PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN VOL. B, NO. 47. PRINCE GEORGE, B.O., FRIDAY, JUNE 2�rd, 1922. V*5 errific Cyclone Swept Over the Prairies this Morning �KAIIUE PROVINCES VISITED BY TERRIFIC FORCES OP CYCLONE WHICH HAH DONE DAMAGE RUNNING INTO HUNDREDS OP THOUSANDS�COMMUNICATION CUT OFF AND LARGE DEATH ROLL IS FEARED WHEN KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED. pointed. Plans for the fall fair exhibitions were left to a later date. Mr. W. P. Ogilvle, secretary of the institute for District "C" had intended to address the meeting but was unavoidably detained. M AHS H AI i WI LS0N' S MURDER REVEALS ASSASSINATION PLOT WINNIPEG, Juno 2!l�Manitoba was visited this morning l>> a storm, rtiich, at Portage la Prairio, attained cyclone proportions and caused jjamago estimated into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, it is feared, considerable loss of life. The storm struck Brandon at 2 a.m., Portage at J> and Winnipeg a( I. Fhere art' no reports from Hrandon as all wires are down. Tho report ti Portage tells of the city at the mercy of great forces. Grain elevat-havo been destroyed, the Cockshutt Plow Company's plant has been llmvn down and tho Presbyterian, Methodist, ami Anglican churches i-ecked. Houses in all part.s of the town are destroyed, as though dyna-(nted. (iiant trees are lipvooi.-.] everywhere. It is feared that there will be a large toll of dead and injured when is possible to check up the casualties in isolated places, such as the fllages and farms. SASKATOON <;ETS NEWS OIT SASKATOON, June 2JJ�Emergency wires have been strung east of |ere which have carried word this morning of a terrific cyclone which B-epf eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba hist night. The storms smarted Bredensdury. Sask., went east tl* Dauphin. Man., south to Minnodosa,, icneo to the boundary. From there die wind doubled back to Winnipeg id tinned south again toward Minneapolis. Telegraph and telephone i>oles have Ix-en snapped in two, crops levelled buildings razed according to meagre details received here. |ooi> WORK BEING DONE OX CITY STREET GRADING >ening Up of Fifth Avenue From Vancouver to George Streets Well Under Way The grading of the new streets arc being open d vp, under the [22 program, is ell under wa\, (in Fifth avenue the work has en practically completed from its it inducement, about half a block Ick street, where work on the big fl necessary at this point is in acre progress. This fill will not be pught up to grade this year, but lie left in such a manner that iffir along Fifth avenue will be to pass right through without table. Tho grading of Victoria feet, from which gravel is being rrowed to fill the Third avenue dgo. is also proceeding. was blown from the track at Lyiiatt, forty miles east of Winnipeg. Meagre reports received here indicate that tightening and heavy hail have caused great damage. ? ????????�?��?�?? + ?? ? AIR OF FESTIVAL ? ? WANTED ON FIRST ? The Prince George Athletic ? Association is anxious that the 4 city sh:)ll tvre&ent an air rtf f >s- + tival on Dominion Day. and as ? this organization has taken the -f ? initiative, in arranging the en- -f ? tertainment for that occasion. ? ? it asks that merchants and ? ? others will cooperate to the ex- 4 ? tent of decorating store wind- 4 4 ows and fronts on Dominion 4 4 Day. in order that the city shall 4 4 present its most attractive ap- 4 4 peurance to visitors. 4 LONDON, June 23�Police investigations, following die assassination of Field .Marshal Wilson, have brought Scotland Yard into possession of documents disclosing a conspiracy to take the lives of a number of prominent persons, and to conduct, a campaign of outrages. Fifteen men and one woman have been arrested in raids throughout London last night, in connection with the assassin-at ton of Field Marshal Wilson, the lord chancellor announced in the House of Commons. This morning the two men arrested for the actual commission of the crime stated that l>oth were formerly soldiers. One was employed for some time as a night watchman in government offices at Whitehall, obtaining his post there because of his war record, Doth of these men. .lames O'Brien and .lames Connolly were arraigned in court today charged with murder. A jrreat crowd assembled as the accused men were taken from court under strong guards. Tho assassination has stirred England to the depths. It is said that other members of parliament have b**en threatened. Field Marshal Wilson had received threatening letters for some time, hut ignored them. The government and Scotland Yard is considering the question of arm ing; the police with automat ic revolvers. MANY MASON'S ARE IN PRINCE RUPERT TODAY Three Day Communication of Grand Lodge Started at 'Rupert Wednesday WIND DAMAGE IN EAST 4 ? 