South Fort George will be the centre of railway coh- struction activity this season. , All r|er and road transpW|*tion companies '/Gl South Fort headquarters. OL. 3, NO. 19. SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. G, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912. $3 PER ANNUM. MAN OUTLAWS ADD TO LIST OF VICTIMS | Ashcroft, May 10. -Two more [en, members of a posse sent out Clinton to, capture the In-lah outlaws, Moses Paul and jiul Spintlam,* were shot and filed a few miles south of the „„ Mile House yesterday. The lurderers escaped into the hills. |Ashcroft, B.C., May 4.-A psse of ten picked men left Ash-joft this morning for the point kr Clinton where Provincial Unstable Alexander Kindness yesterday shot and killed by ses Paul and Paul Spintlam, b outlaw Indians who he had leavored to arrest. The out-9, who were wanted by the ce on a murder charge, were Ited five miles from Clinton ly yesterday morning by a jn named Truan, and word was It to Clinton where Constable ndness had been on duty dur-; the assizes. With five special jisjables, kindness set out at to apprehend the desper- The posse tracked the Indians seveaal miles through a heavy jsh country and came across aeir horses and some camp equip-lent. There was no sign of the |en and the opinion was express-1 that they fled on the approach I the officers,, leaving their tasesbehind. y^ ' [As KindnessXattempted to Iptureonepf^the horses, how-rer, a shot was fired froin \&* |nd idbg and the constable fell, tit through the heart. A sec-id shot^wounded Constable grrest Loring in the right fore-but not seriouslyp With left hand Loring sent several ots after the retreating figure [one of the Indians, but failed hit the mark. [The Indians fled after firing lie two shots and though pur-led by the members of the posse »ade good their escape through lie dense brushy Word of the lurder was at once sent to CHn-mi and a well-armed posse at |nce started in pursuit of the fugitives. This morning a second started from Ashcroft. It i composed of well-armed and -ill-seasoned hunters and caw-oys, all crack shots and expert woodsmen.-- Paul and Spintlam, ¦the two 3utlawsrha've now three charges of-ttiurder against them. About la year ago they wer& arrested on la charge of murdering a man I named White, but while awaiting trial easily made their escape from the old log jail at Clinton.. Once out they murdered a Chiha-jman, the only witness of the-(crime of whiqh they were first accused, and at once took to the hills. There, aided by other Indians and protected by the ruggedness of the country, they ware able to set the officers at defiance. A reward Of $1500 offered^or their capture failed to have any «flfect •'.-. Kindness, the murdered constable,* was a young Scotsman, 28 years of age. '< ] About a>: yea*1 ago he was connected with the Provincial police4 at Vancouver and diatinguishe^hiinself by some clever captures of smug- COLONISTS ARRIVE AT WHITFS LANDING Forty miles south of here, at White's Landing, the first party of Scotch argiculturists were landed on Tuesday to commence development work on the ten-thousand-acre tract recently ¦acquired by the Duke of Sutherland from the North Coast Land company. - . * 2 Sixteen men are included in the first • party of colonists, and they have with them six teams of horses, wagons and a full outfit of farming implements. The party was outfitted at, Ashcroft and with thier loaded wagons drove to Quesnel where they took the steamer B.X. and were landed right on the duke's estate. Already they are at work clearing and plowing the land and will have a considerable area under crop this*year. Mr, Milli-gan, an expert Scottish farmer, is in charge of the party and i^ superintending the operations on the land, $/? A party of government road-builders are building roads from thenver to connect with all parts of the estate', a grant of $5000 having^been made for this purposed /^L'ater in the season, when seeding has been completed and houses and other accommodations provided, a second and larger party will arrive. Within the next year there will be a population of three or four hundred people on this .large block of land, as it is the intention to settle afamily on each quarter section. A model town will be built on the old country plan, and thfe entire fpopulation xwill come from the British Isles. Tfre settlers will be all of the very best