PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
YOU
 (JKOINJK; B.Q.,  WKDNEHDAY. APB1L 30,  1919.
FIVE CENTS..
Treaty of Peace Ready Tomorrow
! SPECIAL MEETING OF
HOARD OF TRADE WILL BE   HELD  FRIDAY NIGH'
Considerable Property Damaged In Thursday Night's Demonstration
MINISTER OF LANDS WITH 8OLDHSRS1 DELEGATE TO
VISIT THIS DISTRICT
Secretary  Johnson   hns    called
,„.„   30.     Should   Premier ^1^^^                                                                                                              valuable jewelry.
J;;;;, ,£' [taly not return for   the   the City Rail.    It is cx^cU-d   every            '* *' ? J°°0' MaX SCh6nk" reaI       The   d«*°H"°n   °<   Max   Schema
signing of
 peace treaty, It would s,I uai Ion  a  more     serious
¦i Hi
an the departure of the Halation, aw tho Allies would ,,l tp lake final action with* nrticipatibn of Italy.
member will be in attendance.    Tho meeting is cahed for 8 sharp.
LOCAL MEN RECENTLY
Strike Threatens In Winnipeg
(Special to the Citizen). Winnipeg, April 30.—A big qe-up is threatened for May 1st.    With five thousand men out, the street railway
window demolished in the   Princess  Princess   block,   wbege  the     fixtures  his  trip  of  inspection  through    the| men, policemen and firemen and thir-'j'ock.    This summarizes the damage   were  broken   up  and  the safe rolled ' valleys of  Central  British  Columbia
estate office was wrecked, the inter- office across the street quicklv foliar of Conrad Hoiuharz' office suf- lowed, and. the crowd then proceeded fered a  like fate and a plate glass  to  Conrad   Reinharz's  office  in    the tive  to accompany the  minister   on
Victoria, April Ii6.—A personal invitation has been extended by Hon. K. I). Barrow, minister of agriculture, ta the provincial executive of the G.W.V.A. to select a represent*-
ttETURNED   Hun   OVERSEASUrought Thursday night when a de-Among. recent returned soldier Is| m</iBtrat'ion led by returned soldiers
,1 draft of the treaty is vir-j Russell   Craig,   who   went     overseas land ipleted and those in charge
,ut,t  it   will  be  finally  fin-
with   the   famous
G7th     Battalion After serving for a time with    the|the Holdiers allege, was made because
ind  civilians finally settled down. The attack on the Arcade building,
nrsday.    The latest count   67th he was transferred to the Gail- of a letter written to the city counc'l  fiiousand words in thejadian forestry Battali          d     ith      b
into  the  street.
lie It in a Hurry.
Tadin, .Schenk,   Reinharz  and   ex-chlef   Dolan   did   not     question     tin; to  depart     lrom    hence,   und
early in May. The department will hear all expenses of the trip. This action meets with the request of the
 made several months ago.
 the  fakeena,   Bulkley,  Ne-
G.W.V.A. Lands  in
 fiiousand words in thejadian forestry Battalion and with OLJSMN PLEDGE.
, by  Joseph  Tadin  and  published    in
number  of  other   local   boys  served   thei Citizen onthe 16th inst    Thereunder Lieut.-Col. Billy Cooke.    Rub- turned  men  further state that Tad-Ypril   30.—At   u     monster  sell left this week for Quesnel to visit! in's letter was intended  to discredit lt[on in Home in support of j his father.                                                &he city police force of which a war
i,in.ufs stand on the Adii-j     For sixteen years Hudson  Bay fac- veteran,  Alex. Stewart, Is chief con-,;inii.   the    citizens    passted ; tor  at   McLeod  Lake,   during    which   stable.
resolution asking for   time  he had  not  once visited a set-;     Tin- troublt tied   community,   Thomas   Hammett  some-   dav
without waiting for trains took   a tie-  <:htt<'° aild Upper Fraser Valleys wlU
pass early Friday morning with their faces to the <t>st. Also a number of suspicious characters believed by the police to l»u bootleggers wew given' running   irdciH by the authorities.
be examined and Mr. Barrow intends to decide upon new settlement areas for administration by the Land Settlement Board.
 f all territory given
CIU&mh Will be Protected.
