7 -tO0. TAXI BOSTON GRILL 25 and Largo Upstair Dining Hall, Ambulance with newly laid dancing floor for hire. Suitable, for Service dances, banquets and wed Anywhere at Anytime. ding parties. Stand Royal Hotel, 3rd Ave. For rattg, apply to Boston and 6th 8L PRINCE RUPERT Grill, Third Ave. MATT VI DECK, prop. '"'"Wit Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper Phone 457. VOL. XV. NO. 115, "VI li PRINCE HUPKIIT, H.C., MONDAY. JUNK 28, l'J25. Baturdty't Circulation 1,709 Stritt ! 530 PRICE FIVE CENTS. STRIKE IN CHINA CROP PROSPECTS IN Chinese Anti-Foreign Strike is Extending all over the Country Including City of Hong Kong LONDON, June 22. The Llmiii is rapidly increasing and the country, uecording to officiul Canton agitators tire urging thai the boycott already applied against British and Japanese goods be extended to United Stales product and propose a 2i hour strike as an indication of sympathy willi the anti-foreign movements. ' lluulerv agency cable from Hong Kong says the fourth dav of the strike there indicates that the city is witnessing a WOMEN ARE I FINED $300 It I I I Liquor Board Operators Showed Results or Month's Work In Police Court on Saturday A? a result of Hie activities of I ijoor Hoard operators who have occn in Hie rily for Hie pawl mouth or mi. ix-,wuinco Jroin loinut .Vvciiuc Tippearrd in the tiiy police court on Saturday af-ternooi on charges of unlawfully selling intoxicating liiuor and were rarh fined 300. The v'lntvn were Hulh Vernon, .leniieiii- Dubrav. W anda Gilluiu, YcH, Duval, Mi Id nil Guthic and Louise Moore. Each pleaded guilty mid Acting Inspector Spil-ltt- asked the minimum penally lie imposed. Magistrate McCly-iiiotil acied accordingly. There was a similar charge against Doris Hurnell who is out on bail and who was to appear today to answer the charge. She was also' fined $300. An eighth charge was laid this morning against Clara llrown who, on pleading not guilty, was rciuaudcjl until June 30. TRAGIC DEATHS AT VANCOUVER VANCOl. VER, June 22. - Five tragic deaths were recorded here Saturday and Sunday. Robert Lovall. 27 years of age, was drowned while swimming at nylish Hay. (ieongo Vanvlutt, n local youth, was drowned while? fishing at Slnvo River near Mission when he was swept off Hie rocks by the Using water, duo it is staled to the opening of the flood gales at Maw Falls. Saturday, William. Hint was killed when the bicycle ho was riding collided with a truck. Thomas Mhldlrtun. (13 years of n-re, was fatally injured when be tell .beneath, (he wheels of an in terurban tram and both legs were severed. He died soon after. The Richmond police report the finding of the body of Norric "all, U years of age, in the ITaser River. He had been miss ing from homo since Thursday WINNIPEG CHURCHES YOTE FOR UNION AND BRANDON GOES IN, TOO WINNIPEG, June 22. -Eigh-leen Presliylerian churches in greater Winnipeg district voted Sunday to enter the Union, in mist cases, by large majorities. Two churches in Hrandon also voted for Union but by small majorities. boycott or -goods foreign in i ii-e;itl i n to various parts of. iiifonnatiou reucliiiig here. ' j I'omliliun of affairs iinpanilelled in its history. Chinese in llritish land oilier foreign employ are beting inliiiiidaled in a inaiiner which is dislocating shipping ftllil ffilii Itipf'rilll mill ilii.mt ift v.. life. The hospitals are being de- serted ami the tramways are lied up. The strikers generally 'admit thai they hae no grievances against their employers but have been terrorized hy agitators. Stringent Regulations HONG-KONG, June-22. The government today proclaimed a series of emergency itwulalioii providing for the censorship of telegrams and letters and police control "T premises, vehicles, fuel and foodstuffs. The