PRINCE GEORGE CITIZ^f
A (Hi. 0, NO. 4SS.
With Which Is Amalgamated the Prince George Leader
Japanese Are Considering New Pacific Port
Mm  I'1"  '''HS|   'J'no �' Steamers on ilu< I tun to Prince Jtuport from Japan
< iiiiaffi.in National Sj'Htoin run Kuril-Mi liisi Service for Movement of Silk
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.,   THURSDAY, AUGUST Oth, 1023.
FIVE CENTS.
the northern portion of Brlt-umbia is  beginning to  inter-
buainoas men of Japan was ed last week by the arrivul city of S. Taiyo, of the Jap-� iiisul's office in Vancouver. sit or spent one day in the H he was busy all the time lected as much first-hand |ge of* tlie district and its Hies as some men would net : in a week, the  enquiries   made   by   S.
PRESIDENT HARDING'S
BODY NOW LIES IN STATE
BENEATH GREAT DOME
WASHINGTON, AuK. 8�The body or the late president    waa    carrier with clue solemnity today from    th White House  to    the    capitol    ant placed beneath the great dome    The escort Included  a  military guard  o 8.000  troops with General  Pershine at their head.
MORGANTHAXJP SAYS
..ADMIRAL CHESTER WAS
FIGUREHEAD IX TCRKE1
WILLIAMSTON; Aug. S � Henry Aforganthaup, former United States ambassador to Turkey, charged here that Admiral Chester of the United States navy was used as a cat's paw in the securing of the famous Chos-ter concession from the Angora government.
pre
rude between Prince Rupert ian, in competition with the service between    Vancouver
THE KV1> OP GERMAN
MARK IS NOW CONCEDED
TO  BK  IN  SIGHT
BERLIN, Auk.    S�Dr.    Johannes
mid  seem  that  the  pro-   Becker, minister of economics in the loomed  largest     in     his   Cuno  administration,   has come  out the possibility of develop-   with the definite statement that the government  intends to abandon the system of paper mark currency.   Incidentally he said  the    government
the Orient.    The Japanese    are j would  do what  it could   to support
mm to make a start, as they, that  all  things must  have a
ing.     With  Prince   Rupert  as <>:!  they have a shorter sall-
� tance of  some  450   miles  as
� i    with       Vancouver,       but
ill is they have a longer rail
' 200 miles to reach-the east.-}
ilted States markets.    Taking
igether, they figure the   .ad-
�  lies with the Prince Rupert
chief  consideration     at     the time Is the-movement of the
tho mark, but this assurance is not taken to moan very much.
'CAP" HOOI> WILTj DEVELOP SUMMER RESORT AT FOOT
OF STIWKT  LAKE
Local Plant Is Making Success on Culvert Pipe
Improved Machinery  Now   Installed
Will Produce, Fifty Pieces of
Pipo Per Day
JAMES A. FLAHERTY
RE-ELECTED HEAD OF
KNIGHTS OF COLUMJJUS
Pmseni IVrnand will Keep (he Plant  for die Next Ten Yours �       at L�*.aNt
bv
"Cap" Hood, of this city has decided to develop a summer resort at the foot of Stuart lake on some land which he owns along tlir frontage of the lake nnd the river. In his judgment there is no section of the province which presents greater pos-
silk across the continent, i ;:ibilities' than the Stuart Lake district, with its great stretches of waterways and unrivalled fishing and hunting. Tho road from Van-derhoof i< now in first-class shape and the run from the train to the lake can be made in two hours. The "Cap" has one and a half miles of water frontage property and has arranged with F. P. Burden, of this city, to lay tire same out in acreage lots upon which he will arranee to nlneo comfortable cottages. When he has done this he thinks he will have nreparod a very desirable pine* in which the leisure class of the community can enjoy its holidays.
in this appears to he    the ntial.     For a  number    of business has been divided lie Canadian  Pacific     and 1 States lines running into nd every effort hap     been th*j railway managements mv.   even matters of minutes in �'��� movement  of the  silk  specials. x\    '�  ar>>     dispatched     across     the
i .....ent upon the arrival of steatn-
>��- at I'xpress speed. As it is a very profitable business there is every reason whv the mannKoments should concern themselves, and with the W.wlodce that the Japanese authorities are considering the possibility I if n mure northern route, there, is j ad- Pacific  which   will     ooual     the �� sneedieM   vessels  in   the     C.   P.   R fV-t      Neither  will   there   bo     anv difficulty  in supplementing the silk with other  cnre:o   commodities     for tho outward voynqe. but the matter nf return  cnrEo  for    the    Japanese vessels requires more consideration 1" the '�nmmoncem�nt !� will bo more difficult  to oeenro. at  Prince Rupert than it would be at. Vancouver,    but 'bf .lanapece nre of the opinion that the business through 'be    northern port enn be built up.   Thev would be irennr-od to take lumber nnd  wheat In   unlimited   quantities   unUl   n�her linos r-onld     bo     introducod.     With very littio manipulation, thev figure �He lumber end of th" c^rrnes could Im arranged from mills with a eom-iwratlvelv short haul  to Princ-=> Ru-'. aiul  wi'b  the erection  of     e'e-"f sufficient stnrnep ennnoitv
The cement pipe-making plant of the Canadian National in turning out culvert pipe now at the rate of about twenty pieces per day, and is furnishing employment for some twenty men. All of the pipe to be used in tho road betterment programme between Jasper and Rupert will be supplied from the local plant, which so situated that it can turn out pipe much cheaper than any of tht; other concerns operated by the �ompany.