class and must be experienced men in their different branches of work, possessed of the highest redommendations. LAWYER LOCATES Mr, M, Montgomery, barrister and solicitor, late of the well-known legal firm of Burns & Walkem, Vancouver, arrived here early in the week and has opened his office in the premises vacated by M, G. Wiggins, opposite the Herald office. Mr. Montgomery, like all others who have studied the local townsite question from an impartial viewpoint, decided to put in with South Fort George. FIRE WARDENS APPOINTED R. M. Pallatt, divisional fire warden, announces the appointment of the following district wardens for the ensuing year: Fort George and west to "Stoney Creek, J. McLean; Quesnel, T Booth'; Barkerville, «j. Smith; Soda Creek, F, Shepherd; Clinton, Jas, McKinley. The appointment of two wardens who will have charge of the district between here and Tete Jaime Cache will be made within the next few days. a / glersx On one occasion he appre-liendecTlBomeChinese who were endeavoring to smuggle about $2000 worth of opium. Before joining the pblice force he had be^w in the employ (if the British Columbia Electric. CITY AND DISTRICT F. P. Burden, P.L.S., hasgeme to Vancouver for a short visit. Mrs. Wm, Blair left this week on a visit to friends at Vancouver, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McElroy went to Soda Creek on the last trip of the Chilcotin. John Fountain left today with a party of Gray's surveyors for his timber limits on the upper Fraser. The tent' annex of Hotel Northern is being well patronized. Every boat brings its arrivals. quota of The mail steamer..JkX. will be running on schedule next week, arriving hereJ$6nday and Thursday afternoons. Walter Crocker has returned irom. a short visit to his home at Victoria. He will take up active work on his Willow river ranch. "Doc." Campbell, of G6re & McGregor's survey staff, arrived on Thursday's boat and leaves next week«to complete some surveys on the upper Fraser. W. F. Cooke returned Monday from Quesnel where he had been confined to the hospital with an injured knee. He is attending to business every day though still wearing a decided limp. McGafiftran & Thome desire to inform the public that they have discontinued the bakery business and now devote their entire attention to the manufacture of confectionery and ice cream. ^^ Malcolm McNevin^went down to White's Landing early in the week to look^ over the country through which the government roads are being built. Colonists on the Sutherland estate are constructing a wharf at the Landing. W. B. Dean arrived-this week from Calgary, where he spent the past four months, ^Itfterest in the Fort George^ountry is very keen in Alberta, says, Mr. Dean, and many Calga'rians are preparing^to look this country over^this summer. • A Vancouver paper of recent date intimates that New Hazel-ton is to be the first passenger divisional point east of Prince Rupert. The same paper announces that Amunsden will be the name of a townsite to be put on the market shortly at the first freight divisional point which w'll be >on Anderson's' Island some distance west of Skeena Crossing bridge, Several parties of raftsmen and canoemen have arrived this week from up river.. They report things booming in the vicinity of Tete Jautie Cache, and construction being pushed for nearly a hundred miles west of the Cache and towards this point.. WorH is carried on 24 hours a day and seven days in the week._ The roar of explosives and the clatter of the. big steam shovels and donkey engines is almost deafening at several points, they say, i ELABORATE HOMES FOR LOCAL INDIANS Those who feel called upon, to express sympathy with the unhappy lot of the once noble but fast degenerating red man; with his lack of creature comforts and general wretchedness of existence, can save, their sympathy for some of their more/clvilized fellows—that is, if thi Dominion government's pjafis concerning the new habitations for the local tribesmert-afe carried out. Whenithe. Indian reserve ad-jojning this town was purchased tTy the Grand trunk Pacific Railway company for townsite and terminal purposes, the Dominion authorities contracted to erect new homes for the Indians on either of the other reserves the natives may elect. Plans for the residences and for. a church and school were received this week by local contractors. The government is evidently going