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'PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN       THURSDAY, AUGUST 30./1928
Five Cents.
Progress Made In Rebuilding of Lighting System
Authorized Expenditure* of $18,000 Will Be Ample For The Work Laid Out
( ontinuous   Service    Not    Chargeable With More Than $6000 of Total  Expenditure
The work of reconstructing the electrical distribution system of the city lighting .plant is making good progress under the direction of C. F. Freeman, r y electrician, and there is every warrant for the belief that the $18,000 authorized for the work will be sufficient not only for that which will be clone this year but for the programme which is to be carried out during the summer of 1929.
Approximately two-thirds of the hew poles have been erected, anpVcon-siderable of the wiring has-been attended to. The reconstruction work is being given first attentipn and following the completion of/s'o much of this work as has been/laid out for this summer the installation of the street lighting series^will be taken in hand. .For the street lighting an independent line \y>lr be run from the power station/At the start there will be two .<^ries for street lighting, in connection "with which there will be two clocks attached. The clocks are set at the time when it is desired to have the street lights go on, and when this time is reached each evening the service commences automatically. As the light conditions vary throughout the year the clocks can be set accordingly.
While the reconstruction of the distribution system is proceeding as the result of the conucil's decision to introduce a continuous power service, the bulk of the expenditures now being made are not properly chargeable to this innovation as it is estimated that 511,000 would have been required for reconstruction in any event. In addition to this, expenditures in connection with the switchboard, and in the synchronizing of the two engines to prevent the shutting off of light while the engine load is being transferred had become imperative. These will cost approximately $1000 so that the innovation of a continuous service in connection with the distribu-toin service will not actually cost the city more than $6000. It is expected the service will be inaugurated during the month of November.
INTERBOROUGH TRANSIT ,   MAKES SHAMBLES AT TIMES
SQUARE  IN NEW  YORK
New York, Aug. 25.�An interurban rapid transit car made a shambles out of Times Square yestexday when a de-dective switch caused it to leave the rails. The car came' in contact \vj<:h a �'hitd rail causing an explosion and fire. The car was hurled against a com me wall smashing it 'into two sectl>>nf. The momentum carried one portion of the cai along the rails for a distance of 200 feet scattering killed and wounded victims in its path. Seventeen persons were killed outright and 150 were more or less seriously injured. The defective switch had been reported but workmeri/had not made the necessary repahxwhen the accident occurred. W^E. Baldwin, motor-man on the express was arrested today upon a/cnarge of culpable homicide.
Gold Belt South of City Has^Had Tragic History
HUGO AHLBACK AND JACK
MAKI CARVED EACH OTHER
UP ON FRIDAY EVENING
Hugo Ahlback and Jack Manki, a couple of Finns, will have a chance to explain before a stipendiary magistrate on Tuesday a sanguinary encounter -which Ihey had on Friday evening in the vicinity of Red Rock. In company with a third compatriot, H. k. Kiviranta, they were proceeding in the latter's car to the ranch oi a Finn in the Red Rock district. The going on the side road was bad, and eventually Ahlback and! Manki both got out of the car. The men soon began quarrelling, and offensive words were followed by blows. So long as they were restricting the warfare to their fists neither got hurt very much, but when the convention limiting armament went into the disr care! the real trouble began. Each had ;i knife handy and they were soon bought into play. Just which man started the carving is what the police hope to bring out on Tuesday, but the not rcsuit .was the stabbing of Manki Jn the abdomin and the opening of Ahlback's back and shoulder with a long gash.
Manki came back to Prince' George with Kiviranta and the police getting word of the fracas Sergeant Walker went down the highway to bring'in Ahlback. The casualties were attended oy. Doctors Lyon and Trefry. The Manki wound proved to be less serious tnan. at first supposed, and he did not require detention at the hospital, out in the case of Ahlback it was dif-icr'iu :i it required some twenty-five �inches to bring him together.
both men will be charged with wounding and will go to trial on Tuesday if Ahlback is in a position to testify at that time.
