t a NE Pe ng OO Tie a POU EEE AN EEE EE eee eee 1910 — PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS: — An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureawm of Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Associatiom , Published by The Prince Rupert Daily, News: Limitedt - JOHN ‘F°. MAGOR? President: J. R. AYRES rob, Editor - General Manager Ea ye cota eRe oe cv ie Oc Ba one G}.. P. WOODSIDE! |... Authorized as second class mafl by the Post Office Departmenty: Ottaws* hay ones a ae wy * | FRIDAY, AUGUST 1; 1958 “hack ‘ Prinee Rupert: Daily News. issne: + of September 16, 1957) and !vefers ; to §0..Vvears. aga, By CHARLES DURHAM of Usk The Sternwheeler “Northwest” This item was copied fromithe when? .cohimn | of: © the “WRECK--Navigation on: the : Skeena River is. at a standstill following: the .wreck of. -the steamer Northwest, belonging to : the Northern British Columbia]. i Transportation Ga. ‘The: wreck eb t . ss TI ME and sington we tied up on the south: ‘sida. of the river on what used te. hee called the Hudson Bay, Flats— apparentlyy on: top’ of: arr old{lor; lying on the-river-battomy assdur- ing.the night:the silt had washed Jawayfrom; around’ the Jogandiin]; the:mor ning we found the boat's back was broken across. the middle, so:that.both the bow and the:stern were> hanging down. It. seemed'that there was only one Hft-boat belonging. to. the ™ <<. ee FT I TN Ne a Spores #4 ee raw Ry Dees te a HEM eM SNR We WN ONS EH ee EVN NR NR S ow we ov av ae! ERCP Pea ue bi ie TAP, “is sia Carntd lns ( as) oe Mc vena YY aR nef PLACE... ‘wells who also, ‘nelonged to Kitse- lee, a big fohow: who, came from witzerland’ whom. I only remem- her: by.‘the:nameof Louie, and ‘gric-Forsman who. took up a pre- pmption: near Copper City, ‘ The’ canoe was: small, but with the exception ‘of. Big Louis who welghed about 250 Ibs, we were all small men and made. a heavy enough load for that craft, ime vm eareyon Mite soot ance “em ymin eos i . i as aA} _ Now, to ‘the best of my. mow-! eo : ledge, - nothing’ whatever WAS, 4 done to: take the Indians away ' j. from. ‘there, neither * by ‘the’ Steamboat Company nor' by. the, Government... So how they man- aged I don’t know, exceptini do know that some. of. them were. sti around there the. following spring when the. river was S again navigable, | re | wer eee 4 Mats | © the Gity off Piinee-Rupert’s British Golimbia: B.G: Centennial parade; the Port Day races $1,000: baseball tourna- “ment, the raising ofithe recarved Wolf totem pole, the-derlicatiomof: the City’s Centennial projéctztie: new: Museum of Northern British @olumbia .and_ the Port Day Ball, it is appropriate that the contrast. between: the old. and new. be tied ‘in withthe city’s:progress in,.its: official. 48-year history. On:the one hand is:the famous: old!totem;. (showm at right,): which.has been. recarved by, Charles Dudoward of. Port. Simpson,, . on the other is the modern.museum by: which it stands. Up-to-date design and. glassthas.replaced the old. wooden: striéture on Second Avenue and the — citys. treasures. willbe housed in. fire-- proof surroundings. Itisa building of which. the citizens: young: and.old can be: proud of and so are the totems which are linked. with the-city/s-past.. = Looking into that same past’ “we. find the famous Wolf. totem, given the: city..by the Canadian National Rail- Ways, formerly belonged to a Nishga titibe leader named' Chief Dauk. The: pélesstood in front of- Chief: Dauk’s: odee-at Gitlakdamix (Adyansh), on the: epper. Nass River. The carved figures: p:of the pole represent the princi- actors in legends. describing: the dfigin. of the family:crests: The own-.. ef of the pole: belonged. to the: “Wolf” clan. oO ,. The principal legend: “which exe plains how: the Wolf was: adopted. for. the family crest is as-followsi— => ~ One day long years:ago, a great. lava: , eruption took: place at. Gitwwunshilku: _ dp the-upper Nass‘River. The molten: . rijass pushed the waters of the: river Hack across the valley.to the mountain-. side and.formed:a great lava‘: ‘plain which extends from the head waters.of the Kshluich:to the canyon at Gwinsha. ‘Fhe fiery flow overwhelmed? villages: : and fishing hamlets.in its-path,-and‘the- - fieople fled to the surrounding hills. Among these fugitives was an Indian . Ghief named Gum-lu-gidis, the ances- tor of the owner of the pole. " Gum-lu-gidis fled with his family tp the highlands of,the Shkamal river. where they camped: Night after night | they had no rest, but’ were: disturbed: by weird sounds and: voices accompany. : OTTAWA REPORT “ To me the. most Important: domestic: matter: that was dealt with by the: ouse oft Commons. last week was the- steps taken to: resume: the: dperation.of the CPR boats: between the: main- land and: Vancouver. Island: as: wel) as: the: run Yp the British Columbin: coast, « In recent years. there: has. been: a. change if the psychologional attitude of; Hoth: Inbor and managemoant. Unforthnately. our. labor logis-- Wtlon has not kept up with: this change, We wre stil) operating under labor legislation that: was passed following: the Second’ World) War While it may’ have had‘ some bonefiolnl effect: * Upon labor-manngement ralations at thrt time, Ii, ls apparent that it. Ja now outmoded. These: are not only’ my: impressions for a number af. people who ara: far. more: able to muroas. tho: affect of prevent: day legislation upon prerant:. day legislation upon present day attitheea fay, prociaely the same thing. » Th labor-management: relations wer must: reuiize that people are: Involved: and? thia Is: {lve fact that our Inws do not now: renognizo. ‘He altitudes of tho-officiala who. are adminise toring those Inwas are equally -beltind the times, Nocauve our labor Iawa are quickly becoming antiquated’ we are’ exportoneing more diffoult, times In our Inhorrimonagement rolntions, v he “Famous totem link. with city’s past, future F FOMORROW with the: scheduling of: , iediby, the beating: of tomtoms:. Att. length the Chieff andi some: of the. braves:determined to:set' out and’ dis-- cover where the sounds came from: The legend describes how: they foundithemselves im the abode: of ther “Lalikts?’ Spitits: off the dead where they: behalt} manyrstrange things: ES-- eaping from these haunted regions, Gum-li-gidis,. overcome, by, fear, again took’ up his: flight-——this: time’ across: the grease trail} to: the Skeena: River, leaving: the Nass: with: its: terrors: far. behind.. .When: the: winter* snows: had: melted and. the: ize: liad! left: the: river, Gum-li-gidis:andthis: companions: trav- elled’' down the: Skeena: River: in: dugs outs made from: cottonwood: trees: un-. - til they reacli; the: Islandi of Khiern— now. known. as; Kaien: Island’on; -which: . Prince-Rupertiisssituated: ‘Not very. longafter. they,hadisettled: Gul-lu-gidis’ ' rest: was. once: more: dis=-. turbed; this time: by: the- nightly: howls: of wolves: which: seemedito be calling’ Gum-lu-gidis by: name: The oli fear’ overcame him: after: the: howling had: - continued for twonights; the old. Chief: determined'to:meet:his'fate: Dressed in his.ceremonialirobes, and-face:paint-. -e@he-set’ out alone: from the camp arm-: ed with:his-Chief’s: tomahawk: set with abalone'shell. Kollowing-the-direction from which the: sounds proceeded, _ Gum-lugidis came face 'to.face. with. a. large white: wolf. Raising-his toma- hawk, prepared’ to:defend: himself, he, . noticed: the animal was in great-pain _ and.unaware of his: approach; asit-was: | vainly: trying to dislodge.a. sharp pieee: of’ deer’s. bone which had’ pierced its jaw. Gum-lu-gidis said}, “Brother do me. no, harm and. I:: will. remove the: bone.’”’ After: Gum-lurgidis. had: removed: the bone; the wolf became very friend- | ly, and each time the Chief went hunt- ing-the White wolf: killed:a: deer ‘for him—thus supplying ‘iin and his: fam- ily with- food. So, the: legend: states Gum-lu-gidis adopted the White Wolf for his.