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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
vou r>, no. 21.
PRINCE) OEOIU3E, D.O., TTE*m\V, MARCH 14th, 1922.
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louth African Strikers
Wither Before Military
PRISONERS TAKEN IN JOHANNESBURG AREA BY GOVERNMENT FORCES�SPIES AND DOCUMENTS CAPTURED INDICATE FINANCING OF STRIKE BY FOREIGN HEDH�SCOTTISH TROOPS AMBUSHED.
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PRETORIA, .March Hi�According to official statements by the gOV" tncnt tlie government forom are proceeding with great success againnt e Itand strikers. The total number of prisoners taken, in the operations the central areas, number i!,2(M>. In the western areas the government >rres are rtwhing Krugersdorf. 212 niileK northwest of Joluinnosburg, and re pushing eastward, inflicting heavy casualties ujwrn the strikers, in Idition to the large number captured.
t-tf'OTTISH TROOPS AMBUSHED
JOHANNESBURG, .March 13�A detachment of Scottish troops was nbushed at Benoni on Saturday by strikers hidden in a plantation. The Lrikers suddenly poured a heavy fire into the soldiers, killinu 1H and Minding' S25. .Most of the soldiers were ex-service men.
? TORONTO, March 13 St. �f Patrick's. Toronto. defeated
? the Senators. Ottawa, on Satur-�4- clay 5-4 in the first gam.> of the + play-off, for the right to play
? Vancouver for the .world's cham-+ pionship.
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reduced the main street to ruin, has caused damage estimated at $75,000.
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Everything Points to Rush of Gold Seekers this Spring
IMSCX)VERtEH WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE ON CE1>AH AND NIGGER CREEKS IN THE CARIBOO DISTRICT, AM) ON THE STREAMS FLOWING INTO BRIDGE RIVER IN THE L1LLOOET DISTRICT, PROMISES THE GREATEST REVIVAL IN PLACE It MINING THAT I'HOVINCi: HAS SEEN IN A DECADE.
DISTRICT FOUESTEIt
back from ooxi lhi;\<
I'. S. Bonney lleturned to <' * * > on
Saturday From foresters'
Session at Victoria
FOREIGN, AID FOR REDS
IX)NDON, March Hi�An agency dispatch from Johannesburg (his ft er noon says that "through the capture ol" spie** and documents it is
�Hl that the money for (lie red revolution came from abroad. It is mooted that peace will soon be ordered."
'PLANES IN ACTION
PRETORIA, March 1;>�Aeroplanes have twice, dropped Im>iiiI>s on Evolutionary camps, inflicting severe casualties. A number of strikers �rc killed or in.jur��d in the attacks iigainst cavalry in Kllis Park. The pikers are still very active and have l>een burning houses at several points, retaliation against the bombings. Dno hundred men of the Imperial ;ht Horse repelled an attack of strikers in which many of the latter were lied. Five soldiers were killed an-d fifteen wounded. The forces at the 3posal ol the government are now formidable.
A HUGE ARMED CAMP
JOHANNESBURG, March 14�The entire Rand is turned into an 4ne�l camp with definite military action against the insurrectionists | kder the personal leade-rsliip of General Smuts, who says the movement j an organized plot to overthrow constitutional government, under the kise of a labor strike. The Dutch burghers are flocking to the British j lors and aeroplanes are successfully carrying supplies w> isolated com-inities.
MINKS AUK BESEIGED
JOHANNESBURG. March 14�Tlie activities of insurrectionists in the tinu zone are chiefly direct**! against mines and mine owners now and feral have been fired on or beseiged. The formation of commands of bciu) constables is going forward rapidly. Men of every shade of political |niou are participating in the defense against the rebels.
IH IINS LAKE MILL
'RUPERTS NJEW IIOAD
HJRNS LAKE. March 13�Work commenced here on the building a 10.000 foot capacity saw mill �Harrison Bros, and George Evans. mill will be ready to operate by 1st. The company has been Iducting logging operations and already cut 250.000 feet of
PRINCE RUPERT. March 13-Traffic is today being turned into the new provincial government roadway leading from Third avenue to I the Cow P>ay gasboat wharves, the! drydock and Imperial Oil works. The! government still plans the consideration of further improvements on this portion of the waterfront.
ailways will Remain Under National Ownership
tEMJER MACKENKIE KING INFORMS HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT NATIONAL OWNERSHIP WILL BK GIVEN FAIR TRIAL UNDER MOST FAVOURABLE AUSPICES�MEIGHEN EXPRESSES FEARS OF ENMITY TOWARDS THE ROADS.
