PAGE FOTO TI1E DAILY NEW3 CARDS GET I UP TO top! Chicago Cabs Deposed From National League Leadership By St. Loais and Brooklyn 8T. LOUIS, Sept. 15: St. Loub Cardinals took fir3t place in the National League on Saturday by defeating Boston Braves. Brooklyn Robins maintained the virtual tic with the Cards by winning over Cincinnati Reds in a tight contest ; Chicago Cubs completed their gradual f:i:i from the top by losing to the Phillip and were half a game behind the Cardinal ana the Robins. Philadelphia Athletics and Wash-1 ington Senators continued their ! race, hocieos as it may seem for the latter, for the American League pennant by defeating Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox respectively. Saturay's scores were as follows: American League Boston 4-2, St. Louis 5-5. Philadelphia S, Cleveland 2. New York 10.4, Detroit 11-9. Washinvion 0, Chicago 4. National Letjue St. Louis 8, Boston 2. Cincinnati 3, Brooklyn 4. Chicago 3, Philadelphia 7. BROOKLYN IS ON TOP Giants Chance to Figure in World , !!l'Scrhk-nutcd to Almost Nothing Now NKW YORK, Sept. 16: Pitts-Pirates reduced New York's chance of taking the National League flag, to almost nothing yesterday by winning both games of a double- header. The defeat put Giants five and a half games behind Brooklyn Robins, league leaders, with only 12 .games to go. .Boston Braves pushed St. Louis Cardmals from first place by split-ttag a double-header while Brooklyn wat winning a single game. In the American League, the leading Philadelphia Athletics were continuing to win against Cleveland Indians. Yesterday's scores: Nattoaal League Cincinnati 3, Brooklyn 8. Pittsburg 8-7, New York 6-3. 8t. Louis 9-4, Boston 2-7. American League Washington 1, Chicago 2. Philadelphia 7, Cleveland 1. New York 10, Detroit 3. Boston-fit. Louis, rain. Baseball Standings National League w. L. Brooklyn J. 83 60 St Louis -SI 60 Chicago Ml 60 New York 77 66 Pittsburg 67 Boston , ..J7 78 Cincinnati 96 84 PaUadetohia 48 M American League w. L. Philadelphia M 47 Washington J7 36 New York .80 83 Cleveland 76 68 Detroit 70 73 St Louis M 84 Chicago 55 86 Boston 47 94 Pet 530 .578 JM .5J5 2 Pet. .671 .613 jm J38 .390 .333 GOT THREE FINE BUCKS Jack Lindsay and party, re doubtable nlmrods, got opening honors of the deer hunting season here over the week-end by bagging Mire fine bucks at Welcome Harbor, Porcher Island. They were the only successful huntsmen from, the floats of the Prince Rupert Rowing1 & Yacht Club. i Other parties Included those of P. W. Anderson to the north end of Dlgby Island, R. E. Benson to Tucks Inlet and Dr. J. P. Cade around the Island but they got no deer. J. A. Hinton and party are expected back today from a trip to Big Bay. Miss E. Schumann, who recently broice the wo. id s record for Javelin throwing during the German Athletic Chamnlonshin help at Leipzig. Miss Schumann threw javelin over 131 feet. NORTHERN B. C. NEWS PRINCE GEORGE The city council has closed the door to peddlers from the south and in future producers from Kami oops and elsewhere will have to pay a 350 licence before they start to sell their wares. This action was taken by the council last week on petition of nearly all trie fruit and vegetable dealers who were represented by Karl Anderson and J. B. Lambert. The city council has gone on re cord as opposing the action of the provincial government in building a residence for C. C. KeUey, district agriculturalist, on property which, belonging to the government is exempt from taxation. An appeal in the matter will be made to the Union of B. C. Municipalities at Its annual convention. Glscone tennis players carried oft honors from Prince George In a tournament played here recently, i the visitors winning six of the nine events. Jeanne Marie Prince, an Indian, was committed for trial by Stipendiary Magistrate J. D. Charleson at Vaaderttoof but Tuesday on a charge of wilfully setting a forest fire. It is-aUeged that Prinoe set out the fire with a view to securing em ployment In fighting It. Bdgar Sib ley returned to Prince George last week after spending several weeks with a prospecting party in the Fin lay River district. They spent some time in prospecting the bars of that river and, by use of an improvised wheel for washing, recovered considerable coarse gold. .488 i J. C. Brown of Cumberland, Van .4l3lcouver Island, paid an official visit to the local Oddfellows Lodge last Friday evening in his capacity as O rand Master for British Columbia. After the lodge meeting there was a banquet in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Work started last week on the! w wairaiiis) nusvti a trvwni uk local telephone company. The site is centrally located on the north side of Fourth Avenue near the corner of Quefese Street. F. A. Matheson, manager of the iBank of Commerce here, left last week for a holiday trip to Winnipeg. D. T. Serlmgoour of Vancouver h relieving. SKIDEGATE For the first time several tourists have looked over Skidegate Inlut this summer and all pronounced, it the most beautiful piece of water they had ever seen. Rev. P. R. Kelly, who is now stationed at Bella Coola. is over on I short visit to Bttdegate Mission. NEW HAZELT0N There has been such a heavy run of salmon up the Skeena River this year that there was not sufficient room in the creeks for them and, after spawning, a great many of tfce fish drifted back down the raatn river and died all along its banks. There was a very offensive stench around Haselton last week as a Extensive Improvements are being made to the residence of Mrs. C. V. 8mith in Haselton. At a meeting of the executive of the Haselton Horticultural Society held on Tuesday evening of last week a surplus of $100 was reported as a result of the annual Flower Show this -year. Capt. Hood of Port St. James was a visitor in Haeelton at the first of last week renewing old acquaintances. He has recentiv Mtjhlliri a number of cabins on Stuart Lake wmcn ne is expecting to dispose of shortly. Work has been started by E. Hans of 8mithers on the new Jail and court house in Hazelton. The old building has been moved further down the street and the new building is to be erected on the corner. Capt Mortimer, Indian Agent returned to Hazelton on Monday from a trio to Victoria on departmental business. James H odder Is fixing up another building for residential pur poses on the corner of the Copock estate in Haselton. which he has purchased. Archdeacon Ed Hod son of Ocean Falls, administrator of the diocese of Caledonia during the absence of Bishop G. A. Rue an a trip to Eng land, was here anCUat Hasslton re cently on ecclesiastic! business. PLANE ARRIVES An Alaska -Washington Airways seaplane arrived here in the squalls shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon from Ketchikan and hd some difficulty in landinR but eventually was successful in tying up safely. Get the AC. reaaing habit n LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Mm. nipment Houldsworth of PPremWffH vistfuSff ' Vn Vancouver with her tjarents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. iBrlttaini" Rev. W. H Pieroe of Port Beslng- DSfl is a Hsitor hi the city, having anivc Ofboni the Sawena Jtrver on ttkftJftliWBV Pisjfiitisal Constable Wm. Robb of Bart iBesmgtoa arrived in tht city Tsom the Skeena Elver on to day's train. I John Fauske is appearing in city ! police court this afternoon before Magistrate McClymont on a charge of Indecent assault upon an Indian girl.. Carl Wohlin was patoed under arrest by the city police at the end of the week on a charge of keeping liquor for se.le. His case has not at yet come up in city poUec court. J J. Liiil- local manager of the Pov.er Corporation of Canada, saH-d yesterday afternoon on the Prirvess Louise for a trip to Van-:air-e: nd Victoria en company ; business. Mrs. F. W Branson widow of the former eustor.is ofieer at WmngeH, 1 ind Miss Brwun were pascenfors aboard the Princew Louise yester- i day afternoon going south for a trip I to Seattle. There were 146 passengers aboard the 'steamer Princess Louise which was here yet'erday afternoon bound from Skagway to Vancouver. About twenty persons disembarked her? from the vessel. C. P. RJel. formerly in the saw-miU business here and for the past few years located in Vancouver, arrived in the city on the CaUla yesterday afternoon from the south, being here on business. William Brass, who distinguished himself Tently in Canadian National .rtHtf Cdiopt at Montreal, re tiorial rifie "shoots at Montreal, returned to the city on today's train from the east. W. H. McCallum," Cow Bay Insurance man, returned to the city on today's train after a stay at Lakeise