25 TAXI nnd !je Mil Boston Grill Ambulance J.arge Ice Cream Upstair goes Dining with dinner Hall, Servica with newly laid dancing Anywhere at Anytime. ar""cm ,.;Vr. floor for hire. Stand Royal Hotel, 3rd A,ve. - r, NEW SODA FOUNTAIN, and Gth St. prince Rupert The latest and best for the MATT VIDECK, Prop. least. Phone 457, Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper V H XV NO, ?l'J PRINCE III PERT, B.C., MONDAY, SKPTKMHKR 21. 11)23. titurtfaf'l Circulation 1607 Street BalM, 47a. PRIOR FIVK OKNT8. CROPS i-eeat reeeplnm yester- - tiling hot re-entry in- I Hiitie. add re lie itiitter!iary i ,a, i r King reglm gov- ' for the country hut i' 'Milenl party. interest must lie ! hi Canada, said the un military imperial- PRESIDENT WAS NEARLY KILLED Secret Servlcn Attendant Yestcr day Saved Life of Chief Ex ecutive of United States W A IIINtiTON. JSepl. 21. - net ion by n secret serviee tnlanl saved the, life of l're- i'1 oolnlge yeslerdny when a 'Iiiij: indlorlst nearly strurk ni while ho was walking near ; W liiir House. The attendant timed the president by the (Milling li i in hack lo the li The motorist was SAILORS SWEPT FROM SHIPS IN A TYPHOON M AMI. A, Sept. 21 A typhoon, 'bed us ihe worsl In the p uerieiice of the country, swept '"ec sudors overboard from 'J"1 I uited Stales destroyers '"''I mid I'lllslutry near Tsing la" tllilna. nnd twii of Hie men " o ili'owned. AVIATORSVIOLATING UNITED STATES LAWS WASHINGTON. Sept. 21. Tho ' 'n'o dopiirliuent has inken ste" 10 inform American aviators P1,vng will, Ihe French army in Morocco thai they are violating 1 "cd stales laws in serving Wh foreign military forces. Itaugr IN W J Mr Ml. hi lull Inl iiIii visilixl n miniliir of iilln.r I drove through the country. j iir y he found oats being PATENAUDE IS NOINATED IN EASTERN CITY Siys He Think Third Unnecessary" and Doea Like Liberal I a t I .a I threshed willed were yielding In. in 83 to It5 buxlils to the acre and small IoIh of wheal yielding from to lo 56 bushel In the acn. The yield in these ri-i" Justifies, they think, the!.! aiming of an large acreage a posihle. 1 Anollier thing that V making 'the farmer of the Interior op ! BROKE INTO CAMPS lectured the; CAf T I A If PARK! -aid: '"I am not ready to at when Hrilain goe to ,nlil shunt' i tin self ' FATHER OF TELKWA WOMAN PASSES AWAY Ex-Aid. Absalom Urcn of Nanal- mo was Pioneer Resident or Vancouvor Island Kx-Ald. Absalom lieu of w.i. i. i liaet y. Iiasen awaj at Nanaiino last Thursday. He was a well known pioneer resident of the coal mining city and was the lailicrof Mrs. I'.negan oi Telkwa wlio. as Miss L'ren, for Mime years was lady superiu-lenileii' ol "'e Hatelton Hospital. LADY IS NOMINATED" BY CANADIAN LABOR VANCUUVF.lt, Scpl. 21. Mrs. Uikc Henilers.ni was on Saturday nominated by the Canadian Labor parlv lo contest i lie ew ei-minster constituency in the federal elections. oldcountfootball SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division I. Iiiwn ls I Aberdeen 0, Hibernians 0. INTERIOR ARE YIELDING WELL PROGRESSIVES WILL HAVE FEWER CANDIDATES IN FIELD THIS ELECTION Farmers of Interior Looking to j Prince Rupert to Provide Market j for Their Grain and Beef Cattle Yield of crops in interior valleys so good as tot encourage seeding larger acreage I Tli.il (lie I (inner of the interior are threshing their rup.,! v ue (iiiiiiug out well, and are planning to sow as much i- uille next year in view of Hie market provided uy! Rupert through the erection of the elevator, is the word, t. ! i I I- O. DiiWonii. who has iusl returned Iruin yd.i1 to i point. M.. Dawson went lo Fori Eraser to attend a uiiii liiiuuo i mini Malicious Damage as Well as Theft, at Cabins of ANOTHER RECORD ON WIRELESS BY LOCAL AMATEURS Aiuillier ainaleur wirc-i! record was made lasl night by Felix Hall, Clarence lusulandcr and Norman Kiuslor at tlieir loeal tt at ion when they cum-muniraliHl vi!h a elation al Sydney, Australia, approximately U.U00 miles distant. The station was pieked up at 2.30 this mornm?. lie rail number is 2WJ and it is owned hy .1. A. William., an amateur of that city. Party Umlslle fa lliv erection of the1 Not jaUaUutr at l'rince ItUl hy Uie;p v'-n pD OFFICIAI WriUHL WAS nnO !I. Horn. Company, it being the opinion thai from (hi lime on a market will be orovldeil for their i fie Undervalue mini- Mr Uiwnn .yi4 ,,. .jrove r Jae.ue CarOir di- irMllgh ,, of ,,. (.lltliry and n. E. I.. Patenaude ,. tnton,iui VISITING IN CITY AND crop damage is reported. JAPANESE FOREIGN 1 i : MAKING INVESTIGATIONS Obed Smith of England also Here Undertaking Similar Work for Colonization Purposes The CP. it. is again showing its interest here by sending one of its officials. Major E. Kwati Moore, European manager ol their department of ciiloniialion :m! ilcvelmimeul lo inxestiuate II has been repnrie.1 mat 'ri condition along the line, lie ninio- al the Salt Lakes were Waraccompanied here hy I'.olmiei hrokon into tail week ami a gnnn.i , , , snnih of the Dominion neifsarity!deHl of valuable property stolen. I. ,,,...,,, f ..rtioniiiiion. Tlie I lie ramps enierru were inoe M1.m,., ycierday on the Cardena r.. (1. Minns. I.. i.ivnion ami r.. u.f( ns morning to visit i. (Jibbmis. while JacK Itodnie s liack door had been forced. 