Ii.l�, No. 10.
PRINCE  GEORGE,  B.O.,   THURSDAY,  JANUARY   14,   11)20.
Assize Court was Opened in Prince George Yesterday
Mr. Justice Murphy  Instructs Members of Grand Jury"*bn Nature
of TU ir Duties.
 ni   Cases   to   be   Disposed   of   Ex� pocted to Occupy Attention for One Week.
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panid  by  His  Honor
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rv- Wilson, has charge
for the Tiiton, Hogan,
Donald, era!   cas
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remaining cases wi >t al. Rex vs. Belli Rex vs. Muir, Re and   Rex vs.  Cyr.
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TORONTO MEMBER WOULD DISCLOSE OWNERSHIP OP
< ANi ADIAN    NEWSPAPERS
Ottawa, Jan. 14.�T. L. Church, < onservative member for North Toronto, has given notice in parliament <-f his intention to introduce a bill which win make it compulsory for newspapers and period <�io.se their ownership. ed the move is ainied ;
ownership in H cations.
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Seventy Million Feet of Logs Scaled in This District
Increased   Activity    Overcomes Loss of Hutton and   Allen-Thrasher Mills.
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several  Canadian   pub-,
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mprning rphy,  Rccom] fudge  Robert 10 �; � fall assize.
� :ii of Wilson �i i i the crown work, and ranged around tho counsel's table were ;1-i:umber of lawyers from �ujtside '�(�int<. including Stuart Henderson, of Victoria, A. D. Mclntyre, of F\am-loops, and L. W. Patmore, of Prince Rupert, as well as J. M. McLean, .!. i) Wilson and A. McB, Young, of the local bar.
The court being duly opened by Sheriff I". S. peters, the swearing in of the members of the grand jury was proceeded with. It Is composed of the following: D. Corless. foreman; IT. L. Black, and M. M. Connelly, of PraSer Lake; Charles IIow-arth, of Hutton; L. C. Jamieson. of McBride; and Mrs. EuphemiaRustin, Brian Brisooe, H. M. Ellis, II. Collins, IT. W. Gross, F. W. liiintnn and R. C.  s.  Randall, of Prince George.
Mr. Justice Murphy addressed himself to the members of the grand jury for a few minutes, outlining their function in dealing with the indictments which ivould be presented to them. He made, it clear they were not expected to try the cases which would come before them. All that was expected of them was to tind whether a crime, as � suggested J in the indictment, had been committed, and whether the person named in the Indictment was sufficiently connected wi!,h it to call for an explanation in a trial before the petit] jury. He informed them it would be necessary for seven of their number to agree upon any verdict which it was desired to make. In the event of it being thought advisable to return a true bill it was not necessary to call all of t.he witnesses set out in the indictment, as j*rte, might bo sufficient to show pr ma facie that a crime had beeti commit-) ted, but in the event^oi considering returning "no bill" it would become necessary toefill all of the witnesses in that any not heard might supply the ...evidence which Would make; a prinia facie case.
The court asked the jurors to consider the several indictments in the order in which they were given to them so that the business might be expedited. At the request of P. K. Wilson, crown counsel, it was desired to try the case <>f Rex vs. Hig gin hot ha ni    tirst.      The   ord
STIHEAM OF SETTLKRvS FOR
CANADA  IS SETTING   IV
London, Jan. 14.� ft was an-: nounced today that more than 60 0 families Have completed arrangements to sail for Canada in the Bprjng under tho scheme 'to settle -3000 British families in the dominion this year.
 Drop  in   Railway  Tie  Cut,  But That  for Pol s Shows Increase Over 1024.
VANCOUVER WRAPPED IN FOG AND SMOKE AND BUSINESS  TIED
UP
Vancouver, Jan. 13.�Twenty-five ships are held up in English bay as the result of a dense fog which envelops the city and district. In the city smoke from fires and factories has mingled with the thick atmosphere and makes travel about the streets difficult. The street car service has been greatly hampered and motor vehicles are obliged to move with the greatest caution.
