Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 9, 1913, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather . And showery. Sun . Sets. . Moon rises. . Sets . Winnipeg tuesday september 9, 1913. Pages. No. 56. S1ithers confident Winnipeg to modern Venice with equal chances of civilization shares Burden of Empire in brightening dark places of the Earth. Says Money plentiful though rates May remain higher. Reach coast next year traffic Bosomed on moonti1 Lime big railway contract tenders to be called today for . Shops at Quebec acquitted talks of . Plans for extended operating at Pacific coast. Canada one Bat Gene addressed Dlan c the largest gatherings in its the right Hon. Her British postmaster afternoon when he members of the Cana Montreal sept. Do not think thai pc Are Many people at Home who consider Canada has1 said a. W. Smithers of the grand trunk upon his return Here today from the West. There is not so far As i know any municipality in Canada in a Olf to pay its indebtedness. Canada like some other countries May have been spoiled in the past by getting its Money too cheaply and while you will get All the Money you require for any Good project the fact remains that you will have to pay a higher rate in the British Market. Now that the War la Over and an improved state of things exists in Europe it found that the past year s prices in financial mat ters will be succeeded by better times than Ever bursting of the Beaver dam stalled fourteen trains in Rockies to Cost two millions. Second danger averted great efforts necessary to remove huge blockage holding kick ing horse River up Vancouver b.c., sept. Trains held up .1 the main line of the . By slides Are now on their Way of the looked serious the position of or. Samuel the most eminent members Eril Cabinet and one who is As Likely to become claimant in the Days to come it can now be announced with cer East and West. The line was finally Dainty that the grand trunk Pacific cleared at 11 o clock this morning will be completed next year and there will be no let up on building operations while there is a mile of steel to Lay Between the Eastern and Western Ter ext year an t d t now. Moving toward building operations or the the highest no veil a potent influence in alls and thoroughly repro save Tendance despite the Holl delivered by the Clis delighted the audience Outlook Broad 1sb Ottlie questions of Empire Fine basins and Clear and forceful pres phrases notable utterance o a reputation borne by one of the Imam by Public speakers in the Brit t of the place and Power of a British Empire taut and quiet rebuke to Cana own that to contained an effete show Esse and much development had taken place in social Reform. The Oon Chuling Pait of tils speech dealt with a part of the Empire not thought of As much As u off to be and in a Saphio word made his audience the silent heroism and splendid Sac Rifle that is tiding to the making of the Empire in tropical parts where the White Man rules the Black or Swarthy " rhe fifties to of the Day was introduced by he president. A cell. Who said in at oils was the first occasion on which a of the Imperial cab inet had been in it was the first time their club had had the Honor of greeting such a min ister. He did not intend to break his Rule As to not making a speech m in Irodus Cinser guests but did wish to say that Winnipeg through its Board Trade had supported the movement for cheaper rates on British literature so that the flood of useless trash coming from other Ciu arters might be replaced. Right Hon. Sydney Buxton. Then British postmaster general had acceded to the petition and Only a week or two after the introduction of the cheaper rates a local newsagent told him or. Bell that the circulation of British literature had increased two and even fourfold. So Winni Dick had some particular interest in the postmaster general of go Reat Britain and he had great pleasure in present ing or. Samuel to that audience. Or. Samuel s speech. Right Hon. Herbert Samuel m.p., who tvs most cordially greeted said that he Felt it was a privilege to be the first member of the Imperial government to visit Western Canada and to be received As a guest of that club. He was salad to be Able to speak to or. Chamberlin is going Over some of the branches and the main line to the end of the track and until he re turns from his Western trip or. Smithers will not proceed London. When i do he said it will be a one fully sharing the Confidence of Canadian and British friends of the Enterprise As to its Bright future. A to the West Prince Kupert will of course continue to be main past but we will operate the line Down to Vancouver although it will not be. Built by the company. Friendly inter ests Are looking after the Road ands after its construction. We will lease. And open it As a needed Bra Nob leads election speaker Peters has plurality of Over two Hundred Over the democratic candidate. Their destinations yesterday the population of Field the town nearest the slide which occurred Between and Glenogle 25 Miles West of Field was increased by the Addi representatives and number of Bijj contractor gather at Ottawa. Free pres special Ottawa sept. Will be called tomorrow for the National transcontinental shops at Quebec to be constructed at an estimated Cost of about representatives of several