Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 1, 1903, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vol Winnipeg thursday january i twelve pages. No. 136 new55 of Day. We heat . 3. The tuba p were lower. A of sporting Rovente for the a past y clans to we reviewed i Many later Page e. I a lost their first games a a wreck on Victoria Page 1. Has agreed to the Page o. Is making a Biff Effort .1. Coal traffic. 1. municipal a announced. Page 2. House returns Tor the in dresses. Page 9. Rie Quebec club whether Ria Alsy Iiames. Page 5. V Ytsen announced in the ites in the West. Page 1. Tear s eve Ball in win was a great Success. On by officials has brought to an end. Inspectorates for the new year changes la the Indian department in the judge in divorce at the new year s greetings to the visitors. Fuel famine 1. Are t i-.-. The custom of . T announcements n is Curling Bonspiel pro 3 for Winnipeg. Page i Stop corporation has an in profit sharing scheme in employees. Pass 1. is it Mir rapidly to Beine ahead is Al Willowa claim Trio estate --.-onto, who was r. Calamity at Wanstead Page 1 mayoralty contest and you k n in the Council Are excitement in the Gold nov claim they to the Coal fun ius in Pennsylvania pretences during the strike 3ve Jim entered Pago 1. In the Ottawa Jan. 1, readjust ment of the Indian inspectorates in Manitoba and the Northwest Terri tories has been made by Hon. Clifford . W. J. Chisholm remains in charge of the Battleford inspectorate with Headquarters at Prince Albert instead of Battle corel. Or. Alex. My Gibbon who has now charge the Quappelle inspectorate will be transferred West to the Calgary inspector ate which was formerly held by or. T. P. Wadsworth retired some time ago. Or. L. J. Levecque who la at present in charge of the rat Portage inspectorate will take charge of the que Appese inspectorate vacated by or. Mcgibbon with Headquarters Al Regina instead of Quappelle. The Lake Manitoba inspectorate in Large of or. R. Marlatt will been Large by extending the same to the Western Boundary of the province of Manitoba thereby including the Eirtle Agency which is at present within the que Appese inspectorate. Or. Marlatt s Headquarters will remain As now at Portage la Prairie. Or 3. J. Jackson of Stonewall who was recently appointed to succeed the late or. Mccoll in the Winnipeg inspectorate will also have attached to i District the inspectorate of the District of rat Portage with Headquarters at Stonewall. First new year s greeting. Sir san Ord Fleming sent the follow ing message last night Ottawa ont., probabilities. Not much change in Temoer Ati re. I ill thursday. In a i a Ivi Liiv la r. Co air in winds. Colder Tini Day tiie Rometer readings. Thermometer readings for a. Dec. Jas Soa sets at 10.34. The temperature. At the weather liar o clock last night Yvinne dec. Premiers press and people Australia and new on the anniversary of the formal exe cution of the Pacific Cable contract a unique partnership 01 six British governments i am enabled As Ono result to transmit from Canada for thai first time by wire respectful and cordial new tear s greeting. Signed san Ford divorced new year s eve. An unusual event took place yester Day at the residence of Samuel Sloane Rideau Street when Louis Gross who is wanted in Baltimore on the charge of stealing from his father in Law Max siege was granted a he brew divorce from Hia wife b. Sprynce. Chief rabbi of Montreal and b. B. Latterman assistant rabbi of the same City arrived in to Day. Gross admitted that he had deserted his wife. Legal separation will follow. While the hebrew divorce has been granted the document Wilt not be handed Over Siegel of Balti More withdraws the larceny charge against the prisoner. New year s judge at a meeting of the Cabinet yester Day an. Order in comic in passed appointing or. A. Mcgillivray to be county court judge of Antigonish n. S., in the place of the late judge Isaac. Or Mcgillivray has been highly re commended for the position and his appointment will generally Well received. Capital new year s visitors messes. Frank h. Phippen and r. Me Arthur o. H. Clarke and w. H. Newlands Dawson Are in the City. Thessi Coil is King arrested for obtaining goods May be a bigamist. Baltimore. And Ohio Road making supreme Effort to relieve fuel famine. Big steel corporation to share its