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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
VOL. �-.. NO. 60.
l'HIXCE (JEOROE, B.C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1JJ22.
FIVE CKNTS.
Morgan Favors the Cancellation Plan
Prevention of Shopmen's
Strike is up to Railways
DEMANDS OF UNION ARK SUCH THAI1 PROBLEM Is PRESENTED AS TO HOW MEN MAY BK KEPT AT WORK, ACOORUIXfl To SECRETARY OP THE I XIOY�DEADLOCK OP FRIDAY IS HARD TO OVERCOME.
Gouin May Become Premier Urges Railways
Lord Northcliffe is
British Ambassador
MONTREAL, August 1 ft�-Demands from the workers (lint tin' unJi � -.ill a strike of i!�<� Canadian railway Hhopmen liave become so numeroi_. ihut (hiiili's Dickie, MMTi-tuiy �>!' die union, declares "ll is no longer a m.iiiri for I he union officials to demand u strike, but one for the railways in tlixl a moans to keep them ai work."
I hi', is the position taken up following (he abrupt conclusion of the coucilllaili.il proceedings al Montreal las) Friday, when the railway | cvciuiivfs mill union lnn.U deadlocked on die question of the pay reduc* lions rniuiciil by ili<* railways.
tut Morgan, the A.nericun who la lending his sup-propoaal for the cancella-
iiitcr-allied war holds thai wages cannot be reduced pending Ihe completion of tin- arbitration proceedings, Tho premier's letter sayd thai it must be apparent tliut if the parties to indus* trial disputes are permitted t<> lnterprei th<- law in their r the Crown find constitutes a violation of existing legislation, theie inn be iu> guarantee of Industrial pence or Ihe preservation of law ami order.
Spokane Land Man Tells Vancouver
Paper that I'.n; Sandy Ranchers
Have Mudti Purchases Hero
While In the city on buBlness, red Dawgon, the well known whole-,. merchant u iked yesterday
i n.iii as u member of the new madian Nutlonal Railway dlrector-
Htioujj Supporter �>f Anglo-Irish
Ticaty iiiut President of tho
Hall Succumbs
Arthur Griffith, president of. Dull
l'rlnce Rupert, was I Elreann, died In Dublin on Saturday about hia possible <>f influenza. Death occurred at '.> 4C at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. He enterod the hospital ten
Mi Dawson was non-commlt-1 dttyl ago for an operation for ton- did not deny that his nanio i sllltia. He was recovering and ap-
On his arrival in Vunrover from his tour through tli* Fort George section with Beveral intending settlers from the prairies and the States, A. H. Anderson, a Spokane colonization agent, who is associated with N C. Jorgensen of this city, re-ported to a Vancouver paper that he had closed u deal with thf> Button brothers, ranchers on a big scale at Hip Sandy, Montana. The Buttons had purchased land on the Salmon river, said Mr. Andnrson. and the sale involved $19,000. The purchasers Intend to open up their newly-acquired land and bring It under cultivation an rapidly as possible.
tfir Lomer Gouin, minister of jua-' iIcp, who is mentioned as the poa-' Bible successor to Sir Auckland Qeddes, British ambassador to Washington.
mini:us struck in
SPITE OF AGREEMENT
SYDNEY, S.H., August 15� Tlio miners of ('apt- Breton coal district of ih~ United Mine Workers -.(in. I at midnight, iilthough an 'agreement was reached by th�-ii' represent at iven nnd the mine owners la>-t night, anil orders wetv given railing off tho strike. It is believed that even the engineers and pumpmen will go out.
TELEGRAPH CREEK
OBJECTIVE OK LORD
CLAUDE HAMILTON
I FRENCH PREMfER LEAVES
LONDON IN LOW SPIRITS
Northern Point in Decomlng Headquarters lor Distinguished Uig Game Hunters
Allied Conference on Gorman Repar*
m ions Marred by Attitude
of Franco
Telegraph Cr^ek, a post- office, trading post and mineral camp in the Stikine district of Atlin provincial electoral district, U becoming the mecca of famous big game hunters. Telegraph Creek lies 140 miles J who was pule and unsmiling and who northeast of Wrangel, Alaska, on refused to pose for hia photograph, the government telegraph line to the : Before going to the station the
LONDON, August 15�The delegates to the allied, conference on the German reparations left London today. They were all in good spirits except Premier Polncalre, of France,
Yukon.