Pattullo Hints at Probable Deal Affecting P.G.E.
Would IH   Content to Take Monetary
Loss  to  Secure  Development
of  I*rovince.
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Electors of Prince George Go to the 'Ballot Box Today
(lose   Contest   Will   Marl;   Race   IJ,.-
twe n Alvvard and Taylor for
the   Mayoralty.
cases were briefly reviewed by �oiirt and in connection with Of them he advised the jurors as to the law governing bucIi matters.
Dealing with the case of Rex vs. Tiiton, el al, he reminded the jurors (this was a case of alleged intimidation, and under the law everyone was guilty of an offence who, with-, out law tul authority, sought to pre- i vent anyone from doing anything which be had a lawful right to do. or who sought to get anyone to do sometjirfig which h,. hod no lawful: right to do, by threat.-; of violence erty. The case i over school inatti decision had been a School upon a logs had been cut and brought the sit<-. a subsequent rteci sion changed the site of the proposed school bouse to a point a iiiii'1 ":' :" distant. �>ne section of the i immunity was desirous of having the school built upon the site firs I selected, and it was in connection with (the attempted removal o\' the Iog3 to the second site that the suggested intimidation had taken place. Ii was thi*� ma(ter which the jurors would  have to consider.
Dealing with Hie case of Rex vs. Cyr, in which 'lie accused is charged with the murder oNAlex. Ducharme in the vicinity of Chilco lake, the court, observed that it was a peculiar case in that the evidence of the alleged Crime was supplied by the accused. Cyr and Ducharme wore trapping together. Cyr was anxious to engage in prospecting but to this nueharme objected. In a qtiar-i"l which followed later Cyr asserts that Ducharmo fired two shots at him with an 1T. S, army rifle, but missed him. Cyr says he fired at Ducharme with his smaller arm. and the men then struggled together In the struggle Ducharme dropped his rifle and Cyr kicked it away from him. He also kicked Ducharme and loosened Ducharme's hold upon (Continued on pag* 5)
Voting Commenced at s O'clock  in i
Morning  and   Will   Continue
Until  8 p. m.
The i le <'>rs of Prince George will decide aft  the ballot box today   the men   who   will   have   charge   of   the municipal affairs    during    the    year 1*926.   The voting will take place at the   city   hall,   where   George   Davis, returning Officer, will  be assisted  by three deputies and three poll clerks.! Electors of Wards One and Two will ! mark their ballots in the city coun- j cil  chamber,   and   electors  of    Ward j Three in (he city clerk's office.    The polling will  commence nt  s  o'clock in the morning and continue untU^S" o'clock rn^ the evening;
For the office of mayoi>rliere are two candidates in the-^field. R. W. Alward. who haa^filled the position for the past tw� merchants. Mr. Ire" implement and feed nnedv is a   lab-
Mr.
and bow .Messrs employ
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Sales   is     an     acco
Northern   Hardwi
There is no vo of the school boar sons werg nominat and Mrs. Minakei Mos were declare* two-year term, an for the one-year term
In connection wi'h expression  o( opinion upon   the   advisability th<>   ward   system   so
Edward Opie and
���king re-e].>c! ion.
.-   is  making   his
inicipal     electors.
praser  are    both
ction with the railway,  and   Mr.
mtant     with    the
� � company.
ing for members But three per-: u>r three places and Alex. Wiin-elected   for   tli?
1   Allan   McMillan
 the election an
 will   be   taken
 of abolishing
 thai   the   city
Ottawa, Jan. 13.�Then- have been no unexpected developments in the debate on the reply to the address from the throne and there is no reason to believe Premier Mackenzie King will be unable to vote down the want of confidence amendment, which Hon. A. B. Meighen. the Conservative leader, has presented to the house. In the course of today's debate Hon. Hugh Guthrie, solicitor-general in fhe late Meighen administration, made the announcement that, if the government were defeated on the want of confidence motion and a Conservative government were formed by Mr. Meighen-. he would endeavor to carry on without a  dissolution.