WEATHER  REPORT
1   B.  Carter,    local  meteorological asent, n,ports the reglstration of three
thf �f flost on Monc*ay night as a! ri'sult of which most of the gar-c '' ln the city suffered. The fore-V\ Io< 'he next few days is for fine wX WCather wifch Ught to moderate temno           maximum and minimum
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Victoria City
Gives Chapter to Plane Disasters
Giant Passenger Plane Disappears In
Making Trip From Victoria With
Seven Occupants
Wreckage Picked Up Near Port Towns-end Identified As Coming From Missing  Monoplane
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Victoria,    Aug. 28.�Victoria has added its chapter to the record of airplane disasters with the disappearance  of  the   giant  triple-motored  plane which  was  placed  in commission one month ago by the B. C. Airways Limited, of this city, for  the conveyance  of  passengers and   mail   between    the   cities  of Victoria,    Seattle  and  Vancouver. The  plane  left  this  city  at  10.30 on  Saturday    morning    with  five passengers and.two pilots for Seattle...   The  engines  of the plane were  heard   over    the  Dungeness light,  half an  hour after  leaving this city, and the probabilities are that it plunged into Puget Sound carrying its occupants with it. When the    plane    became   several hours  overdue in Seattle  alarm  was felt and  scores  of planes were sent out in. search for it in the hope that that  it  would  be  discovejned  that  a forced landing had been made, but no trace of the plane  could be secured. It is highly improbable that a landing could have been effected and no word be received within a three-day period, and the conviction    has forced itself upon the public mind that the plane has been lost with all on board.
Those known to have been on board were Thomas E. Lake, of San Francisco, representative of the Union Oil Company; Dr. D. B. Holden, of Victoria; A. Scott and Mrs. Scott, London, England, and F. D. Soveret, an eastern man who is said to have Uken passage in the plane at Vancouver and was making the triangle trip; Harold Walker, of Seattle, pilot of the plane; and Louis Carson, of Victoria, assistant pilot, who has just received his pilot's certificate before starting on the ill-fated trip.
Searching planes have reported large quantities of oil showing on the water off the Dungeness light, and the officers of the Edmonds-Victoria ferry report sighting ,two hats floating on the water on the trip over from Seattle. Still later considerable quantities of wreckage were picked up off Port Townsend, the nature of which leads to the conclusion that it formed part of the airplane construction.
The B. C. Airways Limited is a Victoria firm which put the service between the three cities into effect one month ago. The business lias been growing steadily, the company carrying about one thousand passengers for the month. The plane was an all-metal monoplane built in Detroit and costing the company $100,-000. Ernest Eve, Of this city, who is identified with the automobile business; is president of the company, and his brother, Cecil Eve, is the business manager. It was this plane which inflicted the injury to Mayor Taylor during the public reception at Vancouver one month ago.
Seattle, Aug. 29.�Pieces of leatherette upholstery picked up on the beach at Discovery Bay, near Port Townsend, have been positively identified as coming from the B. C. Airways giant monoplane which disappeared on Saturday morning while making the trip from Victoria to Seattle with five passengers and two pilots. The identification was made by C. C. Georce, of this city.
Seattle, Aug. 30.�Word has been received of find'ng two bodies floating about one thousand yards from shore off Discovery Bay. One body was that of a woman and the other that of a man.
Mrs. Arthur Leith left on Thursday on a two-months visit to her parents in Winnipeg.
Death Cv^ Oil Two Eminent Mining en Who W,ere Interested In Its Development
Local Prospectors Have Stumbled Over
Old Workings And Seek To
Revive Interest
The little mining excitement which has been started by a few prospectors in the district about four miles southwest of Prince George does not rest altogether upon the discoveries which have been made'by them during the past few months. The district first claimed atention in 1911 when F. G. Durnford came to South Fort George on behalf of eastern people to negotiate with the Indians for the title to their reserve which constitutes the �,ii�i of the present city of Prince George.
Mr. Durnford was a mining engineer who had many years of experience in India and South Africa to his credit His negotiations with the Indians was a slow process, and he found himself with plenty of spare time at his disposal. He commenced prospecting 'n the foothills and was soon interested in what he found. He secured a number of assistants and virtually an entire summer was spent in examining outcropping ledges, and the locating of claims until some fifty locations had been made.
The more, information Mr. Dunford gathered concerning the sectiop/in which the local -prospectors ajeiiow working the more he became-^nnpress-ec{ with its mineral worths He decided . to have the claims'surveved, and to interest his nkny mining friends in Great Britain-'fn their development. During the same year in whicn Mr. Dumford/'arrived in South Fort .< Continued on Page Five)
Hudson's Bay to Stage Big Show at FortSL James
Will Commemorate The Arrival of Sir
George Simpson One Hundred
Years Ago
Will  Costume  Pageant  Descriptive  of
The Progress Made Since First
Trading Began
The Hudson's Bay Company is making arrangements for the holding of a big celebration at Fort St. James, on Stuart Lake, on Monday, September 17th, in commemoration of the arrival at the fort on September 17th, 1828, of Sir George Simpson, then governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the head of such government as existed  in British Columbia at that time.