The pipe-making equipment is situated in the western end of t?he railway yard  on  the top of :i very fine leposit  of  sand  and   gravel.     It   is in  open-air  proposition,  and  is  un-ler the personal supervision of C. C. Mealing.    To The Citizen. Mr. Meal-ng said  the local plant  is so    well situated that there is work in  sight r the next ten years at least.    The ilant was started as an experiment, nit  it is rapidly evolving from  this stage.    It was started up in September  last  and  operated  for a  couple of months,  when it closed down  by reason of climatic conditions.   Work was resumed  in  May  and the  plant has betMi working steadily since.
At the present time Mr. Mealing is experimenting with a new machine which will permit of the using of drier cement in the making of pipe, and when the same is working satisfactorily he expects to run the daily output-up to forty or fifty pieces of pipe per day. and effect a considerable saving in the. way of cement. One of the features of the new machine provides for the tamping of the cement in the mould by the use of compressed air. It is expected to have the new machine operating within  the next few days.
MONTREAL, Aug. 8�James A. Flaherty, < of Philadelphia^was unanimously re-elected tcj^BPfcrffice of supreme knight of UpjlWrnigfits of Columbus for thn eighth successive torirt. In his annual address FlalMjr-ty paid his respects to the Klu Klux Kla'n and said the Knights of Columbus would not tolerate any reflec tions from the klan or any other organization as to the integrity o their members.
Bowser Defends His Action on P.G.E. Question
Scores  Premier Oliver and  General
McRao for Use of Confidential
(Correspondence
N.  C. JOROENSKN DIVIDED MIS  HOLIDAY BETWEEN
PROFIT AND PLEASUKF
Big Company Secures Control of Duthie Mine
So favorably situated is the local
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plant for the making of culvert tile
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that it-will be drawn upon to supply pipe on the Canadian Northern sys-t-em as far east as Wainwright.    as far south  as Calgary,  and west the Pacific coast.
N. C. Jorgensen is back in the cit> after a few weeks spent in Montana H-e made one of the fifteen thousand crowd which swept down on the little town  of Shelby to see the fight between  Dempsey and  Gibbons,  but when  the  fight  was  over  he     took himself  over to the Sage creek oilfield, which lk>s just to the south of j the, district of East Kootenay.     Jorgensen is the holder of a large acreage  in   the  Sage   Creek  field,     and after looking the ground over, guve it to the local  press as his opinion thai  there is just ns good  a chance of netting rich by oil investments in the Sage Creek district as in many of the others which are more extensively  advertised.     He   backed     his oninion   up  by making  further  purchases  in   the  district.     There     are some  wonderful     seepages     in     the Kootenay section of the Sage Cre^k field, but  po  far no  discoveries     of oil   in   paying  quantities  have   been made in it.    Better results have been made   south   of   th�   boundary,   but the field is not proven.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT
superintendent
Suggested    Settlement    Cannot Made U> Cover Later of fiovernmont
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B.   A.   Latta. Canadian  National
express for    the
western division, spent \Vednesrta> >n the city on official business. There has been a marked growth in the business of the local office during the past year.
Hon. Dr. King, minister of public works in the federal government passed through the city on Saturday evening on his way back to Ottawa During a short stop in the city the doctor exchanged greetings with a number of political  friends  in     the
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SOl'TH FORT (JEOItGE HAS LOST GOOD TEACHER IN
F. E. ANFIKLD
 Ruport, the wheat cargo would be
T.-tivo Is maklne nn o-xhnust'vo of the country tributary to the P. and nnpeirs to be verv en-'nllstTRflc ns ti H* T^ortf* no^s'bl'i-Uo* wit), the Orient, and among the lunps tnat may be within �be future '* the nai"--aKe nf �|]k snecials across th" Canadian Na�'onnl line. p"d the "V|vlonmont of the Prince Rupert t alnne the linen envisioned by men' who projected It.
