Saturday, January i m M'HE FORT GEORGE W 1} E KI y TRIBUNE "^ MANY SHIPS SINK DURING 1914 Lloyds Report Big Losses of VesseJH and Cargo-eH in Pacific Waters. Marine •insurance lossos during the closing months of the year made 1914 a poor one for the underwriters. The atrandlngs of the Danish motor-shlp Malakka on Bird Rock and that of the American-lla.wa.iiian freighter Isthmian, off Cedroa island, coupled with that of the British steamer Kelvlndale, on Anegada reef, island of Tortola, will, It is expected, run up to at least $1,000,000, even if the Malakka and KelvindaJe are salved. The year's greatest marine Insurance loss, in so far aa American Lloyd's is concerned, was in connection with the sinking of the Canadian Pacific L;ino steanieir Empress of Ireland by ithe Norwegian collier Stor-stad in the St. Lawrence river. The loss of the Emipress was practically total. SaJvors have been working on the vessel and have recovered $14 0,-000 in silver bullion that was in. the strong chest. For th|is work the wreckers have demanded $120,000 compensation, so that the underwriters will receive little consideration from the budlion recovered from the wreck. A second big loss on the St. Lawrence daring 1914 came during the month of October, when1 the British steamer Floriston was wrecked on Guion island on October 14, and a moiuth later was abandoned to the underwriters as a total loss. The Floriston had a full cargo of wiheat valued at $300,000. During the month of November the underwriters were hit by two losses in the Far East. These' innnrCOrC f AWCTITITCMTG stearodns were the Shirley and tlu AUUKtiOjLj Ll/NMII UlN 10 Norfolk. The Norfolk sailed from j ______ New York on September 13 with'a! Suggest* Organization for Bettering LESS DYSPEPSIA NOW . -HERE'S THE REASON Hie fact thai there is less.dyspepsia and wiQigestion in this community than there useu !/, u is largely, w believe, due to the extensive use of Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets, iTin.in.ds of packages of which we have "V"! i« j wonder we have faith in them. ¦Tu no questions Your word is enough for «; •!; Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets don't re-Bton.' your stomach to.health and make y-'ir digestion rasy and comfortable, we Want you to come hack for your money. Inev are sold only at'the 7,000 Rexall n.d in this town only by us. Three f>(Jc and $1 00 Stor, sizes, L'.j C. A. JAMES Central Ave., Fort George The litulo, Grand I'rairie and Peace River Kiiilway C'ompunjr. NOT1CK N can sess JOHN A. FKASKK. M.L.A. FOK CAKIHOO MEMBER FOR CARIBOO Conditions of Farmers Throughout the District. large cargo for Australian ports and on December 9 was wrecked by fire I and beached near Port Albert. The; Shirley steamed from Gotham on i .. , ,.......-......................----.........~~ September 18 for Hong Kong by way | Tnroug» tll° efforts of Mr. G. A. , the fomatjon Of Farmers' Institutes, of the Panama canal, and on Novem- Gaakill, who is taking a very active and stated that he considered orga- trict wer« not borne out by facts. Besides the matter of roads tfcre government had a staff of about thirty heads of departments looking after all phases of the farming industry and spent approximately $422,412 yearly in .the main.tena.nce of these. ¦ For the betterment of the farmers n this district, Mr. Fraser advised ber 2 was abandoned on Tire, several! part in the formation of a scheme nization of the farmers as of para- hund,nod miles off the Chinese coast.' looking toward government assist-' mouiljl importance. Through these Salvage operations are Btill being i , , , . . ,. . ! institutes government assistance pursued on the Danish ^^^Uaice In land clearing operations in Luld mort easily-be'obtained^ The MaJakka, but dt is beljoved that both ; tlris district, arrangements were <. government provided instructors ship and cargo will prove a total i made wiith the joint incorporation who were at the disposal of these • is hereby given that appli-¦ :il In: made to the Parlia-(,'anada during the coming thereof, for an act to incor-po:;t'.f y railway company under the. namo of The lirule, Grand Prairie) & Peace Ftivevr Railway Company,! wkh iiowor to lay out, construct and opeiau? a line of railway, telegraph and telephone lines, commencing at a point in the Province of Alberta at Urule Lake on the main line of th- Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Niii