ml Save Money. Boston Grill Large Upstair Dining Hall, s-. .v. i to subscribe by the with newly laid dancing me cost i IS.00 and your floor, for hire. ,i..hvcred to your address NEW SODA FOUNTAIN. : J", ,,.!.. Just figure out th RUPERT The latest and best for the '' , ,'; ,st to you for thU dally PRINCE least. Phone 457- ,. lor twelve months! Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper xv m . No. 11 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., SATURDAY. JANUARY 14, 1928 Price Five Cent DWrnm SPENPidAY 1NWNSULTATI0N W1THTH0NRT0N Engineers Studying Alternative Routes to Coast from Peace River; Parliament to he Asked Sanction Officials of the Dominion Department non-committal regarding reported construction project but admit consideration OTTAWA, January 13. While officials of the railway department arc non-committal today in regard to a report that government action is expected in connection with the construction of a railway to furnish a coast outlet to the Peace River country, it is intimated that consideration is being given the matter. It is understood that engineers entrusted to make an exhaustive survey of the topographical features of the Peace River and advise concerning alternative routes across the mountains have had the matter under study for some time but nothing will be done until the entire situation has received the sanction of Parliament. MONTREAL IS PREMIER PORT Handle Much .More Tonnage Than Vancouver Although 1 ewer Call From Ship ' OUVBR. Ju 14 Mctitrmt tUlt - Vancouver la the shippln trade MniiiMt1 Btehanae figure today Montreal lat year visit-1 i v, 7 70 veaeela with a art tonnage .7 100,000 afatnst 30.300 smvaii in nivfr with IMOO.000 ton iiMrniR the year ao.ooo ton of .' su handled inward end outward Vancouver. '' n vessels numbering IOM ar-;:i Vncouvtr lt year. CANADIANS BUY AMERICAN MILL Control of Industry Paste Inlo Montreal Hands ax Ilea u It of 1 Deal MONTREAL. Jan. 14. Announce-' ir tut been made that the Royal mine have purchased ootitrol of ' ' mirona Paper Oomny for p- vimately fourteen million dollar. I iu mark the paaalng of a lain? Iiroprrty from United Stole to .nlmii hmids. REINDEER ARE ROUNDED UP Forty Thouaand Animals lteing Driven Through Corral in Alaaka AKIAK. Alaska, Jan. 14.--The great-'i round up Inhlaiory Is progresslnK iiere. Forty-thousand reindeer are be-luu workM throiiBh n nrral ai; a rrsult KlKHUtle consolidation of the herds. Tu.u companies organized to supply fir-Mi reindeer meat will install a cannery t Kuskokwlm River. SHOTHlSELF CLEANING GUN VANCOUVER. Jsn 14. W H R llopkln. 00 years of age, an accountant in Ihe B.C. Marine Engineers Shlp-iiinkw-iH Limited, died la, night from imiipt wound in the abdomen ra-'"ivi'd whpn he was about to clean a I'l'i.'i ni hi home In the afternoon. : 'i'"n wa uccldentally discharged. Government Railway TMOi ANI OF CHAiJ tlVIWl l KHOHtf-Or' )rr.N CIIAKLOITIM SKIMOATS. Jan. 14 fallowing btf lit orm countless thctuand of large crab are dead or dying along the beach on tr-e at roast of Queen : Charlotte Island from Rtchird-ean :i Point at Tlell to Cape Bell. They are etrewn along the bore : t high water mark. ! There la much discussion at to what oould have cauaed the carta to die there. MttttttttT FUNERAL HELD TODAY LATE CHARLES KARKLE The funeral ' k place thU morning of the Ute Charles Karkle. who died a few daya ago following a ion lUneaa' Wntll autumn. Mr. Karkle ha Charlotte City, whre be lived at Queen leave a widow and eon. They all lived J here formerly. The funeral aervloe waa conducted today by Rev. W, W. Wright from the B.C. Undertaken. KNOWS NOTHING OF COAST COPPER DEAL vimniivKR Jan 14 -Although I have not hirl anything about such an eachange 1 ra satisfied there .. truth in the rumor." 