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DonV put off your -Port George trip.- You may get left The best time to travel is now.
VOLUME  1,   NO. 62
SOUTH   FORT   GEORGE,   B.C.,   OCTOBER   14,   1911
$3 DOLLARS  PER ANNUM
 COMMENT

The" following is taken from the Edmonton Bulletin, Frank Oliver's paper, the day following the big battle at the polls. Its frankness makes it good reading:
A DEFEAT TO BE PROUD OF.
The ''interests'' have won. Precisely how sweeping is their victory is not yet known, but enough is known to make certain that reciprocity has been rejected in a manner which leaves no room for doubt or misunderstanding, and that the government who staked their lives on its endorsation have suffered a decisive defeat^
But making all allowance for the part played by the protected interests in determining the verdict, ihe verdict from the polls is none the less clear declaration- for high tariff. There is nothing to be gained in denying or shirking the fact. The people had the issue put squarely to them; reduction or no reduction." They have declared for no reduction; therefore for the tariff as it stands, or for a higher one. The government who succeed to power will do so, therefore, with a clear mandate from the . people to continue the tariff at its present level, and with a "perfect right to raise it if or where they-deem this necessary, wise or expedient. Having won on the ground that tint tariff should not be reduced, this is the only logical interpretation to put upon tl� decision of the voters.      ,         "x/'
This pronouncement from the polls is the absolute justification of the government for having failed in past years to proceed more. .swiftly along the way of tariff reduction than they have. For years the government have been criticized by their foes�and>some-times by their friends�for not reducing the tariff in radical enough fashion. Tine event establishes that thay haveroeen willing to yo farther along thatr^road than the present temper of the^people would approve, and therefore, ^-thatr^in proceeding slowly they wo� proceeding in the only way possible.. The necessary assumption is that had they proceeded more quickly they would have the sooner jnet the fate |4�at overtook/tnem on Thursday, and"that the public'would not have received the very substantial measure of tariff relief the government were able to give by proceeding at a pace which some thought too slow.
The national policy was established years ngo on the cry that there should be reciprocity in tariffs between this country and the United States. Never before, since the Laurier government pame frito power, was it possible to establish reciprocity in tariffs by a tariff reduction. Hitherto the only way reciprocity in tariffs could be brought^ about was by increasing the Canadian ^tariff to the level of that of the Republic^ To have radically reduced the Canadian tariff^ without securing a larger^reduction in/ftie United; States tariff uvretura/ wouja have been to create, nok-feciprocity in,tariffs, but a greater\divergence in the tariffs, and a di-vergence^wmchi according/to^ popular opinion as expressed on^PKursday, would be considered -unfavorable.
Next to winning in a good cause, the best thing possible to a government, is to be de-feu teid^in a good cause. That after fifteen years of administration the Laurier ministry went out of office not^through ineptitude, but through allegiance -tp a basic principle of their political faithNis something of which Liberals'should be proud and from whicn they should gather confidence for 1\k future fight. It has not been a too-common fault of Canadian governments to die for their principles. Rather the fashion , has been to forget their principles and to linger on into years of iinpptence until dismissed from office by a disgusted electorate. Such was the fate of. the Conservative gov-eniment which fell in 189p. That goyern-�'ment went down not dnly; because of what it bad done or proposed to do, but because 't had lost the power or the inclination to do anything to justify its existence.
�Such, fortunately,,las not been the course �f the Laurier government, they _ adopted 11 course which theyjhougbt to be in the I��b lie interest and for the public good, a course thoroughly consistent with Liberal principles and which seemed ,to be dictated ">' public demand. When it became apparent, that the existing parliament would not approve the measure they submitted the is-' �ue to the people, and staked! their tenure of �Hice upon the Verdict. The), verdict is in"the "^atiye and thWlpWj the Ipenalty or having* gone beyond And ahead* of public opin-lon- A nobler defeat &o Liberal could de-8lro and no, government could have. Every K�vernment must 8p:me day leave office, and |>ow could it dd so betterlthan in attfinpt-lnK to carry into force a measure whinejuber8 and wppbrtiw think wouldfresult lr� MteredTConditipnii of the people, -Who*' Pusmess  ia  entruited  to iti care?   f p go
down in such a fight is infinitely preferable to winning with no issue at stake and no cause to advance.
