PRINCE CITIZEN VOL 8. No. 12. PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 192s7 FIVE CENTS. prince George Holds the Key to Peace River T},e Recommendation* of President Thornton and President Beatty Expected in Six Weeks Condition8 Imposed by Minister of Railways-Changes Complexion of the Problem. Ottawa, Jan. 13�Opinion in Ot-.,.,va is that nothing but the decision of Hon. George P. Graham, minister of railways, making the management ,,( the Canadian Pacific railway company a party in the fixing of the route into the Peace River district, prevented the management of the Caniulian National from deciding for the adoption of what is known ;., the Hrule line. The report of President Beatty of the Canadian Pacific and of Sir Henrv Thornton, of the Canadian National, a* to the location and cost of a line of railway into the Peace River, which could be used by them jointly as a feeder line to their re-spective systems, is expected to be in the minister's hands within the next five or six eeks. Informa-tion with respect to all the various lines is said to be sufficiently com-plete to permit of their being dealt with intelligently. It is said there will be at least four routes into the Peace River considered by the respective railway managements. The first of these is a line which would leave the main line <>f the Canadian National at Entrance, a point about ten miles to the east of Brule, and connecting up with the E. D. & B. C. railway. The lower portion of this line has bctn generally referred to as the Brule line. This line was strongly favored by the Canadian National management, but the weakness of it a.< a joint line is it affords but one entrance into Vancouver, which would be over the Canadian Nation-al by way of Red Pass Junction. T-he second route is one which would follow the Peace River, and continue due west until tidewater could ho reached at Stewart. The adoption of this route is improbable in that it would involve the build-;nK of a new temiinal at the coast, would call for the construction of the greatest mileage, and would be an independent rather than a feeder ]ine for the two existing systems. The third route is in the main that as originally surveyed for the � P, G. E. extention into the Peace River. It would come through the nno pass, and connect up with the Canadian National at Prince George, affording connection at this point vith Prince Rupert over the Canad-ian National line, and with Vancouv-e.r through the utilization of the P. G, E. us far south as Clinton. The fourth line is one which M come through the valley of the I eace River, as far as Findlay Forks, and thence south along a water grade to Prince George, and utilizing the � G- E. as far south as Clinton, making connection with the two transcontinental systems at � Ash-croft or vicinity. This line is said 0 roceive ^e greatest favor from the management of the Canadian Pacific railway. BANDIT LOOTS LONG IS]AM) M.-V'IL (All OP $10,000 New York. Jan. 14.�-Postal and police officials are combing Long Island today for the lone bandit who yesterday held up the mail car on a Long Island train and secured $10,-000 in currency. BEEH LICENCES EXPEGTKU TO ISSUE NEXT MONTH Report is Denied that the C. P. R. Has Retired Ottawa Issues Denial of Suggestion that Peace River will be Left to C. N. R. | EDMONTON WOMEN BOOMED FOK VACANT SENATOKSHIP. Victoria, Jim. 15�While an air of j mystery appears to surround the is- \ finance of beer licences ii ic i xpected | the liquor board will i:-.su(; some of | them by the end of the month-. The regulations have been prepared by Hugh Davidson, soli.- commissioner, and will be considered by the executive tomorrow, so that they can ap- | tion of the result of last week's con- Minister of Railways has Hopes Two Roads will Reach Agreement on Joint Line. Ottawa, Jan. 14�The report senl out from here to the effect that the government has agreed with the management of the Canadian National railway for the construction of a branch into the Peace River is regarded here as a gross misconcep- Ottawa, Jan. 14�Mr�. Nellie Mcr-Clug and Judge Emily Murphy, both nf Edmonton, urn boomed for the vacant senatorship created by the death of Senator Cole. P. L. Lessard r'1 is regarded as the most likoly caridi- i date. Fish Hatcheries are now Subject of an Enquiry y Ai;e Costing Canada 9870,000 fur Maintenance and Their Efficiency Is Questioned. ( HIM'.SK M'UHDEKEK <;oi-]S TO THE GALLOWS TODAY Million.'! of Young Salmon Arc Incu- bnted hut Doubt Exists us to Effect on Supply. pear In the next issue of the official gazette. The law requires all applicants for licences to adverti.se same In local newspapers for a period of one month. PRESBYTERIANS OF PRINCE GEORGE VOTE ON CHURCH UNION FRIDAY EVENING The Presbyterians of Prince George will vote upon the question of church union on Friday evening. Although Knox church has been regarded as a union church for a number of years, there is said to be considerable division of opinion on the part of the membership upon the union proposals. Friday evening is the date set for the annual meeting of the -congregation, and the vote upon union will be recorded at the same time. Refreshments will be served at the close of the business session and a representative attendance is requested. Vancouver. Jan. 14.�Chong Sam Bow. who killed J. Clayton Jones on the stre.