eo ei 2 a, ee rer Scare —- THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico: Daily, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. Weekly, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries: Daily, $8.00 per year. Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. HEaD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES Telephone 98. New York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. Seattle—Puget Sound News Co, London, England—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. ate Friday, October 17, 1913. DAILY EDITION TAX-FREE FOOD FOR CANADA. The proposal to remove the duty upon wheat entering Canada from the United States cently. They have done more than this and of almost equal geographical interest. Having taken their departure origin- ally from Russian ports in Europe, these vessels have suc- so that Canadian wheat may cessfully accomplished — the enter the United States duty northeastern passage, a feat free is the big political ,prob- which has not heretofore been lem of the moment, says the duplicated since the time that Toronto Globe. The Conserva-| Nordenskiold made the pas- tive press generally has pre- sage, in 1878-79. served a discreet silence, which The trip of these vessels through the Arctic from Europe serves to reeall to those who have frogotten the fact that if »there is a practiable open sum- mer passageway through the Arctic it might be possible to is not surprising when we re- member that two years ago the Conservative leaders told us that if our export trade began to follow north and south lines instead of flowing to and from the seaboard within the Do- make the voyage from Rupert minion the imperial tie, and to Northern Europe by that even the national existence, route at not much greater ex- would be imperilled. It was penditure of time than is spent all humbug, of course, but the in going from here to Hong- public still remembers the ar- kong. The actual sailing dis- gument and might begin to tance by the Northeast Passage jeer were it too suddenly aban- from Rupert to the northern doned. ports of Norway is about the Political consistency de- same as from here to points on mands that Mr. Borden, in- the east coast of Southern Asia. stead of removing the wheat This does not mean - that duties on both sides of the there are any possibilities of a border—for that is in effect commercial route to Europe the power now conferred upon being opened that way. It does him—shall prevent the calam- mean that when the route is ity of which he warned the clearly explored and defined it Canadian people two years would be easily possible in an ordinary season for a summer excursion to be taken through the Arctic to Europe, a matter of three weeks’ time or should all conditions be favor- able. Possibly, in a few years from now, such excursions may be- come fairly popular. There are too many risks and uncer- ago, by levying an export duty on Canadian wheat shipped to points in the United States. a EXCURSIONS TO THE ARCTIC. Two Russian government steamers which have been en- gaged in exploration work on the northern coast of Siberia 80, — Two unknown meén last night held up two hydraulic men on the Lovett Guleh, and got away with estimated to be worth where near 820,000, says Dawson Daily News. north side of Lovett Hill, right where gravels. Milford Halliday and Fred Bowers were the men held| up. Halliday was in charge of} the pipe, and Bowers was doing | other work about the place, } Bowers left Halliday at 12:30 o'clock to build a. fire and pre- | pare a lunch for the two at the nearby mess house, While Bow- ers, carrying a lantern, was pro- ceeding along the flat caused by the hydraulic operations, only a few hundred feet from the giant, two msterious looking men sud- denly stepped up in the dark and the command, “Throw up hands.’ Bowers was com- pleigly surprised to find himself looRing into the muzzles of two ugly guns, and to see two masked gave your men standing behind the guns, not moving a muscle. The men with the guns made it plain to Bowers they wanted him to make no resistance or ib would be all off with him, One man kept Bowers covered while the other whipped out cords and other ma- terial and gaged the man and then bound him, Bowers’ hands were tied behind him and his feet were tied and drawn up and tied as closely as to the hands. Bowers like chicken. possible trussed was up a After the robbers had tied Bow- ers, they rolled him over in a small ditch and told him to be quiet and to make no effort to get. away or it would be his finish. The men then had a long wait. Halliday, as was customary, was at the nozzle, washing down the gravel, and was to remain there until the return of Bowers. Only one man was to be off shift at a time. But Bowers did not return in the short time expected, and the time dragged on for an hour i. THE GUGCENHEIMS LOSE SOME OF THEIR GOLD BY ROBBERY TWO UNKNOWN MEN BIND WATCHMEN AND RIFLE RIFFLES OF SLUICE BOXES, GETTING ABOUT TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DUST. jhands and made fast his feet, bul ldid not connect the hands 40 the Yukon Gold hydraulic works on| feet, lover in a treneh and covered his a large quantity of virgin gold,| head some-|him that if he attempted to get] the | |mean his finish, they went off to The robbery took place on the | the sluice boxes and went to : | the hydraulic men were washing down the gold bearing) THE DAILY NEWS Friday, Octobep 17 1943 Then they rolled Halliday with sacks, after warning} away or make a noise it would work, Every once in a while a man Would return and give Halli- day an easy kick and tell him to It was an exceptionally lie there. cloudy and dark night, but the robbers had lanterns and could manoeuvre quickly. Evidently they had visited the place before during the daytime, for they knew about what steps they wanted to take without parley. Before they Halliday they One photographed as she was play- MISS GLADYS RAVENSCOURT. of England's best golfers, t the Dixie golf links, put the ropes on ing a asked that he shut off the water Montreal, in the pipe feeding the giant, oe a : which was near the long sluice he eould Bot ie that without}. The Mequallty of Things — bursting the pipes. They then | Pull oft some dog of stunning asked him to switch the stream style . ffom that nozzle to another, And pedigree without a fault, which would carry the water to Is worth a thousand dollars another spot and leave them while 5 free to work at the desired spot Its owner isn’t worth his salt. in picking up the concentrated —Washington Star gravel containing the gold. Un- der the persuasion of the guns Halliday made the switch. After disposing of Halliday, the men went to work in the upper end of the sluice boxes. They found far more gravel, perhaps, than they anticipated, and could not take up much of it. They got probably enough to fill four gzunny~§ sacks. It covered ap- proximately twenty square feet of rifles and rock. Much heavy gravel was in the plunder, but it is estimated something like $20,- 000 was taken. The washing of before bottling a spmnilar sppt of gravel which cuakattr sy tte was next to that missing will in- nn A A FS fr t dicate approximately the quan- tity of gold taken a The robbers then got away in Demand the Brand some direction, probably along LZ LLL, the road for some distance, with : the sacks, and disappeared, may- be into the hills leading back from Bonanza. Their location is now a mystery. The police are working on the case and scouting ing every direction in hope of finding some clue. 1836 THE BANK OF 1913 BritishNorthAmerica CapiTaL TT YEARs in Gusiness. 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