PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN B' VOL. 9, No. 31. PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1926. FIVE CENTS. Loan Bylaw will be Submitted for Water Main Extensions Mayor Tayor Favors Making .Loan Large Enough to Secure New Fire Truck. Persons Desiring Main Extension Invited to Make Requests Before Monday Evening. The members of the city council discussed water main extensions at the meeting on Monday eveinng. Ju.st what the programme will be has yet to be decided upon. Alderman Opie is strongly in favor of immediate action in the matter of submitting a loan bylaw to cover all i-xtunsions which have received thi O.K. of the council. Mayor Taylor is in favor of making provision for a new fire truck if a loan bylaw is decided upon, and the probabilities are that a i .nn of between $15,000 and $20,000 will be submitted to the ratepayers. As it will be difficult to complete the entire programme this year the council will endeavor to specify the water main extensions to be made with the proceeds of the loan. In this way work which is decided upon will be completed next year if there is not sufficienc time to complete during the coming fall. With a view to cleaning up as much as possible with water main extensions Alderman Fraser moved that an advertisement be inserted in The Citizen calling upon all property owners desiring extensions to submit their applications at the city hall on or before 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon. This was approved by the council and the programme with respect to mnin exensions will be framed at a special meeting to be held on Monday evening next. Alderman Moffat brought up the matter of the resignation of Alex. Nash, superintendent in the power station. He said that in view of the P. G. E. MAKES CUT IN FARE BETWEEN VANCOUVER AND PRINCE GEORGE The Prince George Motors, local agents for the P. G. E. railway, have received advices from Manager Kil-patrick of a cut which has been made in the fare between Prince George and Vancouver Commencing yesterday the railway fare from Ques-nel to Vancouver was cut from $19.15 to $16.95. This will mean that passengers using the company auto stage between Prince George and Quesnel can make the through trip to Vancouver for $24.95 ,while the round trip can he made for S43.40. With the stage connection to Prince George the P.G. E. offers The most direct route to Vancouver, and the indications are the provincial road will uick up most of t he nnspenger business during the summer. 'MATT" ANDERLANG WAS ASSESSED $75 AND COSTS FOR FIRE INFRACTION "Matt" Anderlang, the tie contractor, living one and one-half miles to the west of Miworth. was found guilty by Stipendiary Magistrate Milburn on Tuesday of an infraction of section 95 of the Forest Act in that he was burning on his land between May 9th and 12th without a permit. There were two other charges against Anderlang, one of failing to report a fire on his place, and the other of having failed to do his utmost to put out the fire. When the conviction was secured upon the first charge the other two were withdrawn. J. M. McLean appeared for the prosecution and P. E. Wilson for the defence. District Log Scale Shows Great Gain Over Last Year First Five Months of Current Year Produce Scale Ten Million Feet in Advance. Big Gain Came in the Spruce Cut, There Being Falling Off in the Other Grades. The log scale of the Fort George forest district for the month of May ran close'to twelve million feet, and gave the five months of the current year a lead of over ten million feet over the corresponding months for 1025. The scale for the past month was made up of 555,148 feet of Douglas fir, 10,890,292 feet of spruce, 31,818 feet of lodgepole pine, and 380,148 feet of balsam, for a total scale of 11,857,306 feet. For the corresponding month in 1925 the scale was 319,979 feet of Douglas fir, 2,204,082 feet of spruce, 12,304 feet of lodgepole pine and 214,397 feet of balsam, for a total scale of 2,750,762 feet. For the five month period the district scale has now reached a total of 33,748,703 feet as compared with BRANCH OF CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF CANADA ORGANIZED A branch of the Catholic Women's League of Canada has been formed sin Prince George as the result of a recent visit to the city of Mrs. Dug-gan. of Edmonton, vice-president of the national organization, who is making a trip through the nortnern portion of British Columbia. The league has been making great headway throughout the dominion, and has a present membership of 40,000. The officers of the Prince George branch are: Mrs. Major Burbank, president; Mrs. D. F. M. Perkins, first vice; Mrs. Al. Johnson, second