-.t. in this city on July 18th, 102:5. will be executed at New Westminster tomorrow morning. He had i-i all five trials upon the murder charge. fere nee. It is regarded as a certainty that j the line into the Peace River is to be built, but it is the wish of the minister of railways that the undertaking be proceeded with jointly by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railway companies. At the conference the matter was referred to the executives of the two conpan-ies in the hope that they would work out a joint plan. The minister has j served notice upon the managements j that only one road will be approved I of. If the two companies come to an agreement the road will be built as a co-operative line. If no agreement is reached the road will probably be built by the Canadian National, but only in such an event will it become a Canadian National line. I- IKS r CAR OF CRUDE OIL SHIPPED 1'KO.M WAINWiyiGHT ON TUESDAY FOR TESTING JANET SMITH'S DEATH WILL BE CAUSE FOR THE THIRD INQUEST Wainwrlght, Alta.. Jan. 14.�The first car of crude oil to be shipped from the Walnwright district, left here yesterday, going out over the Canai coast. John Dyhhavn, of Prince Rupert, a member of the biological board of Canada, spent a couple of days in the city this week on his woy homo from a conference held in Ottawa, to consider matters in connection with til� artificial propagation of fish. Fr)r a number of years the Dominion government has been maintaining hatcheries for the maintenance of the commercial fisheries. There are forty-two of them, and they cost the country $370,000 a year for operation. This is about all that is definitely known concerning them. It n National to tht> Pacific ' Is now proposed to institute a scien-Tests will b emade with the i title enquiry extending over a period BllITLSH COLUMBIA AND QUEBEC SHOWING HEST IN UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION Timber Scale Made Big Gain for the Year One- Hundred Per Cent Advance Shown in Spruce Cut for Fort District. Mills In the District Are Hitting Their Stride and Further Increases Expected. The log scale for the Fort George district is a very fair index to the growth of the timber industry of the interior section which is served by the Canadian National railway. Tbo 1 figures have just been compiled for . the year 1924 and show a total scale j of 70.435.375 feet, as against 37.- \ 464,034 for the year 1923. so that j the gain for 1.9 2 4 becomes close upon J 100 per cent. The log scale for the month of De- , cember totalled 4.638.157 feet, as j compared with 2,027,840 for the cor- ' responding period month in 1923, Vancouver. Jan 1F>.�As the result of an investigation which has 11 been carried on by til. B. Jackson, on 1 behalf of the attorney-general's de-i partment, it is announced that a third �Inquest into the death of the little Scotch housemaid of Vancouver will be ordered. Janet Smith was murdered in the residence of F. L. Baker the body being found in the basement. Death was caused by a 45-calibre bullet which ploughed through the brain, taking part of the tissue with it. Evidence not produced at either of the two inquests is now available which, it is said, will disclose that the girl was murdered upstairs and that the body was later removed to the basement. The crown will seek to establish that Janet Smith was murdered as the result of a carefully arranged plot and the parties to it have been narrowed down to a very small circle. oil to determine its value as a fuel | of live years, to determine the worth oil. ! of the hatcheries in the maintenance of the fish supply. In the province of British Columbia the sockoye salmon is the chief of the commercial stream fish. For the most part there has been a steady diminution in the supply of salmon. The hatcheries have been turning out large quantities of fingerlings, but there is a very grave question as to whether they add materially to the supply of mature fish in the streams. It is contended by the scientists the average female salmon deposits some 35.000 eggs on the spawning ground. These eggs are fertilized by the male ' fish. Some of the eggs are produc-� tive of young salmon, but there is no method of even approximating the , .lumber, as the spawn is the. food of --------- ; birds and wild animals. Of tho total Made a. Successful Fight Alternate- number hatched under naturn, con- I ditions. it is estimated but two mature fish return to the spawning - - ground after their three or four-year Secured Revolver.. Turned.. Against' sojourn in the sea. This would be Ottawa, Jan. 14.�-In a review of the unemployent situation throughout the Dominion during the past year, official figures disclose that tl.u most favorable situation in this respect existed in the provinces of Quebec and British Columbia. Vancouver Man Gives Battle to Street Bandits a Successful Fight Alternately for bis Life and Then for hi* Money. Him and then Chased Hold-Upa into Chinatown. united states becomes party to Division of reparations payments > Paris, Jan. of the United 13.�Representatives SUites, for the first the big gain coming in the scale of ! time since the republc failed to rati- sprucfe, the principal timber of the district, the scale for the past month fy the Versailles treaty, are about to sign an agreement under the treaty being 4.107.356 feet as against 1,-j which will fix a division of the Ger-877,4 56 for December 1923. j man reparations payments between The details of the December scale j the allies. were: Fir, 156,69 2 feet; Spruce, 4.