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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
VOL. 4. N<>  46.
PRINCE UEQJROK,  B.C.,  KRIDAV. APRIL l«.  1920,
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KINK CENTS
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[lot is indicated to overthrow government and form alliance with soviet russia to make war upon france—republicans organIZE FOR DEFENCE.
'ARIS, April 15.— The German Government lias decided to place iards around Government and other public buildings and has scut
>r fifteen large tanks and twenty armoured ears because of rumors
a new attempt to overthrow the Government for the purpose of
rming an alliance with Soviet Russia tn declare war on France,]
according to advices from Berlin today. Social Democrats have issued an appeal, advices add, calling upnti
heir adherents to register for the defence of   the repuhlic against] :ir internal enemies with arms in hand.
fltOPOSAL TO STAItT                         CARLSON   ACQUITTED
AN AUTOMOBILE CLUB                          OP INCEST  « H V
ul  Motorists Propose Starting an  >f««»K«" Case of a Sailor's  Romance Auto club in City—Many Cars               Which Started  Orra  Twenty
Owned Here Now.                                        Years Ago.
Following   an   interesting     letter ritien  to this    paper    about    two e"bs    ago hy Mr. Alleyne Wright, ops are now being taken to form an utomobile Club in the city.   The rent   large additions to the numbers 1 cars in use here have given an im-: etua to this proposal, and it is un-lenstood  that  motorists will  shortly. dine together for the purpose of in-ugurattng a club In Prince George.
The (unctions of automobile clubs re many and varied, and range from Influencing necessary legislation to protect the motorist and the public-to clul) insurance, road signs, arranging "safety first" principles, keeping streets clear of broken glass, etc., likel> to damage tires, keeping -rlioi.l children off the streets, mak-; Ing siinill road repairs, etc., for the general ben^fll fit motorists in their [locality,
The   lli-ilivi;i\   Act. in   vi.w  of   the  heavy automobile raffle over the city's roads it  would ii.   well  to point  out  the regulations which are In force under the British Columbia "Highway Act" in respect in 'mis and tires, which must be considered If good roads are to bp    the ,
•  ogan.
i' 11.1 «¦ 1   this  Act  wagons and  t'our-
•  : ¦ eled   vehicles shall   not,  east     of 1   i'ascade Mountains, carry si load
'.. • moss of  tho following:   On  tires
3  inches in  width,  2000  lbs.;
Hies  "  inches in  width and under 4
hes, 3000 lbs.;  tires 4 inches and
'' 1  ¦". inches. 6000 lbs.; and tires ¦   in hes in width and over r< Inches,
¦" His. and over.
Th«» Vancouver Club.
i ho Vancouver Automobile Club lias done much valuable work for mo-10; its on tho coast. It aims amongst ¦'h. r things at the following objects: Wore good roads, more properly-marked highways, more arrests and convictions of motor thieves, fewer ioy-rlrlera (a polite name for motor thieves), more just and fair legislation for the ..motorist, fewer acci-f ''•'ins on our roads and streets, bettor speed regulations, less discrimin-;itory taxes and fees, more and better i.mring information, better and more euicielu parking regulations.
PRETTY (JOOI) DOPE—
THAT CHINESE MEDICINE
"Medicine**   Taken   From   Chinamen
by Police Found by Analysis to
1'outnin  RO p.c.  Alcohol.
a sequel to the defence offered ins the police court here some time ago' occurred in the magistrate's c urt re-i cerrtly when Chee Song, who protest- j ''I that alleged intoxicating liquorj taken from him by the police was! ''Chinese medicine." was again haled lieforo Magistrate Daniell. A return ¦ iioni the provincial analyst showed that this liquor contained 78 percent of alcohol 'above the 2i/, per cent' allowed.
f>llier cases in the police court recently include a few drunks and dls-! orderlies and some smnll boys with; catapults who broke a store window! ;i«nl wore made to pay for It. Their'; lethal weapons now repose in the! Police museum.
A  MEAL WITH  MUSIC.
Hie special Sunday night dinner at 'ne Alexandra Hotel is becoming 'inite a feature of the big hotel's en-'"' '"Ininont fixtures.      Mr.    Helagno
'ipplles the music, which is sufficient EUftrantee  of  the  excellence  of   this
•rvlce.
T!»e O.W.V.A. at Smlthers are hold-ll'B a dance on the 26th inst. In ad-'""un to the Smithers orchestra, a 'lill> drummer is being sent for who will come from Rupert.
A strange case which reaches l>a<:k, into the past for over twenty years came before Judge Uobertson ai Ihe South Fort George court on Saturday last, when a man named Olnf Carlson was acquitted on a charge of. incest preferred against him by the' city police.
