PRINCE GEORGE
VOL. 9,  No. 38.
PRINCE  GEORGE, B.C.,   THURSDAY,  AUGUST  S.  1929.
FIVE  CENTS.
Taxi-Drivers Must Furnish Indemnity Bond of $5,000
Jitney   Drivers   Take   No   Exception to Bylaw and  It  Is  Reconsidered and Passed.
Council   Will   Investigate   Effect   of
Excess ef Lime in the City
Water Supply.
The city bylaw requiring all per-sons operating motor vehicles for hire to carry an indemnity bond in the sum of not less than $5000 was given its final consideration at the meeting of the city council on Mon_ day on motion of Alderman Fraser, seconded by Alderman Guest. There is some question as to whether the insurance companies will write bonds for less than $10,000. If the own-ers of the hire vehicles can secure bonds for $5000 the city authorities will be content, but if the larger bond is insisted upon it will be neces-
ry that they take them out in order to comply with the provisions of the bylaw, which will come into effect as -oon as it has been registered.
There was just a quorum   of   the council   in  the  city on  Monday,  but as   they all attended   the  meeting it was possible for Acting-Mayor Patterson to proceed with the business. Action   in   the   matter   of   requiring vvners of motor vehicles to carry an indemnity   bond   was   taken   in   the �   instance to  avoid any tie-up in �  ansportation  while  the     Stampede
as being held. Another hitch occurred when it became known insurance companies were averse to writ.
K bonds for less than $10,000, which would make the cost of the bond $125 per annum. This, it was represented, was more than some of tl e taxi-men considered the business would carry, and a general invitation was extended to all interested to attend the meeting of the council on Monday evening and submit their views. But three of the taxi-men availed themselves of the opportunity�David McDonald, George Pru- , dente and Jerry Morgan�but it was | disclosed all of them were in favor of the proposed bylaw.
There was a general talk   on   the dangers of -motor travel, in the coui-se ' of which Alderman Moffat intimated i that  while  the  bylaw-would give  aj measure of protection to the general j public   and   to  the   owners   of  hire-J vehicles it would not lessen the ever j present  danger  attending  the  driv-1 injz of cars by persons who were ut- j terly unfitted to do so.   He suggested some representations should be made to the provincial authorities   on  the i laxity attending the issuing of drivers' licences.    Something in the way | of an examination should be insisted j upon to ensure that persons licenced were capable of handling a car.    As matters stood    it    appeared    as    if licences were granted to all who applied for them.
Alderman Fraser said he had been oDnosed  to  the   requirement  of  an indemnity bond in the first instance i upon the assumption that the charges j would be excessive, and upon    the understanding a number of those in , the jitney business were not in favor of it.    This did not appear to be the i case, as none of the jitney men had seen fit to enter any objection al- � though the invitation to do so   hac?! been extended by the council.    This | being so, he moved the reconsidera- ' tion and final passing of the bylaw: i
Alderman Moffat directed the at-t tention of the council to the unsatls- j factory manner in which cemetery j matters were being handled, espec-; ially with respect to the securing of plots.
Acting Mayor Patterson said   the j matter referred  to was a grievance of long standing.    He said he would j
(l to see matters so arranged that j everything in connection    with    the ' cemetery should be handled from the nail, until such time as it might become necessary to  have a  cemetery board.    There should be some system devised under which   family Pjots  could^ be   secured.     In    other '9 absolute deeds for plots   and '   \'s were issued upon payment of < 'i<>  set.  and  he  would like to uh
river water on analysis. He suggested the matter be made one of reference to the provincial board of health, and that it also be taken up with Dr. C. Ewert. who is at present in Montreal, to ascertain if there is any warrant for the assumption the lime content in the water is injurious to public health. This action was taken on motion of Alderma nMoffat, seconded by Alderman Fraser
The council decided to make C. F. Freeman a grant of $100 to cover overtime at the city power station during the past six weeks.
The request of the school board for approval of an extraordinary expenditure of $111 for additional desks was approved.
