—— I ——— ZAGER 4 obS to myself, a = C= News Is the paper to buy \ For ene The X I Princess Mary. . W, ~ easy, 9 p.m. Say® = : O-+ s Fer . ee Prfaed ddbrge * Preieis, 9 a.m, aon The Prince Rupert Optimist een vole Wh | iil, N 85 Prince RUPERT, B.C., ios nase APRIL 10, 1912. ES PLENTY OF WORK NOW BIG DRY DO EARLY CLOS Introduced by Social Reform Association and Debated at Length .--Feeling That Both Sides Should Have a Chance tobe Heard | But Rev. F. W. Kerr Thinks it Unwise to Start Counter Petitions in a Neck and Neck Race G OF BAR-ROOMS DISCUSSED BY CITY COUNCIL Price FIVE CENTS 5 STA | CANCEL CAFE LICENSES j — | Wancouver Lfcense Board Takes Drastic Step. Vancouver, Aprii 10.— | (Special.) — The license board today Wecided on a | radical change affecting all city cafes. After May 31st all those holding liquor li- | censes will have them can- | celled. la WILL HELP TRADE _ WITH THE INDIES| Kerr appeared be-| censes they would drive the peo-j| vitally interested. Alderman a the ere ae of ee ouncil last night] ple seeking liquor to blind pigs Douglas said he> had voted for [cily are already beginning to oe eaeae ae ee oo snag eax. wins tha Biot hike font Mk: tac a | Preverenerel Warcement with | show a profit-was the good news Mora Social Reform CGoun-| he had the highest regard for the) notice of motion should be given.| Canada Has Been Amicably De-| with which the City Council was mpanied by Rev. Mr./ gentlemen in the reform move-| After further talk this was| et ee portent An- srected aan eee i Mr. Davidson, the; ment he did not think the coun- | agreed to. nouncement te Made. : ea rea ee par i anoali a . aha ‘: a ; 4 rs ao 3 showed a prot Oo $1,147, yu \ ha ie sateen Noreen cannes - ee et ae j mee i a: oe , ore oper ” meily Nowe. inte” Go08. ms include sinking Mr, Kerr | the resolutions} men “| discussion, saying he was satis- Ottawa, April 40.—Today Hon,| fund expenses, There are now Council to. be \ wonerel disodesion ensued in fled to have the Council take up| George Foster announced the!222 Phenes in use: The power lumn and! which it was suggested that both 'he matter at a future meeting.| successful conelusgion of the con- and lighting report showed a did not ask the} sides to the question be heard; As to the petition suggestion he} ference with representatives of coer fii and shows all ete ite action on|that each side bring in petitions, thought it would be unwise to|the West Indies for a preferen-| 0! $1,469, and was by far the f bars, as the|/and that a special committee be have two petitions, one for and | tial trade arrangement. The |ANUe eles document read d be expected in|appointed to scrutinize the list|/@D@ against the early closing of| agreement was signed today and| during the eee ee Engineer tice of mo-lof sicners..and see that the| bars, running a neck, to neck based on broad and generous | 4 Lewes’ Tapert is here given in names were those of reputable | "ace for signatures. He would) basis, but it cannot be made pub-| °°” said it might ae] citizens Ald. Dybhavn had no !ike' the Couneil to discuss the} lic until it has been submitted to April 7, 1942 p at once, but Ald.| confidence in petitions, and Ald, | '™atter on its merits and not from| (he parliaments of both coun-| To the Chairman and Committee \! t believe in tak-] Douglas said they had to con-|8 | wal option point of view. tries. Kleetrie Light and Power. De- ent on a matter! sider the wants of the whole pop- ——_—— ———————— nr Hotel keep-| ulation, and not a section of it of revenue;/} Ald. Montgomery would stop mY arge expense to/the making of liquor as’ well as laws in pro-|the selling, and did not think re- lation for the| venue from such a source should vere hedged around] be accepted Ald. Kerr thought eee eee aac tei cron tne Contractor Matthew Dow With With Sepévintending Men on the Job---. ess. If they cut down| subject as the hotel men had Th Mi hi F f L b 0 d d d h W ! s of those much money at stake and were} ree 10n eet 0 umb?2r rdered an on t e ay who paid | THE MAYOR PLACED UPON DEFENCE OF HIS POLITICS Ald. Morrissey Took Issue With His Worship Upon the Peculiar Course Followed by The Empire During the Election Campaign ast night defied reconciles his worship’s state- else to prove! iments with the Mayor's stand in had { acted up to the|the last election, upon which he was