Ptinct Unpttt ^ Lesislat/ve S^ M/ High Class Job Printing in all Lines VOLUME II. Published Twice a Week. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1911. Price. Five Cents. NO. TEMPLEMAN GOES Cabinet Minister for British Columbia Will go Down to Defeat ■ in Victoria. Campaign of Abuse Has ltceu Started by the Liberals of the Capital (Special to The Journal) . .Victoria, Sept. 19.—The local campaign has become intense and the rival candidates are exerting every effort to line up their respective supporters. From the Conservative standpoint, there have been two notable features of the content here. The first Is the number of defections from the Liberal ranks, and the second is the wholly unanticipated number of workers who have come forward to help in he securing of a record majority for G. H. Barnard. From the Conservative standpoint the situation is excellent. The Liberals have gone back to their old methods of abuse and slander which always precedes defeat for them. With the Conservative organization never stronger, with their ranks being recruited daily by former staunch Liberals, who fail to see eye to ej-e with Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the reciprocity question, and with the possibility of commercial union with the United States eventually tending towards political union, this ultra-loyal constituency may be depended to give a lead to the rest of the prov- inve on what attitude British Columbia will take on a trade pact which may lead to a weakening of Britisii connection. Local issues dominate the scene here every whit as much as reciprocity. The action of the Dominion government in permitting a violation of the Alien Labor Act; the question of the necessity of building the warships for the Pacific portion of the navy on the Pacific Coast; the policy of Mr. Templeman in the matter of Chinese Immigration, and Ottawa s neglect in providing for the defenses of Esquimalt, are all playing their part against the chances of the Liberal candidate. To offset all these cries the Liberals are working tooth and nail to show that reciprocity will reduce the cost of living, but against this there is the fact that Victoria is in an unprecedented flourishing condition, wages are high, every branch of business is prosperous and the great bulk of the people, with the exception of those who set party above policy, are unwilling to experiment with anything wliich might upset the present good times. Present indications are that the Britisii Columbia cabinet minister will go down to defeat by a very substantial majority. PROSPECTS GOOD Dr. Clayton Reports That Bella Coola and Other Coast Points Will Return Clements. Decided Interest Taken in the Cain- paign Against Reciprocity Pact Dr. Clayton addressed meetings in the interests of H. S. Clements, the Conservative candidate, at Bella t Coola, Swanson Bay, Ocean Falls and other points along the coast, returning to the city yesterday. He was accompanied by Lionel Crippen during his trip, while Dr. Quinlan also assisted In the campaign there. The speeches delivered by Dr. Clayton are reported to have been excellent, and were very much appreciated by the settlers. At Bella Coola, where Mr. Carlson presided, Mr. Brynildson, president of the Liberal Association, moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Clayton, which was carried unanimously. At the meeting at Hagensborg there was a large attendance, many driving from Bella Coola to be present. Mr. Brynildson, who drove thirteen miles to be present, again moved a vote of thanks. The districts along the coast are reported to be very strongly in favor of Mr. Clements. , o Miss McTavish, matron of the Prince Rupert General Hospital, returned to the city much Improved in nealth. IS CORNERED AT KITSUMKALUM J. S. Cowper who in his own Estimation Overshadows the Liberal Candidate Himself Shows That he has no Power to Convince the Electorate of the Comox-Atlin Riding- Misrepresentation Used to Bolster up Failing Cause. RICH BELLA COOLA A wild horseback ride on the Queen Charlotte Islands, a hurried voyage by water to Prince Rupert and record breaking trip by train to Kitsumkalum brought J. S. Cowper of this city to a Liberal meeting where, with a flourish of trumpets before the event, he prophesied he would "corner" H. S. Clements and with "sledge hammer answers" would obliterate the Conservative candidate. The two met at Mr. Cowper's meeting, and so ably did Mr. Cowper, who is wont to describe himself in such modest terms, aquit himself before the coming member for Comox- Atlin, that the audience passed a resolution at the close of the meeting condemning reciprocity as being against the best interests of Canada and endorsing Mr. Clements. And so tlie large bubble that drifted about Queen Charlotte, across the Hecate Straits and up the Skeena suddenly burst. , The News has only a few more days left to glorify the editor, the self-styled orator without an equal who has wrung commendation from Samuel Gompers and who will live In the history of the west as Its greatest orator. The preliminary announcements in connection with tbe meeting at Kltsumkalum were in common with the methods adopted by the Liberal organ in the campaign-—nothing if not misleading in their verbiage. It was made to appear that Mr. Clements was to be confronted at his (Mr. Clements') own meeting at Kltsumkalum. What happened was that there was a Ross meeting called in Kitsumkalum, and Mr. Clements telegraphed asking leave to meet Mr. Cowper at that meeting. He received a message in reply, saying: "Your desire to meet Cowper accepted. He will meet you at Kltsumkalum tonight." There was no particular romance about this such as was attempted to be made out by the Liberal press. The meeting was held and Mr. Cowper acquitted himself in his usual manner. He failed by his parables to convince the hard-headed ranchers of the Skeena Valley that there w-as anything in reciprocity for them and* for the country as a whole. They therefore decided in favor of Mr. Clements and the Conservative party. .Mr. Cowper returned to Prince Rupert in a very ordinary way on Sunday without any trumpets. The Conservative candidate, accompanied by William Manson, returned to the city on Sunday's train, after a most encouraging tour of the interior which took them as far as Aldermere. At every point, Mr. Clements was assured of success at the polls on Thursday. The residents of the district realize it js time for a change at Ottawa and showed un- mistakeably that they were antagonistic to the reciprocity idea with all its evils. The Liberal meeting at Kitsumkalum on Saturday night was characteristic of the gatherings held e'sewhere. J. S. Cowper and G. Angers, two of the most brilliant speakers in the Liberal ranks in Canada— this must be so, for they say so themselves—appeared to advocate the cause of Mr. Ross. Breathing out all kinds of dire calamities upon Mr. Clements when he would be met and confronted hy Mr. Cowper with the extracts from a speech in the House of Commons, the modest editor-orator in his speech never alluded to this feature at all, leaving that to be dealt with by Mr. Ross, the bean artist at meetings when Mr. Clements is not present. Mr. Clements, however, in his speech following Mr. Cowper did not allow this to pass. He made his position clear on that point without its j being contradicted by the opponents. , He contradicted the construction at- j tempted to be put upon his speech by reading sentences here and there and denied that he was then an advocate of reciprocity. The reading of Ills speech in its entirety would show this. Mr. Clements was followed by Mr. Anger, while Mr. Manson followed, with -Mr. Cowper concluding the speech making. Following the presentation by the speakers of both sides the resolution above referred to was carried without dissent. The resolution endorsed Mr. Clements as candidate for Lhe riding and expressed disapproval of the scheme of reci- procity. ARE IN DESPERATION Crooked Species of Ballot Box Nade in Edmonton for the Election. Conservative Candidate Exhibits One of Them—Boxes Sent to Outlying Points Dramatically exhibiting to the gaze of five thousand .people assembled in the Thistle Rink , a ballot box so designed as to permit of tampering with ballots, and stating that this ingeniously designed ballot box was a replica of thirty which have been sent to outlying points of the constituency to which the Conservative scrutineers cannot penetrate, Major Griesbach, the Conservative candidate for Edmonton district, treated to a sensation those present. The box, designed upon the exact plan of the boxes used by the government in Ontario in the days of its degeneracy, by a simple piece of wire which is passed through the circular rim of the lid, might be opened without in any way impairing the seal. Major Griesback declared tnat of the 225 boxes which have been made for this constituency, 195 are honestly made, but the remaining 30, which were sent this week to the outlying points, may be opened and closed by the presiding officers at the elections (Oliver appointees) without bearing any sign of tampering. Major Griesbach declared that the people who had made all the ballot boxes were willing to take oath that they bad made thirty after the model of the box which was exhibited. *************** PRACTICAL EFFECTS * "If reciprocity carries we will * * find it to our advantage to take • * our business south of the line," * * said R. J. McGraw, superintend- * * ent of the Western Canada Flour * * Mills Co. In Vancouver. This * * company will construct a $400,- * * 00 plant, consisting of elevator, * * warehouses, etc., in Vancouver, * * employing sixty men, and cap- * * able of producing one thousand * * barrels daily. If the pact goes * * Into effect the plant will go to * * Seattle or Tacoma, and so much * * more wheat will go to the United * * States instead of to Vancouver. * * Sixty fewer men will be em- * * ployed in this city, says the * * News-Advertiser. • Miss Manning, the new teacher in the public school, will reach the city on Wednesday. H. S. CLEMENTS WELL RECEIVED Last evening H. S. Clements, the Conservative candidate in Comox-Atlin, met the electorate in Port Essing- ton and discussed with them the questions of the day. As usual at all his meetings, Mr. Clements made a splendid impression. His course throughout was gentlemanly and considerate to his opponents. It was therefore but natural that he should make many friends- at the meeting and on Thursday be will have a good majority in the cannery town. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Morrison, a pioneer of this district who formerly lived at Hazelton but who is now a resident of Port Essington. He is a lifelong Conservative and an uncompromising opponent of reciprocity. He advised all present to vote for Mr. Clements on Thursday. Many ladies were present at the gathering. Mr. Clements was in excellent form in spite of the trying campaign he has been through. Ever since the nominating convention in Nanaimo the Conservative candidate has been steadily on tour, covering the greater part of the immense constituency. Everywhere he Has gone he has received a most cordial reception and on Thursday it is safe to say he will be returned as the head of the poll as the member for the riding. He spoke for about sn hour and a half at Essington last night, dealing generally with the reciprocity question from the standpoint of the Canadian national life. In his criticisms he was exceedingly fair, as he always is, hut showed that this country had all to lose and nothing to gain by the pact. He has no objei'- tion to the Americans coming in here with their money and investing in the country. He thought the United States should not object if Canada now answered them as they bad said to the' Canadians twenty-five years ago when reciprocity was sought by Canada, and when, owing to the conditions then existing, it would have been a temporary relief. The United States then said to Canadians "if you want to share in our prosperity you must come over here and live in the United States." Canadians could return that answer today and tell the people of the United States that our raw resources were open to their factories only upon the condition that the factories moved over to Canada and invested on this side, building up this country. FISHERY METHODS Evidence as to How the Dominion Government Makes Provision for its Favorites. Henry Doyle of Mill Bay Tells in Police Court How the Regulations Are Enforced (Continued on Page Eight) Conservative Rally! The closing meeting of the campaign will be held in Melntyre Hall Wednesday Evening, Sept. 20 H. S. CLEMENTS the Conservative Candidate CEO H. COWAN of Vancouver WM. MANSON, M.P.P. Will Address the Meeting Gray's Orchestra will furnish music While the main part of the evi dence was taken last Friday in the charge against John Donnelly for having fished in a weekly close season contrary to the Dominion regulations, there yet remains some further evidence to be heard before the case is decided by J. II. McMullIn, stipendiary magistrate. The ac- cused was in the employ of Henry Doyle of Mill Bay, near Naas Harbor, and Mr, Doyle was an important witness. There are several other Counts io be disposed of also. , Tiie evidence of Fishery Inspector Williams and other officials was thai there had been a violation of the regulations. Mr. Doyle did not appear to deny the facts but he made a statement in evidence that went to show that there was decided partiality shown iii conjunction with the fishing rules. He said that an officer had admitted knowing the laws were openly violated. He told of his having a few years before purchased from R. P. Rithet & Co. rights in Smiths' Inlet to fish. Certain waters were afterwards pronounced a fresh water body by inspector Sword and as a result fishing was prohibited in them. Doyle did not in his evidence deny that the waters were fresh, but held they were, as he had drunk water from the lake. But Robert Kelly had been given seining rights In the same Smith's Inlet when the Inspection passed from Mr. Sword to Mr. Williams. Mr. Kelly had been given a special licence to seine which enabled him to fish within the 200 yards limit of the mouth of the stream flowing from the lakls lake. Had the lake not been pronounced salt water this would have been Impossible. Incidentally, it was brought out In the evidence that an Indian had been fined for taking fisli within 200 yards of the mouth of a stream. Inspector Williams, during the hearing of the evidence, took strong objection to what he thought Mr. Doyle had said as to his making bounds. He contended that e\Ir. Doyle stated was not true nnd knew it to be so. Later Mr. Williams found out his mistake and openly apologized for what he said. The case comes up again on Saturday, when It may be adjourned until Monday. VV, 10. Fisher appears for the defendani and L. W. Patmore tor the prosecution. Valley South of Prince Rupert Able to Provide Vegetables and Fruit for City. I»r. Clayton Is Highly Pleased With Hie Promise of This Section Dr. Clayton has just returned from i trip to Bella Coola, and is enthusiastic over the opportunities that that rich valley has to offer in an agricultural way. Dr. Clayton's views interest from many points of view, particulary considering the arguments that have been used by the supporters of reciprocity to the effect that not enough vegetables and fruit can be grown in the country adjacent to Prince Rupert to supply the demand, thus rendering it imperative that our consumers be supplied from the United States. Now, as a matter of fact, the leople of Prince Rupert have for some time been eating Bella Coola potatoes. Possibly they have been marketed as Ashcrofts or some other high quality potato with a reputation, but the fact remains, large quantities of potatoes have been shipped from Bella Coola to Prince Rupert. Within the past year, and during Dr. Clayton's trip through the valley, not only has he been convinced, by the large area of land under cultivation, that every fresh vegetable and such fruits as plums, apples, strawberries and many others too numerous to mention that are ever likely to be consumed in Prince Rupert ean be supplied by these neighbors in the Bella Coola Valley. True, the shipping facilities from this inland point have been somewhat of a handi- enp, but the Farmers' Association of the valley will shortly overcome this obstacle by e-o-operating and establishing a branch in Prince Rupert, tnus ensuring a constant supply of fresh fruit and vegetables, and also poultry and eggs, guaranteed the equal of, if not superior to, any of the American importations. About sixty farmers have acreas of from five lo fifty acres under cultivation, some, more. Dr. Clayton, who was me'l there, particularly expressed admiration at ihe extent and quality of development at the ranch of Samuel Grant. Cucumbers, cabbages, potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, beans, vegetable marrow, squash, onions, cauliflower, ete-.. are to be seen growing in huge' quantities, Of sizes and quality much .superior to anything those In Prince Rupert are accustomed to, and from ihe remarks of the doctor as to the way fresh cream and home made preserves disappeared from the table, the above is no exaggeration. One splendidly equipped farm is that of Mr. Jacobson, almost adjoining .Mr. Orant's ranch, with a splendid dwelling house, large barn and stables, all properly bulli and painted enough to remind one more of a successful farmer from Ontario or .Manitoba. There sweetpeas were growing over eight feet in height. Many oilier farms or ranches were Inspected during tlie twenty-five mile drive from Bella Coola up the valley to Canoe Crossing, but ll would be nn Injustice to pass over the Nord- skow ranch, al Hagensborg, without special mention. Here Mrs. Nord- skow, with her five accomplished daughters, manage a thoroughly up- to-date, fruit, dairy, vegetable and poultry farm. A large field of outs, Willi a second crop this year almost ripe, was enough He make, the eyes eif any Canadian glad. For genuine hospitality, one rarely meets with their equal. In referring to ihe accomplishments of the daughters as vocalists and musicians, their repe- tolre was distinctly high class, espe- eiaiiy the performance of Miss Ruth anil Miss Annie WoodskOW on the organ. Farmer Fossbnck, who conducted the doctor's party up to Canoe Crossing, was a genial guide, and much ihanks, he says, is due to him for information supplied regarding the progress since the settling up of the valley. Any lover of picturesque scenery will be amp'y repaid by a trip Up the Bella Coola Valley. Within n few hours' launch ride from the valley down Ilurke Channel there is a splendid hot spring, with house and bath erected. This is much patronized by the seJtlers In. the district. If you want to spend a holiday go up the valley of the Bella Coola River and if you do not wax enthusiastic you are nol human, says the doctor. \ PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL Tuesday, September 19, 1911. THE HUB OF THE HAZELTON DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ON THE MAIN LINE OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC REGISTERED TOWNSITE THE