PRINCE GEORGE CITIZJpf
Thursday September 22, 1935.
Prince George, B. C.
junior Chamber propose Mail Boxes/*"* City
Monthly Meeting Addressed by W. J- Pitman and Ernie Hesse
mhers of the Junior Cham-7?S�c�e assembled in the 'er � t rooToVthe Shasta Cafe Mon-
iam Jenin? f� the monthly *"??* day evening organization, when
Lneetil1anging ^om Oriental infil-Itopics lanyn* ^ dlscussed-
rati�Ces were heard from Ernie
Sp?elretary of the chamber, Rich-Tesse, secretary vi___
FORTY-TWO PARCELS
SOLD AT TAX SALE
Of the 2000 parcels of land on the tax sale list for the Prince George assessment district, which were offered for sale by Provincial Collector Elmer Little at the Prince George court house on Thursday last, some 42 parcels were bid in, all located in the immediate vicinity of Prince George.
During the month previous to the sale approximately 300 parcels which were in the advertised list for delinquent taxes were redeemed by the owners on paying up the necessary taxes, and were thus eliminated from the sale list.
SDilsbury, a member of trie Kel-3, junior. Board of Trade, and W.
f' Following an exhaustive account of the achievements of the Junior Chamber throughout the past year and the �eadin� of minutes and correspondence bv W Hesse, a resolution sponsored bv the Vancouver Junior Board of Trade opposing further Oriental im-jmi^ation into British Columbia was Endorsed. The resolution was presented by John Walker.
Unanimous support was given to the bnkman Pass Highway Association, land a cash donation of $57 was proved to the association to aid con-Itinuance of work on the Monkman-
>ass road.
i a resolution favoring British immigration into central B.C. was given unqualified support, ana a proposal for the erection of mail boxes in ^he city vi< heard f/).i Wesley Clark. A committee composed of Mr. Clark, Duncan Munro and Frank Perry was named to investigate the proposal. Art Porter's treasury report revealed' a cash balance in the bank of $402.57. "Overhaul Your Habits"
I Chief speaker of the evening was W. j. Pitman whose reflections on life, I spoken in a casual, friendly fashion, j moted the serious thought of every (Continued on Page Pour)
Supreme Court Sittings Open October Fifth
|Two Cases on Criminal Docket and Eight Divorce Cases on - Civil .List
A sitting of the Supreme Court for the transaction of the business of Courts of Assize, nisi prius, oyer and terminer and general jail delivery will k held in the Courthouse, Prince George, on Wednesday, October 5, with Mr. Justice H. B. Robertson presiding.
J- 0. Wilson, Prince George, has leen appointed crown prosecutor.
Cases on the list up to the present [are as follows:
Criminal Docket
*JX- vs- A- J- Hubbard, charged I took falsifying a government time
Jex vs. Wtn. Bentley, charged that Kr,1 con?ent of the owner he fraudulently kept. In his possession a wrse found astray.
Civil Docket
McLeod vs. school board and Hough-Service. Damage action being injured
Gun-a-noot Family Again In Trouble
Sons of Famous British Columbia
Indian Outlaw Arrested at
Hazelton
ChU;v
In adds�on there are eight divorce ___Continued on page four)
ining Expert Looks To North For New Mines
Northern Areas Expected to Equal Production of Southern Properties
V Ells~one~of Canada's best J mmlng engineers and geolo.
Dam who is now ln charge for the Z " government of mining. w , trails throughout British, in an inspection capacity,!
mplet�d a tour of tne C^- c�riboo districts where min- I work is being carried on. \ �w ln ^e Atlin country in- | new road
lake
Sde/ crcek- the end. of ; bl Sltuate3 half way between >�
se Mr
way
Pass nt 7 ? ates the Dominion gov-
ssibSitii ke?Iy aUve to the mining British rS �L the vast northern ^tr f ^ hinterland, and is d ro.rf0 -Cy of �PentoB it up by u'hen the. Ii5 ln advance of the day accessible 2- * atld nOw more readily *P Portion !!llni areasof the.south-ihr�ugh txLx- ne Prc>vince have suf-WKng mth tne assistance road b"��ng many new on Page Town
A name famous in British Columbia police history, "Gun-a-noot" is once again in the limelight through the arrest at Hazelton last week cf two Indians, Charleston and Simon Gun-a-noot, brothers, charged with robbing j Trader Carl Hannanwald at Bear Lake, about 240 miles northwest of Prince George.
The robbery occurred last May when the trading post wa� broken into and! a large quantity of groceries and other supplies stolen. In the loot obtained by the robbers was a cross fox pelt, and it was the disposal of this skin that led to the Gun-a-noot brothers' arrest.
