25 TAXI Boston Grill and Ambulance Service Anywhera it Anytime. Stand Royal Hotel, 3rd Ave. and 8th St. MATT VIDECK, Prop. VOI aI o- ' "I Dr UIDUR BtlDDl rniuo I Yesterday. V UK. Anir. 17. Clileano It- . ,i np sumi'wlial of a i (lie eiison Hwlrilay wy weiil ten innfiur with- and the Kame had to d o enalile the teamn to aiuv The previou day : w j teams playetl score- u; Cardinals gained half u 1'ltlsliurg y beatiiw? in the ninth inning ralh now only a game and a ' 'mill the leaders in the ' a league. American Leaque 1 in fl-, lloslon 1-7. j 0, lielroil 0: called. ' ''and-lMilladelplila. post-1 J. National League .igo i. l.oiiis 5. FIRE AT YAMASKA VAMASKA, Uue. Aiw. 17. r n'uises and two store.i ' destroyed by fit" he-v '! i'.iv viiiii.i.i ui tlnnnn Tliim "asiiaiues. NOTICE TO LIBERALS Tiie Liberal committee 'wins, 30.1 Third Ave., liexl '" "lie Kleetrio Hukery. will "' "pen every afternoon "I evening until election uay V 'A' ' , "I, 'Dr.. nil mi rr I avs Mr. Mackenzie Aine . - o King of England began to choose between fit a nnriip f iiwt sue puuico ii ivuuiu iiu i iciiiuiii as it is today l ALoAHY, Auk- I". -Knghiiul expert- Camilla lo take its I nurture of self-government within Hip Empire, but otiJcs i. . . . I, i . , it. . .--- - , . . i . 4 in'iiMii ..fiLi nifi .aval til it nil. ll,IIV I li I I1- I I mda i- the sahie a lliut or Hit' King to the Prime Miinl'T ' i ;t- 1 Hnlain. Iiiiada' imimUoii j no heller than (hut of u olony. Mackenzie King lold uii audience here lasl night SiijqKise the King of England hegun lo choose between i now long no you iiiiiik uie limine wouiu remain u strong tod ?" he asked. II wits the action of the commons BLISHhK Or MONTREAL IS SHOT IN BACK mm a r. J M Office With Bullet Wound In Body. Ill: AI,. Aui 17 . Ant i.nia o y am f age. a well iirssiiiaii and publtsh-I'a'ii.- I'.nuD'iil, a local .'U. was found shot lo tn i f Monday. It y Mimwiit that lie died death, tni' examination . hi ''d 1 lie discovery in 'lie t:i"k He had i f, ' re Saturday. b r iiTiiiiiriri ll INN IN A AND NO SCORE 1 L la HAmfUMIIBI ftT Hacora in which delertnineit the ministry (hat would a.lv 1p the erowu. "that i llritlh constitutional prarlicr 'and the mlnule you h'Vin to de-ji'url from those rules the Hritish iLiupire will tiffin to uffer a (shock. The Umpire will lasl it lung a- constitutional practice i carried on throughout the .Dominions," said Mr. King. IMMIGRATION IS 62 PER CENT UP FROM LAST YEAR OTTAWA, An. 17. Im migration to Oiuada for tin-firt nix months of tin-year i lilitly more than 70.000. an increase if six y-twi per cent over I in same M-itd a roar axo. WATERSPOUT SWEEPS LONGjSLAND SOUND Trees Uprooted and Cottages Demolished In Patch of Storm Near New York. lil.KX :OYi:. Aim. 17.-A wa terspout swerpnttf In from I.""-Ilaud Sound caueil proierly daniiige for a distance of half a mile along Hi creek roads. Two men were killed nud iiliollier is missing, while two were injured. Trees were uprooted and cottages demolislied. LILLIAN CANNON IS FORCED TO GIVE UP mit ONSTTTOTON ing to heay lliuiiilerslorms and rough sea. VANCOUVER EXCHANGE Hid. Asked It. :. Silver l.tf? S.05 Cmisoliilaled iL.' )i lnell Ui... f IVM l!tS ' OF SKEENA RIDINO llnicltou BIG SWIMMING FEAT Thunderstorm Comes Up When She Had Been Only Two and Half Hours In Water. CAPi: MUZ Ni:Z. France. Aug. 1 7. - Lillian Cannon was forced lo abandon in allemnl to swim the h'nrlisi Channel after being two hours and a half in the water ow Howe Sound Indepeiiilenee Indian L. and L .Marmot Premier, ft.-Porler lilahi Surf Inlet .... C.l'.H. - .Olti . 