IL. 7, No. 36. PRINCE GSOBGS, B4U JULY 3, 1924. >prosy Story Is Exploded by Two Old-Timers Peters Says the FttH Dinner Pail It Sicanco'e Chief Convent Tommy" Hammett Talks of Time When He Served ao Tribal Tailor in the North Henry Stege, the fur-trader of the agenika, has opened the flood-gate tears in the story he has broad-isted from Winnipeg concerning the jer band of Indians in the valley the Finlay river. In saying that Henry turned the jnsational story loose the Citizen is iking the word of the special corespondent of the Vancouver ""Sun. Lside from this circumstance the probabilities are all against Henry loing any such thing. The Siccanee Indians, of whom the leprosy story is told, are perhaps the lost remarkable band of Indians in Jritish Columbia, and scores of Stories might be written of them >ther than one cursing them with the Might of leprosy, and picturing them rotting away, to the discredit, of the federal government and civilisation generally. The Siccanees, as their name indi-:ates, are residents of the foothills, as iistinguished from the plains In-Idians. They are nomads, having no [villages or settlements, but follow-jinp the game north and south between Fort McLeod and Fort Nelson. [They thrive when the game is pien-rtiful and they starve when the moose (is scarce. Until comparatively re-Icent years the Sicanees. hunted for [meat only, and not for fur. Their [chief article of diet has been dried moose meat. The curing of this | meat hag given them a lot of eye trouble, due to excessive smoke, which is given as a symptom of lep-[Tosy. Like most Indian tribes, the Sicanees are diminishing, but if tuberculosis be set aaide, they have no diseases. They harve no leprosy and very little syphilis. Some of them .ittain wonderful ages, but when they fail in the matter of the full dinner pail they frequently die off like flies. The Hudson Bay company first got into contact with the Sicanees when the Bio trading post was established. This was a company abbreviation for Boar Lake Outpost. The chief business of the post was the purchase of dried moose meat and moose hides, which were sent out to other trading posts by the company. Later on the trading post became known as Fort Grahame. If, as the newspapers report Henry Stetre as saying, there are still some 200 Sicanees in the vicinity of the Finlay they are not doing very badly in that there were not very many more of them twenty-five years ago. E. S. Peters, who was for many years in the employ of the Hudson's Bay company, says the Sicanees were always skookum Indians. He was at Fort Orahame in 1891, and the company officials were always careful in their dealings with them, as the] Sicanees would make trouble if they ! thought they were not treated right, sfore the missionaries got among them they were polygamous. It was �"e of the customs of the band'that n Indian taking a squaw to wife was Permitted to take over as many of the bride's sisters as he could accommodate in his entourage. This was �ernaps one of the worst customs, as t resulted in a great deal of in-'"�eedmg with its attendant disadvantages, hut on the whole the Sic-"^�- appeared capable of taking c;"'c-' of themselves. The men would frequently accept service with *Vip U., ,!*,>��>,, -a__���. nan FIVE CENTS. THIRTEEN RIDINGS FAVOR SALE OF BEER BY GLASS Victoria, July 3.�In the recent plebiscite thirteen ridings in the province hav� favored the sale of beer by the glass. These rdings are given as Alberni, Atlin, Cariboo, Columbia, Esquimalt, Fernie, Fort George, The Islands, Nariairno, Oini-neca, Prince Rupert, Rossland-Trail, Skeena and Yale. The vote in Bur-naby and Creston is said to have resulted in a tie, but this will be broken by the absentee vote. PRINCE OF WALES WILL VISIT CANADA THIS FALL London, July 3.