8 O Blaylort. gtneral ma..agt-r of Cnwll.lated Smett-ing. received hare declared in a mewage yeaterday. relerrlnn to the report that of conolidted would be ex changed for lour shares of Coast Cop- MOTHER OF COL PECK DIES ATWESTMINSTER NEW WBBTM INoTBR. Jsn ' - T uc.ll. ocurmU here yestcrdny Wesley Peck, mother of Colonel C. W Peck. V C . aged SS, OLD COUNMF00TBALL ' "' M'OTTISII MSAOriS llhhluil t. Aberdeen . Clyde 0. Alrdrleonlana 8, Banger 7. nonces a. Hlberntana I. Celtic tt. l.-unfermline o. Cowdenbtath 3, Hamilton 1. Heart 4. Queen's Park a. Motherwell 3. Kilmarnock 3. Part Irk 5. Halth Rovers 0 St Johnstone 8, Dundee 1. St Mlrren 3. Palklrtt a. Advertise In The Osily Ntws ENGLISH CUP TIES PLAYED Soccer Games Featured Throughout Country Today under Football Association LONDON, Jan. 14. -Engl'sh cup tie third round scceer gamej were played throughout the cjuut7 under the English Football Association as fuilc.au: Mlddlesboru 3. Sjuth Shield 0. Hotherliam TJni.ed 3. Exeter City 3. London Caledonian ft. Crew Alexander 3. Hull City 0. Leicester 1 L!verp:-o! !. Dr!!i!t:n 0 Hudderefleld 4. Lincoln city 2. Southpoit 3. Pulham 0. Notts Forest 1. Traiunere Rovtrs 0. Blackpool l. Oldham 4. Uanoheater (Jutted 7. Brentford 1 Stoke City 6. ailllngfcam 1. Cardiff 1. ateuthampifco -1. Areaosu 1 Waal gfwj . The Wednesday a, Bautoeaaeuth .. Bristol City I. Tattehham t. Preston 0. Bverton 3 'Port Vale 3. Barns!' 0. Mllwall 1. Derby 3 Nolte County a. Sheffield 3. Bolton 3. Luton 1 Birmingham 4. Peterboro 3. New Brighton a. Corinthian 1. Sunderland 3. Northampton 3. Manchester city 1. Leeds United 0 Black burn Rovers 4. Newcastle 1. Swindon 3, Clapton 1. Portsmouth o. West Ham a Reading 4. Ortmsby 0. Burnley 0. As ten Villa a Wolverhampton a. Chelsea 1. AN AIR LINE TO EDMONTON NEXT SUMMER Colonel Aroery Says It Will he Three or Four Yearn Before Regular Service MUllONTON. Jsa. H. An experimental s it line lltreugh iliM-lU M U Ihe Iw4irh- Cmtst will lie e UWIebed netl year, arcwrdlttg to HlgM Hon- I- ' M- toery, but II will be three r fur years hefare a regular serilee will lie e-taMlsbee). rutunet Amety aW It was net generally raallsrd. ait.l l the tie- ' tetopwient of an alrllue acrtms tlte Attaittle would ho It. that riiHretblll ws u near lAMieVftt as Mnlitraal and as near Kdittontwi a It b to Toronto. I'rart leally all Canada U nearer Incloii llian 1 New York. PORT CLEMENTS HOUSE BURNED Ulg' Ilenltlence Owned by Arthur Robertson of Mnsfett De-wtrojetl by Fire Recently Word was brought to the olty by ar rivals on the Prince John last night from the Queen Charlotte Islands of a recant exciting fire In Port ClemenU whan an eight-room house owned by Arthur Robertson, Massett sawmill oper at. it. was burned to the ground. The residence had bsen unoccupied and. evl dently the cause of the oonfragiaUon Is uncertain. The hou waa valued at at least gR.ooo and there was 1,000 JUST I.KST SKIS AMi K Canoeists U-aving a slu lU'iid Print-' Albert Howling and Moaning Siren Rouses the Nerve Shattered People of Nanaimo to Action NANAIMO, January 14. The nerve shattered populace of Nanaimo demand the Marine and Fisheries Department to immediately remove the present siren atthe entrance to the harbor and to replace it with one less objectionable. Last night an indignation meeting presided over by Mayor Busby passed a resolution to this effect, which is to be Tor-warded to Premier Mackensie King and all the members of Parliament of British Columbia. The siren has been howling and moaning like an animal in death throes every night of the past week. tout mull M. m-mnA iurv raiwunmAiwiiKl the, remnval