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I'RINCB GEORGE, B.C., FRIDA^ MARCH 8th, 1088.
FIVE CENTO.
irmers Spend Mve Hours piscussing Their Problems
KIEL Claj
w Johnson welcomed tho delegates In a very hearty manner, and l,v K. Jones, president ot the Board of Trade, who touched L the inii><"-<�Ml I""' P1"***1 b>' th0 'nrmcr in tho development of tho In UiIh section of the province the farming Industry was in its t he ronld look forward with confidence to the timo whon there dd I* ii'1 Uiousand farmers scattered through th� section served by T p. between Mr Bride and Smithers. This would make for the p^Ii, of the Interior, and ho would like to assure the delegates fur us the local Board of Trade was concerned it could be ilwmpon'to co-operate with the fanner* la all their asplraUoiM. President Cocker's Address .< � President CockerWfts very brlof in
unnual address. Ho reminded i delegates ii had been his prlvl-, [or three years to servo as pre-fent of the central organization In jtrict C. It was worthy of noto jbii opinion, that there was more klTitr m agricultural matters than �ar previous time In the history ol . northern country, and a great I 0( viluahle organization work I being dono.
|One ol the mattors which he might receive the conslder-|on"of the delegates was the de-of securing something in nature of an enquiry into the tt dl-parlty between the prlcea [id by tho consumers of farm pro-i �nd the prices received by the mtn. There was no suggestion it the coniiumcr did not pay fair a, but at the same time the ex-nie of mnrkotlns was so great the acr btul every rouBon to be dls-ltiili�d. An enquiry Into the raat-ir, In bis opinion, could not fall to I o! advantage There could be no but what maiturs could be brcved by co-ordinated co-opera-jon en the part of tho farmers and |e c. :. Iu i he iiorth would do well (follow the ltiad of the fruit grow-> In tbo southern portion of the wince. There s-hould not be any nrmountabie difficulty in the way L establish!:... a central selling serin Prince George, which could adle all the product of the farms district C. If something were it along thin line the farmers aid get the best price and the pro-
duce would reach the consumer with much smaller charges for handling.
Mr. Cocker woke up the memory of the pulp and paper mill. The lmportanco which thiB industry would assume in the goneral development of the city and surrounding country was dwelt upon. There were a groat many things which would help In the development of the district, but he doubted If any one of them would approach In Importance the establishment of a pulp and paper mill.
The necessity for the completion ot the P. O. E. into the Peace River section was stressed. Railway facilities had been promised, to tho people In this remote section of the province, and on the strength o( the promise they had gone ahead developing. There was no portion of the province more Inviting for the farmer than the Peace River, but it required a railway. Without It no Further development was posslblo. There were some people who said a railway extended Into the Peace River from Prince George would never pay. Whether such a railway would my could best be answer�d by find-ng out the nature of country the road would serve. The official ln-ormatlon of the federal government was to the effect there were sixty nlllton acres of land in the district suitable for grain growing and at tho average yield of the west this land would produce twelvo billion bushels of wheat per year. It was computed his wheat would give the railway . (Continued on Page 3)
MAGISTRATE HERNS BANDS
BSLLOB STIFF SENTENCE
Greek Pair Buyer, WoU Known Here,
Drawn Close to Limit for 8elllng
Liquor to Indiana
Bofore Magistrate Hern�, at South Fort George yesterday, "Art" Bollos faced charges of having sold liquor to Indians In the Kazoo country, during November and January. The chargos were preferred by Staff Sergeant McLood, of the "Mountloa," who conducted the prosecution.
The accused is well known In Prince George, where he has been associated in the running of clubs. More recently he has broken Into tho fur-buying game, and, according to the evidence brought before the court, he employed the Influence of tho white man's til�e-water to assist his traffic in pelts with the red men.
In the charges heard yesterday
sum �='( �60. to testify against Ballon, by Mine person whose Identity rc-nialnj*' unknown. From this it to�jr bo concluded that Bollos has some implacable enemies, who seek his detraction. This is borne out by tho fret Unit Bellos appeared in court In a damaged'condition, which hns 'AsJaycd the action of tho trial, following a meeting of Greek with Greek recently In which tho accused wept down like the Uolshovlsts before ..hlri. olilli.
Underlying the caso there Is a younjjfwar botweon certain Greek fur,buyers which bears all the earmark* of a pocket odliton of the battle for sopreinacy in the fur busln'ass bween the Hudson'B Bay and the Northwest Companies many years ago..
Chief Carlow Cuts His
Police Estimates Down
IP THE ESTIMATE IS MAINTAINED AN ECONOMY OF �l,50O WILL BE
EFFECTED AS AGAINST POLICE DISBURSEMENTS FOR PAST YEA to�COST OF SERVICE IS PLACED AT 98,084.00.