Chinese sailors aboard the Kmprcss of Asia deserted Hie ship today probably causing de lay in th sailing of that vessel. FISH ARRIVALS HEAVIER TODAY Canadian Halibut In Preponderance at Exchange Total for Day, 211,000 Pounds Canadian halibut was in the preponderance at the Fish Ex change this morning. I en Cana dian boats sold 1 1 1,00(1 while ighl Americans disposed of 100,000 pounds. Americans got slightly better bids for first class fish while any advantage there was in second class went In the Canadians. The Canadian boat Kaieu had an unusually heavy ealrh of :2.000 pounds for which Hie Catiadfitn Fish .& Cold Storage Co. paid I Lc and 7c. Arrivals and sales: American Eastern Point, 0,000 pounds, at 1 3.5c and tie, (o me Laiiaiuaii Fish .& Cold Storage Co. Alias, 21,000 pounds at 120 and 0c; Star I2,ooo pounus ai 1 3.7c and t'c, and Senator, .... -U,- . . 1 41 I P I 0(10 poimils at i-'.oc aim ol; iu Hie Pacific Fisheries. Rainier, 0,000 pounds; l.ora, t ,500 pounds and June 8,000, at 13.5c and tie, lo the Hooth Fisheries Co. Tahoma 13,000 pounds at 13.5c and tic, to the Allin Fisheries. Canadian Muirneag, 15,000 pounds at 1 1 .t-te and tic; and Gibson, 1 1,000 nuii. nt It ,5c and tic, lo the Allin Fisheries. Nuba 1.500 pounds at 1 1.2c and tie.: Livingstone, 17,000 pounds, at 11.5c and tic; Kaiciw 32,000 pounds, ul.ll.5c and 7c; Maude, 3,000 pounds, al 11.5$ and tic., and Fanny F., 7,000 imiinds at ll.ic ami oe, io me Canadian Fisli & Cold Storage While Lily ti.OOO pounds al 11.5c and tie. and II. &. H. i.OO pounds al II .tic and tic. to th ltoolh Fisheries Canadian Co. ' M. M. Christopher, 11,500 at 1 1. Cc and Cc, lo the Royal Fish Co. INTERIOR TRAP LICENSES I ARE REFUSED One Company Spends Over Fifty Thousand Dollars In Readiness for Opening of Season There is rather a bad mixup over the granting of trap sites' in this neighborhood, l or years! past Hie Americans have had' traps oil Pierce Channel leaJingi lo Portland Canal. Naturally Canadiahs felt that Hiey ought' haVe traps on the Canadian side of the channel'. Sites were slaked and appliiation.y'' made and-the interested partfes w;ere notified thai itluHr ; apic;dlJonsi hajj been accepted!? tti&'Nsiiec-. les" dniarlmcnl' and would be issued iftsfysfon gWUfc if' ' was seen that they were spend-1 ilig money on them. I Among the applicants were the Canadian Fibbing Company, a subsidiary uf the New England Fish Co. They received a letter instructing them to go ahead, so they spent over $50,000 in constructing floating traps in readiness for the opening of the sea-sou. Only a short time ago, however, I hey were notified that no licenses would be issued this season. Other license holders had been pliiiuling I" J-'o into the business, atnotur them being (leorge Friz- zell, who had a trap site also on the same channel Now' the Canadian Fishing Company is wondering who is going lo pay for the traps they litiill on Hie written suggestion or the fisheries? department to go ahead. FAKEDPAPERS ON B.C. BOATS Liquor Runners Had Forged Clearance Papers is Claimed YICTOHIA, June 2. Forged clearance papers have been used by 'liquor runners operating out of llritish Columbia ports, ac cording to word received here. Ill tho safely deposit box of the agent ot the Western Freighters Association 1iae been'. Tpuud Take return clearance papers from Mexican and Central American ports. The vessels have gone south only as far as the Farallons where they dispos ed of their stock and returned. MARSHAL JOFFRE ILL WITH QUINSY PAIIIS. June 22. Marshall Jo lire (HtlVcriug from a severe attack of iiiinsy and chill. Ow ing lo his advanced age of 73 his condition s causing alarm. PASSED BYLAWS. '.VANCOUVER, June 22. Tho latepayer? of this city on Salur day voted money bylaws