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i DOMINION Welsch mmteetad oy. 7. 7 SUMMER SERVICE Montreal Quebec, Liverpool Teutonic, St., Oot. at, Nov, Laurentio, Gat, Oct. 12; Sat, oy... 9. Canada, Bat. Oct 19; Sat, Nov, Mosanite, Bat, Oct. 26; Noy. 23. CHRISTMAS SAILINGS Sat, WHITE STAR New York, Queenstown, Liver: pool . TIC, BALTIC, CEDRIG; sailings, ; ; ith, CI 8. ipsey tons, Largest in the world. iC, MAJESTIC, THUT- fC, gallings every Saturday. Queenstown, Li (One class oe Tuesdays, AMERICAN 3 New oes eet Cher. Southampton. ST. Pau LOUIS, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, sall- New York, Dover, Antwerp. Sailings Saturdays to Oct. 19, afterwards Wednesdays. Berthing lists for Fall and Winter Sailings are now open, Book: early-and secure best lo cations. Sailing lists, plans, ete, on application to railway gr steamship agents or to W. M. McLeod, . W. Passenger Agent, 883 Main St, Winnipeg- Phone, Main 1924. Canadian Northern Steamships, Limit THEROYAL LINE MONTREAL QUEBEC in Summer. Halifax in Winter. Shortest route to London and Continent on it Floating Palaces. St. Lawrence Sailings. R.M.S. Royal Edward Oct. 30th RMS. Royal. George Nov. 13th, Ist class, 92.50 summer; winter, and upwards. nd class 53.75 and upwards *8rd class, Bristol or London, 32.50. Ask any Railway or Steam- ship agent for illustrated: book- Jets, rates, etc. or write A. H. DAYIS General agent, Scott Block, 272 Main Street, Winnipeg. SPECIAL Tourist Sleepers M. ntroal To Si20e,, : SSEANSHIPS : November-December eae EXCURSION RATES On Sale Daily, Nov. 7 to Doc. 3 Reserve Berths Now for CHRISTMAS SHIPS See Local Agent for Details, or ae CANADIAN PACIFIC -THANKSGIVI NG DAY Oct. 28, 1912 PARE AND ONE-THIRD For the Round Trip. Between all stations, Port Arthur to Vancouver, including branches, Going dates, Oct. 25-28. Return limit, Oct. 30, 1912. For tickets, apply to Local Ticket Agent. R. G, MeNelllie, Dist. Passenger Agent, 0. 25, Calgary, Alta. SUBFORIBR NOW for the Dally Newa, it LLOYD GEORGE GIVES VILLAGE INSTITUTE OUT OF LIBEL SUIT London Representative of Financial House Witness- ed Bloody Fight on Field of War. NEXT DAY APPEARED ON STOCK EXCHANCE Then Bou; ht So Sound Securi ties at Panic Prices, the culatorp. Thinking : Wellington Lc Lost. London, Oct. 2 Although found- ed on fact, the story of how Nathan Rothschild mad iiion pounds out of the Battle of Waterloo might well find place in sensational work of fiction, None the jess the story which fe told by. Herr Iguaz Balla in The Rothschilds, a book published in Berlin in commemoration of the cen- tenary of the death of Mo er Amschel Rothichild, the founder of the for- tunes of the great financial house that still bears his name, is, it is claimed, based on authentic materi Nathan Rothschild was the London representative of the five Frankfor- ters, and he rendered the cause of the Allies invaluable services during the Hundred Days, and has amassed huge profite for the, Frankfort firm. But Napoleon s dramatic return from Biba confronted him with the pros- pect of losses so enormous that they might break even these great finan- clers. Watched the Battle. So far as Nathan Rothschild was concerned, it is a fact that he stood to lose every penny he possessed. In a fever of appretension he hurried across the Channel, and, following Wellington's army, watched the bat- tle of Waterloo with every nerve tingling with excitement. Long. be- fore Napoleon had ealled on the Old 'Guard to make their last desperate attempt to break the British Iines the financier was in full retreat. He had Seen enough to convince him that the fate of the First Empire was decid- ed, and his nerve was restored. Riding hot foot to Brussels, he en- gaged coach and drove without drawing rein to Ostend He now had a campaign of his own to attend to. Here the fortume of war seemed to Lhave declared against him for it was blowing a full gale in the Channel, and not skipper would put out. In MOST REMARKABLE OF TELEGRAPH LINES That From Ashcroft to the Yukon. Has Never End- ing Romance. Was Eighty Thousand Dol- jars Out Last Year