Lord Claud
N* Hamilton, captain
Prench premier visited the grave of the unknown warrior, in Westmin-
Little hope is entertained for the recovery of Lord Northcllffe, Great Britain's foremost Journulist peer.
Dr. Tolmie is no Longer in the Race for Leader
Ex-.Minl.ster of Agriculture Will Not be Mciitioiii-il at Convention
in the Grenadier Guards, and A.D..C. ster Abbey, on which he placed a
app
a i it in
In the new board, that for the proper
jut
partntly regulutng his normal _^^^ (strength during his last day8. He
atratlon of railway affairs in i had been able to leave the hospital in Canada and the Dominion ; dully for his official duties, return-whole, ut least fin per cent, of j Ing to the institution at night. � � directorate of the Canadian j On Saturday morning Mr. Griffith com-1 ate a hearty breakfast and was gc
railways should be
western men, the Wlnnlpeb trade has wired to the mln-railways, Hon. W. C. Keu-rongly urging on him eon-n of this mutter. It Is ut one half of the new mem-
ing upstairs when be suddenly collapsed. The doctor claimed he had been suffering from cerebral hem-morhage.
Griffith was formerly an editor and one of the founders of Sinn Fein
CORNERSTONE CEREMONY OF
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Cariboo Presbytery Will Meet in
Prince George This Week and
Take Charge of Occasion
TIip Cariboo Presbytery will meet In Prince George thin week for the ceremony of laying the corner stone of the splendid Presbyterian church which is in course of construction at the corner of FittTi avenue and Brunswick streets.
The ceremony will be performed on Friday evening, August 18, at 7 p.m., and it will mark oiie of the
FISHERIES COMMISSION
IN SESSION AT 'RUPERT
H.R.H. the Prince of Wules, has arrived In Vancouver on hl3 way to Telegraph (.'reek, where a Hudson's Bay Company's pack train will take him into the wilds alter bis game.
' wreath of flowers bound with the French tri-color.
That France has been unable to rise to what might have been a great opportunity to put her feet on j
Not long ago a potentate of Egypt i the road to recovery, Is the concens-' of the M inude a similar expedition and shot us of press comment regarding the mie has
Parliamentary Commission Hat All
Yesterday Hearing the Cases of Halibut and Salmon Fishing
PIUNCE RUPKRT, August 15� The federal parliamentary fisheries commission in ttjssion here, to hear tho cases of halibut and salmon flph-iug. sat all day yesterday ami will continue until tonight, when the eommlss!on leaves for, the N'aas. William T)uff, M.I'., chairman, and Alfred Stork, \V. 0. McQuarrie, VV. Melll, L. II Martell, C. Dickie, were present, but Dr. A
Addressing a meeting of his supporters at Victoria last week, Dr. S. F. Tolmie, M.P., formerly federal minister of agriculture, definitely declined to accept nomination as leader of the opposition forces in this province. Ever hlnce the defeat lien government L)r. Tol-u mentioned as a possible
successor to W. J Bowser, K.C., as leader of the Conservative party or a new thud party in British Columbia politics, but he stated emphatic-
"the limit" of everything he went j failure, of the London conference.
after. � The responsibility for the failure
Although he 13 travelling Incog- dc-pends upon whether one accepts
nito, and the signature, "C. llamll-. the French or the British point fo
ton," on the Vancouver hotel regls- view. Pro-government editorials ex-' ally that In view of present clrcum-ter gavu no inkling of his rank, press the hope that France will take stances, which he did not describe in friends or both the Prince of Wales counsel of reaaou und not continue detail, he v.ould be unable to carry and Lord Claude himself who met to act against her own Interests, the standard.
them while both were on service while the opposition press says that' The supporters of Dr. Tolmie who with the Canadian Corps, or after- the British people will not allow any will attend the Cranbrook meeting wards during the tour to Canada, administration to quarrel with their accepted his statement us final and met the British sportsman at Van- friend and ally for the benefit uud ' his name will not go before the con-
md in e boai
ppolnted from western j and also one of the chief negotiators
the estimation of the [ and aupporters of the Anglo-Irish most Interesting steps In the history Chishotin was unable to attend
byterian Church In Prince jng t0 the illness of hia wife.
