PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
8, No. G
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., DECEMBER 4, 1924.
FIVE CENTS.
itchers Lock orns When the Farmers Peddle
j-my Session in City Hall Over [Selling Privilege* of District Farmers.
tuncation and Counter Denunciation Carry a Slander in Every Line.
farmers in the districts sur-inding the city ptaged a field night |th the local butchers in the city on Monday evening. Several )nths ago the city council, acting n the request of the Salmon er Farmers' Institute, amended city bylaw dealing with trading as to permit farmers to sell their im produce direct to the consumer,
!thout the payment of a tax. John Henderson, the Beaverly rmer, proceeded to take advantage the selling privilege^ extended to [trmers, and apparently found the siness so good that he supplement-his own stock of beef by outside archases and sold it about the city well.
This raised the ire of the local jtchers. They were content that be farmers should be permitted to 11 their own produce to consumers, |ut when they bought and sold her produce they c�sorted the farbors became peddlers, and should be quired to pay the heavy licence nposed with respect to such trading. .� trouble had been brewing for _>ks and it wah arranged both !S to the controversy .should meet Ihe city council and see if common irround could be found.
The farmers turned out in force, ohn Henderson was on hand, with number of farmers from Beaverly and Mud River sections, prepared to maintain the farmers were entitled Jto every consideration. Willliam .ockyer, while not officially dele-pated, held a watching brief for the irmers of the Salmon River valley. |R. J. Blackburn was looking after, fthings for the farmers of the Pine-fyiew district.
For the butchers Paul Wieland, j "William Golder and Roy White were i on hand. The two last mentioned j did not have very much to say, but j their voices were not needed as Paul | [Wieland was tuning-in to the dip-j jcxission. as often as the opportunity) (offered.
Mayor Alward acted as referee j j between the parties, and the mem-j |bers of the council backed the ! speakers of their choice as they Re- j [cured the floor, with Alderman Guest j [and Alderman Lambert pulling hr.rd ill the time for the local butchers, j � The discussion was both warm j [and personal at times, and the meeting was given a number of "close- j ups" of what some of the farmers thought of. the butchers, and in turn j of what the butchers thought of ! [some of the farmers.
As nearly as couild be gathered j ifom the discussion the contention of the farmers was that the privilege ' �i selling their produce to consum- | 1 rs should be extended so that far- j Wers in a locality could pool their Produce and have one of their number come into the city and sell di- j rect to consumers. The butchers j were opposed to the pooling arrange- ] Went as they contended it would be I unfair competition in view of the | taxes they paid to the corporation ! ��'nd their business overhead.
Andy Miller had quite a lot to! say about the butcher*? and their1 Pnces and methods. He wanted an �Pen field for the farmers to sell ineir meat in the winter, time. He jvas not particular about selling in j*e summer time as the flies were | ad and the farmers were not equip- j Ped for the handling of meat during ! �<� wnrm weather. His experience ! J n* the local butcher wafl that he f�ujd not pay a faIr price for the �"triers' carcasses or else he! '^Id ttot buy at all. This made it J*poa�ble for the farmers to find |
facii'T- Unl�88 he had reasonable pities for Selling the meat him- |
Weland met the challenge of j b>f Mud ftiver farmer with the (Continued on pagy 5)
JUNENILE COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE THROUGH
H. G. PERRY'S EFFORTS
Victoria, Dec. 3.�The announcement in made that a juvenile court will be established at Prince George. Thi� action on the part of the attorney-general it due in a great measure to the effort put forth in this behalf by H. G. Perry, the member for the Fort George riding. The establishment of a court of this nature will be a great improvement upon the old order which required delinquent children to appear in the criminal courts. George Milburn, government agent at Prince George, will be judge of the new court.
PRESIDENT COOL1DGE SAYS ESTIMATES WILL SHOW
SURPLUS OF $67,884,000
Washington, D. C\, Dec. ?,�President Coolidge informed congress yesterday that the estimates for the ensuing fiscal year will show a surplus of $67,884,000. Consistant economy in the administration, the president said would pave the way for lower taxation.
Light Sentences for Officials of. the Home Bank
O. A. Barnard, K.O., Found Ciuilty
on Throe Counts, Gets Eighteen
Months.
Trials of M. J. Huuoy and Other
Directors Are Still 1'rocevdiiiB
in Toronto.
EDMONTON TOOK FIRST
HOCKEY GAME bF SEASON
Toronto, Dec. 2.�Sentence was passed upon three of the officials of the defunct Home Hank yesterday. C. A. Barnard, K..C, of Montreal, one of the directors of the bank, who was found guilty upon all three counts in the indictment, was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. Sidney H. Jones, auditor of the bank, was �sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with a further undetermined term. Ocean G. Smith, chief accountant of the bank, was given his liberty with a deferred sentence. The trials of M. J. Haney and several others of the directors, are still to be proceeded with.
