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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 18, 1910
Page
4
A 1910 editorial exhorts Prince Rupert to unite and push on with northern transport prospects, favoring the Portland Canal Short Line and G T P discussions. It stresses building warehouses, anchoring business, and securing a council action to settle assessments and accelerate city development.
Hon. F L Carter-Cotton, longtime BC political figure and former Vancouver member, will contribute a BC politics history to a twelve volume Dominion Company series on Canada. Editors include Prof Adam Short and Dr A G Doughty. BC pieces include early voyages up to 1871 and post Confederation political history by Carter-Cotton.
A list of authored works and roles includes William Fleet Robinson as deputy commissioner and titles on agriculture immigration and general economics by R B Gosnell Pictures of British Columbia by J B Babcock municipal institutions and provincial finances by R S Gosnell education by Dr Alex Robinson superintendent of education.
A young boy brought before the magistrate on a charge of stealing under the juvenile offenders act received a severe lecture and a suspended sentence. The Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church met for business and a social time, with growing membership and active welfare interest. The ladies of the Roman Catholic church prepare an entertainment and sale of work on Friday, November 4, with plans including a high class program and special features.
Investigators traced a scheme where Chinese merchants were smuggled via Hong Kong and Vancouver to evade the head tax. Passports were fraudulently issued without personal appearance, with letters of identification and fake drafts, netting about a million dollars in losses. Eighteen suspects aboard the Empress of India were questioned. most carried letters identifying them to the Vancouver interpreter and carried various sums in gold.
Investigators uncovered a scheme run by two men in Hongkong and Vancouver who used forged passes issued by the viceroy of the Two Kwangs to import Chinese merchants. The group netted about ten thousand dollars per ship arrival, with potential total near twenty thousand, before cables halted further shipments.
Wattsburg Lumber company proposes employee cooperation with farming on irrigated Wattsburg land with 5 percent down and 8 percent interest, offering wholesale building materials and a buyback to ensure profits. White employees receive shares with three fourths paid, transferable only among holders, promising long term mill and sash works with a $500,000 share issuance against a $750,000 plus property value.
The coroner J H McMullin concluded there is no need for an inquest after a body was found in Nelson where the Duke had worked on several papers including the News office before moving north. He considered all circumstances and ruled no inquest necessary.
Mr Warlock of the Victoria Phenix Brewery was in town this week. P G Copeland an old time Yukon man is in the city for the present. In early days Copeland ran a stage line between White Horse and Dawson. Harry Briggs of Victoria represented Clan McKenzie whisky and visited old friends here.
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