A Montreal dispatch of Sept. 26 says that snow fell in that city that day, and that H was considered exceptionally early.
This fact should serve to point out to residents of Fort George that there are other sections of this Dominion where early snow appears^ Here in South Fort George we have had a three-days' chinook that has dried up the water in the Fraser river and sent the flannels. into the. discard. Still, withal, we are displeased because the G. T. P. railway is not here with its steel. Ungrateful world!
"That the Grand Trunk Pacific will, with the completion of the lowest-graded transcontinental on the North American continent, handle a hundred million bushels of grain annually by rail to Prince' Rupert ior shipment to Europe by a fleei to be specially built for this purpose/' was the statement made by General Manager Chamber-lin,of the G. T. P./at ^Montreal, recently
Just fancy what a hundred million bushels mean at $1 per. And all this passing through the portals of South, Fort George.
Speaking before the CanadianClub of -Victoria on the 28th ult., Charles Beresford condemned the policy of.-the British naval administration in.abandoning, Esquimau as a naval base. He "also criticised the Declaration of Londonand said that the opening of the Panama CanaPwould evolve some of the greatest problems thaVeould be conceived/which the English speaking nations "would find a difficulty in solving^
Wants a Winter Job
Following is a wire received from Calgary under/ date October 8. The sender is evidently in want of a job, and should be a reminder to the $400-beaver-coat real estate men who intend to go to Calgary for the winter with prize-packages, that times are not what they should ,be.  The wire follows:
Calgary, Oct.,8, 1911, To The Herald �.       '
South Fort George, B.C.: Can man earn   a living at For George this winter.   Wire. F. A. HOLDE*
If Mr. Holden refers. to^Georgfi J. Hammond's "Fort George^Vwe most unhesitat; ingiy say that no man cap �arn a living there this wint^ror the next six winters for "the simpliKTact � that the townsite is a "paper" townsite with no other occupants than   jthose    directly    or indirectly  asso-
with the company's venture. � o make the matter clearer and to allow of no disquietude, or uneasiness in the mind of the Calgary man, we mention the result of the.recent ('vote polled at the so-called ^'Fort George."     It was:
^  y- Liberals..................   4
Conservatives............   2
A-grand total of six votes, which not even the "subsidized" press of Hammond is in a position to contradict.
This amply illustrates the non-existence of a marketable mart for labor.
If Mr.Holden means South Fort George then it is different, for here the creative aro-. ma of enterprise -has nestled itself into the making of a town that grows slowly but surely, pending the location of the G. T. P. on the reservation, and which will be, owing to nature's lavishness of situation, part and parcel of the big inland city.
There is no doubt whatever about this.
Mr. Holden conveys no inkling in his wire as to his capacity for work. Nor does he specify, his vocation. If he is a carpenter/ we would not advise him to come this winter1; If. he loves pastoral life and the "romantic" in trapping, no section/of the rounded sphere possesses a more remunerative field. A wealth of freedom and R\ purse of gold await such �* spirits If the wirer inclines to tbttology,and isxwilling to labor in vineyard,,then this is his Mecca, for South Fort George is erecting two fanes by voluntary subscription, and (by. time snow flies the buildings will Have been completed. Wo need missionaries! And we netxi them badly. We can forego mail boats and "picture-"moving" shows, eajt, beans? with a knife; but warm places of worship we must have.
No, Mr. Holden, don't come this winter, You may come next April, however, with, the assurance of not only earning a living but of making a competence.
R> M. Burns writes from Vancouver, that heihas disposed of his half, interest in. the Btock of the old Northern!Hotel; consumed/ by fire last July, to Mr. lAlbert JohnBon, and that he Vill be here! in February, next tq locate. He will winter in Vancouver.