For several .years Fort St_ifames_j>.er mained the seat of government in this province, and the officers of the big fur and trading company have decided to put on a real celebration. It will open with an imposing pageant descriptive of the arrival 'of Sir George Simpson at the fort- one hundred years ago, in all the old-time splendor with which the Hudson's Bay officials sought to impress the Indians. The costumes and blank ammunition for the show will be forwarded by the company from Winnipeg and the show as put on will be historically correct.
The company will endeavor to interest Premier Tolmie in the ceremonies and induce him, as the son of a former Hudsons' Bay official, to attend with a number of members of his government. Lieutenant-Governor R. R. Bruce is heartily in accord with the idea of the celebration. He is now on his way back from England and has wired the head office of the company that he will bring his own piper to personate the tuneful Scot who heralded the first coming of Sir George Simpson.
In addition to giving a picture of the early days in British Columbia's development the pageant will depict the progress which has been made during the hundred year period, and following its review there will be speeches by a number of the notables present. The Hudson's Bay representatives will include C. V. Sale, present governor of the company, who will be accompanied by Mr. Graham, one of the London directors: G. W. Allan. K. C. chairman of the company's Canadian committee, and C. H. French, the com-nanv's fur trade commissioner, of Winnipeg.
In the afternoon there will be a r>roEramme of sports which will include a-riumber of water events, the pri7.es for which will be distributed by Miss Helen MacKenzie, nioce of Lieutenant-Governor Bnice. In the evening there ^ti-be a displav of fireworks' which will  be   followed  by  dancing  in  two
CLEVELAND MILLIONAIRE HAS YACHT  SHOT UP
BY PROHIBITION AGENTS
Cleveland, Aug. 25.�M. F. Bramley has protested to the authorities against the activities of the prohibition agents operating .on--Lake Erie. He reports his yacht feetty was fired upon without warning "and later rammed by a coast guard cutter.
A meeting of the board of trade will be held in the city at 8 o'clock on the evening of Friday, September 7th. The business will include the election of delegates to attend the meeting of the associated boards of trade of Northern British Columbia, which will be held at Vanderhoof on Tuesday, September 18th, the day following the big ceremonial at Fort St. James.
Board of Trade Compliments Hon. Fred P. Burden
The complimetary dinner tendered by the Prince George Board of Trade to Hon. F. P. Burden on Friday evening taxed the seating capacity of the ballroom in the Prince George hotel. The desire of Miy-Burden to return to Vctoria as soon^as possible forced the board into hurried action, and admitted of little in the way of advance notice^William Coop, president of the board, presided, and following the dinner proposed the health and prosperity of the guest of honor.
Hon. Mr. Burden in responding betrayed great feeling. He said he hoped to measure up to his new responsibilities and would do his best, but the greatest difficulty he would experience in the new condition would be in severing the relations which had bound him to Prince George and the district surrounding it for so many years. He said he was sensible of the co-operation which would be extended to him by the people of his home town, and appreciated it to the full. He believed al} of the company gathered to do him hdnor were his friends and he hoped each would regard'him as their personal friend,'and be prepared to come to him � when they had reason to believe he could be of assistance to them in any matter which affected them, and was not inimical to the welfare of the Fort George riding or of the province generally.
The company joined in singing "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow," at the conclusion of their guest's remarks, and this led to the giving of three cheers which were tendered with vigor. The company then called upon Mrs. Burden who echoed the sentiment of Mr. Burden as to the wrench in personal feelings which would attend their departure from Prince George.
Several members of the company then expressed their gratification over the honor which had been conferred upon Mr. Burden and predicted a future which would be creditable to himself and to the province as a whole.
Percy Landon, who for several years has filled the position of local manager of the Canadian National Telegraph office, will leave Prince George within the next few days for Calgary.i where he will continue in the company's employ. Harry Goodwin will take over the management of the local office and it is likely his appointment will be made permanent. Percy Landon proved himself an efficient and painstaking official and his departure will be regretted by the business men of the city.
Arthur Meighen (Art) Bothwell. formerly of this city, passed away at his home in Vancouver on Wednesday, August 22nd.
large marquees which will be selected in Winnipeg "for tliis purpose. Floors will be laid in both marquees and the distinction of the early days will be observed with the whites dancing in one tent and the Indians in the other.
