Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1910, Winnipeg, Manitoba Al weather forecast fair and Sun rises sets us Loon rises sets March sixteen 209 qts Smith shoots Verna Wilder on Mcfarlane jealousy the cause also attempts to take the life of Frank Johnson at negro club it last bight Gus color de about 23 years of has teen working Winnipeg As a attempted to murder Verna 12 years of a White formerly of which City is a the woman was crossing from 187 Mcfarlane of which House the was an to 1s2 Mcfarlane when Smith came up behind Ier and drawing a revolver fired one the woman then Smith approached closer and fired toe entering behind the right ear and lodging Between the Skull did the Smith then people on the Street who had seen the affair at once telephoned to the police and inspector detectives Stodgill and Smith at once proceeded to the Smith having inspector Robertson who knew the Man Well by was Able to give a Good description of him to the entire and practically All the men on duty the Lookout for about an hour later Smith was arrested by Dixon on main near the in the meantime the Miller woman had been conveyed to Boniface from Toronto where she lived at 102 Peter she went to about two months ago in company with but a few weeks later ran away from him and came to Smith followed her about two weeks on learning that she was residing in but failed to find her on his arrival he then returned to on receiving More in formation came to Winnipeg again few Days went to shortly before the shooting occurred he called at 1st Macfarlane Hartag Learned that she resided there by Means of the but having a suspicion of his intentions the proprietor of the House informed him that Verua Miller was and that she did not know when she was Likely to or if she would return at All that hardly had this information been Given to Smith when the woman had been looking for appeared on the Street and he at once made for her and fired As above after leaving Mcfarlane Street Smith proceeded with All haste to the coloured club on main Street near the depot and attempted to shoot Frank keeper of the however was on his guard and succeeded in wrestling the pistol from his Smith then escaped into the Street and went to a coloured boarding House at 10s9 main kept by where he changed his hat for a Cap and was returning to the coloured club when he was a Smiths family in Al though is very his a property owner in that has also charge of the Barber shop at the Toronto Union the reason for the first crime is attributed to the girls refusal to live with him and his spite against John son is stated to be due to his suspicion that he was in some Way responsible for the girls action in this the Miller woman was resting easily at the Hospital at an Early hour this big gift to College Maury estate contributes toward methodist March morn ing at the metropolitan methodist Church of Moose who occupied the announce that the Massey estate will give towards the methodist College which is to be established in Job the announcement being the Thole congregation Rose and joined in the singing of the with already subscribed by Mera of the metropolitan Church and squat amount guaranteed by the Sada Chewan the Massey 8ft makes the amount so far assured the project the eventual expenditure on the College is estimated least not counting the is to be donated toy the Quebec by elections liberals elected in both Drummond and March government candidates were returned saturday in the Drummond and arge Nuvil by in the latter where the contest was caused by the Eleva Tion of provincial treasurer to the John was returned by go Over in Jules minister of Agricula who resigned from the legislative was elected in Over this vacancy was by the of the former it is expected that Godfrey lans for my Achille will appointed to fill the vacancies in the pc relative news of the Day March the following is the weather fore cast for and Saskatchewan and and a special dispatch in the Regina Leader from its Winnipeg correspond ent contains a copy of a letter from Hugh Sutherland to Premier Roblin which is regarded As conclusive Evi Dence that the premiers statement in the Manitoba legislature in that he retired from the Eli at the close of was not True Page William Stead declares the Asquith government will abandon last years budget and that next years Fin Ancial measure will make provisions for two Stead declares great Britain will lose millions As a result of the present political Situa Page the United states immigration inspectors at have been ordered Back to their own coun try by Canadian it is believed this step was taken following repeated protests made by the travel Ling Page the Manitoba Dairy association will interview transportation companies in an Effort to get the shipping charges on milk and Cream Page Thomas Corregan Reeve of Whito died on saturday night of Page sixty two persons were killed Early saturday morning near Rogers pass station on the in the Selkirk the men were caught by a Large Avalanche while Clearing the track of thirty bodies have been Page a Gladstone Farmer declares that of through his control of the meat Industry of the has ruined the Stock raising Industry in and has retarded Winnipeg Page it is believed at Ottawa that can Ada will refuse to make any Tariff con Cessions towards the United a formal conference Between representatives of the two government take place Page Louis the Well known died suddenly at saturday morning from heart James was to have appeared at the Winnipeg theatre the latter part of next Page of delivered an interesting address in Grace on sunday he declared that