Man with Gun GoesHunting Trouble and Finds it
The office of Hamilton & White's livery nnd dray business on Second street Monday afternoon looked like a slaughter house, with clotted blood half an inch thick on the floor to the left of the^entrance and the front door bespattered ^with it.
The cause of it was the silly and unnecessary practice of,carrying a gun.
It appears that Win. McEwan, who conducts a second-hand store in the Burns block on Fourth street, went into the office, und after seating himself on'the couch at the entrance, while Mr. White was occupied at the desk, asked for a rig and stated that he wanted a clean one, with good cushions, rug nnd a whip/and he would do the driving; but did not state where he wanted to go.
Mr. White informed him that he could have tba rig, but Jt had been a custom to allow no rigs out without a driver.
"Don't you think I can .drive," retorted McEwan.
.^"1 do not dispute you," answered White, but we have found it profitable to allow out no rig without a driver."
This apparently did not suit MeEwan, for he is reported to have said "that everybody has it in for'me in this tow_n."
"I don't think so," returned White. " I gave, you oats and hay for your stock in the spring and did not press you for payment. That doesn't look like having it in for you."  �                             .
The lie was passed, and White, who still was at the desk with his back to McEwan, turned around, and as he did so, noticed McEwan pull out a 32 gun from his inside vest pocket.1
xQuick as a flash White pinned his wrist amKbefore McEwan could cover White with the weapon, White gave his assailant//a staggeringHalGW between the eyes that sent him back to tTfe^couch, and in the scramble White took the--giihNaway from McEwan and gave him .a-^trouncing\the marks of which he will carry through life..                 ,
MeEwan has been confineoSU> bed for four days, being unable to appear at court on account of his injuries.                   n.
The weapon was given to the constable. ' A strange coincidence is that fifteen nun-..utes before   the   occurrence   McEwan   wks^ heard to say: "I'll show some of these people," and the butt of the loaded pistol was seen in his inside vest pocket.    ./
McEwan came in over the, Blackwater road early last spring with several wagon loads of furniture and.other household articles which he has been gradually disposing  Of.               y '�'�
This case cornes up for trial to-night.
Washington Banker thinks District Has Bright Future
" Never; saw anything like it in all my travels," were' the remarks of M. C. Gray, from Pullman; Wash., who, in company^ with J. H. Anderson, a banker, from the same town, alighted from a horse at the mouth of the Salmon river on Tuesday, and proceeded to look over theirjand holdings there. �                             �/
. Both,gentlemen are owners of the Fraser City townsite at tW mouth of the Salmon and the trip was'made specially from Washington for thtj purpose of passing upon the suitability of the townsite and also to see for themselves the nature ;of the soil of the adjoining sections and the country as a whole.      �                        �'' ��'
"It is simply marvellous and the wonder is that the land had not been taken up decades ago. If such land was anywhere within cannon shot 6l the state of Washington people would be up in the night stampeding for it.     i
YqsyTm satisfied with it, and ,now that we'huve seen it, we will proceed to develop it," were the romiarks of Mr. Gray. "We will send in in the spring a number of Swedish families, who will be given employment clearing the land and likewise afforded, an opportunity, to settle on land in the district. With these, families will come the latest lupplitinces in the way of machinery for stumping and clearing the.land.                i  ,
'And I have never seen- a more ideal Indian, summer than this/3'and. the second of October," conclud^d^Mr. Gray/while seated in his shirt .sleeves in front of the Northern. __JThe party-'of two left for Quesnel by canoe Wednesday, accompanied by It. Jorgensen. A stop was made-a short distance below the Fort George-canyon., for the purpose of inspecting half a dozen sections in that neigh* borhood. Should this prove satisfactory colonists' will >also be placed on this tract*
Local and Provincial
J. W. Stewart, of Messrs^ Foley^Welch & Stewart, left Edmonton October 8 on a trip of inspection of the G. T. P. railway between Yellowhead Pass, Fort George and through the Bulkley valley on to Hazel ton. He is accompanied by B. B. Kelliher, chief engineer of the railway.
The Fort George Trading & Lumber Co. have closed down their boarding house and mill. It is not likely a resumption will take place before next April, as an unlimited amount of dry lumber is on hand.