TIMBER ROYALTY BILL
INTRODUCED BY PATTULLO IN LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY
Victoria, Dec. 4�The bill to amend the timber royalties was introduced in the legislature yesterday. The measure is in the nature of a compromise with the timber men. It fixes the royalty for a period of ten years and carries some concessions to the timber men operating along the line of the Canadian National railway.
ANGUS McEACHERAN HAS POLICE RECORD COVERING
WESTERN CANADA.
Angus McEacheran, who ww sentenced by Police Magistrate McLean to sdx months imprisonment upon conviction of theft from the person of Thomas Hammet, has a police record of several years standing, and as McEacheran, or gg Bert McNeil,
Big Future for Government and Hixon Creeks
D A. Cameron Expect* to Secure
Thorough Examination of Area
Next Summer.
Black Sands Carrg Value to Cover
Cost of Dredging, With Gold
Recovery as Profit.
The gold-bearing benches in the northern and western drainage area of the famous old Barkerville gold fields will probably receive more attention next summer than during the past twenty yeaijs. There is a large territory to the north and west of the Barkerville field which was gone over in the early Cariboo excitement by the placer miners. Many of the streams in this section yielded large
is^n'ow^'t^SFpolice officers "from | returns in placer gold, but the diffi-
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
UNITED TO HANDLE
CHRISTMAS RELIEF
Edmonton took the first hockey] With a view to preventing over-game from Vancouver on Monday | lapping in relief work during the
night with a score of 5-4. The game was played at Vancouver.
Indian From Williams Lake Gets Sentence
Will Spend Five Years in Penitentiary for Assault on Indian
j Girls.
Had No Counsel on Trials for Rape and Waa Deserted When Sentence Wai Imposed.
John Solomon, the Williams Lake Indian, tried upon two charges of rape of Indian girls, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Gregory on Saturday to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The prisoner was not defended by counsel at the trials, and the failure of the Indian department to provide counsel on charges in connection with which the supreme penalty might be imposed, was commented upon sharply by the court.
When the prisoner was placed in the box on Saturday to receive sentence it developed that the .Indian interpreter, who had acted throughout the trials, had taken his departure. . �*�
Justice Gregory said he was sorry the interpreter was not available, but he was convinced the prisoner knew enough English to understand what Avas being said. "The jury have found you guilty." said the court.
"Not guilty," mumbled the Indian from the dock.
"I do not beieve that for one minute," asserted the court. "I could send you to the penitentiary for the rest of your life for that offence, and also whip you. No Indian can do this sort of thing and not be punr ished. Have you anything to say why I should not give you such severe punishment?"
The pr^oner was mute, and Inspector T. W. S. Parsons was directed to speak to him. He reported to the court the Indian was nervous, but he was sorry for the things he had done and the situation he found himself in.
"If you were a white man I would understand better what to do. A
Christmas season, three of the local organizatioi s got together on fiatur day. The meeting was called by Mrs. F, P. Burden, of the Red Cross, and was attended by Mrs. A. J. Rogers, representing the Red Cross. Frank Clark, representing the Ladies' Aid of the Presbyterian church, and R W. MacLeod, representing the local branch of the G.W.V.A.
The representatives of these three organizations decided to form a community chest in connection with this year's effort, and t-^ch of them will make cash don&BariTTs. Mrs. A. Rogers undertook the collection of clothing, which will be made over by volunteers. Tht co operation of the citizens is invited in the work. Pel sons having clothing which could be made over or capable of furthe: wear are requested to leave the -:nme at the office of R. W. MacLeo). on Third avenue.
Winnipeg to Vancouvj*. Ch\ief Shelton, of the local police, sent Mc-Eacheran's finger prints to the. R. C. M. P. headquarters at Ottawa, and has received the assurance that McEacheran or Mcrs'eil has a record of ten years and hah had convictions of various kinds recorded against him from burgulary down to vagrancy. Chief Shelton is a specialist with the finger prints, and regards it as the best poryible means of identification.
Robinson Trial Was Expensive and Sensational
Blackmail Case Cost Britain Ton Thousand Pounds for Each Day.
Robinson and His Wife Were Duped
by Swindlers Who fleeced
the Potentate.
TEXDKBS WILL UK INVITED AT ONCE FOR HHi ELE-
VATOK AT RUPERT.
white man I would and twenty ashes.
give ten years I am not sure
that a whipping would help in your case, and I am not thoroughly satisfied as to the full extent of your intelligence. Also I do not get very good reports about you. You must be punished to make other Indians realize they must not do anything of this kind. The sentence of the court is that you be confined in the penitentiary for five years. If you behave yourself, ar. application to the minister of justice may reduce this considerably."
Port Arthur. Dec. 3�Representatives of the firm of Howe & Company make the announcement that the department of trade and commerce will call for tenders at once for tho erection of an elevator at Prince Rupert of a capacity of one
and The
one-quart architects
million tates that
bushels, the first
tenders invited will be for the erection of the necessary foundations.