he did not want to be an Page the Northern Crown Bank hockey team of Winnipeg won the Bank championship of Canada by defeating the Union Bank team of Quebec at Mont real by four goals to Page Gus shot Verna Mil lev on Mcfarlane last he also attempted to shoot Frank Johnson of the Winnipeg col ored Page the Western Canada military Institute was organized in Winnipeg on saturday a building is being purchased for quarters for Tho Page the wanderer hockey team of Montreal captured the Stanley cup on saturday evening by defeating the of Tawas at the capital by three goals to Page Thomas Collier for a number of years a member of the United states Senate from new York died unexpectedly sunday Page John a employee at accidentally shot the Bullet passing through his head after entering the right Page George Williams of Broad Way yesterday condemned gambling in general and race track gambling in Page the Massey at will contribute one Hundred thousand col Lars toward the methodist College to be established at Page the Orange grand Lodge of Mani when in session in Winnipeg last week passed a Resolution strongly fax Oring compulsory Page the Manitoba Winter fair and live Stock show opened at Brandon sat judging will commence Mon Day Page the Liberal candidates were returned in by elections in Drummond and two provincial Ridings no company will disband and sixty two persons perish by Snow slide in Selkirk gang of men caught by huge Avalanche while Clearing track of Canadian Pacific railway near Rogers pass station at Summit of absolutely no Chance to buried under Many feet of of the victims White men and the remainder bodies recovered passenger train has narrow escape near March men were to death by a tremendous Snow slide Early saturday Between Rogers pass station and on the Canadian Pacific at the Summit of the Selkirk the victims of the about half of whom were White men and the remainder had gone from Nelson to Clear away a Snow the work of Clearing the track was about half finished without an enormous slide came burying the track under fifty feet of Snow for a distance of two Hundred the workmen were completely penned in and had not the slightest Chance to Winni Eggers had a narrow escape on Board the westbound train which on saturday came so near to being overwhelmed and which is now at Are several Well known Winnipeg they include William the German Consul and Savage and his family who Are on their Way Vic Toria Reginald form Erly a broker of Winnipeg and now of is also following is a list of the and there is no Hope that any of them into the Canyon and May not be recon i ered until summer melts the six Hundred men Are now at the in digging out the of rocks Are alive conductor Engineer Road a conc engaged i master fireman Engineer rack of jets mass Foreman Foreman Foreman me and Bridgeman brakeman Bridgeman twelve of i prepare re Bridge Foreman Mcdonalds men and thirty eight i bodies have been ten of these Japan by tomorrow Section gangs m that Vicinity have been checked j expected that the slide wih be cd is there is no question this it i preparing for funeral tomorrow when if is and the total number the total death Relief trains were rushed from Arrowhead and carrying All the available doctors and nurses and hundreds of workmen to carry on the work of Clearing the Snow away in an Effort to recover the bodies of the it is feared that a number of the men were swept into the Canyon and that the bodies will never be passenger train had close March another fearful catastrophe by Snow slide an the Canadian Pacific was missed by the narrowest margin yesterday after was made known when reports came in of the second which now blocks a westbound passenger train and the slide in which sixty two railway labourers were it was train carrying More than one Hundred and not More than a minute elapsed from the time it passed a Point East of Field station when the slide which buried the tracks for a thousand feet and to a depth twice As High As a Pullman by the narrowest margin the passengers escaped with their today they Are at held Between the two and not not Likely to be re lease before late tomorrow March a depth of Snow varying from 20 to 50 hour brings new Achiles adding to the it did not come from a very magnitude of the Avalanche which overwhelmed and buried train hands and Section men near the Snow j shed on Bear one mile East of j will probably have been j almost All will be brought to revel i Stoke where citizens Are making prep for the solemn duty of a great continued on Page High and was composed Fri Ostly of h had a length of five Hundred feet and a depth of eighty disregarded warnings Little likelihood of intermediate Tariff being extended to the United March far As can be Learned from the very guarded and statements of the Rogers and the actual Sumi rain and sleet were falling when the noncommittal Mit of the estimate of rotary engine aided by Small army representatives of Canada and of the a not whue Japanesse men who Are handling the the number of the victims vary from started to Clear the trucks half Jap i that conductor Victor Buckley i adjacent and such stuck steadily their Trout Tariff is still pretty much in Minnedosa railway station burned a March the Canadian Pacific railway station Here was burned to the ground Early this the agent and his family were asleep when the fire was Dis and were saved Only with the gang survived the j occurred it started on the Side of Wilfrid Laurier and Field As soon As the news reached revel the Canyon opposite the Point where ing who Are conducting the Stoke the fire Bell was sounded and the first slide took