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Date 1912-02-26

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Influential sup- for the great meet- ll next Wednesday the beginning of a sign against the to women. Lord de at the meeting nent speakers will ord Loreburn, Lewis and Mrs. Murphy eee ee otie te les a i, ote essential to ae an supply all rholesale prices d please don't xyDOaYe WANT... AY. AGS IN T's: yesterday morning Rev. Father Ca- feet eTT ete eee sfso far taken with a number PEEEEE EE EEE EES 1500 coptes daily. 960 ctreulated tn city 2000 copies Thursday. Advertisers in Daily get heneiit of the Weekly country elroulaties tra charge. Books open to advertisers. pn Rn i MEDICINE HAT NEWS VOL. 2, NO. 194 MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA, CANADA. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1912 provinele DAILY EDITION Ww. AP. AND C, A. P. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE ot aprangabee 1 PRICE, FIVE. CENTS THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY Is No Room for Discussion Coficerning the Question as-to Whether or Not the Property-Owners Have a Say Re- garding the Franchise--They Have the Matter Entirely in Their. Own Hands. There appears to be m general mls- understanding in regard to the pro- visions of the Electric Raflway Bill relating to the company s rights with- in the city, whereas a perusal of the clauses in question will make this phase of the case very clear. Under See. 19 of the Medicine Hat Electric Bailway Company Act the company is obliged to obtain the as- sent of the Burgesses before the com- pany ean exercise any rights or com- mence construction on operation with- in the city Limits. Under Sec. 4 of this Act the com- pany eannot construct a branch line to the works of the Clay Products Co. or elsewhere to any industrial site un- til the consent and approval of the burgesies has first been given. It must be observed that In beth cases where 2 vote Is necessary that it re- Engiand, Germany, France, Fighting for Air Armament Bill of Each Country This Year will Pro- vide for Expenditure of Large Sums to Purchase Aerial Fleet Dirigibles are Favored. QW. A. P. Dispatch) London, Feb. 26. Great Britain contemplates competing with France and Germany in buijding. up an avia- tion fleet. It is expected that the forthcoming estimates will contain a Mberal provision for the purchase of aeroplanes, Ten have already been ordered an before summer the army will possess from 24 to 30 which will. be built to meet the requirements of the army. The activity of Europe in this direc- tion as shown by the announcement of M, Miller, the French Minister of War who says that 4,400,000 would be ex- pended for aviation during the com- ing year,-and that Germany intends to increase expenditures for this pur- pose from 3;200,000-to 3,500,000. Capt. Von Simon, a German naval ofticer, Who ts engaged in the manu- Fee CHt THE CHURCHE ee ee el At-St-Patrick s chureh at high mass doux preached an interesting sermon on Lent, It having started last week he remarked in opening his discourse that it ought to prove a befitting sub- fect, He outlined the history of the season of lent, saying that it was one of the most ancient institutions of the church, The people of the present day however, Were not obliged to fast and abstain as rigidly as were the people of the earller days, or is the abstinence and fasting practiced as severe now as in the earlier days. In closing he made an appeal to all to eep most tigidly where possible the Holy season, attending the services in preparation for the culmination of the season, holy week, with Good Fri- day-and aster Sunday. not-even e symnasium for day, Friday and saturday are days of fast and abstinence for Catholics. In the evening Father Cadoux at vespers continued his instruction on the Ten Commandments,-speaking..on Grace, which he. described as one of God's greatest gifts to mankind, And Ahab said By whom? And he said Thus saith the Lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Such was the: Text taken from I. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH CONGREGATION VOTE AGAINST CHURCH UNION heb EE The ballots are coming in +h fast et; the Presbyte jan +f Church:on the Chureh Union +f vote. The result of the, vote * of:ballots yet out shows the *f congregation of St. John to be f--against the Union, 137 votes agninst it to but -27-for. gt; EEE EE EEE EEE and from overseas who.are yet plastic quires a two-thirds vote of the bur- fesses and not a majority vote. It will thus b seen that before the com- pany can make a start within the elty there must be a vote taken aud before a braneh line can be constructed It is necessary that a second vote be tak- on Following oa tions thereof relating to the of a vote. Sec. 4... . +. with the right of projecting a branch line to the works of the Alberta Clay Products Company, Limited, in