PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
VOL. 9, No. 18.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1926.
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FI\E CENTS.
Police Search for Missing Dome Creek Trapper
'William Allan Goodson Has Been
Missing From Trap Line Since
November 12th.
Writing Found in His Cabin Which Dealt With Fight Had With ' E. B. Haynes.
Sergeant Walker, of the provincial police, has instituted a search for William Allan Goodson, a trapper- who has made Dome Creek his headquarters for a number of years. The initial move in the search was entrusted to Constable Sam Service, of McBriue. Upon a visit to Dome Creek he ascertained that Goodson made a trip .out from his trap line to Dome Creek on Octot>er 14th for the purchase of supplies. Goodson at this time left a letter with James Stewart, postmaster, with
FARMERS IN NICHOL
DISTRICT WILL BUILD
COMMUNITY HALL
At the annual meeting of the farmers' institute of Nicnol and Isle Pierre, which was held at Nichol on Saturday, the decision was reached to proceed with tht, erection of a community hall, which will afford the residents a place in which meetings and social gatherings may be held. The district has been steadily growing for the, past two years, and in the opinion of the members of the institute they are justified in proceeding with the erection of the hall. The building arrangements were left in the hands of the directors.
In the election of officers for the ensuing year George E. Boothroyd was named as president, Charles Cook as secretary, and E. H. Hamer as secetary-treasurer. A. J. Abery, H. Anderson. R. Clifford, A. M. Dore and E. H. Hamer were chosen as directors
The business session was followed by a dance in the evening which was attended by seventy residents., beinj
instructions that he turn the same ?n<; of the largest social gatherings over to the police upon the next � m.Jhe history of the settlement. At visit to Dome Creek of any member midnight.theJadies seryed the com-
of the force. There was no police | Pany Wlth coffee and cake.
visit and Stewart was holding the
letter when Goodson returned on
November 2nd for further supplies.
He made enquiries about the letter
he had left with Stewart and asked
for its return. It happened the let-
SASKATCHEWAN MEMBER WILL REPLACE MINISTER
ON CUSTOMS PROBE
Ottawa, March 11.�There is a
was unable to return
of
rivers,
from McBride. could remembc to be in good Dome Creek is the last record of his having been seen.
On February 26th, in company with E. B. Haynes and another resident, Constable Service started on a trip to the Goodson cabin, which
committee of the house which has
of the smuggling charges brought against the customs and excise departments by Hon. H. H. Stevens, of Vancouver.
AIR PASSENGERS MAKE / RECORD TIME IN TRIP
FROM LONDON TO PARIS
Paris, March 11.�Eleven passen-
waa reached next day. It was found> gerSj wjtn their baggage, flew from to be in good condition, and there London to Paris inia plane yesterday was no evidence of a struggle. The jn one j10ur an. at Nominal Cost to Municip. ' ality.
Vancouver, March 11.�The fuel oil tax which was imposed by the legislature in 1923, and which was estimated to yield the provincial treasury $400,000 annually, has been declared ultra vires of the legislature in a decision handed down by Mr. Justice Morrison. The tax was attacked by the Canadian Pacific railway and the Union Steamship companies on the ground that it was an indirect tax and not within the power of the province to impose. It is generally believed the decision will apply to the gasoline tax of the legislature which is similar in many respects. The decision will be appealed by Attorney-General Manson
and taken to the privy necessary.
council if
CONSERVATIVES WILL
OPPOSE NEW MINISTER
IN WEST MIDDLESEX
London, March 10.�There is reason to believe the Conservatives wllj "fight the return of Hon. J. C. Elliott
The Bear Cat gasoline shovel, which is one of three purchased this year by the public works department of the province, was unloaded from the railway car in the local yard on Monday and proceeded at once to the site on Patricia avenue where it is proposed to make a 350-foot diversion of the roadway to cut out a twelve per cent hill. The shovel was nosed into the cut which it is proposed to make, and within a few minutes had the dirt flying in an astonishing manner. It is a very smooth-working piece of digging machinery. The shovel has a capacity of one-half yard of material, and the earth can be dropped on a line twenty-two feet from the machine's center, so that for much of the digging teaming is done away with. The material in which it was started working on Monday was frozen for several inches from the top, and some of it was very wet. This interfered somewhat in the discharging of the shovel, but the machine seems to have ample power.
