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Date 1912-07-17

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OFF REGULAR PRI Genuine Wilton 9x12 Rug, Reg. 55.00 Value, Price 44.0 ALSO 40 per cent. off Regular Price on All-Wool. 9 x10-6 Rug, THINK OF IT ee We must make room for our Fall and Winter lines, so we will give our customers an oppor- tunity to buy rugs at an unheard of low price. Our Rug stock is complete, carrying a full line of floral, conventional and Oriental pat- terns. This stock is one of the largest and best line of Rugs carried in Western Canada. Cc. A. LONG THE FURNITURE icon daaeddenan cases oahonoceeteabeateserfeeteateatececteateateatentecetpetosteageciecoafestecgetedted 3 Yours to please. Remember, 10 days only, commencing Thursday, July 18th closing Saturday, July 27th. Terms Cash., Now is your opportunity to buy a good Rug cheap. Come early and get:a choice selection. . . : gt; . e Reg. 12.50 Value, Sale Price 7.50 PEOPLE. Soaheete Neeieeteds ostoatoateatateeseetefe ete dtoate ase Qonsi eet Centennial of Capture of Fort Mackinaw les Roberts, ordering him to pro- ceed immediately against Mackinaw. Capt. Roberts was commander of the Canadian post of Port St. Today is the centennial of thie capture of Mackinaw by the British forces, the beginning of a series of defeats for the United States troops in the lake region. When Sir Isaac miles northeast of Mackinaw. To. Brock, the seasoned veteran who berts, following Brock's instructipns,' commanded the British forces in) mustered a foree of employes of Upper Canada, received word of the the Northwestern Fur Company and outbreak of war, he hesitated not several tribes of Indians to add to a moment, put immediately dis- his mall command. On the morn- Patched a. messenger to Capt. Char ing: wt July 16 they set out, a Joseph, located on an island. forty, mately. army of soldiers, fur trad- ers-and redskins, with a fleet of boats aud cances conveyed by the brig Caledonia, a fur trading ves sel. Their equipment included two six-pounders and a miscellaneous collection of other arms, some of the Indians having only, bows and arrows. In the meantime, Lieut. Porter Hancks, in command of the fortifi- cation called Fort Holmes, on the southwest bluf of Mackinaw Island, had received no information of the outbreak of war. He knew that the strugyis was impending, however; and on the very day that the Brit- ish forces set out he became sus- FINDINGS OF THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH COURTS OF INQUIRY INTO THE TITANIC DISASTER COMPARED SENATOR SMITH FOUND That the supposedly Watertight compartments of the Titanic were not watertight because of the non-water- tight condition of the deck where transverse bulkheads ended. , That the California was nearer than the. nineteen miles declared by Capt. Lord; that her officers saw the Titanic s distress signals, and that she might have saved all the lost passengers and crew. That the full capacity of-the-Hfebomts was not utii- ized, only 708 being in them when 1,176 might have deen. That no general alarm of danger was sounded. That the Titanic' s crew were but meagrely acquain- ted with its position and duties in case of accident. That the warnings of ce, forwarded to Captain Smith by theHydrographic Bureau at Washington were disregarded as far as navigation was-concerned; that the Titanic's speed was not relaxe F that her lookout watch was not daubled. That all ships carrying 100 passengers or more should be equipped with double searchlights; that all ships should have lifeboats sufficient to carry every Soul aboard, and that ships should maintain a day and night watch of wireless operators. That the wireless operator of the Carpathia was not duly yigilant in handling messages concerning the disaster, and that the practice of allowing operators to fell newspaper accounts of experiences in the line of duty should be stopped. to their capacity. That a greater ave boats, LORD MERSEY FINDS That the Titanic left port a seaworthy ship, her ai- vided watertight compartments having been devised in accordance with best designing skill, and that neither owners nor designers are open to reproach as to the construction and arrangement of her bulkheads, He suggests attention to the question of longitudinal wells. and transverse bulkheads. i That the Caliornian was within five or ten miles of