�The Prince of Wales made the announcement at the Dominion Day banquet on Tuesday that he would visit his Alberta ranch this fall. Promotion List in Prince George Public School High School Will Receive an Additional Twenty-four Ptv>ili From City Prince George Gets Fast Mail to Vancouver Postal Authorities Utilize "Rounder" and P. G. E. Train Service to the Coast This Puts Mail Into Vancouver Quicker Than by Way of the Canadian National by Good Percentage* Are Secured Teachers on Work for the Past Year The following are the results in the examinations in the public school for the term ending on Friday last- DIVISION 1. Alexander Smith. Granted promotion to high school on recommendation of principal.__ Jeanne Corning, Angelina Rice, Wilson Muirhead, Gwendoline Heavy-ides, Bessie Powers, Gladys Sibley, Lois Fagan, Robert Harper, Evelyn ^h Robert Range, Bertha Huble, Ora Wilcox, Harold Allen and Philip Wilson. Writing on Entrance exam.�Inga Andersen, Lloyd Harper, Arthur Ford, George Rice, Oma Wilcox, Preston Coates, Edgar Sibley, Gordon Bain, George Peters and Kenneth Dixon. Winners of honor rolls�Proficiency; Jeanne Corning...' punctuality, nga Andersen; deportment, Lois Fagan. DIVISION 2. Thomas Carmichael.' Passed to Grade 8, in order of merit�May Allen, Harold Assman, George Abbott, Victor Blue, Evelyn Carver, Elmer Clark, Wesley Clark, Muriel Edwards, Phyllis Fixter, Eu-genio Gabriel, Eva' Gaul, Dorothy uest, Oswald Harper, Donald McMillan, Stanley Heavysides, Ernest Newstrom, Cecil Penny, Mary Sinclair, Jack Skinner, Ernestine Stone-louse, Annie Watson, Gwen Wil-iams, Muriel Williams. Passed on approbation, Harold Rogers. Passed to Grade 7, in order of merit�Spencer Graham, Herbert Minnion, Bell Porter and Paul Porter. Honor rolls � Proficiency, Eva Gaul; deportment, Muriel Edwards; regularity and punctuality, Victor The agitation of the Prince George board_ of trade for an improvement in the mail service with Vancouver and other coast points has not been barren of results. For something more than a year the board of trade has been complaining of the delay in the handling of the Vancouver mail leaving Prince George on Saturday. This mail, it was shown, required the best part of four days to reach Vancouver, and the postal authorities at Ottawa were not equal to making any arrangement to improve things. After the matter had been threshed out pretty w�ll by T. G. McBride, the representativeportion of the citizens Epent the day at one cr other of the adjacent lakes, but for those who have not yet broken into the aristocracy of the automobile, the good offices of the local athletic assocation in arranging the baseball and football y;amed proved very acceptable. The ball games proved a very attractive feature of the celebration and established there is considerable new talent available should it be necessary to build up a strong team. The finds were all in the aggregation which Terry Johnson got together. Ternen, the new forestry official, is the best of the new men. He has been out of the game for a long time, and has lost his batting eye, but he covers a lot of ground at second, creates all kinds of chances and has Absentee Vote in Fort George May Reach 500 Burden Still Retains Lead of Three in a Total Vote of About Twj Thousand1 Edmonton hospital, following an op- a nice peg around the bases. Roy eration for appendicitis, returned ! Johnson is also an acquisition to any home on Friday evening and was town team, and in the opening game welcomed at the railway depot by a | on Monday he gave a very creditable large company of admirers. Mr. performance in the box for six in-Perry will be obliged to rest up at nings. The other two new faces on the field belonged to Art Dea, ar.