The request of the municipal coun cil of Royal Oak, for endorsement of the proposal that the penalty of 15 per cent added to taxes in arrear be abolished and replaced by an interest charge of one per cent per month, did not find much favor. Endorsement of the proposal was sought with a view to submitting it to the Union of B.C. municipalities at its next convention. The council decided to file the request.
The finance committee recommended    payment    of    accounts amount of $2004.87
Corporal Barber Opens Police Post in the Far North
Will be Stationed at  Fort Nelson  to
Look After   Revenues of  Fur
Trade.
Officer's  Wife Goes  Into Exile  With
Him for a  Period of Three
Years.
BIG HOTEL IS DANGLED
BEFORE  THE  EYES OF
VANCOUVER ELECTORS
Corporal Barber, of the provincial police, who was formerly stationed at Fort St. John, passed through the city on Friday on his way to fill the most northerly and most remote post in the provincial police service. To secure the revenues of the big fur trade of the north the provincial authorities decided some time ago to place an officer at Fort Nelson, on the Fort Nelson river, which is the gateway through which all travel to Alberta passes, and Corporal Earber was chosen as the officer to be in charge.
Fort Nelson is about 300 miles due north of Fort St. John, and can be reached over a sleigh road in the winter. Corporal Barber is going in with the knowledge he must remain three years before he will be reliev.
Edmonton,     Aug.     4. � Former; pd, and his wife will accompany him Premier Greenfield has been appoint-! His chief work will be in connection
to    the
Vancouver Aug. 4.�The "Star" carries the following special from Ottawa: "After a conference here between Sir Henry Thornton and the members of the Meighen government, it was learned the government had instructed Sir Henry to proceed with the construction of the Canadian National railways hotel at Vancouver. Details as to the cost and location of the hotel are not known, but it is expected work will be commenced at once."
GENERAL A. D. McRAE
NAMED BY CONSERVATIVES OF NORTH VANCOUVER
Vancouver, Aug 4.�General A. D. McRae, the man who wrecked the chances of the Conservative party in the last provincial election by the organization of the Provincial party, has been named as the Conservative candidate in North Vancouver, the new constituency which was carried in November last by Dugald Donaghy for the  Liberals.
FORMER  PREMIER   SECURES
JOB   AS   SURVEYOR
GETTING CANDIDATES
LINED  UP  IN ONTARIO
ed by the provincial government to survey areas in the province suitable for  settlement.
KING BORIS OF BULGARIA
TO WED ITALIAN PRINCESS
Sofia, July 31.�The betrothal of King Boris, of Bulgaria, to Princess Giovanfaa, third daughter of the king of Italy, is considered here to be an accomplished  fact.
LABOR   PARTY   CONTESTS
COAST CONSTITUENCIES
with the fur trade and his official intercourse will be confined-to Indians, as there are no wnite trappers in that section. The mail for the Fort Nelson section goes in twice a year, and is taken in by way of the Peace and Nelson rivers during the short season of navigation in July and August. Cornoral Barber will not reach his destination in time to ava^t himself of the regular mail service this year, but he is expected to send a repoi't out# in July, 1927, and if nothing happens to the mail carrier Superintendent 0. H. Mc-Mullin will get the acknowledgement
Toronto, Aug. 2.�Up to this morning 87 candidates have been placed in nomination for the 82 seats in this province and it is expected the list "will be complete with, in the next ten days. So far the Conservatives have nominated 50 of the candidates. With but few exceptions sitting members in the last parliament will carry the banners of their respective  parties.
CAMROSE  PROGRESSIVES ENDORSE  LUCAS' ACTION IN SUPPORTING MEIGHEN
Alberta Becomes Sole Owner of the E. D.&B. C. Line
Claim  of   Royal   Bank  Against   Railway Was Met by Payment of $1,275,000.
Government   Serves   Notice   on   C. P. R. Cancelling Existing Operating Agreement.