PROSPERITY OF EVERY GREAT CITY IS DUE TO ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The most important Townsite! The most talked of Townsite along the line of the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY NOTICE New Hazelton Townsite Section 1 Now being offered for sale Is Not a Grand Trunk Pacific Promotion Townsite. NIOW HAZELTON Town- site was selected by the experts of a syndicate of successful men as the geographical location for a big city. They bought the land, realizing the wonderful resources of the Hazelton District, the Mines, the Distributing Centre for liundr.'ds of miles, and many other reasor s. We ask you to investigate in your own way all of the statements in this advertisement. Should you join us by buying lots you will know that your Investment is guarded by every means known to human foresight, and the judgment of a body of successful men known to 3*ou all. Your profits should eclipse the story of Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Moose Jaw or Prince Rupert. Don't be classed among the failures who will say, "I wish I had known." Don't stand idly by and see your neighbors reap tbe profits on Real Instate while you reap nothing but your salary. Put your savings to work in that sure coining City—NEW* HAZELTON. NEW HAZIOLTON is out of the damp belt, and many people who spend the whole year in the district say the winters are not severe— plenty of sunshine and dry air. Taken from Official Bulletin, B.C., No. 22, Page 23: — "On the Upper Skeena, about a distance of Tell miles, there are large tracts of land on both sides of the river, which, as far as soil and climatic conditions are concerned, I would consider ideal for successful growing of fruit as well as for other brandies of agriculture. Potatoes, and all garden produce, grow to perfection." HAVE VOL' CONFIDENCE OF MERCHANTS ON THE GROUND? Many Lots already purchased by (he keenest business men of Hazelton (Old Town). Vou can safely follow the* judgment eel such men. NEW HAZELTON should he the centre of a busy population of thousands within a year. Why not? During the past year there was an average of over I wo new towns created In the Canadian West every week. We are all here to share in this mosl wonderful prosperity.. We offer you an opportunity to participate In the progress of the best town for invest ment on tlie line of tlie Grand Trunk Pacific. MOW HAZELTON Railroads Open Xew Country. Railroads have been the great feature In the growth of Western Canada. NEW HAZELTON, located on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad is attracting tlie attention of the whole world, as all important towns do on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad. Stores are going up. Newspaper plant now moving on the Townsite. Two or three General Merchandise Stores, Drug Store! Bank, Restaurants, and in fact many lines of trade are now arranging to open in NEW HAZELTON, Section One. Activity is in that part of the Townsite known as Section One. The story of NEW HAZELTON is well known to the public. It is a iownsite being offered to the public by successful business men. There is positively no Railroad Company or Townsite Promoter financially interested in the hind. Tne owners have undertaken to make NEW HAZEL- TON a city of importance in British Columbia. NEW HAZELTON promises to be the most profitable city to the Grand Trunk Pacific along its main lines. Offices of Foley, Welch & Stewart, contractors building the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, will be located in NEW HAZELTON. The Chief Clerk, Paymaster and Purchasing Agent are preparing to, anil will, build homes in NEW HAZELTON, Section One. NEW* HAZELTON, the hub of the Hazelton District, will be the natural headquarters for what promises to be the most active and sensational new city in tlie fastest growing part of the world today on account of the wonderful Lead, and Zinc Mines, the Groundhog Mountain Coal Fields, the Vast Agricultural Country tributary to the coming principal city in British Columbia on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad is now running regular trains over 100 miles out of Prince Rupert. The G. T. P. Officials, and also the G. T. P. Contractors, say that the Railroad should be running to Mile 164 this winter, and will reach NEW HAZELTON next summer. Grading is now under way as far along the line as 30 miles east of NEW HAZELTON. The grading is about finished from Prince Rupert to NEW HAZELTON. Many mines are getting ready to ship ore. Some of the mines being developed are:—Silver Cup, American Boy, Silver Standard, Sunrise and Sunset, Lead King, Erie Babine. Most of the ore in NEW INVESTMENTS Made in towns with the RIGHT KIND OF COUNTRY RIGHT KIND OF RESOURCES RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE will surely be big paying investments. This is the kind of town you find at New Hazelton, B.C. HAZELTON mines is high grade Silver-Lead, similar to ore in the Siocan District in East Kootenay, B. C, aud similar to some ores found at Leadville, Col. Buy Lots TERMS ARE EASY' Look them over again, and think of this money making investment. OUT OF CITV INVESTORS Can reserve one or more Lots by wire or letter. State price of Lots and number required, and we will make the best available reservation for you. Remember NEW HAZELTON is not a gift Townsite and when you buy a lot In it you are investing your money on the business .judgment of the most successful men in British Columbin. NEW HAZELTON Townsite had over a Quarter of a Million Dollars Invested by a few Business Men before the Lots were offered for sale. NEW HAZIOLTON is a Business Man's Townsite. All the G. T. P. and Local History was carefully considered. The Engineer's Reports as to grades, opportunities for Side Tracks necessary to handle the thousands of freight cars were examined. Then they invested in NEW HAZELTON. They paid in Cash for NEW HAZEL TON and nearby Lands over Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. That is a wonderful sonnet written by John J. Ingalls on the subject of Opportunity, but tbe real fact is. Opportunity does not knock once on each man's door. Opportunity plays a continual anvil on every man's portals—but, of course, if be is knocking nt tbe time he will not bear Opportunity when she knocks. Clipping from Omineca Herald, Saturday, September 9, 1911:— JUST ONE NEW HAZELTON THE SPOKANE OF CANADA All Interests Combine to Roost the New Town—Campaign Has Start, ell—Natural Resources Guarantee a liig Population—Contractors' Headquarters. The New Hazelton campaign has started. For the next few months the very best efforts of some of the greatest advertising men and real estate firms in British Columbia will be devoted to Boosting New Hazelton. The different interests have combined to make this town one of the foremost in the province. A careful study has been made by experts and they are all agreed that there cannot be too much boosting. The natural resources are here and they are now being developed in a way heretofore unknown. Everything is now on the move. Mining has this week had a stimulation that was not dreamed of. .During the two previous weeks several big deals were put through which meant the bringing in of mining men known the world over. Agriculture has been very successful this year and the farmers have had bigger crops than ever. They are all getting on their feet and buying machinery as fast as it can be brought into the country. This week Charles S. Meek, president of Standard Securities, Ltd., Vancouver was In town and completed arrangements with the sur- PRICES: BUSINESS LOTS 33x120 (according to location) Terms one-third cash, balance 1 and 2 years, at 6 per cent. $350 to $500 per lot Prices on Residence lots . _ JblUU lO IbOUU Terms $10 cash; 810 per month; No interest; or one-third cash; balance 1 and 2 years at 6 percent. Make Cheques, Drafts, Money or Express Orders payable to Northern Interior Land Company, Ltd. veyors to lay out his company's property. This work has already been started and it will be finished in another ten days. It is on the Northern Interior Land Co.'s property that so many of the old Hazelton- business men have purchased lots and are prepared to build, many this fall. It is from this point that the business section will start and grow, and where high values will prevail. There will be the one town instead of several as might have been. This means a great deal; in fact, many hundreds of dollars to the people of the old town, who have been wondering where the town would be. From now on New Hazelton will be introduced to the world in a manner that no other town can equal The gentlemen associated in the horning of this New Townsite they now call NEW HAZELTON, paid out in actual cash before a lot was sold Over a Quarter of a Million Dollars. NEW HAZELTON Where the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad has Sixty Acres of right-of- way and track grounds. NEW HAZELTON is reported by Engineers to be the only available spot In the Skeena or Bulkley Valleys for many miles each way where it would be possible to have Railroad Yards large enough to handle the Hazelton District's business. NIOW HAZELTON affords a .long, nearly level stretch of land suitable for Immense Yards, which will be required to handle the thousands of cars of ore and coal that will be shipped from the mines in the Hazelton District. TheG.T.P. Capital of Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Railway Systems, $447,808,082, Over 50,000 Stockholders, G. T. and G. T. P. Millions of people boost for Grand Trunk Pacific Townsites. Maximum grade of G. T. P. is 21 feet to the mile, one-fifth of any other Trancontinental Railroad in Canada or the United Slates. .MOW HAZIOLTON Is the Town that everybody Is talking about, and there are no two opinions as to its opportunities for investments. The reason is obvious. NEW HAZELTON Is Situated near the junction of the Skeena and Bulkley Valleys. The Northern Interior Land Co. Ltd., paid cash for and own (Section One) NEW HAZELTON TOWN. SITE and guarantee to deliver to purchasers of lots an Indefeasible Title upon receipt of final payment. ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO NORTHERN INTERIOR LAND CO., Ltd. Prince Rupert, B.C., P. 0. Box 1515 PRINCE RUPERT OFFICE FOR SALE OF LOTS JEREMIAH H. KUGLER. LTD. 2nd Avenue Between 5th and 6th Streets Tuesday, September 19, 1911. PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL TBE HALIBUT AND RECIPROCITY Dear Sir:—In a few days ihe electors will be called upon to vote on the reciprocity pact, the most important question Canada has faced in years. As the resources of this northern country and the methods of development are so little known, a few articles on the fish industry may be acceptable to the electors. There are many facts connected with the halibut, the salmon and the whaling business which the public does not know and some of them may surprise you. To properly grasp the many phases of the catching and marketing of the halibut one must first realize that all the fish on the coast of Britisii Columbia does not belong to Canada. The halibut may be found in what we claim to be Canadians waters but until such time as our national treaties recognize them as Canadian waters, the fish caught there by United Stater, boats must be considered as American fish. In discussing the tariff we must recognize both Canadian fish and United States fish. For years the United States fish companies, headed by the New England Fish Company, have been in control of the halibut industry. Al' these companies have freezing and shipping plants on the Washington or Alaska coast harbours, and the greatest of them, the New England Fish Company, has one in Seattle, one in Kechikan and one in Vancouver. The fish are caught on the banks of Hecate Straits with bait lines and trawlers, taken to the freezing plants and from there distributed to the American market. The New England Fish Company, which is recognized as the best organized corporation in America, have their own marts all over the United States and they are unafraid of any competition. This company operates in Canada under the name of the Canadian Fish Company, which is all that is left of a Canadian Company which they put out of business. Their Canadian steamers, the Celestial Empire and the F'ainingo take Canadian fish to the Vancouver plant, where it is frozen and shipped to Canadian cities. Tbe same company has three American bottoms, the Manhattan, the King Fisher and the New England, which take American fish to Vancouver, where under a special bonding privilege', secured through the influence of the C. P. R., it is shipped in refrigerator cars*to the Eastern United States markets. This company has been able by their magnitude and organization to ship that American fish back into Canada, pay the cent a pound duty and undersell Canadian companies in their own market. Here is the way they are able to do it: All fresh halibut is shipped in carload lots to Boston. There bulk Is broken and carloads of mixed fish, composed of Pacific salmon and halibut, and Atlantic bluefish, mackerel, butterfish, South Carolina shad and many other varieties of warm water fish not procurable in Canada, are made up and shipped into Canadian cities. As the western Canadian companies are only able to ship salmon and halibut, which Canadian cities cannot take in carload lots, the New England Company can pay the duty, undersell them and still make money. That has been the experience of numerous Canadian companies wliich went in and out ot business or were absorbed by the New England company. This state of affairs was a few years ago recognized by the Dominion Government, and it was decided to subsidize Canadian companies by granting a freight rebate on1 all fresh fish shipped by them to Canadian points. When this was passed the B. C. Packers, a Canadian company with headquarters in Vancouver, went into the halibut fishing business and are now operating the steamer Roman for the Canadian market. Their freezing plant is located in New Westminster. There is also a smaller plant at Claxton, on the Skeena, putting up frozen and cured fish, most of which goes to the Britisii market. Such is the condition of the halibut Industry to-day. it is practically controlled by the big American companies, with the Canadian companies being subsidized to give them some chance of competing on an even footing. If reciprocity goes into effect and the duty comes off halibut what will happen to the Canadian companies? If they need a freight rebate from the Government now what will they need with reciprocity? The United States companies will swamp them. Prince Rupert has been congratulating herself that all the fish companies will move to Prince Rupert as soon as the transcontinental is open. It is a false hope. The companies now operating have millions invested in plants just below the.border or in Alaska and they will not discard those plants and build new ones in a foreign country on the prospects of a reciprocity agreement which may be terminated at any time. They have these plants already; their markets are profitably organized; and they will not be tempted to move for the mere benefit of some advantage in transportation. The question of rapid transportation effects only the fresh fish—the frozen fish is kept, in the plants for weeks and months. Reciprocity will simply give to our competitors a freer Canadian market in which to dispose United States fish, or possibly Canadian fish which they will buy from the smaller concerns who are unable to compete against them. Canadians cannot hope to enter the United States market and sell at a profit against such odds as the New England Fish Company, which is really a combination of fish dealers who distribute their own fish to the consumer. New England Fish Company shareholders, who are the fish dealers in all the distributing points in the United States, are not likely to buy from a rival company. What Canada wants and what Prince Rupert wants is a Canadian market for Canadian fish. We must not be content with the belief that our market consists of only eight million people. To-morrow we will have eighty millibn, and these are the people who are going to buy Canadian fish from Prince Rupert plants. There is at the present time sufficient Canadian market for a large halibut plant in Rupert, and the Britisii market is always open when we have a surplus. If we figure on stealing the trade of some other city to build up Prince Rupert we are deceiving ourselves and are going to be disappointed. The history of every new railroad has been that they have not taken the trade of the rival road but have created a new trade. This is what we are going to do in Rupert, providing reciprocity does not kill our chances before we get under way. Some prominent Liberals of Rupert must have the same Idea In an immature state, for rumor has it that certain of them, Including some of the executive, have the promise of the herring licence in Prince Rupert harbour. If these men were really wise they would be trying to hold the big future market of Canada for Canadians, instead of boosting for a pact that Is giving our markets away.. Canada cannot hope to play the game of free trade in fish with the United States, for Uncle Sam can deal himself a black-jack every time. G. R. T. SAWLE. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte "'ARE NOTICE that thirty clays from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince iiupert, B. O, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 040 acres of land on Graham Island described as- follows;—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the northeast corner of C.L. 4471; thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; thence west SO chums; thence north SO chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. The Graham Island Oil Fields, Limited. CAPITAL STOCK, $1,000,000.00 We are offering for sale a very limited amount of shares of stock 25 CENTS PER SHARE; PAR VALUE, $1.00 These shares are going quickly, and will soon be off the market The Mack Realty & Insurance Co. SELLING AGENTS S'teena Land district—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply io the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the southeast corner of C.L. 4472; thence west 80 chains; "thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south SO chains to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the southeast corner of C.L. 4472; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence soutli 80 cliains to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. O, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the northeast corner of C.L. 4471; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence north 80 chains to l.lace of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the south corner of C.L. 4410; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south SO cliains; tlience east 80 chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing' at post planted one mile east of the south corner of C.L.4475; thence north 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; thence west 80 chains to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BRO..N. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days! from date, I, Austin M. Brown, ofi Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief j Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under' 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as foi-1 lows:—Commencing at post planted j one mile north of the northeast corner of C.L. 4477; thence west 80 cliains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains, to njace of commencement, AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated Julv 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that, thirty days rrom date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to tl t Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as foi-! lows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the northeast corner i of C.L. 4474; thence east 80 chains; ! thence south SO chains; tbence west SO chains; tbence north 80 chains, to place of commencement. ' AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Henry Edenshaw, of ;.'asset, B. C, occupation storekeeper, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows: — Commencing at a post planted on the west shore of \i est River, one mile easterly from the moutli of said river; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; tlience west 80 cliains to the place of commencement. HENRY EDENSHAW. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Henry Edenshaw, of Masset, B. C, by occupation storekeeper, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 64 0 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows: —Commencing at a post planted on the west shore of the West River, about one mile easterly from the mouth of said river; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to place of commencement. HENRY EDENSHAW. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Charles Lamb of Blair, Nebraska, U. S. a., occupation farmer, intends to apply for j i ermission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a 'post planted about 4 miles west and 4 1-2 miles north from the south- e west corner of Lot 99i; thence south j SO chains; thence west 80 chains; 'tbence north 80 chains; i-ience east I 80 chains to point of commencement; eontaining 640 acres. CHARLES LAMB. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 10 i911. A-15 j Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that llatlie Sutherland of Blair, Nebraska, V. S. A., occupation housewife intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a I'ost planted about 5 miles west and 2 1-L' miles north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence west 60 chains; thence 'north Mi chains; thence east 60 chains; thence south su chains, to point of commencement; containing ibout 4S0 acres. HAl'TIE SUTHERLAND. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 16 1911. A-15 Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows*—Commencing at post planted at the southeast corner of C.L. 4477; j thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Coast—Range V. TAKE NOTICE that Edward H. Port, of Prince Rupert, B. C, occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted in the South West Corner, on the shore line of Lake Lakelse; thence 20 chains East, to South West Corner of Lot 684; tlience 30 cliains North, following along the West line of Lot 684 to post; thence South, following along the shore line of said Lake to point of commencement, containing about 4C acres. EDWARD H. PORT, By C. N. Pring, Agent. Dated June 26, 1911. 6-26 6-26 Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Abram Sutherland of Blair, Nebraska, U. S. A., occupation insurance agent, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted about 5 miles west and 2 1-2 miles north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence east 80 chains; tlience north SO cnains; thence west 80 chains; thence soutli SO chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. ABRAM SUTHERLAND. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 16, 1911. A-15 Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. O, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted at the southeast corner of C.L.4478; tlience north 80 chains; .uence east 80 chains; i.eence south SO chains; [thence west 80 chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Queen Charlotte Land District—District of Skeena TAKE NOTICE that S. Barclay- Martin, Jr., of New' Westminster, occupation engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the northeast corner of ungazetted lot 1428, said lot being T.L. 39979; thence north and following the , westerly shore of Massett Inlet SO chains; thence west 20 chains; I thence south 80 chains; thence east 40 chains, more or less, to the point of commencement, and containing 240 acres, more or less. S. BARCLAY MARTIN, Jr. Dated July 21, 1911. S-8 Skeena Land district—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Miriam Hal- ler of Blair, Nebraska, U. S. A., occupation housewife, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted abort 5 miles west and 1 1-2 miles north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence east SO chains; thence north 80 cnains; thence west 80 chains; tlience south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. MIRIAM HAULER. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 16. 1911. A-15 Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. O, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the southeast corner of C.L. 4470; thence east SO chains; thence north SO chains; thence west SO chains,; thence south 80 chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince.Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on ( I Graham Island described as foi-; lows:—Commencing at post planted! at the southeast corner of C.L. 4467; thence north SO chains; thence east; SO chains; tlience south SO chains;' ihence west 80 chains, to place of' commencement. AUSTIN* M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, b. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the northeast corner of C.L. 4469; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, Intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the northeast corner of C.L. 4469; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. O, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted one mile east of the southeast corner of C.L. 447.e; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 cnains; the:.ce south 80 chrins, to place of commencement. AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 17, 1911. ' Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Austin M. Brown, of Prince Rupert, B. C, by occupation sadler, intend to apply to the Chief j Commissioner of Lands for a license! to prospect for coal and petroleum j on and under 640 acres of land on Graham Island described as follows:—Commencing at post planted at the southeast corner of C.L. 4465; thence north 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; thence west 80 chains, to place of commencement. , AUSTIN M. BROWN. Dated July 16, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that W. G. Mc-j Morris of the City of Vancouver in ! the Province of British Columbia, j occupation, broker, intends to apply i for permission to purchase the foi- j lowing described lands: — Commencing at a posl planted on an Island in Skidegate Inlet about 500 yards j east from the mouth of Slate Chuck ! Creek, separated from the mainland of Graham Island at high tide; thence soulh tliree chains; thence! east ten chains; thence north three | chains; thence west ten cliains to point, of commencement, containing two acres, more or less. W. G. MCMORRIS, Dated July 29, 1911. Locator. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Henry Edenshaw, of| Masset, B. O, by occupation store-1 keeper, intend to apply to the Chief, Commissioner of Lands for a license' to prospect for coal and petroleum on and under u<0 acres of land on j Graham Island described as follows:. Commencing at a post planted on the: bank of west River, about one mile' easterly from the mouth of said river; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 j cliains; thence ne-th 80 chains, to place of commencement. HENRY EDENSHAW. Dated July 17, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte TAKE NOTICE that thirty days from date, I, Henry Edenshaw, ofi Masset, B. C, by occupation store-1 keeper, intend to apply to the Chief! Commissioner of Lands for a llcensej to prospect for coal and petroleum on j and under 640 acres of land on Gra-| ham Island described as follows: —, Commencing at a post, planted on thej west shore of West Liver, about one j mile easterly from the mouth of said, river; thence nortli SO chains; thence! west 80 chnlns; thence south 80 1'hains; thence east SO chains, to place of commencement'. HENRY EDENSHAW. I Dated July 17, 1911. Skeonn Land District—District of of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that James G. Crombie, of Prince Rupert, occupation auditor, intends to apply for permission to purchase tbe following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner, 55 chains east and 20 chains south from northeast corner of Lot 1116 (Horry Survey), Coast Dist., range 5; thence 20 chains east; thence 25 chains, more or less, south to Angus McLeod Pre-emption; thence 20 chains west; thence, 25 chains, more or less, north, to post of commencement, containing] 50 acres, more or less. JAMES G. CROMBIE. Fred Bohk-n, Agent. Dated June 14, 1911. 6-23 ; | Skeena Land District—District of Coast—Range V. TAKE NOTICE that I, Joseph \ Pastl, of Watson, Sask., occupation farmer, intend io apply for permission to purchase the following de-j scribed lands:— Commencing at a, post planted about 30 c, alns In a[ northerly direction from tbe N. E. j corner of Lot No. 2662 or T. L. No. \ 32598 at Lakelse Lake; thence northj 20 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence south 20 chains along shore! of Lakelse Lake; thence west 40 chains to point of commencement, i containing 120 acres, more or less. JOSEPH PASTL. George Hlr, Agent. Dated May 6, 1911. 6-2 Prince Rupert Private Agency Detective Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that James Mullin of Murdo, South Dakota, occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following de- Bcribed lands;—Commencing at a post planted about I 1-2 miles west and 1 1-2 miles north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; tnence east 40 chains; thence soutli SO chains; Ihence west 40 cliains; thence north SO chains, to point of commencement; containing 320 acres. JAMES MULLIN. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 16 1911. A-15 Skeena Land District—District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE thai Belle Lamb of Blair, Nebraska, occupation housewife, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post plained about 4 miles west and I 1-2 miles north from the southwest corner of Lol 991; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south SO chains; Ihence east 80 chains, to polnl of commencement; containing 640 acn s. BELLE LAMB. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 16, 1911. A-15 Skeena Land District—District of Coast—Range V. TAKE NOTICE that I, Charles Percy Hickman, of Naas Harbour, occupation constable, intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted on the east shore of Naas Bay, about two miles in an easterly direction from Lot 3, marked C. P. H., S. W. corner; thence east 20 chains; tlience north 40 chains to the shore; thence along the shore line to the place of commencement, containing 40 acres, more or less. CHARLES PRECY HICKMAN. Dated June 7, 1911, 6-30 Skeena Land District—District of Coast. TAKE NOTICE that Victor H. Reynolds, of Hull, Massachusetts, occupation chauffeur, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land:—Commencing at a post planted nt high water mark on tho northerly Bide of the entrance to a small unnamed cove on the west coast of Pitt Island, about one-quarter mile south of the entrance to Kltkatla summer village; thence east forty chains; thence Bouth twenty chains; thence west forty chains; thence north ten chains more or less to high water mark; thence following along high water mark around the head of the cove back to the commencement, nnd containing sixty (60) aires more or less. VICTOR H. REYNOLDS. J. H. Plllsbury, Agent. Dated Feb. 18th, 1911. N. McDonnlil, Manager All kinds of legitimate detective work handled for companies and Individuals. Business strictly confidential P. O. Box HI):l — Phone 210 , LINDSAY'S GARTABE ft STORAGE G. T. P. CARTAGE AGENTS Office at II. II. Rochester. Centre St LADYSMITH COAL i la handled by us. All orderB receive prompt attention. Phone No 68. PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL Tuesday September 19, 1911. I> prince IRupett journal Telephone 138 Published twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays from the office of publication, Third Avenue, near McBride Street. Subscription rate to any point in Canada, 12.00 a year; to points outside of Canada, $3.00 a year. Advertising rates furnished on application. 0. H. NELSON, Editor. CLOSING RALLY Tomorrow night the electors of Prince Rupert will be given an opportunity to hear George H. Cowan, who represented Vancouver in tbe House of Commons last parliament. Mr. Cowan is exceedingly well informed and should be beard by all who can secure a place in Melntyre Hall. H. S. Clements, the next member for Comox-Atlin, be heard in his closing address for the campaign. will also Tuesday September 19, 1911. EXCELLENT CANDIDATE As the political campaign draws to a e'lose the Conservative parly In Comox-Atlin are' more and more gratified at the magnificent tight which Mr. Clements has put up throughout the riding. He is spending the last days of tlie campaign in Prince Rupert alter a strenuous contest owing to the immense distances to be covered. With every assurance that he will be elected, however, Mr, Clements is finishing the e'ontest with the same spirit he showed on the start. When he goes to Ottawa as a supporter of Mr. Borden, who seems now assured of victory at the polls, Comox-Atlin will be ably .represented. All friends of good government should lend their every effort to give Mr. Clements a good round majority. William .Manson, the member for Skeeua in the legislature, will also address the meeting, which will be a grand closing rally to a most vigorous campaign. *. * -: t AMONG THE POLITICIANS * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * Rig Things In Canada at DISCREDITED TACTICS The tactics employed by the Liberal organ in the city in the present campaign have been despicable. The adoption of such a line of action, where misrepresentation is employed continuously in connection with politics, is happily becoming less frequent. It has been left to the local organ of the Liberal party to revive a style of political battle that has for the most part been relegated to oblivion long ago. Public opinion frowns down the taking of such liberties with common sense and the vast majority, while realizing that every legitimate advantage must be taken of an opponent during a political contest, demands that nothing shall -be done that is manifestly unfair. In the present campaign tlie News seems to have proceeded upon the principle that anything is fair in politics and has stooped to tactics that have reflected anything but credit upon thai paper. The day of reckoning is coming, however, and the party that allows such methods need not complain if it reaps the whirlwind. a PERSONAL APPEAL Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his supporters have now forgotten everything else in tlie campaign but the catching of votes by any appeal possible. In consequence, the leader of the. Liberal party is appealing on his own persona'ity very largely—all that is left on which to appeal. It Is his "white plume" and his years of service that are being made to play the mosl Important part in this tight. As an evidence of this there stands the fact that Sir Wilfrid is himself contesting three seats, hoping thereby to win where one of less importance in the party could not hope to do so. Such a course is also an acknowledgment that many of his main supporters, members of Ills government, are going down to defeat and in the hope that lie may save himself in power he is providing for the bye-elections. There is now little question that the government is doomed. Sir Wil- friel will go down to defeat and be succeeded by R L. Borden at the bead of a strong Conservative government. EDITORIAL NOTES .1. rider I, Cowper is apparently a better than he Is a political speaker. Professor Odium of Vancouver a meeting recently held, said: "This is the day of big things in Canada. The day of great changes; lhe day of mighty progress. Canada has an era of prosperity unsurpassed in the history of western ations, and, I think, in the history of the world; and having that it is worth looking into the causes." Proceeding, the speaker said he was going to refer to the opinion of the greatest man on the continent at tlie latter part of the last century— Bismarck. There was a time, he said, when old Prussia was a free trade county, but when it passed into tiie new form it was decided to build up a new system of trade and eco nomics. Bismarck, said the speaker, referred to the country being a dumping ground for other nations' articles and contended that that was obstructing progress, and that a measure of protection was necessary for the upbuilding of the country's trade. That, the speaker contended, was the basis of the whole matter. Quoting from an American publication, he read an article in which it was averred that reciprocity would stop tne lead of 'American capital to Canada. Ho instanced the millions of American capital that had been put into Canadian industries of recent years, and contended that it was this that the Americans hoped to stop through reciprocity. By getting Canada's raw material, the United States would be able to keep their capital home and spend it in building up industries there. He also quoted President Taft as stating that the Tnited States would sell more agricultural products to Canada than Canada would sell to the United States. He proceeded to ouch on another phase of the question, by referring to the favored nation treaty. He pointed out that in entering into the reciprocity pact with the United States, Canada would have to give ihe same treatment to tlie twelve other nations that came in under the favored nations treaty. The keenest competitor against Canada in the markets of the world, he reminded his audience, is the United States, which is competing against Canada in the ratio of ten to one, so of course, she got the advantage. It.was like a tug of 1war, with ten men on the one side and only one on the other, and, of course, the ten men pull the one. "Therefore," he continued, "we are putting ourselves, if we adopt the reciprocity pact, In the position of dealing with men who stand in. the ratio of ten to one with us, and with this great difference, that they are after our country and our raw products, and we are not after their raw products, because we don't want them." "The treaty is, heads 1 