vice; Mrs. W. W. Riley, third vice; Mrs. Art Dea, secretary; and Mrs. Bert Minaker, treasurer. The meet, ings of the local league will be held on the first Wednesday of each month in the hall in the basement of the Catholic church. MESSRS. BURDOFF AND JOHNSON WH L LAUNCH HOG RANCH IN DISTRICT Messrs. Burdoff and Johnson, two farmers from Walla Walla, Washington, have decided to engage in the. hog raising industry in the Prince George district. They have purchased the southeast quarter of Lot 4002 as well as Lot 4003, an improved Jitney Bylaw Got Its Third Reading Monday Evening Accepted as Temporary Measure Pending Action by Provincial Government. One Bond of $5000 Will Permit of the Operation of a Flock of Vehicles. - total scale of 23,096,469 feet for � Property formerly owned by J. iuc-the first five months of 1925. The j Gaghran, and will bring in stock and big gain came in' the spruce scale, implements to engage in the business the principal milling timber of the ln a larSe vvav- The Property they "district the total scale for the first , have secured is on the Summit Lake (part of 1926 being 28,481,627, as highwav. about twenty-five miles comVVed^with"a"t^taf>sp"ru'ce "scaTe i from Prince George. They are 'for the same period in 1925 of 17,-j hiphly_^pleased_with their purchase 137,839. and with the prospect for building up a profiable business. Blood Stains were LIPSETT MILL AT PENNY BECAME TOTAL LOSS IN , � _ ^, . � . last Thursdays fire! Found on Clothing The Lipsett mill at Penny was totally destroyed on Thursday by a fire which started on the roof of the mill biulding. The mill was valued at $35,000, and there was a mill cut valued at $30,000, the greater part MRS. PANKHURST SPOKEN OF AS TORY CANDIDATE pignation of the superintendent ( of which was also destroyed. The r\-f JrtQ�>r\h Indian Charged With Murder of Loretta Chisholm Will Set Up an Alibi. the mayor had placed C. E. Freeman in charge of the plant. The council was faced with the departure of Alex. Stuart from the service on Saturday next, and Mr. Styles, the newly appointed assistant engineer, would not be able to report until Jure 15th. This would leave three or four days in which there would be but one man capable of looking after the plant. Mayor Taylor had decided to secure the services of Matt mill had just finished its season's cut a day or two before the fire. The insurance carried was approximately $12,000. There was a strong wind blowing which rendered it impossible to cope with the fire. SIR MALCOLM SEARLE, HEAD OF SUPREME COURT, KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Capetown, June 10.�Sir Malcolm Hurm as a temporary assistant at, Searle, judge-president of the su- per day of eight hours. preme court of South Africa, and The action of the mayor in engag- j fifteen other persons, was killed yes-ing Mr. Hurm was approved on mo- j terday in a train derailment at Salt tion of Alderman Patterson, second- i River, near here. Fifty other per- F London, June 7.�Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst has openly recanted her earlier views in favor of state socialism and is reported to be about to contest a constituency as a Conservative candidate. She is quoted as saying: "In my younger days T believed in state socialism of the kind advocated by Sidney Webb, but 1 ed by Alderman Fraser. sons were seriously injured. It developed that the council had , written resignation from Mr. j HON. P. C. LARKIN Effort Will be Made to Bring Case ' can no longer support the view that to Trial Following Prince I state ownership of the means of Georee Sitting I production, distribution and ex- Prince Rupert, June 10.�At the preliminary hearing yesterday ot Joseph Sankey, the- Port Simpson Indian charged with the murder of Lor-etta Chisholm, the Port Essington school teacher, on May 23rd. the accused endeavored to establish the alibi that on the morning . of the murder he was asleep in his shack. The crown will produce a number of witnesses who will testify they saw Sankey on the morning of v , der, and one witness who will swear that Sankey was- following the de- Nash, but the aldermen decided to act upon the verbal resignation, and j upon motion of Alderman Patterson the same was accepted. COMMENDS APPOINTMENT OF VISCOUNT WILLINGDON London, June 10.�Hon. P. C. Alderman Opie submitted a report j Larkin, Canadian high commissioenr, from the board of works with re- : jn a published statement, testifies to pppct to the experiment at street j the gratification of Canadians over oiling which was being made at the | the appointment of Viscount Wil-intorsection of George street andj ]jngdon as governor-general. Cana. Third avenue. He said the only oil j- \i.,l-vi;._lw.,l o rapnrH -for tha nh