lave Money i aiav to bUV the ' i i u . .. v. . T '. cost is 15.00 and your iifii to your address Just figure out the ' you for thli dally , ... twelve months! I 'M P- 'V ANADA LACKS ISUPREMEPOWER nve Memlwr in House of 1 am in Say Equality of Minus it Fallacy Q'OWEIt LESS THAN MONACO .nhcf i unada ur Australia Ila Much Extra-Territorial lutrht a Small Slates rb. 3. - Sir Oecrje Per- ut. tpeRkinn on the fl-: ly to the ipeech tram the ' wed '.he op nloii that the .' of more mlnnteni to for- ai ealabljihlng a dun (Irut. hi Ooiuarvatlve. argued tb' equality of atatua at be-u and Oreat Britain. The ' I anient waa auil supnsae of the Brltlah Partlaroen' niiipa of the wven sea but ...in Parliament had no Jurla-' i Canadian cltluena once tbey Hire mile limit. x' n laid down by the Privy Mr Cahan aa:d. "that the Par-' ' Aiutralla and lu varloua ' m.c Parliament of Canada aud p ovliuea haa not the Juris-i Meilco or Patagoula or any mcrican itulea or any other i"r rrom Liberia down to iii' of bringing home and -' ci' home bv Australian or ' !h, Australian or Canadian '- 'h are guilty of crime beyond 1 "- f their atate." DR. CLAY DIED AT WINNIPEG Model aior of Presbyterian Church I asscd Away in Sleep Ust Night WINl.Kn. ,-,b 8.AfU)r , uumt Hey. l,,- cu. D.D., Ml ' of ihe Presbyterian Church In ii mi pattor or nt kjim'i 11 Victoria, died In the hospital '""'el 65 Ma lufbMi . wau-t. 'Wltliiawk, huahanii He ' u" "'"ked improvement during the "" M clay had left him tor the r Clay hlM, t ttMMmi '' ;,r 3 years. hc was ordained in 'J'M''w in IBM and played a pro-,l" part m church work In pioneer take place In Victoria. He 7''''"' cl"Wran. one of whom la ,v Victoria lawyer, and a " Marnnret. chief librarian at l"'1'"' library. er l.i the rourn newn inougn wan ,-m i,:ik1 uravt in order to conceal 'he b. dy which, subsequently, hxiwever. i breaking c'otn, he revealed to UM fllcrr-. investigating At one juncture ) .ititi to Constable Chant that It J ill' accident. A'-curdlng pielimlnary His son Harry to evident taken at the trial, the elder Smith and the accuted, 'sent out (rum DrltatU. In Mauett Inlet, where i!-.ey rmided on or about January to work un pre-emption which they had lai.iu out xinit hall a closte i miles or ,o up ;he Inlet and in the bush. lHarr,' later itm back I.. ht home and ihe mother uiet;uentl)' became anxlou. about her liu band. The young man it out .nd. returning kter latcd fi.'i '.ieic amok Issuing from the itlir u- j'A lud not set i ' th ught that be wa. all ilghi Ml .. AW-Th i mothers ai.'lf.y u'ienUy led tc n search parly belnu organised bv Proinell Constable Andrew Oram of alasae't. When the pt.rty passed tlte Smith house, accuse waa seen landing with hu brotlKr. rrana. . L 4.kH gloup of rmei lying - what ,n uir rlt:c f lor. in nrower rrank replied Probably to signal to my Isllicr. ine Ktu- - away and dim aeen no more tnai oay until he returned home about 7 pJB wet through and minus some oi am clothes Constable uraiii. i meantime returned with the eearcn party, waa Hiimmonen i ic and took charge or ti atciiwn iu iilaht Uurlnil the evening iih Hrant that he had accused shot his father and dragged the body to a hole in the around where he burled It. put ting two charge oi powder in the grave ot destroying vne uwu for the purpose mr.t ni the burial according to ac cused, one shot of powder wa put off ... ,r.v. aMurilna that not nutfl- III t".. - cient damage had been done thereby, a econd c harge was put off which covered These occurrences, n wss up the budy. ststsd by accused, took plsce on Priday. January JO o., the morning of January . Con- while journeying from Victoria to Liable Oimit '' "r:h Prl' we,,t out tne -urvw, along to Ihe pre-emption Victoria lt line to abut one half mile between caoins. uiere the two pre-emption Harry Smlili indicated the point where he had dun the grave. The grsve cwas cleverly camouflaged with moss ) aaral bushes which had been placed over It On exhuming the body. Constable Grant ""id Dr. Dunn found the whole of the face had been blown way leaving onlv some Mesh ana ngnv beli.it shattered Prom ear. the skull the examination It was also dlsoloaed . r the bsck hsd also been lIMll l blown away by the charge Bones I continued mi peg DKMOXNTIt.tTIO.X IN vviiini (.m: kii.ui at MAXIIAS. IMll. TOIlAV MADRAS. Feb 3 On? person as killed and live wrluutly injured when the police I li ed on peraona staglnii a tie .ov.'r," In connection with the arrival of the comnilsaRin on Ina.an r.