The case hung upon the questions Of the man's relationship with a girli whom the crown sought to prove wasi his daughter, and with whom improper relations with the accused' were alleged.
The following strange evidence transpired during the course of the trial. About twenty years ago, Carlson, a sailor, left Norway and eventually landed in America. Six years after his Arrival he received a letter from a woman in Norway claiming' I hat he was the father of her child. Accepting this statement. Carlson said that he would bring the woman ;ind child out to America as soon as )\o was in a position to do so.
When the war started Carlson joined the Canadians and was four times wounded and once passed (luring the .war. While in England he was joined by the woman and her daughter". He stated that she did not appear to be the same woman, nut hC' married her in order to protect them, uml eventually they cam.' here. The girl was in an interesting condition, mill it appears that in order t<> pro-tec! her he introduced her hern as his witi' mi gome occasions. ! On oath the girl stated that she bad been the victim of a soldier in England whilst I under two influence' of a drug
Me. Alex. Young, in defence, dwelt; luron the point that the relationship] was by no means proven, and that no improper relations  were proven     l>y . the ($vLA9n.ee, between    the    accused iiinl   the   girl,  who  had   sworn     that these relations had not existed.    Mr. Voting put up a brilliant defence, and the court acquitted the prisoner before his case harl closed.
In the prosecution, Mr. Finland,] for the crown, made the most of the ovidence afforded l>y the star witness for the crown, Carlson's wife, but in, face of the doubt in the important matter of relationship his efforts to secure a  conviction were unavailing.
ROYALTIES!
A   gentleman   with   horny     hands' breezed into the local Forestry office; this week  to pay  his royalties  on a lot of cordwood which he had  been1 cutting for   the   local   market.      He hated to part with the money earned by the honest sweat of his brow, but particularly did he regret this financial parting, as he was under a misapprehension owing to the title given to funds collected by the crown- -the title of "royalties."
Said he: "I hate to be working for these here Dooks and Duchesses in England—it ain't right! "
The Forestry officer asked what.1 he meant.                                              (
"These royalties we have to pay," said he of the horny hands. "That's I what they are for, I tuke it."
It took a whole lot of explanation! to convince the man that, owing to this outworn and ambiguous title under which the government's dues are-collected, this money was not. as of; old. a contribution to the royal privy! purse.
Settlement  Areas.
"In agriculture, mining* ami him bering," said Mr II. ('. W. Lett, industrial and colonisation agent of tho G.T.P. Railway, "im part of Canada is enjoying more prosperity than Central British Columbia. The government of that province is now about to throw open live new hj-riii settlement areas adjacent to the Grand Trunk Pacific line. Each of these areas will be of approximately fifty thousand acres and are situated in the Uulkley and Nechaco Valleys It In conservatively estimated that jo,nun settlers will go into this territory daring 1920.    The preponder
ance of these settlors will come from the United States, us the American farmers are appreciating morn every year the opportunities offered in the opening up of these areas where lam! is available at a  low valuation,     The
British Columbia government is as sistlng these settlers by taking In stock. No less than thirty-eight hundred head were taken in and sold to settlers last year."
A> to climatic conditions, Mr. \.<u said: "It is excellent; they have winter weather, of course, but no long periods of extreme cold. As the coast is approached, at Terrace din trict, for instance, destined to be an Immense fruit and vegetable country, the climate is ideal. 1 can justify my statement by telling you that out of twenty-nine days of February, nine teen days of bright sunshine were experienced. I consider this a record hard to equal In America. From reports received, zero weather had not been experienced   this   winter.
•'There are reasons for Terrace having this delightful climate," said Mr. Lett. "It is situated only 9fi miles from tin1 Pacific coast, on the Skeena River, and of course the Japan currenl being at its besii just oft iliis portion of the coast, the temper-rlures are sine to b'- moderate, The Kitsiimgaluui Valley, to the north. ami the Lakelse Valley to the south; Bi'O only separated from sail water l.> low divides,, and thus, fresh air currents are always movitig, and do not allow tor cold  temperature.
¦ As ii r.-Niiit of this combination. Terrace is rapidly becoming famous, not only for its climate, bill for   th*>
excellent.....f    Its    farm    products.
Strawberries and other fruits reach perfection, and when I say thai potatoes yield over t'.nti bushels per acre, 1 am i)"' exaggerating One farmer in that district who has had considerable success in the growing oil tomatoes is completing arrangements for live planting of several acres this
orile  Sivas;.