had been brewing for       A   regrettable     aftermath    of    the and   on  Thursday  even-   disturbance   was  the     indiscriminate
NAVIGATION   NOW OPEN
ON THE FRASER RIVER
tr.aty  of London,   and   came to Prince George early in 1016  ing the Great War Veterans held   a  ordering from the city of responsible   lauiu-hed  on  Monday  at  South  Fort
,,i  Piume.    The asaem-land   although   past  enlistment    age. I special meeting at which it  was de-  residents  iirespective  of nationality.   George  and  next  Friday  will   begin
•¦•-nin oath, while the   he succeeded in geting past the mill-i cided to give notice to. some alleged   The Great   War    Veterans    properly   her   legular  schedule  of   fortnightly
wan rung, to   tary doctor and enlisted for oyeisea,! trouble-makers that their room  was  disclaimed all responsibility f6r this   trips to Soda Creek
 pitolen
 Among   thick and^test a delegation of bust-1 water is expected to increase greatly.
•¦' united.                                       .service.    He has just returned from  greatly  to  be    preferred    to    their  action and promptly tookrlhe offen-'     The stage of  water is  lowest for
<KK\S FATE UNSETTLED.           France where he experienced some of  company   as   citizens.     Violence    of  ders in hand.    While the orders for' many years at this season   but with
,  April 30.—Doubt has arisen   the   bitter   lighting  of   the  last   two  any kind  was forbidden and so  un-   dcpartuie   were   boing   handed     out'a few warm nights the    volume    of ,  whether responsibility for the  years.    Mr. Hammett has been given  derstood  by  the    veterans. .    German emperor  will  he In-   bis old position with the H. B. Co. at  those to whom notice was to be given   nessjaen' waited upon Mayor Carney
,,  the peace treaty, owing to   McLeod  Lake,   and   leaves  soon   for j were Joseph Tadin, and former chief   petfuesting'that the people be given] reported  to  have left for the south il  n   ..f the plenary session    to, the lone north land.                               of'police   Dolan.   who  the    returned'assurance  that  they  would  not     be; this  morning carrying the mails.
notion mi the report of the coun-       Joseph Mlljure,  is another of the'men say  was really the man,behind   molested should they fail to obey the:_____________—-
r  ..commending  his prose-  Prince   George   contingent   to  arrive j Tadin  in  making    trouble ""for    the' mandate handed put.    The mayor at
[this week.    His wife and family have present chief of police.
the  trial  of Senator  Humbert, I been  residing  here  during  his three' .   Accordingly, the meeting broke up
¦ I   v. iili  dealing  with  the erie-  years' service overseas.                         iabout  l't p.m ", the soldiers lined up   normal.    There is now nothing thatjai|d paul Wieland, two men well and
( ;iptaln     Mornet,    government       Soldiers   Morgan   and  Taylor,   iw'ojon  George street,  formed fours   and • ¦ r.   declared  that   the    only i old-timers  well  known  around   Fort j marched off in search of Tadin and
om the
c gave  the  matter attention  with j result that business soon became!
teen building trades are threatened. The increased cost of living is the cause of the new demand. The policemen and firemen insist on a salary of $140 a month, and the firemen will demand the same if the police get it. BOI>S1ILES OVERCOME.
Berlin, April 3 0.—Minister of Defence Noske said in a statement to David Lloyd George that Germany was hardly in a position to assemble 80,001) men for the maintenance of order. He said it was nonsense of Herr Barth to- talk about three million supporters of a monarchist counter revolution. Noske said he considered the Bolshevik danger In Germany had been militarily overcome. OABLE CONTKOIj.
Washington,   April   30.—'The   control and  dperation    of    all     United
The gasoline boat "Circle W."   is] States cable systems taken over    by
the government last fall, will revert to their private owners at midnight on Friday.
POSTPONED   AGAIN.
S,t.  Johns,   Nfld.,  April   30.—With
The   river   steamboat     B.X.     was
NEW  BUSINESS  FIRM.
Tomorrow    Messrs.    Wm.    Golder
would Indicate
trouble.
a recv xence   of   the : favorably known in the business life
another sudden change to bad weather   the   transatlantic     flight     has
i should be given out was I George,  are also among this
of this district, assume ownership of, been again P°8tP°Ded to  some time
Dolan.    Neither could be located and
that meted out to Bolo death   penalty.
arrivals.     Both   have  been   ojfefseas  procession disbanded with the under-       Dainty  Marguerite  Clark   at   the  provision   business   established   here'when  the fun   moon  ma-y bring  the
the  B. C.  Market, a fresh meat and
frorn two days to a fortnight hence.
for three years.
