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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 11, 1915
Page
2
The Prince Rupert Journal lists office details for editor C. H. Nelson at 128 Third Avenue East near McBride Street. It notes daily and weekly editions, delivery and postage rates, and invites advertising inquiries.
City council votes in favor of a day labor system to construct the Digby Island water pipeline and forwards the proposal to Ottawa for federal public works approval. The draft contract caps city cost at 26000 while covering actual material costs, with competing bid offers noted.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions several scattered names and places including Taile and Ch PRG mene OP Aveo Doom. It references a chief and various initials, giving no clear event or outcome to report.
A prisoner escaped from the train before leaving the interior town reducing the total held from 155 to 154. An Irish Fusiliers squad aided in transferring the men to a steamer and one regiment guarded the prison holds during the night. Inspector Owen remained off shore. Authorities may round up more aliens soon at the Vernon detention camp with militia ready to guard the prisoners.
A series of 1915 notices by Robert Cowswell Robert McKenzie Burgess John Wesley Connell Lillian Hall Kirkley Stewart Graham Campbell and others in Victoria and Vancouver listing intentions to apply for mining lands near Burgess Bay Rennals Sound Maria Bay Kickathla Inlet and Ozard Bay detailing block descriptions and directions for coal and petroleum prospecting in British Columbia.
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