the Titanic: and that Cant. Lord knew the Titanic was sending up distress signals, on Lord, whose case may We submitted to another court. That the conduct of the officers of the Titanic is open to criticism in that they did not fill the lifeboats No judgment was passed That after the collision there was a reasonable at- tempt to warn the passengers of their danger. Proportion of the passengers might en saved if the crew had been better organized and trained In the handling and launching of the life- That the Titanic received suffictent warning of ice on her track to acquaint Capt. Smith adequately of the dangers ahead; that he had the knowledge early Sun- day afternoon, but that-the Amerika report, forwarded to Hydrographic Bureau,.was.merely retransmitted by wireless operator; that extra boflers had been fired twelve hours Before collision, and that the Titanic s schedule might have been made with speed- reduced two knots an hour That the Board of Trade is open to censure for its out-of-date lifeboat regulations; that in the future all Dasseng: and emigrant ships should have accommoda- tions for all, but that it is impracticable to provide this on existing ships; that lookout men should be stationed at the stem-head as well as in the crow's nest, but that searchlights are undesirable as Mable to blind them to all outside path of light, thereby: limiting field of vision. That there should be universal adoption of Marcon apparatus, with operators continuously on duty. No reference 1s made to the Carpathia or to the salv of the story of his experiences to-a-newspaper by her wireless operator, observe whether any military pres parations were being made at Fort) St. Joseph. On his way to ful ll his orders Dunman fell im witlr the hostile fleet and was made a pris- oher. . Capt. Hancks was therefore Indians unloaded at Mackinaw on July 17, a hundred years ago to- day, and Capt. Roberts demand for surrender was the first actual know ledge he had that war was declar- ed. Resistance was useless, oF 30 thought the American lieutenant, and he give up his fort and men without firing a gun. His action was bitterly criticised in the Unit - ed States, but he declared that if he had not surrendered the In- dians would have eseaped the leash of the British commander * and would probably have massacred the entire garrison. A month later De- troit surrend red, without offering any defense, and the lake country was lost to the United States. Macinaw and Macinac island is a limestone rock about seven miles in circumference, with an altitude at its centre of 300 feet, located fin the Strait of Macinac, which comnects Lake Huron and Machigan. Owing to its peculiar form, the In- dians gave it the name of Mich-ilremack-inac, or. The Great, Turtle. On'the opposite shore of the peninsula of Michigan the Frenen Jesuits erected Fort Muski- naw, which fell into the hands of the British, in thei conquest of Canada in 1870. Three years later the Indians, professing friendship, invited the British garrison to witness 2 ball game, and at a pre- arranged signal, fell upon the whites with hatchets and killed many of them. The fort fell to the United States -in 1796. On the out- break. of the war of 1812 Fort Holmes, on Mackinaw island, had only a small garrison, and the stronghold, as previously related, fell an easy prey to the British troops and their Indian allies. The highest temperature recorded in meteorological gmnals was taken in Algeria thirty-three years ago today, when the thermometer resis- tered a fraction over 124 degrees, Claims have -been made of higher temperatures than that, but they are not supported by official data. The highest temperature recorded in North America was 120, taken at Yuma, Ariz. The highest tempera- tures at other cities include: Phoe- Ariz., 119; Fuesno, Cal., i15; la Walla, Wash., 11: Mont..111;- Shreveport, 10; Pierre, 8.D., 110, and Roswell, X. M., 110, sence SED HA KEYS. ON DEAD MAN'S GRAVE all unprepared when the British and Monk Orders Forest Rang- to Give Up Job to De- and its operations pass the com- prehension of the average man. Readers of the Free Press will pro- bably recall the story about Hon. L. P. Pelletier, postmaster general, kaving.dismissed the postmasten at Tracadie Road,. N. B., when the said postmaster had been dead for nearly five years. Hon. F. D. Monk, minister of pub- lie works