The celebraton is expected to bring together the largest gathering of Indians in the province in recent years, and the company will make suitable arrangements for their entertainment.
Mr. Pierson, assistant secretary for the company will arrive at Fort St. James on Saturday next to get things in line for the big show, and will be accompanied by Robert Watson, Canadian novelist, who is also the company's publicity man, and they will remain on the job until the show is over. The officers of the company will have the co-operation of a local committee composed of W. H. Dickson. chairman; R. C. McCorkell. A. C. Murray, W. D. Fraser. and D. H. Hoy. with E. Forfar and George Ogston acting, in the capacity of joint secretaries.
The entire cost of the    celebrationj will be defrayed by the Hudson's Bay Company and  its officers  are  determined to make-it worth while.
Prince George Fair Will Open Tuesday Next
Officials of Fair Association Expect A
Record-Breaking Number
of Exhibits
Log-Sawing Competition Will Be Held To  Decide  Winner of  Championship Cup
The Prince George annual fall fair will open in the curling rink on Tuesday nextr. It will be the fourteenth fair which has been held under the auspices of the local association. This fair association is a combination of business men of Prince George and farmers from the surrounding district who, in the interest of agriculture and the promotion of business, have year t-.^ei year given freely of their tiire to advance the status of the annual agricultural exhibition. They do a lot of work and as a rule receive scant thanks, but they are content to carry on.
Officials of the fair association predict that the exhibits this year will surpass those of any previous fair. The growing season has been" remarkably favorable, especially for garden produce, and the competition in the small7' fruit and vegetable classes will^�>e keener than ever. All the local farming districts will have exhibits'entered this year, and there arex numerous tcwn-lot gardeners who^will make a bid for some of thexawards. From outside points entries are being received as far east jus^McBride, and west as far as Smithers. There promises to be great rivalry this year for the Wilson shield which is being offered for the best individual farm exhibit. This compettion is open to all farmers in the Prince George districts, and with the shield will go a cash prize of $50. A second prize of $35, a third prize of $25, and a fourth prize of $15 are also offered.
This year the Prince George branch of the Women's   Institute will   take over two divisions of the fair, one devoted to ladies'  fancy work and the other a children's    section in which prizes are offered fofthe best exhibits of  vegetables  and   flowers  raised  by children under fifteen years.   In other communities   the   Women's   Institutes have become important factors in connection with the annual fairs, thereby adding to the interest of the women on the farms as well as those residing in  the  towns.    During  the  past  few months rug making has engaged the attention of the institute members and some interesting exhibits of this homecraft are expected in connection with the fair this year.
The attention of the children is directed to the prizes which the institute is offering for children's exhibits of flowers and vegetables. This is a department which can be made very interesting if the children can be induced to compete.
T. S. Carmichael says the school exhibits should break all previous records this year. Most of the schools between Prince George and Smithers will be represented, as well as schools as far east as_ McBride and south as far as Quesnel. The exhibits from the city schools will be very comprehensive.
In connection with the fair this year there will be a log-sawing contest. For the first prize a championship cup donated by the Northern B. G. Lumberman's Association, and $25 in cash is offered. For second and third prizes 6-foot cross-cut saws will be awarded as prizes, the same having been donated by the Atkins Company and the Simonds Company. For this contest at least three entries will be required.
The directors of the fair have been advised that the following have been assigned to the judging in, the several departments of the fair: E. C. Hunt, district horticulturist, Nelson, fruit and vegetables; S. S. Phillips, field crop branch, Smithers, field crops; Dr. W. W. Alton, Vancouver, horses, cattle. sheep and hogs; Rev. C. McDiarmid, Mission City, poultry; and Mrs. H. H. Pitts, Nelson, domestic science.
ETHEL HERTLE WINNER OF
WRIGLEY'S MARATHON SWIM AT TORONTO  EXHIBITION
Toronto, Aug. 29.�Ethel Hertle, of �New York, was the winner of the woman's half of the Wrigley swimming marathon- at the National exhibition, defeating 52 contestants who repre-iented the world's best female swimmers. Olive Gatterdam, of Seattle, pressed Miss Hertle throughout the -�ace and finished a good second. Ruth Tower, of Denver, was third and Gertrude Ederle, of New York, was fourth. The winner's time for the ten miles was five hours. 34 minutes and 13 3-8 seconds, and her share in the purse is $10,000.