Vol. I. iMo. 18. SOUTH FORT aEORGE,. B.C., DECEMBER 17, 1910. wmimmm $3 per Arin.um. "Sunset" Lies in the Limelight Facts Regarding "Brace's" Libelous Articles that they controlled the water, power, . whereas, according to "Bruce," |This article is printed to correct fake impressions which oufdis-subscribers may have gathered a perusal of the recent libelous is made by a journalistic main /Vancouver, who, under the Dm de plume of "Bruce," fills the litorial columns of a Vancou-rer weekly j publication named Jie "Saturday Sunset," with some bf the most extraordinary balder-* " ever yet penned on the BUbject lof a Fort George subdivision, and [having perused the advertising liter-Fature of all of them; that is quite a 'broad statement. Some weeks ago I'the "Sunset" having been hurt by the fact that we called its editor a •liar—which he is—retaliated by. pub-i lishing a statement that the South . Fort George townsite was a wildcat, promoted by ' 'bootleggers, tinhorns, friskers and fourflusbcrs." We answered that article on the nineteenth. Having been sued for libel in both the civil and criminal courts "Bruce" interprets the epithet he applies to the promoters of this; town-Bite, couples the names of certain parties with the particular brand of scoundrel lrom his recital, which seems appropriate and. adopts the [bunch as the promoters of the South Fort George townsite. He includes I the following: A. G. Hamilton, Nick [Clarke, W. F. Cooke and B. A La-Iselle.!! N.ow, neither A.^G. Hamilton ior Nick Clarke are interested in any *ay in the South Fort George town-^ite.':Hamilton used-to own SO acres [>f it, but pave an option to Clarke who sbid it to the Northern Develop-¦ndnt Company. | We are not going to fa'tteiniJK.to protect Mr. Hamilton against thn charge of illicitly peddling whisky, for the gentleman in question once commenced suit for libel against the editor of this paper for making a similar charge, against him. We prepared to fight the suit, but Hamilton withdrew. We have this to sAy about A. G. Hamilton, .however. I He is a successful, self-made business man, against whose character, since his residence as the oldest inhabitant of this townsite, nothing can be said by his bitterest enemy. Nick Clarke acted. only as a broker in the sale of this site for subdivision purposes. He never was amongst its promoters.0 Whether "Bruce" can prove the despicable charges he puts forward in "placing* Clarke as a "tinhorn" the assizes will tell. N. S. Clarke is known to us as the liveliest promoter that ever struck- the upper country. He commenced the construcion of the first steamboat . to run the Fort George canyon in 1909. His company has now three steamboats on the upper Fraser river. He has also, approaching completion, a splendid mill on this townsite, together with the smaller one, which has cut the lumber for this town. Clarke is an old-timer in the northern interior. In 1896 he was manager of the Golden Province "Mining Company, operating extensive hydraulic claims near Quesnel. In ah interview with the editor in Vancouver,., Clarke denied the allegations made' by "Bruce." We believe him. We have always found his word good; whereas we know Bruce to be a consummate liar and mountebank. W. F. Cooke is branded as a "frisker" and a "fourflusher," because he offered for sale lands around the Willow river canyon, claiming they don't. If Cooke owns the land, $nd someone else the water, each party has' an. asset separate and apart, valuable! yet useless, the one without the other. It appears that if W. F. Cooke offered this -land'for sale as controlling the water power, he was justified- in so doing joy- the reason7 he advanced in his letter. The statement in the "Saturday Slinsot" of November 26, that~C'boke rendered to the estate of John Houston aiPex-orbitant account for taking the dy-r ing journalist over, the trail from Fort George to Quesnel, is the mbst -contemptible calumny^ yet devised by "Bruce" in an attempt to strengthen his hand by villifyiriy the character of such, men as William F. Cooke. To the certain,, knowledge of the writer, Cooke, John Houston's most intimate friend at Fort George, gave J himself to the care and comfort of the journalist friend the time when sickness laid him low. He stood by his charge until, death claimed Houston, and accompanied his body until he placed it in the care of W. H. Houston, and this was done by. W. JP. Cooke at a great, financial ioss. If John Houston had lived "Bruce" •would go down before his pen, together with the fiim-flafn townsite' company in whose interests he prints his lies. John Houston would turn in his. gravei if he knew that his paper had been takef -from South Fort George and" was- now being run by the Natural Resources Security Company, on their gigantic maze of lots, having been, obtained from Ms weak and credulous heir, by this company whom he had attacked, and under a hollow pressure they obtained a "retraction-1, of his' uncle's statement. The "Tribune" is now trading on J. Houston's name; it is run by_one of the" advertising experts of the Natu-—:-------------,------------- 7—¦*-!,—_______________' ¦ ¦ , ral Resources Security Col who may be classed as an __,.„_ ,.