Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 1

LAST EDITION Z)aify Circulation TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23 75,827 ti "sir Lifts cc-n tor tnipeetlen. TWENTY PAGES EDMONTON, ALBESTA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913 Vol. 10, No. 113 WITH old-time Christmas weather, with the spirit of good fellowship everywhere, with nothing left undone to bring the joys of the season to the less fortunate members of the community, tomorrow should be a holiday to cheer all hearts The staff of the Journal intend to give themselves up completely to the celebration of the occasion and the three issues of the paper will not be forthcoming Christmas. They are looking forward to a day of great happiness and trust that this will also fall to the lot of each and every reader.

A Merry Christmas to the whole of our large and ever-increasing newspaper family. QUIET CHRISTMAS Mayor-Elect McNamara a Sunshiner Nef sho4fts At Brantford. Neiiher Will Neither Will Autos And Rigs Assist Santa Claus In Distributing Sunshine Christmas Gifts Die FOR THE Will Give Newsboys Jolly Dinner mm iGirl and Pcliceman Are Vic- AND CAR DILATE Youngsters Will Have a Eeal! Merry Christmas To- morrow Night tims Arre3ted ia Sister's Home Vettrn Af-otiatel I'ree.) BRAXTFOflD, Dec. 24 A St i double th'joiing affray occurred at an 7 y- early hour this morning in Brock's lane 5- ft i. h.

Christmas week will be one of re-. Joicing for the newsboys of the and a week that will long be remem-1 bercd by the youthful newsvendors. i Turkey in unlimited quantities, cran-j berries in ab.indanee, and all the sider dishes necessary to make up a juicy and succulent feast will be provided by Mayor-Elect McNamara, the friend oT the newsboys, who in accordance with his custom observed last year for' the lirst time in this city will "stake--', 1ho youngsters to the "feed'j they have ever had in their lives. All of the local dignitaries of church i -A A 2 Recent Deaths of Church Cast Gloom Over Vatican POPE WILL SPESD DAY IN LIBRARY Sovereigns of Italy Will Play With Their Children Tomorrow HOME. Dec.

24. The recent deaths jn tlia i-ardlaalate hare cast gloom over tha Chri-imai fetivitieii at the Vatican, but the season will be eeneially observed whh the u-uai formaline j. The Kpe will end his personal arrett- in the efst end, largely settled by colored people. As a result, Emma Jones is in the city hospital, one of her hands being almost shot off, and Constable Cobden has gunshot wounds in the forehead, over the right eye, but neither is In a serious condition. The shooting was done by Billy Murray, colored, of 22 Brock's lane The entire police force, all armed, were called, out and after an exciting chase, ran tho negro down at the home of his sister, where they arrested him.

Prior to the police chase Murray had a.sked for admission Pt several houses and when refused, fired shots through the doors, several having narrow escapes. I Shoots Ex-Alderman. CHICAGO, Dec. 24. A sensation i I to all the Cathohc sovereign or -1 and state will be present, and nothing has been I ft undone to make the Christmas tl.ecr of the boys all that couid posib'y be desired.

Mr. Mc-Xamara, has secured the Corona hotel for the entertainment and dinner, and among invited are thu present mayor, Arrhdf-acon Gray, Rev. Dr. McQueen and many others. Manager Gill of the Pantages theatre has agrd to send some of his best entertainers to assist in the rejoicing.

This gueets will be stated at promptly 7 o'clock Christinas evening. Manager Oill will provide further al shooting occurred here today when i Charles Ailing, formerly alderman, and of recent years attorney for the i 4 state board of health, was shot in the eye, by En unidentified man who then MAYOR-ELECT W. J. McNAMARA turned the pistol on himself. 4 a section of the Pantages for 350 news- Ikjvs.

The youngsters will round out i ITj rirnnnofl cntertalnme.it Friday evening for the! the week's festivities by atttnding the benetit of the wsies, when he reservesj performance in a body. In Mid-Ocean; Finder Gets Christmas Cheer Europe, with the exception of the Kirs of Iioly. with whom he is supposed to hold no communication. The Cardinoln residing in Rome likewise hare many greetings to send, while living abroad aend letters to the pope which are read personally by the Donliff and answered by Cardinal Merry lel Val, the papal secretary of state. Today the pope received the cardinals-ChrL-tmas Day, itself, however, is to dny of rest for the pontiff, after celebrating early ais, he imply recuvis hi listers and parses the remainder of the time in the library with his bool.