-197,356 feet; and Balsam, 284.109 feet. The tie scale for the month was Vancouver, Jan. 13�A. Druin-mond reported to the policec yester- sufficient to maintain the supply,save for the demands made by commercial fishing, to compensate for which the artificial production is carried on in the hatcheries. There is no day morning that two hold-up men I trouble in the production of finger-had attempted to relieve him of his lings in the hatcheries, it being esti-cash at 5:15 in the morning, as he mated that 98 per cent of the eggs was making his way home from a are hatched, but when the young fish Greek club. Drummond did not are turned loose in the spring noth-lose any money, but he brought in ; ing i}-� known as to what becomes of to the police station the revolver of one of the gun-men and the cap of the other, which it is thought may lead to their identification. Drummond was just leaving the club, with hi(i winnings, when one of the two men whom he passed thrust a gun into his side and suggested that he turn over his money. them. If even a reasonable percentage returned to the spawning grounds there would be an abundant supply of sockeye, but they don't, and the scientific meddling with nature's laws does not seem to have benefitted conditions to a point which can be said to be beyond question. There is much to be learned of the Drummond was not inclined to de- habits of the salmon. The sockeye liver, and clinched with the man be- | attains an age of from four to five hind the gun. While he was thus . years, but from the time it goes to engaged the second thug was going sea, as a little fingerling, until it re-through his pocketj>. When the ; turns to spawn, nothing is known of searching member of the combina- ; the waters it frequents. Until 6924, and for the full year 366,758, as compared with a cut of 18 58 for I December 10 2 3, and a total cut of 717.793 for the full TRIAL OF HOME BANK | tion was getting close to his wad DIRECTORS IS TRAVERSED I Drummond transferred his fight to TO THE SPRING ASSIZES : him, and dealt him an effective blow ! with his fist. The gun-man then the waters it frequents. Until recently it was believed the mature sockeye returned to spawn in the identical stream in which it was hatched. This, however, has been GOVERNMENT MADE GOOD SHOWING IN LIQUOR PROFITS DURING THE PAST YEAR. Victoria, Jan. 14�The govern-nt liquor board made a very good owing h Toronto, Jan. Is.�The trials �* j proceeded to beat Drummond over j rather upset in the case of marked M. J. Haney and his fellow directors � the head with the butt of his re-j fish. These have been taken many ^1'?.' ' �f th� defunct Home Banl^ was tra I volver, and the fight was turned to , miles from the streams in which they versed yesterday by Justice R. M. j him In the mix_up Drummond sue- 1 were turned loose, and it is just pos- ANOTHEK STATE OFFICIAL IMPLICATED IN SCANDAL Meredith to the spring assizes. The application for the traversing of the - on the business transacted >U during the year 1924. The to-jo c!fxts for the year are given at mil i l0�0> Which is �� to be one �on greater than the profits y "e Province of Alberta. cases was made by D. L. McCarthy, Kansas City. Jan. 14.�Colonel J. ' crown prosecutor. Patterson, state banking commissioner, has been Implicated in the pardon scandal with former governor J. LADIES1 CURLING FIXTURES. The following are the ladies' curl- O SAVE FAMOUS ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL r have Peal to f,eneroua responae to the ap-PauN lm t0 8ave the famous St ^in Z hldral from becoming a On the r* defective foundations. 000 *�. day of the apP�al $100,- eceived In Bubacriptiona to �5.00 M. Davis, who was placed under arrest on the last day of his incumbency upon a charge of receiving $1250 for the issuance of a pardon to a convict. PORT NBLSON DAMAGED IN BIO HUDSON BAY STOKM Ottawa. Jan. 14.�News has just j been received here of a great storm In Hudson Bay which did considerable damage to Port Nelson last month. There was a heavy gale which lasted for several days and wh3 accompanied by a tide which reached a height of 24 feet. ing fixtures for the ensuing week: Tomorrow evening at 7. MacLeod-McNeil; Saturday afternoon at 4, Jonas-Campbell ano Edwards-Porter; Sunday at 1 p.m., MacLeod-Bexon; Monday at 7 p.m.. Bexon-McNeil; Tuesday at 4 p.m., Campbell-Porter; and Wednesday at 4 p.m., MacLeod-Edwards. FOLEY DEFEATED BY 8NT3LL. Victoria. Jan. 14.�Doc. Snell. of Tacoma. defeated Vic Foloy. of Van- couver, In a six-round bout last might. 8nell took all of the rounds except one, downa. and scored two knock- ceeded in wresting the revolver from ' sible that the sockeye have no pref-the hand of the bandit and was then i erence for any particular spawning master of the situation. The two ground. men took to their heels and Drum- | The biological board is composed mond pursued them into the center j of fourteen members, but eleven of of Chinatown where he lost track them are residents of eastern Can-of them. Aside from bruises about ada. The four western members are the face and head, where he wns struck with the revolver Drummond is none the worse for hh encounter. Professor O'Donohue, of the Manitoba university; Dr. Hutchison, of the' University of B.C., and John Dybhavn, of Prince Rupert. By reason of the preponderance of population, and of representation on the board, gTeater attention has been NelBon, Jan. 14.�Probate of the j given to the eastern situation, but will of the late Petor Veregin, the ' there is no reason why western re-Doukhobor leader, has been ordered j quirements should not receive great-by Judge Forln. The estate, which j er consideration witH a view to im-waa valued at $45,593, is left to the proving the commercial fishing in the PROBATE ORDERED OF WILL OF LAlTE PETER VKUEGIN Christian Brotherhood, the official title of the sect. Tho estate la said to be Indebted to the brotherhood to the extent of $141,459. rreat lakes of the central interior. It \\ known that the whitefish is indigenous to the Francois lake, al-(Continned on pag-e 6)