them railways, thence aorthweatdrly to Grand Prairie, thence northwesterly, to a point in th" I'••>¦. in<-f> of British Columbia, connecting with the terminus of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway at or within the Peace River Block; also commencing at Grand Praurie in tin.' Province of Alberta, thence northerly to the Pacific, Peace River & Athabasca Railway at or near the point where the said railway crosses tufc Montagneuse River, passing at or mar Spirit River Settlement and crossing the Peace River at or near gan, approximately four hun-.iles in all; AND to enter into et-ment with the Grand Trunk . the Canadian Northern Rail- organizations, but these instructors could not be expected to visit indi- loss. On the American-Hawaiian j committee whereby Mr. J. A. Fra- freigliter Isthmian the damage ails- ser, M.L.A for the Cariboo riding, tained to ship and cargo probably! was invited to address the mass; vidual farmers, but all Wjill bo estimated at $75,000. | meeting held in the Princess theatre j could demand their services, The rule of three was strikingly ¦ last Tuesday evening. Be I sides'' the institutes were kept sup- illustrated in the ocean mishaps on I Mr. F.roser's address was devoted \ plied with pamphlets regularly. As the Pacific coast during 1914. Three; mainly to an explanation of the as-atrandings occurred in Alaskan wat-j sistance to farmers, which is a part ers within a few days of each other,; of the general scheme for the de-wh^le the loss of the s.t«anie>r Ilan-niloi, off Saai FVancdBCO, was followed within a conipaJTp.tlv«ly short time by the stranding of the Malakka and Isthmian on the same day thirty uyles of each other. vcih)pmf>nt of the natural resources to assistance in land clearing operations the government, through these Insttutes, was able to supply stump-lug powder at a price less thaiu any dred an ag Pacifi ' >ASK FOR FIVE RQSESJFLOUR The World's Best Send for Five Roses COUPON fy «ndo« Ten Cent* Cook Book— BEING A MANUAL OF COOD RECIPES carefully choten from the contribution! of over two thousand successful useta of Five Roses Flour throughout Canada* Alto Uicful Notes on the various clasies of good things to rat. oil of which have b«iv carefully checked to4 re fore-presented in a deputation which collecting Information in all parts of tained by application to the agrii 'YNOPSIS OF COAX. MINING BEG I LATIONS irecently waited upon Sir Richard t the world In -regard to government i tural department of the provinc In speaking of general uii conditions, Mr. Fraser said h lieved t.h;il McBride and the Hon. W, J. -Bowser I assistance to the agricultural indus-. relative to the projected legislation j lr-v through a Royal Commission, the fixing a moratorium during the per- members of which had visited Aus-iod of the war. • ; It was urged upon the govern-! ment that it would be well to pno- Unlted States. This commission had vide in the bill fixing the terms of Elected a vast amount of informa- tho moratorium that outstanding ob- i Uon wnich was embodied in ....... .... . . , , , i opiirlv tiriiitcil rr.nort -mil he would I nii-nt B i'"st iluf.v was to as.sist m i!' ligations in respect to interest should *(-UL1- P'mu» npou. ami n< wuuiu • , .i .. <¦! l)p trhLfl to Rpp tlvit nmiis wore for- prost'ou ion oi I,he war. as was •''- r-wmain as they aire, the measure of;"L *uw w hLl "'•" ' relief which might be dev.ised apply- warded to any who cared to hand in ing only to sums of .principal. It wasil'10''r Iiainf's' argued that moratoriums were only In s')Wlki»S of lh" ^[bo° "Ulmp- Sald Mr 1"'!UW' but l anada s granted as a laat resort, to relieve j Mr- PV^wr said that the constituency a very serious situation, and that to | embraced 32 per cent, of the total 1) Central llnltlsh Columb tralia, Great Britain and European I »ad feJt the changed conditions ¦ countries, as well as Canada and the account of the war less than an (ii!n'¦;¦ portion oi the globe. He reminded his hearers that in ler present conditions the gwon the duty of every one in the "This is"'not Great U-ritain's make jit possible for debtors to escape the obligation to pay interest area of this province, and heroto-foro, owing to the lack of transpor- might have a disastrous effect in i ut'ion f«e'lities, it had born difficult financial circles in the old country f(xr tho representative t() »>:'k*' Rre-and discourage