of the iJ uaoi r v;v r via, . u j . airen and many complaints were unable to get eouaren to siecp OSLAND MAN SHOOTS SELF Deputy Coroner Kinds Sulfide In Denth of 11. S. Johnson Yesterday An attempt of BeMdtkt Stefan Johnson. S3 year oH !rcraj4tte fhwerman of Oaland. Smith Island, to sake his own Ufa ended successfully yeavardsy after-noou aa he was oalat brought to the city for treatment toUowlng the msk-:uu of tlx, iliaco.ttiy auwul noon iut he had wounded olmeelt in the head with a gunshot The abootlng " .ccurred about noon rente, (lay and Jehan Luthr Johnseon was rushing ,w the man to Prince Rupert, only to have him die on the boat while ma trip. In was being made. Thla morning aha etreumstance of the affair ware tnwestlgstrd by Deputy Coroner Jiunaa It. Tannock. whu satisfied himself that deal had been "the raault of a gunahoT wound self-inflicted" Deceased la Hiii vlved by a widow and brother. The remain" which are In the hand of the BC Undertakera while here will be Mint urn" to Oeland for Intrr-ment. Advertise in the Dalli News '! !: .MA ! K I'.- FOitC.KT. "h:M ln.i" on Waske.-iu Lake in National Park. - ------ heard from parents who were ; owing iu me num. i. H FORTY MILLION IN DIVIDENDS 8POKANF Jnn 14 The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining Company passed the forty million mark thla week Uuough the distribution of 4345.000. regular monthly dividend at the rate of 75c a share. CANADIAN NATIONAL OFFICIAL IS DEAD MMA. WONTTWAU Jan u i. D,vld g, Brown, formerly ' chief asslatant rtnan- , , of ,K. the Canadian ,a cia vice-pnatdent vice work tn connection with aha i Vultad sutee lines of the system. ad faater- day. FOUND AT VANCOUVER BULLET WOUND IN HEAD VANCOUVgat. Jan. U The body of u well dressed young man unidentified was found lying near the C.P.R tracks wtlh bullet wound In his head late lust night. A pistol was lying near hi body. Hon. C. A. Dunning and Sir Henry Thornton Talk of Railway Business and Tell of Their Many Problems . . MONTREAL, . . January 14. "I trust sincerely . that you may be m m.9 e a -.11 1. knt linu ! able to race tne promems oi me luture wim an um niw ." " ! characterised your efforts of the last year. True,' the Parliament of i Canada, imposed pn you a heavy load in 1927. The Parliament of Canada reduced your revenue and your management imposed an- other financial load with respect to increased wages. Regarding both were essential, both from the point of view of the system and I point of view of the country, but we must recogniie that in connec-l neither of these things as your shareholder do I complain. I believe :. xtut 'Mot two mutter the task of - .ur n.:.iiai4Cinen'. was rendered not i i ,t but .iioi? dilllcult. D n th.nk il.it the shareholders, many of them t !! i-.f .t the rt-.pcnstble men it ihH country, do not recognize that. We re-; cojnle your difficulties, we sre proud r whs' y u have done and we are i ivnirf "f you." i with these word Hon. C. A Dunning nilnicter cf railways and canal, con-cludea his address to the executive, directors and officers of the Canadian National Railway at the dinner held in ...leyv.on with the annual system ' . .mmittoe meeting here. Mr. Duun'.n; v the su,t o: the sver.'