A H.
W.
ow-
11 trade it is essen-1 treaty.
Winsome Chautuqua Superintendent is Planning a Parade for the Kiddies
The superintendent of the Chautauquas this year is a winsome little lady named Miss Herald, whn arrived in the city on Saturday night and proceeded to demonstrate at once that her name is singularly appropriate. As a herald of Chautauquas, the superintendent is a big success. She has arranged to meet the school children, and asks that they should be at the school house again this afternoon at 4 o'clock, when there will be "big doings". Games and all sorts of amusements are planned by Miss Herald, who will organize a parade of the children in connection with the Chautauqua which opens tomorrow night at The Rex Theatre. The opening programme is an exceptionally good one, and the talent which is being brought here by Chautauqua this year is of a very high order. The local committee is working hard to assure the success of the undertaking here this year, and from indications there will be big houses out to greet the performers at all the shows which are offered.
Cranbrook Election Being Fought Against Long Odds
"" f fi I SPECTRE RAISES ITS HEAD AND PREMIKK O1JVEK TRIES TO I VLOAD PPON THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY ills lMlli\VAY-BlTU,DING BLUNDERS \V1IICH HAVE COST THE I'ROVIX* E SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS.
1 ranb fightin
"nturn In o
at 1
ITeml Hie Libe
Tun wattors
�1 iiineiii forces apeak of 1 U elect Ion prospects, lie decided today, aB "a the extraordinary activ-nvernmenl ministers at md ih � tensity of the
� there, Indicates thut are not sufficiently
1 lei any stone remain win the day. : the attack upon the
� candidate, N. A. Wull-ipi Ij government ugent
'�'".....ok, Hon. John Oliver.
ie province; summarized Plan of campaign. �ier discussed P. a. E.
"f tin
m,| h
that
Hi. Conservative �hum presaged the discussion
''� �' the provincial rallwav.
not � -
pay. The premier, laying tho blame for the whole fiasco upon the shoulders of the hit<> McBrlde-Bowser gov-ernment, added thai the present ud-ministration was forced to make tho : best of a bud bargain and already more than $17,000,000 has been expended aliice the Liberals assumed ! office In 1H16.
Continuing his discussion of railway matteib, Premier Oliver explained the fight which liin govern-infill hud waged In undPavoring to secure the abolition of discriminatory freight rutP*. British Columbia had been paying from lOu to 160 per cent, higher freight tariffs than tho maritime provinces. Quebec
the pres- .U1(1 Ontario, and 50 per cent, more members ,,,.,� (ht1 pratr(Q provinces, How-1 ever, through the protest of the pro- 1 vlneiul government, progress toward |
of th Georg
Work on the building 13 well under way und will be rapidly proceeded with. The church will bo 60 by � 30 feet with a vestry wins 24 by 19 ' feet, and a 40-foot tower 111 one corner of the building, The main ; entrance porch will be 12 by 12 feet with a staircase leading off this to the gallery. Then- will also be an' entrance vestibule 11 by 10 feet with a book room leading off 1 0 by 8 feet. Tho Interior of tho church is 41* by LI'j feet with a gnllery 2M by 13 feet. The vestry wing contains the minister's vestry, l" by 8 lec-t, a committee room M by 14 feet und an entrance hall and stair-, case to.the basement.
Under the building therr- will be a full cement basement, 4y by 2$ feet, with a Kitchen and fuel store under the vestry wing. In this basement Sunday si hool work, nodal work and physical training quarters will be located. The church is from the plan of Henry Wilson, an architect of this city
The Beating arrangements for the church Include provision for � choir] plulforni with a choir of ~;*i voices The seating capacity in the main body of the church is 200 with an additional 80 In the gallery.