OTTAWA, March 13�Premier Mackenzie King told the House of >mmons that government ownership of railways would be given a fair ial under the most favourable auspices possible. ThLs announcement
fflowed a speech by ex-Premier Meighen in which he expressed grave f�virs r the success of public ownership in the hands of "it� worst enemies".
Arthur Meighen said that he believed there would bo a propaganda *ln improves at once. [The water elevation on the lake bove the dam is at a lower level Ban ever in the history of the plant. � an attempt to relieve the situation �b company is blasting out obetrnc-y between the lake and the dam the river and has appealed to regents to use sparingly of light and 1 eer.
HALF OF SUMMERLAND
IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
Yesterday's Early Morning: Fire Wiped Out Half of Prosperous
Community iu
VERNON, March 13�News received here today states that half of Summerland and Lower Town was burned early this morning. According to reports received, the fire started in a Chinese store on the lake front and quickly spread to the government telegraph office and the office o-f the "Summerland Review". The fire is still burning but is under control.
Stfmmerland is a prosperous little town on Okanagan lake, ten miles from Penticton on the C.P.It. Kettle Valley line. The population is about 1,8*0.
LATER � The tire which destroyed ail the principal buildings in the business district and which has
The annual conference of the] eight district foresters of British Columbia was held in Victoria from I February L'Tth to March 4th. The] big Fort George district was repre- � sented by District Forester P. S. J Bonney, who returned to th>* city on Saturday night. '
The forest districts of British Columbia, which are each presided over by a district forester, are Fort George, Cariboo, Kamloops, ('ran-' brooke. Nelson, Vernbn and Vancouver.
The purpose of the conference, j said Mr. Bonney to The Citizen, was j to review the year's activities and to secure an interchange of experiences among the district foresters with aj view to mutual assistance in forestry1 matters based on the , experiences � gained in different parts of the province where different problems presented themselves to the Forest Branch.
Among the subjects discussed were Eire protection, forest Management and subjects allied to the lumber industry. Kuoh district forester prepared and delivered a paper, which was followed by discussion upon it. i The paper prepared by District Forester Bonney was "Tie Operations Along the Canadian National Railways in the Fort Georj^-. District."
The conference was very successful, stated Mr. Bonney, and it resulted in much helpful knowledge and information being secured by the conference.
Asked about the progress of the! pulp proposition the district forester j stated that there was nothing new to report. The proposition looks healthy, he said, and he expects that the minister of lands will be going east | on this matter very shortly. When he left the coast the minister was suffering from a slight attack of influenza, but he expected to be about in a few days.
JUNIOR BASEBALL
On Saturday afternoon the junior baseball boys held a meeting to decide on team matters, etc., in connection with the competition for the Citizen shield. H. Gross was elected president of the league by secret ballot, and Eddie Leith was unanimously elected secretary.
It was decided that only two teams should compete, as enough ! boys could not be secured for three! teams. The Hne-upa were chosen ! under the names of the "Cubs" and the "Giants". Charlie Izowsky to captain the Cubs and Xat Porter thej Giants. The teams are composed as
i follows: Cubs�C. Izowsky, H. Gross.!
| H. Johnson. H. Kennedy, II. Taft. Tt.
| Porter, R. Williams, H. Abbott, W.
j McChesney, P. Pouguet, G. Adams. The Giants�R. Manners. R. Nehr-1 ing, A. McK&nzie, K. Porter, \V. Nehring, C. Waldof, B. Hess. H. Anderson, C. Houghtalinp. A. Johnson, R. Moore.
As life s|>riii<; approaches then- is an increasing interest in the u;>ld discoveries which have been reported from the creeks draining into the Cariboo and Quesnel lakes, as well as the streams flowing into Bridge river, to the north of Lillooet, and there are Increasing evidences that the new excitement* *ue not of the usual variety which have been warmed up during the winter months.
The Cariboo discoveries for the
presenl arc claiming the greater share of attention for the reason thai more gold has been recovered from the creeks of that section in the past than lias been taken out of tlie Lil-looet streams, but from the nature
a mild form of "flu" and operations are more or less at a standstill.
Messrs. Cotton. Boswell and Fin-layson are sinking a shaft about two miles above Discovery and expect to have it down to bedrock In a couple of weeks. Thompson and Ash by have located ('amp six miles above Discovery and are preparing to start prospecting this week. Well-founded reports are to the effect that Gavin
of the discoveries made it is by no
means certain thai they are entitled
to the major share of attention from! Hamilton, an old-timer of nen\
the army of prospectors who will Lake, and his partner have discc
take the field as soon as the snow
will permit.
