CLASSIFIED HABIT rwjone resds th Cluslfta) Ad. It you lose. kdvtrtlM (or It. If ymj rind. locsU the owner. Whteef you need, advertise lor It i I1KT THK CLASSlFIKD IUDIT. I L I ! ir XX., No. 2.1 I;1 D0UKH0B0R CMR. May Take Part of Coal Output from Copper River Mines Mining Expert Tells of Plans of English Company Which Has Option on Properties and Is Apply-ing Fftr Charter (E. A. Haggen in Vancouver Province) There is a great deal of misapprehension abroad concerning the English company which hag taken the option on the Copper River coal deposits in the Skeena country. I has been confounded with the British Industries Company, headed by the Mond Interests of Great Britain and ( anada . This is due to the similarity of title, that of the company interested in Copper River coal being the British IVifie Industries Ltd., a private company with an au- - thorized capital of 140,000. The IMITPnfllAlT AT promoter of this company is Mr. liiVEftoiuri ur TRAFFIC FROM U.S. PORTS Mailer to Itc Taken Up ( anada by President With WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. - natp was Informed yestt'r- i a report submitted by Pres-1 oolidge that diplomatic xm ti ions would be begun with .rt.. on the subject of Canada' ri- preference on import vi through her seaports. f report, made after a long -ligation, said that Canadian m , m i x had resulted in some i :n of traffic from Ameri- Canadian porta. INDUSTRIES DEPARTMENT doternment Wishes Loans Closed Out as Soon as Possible VICTORIA, Jan. 50. Th of the government will be unload its industrial loans as iJly as possible without injur-' Miy business. This was indi-' :d yeKterday when the public mms committee of the legisla-r Parted on its annual Invest!- a mn of the industries depart nt Colonel Uty encaged in the rescuing of for nrnrrs from Afghanistan was nu sing today In the wild hill untrv north of Khyber Pass. Frank S. Taggart, one of the pi oneer railway engiaeers of British Columbia. M Taggart was engineer on the Onderdonk contract for construction of the section of the Canadian Pacific Railway from Emory's Bar to Savona. The eompiu-havin vUw xtsiuiHJj dertakings in Telkwa, Copper river and Kitimaat. Its coal operations are based on the acquisition of the rights fo - British Columbia of the Dussey low temperature process Of coat bvneficiatton and "treat ment. The din-ctors are: Sir Afrekl tfij$y. iKJJ.E. irmap Saxor! 1 Securities' Trtist Co.. Gowan Jla landship broker; Edward Harrison and Robert Mutton, engineers; and Edmund Smith, Bast India merchant, all of London. Connect With C.N.K. In connection with the development of the Copper River coal field, the company proposes the building up of an industrial city and port at Kitimaat aa a rival to Prince Rupert, and that point through Copper River Valley to Telkwa, where it will make a junction with the Canadian National Railways. A charter for this railway is being sought by the company at (continued on page 5) SATISFYING REPORT REGARD TO KING LONDON, Jan. 80. The King's physicians issued the following bulletin today: "The King continues to gain strength D. B. Martyn. slowly ana jus mJv 7," - i. ..i... ' im .i iififlnrv ' mis uuuemi if IIUMiatd u L nga ivuiw v., :d that 25 roans had been paid j regarded in authority ive quar- t..i in full and S100.000 had been ters as one ot me m ' iiii-n off as loss "I would like to see industries vhii'h are in a good position and tjw loans from the government urc money somewhere else," iul George A. Walkem, chairman . ''We are agreed on that," said A M. Manson. TROOP PLANE MISSING TODAY NEW DELHI. India, Jan. SO:- The huge British Air Force troop tarrying plane which has been satisfying yet issued. PRINCE'S HEART HEAVY AT SIGHT GRIM POVERTY SIX MONTHS SENTENCE ON Religious Fanatics Punished For Obstructing Police Of ficers in Execution of Duty GRAND FORKS. Jon. 30. For obstructing police officers when they sought to arrest' those who drove the children from some of the public schools near Nelson, parading in the nude ani attacking them, eight members of the Sons of Freedom Society of Doukhobots, rclil'iiis fanatics, weie