PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
VOL. 24    NO  35.
PRINCE GEORGE,  B. C , FRIDAY,.'DECEMBER  10th,   1920.
Splendid Standard Curling
Rink Is how Completed
1 INK BUILDING IS COMPLETED AND HE BEING FORMED—LEA£K SECURED BY OLUB FROM CITY FOR BLOCK "E" ON THlltl) AVENUE FOR NOMINAL SUM—BIG ASSET TO CITY.
The curling rink is now completed, and has been handed over by the contractor,  A.   P.   Andersen,,  to the club!    The rink is of »standL.rd size and the building Is 160 feot in length iml  33  in  width.     It is constructed on one of the city parka, known   as ', Block   "E,"   near   the  Crescent,    on! Third   avenue,   and   is   a handsomer well  lighted  and  constructed build-ing.    Block "E" has been leased to | the  Curling  Club by the city  for  a | long, term  for a nominal sum.
A   large   consignment   of   curling' stones   have   reached   the   city    and' have ben delivered to the secretary-treasurer, and ice is now being carefully formed by the process of hon-uycombing the sawdust base in such a manner that any heaving of   the ground in winter will not affoct the ! ire surface, as all this is taken up by the nir Bpaces.in this base, which is now  being made? by small  and fre-quent    applications    of    Water. • A caretaker is now at ihe rink day and night   who   attends   to   the   ice   pro-Stones AJrrivc.
At a largo and enthusiastic meet-ing  held  last  week     the     following officers were elected: President, Mr. P.   E.   Wilson;     vice-prgsident,   Mr.' Thomas    Ogg;     Becretary-treasufer..] Mr.   P.   W.   Steacy;     ice  committee, Sergt.   McLeod,   Mr.   Ernest   Jones, .Mr. P. W. Steacy, Mr.  Robt. Harper and   Mr.   \V.   Beal.     The   executive consists   of  Messrs.   Hornsby,   Sergt.
McLeod,   Robert1   Harper  and  J.    H. Johnson.
•   Mauyt New Our lorn.
Many new curlors are coming in, according to the report of the secretary, who will be given the privilege of playing the following seasons over next yeaifs members, when the membership will doubtless I* greater than the ac» 'mmodation. The club now haB 65 members signed up and can give membership to fifteen more.
The following citizens have subscribed $100 each for the construction of the building, which is standard in every way and has double observation rooms: Dr. AJward, A. P. Andersen, Tho«. Austin, I. H. Baird, Dr. Ewert, R. J. Garvey, T. Griffiths, J. Ilagen, J. H. Johnson, p, \V. Steacy, Robert Tyrhunst, F. G. Taylor. A. Leith, th^ Northern Hard-wan- Co., W. P. Ogilvie, P. E. Wilson. The Prince George Curling Association was incorporated at Victoria on the 6th inst., as a private company   with  a capital  of  $10,000.
A resolution was passed at the lust meeting giving the ladius the privileges of the rink for $!j membership fee.
In addition to its normal uses as a curling rink, the building will prove to be a great asset to the city for such purposed as the fall fair and other purposes which demand just such ii large covered building as a rst  requisite for success.
Proposed Pipe Line From Mackenzie to Behring Sea
AMBITIOUS PROJECT. IS BEING CON TEMP LA TED FOR PIPE U*E PROM MACKENZIE BASIN TO TANKERS IN BEHRING SEA VIA THE RAT RIVER TO THE YUKON  RIVER.
WILL   CAN   WIUTEFISH
PROM NORTHERN LAKES
Wluteflsh Found in Northern Waters Will Become Another of Canada's  Fish Assets.
FIVE
SIR GEORGE FOOTER
MARRIES IN SWITZERLAND
Minister of Trade and Commerce, at
Ago of 78, Takes Second
Bride.
OTTAWA, Dec. 9.—The announcement of the marriage of Sir George Foster, minister of trade and commerce, to Miss Jessie Allan, at Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday, whehre Sir George iB in attendance at the League of Nations, cornea as a surprise to his ipore intimates friends and associates. Sir George first met Miss Allan when attending the Imperial conference in London. She is an English woman and has travelled extensively and is a writer. She is 45. Sir George was 73 in September last. His first marriage was to Addie   Davies  Chlsholm.   of   Ottawa.
JOHN KEEN HAS
VERY HIGH HOPKS
Former Speaker of   Legislature  IW-
lievea That Absentee Vote Will
Elect Him.
VICTORIA,   Dec.   9.r    "Beaten, yet
watch me. and for my win- of December 22nd," John Keene, speaker of the last Legislature and candidate for re-election wired today. The last returns gave Colonel Lister, Conservative, a majority of :'."> over Keene. Hon. l>r. King, minister of pub-lie works, has had his majority in ('ranbrook increased by four votes, according to the official returns of t'ne poll received here today from the returning officer. This gives him a majority of 23. There are, however, 9 8 absentee votes, and these will be counted after December 21st. This 'may affect both Dr. King's and John Keene's chances for better or for worse.