the City of Med- icine Hat, aforesaid, and elsewhere at the request of the City Counell, to the works of other industries In Medicine Hat, such request to be expressed by. by-law, all such branch lines to be subject to the approval of the Council of the City of Medicine Hat and: sub- Ject to the assent first had and ob- Supremacy facture of Parseval Dirigible airships, ig in London in connection with the fortheoming army contracts, He said that while aeroplanes are included in their military requirements, Gerniany, Austria and Russia are putting faith in the dirigibles. Japan has ordered a dirigible air- ship. of 7,300 cubic meters which is to be delivered in March. The cap- tain asserts that the objection to the dirigible airship is that it is unable to ascend quickly, but that has been evercome, The latest model rises 5,400 feet in less than fifteen minutes which is faster than anything an ae- ropline-can do in that tine- One-air- ' ship travelled from Bitterfield to Cologne and return this week in 16 hours, whtch ts faster than the tte made by an express train. tained two-thirds of the burgesses of the City of Medicine Hat voting there- on, In accordance with the privisions of the Titie XXIII of the Medicine Hat Charter, Sec. 19, This Act shall not beeome operative In so far as it concerns the exercise of any or all of the rights, privileges or powers of the Company Within the limits of the City of Med- icine Hat or any extensions thereof that may be made from time to time, nor shall the Company constract or operate its raflway along any of the sald routes within the City of Med- iene Hat unless and until the Com- pany shall have first obtained the as- sent and approval thereto of the City of Medicine Hat expressed by by-law of two-thirds of the hurgesses voting thereon In accordance sith the pro- visions of Title XXIII. of the Medicine Hat Charter. HEROD -AND-LIQUOR- In the course of his sermon in the First Baptist Church last night on Wise Men From the Bast, Rev. C. T. Holman drew a parallel between Her- od and those who are responsible for the liquor traffic. After pointing out how Herod neglected his opportunity to journey with the Wise Men who were following the Star and so find Christ, he said that Herod was not satisfied with merely refusing to fol- low the light, he directly opposed Christ, Herod sent out the order for the slayghter of the. innocents, hop- ing to kill Him. And many today who hav Fejected the Christ, oppose them- selves to Him, and continue the slaughter, Have you not heard the ery of the innocents who are slaugh- tered daily by those opposed to Christ? Go down into th drunkard s home and you Shall hear it. Poverty, yes star- vation will stare you in the face. See the drunkard s wife. Mark the grey thickly streaking her once black hair, note ,the blanched cheeks from which the roses have long since departed. See the drawn face, the toil-worn frame the wreck of a fair life brok- en in the storm of shame and suffer- ing and disappointment And see the drunkard s and .y t torn appetites before he understands their meaning. And /f you listen, in that home you will hear asubdued moan, more eloquent of-suffering than any al Kings 20.14, by the Rey. Morrow last4 night to illustrate his sermon on the needs of a Y. M. C. A. in the city. He showed that even in those days the young men were of great import- ance to a nation and they are even more important in these days. They are the material of which the future generations have to bebullt. There are large numbers of young men in this city from the East and fromthe South ready to be moulded into to a great extent. what the city makes of them. They are In a position to be influ- enced. considerably for good or for evil. They have no real homes other human sound the cry of the innocent victims of those opposed to Christ Oh, makers and sellers. of intoxicating Mquors, who: turn God's good gift of golden grain into- the damning beverage, who defile God's temple, and make of God s image, man, a lower thing than the grovelling beast, what shall you answer In the; day of judgment? What shall you answer when with what measure ye have meted-to others it shall be meas- ured to you again? Yes, and in great- er measure, for Herod's end, his bow- els eaten of worms, was worse than that of any of his victims, the inno- cents he caused to suffer And what shall you answer you voters, who allow this thing to be, who license the accursed traffic, and share with the vendors of this liquid hell, this blood money? ST, BARNABAS-ANGLICAN here, The evil is already here in several forms, on the one hand, and what 1s there on the other. We have them. and there isa great scarcity of-bath ing facilities. Give these young men) a reasonable chance to keep their, bodies clean and healthy, to taken interest.in themselves and a great part of the battle would be fought. In London where the first Y. M. . A. was formed by a Mr. Williams some few years back, there are now 250,000 Young men who are away from their real homes and receiving good and healthy influences from the spciety. We need such an institution here. A hugh number of these young men will make a success of their lives F/ rough such an influence for good. He suggested that the ministers of the city should formulate a plan and put it before the, public from whom they would recetye, he believed, hearty support, The , -P.