“Crest’”? and in his ceremonial dancesialivays:wore a white wolf skin robe. After someyears of’ peace, Gum- lu-gidis became homesick and returned to the Nass, for he longed to fish once more in the waters of..the Kshliich where the: “Hangiwozuch” (White: Salmon) spawn: By: Frank Howard! MP “The thoory. and: philosophy: of: the contrib- ution that coneillation boards.could make to our-economy was:ail right: some: years ago, but it Is: absolutely: no. good! now,. In: most: Cases, that: is, The: shipping: strike on. the: coast: of BC, was: partially: a result, of this failure of. lawa to-keep up to changing times. I hope that the gavernment learns ailesson.as a: result! of. this strike, the Jenson hat the Jaws.must be. chan- mod} ifs we are: to. asalat. In. overcoming, auch. (sruptions again. , Thore han been.a:. great amount of. proanure put on to: pet the: bualnens over. a8. soon. as possible. "This, of. course;, may! be; a. commoner: dable:appronch: for: somotimes the: debates. do. drag on. Interminably, However, to rush. through: Importantslogtslation:and through the expoendlttires: of: cach: dopartmont: without ade- equate conasidoration. being given: Is not: wood. for our: prrllamontary : system. This: ancolorntion of busclnoss: plus: absene- toalam: males. one. wonder: whether: some: changes: couldn't: be: mada to: our system. of: conducting they business aff the: goneral publia; Certainly the reference to Nourse Commi ttooan: of the catimatba: of departmnta: tain atep in that draction, . ' LETTER BOX fs WNIOVAR VIA “Pho: Waltor, Whe Dally Nowa; ” J am Jonving.atter-two-wooks ollday hy Prine Ruport. —_, » Aftor having, loft? Princo; : weupert for so long. L' was Ime ‘proned hy how Jt Hom doval+ | sonnd,. Tt. is to longer: Just a. trallway torminn] or a port, !6: av’ alty with everything fa: minico ILA alt{gena justly prod: The stores, the clean stroets, premade ‘Nhas,.Jt will, be nontron. ti. would. do: were several / HE a BR OE AM tHe genial clorks. ara: so” Im- Tf’ Prince Ruport. naps the: frlondiinoess it now. donan't! find that’ in moat Jorge, hore: was, only ‘ano. nubile adacourtnay that’ 1 ‘thle. Linttandod.the. funoral.of a Very doar frlond and. on tha way, to. thos cametory, we - from the procennion by pedes~ trinna =dnanting ocross the: ityaot. Inara contres fun- orals are: Honored. by’ oltizons tinfque, as one and: finer have. been: Impound | Tnilod, to show. roapnat.. Congratulations. on. NWelnoa: Nupnertia. part. in. the: Gontany- nial. Tha: olty, ia. beautiful and Y aim veryy proud, to: have: beans n former. cltigen, . Youn. truly,. Mra, W. L. Michael Cold Lake, Alberta, ZY found: and wall: to. corract timon out off i At a QTE A Oh: provincial. museum. anthoropo! on negilgent. ones who havo | ' which occurred 40 ‘miles ‘above | Port Essington, involved no cas- » walties.” This recalls to my mind: that: ] ’ was aboard:this: boatiat the time], of the wreck andiherawilh:is my personal experience: in. connec- tion with. it: . Captain Bonser, who for a lone time had been in command-otl Robert . Cunningham's — stern+ wheeler “Hazelton” had just lost a.smaller and probably:-more dh lanidated sternwhealer © “The Pheasant”? on the Beaver Dam just: above Skeena Crossing: .": A newly formed company then bought. the Northwest, which was a very large, rotten old boat and engaged Captain Bonser: to-take command :of- it: a On. the first‘trip up the Skeena River, the chief: steward: went: on a spree, so-at. Kitselas. I. was hired to-take: his. place and.