CLASSIFIED HABIT IreryoM reU th ClMMlfled ACU.' If you loae, sdrertlM for It. If you find, locsta th owner. Wbitever'you need, adverttoe (or It OET THE CLASSIFIED t Vol, XX. No. 41. . ' 1 licenses and gasoline tax i II be made by the municipal mitteo of the legislature, U v.j decided yesterday. PRICE OF WHEAT v ANCOUVER. Feb. 20. Wheit U hnrc today at $1.32. FUNERAL NOTICE funeral of the late A. H. will tuko place nt 2 o'clock Scottish Humor Imported dlrctt from the Aberdeen Joke Factory A I1IRTHUAY PRESENT Ml Hnrrlnn. 'UI'1I ..in 1 Ottawa House Passes Resolution Favoring Return of Rhources'to able adjustment. OTTAWA. Feb. 20: The Do minion representatives offered , yesterday to return to Sakat- chswan its natural resources and . i i I. nxatiAnf n n. continue io jwy me i'iw" nual subsidy to that province at a conference oined yesterday morning between the representatives of the two governments. Tho request was made by Sas- ifurday afternoon from the kntchewnn for an outlet for the Tummio for a nirthdav nresentt! otter of tho Dominion dv iw wav of Chesterfield Inlet on me coast of Hudson Bay. it understood that the Dominion asked that the matter of the extension of the boundaries of the province be allowed to stand until the question of natural resources is settled. The conference will reconvene on Friday. The Saskatchewan delegation in the meantime will consider ine Last VP.'ir Via' irnf n rn nv 1nl . Thn return of railway prc-emp- loon ... ,.v....v ..... ".-.., ,.ia wiih nn lion anu nomwienu "dy: "So ho did wcel he's area of approximately 15.000.uuu CHRIST CHURCH IS VANr.nnvKi! fJi pa Bairn Both Premier Mackenzie King SEVENTY CENTS TO V FIRST HAUBl'T AT and Leader of Opposition A re in : Accord Supporting Peace Bact I Hriand-Kellogg Pact Is Onc of Many Paths Leading In Direction of Peace, Declares Premier Mackenzie Kin? in Commons OTTAWA, Feb. 20. There is no royal road to peace, but there are many paths which lead in that direction, and the Briand-Kollogg pact is one of the paths. In this sentence Premier Mackenzie King defined for the benefit of the house of commons yesterday the treaty for the renunciation of war signed at Paris last sunfmer . Yestorday he moved that the commons register its approval of the treaty. The treaty, the premier said, did not pretend to ogtnb-li. !, machinery for the prevention of war, but it called for arh nation of the world's sole solemn renunciation of war a:-- an instrument of national policy. Nutmort of the treatv. counted with a note of wamintr that there must be disarmament if peace was to be more' 'han a dream, was the burden of the speech with which' Hon. It. B. Bennett followed Premier Mackenzie King. The debate is continuing. EDITOR DOES SIX IN JAIL Fine Also fr Publishing Seditious Libel in Finnish Paper SUDBURY. Ont.. Feb. 20. A. Arvo Vnaia, editor of the Finnish new.a:ier Itapaus, la it night was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined $1000, or an additional two years, hy Mr. Justice Wright, following conviction nn a charge of puMbhint; scdi-tious libel. Vanra in his paper published reflections on1 the Kins during the latter'a lilnens. The. SEATTLE YESTERDAY SEATTLE, Feb; 20: Win ninir nn . excitimrJ race wltH Mote oftherfphing craft tira various : nanus, me T schooner Ailee u wptairr; Gallseth. came Into Seattle ; y BterUy w1rti thV first Halj ibut t4i of !'th season. ; i As Is customary the Alice j B. was given a premium, ' halibut dealer bidding the i price p to 70 cants per pound for the 'BOO pounds ' !