-R. would: ah help generously as they had done in other western cities, As a city grows the demand for banks and other business institutions is supplied. The demand for a Y. Mf. C..A. te here and it must be supplied too, and all the citizens should throw themselves heartily -into: this - project. and make n success of it. The rector, the Rey. Rural Dean B.A, preached at Matins and Hyvensong. At the morning service he 's child, starving, fleshless, + th inherited Tustfal S from a moral point of view. DUKE OF FIFE'S REMAINS ARRIVED HOME SATURDAY ENGLISH COAL MINERS STRIKE British: Cruiser m met by King and Queen Remains in- terred in Bootland. CW, A. P. Cable) Portamouth, Fel, 26 The British cruiser Powerful arrived..here late Saturday with the body of the late Duke .of Fife who died January 29th at Assouan, in Bgypt, from pleurisy. and congestion of the lungs, the re- sult of a chill contracted when he, Princess Royal amd their daughter narrowly escaped With their lives from the wreck of the Peninsular and Ori- ental line steamer Delh off Cape Spartal, Moroeco, December 3rd. The body was accompanied from Egypt by Princess Royal and her two daugh- ters. King George, Queen Mary and Queen-Mother Alexandra met the ves- sel at Portsmouth and accompanied the widowed princess to Windsor? The body was taken to the Royal Palace at Windsor where funeral ser- vices were held. The body was then taken to Scotland for burial. B.C. WILL SPEND 20 000,000 Following Lead of Alberta in the Matter of a Big Railroad Policy. CW. AP. Dispatch) Victoria, B.C., Feb. 26. The finan- cial programme of the British Colum- ia government embraces an expen- ture of 26,000,000 during the cur- rent year, and is said to be the larg- est sum expended by any province of the Dominion, Eight hundred and seventy miles of new railroad is to be constructed this year and for the first time In the history of the Canadian Pacific two steamers are en route at the same time front, England to Vic- toria, the Princess Patricia and Prin- cess Sephia. The first named will be the fastest one on the Pacific coast and will be used between Vancouver and Nanimio, The Sophia will be on the northern British Columbia route. PACKED LIKE CATTLE IN MONTREAL JAIL 266 Prisoners More Than Accommodation Provides ( forarein Toils. CW. A. P. Dispatch.) Montreal, Feb. 26 Fifteen days go the Montreal jail was overcrowd- ed to such a point that 50 prisoners hhad to be sent to Quebec. Now the congestion is nearly as bad. Gover- Ror Vallee today stated that the num- ber of prisoners is 491. of the fall Is 225 prisoners, The sur- plus therefore is 266 prisoners, and there is no possible outlet. What then do you do with the sur- plus? was asked the governor. I haye to submit to circumstances, was the reply, and pack them like cattle. I have no optio It is very hard on the prisoners from a hygienic puint of view, con- tinued Mr. Vallee, but it fs still worse oer ee ee - LENTEN REGULATIONS in Lent, Sun- 1, All days The capacity London, Eng., Feb. 26. It is re- ported in radical circles today that Premier Asquith has determined in the event of a national coal strike that the government will take over and work temporarily all coal mines and thus prevent a panic in prices. The first miners to actually lay down their tools were a few thousand employed in Shireland and Alfreton pits, and in Derbyshire who ceased work: at uoone today. London, Feb. 26 Today sees the actual beginning of the coal strike which if allowed to develope will bring England face to face with one of the gravest crisis in its history. Today the men of the Alfretor pits in Derbyshire ceased work, and to- morrow many thousand Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire minets desert their pits. On Wednesday tens of thousands of others in Yorkshire and elsewhere follow the Derbyshire lead. By midnight on Thursday about 600,- 000 federated miners will have brought the strike to its completion. The government has three. days in which to prevent this step, and to- morrow the Prime Minister meets the delegates, Both sides are still unyielding. A meeting of the South Wales Miners and delegates from Lancashire and Durham collieries voted yesterday against any extension of notices or postponement of the strike; despite tlement, The public have much con- fidence that the government will find means of preventing this disaster. The Daily Mail in a double leaded editorial under the