tvuh f-entrnred tu serve sfx months in Jail. They were tried and found guilty yesterday. LABOR WINS SEAT BRITISH ELECTION EDINBURGH, Scotland, nniTKfUnDnDC l JaB.:Mlonirvativef loA UUUunUDlIKu thnrthern division of Mtd- lothian yesterday, when AA I drew ClTke, Baborlte; wffs returned over! three other candidates in the by-eleetlon. r NEW HOSPITAL BOARD SELECTED J. H. Thompson, G; P. Tinker, G. V. Wilkinson, It. W. Cameron and Alex Meltae Are Named Directors James 11. Thompson, president; G. P. Tinker, merjtber of - last year's board; G. V: Wilkinson, R. W. Cameron and .Alex Mcllae (printer) were eisfcted to the 1929 board of HHtortors of ' the Prince Rupert General Hospital at the annual meeting last night i the city hall. "Ehe board will PRINCE RUPERT Northern, and Central British Columbia's Newspaper PIUNCE RUPERT, B. C, WED JESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1929 Boston Grill LA ROE CAIIARET Special Dinner Thursdays and Saturdays Darning every Saturday nljlit from 9 to 12, Dance Hall lor Hire Accommodations tor Private Parties Phone 437 PRICE FIVE CENTS S GET SIX MONTHS FOR OBSTRUCTING POLICE NEWCASTLEON-TYNE. Jan. 30:With his heart made h-avy by the grim reality of the poverty stricken homes in the mining reg-ions, the Prince of Wales today continued his tour of cos fK'lda going to the Northumberland ji.t.i.t A in rnntain some SALVATION ARMY MUST JIEARMTH tion against the- HighXefinoii the Salvation Army f griftt In Chancery Court today by Justice Eve preventing it' from acting on its resolution of de posing General Bramwell Booth and electing a successor until a further meeting of the council at which the General will have opportunity of being heard. an 4 ..... commission, HMMl..tAn AiaA died at New,' Tqi' ment war York, aged 89 also eemprUe AIU Wni. BrowrU and AM: S. D. SrjWoaM,-rep- -resentin the city council; two Cannot Act Court Says, Until appointed from the provincial General Has Opportunity ; government and one represent-to Speak ing th Prince Ruffert .Medical . , Association. George Rorie C. A LONDON. Jan .30: An iniunc-was re-elected auditor. The new rd had its initial meeting at n tody and re-elected James I. Thompson' as president, G. P. Tinker, vice-president, and H. W. Birch, managing secretary. Those present at the meeting last night were: James H. Thompson, who prer sided, Aid. Wm. Brown, Aid. Frank Dibb. G. P. Tinker. C. V. Evitt. Alex MeRae, R. II Benson, ,H. B. Rochester, G. V. Wilkinson, MONTREAL, Jan. 30. Sir N. Musaallem, P. C. Miller, M. M. Chsrloi Peer David-on, former Stephens, R. W. Cameron, D. C. chief justice of the supreme court Stuart, L. Lambly, W. B. Morgan, of Quebec and later an active. A. R. Phillips, Robtrt Gordon, member of the Canadian go vara, Mies Jean Harrison RJs'H Aid. -S. D. Macdonald, J. J. Little ahd P. M. Ray. A. M. Manson's Proposal Regard to Election Act Voted' Down by Legislature, Straight Party Vote VICTORIA, Jan. 30. The debate on the address in ronlv to the speech from the throne will be concluded early noxt Week, Hon. R. II . Pooley stated in the legislature vesterdav afternoon. Former Attorney-General Manson's motion to appoint! a committee of the house to investigate matters connected j with the late election for the purpose of suggesting amend-) ments to the Election Act was defeated on a straight party j vote. Manson alluded to in- 11 cidents where the ballots were so i,e taxed in organised parts by thin that the way the elector voted the government for hospjtal pur-1 ould be read through the ballotjosg. The amount, he said, when It was handed In. pointed out by members of the government that the abuses the attorney-general complained- of were carried out under the government of which he was a member. The present government, it was stated, would see that the next election ballot was a secret one. ;S Z. in the The 'debate address continued ountrV b" Mr' IaK"I Cariboo, who advocated that district hos-see "It makes one's heart slek to, such conditions," Hid the-pltalii in he province under , which the district served would Prince. It was would be small, but