tons on behalf of the Canadian Sov within half hour the Relief train thousands of feet above a few Rol situation still while negotiations Are being con ducted in most Friendly and sympathetic spirit on both and while conveying physicians and nurses and Bunches of Snow grew in volume Over two Hundred railway men and and on us pathway of Cle other cities were speeding East Striction in a few with a the scene of the like thousands of thunderbolts Dent was reached at c Oclock saturday in unison it from morning when the task of digging out Shpur to uprooting and carrying both governments the tangled mass of debris in the Hope it finding a few survivors was commenced with Calgary made an equally prompt it also sent Var 7 o ice tre anxious to avoid a Tariff which an 1 h would result from the application of and huge j a maximum Tariff to in the no Chance of escape la f president tafts Tariff hut Llev Lull by i i a special Relief train Vith Ono Hundred there was no escape for the Tomfor cannot be convinced that undue t Piid on top discrimination does not Chi and fifty workmen As Well As nurses i railway and doctors is still considerable the return of the first burying the tracks Dent that there t Kilpatrick acting surgeon of the i for the distance of a Quarter of a mile uncertainty As to the outcome Pacific division of the Canadian Paci and to tin depth of n Hundred american commissioners will Ifica railway left Here this Morni hundreds of thousands of tons of Dej to Washington either tomorrow after Iii on the Revelstoke local in route to j Bris in the Wake of the Avalanche noon or on after a further i he scene of the at revel bounded off the huge Heap and half conference with sir Wilfrid Laurier i t Imnel j t t xt1 it 1 t Al w i 1 Stoke he will be transferred to the worst disaster in history of the disaster is easily the worst cd fenced in the mountains since the completion of the it has almost become a by word that although occasional slides have occurred that the existence of the Snow Sheds and the system of patrolling the tracks near the unprotected a spots had hitherto with rare exceptions prevented any serious no passenger or freight were Ever swept and no the filled the Valley of Bear Hunjan Fielding it dress of feet is pretty certain that they will not news of the disaster was flashed carry Back with them any Promise by a Lone Telegraph operator at a Way from the Canadian government that de station a mile the Canada will concede to the United Pas Jenger Ever lost his Way officials expect that at least forty states the same Tariff concessions eight hours will elapse before the line Given in return for the mini can be the work will be at mum Tariff extended by France to tended with great danger As other i Canada on a Long list of Canadian sex slides Are liable to occur at any to nor will they take Back any i Promise that Canada will include the 9c express train hound Oast from United states in her list of favored had just Iva Ched Glacier nation countries entitled to Canadas the h7 intermediate Tariff under provisions of West bound expires is now being held i the Canadian Tariff 25 Miles East of Rogers attacks judges member of British Columbia Legisla Ture declares them to be Luna tics and March the legislature yesterday Macgowan the third member for Vancouver de Vered a scathing attack on an unnamed member of the supreme court Jenali of British said he a Man appointed Public administrator in a county appointed to protect those who cannot protect them selves a Man who would betray that is a criminal better that he decorate the Penitentiary better that he be decorated with a shaved head than a that is what is coming to and that is what he will Macgowan went on to say that the beachcomber and Ghoul were noblemen beside the Man clothed in Kings would Rob the he referred to the disappearance of dead miners Gold dust in the a widow appeared and Laid a charge and a Man was sent up for the trial was delayed and the Man left the country and was later promoted to the finally arriving on the supreme court Macgowan declared the highest Legal authority in the province put the following estimation on the supreme court Bench of British Columbia two one fool and one scoundrel and fugitive from speech creates to personal declaration in recent years in the legislature has caused such a sensation As Macgowan attack on Justice Clement on Macgowan did not men Tion judge Clements name during the main part of his speech but clearly indicated none other and named him As having High travelling expenses in comparison to the other the members of the Bench Are to it is said on Good de liberating whether or not they will take any one Weli known member of the Bench declared this morning that no judge should sit in British Columbia until Macgowan retracts or the matter is judicially the newspapers on both sides of politics Are calling for investigations and that both men shall not continue to hold Macgowan is a prominent business Man and has been for several years an Independent Fol lower of Premier it is understood that the members of the gov Ern ment did their Best to head Oft Macgowan attack but he Felt very strongly about it and insisted on placing himself on judge Clement has not yet been heard from regarding the 1specimt Bick a Cross line another transcontinental route to the coast is great Northern Active it is pushing its branches through Southern British co k i i United states officials at Windsor ordered to withdraw by Cana Dian ten years ago a Section House Tso official list of the victims will fatal stabbing at Toronto eight or nine men were buried in a slide