has gone Mr. Pellerier one, better. The other day he sent a let- ter to L. P. Carrigan, a forest ran- ger at Champlain, Que., dismissing him from the service on. the grounds of political partisanship, and) in- structing him to hand over the keys oF i of the same place, Bu: when Mr, Carrigan he had been dead tion, under oath. (He has not'yet had his reply from and is now. wondering, what to do with the keys of his of- the minister He has. taken them to the ceme- Mr. Charretier s tomb, but there was and the keys of the office consequently remafn in his pos- tery and. placed them upon ud response, session. TONGUE GONE, CAN TALK Cincinnati, July 17. Joseph Mon- tague, forty-eight years old, had. the his life or Sacrificing his cancerous tongue. He chose the-Tatter, and surprised the nurses and internes at the city hos- Dital by suddenly regaining his pow- alternative of forfeiting ers of speech. office to. Adolphe Charretier, tried to locate his. suecessor, he found that for two years, and he wrote-back to the iinister notifying, him of the factat the same time demanding an investiga- DET XHTML. T C7 EDUCATION PUBLIC NOTICE By the Board of Trustees of the Med- icine Hat School District No. 78 of the Province of Alberta. Whereas it is deemed expedient by the board of trustees of the Medicine Hat School District No. 76 of the Province of Alberta that the sum of- sixty seven thousand one hundr nd ftwenty-tve-Wotlars, should be bom rowed on the security of the said D trict by the Issue of debentures able to the bearer in thirty Consecutive annual instalments interest at the rate of no more eight per centum per annum, following purposes namely To provide for the purchase of 15 to 20-tinclusive) Block 12, 493M; Lots 1 to 40 (inclustye) 12, Plan 17291 Lots 11 to 30 () 11 (inclusive) Block 4, Plan 1132Mf; in. requiredthe sum of 21,495. Provide for the extension of the plum ding, and sewers, and installing arink- ing fountains in the Alexandra, Mon- treal, and Toronto Street iSchools, 680.00; to provide for the cost of laying cement walks at the Alexan- dra, and Elm Street Schools, 1,730.00; to provide for. the purchase of gymnas- ium equipment for all the schools, 400.00; to provide for the building Studebaker-Flanders 20 The Studebaker-Flanders 20 ought to come first to the mind of any man consid- ering the purchase of a car. gt; Low in price, but not the the best materials to be had, cheapest; honestly built of, powerful enough for any road usage these genuine nppeals to common sense must make any man thik. Where can you get as much ? If price and low upkeep cost Interest you, ff you want a handsome and roomy, though not a, large, ear; if you need a car sure to do its duty then the Studebaker-Flanders under all eireumstances, 20 8 the car for you, You could hardly ask more and you necd not get less. Canadian Car for Canadians. Studebaker-Flanders 20 Tout ring Ci fob Walkerville With Top, Windshield and Speedometer, 1116 Send for our catalogue. The Studebaker Corporation of Canada, Ltd. It will interest you: WALKERVILLE, ONT. ot s Cottage School on Elm Street, 1,310.00; to provide for the pur- chase of equipment for Manual Train: ing and Domestic Science, 1,500.00: and: to-provide for the erecting, com pleting and furnishing of a five room- ed PubHe School on Lots 15 to 20, Plan 483M, Medicine Hat, 40,000.00. Therefore, notice is hereby given by the board of the said District, that un- less a poll of the ratepayers .of the said District, for and against the said debenture loan, is demanded as pro- vided by the school ordinance, the said board will apply to the Minister of Education for authority to borrow the said sum by debentures. Ot which all persons interested are hereby notified, and they are required to govern themselves accordingly. (Signed) JAMES WILSON, Chairman. Dated at Medicine Hat this 12th day of July, 1912 Instructions to Ratepayers. In town and village districts a poll may be demanded on any debenture + loan by twenty and ten ratepayers re spectively. Every demand for a poll should b delivered to the Secretary of the Dis- trict, or fn his absence to the Chair- man of the Board, within fifteen days from the dats of posting these notices. A certified copy of the demand should be forthwith forwarded to the Depa bent sive) Block 3, Pian 726M; Lots 7 to 4

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