caption of The Government -Can Stop-the Strike, says: By recent occurrences the Un- ited States, French, Swedish, Italian, and Portugese governments have proved that national strikes can. be stopped and that when a private quar- rel in trade is likely to injure a whole nation of people that the government has ample means for bringing the In this particular quarrel the pub- lic has no reason for at sympathy owners are engaged-in-a Peperore business. The the difficulties in the way of a bet- jarreters to book. pury miners themselves are well paid (W: A. P. Cable There s no shortage of coal above ground, as all over England at the pit mouths and many private hoards there Is a vast accumulation of coal. The Mail agrees that the govern- ment cannot force the men to go in- to the gound, but points out that if it handles the coal reserve properly there will be no tremendous difficulty. The militia can shovel coal just as readily as it can dig trenches. It dis- agrees with the argument that the. coal owners under the circumstances are entitled to regard this, coal. as private property and says: With such a moment coal is no more pri- vate property than air. Coal stands in exactly the s me position as did food in the siege of Paris and Lady- smith, We know, that on occasions the goYernment appropriated every ounce of food in the cities and dealt it out for the people. The Mail however, recognizes that some miners are entitled to some consideration and says that the coal trade is like every other trade, al- though as a rule more prosperous. There are mines tha do not pay, but there are mines paying a dividend that would make gold mine sharehold- ers' mouths water. - STARTED TODAY Derbyshire Workers Quit at Noon and Others Will Follow. ---600,000 Will be Out of Work by Wednesday-- Premier Asquith Says Government Will Take -Over and Work Mines to Stop Price Panic q current that very important amalga: mations of London's railways are un- der discussion with a view to working the entire traffic of London as one comprehensive system. The fusion of the Omnibus system with the Speyer Subway system re- cently arranged by Sir Edgar Speyer and his colleagues renders feasible Such a project as is now being dis- cussed, Nothing definite has yet been agreed upon. The scheme would involve a great many details and is unlikely to de heatedly carried through. Any- thing affecting London's transporta tion facilities, gains the public. inter-.. est, hence, the reported negotiations. It they should take concrete shape, they will be closely followed by fin- anclal interests and also by the peo- ple of the metropolis at large. To-day 4s considered the most cri- tical day. in the negotiations between the British coal owners and the min ers who, under the auspices. of the British government are endeavoring to.find a basis for peaceful settlement of the controversy that threatens to involve nearly million men in a strike, The association of mine owners in It suggests that the government by South Wales and the executive com- drastic-remedies such as the appoint ment of a receiver to work the mines. and render an account owners afterwards or by compulsory purchase of coal already above ground catastrophe of such grave dimensions, London, Feb. 26 It the settlement of the coal trouble be reached, it ts predicted that the Bank of England will be reduced on Thursday from 3 1-2 to 3 per cent, but if the strike be declared the bank rate is likely to be raised in the early future. The. iso- lation of industry which a rupture would entail would undoubtedly mean a great demand fer eurency for bome necessary to eee exports of gold. The overflow this has been quite a factor. India s demands having been heavy, to th coal air could afford time for further consid- eration of a scheme for preventing a tittes ot South Wales Miners Feder- ation are to hold meetings at Car- im course of the day. As they represerit the most stubborn elem- ents. in conflict. much depends upon the decisions arrived at during their meetings. The decision of the miners in South Wales to-day is expected to ex- ercise-considerable influence on the National Conference of miners to be held to-morrow. Though the situation has not un- dergone any change over the week, and more hopeful feeling are ex- pressed in some quarters, as to the outcome of negotiations which have been proceeding quietly and of the in- terview between David Alfred Tho- wad, Pramlon Asquith, About. 