At the QuirinaU Christmas will be err quietly observed. The eovereigna. alter presenting gift to their households, will retire to thiir private apartments and upend the day with their children. ROME, Dec. 24.

Cardinal Martineili, although in a state of extreme feebleness, insisted today on joining the other cardinals and presented his Christmas greetings to the Winnipeggers Want Snow For Christmas Remarkable Story of. Poor FIRST WIRELESS FROM El IS RECEIVED Irish Peasant Tcld By 3- -f 4 W- if Canon Eannay Weather is Seasonable, Sky Bright and Thermometer Below Zero LONDON. Dec. 24. The Irish Times publishes today a true Christmas story by Canon Hamiav whose nom de plume WINNIPEG.

Dec. 24. Were it 18 George JJirajiaro" ajtl's "3.O.S." Gees Bounds of European Teleeriph Stations Dispatch Very Weak Py Lensed Wire not for the complete absence of nowitht ari" t-lis 'ir the owner of a the weather is seasonable enough to- Ner York magazine returned with his day. with bright skies and the thermo- little daughter from Kuroie and that ARRESTED FOR THEFTS Police Take Three Persons in Cue-tody The police took two men and one woman In custody last night on charges of stealing. John Olson was arrested i meter eight below zero.

It dipped mid-ocean the girl wrote her name 1 18 i all over the Canadian prairie provinces nnd address on a piece of paper, which LONDON, Dec. 24. "Bergen working wait and listen," last night, the lowest point recorded sne enclosed in a bottle and dropped of 20 degrees below zero being at Prince overboard, if by Detective Kroning on a warrant Thi3 was the message which went the round of Europe's wireless stations at one o'clock this morning, and charging him with stealing the furni Albert. Saskatchewan. The girl's message was picked up Huch temperatures with wheeled traf-f hv a peasant on the west coast of Ire-ftc are rare indeed, and nothing would 'and, who wrote her, stating that he li.8i niore welcome than a ironrt snnw.

was very poor and had a lare familv. i call for help ever received from the whlrh h. axkorf htn Arctic circle waa coming throug.i. Canon Ilannav in resnonse to a re- 1 I 1 1 A warning message came Department stores here have been'etorv' and th'8 morning the peasant ture and other effects from 719 Second street at $744. Alice Reist was the second person arrested.

She was charged by Joe Breton with stealing $7.35 in a shoot- ing gallery. Detective Schreyer effected this arrest. The other arrest was that of Fred Hawkins who was cought by Detective Kroning and is accused of stealing a gold watcn and CHain from a drunken companion. practically giving away children's; 'ho is still unaware of his good luck will receive a substantial gift of money from the girl's father. Taking out the Christmas Cheer from The Journal's Sunshine Santa Claut Headquarters.

sleighs and sleds, and much the same conditions apply to fur stocks. u. mansr MOTHER 111 BDJtND IRE THAN $900 WHERE TO CO TOMORROW illim vi n. iiarmc. einiultnnecuuly Monday morning from stntiens at Norddeech, Germany and KciKt-cnhigen, Hdlantl and the next London knew was a faint message tapped out at "l'our signals very weak, I can hardly hear you." The fact, then was established that the Norwegian eteamer Sagnvaid had gone ashore on the Lofoden Islands, six hundred miles north of Bergen.

This 13 double the working distance of the ship, and to enable Bergen to communicate, all stations as far south as Bordeaux were asked to close down so that" the faint signal might be if ad. No more definite news of the accident is yet to hand. Shippers to Fight Cartage Increase Can Only Be Gained by Hard Lyceum Theitrs-Lyceum Pliy- SEEKS HER DAUGATER L01EW IS DEAD! SUBSCRIBED Mrs. A. Dean Appeals To Chief BY SUNSHieS i Carpenter For err "ihcro Acre." 2.4U- Empire Thcatrs "The Rosary." 3C3 Pintigcs Th-Jtre Vaudeville.

