CLASSIFIED HABIT Boston Grill mtto Everyone reads the Classified Ads. ' LAKGK CABARET If you lose, advertise for It. Special Dinners Thursdays and Saturdays If you find, locate the owner. ht ' Dancing evrry Saturday nlf Whatever you need, advertise for II from 0 to IS. . Dance Hall for Hire. PRINCE" RUPERT 1ET THE CLASSIFIED HABIT, The latest and best for the least, Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper t hone 457 VrtJ XVIII. No. 1(tf: I Price Five Centr PniNCK RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY. JULY 10, 1928 Logging Operations Begi Big American Concern for Involving the logging off of many square miles of virgin timber limits up the Ecstall Itiver, which flows Into the Skecna near port Essington, and the establishment of a sawmill which will be lined primarllyUo cut clear spruce squares for shipment to New lork and other Eastern points, another large new timber under taking for the district closely adjacent to Prince Itupert is already undt'i- way for two wealthy capitalists R. Armstrong of Keewana, Michigan, and II. Black of New York City who hold extensive lim-- n the Ecstall River and see in their development an opportunity partic ipate in an active market for airplane spruce. On a tract up Blf Palls Qreek, flow UADM17DQ WAMT l niviiiLiivu unm LOWER DUTIES hT.DITTION OX I'OIITY ITEM DEMANDED AMI IVOU.D A 1(01 E TIIEIH CANE OTTAWA. July U The United Ftumrrr. of Stskatcbewsn demand a iiiu-iion of the customs duties on ' items. Fumnce Minister Bobb says the appU-.t in is too genera! for treatment by if Tariff Board but the farmers i ; k to their demand that the wholt Miction be opened before the customs r ;rUHHl. PONTOONS TO BE USED SALVAGING DAUNTLESS WASHINGTON. July 10. The navy :ir -merit acceded to the request of Biitlnh Oovemment for the loan! powerful pontoons to be used In . : 1 1 k the cruiser Dauntless aground Halifax, srbor I'r'tat'f 1 . Terrible Lightning in Ontario Kills Three People and Injures Several Others at Petawawa I'KTAWAWA CAMP, Onl., July 10. Major M. O'Halloran and l..tn- Sergeant A. T. Goudy were killed when lightning struck the i H Id guns during battery practice yesterday. Sergeant F. Ferry v,i. burned and F. W. Dyson was killed Sunday whon lightning Mmk the stable. O'Halloran and Goudy were from Montreal. I -i,n was from Kingston. When the storm broke shortly before three o'clock yesterday ..tii rnoon the seventh field battery was manoeuvring about for tar-r ' practice with big guns and had just dismounted when the storm rote to violent heights. RUNONRUFUS ARGENTA STOCK IHTV-MX TIIOt'HAMl MIAUEN I V LOADED YrWTEKDAY AND I'KICE DHOFS T .t.1 VANCOUVER, July 10. Rufua Ar-' 'iita. with a turnover ot SS.ooo shsrts Ktcidsy under profit-making pressure. ' .M-d at J, down ntneleen-and-a-i. i.i pomu from the opening. 'Pic rvason tor this getting out from 1'iiiiir art not quite understood. lt-i ' report trosn Stewart state that tiiKiiK-ris and Official connected with " D'ly-Qemrtl Interesu, which havf hr property Under option, left there recently without making public their intent Kim or decisions although It Is h"1 timt they were well pleard with property and thai other officials ' iiiii lie on the ground within thr 1 1 month CATHOLICS IN MEXICO TAKEN 1'itiKHT ahhhhti:d FOU IITTINIl vr ALT A It IN HIS IIOMK PUEPAUA-TDHV , TO JJAyiN'W. MAS? MUUCO CXtV, July lb.--Beort pblieo "i ested fifty Catholics InelUdlitg rather Rodart, who had an altar fitted ' l In his private residence prepara-' ry to saying mass. He was charged "h violating the religious lawi of die country. Mr. and Mrs. Harold McKwen. ao-nipanled by their guests. Mrs. E. MiBrearty and Mra. J. Wlckham of Montreal, sailed last night on the Prlnee Charts to make the round trip ie art, Anyo and Massett Inlet Mill to be Setetk ing turto the SaUtU tnmn the east, some thirty miles long and as wide as eight miles, consisting of ten Umber limits, preparatory work has already been started with Harry Scott, formerly of Captain's Cove. In eharge and about ten men employed There Is much Isrie and exceptionally clear spruce Umber in this area and the country Is almost level, condition being generally favorable for logging. It is tfwj intention to float the logs down Big FalU Greek to the Big Falls where they would be skidded on a saute down the Null Into the Eestall River. There are mUUons of feet of fine timber in 1 this one tract. It runs probably ; seventy-five per oent spruce with the lemslader hemlock and balsam. The same Interests are also reported to be contemplating the logging of another large tract south-and further up the Ecstall River in the ( vicinity of Muddy Greek Next year. It Is said, four or five camps wUl have bees established wKh yapwaSds of 100 men employed. Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Black, who were In the district recently, are expected back here from the East In August. It Is possible that the site wUl then be selected for the sawmill which will cut th logs Into squsre. Meantime. Iigglng operations will be instituted as soon as pqsslMa. O'Halloran. the Officer commanding, was standing in the open field when a streak of lightning ripped open the sky. He was directly in 1U path and fell dead. In the meantime Sergeant Ooudy was struck by another flash in another part cf the field. Quarter Dan Oooaucrwood of To- ronton had two narrow escape. He was with Ounner Dyson whan that soldier was struck dead and the horse near him also was kUled. Yesterday Oonquerwoosl was holding the horse which was standing near O'Halloran. He was burned about the legs and neck and was suffering greaUy from shock but la showing Improvement. On Sunday Mies Theo Tamblyn. daughter of Col. D 8. Tamblyn of Kingston, while getting a drink from a up was so severely shaken by lightning that it took several hours before he recovered consciousness. Oaptaln J. A. union, m cnergv m the medical department, was inrown eight feet and stunned for a few mo ments when lightning struck the tele phone line he was using. WOULD ALTER BYLAW ON THEATRE SEATING Aid. Collar! Introduced Amendment at lt Nljht'i Council Meeting Aid Oollart. at last night's council meeting. Introduced a bylaw to amend Bylaw 182 covering tho arrangement of scatt, in theatres. It suggests that seven. -scat frtm atslea be allowed in- iMd of six as Is now provided. Aid Oollart explained that the change would hrln the municipal" bylaw in this re- lpeet in agrmnt wltn Pror,nc1 ststutes which hsd oeeu cu. th. nit brlsw was msde In 1910. AW. Prudhomme stated that he would like time to consider the matter Inquired If there should and Aid. Brown , km notire of motion in dealing with iMh matters wlllUiR to have the am collart wns matter referred to the BuUdlug Com mission which wns clone. Site x Soon GIBSON ASKED TO BE RECTOR SMITIIKItS fLEKfiYMAN INVITED TO TAKK ( IIAIM.K or CATIILDKAL IILKF. SLCt'EEDINU ItlSIIOI'-ELECT The congregation of St. Andrew An- IgUean Cathedral, at a meeting last ulghi, decided to Invite Rev. J. B. Olb-son of Smith to become the new rector of the Cathedral succeeding Arch deacon Q. A. Itlx, who wlU be ordatnei in the feU as the new biebop of CalaisHrcumasiee donla. A communication was sent this morning to Mr. Otbson asking him to accept the appointment but, up to this afternoon, no reply had been received from him . The choice cf Mr aibson to become tbe new rector here will be generally popular. He has been located at 8ml then for the past few years before going to the Interior town, at Anyrx. He is well known In Prince Rupert snd has often conducted services In the Cathedral. OTTAWA STRUCK BY BIG STORM IK.'II.DINU HTItlCK IIY Mti.ltTNINO AND I'EDri-E NTl NNED ItLT MINE KILLED OTTAWA. July 10 Ottawa and drf diet arms atnsok by u siatTtrteal atom pttwqra oy a iirty mue an nour gae feast evening, which stunned a number of person! but there were no deaths. Buildings were struck and a roof carried away while billboard, tires and outbuilding were knocked down. Tele graph snd telephone services were tenv porartly put - mil of eooualsslon. britishIsles winner of cup BI&JtY CAMP. July 10 The Mother Country team representing the British Isles with an aggregate of 1094 won the Imperial Krlopors Cup today. Canada, tbe holder of the cup for the past threo years, oamo second with 10S HALIBUT ARRIVALS TODAYJ33,700 LBS. American Clipper. BsVOO pounds. Canadian Fish St Cold Storage Co , BSc and 5c Helgeland. M.000 pounds. Booth Ftsh-erles. lie awl So. Jack. 9409 pounds, AUln Fisherlcv lir snd Sc. I18T. 8JO0 