SOU-T-H FORT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913. $3 PER ANNUM Northern Telephone & Electric Co. Will Soon be Ready to Deliver Light and Power. on Believe- That Small Outlay. Water Haute via Crooked Rivyr Would 'Solve the .Transportation Problem. Thv lVace"' River settlers, located ,.,.i:i,i the month of 4he Pinlay river, reVctitiitriing the' governmerit to im-•,<¦;¦ Ok1 routes of acces3 into the re-,:,;,- cisiii; ry. in which they are pio-u'eriuit'. T^'o Herald has shown, in iv.vi.ius is/jo's, that-a route into the the current running strong irito a reef of boulders to wreck any small boat doming down. About twenty. pounds of powder and a week's work by two men would clear out this obstruction and\rnake a straignt- and safe-channel for anybody coming down. ¦' A pbstoffice established at the junc tion ofvthe Pinlay and Parsnip,- Peace River, would be.of great service, not only to, the settlers bat also to the prospectors and people generally traveling through the country. At present our nearestpostoffices are Fort' George, 210 miles distant, Fort tne ,of;t! Hi :Fon Comj this: Fft which is surely driving ¦..-•country from this place is l.St; james on Stuart Lake, which is 90 v/'.^ar.yto the commercial niiles off-the'Water routes. The mail ,./ British Columbia as a road coujd be forw>arded from Fort George/ i..uth to Fort George was in I and arrangements might be made with : when 'the future importance I the Provincial, Government's Forest deeper. mto the . foundation upon oint first became apparent. ; Ranger :or Fire Warden so that ex- South Fort Geprge cannot be better, chronicled than by the announcement *: which The Herald is privlegt'd to make this week, of the enterprise which is now practically a completed undertaking,, to light the city and the adjacent tbwnsites with electric light generated in this town.f In these* days,- when large undertakings are going forward on every hand, for the supply of such com: modities and • services as become necessary with the steady develop-m/nt of this, City, /it is difficult to adequately, se't/down in cold type the ¦/impression.1/df activity and action slowly- an'V the roots' of the permanent city here which it grows. For some months;past the North-post of the Hudson's Bay I sumrner months. \ In winter one o"r two ! ern Telephone and Power Company •or years in charge of the- pense could. be\ lessened during, the SOUTH FORT GEORGE RETAINMARNEY CUP Quesnel BallTossers No Match for Local Aggregation—Visi-• tors Good Sports.. y.oint Cull miles north of j- maiIs would be thankfully accepted, or | an enterprise formed and carried out nd 191.miles, north of the J an easicror cheaper route could be had u'iiie Railway, arrived-here j (vja Edmonton) to.Hudson'rtfope and Tu-Th :¦?!¦: from the Peace River. Mr. >i.>v.-a s'ett'le-f at the. mouth of i day river, together with a .,fevy j .>:>..'t-r.-. Whilst, here Mr. Fox! t<* * l.'t'tiiwa the following petition,"' ¦I i.!'U;ruv of which he drew to j eiitiori.:.; of the local Board of i and Conservative-. Association, j lini;" lEieir interest in the.. move-'j etion Finlay ancLJ'arsnip Rivers, ¦ '25th August, 1913. 1 Honorable Martin Burrell, ;.Minister of. Agriculture, a Ottawa, Ont.' Wo, the undersigned settlers' on forwarded from there. / Hoping this will impress you favorably, wo beg to remain, Yours Respectfully, (Signed by-Ten Residents.). Mr. Fox spoke strongly of the importance of improving the Giscombe Portage road, a stretch of only twelve miles of wagon road which separates the Pacific from'the Arctic watersheds, at a point thirty miles up the Fraser from this place. At Giscombe-Portage. the traveller for the Peace river must porta ;e his supplies, from the Fraser river over a twelve mile road which^ by Mr. Melville Brown, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a brother of Mr. Charles M. Brown of a well known mercantile house of this city, has. been busily installing a steam driven electrical plant on Lots 9 and 10, Block 15 on the river front near the