Saye to myself, NEXT MAILS eave ti From South 70 te te te bes Camosun .. Thursday, p.m, oad ss paper Princess Mary......... Friday noon For South - Prince George ..Priday, 9 am. , s env? — atte VOL. II, NO. 162 PRINCE Ruperr, B.C., Taursay, JULY 11, 1912. —————__—— PRICE Five CEN1 Cunte CONSUL’S SPEECH: POWER OFFER: THE OLYMPIC r Special to Daily News. Winnipeg, July if Al luncheon at the opening of the fair, the Duke of Con naught appeared in demo- eratice dress, gray suit with ne ee ee es soft hat. All others present, some 200, were dressed in City is Offered Opportunity of Availing Itself of Extra Electrical BASEB SCORES iat Sapte. theek-dout and sil i Energy Produced at Neighboring Power Station by Prince ALL pate. Rupert Hydro-Electric Company---Outline of the New American. P d P ib New York 3, De if roposition and Possible Advantages Therefrom St. Louis 9, Boston REGINA FEARS ° . . ® Chieago 4, Philadelphia 3 Being Considered by the City Council Cleveland 7, Washington 6 RIOT AT POLLS The proposition is one to {present supplying power to Van-{to the speedy establishment here National. augment considerably Prince (couver and New Westminster,/of great industries employing New York 0, Chicag , ‘ Rupert's present supply of | Selling thousands of horse ro | lon 1, busy pay olls—the pay Others rain, Special to Daily News electrical power, jmentioned these systems rolls whieh count in the makinier| Coast. Resina. July ¢4 Polling takes it was placed before the (‘he eily of Prince Rupert he pro- great cities, Los Angeles 3, Vernon 4 place toda) ‘fe the Saskatchewan Council last night by Mr. posed a forty year franchise for Sucramento 4, Oakland 7. mivlodinn elections, So tense is William MoNeill, represent- | '!e delivery of power at a price City Band Practice. San Franeiseo 0, Portland ie feeling in different parts of ing the Prince Rupert Hydro- to be agreed upon. The city wasy ght the city band, still in + the provinee that rieting is feared Electric Power Co. to take the power at a trans lits initial stage but progressing Social Hop. at the polls. former station and reduce it for| — o . b. Two thousand horse power te 0 te Raewnae fe| toward full strength, will hold a You are cordially vited te or over 10 the GSUNE OF AE> sma se ro ef po \ hey rhe hydro. | pr actice in the city hall. rhe oe es va eo ie “ z Important Notice. ditional power offered. electri company. on. the the i Coune the ©” night ers . won , wr ae ‘a rhere will be a meeting of the it will be developed at Por- ”" , , aoe , ve other night granted|Mr. %t. M. Cooper, daneing in-],, Ae ; . il come hand, was to take all the users ofjthe use of the hall to the band.) struct) will manag the floor Board of Trade in the old police poise Harbor by ano power from fifteen horse o rl whiet i mention a — " court room tomorrow night at 8 bustion steam plant at first, © power | 1 will prat tice either in the! Good music at : ee afterward from the Mocsall up rhe city, he suggested, would) library or council chamber 4 velock sharp. water power. a at liberty to use the poles of|full attendance of all interested Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners. The preliminary proposals the mpanyyfor city uses only,|18 requested, Phone 4. Warm, clean roorms at Savoy. are a forty year franchise, as fo street ighting and fire power price to be agreed on; alarm systen rhe power com city to accept power deliv- par vould pay an annual renta oore ered at ite traneformer setae | 1°" ‘he poles used solely for their PRI I tion to be reduced for light ae a4 — Se \ ype te NCE RUPERT'S ) PROSPECTS FROM WHEAT and small powers; the com- : 4 ae he poles that were pany to supply users of over ; F fifteen horse power; the city Aldermanic Opinion. LETTER TO THE — to have privilege of use of Phere was considerable alde Dear Sit 0 of the great problems confronting the grain growers of Western Canada, the company's pole line, for — d ussion Of the scheme ind also the Pacific eoast p s is the handlintx of the increasing wheat crop which will be which the company will pay pounded by Mr. MeNeill, who shipped to Europe through the Panama | ‘| Very few people realize what an enormous the city rental. explained that the plant proposed quantity of grain will come this way. The fact that the Canadian railways are expressing an- Fifty thousand dollars will a Oe Crane? BF OnSe and xiety about the means of handling the us crop io prospect for this vear is a fair indi- be laid out at once by the he Hocsall water power speedily catic of what traffic will come to the Pacific coast as secon as the railway shall be completed company, and the Porpoise |" ped Alderman Montgom In 1908 the crop was 106,000,000 bushels; this year’s erep