. msn ms see ARE NOW AFTER For twenty-four hours ending 6 speci é yews fi March 22: Bar., 30,240; The Princess May arrived at Victoria Has fe Special to Daily News. 1 om ay ¢ ‘ an Alderman Pos Winnipeg March »9 The} max. tem) i8.0; min, temp., 30 Mmst evening with a large | ee