Close & Brown Co." Ltd. The plant installed already will have a capacity sufficient to light all the townsite areas here, and. a large direct- connected unit will be added to the capacity as soon as circumstances will justify. The plant is driven by a high-speed heavily balanced "Ideal" engine fed by two large boilers. The generator ends on. the-shores bfc, Summit Lake, j engines, bedded in many pre-^piiomrin the northern part'of :the headwaters of the system of water-j tons of concrete, ¦ y,ur connituency,. viz., junction of the j wa>'3 which combines with .the Finlay j over the company i.;. i.......i ,,.....;..„ .:..._¦ r___.-_„. 41;- I from the north ami' forms the Peace, periods of darkness ,;.KJKlav anlr'i,r.sonie.;exploratio'n'' work for the I'Ovin'e ¦IWth (iovernment this season. lv first: needs of. a ne\y colony \uiiu°-aSy'an-' sa^e transportation along facilities and we beg of o uso your best endeavors, to get as possible at the yaHa5r'Vas arranged on the spur ofjtheinoment, in order- that' the^-local fight ,fans might, have Opportunity., of seeing the Vancotfver champion in action. 5reliminary pyent between Jack Cronin.J^a local men did not create rijacn excitement. been formed to supply c The match h Martin and Sorensen an event which showed I two Clever and well majtched men in ion. Martin had the advantage of being in the better condition, having boxed recently and had opportunity for keeping in condition, whilst Sorensen, on the other hand, came right out of a construction camjv, without any recent training. Ttie-bout lasted for six fast roundsT^the a.dvantage being in Martin's favor for aggressive-ne'ss As^boxers, the two" men were evenly matched. Gill, fbreed the nght- ^^liig throughouti but was unable' to His Honor Judge Calder, jof. tlfe | land any_._.. effective blows , through electrical fix-^tock of which the j has on. Band. This con- [ 1 be known as the Northern j lectrical Supply Company.¦¦ Demolition of Old Village Is Now Under Way—Indians Still Owners of Much Valuable Land Hereabouts,. ¦• The old Indian village,' a fow hundred yards up the Fraser river from this town, will, soon be a mass of smoldering ruins. Already the houses at the north end of the village have been burned to the ground to give way to the utilization of the land upon which they have stood for years gone by, for the purposps^ of the dominant race which has purchased their reserve for the future site of a great city. • Most of the Indians have 'already evacuated "their gone to their made village erected for them, on: the.' Goose country reservation fifteen miles up the Fraser from this point. The remaining Indians will move an soon as the steamer Quesnel can be socurcid to take their chattels to the' new locations. Home are going to reserve No. 3, at Duck Lake,' about 12 miles up the Nechaco river. . With the departure of the last of the tribe from their old haunts here, the torch of the white men will be thrust'into the remaining houses and the village will- disappear quietly ir a cldtid of smoke and sparks. Even the churchps^ofttie,. In- liouses and have new,, bright, ready- COUNTY COURT. County .Court, arrived here^ffrhurs-day and held, a session-of his court. The principal cases^were as follows: Crimina} appeal; Rex vs. Mike Donnoy,an, theft of $20, sentenced $50 or>10'days. _. .,- Sorensen's guard: In the third ro.und Sorensen forced the righting and. did effective work, but throughout j the fight it was apparent that his i wind was, not in good, condition, and he lacked the "punch. Martin is the Rex vs.'Eugene Fraser, theft of crack boxer o{ the Vancouver Ath-pocketbopHand $90,;Jour months. 