PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
VOL. 5, NO. 38.
PIIINCE GEOIIGE, B.C.,  FRIDAY, MAY 12th, 1022.
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A. C. Frost is Paying
Off Logging Liabilities
I'AVMKNT OF $7,000.00 IlECEIVFJl ON WEDNESDAY I5Y \\. I�, OGILVIE, SOLICITOR FOR A. C. FROST FOR PAYMENT OF PREFERRED CLAIMS�.MILL PROMISES TO BE IN OPERATION EAR-LV  IN JUNE.
iioni all appearances A. <\ Frost, tile Chicago lumberman, who has been having a hard struggle to pay off the big liabilities which he incurred in lotting logging contracts for the'Giscomo Mill las* fall, is making gooy A. \V. Vassar, who 1 acted as engineer on construction for the government.
The visitors vl  has  been  laid on a hand  car,  and furnished
�their own motive power, they   wore  both  rather tuckered out   when  they
i ?;oi back to town in the evening.
They wont down the river an the "Rounder" this morning and will j work their way south over the line to the coast.
The Citizen representative was not    original  contractors  to  finish     their
able to get anything in the nature of ja line on what the engineer's report  b      i    i        t likl    tht     it
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available  from  other sources contig-   the  possibilities  of  which     will
nous to the mill, and ready for cut-   fully   demonstrated   during  the
ting.
The operation of the Giscome Mill will be possible this year through arrangements between Mr. Frost and the   liquidators   in   Vancouver.     and
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arrangements  have  been
ALL-RUSSIAN   EXECUTIVE
FACES  RESTITUTION   ID13A
Opening Session of All-Russian Central   Executive   Will   Consider Problem
GEN. CHANG TSOLIN                 ?
STILL IN THE  RING  ?
MOSCOW,  May   L2     The legalized recognition of private property ri,ghts
in money, industrial and agricultural products and other personal property, and. to a certain extent, real estate, is proposed in decrees which the Soviet, government has prepared for presentation before the All-Russian Central Executive Committee tor passage at its opening session today.
job,   but   when  they  are  ill  the  decision will rest with the government as
will  be.  but   it  is not likely  that     it I to  whether  repeated  promises of  an
will partake of anything in  the way   early completion of the work will be
of a  recommendation  to the govern- ; redeemed.
ment  of  a   railway   policy.     If     The
Citizen   had   hut  one   guess   it   would i be  that   Sullivan   will     deal      largely ! with   railway  economics,  as   to   what I i might be expected from the l'.d.K. in i the  event   of   its   b'-inj;   completed   to
this  point,   and   leave     the     tangled
skein with the politicians as to what
further construction  should  be     undertaken at the present or In the fu |lure.
I The people have heard something ! of the Ilinton report; they are specu-! lating now  on  the  Sullivan     report.
and  in a short  time their    curiosity
terms satisfactorv to  both   many  vears to come
All Metal Monoplane May be Here for Empire Day
I I,\ BELL HAS PURCHASED ONE OF THE BIG LARSEN AM, METAL liARSEN MONOPLANES AND PLANS TO BE HERE ON MAY 24th OX WAV TO HEADQUAItTERS AT SMITHERS�WILL CARRY PASSENGERS.
People here will have an opportunity oi' seeing one of the very latest '-'gits in aeroplanes of large capacity on  Empire Day. the twenty-fourth "t ibis month, if the new plans of Len Bell, president of the Railway .Men's Industrial and Investment  Association do not  miscarry.
1 plans of Mr.  Hell  to  establish  ait aerial  transportation  company
I. ;i hasc at   Lake  Kathlyn,   near Smithers,  have recently  undergone a
11 ui regard to equipment,     ll  had been Mr.  Boll's intention to pur-
1 one of the big Curtiss Flying boats from the United States govern^
int, hnl an offer which he recently received from an Edmonton company
"1 tii,. hjj, iiars,.n all-metal monoplanes was accepted by Mr. Hell in
'�:><<� to the Curtiss boat, and a deal has been  closed  in  the Alberta
il which delivers the big metal "buss" to the railway men's company.
rhonipaon,  a   well     known ho  has already flown   one  of
die Stinson, the San Antonio aviator.
made
world's  endurance     flight
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1:11 from Haze^ton on Sunday to the business arrangements Edmonton end.
1-irsi-n monoplanes were orig-l�wn from New York to Fort 1 in the service of. the Intercompany.    They    were    not successful for the purpose of lrt;itlon  in   the  far     northern !   the Mackenzie  river    on '' the great distances which � ai      thorn from their base.
'� aH-'metal machines have a -foot wing span. They carry 'ssengers in an enclosed fus-rises above the great span. Travelling in machines is comfortable    and
the
tal   monoplanes,  is     busy     In   record lust year
"'ting the machine in j The machine that is flying here is 1 flight from Edmonton equipped with pontoons for landing and Mr. Hell is passing on the lakes and also with landing wheels which extend below the pontoons for landing on the ground when this is necessary. It is proposed to land the machine on the Central Fort George field, where the Do Haveland machines of the American Army's expedition from New York to Nome, landed in August 1920. This field is only 300 yards by 100 and as the big monoplanes land at a speed of about seventy miles an hour it is doubtful whether this proposal will be found practicable by Major Thompson unless more clearing is done, and Six-Mile Lake. West Lake, or Eaglet Lake may be chosen.
While hero the machine will carry passengers on short flights, giving people who have never been up in a machine the opportunity of "taking the air" under the most comfortable auspices.
