The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-11-24
issued: 1932-04-08
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0405454/source.json
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note: 45$ Blaylock Reports Fertilizer Plant Great Success —Pa&e Three TC»U I H»__ C **| Mapleleavcs Take Second Playoff Game 6-4 —Pa&e Seven VOLtMB sa lAILY NUWS, NELSON, B. C. — rRIDAY M0RMNO, APRIL 8, 193! FIVE CENTS A COPT NIMBER ««a SQUIRES Rfcf USES TO RESIGN CHINA CREEK ROCKCRUSHER IS BLOWN UP Second Outrage Against Government Property in Fortnight USED FUSE ONLY CLUE DISCOVERED Damage Confined to Gas Engine; Which Can Be Repaired Following an attempted bombing of a provincial government power-trader between Thrums and Brilliant less than two weeks ago. which wag on* ot tout bomb outrages In the Kootenay river Dmik- hobor settlements in six days' time, the gasoline engine nsed to operate the government rock crusher near China Creek on the Trail- Casttegar road was blown up early Thursday morning. The reJ Par* of the engln* wa* pretty badly broken, and ts gas tank wa* blown off. It was a former tractor engine that for the purpose of the crushing plant wa* mounted on a truck. AFTER MIDNIGHT Road v-orkers ln th* government relief camp at China creek, about a mile east of the crusher, heard the explosion some time after midnight, but did not attach any slg- rlflcanoe to it. As the forenoon opened rainy, the crews were not put to work till the afternoon, and the outrage wa* not discovered until then. Inspector Forbes Crulckshank and Corporal C. G. Barber of the provincial police weijt down to investigate the crime, while William Talbot, assistant district engineer, made an exarnlnaMon for the district engineer's office. The only clue to the mean* usad by the incendiary was a piece cf used fusaj found. It will oe possible to repair the wrecked engine. Injured CAPTAIN FRANK M. HAWKS 1 mCESTEtt, Mass., April 7—Captain Frank M. Hawks, noted speed flyer, wa* lrjured tcday In an attempted take-off from the Worcester airport. A soft field prevented! Hawks' plane from picking up enough speed to take to the air and lt crashed through heavy under-growth, over rocks and Into a ston…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0405454
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text