-forau today. f -r CANADIENS IN LOSING STREAK Beaten I.nl Night bv Toronto and Dropping Rack In Hockey Race VAMOOOVKR. Peb. S. Tbt Carladtens las to Tofonto last night, this betaa tka thjad atralgh; leaa on thatr o tm- Ttoen- im h nw cut to klaw fbtoka. -tan sfaiyi m$am . wna Ottawa in eeoocq pjaee wiia a two potat lead over Toronto who are two ahead of Montreal. Torcnto lad four to one at tae end of the second period. "Happy" Day. tb Toronto captain, nearly severed b achlltea tendon m the third period which will probably keep htm out ol the gams for six weeks Klrrea scored lat night for CXtawt winners over the Montreal Mavoona in toe iaat minute of overtime play Score Montreal 0. Ottawa 1. 4. Canadians 3. ilHUIMl MIMTi:it 11.1. CSAlfKXX. Feb. J R Rosa, for mer mlnlator of public works, la crttie- ally Ul bate with pneumonia. HOSPITAL WORK OF PROVINCE l'nttllllo Says B.C. Does More Than any Other Province In This Respect VICTORIA. Peb. 3 Brltlah Columbia does more towards provision and upkeep of public hospitals than any other province of Canada, declared Hon. T. O. Pattullo in the Legislature yeslertUj. He aald the total operation ot U public hospitals of the province laat year amounted to S3.000.000 of which tne Government contributed about half a million toward the care of 00,000 patients. and aged and for wayward and abandoned children. gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawaaMw- M,MaaaaBaaaaeaeaeaaasaPBBaseaseaseaseaseaseasea PRINCERUPERT Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT: The annou-n -eiiieiit has been made with the approval of the Kmiicior of Japan of the engujrement of Miss Setsu .Mat.-udaii a, dauKh-ter of the Japanese ambassador at WashinKion, to his brother- Prince Chichibu. DETAILS OF OFFER MADE JOINTLY BY THE C.N.R. AND C.P.R. TO BUY E.DM B.C. RAILWAY AND EXTEND ' EDMONTON. February '..Premier Brownlee tabled in the Legislature yesterday the joint letter of Sir Henry Thornton and E. W. BeirUy offering to purchase the E.D. and B.C. flail-way which includes the Central Canada and Pembina Valley linea and to operate them Jointly by the Canadian National and C.P.R. sjratems. The offers are to assume liabilities for $7,000,000 debenture stocks, and $2,402,000 outstanding bond of the E.I). & B.C. and to nay $8000,000 within ten years for the asaet and physi-snl properties of the lines, making an offer totalling $17,420,009. The offer includes a guarantee to extend the lines from Whitelaw to Waterhole, approximately 15 miles, and from Wem bley beyond Beaver Lodge, approxicately 25 miles. Further extensions and a coast outlet are to be constructed aa necessity warrants. Highway Work to Proceed and Contractors Will Have Gang at Work on Monday State Officials Work of construction of the Kaien Island highway which has however. Work on "the Pi i ice Rupert Highway In the Ulterior mil also be proceeded with during the omtag Mason. The department is planning the commencement In the neat future of the con struction of a pension bridge over lu Il,r the Copper Bivei new Terraoe. With 1 M rao.oooooo. steel tow era and i main spaa of 380 feet, thle. It la sai l. wUI be the largest bridge on the mm ion of the highway between Itaselton .md Terrace and will be an Important factor In Unking up the towns of Ten ace and Oak. which will be connected by read before the end of laa Woi k will prooeed during the coming seanon from both ends of the Terrace-Hai on section of the highway. for the western United Stated, Boston Grill Large Upstair Dining Hall, with newly laid dancing floor, for hire. NEW SODA FOUNTAIN. The latest and best for the least Phone 457 1"' N"- 2H1 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.,. fiAY, FEBRUARY :1, 1928 Price Five, Cents t- V at ' " ' ' - - . , - . . . . . . ,- .