'an-ned eatables, tools, and other articles of Milue lo the owners were taken. That the robbers were malicious is proved by the fael that l hey were not satisfied with stealing but did all sorts of dam-iisif outside the camps lo inconvenience the owners. lioinls in t In- mlerior. WOMAN ARRESTED HERE IS FINED IN INTERIOR Mrs. Arthur Dellos Pleaded Qullty to Liquor Selling Charge and Was Assessed $350 Mrs. Arthur Itellos, alias (iracv Ityan. who was arrested here lasl week on behalf of the Prince (leorge provincial police authorities, pleaded guilty at the interior town to a charge of selling liipior and was fined ((350. luxesligalions are now being made in connection with a cliaiwe of bigamy against the woman. TWELVE DEGREES FROSTON PRAIRIE WINNIPF.U. Sept. 21. With n maximum dip of twelve degrees of frost recorded al Yereyille lasl night a cold wave is sweep ing across the prairies. Freex- ing lemVeralures were experi ciiccd all through this province over Ihe week end. No serious MINISTER TO BRITAIN TOKIl), Sepl. 21. Huron Keishlro Mntsni. formerly for eign minister nnd one time am hassador lo France, has been chosen as ambassador to (lrcut Hrilain. NANAIMO, ScpL 21 While John Hunter or South Wellington, a coal miner, went to the store to purchase tobacco last night, his home caught fire and his wife and four small daughters were burned to death. OLIVER SPEAKS Advertt'u In the bally News aBBfBK BBBBr'' - Scene from the training quarter ol the Kuglish 'channel swimmers: Lillian llurri!ou. Argentine: llelnii, Kgypt. and -(ierlrude Kderle. I'mled States. Progressive Party is No Longer National; Concentrate on West OTTAWA, Sept. 21. In this election (he Progressive Parly will ;isume none of die Dominion wide charaeterilics of the election of 11121. Ilohert Korke, leader of Ihe party, will roncenlrule his efforts in the Wesl. , In 1U2 1 (he Progressives had 120 candidate- standing in Ihe election Tuil in (he present contest the total will not he near dial mini her. According to officials of Ihe Progressive Party here, there will lie 5i party candidates in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Urerur will address meetings in western Ontario and the Maritime provinces. LIVES LOST HOME BURNED Woman and Four Children Lose Lives When Man Is Away at Store ! ! PEACE RIVER Extension of Railway Into that District Would Bring Prosperity to Province. FLOUR MILLS FOLLOW. YANCOUVF.ll, Sept.. 2t. Fol lowing the announcement of Hie H.U. Electric Hridge river devel opmcnt project. Premier Ol'ver in an address at a luncheon at Slave Falls Saturday after he had officiated at tho opening of the Company's new turbine plant there prophesied that if Hie P. (t.E. were completed into the Peace Itiver county and from Vancouver lo Sipiamisli Ihe province would experience unprecedented prosperity. He said that with at least 1 50.000.uoo bushels of grain flowing south and a great amount of power available; many milling plants wouhj spring up along the (ioernmenl DURNED AT STAKE FOLLOWING ASSAULT UPON WHITE GIRL NEW AI.HANY, Sept. 21. - Wild scenes were. enacted here last night when .1. P. Ivy, a Negro, accused of assaulting a while girl, was taken from t ho police and burned at Ihe slake. The body was covered with kerosene before bc- iug lied lo the stake. The girl is expected to die. STRIKE EFFORTS ARE UNAVAILING No Extension so Far of Unauthorized Strike of Seamen In Old Country LONDON. Sept. 21. The ef forts of agitators lo extend tho si l ike of Hrilisli seamen to the shipyards has failed and an appeal made to Ihe Trades Union Congress is also without results. The transport workers and shipwrights have also refused to participate. BEATTY WOULD OPEN UP PEACE RIVER BY A RAILWAY THROUGH B.C. EDMONTON; Sept. 21. .President Heatly of the C.P.H. urges that the Peace lliver country be tapped hy n railway which would I open Up not only lite Peace lllverl 1 . 