further Investments| ^^ visits- ^ihnl the railway ,ln this province. In reply, the deputation was assured that the terms of the bill would be aimed only at the protec- had boon completed it was gratifying to note that, thr- district had been visited by three (if the members of the expcul|ive council of the province tion of honest debtors who might be l^lng¦the past year, namely, the crushed by harsh treatment from no fault of their own. The government j Hon. the AittoTuey-gene/ral, W. J, Bowser, Hon. \V. R Ross, minister would be glad at all times to ^-\^J^'^^^^s^yU^' suit the commercial and financial interests of the country. BOUNDARY SMELTERMEN ' RECEIVE INCREASED PAY Granby Reduction Company Boosts Wages,. .Additional Five Per .Cent,, Starting Jan. 1. Employees at Granby smelter, Grand Foirks, have received a pleasing notice from the company jliiti-mniting tha.t their wages will be increased by 5 per cent., commencing January' i> When the Granby re- niLnl&ter of public works. The premier had coii'toinplated visiting this section during the past year, but the vlsiit had been postponed, on, account of the extra, work placed upon him byjihe outbreak of war. Many minor depairfcmeata.1 officials had also visited the district, acquiring .information at first hand as to the requirements of the district. These visits showed conclusivcyly that the government was to the importance of this vast new district, awakening under the quickening influence of .railway transportation. Mr. Fraser said tha.t there was usually a tendency in all new dis- sumed operations recently to relieve I triots to criticize, the government in operations in the Boundary country, j the matter of appropriations. This the men went to work at a reduction of 25 per cent. The Granby have now seen their way clear/and will allow an increase in wages, the men afitor January 1 receiving a reduction of but 20 peir cent, below the old scale. There is also teivdency applied hero equally with Other sections of the province. To show that much of the criticism was unfair, Mr. Fraser went on to show thait during'the past five yea.rs a total of $890,000 had been expended by the government. In road building. a probability that I Five- years ago thorn was not more the Granby will shortly blow ,in two more furnaces at 'the smelter, in- than ton miles of roads north of Quesnol While today thore wore over creasing the number in operation i G00 mjiles of wagon roads. Oonsid-from four to six. While the copper orlng that, settlements of farmers market has not maintained its recent were vory badly scattered through- raise, ,it is understood that the plant out the district, and many hew set- can bo more economically operated tlors were coming in, -he with an increase In the battery of tha.t remarks to the qlToct thought that the furnaces, and this will be given a governmenit had been negligent in the your war, It is a war ;<> save selves and our institutions. We not afford to hold .back a dollar. duty of our government is to a ,;n this war to thi- ut must. "The poople can help he go moil I to discharge its duty iim sponsibilities in this master bj asking Loo much. If the govprii is not able to give you all the ;i ance you ask for, carefully con your criticisms. Cojisi the tic task of .mobilizing, equipping an.l transporting to the front tens thousands of men and you will '¦• allze why it. may not be possible : ¦ the govern meat to give you the same measure of assistance in the future as [in the past. "Your motto should bo, Look veil after your own business and lot the Coal mining rights of the Doniin-n in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and in a por-' >n of the Province of British Co-1 . 'iibia, may be le'ased for a term of ' enty-one years at an annual rent-i! of $1 per acre. Not more tiian .'5t)0 acres will be leased to one , .; I'licant. Application for a lease must be de by the applicant in person to ! ¦ Agei:t or Sub-Agent of the dis-i -t of which the rights applied for i situated. !a surveyed ' territory the land st be described by sections or •^.Subdivisions or sections, and in : surveyed territory the tract ap- •d for shall be 6taked out by the ;; licant himself. :0ach application must be accom-l .ied by a fee of $5, which will be inded if the rights applied for are available, but not otherwise. A .Uty shall be paid on the mer-atable output of the mine at the • of five cents per ton. he person operating the mine .1 furbish the Agent with sworn irns accounting for the full ;aatlty of merchantable coal mined pay the royalty thereon. If the j I mining rights are not being oped, such returns should be fur-;«d at least once a year, he lease will include the coal ing rights only, but the lessee be permitted to purchase what-available ourface rights may be •idered necessary for the work-of the mine at the rate of $10 an < »r full information application ild be made to the Secretary of Deapartment of the Interior, Ot- •' i. or to any Agent or Sub-Agent l 'oruinion Lands. "W. W. CORY. I 'eputy Minister of the Interior. N B.