Charleston Gun-a-noot arrived in Hazelton last June and at a Chinese restaurant ran up a bill of ten dollars before landing a job. When leaving i Hazelton to go out to work at Carnby,) near Hazelton, he left the fox skin j with the Chinese restaurant owner as security for his board bill. The Chinaman reported possession of the fox skin to Constable Andy Grant of the :
B. C. provincial police at Hazelton. Some time later Constable Grant was furnished with circulars detailing the loo: stolen from the Bear Lake store. He recalled the fox skin in the possession of the Chinaman and its similarity in its markings to the one cited as stolen, and enquiry elicited that Gun-a-noot had paid his board bill and reclaimed the skin. On being questioned
C. Gun-anoot said he had disposed of the .skin to a lady travelling with tne Crescent Shows. The fur was recovered from her at Prince Rupert just as she was about to leave that port with the circus on a steamer for Stewart, B.C.
With the fur identified Charleston Gun-a-noot was arrested and brought j before James Turnbull, JP., of Hazel-' ton, who remanded him. Later he confessed to Constable Grant, implicating his brothers Simon and David in the robbery at Bear Lake in May last. Simon was picked up by Constable Grant, and he and Charleston are now in the Smithers jail awaiting trial. David Is being sought by the B. C. provincial police in the country around Mezidian Lake near Stewart. B.C.
Back in the early part of the century, Simon Gun-a-nopt. father of the brothers now in trouble, was chief of the Hazelton trloe and was one of the most respected Indians in the north country.
Along about 1909 Gun-a-noot became incensed at two Indians who were alleged to have assaulted his wife and he started on the war path with his rifle. One he found at Two-Mile just out of Hazelton and shot him dead j and the other he overtook fleeing up j the Kispiox valley and also kilted him.. For 13 years he evaded the police.' and although reported from time to time -in various sections of the far northern stretches of British Columbia round the headwaters of the. Skeena and Stikine rivers and around \ Bowser and Meziadin lakes, the police could never quite catch up with him.
Finally a story filtered through to j Hazelton that Gun-a-noot had made a j fabulously rich placer gold strike in the far north, and word was got to ! Stuart Henderson. K.C.. of Victoria, BC.an old-time friend of Chief Gun-a-noot, asking him to intercede with the authorities for the old Indian, so that he might cash in on his gold find and spend the rest of his declining years in comfort with his family at Hazelton.
Stuart Henderson made a trip into the north country and succeeded in getting Gun-a-noot to give himself up | to the law.
He was tried before a jury in Vancouver and possibly the "unwritten law" was a factor leading to the jury s verdict of not guilty.
Gun-a-noot returned to Hazelton and while the fabulous gold find faded into the"' limbo of forgotten fairy stories he remained with his family there 'until his death about two years ago.
PRINCE GEORGE HAS
LOW TAX RATE
In spite of a high 65 mill rate, there is no city in B. C. where taxes are less than in Prince George, although taxes are equal in North Vancouver, according to a reoprt from Victoria.
A list of the cities has been published showing the comparative taxes on a city lot valued at $100 with a house valued at $1,000. The annual tax on such a place in Prince George amounts to $6.50. .
In Vancouver the same lot and residence, would be taxed $29.10, in Victoria. $32.20. and in Rossland $36.00. North Vancouver pays $6.50, the same
as Prince George. There is no city with
less taxes
There is no cy w than Prince George, although there are 29 cities which pay more. Although the mill rate is the highest in the province, there is no improvement tax here.
Surveyor Falls From Scow On Omineca River
Is Rolled Over and Over on"
River Bottom as Craft
Passes Along
Falling off the forward deck of a 40-foot freighting scow Tuesday afternoon on' the Omineca river where there was barely enough water to float the craft, Ernest Lamarque, 58-year old surveyor of Vancouver, -was rolled over and over for some two minutes while the scow passed over him. Lamarque was rescued by fellow passengers at the stern of the scow when he popped up from, under the craft.
Taken on down the river to German-sen Landing a radio message was sent to Canadian Airways at Fort St. James bringing: Pi]ct Buss Baker north to transport Mr. Lamarque to the Prince George hospital. The plane bucked fog and rain and had considerable difficulty in finding the Germansen seaplane landisg, and en the trip south was in the air looking for a way
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President of B. C. Municipalities' through for one and a half hours in
p
and Aviation Contoller Very Complimentary
Mayor A. M. Patterson and City
Sd
Prince George Gets Boost At Nelson
Clerk W. G. Fraser returned Sunday j of the season.
which a distance of only 30 miles in a straight line was covered the fog was so thick. Landing was made at Prince George in semi-darkness and the pilot classes the trip as one of the toughest
STILL SMILING
Notwithstanding the European crisis British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appears unperturbed.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
ACCEPTS SOLUTION
evening from attendance at the Union of B. C. Municipalities convention at Nelson, B.C. held' last week, and the Aviation Council of B. C. meeting immediately following the convention.
The mayor and city clerk drove from Prince George via Vernon, Na-kusp and through the Slocan Valley to Kaslo and on down Kootenay lake to Nelson. Returning they came home via Trail, Grand Forks,-Osooyos, Pen-tic ton and through the Okanagan
Climax of months of international anxiety came yesterday with. Czecho-Slovakian. acceptance of the Anglo-French partition proposal.