An operator from the manufacturer's plant accompanied the shovel, and during the few days he will be engaged on the Patricia avenue cut will break in a couple of mechanics of the public works department in the handling of it.
Arthur Dixon,, of the public works department, and S. C. McKenzie, superintendent of civic work, were interested spectators when the machine was moved into position on Monday and commenced gnawing into the bank which is to be converted into a roadway, and expressed themselves as highly pleased with its performance. The capacity of the shovel will vary from 300 to 400 yards of material per day, according to its character, and the operating cost, including gasoline, is set at something like $10 per day.
as the new minister of labor in the in the cut being made for the city
King cabinet. The Conservatives j by way ol demonstration there will
consider they have much better fight.
ing ground in West Middlesex than
can be found in any of the western
provinces. The by-election has been
set for Monday, March 29th.
HON. ERNEST LAPOINTE
MAY LEAVE PARLIAMENT
FOR JUDGE'S BENCH
be anj where between '.00 and 1000 yards of material to move, and this work will be completed within the v eek at a cost to the city of $50 or $G0, and the city and the lead to the provincial highway will have a piece of vork performed which without the use of the gasoline shovel would have been prohibitive as to cost. I Ihe n-achine will make possible im-Ottawa. March 10.�The report te prpv.fements to the highways of the
current that Hon. Ernest Lapointe, | district which in its absence would
who has acted as leader of the gov-
ernment during the enforced ab-
sence from the house Mackenzie King. w;Il
of Premier retire from
be impossible of years to come.
attainment for
cuiiistance that Goodson was known to carry a pistol while in the bush was offered as an explanation for his leaving the rifle in a tree.
E. B. Haynes is said to admit having a quarrel with Godson some time ago, but contends it did not amount to anything, and he denies that a hammer or any other kind of weapon was used. The police enquiry is to be carried further with a view to locating Goodson. He carried a substantial balance in one of the Prince
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of Chicago, to collect a royalty upon telephone equipment used in the do-
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ARISTIDE BRIAND AGREES TO ATTEMPT FORMATION
tember last.
The missing man was well known
August last was in receipt
been offered the government by a
OF NINTH GOVERNMENT) syndicate of British and American
I bankers in return for the control for
Paris, March 10.�Aristide Brinnd I a given period of the finances of
Belgian Congo. The offer of the onse to efforts made ut to secure credit
the administration which went clown j to carry it over a period of financial Saturday. Sentiment] stringency.
CHINESE REBELS CONSENT TO LIFT MINES PLANTED
IN THE TAKU CHANNEL
;"nuiU oauuwe in �iu: �i ^u,,^ yielded to the pressure brought! Belgian Congo.
George banks and made no with- ( �>. h attempt the formation loan came in resp
drawals.from his account since sep- Qj a ffovernment to \.lke the place of I by thc governme
'vl11|)(*l*lJ1$S|,. il 1 � gl___J' __l_i_l__ .._A- t__-.lJ.^-._ ' 1 i. _ ._n� #.
will secure mort
pinion support for his next
monthly pension of $15 on account, cabinet than waa accorded him dur-
ol injuries received. � This pension: . } t f nionths. If Briand
a? cut off after August following flgceedg in forming another minis- medicalexamination when Good
11.�As the result (>d by the comman-
a medical examination, when Good-son's condition was found to be normal. From letters found in his cabin Goodson is believed to have a wife, Mrs. Mabel Goodson, of Columbus, Ohio, and a son, L. W. Good-son, of Newark, Ohio.
been
g
b(> th(1 ninth of whj h h(, he;u]
Pekin, March of pressure exer
dors of British and Italian gunboats the officer 6i ilf Knomuchin army nave agred to lift the mines which nad been planted in the Takj channel. These mines constituted the
BARON BYNG WILL MAKE
TOUR BEFORE RETIRING
politics to accept a seat on the judi ciary bench.
Vancouver, March 11.�A special
LEAGUE OF NATIONS WILL j dispatcn to the Province says Baron
STUDY U. S. RESERVATIONS \ Byng, governor- general, plans to FROM PERMANENT COURT1 make a tour of Canada, commencing
April 18th. His term as governor-general expires in August.