Says Report. Northern- Traveller . Says Was Best Money Govern- ment Ever Spent. What the Line Means to Prospectors and Pioneers From Ashcroft on the old Cariboo road in British-Columpja, zigzageing its-way' northward for 2500 miles runs the Yukon telegraph, the most remarkable telegraph line in Amer- ica. Tts romance is.never ending. It was born in the gilded days of the Klondyke rush in 1890. Its first mes- sages were of lucky strikes * that had turned penniless miners into mil- Hionaires, and of gold seekers who had perished. by the trail conquest over the silent places and silent forces of the stilly north. Even today, when the glory vf time Dawson has departed, wiekedest camp on earth has become respectable and industrious, kon telegraph has mot backslia extent of earning its own Hthiopian friend, Splotas, hover round the old camp, strum- ming his banjo snd recalling its: halycon days. Buti the Yukon tele- graph, in its amiost recent year of business, can stil boast a prodigal life. Last year when it carried near- ly one hundred - thousand messages each way, to and fro, inthe frozen north, like one of the oldtime gamt- lers it can hold its head atoft and announce that it was out/ 80,000. Of course the truer and kinder way to state the fact would be to say that the line gave to the public of Canada during the year service to the extent of 80,000 more than the aforesaid public paid for. The best 30,000 that the government spent last year, said an old forthern traveller to me as he looked at the financial statement of the line, says a writer in an Hastern exchange. IN TOUCH WITH CIVILIZATION Tt means a lob to the prospectors and the pioneers to be able to go in- to the wilds far a thousand miles and not lose touch with civiliza- tion, I agreed. T was not thinking of it as phil- anthrophy for the people in the north. I was thinking of it as a valu offered 600,800, . even 1,000) francs, Pays 2,000 Francs. Not n man held histife so cheaply. Ip the end the young master of mack came forward ald offered to attempt the passage; om condition that his fare pald 2,000 francs to his wife before they started. His private opinion was that before they had been afloat very long neither he nor his) assenger would have further need of money. The financter gladly clin ched the bargain. He reached Dov- er half drowned after a terrible cross- ing, and rewarded the plucky skipper handsomely, From, Dover he posted to town without a minute's delay, arly on the following morning he Was at his accustomed pliee, Teaning Against pillar, on Change His face was deathly pale; he looked broken in mind and body, like man who hay aged ten years in single night. Tension in the Oy was very high that morning. Even fron nerves were beginning to feel the strain, for every kind of uly rv- mor was on the wing. Reports that Blucher had been disastrously defeat- ed and that Wellington himself was in full retreat passed from mouth to wiouth. The sight of Rothschild seemed to confirm what might other- wise have passed for unfounded rum- ors, and the city reulized that their country s most relentless enemy might at that very: moment b3 re stored to power and be master of the) continent. A sudden wave of panic swept over the House, No story was too fantas. tic to find belief. When once prices began to fall they went dowi with a rush, The slump was not arrested when the observant noted that Roths- child himself, ag well as-his-accredi- ted brokers, was throwing stock on the market with both hands. Not ev- en the soundest securities were proof against the general sense of alarm and uncertainty. They were caught and swept away in the current. Object of Sympathy. The pale-faced man, propped up limply- against his pillar, was an ob- ject of sympathy to every one who could spare him a thought. He was watching, they imagined, the erumb- ling of the fortunes of his house. What he was watching was his oon- fidential agents, acting under secret instructions, buying up sound securi- ties at panic prices. The following morning official news came through of Blucher s success at Ligny, and of the