6'Bone Dry" Alberta Faces
Long Wet B. C. Border
ATTORNEY-GENERAL BOYLE OF ALBERTA J» UN CONFERENCE WITH PREMIER OLIVER AN 1> HIS CABINET TO DISCUSS DIFFICULTIES OF ALBERTA'S PROHIBITION MEASURE.
P. (J. E. COMPLETED
TO AUSTRALIAN CREEK
find of Steel Ha« Reached the Australian Ranch, Formerly Owned by  Cariboo Member.
VANCOUVER, Dec. 9.—Returning today from a regular monthly inspection tour of the Pacific Great Eastern, General Manager Huck-worth announces that' the end of steel has reached Australian (.'reek, which is fifty miles north of Williams Lake and only twenty miles from   Quesnel.
Australian Creek is'just south of the well-known Australian Ranch, formerly the property of Yorston Brothers, of whom John Yorston has been re-elected as member for Cariboo in  the provincial  Legislature.
BOWSER  GOING   STRONG.
VANCOUVER, Dec. 9.—Mr. liow-ser left for Victoria tonight. "I'm feeling fine," he declared. ''I have had -a* Chance to catch up on some sleep I lost during Oie strenuous campaign.      I   am   looking   forward
j with vigor to the coming legislation
i that will be introduced."
VICTORIA, Dec. 9.—Hon. J. R. Boyle, attorney-general for Alberta, met Premier Oliver and his cabinet and diacussed, informally, the whole prohibition and government' control situation. The purpose of his visit is to secure information on the way British Columbia is likely to handle its liquor with respect to exportation to Alberta. Mr. Boyle said Alberta's problem was serious, as it has voted bone dry but has a border line from the 49th parallel almost to the Arctic.
Plants for the convention of tho Moderation League were advanced at a meting of the provincial executive of the League held in Vancouver on Wednesday. Another meeting will be held on Friday to complete a programme for the forthcoming convention, which will admit delegates from each constituency in the province at a ratio of three for each sitting member. The Liberty League of Vancouver Island will | be represented. It is the purpose of the League to maintain an active organization, and the convention will largely decide the policy that'will be followed.
Canada i-s to add waitefish to the world's appetising canned foods.    A factory for canning the whitefish <of j northern Canadian lakes is to be es-j tablished on Lake Athabasca, Alber-ta.     Whitefish  swarm, in  t'hese  nor-, them waters, but owing to the lack j of   transportation   and   refrigerating j facilities, they supply only a winter j market.    They  are taken     in     nets j lowered through holes in the ice and j strewn  on  the ice,   where they are frozen in temperatures that make all j outdoors a great refrigerator.    They are hauled on dog-sleds U> the railway and shipped all over "Canada.   A United   States  market has   been  established in Chicago and other west'-, em cities.
Also Abound Here.
These fish are also found in    large quantities in the lake* of this Fort George district.    In the early days they used to be fished for by squaws j through holes in tne ice, and dried tor dog feed.    In Stuart, Babine and j Tacla Lakes  they abound,  and they are also found in v.akes near Prince George.
In summer the industry in Alberta ia suspended because the  fish spoil > before they  can  be got to market", j Living in ice-cold water the whitefish of  the Canadian north  have a finer llavor than those of the more* south-' e<rn   latitudes.     Canning   tliem   will give the industry an all-year market. Whitefish are one of the most rxten-sively marketed of fresh-water fish. t Vast quantities are taken    in    the Great Lakes  and.shipped    all   over Eastern    Canada    and    the    United  even  in summer.
OTTAWA,    Dee.   n.—The   conveyance of the oil products of the Mackenzie   River   Basin   to  the   Behring Sea  by  a  pipe line,  from  which  it would be carried by tankers to    the markets of the world,  is the ambitious project for which sanction will be sought from Parliament   at    the approaching  session.     The  proposed pipe  line  would  be laid     from    the i Mackenzie River to the Yukon River j system   by  way  of  :iat     River    and j Dell  River, thence by the Porcupine and Yukon rivers to the sea.
Dr. Thompson, member for the Yukon, states that the late William Ogilvie, commissioner of t"he Yukon Territory, predicted many years ago that this method of getting oil out from' the. Mackenzie River Basin to the market would some day be adopted.                                       '
THE   CITY   HOSPITAL.
The City Hospital hri* been fairly crowded lately. During October t wenty-three patients registered, with ten minor operations and one maternity case. Sixteen patients were admitted during November, and eleven minor operations, five major operations and one birth. Miss A. L. Boggs, one of i"he nurses, left on December 1st to assume tht; matron-ship of the Penticton hospital. The local staff now consists of matron, three nurses,  janitor and cook.
THE  SIGNS  ARE   RIGHT. Asked  by The Citizen  whether he J had   received   any   word   fro'm     the j coast  upon    the    pulp    proposition, J Mayor   Perry,   M.^L.A.,   stat d    thfe I afternoon   that   he  had   not   heard, j but  that  he  would only  have   been j called  in  if  there had been  difficulties developing.    The signs are right.
ORDER HAS PASSED TO
RENEW OLD QUALIFICATIONS
Order-in-Council  Passed  at,  Victoria
Which Permits Agreement of
Side Qualifications.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the G.W. V.A. again reminds all those interested that iliere will be a whist drive
I in   the   G.W.5V.A.   Hall   on   Tuesday
, evening next, 14th inst.