The building will i>p of frame construction and all tb�> windows will have gotlllc headA Th>> walls and! ceiiiiiR will in- of Universal InaiUite: . A hot air furnace will he.it the building which, exclusive of furniture, will cost just under % 10,000.
LORD NORTIICLIFFE Is DEAD�ACCLAIMED BY ENTIRE BRITISH PRESS
liONDON, Aiig. !."> (latest) � Lord Northcllffe is dead.
A remarkable tribute was paid to the late Lord NortlulillY this mi. 1 ni ml,. In sonic- instances even whole pages being devoted to editorials ami to photograph!) ami special articles <>n iln> �<�-coiiiplisliiiifiits ami personality of the muster journalist, whose career lias ended at tlio height of his power. Tho British press gratefully terms Northcliffo after a short try-out,
According to Bert Healy, who \tas a station man ou the work, and who came to towu when practically all the incu quit the work on Saturday, lie was pitid $30.50 for twelve days' work. There was a board bill of si l to epme out of this, as the period Included two Sundays. Ills balance is therefore $1(1.50 to 1 In- good tor his work. The figures an' approximate, but are right to 11 few cents. Mr. Healj luis submitted his case to Government Agent Heine, ami has asked Hint a difference of $14.51), which is the sum ho figures he would have n oclveil if he hail been working for day wages on government toad w- coal Alberta can ship In, provided thej are assured of a steady supply from the mines of that province.
Arrangements Made for Moving
Harvest Labor from Prince George
Superintendent Sinclair,.of the Prince George government employment office, has just received particulars under which men from this district can go to the harvest fields. These particulars follow: The rates from Prince George for harvest hands to Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Rupert, Albert and Weyburn is two and seven-tenth cents a miles, baggage to be checked to employment offices. Where men have an engagement with a fanner that they have already worked for, they can be booked through to destination, but the engagement must be real and applications by men who are known as harvest hands. The cneaper rates apply from the coast cities. That is a $10 and $11 rate is in force to Calgary or Edmonton respectively. Orders are also being distributed in southern and eastern B. C. as occasion requires at a two and seven-tenth cents rate. When men are shipped to Edmonton at two and seven-tenth cents a mile the employment service will ship them further east at half a cent, a mile. Owing to the shortage of men for bush and track work, only genuine harvesters, who need employment in this field, will be considered.
Contend that the Ben Self Shield Must be Won Here
PRINCE GEOUOE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION WIRED OFFER OF $45O TO PRINCE Rl'PERT LAST NIGHT, AND SUBMITTED SUGGESTION THAT CHAMPIONSHIP EMBLEM SHOULD BK COMPETED FOR lIEREi
FINDS (JO
AXI� COAL
the
that Mr. Baling tne standardization of rates had been _a^anything illuminating to raade und at present this province ele" 1 was paying only 25 per cent, higher the rates than the prairies. Mr I This decrease, he maintained,
High-grade sold ore assaying $22,000 to the ton Ikh been discovered at Lllldoet From a common-looking sample of weathered rock taken from a claim the locator, with a partner, rontroH he receives an assay of |22,000, The � work was done by a reputable local assayer. Tho property from which the high-grade sample was take.n i.-i In the Lillooet. Average values rim at about M" P ton. Of the $22,000 about $21,000 was In gold values and the rest In silver, lie has also discovered a series of local coal seamy while prospecting around the creek to �ee if the gravel showed siKii!! of "colors" of gold. A little work on the seams resulted In the discovery that they join and make
Suggestions l>oiug put forward in Princo Kupon sporting clrulca tliat the Ben Self baseball shield, now held l>y I'rlnco George, should be competed for at Princo Kuprii, are not finding favor with the local boy*. At a mooting of tin* Prince George Athletic Association, held last Might, It wns decided (hat 11 definite offer of $150 should be wired to the Prince I in pert teimi for a series of three games between that city and I'rinoe| George, to be played here on September H, -I and 5. Tho wire hNo intJ-Iliated thai any const team competing for the Hen Sell shield, trophy of the baseball championship of Central British Columbia, should be prepared to piny for the shield here, where it lining to mark the victor)' of (he Princo Georgo team last year at 'Rupert.