On Mi.iiii.i>¦ of liist week a bold. had Ii n iKla r ln'olie into P, I'avicb's '•i'iii.Tii(.in;ry store on Third avenue ;iinl r"i..awiiv wjih the golden prizes iin.ii<f"ii for ihe lucky customers v, ti... working on tin- principle that ¦'Columbuji took u chnnce." poke hoi.'- in ,i h-utieh-hoard In ihe hope "i   gnlit.
(in h'ridtiy ninlit of last week, deducing the fad froui the burglar's happv choice of gold punch-hoards, Ihe ^.niie ni.iii. apparently, broke into Munro'x utoj-fl ami soparaod the till from $18.0f>, From the scene of this coup he visit.mI Sam Long's establishment ami again won all the golden imiihIi board prizes, ami later on he evidently entered the Taylor poolroom hy a back window, but no losses tire reported al this place.
The police are now looking for a man • mothered with many small gold roin stickpins, who will probably be wearing a choice collection of alleged gold pieces done In the form of watch lob.8 Not alone Is he being looked for, bui at ni^bt he is being listened For, for the jangling of. the watch fobs will be heard afar off.
(in .Tuesday a man named John Acknian was found wearing a pair of rubber boots that had been stolen from the home of Mr. Van Somers, vanishing with some tar-paper and a razor strop. The latter articles were found hiililen in his bed. The man proved lo lie a section band, and he was arrested at* the station when, :111<>111 |o lake a train. He was sen-tHiiced to two months' imprisonment al  South Fort George.
\ 1O1;.\TI\"<;   FOOD  ,\«i-.
CHICAGO. April 15.—Charged with
violating the Lever Food Act, twenty-lour leaders in the insurgent strike of railroad switchmen were under ar-resl in Chicago tonight. In all thirty warrants were issued ami railroad ,unl brotherhood officials declared the last bulwark of the local ifltrke hail been broken.- C.o\ eminent agent-, said two hundred other warrants would   be  issued   larer.
Don'l forget the tea dance tomorrow afternoon In the Ritts-Kifer hall in aid of a worthy charity This tea dance Is given under'the auspices of the l.O,D.K
Investigation Is Saddling
Blame in War Saddle Deal
GOVERNMENT BOUGHT WAR SADDLES AT $75 EACH AND RESOLD THIS YEAR AT $5—LOSS ON THE DEAL FIGURES OUT AT SOMETHING OVER $32.000—INVESTIGATION TS PROCEEDING.
CALGARY, April 15. Details of ;i deal in cavalry saddles, m which 1 lie Militia I 'epnrtntcnt purchased saddles here 'lunno; the war at about $70 each and kept them i:i store, and tben resold t,, the Great \\ i-st Saddlery Compari) tlii- year at $5 each not-fit, were revealed hy inve$tigati*iu yesterday. Thesy saddles, of which there are seven hundred, had been wholesaled out to Sedond-hand stores at an average of $n an outfit, and arc hcinc rHailed at price- which make the outfits cost Ski complete
An official at military headquarters toda\\ admitted that saddles had been sold at $5 each l>y th.f government. The total loss suffered by the government in the deal, after deducting $35*000 they got on the resale ..f thf saddlev, figures out at something over $32,000.
\V\Tsi>\    \M> FISIIEK
CASES FOK MONDAY
I'nnliei     Churges     Against     Police-i
< 'omiuissioner Watson—< 'iis<>N
ItemAiitled   for  .Monday.
In hoth the ''iuM.n case and   the Fisher case  remands were granted by Magistrate Daniel! until Monday next when   hoth   the accused  will  appear 1 for preliminary hearing.    On the application of Mr. W. V. Ogllvie. counsel for Police Commissioner Watson,; further       time      was      asked       for to  prepare  defence,  and   in  Fisher's1 case a remand was granted to allow the accused more time to go into the, city hooks for the purpose of investigating entries    which    the    defence claims  may  account  for  the  alleged* deficiency, owing to the inexperience] mid inefficiency of the accused.
In addition lo the first charge laid, against Police Commissioner Watson,i of attempting to hribe a police officer, an additional charge was laid thisi week hy Chief of Police Stewart of actual bribery, which will he added to the charge already standing' against  him.
Al,. JOHNSON SELLS
CASTLE  I'Olt $11)0,04to
Pioneer  Itotelmon    of    South    Fort
fieorge Obtains Big Figure for
His   Vancouver  House.
CAN \IU\\   NAVY OP OSK, Mft
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WOXIH'I'Fl'L 1 IsH CATCH
i-'oii i!ti<» at in ri:
I'acltlt' Terminus of G/T.l'. Is lU'W i\\\i  Centre  of  <jie.it   I'i-liini:
Industry.