pounds. Booth Flsheflea. He and 6c Caiudlnu Scrub, 10.000 pounds. AUln Fisheries, Jc and 6c Southend. ltjOQO pounds. Canadian Pish & Cold Storage Co., 8 3c and 8c. AURORA BOREALIS WAS ACTIVE IN THIS CITY AND TIED UP WIRES The Aurora Borealls which was re ported yesterday to have Interfered With telegraphic communications In the east, was very active here Satur day night tying up the local ) terns so that It was almost Impossible to get a message through. For oight hours the natural electric currents held sway but toward morning It abatWand all ftlilMlf Ih. Iln tji WIhhIiwj thtt . aI A graph officials from the sWrtdjnt down workrcsi'!i arWgit)riird1w order-fo leaJiuS UAlMAuhiVX. tion of business. Jin Th life story of Rev. W. H. Pierce, well known United Church clergyman at Port Eeaington, is told In an In terestlng manner by A. K. ttoberts In an Interesting article on the church page of last Saturday's Vancouver Province. Mrs. George C. Payne, wife ot one of the company physlclana at AnyoXi is a passenger aboard the Oatala todaw bound for Vancouver on a holiday visit. FISHERMAN ON BOAT GASSED L LVO MTOYCIC KXriKED YESTERDAY MOIIMMI WHILE tOMI.VO LT IKO.M . VAVCOtVEK The man's death,, having evidently 'cn due to suffocation by gas fumes, he Vancouver sejneboet Kobe, arriving Km the south last night, turned over to the provincial police the remains f Evo Stoyeic. Vancouver salmon fisherman, who had u expired yesterday nornlng as the boat wss in Orenrtlle Channel bound here. The Kobe and another aelneboat Ozuma V were lathed t- gciher and at 7 o'clock yesterday nv ruing the dead man Is reported to have climbed from the Kobe to Mm tttumi Abjut two hours later be wwr found dead sitting In the gas Imnid washroom of the Ozuma Efforts to bring about artifi cial respiration proved of no avail. The matter wu rerxwted? to the Dolioe oon as tbe boat arrived here and Oon- stable Thomas Cam investigated the An -pnqw.ry was held htodiy by Owoner Ncpnan A. Watt who satisfied hlnMelf. tizX the circumstances tiendlnz the fatattty were entirely ac- ddeatal. i Stoyeic was about thirty years of age and Is understood to be survived by a widow In Vancouver. Funeral arrange- Mlas Margaret Oilehr'st sailed test rvnt am in the .bands of the 8 C. nlrht on tbe Prince Chsrles for Mas-Undertakers, sett. Story of Suffering of Marooned Men from ithe Wrecked Airship Italia on ijke Floe Indicates Partial Insanity STOCKHOLM. July 10. Five survivors of the wretked airship Italia marooned on an ice floe are ill with feter'and most of them show fgnB of partial insanity, according to word from the Swedish ntfcue ship Quest Lieut LuDdberg, who was marooned on the ice near Foyne Island with Uieni for eighteen days, said his stay was terrifying. Since Luiidberg was rescued last Friday there has been no radra wntact hlh0 marooaed mao. OfMrT ISSllltW thitr1fiafWiIW3 racrftonfHct "with reports of the disaster given out by General Kobile. FOUR KILLED BY'A'MANIAC WOMAN. IILK HON AND TWO HIKED MUX ALL HIIOT TIMlOKill HEAD LAHT KVKNINO LAST VICTIM SUSl'FXTEI) NO CUE HO FAR TO IDENTITY Or' MI HIIIK 1UT TIIOH1IIT Tt) HE MIKED MAN MANVILLS. Alta.. July 10. Mrs. Jlrnry Boocher. her son Fred and twu Mred men Oabrtel orumiey ana uui the last named unknown) were shot wd killed In their farm home last eve ning. Two young daughters are ir. Uanvtlle. Vernon, the twenty year old son. was distance from tbe house, lit beam shots, raced home and louna tbe mother at the dlnlag room table load, shot in the back of the head w4th another through the mouth, Fred was lying across the kitchen floor, also shot la ths back of the bead With another in the mouth. Summoning Dr. Ileatllp from Man- rtlle. the latter Investigating found BUI dead in tbe bunkhoase. shot under the chin. Constable Olsen from Vermillion. reaching the scene found Orumiey lead on the floor of the barn, shot t. the back of the head. Tbe doctor and the police be lieve Bill to have been tbe last killed. They think a maniac responsible. It would appear that tho slayer walked through the front of the house and shot Mrs. Booher, then Fred. Ap pnrerrtly he then walked to tbe barn where he disposed of OrunUey. Then he came upon BUI asleep In Ills bunk snd shot him. The police are working cn the sup position