THE
SU?f-Sergeanf- McLeod appealed to Magistrate Herne for the utmost penalty, tbe law could inflict, on the grouuds that the Department of In- agaiu busy with the fate of the big Giftcome mill, the hu-gest illliiK plant In lite Fort George district, which lie* twenty-three miles of Prince (ieoiise on the C. N. R. According to current reports tho ipretlro purchasers are headed by the Wlntons, who are at the head the Prime Albert Lumber Company. President Harris, of tho Western ice Cunip.ui), of Winnipeg, Ik said to bo an interested p.irty. The uanied arc on their way to Giscome at thia date and are 1 there during tho next few day*.
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.MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT I'KIN'CE GEORGES EARTHQUAKE WAS A BLAST TO SHAKE UP ICE JN TIB NECHACO RIVER�HOUSES JUMPED AND TREMBLED FOR A SECOND OR TWO�FIRST OF THESE PHENOMENA EVER EXPKH EXCED HERE.
For the first time within the memor; of the oldest inhabitants aa earthquake, or tremor, shook Priuce Gcotite at 7:SO this morning. Tbe shock was distinct, and was recognized for; an earth tremor in most cases by persons who were not bnailjr occupied. 'Many people thought that tbe quake was due to blasting ice in the Nechaco river, or to a heavy dray passing, or snow falling off the roof, and t'uey are astonished to find that the firm, and hitherto reliable, mother e:jth, below this section of the frigid zone, h;m been jazzed about by ViiuC may prove to be the tall end
Chief of Police Carlow 1* getting in line with the municipal policy of enforced economy and has finnlly submitted a budget to tlio pollco com-mbwloacrs which brings police expenditures for the yc�r donn to $8,6g4. The only increase shown in estimated expenditures Is one of $10 I Kir month in the salary of the police constable. As it stands the estimate of Chief Carlow, if carried out, would decrease the police expenditures for tho year by over $500.
Last .year's estimate called for an expenditure of $6,370.00, but It made provision for but one constable which, with other unforseen expenses, brought the total for the year up to $9,120.26. This year's estimate is even more favorable than at first appears for the reason that the police estimate this year carries $1,-020.00, being part of the cost of the city solicitor's services. Heretofore this was all charged to the finance department, but this year tbe police
department takes $85.00 per month
of thla charge and the finance department the remaining 150.00 per
month. The estimate, which has yet to bo
considered by the City council
makes the following provisions:
Chief of police, $176 p?r
month..............................$2,100.00
Constable, $150 per m....... 1,800.00
Magistrate, $112.50 per in. 1,350.00
Prosecuting attorney, (85
per month ...................... 1,020.00
Poundkeeper, $60 per m.
(6 months) .............-..... 360.00
Keep of prisoners .............. 500.00
Secret service
Printing and stationery......
Three 'phones, $6 per m.....
Taxi service, $30 per m.....
Laundry, $1 par month......
Inquest a .............-...............
License tags for dogs
300.00 50.00 72.00
360.00 12.00 60.00 10.00
Unforseen expenses ............ 700.00
of a serious disturbance in some distant
of the world.
Crui&era hi pi the stand
timber on the A. C.
?l limits, which are tho potential
jnpply area tor tho Olscomo Mill.
rr- Fros'. well known as a railway
|�tttractor ami lumberman, of Chl-
[". built the Glscomo Mill during
'��.at Willow River. The mill
J later move,! to Its present loca-
l��n�t tho on: let Of Kagle creek on
l"llet i�k* Th(J orlginal co8t wa8
l�ne�herc In tho.neighborhood of
;�00 ani1 *[nr" thftl ��� an
Tllloni" IT5,.....) hns b*en expend-
w on the plant. The mill became involved In financial difficulties and jJWttfnuilvc of ihe Canadian Cre-*.. * Asrtr,,-ation, of Vancouver, w" appoints liquidator. v : '"in between the H-rost, who is heav-wstci, the Chicago man came.
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j
ilto i , ct nnd f0'�<-nced oP&r-" � "> Hi s spring of laat year. Mr.
I^U darln�r''a:il"! '"U"y' 0DBtaclc8 b* IW* of diific,,i,|l!H |? tinanciaj condl" :"ing on short capital,
i ii mi s:
laat
�1 shipped a lot of
It I
Uut " lln'1"r!'lood that the interests
"ii Its u""t "' lu -UIumme tne ml11 "on on n'v liUltls hold a �hort op-" on the property.
'lOo'ooT! has " nomlnal capacity of Hcor'd nV a day but u haB cut a �iw�l )out !50,000 foet on a The plant Is highly ef-Includes every mechanl-
llcleat
('-l tnri
lumbering.
known
AT I'EAK OF THE OXITPCT
� Teams HauUng Almost *rl0a<1 �' Ties on Each Trip from Cnmp to Rail
�hl I:
JonnlnKa- President of the
out
or the moat up-to concerns taking
Interior today, to the city on
�fBe 1lean>B at the Jennluga Ruling huge loads of ties
to the track for shipment ovor the vast network of the Canadian National Railways. On Tuesday a four-horso team brought down 276 ti>'s o'n one load. An average railway carload ls 325 ties, and so It Is apparent that the teamsters at tbo Northern Forem Products camps are not loafing on the job.