Miss D. Dickson, a niece of Mrs. Albert Johnson, of the Northern hotel,.is visiting South Fort George, and will remain some time.
J. N. Cran, banker and general relief man in the B. N. A.i service, .is at Quesnel, relieving Mr. Chester at the latter place. Mr Cran partook of his Christmas dinner here lait winter,'and speaking.to'the\writer on his way up from Ashcroft ten days ago said he bad not had\a meal like it since he left.         ,
R. Kiggs is timekeeper for the rock-blaBt-ers at the canyon.
J. B.,Daniell is confined;to his room with tonsolitis.
F. G. D. Durnford, attached to the lands patent office,department of the interior, Ottawa, who has been in the district for the past three months, left on tlae last � boat for Ottawa. Mr. Durnford has been handling the surrender of. the reservation from the Indians, but with what success is only conjecture, for the government agent, like all government men, would say nothing on the subject.
K. C. Randall's *two ponieB were shipped to Quesnel for tm winter by last week's boat. Both horses were in such gorgeous condition, as the result of the succulent peavine, with which the .district is so favored, that much difficulty was encountered in loading the horses onto the boat.    / ,
j. Monro is expected back from his vacation on the coast the end of the month. It is just possible he will returnby way of the Blackwater road.
W. Luke, one of the founders of the Club pool room, is conducting a grocery store in Fairview, Vancouver. He is [doing; well there, but says he may return here once the no-time-limit railway is in running order.
Among, the passengers on the outgoing B. X. last week were Mrs. Downing and Miss Taylor^both of whom will spend the winter on the coast and return in the spring.
W. L. Colhtis^of the H. B. Co., Quesnel, was in South Fort George last week taking big orders in wet goods and incidentally looking over his 140-acre-tract of^land opposite the reservation on the east side of the Fraser. Mr. Collins takes exception to^the" statement that .Qjuesnel isf"knocking" Fort -George. He says the knocking family was decapitated on Septetmber 21; and buried on the day following.        .^^
The G./T. P, railway have in contemplation the erection of a fourteen story1; hotel building at Prince Rupert.to cost one million and a half.- It is a replica of. the one to be built at Winnipeg.:
James; Cowie writes from Reno, Nevada, for The^ Herald. | He dislikes the place very much, 'and says there are too many high-heeled boots* and an over supply of lawyers. He purposes leaving there in the spring.
Mr. and- Mrs. CM. Brown, accompanied by Miss MJ. Brown, of New York, who have been in tine district for the past two months visiting with" their son Charles, of the firm of Close & j-Browh, left on last week's boat for Pasadena, California, where they will spend the major portion of the winter ere proceeding to their home in the east. 0Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been more than favorably impressed with the^district, and Mr. Brown's only regret is that he is not a. young man again, to take advantage of the big things \ie sees in store for this section of. Cariboo. He intends visiting the district again next summer, as- he says no more ideal and roftnantic trip can be had anywhere (possibly with the one exception of a, summer in the hills of Scotland) than can be had from Ashcroft to South Fort George
The G. T. P. is building three modern turbine steamers for their triangular run in winter from Seattle, Vancouver to Prince Rupert. The boats ^will (bo in commission next summer.       x .
J. A. Fraser, M. P. P., believes in hitting the political iron while the bar is hot, for. in company with E. S. PetersT sheriff, 4e|t a short time ago for Fraser_Xake, on a tour of "acquaintance." They will stop at all settlements on the route, and'may possibly extend their trip to Stuart Lake and return"* m way of South Fort George. They expect/ to be absent about three weeks. Sheriff Peters will take notes during the trip,' which will, be published on their return.