30,000 AGRICULTURAL At the meeting of the Board of Di- rectors of the Agricultural Society on Saturday last a communication was read from T. L. Corbett asking for set- tlement of the Spencer and Todd special at Inst fall's show, The secre- tary was asked to communicate with Mr, McNeely, one of the judges to ob- tain his decision, The question of the proposed indus- trial building was referred back to the original committee to draw up a plan, determine size and cost of same. It was also decided that the city coun- cll be asked for the loan of 10,000 for same, So COUNTS POLICE. Little. Rock, Ark., Feb 2 Several persons are known to have been kil- led and more than a score injured in Tornado which late yesterday swept portions of Lincoln, Jefferson and Arkansas counties. Great destruct- fon is reported near Almyra in prairie GON HOTEL FIRE : CAUSES TWO DEATHS STRIKERS SHOR BY y and rice Jands of Arkansas county. Little Rock, Ark. Feb, 26 Detaits of Tornado which devastated portions of Lincoln, Jefferson and Arkansas counties Sunday afternoon, place dead at ten with at least twenty-five persons severely hurt. Homesteader s Wife. - of OUry Lord. Christ conquered as a man, showing that humanity need not Ian- guish in bondage to satan. Streng- thened by the Holy Spirit and using the sword of the Spirit which Is the word of God, the Christian: also over- comes evil. At the evening service the rector spoke of Lot and the overflow of So- dom: Lot placed material , interest above moral principle when he chose for material gain to live in such a sinful city as Sodom. It would be a ing for a nation if all the So- the ocean. It would pollute the ocean, but purity the nation. The best boosting that any clty can have is to be clean, moral place in which to-ltve and bring up children. Hot made a wrong choice and suf-, feved.. John B. Gough once sald: Young man, choose the right path at the beginning. You may choose the wrong path and stagger to the edge of the precipiece and then return, but remember ft will be with broken heart and bleeding feet. Therefore at the beginning choose the right path. , SEPPEEEPET SES EE TEESE SEES PE + + + cm + days excepted ave. fast-dase sfe4 2. By special permission of +f the Holy See, meat is allowed +f at all meais on Sundays and f+ at the principal meal on Mon- +f days, Tuesdays. Thursdays and Seturdays, except the +f Saturday of Ember week and + Holy Saturday. + 8. The use of fish and flesh +f at, the same time is not per- mitted during Lent. Children under-seven years of age are exempt from the law of fasting. Pe-sons under 21 years of age or over 60 years of age are not bound by the law of fasting; and all persons in I-health,-or emguged-tn-hard labor, or who have any other legitimate excuse, may be exempted both from the law of fast and abstinence, Whatever may be the obji- gation in the matter of fast or abstinence. Lent is for everybody a season of- morti- fication and of penance, -associate Mr. Pinla: The society decided to give their support to a proposed lecture on the cultivation of both flax and alfalfa by Mr. Burns, the secretary of the Dry Farming Congress, supported by his as both of these gentlemen are experts on the subject named. The secretary of the society, Mr, H. Hassard, was authorized to advertise the matter. pointed: Attractions. Committee Messrs Howson, Pingle, Milne, Quail, Day and Spencer. Grounds and Water Messrs. How- son; Biythe; Quail, Fawoett, and Huckvale, Revising Prize List Messrs. Blythe, and Johnstone. Racing Messrs. Pingle, Babb, Fish- er and Starks. oo The following directors were pres- ent: Mr, J, Fleming, Pres. Mr. H. Hassard, Sec hb be ob bb be tek Messrs, Burns, Blythe, Fisher, Starks, Quail, Day, Milne, Pingle, Spencer, Hargrave, Matthows and Johnstone. The meeting adjourned at 4 p.m. Killed Mrs. Kaldestad is Victim of Accident of into Suffield Injured Friday last. Mrs. N, Kaldestad, a homesteader's wife, residing 30 miles north of Suf- field, died.on Friday last as a result ee injuries received on Feb. 15. in a runaway. The local Mounted Police were notified but after an investiga- tion by Constable Dunn they decided that no- ligyest was Hevcesmary It would appear that the woman was driving from the homestead into Suffield when her horses ran away. In thelr wild run they. collided with another team and she was thrown out and either run over by the sleighs lor trampled on by the horses. She was picked up in am unconscious con- dition and taken to her home. Dr. Mason was called and did everything possible to relfe ve her suffering and jat the same time save her life, but his efforts proved fruitless as. she died ; Friday. in Runaway Accident while on Feb. 15th and Died on Dr. Mason communteated the facts to Capt. Parker and he sent one of his men up to investigate. He returned home yesterday and after recetving his report the Captaldecided that it was purely an accident. Theremain wil) be interred op Tuesday next NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD cw. A. P gt; Dispateb) Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 26 Albert J. Barr, former publisher of the Pitts burgh Post and a member of the Sun, and former director and publisher of the Pittsburgh Posy, iat oe the Sun and former director Asyociatea Press, dled suddenly Bat. urday in the Duquesne Club bere.

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