PRINCE GEORGE
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.,   JULY 24, 1924.
FIVE CENTS.
[usiness Men        jCranbrook Mill and Farmers to   j     Will Resume Discuss Creamery I         During Week
leeting   of    Farmer*'    Institute*    in Di»trict   "C"    Hat    Been Called
;ondition*   Throughout   the   District
More  Favorable  Than  Two
Yeara  Ago ¦
The business men of Prince George [ar.il the farmers in the various districts tributary to the city, will meet in the city on Friday, August 1st, for the purpose of considering matters connected with the establishment of a creamery in this city. The meeting will be called by John Henderson, president of the various farmers' institutes in District "C" and it is expected every institute will'be represented and prepared to submit its views upon the matter of the establishment of a new creamery.
In speaking of the present creamery movement to the Citizen, Mr. Henderson said he had been urged by a considerable number of the business men of Prince George to have the matter submitted to the various farmers' institutes. He was not prepared to say that the time was ripe for the establishment of a s-econd creamery along the line of the Canadian National, but in any event it was drawing nearer, and there was a lot of preparatory work which might Well be taken in hand. Steady progress was being made in the matteT of land clearing, and he thought attention might now be profitably given to the bringing in of young heifers and the rearing of them as milk producers within the next couple of years.
Mr. Henderson said that while the attitude of the Prince George business men remained friendly to the Vandorhoof creamery xhey felt convinced the Nechako town would not be permitted to monopolize the creamery business for any great length of time, and they desired to get Prince George in the runv^-c: for the next establishment, so thaor'hey would not find their city playin?ule-header   with
On ^e head I01"'   F&TreU was 9t™ck e n*»d by a foul bl,
Local   Contractors   Figured   Close  on
Job   Which  Runs  Into   Five
Figures
New Buildings  Will  Have Most  Commanding   Site   in   the   City   of Prince George
The contract for tho erection of the new Catholic church in this city was let during the Week by His Lord, ship Bishop Bunoz. There were four tenders received from local contractors, and there was such a slight difference between them it was evident all had figured the job closely. The tender of John Gaul being the lowest, the same was accepted. It places the cost of the building at close upon $10,000.
The new church will bo reared on
j lots 15 and 16, in block 234, Millar
Addition, being the most command-
BISHOP BUNOZ CONFIDENT GREAT FUTURE AHEAD
FOR NORTH COUNTRY
His lordship Bisnop Bunoz, Catholic bishop of Prince Rupert and the Yukon territory, went west on Tuesday evening on his return journey to Prince Rupert. His lordship has just completed an extensive tour of a portion of his large diocese, going as far north as Fort Grahame. He was greatly impressed with the country to the noith of Prince George, and is confident it has a great future ahead of it.
Prince George Tennis Players Visit Vanderhoof
First of  Series of  Tournaments  Will
Commence   on   Saturday
Afternoon
E. C. Cordingly Kills Himself in P. G. E. Offices
Wsvs Former Resident of South Fort
George in Employ of William
Blair
Discharged    From    Railway    Employ
He Made Murderous Assault on
Assistant Manager
E. C. Cordingly, a former lesident of South F'ort George, where he was in the employ of William Blair during construction days, committed suicide in the offices of the P. G. E. railway, in Vancouver, on Monday. Cordingly was a very clever business man, and bofore earning to British Columbia was employed as credit man in o:.e of the largest commercial houses in Winnipeg. The Koot-enay mining boom was on when he reached B. C., and Cordinjt'ly headed for Nelson, where he engaged in the furnituie   business   and   later   took
ing  site  in  the  city.    The  contract i over that of undertaking.    The Nel-calls for the completion of the build- ' son venture ended in a disaster, and
 about 1912    Cordingly    arrived    in South Fort George.    He was,in the employ of W.  Blair for about eighteen months, and left this section to J enter the employ of tho P.G.E, rail-j way company in the capacity of   iC-| countant.
Two  weeks    ago    Cordingly   woa | discharged  from  tho railway service following   alleged    irregularities   in connection with his work.    On Monday he appeared in the   Vancouver block  and  went  up  in   tha  elevator with General    Manager    Kilpatrick, and   Assistant   Manager   Wilson.  He followed   Mr.   Wilson   into  his  office and  without warning  assaulted   him Vancouver, July 23.—Judge Cay-   Dv a blow uPon tno  noa(1  with   *-no ley, of the  county  court, will  com-1 -butt of a revolver.    Mr. Wilson made
ing within sixteen weeks.
