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PRINCE GEOROE, n.O.,"j IUDAY, DKCKMBKIJ 2Dth, 1002.
�etition in the Case of Mrs. Frye is Favorably Received
tlm Broup or clasa government in the provincial leglslaturo. The Conservatives some time ago de-<:lded not to place a candidate In nomination.
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DEPOSITIONS TAKEN ATPRELIMINARY HEARING NOT OFFICERS FOR YEAR
VET IN VICTORIA DOT WHEN THEY COME TO HAND MATTER Nechako Lodge, No. 86, A. p'. & OF CONSIDERING HAIL FOR WOMAN \VXLL BE TAKEN UP i A> Ml lnatalled lts officers for the
_________ I ensuing year on Wednesday evening.
j the ceremony being witnessed by a
Deputy Attorney-General Carter lms acknowledged the receipt of the number of visiting members. the Billion of the women of Fort George, the prayer of which in that Sirs.| ?Xfi^rl '�F^ >Oa.r areas tolIowB: Imrlen F. Frye, who is coufincd in Okullu prison, be given her
(hotrial of her c�so nt tlio �prlng iikwIj* in this city.. Mrs. Frye is held upon a charge of. under, for the killing of her hus-d, but as tho ovldence disclosed III(> fatal shot was fired in defence \( die lives of tho woman's chlldron, feeling of the women of tho dis-
FIVK CENTS.
Three School Trustees to be Elected on January 11th
PRINCE GEORGE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN' RAISED TO SECOND CLASS WITH THR RESULT THAT MATERIAL KEDUCTIOXS WILL BK MADE IN THE GRANT FOR TEACHERS' SALARIES WHICH->Il!�i IJE FOUND BY RATEPAYERS.
Jlnnouncement.
"
i't Is that Mrs. Frye should uot bo ^unfilled for sixth months while
evelling trial. __________.
The deputy aTforney-Eeneral In " the new arrangement, will pay Istenco of a Santa Claus. j in a wcll-conaldered speech. Alex-j *45 l'er quarter less for each teacher
CALGAJtV MAKES PROTEST
AGAINST GROUP GOV-'T
CALOARY. Dec. 2 8�Clinton J. at the preliminary hearing.] Ford, a local Liberal, has been nom-
I j , has been nom
utiel, in the event of her being unable- Inated aa a citizen candidate for tho td secure counsel at the trial of he'r I Calgary snot rendered vacant by tho lease, It will be tho duty of the crown Sdeath of the late Bob Edwards. Tho appoint counsel to act for her. | nomination Is by way of protest
ander Wimbles proposed tho next j employed on the staff than formerly, toast, which was to the other newly j A� there are about nine teachers em-
elected officers, and the response was nindo by W. G. D. Harper and George Bennett. The toast to the
ployed In the two hcIiooIb the reduction In.the provincial grant will be-como $1,020 per annum and- this
Republic Was Started ;h Emancipated Negroes
TlIKRfi HAS 0s AND AT T AND DESCEND?
STEADY DRIFT BACK TO THE UNITED STATES RESENT TIME THERE ARE ONLY TEN TII0U9-
OF THE ORIGINAL COLONISTS LEFT.
Liberia, (lie �0,000 dracrt mid the Atlantic ()<�< >>,nl way, despite the licluu-ss has nut been
negro republic, between the Sahara , Is practically bankrupt and ^<>iu-nilly in ;i its noil and its favorable cUmntc. Liberia
very successftk experiment and the Americans, whose government took over the LlberL CU8lom9 Bome tlmc bnck, lMlve Iliade plans to inspire the Liberia* gover^ent to greater effort.
In 182^ a strip of land on the\i8 heavy. ImYhense stretches of rich African coast was purchased and the|^u ,,e waitinrcultivation. Marvel-following year the first detachment I W,_______- �_____.
for tho freed negroeo living in the I'nlteil States was sent over to colonize it. In 1847, Liberia woa recognized by tho great iiinvvru as an independent republic. '
Tho Uultetf Slates fitood in the pecullur position of being at once a Biave-holdlng nnt;.on and at the same time Liberia's founder. The form of
-n-ovntMt f
y
tcutive. legislatlvo and Judicial� with a president and cabinet nt the head. The government or the country lios been entirely in the hands'of
!oi#j crops of corn and other produce (an ir� harvested. Cattle thrive in iliu country. Yet farming and stock raising art; almost entirely neglected and agricultural implements. And methods aro of th^ crudest. Labor, ctrange to i;uy. ia cheap ^od plentiful, the Kroos. orfe of the tWbes within the republic border* being noted workers;
a_�aad.