aggre gating $135,000 for" expenditure on civic Improvements. GRADUALLY SPREADING EXCELLENT SK'Vfmtam HIHk jHlb. jjj III. Hev. J. T Kuld, D.D.. past president anil rector of SI. Augustine's Seminary. Toronto, recently elevated lo the bishopric of Ualgary, Alia. Jesuit Missionaries to Canada Beatified at Rome and Services Held at Scene of Martyrdom .MiuiVAU, uiu., June i'-. ion churches in Canada was recalled Saturday when more than six thousand people gathered ut on the banks of the luver Wye, orate the eight Jesstiit missionaries who found marlrydom al the hands of the Five Notion Indians more than three ceulurie? ago, when. Hie Order of the Society of Jesus brought the story or the Cross to -Hie unknown wilderness or the Huron and Irouuois territory. The service commenced exact ly al 11 o'clock when low mass was celebrated by 111, (Irace Archbishop McNeil ami al the same hour as thai at which the beatification of the venerable martyrs took place at an Impressive ceremony hi St. Peters, Itome. -The missionaries beatified were Fathers Jean Do Urc-' boi'iif, Cahriel Lalumaut, An ionic Daniel, .Charles Cardiner Nocl Chahanel, Isaac Jogues, and USralh oT Hie China Mission Semitic lay brothers Ilene (ioupil and inary, 'I'oroiilo: Chief. Justice John Do Lalande. Lalchford, Tonrnto; J. D. Mc- The event aj-oused intense in- Dougall, director of Canadian freest throughout the province National Railways; C. 0. How- aud more than six thousand pen - pie came from Toronto in a spc - Brutal Murder of North Vancouver Committed VANCOUVKH, June 22 person who used, un axe as a an Italian proprietor or a confectionery opposite the Lonsdale posl office in North Vancouver Hobbery was declared by the crime which, was committed shortly after midnight. The little t store showed evidences was crushed, in and there were head. The police found the blood - AND LUMBER BUSINESS GOOD ine neroic epoch ol Hie mot the ruins of old Fort Sto. Marie, al a special service to. comment rial Canadian National train The visitors included His (Irace Archbishop McNeil, Fathers ,J. M. Hloour- .Provincial Mipenor or the Society ot Jesus of Upper Canada; W. 11. lliugsloii, S. J Hector of Liola College, Mo.n Ileal; F. J. Smith, S.J., of (luelpli; John lturke, C.S.P., rec tor of St.. Peters, Toronto; Swl Kelly or Ilichmomt Hill; F. J. Caller, iSewfouudland; W. Mc- ! ker. general manager or the i Cent ral Region. Italian in Since Midnight in his Store Mrulnlly murdered by an unknown weapon, the body of I ratik llosso. was discovered Ibis morning. the pollen lo be the motive for of it struggle. The man's skul two .great slashes on the fore stained axe. Prospects in Better Than Ever Be fore F. G. Dawson says crops look excellent, lumber business very active, and everybody happy The fanners or the northern interior of Hrilish Columbia have the best crop prospects thej- have had in year?, slates F. O. Dawson, who has just returned from u survey ol tho whole in-lerior west of Jlazeilon and as far as Mcllride. The crups have hud plenty of moisture and look splendid, the lumber business is humming and there is a general feeling of optimism among Hie tanners uud others in regard Ur the future. Next year they Say they will plant a good deal of wheat for shipment lo the Prince Hupert elevator. Willi no assured mar-ket it had been impossible in tbel - past lo grow wheal with anyj confidence, although, a good iuany farmers. grew small quantities Willi much success. During his trip Mr. Dawson drove five hundred miles by Automobile and called at every village and talked with the farmers and merchants, spending twtj weeks along the line. He Is reluming tomorrow to Hazel Ion and will cover the rest, gf the nritbry betweeir'ttitvpollit'Slid Prince' Rupert. Lumber