Mm 8. /5 U.\ AM J> IK WEATHER REPORT ' HI ( Do it Now! Compiled • by Mr.'c. H. Urseth, of the RSi Ilagtnstxirg Gbtifcrvatoi-y. 1 'tlV Temperature for the month of January, ^'"Advertise in the Courier maximum, 26, minimum, 16.88. Ruin ior same period, 2.83; Snow, 27.75. VOL. I—NO. 22 BELLA COOLA, B.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 19,3. $ 1.00 a Year i i GER. President Pacific &: Hudson Bay 1 11 !'3& to Become a Peer Railway Ask for ill Not urreicler Jottings of Bella Coola and District 11 / Guarantee of Bonds It Naturalization Laws of British Bombardment of Adrianopie Continues S. S. Camosun arrived it this i Farmer Thomas Astlefor.d, of Empire Are Changed. port at noon Sunday. jFirvale," called at the Courier The Dominion government ..id- London.—Bombardment of Adrianopie, which was reported in c trice Monday last, conveying the \1 M^ondon.—If the naturalization is giving serious consideration to The passengers for this port regards of our many appreciative dispatches from Sofia to have been stopped for twenty-four hours .{flaws of the British Empire are a proposal by the company known included, Messrs D. A. Mcinnis readers at his home settlement. 'Mliji to allow the Turks an opportunity to surrender, has been resumed, and Ed. Wheeler. j "^changed, as is advocated in the as the Pacific & Hudson Bay Rail­ according to later Sofia dispatches. While no explanation is'given, Canadian house of commons, Sir way, to build a line from Bella ' Mr. Wheeler brought from: Interesting DeLate Coola north-eastward through it is supposed the Turks refused, flatly..to surrender, and the Bul­ Ocean Falls a large quantity of j — ••'-:•.';•' • !'<trnt. Thomas Shaughnessy, president ; garians, deciding not to waste the twenty-four hours truce, re­ : »< H- of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Central and Northern British lumber, some of which is to be j The locnl Debating Society met ' •• ' • . opened with their cannon at once. Columbia, through • the Peace used in Rolston and Calnan's at the Mackenzie School on Thurs- "•j (Ml. 'M will, in all probability become " wf Lit River country, thence into Al­ It is expected that a determined attempt to carry the fortress by buildirg. day last, the subject for discus­ 'i 1 1K-, •IfMliord Shaughnessy. His Majesty, ••'<H r.T) berta and ultimately on to Hud­ storm will be made in a few hours. The outgoing • passengers by sion being "Exclusion of Asiatics . Ut; .. rl"«Mng George, has been .'.advised from British Col um bia." M ,i i ( ( . son Bay. The project is being the last south-bound steamer in­ t^Md has himself expressed the Big Armies Locked in Struggle cluded Messrs B. Brynildsen, R. Both sides waxed warm on the i'.At K < >^mtm '$|^wis h •••••that th'e distinguished •••Can •••• - supported by Hon. Martin Burrell Vienna.—Desperate fighting between the Turks and Bulgars.on A. Teebay, Bert Rolston, J. T. subject, giving the judges and 'M^^ian should be elevated to the minister of agriculture, H. H. audience something to think the Gallipoli peninsula is reported to have started- and that both Brooks and E. Hanna. >'ii:iiT VJIpprage. ' • Stevens, M. P., H. S. Clements, about. After due deliberation sides have sustained heavy losses. Forty-five thousand Turks and M, P., and by other members of The telegraph line between the verdict was awarded-the. af­ iV,! •> V'V.^lifSir Thomas Shaughnessy, al- Arabs are fiercely resisting the Bulgar advance. Bella Coola and 150 Mile House, '"'tA^XtKough a Canadian citizen, was the Pacific province. firmative side. •••;•"•.' Cariboo Road, is now open for The next meeting of the Society " 40/^f, • , , ••• The plan put up by the pro- S^XEbrn in the United States, and as public business. The first public will be held Thursday,.27th inst, 9$M •'•'•• motors to the government is that Apparatus Invented shatters stand at present, he has Reported Death message was despatched from 8 p. m., at the Mackenzie School, !&?J*? "•" •'• an immediate start at construc­ §h.piie of the rights of a British Lessens Usefulness Bella Coola to Vancouver at 10 taking.on this occasion the form tion will be made this summer if a. m. on Tuesday, since when of a social evening. All are cor­ bject outside of the Dominion of King Menelik the government will guarantee of War Aeroplanes business has been brisk. dially invited to attend. Canada. the bonds of the 800 miles now London.— King Menelik, of We regret to announce the Paris.