crowning victory of Waterloo. Prices rose as rapidly at the opening of the markets as they: had fallen on the previous day. Phe battle of Waterloo, it is- estimated, Was worth over a million sterling to Nathan Rothschild, so, whatever his fare for the Channel crossing may have cost him, it was cheap at the price. ernment, rejomed my friend in cor reetion. Have you noticed, he went on, that the Valleys are filling up in the north the Bulkley and the Kispiox and the Naas are those through which the tel graph passes. The telegraph opened the land to the first land seckers; it is stil helping to bring the settler on to the land. Where there is no line of railway to follow the line of settlement fs the government telegraph. There is truth in the argument. The Yukon telegraph is making pos- sible much of the commercial de- velopment of northern British Co- lombia, For the thousands of white men in the scattered communities from Prince Rupert clear through to the Atetic circle, the government telegraph forms ths link, and the on- ly link, with the great news events of the world. On the occasion of the great. international event. which oc- curred at Reno on July 4, two years ago, when every Anglo-Saxon be- tween the forty-ninth parallel and the North Pole was anxiously await- ing the result, the fateful message, *Jolinson wins in fourteenth, was received. in Prince Rupert within) three minutes of the catastrophe. The same flash would be received in Dawson a minute later, the wires: cold business proposition for the gov- having been kept clear for the mo- mentous news. The visitor who sees the line for the first time ia linble to make mer ry over it, Strung on low strazfal- food and sippliae are packed in, and the operator guty relief from the ter- rible silence of hig lonely life, For, tho rest of the titte the operator is dopendent on breaks in the line for his chiet meane of providing him with company. a wire goes dead the operator on either side of the Break taker bis tools on his back aiid goes ut: in vearch of tho. break. A Break inthe line. It sounds small and simple Matter, but there is no Speak without its own story of hardships overcoms. We had fre- quent breaks if the line owing to fires on the river and to. oe fo 6 ee Tt was an avalanche of i6e and snow that. had swept great rocks and giant trees like miatehwood before it im ite thunderous: dtown the moun - ee (measured. 1200 fect across-and 60 feet deep. No A CHARACTERISTIC REPORT. Here is a istic report as it-was handed in by one lineman. It is a hard-boiled account of a day's work that started at 7.30 a.m. one day and Jasted until 6 a.m. on the following day: May 5, 1912, 7:30 a.m.; started on line north from Maple Bay; re- moved two trees; replaced wire on four poles two miles north of here; put up uarter mile of wire at camp at Swamp Point; replaced two blocks two glasses, near White Point; re placed wire on five poles, used five blocks, three glasses; removed three trees, fell off bluff here into deep water; lost. tool , bag with spurs, ome alongs, pliers, connectors, hardware and safety belt; had hard time keeping afloat until Dalgleish picked me up, account wearing hip rubbers and raingoat; removed one tree; replaced. wire on two poles three miles north of Tad s Cove. Home 2 a.m., 6th. Whe exact chronological order. ob- served by the narr tor iff tplling. of move two , -trees, the: incident not even. dignified by a whole sentence to itself, defies all art. The incident was too. obviously part of the day s work, ; oi YEARLY EXTENSIONS Every year sees the government line extending its branches, always a little ahead of the settlement and development of the districts. The main Hine connects at Asheroft with the Canadian Pacific Railway sys- tem. At its Torthern extremity nal service telegraph system ab the Alaskan boundary. The latter sys - tem is, of course, controlled by the United States department of war. Branch lines are run from principal points on the route into the settled districts. Lillooet; - Barkerville, Quesnelle . Forks and the mining eampg along Cadwalder creek are thus