During 1 M!' the total catch 01 lish landed ;it Prince Rupert a in on nl   to   (58,778,90.0   pounds',     Of    1 11 in OlUit    4(5,888,400      pounds      w handled   ii»> Canadian   bottoms;   • 380,000  pounds represented  tlie -inon  catch,  which  was valued at proxlmately   $4,607,903.      The   hi but oaten in   1919  at   Prince  Rup amounted lo  l *;.4 rr;.27<•  pounds
?   It.VNK  OF COMMF.IJ< F.                ?
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?       Telegraphic   advices   received   ?
?   here this week frem Mr M   I>.   ?
?   Hamilton, inspector of the Can-   ?
?   adian  Uan.k of Commence') who  ?
?   visited   Prince  George  recently.  ? •f   say  that   the  bank   will  open  :i   ¦*¦
?   branch   here immediately              ?
?     Premises were secured for thiji   ?
?   latest        addition        trr    Prince   ?
?   George's   banking   facilities   by   ?
?   arrangement     with     Mr.  F,   .1,   ? *¦   Shearer,   who   secured   for   the  ? ?•   hank   the   lower   floor     of     the   ?
?   building recently moved next to  ?
?   McKay's store on George street.   ?
?   which   is   now frying   remodelled    ?
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138 Car-Loads of P. G. E. Steel
Consigned Here Cleared Customs
ril'TY CAUS ARRIVED HHItK THIS WEEK .\M> AltE BEING I \-imDKD IX MATinUAl, VARDS—GRADING) WILL (OMMEXCK AS SOON AS KllOST LEA\"RS THE <il5()l\l)—RAILWAY SAW-MILLS  ARE  ACTIVE.
A meeting of the Kort Qeorge Game Protective AsHoeluVjon wllWie held at 3 p.m on Monday,>|H»H/2«thl In the sitting room of the Prince George Club, in the Rugglesf l.ulldiiig. C.oorgo street to elect delegates to attend a meeting of the Game Conservation Hoard at Vancouver on May .,rd 0 flK tho open season for shooting MK game during 1920. aecretury-Treus-urer Ogllvle requests the attendance of all members and other persons Interested
For   track-laying   on   the   factual tirent Eastern Railway south of this point,   IMS carloads of .sieel were re: cently cleared at the boundary epn-( signed to Prince George.    Fifty <ars of  this  steel  arrived  here  this  \veel< and are now  being unloaded in  the. company's niaterjal  yards across the Krnser  River.     Other  shipments   >>f construction   material   that   have  arrived are 500 tons of railway spikes,' 3i)Q Ions pf tie plates aud 700 hridge stringers,     These  Irflter Bavo  to  he shipped  in  from  the coast, owing  to (he size of  the  timber   which     they must   be   cut   from.     They   measure: Sxlfi inches and are 30 feet  long.
Al the present lime there are about, 150 men (working out of this point,' but this number will be greatly augmented as soon as the frost loaves the: ground, enabling Ihe grade work to! be commenced along the face of the, high cut-banks across Ihe Kraser.. Along these banks the grade will have to be cut in considerably further from the rjver. Hundreds of thousands of yards of  material  will
havu  in  lie  moved  along  these   embanks before  tho grade is in  a per-, million I    location,   and   eventually      ill
rock quarry will have to be opened: up to rip-rap the river side of the grade a I  this point
The mill   which  has  been   running! under   Mr.   W.   \V.   Clark    at     Stony Creek,  has  CUl  ahoilt   700,000  feet 6fj brjdge limber at  thai  point, and has now been moved to Red Rock, which,; is   a    point   at    Mile    16 south   from Prince Ceorgo.    At this point the mill will cm about a million foot of luni-' her.    Mat Rntterell'B mill at Bednes-I Ii,   I it   miles  west on  the G.T.P..  has! cut  over a   mjllion feet,  which is he-' ing shipped  to the    material    yards over the G.T.P.
A new arrival at construction head-nuiirters   is   Kx-Lieut.   Fred    (Clarke, who served with the Railway Troops. | Mr   Clarke is a well-known engineer! in  railway  construction  cjrcles.    He| will be engineer in charge of track-laying and grading on this end of the; work, his district extending as far as, Q lies lie I                                                                     j
<;overiinicn(   Defer*  Action   in  Xavnl Policy—Accepting Light <'riiis«T.
OTTAWA, April I". In the .Senate Sir .lames Lougheed made a stats-ment in in-half of the government on the naval policy The government had decided to defer in the meantime action in regard to the adoption of a naval policy for Canada, he said. The general question of the naval defence! of the Empire, he said, would come up ftj the approaching Imperial conference, and meantime the government had decided to carry on the Canadian naval service on pre-war. lines, accepting the offer of the British government of one liKht cruiser mid two torpedo boal destroyers to lake the place of .the present obsolete and useless training ships the Niobe ;i inl  Kainhow
lOIiK FOli .1 ASI'KIt IM1JK.