to make good its promises as regards ideal homes. Oak door-sills, concrete basements, and weight-hung windows figure prominently in the specifications. % Local builders are in a quandary after endeavoring to estimate the cost of the work. Some of the lumber specified in the plans would have to be brought in from Eastern Canada and the cost of freight alone would run intc thousands of dollars. / The department of Indian Affairs must have a-'very vague idea of conditions here, or such plans would never have been submitted for public tender. Local-organizations are asking Ottawa if substitutions of materials can be made. GOYT. AGENT HERNE WILLJEMAIN HERE Mr. Thbs, W.Herne, who for the past yeaj>has been temporary governmentagent here, was noti-fiedyesterday that his appointment had been made permanent, This will be pleasing news to all residents of the district who have had occasion to seek information from and to consult with the proj yincial government's local representative. Mr. Herne was originally slated for the agency to be established at Fraser Lake, and came here during the illness of the late Geo, J. Walker, The provincial government have had ample proof of Mr. Herne's wise and just administration of affairs here and the Herald hastens to welcome Mr. Herne into permanent citizenship. FRASER LAKE CONSERVATIVES C At a meeting of the Fraser Lake Conservative Association held at that place on the 11th of last month, the following were elected officers for the current year:— X Ho£, President—Hon. Richard McBride. , Nl N Horu Vice-President—J. A, Fraser, M.L. A. / President—G. Cuzner, M.D, Vice-President^-J. Braithwaite Sec, -Treas. —George Ogston.! Executive Committee—Messrs. O. Larson, Fred Clarke, E. Goodt all, S.r Gs Ridge and Angus' Martin, ' DROWNED IN THE X GRAND CANYON Ludwig Wadman, a young German, agecV26, was drowned yes-terday/in the^Grand Canyon on the-iipper Fraser. With two companions Wadman had embarked atTete Jaune Cache in a flat-bottomed boat, their goal being Fort George. Knowing nothing of the danger that awaited them they paddled heedlessly down stream into the treacherous can-. yon whirlpool. Their frail craft was caught in the swirl and immediately capsized. The three men were thrown into the water, but thejtwo survivors managed to cling to the boat and after being buffeted against the rocks and whirling dizzily in the current landed near the bank, Wadman was unable to reach the boat and was drawn under by tl.e suction of the whirlpool. The survivors reached here today and informed the police of their companion's' death. stewarFlake .fleet in port More than one hundred years ago, before the white man's steamboat had awakened the echoes in the forests lining the banks of the mighty Fraser, South Fort George was the commercial centre for the vast hunting grounds lying to the four points of the compass. Within the past five years the advent of the white man in constantly increasing numbers has driven the trappers' quarry farther north, but the diminishing fur catch has been amply made up in the multiplicity of civilization's commerce that is daily transferred on the local waterfront. Yesterday morning there arrived down the^Stewartand Nechaco rivers from Stewart Lake one of the old-time scows manned by fifteen stalwart Indians, They will load about ten tons of mer-chandise^or Hamilton & Williamson's store at Stewart Lake, and with pol« and tow line will slowly work their way up the 150 miles of swift water to their destination. If fortune favors, they will reach Stewart Lake in two weeks' time. Down in the Fort George Lumber & Trading company's warehouse lie tons of merchandise for Seeback & Hubble's Giscombe stare, and next Tuesday the' big steamer Chilcotin will make a trip up the Fraser to deliver this freight at the merchants' door. If sufficient cargo offers vthe Chilcotin will go farther up-river, N The B.C, Express company's warehouse is also, well stocked withgoods for Stony Creek, Fraser Lake and points up the Ne-chaco. When their new light-draft steamer is completed, which will be in the course of the next threJB weeks, this freight will be delivered at its destination. -^^ The G, T, P, 4and and townsite department are reported to have a deal on now for a townsite to be located at or near Deckers Lake-at Mile 305. Harry How-son, who is-well known all through the interior, is" "connected with the deal. .)¦