is expected to be 250,000,000 Harbor plant will be ready in was interested regarding th bushels. By 1915 our wheat erop will { be far short of 400,000,690 bushels, and following six or eight months. . f powe production — by this proportion our wheat erop should reach from 750,000,000 to 950,000,000 bushels in 1920, ins of oll He faneied it f that grain. were loaded in cars holding on an average of 759 bushels each in train loads of Above are the outlines of an cht be dearer than the City's hirty cars we would have fro: 2 GOO (0,000 trains, hauled by as many locomoiives. Put Pp mnt proposal made last Mr. McNeill said he ‘ hese trains in one train and woula be from 8,000 to 10,000 miles in. bength, . It is safe gh he City Gouncil by Mr.| Youle 2¢ prepared to meet the to say that at least one-third of this grain will come to the Pacifie coast on its way to Europe, \ am MeNeill That further we ae and give @ dis and that on account of the grade on the ¢ r P. the great bulk of this grain will reach Prince posals of this nature wil)/°0U™t. Alderman Morrissey went Rupert through the Yellowhead Pass and Fort George. These 300,000,000 bushels will take e up soon the citizens were| "0 & dissertation on the citys 13,333 train loads of thirty cars each, wh eh will mean the arrival at the Pacific coast during ‘irly owe aware The City| OW" scheme and did not think the one whole year of forty-five train loads evory twenty-four heuis, or nearly a trainload every | ‘ ast night: heard a very|°'t) should consider any outside thirty minutes fhe great bulk of this shipment, or not less than 150,000,000 bushels, will 3] ear and straightforward setting | Proposition until it had reached have to be forwarded witin four months after harvesting, and will require three train loads $} th of the proposals by Mr [the limit of its own er “ every hour. which will cover 18 miles of sidctraek in each twenty-four hours, and this will ne- 2] MeNeill, and the aldermen made — Swe oe ew cessitate not less then an area of one thousand acres. The transeontinenia! railroads now s enquiries and commenced) &°*'"* increased power for in- buili or under cons.ruction cannot handle this enormous shipment, which proves the neces- ssion of the matter, which dustries incoming, but b _ sity of the building of other roads to the Paciile coasi, When the late President Hays said that 3| i it be definitely decided up: ni‘ arora! with franchises Altes by 1915 the G.-f. P. would ship through Prince Rupert 100,000,000 bushels of wheat he knew | f ome time and until the|!"“" Douglas desired a rw hereof he spoke The handling of this wheat from this port wil! require an army of men, ple have had their say upon it.) '?" supplying eS om a he building of elevators, flour mills, ete., the empty ears will be returned loaded with merchan- Not Old Proposition. oo a Orth 16 BS d from the Orient. and Alaska, Yours cal. prepare e ‘ : vr COLL x. Mr McNeill mentioned that The Mayor's Views rh. LLART here had been a former propo 4 motion was carried to have we sition before the people of Prince} the proposition in writing. One . ee ——— tupert That proposition might| was proposed for a city limits } be forgotten as far as this one va ay a as this would not be | PORTRAIT OF ‘as concerned, The present/entertained at this stage it was Cc. C. WESTENHAVER, theme is that the city may] pot pressed, Alderman Morris- HERE TO STAY benefit by the ereetion of a neWleey thought it would complicate consuming power generating] matters The Mayor expressed MAKE PROTEST OLYMPIC GLORY plant at Porpoise Harbor, which| himself in favor of having the | | he company is te put up at altwo propositions to present to IN THE WATER Cost of at least 850,000. Iflthe slaetd for the final verdict, a a oe ee Prince Rupert desires it the plant}and had no use for any propost- pe Raised His Calne in Sey Vill be made big enough to sup-}tion which he could not feel was = : le duetly Reconted ‘Special! to Daily News.) j the extra power which the}jikely to be a popular one, Mr uae © custiy "ee | - c ve luly 44 The ‘ can use during its develop-! MeNeill made an eloquent appe tl ro the Editor of The News: Stoekholm, Ju 5 we Can- for the next few years. Thelto the city fathers to have faith ‘ , | adian, Hodgeson, brought glory poise Harbor plant is required|jpy Prinee Rupert, faith enough Dear Sir,-—Referring bo refer-| to the Dominion by his victory iny Case for purposes Of|to provide for the extra powe ences in Your yesterday's mene today in the 1,500 metres swim- consumption outside Offwhieh incoming industries wouli}about the word aso, often ming contest which had hung up| ” Rupert, but while the/demand. He pointed out that the} applied in derogatory sense eae