This Is the best timo of the year for the tie business, states Mr. Jennings. During the Beason of tho henvy snowfall, when roads have to bo broken and the snow packed down, the hauling end lags behind In the cninps that have long distances to take the tleB to the steel. At this time of the year when the sloigh roads are covered with glassy Ice It Is possible to bring out loads of the b!zo that are bolng handled now. Those are the ideal conditions, and while they prevail tho tie camps boom at the peak of their production.
About 3,000 ties a day are being, delivered at tho track from the Northern Foreat Products camp at Giscome. The contract Is for 125,000 nnd the firm has the prlvlloge of overrunning this by some 3S.000 If conditions are right, and, according to Mr. Jennings. It ls hoped that this overrun privilege will be taken full advantage of.
Tho Northern Forest Products camp 1b equipped as well as one of these necessarily temporary camps can be. 8peclal equipment ls provided for hauling the bug�, loads from tbe tle-tlmber over tho six-mile road to.the track. The camps aro comfortable, and the crew of 125 men are given everything that can be obtained to make life In the bush as attractive as possible under the circumstances.
Associated witfuMr. Jennings aro Harold Fish ot Montreal, and Wesley aething, -a son ot Nell Oething, a well known pioneer of Central British Columbia and the Peace River country.
The company hao delivered about 90,000 ties by the track at Qlscomo to thts date.
French Action in -the Rhur Causes Gloomy Foreboding
LONDON Con�ESPOSD�XTS CLAD! THAT U2SXES8 AGREEMENT IS SOOX REACHED IT IS ONLY A MATTER OP TIME BEFORE ANOTHER WAR BREAKS OUT�FRANCE SAID TO BE READY TO DECLARE AVAR IF ATTACKED*
UiMKiN, Starch O�Gloomy pictures of the Bituntion in tho Ruhr,, with warnings of nn impending crisis, lire painted by London newspaper; correspondent.)*, and the impression "that the cauldron In the Ruhr may boll over with fearful resultn in bloodshed," has bcon expressed by a repro-sentntlvc of the Westminster Gazette nt Cologne. This writer continues: "It is the opinion of thotto best able to Judge, tliat unless an agreement in noon reached it will only be a iuatu>r of time before another war breaks out. I am told that Franco will not hesitate to declare war and bomb German oltle*, including Berlin, If her forces are attacked."______________
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SIX MONTHS' SUSPENDED
OVER YOUNG NIPRO PANKA
Lad
Who Forcibly Entered
Room Recently Out on
Good Behavior
Pool
If Nipro Panka, aged nineteen years, who broke into the Pastime Pool Room in tbe early morning hours recently, does not watch his step, he will be haled away to serve
a six months' sentence which was suspended, by His Honor Judge Robertson, in tho County Court, on Wednesday last. Nipro was found running about the streets of the city in a manner that aroused the suspicions of a lynx-eyed officer on the morning on which a burglary was commlttod at the pool room, and cigarettes and cigars were scattered over ths landscape In a manner that indicated a lack of savolr falre on the part of the burglar. Putting two and two together Nipro was concluded to be the temperamental burglar and the court Inclined to this opinion. Tbe prosecution was In tho hands of J. M. McLean and Alex Young defended.
IRELAND SEES HEAVIEST FIGHTING SINCE SUMMER
BELFAST, March 9 � The heaviest fighting since last summer ls proceeding in the mountains of Kerry where 400 lrrog-u'ars have been driven out by the Nationalists with many wounded on each side. The killed number 8 Nationalists and 20 Irregulars.
DECISION RESERVED
. VANCOUVER, March 9� Th� marine enquiry into the collision here between the PrinceBS Beatrice and Camousln Is concluded. Tbe decl-Bion ls reserved.
HIS MAJESTY AND LABOR
LONDON, March O � Three prominent Labor members of the House of Commons, J. R. Clynes, J. A. Thomas and Philip Bnowdcn, dined with tho King-at Buckingham Palace last night.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. haB'iwen capitalized at a billion daMars*-
Presbyterian Synod Votes Strongly for Organic Union
RESOLUTION OF RETIRING MODERATOR- ROBERTSON AND JUDGE SWAN SON STRONGLY APPROVED BY SYNOD WHICH LS ON RECORD FOR UNION BETWEEN PRESBYTERIAN. METHODIST AND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES AT EARLIEST MOMENT.