A shipment of ninety-two \ouuk .Ik from the Yellowstone National Park, I'.'S.A . has been received al Jasper Park. Alberta, and arc being placed in the Valley of the Athabas-ka, which is 11 splendid range and natural habitat for wapiti This shipment represents part of a herd hoing purchased by the Dominion Parks department for distribution to
the National Parks of Canada,
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SAO DEATH OF
MISS ALICE SAVAGE
Succumbs to Blood Poisoning Before Her Father Can R^arh Vancouver.
Word wae received in town on Tuesday of the death of Miss Alicej Savage, t>f ..Vancouver, second (laugh-1 for of Mr. John Savage, who has been j doing business here since September. Mr. Sjavage was not Hied lust week of the sudden serious illness of his daughter and left for home on the llrst available train, which was ThUTs'l day morning, but owing to mud slides and other mishaps coincident with travel at this time of year, he did not reach Vancouver until late Saturday night, and found that his boloved girl had already passed away. Miss Savage was sixteen years old, a bright student, preparing: for matriculation this coming June. She had always enjoyed good health, but a few days before her death n slight abrasion of the skin on her face in some way became infected, and in spite of all the doctors could do blood poison-1 iim developed until death relieved her. She was laid to rest in Vancouver on Monday morning. Much sympathy is being expressed throughout fhn community for Mr. and Mrs. Savage and their three surviving daughters, who will all feel this loss keen-lv.
A   recent  issue of  the Vancouver
Province reports the sale of the Al. Johnson interest in the Castle Hotel, to a Seattle hoteltnan, for a sum or I100-.000. Mr. Johnson did not own the Castle Hotel, but had a long-term lease of it, and his nale is for the furnishings and lease only. The purchaser is C. Kahn, who has a string Of hotels  in  the  Western Qtates.
Mr. Albert Johnson was the first hotelman in the Fort (leorge country He is a pioneer hotelman of Cariboo, and years ago he ran the old Occidental Hotel ;it Quesnel in partnership with Mr. Frank Hofercamp. Later he ran a hotel at Ashcroft.
The first hotel erected in South h'ort George by Mr. Johnson was burned to the ground on the dawn of Dominion Day, 1911. just before il was actually completed. Mr. Johnson immediately proceeded wilh tho erection of the Northern Hotel, which dots stHtnl* empty sit South Kort Qeorge. It is understood that he will tear this hotel down shortly and util l/e the material In building cottages in  Prince George.
hi the old Northern Hotel Mr, lohn son 'amassed n fortune during the days of railway construction. Hja bar-room at that time was one of the sights <>f the early days It was 'or great length and behind it ther** ranged     hi  one  time, day  and night
;i lur'g.o force ,,r bartenders who siipplieil the crowds of frailroad wi.rkei:- with liquid refreshment.
While s'tjll running the Northern Hotel Mr. Johnson acquired the Cas He proper I) in Vancouver Us locu. lion is one of the IjVhh 111 the city, a-ii f......s the Vancouver Hotel on Gran
Ville   .-t leel
What Mr, Johnson's present plans an- j> iii.i at present indicated, but Ills many friends here hope that he ivjll  again   look   northwards  for  new
<;. \v. \ . A NOTES.
The regular meeting of the ii. ^X V.A will he held in the dub rooms on Monday night starting at 7:30 p. in. sharp. Every mem her is requested to turn out, as there is consider able business to be tffaced before the meeting.
It is expected that ;> report will be received and read in regard to the bonus finest ion. Though some of out-old members seem to think that we shouldn't get it, still a fight is being made for greater pensions and some re-establishment measures that ar>> badly needed in a great many cases
The club rooms arc open again and running In full blast. Every night finds a bunch of the boys around. Have you been making it your rendezvous ?
XO ADVANCE IN THF
CITY'S TAX  HATES
Council Passes Ta« Rate of 25 Mill*.
Sum   Inadequate,  but   Special
Revenue Anticipated.
The city council this week passed the tax rate for the year at the figure of lasi year, namely, 25 mills. This rate is applied as follows: Interest and sinking fund. 9 mills; schools. 41 ., mills, and general, Hjj mills.
The rate is not 'adequate to meel the necessary expenditures, but in vl«w of the fact that there has been no change in the assessment, the mayor and council consider that it would be inequitable and unfair to raise the rate. Special revenue will be forthcoming from various sources.