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Editor and Reporters' Telepnone Advertising and Circulation Telephone Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations ACTION AT LAST DOES IT MEAN ELECTION? .86 -38 10c SCRAPPING OLD BOAT Princess Royal Through After 15 the $0Q 9.09 Years ef Service Another link with the colorful : nast in British Columbia and Alas-1 'kan shlDDine wttl be severed next I month when ss Princess Royal of i Canadian Pacific Railway '.; ; British Columbia Coast Steamship ' fleet wfil be scrapped after 25 years of service. Survivor of a famous trio of ships I which included the ss. Princess 1 40 1 Beatrice and ss. Princess May la 2 the B. C.-Alaskan service during 25 1 the earlier years of the century toU 15 j tewing the spectacular Yukon gold rash when the north country r-i-' jpkHy was unfekHng its wealth to i an ever-Increasing army cX pion-'eers. the Princess Royal witne sed a great portion of the northland s interesting history. In her earlier days on the Ala ska Tuesday, Feb. 9, lS2i run she was the carrier of bearded, ! high -booted miners, sleek, well-1 i dressed faro dealers, merchants: and traders, dance hag girls, trap- i nets mining engineers, tourist and i While action is rather belated we are glad to know that au the interesting characters who the governments at Ottawa and Victoria have united to!traw41ed "H 111 give , employment to the men working in the road cSS Half-time is a good deal better than no work. While the;she wkneed the humor, tragedy! rate of pay has not been mentioned, doubtless the men will and high adventure of a stirring be driven enough money to pay for their clothes and decade m the history of the Landj smokes. ' Midnight Sun. , We still think the men should have been provided wxkSZlZSSt all winter but all Prince Rupert neonle will be nleased to -. . know that something is being done during the early , wa f timber msnction. length' spring. It will harden the men for other employment : 228 beam 40 ft. draft leaded . 19 reel ana speea is mjumm. in neri ' dar a veritable "luxury" liner, she carried 00 ou day runs and ' 164 on night runs. San U North Coast Plans are apparently being developed for the transfer orffinaUy designed for Northern of the P. CE. to a wealthy syndicate which will relieve the LS' JfiLTlS Sfn-province of part of the interest charges against the road. oPrhE Mne, The railway is considered by the syndicate to have no va- May. when the Princess Sophia j lue, so they are asking the government for over twenty t in i8 she was wiih-j million dollars worth of land and timber and mineral drlwa frem rights for the twenty million dollars it is suggested they Tf I may pay over. They will then complete the line to Vancou- T JLt be- i ver and extend it to Prince George and presumably into tweo the two b. c dues. j the Peace River COUnt 17. As she became more or teat Ottt-! This scheme has been incubating for the past two years! moded by new 1ler-wi! ShSrw gove!7!m.ent z'r tor h.ins 'SssTnii1- to do with it. They were hoping that one or both of the two, floating jack of ail trades, m 192a big railroads would take over the P. G. E. and make it part j and 1&27 she operated on the van- j of their system. Having failed in persuading the C. P. R.icouwr- Powu union Bay.; and the C. N. R. that the line had any value, the govern-iComox and to AprU-1926 re-j to work out a scheme which the electors may approve. ; pert service, taken over tn May. To go to the people on their record even the most opti- iw by the Princess Mary. anei mistic government supporter realizes would be futile. Ev-' ' has operated regukriy nj ery Indication is that toev would be beaten iut as the rb - Vancouver. Powen Rrver, c- ernment candidate was beaten in Columbia. They miijht'SSJSI ttTZ as well resign as do that Now they have turned to the Pa-jliuu nulZZl dfic Great haste rn line which has wrecked former gov- vice, a commodioos ship, the Prin-j ernments and cling to it ae a means of pulling them out of ! Ry " onfaumgiy popular, the politlca! slough. In this dilemma tliey have invoked the refalr t oMttmers. am 01 uie ieaerai government and it has come forward I JZZ, LZlZ T, 11 with a scheme of part-time payment fo ic anwployed.Se70V Se tSZZZ m$ ThtS IK InCMtMl linnn liv enmo lunula an a mm ai.wn V.o a I .i . I t vriiiv m a mi ciii Mini, ci uxfjn riuui since wiv euiy , provincial election is in the offing. , rt of the century have carried j -frlhaaKon along 1200 miles of r- WILL THEY TAKE THE BAIT? Will the electors take the bait? That is another question oeing aiked. Supporters of the government sav that the new conetituency to he formed in Peace River will vote for any railway scheme that will give them coastal communication. Prince George, already in the government fold, is also expected to vote for it along with Quesnel. North Vancouver stakes its industrial life on the railway and Vancouver will baek it also. That is the view of government supporters. Opposition supporters say they are not 8o that the people will take the bait They think that "When T. D. Pattullo starts to pick the scheme to pieces the people will realize that it would be unwise to trust the present roup with the administration of the affairs of the pnonnce any longer no matter what scheme may be concocted for luring the electors. "Fir ivver PI ane This freak plane has body fe jutrp rfsi-mblmg automobile ! ed coast. j During her long career many officers of the B C. CM fleH have wed on the Prfnosas Royal among them Capt C. D. Nerowtaea. manager of the B. C. Coast 3taam-to service, who was once her District News STEWART The fourth annual banquet of ttte local branch of the Canadian Legion of British Empire Service League was held last Wednesday' night. M. P. Murphy, president oft the Legion, was In the ehalr and! speakers of the evening were II. A.I Stewart and H. D. Rochfort. A splendid musical prog raw was ot-u-rcd and the affair was one of the l. ost of its kind over fetal in Stew- J. U. Dodd. eon of Oeid Oommav oner U. W. Doxlds of Telagapn" Jk ha breu paying a visit with -4; luaer. M CUtkesl. He mude Uj Uip ovartahd fmrti T4jart)Hj Qreek by dog team and will totem 'lomc by the aame means within :ie next few days. Raphael, greatest of all painten, first won his reputation as an ar- hltect. Spanish Beauty Some say there a.e nu Frenchmen in Paris. In . yo.. ui..-. there are no Spanasn xiris in Ma -drid. Mariakta Oroaoo Mils yor you're making a bat ait9k? V. H 4 t-in CAUSE OF INSANITY intellect " In a comprehensive review conditions breeding mental unsia -bi'.ity and medicine's fight to cure infinity, Dr. E C. Menzies, of th Verdun Protestant Hospital, stres sed that the subject was an lm portant one "for in Montreal there there are t thoe physieally lilt He was addressing the lions' Chi He found 'hat a lack ef Interest' in the fight against the scourge tf dementia came about as a retrH of a widespread feeling that nver-tal cases were more or less hopeless, as eosnpared with the' physical eases. As a matter of raft this feeling was largely et Toneaus since the percentage f mental patients discharged fnnn hospitals as fit to resume their former occupations Is nearly as large as the percentage discharged, from purely medical and sirgicl Due to Emotional Upsets in Mhul.; jf- , ,M,M,, of "The feeUng peieasneM .Medical Seience Finds , I j rUes from the lact that the per- MONTREAL. Feb. 9-' More and'r'a8e ol mental Pa"enU who d.. 'n n L e more is medical science driven ;o, .v.. ..,.... ik .ihesoHal for the rest of their ;ia- tur! Uv-ten M or 40 years. anity is dependwt upon the emo-' tlonal upsets of the human mind "nw""' w .. ?h- tMnktn to wportant ptft in insanity," he leeounuea. mow bwihu iiwuh !'d 4 Uwtr Uwtr mind mind Intact, Intact, but haU nttfered a mental breakdown as r"ult of their failure to support watlona tres. Prople who were unable to stand lacerations to f their emotional life, people who tailed to face emotional problems "mHy -these were the mentrl are more hospital beds devoted to h- ..ne of . nial paHents than - .ex stressed. C. N. ... TRAINS Tor Hi Kati Mondaya. Wednesdays and Fridays 3 p.m Trom Hie Mast Tuesdays. Tharadays and 9a tar-days W W a n Tuesday February j . Train is Delayed By Skeena Slide Snow at Mile 59.7 Jmt East ,j s. ,n sfrvlf. Today-Rotary Plow Out Today's train from ti., . Jayfor atout five i, nblt lag oh account of -,,2. " the Skeeni River a: M.it j97 east of salvus. 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