VANCOUVER; March O�By 11 vote of 03 to 37 tbo Presbyterian synod of British Columbia supported tho resolution of the retiring moderator, I>. G. Robertson, and of Judge Swanson, of KiimloopB, Mrtngjy npprovlng an organic union between the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Churches, and urging the Presbyterian General Ausembly to take the earliest possible Hlcpu iu Hum direction.
The synod defeated by a vote of OS to 28 the amendment of Dr. McLaren and Dr. \V. Clny, suggesting that the issue bo postponed. Dr. McLaren said that ho wus a unionist himself but feared tho disruption of tho church if the matter was preae-ed. until it had unanimous support.
Great excitement followed the vote and franchise of 'f f.i'r'ff >�> t. fl linage of the last person seen before
? ROYAL BABY'S NAME ? j death or unconsciousness and that
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�f LONDON, March 9�It is of- ? j cussing.
? flclally announced that Prln- ? �f cess Mary's baby will be named ?
? George Henry Hubert, aftor the + �f King. Lord Lascelles, and the 4
? late Marquis of Clanrlcardo. re- ?
�f spectlvely.
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GROPE BEYOND THE GRAVB
Police criminal experts are seeking the Imago of the murdererj>f Ernest Lionel Lorenz in the dead man's eyes.
Mayor Hayward announced this afternoon that on Saturday, before the funeral of young Lorenz, police set the body upright in mortuary with both eyes open took many photograph* working on the theory that the eyei retain the
the tbe and
8MITHER8 ACCEPTS APPEAL
At a postponed session of the court of revision In Smlthers the appeal of the O. T. P. against values placed on their property was taken Into consideration. A plan Is to be worked out wh�reby assessment will more nearly conform to the values placed on the property by the company for sale purposes. While the company will get relief in many cases and to a value of almost $11,-000, the reduction will be made only on such property as Is held in blocks by the company.
Sir Harry Lauder, famous Scotch actor, has sailed for the Antipodes
from San Francisco.
Government street, through James Bay. and Into the Falrfleld district. That night more shots were fired In Lover's Lane, at Beacon Hill Park, and on Monday morning the body of
well-dressed unidentified young man, was found In the park. It Is supposed that he died from fright. Called to the locality by a residence which telephoned for tho police, officers found several freshly fired revolvor snella In the road. The calibre was the same as the bore that killed young Ernest Loreni.
In connection with the Lorenz murder, Henry Crease, son of Llnd-ley Crease, a well known Victoria lawyer, was held for Investigation, but liberated efter a day's questioning. Hl� alibi was supported by a young society woman who alleged that Crease waB not near the scene of the murder at the time It was committed.
A veteran, named D. C. McKensie. (he first arrest, has been sent to Essondale for Investigation.
Rumors suggest that the solution to tbe murder may cause a sensation ^ social circles at the capital, while other reports indicate that Lorenx was in posaesslon of papers which certain persons were anxious to obtain.
BORROWED H. B. STEEL
OTTAWA, March 9�A question iu the Commons revealed tho fact that J. Hungerford, vice-president of the Canadian National Railways, last fall recommended that steeP worth $118,000, lying along tho unfinished portion of tho Hudson'* Bay Railway, bo removed and used elsewhere on tho system, and the board of directors later approved thla and ordered the carrying out of the scheme.
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4 VANCOUVER WELL AWAY ?
4 VICTORIA, March 9�The 4 4 Vancouver Maroons got away ? 4 to a good start for the cham- 4 4 pionahlp of the B.C. hockey as- 4 4 soclation on Wednesday night 4 4 by defeating Victoria three to 4 4 nil. 4
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HITMAN FLY KILLED
BRITISH MINISTER RESIGNED
Hon. Orlffith-Boscawen,1 who was defeated a second tlmt) In an effort to secure a seat In parliament, has resigned tho portfolio of minister of health and It Is rumored Lord Robert Cacll has been offered the position.
The regular monthly meeting of
the ladles' aid of Knox Church, will *...,------ -------
be held in the church on Wednesday, a. an agrtcu��nU .�* but
March 14th. at 3 p.m
Howard Young, known aB the human fly. stunting for thfl movies while climbing the Hotel Martinique on Broadway, In the presence of 20,-000 persons, fell from the eighth storey and was fatally Injured, on Tuesday.
A doten movie cameras w�re in action at the time of the acoident. Young gave exhibitions of his daring and prowess in, Vancouver during the Victory Loan drive when he clmbed the World building and Vancouver hotel, before huge crowds.
BUYS CALIFORNIA RA5CH
Mr. Harry Mobley, formerly of Prince Rupert and Atlin. has purchased a ranch In tha Imperial valley, which is located not far from Los Angeles, says the Prince Rupert Empire. It is said he plans on cultivating fruits, for which Southern California is Justly famous. Tho Imperial valley has qulto a renown
weather Is exceedingly hot.