would mean a lot to the institutions. SILVER MAPLE TAKEN IN TOW BOSTON, Jan. CO. The dls-nbled British freighter Silver Maple was safely in tow of coastguard cutters today after drifting helplessly for 250 miles since VANCOUVER. Jan. 30. The lowest temperature here this morning was seven degrees above zero, the coldest it has been here for 13 years. Weather was clear and cold over most of British Columbia today. At Kamloops it was 20 below zero. Higher temperatures are forecast. .'WINNIPEG, Jnnx 30, Lcthbridge registered fhe prairies' coldest weather last ' nlg"ht with 38 below terovt FORMER PREMIER OF PRINCE EDWARD ISD. FIGURE IN THE SALVATION ARMY WRANGLE Commander Catherine Booth and Commisioner Hubert Kitchen, in front, and Commisioner J. R. Laurie, in the rear, snapped as they left the meeting of the Salvation Army leaders at Sunbury-on-Thames, England, during the heated sessions of the High Council. They were called together to choose a successor to General Bramwell Booth, aged supreme head of the organization. COLD TODAY New Hospital Will Have to be VANCOUVER Coldest Weather in 13 Yeari Registered at B. C.'s Largest City KILLED IN LOS ANGELES to ' t. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Jan. 30. John II. Bell, aged rO, former premier of Prince Edward Island, died here. II s skull was fractured when he was knocked down by ah automobile when crossing the street on Saturday night. FOUND BODY FROZEN MAN VANCOUVER. Jan. 30. The ' body of an unidentified man, agottj about 70, was found froten In nnj abandoned mill office on Georgia i Street, The man, destitute, had apparently taken refuge in the Built Before Long In the City Stales J. H. Thompson Report While it is not an immediate necessity, a new hospital will eventually have to be built in this city and hospital boards from now on should keep it in mind, stated James II . Thompson, in presenting the president's report for 1923 at the annual meeting last night of the Prince Rupert General Hospital Association. The present hospital capacity had been on several occasions ta .teifl durine the past year and it had been necessary to instal additional equip- .mint inr presence oi a numoer I of incurables, for whom no other provision could be made, had tended to crowd the institution at t some times. Mr. Thompson gave ' an estimate of $300,000 as the cdst of a new 100-bed hospital here. The hospital was in a satisfac- I inn- fitinnMal iiAAditinn Anttntlr1 SLOWMARKET MINING STOCKS VANCOUVER. Jan. 80. -The Mr. Thompson's report, and the LM.i.. .... t i .,ir ,m! volume of trading on the ato'k r.,v..mnt- h.vin, hrf mH. exchange was extremely small to- ' " n J I ...Ilk L. t t ground. Excellent workl'. lur" .. ... niirht. nricp rhanirex with raw . wa; tie.ng done in uie training . " bem Jnw.rd. ,chool.whichp esenUdagoodop-:c",t,on8 por:ti:iity for younR women de- Missou i moved up three sirous of taking up the nursing cents, Whitewater four, Pend pr..fesion. Mr. Thompson : Oreille under heavy offerings thanked all those who had assist- chwi at $126 lower, and Reeves eel in hostrfUl work .during, the McDonld lost 15. Premier lost var. includ&x tHe meraUrj' ofj on a smJl. trade, liu- board, lady auperlntendent,! managing secretary, members of i he medical profeuion for lectures given the student nurses and W. !). Vance, who had relieved the managing secretary for several months during the year. Superintendent's. Report The report of Miss Jean H'urri-(Continued on page Are) BIRTH NOTICE building. ! A daughter was born yester- Ile is a stout man, irbout five day, January 20. at the Prince feet night inch tall. Dressed Rupert General Hospital to Mr. In a jacket und trousers of dark, and Mrs. W. B. Cornish, 411 Sev-blue with a Hgh atrlpe. Unth Avenue W. MINES ACT CHANGE SOON VICTORht. ' Jan . $0:ifi-creleW p?oft6Par) for tht. thlic in mining investments, broadening the scope of activities of resident mining engineers, and offer ing, further protection for wage earners employed on bonded properties are Included in u new mineral survey and development act being introduced by the minister of mines. 1 -