profits Brandon dec. Of the Mem Bers of a grocery firm in Thi City was non est this morning when his part Ner arrived at store. Enquiry elicited the fact that the had left for Winnipeg. Chief Kirkcaldy followed and news of his capture reached Here this afternoon. The chief of Happy new year for miners. Connellsville Deo. Fifteen Hundred miners and Coke workers of Connellsville Tower and Latrobe regions will get a 10 per cent wage and Vance for a new year s gift. Baltimore dec. Superintendent Hale of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad issued the following order to Day until further notice we cannot accept car Load freight cent live Stock and perishable ducts for Points East of Pittsburg Moundsville and Parkersburg. Will continue to accept our own empty foreign cars in route home.1 the embargo probably will not last More than a week. The object. Is to relieve tha Coal famine along the lines. Victoria Bridge collision Between freight trains causes s. Serious wreck piled up to the top of the break out and fire fighters have an awkward time for a few Tremblay killed. Buffalo. M i Boston Chicago 3 Icino Immiti 21 a Carol. 24 i Jacksonville. Montreal Xci now "4 Phi Luck Phi i. In Rito. Marie 34 r. Weather report. Dec. -10. Cloudy 31. Calm. New York dec. A double Cir Cuit r one to the and the other to the officers and employees the United states steel corporation announces its intention to inaugurate a system when Man o the humblest work n its i oils May it be desires be -2a. Light West wind Ola. Part Clear e a Noi Calm 23a. 1 Calm. 2oa. is. Strong West 32a. Calm Soa. Cairn Loa mild Loa. Calm Loa. Calm Zero. Mild Calm. 1 mild. Southwest wind la. And mild. P Calm. Light South wind Fine Calm 2b. Lart Calm to Cloudy. 5 St. Pm neg Calm. 12a. Marine Ocean steamships. Dec. Is. Arrived at. From. Lic no new York Boston Glasgow come a permanent stockholder and Bhare in the profits of the corporation. The scheme is the result of months of preparation by the finance commit tee of the corporation and the circulars Are signed by. G. W. Is Kius chairman. Pirt that of tue of he corporation during tha year i to Tarp will have been set aside at a 000 co and As much More As is for the Purchase of a. shares of preferred Stock which will be offered to employees of the corporation and constituent companies. At present the corporation i Iiri oys men whom it is pro posed to Divide into six classes Banff Iii fio n those a or Over Down to men earning Varly or less. The preferred Nork will be offered to any employee during january 1005. snare in this closing Price to Day wa3 the proposals. Amp Foyers can subscribe for any amount of Stock not exceeding the Sun. Presented by a certain percentage of their salaries. The question of what constitutes profits is to be determined entirely by the financial committee which it is stated will have no inter est in tha profits sharing plan. Is earned in the coming year will be set aside one half to be distributed in Cash quarterly the other half to be reserved until the end of the year invested in preferred Stock the Stock thus purchased to be divided one half to employees entitled thereto the other half to re main with the treasurer of the corporation. Each shareholder is to receive a certificate for his interest under this provision he remains continuously in the service of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies for five years the Stock shall be delivered to him and he May do As he likes with it. He Dies or becomes to tally permanently disabled while in the employ of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies the Stock will be delivered to his estate or to him. Can draw the dividends declared on the Stock while it is held for his ii count while he remains in the employ of the corporation or of one or another of its subsidiary companies. If without previous consent he voluntarily leaves the ser vice of the company or one of its subsidiary companies he shall forfeit All right to this Stock and in such Case it will be held in a fund which at the end of five years will be divided among such employees As shall have complied with All the conditions. Thus 25 per cent of All the Money set aside in this profit sharing plan will be held for five years and will lie is returning Frith my prisoner to night the Man s name is Hugh Jones. It la rumoured he has wife and family in. England and has been living with to woman Here who passed As his he will be charged with receiving goods under pre-1-nces, having according to reports rained an in voice of goods valued a from a Brandon wholesale h ise on the strength of Assurance of tvs lie had a remittance coming to for eng land. He had been in. Us muses there Only about a month. Burned Coil dealers Chicago famine speedily relieved by an official investigation. 