H. E. Carleton Has Contracts
For G. J. P. Railway Work
Threi   contracts have bejjn let for  ern end of the line in first-class con- f
m:\v thai nschedule;
standing that the "disturbers" would  Dreamland   t<uiifibt   nnd     tomorrow   »>' Mr. J. P. Enemark in 1911.   Both
be located next day.    A number    of! night. j Germans whose alleged activities and j
sympathies   had   become   distasteful
to the veterans were also tagged for ! deportation, and these included Rein-
iiarz and Schenk.
Up  to  the  time  the  soldiers  dis-
A   new   passenger  train    schedule
e main llne^of the Grand  dition. lie ejurtof here to Mr. H, ''of this city that will tax
Mr.
Four More Sawmills.
('. \\\ Lett, Grand Trunk Pa-
ciflc colonization agent,  was another of    that    progressive  arrival in the-clty on Monday even- according to    the    state-  ing.    With him was a party of prairie
went into effect on the Grand Trunk Pacific this week. The change affects only the westbound trains, and hereafter the time of arrival on Monday,   Wednesday     and   Saturday
| of tho new owners have long been identified with the butcher business in Prince George, and that they will make a success of their undertaking is the confident prediction of their many friends.
leaving Prince George at 9:35.
. Mr. \V. P. HiiU-o-. '. K.t! piesi-  capitalists.    ltcwfi's unufncittll\ '
: d general manager of the G.  thattb«*nr visit to this section was il
ho -jent     Monday    night    in-connection with the establishment of
George.     The   contracts   re- lumber manufactories in this section
o  will be  proceeded   with at  and   that   arrangements     had     been
fully completed for the building    of
.l-iinfuii  left  for  the  west   on  four sawmills In the district just east morning  to   look   over  the of Prince George.    It was said   that
i i mate >   put
the    expenditure  work   would   begin  <|n  these  during the  extreme  west-  the summer.
UK,   LUMUER ORDERS
KOR BRITISH COLUMBIA
I CONSTRUCTION ON P. G. E.
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
ir Syndicate  is  Back   of   Most  operations  Now   Proceeding  at    98-orossnl   Lumber   Enterprise              >|ji,. Camp, With Expectation of
Rver Conceived.                            Reaching Lac la Hache Soon.
slroni
>'urbi
Johi
>'ct iria,   April   26.—What   is   un-doubtedly the most gigantic lumber ontei; r se    ever    conceived,    and   a BChctne that ia fraught with tremen-poisibillties ia the development "' '•¦   British  Columbia  lumber into about to be launched by a syndicate headed by Percy M. president of the Mexican Oil - ¦ ¦;11j.iiny   of  New   York,   nnd ^rbuthnot,      financier,    well n   this  city.     The  syndicate known as tho Furber Lumber '    'nil  the operations   of the
¦   will be conducted on ft col-id  worid-wide scale.
have  aheady   been    placed " indicate, by British inter-cleljver  30,000,000   feet    of which"; In the event of a sat-
¦   agreement  being    reached
price with  tho sawmills manufacturers, will    be '!>' British Columbia mills.   I Illimitable Orders. lit ion  to this  huge contract j
states   further   con-i of returned
'Vi tmrrlij llI>'l Intiili
Mr.
 Apr.. 2b._Repori8  from the headquarters camp of the  Pacific Great Eastern Railway indi- rate that splendid progress is being  made with construction work.
 The construction headquarters of  the P.G.E. u> now a* 93-Mile Camp,  whore hundreds of men are tearing  up old glacial deposits and ancient  river courses for the railroad bed.  'lhe camp is situatod on a plateau  nearly  inixrfeet above sea level.
 The driving force of, the camp ik  J- A. Murdock, superintendent, a  man wilh ll lift-lo»K "experience ol  ra.iroading. In charge of the engl- "Bering work is Captain John B.  Bright, wall known in engineering  circles. Captain Bright worked on  ".<> u.r.K.u. and crow's Nest Pass  Hnrs.. He served in France with the  6ttM Battalion. On his staff are tour- teen me-n, eleven of whom are re- turned soldiers.
 in fact therefore a large numpei  men -on    construction
UlllliiT
¦a mill: lull
haa ¦hip.