.:i;. foii'r.? mi all day conference with the prest- j dent o! the ytein. Sir Henry W. Thoru- , u i w Chihclm general counsel for the ' ,ys:em. " presided at the after-dinner , ...... ..w. i-...., nir H.rv t:,i ..u. ' Thornton as the first apes see. sill IIENKVS JirtlXU Sir Henry Tharswan svas received with'. musical henors and cbeati. After exprea- .t.i.s ' ' - - o c r: who were sn Important pert of the Canadian National family, he extended sn C A Dunning, whom he designated as "Our Minister.'' He continued: "The last six months have been an open sea- sen for the newsmonger, the dispenser of monkeywrencbers and the distributor oi ssnd in the journal boxes. Day by dsy I have bean designated as Ur. Dunning' successor or he has been designated as my successor and both of us have been put forward to aspire to the post of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and even our highly regarded prime minister has been shunted to Washington. Washington has been shunted to London and everyone baa apparently bean (continued on page two) t 4-4" 4- 4 i.i:ttei:m mow uitivi: Kilt UMUIITKH OI EXtCl TKII Ml ItllliltKK OSSIMIKO. N.T.. January 14. 4 Jane Gray, nine year old daugh- tar of Henry Judd Oray. will re- , oeive a letter from her father on 4 her birthday each year untU she is ai. Mrs. Snyder also left a letter to be mailed to her nine year old daughter Lorraine. Neither had seen their daughters since thev entered Sing Sing. The hope that her life would serve as a lesson to the world was u oressed by Ruth Snyder t- in cnnversaUon with her attor- neys before going to the electric chair while Henry Judd Oray T told the attorneys ha realised the enormity of his crime and agreed that justice must be served. tvvvv4tvv444 VANCOUVEK E.CHAN(5K Bid. Asked Br Sliver 130 1.60 BIK Missouri 41 41 Si Coast Copper 48.00 50.00 Cork Province S54 .35 Olac.cr 06 dlsdstone; , . I. and L. 15 V, .IS leadsmlth M 07 (uKky Jim 38 M ! Marmot Metals to Premier MS U4 Richmond -11 t"4 SUvercrest Of Bunlorh 1 80 141 Torlc 5.00 Wheat 14SV Canadian Bond .. 101 CPR I.W1i I'M Mteal 148 BIG CROWD FOR NEW ZEALANDER Tom Heeney Led Fighting in Twelve Kound go last Night But (Mven Draw CROWD WAS EXCITED Opinion Was That Sharkey Had Worst of Game and Opponent Edged Out NtrW TOHK. Jan. 14. Torn Heeney. New Zealand's hope la tfc heavyweight "tie chase, fought a bruising twelve round draw, with Jack Sharkey, the V.. Mtors here last night. hv rrowtf hnslthe Iteeaasaa. They wer heartily In belle? That Qie New Walander had bean edged 4tt ef the IDt decision. BflClHVH. If snrthlnt ;MIUf . It was a m mor victory for Heeney who led the fighting all the way. GRAIN STEAMER HOLMPARKAWAY Sailed Early Yesterday Morning With Full Cargo for U.K. Levenpool Now Loading With a cargo of J07J53 bushel or S.34S tons, the British freighter Holm-park sailed at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Alberta Wheat Pool's Prince Rupert Elevator for -the United Kingdom. The eleventh vessel of the season, the British freighter Levenpool, Is now loading a full cargo tor the Valted Kingdom or continent and should gat away by Tuesday. The .movement of wheat to Prince r.urrert from the p retries Is picking up considerably. One hundred ears have arrived during the peat M hours and .125 are on the division today. SEND BODY OF NELSON HOME Dark Strangler Returns Over Route Strewn With Misery of Ills Causing WINNIPEG. Jan. 14 Back over the long trail whloh the police of two countries believe he as the "Dark Strangler" left strewn with death and misery, the body c tarts Nelson, who was hanged here yesterday tor murder, was today forwarded to his native state of California far burial in San Francisco, the home of bis relatives). Engraved on Nelson's Osakaewas his real name. Barle J. Parrel!. LONE BANDIT TOOK JEWELS Knocked Out Diamond Broker and Handcuffed Attorneys Before Rifling Safe SBATTUe. Jan 14 -A lone bespectacled bandit lant night knocked Emll I Mayer' tn the L C Smith Building. ! with the butt of hi pistol, handcuffed I two attorney.-. In the office adjoining j Mayer In the L. C. Smith Building, l looted the broker's saie o Jewela vsl-, ut-d at 47.000 and escaped.