Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, July 14, 1914

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather forecast. Fine and very Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Winnipeg tuesday july 14, 1914. Twenty pages. No. 8, fish spent delightful Day it the exhibition perfect weather enabled the crowds to see big show at its Best railway to barn door jjd0ig of livestock Start made Teresing speeches at the directors luncheon today s programme. . Reported to be consider ing motor Waggon service. More Grain in autumn. Use can also Fae made of service in delivering supplies to Farmers. Farmers Day. Open. Cage Bird show. Grain cleaner demonstrations All Day. Judging sheep. 0 shorthorn Angus Hereford and Galloway males. Dairy cow special for four Best cows any Breed. Judging Clyde Percheron and belgian mares. 10 to 2 competitions. Dairy males. Light horses. 1 to manufacturers. Judging dogs. 2 vaudeville. Judg ing harness and Saddle horses. 3 to. 5.30 band. 4 flies again. To band. 8 judging harness and Saddle horses on track. Again. Siege of Toronto july c. P. R. Reported to be arranging for the adoption on a Large scale of a system of. Supplementary transportation by nip Tor waggons in the p Rairie provinces which will practically bring the. Rail Way to the barn door of every Farmer in its territory. Every freight station will be made a depot for a Fleet of motor waggons of a Type specially devised for this service the number varying according to the size and importance of the District served. It is expected that 1m important stations will have from 12 to a score of these cars in service the cars which owing to Bhe nature of the Prairie territory will not have to negotiate any heavy grades Are de signed to carry about one sixth of railway Carload of merchandise and Are particularly adapted the trans port of Grain. The chief importance of this ser vice will of course be in connection with the moving of the Grain Harves a autumn but the belief of the rail Way authorities is that sufficient Usi can be made of the cars for deliver no supplies to Farmers and assisting in the establishing of homesteaders on their land to. Justify keeping them in service All the year round. Other Wise it is evident the investment would hardly be justified. It i titled to Otoble us commissioner Pringle s remarks at close of Southampton railway inquiry at Fredericton. Brilliant Sunshine ushered in child Ren s Day yesterday at the exhibition i Rise to an unprecedented height during the coming fall. A Des Patch received from Chicago credits packing House representatives As As grand j setting that they will soar above the record figures of recent years despite the huge Grain crop. The packers say that the present Scarcity of cattle and the effect of dry weather on grazing land will Tore than off set the enor Mous Grain yield. Local Bolesa e meat merchants and butchers confirm the statement from Chicago at the same time Row and Are drawing the prosperous agriculturists All s6s the latest crinkles in labor saving devices Ana Money Sav balloons canes mice and one novelties found at fairs sex Are much in evidence and of All lemonade Taf t Ere Good nations sat took their fancy. The Len to the dream vendors had Frood in if who waved 144 Lull _ _ Forth z Loral full splendor and was the cause of Sood genuine thirst. Directors entertain manufacturers Oclock. The at luncheon at 1 directors luncheon. Jack acted As Raa Irman at the directors luncheon to Ine educational institutions yesterday so f. J. C. Cox was also present sitting at the head of the table toll swing a few introductory re in which he expressed the it gave the educational in Mous dram on Canadian cattle last fall made by the american markets. Killed under motor truck. Toronto july 13. Mary Metcalf a de 9, 63 Marlborough Avenue was Unis afternoon thrown from a motor truck Over which the Driver had lost control one of the wheels passing Over her head. She died before reaching the Hospital. The Driver g. M. Sol Way. 19 years of age who had peered the victim and some other children a ride was arrested. He was not the regular Driver but had been taking lessons and had been entrusted with the truck for the first time today. Dived from boat and was drowned Hamilton. Ont., july 13 Harry Pearson 178 Napier Street aged continued on Page two fire in gleaner office. Pred Erlton july 13. Fire e out Here last evening in a build in the rear of the gleaner office Ibe Forg it was extinguished damage the extent of was done. The fire the apparently started somewhere in rear of the gleaner Job room but is impossible to say just where As fire seemed to Blaze up with great and a number of building aflame before the fire brigade 28 was drowned in the Bay this afternoon he with Fred Cook took a boat ant went to Willow Point on to North Shore Bay where they went in bathing. Cool says that Pearson dived from the Boa and that he dived immediately after when he came up there was no sign a Pearson. He searched for some time but could find no Survey Vork on greater slave. July Tibbetts a. Dominion government Surveyor will leave for the far North with a Crew of men in a few Days to com Mence Survey work on the Greate slave River and adjacent Waterways