»ot,
•¦Mil
'" landing from European in-j This Is  especially  true  of  the  cook-"'  hi illimitable quantity of'house.    Out of the twenty-live CQOke U will run into billions of  am!   helpers eleven  wear the service button, and two of them are l»   \M.'s
illl<i ft'lll keep tho British Colum-'iH'j-atlng day and night at 111 '<>' to supply the demand. f the big features of the eu-" is   the   method   of   delivery It Is proposed to construct •¦J'Pe of lumber carrier, which "'   styled  the    "demountable "'" invention of Mr. Arbuth-d which  the designers  claim " ('»st of handling by more cent.    This   method "r |li<v Miniultanoous building of along the lines of
i in fifty
.hulls
Th
 craft
 ppaft.  will be
 propelled    by
desti   ana 8ail8> <and on arrival   at
111. lO||    nil.,     l.jj   ...,,|_1,1.,    l.__,_____..
 th
U<1   Oil
(H' il is (lowi, i,
can bo; quickly broken up "' engines can be shipped back « Point of assembly and Install-By this moth-?ut the lumber compete     with
vessel. to
Europe to and
and three M.M.'s.
From Lone Bultd Camp grading is being .pushed rapidly, and it is expected that stool will be laid to Lat la Hache about June 1, a distance of 18 miles. From there the work will be carried to Williams Lake, near 150-Mile House, and may reach there in September, as the gruding is completed. From the lake to Deep Creek, near Soda Creek, steel may be laid by the time the ground freezes up,
" The bridge over Deep Creek will be 280 feet high and 1164 feet long, using 2,879,000 pounds of steel ano having piers of concrete over deeply-drlven piling. High as this bridge is, it will be exceeded by the one over Cottouwood Creek, south of Prince George, which, it is said. will be one oTThe world's highest,
the now
Polish  troops  having  driven Bolsheviki  from     Vilna,     are marching  on  Minsk.
Hungarian forces south of Budapest have withdrawn before the Roumanian advance.
banded the proceedings had been orderly and evidently without thought: of violent methods.    A  majority   of I
tiic soldiers dispersed to their homes j evenings^ will be  9:15   p.m., _ trains and it was thought all danger of destructive demonstration   had  passed
Nearly two hours later a group of soldiers and civilians gathered opposite tho Arcade building, when the destruction of the front of that build- j ing commenced.
German Opens Fusllade.
Mayor Carney, who had arrived on the scene, states that the first stone was hurled by a German resident of this city, a perfect fusilade of rocks and missiles of all kinds followed and the destruction of the interior of tho building was rapid and complete. Martin Zadelovitch, half-jwner of the building and Tadin's partner, informs the Citizen tht n addition to the damage wrought, a large quantity of dotting, blankets and his complete stock of provisions were carried away, also a typewriter
hoped-for flying conditions. STRIKE IN NEW YORK.
New Yc*rk, April 30.—Fifteen thousand longshoremen were ordered out at slx-a.m. today. Their demands include an increase of from 45 to 50 cents an hour.
BORN.
Robb.—In Prince George, on April 2 4. 1919, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robb, of Aleza Lake, a son.
Walton.—In Prince George, April 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Walton, Aleza Lake, a son.
tonight:
Marguerite (lark in "Hubs' Matinee Idol" a»t »!•<• Dreamland Wednesday and Thursday. Another of the famous Kub-Deb.  stories.
m»v ¦¦ t.,^.y»jp^»               MR. W. P. HINTON,
Vice-Prosident and'General Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
Special Train of War Veterans
Will Pass Through Prince George
______c____________
A special train carrying Lieut.-Col. |     Last evening Mayor Carney wired
eck. V.C.,  M.P.,  of Prince Rupert,; Lieut.-Col. Beck askng if it would be
and about  two hundred members of J possible to hold the train here for an
his battalion, will pass through this   hour  or two so  that the people   of
city about May 10th. Through tha efforts of Colonel Peck this continent has been routed via the Grand
this   district   might   have  an  opportunity  of  expressing  their apprecia-
tion of the gallant services of the Trunk Pacific, and thus the people'soldiers of Northern B.C. A repl/ jf Central  B.C.  will for    the    first is expected from Colonel Peck today
time have an opportunity of yiewing and honoring a trainload of our vic-orious troops.
and if favorable, arrangements will at once be made for a fitting reception.
