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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928. ,
Five Cents.
George Lombergor� x Losf His Life m Box Car Ride
Crushed To Death By Railway Ties
When Car Derailed In The
Vicinity of Rider
Death Agonies Of The Victim Heard By Train Crew For Period of Half An Hour
George Lombergor, who was'beating his way on the east-bound local {ind mixed train which left Prince George on Friday, was killed at 6.45 in the evening when the car in which he was riding left the rails near Eider. Lombergor was . in box. car loaded with railway ties The car was prevented from going into the ditch by lodgment against a telegaph pole. Shortly after the acident trainmen heard groans com injj from the car, but they were un able to effect a rescue until an auxiliary, co^uld be rushed1 west from McBride, as they had no facilities for holding the derailed car in position to prevent it from going into the ditch. When1 taken from the car(
Lomberger was dead, having been' election in the Fort George ridin badly crushed by the railway ties, j was , fired on Monday night whe
An inquest was held at Giscom | Prince George Conservatives arrang on Monday before a jury composed ed for the holding of a nomin*1'
SMOKER AND CONCERT OF CANADIAN LEGION BIG FEATURE MONDAY NIGHT
The smoker and concert which will take place in the assembly room of the Canadian Legion on Monday evening promises to afford a grea entertainment. -During the evening two boxing bouts will be staged. Th first of, these will be a contest fo the amateur championship of th Central Interior between B. Bailey and Jimmie Rice, and the secon contest for the amateur champion ship of Prince George between R Hogan and Tom Corless.
During the evening there will b songs by James Quayle, Thomson Ogg and A. McB. Young, a banj< number by J. W. Myers, "a come solo by Dr. A. H. Bayne, and.an in strumental duet by Messrs. . C. D Orchard and H. Waldof. In an an nouncement in another column the veterans invite all the men of Prince George and vicinity to join with h i h
g
them in the enjoyment smoker and concert.
of their
CONSERVATIVES OF FORT GEORGE CALL NOMINATING CONVENTION APRIL 2
The first pun in the approachin
)f William Hein, foreman; J. B Gannon, William Shields, George C. Hartley, A. E. Brown and W. McLean. George Abbott, engineer on the
convention in this city on Thurs day April 26. There will probabl be two candidates before the conven tion in the persons of F. P. Burde and R. W. Alward, but the Burde
local,xtestified that while going supporters are hopeful of securin
around a>curve. in the vicinity of, the unanimous nomination of thei
the accident' he looked back at his, candidate.
train and s&w a stream of fire.' He
attempted to apply-'the brakes, bu
found they had already" been set ow
inp to the train ines being broken.
After standing a few minutes he
received a signal to back up and re
couple the train, he stood wher he was for a while until a brakes
DOUGLAS LAY WILL MAKE TRIP OF INSPECTION TO
LAST CHANCE FROPERTY
Douglas Lay, provincial mining /engineer ^for this distrfct, made an interesting talk to the memoirs of
man came up and told, him one of. the board of trade at their luncheon the cars ha4 -gone down the em | on Wednesday. With mining as-bankment, that groans could ^be 8Uming the comTOanding positionvin from the car, and that invMtw,en>.s �* tfc^���n*i}mo Mr.
heard coming some one had evidently been injured. He wet back to the car^to see if he could render any assistance. . He could hear moans coming from the car. There was no person around the car at this time. .
Frank lies Parker, brakesman on the local, testified that while rounding a curve in the vicinity of mile
investments at the present time Mr. Lay found his locap color in the development which is taking . place at the Duthie mine in the j
.of.Sinithers, a iiroperty which hjis yielded smelter returns of more than half a million dollars, in the mine of the Topley Richfied company which is being rapidiy put into shape as a producer in the Topley district,
20, one of the cars� in the train and in the Fergcson group on the jumped the track and turned over | ingenika river in which strong capi-The train crew went out and saw! taiists have been . interested, and there was no damage to the track! wnich is ear-marked to become one and had the engine backed up and of the great mines of the province! the train recoupled. While chang j The luncheon.attendance attested ing the air hose moans were heard the interest taken in mining, some issuing from the car which had sixty members greeting President turned over. The trainmen went Coop-when he rose to introduce the up t0 the car and could hear moans speaker of the day. While in the distinctly. The conductor got th Pjty Mr. Lay agreed to make another passenges to help him in an effort to visit to Government Creek during relieve the person in the car, and h j the preSent season. He -was very was sent on to Rider for the sectio i mucn interested in the specimens of
men and some tools to work with Richard J. Thompson, condueto on the local, testified his train was proceeding at the rate of twelv miles an hour just east of Ride when a box car loaded with railway ties left the rails; turned over an slid down^thLomber |or, but .he had worked in the bush for a time in connection with th operations of the Eagle Lake Sprue Mills, and was identified by one o the company's time-keepers. A col lection was taken up at Giscome t provide for the burial of the bod m the Prince-George cernetery.