la, a white clergyman, who tells of the country's-needs in a recent, nr-(Icle in nn American magazine. Liberia has been in difficulties for n long time, Tho war Increased them.
as prior to 191J, 85 per cent, of
the Llberlans, and all the officials, from the president down to the policeman, are men Of color. ' Liberlu's trade was with Germany, fliit Liberia has been a disappoint-1 When the Great War started. Liberia ment. The liberated American negro j was almost deserted of trade. And did not take kindly to Africa. Today | when tho Germans did come back It there are only 10.000 Americo-Liber-j wub with a U-boat which threatened
vleitlng brethren waB proposed by | amount" will require to be found out Thomas Porter and responded to byj of the municipal taxes and will mean
a Blight Increase in the mill rate of
taxation.
Martin Caine and George McCullagh
CANDIDATES EMERGING
IN THE APPROACHING
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Tho announcement or Mayor Johnson that he will be a candidate for re-election, will give tho eloctora choice of three for tha next mayor of Prince George. In addition to the mayor. Alderman R. W. Alward and P. J. Moran are in the field.
In the aldcrrnanic section, Aldermen Fred. D. Taylor and A. A. Patterson have announced themselves for re-election, and there is said to be a chance that Alderman J. M. McLean may also decide to run. If he does, there would bo one vacancy to fill In eacli ward. In ward one, William Lockyer has consented to stand, and In Ward three, Fred. C. Saundem announces himself as candidate.
For the vacancies on the uc'uool board there is but one candidate lit the field for three vacancies. Mrs, J. F. Abbott, the retiring secretary of the board, having offered for reelection.
Inns�that 13 people who have des-j cended from the American negro and thoso who have emigrated from the
to shell Monrovia, the capital, unleus the Liberlans destroyed the French wireless station there. The Liber-
PAREXT TEACHERS WILL ENTERTAIX AT HIGH.
SCHOOL THIS KV'fiJUNO
TUB P.T.A. of the High -whorf-*Ut
�tvo a dancfl In tho High school this
for tfin~Titir�r�n-------�*"�Uin^fuuds
in tho school. The arrangements" mr the evening aro in the hands of W. 1.. Hornsby, president, and Mrs. J. H. Johnson, vice-president, and a committee composed of Mesdames Hog-era, Henry Wilson and George Ab^ bolt.
The music for the dancinR^will be furnished by the Prince/GboTge Orchestra. The prograrjKfor the evening will be In the/hands of Robert Wilson and Robert Porter, and card tables will htr'provided for those who do not wish to dance.
Thoxevenlng'3 entertainment will
Kitties�In that country. Then thore! ians, having joined the allies, con-are 4n.n�o educated natives from the (suited with their president, who de-trib..a within the boundary of the fled the German captain.. Fortun-j abo include a supper the catering in Llberlan republic, And most Im-.ately a British merchant vessel.Honnection with which win ue in me portant or all 1,000,000 natives be- i chased off tho undersea boat before longing in forty different tribes and i it had done much harm to the, negro spoaking as many different languag-i capital.
pb, living in the hinterland which the ! Education is at a loyKebb in Ll-Uborian government is supposed to beria. The 1,000,000 people of the rult!. f j interior have practically no educa-
Troplcal forests cover .five-sixths ! tlonal advantages. The 9,000 stuff the land. Along the coasts are | dents in nlKihe Liberlan schools al-only palms, wild coffee, mangrove i most nlKnttend the schools support-inid .scrubby trees, but back farther ed by thft American churcheB. Lack stand splendid forests of mahogany, of educational facilities iB wild to be ebony and other valuable woods, tp; the most Serious thing In Liberia.
nothing of rubber trees, coffee, palms, etc. Gold anoVcbprer
Liberia, which previously loans from the States, now
raised wants
uo thought to occur in cyitfntlty and | $5,000,000. The proposed plan to
iltamondB aro known to exist. But J^t'eria^docs practically no niinlng i niTtr "exports comparatively small
quantities of'^coffee, rubber, cocoa.
aid Liberia provides that twenty-two American citizens Hhull bo designated lo certain work by the president of _ the United States. They would
palm oil x1h\ kornols, ivory, ginger, ! haVo charge of the customs, postal unimujfetc. The average tempera- i service, roads, creation of commerce, tMJfirafiges from 100 Fahrenheit at J and collection of rovenuoi from na-�"on io ;-, at night and the rainfall ] lives of"the interior. ___________
Curlers Commence the Club Competition Play Next Week
BANK OF COMMERCE CUP WILL BE THE PRIZE FOR THE WINNING
KINK OF THE SEASON�TWELVE GAMES DRAWN WEEK AND COLDER WEATHER 8EKMH ASSURED.