served: The longest branch is that which runs from Hazleton, an old Hudson's Bay trading station, down the. Skeena river to Prine Rupert. It measures 200 miles From Yer, another branch was built last year, rnnning a distance of 75 miles to Stewart. In its passage through the Naas valley and river, the line links up the mining camps on Obser- vatory inlet and the Portland canal. how he narrowly escaped jn Rames, making it the largest tN 5 the water and eet ee re- the history of the State: ib connects with the Unites, Sterer-sg: RT Kitsunkalum, taliway down the ri- The Russell 30 is The car's tremendous power is under on high goar as slow as a walk and yet, neresle your speed at once 30 miles an hor without strain and at Scenes Jarring, no joiting. a Complete Car ww you order Russell 30 there are no extras to buy. is complete in every detail. There is a perfect self-starter. electrically operated. Turn the switch and - fo go. The same dynamo whicli goherates electricity starter takes care of the complete lighting installation, You lights in any part of the car by menaiy roada ate too rough 6r too steep (0 Mile) ear. The 1918 Russell 30 has every known designed to increase comfort and simp) A demonstration of the car cannot fail to This will be arranged with our locat agent if Toronto. The demand for this car should be 2 placed promptly to insure late Fall or early ae If interested write to our local agent arent 400 tor rome explanatpry Mterature. PRICES FULLY EgUTtrED Russell 80 Model R7 1915 Russell 30 Model R 1918 Russell 30 Model RY 1918 5 Russell 30 Model RY 1918 aster of its excellence. i write to West HEAD OFFICE AND FACTORY BRANCHES AT Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, couver, Melbourne, Aust, open all winter lt;The spirit in which the men of the Yukon tele- graph do their work and hold their ests with a halo daily operation of what may with, out exaggeration he styled: the most romantic telegraph fine in America. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS The names of eight parties will ap- pear onthe Ballot in the coming election th Pennsylvania. Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, Demoorati candidate for Yice president, will close his cam-' uaign in Chicago Oct 31, The State fitket in the coming ia tion in Minnesota will contain It is an interesting coincidence that: William Sulzer, Democratic candi- date for governor of New York, and Job Hedges, Republican candidate 6) the same place, are both. natives of Elizabeth, N..J. Key -Pittman, who has been naj as the choice of the Democrats of Nevada for United States senator, is a grand newphew of Francis Scott Key, who wrote The Star Spangled The Progressives and Democrats of Rhode Islaiiq haye combined-to-wrest, control of the legislature from. the Republicans, with a view to prevent- ing the election of a Republican Un- ited States senator. Thirty-three seats in the United States senate will be at stake in the coming election, Of these eighteen are now occupled by-Republicans and thirteen by Democrats, Two vacan- ies, one in Colorado and one in Il- bring the total up to thirty- In the coming election in Connec- ticut the Socialist Party will have candidates in. every one of the 85 senatorial districts in the State and candidates for representatives in 75. This year a branch, from 160-mile house on the Cariboo road, is to be built through the Chilootin country to Bella Coola, situated on the coast, about half way between Cancouver and Prince Rupert. NEAR EARLY PROPOSED ROUTE A strange coincidence connected a) with the route of the that, without intention, it aimiont for the line and its intrepid builders. A conventional li ial, straight poles would be im- mensely more difficult to maintain in repair. The low, loose wire strung, on low poles, on the limbs of trees and over the faces of rocky clifis ix quite as ffective as a more orna- mental line, and a hundredfold easier to keep in working order. OPERATORS LEAD LONELY At intervals of from seventeen to fifty miles along the whole length of the line are the cabins of the opera- tors. Each operator