that Tore Down the Mountain in the same be Given out until further Progress shall have been made with the work j Fabbio killed by Pasquale digging out the Little Hope is the first slide took place at j entertained that any of the railway Friday afternoon in the narrow Valley men in the pathway of the Avalanche of Bear flanked on either Side j escaped the bodies of Many by precipitous mountains covered with j of the victims were probably swept j arrested March Ven an italian fatally Stab sudden death of Louis James Well known actor stricken with heart failure in theatre at Helena billed to appear in bed Ralta Elo a to i Tony a says i Vii Tricia had been drinking and Stab bed Fabbio when the latter advised him to go the prisoners Story in that the dead with Tony and three attacked him and Uio March a Sud Den and imperative order from inspector issued at Midnight last All United states immigration inspectors stationed at this Point have been withdrawn to the american Side of the the order came As a Complete Surprise even to the officers who were quite unaware that any such move was for some time past there has been a growing feeling of irritation on the part of the Canadian travelling pub Lic at the manner in which they were being held up on this Side of the line and quizzed by the american Immi Gration Many of these com plaints found their Way to Ottawa and it is believed that the order for the withdrawal was at the suggestion of the Canadian the United states commissioner of immigration stationed at Montreal is the responsible head of the service in this country and the order of inspector Frick at Detroit came from his a conference hat been arranged Between the officers of the ferry company customs inspector of and inspector when some plan will e devised for the proper inspection of those the River which will not in fringe on the liberties of British sub the will have an alternative route to the coast within two which will mean practically another transcontinental As the com Pany has decided to Complete the crows nest pass line through to Van Couver As quickly As this Road is in operation at present As far As Midway but the Extension of it through to the Pacific coast has ions been contemplated by the it is Only within the past few How that anything definite has been known in the although a Deci Sion was arrived at during the con Ference in recently when the construction programme for the year was great Northern it has no doubt been hastened the activity of who has been building spurs in British Columbia at Sucha rate failing action by the he will enjoy a monopoly of the through traffic Between Vancou ver and the Kootenay via the Rich Simi Kameen and Okanagan at the present time the great nor Thern has More lines of railway run Nin Ginto Southern British Columbia than any other part of the can Adian the big Coal deposits of the crows nest pass As Well As the fruit valleys of the Okanagan Are tapped by these now the great Northern is hard at work connecting up these spurs with a through line to and Bis Force of men has this week been set at work in the neighbourhood of Prince building a line through the Hope mountains to form this connecting Canadian Pacific route simultaneously with this activity on the port of the great Northern comes the announcement that the surveying in charge of a Well known railway Engin has just reached have ing completed the location Survey Over the Hope mountains for the it is stated that the has been More successful than its american rival in securing a Low gradient across the a maximum Sara Dent of per going West having been going Oast from Summit a maximum gradient of one per has been secured All the Way from on the Fraser to at the foot of Okana sran a distance of 130 at Hope the Fraser River will be bridged and the line connected up with the main line of the company into while at Penticton it will be carried across a Summit and proceed via the West Fork of the Kettle River to reach the crows nest pass line now in operation As far As med two years from it is will see the completion of the j 11 til looking backward the free press was founded in 1s72 thirty years March Louis of the Romios in the comedy of James Ion n career As an actor was Page weather report the service Lak ii at 7 Oclock Liefl Are is follows Elciva Albert Cdr 11 Hiss Annie Ciway fair to Swift i i Kansas City and Lor led Cidy fair i seasons had taken the lending to fair fair j n All his ended by death Here saturday morn ing on attack of heart failure Friday evening just the curtain went up for the performance of Henry the the body will be taken to Kansas James will return to her Home lit Kansas Louis James had made his Home in Kansas City much of the time each although to also had a residence at Monmouth i his second Hiss Aphie was Al role Story is after j the Vetricin went Home to i when the police entered i other italian labourers resisted his a i he was with difficulty removed to the Fabbio was found by j the police sitting in a chair in a Man i Nin Avenue House in a state of stupor and bleeding terribly from knife he died before a due Tor could first appearance in in James appeared at the Winnipeg form ally dedicating that pretty playhouse for manager the play for the William Moore Elliott dead opening performance was a Climer in Over to Western to but the prom Luis t moderate again the minimum sniper natures were 62 port ii Louis James made his first appear Ance upon the stage of life in oct Olier and when he was n x Twenty one years of age made his de of the j but in tilt theatrical profession As a member of a Stock after much hard study