The Mayor I would like you ven a BOn-partisan! op any other member or citizen It came up sud- to show where I have shown a started by Alder-| : about blind pigs jpartisanship manner as mayor reported to him | reserve the right of my citizen- two blind pigs|ship when IT am not doing City y }hosiness Ma r said he had re- | Alderman Morrissey The ar report and sug-| Empire never was so strongly he matter be turned] partisan as during the last elec- police j tion a remark from Al-}| The Mayor ‘The paper sup- gomery, the Mayor| ported William Manson long be eferred to election] fore that said I announced Alderman Morrissey It was seeking election] a great grievance to the people give non-parti-} when your worship took the and if up to the|stand you did,” . I have acted other- |} Aiderman Kerr said the discus . with city busi-| sion was entirely out of order Lo be shown.) and with this the political Morrissey could not| squabble ended | OBJECT TO TAXES BOARD OF TRADE Eleventh Street Owners Want the| Several Important Questions for Improvement Done First. the Mesting Tomorrow Morrissey notified The Board oi Trade meets to- ast night that the} morrow evening in the — Police Eleventh street,)/Gourt and the secretary states and Second avenue! that several important questions paying their assess-|will be up for discussion, The ise the improvements} question of transportation and done and they had been] freight rates is one of them, (he appropriation for] and am vig the flesser ones is ! Was sufficient to cover}the newspaper “knocking” of alter was referred to] Prince Rupert on account of its Engineer, alleged wet climate, cee ae fOr Coreen ne, | : nothing so rare as a June day in April were even at Odd Fellows’ Hal! last night. taster MeIntosh has a headache, Six days’ mail *d onto him today, rh Mayor putting on his diving suit, Submarine blind a. vered near the wharf. ‘nce Minister deelares it a draw and all bets off. No back being made in athletie park for early cloging peti- run a marathon, Big things have last in connection with the Trunk Pacific dry dock construc- once look over the ground which for a starter, and the first barge tion By this morning’s boat load of it is on the way from the from the south there arrived Mr. has been surveyed by J. H. Pills- Ocean Falls Lumber Co.'s plant, Matthew Dow. of the firm of| bury for the Grand Trunk Co.’s/{hat firm having secured the Matthew Dow & Co., of the Brit-| engineer, and will locate the] contract. ish North America Construction} sheds, ete., which are’ the pre-| The undertaking will employ a Company, who built the G. T. P.| liminary signs of constructional | ja. number ofsmen .. through. [comp and wharves at Vancouver, | activity. The sheds will be be-| j f cae nd the same railway company's| gun within the next few days.| rut the ee but at first only docks at Seattle. Any residences in the area of op-| some thirty-five or so will be ac- With Mr. Dow travelled his| erations are to be vacated with-| tually at work on the sheds, ete. brother, Foreman H, Dow, and L.| in a week. | Rapid accomplishment of the Mote, another superintendent of \lready’ there has been let 2 work is insisted on by the G.T.P the | three accompanied contract for They will at. Undertaking, really begun at| construction work, Grand | py their assistants. umber f million the | feet or Members of the Order and Lady Friends Entertained. In Odd Fellows’ given a was mempbe during was fames, th good refreshments WITH THE ODD FELLOWS and social the e course Inusic WAS NO FIGHT AT CITY HALL Hall last night | evening for) ir lady friends, | of which there} and singing, | and danc- Aid. Clayton ‘and: “Mayor Seemed to Have Beaten Their Swords | Into Plough Shares Because Pastors Were Present. of the That ‘ne Council spectfully suggest the ap- *pointment of a committee to look to the early furnishing library and reading room in the new city hall. IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS [Passed by Moral and Social Re- form Council Last Night. re- its hearty and of the in conjunc- Prince Rupert, is strongly of ing until this morning: The en-| —- 2. That the Council put tertainment committee consisted “The lion and the lamb shall on record of W. G, Barrie, J. W. MeKinley,}jje down together and a_ little] unanimous approval S. Wright, J. Keller and R. Moore, | eh iid sha ead them,” was the; action of the Mayor by him- and among the entertainers were| way one of the irreverent spec-| self—and also M. Davis, solo; H. Daggett, reci-|tators commented on the meeting} tion with the license and po- attion; A, Brooksbank, piano se-| of Alderman Clayton and the] lice commissions—in their lection; Mr, Bain, reeitation; A.