3.60-Eskimos vs. Dominions, heckey at fcxiiib tiari Crountfs. (All children under 14 ysars, if acsom-p-id by parints, will be ad-mittsd free; also, all newsboys badges.) 11 a.m. .9 II p.m.-Monarch, Empress, Bijcu and Dreamland motion picture theatres. Evening performames in all local theatres.

Two evening performances at the Pantages. Was One of Edmonton's Most Public-Spirited Citizens COIVIMITTED FOR TRIAL Frank McConnoll It Sent Up on Charge of Receiving Street Car Tickets Frank McConnell, one of the men charged with receiving stoten street railway tickets, was committed for trial this morning by Magistrate Massie after M. W. Eager, who has been retained by the city to act as prosecutor, had submitted the evidence of S. E.

Smeeton, acountant for the street railway department. Mr. Smeeton's evidence was to the effect that tickets as they were produced in the courtroom had enver been sold at the car barns and never in that manner. This concluded the case of the prosecution and the magistrate then decided that sufficient evidence Fight Before Railway Commission TV-stern Associated Press) MONTREAL, Dec 24. The proposed one cent increase in railway cartage rates is intended by the railway company to be permanent.

The company, however, has to secure the railway commission's approval of the new tariff, and when this comes up for consideration there will be many violent protests from the Montreal 'Shippers, and It is anticipated from ship Worried over her daughter's contiiv ued absence and not hearing from her since last March. Mrs. A. Dean, of Willing Helpers Join in Making Happy Scores of JJn- fortunate Ones Today is Santa Claus Day and with Til ere paFwd awy this jpirning in the person of William H. Clarke, at.

the ge of yeors, one of Edmonton's most prominent citizens. Dfnth occurred at his fennly rcsuience. 27 McKay avenue, at 13 o'clock this morning. The deceased was hitiiiy rc-pected in Fdmontoa. where he had be'ome well known brth in a private end business way.

He nas ciasetd with the most bn.iries men of the city, havins built np the budiies of the W. II. Clarke WAGON DAMAGES AUTO Team Travellin gon Wrong Side of Street. Alleges Dr. Mutvey.

While driving east on Jasper avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets this morning. Dr. Muivey had his automobile badiy damaged when a tf-um, belonging to the firm of Hallier and Aidridge, crashed Into it. According to Dr. Muivey the team was being n-iven on the wrong side of the street and was turning around.

The wagon was eventually thrown on the top of the auto's engine and about $130 damage was the result. The doctor further states that if that part of the avenue where the street car tracks are laid, had been paved he would have been able to get ont of the way. pers elsewhere. The railway company jt comes a moat generous supply of tho Co-Operative Hail Insurance favored will certainly not get the increase Christmas spirit, especially In the had been given to warrant a commit preeent pro-! is even talk of a boycott, though how ncignuornoou ui Camla, Monaghan, Ireland, has written the chief of police of this city asking that an effort be made to locate her. The girl, Lucy J.

Dean, is very young, hardly out of her teens and left home over a year aero to come to Alberta. When she bid gord bye to her Jrislt mother she intended coming here to seek a position as governess. At first she wrote home but since March no letters have been received. l-'rom Chicago comes a request from William A. Peterson, lawyer, that the i.uriibcr company to its portions.

tal for trial. this could be put into effect is not on l.ice s.reeu Uj busily iuuvernineuii iu luduiiuua ia stated. scores of willing helpers were MINER IS CRUSHED LETH BRIDGE, Alta, Dec. 24. Ar Willing To Consider late hour at night, engaged until Measure thur Lotine.

a miner, was rushed between two cars and killed at Hardie-ville mines. A man with a brood conception of public service, the deceased served faithful'y as an active member of the Edmonton board of trade for several years. He aleo sat on the Edmonton public school board be diligently served for a long period. He waa president of the W. H.

n'ke iipmber company. Limited, and occupied a like' position with the lidmon-t-Ti Lumber company. Ilia. VI OrLiUdliYlAO l-aimaklnff up the Christmas hampers. Old Country and" Canadian Holiday Frt'm an four this morning antes.