or. Tibetts refused Ito state what the object of the surveying was except that it was with a View of in the navigability of the Rivers there. Opinion expressed by several lawyers in Montreal this morning when asked what form of Leval recover damages for lives and property lost in. The wreck of the Empress of Ireland would w. Walker registrar of the admiralty court is at present at Winnipeg and it is not until his re turn at the of the week that any procedure in the admiralty court will take place. Proceed with action. Montreal july shall proceed immediately with our action against the former owners of the Stor stad for for loss of the pm press of declared a. R. Hol Len k.c., solicitor for the Canadian Dacic Railroad this afternoon. T the action will be or hoi Den said in the admiralty court in his City in " Money paid by the Prudential Trust co. On behalf of the norwegian purchasers of the Storstad amounting to has seen paid into court and we will of course Lay claim to it on behalf of our or. Holden claims that the unanimous finding the commissioners shows the . Is not liable for dam pie relatives of drowned per sons or injured passengers. Improving St. Lawrence route. Montreal july order to min Ranize the dangers of collision on narrower reaches of the St. Lawrence arrangements Are now being made by he department of Marine and fisheries o practically double track the Chan Nel from Point Aux trembles Down to the Entrance to Lake St. Peter. Al ready part of this work is completed and surveys Are now being made to carry it on so that by next season t is hoped it will be this work is being done in the Way of dredging two. Separate channels All he Way Down to the Lake one to be used by the smaller class of vessels with a draught of less than. 15 feet while the main Channel will continue of be used by the Atlantic liners and other vessels of heavy draught. Double drowning Man and boy lose. Lives in swimming Pool at Ardath. Free press special Outlook july Maguire the fourteen year old son of p. Maguire hotel keeper at Ardrath and Frank Milliard also o f Ardath were drowned Jin a swimming Pool North of Ardath at 4 o clock Sun Day afternoon. There were a number in swimming at the time and Mill Ward was endeavouring to carry Young Vancouver . July from labor unions in every part of the province assembled in i the labor Temple this response to a for a special convention by the Foxe Canive of the provincial federation of labor. Over sixty Are representing unions of new-., Westminster and Vancouver and forty others from the Island and Interior Points. The convention was called to order by president wat Climan Intro i Lobert of Stein president of the District 28 of the a knife a mine. Workers to explain Why the Call for a special convention was issued. Or. Foster the miners now on strike on the Island were primarily responsible for the Call As they were satisfied now that a change of. Policy was needed in the methods to be adopted to arms this strike am consequent trouw As to a finish. Persuasion pleading methods he stated utterly failed to pro anything i in coaching a alution and the miners to consult the members of other organizations in the province with a View to taking Cardamon to Ion. Appealing the convention in general Way for assistance he Indi that what they were now look iir.? for was not new Laws As they had been Vinable to enforce what they had but As the workers comprised so per cen1 the voters of the province trial combined action so null be taken at the ballot Box in order to insure a satisfactory administration. Con eluding he offered this As a possible remedy for existing conditions and stated that in calling for a special the object aimed at was to devise ways and Means of taking joint action Threm Hout the province in this direction. Canadian associated press l Ondon july anxiously anticipated twelfth of july the anniversary the Battle or the Boyne passed off peacefully in Ireland today. A monster demonstration was held at Belfast where Dri Neamen marched of the City to Drumbeg and were addressed in stirring words by sir Edward Carson. The Ulster Leader declared that in a few Days unless the government realized their position Ulster would recognize the provisional government and no other. He said be had been Given dictatorial Powers to prevent Home Rule in Ulster in whatever Way he liked he intended to exercise those Powers. He offered the government the alternative to Cut them out of the toil of else put them Down by Force. Reports from other parts of Ulster state the Orange demonstrations passed off quietly. Large numbers of the National volunteers were armed in readiness for any contingency in the North of Dublin lords amending ends. Canadian associated press London july report stage f the amending Home Rule Bill has Een concluded and the lords will to Lorrow consider the third Reading. An optimistic opinion prevails in Parlia entry circles tonight As a result of he latest discussions in the upper ouse regarding the prospects of set ement acceptable to All parties con earned. This hopeful feeling was Par Cul arly evident among members of be commons in the lobbies and on the Terrace tonight. S among the Many amendments pro today was one by lord Wear ale a Liberal