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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
N�. 21.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1925.
Trappers Will Be Kept North of the Railway
, th of Canadian National
'"win S� c!o8ed Agalnst
Next Year.
Cotiscrv.
ition Board Promi*c�
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growin other c son II the di; !icl tor disc ur "the bus the ani 'f " r '
fur-be; merous
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repstr ispd f
not >�:� are fo pr\v J">rvnti of.En
'Regulation for Trap Line Registration,
i to trap fur-bearing ani-
in the eastern game division of
� e will cease on the first
. . nnd it may be a number
.,. i of ore trapping privileges
, |. Kmighly speaking the
,, uie division comprises all
: of the province to the
, f � . Cascade mountains, and
,; the Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian National sys-
]>,. Jackson, chairman of the
cons* rvation board, has been
I for some time with the
rcity of game in this
' � c province, and a.s a con-
Iion measure has decided to
all trapping privileges
� the entire area. For a
� years that portion of the
th of the line of the Can-
ic railway has been closed
. ipper, and in announcing
:. ion of trapping in the
i the chairman comments
:: proved condition which
rought about south of the
uce the trappers wore cloyed
1 of the new regulation that trappers operating out <;� urge will be required to � ir operations to that por-province north of the ' : way line. Most of the ; been taken in the north in ars. The closing of the ith of the railway should � trappers for similar ac-�� � north later on. There is .': � i it that the fur-bearers are career each year. Trap-have varied reasons for ac-i - for the scarcity, but the ties are that the trappeTs : traps contribut more to the scarcity than any other so. During the present sea-estimated th� fur yield cf ct will be from 20 to 25n <>f game cs well as being
"advantage to the trappers.
i Export Tax Is Placed Upon Electrical Energy Which Goes to United States.
Ottawa, March 2f>.�Finance Minister Robb delivered his budget j speech yesterday. There will be few changes in the tariff. One of the departures foreshadowed is a tax upon the export of electrical power. The tax on electrical energy exported to the United States will be fixed at $1.95 per horsepower per annum. 1 he duty upon ivlack coal is to be increased from 14 to 50 cents per ton.
Reductions are to be made in the duties upon well-drilling machinery r.nrl small engines for fishing boats. No changes'are to be made in the sales or income taxes. No details were given by the minister of the proposed commercial treaty between Canada and Australia.
Despite falling revenue throughout the year the Dominion closed it out with a surplus in revenue over expenditure of $ 1,223,000.
Concerning the operation of the Canadian National railways the minister of finance stated the lines are still a long way short of meeting operating expense j and paying interest upon advances made by the government. The total interest arrears on March 31st, 1924, was given at $i:?l,000,000.
Jesse E. Leary Ended His Life in His Cabin
Placed Muzzle of Gun in Hit Mouth
and Blew Top of Hi� Head
Off.
Coroner's Jury Returned Verdict of
Suicide While in Fit of
Despondency.
Jess E. Leary, a man of about 52 years, who has been ranching and Ue-making in the vicinity of Fraser Lk f h f
g y
for the past few years, grew of life JavVt week. Sitting on bi h
Lake
iired v g
the edge of the bed in his cabin, he placed the muzzle of a gun in his mouth* and, discharging it with his toe. blew the top of his head off. The body was found on Friday by E. W. Maguine; a neighbor with whom Leary had been making ties. The two men had been working on the Tuesday, and according to Maguire the deceased appeared to be in a normal state. As he did not make an -ippearar.ee on Wednesday or Thursday, Maguire decided to look him up. He found the stock on the place had not been attended to, and on open-r ing the door of the cabin found the body of Leary where it had fallen on the bed.
Provincial Constable George W. Clark was s'ent up from this city to assist Dr. R.. W. Stone, of Vander-hoof. in the holding of an inquest. After viewing the body, and taking the evidence of Maguire and others, the jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of depression.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT AI�SIT8 A COPE WITH FAMINE
SITUATION IN RUSSIA
The Berlin newspapers publish dispatches from Russia to the effect there are more than 750,000 starving children in the famine stricken districts, and that the Soviet government admits Its inability to cope with the situation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS* WIDOW ABANDONS OPPOSITION TO PRO3ATE OF SECOND WILL
Washington, March 25.�The widow of Samuel Gompers has withdrawn 1km opposition to the second will of the deceased labor leader, which one of his sons is seeking to pro'-'iri.e. No explanation has been given for her withdrawal from the contest. Under the second will the
widow receives only right in the estate.
a small dower
C.P.R. Makes Proposal for Freight Bonus
Government Would Save Money by
Subsidizing Freight Rather
Than Construction.
Mrs. Dennistoun Given Verdict by London Jury
Most Unsavory Case in History of
British Courts Disposed of on
Tuesday.