1 1 1 11..11 ' Report on Results to Date of Prohibition in United States ' by Federal Council of Churches 1 WASlUMiTON. Sept. 21. A belief that prohibition in the l uiled Slates is luring u supreme test, with the final outcome lit tioubl va e.preed tonight in a report cofljpiled after iiioiuh- of iuvoiigatnui by the Research and Kdiicntiou Department of the Federal Council oT Uhurches. .No one tun say wilh posilheness what the ultimate outcome to this test will be," aid the report. "No cocksure opti- ini sm is warranted, nor is pessimism or 'defeatism' justified by the fads. Much seems to depend upon the development of -public opinion in tile near fu-t - lure. I I An "unfavorable and disipiiet-; : iiu ' trend since 1j2ii in the o-' c:al eovseiplciiee!. of prohiliitioiil j was .een by the investigators In statist cs gallicrfil from many! soinves, liul tin repori declared no available stuiisti.'al daia could b- accepted as euiiclusise and pointed oat Ihul the whole--some effec s of prohibition are re-risterrd in iiicHi.picuous ways wliich cannot be; reduced to sta tistical tabulation. Claims Worthless Many of the claims made hy those on both sides of the controversy were discarded as virtually worthless. Publicity ma- influencing uublic ouinion was declared lo have been based largely on o,urslionahle data. "Prohibition publicity has suf fered much." said the report, from careless and unwarranted interferences. Much of the publicity sien out by the Prohibition Unit in the Treasury Department has been of this tin- fortunate kind. On the other baud, much unjust and mislead- Li nir propaganda has. been put out for the purpose of discrediting prohibition." On Hit question of public sen timent, the report declared there could be little doubt as to ttie mood of the country when pro Continued on Pase Four; STEAMER LEEDS CITY SANK IN JAVA SEA1 LONDON. Sept. 21.- nf the steamer Leeds Java sea is reported. ink within to minutes of time she wen I ashore and members of Hie crew were picked up by a Dutch ship. SOURDOUGH KILLED: NOME. Sept. 21. Albert Peterson, a well known sour-,iini"h uik iiwtMiiilv killed Sat WINNTPEO. Sept. 21. Former Senator Aliihonse l.arivier, 83 years of nn died al his home i SI. Honiface yesterday. He re tired from Hie Senate in DO: because of illness. STANDARD MAN DIES. NEW YOllK. Scpl. 21. Alfred country but a great deal of HrU-:C. Hedford. bl years of age Mi Columbia. He does nol think, chairman of the board of direct this feasible Just now but is op-!ois ol the Standard Oil Co. of posed to any temporary cutoff. t'w Jersey died today. SPEEDER JUMPS RAILWAY TRACK DOLLY VARDEN Two Alice Arm Men Have Bonos Broken but Driver Is Unhurt ALICE AltM. ept. 21. One of the gasoline speeders' in the Dolly Varden railroad, while going through to Camp 8 on Sal-unlay jumped the Tfack'ahd lu'rn- lerjal JMryAilated .witha -iew.ulil. turtle; lajoJlnx- a.U'tb.a,foot"Qf the embankment. John Strombeck, owner of the Toric mine had both bones in the left arm broken and bruises on his body. Elmer Ness of the Kitsault Mining Co. received a badly wrenched knee and lacerated arms. T. Taverner, driver of the speeder, had the car go oVer him but was unhurt. PLANE CRASHED IN AIR CIRCUS Plane Nose Dived and Crashed Killing Lieut. Schuyler Priestly and Pte. Avery SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 21. t .it'll I Scltiilvi'f Pricllv 30 vears t'he loss ... .. !in,i 1,1., ifti.n Wirv ?n. City i Were killed at the aviation field The ship I i.. , ll,.. :iirtit:m in CRUSHED IN DREDGE t,,e which they were riding crashed urday when he was crushed tni continued. the revolving screen of the Anvil) 'reek dredge. LEAGUEBASEBALL American League SI. Louis 5. New York 0. Chicago 5. Washington 0. National League Philadelphia Cincinnati 0 New York G, Chicago 2. 1 Hrooklyn I. SI. Louis 8. FORMER SENATOR DIES. 'H i.. ....-11. r.-..,., .in niiiimin nf inn I yj I ..'.1. Ml. " .v.' reel. The accident 'occurred during an air circus in which 23 planes participated and was witnessed by 30,000 persons. The two aviators were flying round the field and, vlien making a turn, the plane slipped into a spinning nose dio and plunged to earth. The uir circus STITCHES IN BOY'S HEART Life of Child Saved After he Had Fallen on Pair of Scissors WASIUNUTONA Sep. 21- -Two stitches In Ihe 'heart of Melvlu Jones, a child of five venrs of age, saved his life today after lie had fallen on to Hie points of ajiair of scissors Ills father supplied a quantity of blood from his own veins. : The lad was ctlLlinse piper dolls when he fell downstair with results that might have proved fatal. POSTAL CLERKS HEAD. HALIFAX. Sent. 21. - A. fl. Rryans of Ottawa has been elected president of the Dominion ToUat Clerks Aeociation.