is an expert linemen and responsible for: keeping his own section of the line im repair. The man who has fifty miles of line to look after is on fiat. land, and tas a horse to ride out on along the trail to locate breaks in the line. The men with shorter distances to protect ate in the mountains, where in winter hazardous journeys on. snowshoes must be made. In some of the stations it is practically wit ter all the year round. Twice e year uplicates the route laid out by the Western Union Telegraph Company half a contury ago, when that com- pany, after the breaking of the At- Tantic cable in 1859, decided to lay a land Tine through Alaska and Si- Over- 3,000,000 Deen spent on the line when the com- pany recalled their plans for the line, having in the meantime picked up the Atlantic cable again. Soine of the engineers atid linemen were then so far inland that it was nine months from the time the or- der was sent before it could be de- livered to them. Telegruph-creek and Lake Le Barge, the latter named af- ter one of their engine rs, still pre serve in their names the memory of the days of the Western Union pro- ject. For many mil portions of the old line built . . engineers of the Western Uni bight of suffrage to the insane. ic paupers and United was the. Prohibition States soldiers: and saitors now being worked a8 a second of the government operators. Such is the work of thes telegraph and of the inen who oper- . ate it. embatmed in that finds its way imto each-annual -U: report That the- sof the: te towns and cities. Candidates for Congress and for all State offices al- so haye been named. WE HAVE SOME SPRCTAL BUYS IN REDOLIFF, HAVING SOLD THIS PRO: PERTY 12 MONTHS AGO. SUNNYSIDE ALL SOLD INS WEEKS ALL SOLD IN8 WEEKS EXCEPT : 22 ACRES. Miss Anna Agnes Maley of Ever- ett is the candidate of the Socialist Party for governor of the State of he coming election: Miss Maley is believ d to be the only: woman ever nominated for the office of chief executive of/any of the) States , For a third time in her history Kansas is to vote next month on constitutional amendment providing for woman suffrage, Kansas was the first State in the Union to vote on, the matter. This was in 1866. It fail- ed to pass) When the proposition Game up for the second time In 1804 it was again defeated. y-no-means all th men of twen- ty-one in. the country are qualified yoters, Practically every State bars convicts and as there are about 100,- 000, convicts in the ptisons: of the country, the election day on Novem- i mean nothing to a whole Tm addition to con- vitts, some of the States deny the CANADIAN PACIFIC SPECIAL THROUGH TOURIST IX OONNECTION WITH TRANS-ATLANT ; FROM MEDICINE HAT. Train, Time: Destinatior * No.4. 20.25k, Quebec. No. 4. 20.25k. Montreal. Empress of Bri Empress of Panisian, 4.20k. Montreal. Virginian. 4.20k.. St. John. Empress of Ireland. Corsican. For Sleeping Car and Steamship Reservations, and Tees call on or write : (Noy. 3, Noy. 11, No, 4. 20.25k. Quebec. Nov. 17, Nov. 25, No, 14. No. 14. L. A, DOBBIN, Ticket Agent, 6 Medicine Hat, Alta. Novae BR. . MeNEILLIE, Maron Shermun Watkins, the Leading lives of sturdy ad- Prohibition Party candidate for vice venture and hardships in the wilds, pyegident of the United States) was the achievement of their-anibition is born / the customary phrase Onio. land, Ind., he ener clergyman, to a Jawyer ind a college professor. He candidate tor vice president four years ago, run- ning with Eugene W. Chafin. Norway Pebbles) Low Angeles Tel Pyears ago in Rushaylvant graduating from pl Tc ren top sor oem ae ious cement mills im the state wid to Goldfield and Tonopah, Ne' where the, reduction plants use them. The pebbles vary fronr the size of a hen s egs toa man s fist. They are so hard that Mount Lowe. squirrel would crack his jawbone if heytried ta, Shtacott aS biE at Cae a RESEEEoneST Te The Daily News. delivered the Salt Lake road takes them ta at- ety ae 2 mio Novels 1 numerab MANY TI Tulkinghor Offset. b: and Tom (From When we cc clerkship in a his: timitea ex
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