4 4 4 4 ? 4 4 4-444! >TTAWA. June 23�-A severe d storni. sweeping east from lora district today, put all the sgraph wires out of commission at of Fort William. A box car COLLINS' HKi MAJORITY CORK, June 23�The vote in favor of Michael Collins was more than 15,000 or three times sufficient to elect him. otice Given of Wage Cut on the Canadian Roads tONG OPPOSITION INDICATED BY RAILWAY BROTHERHOODS IN CANADA TO WAGE CUT THAT IS ANNOUNCED TO REDUCE WAGES FROM 5 TO ft CENTS AN HOl'R�STRIKE MAY FOLLOW ENFORCEMENT OF CUT. MONTREAL, June 22!�The federated trades on the Canadian rail-have received notice of a wage cut ranging from 5 to 0 cents an hour, rting the lintvs of the United States' award in this direction. �Local railway brotherhoods strongly oppose the matter, and the gen-Iopinion is that a strike will follow the enforcement of the cut. is understood that the reductions are subjtx't to negotiations. ION RIVER FARMERS [OLD SUCCESSFUL MEETING Button or Land Settlement Board Gave Address on Dairy Stock feoneral meeting of the Salmon Farmers1 Institute was held seventeenth instant at the school. There were twenty-tmembers in attendance. [uddres was made to the meet-u-any other indues of ensilage crops. At stitute in the east end. ?quest of members, poison The institute will hold a picnic �d the treatment of poison about August If.. A committee on P8e8'was dealt with, and oth- sports and arrangements was ap- On Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, the C.P.It, coast liner Princess Charlotte docked at Prince Rupert carrying about 300 members of the Masonic Grand Lodge and their wives and families. They had reached Prince Rupert for the fifty-first annual communication of the Grand Lodge. The visitors were given a warm welcome at Prince Rupert where they were welcomed by the mayor, who handed Grand Master W. S. Terry of Victoria, a Kilt key of large proportions, symbolic of the freedom of the city. Among the prominent men in the party are Hon. W. J. Bowser, leader of the opposition in the provincial government and former premier; F. .1. Burd, general manager of the Vancouver Province; J. Stilwell Clute, barrister of New Westminster; Rt. Rev. Bishop A H. De Pencier. of Vancouver; Mark L. Grimmett, barrister and former mayor of Mer-ritt; William Ivel, druggist of Victoria and Liberal candidate for the Commons in the last federal election; E. D. Johnson, formerly city treasurer of Prince Rupert and now deputy provincial minister of finance; Hon. A. M. Manson. of Prince Rupert, attorney general; William Manson, of Victoria, formerly member of the legislature for Skeena and ex-mayor of Prince Rupert and Nanaimo; W. P. Mnrchant, mayor of Victoria; C. F. Nelson, of New Denver, formerly member of the legislature for Slocan; K. R. Paul, principal of the Victoria College; W. S. Terry. Victoria druggist and Grand Master of the Grand Masonic Lodge; C. E. Tisdale, mayor of Vancouver and formerly member of the- legislature, and many others. Field Marshal Wilson*1s Assassinated in London CHIEF OF IMPERIAL GENERAL STAFF AND COJjONEL OF THE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES ASSASSINATED IN LONDON�BE1EVED TO HE WORK OF IKISH REPUBLICAN ARMY BUT REPORT DENIED BY GENERAL OWEN DUFFY. LONDON, June '2.2,�While returning from the unveiling of a war memorial today, Field Marshal Sir H. H. Wilson, C.C.B., D.S.O., chief of the Imperial general sii'.ff. was shot to death on the doorstep of his house at Eaton Square. Two of his assassins were caught. Field Marshal Wilson was a colonel of the Royal Irish Rifles, and is prominently identified with tho Ulster government. His assassins are believed to be members of the Irish Republican Army. REPUBLICANS MAKE DENIAL DUBLIN, June 22�General Owen Duffy, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, emphatically denies that the assassination of Field Marshall Wilson was the work of the IHsh Republican Army. GREAT ANXIETY IN BELFAST BELFAST, June 22�The situation here is one of great anxiety owing to the hiuh stale of feeling over tho assassination of Field Marshall Sii* H. H. Wilson, in London. Special precautions liave l>een taken in the disturbed area, but tho military and |>olice have been forced to fire on the mobs several times. The casualties by mid forenoon were si\ woundc�l. Virtually every member of the lister government is under police protection. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING IN NECHACO John Reynolds Nearlf Ix>st His Life in Nechaco River on Wednesday Last NICHOL, June 21�While running the Nechaco river in a boat loaded with his personal effects, and guided by a man who knows the river. John Reynolds almost lost his life today when the boat fouled a sunken tree trunk and upset. Reynolds, who is 73 years of age. is a strong swimmer, and managed to gain the bank, where he was pulled ashore. His guide floated down stream and reached shore after a hard battle with the s'i oH*h> river Reynolds lost all his worldly possessions, and pulled out for Prince George penniless, but thankful to lie alive. He is an old-time resident of Butte, Mont., and Boise. Idaho. and before the war emigrated to Hudson's Hope, where his three sons had settled. All the boys enlisted and two were killed in France while the other was badly wounded. In his boat he has travelled over 400 miles on his way to Prince George before he was wrecked. MODIFIED JAIL NEEDED SAYS POLICE MAGISTRATE House of Correction Would Fit the Case of Week-Minded Characters Not Essentially Criminal FOR RUSSIAN RELIEF BERLIN. June 2'A�The Prussian Diet has voted a million marks for Russian famine relief. A second charge against a man named Jeff Carraway came up at 'he police court yesterday, when Carra-v.'aj was again accused of begging on the streets, contrary to the Vagrancy Act. The man recently served sixty days at South Fort George, and on leaving he went to Penny, and worked in a lumber camp until it closed down for a few days. On reaching town he plied himself with raw alcohol and flavoring extracts, unri euded up nis orgj broke, and a I supplicant for funds to further indulge his odd taste in liquor. He � informed the court that he has done his best to overcome this craving. The man was released on suspended sentence, as he has work to go to. In passing sentence Police Magistrate Daniell said that it would assist such men to straighten out if there was a house of correction or ' reformatory prison to send them to. and if such an institution existed in i the province he would send Carra-way there. Long term imprisonment for such offences hardly met ' the case in obtaining the end de- ; sired, said his worship. 44 Killed in Strike Battle at an Illinois Coal Mine MOB BROKE TRUCE AND ATTACKED MINE GUARDS�UNA11MKD MEN SHOT AND BEATEN, AND WOUNDED DESPATCHED WITH KMVKS__WOMEN URGE THE MOB TO EXCESSES�GOVERNOR ORDERS MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS. CINCINNATI, June 21�Disorders at Hc-rrin, III., coal mines has resulted in the killing of forty-four persons up to dat<- including two union coal miners, it is announced by tho United Mine Workers' headquarters. Women urged on the mob, which this morning broke a truce and attacked the mine guards in their camp. Unarmed men were shot, and manhandled, knives being used to dispatch the wounded. The crowd is at hay tonight ready to shoot anyone who approaches. The beseiged crowd includes a number of women, who are more bloodthirsty than the men. The mine officials are reluctant to call out the military, nnd in the meantime hope to get the situation in hand. The governor h:is ordered that the troops In- mobilized and has instructed the sheriffs i<> arrest the- murderers with the backing of the troops if neccs-sav\. PIJEST GOING STRONG SPOKANE. June 23�C. O. Prest, the aviator flying from Buffalo ..to Alaska and Siberia, left here this morning for Seattle. UNION MEN ATTACKED EIERRIN. Ills., June 2H The statement that forty-four persons were killed in the mine war is interpreted here as official confirmation that every one of the beseiged strike breakers were either shot, to death or seriously wounded in an attack by the union men on non-union men yesterday. MAY ANTICIPATE CONVENTION Political gossip on the coast indicates that Premier Oliver and the Liberals may anticipate the Conservative convention by holding the by-elections at. Cranbrook and Vancouver early in July. It is feared by the Liberals that planks may be introduced Into the campaign to reduce j the indemnities of members and also i to "build the university or bust," and these sort of factors would prove dis-! concerting to the government. A | number of minister of the Oliver go-i vernment are scouting about in the I Cranbrook section. Both the premier and the leader of the opposition are non-committal. I