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Federal  Mining and  Smelting   Company Pays $250,0N WEDNESDAY EVENING
( hautauqua season  tickets, which
�'r" Rood for all of the six entertain-
neriN  to  ne  cjvcn   by   the  talented
members of  the  Chnutauqua     com-
pjIU' Ina>' 1)n secured   "at    Steacy's
"irniaey, the Prince George    Drug
j �re. or from the following mem-
"rs of tnp  committee:     W.     Arm-
� "'tif. George Bennett, Frank Clark,
'�� Kraser. l^evl Gnhnm.    G.   W.
�lllK"�- J. G. Quinn. T.  R.  Rush   or
� '"x'""ler Wimbles.    The   Chnutau-
I   ll �ntortninment8    represent     the
"liit oome to Prince George.and
I,,,'  ypnr the programme is said  to
"lead of anything of the     kind
'' l�rosentea in the city.
(Hving to difficulty    in    securing in   nm t0 8Unervlse. there will be "rownie camp this season.
vrs,
,1. F. Duthie. the Seattle shipbuilder, is said to have received a quarter of a million for a controlling interest in. the mine which he.. haR bad under development for the past two years. Put hie is not a mining mnn. but he has become very much interested in the district tributary to Smithers and is said to favor initial mining development rather than the operation of a big property such as t'.ie Duthie give's promise of becoming. It Is Baid the money received by him for the Interest in the Duthie will be re-invested in a number of prospects in th-1 camp, and that he will irive his personal supervision  to their development.
As a result of the recent deal on tno Duthie the output of the min-e. will be lost to the Canadian smelter, n Roman Catholic church have arranged to hold their nnnua.1 bn'nnr on the afternoon of Sntiinlav. September 5th. A chicken suruior will be served between 6 and 8:20 o'clock.
There will bo a meiHintr of tho board of trade in the city ball on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The matter nf the Improvement of the waterway through the Crooked riror will be among tho matters considered.
F. E. Anfield, the popular principal of South Fort George school will be missing when the school opens for the fall term. During the past year Mr. Anfield, who holds a first-class Ontario certificate, was permitted to teach on a temporary certificate, but this term the education department, although requested by the school board of South Fort George to renew the certificate, refused to do so. To continue teach-ins in British Columbia it would be necessary for Mr. Anfield to take a course in the normal school and this he has decided not to do. He lias been offered a position in one of the rchools In Ottawa, -his home city, and will accept it.
Before coming to South Fort George. Mr. Anfield spent some time in the. Industrial school on the coast, which is maintained by the department of justice, of Canada, but the work was considered too heavy for him. as the result of injuries received at the front, and the medical officers advised him to secure a position which would not be such n strain   upon   his  constitution.
Mr.   Anfield   was  a   good   teacher and was very popular with the pupils, in  whom   ho  took  n  great  Interest. ' In     the     recent    examinations     he reached 100 per cent, in the results. . The school trustees of South Fort George have appointed Ross S. Tnpp. \ of Eburne. to serve as principal for the current term.
provincial field.
Edward Grant met with a painfu accident on the railway bridge on Sundny evening. He was beating his way east when Ire lost his hold and slipped under the wheel and his left foot was amputated above the ankle. Grant was removed to the hospital for treatment and is doing well.
P. E. "Wilson returned from Me-Bride on Wednesday, wlrere he was acting as private prosecutor in an assault case. The persons concerned nre residents of Dunster, Walter Wilson being committed for trial upon a charge of assault upon Ruby Wilson, a t�n-year-old child of Robert Wilson. The case will come before Judge Robertson.
Hon. W. R. Sutherland, minister of public works, and R. Phillip, public works engineer, are expected to arrive at Quesnel this week for the purpose of speeding up the work on the Quesnel-Prince George highway. Work on the southern end of the road has been dragging for some time and there is said to be a likelihood of finishing the same with day labor.
Work is beinK steadily advanced on the road which is to connect Gis-cmne with Prince George. Three miles of the work have been completed on the Giseome end and it seems a certainty that the road will be open by the time snow comes. With a crew of 1.000 men working U Giseome, this 22 miles of road should make a first-class jitney route  next  summer.
The movement of the prairie wheat crop to Vancouver this fall will mean a big addition to the railway population at Jasper. It is predicted there will be fifty million bushels of wheat find Ha way to tho Pacific coast and the greafer part of it will pasa through Jasper over the Canada National. The prohpect 1b now said to he verv bright for nn elevator at Prince Rupert, In which event there will be a considerable increase In the railway business alonK the line of the G. T. P., with nt      Prince
DUNCAN, Aug. 8�W. J. Bowser and Hon. Dr. Tolmie addressed the electors of Cowichan on Tuesday. The lender of the opposition in the legislature dealt in detail with the action of General McRae of the Provincial party in the publication of his confidential correspondence with former Premier Urewster over the P. G. E. railway settlement with the contractors. The 1-etter should not have been divulged, said Mr. Bowser, but  he was not ashamed  of  it.