win, tails you lose.' lie remarked, amid laughter. Ih. contended that protection had bulll up the prosperity of Canada, and that reciprocity would cause Canada's trade to be diverted to the south Instead of going east and west over our own lines of railroads. "Are yon ready for that?" he asked. "Is that the thing you are wanting?" lie concluded by saying: "We are ****************** ********** Ferguson's willing to he friends with tlie United States, but we want to handle our own business in our own way." Laurier Hurts Laurier Among the influences Sir Wilfrid Laurier as an advocate of reciprocity has to combat are those of his own speeches from 1899 onward to practically the present year. Before 1S96 he, with other Liberal leaders, was an advocate of reciprocity with the United Statis, even if it was to be unrestricted and to apply to all the products of the two countries. In 1S96 he came into power at Ottawa and almost immediately took steps to secure what he had long advo-, cated. Reciprocity was among the ! * matters discussed at his suggestion hy the Joint High Commission which met under the presidency of Lord Herscbell in the autumn of 1898. In his efforts to obtain what he thought would be a boon, Sir Wilfrid Laurier with Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Davis and Mr. John Charlton, twice journeyed to Washington, in November, 1898, and January, 1899. There was a feeling of real relief in the country when, after many months of negotiations and adjournments, it was intimated that the whole thing was off. The people of Canada had thought much after the defeat of the unrestricted reciprocity movement in 1891, and their thinking made them them feel, that, situated as their country was, they would be best off, nationally and industrially, by plouging their own furrow. Liberals as well as Conservatives joined In this. It is doubtful if ever the failure of a government effort in Canada caused so little regret or so general satisfaction as that of the ministers of 1S98-9 to get what they desired in the matter of trade agreement at Washington. So plain was the situation and so evident the satisfaction that things were to remain as they were thai Sir Wilfrid Laurier himself fell in with the current of opinion, in many places and on many occasions he put himself on record In favor of what was for a Liberal leader a new dispensation. He was a Canada for the Canadians man, and a believer in Britisii rather than United States trade connections. Here is a quotation from a speech he made as leader of the government in the House of Commons, on eVlarch 21, 1899: "If we know the hearts and minds of our people at present, I think 1 am not making too wide a statement when I say that the general feeling in Canada today is not in favor of reciprocity. There was a time when Canadians, beginning with the honorable gentleman himself, would have given many things to obtain the American market; there was a time not long ago when the market of the great cities of the Union was the only market we had for any of our products. But, thank heavens! those days are past and over now. We are not dependent upon the American market as we were at one time." SCOTCH WHISKEY in the World * Sole Agents for British Columbia CLARKE BROS. Nclntyre Block, 3rd Ave. Phone 39 P.O. BOX 319 K************* **** **** ***.* * Then lie went to show that Canada needed no outside nation's favor and could stand alone. It was his declaration of Independence of the country with which he had long desired to be associated, in a trade way ut least. This country was pleased, and there is little doubt thnt the attitude he thus took helped him In the subsequent parliamentary election. He evidently perceived that liu was on the right national track, for he kept in it. He was still following it and calling attention to the fact in 1907. when speaking before the Canadian Club at Ottawa, in the pres- 'ence of Mr. Bryce, the Britisii minister at Washington, he was thus reported: "I have seen, and you have all seen, in an American newspaper published in New York just a few days ago, that we are yearning for reciprocity with the United States. Now 1 tell you that the editor of that paper is about twenty-five years behind the times. At that time we would have given our right arm for such a thing, but it is now a thing of the past. We have in 1907 a changed condition of things. We are turning our holies towards the old Motherland. We have introduced the doctrine and the policy of a preference to Great Britain and towards all the Britisii Empire, and this is the policy by which we stand at the present time. Not for my part that I do not value the American trade, not for my part that I do not value all we would have to gain if our rela- tionsn were on a better footing, but this is a matter on which we shall have no more pilgrimages to Washington, and this is simply the message 1 have to convey to your guest guest tonight." That also met the approval of the Canadian people, and, like the previously quoted utterance, undoubtedly helped him In the parliamentary election of the following year. The British Columbia Company LIMITED. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000.:: PAID UP CAPITAL $41,500 DIRECTORS:—Reginald C. Brown, President; J. C. Maclure, Vice- President; H. E. Marks, Managin g Director; Capt. E. Nash, William McNair, R. A. Bevan, and F. C. Williams, Secretary. :-: :-: INTEREST 4 PER CENT. DEPOSITS This Company acts as Executors, Administrators, Transferees and Secretaries to Public Companies. Commercial, Industrial and other business propositions underwritten. Issues made on the London and New Tork Stock Exchanges. TIMBER, COAL, LANDS, and COMPANY ORGANIZATION Head Office for Canada, 203, 208, 210, 215 Carter-Cotton Building, VANCOUVER, B.C. The Staneland Co. Ltd •IS THE- Paint Supply House of British Columbia ALL GOODS ARE GUARANTEED WRITE FOR PRICES AND SAMPLES The Staneland Co. Ltd 836-840 Fort Street, VICTORIA, B.C. Replenish the Pantry !■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ High-Class.... Grocery Stock to choose from EVERYTHING CLEAN AND FRESH Goods for the Table to Suit the Most Fastidious Housewife r S MERRYFIELD'S S CASH GROCERY L—..»—..„„.„. 'I i i i i When, in 1911, Sir Wilfrid Laurier finds that opinion is going contrary to his views on reciprocity, the cause, in part at least, is due to his own work. If for ten years be sought to join in and lead and profit by tbe sentiment that was making Canada commercially independent and self-reliant he must expect to lose when, without warning end wlthout- renson given, lie reverses his attitude anil seeks support for a policy he publicly deprecated and the majority of his fellow-countrymen bad come to regard as dangerous as well as unnecessary to their national, commercial and Industrial well-being. Sir Wilfrid Laurier could not have been sincere when be spoke as quoted above and ns he spoke on many other occasions, and so be sincere now in advocating tlie first step towards the obliteration, so far ns trade is concerned, of the boundary between Canada and the United Stntes. In this campaign lhe Laurier of lhe pasl hurts the Laurier of today. 2nd Avenue Prince Rupert, B.C. Real Estate INVESTMENTS Real Estate List Your Properties with Uncle Jerry JEREMIAH H. KUGLER He Sells Buildings He Sells Contracts He has Houses to Rent He Buys Lots He Builds Homes He Buys Leases He Loans Money He Has Farms for Sale He Sells Houses He Rents Stores SUM JEREMIAH H. KUGLER Special Bargains in KITSELAS LANDS FRANCOIS LAKE LANDS LAKELSE LANDS HAZELTON DISTRICT LANDS SAND, GRAVEL AND MARBLE DEPOSITS BULKLEY VALLEY LANDS KISPIOX VALLEY LANDS PORCHER ISLAND LANDS KITSUMKALUM LANDS Tuesday, September 19, 1911. PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL ************************** ! MARINE NEWS I * * * * ************************** CANCELS LICENCE The certificate of Albert A. Sears, master and part owner of the wrecked steamer Iroquois, is cancelled, the certificate of Mate John Isbister Is suspended for six months and the certificate of Engineer William Thomson is suspended for nine months according to the findings of the court of marine enquiry handed down in the admiralty court. With respect to the captain, the finding says that the harsh comments on his conduct after reaching shore were not justified by the evidence. Yet, he failed to perform his duty in regard to rescue work and in regard to the stowage of the cargo, and also failed in his abality as a seaman and a master. With respect to Jihn Isbister, the court finds he was incompetent, and recommends that at the expiration of the six months' suspension of his certificate he should be required to satisfy the examiner of masters .^nd mates of a sufficient knowledge of stowing cargo. The court says that the period of suspension would have been extended had it not been for the work done by isbister in saving life after the wreck. With respect to William Thompson, the finding says he left the engine room while the engines were iu motion before circumstances warranted his doing so. The wreck is held to have occurred through negligence In the stowing of cargo. The drop window sashes are condemned and the lifeboats are held to have been improperly inspected. Inspector Kinglioni is blamed for not having insisted on alterations to the boats. NEW MISSION IIOAT The new steamer to be built for Methodist Coast' Mission will have a length of 85 feet, a beam of 17 feet, and a draught of 7 feet. The engines will be equipped for oil burning, and .will cost $10,0000. She will have five staterooms in addition to the usual galley and crew's quarters. At least one of the staterooms will be equipped as a hospital ward. Like the Homespun, she will be schooner rigged, and will carry canvas for use in the more open waters of the northern coast. Her frame will be of oak, and her deck houses of hardwood. Her bows will sheer forward instead of following clipper lines. She will be constructed at Vancouver, and will be ready for work by December 1. The commander of the new vessel will be Captain H. Oliver, now of the Homespun, and he will be succeeded on the present boat by Capt. H. J. Woodward, at present acting chief engineer on the Homespun. PACKERS' ESTIMATE Total Pack Nearly as Large as Last Year—Sockeycs Show Rig Dropping Off • * Now that the canning season for 1911 is practically over, packers are engaged in figuring out what the total pack for Britisii Columbia will be. Some of the Fraser River men estimate that it will amount close on to 750,000 cases and that the season in comparison to last year will not be as unsuccessful as it was first .. thought. In 1910 the canneries of this province put UP 762,201 esses of salmon, but the sockeye catch was far larger than this season. The sockeyes, which are the most valuable of the salmon tribe, have been scarce this year and the total catch amounts to but 365,000 cases, in comparison to 566,000 cases last season. One hundred nnd thirty-five thousand cases ,were put up on the Fraser Inst year, but this season the canneries packed but 60,000. The spring, humpbacks and cohoes will more than equal the output of the sockeye. Allowing n pack of 750,000 cases of all kinds of salmon, for the year 1911, the output Ihis year will be in excess of that of 1907, the year In the four-cycle period of salmon runs which corresponds with the present season. In 1907 the total of all kinds of salmon packed was 547,459 cases, which gives a balance of 200,000 cases in favor of this year. The estimated pack of sockeyes in Britisii Columbia this year is as follows: Skeena River, 120,000 cases; Fraser River, 60,000 cases; Naas, 32,000; Low Inlet, 13,000'; Namu, 5,000; River's Inlet, 87,0000; Smith Inlet, IS,000; Alert Bay, 4,000; Knight Inlet, 1,500; Quathiaski Cove, 1,500; Alberni, 7,000; Clay- oljuot, 6,000; Work Island, 2,000. Total, 365,000 cases The present week, it is asserted*, will witness the end of the packing season on tiie Fraser River. Last week a number of the canneries on the Fraser shut down and those plants which are still running are making preparations to close. The river Is reported to be full of humpbacks but the quality of the fish Is not, it is asserted, by any means first class. The packing of cohoes is now- proceeding in the north. o FIRST PULP .MILL Swanson liny Plant Is New in Operation—Ilritish Columbia's Great Advantages for Pupcrniaking "British Columbia, the last resort of the papermaker," Is the enthusiastic description of James Wood, the general manager of Swanson Bay Forests, Wood, Pulp and Lumber Mills, Ltd., In Vancouver. The Swanson Bay concern is the first of its kind to operate a pulp mill in this province, and it was only a few days ago that the first "cook" of the pulp mill went through the digester, marking almost a mile post in British Columbia's industrial history. Mr. Wood came to this province from the Old Country about eighteen months ago and since then he has made many and expensive alterations in the plant. The early pioneers of the undertaking went along with more good will than system and when Mr. Wood was placed in the position of general mapager it was with the understanding that he should put the mills in working shape, and this he has accomplished, for the plant Is now complete and Is reported to represent the last word in paper pulp manufacture, "Owing to the great size of timber on the Pacific Coast," says Mr. Wood, "the ordinary pulp mill practice had to be varied and the company had to put in a band mill and auxiliary saw mill machinery in order to break down the big logs into such size as would come within the compass of a pulp mill to handle. The saw mill is working in full blast now, breaking down logs for the pulp mill and the pulp mill is in full working order and the first cook went through the digester just a few days ago. The whole establishment is in first class mechanical order and a full clew of 200 men s working in- e'essantly. The old stock of lumber and pulp is now being entirely disposed of and the company has orders for 1,500 tons of pulp for the American market and has already disposed of one-half of its high grade lumber output. The plant at present Is capable of a 30-ton daily production, but will be enlarged before very long. "Given time and patience and capital there is no doubt but that British Columbia with its immense resources of spruce forests is the last resort of the papermaker, and provided the government of British Columbia will paternally encourage the pulp and paper industry, those who are yet living will see a development in the paper trada so great as to be appalling. We have the raw material, we can command the expert's skill. What we lack is capital, and it will be a thousand pities if the capital which is required to develop such an Industry shall have to come from any other B.Mrltish pockets." o LEAVE FOR OLD LAND The proposed torn* of a Calgary team through Great Britain this season seems assured. The team will leave Calgary for the Old Country on the 23rd of the month. Several British Columbia players will be on the team. In addition to Melville and Dyke of, the Vancouvers, who went through to Calgary earlier in the summer, Andy McLean, ArnOld of the Celtics and Billy MeOulre of Victoria are wanted. All expenses are Dent Gloves We have secured, direct from tlie manufacturer, the selling agency for this very superior line of Gloves, thus saving the jobber's profit, and can sell them very much cheaper than they are ordinarily sold for. A portion of our stock has just arrived, Including Men's Tan Dressed and Mocha Undressed Kids, both lined and unllned. Cadet Tan and - Mochas, Suede and Full Dress In men's sizes, as well as a complete line of Wool Lined and Wool Gloves and Mitts for winter use. Remember, we buy these direct and sell them for less than they are ordinarily sold for. SLOAN & CO. Sixth St. Alder ISIk PRINCE RUPERT LABOR -MAN'S VIEW William Davidson, ex-M.P.P. for Siocan, now organizer for the Western Federation of Miners is in the city. Mr. Davidson was elected for Siocan to the legislature a few years ago as a labor candidate. Speaking of reciprocity, he says he cares little about it one way or the otlier. The cry of cheaper supplies, even if it resulted from reciprocity, Is not any great boon to be sought. As a representative of labor, he says cheap supplies is nothing to be sought. With that goes lower wages, and the working man is better off on high wages and high living as a general thing. He is able to get more out of the wages paid. guaranteed the players, but there will be no salary. McLean and Arnold have signified their Intention of going along with the team, but whether McGuire will travel is uncertain. The Calgary team has been assured of matches with quite a number of first-league teams in both England and Scotland, and the tour should be a great success. Miss Unwin of the city hall staff will be given a two weeks' holiday. 4 Per Cent 4 On a Checking Account at our depositors receive. Start saving today by < intf an account with us. $1.00 is enough to begin with The Continental Trust Company, Limited Second Avenue, Prince Rupert, B.C. 1836 1911 The Bank of British North America 75 Yean In Buslnris. Capital and Reserve Over 97,300,000 A Complete Banking Service Collections made in any part of Canada. Negotiable paper discounted. Money advanced at reasonable terms to finance your business. Local and foreign Drafts bought and sold. Money transmitted by Money Order or Telegraph Transfer. Letters of Credit issued payable in all the leading cities of the world. We invite your account. Prince Rupert Branch— F. s. LONG, Maaagcr. Double Weekly Service S.S. PRINCE RUPERT & S.S. PRINCE GEORGE Sail for Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle Mondays and Fridays at 8 a.m. S.S. PRINCE JOHN for Port Simpson, Nans and Stewart, Wcdnes- days, 1 P. M. For Masset and Naden Harbor, Thursdays, 12 P. M. For Skidegate, Hose Harbor, etc., Saturday, 1 P. M. RAILWAY SERVICE TO COPPER RIVER, mixed trains from Prince Rupert Mondays, Wednesday and Saturdays, 1 P. M.; returning Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, 4 P. M. THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM, connecting with trains from the Pacific Coast, operates a frequent and convenient service of luxurious trains over its DOUBLE TRACK route between Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Portland, Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Atlantic Steamship bookings arranged via all lines Full information and tickets obtained from the office of a. e. Monaster Freight and Pasenger Agent, G. T. P. Wharf. The Thompson Hardware Co. —Second Avenue— Paints. General Hardware, • > Oils, Stoves and Ranges. THE WESTHOLME LUMBER GO. LIMITED We handle all kinds of Building Supplies First Avenue Telephone 180 YOU ARE SURE OP Engine Reliability IF YOU RUN A Fairbanks - Morse Marine Engine OVER 125,000 IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TWO CYCLE FOUR CYCLE tm '' v»"Ft'j ' 't^KF% r I HEAVY DUTY MEDIUM DUTY Runabout Type MOST COMPLETE LINE OP GASOLINE ENGINES IN THE WORLD Write foi Catalog P19 The Canadian Fairbanks Co., Ltd. 101-107 WATER 8TREET . Local Agent—F. M. DAVIS - VANCOUVER, B. C. - PRINCE RUPERT **************************************************i GROUND V ■*> I Floor Space For Rent | IN THE I HART BUILDING I Corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street V J» t The Best Business Corner in Prince Rupert I Jermiah H. Kugler, Ltd. . i> ♦ ♦> «j* »> ■> <fr •> »> ♦ * *> ►> ♦> <• <♦ •> 4 ♦ *> •> -5> »> •> <•> ■> >> ■>> *:« <■> *;• »> •> ■>:•> 4- ♦ ■* •> •> »> * •> * •> * •> »;* * ♦ Q ^^ The World's Greatest Highway Let us plan your Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5. TAKE NOTICE that T. H. Hughes, of Lakelse Valley, occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted at the southeast corner of Lot 4128; thence 40 chains north; thence 40 chains east; thenc-3 40 chains soutli; tlience 40 chains west to point of commencement, and containing ICO acres, more or less. TOM HUGH HUGHES. Dated June 5, 1911. Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Thomas Stewart, of Prince Rupert, occupation accountant, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted 40 chains north from the southwest corner of Lot 1733; tlience west 40 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence nortli 40 chains to point of commencement. THOMAS STEWART. John Kirkaldy, Agent Dated July 7, 1911. WATER NOTICE Trip East NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made under Part V of the "Water Act, 1909," to obtain a licence in the Queen Charlotte Islands Division of Skeena District. (a) The name, address and occupation of the applicant—Orland P. Merrill; Massett, Graham Island, B. C.j prospector. (If for mining purposes) Free Miner's Certificate No (b) The name of the lake, stream or source (if unnamed, the description is)—Ain Lake and Ain River. (c) The point of diversion—At or near Ain Lake. (d) The quantity of water ap- f.lieei for (in cubic feet per second) —700. (e) Tlie^ character of the proposed works -Ham, flume, pipe line and power plant, (i) The- ;:':' OS on v. ii li I o water is to be used (<U .-.•..'.,.• s_ t —Near mouth of Ain River. (g) The purposes for '..'..: -h I water is to be used—Geijc ■*■•'. power. (h) If for irrigation, de.-- ■■ " land to be irrigated, giving acre. ;.• OR TO Europe We like to answer enquires, Agent for nil Atlantic lines. Call on or write: .1. Q. McNAB, General Agent. Excursions! Let us tell you all about the cheap ROUND TRIP EXCURSIONS to all Towns and Cities In Eastern Canada and United States Via The Great Northern Choice of Return Route Tickets to tlie Old Country by all Lines. Take any Steamer from Prince Rupert. ROGERS STEAMSHIP AGENCY Phone 110 Second Ave Prince Rupert, B.C. Free Employment Office (I) If the water is to be used for power or for mining purposes, describe the place where the water is to be returned to some natural channel, and the difference in altitude between point of diversion and point of return—Near mouth of Ain River about 150 feet below point of diversion. (j) Area of Crown land intended to be occupied by the proposed works— About 10 acres. (k) This notice was posted on tlie tenth day of June, 1911, and application will be made to the Commissioner on the fourth day of September, 1911. (I) Give the names and addresses of any riparian proprietors or li- censees who or whose lands are likely to be affected by the proposed works, either above or below the outlet—None. (Signature) ORLAND P. MERRILL, (P. O. Address) Masset, B. C. George S. Mayer, Agent, (P. O. Address) Masset, B. C. Note—One cubic foot per second Is equivalent to 35.71 miner's inches. For all kinds of help. Cooks, waiters, dishwashers, hotel porters, all kinds of laborers or mochanlcs, call up 178 or cnll at Ihe FREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE GRAND HOTEL Headquarters for Cooks and Walters Skeena Land District—District of Coast—Range V. TAKE NOTICE that I, John If. Rochester, of Prince Rupert, occupation broker, intend to apply f*r permission to lease the following de- scribed land:— Commencing at a post planted on the northerly end of an island in (he Skeena River about Mile 45 on Ihe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway; thence north 1000 feet more or less to low water mark; ihence westerly along tlie low water mark 1000 feet more or less; tlience southerly 10no feet more or less; thence easterly 10 00 feet to the place of commencement. .7. Y. ROCHESTER. Dated May 30, 1911. C-2 ROGERS & BLACK Wholesale Dealers In BUILDING MATERIAL, CEMENT. LIME, HAIR-FIBRE PLASTER COKE, BLACKSMITH COAL, COMMON BRICK, PRESSED BRICK .SHINGLES AND LATH NEW WELLINGTON COAL All orders promptly filled—see u> for prices. PHONE 1111 PHONE 11(1 Skeena I,anel District—District of Coast—Range V, TAKE NOTICE that T. M. Turner, of LaKelse Valley, occupation farmer, Intends to apply for permission tee purchase the following described lands: — Commencing at n post planted em the Omineca & Hazelton right nf way anil adjoining the N, E. corner nf l.eet. 518; thence west 17 chains tee corner of Lot 3990; thence north 20 ehains; thence following rlghl eif way to peeint of commencement. T. M. TURNER, John Kirkaldy, Agent. Dated Mile June. 1911. 7-4 Skeena Land Notice—District of Coast—Range V TAKE NOTICE that Daniel W. Beaton, of Prince Rupert, B. C., oc- I'upation carpenter, Intends to apply for permission to purchase tlie following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about five miles up the Exchumslk River from Its ; ee itie, .inel on Its sonth bank; thence asl 40 chains; thence north 40 lialns; thence west 40 chains; thence south 40 chains to place of immencement. DANIEL W. BEATON. Dated June 14, 1911, Ml i«M ,L PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL Tuesday, September 19, 1911. 1 Among the Politicians llOIIeees to Sil'tOIl The conclusions drawn by the citizens of St. John, N. B., after hearing Laurier and the one-time first minister are that Mr. Sifton had it on the premier at every stage of the game. There was great contrast between the two meeting. On Monday night there gathered a'l the dredging rafters and their supporters and employees. On Tuesday evening, without any preparation save the appointment of a volunteer corps of ushers a great mass meeting was held in the Queens rink by theh opponents of reciprocity, and Hon. Mr. Sifton was heard in an exceptionable good address. The effect was good. He discussed the reciprocity pact the moderation and calm deliberation of a business man, not as a Tory partisan, but, as he himself said, as one citizen talking to another. And he made an impresion. He completely showed that Sir Wilfrid on Monday evening was ignorant of his subject ar else did not tell the people the truth. The natural result of such an impression is that the independent man, who hears Lutli sides of the question, pondered In his mind until he reaches a conclusion Heat the premier had a motive in concealing his knowledge and that he wanted to dupe the people into supporting the reciprocity pact in order that lie might ride into power on that rail, and save a government already discredited for its wholesale corruption. While Sir Wilfrid Laurier probably failed to turn a vote it is safe to say that scores will leave their party as a result of Mr. Sifton's address. The Fundamental Issue (From Victoria Colonist) You may or may not be impressed by the argument that the closer trade relations that will be engendered by a reciprocity agreement with the United States will weaken your connection with the Empire. You may or may not believe that under the specific agreement now before the electorate the cost of living will be reduced. You may or may not assent to the proposition that competition from the United States will injuriously affect certain Canadian industries. You may or may not fear that the rapid exploitation of its natural resources, which reciprocity is expected to bring about, will be hurtful to tlie country. But no matter what your opinion may be upon these points, you cannot hope to prove that the commercial Independence of Canada can be maintained after tbe Canadian people have assented to the policy, which is submitted to them for their approval by the Laurier ministry. Our position on this question is not only that the agreementn negotiated by Messrs. Fielding and Paterson Is in itself objectionable, but that the principle involved in tlie regulation of the Canadian tariff by any agreement with the government at Washington is indefensible. We are told from time to time that the Conservatives in former times favored reciprocity. I'ndoubtedly they did so, and undoubtedly their course was justified by the conditions that then existed. We see no reason to attempt to conceal or explain away what is a part of the history of Canada. But during the last twenty years conditions have changed. To enter into a reciprocity agreement with the United States in 1911 is a very different thing from what such a course would have been In 1891. Not only has Canada changed since the time when Sir John A. Macdonald last appealed to the people, but the United States has changed. Canada has changed for the better; the United States has changed for the worse. We are not now referring to the latter country In respect lo its wealth and importance as a nation. In this particular it has advanced with gigantic strides. We have in mind the commercial and financial unrest which mars the present and beclouds the future of that country, the great combines which control Its industrial prosperity, tlie selfish Interests which control Its legislation. These things were almost non-existent in 1891. We are also referring to the spirit of national arrogance wliich has grown up during the pa»t two decades, a spirit which will render any true spirit of reciprocity between the two countries impossible. Is there any man who believes for a moment that, once we have entered into a trade agreement of any kind whatever with the United States, the interests in that country, wliich will profit thereby, will not seek In future to control Canadian fiscal legislation? If any man does so believe he must be credulous in the extreme. A nation sue'h as Canada is cannot hope to remain fiscally Independent of a nation like tlie' United States, with which It is co-termlnus for three thousand miles, and with which it will steadily become more closely bound by any trade agreement that can be nnegotiated. We took this objection to the reciprocity nengoti- ations when they were inaugurated. We repeated it at times during the progress of the negotiations. We raised it again when the nature of tlie agreement was announced. Our position has been that Canada ought to retain absolutely in her own hands the regulation of her own trade, unci while we concede that this right is nominally reserved by the reciprocity agreement, it is not and cannot be preserved to us. A man In the swift cunrrent above Niagara Falls may be free to swim as he will, but he will be carried over the cataract just the same as if he were tied hand and foot. Sir .leilen a. Macdonald (From the News-Advertiser) "Mr. Senkler only repeats the words of his leader when he says that if Sir John A. Macdonald were alive he would support reciprocity. If Sir John A. Macdonald were alive he would say to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright, Ah*. Patterson, Mr. Fielding, Mr. Fisher and the rest the same thing that he said to the same persons in 1891: 'For myself, my course is clear. A British subject I will die; with my latest breath will I oppose the veiled treason which attempts by sordid and mercentary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.' "As yet no announcement has been made by Hon, William Templeman, British Columbia's sole representative in the Dominion cabinet, that he 'will tour the province during the present campaign. He has shown no disposition to give an account of his stewardship lo the electors of Comox-Atlin. And it is said that wild horses could not drag him to Fernie, although he is minister of mines and the miners of the Crow's Nest have manythings which they would like to hear him explain. British Yiew (From Standard of Empire) The Standard of Empire, in its issue of August 18, says: "Before these lines can reach Canadian readers, the federal election campaign will be In full swing in the Dominion. The whole Empire is the audience of the speakers and leaders in this campaign, to an extent which has probably never before been known. It is illustrative of Canada's great progress of late years, of her undoubted attainment of full British nationhood, that her general election should have the first rate prominence which it eiuite clearly has, as an Imperial topic and event. Our. readers have already had the opportunity of considering tlie manifesto of the Canadian prime minister. This week we give details of a later pronouncement: tlie elector address of the leader of the Opposition, the Hon. ft, L. Borden. With the domestic and party aspect of the working programmes of the two political parlies we are, of course, not concerned. That is stctly Canada's business; and, in any case, the Standard of Empire lias nothing to do with party politics. "But, politics aside, it would be folly to deny that the main issue of Canada's election is a matter of supreme interest and importance to the whole Britisii people and Empire; and necessarily, therfore, to this journal. The issue is Canadian-United States reciprocity. Of this the leader of the Opposition says that 'with a firm heart' his party takes the stand that tlie people, and not any one section of them, must pronounce the verdict, since the verdict 'must determine the future destiny of this Dominion and this Empire.' It would scarcely be possible to use stronger words. But upon the whole we think them fully justified by the facts. The supporters of reciprocity, in the United States at all events, are quite as emphatic as its opponents elsewhere in insisting upon the vital, far-reaching and permanent importance of the present decision, for or against. From the president downward, United States leaders have agreed in speaking of this 'last chance,' 'only chance,' 'parting of the ways,' and the like; all phrases arguing recognition, first of the urgen desirability, for the States, of the. pact, and, secondly, of the fact that revocation or revision of that decision need hardly be reckoned among practical contingencies. All these arguments, however, well they may have served supporters of the measure In the Republic, point chiefly, so far as British North America is concerned, to the serious need for caution and deliberation. The United States has recorded their decision. Nobody cand oubt their keen desire for the fullest form of reciprocity. For Canadians, two other aspects of the question are of much greater Importance than the desires of their shrewd southern neighbors; namely, the destiny of the free British nation of Canada, and the interests of that world-wide empire of which It is the premier dominion. Those are the points upon which—apart from party feeling or lesser matters—we sincerely truth the Canadian people will concentrate their grave and impartial attention, as a patriotic and practical nation, during the next few weeks. Their fellow subjects in every quarter of the Empire will follow the process with most anxious and sympathetic interest; and, be it said, with the fullest confidence in trie Canadian people." J. L. PARKER MINING ENGINEER Prince Rupert, B, C. Open for Consultation and Mine Examination Temporary Address:— Prince Rupert Inn Th«"Stay Sarrsfattory'Hrenjee Good, Sound Reasons for MONARCH Economy Monarch Ranges are built so that they can never have "air leaks"— „For around every opening into the body there is a Malleable Iron frame to which the steel is riveted. No putty is needed in such joints. They are air tight when new and stay air tight. If these other ranges were built in this way they might be economical too. Investigate this matter of rivet construction versus stove bolts and stove putty. It's important to every one using or buying a range. SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY TBE Kaien Hardware Co. Telephone 3 Third Avenue FREDERICK PETERS, K. C. Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public Office in EXCHANGE BLOCK WM. S. HA1.L, L. D. S. D. D. S. :-: DENTIST :-: Crown and Bridge Work a specialty All dental operations skillfully treated. Gas and local anaesthetict administered for the painless extraction of teeth. Consultation free Offices, Helgerson Bk., Prince Rupen NICKERSON-ROERIG COMPANY —e— CUSTOMS AND MERCHANDISE —-o— Brokers, Forwarding Agents, Storage, etc. Skeena Land uistrict — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Burton Vivian Brewer, of Vancouver, occupation clerk, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about two miles north from the nore".*.east corner of Lot 993; thence west 80 chai»s; thence south 80 chains; thence east chains; thence north 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. BURTON VIVIAN BREWER. George S. Mayer, Agent Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen ..nrlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Edgar J. Young, of Vancouver B. C, occupation painter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted two and one-half miles north of the northeast corner of Lot 993; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; containing 640 ncres. EDGAR J. YOUNG. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Margaret Merrill, of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., occupation housewife, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about tliree miles west, and one-half mile north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence west 40 chains; thence south 60 chains; thence east 40 chains; thence nortli 60 chains, to point of commencement; containing 240 acres, more or less. MARGARET MERRILL. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated August 7, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Arthur W. Nelson, of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., occupation clerk, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about 3 miles west and one-half mile north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence east SO chains; thence south 60 chains; thence west SO chains; thence north 60 chains, to point of commencement; containing 480 acres, more or less. ARTHUR W. NELSON. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated August I, 1911. FOR SALE Lot 56, Blk. 34, Sec. 1, ?5,000; 1-3 cash, bal. 6 and 12 months. Lots 33 an* 34, Blk 5, Sec. 1, $4,000; half cash. FOR RENT STORES, OFFICES AND DWELLINGS FIRE INSURANCE in old English, Canadian and American companies, at tariff rates. Policies good as collateral at All Banks, and all written in our own office. PLATE GLASS, ACCIDENT and MARINE INSURANCE M.M. Stephens & Co. Ld. REAL ESTATE Phone 222 LOANS INSURANCE Office: Third Avenue INVESTMENTS P. O. Box 275 3@000[5]00@@[§0000@0000|d]|d][d](1 HOTEL ENAMELWARE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SMALL SHIPMENT OF HOTEL ENAMELWARE ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND CAMPS. WE GUARANTEE THEM TO LAST TWICE AS LONG AS ORDINARY ENAMEL WARE. A CALL IS SOLICITED Prince Rupert Hardware & Supply Company, Ltd. THIRD AVENUE PHONE 120 3EilDra.graii]iarara J. W. POTTER ARCHITECT AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Re-inforced Concrete a Specialty —o— Law-Butler Building - Prince Rupert 1-1. Gordon Munro W. Nicholson Lailey MUNRO & LAILEY ARCHITECTS PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. P. O. BOX 14 PRINCE RUPERT HAYNOR BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS and PROFESSIONAL EMBALMERS DR. W. B. CLAYTON DENTIST Office In the Westenhaver Block Over Orme's Drug Store. Prince Rupert Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Harry Martin, of Vancouver, B. O, occupation artist, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted two and one-half miles north of the northeast corner of Lot 993; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to the point of commencement; containing 640 acres, more or less. HARRY MARTIN. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land uistrict — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Allan Orr, of Masset, B. C, occupation carpenter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:-—Commencing at a post planted three and one-half miles north and one mile west from the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence west SO chains; thenc* north 80 chains; tbence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres.* ALLAN ORR. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — Dislrict of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Frank Gray, of Blair, Nebrasaka, U.S.A., occupation farmer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about 2 miles west and "'.. mile north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence east SO chains; thence north SO chains; thence west SO chains; thence south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 040 acres. FRANK GRAY. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 29, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Wirt A. Stevens, of Chicago, Illirtois, U.S.A., occupation civil engineer, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about two miles west and one and one-half miles nortli from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence east 80 chains; thence north SO ehains; thence wesl SO chains; thence south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. WIRT A. STEVENS. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 29, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Christina Orr, of Masset, B. C, occupation housewife, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about four miles west and three and ojie-half miles nortli from the northwest corner of Lot 992; tlience west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. CHRISTINA ORR. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated August 7, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Coast, Range v. TAKE NOTICE that Alice Munro, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation married woman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described iands:—Commencing at a post planted on the west shore of Lakelse Lake and about one and one- half miles distant in a southwesterly direction from the southwest corner of Lot 3982, Skeena Land District, District of Coast, Range 5; thence west 40 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence east 60 chains, more or less to the shore of Lakelse Lake; thence following the shore of said lake to point of commencement; containing 200 acres, more or less. ALICE MUNRO. Dated August 12, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Norman Hurst, of Vancouver, B. O, occupation clerk, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about three and one- half miles north and one mile west from the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence east SO chains; thence north SO chains; thence west 80 chains thence south SO chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. NORMAN HURST. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that C. Verne Brewer, of Vancouver, occupation clerk, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted tliree and one-half miles nortj and one mile west from the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence east SO' chains; thence south 81 chains; tlience west SO chains; thence nortli SO chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. C. VERNE BREWER. George S. Mayer, Agent. Datedo July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that John Henry, of Vancouver, occupation contractor, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted two and one-half miles north of the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence west SO chains; thence south 40 chains; thence east 80 chains; Ihence north 40 chains, to point of commencement; containing 320 acres. JOHN HENRY. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 81, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that William Robert Little, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation mason, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about two and one-half miles north from the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence east 80 chains; thence south 40 chains; tlience west SO chains; thence north 40 chains, to point of commencement; containing 320 acres. WILLIAM ROBERT LITTLE. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 81, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Fred Jackson, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation painter, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about two miles north from the northeast corner of Lot 993; thence west SO chains thence north 40 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south 40 chains, to point of commencement; containing 320 acres FRED JACKSON. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Ellen Ives, of Masset, B. C, occupation housewife, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described- lands:—Commencing at a post planted about four miles west and three and one-half miles north from the northwest corner of Lot 992; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chnlns; thence west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. ELLEN IVES. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated August 7, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE thnt Joseph C. Merrill, of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., occupation retired, Intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing nt a post planted about four and one-half miles west and one-half mile north from the southwest corner of Lot 991; thence north 20 chains; thence west 60 chains, more or less, to the Ain River; thence following shore of river in a southerly and easterly direction to point of commencement; containing 120 acres, more or less. JOSEPH C. MERRILL. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated August 2. 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Stanley Hol- brook, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation clerk, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lauds:—Commencing at a post planted about two miles north from the northeast corner of Lot 993; thence east 80 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence south 40 chains, to point of commencement; containing 320 acres. STANLEY HOLBROOK. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Queen Charlotte IslandB TAKE NOTICE that Patrick O'Connor, of Vancouver, B. C, occupation foreman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted about two miles north from the northeast corner of Lot 993; thence east SO chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 cliains; thence north 80 chains, to point of commencement; containing 640 acres. PATRICK O'CONNOR. George S. Mayer, Agent. Dated July 31, 1911. Skeena Land District — District of Coast, Range V. TAKE NOTICE that William H. Hargrave, of Vancouver, B. O, occupation banker, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted on the west shore of Lakelse Lake, and about one and one- half miles distant in a southerly direction from the southwest corner of Lot 3982, Skeena Land District, District of Coast, Range 5; thence 40 chains west; thence 8o chains south, more or less, to the shore of Lakelse Lake; thence following the shore of said lake to point of commencement; containing 160 acres, more or less. WILLIAM H. HARGRAVE. Dated August .12, 1911. Tuesday, September 19, 1911. PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL ***************************************************** 1 ROOSEVELT ON ARBITRATION ! ■!> * * * ***************************************************** Former President Roosevelt deals side body. Critics in the Senate, in with the arbitration treaties recently presented to the Serate in an editorial article appearing in the Outlook. He said in part: "It is one of our prime duties as a nation to seek peace. It is an even higher duty to seek righteousness. It is also our duty not to Indulge in shams, not make believe we are getting peace by some patent contrivance which sensible people ought to know cannot work in practice, and which, if we sought to make It work, might cause irretrievable harm. I sincerely believe in the principle so far as practicable, but I believe that the effort to apply it where it is not practicable cannot do good and may do serious harm. "I think that theh great majority of the persons who advocate any and every treaty which is called a treaty for peace or for arbitration, will be less often drawn into, a position that tends to humiliate their country if they would take the trouble to formulate clearly and defintely just what it is that they desire. "Of course, there are persons wholly indifferent to the nation's honor and interest, who In consequence cannot be reached by an appeal to national honor and interest, ' and there are other persons whose in grained personal timidty is such that they are more afraid of war than of any dishonor, personal or national. "We, the American people, believe, and ought to believe, in righteousness first, and in peace as the handmaid of righteousness. We abhor brutality and wrong-doing whether exhibited by nations or by individuals. We hold that the same law of righteousness should obtain between nation and nation as between man and man. I, for one, would rathehr cut off my right hand than see the United States * adopt the attitude either of cringing before the great and powerful nations who wish to wrong us,, or bullying small and weak nations, who have done us no wrong. "The American people desire to do justice and to act with frand generosity towards all the other nations of mankind; but I err greatly In my judgment of my countrymen if they are willing to submit to wrong and Injustice. Again and again in the past they have shown, and rightly shown, that when the choice lay between righteousness and peace they chose righteousness. Just exactly as they also chose righteousness when the choice lay between righteousness and war." Mr. Roosevelt cites the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War as instances in which "we put righteousness above peace." He also cites the existing treaties between the United States, Great Britain and France,' as better than the proposed treaties because they make no false pretences, and exclude questions affecting our vital interests, independence or honr. He continues: "The proposed arbitration treaty is defective, in the first p'ace, because it is not straightforward. . It sets forth that "all-justicable" matters should be arbitrated. The language both of the opponents and the defenders of the treaty shows that even among our own people, and before a case for applying the treaty has arisen, there Is hopeless confusion as to what 'justiciable' means. Such being the case, it can be imagined how useless would be the effort to defend "justicable' when a serious conflict had actually arisen and blood was up and passion high. The word ing of the treaty is so loose, it so larks expllcitness. ns to allow one set of its advocates to announce that it binds us to arbitrate anything we did not wish to. Now, no moral movement is permanently helped by hypocrisy. Does the proposal in the treaties if entered Into with various nations bind us to arbitrate the Monroe Doctrine, the Piatt amendment with Cuba, the payment of state bonds to European bondholders, the question whether various European countries are entitled to the same concessions that Canada is to receive under the reciprocity agreement, the right of other foreign nations to interfere in Panama, our own right to exclude any immigrants whom we choose to exclude? "If these questions arose, I am sure our representatives would privately or publicly inform foreign powers (and indeed would have to inform foreign powers) that the American people would not abide by any agreement to arbitrate them, in which case the only proper course to following is that followed by the Senate committee, and to say In honest fashion that there were certain questions which this nation will not arbitrate at the dictation of any out- ent generation effectively work for and secure the peace of rightoui- ness." o SEEKING PROPERTIES this matter, talk ss if it had usurped a 'right'; in reality the Senate merely performed a duty. "Most of those who are willing to think know perfectly well that this course would not ss a matter of fact keep an agreement to arbitrate when questions of vital hour and interest, even though It were so unwise as to make it; and it is a wicked thing to put us in the position of promising what will not and cannot be performed. In such a matter the Indulgence of false pretense in the present would with an absolute certainty be followed bythe breaking off of faith in the future. "Tlie fatally objectionable feature of lhe proposed treaty Is the clause providing that the joint commission which may be composed exclusively of 'nationals' of the two countries, but which also may be composed exclusively of foreigners, may, by unanimous vote or by a vote of all but one of its members, determine that any government question might be arbitrated, it is difficult to characterize this provision truthfully without seeming to be offensive. Merely to speak of It as silly comes far short as saying what should be said. It is arguable that in certain cases neither of the two component parts of the treaty-making power, the president or the Senate, should delegate to the other for certain purposes the power of exclusive action. "But, no sound argument can be made for permitting both the president and Senate to delegate to outsiders, possibly to foreigners, the exercise of a fundamental and vital power. The details of carrying into effect a great and far-reaching policy can appropriately be delegated, but the elected servants of the people betray their interests if they shirk the duty of themselves deciding what that policy should be. "It would be quite proper to delegate to the joint high commission many subordinate functions, but the high, the supreme function of deciding whether a question of such vital importance to the country that it is or is not arbitrable, cannot with propriety be delegated to any outsider by either the president or the Senate. They are elected to perform exactly the vital duties implied in such decision. If a president, after consulting with his constitutional advisors, the Senate, could not make up his own mind about such a vital question and had to have it made up for him by outsiders—possibly foreigners and certainly not rspon- sible to the people—it will be proof positive that he was not fit to hold the exhalted position to wh|h he had been elected. A president unfit to make such a decision himself and willing to have somebody else make it for him, would also be unfit to perform any of the really important duties of the presidency. "We, the people of the United States, cannot and will not surrender to outsiders the power to determine whether or not we are fit to decide for themselves what are our vital needs, and what is more, the policies proper for meeting these needs. In other words, Uncle Sam does not intend to wrong anyone, but neither does he Intend to bind himself if his pocket is picked, his house burglarized or his face slapped, to arbitrate with the wrongdoers, and so long as he does not intend so bind himself, it would be offensive hypocrisy for him to say that lie will so bind himself. "It is out duty, so far as now possible, so far as human nature in the present day will permit, to fry to provide peaceful substitutes for war as a metn 'd for the settlement of international disputes. But progress in this direction is merely hindered by the folloy that believes In putting peace above righteousness, while It Is of course even worse to pretend to so believe. The greatest service this nation can render to righteousness is to behave with scrupulous justice to other nations and yet to keep ready to hold its own if necessary. "Our usefulness to humanity rests in our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it Into effect is lacking. It is the history of our country that peace advocates who treat peace as more than righteousness will never and never have been of service to manklqd. The true lovers of peace, the men who have really helped onward the movement for peace, have been those who followed, even though far off, the footsteps of Washington and Lincoln, and stood for rlghteousnes as the supreme end of national life. Only by acting on these principles, only by following In the footsteps of these great Amer cans of the past, can we of the pres- Investors Are Anxious to Invest in the Mining Areas in the Interior At Hazelton there is evidence that experienced mining men are getting possession of properties there, apparently being satisfied that the opening up of the country by transportation facilities will be followed by a decided movement in that part of the province. P. J. Jennings of Portland, Ore., representing United States capital, is taking an active step in this move. The Silver Cup, which is held locally and which has been giving such a good account of Itself, 'is sought by Mr, Jennings, it is reported. Ever since Manager Falls struck the ore In the third tunnel on Silver Cup the ore has boon widening out and improving all the time. He now has two feet of very high grade ore in the tunnel and the work is proving very profitable. The company has decided to drive the fourth tunnel at once; in fact, it has already started at a point some distance farther down the hillside. When the ore is struck in this tunnel, as it surely will be, Silver Cup will then be in a position to ship steadily. CANCELLATION OF RESERVE. NOTICE is hereby given that the reserve of a parcel of land situated on Graham Island, notice of which appeared in the British Columbia Gazette on the 25th of February, 1909, being dated 23rd February, 1909, is cancelled to permit of the lands being acquired by pre-emption only and for no other purpose ROBT. A. RENWICK, Deputy Minister of Lands. Department of Lands, Victoria, B. C„ April 5th, 1911. 