Mike Manson Demands Recount in Mackenzie
Makes Startling Statement That  134
of  His Vote* Were Rejected by
Returning  Officer
In   the   Process   a   Plurality   of    135
Was Whittled Down  Until  He
Was  Counted Out
Premier Oliver Remains as Head of Government
Vancouver Sun Say* Premier Should
Get the Hook Before Wrecking
the Party
Indications  Point  to  the  Opening   of Skeena Riding to Provide Desired  Seat
Vanderhoof   Players   Have   Arranged
to  Play  a  Return  Series  at  a
Later  Date
Several members of the Prince George tennis club will leave for Vanderhoof tomorrow afternoon to engage in a tournament with the Vanderhoof players on Saturday and Sunday. All told thera will be fourteen fixtures to play off. There will be throe sets of ladies' singles in which Mrs. C. P. Deykin will play wit.h Mrs. W. M. Blackstock; Miss Kate Renwick with Mrs. William J. Milne; and Mrs. N. P. Woodward with Mrs. Roy M. Taylor.
In the men's singles W. L. Horns-by hrs been drawn against IV W. Donald; C. H. Foot will meet H. II. Mansell; and N. P. Woodward will play with W. M. Blackstock.
In the mixed doubles Mrs. Deykin and W. L. Hornsby will play Mrs. Blackstock and H. H. Mansell; Miss Renwick and C. H. Foot will play Mrs. Milne and Drf W. Donald; N. P. Wood'vard and Mrs. Woodward will play Mrs. Taylor and W. M. Black-stock; and Miss Ruth Hornsby and R. A. Renwick will play Mrs. O'-Meara and H. V. Taylor.
In the men's doubles Messrs. W. L. Honsby and C. H. Foot have been paired to meet Messrs. H. H. Mansell and D. W. Donald; and Messrs. N P Woodward and R. A. Renwick will meet Messrs W. M. Blackstock and H. V. Taylor.                        ,
Follcring the visit of the Prince George players to Vanderhoof it has been arranged to entertain the Vanderhoof players on the Prince George courts at a later date.
THORTON OPTIMISTIC OVE?.
CANADA'S CROP PROSPECTS
Saskatoon, July 24.—There is nothing to be discouraged about, is the manner in which Sir Henry Thornton sized up the prairie's crop prospect. He said he would wager the Canadian crop would reach at least 250,000,000 bushels.
mence a recount of the ballots cast in the Mackenzie election tomorrow. The application for the recount was made by "Mike" Manson, the veteran politician of the coast, who was counted out by the returning officer. "Mike" Manson has had a lot of experience in election matters in the years in which he endeavored to keep the loggers inline in. the old constituency of Comox, but it is safe to say he bumped into a new buzz-saw this time.
Mackenzie is one of the new constituencies created by the last redistribution bill. It covers a lot of territory but the voters' list is not very long. Manson knows every little bay and settlement in it, and when the primary vote was counted he was found to be some 135 votes in the lead over McKay, the Liberal, with Leicester, the Provincial, hardly in the running. His lead was almost enough to make the seat tfafe in a constituency the size of Vancouver, and the master mariner was justified in speculating as to whether he would get his old scat back in the house or take a new one.
It came as one of the surprises of the election that when J. M. Parry, returning officer, got through with Manson's vote it put the veteran campaigner in the class of the "also ran." All told he wns impelled to lop off no fewer than l.'l.r» of tho Manson votes. Of this number Mr. Manson says 96 were rejected for the reason the returning officer was not satisfied with the manner in which the electors had made their crosses. Of the remainder 27 were rejected because Ihe election officials failed to detach the counterfoil from the ballot; five wen- rejected because they were marked with ink; a like number because 'hoy wore marked iTieil, and two be-no   official   marks
his escape but was followed by Cordingly who Cued a couple of shots at him. The second shot was fired in the corridor, when Wilson stumbled and Cordingly jumped upon his bark and proceeded to beat him over the head. When clerks from the office emerged to assist Mr. Wilson his assailant placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and. killed himself.