"I was not surprised," Baid Mr. Bowser, "that when Mr. Oliver came into office be should go through the files of a dead man's correspond-once and fail to respect the confidential character of communications passing between gentlemen; but I did think that a man who had worn the uniform of the king would be above such things."
Regarding the letter in question, Mr. Bowser added: "I wrote Premier Brewster that I would tako a passive stand. The responsibility of taking over the P. G. E. was not mine, but that of the. government of the day, and that I would not hamper in any way the Brewster government, in any legitimate attempt o have the road completed. I wanted to take it out of politics. Was. that a crime? I made several suggestions. I made it a condition in the letter that all moneys to the credit of Foley, Welch & Stewart In the Union bank at Vancouver should be taken over, but the government did not.do it.
"Tf the people of the province will study that letter they will come to the conclusion that I took the proper course at that time. Of course I had no knowledge that Premier Oliver, in his bungling way, was going to take over the work of trying to finish the road, to satisfy his ambition to become a great railroad builder."
Dealing with the freight rates issue. Mr. Bowser said he hoped the premier would win his case at Ottawa, but he still objected to the subject being made a political issue.
FARMERS  APPROVE   I*OOL  PLAN*
Two thousand farmers in Saskatchewan have given their appnv.il to the Aaron Sapiro plan for a pool of tlve Canadian wheat crop, nnd the indications are the plan will be enthusiastically endorsed throughout the three prairie provinces.
FRENCH FRANC REACHED
NEW liOW ON PARIS BOURSE
PARIS. Aug. 8�The franc fell to 17.5 2 for the dollar on the Bourse today, which is the lowest quotation on record.
LOCAL AND DISTRICT
HOSPITAL SOCIKTV MEETING
The annual meeting' of the Hospital society will be held In the city hall at 8 p.m. Monday. August 20. Membership fee is $2.00. which en-tltles member to    vote    at    annual
meeting. All holders of hospital! additional train crews tickets which are in good Htnnding | George and other divisional points, are automatically members and are; Good progress Is being made by entitled to attend this meeting.� | the local public works engineer In Richard Allen, secretary.                   ] the Improvement of the highways in
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wort ion of tlie Prince Goorge-Quesnel highway within the riding is now in first-class shane. and tho improvement of the highway to Vanderhoof *h be'ng snee.ded up. The work being done is of a permanent nature'. There Is now a good hlchway as far as Mason's ranch, a short distance this side of Bedneatt lake. Andy Forest la in charge of a crew of men workin�r both ways from this uoint, and   will   continue   west   to   Cluculz
Frank Perry, the mnn who claims to have made the most wonderful copper discovery of the age in the vicinity of the headwaters of tin? Pinlay. passed through tho city on Mondav en route for tho north country. He is accompanied by George Pl'atzer nnd is trolng in by way of Summit lake. Perry says his copper discovery is the greatest thing in the
world, but others who h vo been in the section say his estimate of the find could be cut in two and still leave the discovery as a record breaker*
creek. From this point to Vander-hoof the work will be attended to by  road crews from the creamery town.
Word has reached the city that "Jim" Wilson, of Mclnnis & Wilson, local contractors, has been married while on vacation at the coast. The identity of the bride is still a mystery.
S.-S. Magoffin has decided to remove his headquarters from Prince Rupert to Edmonton. He has made some extensive purchases of Edmonton real estate and is said to be contemplating the erection of shops for the manufacture of railroad equipment.
Householders will bv interested to learn that sugar has commenced to tumble. Due to price cutting it was as low as $7.?0 on the New York market on the first of the month. The wholesale price on the first of the month was $10.85. which was about a dollar off the price of two wpvks previously.
W. K. Nichols, resident manager of th? Glscome mill, has purchased the residence of A. McKay in the Millar addition, and will make bin home in this city while giving supervision to the mill. He will make certain alterations to the McKay property and when the same are completed will have nn Investment of  something over   $8,000.
P.E. Wilson was in a reminiscent mood on Sunday, checking over the members of the 189:? class of the Toronto University, of which he was a member. There wen? 98 in the class and 16 of the number attended tho re-union in connection with the commencement exercises of the university. Th-? only former B.C. member who was present was Rev. R. A. Henry, formerly of Vancouver, and now of Toronto. Thnt the classmen were a vigorous lot is evidenced by the fact that in the thirty years thero have only been ten deaths.