- she brought. It 1 believed to be the highest price ever . paid and about twice the amount it wouhfbfinfr retail. The halibut was caught on thv Cape Flattrjr bunks. , - 4 C. M. FREIGHT IN ACCIDENT FALKENBUUC, Out . Feb. 20. Two members of fctMstteWW a Canadian National freight train were killed, and another seriously north of here. constitution of Christ fJiurjeW ine deaa are: 'uerueri 4 urreiu, . i i i firaman llariv 'Hill. lirakernAn. Construction work for the new mill of the National Airplane Lumber Co . , along the C . N . R . track;about six nilles from Prince Rupert and near the new saw- mill of the Billmor Spruce Mills, Ltd., is proceeding steadily. Though a few buildings have been put up, work up to this time has been confined largely to preparation of the site. Mill machinery is expected within a week to be all on the ground and part of the lumber is already on the site for the construction of the mill buildings. E . R . Long arrived in the city today from Squim, Wash., to take charge of actual construction worK. SPEND $50,000 ON HAIR SEALS OTTAWA. Feb. 20. Appropriations for public buildings in British Cnlumbhi in the estimates amount to $160,000. Itrltlsh Columbia is to get $1,-037,000 for harbors and rivers. In tho fisheries estimates of $2,-248.386 the sum of $50,000 ia'ap-propriatad fop the payment of bounty for the destruction of hair seals in the tidal waters and $16,000 t provided for the ex RATIFIED SALE OF ALHERTA LINES to nu; COMPANIES. , EDMONTON. Feb. 50tw i PRINCE RUPERT Northern and Central British Columbia's Newspaper PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1029 MILL IS CONSTRUCTION NEW MILL PORPOISE HA WINTER DOLLS UP PARIS Boston Grill LABOR CAIURET Special Dinner Thurtdayi and Saturday IMncing erery Saturday night from 9 to 12. Dance Halt for Hire Accommodations for Prirate Parties Phone 457 PRICE FIVE CENTS GOES A HEAD Unusual scene in the Place De VOptra in the French cap'tal during a recent snowstorm which lasted .wo hours. Severe frost is familiar in Par 4, but heavy snowstorms are a rarity. AT WINNIPEG Vancouver, ax uic cncneurai oi me ............. " ' : . both of Allandale, Ont. Engineer i diocese of New Westminster is -, P announced by the Moat Rev.- A. iMclnnes is In hospital -with seri- jan Attempts to Kill . His Wife . n I r J I lU. Deleier. fnJhbKshop. The mjuries, wciuaing oroaefl When Police Drop. Him rrnmnces -basil, is Amoiltous J nenison.D.D.. rector " i OTTAWA, Feb. 20. A resolution was passed unani- -mously by the house of commons Monday night endorsing; the return of the natural resources to the three prairie; provinces," free from restrictions within the legislative! competence of the parliament of Canada, with provisions for maintenance and administration of school lands and ecisooI land endowment funds for educational purposes, ac-c 'diner to the laws of the respective provinces, but in com- MOTOR ACT VKTOUIA, Feb. 20. Recom- pllance with the letter and spirit ' W. lillwarus, UBerviw ui 1 FrontenaoAiWlBto riding. The. resolution also aka that the claims of the Western Provinces to condensation for the loss of t Ju'ion that the Motor Act be ( lands and resources alienateu anu ::;ncd and consideration given: that claims of any other Provin-' plea of British Columbia lees in connection with this sub- ' iMpalities for exemption from: ict should be investigated with la view to satisfactory anu eu.uu- i of Christ Church, will be dean of The temperature at the time of i the cathedral. ' the accident was 36 below tero. Mill Construction at Porpobe Harbor is COUPLE SEPARATED Constable Was Passing in Street Car When He Witnessed Pursuit WINNIPEG, Feb. 20: Wlwn i attempted to shoot and kill bk wife and her companion on down town street yesterday liar New Silver Cup Mill Near. Hazelton Began Operating Yesterday Mine Promises to He Steady Producer From This Time On, With Ore