peer and Home ruler rho believes that civil War Oan Only be voided in Ireland by the exclusion of he province of Ulster for a Timo from he Home Rule scheme. The object of is proposal was to enable a poll to be Aken of of Ulster on the de Mand of one tenth of the electorate in by four Ulster counties on the ques on of temporary exclusion of the prov nce he saw no possibility of a Compro Mise except by giving local option to he whole of the Ulster electors. He was willing to consider whether the majority a Hoied not be two thirds be teeing As he did that in a very Short Ime a very Large proportion of the eople of Ulster would be conciliated o Home Rule. Lord Crewe s attitude. Lord Crewe found it impossible to give what he termed formal support o the amendment. Lord Lansdowne As in some respects an improvement on the government s orig Nal proposal but remarked that it was rather a Strong order to ask the House at stage to undo the amendment which was carried the other Day by a majority of 99 without Urther discussion. The amendment was negatived with Maguire on his Back and it is thought he was taken with cramps. W. E. Davis a. Bank clerk swam out to their Rescue and they both grabbed him and pulled him under the water but he broke away and swam to safety o thers went to the fescue but be fore they could be reached they went Down in. About eight feet of water. The bodies were recovered shortly after but life was extinct. Manilay morning or. Reddin of Outlook who is Coroner for the District was called but decided not to old an Miward was a married Man and came from Manitoba where his body will be shipped for interment 1 twelve year old boy drowns. Edmonton alta., july 13. Freddie Dutton 12 years of age son of c. S. J o clock today charge on Public Ottawa asking deportation of Ruth falling off. Ottawa july immigration authorities have received an application from the City of Ottawa Tot the deportation of 40 ruthenian labourer on the ground trat they have becom a charge on the Public. The Charity Branch of the City has been support ing them for some time., the immigration officials Are investigating As to what steamship line brought them to Canada and they Wil be deported. The steamship Companie Are responsible in cases of Deporta Tion within three years. Immigration to Canada is dropping fast and the present month will see a decrease o probably. 75 per cent. V drowning at Bracebridge. Bracebridge ont., july 13. Bas Stewart 22 years of age was Drowne this afternoon while bathing in the South Branch of the Muskoka rive just behind his Home. He was us Fin the guide rope Over a Boom of log when he let go his hold and Sank. Drowned about 12- 30 in the Saskatchewan River East of Mill Creek on the Gallagher Tjie boy in swimming with two other lads when one of is companions suddenly noticed the unfortunate lad Sank below the surface. World s news summary no word mincing in interstate com Merce commission s report on new Haven financial methods. Page 1. Commissioner Pringle remarks that there was no right to double subsidy for Southampton railway. Page 1. Peaceful twelfth passed in North Ireland despite fears of clash Between volunteers. Page 1. Labor men of British Columbia in conference discuss strike question. Page 1. _ Taftenes. Cannot be. Punished Here for Empress disaster. Page 1. Wanderers secure Lead in robs Robertson Gume. Page 6. City noun eel will not Appeal against court decision. Page 20. J Buxton. Writes regarding death Oil patient wife. Page 4. J children spent delightful Day at exhibition. Page 1. . Strikes new record Low Price since 1911. Page is. Will win on recount Page 11. Further Selling weakens new Tori Market. Page 13. Woman Mystic Lay Monk in Russia. Page 15. Carpenter Smith bout on thurs Day. Page 6. Fluctuations in. Winnipeg options. Page 14. Good races at exhibition yesterday. Page 6. Today is big Day for City orphans. Page 20-. Attacks a railway stocks continued. Page 13. Premier Roblin in tight corned Page 5. Big league baseball results Page 6. A strenuous Day in poll Page a 11. Foreign markets by Cable. Page-14. Haven report interstate Commerce com Mission frankly alleges wilful criminality negligent directors stockholders said to have lost nearly Little of which can be recovered. . Still declines. Page 13, personal and social. Page 9. Milisic and drama. Page 8. Out division. Lord Macdonell introduced an commercial news. Page 14. Editorial Section. Page 11. Financial news. Page 13. Arranging details . Ottawa july we. Macken Zie z. A lash and f. H. Pm pen of the Canadian Northern railway Are in Ottawa to arrange with the govern ment the final details in connection with the guarantee of Bonds to the extent of to Ena ble the . To Complete its system. J. Travers Lewis of Ottawa and James Bicknell icc., of Toronto Are acting on behalf of government. Hon. W. T. White is expected to arrive in the City in the course of the when the business will concluded. While no official statement is Forth coming the general opinion is that the National Trust co., will be appointe4 trustees. Child drank carbolic acid. Portage la Prairie Matt july Audrey Davis the infant daughter of or. And. Mrs. Davis of Welwyn sask., died this afternoon at 2 o clock As a result of carbolic