Henri Bourrassa, the Nationalist member from Quebec, made his position clear on the want of confidence motion. He said that in the present instance he would not vote want of confidence in fthe government, but he served notice upon the Liberals that he did not contemplate,voting confidence in their administraton at ;ill  times.
Miss Agnes McPhail, one of the Progressive members from Ontario, in her contribution to the � debate, influence in Con. ��nils alike, but ute  just   how    she
T M. Clement, of the University^ of B. C, who made a survey �erf the agricultural possibilities of that section of the province which would be served by the completion of the railway to the Peace River, takes a very hopeful view of the future of the government railway. On Friday he delivered an address to the members of the Vancouver Electric cl'Ub, in the course of which he told his listeners something of the country which had been under his examination. In summing up the provincial railway be said:
British Columbia, with its mild climate, must attract immigrants from countries with surplus population. It was the opinion of experts that Canada would be "saturated" with population in some 50 years. It would not then oe said that the P. G-. E. was a railway which "went from nowhere *o nowhere," for there must come the development of 16,-000.000 acres of wonderful agricultural coun't.ry�an area twice as large as Denmark, which produced so much butter and so many egg&� j and twelve times as large as Prince Hdward Island.
Prince Rupert, ,)an. 14.�Hon. T. 1 D. Pattullo, in an address here to-j day, discussed the problems of the i northern portion of the province, [ and the efforts of Its members in the | legislature to reach their solution '� during the recent session. The minister of lands paid particular attention to the P. G. E. railway question and complimented the north upon the action tc;ken by the govern" mem in providing for the subsidizing of the enterprise by the making of land grants with a view to securing the completion of Uie'line into the Peace River diEjj^ttftT The minister was quite jgj^pared to have the province takfl"-"a money loss in any dispositipa^which might be made of the j^rifvvay. hut he said this would more than offset by ithe advantages which would accrue to the province through the opening up and development of an extremely large area. Mr. Pattullo paid a great compliment to H. G. Perry, deputy speaker and member for the Fort George district, for the effort made by him to advance the fortunes of the railway. Speaking of Mr. Perry he said: "The member for Fort George conducted his duties at the recent session with outstanding ability, and combined with his industry his services were of a most valuable and conspicuous character."
( ()MMISSION   RECOMMENDS CO-OPERATION IX NOVA
SCOTIA GOAL FIELD
Vancouver. Jan. 14.�Premier Oliver, in an address today at the board of trade luncheon, devoted the greater part of his time to the consideration of the P. G. E. railway issue. He asserted that the connecting of the P. G. E. with the E. D. & B. C. by way of the Peace River pass was the most practicable solution for the Peace River. While it wouM increase the mileage to Vancouver by one hundred miles, as compared with the Pine River pass, no gr^at. engineering difficulties would be encountered. "Nature, in this instance," said the premier, "has indicated the route which the engineer.* should follow." The railway quei-tion was a delicate one, the premier added, and any government attempting" to handle it would require to be careful that it did not wreck itself. "I want to tell you." he said, "tliat we have had a number of narrow shaves on this issue, and I don't know how long we are going to last."
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also  be  sought
mi   the   existing   arrangement   un-
which the policing of the city is
ended to by the provincial police
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BRITAIN  FILES PROTEST
\(;\I\ST  MEXICO'S  ALIEX OWNERSHIP LEGISLATION
London. Jan. 14.�-The Britisn minister to Mexico has been instructed to file a protest with the Mexican government against its legislation which would wipe out alien ownership of Mexican oil and mineral lands.
IOSEPH OAILLAUX  MAY BE
NEXT PREMIER OF FRANCE
p-iris Jan 14.�With socialistic opposition \o his financial proposals threatening Premier BnandI with defeat Joseph Caillatix. who some �ears ago was banished for alleged p-lGcnuan sympathies, is generally spoken of as the next premier of France.
expressed lack of servatives and L she did not intin would vote on tl though she is g< supporting the g< Since the deba has accomplished of breaking up t In respective parties that a division v\ morrow.
amendment, rally placed
as
has been on it thing in the way lignments of the There is a  hope
be  reached   to-
BRITAIN'S ADVEHSE TRADE BALANCE REACHES POUTfe HUNDRED VILLIOX POUNDS
London. Jan. 1 ' adverse trade bal: is now roughly es hundred million p est in 'the history o exceeding the trad<
-Great Britain's nee for the year imated at four unds. the great-the country, and balance of 1!>24
by fiftv million pounds.