37.00 10.00 .on 'a .OS .0(1 .10 . .I0i, 2.15 a. 20 .08 .OP: CHALLENGES ALLCOMERS Gertrude Ederle Would Swim Against Mate or Female Competitors. CAPE ORIZ NSZ, Aug. 17. Gertrudo Ederle ,lhe nineteen-year-old girl who two weeks ago beat all records In swimming tho English channel, has Issued a challenge to all male and female swimmers to cross the channel for a purse of $20,-000. Miss Ederle Is the New York girl who swam from Cape Oriz Nez to Klngsdown on the English side In 14 hours 31 minutes, on Friday, August G. MEIGHEN AND I ! i ;flyia.Hijiftad ietier. id fit W In 111 V Da ffy New j . mdm AGE PENSIONS Premier Defends Senate In Killing tho Bill Passed by the Commons Last Session. NKW WliST.MIXSTKIt. Aug. 17 Itemnliutlnff renorts Hint the C.onsfervnlive -had animosity auaiUM the returneo soiiircrs, Premier Meighen ablressed a ga- tlieriiis here eterday aftetiioon. He sahl he had read the reports of speeches uf Maukeiuie Kihk in Oiiebee and he did not think it sounded well for him now to try lo jiaiut the Uousonativcs as unfair lo soldiers and liimseir as I lie guardian of soldiers' rinhts ami liHllsli liistitulions in Ca nada. Mr .Melghpn said the Kiuft jto-lillos was beni'alh contempt and ilespicable to the last degree ?-? year Hie Liberals had lolen many lhoiiitiids of vob's by spread-inn a junior Uiat tho (Jonserva-lies lrojuised lo aiyaliraiuate I lie Canadian National with Hie C.lMl. Mr. Meighen made litilit of (ho Khv llnvernmenl's old ae pen-smns hill and said the Senate had ilefented II because I hey found it a sham. "We will Introduce an old iigg pensions measure," said he, "but we will get the provinces Ingclfier and wel them lo aifree lo soiiiellijn'g we can put Inllf law anil no'l jiave the measure stand PRINCE RUPERT Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper PJIINUE HUPKJIT, II. (I, TLKSDAY. AUGUST 17, 1020. OF CANADA P ' i mmmmm Mm - ii i i r ii imiiiiiiiiii f him i i m j ' , ' Future rouit qneei are heins develojHMl in California, and this drill for racquet control. rurtn'cd at the University of Ualifornia. is one of the reasons why that stale excels in tennis. Duke Harris Has What He Thinks Is Real Mine at Hastings Arm Yeterdyi Circuit lion, l6 Near Anyox Close to Tidewater Duke JIurris. the well known Ilazelton milling man, has bonded a mining properly uu Hastings Arm, thirteen miles from A ii vox. which he thinks will become u real mine. It is a silver- lead proposition with lead predominating, and surface assays, Mr. Harris say?, liow wonderful values. The properly was discovered by Charles Clay, an old pros pector of that ditrirl. who is over 70 years old. H is 4,100 feet above tidewater and until a trail is cut is difficult lo reach. although it is only a mile and n quarter from deep anchorage. Mr. Harris believe that lie has the making of a real mine, but firinnpiT nrn a r admits that until some work is l Krrll M AK done on it, there Is no lellintj UVlVUl-ill Uinil w hat it mfcfht be. He says he has ; tot seen anything that seems sot aotnl at first sight and he will get, !o work at once and prove It.' Should it prove of value it will .Rudolph Valentino In Bad Con be easy to run an aerial tramway dton Following Operation to it and get the ore out at small i fop 'Appedlcltl expense, ' its ureal neiui is us; , . . .. ....... t . ..... i .li awoacK. mil lliai is noi Vir I KV YOIIK- YOIIK, Aug. Viip 17. 