MANSON DEFENDS METHODS EMPLOYED IN ENFORCING
THE LIQUOR ACT
Victoria, Dec. 2.�There was a warm discussion in the house yesterday when the estimates of the Attorney-general's department were being voted, when the practice of employing stool-pigeons was denounced. The attorney-general said there were no stool-pigeons, but special officers or the liquor board. He said the bootleggers of the province had an efficient secret service anil spied upon the enforcement officers of. the board. "Your methods are not British," retorted Davie, the Conservative member for Cowichan-Newcas-tle. "Scotland Yard operates that 'way every day in the week," replied the attorney-general.
Paris, Dec. 2.�Captain Charles Arthur, the British officer who, while acting as aide, is alleged to have betrayed the Indian potentate which ; resulted in his issuing cheques for one and a half million dollars to I hush matters concerning his relations with Mrs. ('. B. Robinson, presented himself at the British legation yesterday and said he had been informed a demand had been made for his extradition. He was told the matter was one which would be attended to by the French police.-Arthur then sought the police and waited for the arrival of the extradition papers when he was formally placed under arrest. He is willing to return to England.
London. Dec. 2.�The trial of the action of C. E. Robinson to recover a portib nof the �750,000 blackmail
culties in the way of transportation were so great that in many .sections nothing in the way of systematic testing for hydraulicking or dredging operations could be undertaken, and with the recovery of the top gold in the primitive sluice-boxes of the early minersr the immense territory was given over to the fur-trappers.
It has been fairly well established the gold taken from the famous creeks in the Barkerville section in the early part of the Cariboo excitement was deposited by glacial action, ai.d they were probably the richest gravels ever handled by placer miners in any part of the world. This same glacial action can be traced throughout the greater part of the Cariboo district. There $5 an immense dyke of shist and slate extending northwesterly through the district from tho Barkerville field, : which contains numerous quartz ! veins carrying gold. It has been ground down by glacial action. Much of the gold was released into the '� Fraser river and made the dredging i propositions which are inviting at-j tention at the present time by reason of their being more accessible for , working, but of the big dyke, from which the gold values came, little more is known th.\n was current in
Despite slow development there are scores of miners who have held to their faith as to the future gold possibilities of the district, but they have had little but their personal labor with which to cope with their problem. Since the period of the glacial action the ground they are working has been covered with a great overburden, and streams which water it have doubtless altered their courses scores of times. The great difficulty fc that while they have the faith they have not the means to demonstrate it, and the mining companies which have the means have
paid by the potentate into one of the j still to be convinced they have a British banks, has cost the country j reasonable prospect of a return of �10.000 per day. The fee of Sir the money they may be called upon .John Simon in the case was �2500. [ to invest.
The verdict of the jury was there had ! Perhaps the best illustration of been a conspiracy to blackmail the this jsituation is contained in that potentate, who for state reasons was i section of the district to the east of not named in the proceedings, as \ he P. G. E., in the drainage area of the result of his intimacy with the : Government, Hixon, Canyon and a wife of the plaintiff Robinson, but � number of smaller creeks emptying that neither Robinson or his wife ( into them. Very large recoveries
were made from these creeks dur-
were, parties to it. The trial of the action created morn interest than any court proceeding in recent years, seats in the court room being sold by scalpers at prices ranging as high as �5.
VANCOUVER CITY CONSIDERS PimCHASK OF TIMBEK ON
CAPILANO WATERSHED
Victoria, Dec. 3.�The purchase by the city of Vancouver of the 170 acres of timber which Hon. T. D. Pattullo proposed to sell to the Capi-lano Timber company, now emerges from the controversy which has been curried on for several weeks as the probable solution of the squabble between the city and the government.
PROPERTY OWNERS ENDORSE CITY COUNCIL ON RECORD
OF THE PAST YEAR
There avbs a largely attended
ing the early days of the Cariboo excitement, but only the top gold was taken off.
D. A. Cameron, of Prince George, j has been working in thih section for the past ten years. At different times he has induced men of limited capital to become associated with him, and while the results have been uniformly encouraging, he has so far failed to interest ^sufficient capi-
meeting of the members of the Prop- j tal to demonstrate the theory which
erty Owners' association in the I.O. O.F. hall on Friday evening. The meeting was addressed by Mayor Atl-ward, who gave a brief review of the civic administration for the year. The mayor's statement was well received and was followed by the passing of a vote of confidence in the council.
At the next meeting of the association, which is to be held on Wednesday evening, nominations for the offices of mayor, aldermen, police commissioner, and school trustees will be proposed.
he worked out years ago, and which he says is supported by the best geologists of the past sixty years. He has not given up the contest, however, and is very hopeful that during the coming winter he will be able to make such financial arrangements as will prove beyond any doubt the eontention that in the drainage area of Government and Hixon creeks British Columbia hi>* the greatest undeveloped gold-bearing section within its boundaries.
In speaking of his ten years' ex-(Continued on Page 4)