- . -- - .1.' BRING GRUESOME DETAIL If J1T I fir rni . r levoiting muraer was l hat ot James Smith at Masseit by His Son Henry Who Has Confessed )Jy was placed in hole blasted in the ground and then charges set off to con- ceal it there IS COMMIUEDJOR TRIAL risoner went south this morning for Okalla to await spring assizes at Prince Rupert, lung and cold blooded details pertaining to the killing l pre emption near Massett presumably on January 20 Smith, 61 -year-old settler, by his twenty-four year-MVnry Smith, who has confessed to the patricide, were un-uy by officer of the provincial police who returned to the wiling aboard the gasboat Salvage Princess after inves-l c rime A ruroner's jury has already laid the killing to )i who has been committed for trial on a charge of raur-. was brought to the city by the officers. laat night and . - ken this morning to Gkalla by Pro vincial Constable Hugh MciHinchy ef Prince Ctr-ryt to await Ms trial at tlM next m.uh of the ajuBMate- Sweet u.tj l.i the prlni. Town Smith has cdiiiltii-d u tbr police that he shot has father and then Misted a hot In the grcund in winch ht burled hla. sub-ftqcrnliy plnclnu two charge of pow S MASSETT MURDER CASE Hundreds of Thousands i Pay Homage to Haig at Big Funeral Procession ! King's Son Attend and Nation's Great nre Pall Bearers White (5at-I man and Riderless Charger Follow the Coffin Through Streets to Muffled Music LONDON, February 3. While all Britain mourned and three ons of the King, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and Prince Henry, led a three mile procession from St. Columba's to Weatmin-ier Abbey, the body of Field Marshal Earl Haig waa today borne .n rough the si reels of London in one of the greatest military p:ijfeants in the history of the British capital. The casket was wrapped in a weatherworn Union Jack, which erved a similar function on the cenotaph. It was borne on a gjjri arriage on which was mounted the gun which fired the Empire's rat shot in the great war. the same; .hat bcreBrltalns unknown soldier to! ! last resting place. Today seven 1 1 ncurted men drew It slowly through ' 'or. don as men's beads everywhere were ' naied. To muffled music ot a mlll'.ary band . U-e procession moved through the silent: streets, crowded with hundreds of thousands of men. women and children I Women wept, meat of them In black carrying bunches of red paper and trZT pallbearers WZl . Included . Ueut.-Oen-i , . i Brldce , to be Built Soon on .. Tlell-Tne iiiwrntawagl 1 ort LlemenU Section (.C rai Bswa Deeuynmch. Belgium; PWd Mamhal Um Metaam.l Clty-Skidegate Part A I- jjjkirto Jenieae end Beatty and Sh"agh mdsT'KeSdjT-" nation paid bomaje to the great dead. WKATIIEK m:iKT I Prluce Rupert. 'art cloudy. potti wind: temperature. 8. Customs Reorganization at Vancouver and Other Places light Suggested by Commission Report OTTAWA, February 3. -Premier Mackenzie King yesterday in been suspended for the oast six weeks or so on account of frost and I the House of Commons tabled ten interim reports made by the cold weather, will be resumed at the first of next week, it was learned Royal Commission on Customs. These reports dealt among other at the offices of the provincial public works department this morn-! things with the Chris Moeller, which cleared from Vancouver for ing. jRmes Jack, .superintendent in charge of the work for the Van-1 San Bias with liquor while the commission was sitting at Victoria couver Piledriving and Contracting Co., ia expected te return to the J and which was refused clearance from Victoria on the request of city on Sunday aboard the Camesun from Vancouver where he has .the commission, which took the grouml that the liquor was designed WELL KNOWN B.C. MAN DIED AT VANCOUVER VANCOUVER. Feb 3 William 87 years of age. trader, miner, lumberman and cattle rancher for 45 years 0f i known st the coast. In the Okanagan 1 i :;i '!'v C.i .0. I: de.id -been for the past fevr weeks The work remaining to be done on j the present contract will be the completion of the road from th city limits to Oalloway Rapid- Grading the entire distance has bean completed but about three miles of plan king and rock surfacing remains ' be done. This. It is expected, will t.ik a orew of M to 80 meu some three raeatne to complete. By the- time the present contract Is completed it is considered likely that provision for continuation of the road from this end win be made. Nothing official te yet obtu uabat regarding this In view of the evidence given by J. A, Nosentofr, R. M. Morgan, J. h. Stewart, and Thomas J Pay. "We FIRE SWEPT I FALL RIVER' have considered It our duty to transmit same to the Attorney