—An apparatus, which, Cheslakee Towed contemplated at $40,000 per mile, Abyssinia, is dead, according to death of the infant son of Mr. it is claimed, will cause an aero­ these being thirty-year deben­ a dispatch received from Addis- and Mrs. Roy Mosher of Atnarko, Ootsa Lake plane of any type to capsize in Safely Into Port tures at 4 1-2 per cent per annum. which occured on the 10th inst. Abeda. His successor, Prince the air is being investigated by It is not many years ago since 'GLIii The company does not intend to The Courier wishes to extend ' Lashed alongside the salvage Lidji Jeassu, one of his grand- General Hirschauer, of the flying the first pioneer settlers located t\, t its sincere sympathy.to Mr. and steamer Salvor and with the tug ask for any financial assistance in this rich country, and it is in­ •cu| at sons, entered the capital with corps of the French army Mrs. Mosher in their sad be­ •riTi.-- from the Government of British teresting to note that with im­ !t-< •• • Maude in close attendance, the great pomp. No official confir­ It is claimed that the apparatus, reavement. proved transport facilities, and wrecked steamer Cheslakee was Columbia. which is light and simple and can mation has been received here of the consequent advent of the •J'lttc' be carried in a soldier's knapsack, It is hoped that the executive h.t'' brought intoJEsquimalt this morn­ the death of Menelik, who has fairer sex, the early settlers are •.. tr- will provoke atmospheric disturb­ of our local farmers Institute will ! i I ing. She is to be hauled out on High Commissionership on several previous occasions now enjoying some of the ad van-, \'> rt ances sufficiently heavy to wreck take the opportunity afforded by .-iit the British Columbia Marine been reported dead. tages that society naturally \V any aeroplane flying lower than the Agricultural and Industrial Ways in a day or two, and the Ottawa.—The rumor has re­ affords. Ut} 9,000 feet. exhibition to be held at Prince i j.- ^ vived in Ottawa that Lord Strath- 11- work of repairing her will com- It is believed the invention, if Rupert next fall, and see to it cona will resign very shortly as Perhaps the greatest innova­ *-i H "lSfence. There is a report that German Prince Has proved practicable, may have a that a good exhibit of local farm h Canadian high commissioner. It tion that this country has ex­ serious bearing on the value of produce is displayed. vrr^the Cheslakee will be cut in two is well known that he has wanted Narrow Escape perienced was the dance given A1ra the aeroplane in war. by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bennett, lengthened, but nothing to resign for some time but con­ Mr. Bob Leese, of Atnarko, which, vvith the genial postmaster finite in this line has yet been tinued in the position at the ex­ .'.. Berlin.—Prince Wilhelm Eitel visited town last week, he re­ ° • i -• Mr. Harry Morgan as floor mana­ press wish of the government. Japanese Naval Plans ports weather conditions favor­ cided upon. Friedrich, second son of the kais­ ger, proved a huge success. Two names are prominently men­ able at that settlement and trail er, narrowly escaped death when Washington, D. C.—According tioned as successors, Sir Hugh in good shape for travel. Among those present wei*e: 'reight Clerk Vaux Graham, of Montreal, and Sir an express train on which he was to unofficial information which Mesdames T." W. Mitchell, F. | Not to Blame Edmund Walker, of Toronto. travelling from Bucharest to has been received at the Navy Mr. Walter Ratcliff who has a Brewer, J. Stynoff, J. Morgan; ^ - • Berlin crashed into the rear end Department, Japan intends to ranch at Still-Water, some sixty Miss Griffin; Messrs C. W. Mit­ !P G. J. Vaux, freight clerk on of an oil tank train nearMediash build seven dreadnoughts, four miles'up •the valley, arrived in chell and Son, J. Stynoff, J. armored cruisers, eight scout Morgan, P. Boden, W. Ellison, the ill-fated Cheslakee, who was Governor-General The collision caused an explo­ town Thursday, bringing a fine vessels and forty-eight destroy- catcn 0f furs. Rev. G. McKay and Son. ' charged with manslaughter by Hopes to Return sion of the oil, the burning fluid rthe coroner's jury, will not be ers.to cost 350,000,000 yen. flying over the wrecked coaches. Drowned in Bella Coola Mr, Wm, Ellison has moved > prosecuted, according to instruc­ Montreal, Que. —"We hope to River into his new home; by far the tions received from the attorney- Many persons, it is reported, return to Canada next summer," Anxious for the Pope most commodious residence in the general. The marine inquiry j where fatally injured, but the A sad accident, unhappily at- said H. R. H., the Duke of Con- tended with fatal results, occured j district, and falling to the wiles board found that Vaux was in no; prince and his suite escaped un London.—Rome advices state naught, speaking before the of the local ladies has promised way to blame.