Business Active Speaking of Hie lumber business, of Mr. Dawson said that lucre were thirty, mills between Prince (Jcorge and Mcllride operatin;g lo capacity. The only mill . closed was that of the Eraser Lumber Co. which had been shut .down for several years and the Hultun Mill which was recently burned down hot which was to be rebuilt by the United Orain Growers. . The Eagle Lake Spruce Mills at Giscombe is just beginning to run a double shift in order lo supply the demand and Allen and Thrasher at Snow-shoe have just begun to operate their planef with a double shift lo fill a bi order just re'eeived. The pole and pile businesss farther west is being steadily developed. On the trip Mr. Daw son saw a whole train load oT poles and pile's being shipped east 'for delivery in the United Stales. Most of these were ship ped by the Hanson Timber & Lumber Co. or Prince Rupert and Sinilhers. Speaking of mining Mr. Daw-sun said a small crew had already been set 'to work oil the Dulhie mines near Sinilhers, getting the properly in shape for operation in I he near future. Attended Banquet Mr. Dawson attended a ban quel given at Vanderhoof to the minister of agriculture, Hon. 1- D. Harrow. The government has taken over and will operate Hie creamery there anil llie farmers are much pleased at the prospect. The 'roads in the interior are in very good shape. Mr. Dawson aid he drove in one ,day 100 miles from Hums Lake to Smith crs, stopping at right small towns eh route and meeting the people. Road crews are at work at both ends of the Hums Lake Endako road and I he w ork on it will soon be' finished and the road be opened for transporla lion. One small new Industry that Mr. Dawson mentioned was a butter cannery opened by A. O. Sturgeon at Forestdale. The plan is to cater for the demand in mining camps and from 'prospectors, trappers and others. The butter keeps indefinitely in the cans. Ernio Unwin has retiirned from a holiday trip to Jasper Park and Vancouver. the Interior s VANCOUVER NOT FAVOR UNION Refuses to Endorse Annexation of South Vancouver by Small Vote VANCOUVER. Juno 22. Rale- r&liti lite"! vrmt "i i '.W.-.V v.-ki ,; -. . 7uuir is, cut; un ui I aiivuuii.1 defeated the proposal to annex Soulli Vancouver by a majority !0U in Saturday's voting, while the municipality ndoised the scheme by a majority of 3,053. When the final ' figures were announced Mayor Taylor slated that he would demand a recount and expressed Hie opinion that the proposal would have been supported by" ' an - overwhelming majority if the citizens at large instead if the ratepayers only had voted upon the question. " A. ' ; PROROGATION ! SET THURSDAY I 3 X Much Business to do In Order to -Get Ready for Closing on That Day OTTAWA, June 22. Proroga tion of Parliament is not likely to take place before Thursday. Intensive work In both Houses will occupy the Intervening days if the House is to clo.?o by that dale. . The Rouse of Commons has to lispo.se of the Grain, Act, which is still in committee 'stage With some 200 clauses to ,be passed The Dominion Election. Act '"is also slill in committee. The Australian trade treaty and Home Hank Reimliursemeut HIM, which was itrasiicaiiy amended liy llie Senate, have to ho dealt -swith and tho supplementary estimates have to be considered and passed. GIVEN SHOCK BY TELEPHONE Man at Lewi -jt on Found Dead With Phone to Ear. During Electric Storm LEWIS TON. bUho. June 22 William Dwyer, a pioneer businessman was found idead' this morning al bis olllc?,yjlh a telephone receiver in bis," hand. It is believed death wa paused by shock received during an electric storm last night. . Two children were .drowned when the Assolin canyon flooded following violent rain. 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