„ varicator with Louis De Rougemont T-and is managed by another liar and mountebank. Since The Herald has been issued by the Northern Interior Printing Company, at South Fort George, the "Tribune" has practically gone out of business as a public advertising, medium. It cannot hope to compete with this publishing concern -T- "which has absolutely no affiliation with any townBite company— on a level footing, so it "scabs," and after agreeing that a certain ad-; vertising rate be observed, caters to the public by offering reduced rates. Now, we have repeatedly shown that there is only one-town here "at this time which is named South' Fort George. "Bruce"! has lied about it. He states that Hammond's Company has tried to keep people out of Fort George. He certainly has. Hammond knows that when the big mass of people come into Fort George and see his proposition in the woods, it will die. We welcome, have, advised, • and do advise, the public to come to South Fort George and investigate the situation. They, like the present populace, will settle here. South Port George Wjl'i /•.o?:*.c,My b- a conjunctive townsite with that of the G. T. P. railway. The recent articles printed in. the; "Saturday Sunset" read as though its nridle-head-ed editor, demented by the approaching crisis he has precipitated, was attempting to take it cut" of the-promoters by descending tc the v iid^ est forms of abuse. The public must accept any of his printed statements for their face value until theA "show down." Comparisons are ever odious,, but before we are through with this, matter, we intend to cast a few. ' ~We--have been told of a nocTtirnal flight from Minneapolis by>-President Hammond. And also a history of their man Ttfeek, whp, so the story goes, was saved from disgrace by being son-in-law jto a rich man with-a handle to- his name. These statements come to us from reliable sources, and when we have investigated their truth we will print the facts. . Now, *Bruce," has been trying to connect this Printing company, with" the¦-.*promotion of the South Fort-George townsite. We are promoting —by our publicity —-the only town-site here worth while. The outfit that has got "Bruce,'' tried to bribe us to start this paper on their site. "Bruce" will have it that John A. Fraser, M. P. P., of Quesnel, controls this-outfit altogether and that Daniell is his "hired boy;" that is one of his pipe dreams, tinctured with his usual prevarication. Fraser has not" one cent of interest in the Northern Interior Printing Company," which is controlled entirely by the editor of this paper.. Until recently, he held a one-fifth interest, which be "sold at a good profit. "Bruce" lies awake at night thinking of some epithets, principally notable for their insignificance; to apply to The Herald editor. It is funny, acd if they amuse the editorial idiot in Vancouver, it doesn't worry us. Stay with We must treat .one more lie this week, as it savors of a personally directed joke at^he editor who did not, as stated by l*Bruce"xin his issue of November 19, sell LotN9J35 to J. W. Higgins as a wildcat. ^The lot in question was sold to a well-known eastern lawyer, who boughtit for subdivision, after having been ^oyer the ground.. Anyone . buying lots there will have a fifty-per cent betterS show for their money than they will " have in investing in any of Hammond's subdivisions, from here to Massett, B. C. ' »¦ I Load Up Cannon Read Load Up Canoe South Fort George is withmlt\the proverbial liquor of the Honorable Adventurers — Scotch — just because the Alberta Telephone Company's office happens to be located irt the woods, away from the busy hum of businttw. Hurry Work on the G.T.P. Branch Final Location Will be Completed In Spring the vicinity of South Fort George. The exact point where .the branch line will strike the main line has not will avail itself of rights granted by its charter and make the junction point fifteen or- twenty miles on A junction week between cine yet been determined and the matter either side of Fort George. will be effected next the Grand Trunk Pacific railway has may be left in abeyance for a year or two Grand Trunk Pa- just issued orders that the final loca- more. This is due, it is said, to the .n..v *o-*i»o «„«, -««,-c^ {« tion of tne line between Vancouver .unwillingness of the Indians to as-ailway parties.now engaged in. and Fort QCorge be proceeded with sign or sell their rights to the Fort making a preliminary survey of the forthwith and g preliminary survey of the forthwith and continued throughout George Indian—reserve, the purchase betweeh\Vancouver and Fort the coming winter. From Lillooet of which is being sought by the rail- route George. They wiir^meet on the upper on the Fraser the route is officially Frnser. A thira petty in charge of described as follows: Up the west A message was sent to Quesnel, to Mr. W. I. Basset is now working up bank of the Fraser, crossing Bridge a ti- Xte a wholesale and retail dealer, at the time of the granting of the license to Johnson & Burns, of the Northern HotelK which read: _. "Lo8d Cannon up with Scotch and beer, and/forward." ; Cannon, the freighter, had instructions^ for the ment, and when he Ncalled on ^Hhe nolesaler, the latter produced telegram whicn\read: "Load canoe up^. with ScoMch and beer,, and forward.' . The.