canadians who Are contracting Are already in the capital in connection with the contract. Among those who will tender Are Quinlain arid Robertson of Winnipeg. Lyall of Montreal King of port Arthur and others. The first named firm Success fully completed the huge contract for the Transcona shops near Winnipeg and has there fore a tremendous amount of Plant and equipment on hand for such a contract As the new tenders will Call for. It is understood that the successful tenderer for the Winnipeg Drill shed will be announced tomorrow. Thomas Kelly of Winnipeg who has been Here i connection with the contract for several Days left for Winnipeg last night. The contracts for the new govern ment elevators at Saskatoon and Moose Sherbrooke magistrate apologizes for action of Coaticook court future of thaw Case Case May go to privy Council on constitutional question of immigration act world s news summary solid Slighter Coaticook quo., sept. Travers Jerome was acquitted tonight of the charge of having gambled on thursday last on the station property the grand trunk railway Here while waiting for the immigration authorities to pass on the Case of Harry k. Thaw. In. Discharging my the court apologized for the Humilia ton to who the mum. V a it fore lasted 1 fort Lance Maine sept. The elec Tion of speaker John a. Peters sep of Ellsworth As representative in conferees from the third Maine District to succeed the late Forest Goodwin at the special election. Today indicated by unofficial returns. Re be Ved at 10 o clock tonight irom a. But 7 of the is voting places in the Peters plurality mayor Illiam r Pattangall dem of a Tion of passengers who were held up by the delay. The slide which was 300 feet wide and 30 feet deep was caused by the bursting of an old Beaver dam High up in the mountains. District superintendent Mckay of Ravelstoke says that the dam burst bunder the pressure of heavy rainstorms last week. The Stream Down which the imprisoned Waters rushed is ordinarily so Small that a Man could step across it. The slide carried the track away completely and it went Clear across the kicking horse of very damming that Stream and endangering the track above the slide. The River was completely blocked up and it was found necessary to blast a new Channel for the Stream to release the pent up Waters which threatened to cause a washout further East. The . Had two steam shovels on the Job and a Hundred men toiled almost without stopping. Huge Trees were brought Down with the slide and boulders nearly As big As Box cars made the Job of Clearing the track a difficult one. Some of the Trees that came Down bore the Marks of the Little animal s Teeth and the supports of the dam erected by the beavers were plainly marked As such by the bleaching of their upper ends and the lower Points coated with mud and slime. Those of the delayed West bound passengers who arrived this morning expressed themselves As very Well satisfied with the. Manner in which they were treated by the company. A Mcqueen company of Minneapolis the contract Price being in the neighbor Hood of a million dollars each. Tho Barnett and Mcqueen company received the for the three and a half million Bushel government ele Vator which will be opened at port Arthur october first. The tenders for the contract were carefully considered by the Grain commission and the officials of the department of Trade and. Commerce today. The capacity of the elevators will be three and a Hall million bushels each. Herb elected had majority of six Hundred Over Albert Chamberlain Liberal Temperance candidate. They were Well taken care of. Fourteen trains East. And. West w Servile at that hour was Between 200, and 450. His vote exceeded that Edward m. Lawrence of Fri feet Vave president Wilson a plurality o. 7.35s Over president Taft Ana Over colonel Roosevelt. The progressive vote showed a fall in off of about 50 per cent from that colonel Roosevelt last novem Ber on the other hand the Peters 10s per cent greater than the v it vote while the and Wilson vote showed very Little Varia Tion. The vacancy in the third Maine District was occasioned by. The death of congressman Goodwin Republican Yvio was elected at the general con Gressional election last year four candidates contested the seat John a. Peters Republican Edward m. Progressive w. R. Pattan Gall Democrat and we. M. Ayer so his fellow citizens in Canada for All who were subjects of British Empire were fellow Citi Zens. And to speak in winnipeg1, the marvellous City which is the product of that vigorous Energy so marked in this great Dominion Energy concentrated on a locality favored by nature. So bountifully i asst. As they read european history they fount that at one time trip lines of Trade Between Europe and Asia passed through a single throw l1 Venice and Venice sir partly Prospe Reil and became one the chief cities of the in Refl. Not unlike the position of Venice lion. Was the geographical position of Winnipeg today. H held he Gateway Between East and West and the exports and imports passed to and fro along this great Trade route and As the rays of Light passing through a Lens focussed on a particular Point so Winnipeg was the Venice of the Prairies the focal Point of Canada. Your growth has been marvellous i the past and it is certain to be even exceeded in the or. Samuel ventured to express