-J Smith, the provincial police officer. Monday's Ball Game In Monday's ball game the Johnson crew got away to a good start, picking off a couple of runs in tho first inning. Ternen, the first man up, fanned, and Dea went to first by being hit by Gross. Lee fanned for the second out Terry Johnson then registered a hit to center and Dea Bcored from the second sack. McKee got in a nice hit to right and scored Johnson, and then the team If Longworth Vote Is Rejected H. G. Perry Will Have Lead of One Vote E. S. Peters, returning offico" for tho Fort George riding., is in receipt of a large number of envelopes from deputy returning officer* throughout the province containing the absentee ballots enst in other ridings. As the envelopes will not be opened until Saturday. July 12th, it will not be possible to more than estimate the number of absentee votes which have Blue, Donald McMillan, Spencer Gra- I vet to be brought to account, but it qy accp with the Hudson's Bay com- Th '" ' Water transPort of goods. "V wore not very heavy purchasers foodstuffs, but bought consider- ' We quantities of tea and tobacco. wa i airS? �f flour one Rma11 sack for �!! o-nt the comnany figured on win (, Canee family each year, fjhn"tlK> supplies came in the In- S5X fl?ld be on ha"d and the at on l\T- supplv would disappear SiS ?"* Thev about the Si A C v i in the way them. Am- nnw the al t0 dem r Purchases. .h� for years serv r factoy. and who is the vicinityof F�* st. quite an exciting time at Port Grahame lt Was the ham and Bell Porter. DIVISION 4. E. M. McKee. Promoted from Grade 4 to Grade 5, in order of merit�Hildar Nelson, Leonard Harper, Clarn Wieland, Helen McKerizie, Phyllis Landon, Dorothy Bain, Frank Wilcox. Billy Range, Marie Colder. George Allen. Orville Andrews, Alice Cameron, Mary Lee, Ralph Moffatt, Katherine Kinney, Allan Davis. Dorothy Whit-more, Jimmy Van Somer, Roy McMillan, Billy Dibble, Dora Allen and Lois Stonehousc. DIVISION 5 Miss Cowan. Promoted from Grade 3 to Grade 4. in order of merit�Sidney Perry, Hriso Demas, Florence Lambert, Er-linp: Roman, Joyce Campbell, Allan Towers, Ruby Williams, Billy Ogjr. Roland Allan, Colin Fraser. Donald Gower, Gladys Armstrong, Margaret Corritfan, Eileen Mehaffey, Garnet Woodford, Inez Ramsland.Magda Sa-trum, Nettie Ferguson, Rosie Chim-alowski, Joseph Jamieson, Pearl Williams, Ida Corless, Alberta Bergeron and Howard Cameron. DIVISION fi. Miss Highman. Promoted from Grade 2 to GradeS. in order of merit�Kow Mochijuki, Gertrude Pitman, Hersciel Reaucrh, Joseph Rice, Billy Ogilvie, Lome Miller, Hrilen/ Penny, Verna Briscoe), Laura Fraser, Albert Engstrom, May-netta Holder, Blanche Carlson, Roderick MacLeod, Arthur Muralt. Violet Lee. Harry Allen, George Ferguson, Mary Arnold, Ross McMillan, (Continued on Paf* *> is safe to set the total number at from 450 to 500. Throughout t.Tie district deputy returning officers have reported 189 absentee ballots, hut there are a number of important centers in which they have sent in no return as to the number of absentee ballots cast in their respective poliinq: divisions. This is noticeably the CRse with respect to McBride, Rolla, Pouce Coupe and other Pence- River, sections. Making allowance for absentee ballots cast in the riding, and which will be renorted by mail, the total can safely be set at 2fiO, nnd the vote from the other ridings will equal 200 if it does not exceed this fijrure. A number of corrections have been made in the statement of noil taken throughout the ridinir. At Penny, the first report irnvr Burden 5, Perry 1. Shenrer 2. and absentees 12. Thf corrected figures ir've Burden nnd Perry 4 votes each, with 2 for Shearer. Perry loses two vote1* from the first report from Woodpecker, so that his net gain on Burden amounts to two votes, the rcnef tive totals standing Burden 902, Perry 899. and should the Lon?worth po'l bo thrown out Perry would have a lead of one, with the absentee votes to decide the issue. MAIL CROSSES CONTINENT IN LESS THAN 35 HOURS San Francisco. July 3.