Liout.-Colonel Dennistoun Must Pay
Discarded Wife Five Thousand
Pounds Damages.
Teh ]^n Line to Oawson Out of Business
Wireless Transmission Today Puts
Famous Old Wire in the
Discard.
Linemen and Operators Will be Retained Pending the Result of Test.
The famous old telegraph line, which for several years past has connected the Yukon with the outside world, went out of busiiie/vs today, as the result of orders issued from Ottawa.
Sixty years ago the greatest activity throughout the northern interior of the province of British Columbia, aside from the mining operations in the Barkerville camp, attended the frantic efforts of the agents of the Collins Overland TelegTaph company Co string a telegraph line which would give direct connection between Now York and the commercial ecn-tei�j of Europe. This was before the ocean cables had been satisfactorily worked. While the men were working on the land line the first Atlantic cable -was laid, but it parted immediately after. This was taken as cc n-clusive that cables could not be built strong enough to stand the strain of (�coan currents, and another feverish effort wa-j cut forth to complete the land line before the growing necessity for closer connection should spur , invention to the production of a
London, March 2.-).�The last nas cahle which wou!d hold, been heard of the Dennistoun case, The occan cable mcn eventuajiy which is said to have been the mo.>v W()n outj antl when the wor(| was unsavory in the annals of the British | Hashed across the continent the Col-courts, and in comparison with which lins eompany recalled its army of the recent blackmail of the Indian workers, and they dropped their potentate is made to appear like bun- tool? and. abandoning thousands of day School stuff. In the Dennistoun , dollars' worth of materials and sup-case Mrs. Onvlow Deniustoun pl;es to the in(]ianSi started on their brought suit against her former husband, Lieut.-Colonel Dennistoun. and present husband of the Countess of Carnarvon, for the recovery of monies advanced to him and for dam
Court Amends Sentences in Fraud Cases
SAN FRANCISCO JUDGE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH THE EVIDENCE OF PROSECUTION
Het on Imprisonment for Jnr-vLs in Default of Fine Pajiuont.
San
Partridf yeste.rdi ment oi the Cai the tim runner.
inbmat< the pro
ancisco, March 26.�Judge !
spent the greater part of { in listening to the argu-
"iinsel as to the position of dian steamer "Quadra" at
she was seized as a rum-
The court-intimated that; itisfied with the evidence of j fs of the seized vessel ot! to ion of the "Quadra," and j
that perjury had been com- i some of the witnesses for cution in asserting the ves-
thin the 12-mile limit. This i'd as a great gain for the ; . as the discrediting of the
of witnesses for the prose-j
one phase of the case may j discredit them on others.
GOVERNMENT WILL COOPERATION OF DOMINIONS IN FUTURE
March 25�In winding up '!P�n the Geneva protocol world disarmament, For-itary Chamberlain an-;U for the future the im-nient would endeavor to >ser touch with the Domin-;; 1 matters of foreign pol-ntimated it might be port 1 arrange matters that ne-n'inht be conducted by
L ; s avoi(i lnuch of the in*
He sai.i "vc ' �* conference sessions. qui-s-V'C ' dominions had been rc-Uves'fA \" allow their representa-KationJ � ,, :isscmbJy of League of a�*cn�!� �? faiI sufficient time to beforrfit 1Var'ous matters to come (Ir-ie^, h0 lpnfrue so that the British
a^tH?ro7ldbeabJeto
the |i i"
keep ions
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Cabl*.
NEWMAN ERB DEAD b 75 ljtk!. March 25�Newman Sef^ent �* the Ann Arbor,
ay- He was at i nt 0| the Prince & Shipbuilding com-
rb, railw
Patiy
Attorney-General.. Xickle Expresses
Surprise With Appeal Court
Decision.
Toronto, March 25�The court of appeal handed dowa. its decision yesterday in the appeal from the decision of Chief Justice Meredith in tho cases of Aemilius Jarvis, prominent financier, and Peter Smith, former provincial treasurer, who were sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $600,-000 for defrauding the province of Ontario upon a bond transaction. The fine was based upon the amount which the province was believed to have lost through the collusion of Jarvis and Smith. By the terms of the appeal court decision tho prison-era must serve thoir jail sentences, but. in the caso of Jarvis the fine is reduced to $00,000 and will mean a further teni cf imprisonment of five years, to commence at the expiration of his six months sentence, .ind in the case of Smith the amount of his fine is reduced to $100.000...
Hon. W. F. Nickle, attorney-general, in commenting upon the decision of the appeal court, said It was with the ulinos', astonishment he \\v& learned of the judgment of the court. wIMch varied the sentence imposed bv Chief Justice Meredith. Tn his judgment the oeople would have profit difficulty in reconciling the jiidfrment, amending the sonton-<*as. with the sentences imposed upon other offenders for less serious violations of tho criminal laww.