The Labor party has decided to confine its activities to three of the coast constituencies in the approaching election. Dr. W. J. Curry will run in Burrard, with A. Hurry offer, ing in South Vancouver, and W. A. Pritchard in New Westminster. There will be no Labor candidates in Vancouver Center or North Vancouver.
back to him in July, 1928. Corporal Barber's activities will consist chiefly in   covering  the   waterways    of   the 1 reason
Stettler. Aug. 2.�W. T. Lucas, the U.F.A. representative in the last parliament for Camrose, was 'indorsed as the party candidate by the
DR.  MICHAEL CLARK JOINS
THE SILENT  MAJORITY
Dr. Michael Clark, a pioneer of Central Alberta, for many years prominent in the Liberal party of the province and a member of the house of commons died at his residence near Olds on Thursdav.
REV. J. FRANK NORRIS
INDICTED FOR MURDER
Rev. J. Frank Norris, former pastor of the First Baptist church of Fort Werth, Texas, has been indicted by the grand jury of Tarrant county for the murder of D. E. Chipps, a wealthy lumberman. Interest in the case turned largely upon the story that the Ku Klux Klan was throwing its
northern district in a small boat, and in short patrols during the winter, for which he will take in ten sleigh dogs.
While the officer and his wife will be unable to communicate with the outside world for ten months in the year they have the hope they will be able to keep track of British Colum. bian and world happenings, as the province is furnishing them with a serviceable radio, and dry batteries will form one of tHe most important items of the stores they will take in with them.
About a year, ago the provincial government opened a sleigh road into the Fort Nelson district, the work of surveying the route and overseeing the work being in charge of D. Menard, now road superintendent of the Prince George district. This road gives means of access from Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope during the winter, but as this means a journey of something over 300 miles it still leaves Corporal Barber and his wife a long way back from civiliation, although the road could be  made  use  of   in   an   emergency
U.F.A.  convention  on   Friday  night There was a division in the narty by of   the   action   of   Lucas    in
throwing his vote against Itobert Forke, Progressive house leailer, and in favor of the Conservatives, but he secured the nomination of the convention on the first ballot.
FRENCH ARE  CIRCULATING
ANTI-BRITISH   PROPAGANDA
weight into the scale to secure   the! during the  winter when  the  water-
acquittal   of   the   accused,   but   this state  leaders  of  the   klan  took pecial pains to deny.
PREMIER   POINAIRE   HOLDS
SUPPORT OF  COMMITTEE
London, July 31.�The finance committee of the chamber of deputies has approved Premier Poincaire's finance bill clause by clause, "and adopted the same as a wHole on a division of 19 to 13. The cabinet has also approved of a measure to be submitted to the chamber to safe, guard the nation's wheat supply. > As a measure of financial relief several of the leading newspapers are advocating a special tax upon foreigners, to neutralize their manifest advantages due to the existing rate of exchange, and it is expected the matter will shortly be brought before  the  chamber.
VANCOUVER  FIRM  SECURES QUESNEL BRIDGE CONTRACT
� �  a system  inaugurated.    It is decided, upon motion of Alder- . man Fraser, to refer the matter to .   "       ' tVl "r>-"mittee for considera. l!"" and report.
�   ;.   m Aitkin had a communication ,       '".'  e council urging considerable city's water supply.    He
./-'�-^d the excess of lime in the ,..",!']] u"'s responsible for the prev-''��:>'���"�,, f"risilitis. and urged the from tfi^ m *^ y water direct to the         c^a^� river in preference
was o�!5 "*nvor Patterson said he to'tl, irpJtnere was complaint as suddIv k rdness of tne city water heard tw lle nad never before uuheaitfc SUfr(?estion the water was mattp   tuV"        s   ne   understood    the
�   ;,, ^ lhe water was taken from the
thc reason� tv,'"'1"'"1 f-� thp rx^r for v"-'is of th           during cerjain sea-
of vpo.�^i�, vear th�re was an *>xcps� matter disclosed in the
A contract for the installation or the new timber bridge across the Quesnel river at Quesnel, has been awarded by Hon. W. H. Sutherland, minister of public works, to Watson. Stewart & Kennedy, of Vancouver, on a bid of $45,393. This covers only the installation of the bridge itself as the government intends to do necessary filling work. The total cost of the project is expected to run into $70,000.