31. in Liverpool Olas Bow Sailor from. To Liverpool Boston Italy Hamburg Portland new York new York Portland for. . John s Glasgow Baltimore s big storehouse end bushels of wheat consumed. Baltimore md., dec. Northern Central Railroad Grain ele Vator no. 8, was totally destroyed by fire to night. The elevator had capacity of bushels and is said to have been half full of Grain. No. Estimate of the loss can be Given to night but it is thought it will reach half a million. Or. Bond s new ministers. . Johns nfld., dec. Dawe was to Day appointed minister of mines and Henry gear Way appointed minister without portfolio to nil the vacancies in the Bond Cabinet resulting from the withdrawal of chief Justice Horwood and postmaster general h. J. B. Woods. Gift to Fargo College. Fargo . Dec. Trustees of the fare College received a gift of 000 from d. K. Pearsons. Chicago or the endowment fund. The gift was in accordance with conditions made some years ago which have Beon compiled Paris fatality. Toronto dec. Body of will Iam Hunter of Paris was found under Chicago dec. Begun yesterday 5jy the attorney Gen eral and by the Aldermani commit to det Arminue the cause of the Coal famine in this City were merged to Day. Tha inquiry has not As yet brought out evidence of a conspiracy although some of the dealers have been shown to have on hand thous ands tons of Coal. They claim it in Zor contracts already Mads. Rapid Relief. Hamlin said this afternoon Relief is coming so rap idly that i do not believe that we shall be forced to begin any proceed Ings against the Coal prices at the mines. Philadelphia pa., dec. 31.-the Phila Delphia and Reading railway company has decided to continue the prevailing prices of Anthracite Coal during tha month of january. This decision was by the action yesterday of the directors of the Penn. Railway. No Price circulars will he issued by the Coal carry los companies for the present. Montreal a Roar end collision on tie Victoria Bridge shortly after 11 o clock to Day Between two trunk freight trains conductor Octove Tremblay was killed. The wreck at once caught fire and blazed fiercely sixty feet above the St. Lawrence. The Accident occurred at the West end of the Bridge and the main lines were blocked until 2.30 o clock. The trains were following each other slowly across the Bridge coming toward Montreal when the rear train pitched into the one ahead. Tremblay was the conductor of the Foremost train. He was standing Between the Van and next car when the collision took place and was decapitated. The trains were coming from St. Lambert and for sumo reason the train in the Lead stopped suddenly without giving the rear train sul Lucient time to Stop also. Conductor Tremblay was in the act of Dis connecting his Van from the rear of the train which is the Ordinary prac Tice when they. Leave the Bridge. Tha wreck took fire and the Montreal fire department was called to the scene. A general blockade of traffic on the Bridge then followed. R s. Logan assistant to the Gen eral manager of the grand trunk gave out the official statement to Day which was furnished by or. Blaik lock divisional superintendent a rear end collision occurred at 11 . To Day Between two West bound freight trains on the sixth Span of Victoria Bridge when conductor Tremblay of the first train who was sitting in his caboose was this was All the official information or. Logan had received. He explained that the Victoria Bridge was strictly run on the Block system and he could t understand How the Accident occurred. No blame could be attached to St. Lambert station sent As the Bridge and the double track from St. Lambert to Bonaventure were under the orders and the control of the Montreal despatched office. Destructive scene. Scene at the Bridge was of a Jill tier a seize. Hough destructive Char Acter the Impact smashed the Ca Boose of the front train and