Tho prisoner Jarvis some time n*ro returned to the government the Rum of $140,000 which he said re-nr^onted the wlvole of the profit wh?ch came to him out of the fraud-nipnt bond transaction. The appeal court holds this must be treated as restitution payment., and the $60,-Onn fine in an additional amount which JnrviB will be required*to pay nr anenri nn additional five years In Imprisonment.
Subsidy of $180,000 Would Average
About Nine Cents Per Bushel
on Wheat Crop.
Ottawa, March 25.�The Canadian Pacific railway company is not prepared at the present time to proceed with the building of a Pacific coast outlet for the Peace River district. In a statement which was issued yesterday the government is advised that the building of rail connections with the coast would involve an ex 00000 hih
penditure of $15,000,000, would not be justified at the present time. Av a substitute for the building of additional mileage the C.P.R. company has made something in the nature of an informal proposal to the government to meet the situation of the settlers in the Peace River district.
It is claimed that the E.D. &. B.C. railway operated by the C.P.R. serves the settled portions of the Peace River district save for the handicap resulting from the necessity of moving the traffic eastward in an effort to reach the coast. This increases the mileage and adds to the freight charges. To meet the situation the management of the C.P.R. proposes that the government should pay an annual subsidy of $180,000 in consideration of which the cost of the present long haul on Peace River grain could be reduced. This expenditure, it is pointed out, would be ?mall as compared with the fixed charges in connection with the expenditure necessary for a new line Under the suggestion ___ Canadian National
ould be given running rights over tho E.D. & B.C. railway. As there was approximately 2,000,000 bushels of grain moved over the E.D. & B.C. railway during the past season, the subsidy proposed is roughly 9 cents per bushel. As it is believed the cost of the necessary connection with the been conservatively stated at $15,-000,000 it would be possible for the government to subsidize the movement of eight "-i.lion bushels at the
ages for breach of contract in failing to provide her support. The evidence of the plaintiff disclosed that for his advancement Denniwtoun consented to his wife becoming the mistress of a prominent officer in the British army, and the paramour of wealthy foreigners.
The jury yesterday afternoon rendered a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of �5000. of which �2800 was for money advanced to Dennistoun, and the remainder by way of damages for failure to provide for the plaintiff's maintenance.
Victoria Team Has Two-Game Lead in Series
Canadiens Received Their Second
Defeat on Monday Night at
Vancouver.
Third Game of the Series Will be
Played at Victoria on Friday
Evening.
of railway, proposed th
direct coast
i"nterVropproci �M>fni*.-'interest upon the expenditure., reckoned at 5v along the wire are to be retained, but it looks as if they will shortly be in the position of the men who preceded them sixty years ago and will be forced to look for new jobs.
FIGHT PROMOTERS MAY
GET PRISON TERMS FOR PICTURE FILM CONSPIRACY
Trenton, N.J.. March 25.�Judge Codine, in the United States district court, grunted a motion yesterday to suspend until Monday the sentences upon the defendants in the Dempsey-Carpcntier prize fight film conspiracy. The defendants are George C. ("Tex") Rickard, fight 'promoter; Jasper C. Muma, Washington newspaperman; Fred C. Quinibly, motion picture producer; and Teddy Hayee.', secretary to Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey. The defendants are charged with violation of the law in the illegaJ showing of fight pictures
PREMIER OLIVER SATISFIED WITH ALBERTA'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE P. G. E.
Victoria, March 25.�Premier Oliver has returned from Edmonton where he went to interview Premier Greenfield with a view to securing his co-operation in a move to secure the building of the Pe&ce River railway west of the Rockies Instead of
_ .________quite .
berta'a attitude toward the P.G.E."
tences will b'e handed out on Monday.
defeated" the Canadiens at Victoria in twenty different states. The court on Saturday night with a 5-2 score, intimated in plain terms that jail sen The third game of the series- will be i f�,,ooo �,;n w~ u�,r,^^ �.,* � iu^,i.~. played in Victoria on Friday night under western rules. If any further games are necessary to decide the championship they will be played alternately at Vancouver and Victoria under eastern and western rules alternately.
VANCOUVER WILL HAVE
COLD STORAGE PLANT
COSTING $1,500,000.
Ottawa, March 23�Arrangements have been made by private capit l-Ists for the building of a cold stor-' age plant at Vancouver to cost $1,-500 000, provided an assurance can be secured that the doniiniou harbor authority will not engage in a like ventme. The plan of the promoters includes a distribution throughout Canada of the fruits of the FIJI inlands, the storage of the fruits and
vegetables of the Okanagan trict, as 'well as meeting tho
dis-local
trade requirements of Vancouver. The plant will, be Ioratod in the vicinity of the G.T. p. steamship company's pier. v . �