and work in the mid Southern he went eastward to where Johns is As follows temperature at 7 Maxi mum for preceding 11 i Timuri South Mist i 7 Ifni the precede Iii 12 minimum maximum joined John draws Marine Empress of Brit Lorraine pretorian Michigan Carola Potsdam oceanic j hesperian orca Ian arrive3 Johnniw York Boston Boston Naples Rater Aai Southampton Halifax Glasgow Liverpool Havro Liverpool now York Liverpool Portland Bis mining Deal at March Granby consolidated company has secured a two year lease of the Summit group mines at for the claims cover a thousand acres and indicate Rich this is the largest Deal in the history of him to appear with his Stock company j in new York James remained with Daly for three during that time he played in numerous society and other but later when he joined Lawrence Barretts company As leading he virtually bid Good Bye to All but classic As that Star devoted his talents to Shakespeare and the other great for five years James appeared with Lawrence Barrett also with Edwin when Booth and Barrett starred in 1ss6 James mate his first appearance As a Star and immediately won Success for to played a Long line of Well known characters including fal Cardinal Alexander the one prominent educationist passed away at Toronto in seventy fourth i March widely known i Canadian Educationalist died today in the person of principal William Moore he was in his 74th deceased Way prominent in High school work for Over 30 he was Prin Cipal Over the Morrisburg and Ville High schools in Ontario and aft Erward at drinks carbolic acid the late Louis in which the Star assumed the title and there Are Many Olio still re Call with pleasure his delightful read ing of the famous the Sec Ond a Cavalier of France was being a romantic costume Julius Caesar gave him another Fine Opportunity for the display of his continued on Page child swallows Poison in mistake for Upton Marcia a bottle containing carbolic acid for one which contained the child of one of the jewish who is located about ten Miles North of this drank the who was attending the local hockey match at the was the Issue is on perjury Indian March of an alleged whiskey was arrested Here Fri Day night in three charges of and yesterday remanded to Regina to await the Case arises out of the recent conviction of Glebe and Ziegler of an infraction of the License on by Santfords former mayor of Ottawa March death occurred Here this morning at an advanced ago of Frejik Mcdougall father of j Ottawa Liberal representative in the Ontario Legisla Mcdougall who was one of the prominent business men of the occupied the chief magistrates chair in the Early killed by horse Pike had Skull broken by kick from Anima at Marcia word received Here today of an Acci Dent at about Twenty Miles from on the Whin a woman named Pike was kicked to death by a it appears and Pike were engaged in a barn in trans Ferring chickens from one Coop to an Pike went out with an armful of Birds and when he returned found his wife lying under a horse with her Skull split evidently from a Kkt from he immediately sought medical Aid but could not save the body was brought Here Anil will be to the where the family formerly shot through head John of meets with serious John an employer of at was brought to Boniface Hospital suf Fering from a Bullet Ivond in the according to the report of the shoot it was entirely the re Volver being discharged who Johnson was looking Down the the bul let entered the right Eye and went through his he is in a critical Jarvis Berridge will in future run what was formerly Maca Tiley Jarvis saw 4 of the Golden Haa returned from an Eastern business Portage la has sent 340 for the Irish Relief John Alex Mclntyre and Havid Huston have been selected to is Presant Manitoba on tin wimbleton team Liis the Points play for the pictures presented for Competition Here among to pullers took place today wit ii the Fol iffy 13i Ever made Twentyfive years Canadian vessel damaged in collision March Allan liner ionian arrived at the Clyde saturday she collided with a derelict Steamer the Impact was severe and the ionian had forty plates on her port Side fortunately All were above the the fifty passengers aboard were much alarmed but the coolness of the officers and the Crew soon allayed their the meeting of secessionists called Tor last evening in knights of labor Nan Well by secessionists but by Loyal who look posses Sion of the meeting and declared in most emphatic terms their loyalty and Alp i Ance to Britain and lilo of a session the that lie read a year Mil he did not receive a Seconder und was promptly a Resolution to Iii passed that he be appointed a com of one to which he did b leaving the Frank has returned to tiie the following local horses will training at once ror the Spring Ami sum Mer meetings Bates sleepy Butch or Gerald John pacer Bay Prince grand f t the Canadian to Yascur arrived today on the Way m their respect Len Homes from Egypt they were Given u rousing Twenty years potatoes Are being shipped from a to in Largo the cite architects Are complaining of the pack of work at present and in pro Spect in the building line this Manitoba Whitefish Are being shipped to the a Rifle coast m considerable the Fine Quality of these fish has created quite a demand for them the directors of the Winnipeg South Eastern railway company have to the local government for a Grant per f or Brav d who has lie ii sur Verni in the Dauphin states that iss tracts of land that were few years ago heavily covered with Timber now level with Only a few roots left to indicate former Cono Fons the land was denuded of uie ;