RVPKItT  CITIZENS SAY
FARMWEI L TO PIONEER
Prince Rupert. Jan. 13.�Seventy Citizens gathered at the board, of trade banquet last night to say farewell to J. H. Pillsbury. a pioneer resident and for many years manager of he local dry dock. Mr. Pillsbury has been transferred to Winnipeg by the C.N. R, management.
Halifax. N.S., Jan. 11.�That the British Empire Steel 'Corporation was "amply justified" in demanding a wage cut of 10 per cent in 19 24, that the corporation was not Justified in demanding a cut in 1922, and that a system of open accounting as between representatives of the operators and men be instituted and the necessary machinery provided to permit revision of the wage scale at six-m6ntha periods based on the coal company's ability to pay, as a sep-urate entity are among the recommendations brought down In the report of the Sir Andrew Rae Duncan royal commission following a two-months' investigation of the industry.
Other recommendations are that the company co-operate with the United Mine Workers of America, the check-off be abolished, that local contracts abolished when the men resumed work last August be restored, and that the coal properties of the corporation be placed under "the control and authority of a resident exeoutive officer, whose technical training, mining experience and status should be such that he can be charged with and become responsible for the initiation and decision of the coal policy of the operators."
TORONTO BOARD OF TRJADE INVITES HON.  L.  M. S.
AMEUY TO VISIT CANADA
Toronto, Jan. 14.�The Toronto board of trade has extended an invitation to Hon. L. M. S. Amery, secretary of state for dominion affairs to pay a visit to Canada during the coming fall.
PROVINCIAL CABINET MAKES ORDER  FOR  BODIES  OF
BAKER   AXD   SOWASH
Victoria, Jan. 13.�The provincial government today passed an order-in-council to enable the friends of Baker and Sowash to secure the bodies of the condemned meu following their execution on Thursday for the murder of Captain  Gillis.
CARDINAL   MERCIER   SHOWED IMPROVEMENT  ON  TUESDAY
Brussels, Jan. 12.�Cardinal Mer-cier showed some improvement today and felt strengthened because be was able to take more nourishment than usual.
PREMIER   HKRTZCKJ  OPPOSES DISCUSSING LdCARNO TREATE
VAXDERHOOF   WILL   BECOME INCORPORATED IX FEW DAYS
The secretary of the Vanderhoof board of trade has received a draft of the order-in-council psoviding for the incorporation of the settlement as a village. The trustees named to hold office as commissioners until their successors can be appointed are John Walker Paterson, Dr. William R. Stone and George Ogaton. The nominations for elected commissioners will be held on April 1st, and polling, if necessary, on April 3rd.
Capetown. Jan. 14.�President Hertzog. is understood to have informed the colonial office that his government will not be represented at the imperial conference if the Locarno treaty is to lie discussed.
AUSTRA LIAN   GOVERNMENT
AVOUliD   CHECK   SEDITION'
JOHN LESLIE NAMED AS
O. P. R. VICE-PRESIDE XT
Montreal, Jan. 12.�The appointment of John Leslie as vice-president and comptroller of the Canadian Pacific railway is announced by E. W. Beatty, K.C., chairman and president.
Melbourne, Jan. 14.�The speech from the throne, on the opening of the Australian parliament yesterday, forecast legislation against seditious associations, and for a greater measure of government control of overseas  marketing.
HEAVY GRAIN MOVEMENT
OVER GREAT LAKES ROUTE
Fort William, Jan. 14.�Shipments of grain from the lake head during the 19 25 season are placed at 307,-762,790 bushels. This makes a .gain of 7,065,656 bushels over the record for the ye?ir 1924.