Prime Minister Neville Chamber-Iain and Chancellor Adolf Hitler met
the season,
Mr. Lamarque has been employed on the provincial public works road construction project from Old Hogem to Aiken Lake some 160 miles northwest of Prince George. Along with others he was making the trip down the Omineca rier from Old Hogem to Germansen Landing when the accident occurred.
Dr. C. Ewert reports from the hospital that Mr. Lamarque's injuries are no more serious thrt severe body
tic ton and through the Okanagan no more serious tht sv y
Valley. They report that the best piece bruises and shock and he expects him f gavel road on the entire trip is! to be out aeain in a few days.
of gravel road ort the entire trip is that section between Prince George and Hixon Creek.
The president of the Union of B. C. Municipalities, in his opening address, reports Mayor Patterson, was very 1 complimentary to the Prince George 1
Prince George Area Appeals To Texan Visitors
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today to discuss the plan whereby city council and board of trade in the 1 portions of Czecho-Slovakia will be matter of the brief they had submitted I ceded to Germany. *flfte proposal to the Roweir Commission at 'Victoria:{-' calls for outright partition of the J in March last. The president stated j ccuntry rather than mere annexa- that in his opinion it was possibly the
1 most constructive presentation sub- i Spent Several Weeks Vacation mitted to that body in its hearings across Canada. He said it not only was an excellent brief but was also very ably presented to the commission. Another boost for Prince George,
tion by Germany.
There was an unconditional acceptance of the plan by Czecho-Slo-vakia which saw it as the only method of preventing- further bloodshed.
A message by President Benes issued to the Czech people yesterday declared: "We stand alone but we will all be Czechs together!
"A new life stands before us," the message ran.
Observers declared it was either a case of accepting the proposals or entering' into a hopeless battle. -------------V-------:-----
Omineca River Work Making Good Progress
Associated Engineers Finish Job
to Mile 45, Move Camp to
Nation River
Another boos
ftates Mr. Patterson, came from J. A. Wilson, controller of aviation for Canada, at the meeting of the Aviation Council of B. C. last Friday. Mr. "Wiilscn toldi the delegates assembled that he had just paid a visit to Prince George and that the city deserved great credit for the magnificent airport they h,ad provided. He classed it as the best landing field in British Columbia out&ide of Vancouver, and further stated he would have great pleasure in granting Prince George a licence for their landing field.
AMERICAN PARTY
BAG TWO MOOSE
Fort St. James: (Special)�A party d hnter
ent Sevrl W Here Hunting Moose and Catching Fish
The country in the Prince George district is the most impressive and the most suitable for vacationists of any part of western North America.
That is the considered opinion of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Patterson of Sart An-gelo, Texas, who travelled 3000 miles to hunt and fish near Prince George.
With their family, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson travelled through the city up to Summit Lake where they stayed for one week. Returning here they made a trip into the Stuart Lake district, whre they bagged a moose and caught a good number of trout. Mrs. Patterson had one of the fish mounted to show to friends in Texas.
"We have been all through the western States and over, much of Canada, but we have never come to a more ap i" M Pttr
"Wild horses couldnt keep us from
^ J guide ma~ Trn,lomiTOr ' commission; that the provincial gov-
was moved over the
Nation river, from which camp work I
will be carried on by them north to-j ~ d
wards Manson creek as long as the i -<-nou
present good weather holds out.
ADANACS WIN
Adanacs, home-brew New Westmin- j ster boxla team made it three straight last Friday night when they defeated the New Westminster world's champion Salmonbellies for the intercity league championship, VancouVer-New Westminster. Nelson plays Adanacs for the provincial championship starting �tomorrow night, and the winners will nlav the winners of the Eastern Canadian championship series, expected to be either Orillia or St.-Catherines.
inspector of ernment program of moving groups of
______ the Fort St. James, unemployed about the province mak-
schocl on Monday. ; ing them in many cas^s charges on
Constables Cooke of the provincial the municipalities be stopped, and police, and Sharpe of the Indian de- ! many other, matters came before the part ment made a patrol to Takla
many convention
Officers elected for year were as follows:
w President�Reeve J.
Constable Cooke and Mrs. Cooke left West Vancouver.
part ment made a pat
Landing \ntt .week and' report the
water in the rivers as getting very
the ensuing B. Leyland,
low.
Constable Co for Smiters on Monday t th
with wit-1 F^st vice-president-Mayor George
for Smiters on Monaay w�m �n, �
nesses to attend court, the hearing of C. Miller. Vancouver.
+be Chin Jon appeal on September 20. i Second vice-president�Mayor O. L.
20. ! Jones. Kelowna.
- . �_____� Secretary-treasurer�R. R. F. Sewell.
All Ewert Cup contenders are re- i Sa;.nich.
quested to be at the goll course at 10 i Solicitor�H. J. SuHlvan, li.C, Van-a.m. Sunday. � .���