the that they would follow Venice in one respect. She used the material wealth that came to her to beautify or City with the glories of Art and to. Make herself a Centre of Art Ancl science and letters and learning. He knew that Here in Winnipeg they would not allow themselves to be carried away with the material wealth that was their portion but would use 11 to ii Asp the City a Centre of Light learning and an abiding Olace of the things that make civilization. Modern world really great i1 Canada had not been Sites by Imperial statesmen As much Tii Coll Al wish the reason was wat they had Many preoccupations. " it Thev could be assured that can in s a nil the West were much in the tit ousts of the British Cabinet. If or Otic to he members of the Empire As i believe you Are Ive Are not less proud to you change of attitude was a time said the risk it in. Gentleman when the Mother country if not was at least in Terent to the overseas As were then called. The colonies then far from the thoughts of statesmen. Their doings Jerp unnoticed. Their ventures were some even went further. Samuel then spoke of the Little party represented by Rich Cobden in other matters one of Ablest statesmen England had Ever c h out eco in Morley s life of in n " Richard Cobden said. In. Our junion it is for the interest of both airland and Canada that we should As possible sever the poli by which com inuit on Page eight nation wide interest was taken m the election As being the first test of strength Between the parties in a new England District subsequent to the announcement of the Democrat Tariff. Both the Republican and progressive candidates were opposed to the new of Riff while the democratic candidate asked for election As an endorsement of president Wilson and his politics. Tre District in former elections was strongly protectionist and Republic stalled by the slide. Of passengers were transferred to Croiss Tjie rash slide a narrow who bound East were routed Down the Arrowhead lakes and by Way of the Crow s nest pass East again Over the main line. C q n e s 1v1u r per vagrant at Sheho admits killing. Galician at Yorkton free special Sheho sask., sept. Shew Chuk and Alex. Christian were arrested Here a charge e of vagrancy with suspicion of Shewchuk being the Man who is wanted for the murder of a galician in Yorkton last tuesday. The arrest was made by Constable r Smith of the . Upon coming up. For trial today before r. Dryden j.p., Shewchuk confessed to having committed the. Murder. Offered promotion. Sept. William Davis of Tihe Lethbridge police Force is Here on a vacation. It is said that he has been offered and May accept an appointment As Deputy chief of Edmonton. Toronto sept. S. Henry conservative was elected to represent East York in the provincial legislature at the by election held today. He de tested Albert Chamberlain the Liberal Temperance candidate by a majority of about 600, is 172 less than the majority of Alexander Mccowan con1 Servat Lve at the last election. Less than votes out of a possible 500 were in pulled. one. not a single vote was cast. The Liberal fight was made chiefly on the to minion Alliance endorsed or. Chamberlain and sent its speakers into the Campaign tie Liberal candidate came of Sci Careiy for prohibition and. Or Henry s platform was the Whitney government. Or. Chamberlain made some Gams in the Rural districts Richmond Hill a conservative stronghold gave him majority of one tonight or. Henry declared that the verdict meant that the Temperanc question did not interest the electors in the last election held in december 1911, Alexander Mccowan the conservative candidate had a majority of 7s2, the Figo ires far the contest were a. Mcowan con., w. D. Aroris lib., the vacancy was caused by the appointment of or. Mccowan As county sheriff. Less than an hour. It began at o clock and at 8.20 the court said Tan. You Are honorable discharged. An attempt to hold an afternoon session failed because the magistrate Felt he had no authority to take Pic cadence Over James Mckee the jus Tice of the peace who signed the rant for or. Jerome s arrest. However the magistrate said he was convinced of his authority to act and the hearing moved with dispatch. Joseph Beaulne a Coaticook lawyer who said he variously represented jus Tice the people and the criminal code interrupted the afternoon session but when he endeavoured to renew similar tactics this evening he was ruled out or. Jerome thanked he court spoke flattering by of his reception in Canada and added that he did not attribute his arrest and Brief imprisonment last week to the think no people of the Dominion. He took a. Late train from Coaticook and wih reach new York on wednesday 10 turning to Montreal for the arguments on the latest Hareas Corpus a Iii. To be held in Montreal on monday packed the court room like sardines when the hearing opened tonight. Every Bench taken every Inch of standing room was occupied and the bold auditors advanced in a i aged Bemi a Trout the counsel table and at the sides of the dais which the magistrate sat. Looked straight at the court tuesday sept. 9. The weather forecast for today is As follows warm and showery. Winnipeg City Council passes bylaw for expenditure of on greater water District. Voting to take place on october 1. Page 2. Or. Mary Crawford of Winnipeg tells of