FOR NEXT
The season's schedule with the local curl era will Htarl ne.vt Monday, '<�* draw for the season* play having been m�de. If any skip wishes to l�r�cUce his men between now and Mor.day. he muy minnge a B�mc by seeing tho secretary.
The Hank of Coiumorce cup will lip the first prize for tho.team ahead at the end or the season, and the Rkip of tho winning rink will he en-Utlod to hold It for one year.
�t has been decided, if a skip In "nort a man for any of his schedule Banio3, ho may substitute only on condition that he uses a man of the Game, rank as the ono he Ib short.
hands of Mtss'es Julia Izowsky, Des-sie Lelth, Helen Abbott and Muriel Ropers.
The report of tho High school ex-iim I nations, covering the school work from September to tho end of the year, will be handed oift during the course of the evening.
MATRON OF HOSPITAL
ACKNOWLEDGES DONATIONS
Miss H. A. Copp, matron of the City hospital desires to acknowledge tho following holiday donations, ami at the same time to wish the donors and ail friends of the hospital n very happy now year:
Women's Hospital AuxiTiary�Two turkeys, suuuage meat, celery, fruit, nuts, vegetables, cheese, crackers, dates and figs, G pairs of long curtains, 2 dozen men's flannelette shirts. I.O.D.E.. one box of applea and grapes; P. .Burns & Co., turkey; Oolder & Wleldand, quarter of beef and jar of fruit; Peck & Gillis. box of candy; Mrs. Y. A. Nllsen, 2 jar.3
of fruit; Mrs. Matheson, mincemeat; Mrs. Coates,
Jar jar
fruit; Mrs. H. A. Wilson, cake; Mrs. Mlnnion. joint of beef; and
Shearer, sack each of potatoes
Mr. and
carrots.
For tho Nurses�Mra. Doneen. chicken; Mrs. Freeman, cake and jar of fruit; Mrs. Pitman, cake; and W. H. A., boxes of chocolates.
PARTIAL LIST OF SCHOOL
EXAMINATION RESULTS
The results In all the school examinations were not available when this issue of The Citizen went to press, in Divisions Nob. 1 and 6
ONTARIO SEEKS TO SHUT
OUT LIQUOR IMPORTS
OTTAWA, Dec. 28�Attornev-Gen oral Ralney and Kon. Newton liowall counsel for the Ontario government are seeking a ruling from the federa government for the prohibition of liquor imports Into the province of Ontario.
LADY TAVLOIt DIED IN
WINNIPEG YESTERDAY
WINNIPEG, Dec. 28�Lady Tay lor, widow of 8lr Thomas Taylor. formerly Chief Justice of Manitoba, died hero yesterday.-
B. C. Mines Make Gain of FouJ Million Dollars in 1922
LV M1'AUFBI^)US MINING THE ACTIVE CENTER HAS SHIFTED
FROM
SOUTH TO THE NORTH�CONSOLIDATED SMELTING
COMPANY ;AVAS STABILIZING INFLUENCE IN KOOTENAY ZINC
MINING.
lo
The DtlntM-til output for tho province of B.C. hIiow.4 a gain of ijt 1,1 <><>.-S22 in Tallies o' cr tbe figures for the previous year. For 1022 the value of the output Of' lie mines is placed at $32,107,403, am against $28,000,041.
Hie gold m tput for the year is Riven at $4,100,1)10, bolng an increase of over a niiUio i, and the sliver output Is placed at $4,084,104, being an Increase of oyerfrlfty per cent. The operation of tho Premier mine, in tbc Portland Canal ,-amp, ia rsponsible for the great advance In gold ami silver mining.
Placer gold discoveries have fall on � to very small figures in recent years. The values for 1922 are given at $29?,O00, but BUiall as this total 1b it means an advjinco of $63,800 over
To the Electors of the City of Prince George: I i d�irc herewith to announce myself as a candidate for reelection to the office of Mayor of your City. In making this announcement, I have to explain that for some time I felt inclined T� �V T�rd U d h
the recoveries for the previous year. The Increase Ittjiha Pjacer jrWld is largely due to tl�o discoveries In the Cedar Cre^k PC^ifK). nnd tho lp,tlma-tron la" given" tfiaTTTc�sr=Creef rVhlcB" been listed sir a broken boom,
lead and zlac mines of {he Kootenay. Lead gained $790,542 ami zinc $455,-
f>4 3.