�The first home for a few days, but expects to be about next week. He says he was just able to sit up on election day, and awaited the returns with some anxiety. As it happened, all the favorable returns came in first, and for several hours after the polls closed the available information gave him .a very comfortable lead. In! places1 In which the Vote was not favorable he thinks his supporters were inclined to keep the news from him, with the result that he was left to imagine how the contest had gone in Prince George and some of the other polling divisions. When he finally secured the full details of the voting he was quite satisfied, in his own mind, as to what the result would be. | As for the result in the Peace! River, while it did not turn out as favorable as he had expected, he was j not as badly out as-his Peace River i supporters. They were confident he could not come out of the district with a lead of less than 150, and some placed the figure as high as 200. There was more movement in the recording of the Peace River vote than was figured on, in�J in some of the divisions where the vote went against him it was due to electors voting as absentees in divisions other than those in which they were registered. In the Peace River especially and possibly to a lesser extent with respect to the rest of the absentee vote in the Fort George ballot boxes, Mr. Perry "figures he will be found to have quite an advantage when the absentee vote is counted. With respect to the absentee Fort George vote recorded in the other ridings, a marked percentagt of it.will doubtless be found to have been cast in his favor and result in giving a safe margin over Mr. Burden, his closest opponent. Mr. Perry says he never felt better than when he started on his campaign for the Peace River. He had a couple of seizures on the way in, but he had similar attacks before, and was not unduly apprehensive as to his physical condition. It was a hard knock when he got as far as Edmonton, on the return trip, and was ordered into hospital at once. The prospect of spending the last week of the campaign on his back was worrying him more than the condition of his appendix, as it completely disarranged the plans which had been made and left little time to make new ones. Had he been able to fight the issue out personally in Prince George and vicinity Mr. Perry is confident he would have been high man in this city, but working under the handicap they did he is very pleased with" the showing his Prince George supporters made. Aside from election matters the through for the afternoon. In most important development which westbound nieht^flyintr mail arrived Mr. Perry encountered on his trip from New York last night. It requir- , was the apparent growth in senti-ed thirty-four hours and forty min- ment, .especially in Alberta, in * ..*-_ �... -w.� *y,a rnnti��n*L - I (Continued on page 5) in favor utes to crosa the continent. was the remaining eight innings Gross only allowed four scattered hits, getting all told, fourteen of his men at the plate. Roy Johnson started in the box for the Johnson men and went through the first four innings in fine shape, Kennedy and Goodwin being the only batters to get hits off him. He weakened in the fifth, however. La-Barge opened with a double to right, and Macleod was safo on Lee's fumble. Goodwin went out to Lee and Powers made it two with a strike-out. Then there came three hits in a row, Ryan and Gross getting in blows to center and Taft Jutting between second and third At the right and Goodwin was safe on a fumble fit short. Johnson asked for lohef and Ternen was sent in to finish the game. He opened with a wild one, nnd passed the first batter. Then there enme a little r�Jg�roH p! iy on Ryan's drive to second, and when th^ jrnme settled down agam three more men had come ever. Ternen gofc going better nfter this and Ranked 1he city tenni for the remaining two innings; Muirhead getting the only hit. The score follows: Johnson Tenm. AB R Ternen . ��5 <* 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 Dna, rf. Lee, 3b. T. Johnson,lb.ss. McKee. ��?., lb.-- J. Johnson, c. Porter. If.. 2b.- Guile, cf. If....... Johnson, p� cf. 4 0 A o Fairies 35 2 Team. AB R If ..........4 1 Ryan, 2b. ............4 1 Gross, p. ..............4 0 Taft. c. ................4 0 Muirhead, 3b. ......4 0 ......4 0 ......4 1 Macleod, ss. ...-.-4 2 Goodwin, If. :.:---4~ 1 Kennedy, lb. LaBarge, cf. 6 24 10 H 0 A 0 0 0 4 0 12 1 7 0 2 1 0 36 6 8 27 5 4 Summary�Two-base hits, LaBarge and Macleod: bases on balls, off Ter-(Con tinned on page 5)