discussions at International Congress of school Hygiene held at Buffalo. Page 9. Alex. Smith of Ottawa declares Canada is More interested in Western wheat crop than Panama canal. Page 12. Hamilton tigers Are read their Western trip and will play an All Star Winnipeg Rugby team sept. 20. Page g. W. D. Scott superintendent of can Adian , thinks the West Ern crop is a. Record one. Page English financier declares manufacturing in Canada is one of the Best possible investments. Page 14. George s. Henry conservative is elected in East York by election by a majority of goo. Page 1. Sir George Reid Speaks to British journalists of Australia s position in Imperial defence. Page 3. Winnipeg jury Linds no personal blame in connection with death of Aaron Blitch. Page 22. Right Hon. Herbert Samuel addressed Winnipeg Canadian club on duty of party solid in penultimate struggle Over Wool and sugar voting expected today Senate sat till nearly Midnight before agreement reached to close discussion on Bill Page 1. Review approves ruling Northwest of Hon. Geo. A. Coldwell in St. Claude school Case. Page 12. Tenders Are being called for today for National transcontinental shops at Quebec. Page 1. Speaker Peters Republican has Small Lead in Maine congressional election. Page 1. Country club a and Barracks win opening Polo matches for Winterton trophy. Page 6. Alfred w. Smithers declares Money is plentiful though rates May remain High. Page 1. Two Winni Eggers Are created esquires of the order of St. John. Page 22. United states Rifle team retains Palma trophy Canada taking third place. Page 7. James c. Patterson an old time rancher suicides at Macleod. Pisbe 1. Circle about Loutt us nl.1. Ullh 11 i not once glance at the in looks grimaces and c. Hanson. Rich a Mill had seen the Tutor opened the Case j the complaint d who swore Oliai. Be Naa seen defendant playing at cards for Money at the railway Ste Tenn statutes were quoted to Shost that this was an indictable offence punishable with a year s imprison ment. Foreign wheat markets by Cable Winnipeg fluctuations. Page 14. Montreal Toronto and new York financial letters. Page 13. Lloyd George begins his land Campaign at Bedford. Page 3. James Marshall Minneapolis wheat prose King is dead. Page 14. New Light thrown on the Parnell divorce Case. Page 3. Thai Hinton sept. Sonata will vote in the Demoi Rath tar Fly Bill tomorrow afternoon at -1 o clock. This agreement was reached at o clock when it became apparent thit it to impossible to carry the plan to puss thy measure before adjournment. The party leaders agreed to keep the in session until Well into the morning to dispose of an Inary the re Surv d still Pend ing us possible and t ecu to adjourn until it o clock urn inv morning. Democratic it the a Retialo solidly Niji Ign the tinal on Slaught of the Light. With party leaders urging their taking off however a. Series of fatal fire child burned to death in big Blaze at Timmins. Timmins ont., sept. Yester Cost the life of a child and gutted soveral Frame buildings which com prised the first business Section open id in Timmins in the Early Days. The loss i estimated at about the Lawn insurance rate is so High that n a believed very few of the losers had a cent on either their property or be 10 they re broke out in the upper Story of the Ottawa hotel a Frame hotel got a Good Start before it 1 serious charges which John h. Rob erts Secretary of the lord s Day a Lyince preferred against chief policy Campeau in connection with a water company. The res be soda this was e s is definitely announced today. Controller e. P. Lachapelle declared. We have sent two reports to the Marine news massed the Soo. Sault. Marie mich., sept. Wilson. Burnu Ani 9 1 . Wiliiam robots up Jet thew Fulton. Shieh is believed to be Ever results Additiona-1 to those published in yesterday s free j broke out and has not been seen s Vitzky whose jewelery store was in the tire zone managed to out a considerable part of his Stock Brt he lost heavily from looting. With the press products of Canada on which duties have been reduced article. Present rate. Imports proposed rate. Imports from 1912 -1912. Manufactures of 25 per cent. 20" per cent. Fatal criminal act Alberia _ Norton to eco m h 1 . We. And Olimb car mob Man who murdered tramp Over eggs May Dia. Dakota. Sopt. Ilitch Eli of pro Vicli no u.i., Rimli a the Littly an Didenti Liefl tramp. About. So. With Toni Gnu. Ami Thon Tor Iii the revolver on into icing probably fatal wound. The men Merna i is of y put the Jung s. or Vonty it per cent of the crop is Cut. And he number and slue of the kooks Iii lip to excellent yields. From Unity o the heavy por Contafio fit. Flu at in Cut but ther. Are in Ilea and of Oak that arc still to Cut. Tho Over percentage of Icse Fields a to Noarl Ripe though possibly wont hic per cent require another get to Al Nash. Day kit t is morning we were Ceu ing Weil into Manitoba and u not to be. with tile More condition of til crops Anil with tie fact that Are much Lui Avier on the ground tie except on of an Odd Field of Oats every bins is fat and thresh Tuff were York and stuff Kitizin in 63-74i Ottawa 64-74 Quebec. 64-72 St. John 56-60 i 64-72. Ito Uini ii Lent re i Eri the Bir ism. Sor am sont who Ixer in Iii so try in Licak ii in to. List Ftp will. 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