Packages Numerous. havc Expectations are that the mail which I from "nc Toe will arrive at the Edmonton postoffice i good of Christmas The this evening from the "old Country- response for the loan of vehic es has and eastern Canada will be the largest a thef CONSERVATIVES' CHOICE The Weather Owing to falling health. Mr. ClerVe prac- whereabouts of Mrs. Kmil Clauson be -ought for and it is thought that the woman has fallen heir to a large amount of money and that the lawyer wishes to hand over all the papers pertaining to it.

Many years ago Charles and Percy WlXXIl'KG, Dec. 24. It was settled yesterday at a conference between the government and a deputation from the Manitoba I'nion of municipalities, that a bill to establish a system of inter-muuicipal hail insurance will be introduced in tttc lecri-t. fn-e at this session Cav minister ticallr retired from nil bu'inefs life about one year 'fhere wa a time when received in the history of the Edmonton OI inem nas wtu iiic vemitr ui imnroi for hundreds of persons who have been A few ligM scattered snowfalls and flurrirs lae ciurrert in the Prairie Provinces, but the weather generally has this city. Decfcnecd woo born in High- This mail is now en route for Edmon-? offu' gate.

Wdon. -7e caie to Canada about ton an(, PxpectPd t( constitute well! Sunshine in Homes twenty five eito and settled mi rt i i Chauleburgh came to Canada and have itit i.t the rpcontjm(t bpen heard of and ow Mrs. iX been nns and it has cold. tn Lf i. iiiu.n Ciiaulcburgh, a sister-in-law is soek Toronto, where he Ivjilt mi a reputation as a sueressful con-rector.

About iwi 2.000 parcels. At ij he came to Edmonton and fjr several jo'clmk evening, the staff of mail- Pick Hon. H. F.McLeod to Replace O. S.

Crockett in York County. Ioc- 24- Hon. 11. F. Vcl.cod.

provincial secretary New r-unswick. and one of the leading Conservative of the province, was unanimous choice of the Lib-r-rpl-Onser. Ptivcs of York county in tbeir Christmas E.ve convention here today to a candidate for the called as a resu't of the appointment of t- Crockett to the supreme court bench. FORECASTS Western Prcmces Fair and decidedly old todiy and Thursday. Local snew slurries.

Hoxcs containing everything for merry Christmas piled as high a slble. Everything in them ti try to show how glad it "us t'. '11-cause of Sunshine to ti tl; 'vi Tin a 'to cxn '-Si'l t- t'lv I'H 'a. Sjinff to find them on account of somi estate transaction she wishes rn for years continued his operation in this will leave the postomce lyden city as a o-ntracter. He opened a lumber i with the packages of good things that WEATHER REPORTS i i j- in- iritri i ti -v iuui i I r.f- in a small way at a Iscctton on nave arriving throughout the day.

home this Chrisms t.ic vocr i ve later located ithin thirty miles of th Jsper avenue in 1903 nd owing to buci-jTn be Qut delivering until mid-nes expansion, removed to toe large i nnv liu i 4nmnanv Inanimate turke ard lo JjuUt iti-: is remi.ve-1 with favor who possess the 'Is'ht C'lrstrua? i seemed to have a i-eV -of i.ieatiri-. I MURDERER REPRIEVED Hundreds xt idiirrj- Mute on tb? ryJJTl jijr Vil-i JS DIES irt of the youn.isi.rs the c.t- of the youn of! Ninth street. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon from tha late residence of the de-craved. Interment will take place in the Edmonton cemetery. part pre to be seen miy MARINE southern.

city. A portion of the woman's letter read as follows: "I am in financial trouble over an incomplete purchase of some property in British Columbia and would like to locate my relatives." An anxious mother and father In llabarus. B.C. are waiting to hear from their son. Mr.

and Mrs. MoGillvary have tried in every way to locate Everet McGillvary and have even communicated with the commissioner of Date of Execution of William Campbell, Negro, Is Extended. (Western Associated Press.) MONTREAL, Dec. 24. William day at Sunshir hciri'ia-tntr.

Vfcr have been funis rr nts Y3i Premier and rjr.re lilunaaer. i-o. 'k ei "ress.) 1 KACr Dec. 24. RECORD XMAS SHOPPING 'them even path-t'C, in tbt wav I f'i -Ti i K(.