Information has been received at the City Hall by Mayor Perry that an order-in-council has been passed at Victoria, according to the request of the municipality, which permits agreement for sale holders to qualify for office, as has been the case in the past'.
SCA N Dl NAVIAN    SERVICE.
The Rev. John A. Kilsen, a Scan- \ dinavian Lutheran minister, has | come to this city and will conduct I serviced in the Scandinavian language on Sunday, December 19th, and! afterwards. Further announcement ¦ ¦will be made next week in this col- [ limn.
Powers Must Not Monopolize Authority of the League
ATTACK ON SYSTEM OF EUROPE AN STATESMAN SHI I* BY NEWTON ROWELL ON WEDNESDAY— BIG NATIONS MUST RELAX SOME OF THEIR  CONTROL IN  LEA GUE TO SMALLER POWERS.
TRADE   LOOKING   UP.
POSSIBLE  LADY AMBASSADOR.
CANADIAN  VIEWPOINT IS
ACCEPTED BY   LEAGUE
Formation  of Permanent     Commissions  to  Consider  Matters Urged by Canada.
GENEVA, Dec. 9.—The L'eague of Nations Assembly's second commission announced it accepted the Canadian viewpoint on the formation of a permanet organization to consider finances, transportation and health matters. Under an agreement arrived at today three commissions will be appointed to consider these three topics, but they will comprise specialists who will work in conjunction with secretaries, and not as individual bodies with power to act.
WHO  WON THE MONEY?
VANCOUVER FLYING CLUB.
VANCOUVER, Dec. 9.—Vancouver Plying Club has been formed with the following officers: President, Mr. J. \\T. Hobbs; vice-president', Mr C. A. Harriett; executive, Messrs. A. M. Penny, C. V. J. Me-Parlane and J. E. Hurfilow; secretary, Mrs.  W.  Harrison.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—TTho net cost of the war to the United States government was fixed by Secretary of the Treasury Staton at twenty-four billions. This represents the adjusted expenditure of the treasury, excluding all outlay which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war from April. 1917, to June j 30,   last.
The Citizen is informed by Chief of Police Sinclair that 250 trade licenses have been issued in the city
LONDON,   Dec.   9.—It   is  not   im- this year, netting the city the sum of probable   that   the  British     govern-   $4125.50. ment   will   appoint  a   "l«dy   ambassador"  to the  United  States and  at the same tome invite     the     United States to reciprocate.     To Lady As-
tor,   who   advanced   the   suggestion,
<;. w. v. a.
The regular meeting of the G. W. V. A.   will   be  held   in   the   Afssocia-
Premier   Lloyd   George   has   written I tion's Mall on Monday evening at 8
GENEVA, Dec. 9.—That the League of Nations will never work smoot'hly until the big nations relax some measure of their control for the benefit of the Smaller nations was indicated on Wednesday in a debate in the League Assembly. The incident that showed this was an af-tack on European statesmen and European management by Newton Rowell, former .president of the Privy Council. He said: "Fifty thousand  Canadians are under    the
thut he is giving  it his  sympathetic   o'clock.    All members are requested   soil of France and Flandens as part
consideration.
to be present.
FOUR GREAT AMERICANS FROLIC FOR A DAY
Irene   Castle   i'-i    '"The      Amateur; Wiftf" is one of the new film release attractions   at   Dreamland   on   Mon-dav and Tuesday.
When we boar of such men, as Henry Ford, the automobile marvel; Thomas Edison, the electrical wizard; John Burroughs, the great naturalist, and Harvey S. Firestone, the great rubber king, having a reunion, we naturally think of splendid hotels and a large city as the site of their day-of-frolic together. Not so, however, with them, for the one day that tiiey set aside each year is spent in the country. This year they all reported at Yama Farms Inn. at Napa-nocb, N.Y.,. where they cast aside all formalities and cares; forgot that they are really great men and romped in frolic like so many boys. They indulged in woodsplitting contests, telling yarns by the fireside and being just ulain hovs once more.
of the price Canada paid for European statesmanship. It was European policy and European ambition which drenched the world in blood and precipitated the situation from which we have suffered, and are still suffering. We are not prepared to allow any European league to settle the world problems for its."
DANCE TONIGHT BY GIRLS'
HOSPITAL  AUXILIARY
VanderboojF Orchestra Is Being Imported for tho Occasion—Promising Social Event.
The Girls' Hospital Auxiliary has organized a dance to be held tonight in the Ritts-Kifer Hall, the success of which is assured when it is mentioned that the enterprising young ladies have engaged the services of the Vanderhoof orchestra, which is coming from that point especially to play for  thip dance.
The Vanderhoof orchestra had made arrangements to stay in this city, but its plans have been changed and it must now be procured fro'm Vanderhoof -at considerable expense. This dance i,s in aid of the Hospital. md in view of (Tie expense involved t is hoped that the attendance will )e a large  one.
The Christian Endeavor Society-will hold its monthly social at the idrae of Mrs. Nash, Millar Section, it 8 p.m. December 14th.