-shipment was not delivered to Cannon, but in its steady placed in a canoe, and today is on theHong Fraser, somewhere between the Dewing centre and South Fort George. Result. Dry weather, with an sence of Scotch. • . Tt was merely an accident in transmission., an ly to occur telephone oilier It reminds the writer on The Herald of another "slip -of-the-ear;" which occurred last, month, fro in—J-. Oharleson, It is expected that early next season will witness the completion of tbe final survey between the main line and Vancouver. It is now well understood that the route from Harrison Lake into Vancouver will vir-parallel the track of the C. •J. Gunn is in charge of the-' party working south from way company, says a despatch from tually the coast i of December 2. Thus far P. ;R. iheinegotiations^-have been -fruitlessp-Burvey the upper end-of Harrison^ lake-River and continuing up the Fraser The Dominion government is helping the vicinity of Fort George and/Mr. to Lillooet via Pemberton valley, to Ward's creek, where the river will- to solve the problem for the railway F. Stewart is directing the^outfit Anderson and Beaton lakes. - ^he bridged to Big Bar. From the last company, as the Indians are free to that-is ascending the Fraser from Owing to the spirited competition mentioned point .the line will ascend jact as they please. If the deadlock Lillooet. The Stewart party is now of rival railways, the management of'the eafet^bank of the Fraser river to is not broken it is said the railway in camp at Big Bar. / C.H. Lugrin Lectures on Fort George An interesting,and instructive lee- toria and Vancouver would be .bound the rivers draining an enormous extent of country. The site of the NewROad T..Rognr"aTc^S*hTs^ An interesting and infective lee- toria a^V*«o£^o^ moreover, -y of the new government road from ture on the present condition and^. to find, its way to Edmonton. ^^ %h^ ^ tno*sands esnel to.-South Fort George on the ture possibilities of the central poff^He expressed -the opinion that- thousands of acres of good farming easXside of the Fraser river. He re- tion of British.: Columbia was deliv- tfrece would certainly be a geat city/land in the district was also a point t the grades are excellent, ered at Victoria-on the 25th ult., by-in the^northern interior, and most which Mr. Lugrin strongly urged. It the only bridge of an/ size c. H. Lugrin, editor of the Colonist, likely wbuld^ be at the confluence^ of is not at all a mountainous coun- under the auspices of the Natural the Fraser and_ the NechacpTiver, try, being on the contrary, quite th« . one that will have to be built acrossHhe Cotton wood canyon. The distance iHH be in the neighborhood of 79 miles. The distance by Black water road is some- 105 thus effecting a ^considerable History ^society. _ Mr. Lugrin Was where the Fort "George reservation is level and not more than 1600 feet one of those who accompanied Pre- situated. The FrasefMuver'was a big above the sea, which is far below mier McBridc /through the district waterway. This opinioji^he biased, in the height, at which farming is prac-last fall. / a .measure, on the fact that^a Hud- ticable. Tbe land, also, could be /One of^tbe things which Mr, Lii-. son's Bay company's post was\;io- easily cleared and will raise any-grin impressed upon his" audience was cafced there, aud: the Hudson's Bay^thing that could be reasonably ex- the^ 'best^reeulated jouriiey^to 8outh Fort George when the-riecessity of.a railway north and company hcis shown great skill in pected in this country. A farmer the roaiKjs completed.1 ¦„ .^sdutb to tap that section -of the pro- selecting ^and locating its. trading with rwhom he discussed the subject vince. Otherwise he declared that posts. /'Moreover, the location is told him^it would raise anything trade which belongs of right to Vic- the natural 4anding place from all except watermelons and tomatoes. Not Worth Much Ball Bail for the moderate sum .of $500 lelons for the first publication of ntice, turned out to instead of "Chicago." was fixed by Judge^McInnes for J. work at the Canyon R. McConnell, editorxof the Satur- lanf1 nnylt,o y ",......iv* * ce£a.in "day Sunset, charged with criminaf- chaco" ' l"'n ¦lv-Tlfballiue N. S Clarke. The bail Proceeding Well t Jn'. "—------!--------—¦ ~—~~ deposited by Mr ¦The-Norton 'Griffiths Company, the and $250. by one Knjflish COntrilr-iinv firm Uu aimnia was divided in two sums, $250 to be in {OWIl Vancouver, to the tijm, has agents Cbnnell, who formulating plans moned, will^ establishment of "a- V McObnnell himself, George canyon. surety. Mr. Mc- has simply beensum--ti,e patb e pas^g^'auto;^ fallen by to".the large trafflc;wh|,h has deyeil Jnat.could be eoifly taken, .but .UttletfesSmust be i provided.' Camps, with; move foreVcr any disability to boats the waysidei and left their remains, opeu since ^work has been initiated ° has been done to develop'the great a smaller possible output have been com|ng through the canyon. . Btrewn along the tortuous, ye* »- »" s that contributed 'their developed to a paying basis. Where __±-----------_^ - — -f; -" .. ~: . .. , , . • ,," placer gold has been found there have . • . - nf the coronation a'DDroaches. ,.,,,. to the placer claims. Mr. ^ l6^e8> Rnd th