Henry Lee's Pink Pills are Still a Police Mystery
Provincial Analyst  Certifies They Do
Not   Contain   Narcotic
Drugs
Phis Opens the Cell Door Which Shut
In   a   Suspect   for   Three
Weeks
with an indelible p
cause   there   were
on the back of tin- ballots.
At the end of all this whittling: Manson was brought out some seven votes behind McKay, and unless there is a reversal by Judge Cayley tomorrow the district of Mackenzie will continue in  tho  Liberal column
MAJOR  MACLAREN  RESUMES
FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC
Tokio, July 24.—Major MacLarcn, the British aviator, resumed his flight across the Pnciflc yesterday morning when ho left Tokotan Bay, Uruppa Island, for the Kuriles.
THORNTON WILL BE IN
RUPERT ON AUGUST SIXTH
Prince Rupert, July 24—Sir Henry Thornton will arrive in this city fram Vancouver on Wednesday, August 6th, and will leave for the east the following day.
Born, to the wife of Thomas Hughes, at the city hospital on Wednesday evening, a son.
Henry Lee, a colored man who was gathered in by the provincial police at McBride on June 30th, upon a charge of vagrancy, was given his liberty on Monday after spending three weeks in the Prince George lock-up.
Leo was arrested by Officers Service, of McBride, and Sinclair, of Lucerne, and was found to be in possession of a number of small bottles of pink pills. The pills did not appear to bo of the variety so generally prescribed for pnlo people. They were obviously of Chinese manufacture, and ns the labels on the bottles, as well as the directions for taking, were printed in Chinese the police surmised the pills might contain narcotic1'. The result of this i was that Loo was called upon to face the more serious charge of "having in his possession drugs without lawful  authority."
He wns brought to Prince George, lodged in a coll, and the police rested their case until n sample of the pills could be sent down to Victoria for analysis.
On Monday the l ro-spected.
"The great trouble betweon Bowser and Oliver has beon to decide which one is telling tho truth! John says Billy ia dishonest; Billy say« John is incapable. After trying for seven, yeara to choose between Bowser's capable dishonesty nnd Olivrr'w dishonest incapability, the electors have decided both were right.
"In 1917 Premier Oliver was hand' eif a Liberal party which had an overwhelming majority. After three years of his administration, Premier Oliver annealed to the country In 1920 and lost tho best pnrt of that, majority. Again appealing to the country last month. Premier Oliver still further reduced the government's majority, and, in addition, has losi his own seat.
"Ah a sentimental proposition, it might be all right to try and show British Columbia electors that they do not know what they want and that John Oliver is really a better mnn thnn the electors think he is.
"Mr. Bowser hns had tru.t idea conr ccrning himself for the past eight yenrg, but the idea has been experi- . merited with at great sacrifice to his party and to the good government of the province.
"After all, the central welfare of British Columbia is of greater importance than the personal ambitions of any one man, and if Mr. Bowser and Mr. Oliver have not common sense enough to recognize this without first wrecking their party, they must be told in very plain language that the election is over."
R. Jobson, of Chief Lake, is spend. ing a few days in the city. He says he is meeting with considerable success in his mink farming, having brought his stock up to fifty.
GISCOME BALL TEAM
WILL PLAY  GAME   IN PRINCE  GEORGE  SUNDAY
Aiturancei have been received that the Giicome ball team will arrive in the city on Saturday evening, a.id will play n game with the Prince George team on Sunday. In order that the visitors may get away on the afternoon train the game will bo called at 12:30 o'clock. Gijcome is said to have a good team which include* a former bi? league player from St.  Louis.
DAVID STODDAHT GOT A GOOD  PLURALITY  IN
THE CARIEOO CONTEST
The counting of the absentee ballots in the Cariboo contest had the result of increasing the plurality of David Stoddart, the Provincial candidate, to 79 over Yorston, Liberal candidate, and 96 over J. A. Fraser, Conservative. All told thert were '297 absentee ballots admitted and of these Stoddart got 127, Yorston 94 and Fraser 76. The total vote of the respective candidates was:*Stoddart 493, Yoroton 414, and Fraaer 397.