add poisoning. Mrs. Davis and the child were on a visit to the former s parents or. John Irvine at Longbury and and mrs. This amendment to effect that the constituencies of the Irish House of com Mons might be rearranged by order a Council in such a. Manner that with the exception of Dublin University each should return not fewer than members. His object was to give representation to the minorities. Unless his proposal was accepted there would be no representatives of protestants in the Irish House of. Com Mons except those sitting for the University. In declining to accept this Amend ment lord i Crewe pointed out that within three years the Irish Parlia ment would have an Opportunity of reconsidering their electoral system in the proposal How of it of morning the child took a bottle of the acid which bad been standing on the Dresser and drank it. This was at 8.40 this morning and although medical Aid was immediately nothing could be done and she died at 2 o clock. The child two years of age Washington d.c., july Story of financial operations of the new havea Railroad one of the most remarkable chapters in and american was revealed in part to Day by the interstate Commerce commission in a report to the Senate of its investigation of the Road. It told of millions used like stage Money of corporations As pawns in a monster game with transportation As prize which led the new Haven. In the Tea years just past. From the height of Prosperity to the Point where a dividend has been passed where a Disso Lution suit is criminal indictments of Many of the directors its deals Are at least a possibility. Hampered by unwilling we theses by books and by All the mazes which lawyers invented to cover the Trail the commission estimated that in the Progress toward a monopolization of new the new Haven have lost Between and but Little of which they May recover. In return the report said they have on their pay no dividends which eat earnings of the Parent Road and which will be a Burden on. Its capacity for Many years to come tha report deals with the manage ment of the new Haven under former president Charles s Telleri and of the present directing1 head chairman Howard Elliott d. Nines special counsel and says they have co-operated1 the commission and rendered it substantial assistance throughout this invest Law violated. The . Reared by tie hands of or Mellen and approves by the late a Pierpont Morgan and Rockefeller the commission finds to be clearly in violation of the Sher Man and a monopoly in practical control of the transport Fozi of. Five states. The commission s report is Timis tial in the manner in which the directors of the Newhaven Are scored deed s. It Speaks of criminal Baal administration and negligence asserts with positiveness. That Tho directors they were perfecting a illegal the dream of a transportation monopoly was1 on sound and mischievous. The new Haven the commission says employ eco Dummy manipulated accounts used questionable methods in increasing its own Stock paid the dividends of subsidiaries to make a show ing and used Many other devices to deceive the stockholders and the Public. It dipped into politics was a Factor in invisible made Large Campaign contributions to the two dominant political parties bought All its aspects Ever met with support among a Large measure those who gave burglars sentenced. Bismark la n.d., july to five year terms in the state prison James Fowler and Arthur Schmidt were Broi Siht to the state Penitentiary today from new Rockford Tine men recently burglarized the new Rock Ford hardware store. They made a we haul. Officials believe Bhe two men to be members of a gang that has infested Many Small cities of the state recently. Their support being lord lord lore Burn and lord spa Moor. Lord Macdonnell a amendment was finally agreed upon and lord Milner s proposal that the Irish county court judges should be appointed by the King was also carried. Ulster s Defiance. London july daily mail Belfast correspondent thus describes the March of to Drumbeg rattling and roaring like Maxim guns the of Ulster today pro claimed tre Victory of the Boyne. When in the future i recall the twelfth _ of july i shall hear the Drums at drum beg. Hundreds of big Drums Thun dered the Orange rejoicing. These Drums were not thumped with drumsticks in single heavy notes they were flogged with loaded canes wielded by men with wrists of steel arid the noise was the noise of Maxim purse paid. Mont real july Mitchell 10s Marion Street says a Chamois bag which Liis wife lost containing and jewelry valued at intrinsically but Worth much More from a sentimental was found and returned intact this morning and he paid the promised Reward he does not know who the fortunate finder was he says and tried to distort Public All this it did the commis Ocean steamships. Steamer Lapland Berlin Minnetonka new York Cleveland Boston arrived at from new Tork Lapland new. .y6rk Bremen new tort London new Tork. Southampton Megantic grampians Maurey Ania Kroon land Liverpool. Liverpool. _ Flash guard Montreal Montreal new Tork Dover new Tork guns. With boiler in chorus for five riveters working hours along five Irish Miles the Drums delivered their mighty message to the of Ulster s Defiance . Engineer scalded to death in collision Edmonton alta., july a head on collision in the Edmonton Yards of the - tonight Between an incoming freight train from Mortavill and a Yard engine switch ing some freight cars George mar shall Engineer of the freight train was scalded to death by escaping steam. Frank Scott fireman of the freight train saw the danger and jumped shouting to Marshall to do same. The Engineer blew his wrist the and. Jammed on Bihe Breaks but was unable to Stop in time. Groat Waterways right of Way. 7 Edmonton alta., july 12. Norman l. Harvey Secretary of the provincial department of railways and telephones who recently left on foot for Lac in company with chief Engineer Smith Andt e. P. Divi Sion Engineer has returned to the City i after making a thorough inspection of the Alberta great right of Way. He states that through out the 114-mile tramp from the Junction of the . . A. To the Lake lie found no labor troubles or complaints of any kind. Bight Hundred men were working with 300 teams and the right of Way appeared to be an Ideal one with easy and1 slight curvatures. Wynn Ewaska London new Tork corals Man i Montreal Bristol hesperian Montreal Glasgow Cassandra Quebec Glasgow Sowell Quebec Glasgow Barbarossa. Bremen new York Bremen Boulogne new Tork . _ Cherbourg new work Keyonis Albert Gibralter new York oceanic Liverpool new Tork Calabria Liverpool new York a Assad the Soo. Sault Sto Marie mich., july 13. Up Queen City de. Smith Middlesex Lozen. Lynch 11 . 1 Cuyler Adams Utley. 2 of. R. Hanna Watt Roebling 3 Bixby Tetler w. Andrews Argo House 5 hour Hon Manda. 6. . America 8 Shenango Gates Widener 11 . Non Nania 12-30 Geo. Step Tienson Marsala 12 Wes ton Princeton Nasmyth. James Wallace officials opinion. Sion says to oat a scheme of private transportation monopoly Imperial in its v hint at prosecution. If these directors who were Faith less to their stewardship were held responsible in the courts and at the bar of Public. Opinion for their fail ure to do those things they should have done the lesson to directors who Dor not direct would be very Salu says the e report. Most of the directors of the new Haven accepted their responsibility lightly. They failed to realize that their names gave Confidence to the Public and that their connection with the corporation led the Public to in Vest when these directors were negligent and serious losses resulted., therefrom they were guilty of a grave dereliction of duty and a breach of Trust that was morally Vrr Ong and criminal in its fruits. Directors should be made individually liable to civil and criminal Laws for the manner in which they Dis charge their Trust. A corporation can be no bettor or who operate it. It should be just As grave a crime to plunder stockholders or the Public through a Railroad corporation As it is personally to Rob an Indi fighting tuberculosis. Halifax n.s., july pleas for Federal government Aid in the Campaign against tuberculosis and unanimous expression of the opinion that the welfare of the child was the most Iraq Octant phase. Of the anti tuberculosis warfare there the features of today s sessions of the fourteenth an Nual convention of the Canadian association for the prevention of tuberculosis which morning at the technical College in this City. Weather report. The weather report from the meteorological Observatory at St. John s College is As at 7 . Yester Day 84.5 maximum Lor the preceding 12 hours 89.8 minimum 68.8 barometer. 29.90 Calm no wind. The Canadian service track laying to be Rushid. Edmonton alta., july five per cent of Grade of the Al Iberta and great Waterways railway is Complete to Lac Labiche acid the contractors is rect to have the completed . 1 5." track playing has commenced although no official announcement has been made it is understood that the steel will reach the before the close of the year. Observations taken at 7 o clock last evening july 13. Winnipeg time port Arthur 68 Clear whimper 84 Clear Minnedosa 84 Clear Quappelle 84 Clear Swift current 90 Cloudy Prince Albert 82 Clear Battleford 86 fair Medicine hat. 86 Cloudy Calgary 72 Clear Edmonton 70 raining. The weather has been extremely warm today in Manitoba and Saskatchewan but has moderated in Alberta. Thunderstorms have occurred locally in Saskatchewan and Minim urn and maximum Victoria 52-56 56-72 Calgary 60-74 Medicine hat 70-88 Battleford 66 86 Swift current 66-100 Moose jaw 65 win Neff. Arthur 58-74 London 64-82 Toronto 66-75 Kingston 74 86 Ottawa 60-84 Montreal 62-83 que 56-86 at John. 52-76 Halifax. 56-7a getting ready to Deport hindus. Vancouver . July in Init ration authorities Are now wording on the various papers to be served in confection with the formal deportation of the passengers of the. Koma rata Maru and it is expected that the japanese boat will leave the Tarbor within the next three or four Days certainly before the of. The e week unless something unforeseen crops up. Confirms Story of Huerta resigning. Washington d.c., july brazilian minister to Mexico who is caring for the interests of the United states in that country has telegraphed the state department that the resignation of general Huerta in favor of car basal the Ter of foreign affairs was expected. Today or tomorrow ;