Tio nep-rn murderer of i. A i I i (Movement of Vessels December 23). eTt Sr.avci'js Eatrup. Experiences Greatest Trade Murie. who was to have been i their offerings' t-i iar 'E- Arrivals.

Stations. Hista Low Edmonton, clear I 12 Caljary. clear 18 2 Lethbridee, clear 11 6 Medicine Hat. sivpw. 10 4 Battleford, fair 12 4 Prince Albert, clear 20 Swift Current, clear 8 4 Jaw, clear 11 10 Reehia, ckar 10 7 clear 12 Minnedosa, clear 14 2 Winnipeg, clear 16 Port Arthur, cloudy i2 18 cloudy 26 -24 Xelson 25 20 Penticton J4 29 Grand Forks 24 li Northern Temperature stations.

Micimum. Peace Biver Crossing, cloudy 1 Q.ouarcU cloudy 12 Sawridge. clear 10 Fairview, clear 14 On- nveean. clear 10 Spirit River, clear 10 Urende rrairie, clear 20 Athabasca, clear 20 From Season In History hanged on Xew Year's Eve. was re- it is purely the tl.

nuAt r.tn irny politician Havre! lXXDOX. Dec- 24. Tcday today by Justice Cross on rep- ebje happy, not a MK'a the nc't-t lfifrn. 3i-' tdv. police at Ottawa.

They are now writ ntur T. i greatest Christmas snopping camivai ent.itions orescnted by William i -ivimr sianv nf rt b. At Xew York New Tork Xew York Xew York S'eam-r Kronlapd Czar A osonia t.iiuj!on record conies to an end. Already counsel for the condemned i alone -iitJi a "tlejse'j" nnc- aid l' 3 manager'ing Chief Carpenter in, the uope that Portland has proved a Christmas of many wIlo presented a letter from the gite this to some -th-r -itUe bj of tfcjf rS'tii If waa horn on the young man might be located. Hp Is known to have been staying at the politics in IVrgersenf jord Xew York Jierrion I'hiladelphia house.

Chrlstiaaia ords. The jrjowtns flsares lnaicate-mlaster justice, the Hon. J. C. girS, and wish them a-Llcrrr Cri-l.

Mverpool the tremenOoiis business done in the Dougherty, saying he liad not had time I mas." Then wifh a r-Antwerp i west end of London. (0 read over the lengthy evidence be- jng the youngster will laa.s sit a Cameron House in this city last March but since then his whereabouts have been unknown. Boston 1 There lias been :4u.udv sales in one fore the time set for the excution. added expression on oi a-T FCV'. 3TAH i3 LEAD.

yTC. ir.t J. E. that they have done wha tiiry CvKilU. Liverpool St.

John, X.B. of the department stores during the Can-pbeH wss reprieved until January C'ttaictetM-ti'-r f. juvenile Bcstonllast fortnight; l.zoa.ooo people visitea 4.th. The Spirit of the o'ni'o it. Iverpool Glasgow lier.

ii.n Tii riorrine. follow CELEBRATES 106th BIRTHDAY LOXl Dec 24. Robert Coles, an old soldier who served through the Pori land. one large store in the same XewYorK $30,000 was taken in one day in the! OPERATIC SINGER DEAD. r.lanito'j Manchester Port Arab'c Ion inn I tirniii innehafca Turcoman The cases are number! "R- where Mirror Iidine.

clear Giroux Bay. clear up i A i Xew York Christmas rerent department of one LONDON, Dec. 24. Albert James, i child, after savin, Enltrdim Indon Sailed r. oj er iU vi arp" "citis.

He cjf fs 1 i'o r.io.-e than to fl-e "i cr 'it fxr the oi ui "ifv 1 l'-'f1' a vnich ji enU-' y-lcct'to. ly'ore, and parcels passed inne of the original actors in the Gil- considerable time, on Crimean war, celibrated his one hind-red and sixth birthday at Croydon He Joes not smoke. His wife is of age. Stbroueh the narking rooms of one ofibcrt end Sullivan coinic operas, died i For T.ONTOX. Dec fW A.P.

Special Cwble -Tarie. freely, maximum 28; mintmum 2i. Continued on jhere today. Avonmouth Portland, Me. the stoies.

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