Lake where he benefitted from the hot spring baths and en-Joyed trout fishing of first-class order. Rev. T. H. Wright of Haselton. while on a visit to Vancouver recently, was assisting clergyman at the wedding of Miss Nellie Turner of Tumb ridge Wells, England, and William W. Winn of Gibson's Landing. Judge F. McB. Young left on today's train for Smith ers and Burns Lake where he will preside at ses sions of the County Court There Is considerable work on the docket at Smithers and the Judge expects to be sway for several days. Harry Cunningham and-Howard McGee, Ketchikan sanaery mana- were passengers aboard the Prtneeis Louise yesterday afternoon bound for Seattle where they will spend the winter. Mr. Cunningham ac:ompanted by his wife. Herbert Wheeler, son of II. Wheeler, pres44en)t and . general manager of the Yukon & White Pass Route, was a passenger aboard the Princess Louise yesterday afternoon bound from Skagway to Victoria where he wrll enter school. Walter Harln of San Francisco was a passenger aboard the Princ? Rupert Saturday bound for Ste art where he hat mining Interest; Mr. Havm flew -north from San Francisco to Seattle by plane making the rest of the trip by steamer. George Treloaven, successor to Oeome Beveridge as accountant in the local branch of the Bank of Montreal is expected to arrive here m ths iPrkiee George Wednesday mstning. aroompanted by his bride. They were married In Vancouver re cenUy. Rev. Henry Kurlng, formerly Lutheran Church minister at Prince Ooorte. and for the past three years located at Anchorage, Alaska, arrived in the city on the Princess Louise yesterday afternoon from the north :uid entrained here today for 8tony Plains, A1U.. to which point he h is received a call. He was accompanied by- Mrs. Kurlng and family O. A. Brynildsen of Bella Coola is a visitor in the city, having arrived on the Catala yesterday afternoon from Namu. C. R. Cocks of Port Esslngton v a visitor in the city, having .-r-rived on today's train from th? Skeena River. Mrs. Ftetn?,. x'- f p.-.-. r,. g Fleming of Burn L k- 1 n-.w v'e-10n in Prines Ocorgc wiij! !w way to Burns Lake after n month's vl1t in VancMfTf r with her mother, Mrs. L. E. Msckeen. The first Baby Austin car. te smallest automobile on th' nwrleet. to be seen in Prince Runert arrived here from Vancouver on the Catala yesterday afuinonr. It was ordered by a Iceal garage O. W. Tavlar gcnirn' manaeor nt the "W. H. Molcn Co.. arrived in the oky on the Oatala vpsterdav nft-r--noan from Vancouver being here on business in connection with ttv tetnpaay local branch. T. J. Davidson of Osland was an ar lval in the city oh today's train. Mrs. W. V. Tattersal sr.. who has be.:n on a visit to Ketchikan, returned to the city on the Princes Louise yesterday afternoon. Mrs. w . F. Eve and her daughter, Miss Vera Eve, of Anyox are in the ' 11348 Robson Street - Provir.sf . Vancouver Monday, GOLF COURSE IN EXCHANGE . A miniature g buUt in the base city, guests at the Gilford HOW, 'change Buildln lrivU;g next wei !: on it. mtMns d?r an. I V- wi' Clarence Ooodncre of Smithrilworkmen ( w,th 'arrived m thr city on tod ay V Cain;,),,- ;n t.,v, jfrom the int'rior being called iOi,t,,cnja lD !.lury service at the Supreme court ! As'rfzos. Mrs. W. .Tchn tone, wife of the 5S p-.:ci -,i ! - f&riby Oo.'s sorvMaj boat a-'n' id daugh' ;r were! p&renicc".- vrd the CataH lait . rv :n n : :"tu. :i:n3 t') Anyox uftiT a I h"!';'.y trip Vancouver. I rhi JMtVO' II. L. DcxnUf cf Kpwan"e 111 . f who l rc ' ' n tha ""a'.ir.'i.i! Mr-1 nlnne It. ib - '"o.. 'vhic'. h- tlm-' 'n b Or- Putt'ne In of t!. luit- expensive a: nvci ;sd Th- bav y 53 feet. JUNIOR 6AMK I Sr. .:rJ : h . .; ;, t. th" ar'i Hi. do: V nit", arrivri "r h C: v-stw- sary H will v aretr.o;n I.m.v V.ip.c, .-.er. Mr. he ;;8rjsoti. F ! .) iv. li !i nr;h;ti? to say at" ;vili be on ot-ent i .Z-' its.? fmledlate plan : "Urden Sit of '.lir: cr.mpar.y for the future. ; School. , YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES 1 v sw - mm x .sr.nsi i i ii i i nil i mm, Canadian forest industries add five hundred million dollars annually to the national wealth. Their very existence is threatened by forest fires, which directly or indirectly affect every citizen through their menace to the national prosperity. Every Canadian should he careful with fire while in the woods. 1