PRINCE GEORGE CITIZF>T
vol. r>, no. 40.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 10th, 1022.
FIVE CENTS.
City Council Dissapointed at Price Offered for the Bonds
IM5V1SI0X IS MADE OF WATERWORKS EXTENSION PROGRAMME WITH THE PROSPECT THAT A WAY WILL BE FOUND TO MEET ALL DEMANDS FOR NEW MAINS�KNOX CHURCH REQUEST FOR REBATE OF TAXES ON CHURCH 8ITE IS [REFUSED.
The members of the City council got something in the nature of a ohork last evening when they opened the tenders received for the purchase of ilir city bonds. There had been a great deal of talk in figures around ninety, and bottor, for the city sixes, but any who had notions of this kind did in>� tender. There were but two formal offers, and the better of the two camo from II. (J. Perry & Company, of this city, acting for clients on liir outside. This tender was at 8K..~, and the other was from \V. li<�ss Algor, of Edmonton, at 8(>..">.">. Virtually all members of the council ex-pi'cs.scd themselves as disappointed at the tenders, and in the end they were referred to the Finance committee for consideration and report at a special meeting to be held within a week.
Alderman Alwanl, chairman of the ��----------------------------� __
finance committee expressed his in- around 1  feet on Fourth avenue. letter   from   Vancouver  to "Winnipeg,  at  a
cost, of $1,550; 70 feet on Sixth avenue at a coat of $125;  400 feet on
Recent developments in connection with the proposed visit of the Larsen all met?.] monoplane, which Len Bell, president of the Railway men's Industrial and Development Association is about to have flown from Edmonton to Smithers by Major Thompson, preclude t'.io possibility of the machine making a landing hera on May 24.
Mr. Bell, who has been in communication with fliers here. has been advised that the landing of the fast-landing machine on the small aerodrome hero is impracticable. The machine will not be equipped with pontoons for landing on water un-till it reaches Smithers, according to latest reports. It will probably be flown to Jasper and from there will have to jump to Smithers direct. 1{ equipped with pontoons, however, it may liKht at Eaglet, lake, where Prince George people anxious to have a flight can reach the machine conveniently by rail in a short time.
OTTAWA, May IU�The military estimates were reduced by the government, and in several instances were passed by the? House, while further' reductions were demanded by the opposition.
Hallway appropriations totalling $90,000,000 were adopted. A sum ol $42,800,000 was voted for the Canadian National, $2:>,7r>o,ooo for the (hand Trunk ami $13,900,000 for the Grand Trunk Pacific.
One item of $7,,~.O0O remains to lx> voted.    The total railway deficit i for ISttil reached $72,602,278.
THREE CHINAMEN  BELIEVED       j EXCITING RUNAWAY ENDED
DROWNED IN THE PRASER                    |\  RIVER AT QUESNEL
Left  For Woodpecker on Wednesday   (>ow of Kmin(W Went to Rescue of in Boat and Not Seen on IWver           >|ai, f,v.mi ,h;U   ,.,,�   Vmok ftnd
Upturned Boat  Sighted                            Endcd |n "Fvaaev
Deductions  from  certain  facts in-
,                                     ,            On   Saturday   evening   at   Quesnel
dicate  that,   three     i iiinamen.     Lem
...       _,         ,.             . �      e,         .       the team of Billy Little,  mail carrier
Him. Suey Hong, and Kee Sun, who !                                               , ,
,   ,.    .            �,       ,       ,       ...          ,       from the Xazco.  was inghtened by a
lett  here on  Fuesday for Woodpec.t-|
er, have been drowned in the Fraser
Ford that was making noises in its vicinity, and ran away from the government offices, making a bee-line for the ferry. The team clattered down   the   river   bunk,   which   has  a
I heavier grade than the P.G.E..    and and lett tor the down river point on I
.       .charged   on   the   terry.     The   horses a  prospecting trip.     Lem   linn, head
.        '                                   ...             had misjudged their landing, to em-
1 of   the   expedition,   is  a   well   kr.mvn ,
, ,,                ploy a aeronautical  term, and over-
, old-tnner in this section ot the liruv-         �                                                  .
\ ince.
river somewhere  between  this point and  their destination.
On     Wednesday     the    Chinamen
bought a boat at a second nand store
TKKRORISTS STARTED
The Motor Boat ""Rounder," while 1 coming up through the China Rapids, i sighted an upturned boat and a lot I of flouting provisions. No sight was � secured of the Chinese party, or their j boat, on the river, or tied up    along
shooting    their       aerodrome      they I crashed into a Fraser river.
A number of volunteers went to the rescue and while passing a point in the river a man grabbed one of the struggling animals by the ear, but was unable  to  land  the  whole
j                                            p
! the  banks,  and   from  these  facts  it
outfit by such a precarious hold.
could not charge the loss made in j Ninth avenue, fronj end of main H> '�minVf.tton witrT^asT year's D:ofi.r> feet on Ross Crescent bonds it was thougnt might be    got ,             (Continued on Page 5)
LY TODAY IN ERIN i ia feared lhttt tho three    chlnameu i bo*1 come up vv;ithnlUe ru"aways 7tar
mouth of the Quesnel river, after
 Incendiary   Blazes   Broke  Out Today in Belfast�Four Catholics Murdered
An Inspiring Landmark
in History of Peace
; > I*�SKMIEIt LLOYD GEO1UJE TERMS THE GENOA CONFERENCE IN DELIVERING HIS YALKDUTOUY SPEECH TODAY�BRITISH PREMIER RECEIVES GREAT APPLAUSE PROM CONFERENCE.