Oeneral of British Columbia In order that criminal proceeding might be instituted should it be deemed Advisable." With regard to the customs, recrgan-lxatlon of the staff at Vancouver la re- 'oemmeuded. The report says: "The Damage in American Town 1 position of collector at this port de Amounted to About Thirty five Million Dollars FALL RIVBR. Maes . Peb. S - A disastrous fire was checked early this morn- uiaadl the services of thoroughly c?m i pvtent and experienced officials of out standing executive ability. The preven tlve staff at Vict? Ha. Vancouver and I New Westminster appears thoroughly ef ficient but It Is under manned. W' liu; alter weplng nn area of five recommend that an Increase In the blocks and levelling at le 38 ouU- j preventive stalls b made at an early lugs including many business atrue- j ,te.' damage ran as commission reeoauuenda that two boats be placed at the disposal of the preventive service, one a e agoing boat ACIfC DPI IA1UFWT Tft ifor the west coast of Vancouver Island AuItU rrttvLlfilllCll 111 ' land the other a speed boat for the straits CUT BATE HW fftAl ,ot Oeor' nd adjacent waters Ub 1 Im 1 Li U11 LVnli i with regard to .Toronto, the report said "our Inquiry into, the admlntetra- OTTAWA. Feb. 3 Continuing the de-, tlon of this port revealed a very un- bate on the addre-u in the House of I satisfactory condition of affairs." transportation rate on Alberts coal and . WHhIn my time t have aeen the suggested it extend for a duration of ! Tempersture and density are things color fade out oT Cairo, Damascus and three years pending further Investlga- I am brought up strains! every day of " :i'-UnlwoH' c arleo R. Crane. ' t !on at the ra'c of S6 30 a 'on :' life. S..uili'v Baldaiu. C01PLETI0N0F GRAHAM ISLAND ROAD EXPECTED Treoehard. repreaeoUng the flying aer- . . vlee. Then came the touchlnc spec-: BuUdtng of brtdfM on tae TMl-ttert tsele of the Barra batman, the devoted Clements road on the Queen Charlotte manservant ot thirty years. Sergeant ' Islands will be commenced shortly it ts Srcrett. who was with the Pteld Mar-! stated at local offices of the provincial sbal when he died, walking sorrowfully ' department of public works. AuoUrer with bowed head. With him was Half 's two miles of this road remain to be charger with empty saddle and draping ! built before it will be oagapieted. of gold and black with the Marshal's crest upon them. The Barl had ridden him in France. Britain began her final farewell at St Columbia's, later at Westminster Abbey, but mostly It was by the crowd ed thousands In the streets that the The rebuilt read bet wean Skidagate and Queen Charlotte, a dMtanoe of four mll.. U also expected to Be epea shortly for traffic. Surfacing at tBe road will follow. The towns of Queen Charlotte Otty Port Clemenu. on thd eatreane eods of Qraham Island, will be thus linked up via Tlell with an autotaohtte road on the completion ot the comparatively small amount of work remataUng yet to be done. CHANGES MADE POLICE FORCE AT VANCOUVER VANCOUVER. Peb. 8. Complete reorganization ot the police tones In volving demcttons. promotions and trans fers but no dismissals were authorlaed by the city police ecaamlaaion this morning. Investigation of alleged irregularities will be continued and if . eetsary a Royal Com mission will SWANREPORT ON IRRIGATION VICTORIA, Peb. 3. Major Bwaas report on Irrigition conditions in the Interior of Brltlah Columbia made public yesterday by Hon. T D. Pattullo, recommends varloua ueceaaary relief measures to fruit growers but fnvds on the whole that irrigation charge, so far as fruit growers are ailHil jIhsiUI not be too onerous, if marttekbaf oondiuoua continue to improve aa annua hope. The report approves the government handling of ths irrlgaMon system In all Important directions. . . STOCK MARKET WENT DOWN TOWARD CLOSE NEW YORK. Feb dny twice reversed 8. The market to-the trend with a Commons yesterday E. J Osrland. re- In regard to Reglna it Bays: "Our wave a; filing at the close. Recessions presenting the United Farmers of Al-, Judgment is that this port required of one to Mx dollars were numerous In berla st Bow River urged statutory tnorougn reorganieuuon rally ilcstiu The upward movement wiped out i".im lones but was fotlowed by a Utc lecewton. Advertise In The Dftliy Mtwi at.O