| Mayor at the city hall last night.! endeavors for the moral wel- Gray, piano solo; Mr. Kelly, comic} phe Finance Minister, in a stage| fare of the city. song; J. 8. Gray, violin solo, and! whisper aside, also made a clas-| 3g, Resolved, That this meet- addresses by Rev.. Warren Me-! cjegt comment, to the effect that ing of the Moral and Reform Leod, George M, Naden and ©, V lthe warriors had beaten their Council of Bennett, lswords into plough-shares be-| while in favor of the early IT RA 8 }eause there were 80 Many MM- closing bylaw now before the Lecture Tonight on the Hydro | |. ters of the gospel present. City Council, Electric System. There was no large crowd pre-| the opinion that the licensed The city he and the general public is cordially} Presbyterian Club of this} sent and there was nothing sen- for an illus-|sational in the meeting, Not all is invited, jou? merela Corporation, 1000, The Mack Realty & NSUP= |p oop of the Mill Bay cannery on{'® Oe! jance Co., Agents, tf the Nass River, is In town IOPROFALON, se: MBS 7 : insurance company ae ee et The Mack Gi, Laf. Peck of the Georgetown Fresh eggs, 3 dozen for $1.00,, i onnia Paw Cowichan Stalker Ge l & arranged Do you pay your j}you pay them if you were burned| ary deference t a policy Fire Assets Union Mill Company ORES Wells, upon the report of the engineer land the applications for electric | power and on other subjects, al- Could) ways using a more than custom- to the ‘presiding ‘i Wednesday, bills? week. the Com- Assurance $111,000,- | in loftiicer. ACCIDENTS— “nr “rv, owner and man- Henry Doyer, ¢ é the Ocean & Wells. 2t Pantorium Phone 4, is in the ecity.| Stalker 40e per steaks Choicest Hotel , dozen, Pioneer Cleaners. 2t at The only plete protection is a policy with Accident & Guarantee the largest casualty in the world. Realty & Insurance Co., the liquor business should also be included in this movement trated lecture to be given in their|(he members of the council were for earlier closing, otherwise hall on Fourth avenue on the! present when Dr, Clayton came a most unfair advantage is hydro eleetric system. This is|in, At the lower end of the long given to a special trade which bound to be of intensely practical] table there was a little band- does not tend to promote the importance to any men of aje¢lapping as he made his way to welfare of the community; scientific bent of mind. The new| his accustomed seat, and the and hradiopticon will be used to throw) c¢fowd hustled to the railing in That this meeting respect- pictures of the different parts on} anticipation. But nothing hap- fully requests the City Coun- the sereen, to be fully explained pened out of the ordinary during cil to amend the present yy the leeturer. Mr. Kearney! (he whole evening. liquor bylaw so that the hour represents the Ganada Electric} ‘There was a great deal of bus- for closing all places licensed Go., is a graduate of McGill and} jpess before the couneil and in to sell intoxicating liquor well known in the city, The lee-|the course .of it Ald, Clayton shall be 10 o'clock in the ture is absolutely without charge! spoke several times, at” length evening of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and 9 o’clock in the evening of Saturday of each com- tf Royal tf Prince to months of partment, City, Gentlemen,—I beg balance sheets for the January, February and March, 1912, which show a profit of $1469.70, after allowing for all possible charges. You will note the heavy stand- ing charges in each month, dating from April they will slightly more, Rupert} books, and,)of the be} tee, and will be as fol- | compliment to all the workers in PUBLIC UTILITIES OF CITY ALREADY MAKING A PROFIT Engineer Matthews’ Report Received With High Approbation--- Power Will be Running Full Load Night and Day---Price of Power Will Probably be Reduced to Eight Cents Per Kilowatt Hour---Two Big Contracts in Sight less fuel per kilo-watt submit hour, and the ‘“‘day-load.” During