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 lt   "   l0Wn back to New     York as �n this machine that Ed-
LIQUOR FINK, OF St.OOO
Following innumerable postponements a climax was reached on Monday night in the now; famous case of Hex vs. the Middle West Wine Co., of  Prince Rupert, when Magistrate Hos-kins found the company guilty of acting as agents for the sale of liquor within the province, and placing a fine of $1,000. The case was tried throughout at Telkwa where the sale was made on which the charge was laid, a shipment   of  liquor addressed
1 will be excited over the Dennis re-i port, as the head of the Natural Re-' sources Department of the C. P. R. I is due to come along in a few days i and report on the resources of the 1 country to be served by the. railway.
Tientsin. May 1^ -Although he has been formally dismissed from the military governorship of Manchuria, and feated in the field last week, General Chang Tsolin is preparing to make a final stand at Luanchoa on the Mukden railway. The victorious Pekin troops are prepared to drive him out and the Chinese war bids fair to begin all over again.
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ANOTHER 11OOZK ARGUMENT
OTTAWA.  May  12�An argument
to  a   resident  of  that     town     being seized  under the act.     The case     has been   rumbling   around   in   Telkwa'a | police court for several weeks,   with j Archie   Donaghy,   of   Terrace,   acting i as   crown   prosecutor     and      L.      W. Patmore, of   Prince Rupert,  appearing for the defendent company.   The defence contended thaf they did   not act as agents but sold the liquor out- ; right.- -The Interior News.
These reports might all have been has begun in the Supreme court that secured three years ago, before the ; the province must- pay the federal provincial government began pouring | customs exxcise tax on liquors im-several millions of public money into ported by the provincial liquor the enterprise rather than permit the ' board.
Fate of Genoa Conference Hangs by a Hair in Paris
GENOA ANXIOUSLY AWAITS DECISION OF IMtKMIF.lt POINCAIRE ON RUSSIAN REPLY TO ALLIED MEMORANDUM�RUSSIA'S RSBPIA" CONCILIATORY" BUT IS DISAPPOINTING TO PRANCE AND 11KL-GIUM.
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COURTENAY,   May    12 A. S. Schofield, at one time one    of
the hest known Rugby football players in Canada and a member of the Canadian Rugby team which toured England some years ago. was found dead in a field on his farm near lure yesterday, by his wife. Heart dis-ease was the cause or death. He is well known in Vancouver Island as a clergyman.
LARGE LIQUOR PROFITS
VICTORIA,  Ma>   I'-    -It is unoffi- | dally stated that  the report  of    the liquor control board, now before the.| attorney   general   shows   a   net   profit j for the six months ended  March  31, of  $1,250,000,  a   million  of     which | will  go to tin1 municipalities1 and the j balance to the reserve fund.
GENOA, May 12�The fate of the Genoa conference may be settled today in Paris in the opinion of many delegates and the decision of Premier I'oincaiie on the Russian reply to the Allied memorandum is awaited hero with anxiety.
It is believed that, if left to theni-i ?� ! -elves,   the   majority   of   the     powers' ? Kenneth   would   favor  ti   continuation  of     the discussion   but   if  France   withdraws Certain of the other powers will  follow  her.     France, it Is stated by her delegation,  inner  agreed  to a  mixed commission.       sitting        indefinitely, j while the  conference  was  going  on, to s' udv K ussia n a Cfairs.
?   FLOODS IN  MANITOBA
?                IK) SERIOUS DAMAGE
Great i'.ritain has proposed a truce in eastern Kuropi Oil the basis of de facto Frontiers," pending the conclusions of a commission of enquiry to be appointed.
TIME TO KEEP  FAITH
LONDON. May 12�Austen Cham-j
ROSE   FESTIVAL POSTPONED
PORTLAND, May 12�The rose festival is postponed from June 7 to Juno L'0, owing to cold weather retarding the growth of the roses.
Russia's Reply
Russia's reply ro the Allied memorandum is considered ^en-erally to bo conciliatory, ami of such a nature ;;s to provide a hasN for future negotiations. Britain and Italy are optomistic, but France and Belgium me disappointed in the reply. Some of the sections of the Allies' proposals arc flatly refused by the Soviet.
FOR VANCOUVER SEWERS
?          WINNIPEG.  May  12�With
?   the further  rising  last night of
?   the Assiniboine river, flood con-
?   dit ions west   of  the city are  re-�?�  ported  serious     this     morning.
?   The   flood   waters  are   reported
?   as overflowing  the  river banks -f   at Ileddingly, twelve miles west
?   Of    here.       Traces    of    serious �f  floods  are  seen   all   along     the +  Assiniboine   river   hero     today, 4-  with   horses,   cattle  and   debris -?�  of every     description     floating
?   down tin1 river.
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A DARK OUTLOOK
HAVRESTRAW, May 12�Troopers are ordered to guard the town against the threatened outbreak of a
thousand negroes on strike brick   plants.
the
An English inventor's tree-falling saw is mounted on a continuation of the
VANCOUVER,  May  12     The joint
VERNON, May 12�The fruit growers' association has referred the question of expenditure on a campaign against the coddling moth to the provincial government, considering the matter the affair of the government and it is now too late to call for an expression of opinion from individual growers.
sewerage board has authorized bond issue of $600,000 to carry-work this year and tenders will called for in a few days.
MINK BLOWN IP
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on be
DROWNED IN WELL
PITTSBURG, May 12 � The Peter-
piston   rod of a steam     engine,   man mine near  here  was blown  up steam  being provided by a  portable   early  today  by a   heavy charge     of
boiler through
dynamite.    No one was injured.
NANAIMO, May 12�Earl Barrett. aged four, fell into a well on his grandfather's farm and was drowned.
WON'T   SAVE   DAYLIGHT
NANAIMO, May 12�The ratepayers voted strongly against daylight saving.