that the hired man Bill may have committed the triple murder and hen ahot himself 'A PUBLIC MEETING Will be held iri Moose Hall on WEDNESDAY, JULY U, at 8 p.m. and will be addressed by Hon. A. M. Manson Attorney Everyone welcome. ARE SADDLING SOUTHWARD TO MEXICAN GULF EDMONTON July 7. Edmonton people will watch with Interest the pro- j greas of two young men who left here s few days ago In a canoe bound for! Hie Oulf of Merleo by the water route, i John Nolan and Bobbie Copeman are row well on their way down the Saskatchewan and win make their way v. the Mississippi snd fallow it f did Mark Twain's famous boy heroes. The cance was named "Canadian ' nri.hf.- Maw Tlllfv tK rhlf Af oiice nd the secretary of the Board f Trade saw them off and many photographs were taken by friends and publicity men. N ALTITUDE RECORD CAR I 1PUT PI UIP " j ROCIU33TER. July 10. Lady Heath accAtopaoled, by Miss CecUe O Brten t- day created what la claimed Is a atw . altitude record for a light metal sea- j plane, reaching a height of 13,400 feet, j - I FINAL WEEK OF CAMPAIGN Larqe and Enthusiastic (lath-erin? at Liberal Headquarters Lines up Work There was a large and enthusiastic gathering of Tattullo supporters in the Liberal committee rooms last night for the purpose of completing arrangements for the carrying out of the final week of the campaign. Many workers have voluntarily offered their assistance in various ways and, generally, much enthusiasm prevails. From various quarters reports indicate that there will he a larger majority than ever for the gov ernment candidate next Wed-day. FRITZ TURNER IS COMMITTED VICTORIA, July 10- Fritz Tumor was committed for trial for the murder of Thomas Ohrtstisnson at Ocean Falls on July 8 at the preliminary hearing at Ocean Falls yesterday, sooordmf to word received here from Inspector Bptller. WAR YETERAN DIES AT EDMONTON TODAY EDMONTON. Julv 10. A veteran of the South African war and the Bell rebellion and former assistant commissioner of the R.CMP . Col. F. " R Demers. 63 yearn of age. la dead. He waa born at Berthler, Quebec General Seat reserved for Indie. Conservative Speakers Flay the Government of B.C. and Ask Support Captain George Mack and Former Mayor of Vancouver Address Meeting in Moose There-were just two speakers at the political meeting in Moose nar ia ,t night in the interests of the candidature of James II. Thomnson. Conservative. J. C. Brady and the candidate being out campaigning elsewhere. George T. S. Baxter, at one time mayor dressea and the audience was speaker. i were introuucea by u. l. smart, cnairman. Referring to the fact that federal members were taking part in a provincial election. Captain Black said he was not concerned whether Premier MacLean liked it or not. It was true, as the Premier said, thats- tbe t vemment might be likened to the directors af a big corporation, with the taparn as the (hareholdera. If this were an ordinary meeting of aharehold- era. b.w ahust the flaaacaj? This government had bezn in power twelve years. During that time it had been in tbe main the same government. j Captain Black then went Into the matter of finances, criticising a pamph-i let gitten out By the government fori advertising the province and claiming that It was lust a political pamablet. The government had admitted that the ; Bet debt of the province wss S88.000.000 d the gr -. deb: lOa.138.0O0. The, d'scrapancy between this and what was (published in the pamphlet was abcutim a raVi 14100.000 Shareholders should not oon-, ttnue directors In office with such ! stretched their lesd to four and a discrepancy. Since the government Wmn games. Burleigh Crimes wss the keen in power there had been spent in 11 approximately 1 2304)00 XXX) This would nat be so bad if there was some- thing to show for the money. However,; moat of It went In ill-considered 111. administered schemes such as the Sumas raslamatton scheme which cost over tour muliona and the Oliver oolomaatlon scheme which was hopetass failure. mok or wa vmaa sum was afecn X neip political frteasK TJUsJcBtw ttjaas soji In Ttfls d4rtrlct., 96hie "cf llKui were paid MO per cent more than tbe con tract price. The speaker aaM he dldi not say Brltuh Columbia i-had i gone broke. The province was too rich forj