Either of these May Head Wheat Board.
to thia white
mci.n, "" "'"so w"� attended ?�!!��� held In support of
ndldature would have 1 woul(i uiean tue saving of about $2,-000,000 Hoi annum for Mritlsh Co-
Isclosed
Sullivan Ropon
necdou Premier Oliver Urst time a portion The govern-
��'ihTs,,,1;;;.nie nm timt
ment in , " '"port- T , <� bftrdeuea under a
uu or (],>),( (). ...
"���aetl, him
""" �f iue on tiu, Ported
I'la
staggering account, he ex-(�f?aged tho services of most eminent engineers continent. Mr. Sullivan re-""� 1 ho P. G. E. should nev-,fn instructed In the first -�� rock 10 C|u;il)t>' ot the e�rth tlie P,u,,iM"!n'0V0(1 in co��truetlng s&f.e,i Ul oannl >�d beon of the the p n ' ;ia tlmt encountered on never 1 ,�,.' 7" the blK ditch would
Mr auifi, n comPleted at all. d0�btfui . Ul lutlluatod that It was if the railway could ever
DUBLIN, August lfi - Ktllaimw the laat position of Importance in j mark County Kerry, held by Irregulars, was occupied by National Army troops after u brief engagement The Irregulars fled.
THE LOWEST \VHK
Ni:\V YORK, August 15�German one seam about three feet deep.
ropped In price to nine nnd 1 three-fourths rents per one hundred!
marks an compared with eleven and j , ,(>ut (.o, ^T ^T P(ick v (, Th | ''iW
rOL- PECK, V.C., INTRODUCER
lumbta, a saving which fully warranted the spending of the $50,000 which the freight rates fight had cost.
Criticised Mr. Stevens In tills connection he blamed the Conservative federal members for Inactivity. Hon. II. II. Stevens, M.P. for Vancouver Centre, who Is expectod In Cranbrook In a few days to asBlst the Conservative nominee, wns held responsible by the premier to a large extent.*"* He ventured to say that Mr. Stevens might well be engaged In striving for cheaper freight rates for the Pacific province than in working provincially for tho building-up of "a moribund political party."
Hon. John Hart claimed that Bitih Co
only financial worry British Columbia had was occasioned by the Indebtedness incurred through the construction of the P. G. E. railway. He laid this responsibility at the door of the McBrhlo-Uowsor admin-
seven-eighths last night. The nor- n.R.o, has accepted the invitation mal or pre-war price, was 23.8 cents Qj Uu, Mrv,ce dub8 of Vlctorlai B c the I eac I to Introduce thorn to His Excellency.
OFPK IALS WORK PUMPS i tllt? Bovernor-general, on the occa-
Istration. The ftnanci
minister explained
Ihut il was impossible for tho government to let go of lhi PQE b
cause of the burden*' of i
P.Q.E,
debt
be the
cause of
province wns staggering under. He deniod the remarks of Mr. Bowser that the government was burrowing more than it should, and quoted In support of hia argument the fact thut eminent financial expertR had said that the credit of British Columbia was second to none on the continent.
SYDNEY, N.9., August 15 � The strike of Nova licotla miners la now Bald to bo 100 per cent, of all the men employed In Cupo Breton. The pumpmen and safety apparatus 'men are with the strikers. The pits are being kept frae from water by the officials and clerical staff.
MAS CALL WHEAT BOARD OFF
CALGARY. August 16�Failing to find any suitable men to hoad the wheat board the premiers of Saskatchewan und Alberta have notified the federal government that ll had bettor call the board bff for thle year.
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sion of the official reception at Oov- j | ernment House on the evening of
his arrival, August 23. Canadian soldiers will then have tin opportun-Ity to shako hands with the general who led them so well. <
The price of gasoline In Vancouver was reduced from 37 cents a gallon to H5V& cents by all companies, reversing the increase imposed month ago.
Fuur feet of high grude ore has been struck on the Betty group near the divide ou Salmon river, ""� crew of the American *' Milling Company, aaya 0 patch.
rtV iro� 8tleer;rDU;"ford. BUM tempered with on arrival today and lr3 C�o FiBber 0. M. TbornWll. an iuveaUgaUon ta p