T,The management of the Strand l neatre recently purchased some of the latest and most outstanding pictures on the market including-Charge Chaplin in "The Circus," Doug. Fairbanks in "The Gaucho," Marys Pickford inJJMy Best Girl," and Nor-ma Talmadge in "The Dove." ;
high-gradeore which have been taken from the vein on the Last Chance property which is under development by a local syndicate composed of Joe Peters, Harry Ewing, William Bonner and T. R. Rush. It is claimed by the owners of the Last Chance that the pay streak from which the .high-grade samples were taken will show.ah average width of two feet,\ and should this prove to be the case on ifurther development they will have a very valuable property,^ as the prob'acilities are they will be'iable to secure a freight and treatment rate from the smelter at Trail of approximately $9.50 per ton, with large quantities of low-grade ore for reduction on the ground and marketing as a concentrate.
The- bringing in of a profitable mine on Government Creek would be the outstanding mining development for this section, and the chance for this happening" in the Last Chance is said to be very bright, although the owners of the property are very reticent pending further development.
DIAMOND JOE WAS GIVEN GREAT FUNERAL IN CHICAGO ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
CHICAGO, Mar. 26.�Despite a driving rain 15,000, persons attended the funeral yesterday of' one of the city's 'best knowtveharacters who was known'**to most of them only as Diamond Joe. The remains repose ed in a casket costing $10,000 and over the grave site airplanes showered down 19,000 rose blossoms.,
Members of Knox Church in Tangle Over Resignation
No Decision Was Reached At Con
greg&tionai Meeting Keid On
Sunday Evening
View* of Members of; Church Wili Be
Elicited At Official Board
Meeting April 5th
The meeting of the members and adherents of Knox church which was held on Sunday, evetiing to consider the resignation of I>ev. S. T. Gal-
braith as pastor did
not accomplish
very much in clearing up the situation. The meeting \ 'as .well attended, but it became ri.ther hopelessly involved as to procec ure, and in the end a motion to adjourn was put and carried without: definite action of any kind.
Before the meeting was organized Rev. Mr. Galbr.aith gave a brief explanation of the situation leading u to his .recent resignation to the Pres bytery of Cariboo. fte said he ha contemplated resigning a number o times during the past three year on the ground that he was not mak ing that progress with the churc work that he ' thought he shoul make. During this period he sai he had declined to j entertain tw calls which had been; received "frorr churches in Ontario, a,nd he also hai received an invitation- to preach fo a call to Erskine church in Edmon ton. H,e had been swayed at th time by; a conviction that his worl lay with Knox church. As to hi future he intimated he had nothing immediately in prospect. There are jut two churches in British Colum b'ia which could be placed in th same class as Knox church, namely of Nanaimo and Chilliwack
Competitions will be Held in Clover Seed Production
KIDNAPPING OF WEALTHY MEN IS LATEST ACTIVITY
OF rHICAGO GANGSTERS
CHICAGO, March 24.�Two weal thy residents of Chicago were kid napped on the streets in this cit this afternoon and the police hava - -�'
reason to believe they were taken Department of Agriculture Will Put
for a death ride. The names of the D-:� �*------ � -� � �
men are at present unknown. News) of the outrage was brought to tha attention of the Police by the driver R. G. Sutton, District Agriculturist, ofataxicab. He stated he was pro-J Invite. Corre.pondence From ceedmg along the street with two fareh when he iound his taxi being d I
Prince George and Vanderhoof Districts In Contest
g crowded to the curb by another car.I
When
was brought to a stop
G. Sutton, district agriculturist, announces it is the intention of the
four men got out of the automobile depart �t of^u��e t0 which had crowded him. They wer j competitions in ^over Jed armed and ordered ris two l>a�en i ^ prf G
y j
armed and ordered ris two l>a�en t t f h
l in ^ prfnee Geor
gers to get out of the taxi and into distvicts thige
Ih dtl f
in ^ prfnee George and VanSrhoof ditit thie 8 - n�01
the automobile, threatening- them, with death .if they failed to obey The two men Ngot into the automo bile which was speedily driven away The outrage was pulled off withou attracting any attention from nu merous persons on the street.