the three months we have sold approximately 58,300 kilo-watt hours of current at a coal cost of 4%e per kilo-watt hour. Aldermna chairman commit- was a high Clayton, Light and Power said the report lows for the remaining months|the department. They might of the year, viz.: naturally expect the profit to in- TEVGQPNONGS 02 i 8 3 & 12.00 ereuse Application had been inking’ Tund .os4%s.. 366.00} made by the provincial govern- IMMBNOS ie W awe sea 436.00} ment for ten are lamps for the TB UTONOO 55 ogc 6 ode 00 7.25; government wharf, and a con- RRMOE 5 65 40s ac dwead 4.50 |tract was now under way with $875.75 per month, or say|them for a minimum of two years $10,500 per annum, or a maximum of five years. The The fluctuation of the ac- | contractor for the Grand Trunk counts is due to the date of the} Pacific depot work asked for meter readings being put on a| from fifty to a hundred horse better footing, thus making lee for day and night load, and uary a longer income month. other applications would shortly We have in front of us the|be made. Power would be sup- j}coming summer months when| plied to consumers at 9 cents per our income will be considerably| kilowatt hour, but the engineer reduced, but to offset that we will|felt that later this could be re- | have more customers on the} duced to 8 cents, NOTHING SOMNOLENT ABOUT THE MORAL REFORM BOARD Officers Elected Last Night and Strong Resolutions Passed and Presented at the City Council— Promise of Vigorous Activity Given Owing to the fact that a num- ber of members of the Prince Rupert Moral and Social Reform the annual sheld in St, are absent, ig of the society Council meet Andrew's church hall last night, was rather sparsely attended. Nevertheless, the couneil, after electing its officers for the year, took very decided action on the hours of bar room closing, and} sent strong resolutions to the City Council. Text of these reso- lutions is featured separately. Following are the officers elected: President, Bishop Du Vernet; vice president, Dr. Gade secretary-treasurr, J. T. David- ous son; executive, Dr. Kergin, Dr. McNeil, L. W. Patmore, A. J. Galland, Alex. Douglas, W. Alli son, W .R. Morrison and C. C, Purdy. Bishop Du Vernet briefly sum- the efforts the to effect certain improve- marized made by society ments during last year. Steps will probably be teken to the to the the promo- welfare, This idea discussed and came in for but in the meantime stirring toward vigor- adapt council broader basis of a society for tion of was Civic support, there is a activily. I. W. W. MAN’S UNKNOWN MAN BROAD VIEW Speaker at Strikers’ Meeting at Lytton Says Strike Was Called Too Nastliy—ahight Have Agreed. FOUND DEAD — | Canadian Northern Documents teed! to Supposition That He Was Hugh D. Willis of Cornwall, Ont., but Victoria Po- lice Cannot Trace Him. Kaimloops, April 10 The Canadian Press Despateh, camps along the line of con- Victoria, April 10,—The body struction of the C. N. R. are idle) lof a man believed from papers in this vicinity, but here and there small gangs of men are at| found upon his clothing to be work At Lytton a meeting was! Hugh Db. Willis of Cornwall, On- held today by the strikers and | tari, was found on a bench at one I. W. W. leader said he be-/the foot of Menzies avenue this lieved that | much haste had/afternoon, The police were un= been shown in calling the strike,}able to find out anything about He thought that the grievance|the man, He was about five feet should first have been submitted/ten, of medium build and had a to the contractors, who, he be-|light brown mustache. lieved, would have met the men] S KOOTENAY BY-ELECTION half way. | Wanted Position as exper- salesiady or chamber- Phone Black 148. ienced work at once, Ellis was among morning. Frank A. the arrivals this Concert and Pantomime. Remember the coneert in Mc- /Intyre Hall tonight. Auld Robin Grey pantomime will be given and the best talent in the city will contribute, Admission 25c, Robt. F. Green Will Accept Con- servative Nomination, (Special to Daily News.) Vietoria, April 10.—-In view of many requests that he offer him- election at the forthcom- Kootenay fer Dominion Robert F, Green has stated his willingness to aecept nomination if it is of- fered him by the Conservatives, self for ing by-election in the house, eee ied POR ee °