Going $30 a Ton; Well Known Men Interested Less than two years from a prospect to a producer and k i i t 'L i a i w. i -I sieany one ai tnai is me story oi tne suver uup mine, Making Good rrOgreSS 4ft TlTZ,u New Hazelton, with the turning over of the f fetation to tb hospital. concentrating mill on the property yesterday ZT S eon i I" the spring of 1927 a company was forinodto take was infaind when Keid owned over the bond on the bilver Uup mine on NjnQi fire on him but his condition in. tain. tam. Work was immediately started Jtt) (f the hospital is not serious. , Mrs. Reid js in a state of collapse. Detective James Thompson was passing the scene in a street car when he saw Reid pursuing his wife and Koas down the street, gun in hand and witnessed Rom drop to the sidewalk with two bullets in his side. As Reid also fired two shots at his wife Thompson jumped from the street '- car and shot Reid. i The couple had been separated REINDEER FOR CANADA and Raid had recently returned STOCKHOLM, Feb. 20. A con- from Chicago. Mrs. Reid and the signment of 300 live Swedish taxi driver had been released reindeer, the largest number ever from the moruni court i BIG TRADING GEORGIA RIVER After nlebate Jastlhg-iiearly-:! two sittings of tho leglsla. VANCOUVER. Feb. 20. Noble turc. the Provincial Govern- Pive and Georgia River monopo- it mcnt ownc of 'he. lnlurei,t of the nwrket son; pen f the British Columbia ,ra'lw .A1: ,,se1d fUhrf-ie reference referLnCC tn tho m nnVv pny bert paed Into the control yesterday. enmcll council of tne C.P.R. and C.R., and Owning 4 cent, higher at 60. ond t POWELL RIVER. Feb. 20: Haddad's main drygoods tore fn a suid UA.t WH ore is nvolved In the reiurn on " T""' 4,re h 4 h,m blaw it "up noo." . the resource, to the province. yesterday wtth a .oss of $20,000. the Alberta Legislature lost Georgia went to bX -Z. Milo pioun- l$rHori.he.j T?hIcH 1 property by the extension of the four short titrirrelfe ririofe (continued on page five Good Prices Paid at Opening of Season for Halibut Sold Today on Exchange to Export Dealers The fish exchange at Prince Rupert had its first ses- short , sion of bidding this season for fresh halibut this morning, exported at one time have been time before, the shooting. They five days after the legal commencement of fishing opera- shipped to Canada through a had been arrested in a downtown t tions. when a total of 81,000 pounds Was sold and brought Norwejtian port. house on Sunday night n i frnm thn lmvnrs. whn ware, as usual, anxious liquor act charge. n t - - " - j t - - , - j . . . i i n i r i r . 1. xi i, to get the first frosh fish of the season on the eastern markets . ('apt. Harry Selig, who was the first American fisherman of the 1928 season to land a catch at Prince Rup ert, was agaiu the first this year. brought in 6000 pound" season to market on the exchange. aboard hit boat Onah ami received Their catches and sales were aa a price of IDc and 8c. loll we: The Melville. Capt. John lvar UvlvHlv. 11,000 pounds. Atlln one of Its greatest bones of taking brought it down to 60 at 'in Ucnmark, and which is now In "ian contention. The Tuesday close on a trade of lUO.OOO shares tne (.ovenam, i,api. nan Kishenen, 17.1c and Be. rdahl ( ivanwn'h son-in-law) : 12,000 pounds, Booth the Helen II., whose owner. Fisheries. 17.4c and 8.6c. Plofit-: Capt. Chris Hovmuller, is visiting Helen II., 2000 pounds, Cina- command of ('apt. John Hanaon, legislature, wimoui Division !. ..,-.- ati nu,M1,, of f .h thi MnrrU Morris II II.. were were, ratified the sale. Wronger at 76 and closed at 74 o.ij on a sale of 100,000 shares. jth fust l'rince Kupert boaU thia j nsn & oid tuorago ui., 16.1c and 8.6c. See "Abie's Irish Rose.