PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN I Preserving Apricots Will Arrive TIuh Week. OKUEK NOW. C. C. Reid FHONE XO. 1. Win. Bexon & Co. Order Your Preserving Fruits Now. Cor. George and Third. PHONE 18. ???????*???????? : Gardiner ? : & Dupre' : ?????-?•??•?•¦?•??¦< Decorators Store Third Ave., Opp. P.O. I'll..in- 1 14 WALL PAPJEH ? New Stock Just In. ? ??¦?•???¦?•???????? Corless Limited Funeral Directors Agents for Monuments and Tombstone** Motor Antbulanre Quebec St. Next to Itoyal Bank Phone »7A Steacy and See Better. Scientific Eye Examinations. Steacy's Pharmacy B. C. BARN LIVERY, PEED AND TRANSFER Driving and Freighting Done To All Parts of The District J. A. PEERY Phone 46A. The Prince George Citizen A SEMI-WEEKLY ! Devoted to the Upbuilding or Prlncj George and Northern British Columbia. J. B. Daniell - Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Yearly - - - $3.00 in advance Half-Yearly - $1.50 in advance To U.S. and Foreign Points, $1.00 per annum additional. the provincial treasury in such n manner as to make it difficult to get access for funds required in other undertakings the government is desperate, and apparently intends to Lace its Frankenstein with the courage of a cornered victim. Mayor Mederlc Martin of Mon-•real was condemned to pay K. W. ; Uleneuve $fioo with costs of an action1 for $10,000 A COMMON POE Liberals, as well as the opposition forces of the provincial administration hailing from Central British Columbia, must be on the alert to forestall any effort on the part of southern members to butcher the i Pacific Great Eastern Railway, to I make a Roman holiday. There may now be a very real danger facing northern and central British Columbia in the matter of this railway's fate. It is conceivable, in view of the extent to which practical politics are now carried, that a sufficient number of myopic politicians may get together in the legislature and heave the Pacific Great Eastern Railway overboard from their little ship of state, in the fond belief, that, with this cargo jettisoned, there craft may weather! the storms and perils which lie in wait for them amid the dark clouds j of the horizon. There is every indication that j Premier Oliver has in his possession, as minister of railways, several high- i ly uncomplimentary reports about I the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, i which have come from the pens of j various experts called in by the government to diagnose the ailments of i the railway as it stands. It is also indicated that these reports will be saved up by the premier and cast I before the legislature to do wiih as I it listeth. This idea of "passing the | buck" is a very obvious course for the premier to pursue. He, has. on ! repeated occasions, made statements regarding the amount of money ne-. cessary to complete the work, but has found these estimates were ap-i pallingly inadequate as the work ', was resumed, and huge sums have been frittered away without completing the line, in which there is still a gap of forty-odd miles on the Quesnel-Prince George end with a big steel viaduct on requisition also. If this matter is going to be put before the legislature to decide it is up to the whole province to take a very active interest, in the matter. Vancouver' may be relied upon to see the light, and to oppose any effort to wreck the line that has cost this province a stupendous sum. There are enough narrow-gauge members of the house to see, in the scrapping of the P. G. E., larger district votes and more government patronage in their own constituencies, and it is this type of legislator that must be opposed in the plans afoot to rend the line, which promises much toward the development of the newer parts of the province. If the ministers wish to avoid responsibility for any action which might waste a huge sum of public money in the demolition of a railway that is all but completed, they should go to the. country with their intentions. Then the full responsibility for the financial condition which has been brought about through the government's plan of building, and replanuing, the P. G. Iv, from the time that it took the railway over from the Conservatives, can be placed before the. people. The reports of the experts, upon which one can but speculate at present on the basis of the rumors whicn have sufficient persistence to justify such •peculation, may seem to give color of right, to the legislature at its next session to deal with the railway in an arbitrary manner, but against these reports there are. other qualified opinions, such as that of John Callaghan, now deputy minister of railways for the province of Alberta, and other engineers and experts whose, views may entirely oppose those of the men employed by Premier Oliver. The public will want to know why drastic steps are being taken which may wreck the P. C. E. at this late date. The Oliver government has undershot the mark in its estimate. of the amount necessary to complete the line on every occasion. Its promises in connection with the railway have, never materialized. and with the railway line wound about MH. PATTILLO'S LATEST TRIP Minister of hands Pattullo is on his way to England on one of his missions. The Liberal picnic which prevented two other ministers of the provincial cabinet from stopping over In this city long enough to meet the people in public last week, meant nothing to Mr. Pattullo, who left for England to look for settlers on the eve of the affair. One of Mr. Pattullo's pet schemes is to secure a colony of settlers for the Stuart Lake country, west of this city on the Grand Trunk Pacific. He put this area forward to the British government last year, and although it appeared, on his return. ,that the suggestions submitted by the minister wore being favorably considered in England. The Citizen has on file a letter from Col. Lee Amery. M.P. of the British House, chairman of the overseas settlement department,• in which the colonel states that "the Home government is unlikely to take any steps to further the establishmen of settlers from this country in the Stuart Lake district."' With the Pacific Great Eastern Railway served up for the scrap heap and the pulp and paper mill at Prince George at a deadlock in negotiations with his department it is hard to know how the minister of lands will justify his latest jaunt to England as far as Central British Columbia's interests are concerned. The Citizen is informed the public works department, in engaging teams for road work, allows the teamster a day's pay on Sunday for looking after his horses if he is not the owner of the animals, but if he happens to be a settler and owns the horses being worked no allowance is made for tho Sunday. Just bow a rule of this kind can be construed as encouraging to the settler will rf'(|uir<' a little explaining. found imoom Lady Beatty, who was reported to have been robbed of a diamond brooch, valued at $10,000 in London. This brooch has been recov- Boys, Can you Swim ? Boy's Swirmng Suits in good quality Dark Navy with Red Trimings. REMOVAL SALE PRICE, KACH BaireTs (.()(>(> GOODS. 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