- -Unauthorized publication of NEW FORT GEORGE HOTEL Central Ave. and Winchester St. FORT GEORGE, B.C. First-class Accommodation Large, Airy, Comfortable Rooms Kitchen in charge of expert chef. Dining-room Service Unsurpassed STRICTLY EUROPEAN PLAN Write or Wire Us For Reservations Port George Hotel Company, Limited, Proprietors. C. H. Colgrove, C. E., E. M. CONSULTING EXGIXEEIt Mining l*roiu>rtieH Examined. FORT GEORGE, B.C. t govemimnut prosecute the war. Bond this advertisement -will not be paid every effort to the careful preserva- for. tion of all your resources, as Lhe ~-------—--------¦----------------------- governinvei^t may need yqu,n sorviccs missioner for the International In- and your wealth before'this disastrous war is over. Be as economical \. in all lrwiittors aa possible. "In conclusion, lot me say that 1 ,< will do the best possible for you in : relation to all matters partainlnt! to . your dis-trict." (! On motion of Mr. It. A. Ciurney. seoondod by Mr. J. H. Johnson, .i hearty vote of thanks was lendwi'il , to Mr. Praser on the completion oi his ad dross. J. FOHIN CAMPBELL CIVIL ENGINEER British Columbia Land Surveyor Timber Cruiser and Land Agent McGregor Building, Third Street south fort gi;ou<;i; Representing Goie & McGregor, Ltd. IV <). Box 121 P. E. WILSON BAUKISTER, SOLICITOR, Etc. Haight Buikiiag PHIXOE OKoiUiK IIEUBKUT ,J. I'AYTON ARCHITE C T poran OtTk-e over Prince Licortte Kestaui tint PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. tries. He also points out that tin wastage in horses in botli liostih (.'ouutrics must bo iremendous, tlie home supply inadequate euid the difficulty of importing any considerable number fornudahle. II" doclares that the situation is already acute aiii.1 is constanUy gruwing worse. rOSTOI'TLCE SHOWS BUSINESS Il'KVIVIXG Harry M, Burnett .VKCIIITliT AND CIVIL Temporary ©Hlces UliOC'K ISO, I'lUXCE GICOUGK FOOD CONDITIONS IS DIAL MON.VUCHY ARK SRUKUrS T. K. Uohorty Kollevcs Situation Will Eventually Cause Down Tall. That the food condi'tions both in Austria-Hungary and in Germany have, already become serious and tlvrea.ten to prow exceedingly aciiU-by l!)lf. is the opinion of T. K I'" trial. matter of road-building in this dis- herty of Ottawa, the Canadian of Agriculture, wtoich has its quarters in Rome. Mr. Doherty igli his position has exceptional :tunitic8 of studying the world's Problem. • He has been giving attention to the situation in i !'iany and Austria-Hungary, and; uade an interesting analysis of iiroblean as it affects those two tries. The over-running of Ga-•t"d Eastern Prussia, by Russia, links a se/rious matter for Gerund her, ally, as these are agricultural provinces, points out that Galicia, which ; ¦w almost coinplfstely in tlu> \,OtrRussia> produced two years ¦-.458,000 bushels of rye, 14 4 -1 00 bushels of potatoes, 22,848,-'[ wlu?at and 30,820,000 bushels ]-s- This loss to Austria-Hun-, Qe r.egaixls as most serious. » JruBsia is equally as impor-, cl,!M)i) for Pe-cuniber, 1913, ami $t>3P.f>tiii in l.'e-comber of 11'111. The revenues for ill"1 three nioinhs showed a sligln di-crea^f, but with December's increase the showing for lliu nmi>¦ moiiilis nf the liscal yoitr is a favorablo une. K*or the 1L' months it is expin-ieil thai them will be a substantial increase over last year, Por i!i> iiine iiiotiths otvtling Di«ciMHbnr SI, I:11 1, th» revenue was $11, IS'J.TS", wh.ile l'(>: tin-saint1 period of a yf.ir airo the i<*\-enue was $ 11,12S,71>fi. an iucn-as.. o! $6 0,0 74. Ten years nno for tin same period the ri>\ eiuic was but $-1.-472,600, an increase this year ot ?6',700,OU0. Mason & Henderson Builders & Contractors Estimates Furnished Fort george,b.c. HIGH-GRADE WATCHES Gold Jewelry Expert Watch Repairing 1 T