Late last summer
wonderful
ered a good channel on N'igger cre< I . emptying Into Cariboo lake.
T. Coiner and his partner are drift-
stories of rough gold finds came out ing on Likely Gulch and are piling of the Bridge river section, and there up a dump of pay gravel to be is no reason to believe the finds, washed in early spring. Messrs. which have been made mark the lim- King and Ramsay, at Quesnel Dam, its of discovery which will attend tluv are putting in a hydraulic plant on systematic prospecting of the district their claim on a high bench near this season. Already the announce- Quesnel Dam. This bench is situat-inent has been made that the Trethe- ed about three milps north from way syndicate will commence opera- Cedar Creek discovery and is aup-tions in the district, and the prospect posed to be an extension of recent for a mining revival is conceded to discoveries on Cedar creek, be excellent. There will be a marked difference
- The Cariboo discoveries are gen-, in the conditions which confront, the erally referred to as the Cedar Creek prospectors of this spring and those field, but this, while it may be the which faced the argonauts of 1862. mos^ important at the present time.. In the early days it was a case of is only one of a number of finds hoofing it from Yale on the Krasftr which have been made on the river, over hundreds of miles of streams flowing into Qliesnel lake rough trail, into the center of Cari-and Cariboo lake,. On the latter lakc�; boo, and the prices of food and ma-the finds made on Ts'igiier creek giv.% terials went to fabulous figures. To-promise of great things. This field day the prospector bound for the is juat over a� d j�i-sle from tku cele- Cariboo discovery can move his stuff bra ted basin around Richmond which by rail as far as Williams Lake, and in the sixties made the Cariboo fa'm- from there on over good roads al-ous the world over as a gold produc- most to the scene of the finds; and er, and while Nigger creek is a coin- the man destined ror the Bridge paratively short stream, it is remem- river field can use the same railway bered that some five miles of Will- as far as the town of Lillooet. If iams creek in the sixties gave a yield there is any virtue in the respective of some fifty million dollars. fields it will spell hip business for
The men now working on the Ce- the P.G.E. and for the towns of dar creek leases arc all afflicted with Lillooet and William-; Lake.
Toronto and Vancouver
will Contend for Cup
NO SCOKi; AT TORONTO LAST NIGHT GIVKS TOltOXTO ST. l\\1IU< 1\S CHAMPIONSHIP OF NATIONAL HOOKEY LEAGUE� WILL IMiAV VANCOUVER FOR 11111 STANLEY (11*�KEEN INTKIIRST IN COMING GAME.
TORONTO, March 1 1-�As m result of the no score game played la.st nijibt between the Toronto St. Patricks and the Ottawa Senators, Toronto wins the National Hockey League play-off and the right to play the Vancouver Millionaires for the Canadian hockey championship and the Stanley cup. The Toronto boys won the firs! game of the play-off by a score of 5-4.
Tlit" keenest interest attaches t<> the forthcoming gajno between east ami west, ami it is expected to draw a record crowd.
BURNS LAKE FIRE
WHALEN MILL RESTARTS
SWANSON BAY. March 13�The Whalen Pulp Mill and sawmill resumed operations yesterday afternoon, following a close-down of two months on account of scarcity of water.
DOC. BAKKR'S PAY
VICTORIA. March 14�Full pay for Dr. Baker has been authorized during the period that he was suspended from his position as head of the Game Conservation Board.
Fire completely destroyed the Burns Lake Hotel, owned by John C. K. Sealy and Robert M. Gerow at Burns Lake last week. I'.esides the hotel th*' Gerow store and the Shaw Feed and Produce Co. were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The fire gained such headway that it was impossible to save the immediately adjacent buildings, but under the cool leadership of Constable Carr a number of other buildings that were in danger were, salvaged. Very little insurance was carried by the owners.
AFTER FISH CONTROL
CHURCHES NOT EXEMPT
VANCOUVER, March 14 -- The court of revision refuses the application of the city churches to exempt their property from taxation.
VICTORIA, March 14�Cannery operators say that British Columbia will now make another attempt to eecure the control of fisheries following the federal Rovernraent's action in. giving Quebec control of the fisheries.
LOOKOUT IN LONDON
LONDON, March 14�The threatened lockout of members of the amalgamated engineerine; union by employees weut into effect on Monday at noon.
BOMB INJURES WOMEN
BELFAST, March 14�A bomb exploded in the. foundry district injuring 12, mostly women and children. Two were seriously hurt*
GREB DEFEATED GIBBONS
NEW YORK, March 14�Tommy Gibbons was defeated last night by Harry Greb at Madison Square Garden.