RAIMYAY   NATIONALIZATION.
Editor Citizen,—
Quite apart from the growing de-nand for the collectivist control of ndustries, special circumstances will orce the nationalization of the railways of Canada, of the United States and of Great Britain alike upon heir respective governments.
Canadian systems—j-the C. P R., the
natives have to be faced: Either failure to pay dividends on ordinary stocks, writh many bankruptcies; or Nationalidation. If Nationalization, the nation should pay at current values, based on current earnings, and. not at pre-war values.
Whether the railroads of these countries will better be able to pay interest on their outlay by becoming .the property of the nation or by being returned to private ownership is
3. N H. and the G | T. P.—the latter, Dy no means the most important con-wo have already had to become na-1 sideration. Of far more consequence .onal property owing to their failure i tnan whether the railroad will pav o meet their fixed charges and the|or not is first the remuneration and iracticar certainty that they could nours of labor they grant to theIr iot possibly be met for some years employees: whether these will o come. Even the C. P. R., perhaps ne richest transportation system in he world, has felt the force of hanged circumstances and has been .ard hit. In spite of an increase in ts  freight  and  passenger rates,  tho
able   them   to   enjoy   the
en-reasonable
comforts of decent citizens to which their labor entitles them; and second, what services the railroads will confer on the community.
.tier  materials,   have  eaten   largely                        turnpikes at intervals of
nto us net earnings,    u nh a gross |very few miles and all.vehicular and evenue   tor  1918   of - {«7,B87iJJ8(  otl  •             (  ^destrian, traffic, had
in increase of $5.14a,-6J over those  R> pa'y     B^i(l(.s th6 nulaance of de-
because station-be paid, removed and
unction of dividend earned to   ,   per •      tjonul   or   local   uixation.       Today
^"¦V   T r  1 ,"iaKe   UPt    I n    USUat    »° »Ill> would dream of returning to livKlend of  10 per cent. 3 per cent          f)1            j    aml vexatious system.
lad to be paid out of a special re-|The roads a/- n()W publi(. property, ,erve fund.                                              serving the public and paid for out
of public rates.
.The day will come when tho railroads will be like the ordinary roads —not only public-owned, but as one )f the great public utilities^—paid out of the public rates.
Think of the enormous  benefit' to
The past year's history of the lines ii Great Britain with increased expenses of more than £100,000,001 >ver pre-war expenditure, and of the Jnited States with an increased wage ,ill alone of $821,000,000 since the Jovernment took control, of which '65,000,000 have only just recently jeen granted, have been similar.
Had" the railroads in these coun-rieK not been govern men t-cont rolled md the dividends on ordinary stock iot been guaranteed at pre-war rates hey would have been either considerably reduced or in some -^ertses Aiped out. If the railroads were handed back to private companies he ordinary shareholders would re-eive but scant dividends. Prices of itock would crumble, and in Hie United States many roads would be orced into the hands of a receiver.
It is just possible that in the near future prices of commodities may 'all slightly, though there is little nance of their ^everting to pre-war evels. In the wage bill there is no ;hance whatever of any reductions; vages are up permanently, and more ikely to rise further than fall in the near' future, and the eight-hour day ,-here not already conceded will lave to be granted. With these cir- before  them,   two  alter-
these countries when travel'.jvobld bo Tree to all, and when the i leasuro, the educational and the social ad-mntagea now only within the reach of the few rich would be within the reach of the many? When the beauties and wonders of nature and art, the Rockies, tho Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite, the Canon of the Colorado, the ancient dwellings of the Pueblo Indians and all other treasures of the nation could be visited oy any and all!
Such considerations as the welfare of their employees as citizens of a great state and the services the railroads are performing to the nation will be the chief items to be considered. Following the public ownership of the railroads, tho public. ownership of the means of transport will be taken over—the lakes, rivers, canals and the great ocean-going steamships.
W. S.  DE MATTOS.
Prince George, April 26, 19919.