17 Hn imporlaii!. i.eal is in great ue- mand just now and tins may prove to lie a producer before loiW. Mr. Harris says he has iieen looking for a real 'mine for years and this looks Very much like one. He lias it oil a working bond with cash payment and ACTING PREMIER DRAYTON ON PRINCE RUPERT'S ELEVATOR Sir Henry Drayton, now 4 acting Premier at Ottawa, speaking on the Prince Ru- pert elevator, page 3662 Hansard: "I still say that thfs scheme you can only call It a scheme Is simply 4 nothlna else but another In- stance of political waste and political expenditure." . KILLED THREE MEN 4 IN FATAL QUARREL MI'.IU'.KI) .Cat.. Aug. 17. Two mm were found dead and another dyitiin: with the body riddled with bullets near Hriceburg, .Mariposa, county, after Paul Haran, 51 years of age, a miner, surrendered to I he sheriff saying' he'' had killed three men in a quarrel over milling I'liiim. SERIOUSLY ILL dolph Valentino, noted screen star, lies here seriously ill from local peritonitis following an operation performed for appendicitis and gastrilic ulcer on Sunday night, and is reported this looming as- still in a fieri ous condition. Peritoutil nois oning. doctors says usually be comes general with fatal results but that the patient's splendid physique jives hope of recovery. Valentino carries life insurance to the amount of $1,000,000. MINERS WOULD . END STRIKE Authorize Executive to Seek Re opening of Negotiations LONDON, Aug. 17. A confer enre of the miners delegates held here this afternoon nulhor ized the -executive board of the union to seek the re-opening of negotiations wilb Hie owners ami the troverniiienl in ati effort to end Die strike. The result of these negotiation. for a .sellle meul must be national in char acter 'and not by districts. II. St. ,1. Monlizainberl n I'orl Clements, who had been on a business irfp iirlhe .ou(fi, ry turned lo Hie islands on ' the Prince Charles yesterday after niMin. ' .V Strel Silei 11 Large Upstair Dining Hall, wilb newly laid dancing door for hire, NEW SODA FOUNTAIN, The latest and best for Uie least. Phone 467., PRICE FIVK GKNT. HAMPION SWIMMER ISSUES CHALLENGE TO MEN AND WOMEN FOR $20,000 nglana Expects Lanada Have Self-Government IS DISCUSSED Fraser Valley Agxicultaral Exhibit Will Show What Is Being Done in Southern B.C. Will Be Great Educational Feature of Value to Country Visitors to Prince Rupert Fair. A letter was laid before the Fair Hoard at last night's meeting from I). K. Mackenzie, manager of the Provincial Exhibition, New West mi lister, confirming his telegram booking space for the Iraser Valley agricultural display. j The display is to be in charge of Tom Reid, reeve, and Claire iLenvax, clerk of the Municipality of Surrey. Mr. Heid, who is a genuine British Columbia development enthusiast, has inler-'estea himself in the project as a means of advertising the great wealth and variety oT agricultural products in the Fraser Valley. This feature will be of unlimited .- educational value to the people of rrrv fri TTIP A TIT ilie north. Mr. Lemax is an ex- I kAIIh I UU A I V lnvt in flip slajrinir of such ex-: IxTLULi lllLlfll 1 hibils. In his letter,- Mr. Mackenzie pointed out that the price of900 for staging the exhrbit w as 'much under what it would col in the ordinary way. The New Westminster exhibition board -pay out a total of 52, 00 in prize money and alio each exhibitor (he sum of 250 in addition for the staging of tbee exliibits, and then the exhibitors are on the ground. II will, therefore, be seen that the staging of this display In the north is not a money mating ven ture on- the parCof the exhibitors, umi simpiy a uesire lo neip ine agricultural development Of Hie province or Hritish Columbia through Ibis medium! Hotb Mr. Heid and .Mr. Lemax will take the lime to come here and