threw it off the Tiack. The three cars of the front train were also derailed As Well As the engine and the tender of the rear train. The caboose was piled Over the engine and the three damaged Flat cars were piled around a the Heap projecting in the air nearly to the top of the Bridge. In a few minutes the whole mass of wreckage took fire and it was immediately realized that to get Tho conflagration extinguished would a serious mat Ter. It was on pier six Well out on the Bridge but the water which waa flowing sixty feet below was quite unavailable. Two fire engines and Hose from the City responded quickly to the alarm but for some time were enable to do anything. They could not pump water up the River and As the Stream below the Bridge is not yet Frozen Over they could not get Down on the ice and throw water up a might have been possible later in Tho . Another difficulty wag found in the fact that the roadways on both sides of the tracks were so narrow that it is hardly possible Fot teams to turn around. Snow utilized. The fire brigade service was quickly organized but was not very efficient the remaining Flat cars of the front train were pulled into the Yard loaded with Snow which was theft taken Back and shovelled on tha flame. Men with pails attached to Lonj ropes also did what they could. These things however were of Little Avail by this time the ties had caught Fin and All the wooden portions of Bridge were in a Blaze. The burning cars and the burning Bridge Between them put an effectual Stop to traffic of All kinds. A. Attempt was made Stop the Progress of Ilie fire by chop Ping out ties in its path but this a soon abandoned As tha ties were Large and so close together that to chop them out was a task almost hopeless. Some help to the situation was Given by bringing up a Large number of ten Ders filled with water and utilizing the City fire engines to pump Tolj water on the lire. Finally the can burned themselves out and it then be. Came possible to Deal with the blazon a ties. Defective air brakes the heavy Down Grade of the Bridge and the weight of the rear train Are Given the cause by the., Crews of. The to conductor Tremblay Wai about 40 years Olu and a very particular official. He leaves a wife and on Young son. Election contests in Yukon District one of Carnegie s new year s gifts. New Orleans la., dec. Andrew Carnegie has Given new Orleans for a. New year s gift. The Money is to be devoted to a main Library building and three branches. That time shall be in the employ of the corporation since january 1903. The exit of 1902. Fire in Gotham. New York dec. To Day did in Hie amount of ?20.0m in a t. Y i ii minor. Numbers 167 to 171. Occupied by Small fac t to Sar a a Stehli Shronts. The Urru of building. Including girls. Had narrow escapes and a n Impf a o str Erryn were knocked Down by an in the basement. Mayors by acclamation. To John Harvey has Betti elected mayor by acclamation. V. Cut. J. Best has to d Hyo it. Jan. 1.-Reeve 3. B. Mcdon has been elected by acclamation. A Little new York is healthy. New y to. Tec. Lederle. Presl pvt of of health in his an n ird report says the death rate of York City for was 1s.74 per thous and who re is the lowest d in this City. The rate in 1w1 was thirty injured in Railroad wreck. Rock. Ark. Die. Rall read were injured four per hip fatally. N work train wreck to at the foot crossing in. North Rock. There 300 men on Tho train. Pierpont s fast line. Mono Eckfor. Dec. Is Rumor i Here Tiit r. Pc Pont Morgan is negotiating for establishment of a fast up Iii sir. Between Manchester and the far East. C. Herr in a Bank director. Waterloo hich Constable dead. Toronto. Dec. Death took place to Day in Berlin of John Klippert me Constable of Waterloo county. Special dispatch from the free Presa correspondent at Dawson Dawson Yukon dec. 23, via Ash Croft dec. Mayoralty con test is attracting great attention k. H. Mclennan of Nova Scotia the Dawson Vancouver hardware King is a most Likely Winner Thomas Adair formerly of London ont., and of eclair bros., merchants Dawson d. W. Davis ex-m.p., of Alberta sex collector of customs Dawson and j. H. Davidson sex mayor of Nanaimo contractor of Dawson Are the principal candidates. There Are plenty of candidates for aldermen. The contest for representation in the three Ridings of Yukon Are liven ing up. Robert