Coal production was about normal,
amounting to 2,559,414 tons, valued at $12,797,070, the Increase In value being given at $377,095. These figures are considered very good In J"Vftw"5dr ffie 4ib*or disturbances ii� the East Kootenay fields for u considerable portion of tho year. This affected the coko production, there be-^kT^arues^^f^^-l'1"dca- 87 6" A SMITH.
Monday. 2:30 p.m.�Wilson vs. ---------' Division Six
**** and Ogllvie vs. Pldgeon. j DEPOSITS IX CA^'"-^N.r�_._ \ Firal Pr,mer-May Huble. Frances JueRday, 8 to 10 p.m.�Harper vs.| BANKS SHOW INCREASE j ^"^ Roderlck McLeod.
"" Senior First Primer�Marlon Ferry Jake Spaner, Henry Stewart. 'Second Primer � HrlBo Daman,
P'dgeon7n'rWTl8;;Pvs.1-^ir ^^Si&R.SiiJ*?" dUr'iRUby WEUZAB?TH�MSi0AN. 8 to 10 p.m.�Ogg vs. Ran-; irfr tlifTWJntn01 ;>loveiuuo1- I
til a few days ago. It made it difficult for tho accused to do much more than set up a denial.
The case of Mrs. Pblllis Winn wan taken first. An attempt to set up an alibi broke down, and she was confined for- six months while ment.
Jewel Murray wns tsocond on the list. She operatod a chili parlor on Third avenue east mid was charged with. Bupplylnu-whish�y to the two detectives. The court hold the evidence was conclusive and aho also lrow the six months' sentence.
Tho laHt of the cases was disposed of Wednesday morning whon Mrs. Mary ilrausun tried to set up an iillbl with tho nnsista::ce of her husband. This broke down and she was sentenced to a like term of six months' imprisonment.
J. M. McLean, who appourod for all tho women, applied for-ball pending notice of appeal. This was fixed at $1,000 each with two Burettes in each case of $500. This means the convicted persons must serve notice of appeal within.ten days or be taken into custody. If appeals are entered they -will probably be heard on January 10th.
P. E. Wilson appeared for ' the prosecution in all four caseB.
CHANCELLOR BALDWIN
AND GOVERNOR NORMAN
SAIL FOR THE U.S.
LONDON, .Dec. 28�Chancellor of the Exchequer Baldwin and Governor Norman, of the Bank of England, are on their way to the United States to take as the question of the funding of the British war debt. j
bonspiel which takes place at Edmonton on January 22nd. Thero Ih every reason to believe there is enough material in the local club to get together a couple of rinks which could uphold tho reputation of the town'wlth the best that could be sent against them, and a sufficient number have Intimated a willingness to go to warrant the organization of the local rlnka. The trip will occupy a week, and an effort will bo made to secure reduced railway fares. It is proposed that one of the rinks should be skipped by P. E. Wilson and tho other by W. G. I). Harper.
NEW FUR COMPANY EXTERS LOCAL MARKET AND
PUTS BUYER IN FIELD
The Saskatoon Hide and Fur Company, which for a number of years has been in tho fur business in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, has decided to enter the B. C. trade and will maintain an office In this city. Harry Smithy-president of the company, was in the city on Saturday and will give the local office his per Bonal supervision, moving up and down the line betweon thlB city and Saskatoon. -Ho has made arrange ments with John A. Bowles, of thl city, to do tbq local buying for th firm.
CUltZON WILL XOT GIVE UJt�
MOSUL Oil/ FIELDS
- LAU3ANNK, D�c. 28�Lord Cur Bon Ii.ih sent a note to Ismet Paabs declaring it absolutely impossible for Great Britain to entertain the Turkish demand for tlio giving up of the Mosul oil regions.
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� T� �V T�rd � UlC past ycar' aild that l hav* Ranged my mind has been due to the repeated requests from a large number of electors that I should again permit my name to go upon the ballot pspcr.