give the staging of the display, their personal attention. Claire Lemax met the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Harrow,! in the south and mentioned to him the fact that he was coming1 up here to stage this special display. Mr. Harrow expressed himself as very pleased indeed and was very much interested. The New Westminster exhibit will Im' on a par with the many famous district agricultural exhibits unequalled in the entire Dominion of Canada as staged at the Jv'ew Westminster fair each year and will be a representation of the agricultural development and pro irress of the famous Fraser Yal ley. the "oldest farming district in Hritish Columbia. The space required for this spe cial exhibit will be 100 feet, clear of corners, and will be IB feet wide. Arrangement for thU interesting fealure were made with I. K. Mackenzie, manager of the provincial exhibition at New Westminster, who is taking a great deal of trouble with this exhibit in spite of the fact that he is extremely busy with their own STORM IN OKLAHOMA DOES MUCH DAMAGE OKUUIOMA CITY, Aug. 17 - Three persons are dead and crops are damaged as a result of hail in Ihe eastern section of the stale. Several streams are near Hie flood stage as a result of three days intermittent 'rainfall. Two peo ple were killed by lightning anil another me! death as the result of a car smash caused by the storm. S. A. NICKERSON IS APPOINTED SHERIFF The Hritish Columbia Oazetto announces this week the appoint ment of Smith Asa Nickerson, of Prince- Rupert, to be, sheriff of the county In place of the lale John Shirley. Ther-appointment IS DISCUSSED Meighen Speaks at Royston and Talks About Old Age Pensions and Australia ROYSTON. Aug. 17. Premier Mciii?ti outlined the policy of the government in regard lo Hi Australian trade treaty and old age tensions. He emphatically iienied any intention of striking a red ink line through Jbe Australian- Itfiijy aB'We will make an honest effort to reform the treaty along the line of the agreement Australia signed and when we get it reformed it will be fair to the Canadian farmer and we shall get the admission of goods to Austra lia just the same." Discussing pensions;1 (he- Pre m1er said "we favori old age pensions legislation but we ara going lo get the province together first. We are going to Me that we get something that is oing into effect. Its operation must be looited after and we will make sure ours wilt operate before It is put oa liw' statute books. We will gel tho concurrence of our provinces, will get something practical, something which Is acceptable to I he provinces and to the whol? Dominion." CRICKET GAME PROVING CLOSE Only Twenty-Two Runs Between England and Australia In Test Match First Inlnngs. U1NDON. Aug. 17. Australia completed the first inniitgsjjf the fifth lest match against Kugland yesterday, scoring 302 against Knglaud's 280. In the sct'ond innings Hobbs and Sutrliffe opened for Kugland scoring 39 runs with neither out when the stumps were drawn. The game started Saturday and w ill be completed today. . THE PUBLICLY 4 EXPRESSED OPINION 4 4 OF A CONSERVATIVE 4 4 4 "In my view the. whole of 4 4 this western inuveni',nl 4 4 should be directed to the 4 4 port of "Vancouver: and all 4 4 pfflilie monies exponded -up- 4 4 n the Paeilre-Vriasr Hboold 4 4 be t expended tjiere. There 4 4 never w-as a mni-s irrnsslr 4 4 flagrant instance of expen- 4 4 dfutre- of imbllo monies for 4 4 purely political purposes 4 4 than Ihe building of the ele- 4 4 valor at' i'rincf Ittipert by 4 4 the Liberal gofernmenl." w-, ; . v:.'" ? 4.4 v