4-14—7-5 Form of Notice (Section 34) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Edward Chesley, of the City of Prince Rupert, B. C, occupation trainman, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land:—Commencing at a post planted about half way between Mile Post 77 and Mile Post 78 on the Main Line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway from Prince Rupert and about fifty (50) feet west of the right-of-way of the said Railway; thence north eighty (80) chains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence south eighty (80) chains; thence east forty (40) chains, to the point of commencement; and containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less and which land was located by me on the 26th day of August, A. D. 1911. EDWARD CHESLEY. Dated August 28, 1911. s5 Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a'licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described l.-nds:—Commencing at a post planted five miles east and one mile south from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence south 80 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north SO chains; thence west SO chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. Form of Notice (Section 47) Skeena Land District—Disti ict of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that George W. Kerr, of tlie City of Prince Rupert, occupation butcher, Intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land:—Commencing at a post planted about three hundred (300) yards west of Mile Post 79 on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway track from Prince Rupert; thence south eighty (80) chains; thence west forty (40) cliains; thence north eighty (80) chains; thence east forty (40) chains to the place of commencement, and containing three hundred and twenty (320) 'acres more or less, and which land was located by me on the 26th day of August inst. A. D. 1911. GEO. W. KERR. Dated August 28, 1911. s5 Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C., prospector, Intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted four miles east and four miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence south 80 chains; thence east SO chains; tlience north SO chains; thence west 80 chains, to point of commencement, VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July. 10, 1911. si PURLIC HIGHWAYS Province of British Columbia NOTICE is hereby given that all Public Highways in unorganized Districts, and all Main Trunk Roads in organized Districts are sixty-six feet wide, and have a width of thirty- three feet on each side of the mean straight centre line of the travelled road. THOMAS TAYLOR, Minister of Public Works. Department of Public Works, Victoria. B. C, July 7, 1911. jyl8-ol8 Form of Notice (Section 47) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that George A, Mc- Nlcholl, of the City of Prince Rupert, railway superintendent by occupation, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land:—Commencing at a post planted aboHt three hundred (300) yards west of Mile Post SO, on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway- track from Prince Rupert; thence north eighty (80) chains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence south eighty (80) chains; thence east forty (40) chains to place of commencement and containing tliree hundred and twenty (320) acres, and which land was located by me on the 26 th day of August, A. D. 1911. GEORGE A. McNICHOLL. Philip T. Chesley, Agent. Dated August 29, 1911. s5 Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted four miles east and four miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; tlience west 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; tlience east SO chains; thence north 80 chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. Hazelton Land District—District of Coast. Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C'., Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted 4 miles east and 2 miles north from the moutli of Kitnayakwa River; thence soutli 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; tlience north SO chains; tlience east 80 chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range o TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a lieence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted ■* miles east and 2 miles nortli from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River, thence soutli 80 chains; thence east -v0 chains; thence north SO chains, thence west 80 chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911 sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that. Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C. .prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands: — Commencing at a post planted tliree miles east and three miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence south SO cliains; thence west 80 chains; tlience north 80 chains; tlience east 80 chains, to point of commencement. • VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast. Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien nf Copper City B.C., prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands: — Commencing at a post, planted 4 miles east and 2 miles north from the mouth of Kitnayawka River; tlience north SO chains; thence west 80 chains; tlience soutli 80 chains; thence east 80 chains, to point of commencement, VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Const, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of CopperClty B.C., prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—• Commencing at a post planted 4 miles east and 2 miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence north 80 chains; tlience east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains, to point of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl NOTICE. In the matter of an application for the issue of a duplicate of the Certificate of Title for an undivided one-half of Lot 883, Group I, Cassiar District: Notice is. hereby given that it is my intention to Issue at the expiration of one month after the first publication hereof a duplicate of the Certificate of Title to the above mentioned land in the name of William Jordan Larkworthy, which Certificate is dated the 30th day of September, 1910, and numbered 326R. WILLIaM E. BURRITT, Di rict Registrar. Land Registry Office, Prince Rupert, B. C, May 26, 1911. J23 NOTICE In the matter of an application for the issue of a duplicate of the Certificate of Title for Lot 361, Range 5, Coast District: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it Is my intention to issue at the expiration of one month after the first publication hereof a duplicate of the Certificate for the above described lands In the names of Truman S. Baxter and Albert D. Durham, which Certificate of Title is dated 25th November, 1909, and numbered 44 1. WILLIAM E. BURRITT, District Registrar. Land Registry Office, Prince Rupert, B. C, August 14, 1911. aio-slo CANCELLATION OF RESERVE. Notice is hereby given the the reserve existing by reason of the notice published in the British Columbia Gazette of the 27th December, 1907, over lands on Graham Island, formerly covered by Timber Licences Nos. Nos. 37055, 37056 and 37057, which expired on the 6th day of November, 1909, and tbe lands embraced within Timber Licence No. 37059, which expired on the 25th day of January, 1909, Is cancelled, and that the said lands will be open for pre-emption only under the provisions of Section 7 of the "Land Act" after midnight on June 16th, 1911. ROBERT A. RENWICK. Deputy Minister of Lands. Lands Department, Victoria, B. C, 9th March, 1911. Form of Notice (Section 47) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John A. Kirkpatrick, of the City of Prince Rupert, dry goods merchant by occupation, intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land, bounded as follows:—Commencing at a post planted about three hundred (300) yards west of Mile Post 79 on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway track from Prince Rupert; thence north eighty (SO chains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence south eighty (80 chains; tlience east forty (40) chains to place of commencement, and containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less, and which land was located by me on the 26th day of August A.D. 1911. JOHN A. KIRKPATRICK. Philip T. Chesley Agent. Dated August 29, 1911. s5 Form of Notice (Section 47) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range u TAKE NOTICE that Alexander Faulds, of the City of Vancouver, B. C, occupation mining engineer, intends to apply for permission to lease the following land, bounded as lease the following described land, bounded as follows: — Commencing at a post planted on the south bank of the Shamos River (sometimes called Shames River) about three-quarters of a mile west from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad and on the soutli bank of said river; thence south eighty (80) cliains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence north eighty (SO) chains; thence east forty (40) chains to the point of commencement, and containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less, and which land was located by me on the 25th day of August, A.D. 1911. V ALEXANDER FAULDS. Philip T. Chesley, Agent. Dated August 25, 1911. Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted tliree miles east and three miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence north SO cliains; thence west 80 chains; tlience south 80 chains thence east 80 chains, to point of commencement. ' JOHN GABRIEL, Locator Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, in tends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted 3 miles east and one mile north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 cliains; thence south SO chains thence east SO cliains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C., prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands: — Commencing at a post planted three miles east from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence north SO chains; thence west SO chains; thence south 80 cliains; thence east 80 chains, to point of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911, sl Hazelton Land District—District' ot Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted 4 miles east and one mile north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River, thence south 80 chains; tlience west 80 cliains; thence north SO chains; thence east 80 chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C., prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—- Commencing at a post planted 1 miles east and one mile north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River! tlience south 80 chains; tlience east SO chains; thence north SO chains; tlience west 80 chains, to point of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C., prospector, Intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands: — Commencing at a post planted five miles east ami two miles nortli from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence south SO cliains; tlience east 80 chains; tlience nortli SO chains; thence west 80 chains, to point of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, I of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, Intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lauds:—Commencing at a post planted three miles jeast from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence soutli' so ehains; i thence west So chains; thence nortli | SO chains; thence east 80 chains,, to j point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator, Dated July 9, 1911, Hazelton l.aml District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of CopperClty B.C.,prospector, Intends to apply tor a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:— Commencing at a post planted four miles east and one mile south from tlie mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence south 80 chains; thenco west SO chains; thence north So chains; thence east 80 cliains, to point of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range o TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted 4 miles east from the mouth of Kitnayawka River; thence soutli 80 cliains; thence east 80 chains; thence north SO chains; thence west SO chains, to the point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. C, Prospector, Intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Com- nieneing nt a post planted five miles east and two miles north from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; theneee nortli 80 chains; thence east SO chains; thence south SO chains; thence west 80 chains, to point of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911, sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of CopperClty B.C., prospector, Intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over tho following described lands: — Commencing at a post planted four miles east from the mouth of Kltna- |yakwa River; tbence south 80 chains; thence west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; Ihence easl 80 chains, to ipoint of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator.* Dated July 10, 1911. j Hazelton Land District—District of Const, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Vivian O'Brien of Copper City B.C., prospector, I intends to apply for a lieence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands: — 'commencing at a post planted five j miles east from the mouth of Kitua- lyakwn River; thence east 80 chains; thence south 80 chains; theue'e west 80 chains; thence north 80 chains, to point, of commencement. VIVIAN O'BRIEN, Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, B. ('., Prospector, intends to apply for a licence to prospect for coal and petroleum over the following described lands:—Commencing at a post planted four miles east and one mile south from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence east 80 chains; tlience south SO drains; thence we st 80 drains; thence north So chains, to point of commencement, JOHN GABRIEL, Locator. Dated July 9, 1911. sl Hazelton Land District—District of Coast, Range 6 TAKE NOTICE that John Gabriel, of Aldermere, II. C, Prospector, Intends to apply for a lieence to pros- pe-e-i for coal and petroleum over the ' following described lands;—Commencing at a post planted .*! miles east from the mouth of Kitnayakwa River; thence north sn ciraius: thence east 80 chains; thence south Sn chains; thence west Sn drains, to i.iiint of commencement. JOHN GABRIEL. Locator. Dated July 10, 1911. sl PRINCE RUPERT JOURNAL Tuesday, September 19, 1911. CARRUTHERS STAND Well Known Investor Here Says he Must Break With the Liberal Party. He Puis Up Wager That Laurier Will Be Defeated in the Coming Election James Carruthers, the grain dealer of Montreal, who is so well known in Prince Rupert, Is out and out against reciprocity. Mr. Carruthers has been very closely identified with the life of this city, having invested very deeply in various enterprises during the early days of the city. He has been a very frequent visitor to the west, coming out at difefrent times us the guest of the officials of the G. T. P. Mr. Carruthers has been a Liberal in politics, but reciprocity has led to his breaking with that party and coming out openly In opposition. He now says: "This is the time when men should get away from the party and say 'yes' or 'no.' This question is too big to be settled along party lines. For one, I am strongly against reciprocity." "They got the wrong end of the stick," laughingly said James Carruthers in discussing the story published in Montreal by the Liberal organ to the effect that while Mr. Carruthers opposed reciprocity, he had placed $1,500 that Sir Wilfrid Laurier would be returned to power. "All wrong," said Mr. Carruthers, who added: "Now, here is what I will wager, $500 that Laurier will not have 30 of a majority, $500 that he will not have 20 of a majority, and $500 that he will be beaten. The loser's money to be donated to three Montreal hospitals." At the last election Mr. Carruthers won a handsome wager on the Liberal victory from the late Robert reieighen, the latter contributing a goodly sum to charities as the result of the Liberal return. IX QUEBEC The Montreal Star has the following item, which may be of interest in British Columbia, where Air. Bethune is well known: ".Mr. J. T. Bethune, formerly Liberal organizer in British Columbia, who is in business in this city and fighting the government on reciprocity all along the line, accompanied Mr. C. H. s Cahan to Hull, returning yesterday morning. What struck Mr. Bethune was the absolute loss of prestige amongst the French-Canadians sustained by Sir Wilfrid Laurier during the past year. He says there were seven or eight thousand people at the Hull meeting, and both Mr. Bourassa and Mr. Cahan received a very warm welcome. When, for instance, the speakers would mention the name of Sir John .Macdonald, or other past leaders, the cheers of the meeting would be deafening, but the name of Laurier evoked little applause." IHE SALMON INDUSTRY AND THE GOVERNMENT MISREPRESENTATION C. P. R. Officials Explain the Alleged Sign in Seattle on Reciprocity. Company's Agent Is Against and Never Authorized Words Used Iu' Pact (he Liberal papers, including (lie local one, have been making a great deal out of an alleged endorsation of reciprocity by the C. P. R. offices in Seattle, playing up the words: "Reciprocity will increase Canadian lands 100 per- cent." The following explains the matter and contradicts the story: r From tire Winnipeg Telegram, Friday evening, September 8, 1911.) FAKE SCHEME TO BOOST RECIPROCITY PACT Seattle Clerk's Little Lark Paraded as an Argument in Favor of the Agreement There appeared in yesterday's evening edition of the Free Press, a reproduction of a photograph in onen of the windows of the C. P. R. office in Seattle. The photograph, it is explained, was taken from the sidewalk in front of the window, and on It were the words: "Reciprocity will increase Canadian lands 100 per cent." The name of Louis Williams, general agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway lands, was used in connection with this production. It appears that the photograph referred to was first used by the Calgary Albertan, the Liberal organ in Southern Alberta. It has been passed on to other Liberal papers in the west with the object of conveying the Impression that the C. P. R. agent In Seattle believed an increase of farm values in Canada would follow the ratification of the reciprocity agreement. The newspapers publishing this photograph have discreetly suppressed the letter which Mr. Williams, the C. P. R. agent in Seattle, addressed to the Calgary Albertan as soon as the matter was brought to his attention. Here is the letter. i.ditor Morning .iioi'llaii, Calgary, Alta. dear Sir—Your reproduction of sign in O. 1*. R. land office in Seattle is misleading in the extreme. This 'sign was not authorized hy the C.P.R., nor by me, nor ley anyone in authority in the office, but was put up by a clerk dining m.V absence and Immediately removed on my return, i As a large land-holder and - grain- ' grower in Alberta, I believe Canada is better without reciprocity, and thus lieer untrammelled by foreign trickery and wish as a subscriber to your paper that you he lair and give this the same publicity you gave the reproduction and the misleading statements. Yours for justice, * LOUIS WILLIAMS. Seattle, Sept. 2, 1011. The Free Press, like its Calgary contemporary, refrained from printing Mr. Williams' letter. o • POLLS CLOSE AT B The polls orr Thursday close at 5 in (he afternoon. o . Pole Contract The contract for supplying poles to the city has been awarded to Frank Engler and others. o • To Enlarge Plant The council has endorsed the report of the electrical expert with respect to the purchase of additional equipment for the power house. A Ridge- way engine will he bought at $14,- 580. o Selling Without Licence The police raided the quarters of J. Gentile on Comix Avenue Sunday evening and succeeded in carrying off a large amount of material that was convincing, in court as to its being a place for selling liquor. Before Stipendiary Magistrate McMullIn the accused was fined $300 or six months' Imprisonment. o Wedded Saturday On Saturday the marriage of Mr. Fred Wesch and Miss Rosa Heuden- se-hild was solemnized by Rev. W. H, .McLeod at the home of the bride, Sixth Avenue and Fraser Street. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Sophie Heudenschild, while Mr. T. BaMinger acted as best' man. Both are well known among the young people of the city. They will reside on Seventh Avenue. New Teacher The school board met on Friday afternoon to consider applications for the new teacher that is required. There were not many applications received but the decision of the board was in favor of Miss Manning, who wrote from Vancouver. She is a graduate in arts from Acadia University, N. S., having taken the degree this year. She comes highly recommended by the staff of her col lege and will enter upon her duties at once. o A NEW CITY HALL Plans Accepted for a Three Storey Building on Fulton Street. Work Will Proceed At Once on the Bidding, Which Will Supply Present Needs The city council last night passed upon the plans ror a new city hall to be erected on Fulton Street on the site now being cleared. The plans as prepared by J. W. Potter were accepted. The building will be three storeys high, fronting on Fulton Street. Offices for all the city hall staff will be provided, as well as for the city police and city lockup. There will be a good sized council chamber on the top floor. The complete plan will now be prepared and work will go forward at once. Though many residents of Prince Rupert have lived here long enough to establish a home and secure a vote, the majority of them know very little of the practical side of the salmon industry. However, it is general knowledge that the canneries are licenced jointly by the Dominion and the Provincial Governments; the fishing boats are limited and licenced; the seasons regulated and the waters restricted under the regulations made by the officers of the Dominion Government. The actual fishing is done by Japanese and Indians, but principally the former, in crews of two to each boat. These fishermen use the gear of the canneries and get ten cents a fish for sockeyes, forty cents a fish for spring salmon and one cent a fish for hump-backs. This latter price has sometimes been half a cent higher. Kloochmen (Indian girls and women) do the cleaning and filling, the latter being piece work. A few canneries use machinery for part of this operation. The balance of the work is done by machinery and Chinamen, with a few white men as machinists anil overseers. All the Chinese and Indian labor inside the cannery is paid by the China-boss who contracts to put up the season's pack at a price per case. The help, apart from the filling, which is piece work, is all employed at a lump sum for the season. Usually, the product of the cannery is sold before it is packed. Vancouver brokers buy it and ship most of it from Vancouver to Liverpool, the world's clearing house for salmon. The sockeye salmon of the Britisii Columbia coast, which is only rivalled by the Chinook salmon of the Columbia River, has an unassailable market. No tariff between Canada and the the United States can affect it. it is sold all over the world and the supply is never sufficient for the demand. But these northern rivers produce a second grade salmon In the humpback and the dog salmon, for which there is a growing demand. The advocates of reciprocity claim the market for this class of fish is in the negro states of the nation to the south of us. They say the removal of the duty would give the cannery about $1.25 a case more for the hump-backs, and a larger pack would be put up. Even if this were true, who would get the benefits? The hump-back and the dog salmon run at the tail end of tho sockeye season. They are caught without extra material or labor and the Japs get one cent each for them. Excepting the few piece work laborers in the cannery no extra wages are paid for packing humps; therefore, any benefit would go to the owner of the cannery. As this is the only advantage reciprocity claims for the cannery industry, there would be only one while man in this north country benefitted, because there is only one cannery proprietor making his home in Prince Rupert. But I want to go back and challenge the statement that reciprocity will in any way affect the price of the cheaper grades of salmon, and to do this 1 will tell you more about the hump-back. The canned hump-back has a romance attached to him. One time when the sockeye run was poor a cannery in desperation filled up its cans with humps. On the cans was pasted an elaborate guarantee that the contents would not turn red in the can. Thus vouched for the goods were successfully worked off in the southern states, and to the surprise of the cannerymen there grew up a demand for this cheap fish. Enterprising brokers thought that if the humps were good enough for negroes, they were good enough for foreigners, and tlie product was tried out on the immigrants of the Middle States. Finding that none of them complained of ptomaine poisoning, the goods were exploited in New- York, and they eventually reached England. Now there is an increasing demand for humps and his running mate, the dog salmon, and the price for this pink salmon is jumping, too. In fact, the demand has grown so rapidly that the British market will take all Canada can produce. Today the price in Canada is the same as it is in the United States, and twice as high as it was two years ago. The demand is far in excess of the supply, even though this has been a very big year for humps. Now let us look into the harmful effects of reciprocity. If the duty fs taken off it will permit United States brokers coming into Canada and buying the Canadian pack for shipment to England. In that event the salmon will be taken to Seattle for trans-shipment Instead of going to Vancouver as it does now—or to Prince Rupert as it will when we are prepared to handle it. It means that the United States brokers will put their own labels on the Canadian fish and our products will loose their identity. Beyond question, at least a part of our Skeena and Naas salmon will he diverted to United States channels. If the tariff on salmon is maintained Canadians will market their own product and make a reputation for their own fish. With sockeye salmon selling at $10.50 a case and humps at $4.50 a case, which is just double the price of a few years ago, the salmon industry is evidently not hard up for a market. A STUPID POLICY Brrt a greater evil than reciprocity is the Dominion Government's policy on the salmon industry. The kindest words that can be said about that policy is that it is stupid, so stupid that politicians and favorites have encouraged it until they have secured a cinch hold on the industry nnd created a monoply tighter than Standard Oil or the beef trust. Owing to the unlimited market for salmon the salmon trust has no fear of anyone cutting prices; but they do fear that some one else may get some of the fish. .Evidence of this fact is apparent in the action of the Dominion Fisheries Department, which has taken away twenty boat licences from each of the only two Independent canneries on the Skeemrf and the Naas. The story, though intensely interesting, is too lengthy.to be told here, but an officer of the Dominion department, after making an investigation, admitted that a grave injustice had been done. Liberals may tell you that the Dominion department offered to remedy this glaring partiality, but that the Provincial Fisheries Department, who are jointly interested in the licences, refused to consent; but the fact cannot be overlooked lhat the injustice was done by a Dominion officer and that the Liberal politicians in the salmon trust are the chief beneficiaries. But that is not where you are mostly interested. The point that affects Prince Rupert is that the salmon trust has the industry sewed up so tightly that you cannot go out and catch a sockeye salmon under penalty of law, nor buy one unless some one has stolen It. Prince Rupert has boasted of her fisheries, advertised them the world over, yet the only salmon you can honestly procure in this city are the culls of the canneries. Though millions of them are running the waters of our harbours and rivers, Prince Rupert, as a city, does not know what first class salmon It. The salmon you buy is mostly bought from the canneries—a second class article for which the fish markets pay a first class price. The reason is that under the plea of protecting the fish, the Dominion Government refuses to grant any more licences, and as all existing licences are given to the canneries, they have a monoply of the fish. It means that A WHITE MAN CANNOT GET A LICENCE TO NET SALMON. The only licence In the district not held by a cannery is the privilege of fishing in Shawatlans Passage, which is passed around among the familes of the Metlakatla Indians—a sort of tribal heirloom which gives a very limited and irregular supply to the local market. By their policy of thus playing Into the hands of the salmon trust the Dominion Government has built a Chinese and Japanese wall between you and your fish, and they guard It with an armed force of Federal inspectors. That is the way the Dominion Government Is looking after your interests. That Is the condition of affairs in the salmon industry you are asked to perpetuate by retaining this government and their fishery policy. Is it not enough to raise your protest and bring indigation to the most placid? If you ever get a chance to buy a sockeye or a steel-head salmon, nnd place It on your table, try to digest along with the very edible product, the fact that it had to be stolen or procured Illegally before it was sold to you. G. R. T. SAWLE. CLEMENTS WELL RECEIVED (Continued From Page One) Mr. Clements, in concluding, stated that if elected, as he felt sure he would be, he wanted the residents to feel that he was at their service. He was appealing to the Liberals as well as to the Conservatives to declare in the interests of Canada from a Canadian standpoint. A number of questions were asked the candidate at the conclusion of the meeting. Several In the audience wanted to know how he stood on the question of Oriental labor and whether he thought Japanese should be given fishing licences in stead of white men. Mr. Clements said he would be ab solutely frank. He believed this should be a white man's country and he was against the introduction of Orientals. In reply to further questions, he said he believed the fishery trouble would not be settled here until British Columbia did as Ontario had dpne—secured the control of its fisheries other than the deep sea fisheries. The fisheries of the province were under a boss who used them for his own advantage. This was Bob Kelly of Vancouver. The Dominion government was handling these fisheries in anything but a satisfactory way. He believed iu retaining everything possible for the use of the white men of the country. The meeting closed with the singing of "God Save the King," and rousing cheers for Mr. Clements and for Mr. R. L. Borden. WATER NOTICE Miss Shot of the hospital staff has been obliged to take a few weeks' holiday owing to 111 health. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * l FOR RENT t * * * Store building on Second •■:• * Avenue at Seventh Street. * * Low Rent. * I JEREMIAH H. KUGLER, LTD. I .;-.;. * * * * * * * *,; j. * * * * * *... * *»;. * *. ******** I, Andrew Christian Skjelbred, of Prince Rupert, B. C, occupation farmer, give notice that on the 24th day of September, I intend to apply to the Water Commissioner at his office in Prince Rupert, for a licence to take and use 3 cubic feet of water per second from hot springs on the border of Lake Lakelse in the Skeena Land Division of Coast District. The water is to be taken directly from the springs and is to be used on Lot 8279, for sanitarium purposes. Dated August 24, 1911 AND. CHRISTIAN SKJELBRED. 9-6 Prince Rupert, B. C. Skeena Land District—District of Cassiar TAKE NOTICE that Marion Mc- Diarmid, of London, Ontario, occupation nurse, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land:—Situated on the Kitwancool River; commencing at a post planted at the northwest corner and about 5 1-4 miles distant in a northwesterly direction from the north end of Kitwancool Lake; thence south SO chains; thence east 80 chains; thence north 80 chains; thence west 80 chains to point of commencement, and adjoining Lot 1S78 to the north; and containing G40 acres, more or less. MARION McDIARMID. Daniel McDonald, Agent. Dated July 24 1911. A-15 Form of Notice (Section 47) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Philip T. Chesley of the City of Prince Rupert, occupation prospector intends to apply for permission to lease the following described land, bounded as follows:—Commencing at a post planted on the south bank of the Shamos River (sometimes called the Shames River) about three-quarters of a mi'e west from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and on the south bank of the said river; thence north eighty (80) chains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence south eighty (SO) chains; thence eur-t forty (40) chains to point of commencement, and containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less, and which land was located by me on the 25th August, A. D. 1911. . PHILIP T. CHESLEY. Dated August 28, 1911. i »44 »;* .j« ijt «*« <•*< »j»»jt ij* »j« ij. »jt <$* »;•»;«♦] I 75 x 100 Feet | ASK For Lease on Third | UNCLE Avenue at Ninth | JERRY Street | JEREMIAH H. KUGLER, LTD. ■J* ••* **•** *»♦ "I" *** ♦!* -*•* ,»* *!*■ "I* •*!* "J* *I* •*••■ *I* **•* ♦»* •I* »I* •»*• 'I* 'J* ->J» »5 v v •** v v v v v v v v *? v v v *»* v v v *•* •*■* 'I* •J* •J* *»* **■ I STORAGE! '.*• * * * * Household Goods and Baggage * * given careful attention. * £ Forwarding, Distributing and * * Shipping Agents X I TRANSFERERS f * Prince Rupert Warehousing % * and Forwarding Co. X. * First Ave., near McBride St. * $ DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND, * % Manager. * * P. O. Box 007 ' Phone 202 * .;. .;. .;..;«* ** * * * * * * * * * * * .*.** * * * * * * * Defection in Montreal The defection of J. N. Greenshields, K. C, of Montreal, one of the most influential leaders and managers In Quebec province, is a seriouB blow. "I have been a Liberal all my life, and still am," says Mr. Greenshields, "but 1 am opposed to the reciprocity proposal, and intend to fight it all I can." o Rebate on Taxes The council has decided to extend the time during which a rebate on taxes will be made up to November 16 Instead of November 1. GRAND HOTEL WORKINGMAN'S HOME 25c Rooms 50 Cents Spring Beds, Clean White Sheets Best in Town for the Money FIRST AVE. AND SEVENTH ST. J. Goodman, Proprietor Form of Notice (Section 34) Skeena Land District—District of Coast, Range 5 TAKE NOTICE that Philip T. Chesley, of the City of Prince Rupert, B. C, occupation prospector, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described land:—Commencing at a post planted about half-way between Mile Post 77 and' Mile Post 7S on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railvay from Prince Rupert, and about fifty (50) feet west off the said right-of- way of the said railway; thence south eighty (80) chains; thence west forty (40) chains; thence north eighty (80) cliains; thence east forty (40) chains to point of commencement, and containing th ee hundred and twenty (320) acres more or less and which land was located by me on the 20th day of August, A. D. 1911. PHILIP T. CHESLEY. Dated August 28, 1911. Tt) WATER TAKERS On account of scarcity of water the supply will be cut off between the hours of 9 p. m. and 5 a. m. during the dry weather. WM. MAHLON DAVIS, tf Supt. of Water Works. NOTICE h- hereby given that on the eleventh (11th) day of October next application will be made to the Superintendent of Provincial Police for the grant of a licence for the sale of liquor by retail in and upon the premises known as The Copper City Hotel, situated at Copper River, Skeena District, upon the land described as Lot A, Block 312, Copper City, Skeena District, B. C. Dated September 11, 19il. s-6 HARVEY CREECH, Applicant. LAND FOR SALE Corner Eighth and Fraser Streets Clinton Rooms Newly remodelled and furnished. Board and lodging. Home cooking a specialty. Mrs. Anderson, Prop. Rooms, $3 Per Week ' New Knox Hotel ARTAUD & BESNER Proprietors The New Knox Hotel Is run on the European plan. Flrst-clss service. All the latest modern improvements THE BAR keeps only the besf brands of liquors and cigars. THE CAFE is open from 6.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Excellent cuisine; first- class service. Board, $1 a Day — Beds, 50c and nn First Avenue' Prince Rupert TAKE NOTICE that I will receive tenders for the parcel of land known as Lot 1105, Range 5, Coast District, Province of British Columbia. This is one of the choicest pieces of land lying along the Skeena River and contains about 155 acres. The land Is Crown granted. Terms cash. Tenders must be in before the 5th day of October, 1911. The highest or nny tender not necessarily accepted. For further particulars apply to the undersigned. D. G. STEWART, Assignee of H. C. Breckenrldge. Box 225, Prince Rupert, s-15 NOTICE. A book is kept In the City Clerk's Office in which to enter the names and addresses, etc. of citizens ot Prince Rupert desiring employment on City work. All desiring employment should register at once. ERNEST A. WOODS, City Clerk. LADYSMITH COAL ROCHESTER & MONROE, Phone 116
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Prince Rupert Journal 1911-09-19
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Title | Prince Rupert Journal |
Publisher | Prince Rupert, B.C. : O. H. Nelson |
Date Issued | 1911-09-19 |
Geographic Location |
Prince Rupert (B.C.) |
Genre |
Newspapers |
Type |
Text |
FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Identifier | Prince_Rupert_Journal_1911-09-19 |
Series |
BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2016-01-21 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 8fe17fa9-2c81-4cfa-b97e-1f3dbf5eebc7 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0311902 |
Latitude | 54.312778 |
Longitude | -130.325278 |
AggregatedSourceRepository | CONTENTdm |
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