Geneva, March 11.�Four legal experts have been appointed by the council of the league of nations to study the reservations made by tho government of the United States from the proposed permanent court of international justice, with a view to bringing about an agreement.
HUDSON BAY RAILWAY
STILL LIVE ISSUE IN
PRAIRIE PROVINCES
ALBERTA HOTELMEN
OPPOSE SALE OF BEER TO WOMEN IN BEER. PARLORS
Edmonton, March 10.�At a meeting of the hotelmen of the province a majority vote was recorded as opposing the serving or women with beer in licenced parlors.
Portage la Prairie, March 11�Hon. J. C. Gardiner, in nn address here last night, pleaded for a fair tria for the Armstrong-Quebec route. He also came out strongly for tho immediate completion of the Hudson Bay railway.
VANCOUVER TOWERS
ARE SENIOR CHAMPIONS
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
AGREE TO DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE IN MAY
Geneva, March 10.^�Great Britain and France have tentatively agreed that the disarmament conference shall convene here on May 17th. It
PLEADED GUILTY TO
SMUGGLING CHINESE INTO I greatest menace to foreign shipping is generally ajrroed that Germany THE UNITED STATES
Washington, March 11.-�David EDMONTON SECURED FIRST : Kerr, former United States vice-con.
PLACE IN HOCKEY LEAGUE Sul at Vancouver, pleaded guilty in BY DEFEATING VANCOUVER the supreme court today to the
--------- charge of accepting a bribe of $50
Edmonton, March 11.�By defeat- for the smuggling of Chinese into in^' tho Vancouver team last night the United States. Sentence has the Eskimos displaced Saskatoon as been deferred.
league leaders, and with a .lead of--------------------
one point secured the bye in the U. S. LINER AMERICA
Play-offs for the hockey champion-;
ship. By their defeat the Vancouver
team was crowded into the cellar j
position in the Western league. The Newport, March 11.�Fire swept
finish in the league was remarkably through the liner America yesterday
close this season, and a good fight while the vessel was tied up at her
in the play-offs should be presented Hock here. Three of her decks were
by Edmonton, Saskatoon and Vic- badly damaged and the loss is esti-
SWEPT BY FIRE WHILE
MOORED TO HER DOCK
toria.
mated at over $100,000.
in the Chinese waters.
NOVA SCOTIA DEFICIT FOR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR
WILL EXCEED $l,12S,000
Halifax, March 10.�Hon. E N. Rhodes has brought down the buJ-p,et of the province for the current fiscal year. It provides for An expenditure of $6,666,6(74^ which exceeds the revenues by $1,127,371. According "to the public account? tabled the actual expenditures for the previous ; ear were $5,969,544. The per capitf. debt of the province is c-vTcn at $69, one of the lowes- in t-he dominion. fi= compared with $100 in Ontario, $72 in Saskatchewan, $114 in Manitoba. $134 in Alberta, and $142 in British Columbia.
has won her contention that she be
Vancouver, March 11.�The Can-more team defeated the Vancouvei1 Towers for the senior championship last night with a 4-3 score, but the Towers won the championship, having secured seven goals in the series to six taken by Canmore.
ONTARIO WILL ESCAPE
NEW TAXES THIS YEAR
Toronto, March 11.�Provincial Treasurer Price presented his budget in the provincial legislature yesterday. There was nothing startling in his "figures', and the budget disclosed
granted ri seat in tho council of the | no new form of taxation for the
league of nations before the applications of the smaller nations are dealt with.
COUNTESS OF CATHCART GIVEN RIGHT TO ENTER
THE UNITED STATES
The Countess of Cathcart on Friday won the right to enter the United States and was declared to be entitled to all the rights and privileges of a visiting alien. The decision was given by Federal Judge William Bondy, when he sustained the writ of habeas corpus which was obtained by the countess' lawyers when she was about to be excluded because of admitted "moral turpitude."
coming year.
PUTS BAN UPON WHISKERS
OF TAXI CHAUFFEURS
Rome, March 10.�The governor of Rome has issued an ed,ict which places the ban upon the ramous whiskers of cab drivers and taxi drivers. Hereafter they must play their roles as bandits without the costumes.
ESTIMATES EXPECTED IN
THE HOUSE NEXT WEEK
Ottawa, March 11.�It is reported the government has its estimates in shape and they are expected to be tabled before the close of next week.
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