1;- ietic"clubT"He ~ is a cool, strong Inthe civil cases Bvankow vs. the i fighter( .having a good" punch and- a long reach. He was fighting rather wild in the ring last night. If both men were in the pink of condition they would put up a great bout. The fight was balled by cliief 61 .police Dunwoody in the" sixth, round, just 30 seconds before time. Sore'risen was covered in "a crouch, stalling foT an opening, fend ,Gill was.landing heayily on his kidneys and guard, without any periods effect , when stepped in and stopped the Neither of the men shojvea any sign of blood in the, Natural Resources Security Company Ltd., and the Fort iGeofge, and Fraser Valley Land Co., judgment was obtained against the latter-firm. In- th« case of'Montan v&. Kelly for shooting a horse $150 damages was awarded, and in that of Dobsbn and Podle vs. Schmidt et al, $130 dam-'ages.. -.- •• . • : . '•¦. His Honor Ju'lge Calder is a judge who does not permit trivial technicalities of the law to interfere with his duti cs towards society. At the session now ended he stated that his court was "a court of justice, and not a court of technicality," jwhen a counsel endeavored to press a minor legal point. Am wliich Amongst . the^ne/w business houses week, must be-nTeritioned the commencement . uilding for a ladies' ahd children's ready-to-Wear establishment on Fourth street. The business has been established by "M rs.M Walters, .a recent ar-Tival"^Here, who has brought in with her * staff of mil linen and saleswomen. MisaPatterson accompanied .Mrs. WalUn to Fort G«org«. " dian^s will be burnecL^-the sacred, ornaments and thiT bell dedicated to their misskmafy priests being re-' the beautiful church on swerve No. 2. -v^ When the -GramKTrunk Pacific Eail-way purchased the rights of the reservation here, through the Dominion government, they agreed to build a new Indian village on the two reservations closest to this point; There are" three reserves in. a close radius of this place, situate, as follows; Reserve No. 2, where the.large village has been ..-built, containing 1310 acres, 16 liiiles up the Fraser. Reserve Nol 3, comprising. 305 acres, 12 Aiiles up the Nechaco, where the smaller village has been built, and reserve No. 4, at the mouth of the Mud river, comprising 115 acres.. The Indians have been^located here since time immemorial." The tribe to which they belong, known as the. carrier or Dene Indians, are supposed to have originated'' from Mongolian extraction. Father Morice, the well knowrr whose book, the missionary priest, "History of >-tlfe Two car-toads of supplies have ar-inAshcroft for^the P. G. E. conr ruction camp that is to be establishea at Kelly's .Lake. Tn^is camp will continence right-of-way work arids grading as soon as the material now in Ashcroft has reached the ground. A Paeific Great Eastern survey party* under Engineer Archer, arrived here on the steamer B. X. last Thursday night, i The party have been working between this-..point and White's Landing. The B."X. picked them up at the mouth of Canyon Creek, a short distancebelow the. Fort George canyon. They will work on the location survey in this section. / '-.¦.'¦ ; Northern Interior of British Columbia,' ', deals exhaustively \vith the}: strange tribes of Indians of these parts, and the - great pioneers who founded the fur-trade business of the old Northwest Company, and the later business of the Hudson Company, which in turn was -by the free traders ami merclva'nts of today, has written the^etity exhaustive ^re'atise upon^ttTeTsubject of tbe lives and tottfitioriR~of these very interestingoborigines. "Years ago, in the^days when only "the company" iield sway in the Fort George dis-^ trict, the Indians were> a wild tribe. Then they huntetT and trapped. Every man was allotted his country, and no trespassing was permitted. The Hud-.:son's Bay men of those; days often in; danger of thefh lives, and, Father Morice's work tells graphically ~of the I massacres Vhich took; place from time to time when the dreaded tribes of the Chilcotin plains would invade this country. There are Indians liere todayN who remember ]the execution of numbers of Indians who massacred the engineers -^hd were building the roail from Bella Coola inland from tlie cokst. The Indians were hung, at Quesnel. There are many of the band here who worked on the C.P.R. survey, through this section nearly thirty-fiv^e years — (Continued on p»»« 6.) x J. —