that. All it needed was fair, adminis tration and less politics. The- taxes in British Columbia, he claimed, were the highest In the Damlnion until the prori rlnoe had beccme-k byword, held up atp CLIMAX OF TKOlllLE a horrible eaample of spendthrift seal. ! The government "upporters wore hard! OAPETOWN. July 10. The South put to It to show why Tolmle should not j Afrtcsn Labor Party brought to a be returned to power. I climax the bitter quarrels within the LKADKKs EM'tKlENCF. The Tukdner objected to a statement of the Premier that Dr. Tclmle was In- eaperteneed. He was making a living ' by tanning. In ltlT be waa elected to parliament but had hardly got there, until he wet invited to become minis-; r of agriculture, one of the most im- -orUnt departments In the cabinet. He considered this goxl experience and thowed how much money was handled in crder to prove it. , In retard to social legislation and the' P.OiS., two themes on which the gov-; ernment wss appealing for support, the co-operation of Conservatives had been (Continued on Page J) Impossible Reach by Airplane but All Are Well and Supplied with Necessaries STOCKHOLM. July 10. An official report from the Nobile rescue aquad says the temperature is above freezing on the ice floes where the Arctic flyers are marooned. They have plenty of supplies but need moral encouragement which is impossible because the planes cannot land until colder weather comes. Their only hoe is that the ice-breaker Krassin will reach the floe soon. The report expresses the opinion that all the missing members of the party and their would-be rescuers are dead. hs:eJhtingfor a Miiimi n i mm i i ,li rr i Light Cruhrr troin China station Will! ArrUe Here on Frhtay fur lite Day Vllt Fellow tag a cruise down the Alaskan t. HJdB Durban, ugnt cruiser from th China station. Is due at Port l- vANCXJTjyiil, July 10. Thos. Btssett. Simpson tonight and will remain trrfrn0 MUghV nomirkon hV De'tfUtty as until Friday when she aralvat In PrtnWt, lt))Qr candidate, and" whose cvamlna- Hupert for a five-day stay. Since rat Victoria t few weeks ago. the vet-jhai engaged counsel to fight the de-Ml has made brief stops st Juneau,, . . of lh. returnlnc officer. Mrs. Wrejtgoll. Ketchikan and other Alaska j porta. An ambit lou progrum of en-1 ttrtatnment for tho personnel of 1 1MB. j Durban during Its stay here has been arranged and will be submitted to the oaptaln for his approval on arrival of the cruiser In Prliue Rupert. i O. E Oullrk renirr.ed to the city on tiie Cataln Hi;n mnrnlnu from a brief trip to Auy-i and 8tcwai : . Hall Last Night Black, M.P. for Yukon Territory and of Vancouver, gave interesting ad- good humored and attentive. The YANKEES LEAD ELEVEN GAMES (U.IIKKJ HAMSIIED I'KUM FIELD FOR DIsiM'TINfi HKCIMON OF CLOMN'O (1A.ME NEW York Julv 10. Whils Pittm- burg does not seem to be going any- where this year, they carted a vote of thanks from St Louis VMterda br bowling ever New York a third time xh Cardinals beat Boston aialn and thorn in McOraws side yesterday. The mithaller has beaten his former team mtiM tt every start this season, Tbt Yankee, lead was cut to eleven m- vhfn they jrrflt a double-header mth the Browns while PhUadelphia crashing Cleveland. Gehrig was hamshed from the field for disputing d-cimon in th. ckin em. LABOR QUARREL SOUTH AFRICA TWO LEADINO M KM UK It H OF PAKTY i;xrf.LU:i) AT CAl-t'TOWN AS organisation by expelling the leadera colonel ' P. H. OressweU and. Hon. T. Boydell. member of the South African Government who convened an unauth- -rttad tabor party convention, seeking to teir tbe power wltbte . the Labor party. with OressweU and Boydell ousted. It means that the cabinet will have to be reorganised as It oonttsU of a combination of Labor and Nationalists, Mi. V. O. Hug hue and family and miss B. Davies sailed, last night en the Prince Charles to mske the round trip to Stewart. Anyox and Maaset Inlet points Nobile Party pi APF fiMPftll i liXlvLl Ull 1 UJuL LAHOIt MAN WAS DKCLAKLD DIS-(Jl ALIl I Kl) OW1NO TO IKHFXItL-ITV OF PAPKIfji. Tuon',,tnera were rejected a bjrfeulir. Teen Davidson. WALLACE PRESIDENT ALBERTA UNIVERSITY EDMONTON. July '10vDff. R. C. Wallace of the University of Manitoba han bei) appointed president of the. Uuivtrrsity of Alberta.