C   H. O'HALLORAN OPPOSES
DICKIE  IN NANAIMO
The Liberals of Nanaimo riding hflve selp"t�^ C. H. O'Halleran. �� lawyer of Victoria, as their candidate to oppose C. H. Dickie, Conservative member in the last parliament. T. B. Booth, who made the race against Dickie in November last declined to permit his name to go before the convention.
ways are frozen up.
MONTREAL  MAYOR  IS
SUGGESTED  AS   MEMBER
OF MEIGHEN'S CABINET
Montreal. July 31.�Mayor Med-eric Martin* of this city, refuses to confirm or deny the report that in the eventof the Conservatives being general elections will   be   given    a
portfolio. That the mayor has not seen fit to deny the report is taken as evidence that negotiations are under way, although they may not have been pei'fected.
successful   in   the in   September   he
DUGALD DONAGHY OPPOSES STEVENS IN CENTRE RIDING
Paris, Aug. 2.�The propaganda which has been circulated in France for several weeks past against the United States, in connection with the funding of the French debt, is being widened to include Great Brit, ain. It is asserted that the fall of the franc has been due in a large measure to the terms imposed by the governments of the United States and Great Britain. It is conceded the British government is very seriously exercised  over the turn which
feeling   has   taken   in   this within   the   last   few   days,
country and   the
only hopeful sign is the increasing confidence which the Poincaire government is inspiring in the chamber On Saturday the entire financial programme of the government was adopted by the chamber on a division of 295 to 188.
PROVINCIAL   LEGISLATURE REVERTS TO SPRING SESSION
Dougald    Donaghy,    who    carried j North Vancouver for the Liberals in j the  last election, was nominated by his party on Friday night to contest Vancouver Center with  Hon.  H.  H. Stevens.     As   botk  men  were   members of the  committee  which  investigated   the   customs   administration
T B. Booth, editor of the Nanaimo Free Press makes the announcement that the provincial legislature is to revert to the plan of sitting in the spring of the year. He asserts Premier Oliver announced this plan at a recent private meeting of the Liberal executive of the province held in Vancouver. To bring about the change Mr. Booth says the legislature will be called for December, and then adjourn until late in January, and thereafter will be called to meet early in the year.
HAZELTON MINE MAKING
ITS   INITIAL  SHIPMENT
Edmonton, Aug. 5.�The province of Alberta secured full ownership rights to the E.D. & B.C. railway yesterday by retiring the claim of the Royal Bank of Canada against the system, amounting to $1,275,000. This is taken to mean the provincial government is prepared to announce its policy in connection with the railway. The G.P.R. has been operating the railway since the termination of its lease last year, but it is reported notice was served upon the company last week by the government of its intention to terminate the existing arrangement, the same � to take effect in three months.
The retirement of the claim of the Royal Bank gives the government a free hand in dealing with the railway, and the next few months will probably determine whether it is to fall to the C.P.R. or the C.N.R. systems. The management of the C.P. K. has evinced greater interest in the E.D. & B.C. than has Sir Henry Thornton, but both appeared to be willing to permit matters to dirft. That this policy was agreeable to the Mackenzie King administration was also indicated when the matter of the Peace River rail extension to the coast was referred to the engineers of the two systems, and they definitely shelved the whole proposition by unanimously agreeing that rail extension should wait until the traffic offering in the Peace River district should be sufficient to carry the cost of construction and operation.
In view of the interest shown by the management of the C.P.R. the general opinion is that this company will secure a further hold upon the railway under terms more favorable to the settlers and to the government than were provided in the arrangement which has now been cancelled. There is even the hope that within a few months something definite will be evolved out of the railway tangle which has tied up th