GENOA, May  1$>�Premier  Lloyd George,  in a  valedictory speech to
'be Economic conference today, said that  the Genoa conference bad gath-
'�<�    British    Premier    received    great    applause    when    ho   rose  to
'liver bis address.     He wns in fine form and good humor.    We are now
(l end of the most remarkable conference ever held in the history of
world,"  he said,  adding  "The  Genoa   conference  will  forever  be  an
J^P^^g landmark in the history of Peace."
BURGEON PISHING HAS
RECOMMENCED ON NECHACO
Starrett's  Company    Prepares t<> Move to Prince George for its Headquarters
jQA proof that the sturgeon fishing
v has recommenced in north-
.      waters is hanging in P. Burns &
WhePany'8 store � George    street,
UG a specimen �f the huge ana-
r'!);1'1;^ fish I. hanglng on a hook
w.. '  y. tO customers.    The specimen
a Shipped in from a point on the
,1...      ,� river yest^rcay and in    its
ea �t!Udition     it     weiebs     111
Following the opening of the waters of the upper jrraser river for sturgeon fishing, Mr. Starrett, one of the best known fishery men on the Pacilic coast.  is to be supplied with a  representative   under  arrangements  with     the j Presbyterian chu rch.
AGAINST EMBARGO REMOVAL
LONDON, May lit--Sir Griffith Boscawen, minister of agriculture, told the annual meeting of British Columbia's agricultural commission that he would do everything in bis : power to defeat the removal of the cattle embargo by the bill introduced in the House. He said the government was opposed to the measure be- i cause the embargo was a reasonable measure of protection for British cat-tie dealers.
l.worw drowned,  probably being upset 1 in the Fort George canyon where the |
high water would make the running ; of the canyon in a small boat a peril- \ ous matter if this was attempted by the party.
The provincial  police  are on     the j lookout   for   signs  of     the     Chinese I prospect ing party,  and  the crews of j boats plying the river are also on the alert for signs of the missing men.
 R liad been
The other horse was saved.
The Motor Boat "Rounder" went down the river to look for mail bags and fur bundles with which the wagon was loaded and managed to rescue three bundles with which th�> wagon was loaded ami managed to rescue three bundles of beaver and rats. The mails were lost.
TO SIGN FOU! CANADA
LADY  RHONDDA  �S OUT
LONDON. May 19 -- Hon. P. C. LONDON, May 1?�By a vote of [>arkin, Canadian high courmissioner \ twenty to four the committee on in London, goes to Genoa today to privileges-of the House of Lords design documents in behalf of Canada cided today that Lady Rhondda's in connection with the League Of | claim and petition to sit in the Lords Nations.                                                 I had not been made out.
Lord Beaverbrook has
Confidence in Future
GK'KAT CANADIAN AS |�RINCIl�Aii GUEST OP LONDON CAMMERCIALi < Hit Sl.KS SUPREME COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY' AHEAD� GERMAN BOGEY-MAN NOT A SERIOUS IMPEDIMENT AS FINANCES ARE SHATTERED.
LONDON, May 1!>�Lord Beaverbrook, who was the principal guest at the London Commercial <'lnl� luncheon, spoke of the supreme commercial opportunity ahead of Finland. He said that be had unlimited confidence in the future. The only Impediment was the German bogey-man, but the it nth was Unit (Jrniiiiiiy is industrially helpless because German finance bus been smashed. He urged businessmen i<> turn away from Central Europe Jo Knglaiid, Scotland, Ireland, Austrnlii'., Canada and America and In foreign markets where British industry and commerce prosper even (hough there was a real awakening in central Kurope.
K< O\( )M l(' < < >N FERENCE
ADJOURNED AT  I 1 :5S
LAST   MILITARY   LEAVE
CORK, May 1!*�The last vestige of British military power in southern Ireland disappeared on Thursday when the Victoria liarracks were transferred to tbe provisional gov-rninent.
GENOA, May tJ>�The economic conference adjourned at 11:58 this morning after siv weeks' deliberation. It was one ��r the greatest political gatherings in the history of the world. Thirty-four nations attended. The labors of the conference begin anew at The Hague on .1 line 15.
FATAL AUTO SMASH
VICTORIA, May 19�Mrs. G. Gil-dermaster was fatally injured, her daughter. Mrs. J.'H. Norman, injured and John Smith, driver of the
auto was also Injured when the car overturned in the Saanich road. An-i ilier member of the party. E. 1 each. who is uninjured, is charged with being  drunk  in a public place.
WOMEN  MAY  SIT ON  BENCH
LONDON,   May   1 !i �  -In   a   written
I answer to a Question in the House of
i Commons   the   attorney-general,   Sir
Ernest  Pollock,  stated  that     women
wire  equally   eligible   with   men   for
appointment to judgeships,
FIRE IN QUEBEC TOWN
LAITRELVILLE. May 19 Fire broke out here yesterday destroying twenty-two houses and causing a loss of $150,000.