-also leot.a nosition. for Jimmy. Wells for the trip, This is: how. it:-hap- pened: that Jim and JI: were’ re- turning to Kitselas:- as. passengers on this. second trip of the: baat up river, There. were: very. few “white passengers on board, but several hundred Indians, returning: home _ from the canneries as the fishing season .was over; Among.the pas- sengers were either Mr, Welsh or Mr. Stewart. (I can’t: remember for sure which one) of Foley, Welsh & Stewart, who had: his wife. and, I think, _ his little. daughter along, The first night out of Port Es- “Totem collection. now: at UBC One’ of*the largest: group of tos) temipoles: ever -assembled:in ong place. is now on. display at thet University of British Columbia.: The 23° poles, which have been’ set. up on. University Boulevard’ adjacent. to the: War. Memorial Gymnasium, were collected over. a period of 12 years by UBC and . _ GREETINGS. to: ‘The City - of Prince Rupert;.” its. residents and pioneers were received to- ‘day from: Frank Howard MP for Skeena. The young mem- ber of ‘parliament said that it was his pleasure to extend best wishes to the city’s centennial committee for a. successful Potlatch Week, expressed con- fidence in the future of . the province’s north coast and‘ in- terior. Mr. Howard has been MP for Skeena since June 10, 1957 and was re-elected March 31 of this year as the candidate for the CCF. Born in 1925, in Kimberley, B.C., he was edu- cated. in Kimberley and Van- couver, worked as a miner in the Kootenays and became an official of the Internationa) Woodworkers of America after he turned to logging. He was elected to the British Colum- bia legislature in 1953, His home.is in Terrace. gists- from Haida and Kwakiuti villages on Vancouver Iéland and. the Queen Charlotte Islands, — : Prof. H: B: Hawthorn, head of UBC's anthropology department, says the collection will remain on display out-of-doors until Sep- tember. . After that they will go back into storage until a perm- anent building is found to hause them, . All the poles are slowly rotting, says Prof. Hawthorn. “No satisfactory method of preserving them when kept out- of-doors has yet been discovered, and our only rec OUgSE is to keep them under cover, “he added. sees pe ‘offering: to take us; which would. ‘only: have been fair: appreciation ‘so. One, could: not move: without | f°. ‘only one of his experiences to: Steamer, Captain Bonser took this with the Welsh or Stewart family and also a message from me ta Telegraph Point asking the -Daminion. Government 'Tele- ‘graph. Operator. there 10 get word to Kitselas to my son, George, to come down with a- canoe to. get me home, Where: the: boat WAR. ‘eds up lh; one could. hardly, ut -a:' foot | ashore before one had cleared’ , away the willow and all kinds of ||’ ' scrub: bushes;. The only Kindtofs [> : trees.to be seen.were, cottonwoods | Tf. so there was’ not a: stick of dry — wood: for building: fires; a After Captain Bonser: had t gone, the purser whose-name, I think, was:Whitney,;.sent-all the [[/ crew, ashore to clear: land so as to, get the cargo;unloaded. Means ||: - - while Big Bateman, who: home- |}. steaded at Remo, and- his: wife; |}- who'had: ‘prought:a'skiff on-board with them, asked .Jimmy:. Wells and me-to. help: ‘them Jaunch it— which: we: did;. but: to our: indig- nation they, went: away: without of.our help. It- was a: miserable . place: to make camp: with only mud ahd this: willow stuff and. scrub around—-no dry wood, million of mosquitoes’ and: flies to torture us, and swarming with Indians bumping. into. one or:the other of:/]; them... | fe 1 was happy a couple’ of: days | 7 later when my son, George, aged |}; only 13, arrived in my canoe |}: which he brought.down. alone from Kitselas—this was quite a. feat for such a young. lad, and |}. Jim. ‘Teague. Phone (8759. bring pride to. a father’s heart.. | I then gathered: up “Jimmy } "BRITISH COLUMBIA | SCOTT. ATW PACIFIC EQUIPMENT co. ee ee VATE Rr John Shuster. a P.O. Box 198. 7 3 -WAY ENGINE | PROTECTION— RPM: Motor Oil protects your gasoline engine; against: three- basic causes of .damage: .. Al A special detergent « washes: ‘away: ‘ _ carbon: deposits—keeps | FIngs - free oo and: unclogged: « . ST. ELMO HOTEL Over 50: Years Of Continuous Service - To Travellers From . Canada And The U.S.A. 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