The members of the local curling club will entertain their friends on Tuesday eveninsr with a dinner and Har.ce at the Prince Gnorgp hotel. The curlers have always proven excellent hosts in the past and there Is every reason to believe the doings on Tuesday evening will be romem-beicl by those who participate until midsummer.
and so far as he knew; arrangements might ' be made for the filling o hem. ' In explanation of his action in placing .his designation : to th presbytery rather thah to the ses sion or official board ojf Knox church ie said that his call had come from he Presbytery and that Tie considered nis resignaitjon should go to tha *ody rather than to tKe members � � congregation or their represen tatives. Heathen asked the mem >ers-of the congregation to organize their-meeting by electing a chair man and secretary and left the meet-ng to its deliberations. D. G. Fra-er was elected chairman, and M !. Morrell, secretary.
The meeting got into a tangle at nee on the question of procedure. Jnder former Presbyterian church aw, which was superceded by the Jnion church law, it was contended ;hat the congregation, being the >ody most directly interested, should laVe received the resignation for consideration before it reached the resbytery. The Union church law t was contended provided for the illing of a vacant pulpit but sup plied no procedure for dealing with a resignation. In view of this it was suggested the Presbyterian pro-edure should b'e followed, that the esignation should be acted upon by he session and that having made its iecision the session should dispatch ts two commissioners to the Pres ytery. The action of Mr. Galbraith n dealing 'direct with the Presby ery had the effect of rocking the ongregational boat.
There appeared to be a disposi ion on the part of the members of he congregation to induce the pas-or to recall his resignation, and fter some discussion M. S. Morrell made a motion that as the resigna ion was already in the hands of he' Presbytery that it be accepted This it was suggested would dispose f the matter, and if deemed advis-ble a new call could be extended to VIr. Galbraith. He intimated tha matters might be so represented hat the pastor would change his mind upon the matter of continuing n charge of the church. This mo ion was seconded by Ken Irwin.
An amendment to this motion was moved by W. J. Peters, seconded by harles Sager, that a deputatio rom the congregation wait upon Mr. ralbraith with a view to inducing im to reconsider his resiglnatjion. 'his after some discussion was ruled ut as an amendment, being con-dered a substantive motion and not n amendment.
W. C. Ferry then challenged the regularity of the original motion in view -of- the fact "that the resigna y-law wherein the city guarantees 5125,000 mortgage ponds in addition to granting the company twenty-seven acres of land frf.e from taxation and water rates up to 2C0,-)00 gallons per month until the end of 1934. The entire operating plant
It is likely that another meeting! u, be' transferred ' from Bradford, ^JL^^S!?. arndo^"^^ra"?Tr!!l England. John Moore has contract-
ed to be executive officer for five years from March 1, 1928.
for Rev. J. Smeeton, of Vanderhoof, to preside as moderafja(r. The official board of the church would like the matter to be thorough-
tery and acted upon without rofer- ly discussed by the members of the( A. FRASER ^^ ence to the congregation. It was congregation, and an arrangement! TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT
FOR DRUG STORE ROBBERY
argued there could be no properly constituted meeting without a moderator in the chair, and that no one could sit as a moderator unless an ordained minister. It waa compe-
an seems
of this nature seems to offer the
best prospect of this. It would not
be surprising if such a meeting VANCOUVER, Mar. 26�A. Fra-
would decide to ask Mr. Galbraith ser was sentenced to two years im-
to reconsider his resignation.' The
tent for Mr. Galbraith to � preside regular quarterly meeting~of~the of-over the- meeting, but he doubtless "ficial ho&rd of the congregation will wished to leave the members of the be held on-Thursday, April 5th.
prisonfent by Judge Cayley today after he had pleaded \ puilty to charges of breaking into city drug stores.