In again offering myself as a candidate, I wish simply to state that I am prepared to stand or fall upon the record of the council for the past year There were doubtless some mistakes, and some of them were probably mine, but I am prepared to go fifty-fifty with the other members of the council, and stand or fall upon your deci-ston whether the council for 1922 did not accomplish as much as could be reasonably expected, in view of the conditions which developed during the year.
I need not remind you that Prince George ran into a number of disappointments during 1922, which had a marked bearing upon the progress and prosperity of our City, but all of them were beyond the power of the City council to determine.
A The high hopes which were entertained early in the year with respect to a commencement of work upon the pulp and paper mill, which we are still confident will ultimately come to our City and' -make it one of the most important centers in the province, have for the moment gone into eclipse.
� The prospects of the City also suffered severely by reason of the adverse report made upon the P. G. E. railway project. You all know my opinion. I think this northern country, of which our City forms the center, is big enough and rich enough to warrant the completion of the railway to this point. It should have been here years ago jf it had not become the sport of politicians. But I am still satisfied it*will come in spite of all opposition which can be made against it, and, when it does come, it will make all of us feel a little better satisfied with the investments we have made here and more optomistic for the future of the city.
In the matter of the big McArthur saw and planing mill, I feel satisfied we are not due for any disappointment. Without boasting, I can say I have had a great deal to do with influencing Mr. McArthur to locate in our City, or at least in its suburbs. Month* before there was any whisper of this enterprise, I almost made a nuisance of myself in urging upon Mr. McArthur the advantages of Princejjeorge as a point for operation. I was able to impress upon water-borneTo^sTarffl to^f il? filii ih fi smaller one in the matter of labor supply and^the ^^gJ.
In the end Mr. McArthur decided to build on the Hudson's Bay sub-division. The mill is not here yet. but good progress has been made, and I am advised that, up till the present, nothing in the way of an obstruction has presented itself to prevent Mr. McArthur from carrying out his expressed intention of commencing work on the necessary railway spur as soon as the frost is out of the ground, and following this up with the erection of the saw and planing mill which will mean employment for 800 men around the mill and in the bush.
There is one other sawmill project which, I am pleased to say, has made even greater progress than the McArthur mill, and this is the plant projected by the Cranbrook Sawmills Limited. This company has purchased the limits of Barney Keegan, one of our citizens, and is making arrangements to have the mill cutting this coming summer. This mill will provide employment for 40 or 50 men, and, while they will not be actual residents of the city, they will purchase sll their supplies from our merchants, and in this way help out the general prosperity. Personally I regard the decision of the Cranbrook Sawmills to commence operations here at once as the first distinct gain in the several industrial phantoms we have been chasing in the past, and having secured one real industry it will be easier for us to secure the next, and eventually build up a pay-roll which will stabilize business for twelve months in the year.
As I have said, when the retiring council assumed office we had high hopes for the year ahead cf us, but fortunately we.-did not gamble very strongly upon the prospect. We did think, however, the time had arrived to improve the roadways of the city and to extend the water services, and I think you will agree with me that we have changed the appearance of the town somewhat. The money for the work came from the sale of yoiir debentures. We started by getting the best price realized by the city in years, and then we made the dollar go as far as a dollar could in doing the work for which it was intended. Whatever else may be said of the work of the retiring council, I think most of the ratepayers of the City will agree that J. H. Johnson and the council for 1922 gave Prince George better value for its public works expenditures than any other council in the history of the City. Nothing was wasted, and there is even a squeal.
In the matter of general administration, economy was the vatchword of the council from the start. As you know, they began on me, by cutting the Mayor's salary in half, and then wiped themselves out of the salaried class altogether. All told, the council effected savings amounting to several thousands of dollars, and, having done this, they considered they were warranted in reducing the burden of the taxpayer by cutting 2% mills off the rate of assessment. We realized at the time it was a bold stroke and, had things been normal, I am satisfied it would have worked out.all right. But the council, like all the rest of us, ran into a period of tight money, and even a lowered assessment and a lowered rate of taxation were not sufficient inducements for the property owners to pay their taxes. I have not the exact figures handy, but 1 am certain that had the low tax levy which we made been met. the council would have come through, with a surplus of $15,000 wstead of being that much short of making the ord.nary receipts for Mie* year equal the expenditures.
However, you all have a pretty Rood � wh.ch your affairs have been managed d"rin* fJ there is any point in connection with which you
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again.honor
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the opportunity oi doing so. if you qo, juu �... �-. �
<~ j� m� in 1923. as I think you have done during the past year.
in me in 1923, as
Yours very truly,
J. H. JOHNSON.