The firemen's, benefit dance, given in the Fort George opera house Thursday evening was; as is customary on such state occasions, well attended, and a considerable sum will be added to the fund for fire protection. The dance further marks the approach of winter and the forerunner of many such enjoyable functions. A pleasing feature of last evening's dance was the rendering of two solos by Mrs. George Mc-Laughlin in a manner so satisfying that it leads us on to wonder when vaudeville and opera will be our good fortune to see and hear. Some 35 couple attended and among the number were Mr. and Mrs. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. MacHaffie, Mr. and Mrs. McElroy, Mr. and Mrs. Mc-Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. Forest, Mr. and Mrs. Tiemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Enemark, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Roberty, Miss Pierce, the Misses Brady, Miss Gross, Miss Dickson, Miss Mc-Gaughey, Messrs. 0. B. N. Wilkie, M. C. Wiggins, M. Burch, H. Seaman, H. Coture, Dr. Lazier, Sankspiel, Angel, Crole, Andy Bichell, Walter Gregg, J. Campbell, J. Senior, J. Kerr, W. Cooke, Rowatt, Ferguson, Crosier, F. O'Flaherty, Adams, Davis, C. Brown, John Bronger, G. Hamilton, D. Brewster, Howison, dermyn, Abbott, Butler, Shearer and Phelan.
The music was up to its well-known standard and the midnight lunch left nothing to be desired by the"inner man.
BACf   FROM THE PEACE.
L. C. Gunn, late of^the G. T. P. survey corps, arrived here this week from an extended trip into the Peace river valley, accompanied by/ Anton Oleson, the well-known cruiser from the Nechaco.
Messrs.. Gunn and Oleson represented large vested interests in the Peace river lands, the personnel of their principals in-chiding William S. Listikow, of Winnipeg, 'and Alfred Engen, of Saskatoon.
Mr. Gunn reports favorably upon the Peace river valley and its marvellous waterway system. He points out that unless a' route is opened to the head of the navigable portion of the waterways stretching between Summit lake and the moutn of the Parsnip river, that the whole trade of the big valley will pass out of the province's, bounds to be deviated, as at present, ^via Edson. Mr.,Gunn has been in the east since, leaving the Peace river. He says^that Fort George is a subject of discussion in all the eastern cities. In Moosejaw, Mr. Gunn inr forms us, they ^axe selling, a "Fort St. James" townsite, like hot-cakes.'-'lt was news to us^that there was a townsite at Fort St. James, but we find, on investigation, that a tract has been subdivided close to the outlet of the lake into Stuart river. The advertising shows several railroads running-through the spot, and prosperous industries at high-pressure hard-by. � The Herald cannot warn the poor sucki ers'in Moosejaw to beware of the ex-Natural Resources crook, by name Patrick Fitzmau-rice, who is peddling this imitation town-, site to the people of a distant, city.
Yet, we extend ito them our sincere   sympathy
NEW OFFICERS.
The newly-elected officers of the Cariboo Central Conservative association are the following:
Hon. President, Hon. R. L. Borden.
President, J.L. Hill.
Vice-President, C. "S. Foot.     ,
Treasurer, E. L. Kepner.
Secretary, A. S. Vaughan. Executice Committee:
J. F. Brady, Quesnel.
J. P. Davies, Quesnel. y
P. Campbell, South Fort George.
M. Fletcher, B'arkeryille.
L. C., Champion, 150-Mile House.
Dave Hoy, Milne's Landing.
W. H. Leathakn, Fort George.
H. S. Gardiner, Stanley.
A. B. Moffat,NAlexandria.'    .
S. Stephenson, Quesnel Forks.
Wm. Adams, Soda Creek.
H. P. L. Bayliff, Chilcotin.
F. Mensinjyer, Kersley.         �    �'� N
Auditor, L. J. Willis.
0F INTEREST TO APPLE-GROWERS.
In order to decide whether it is the soil or the climate that causes the special flavorsjin apples,   Joseph   Bruton,1 superintendent of | the experiment station of the state of In- * diana, is having twenty-five tons of Wenat-chee, Washington, soil shipped to him    by freight for him to test at the experimental station at Mitchell, Ind.
Mr. Burton states that he has determined to ascertain whether it is the soil or the climate of the Wenatchee valley* which gives the fruit there its-flavor and. keeping qualities.                                                 \
He will   plant   fruit, trees  in the foreign dirt and if they do not Idiffer from the Indiana trees, he will be convinced that it is" the climate.