Low of Griswold Man., a leading Liberal of White horse is a candidate in no. division White horse big Salmon and Pelly in no. 2, Stewart and Klon Dike a nominating convention will be held next week. Arthur Wilson a Nova Scotlan will Likely seek re elec Tion j. B. Tyrrell c. E., Ottawa and George White Fraser c. E., candidates Are out. In no. 1, Dawson and forty mile District or. Alfred Thompson n. S., and c. W. C. Tabot barrister new Brunswick formerly Secretary to sir John Macdonald Are i g. K. Gilbert of a tin firm is a candidate in i by the labor Union. Thos. 1 o a Rifle. Refuses to stand. Sheriff i Eilbeck of Kingston is returning Oti Fleer for Dawson and forty mile and Walter Woodburn Ottawa drug Gist of. Bonanza is returning of Juicer for the Klondike District. A very cold snap is prevailing now. 40 and 50 below after a very Mill spell. Reports from Duncan a new Creeh on the Stewart River Are All Good favourable news also comes Frore Boucher Creek in the forty mile Disi strict. A local company is being former. To promote the testing of Quartz a fitly a Diamond Drill. The reported Indian rising murder on the Pelly River Are posed to be canards. Or. Ross s majority was about 8i3 when the last return was in. Government contractors have bees successful and capped and eel the Gusher from a deep Shaft of Eldorado Creek. If the water pres sure continues the flow will be a big Factor next summer in mining on tin Creek and in the Hills. The Bartlett House on third ave nue was burned during the cold spell the loss is about in finding contents. Newspapers and second class mat Ter Are coming in freely by tins mail contract with. Calderhead. It is 3 great Boon to Dawson and Klondike Creek to have these mails during entire year. The White pass arrived saturday making 321 Miles in three Days and Twenty three hours to Dawson from White horse. The Overland route makes Fine mall and passenger route this Winter. 1 to Day Twenty years ago items copied from the free press of this Date 1883. Gee Here comes Good gracious he s a machine right running right on my track. Such a Little chauffeur too. For me. The office of Boyd Crowe s lumber Yard was burned to the ground last the Northwest commercial travellers their first annual dinner last might at my casks. President Joseph mul Lolland occupied the chair and the gain ering included mayor elect in Mcmicken and All the City s leading wholesalers. To Mon the chief speakers were James Fred cell Catt. The mayor r. J. Lii la Thomas Jonnson and j. Lang Dridge. At Midnight last night tha City fire non summoned As they supposed assistant the popular Billy code and Aid. Cameron. Work on the addition to the City Hall is still progressing operations being a Cit to by excellent weather. The and Dulon will have a frontage of-s3 feet of main Street. It will be surmounted by a Tower which is to contain a Large clock. The Midnight service in Zion Church vow year s Eye was conducted by Rev. W. L. Rutledge the pastor. It Rev. Thomas argue conducted the watch night service in Bethel m. B. Church. A. Allison and John Mcdonald have been appointed justices of the peace. Ley Hall. Rev. J. A Starr made an eloquent address the last halt hour of the old year being profitably occupied by or. Rice who gave Soma thoughtful reminiscences of his Early years. The London and Manitoba permanent loan company has incorporated tilth these directors Hon. Colin Inkster Hon a. M. Gerard a. Ii Whitcher. W. L Boyle Thos. Henwick. G. A. Girdle Stone Anc h. M. Howell. B p. Leacock and Damuel Poison Havo been nominated for the wardens hip of Kildonan. Cout win Lpes i. O. F. Last night As its James leavens. B Little s. Kennon j. F. Weak. Rev. W 1 Rutledge r. A. Brekner Lyrtee. Goo. Dougherty f. J. French and a. W. Eclan. Knox Church sunday school had a gathering yesterday when Rev. D. M. Gordon presented bibles to the follow ing pupils who had recited from Mem Ory accurately the Shorter Catech so Atto Young and ii Liza Mcdonald of miss Boyd s class Man Taylor and Christine Mcelcar s claw we Thompson of class Ana James Harvey class. The watch night service of Church congregation Graca there Are Only 16 places in rat Portage liquor is sold openly. The retiring mayor Ana aldermen pro pose taking an excursion to St. Paul leaving Winnipeg Jan. 3. Or f. , the c. A r. Agent at Brandon is spend los Neil ;