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NEW HAZELTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929

Skeena District
Conservatives to
Be More Active

After two years of inactivity the
Skeena District Central Conservative

night when a mheeting was held in the
town of Hazelton Althouch the meet-
ing had been hastily called there was
an exceptionally good
“from points along the ‘railway., The
‘people from-the west end (Terrace,
Remo, Copper City, Little Canyon and
Usk) all had delegates there.

cupied the chair and after-the prelim:

lighted the hearts ‘of the federal .mem-
ber, J. C. Brady, and F. M: ‘Dockrill,
the candidate in the last’ provincial
election, There is now an interest in
the party and in Conservative princi-
pals which has not been manifested for
numerous years In‘this part of the pro-
vince,

There is to be a convention of the
Conservatives of Skeena provincial rid-
ing on October 10 at Hazelton for re-
organization, ete, Notices, ‘will be sent
out so that a large attendance Will be
on hand. Jé was also: deeidea that in
future the Central ‘Aésoclation should
mmeet every three months: for ‘the : ‘pur.

pose of considering the. heeds. and. Te-

quests of the various: ‘locals.’ All inut-

ters of any imyiortance’ will in’ future

come before the Geritral: ‘Association,

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INDIAN boas ON: RAMPAGE

Destroy many Turkeys at Kitwango—

Dog Taxes not Collected

Complaiit is made that Indian dogs

nt Kitwanga have been doing great
damage to poultry flocks, One man
lose 82 turkeys a couple of weeks ago
yy, ind again last week the dogs . were

* hack ats his flock, The Indinn dog
memnce has always been’ & serious one
since the white man has started devel-
oping agricultural ‘interests. - It is not
only at Kitwanga. that Indian dogs
have destroyed much poultry, Dut in
this section as well, ‘The dogs are not
worth the powder to shoot them, and
_Yet the Indians ure permitted to breed
them end turn them loose without a
tag. It is doubtful if there is an In-
dian dog in the country with a dog 1-
cense Feiv of them, if any, are worth
the price of a Heense,: yet they can do
a wonderful amount’ of damage in a,
chicken pen or'amoug young piga or
sheep. But, while Indian dogs are as
bad us painted, :it is not the intention

of the Herald ‘to binme them for an}:

things that are done, There are hun-
dreds of dogs belonging. to white men
that ave just as worthless as any In-
Wan dog and’ which cause . quite as
much damage. Few white men pay a
Heense for. theiy doge either. Just why
the dog tax. hng- been owed. to slip
-for several years -Las not yet- been
mada, public. It cannot be that the
country y does not need: the mouey,
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MET P, G. MINERAL SURVEY.
- ORS.

: While on fl. business trip in connec-,
tion with the department of mines, D
Lay, the resident: inining engineer | for’
this northern’ district, met--the survey |

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parties nt Prince George who are swork- .

ing on the mineral, surveys of the eoun-' :
. try north of Prince’ George and through:
which the’ Pacific Great, Rastern rail-
way, WHE run whet extended, ‘Dean. .

Association came to Life Jast* Saturday | .

representation |:

Hazel-|
ton, New Hazelton, Kispiox, Smithers |
and Telkwa,-Glentanna, niso, were te-
piesented. President R, §. Sargént oc-

inary business the delegates began to j-
express themselves in a way which de- |

Sintthery werd ‘Sunday Visitors “mere
and Skeena Crossing.

Hon. R. B. Bennett, leader’ of th
Conservative party, who will hold. sev-
‘eral meetings in Skeeng next month,

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PRINCE RUPERT
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is looked for.

There is nothing in particnlar t

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Hon. Bennett
‘Coming Next

riding early in August,
giving about a week of his time in B. C.
to Skeenn riding and“he will speak at

13th upon the arrival -of train there.
It is hoped. to arrange matters so that
‘| he will also be able to speak: tothe peo-.
ple of the Terrace. section” for a few
minutes from the train platform the
_jsame day,
ings «at’ Ocenn ‘Falls, Anyox, Premier
Mine, Stewart, Prince Rupert, as well
as Smithers, Accompanying the lead-
er of the Conservatives will be Miss
Bennett, Sir George ‘Dearly and Lady
Pearly, Gen. A. D. McRae, chief organ-
izer of the party in the Dominion, and
nrobably others, Mv, Brady will meet
the party at Ocenn Falls and accom"
pany them through tle riding After

ber will spend a week ut home ‘and
then will start on a trip through the
riding, ‘visiting every ‘possible point, as,
has heen bis custom since his election;
The summer promises to he a very ac: ;
tive one for the Conservatives, both in;
Federal and provincial circles;

HAZELTON INDIAN DROWN ED

—

Son of First Native to Take up Christ.
tan n Work under Rey, John Field

rernést Wade, Indlan, nnd Capinin of
the Church © Army, Hazelton, °
drowned while fishing from 2 boat off
Sunnyside canery on Monday night of
lnst week, Wade was.the . ‘gon of the
first Indian Christian worker who ‘aAS-
sisted’ the, late Rey. John Field in the
Hazelton mission.. 7

According to n life long custom
Wade went to. the canneries this season
to fish and was: out with a: ‘small boy
in- a bont.. Fo Was trying to move his
net in had. weather and was drawn
loverbonrd, “The = boy: was unable ‘to
vender any. assistance...

taken to Sunnyside, but the body: was
not recov ered.

Fred Grietin ¢ and yA ‘Macdonald o of

"ety

“The ‘Hazelton, Horticuttural ‘Boclety

Brock ond ‘Prof, Wolhas are th chiatge'
of the wotlk, er

Ie saint supplying flowers to the’ G. N.

Month to Talk

Hon, kh. B. Bennett, leader of the
Conservative party in Canada ond the
next premier of Canaga, following the
next general election, which, it stated
Will be held in 1930, will visit Skeena
The leader is

Smithers for about an hour ‘on August

Mr. Bennett will hold meet- | -

the visit of the leader the Ineal mem-:

‘jhave been developing mineral ‘claims.

Was:

Later the. boat .
Dp. 18 picked up by Howard Spencer and |

ae Prince George where . a branch $2 the

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unempioyment and idole ‘situation, b
says is somewhat exagerated.

art, by the Consolidated Co. It is fel

is welcome, from all standpoints,

The Convention of the

ert August 1-2-3 will be an event of. im
portance, and reception plans are be-
ing laid accordingly. Some of the
most influential business men in the
Dominioi will be here, and nothing
will . -be. overlooked. .to. make, this port

best advantage,

the city, John Murray, pioneer citizen,
slipped away quietly to Vancouver,
last week, and returned with his bride
i Miss E,.Grey. of New Glasgo, N. 8.
Mr. Murray, whose former wife died
about two yeays ago. has lived here
since the city started. In fret, he was
Jheré éarlier than that. Thirty-five
years neo, Us 2 member of pa Iumbering
:barty, he belield what was destined to
he the townsite of Prince Rupert from
the summit of Mount Oldfield.

BUILDING FOUR MORE. CAMPS

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Consolidated Mining &-Smelting Co.
Well Pleased with Showings on
' Legate Creek -

At Paeltic there is much doing i in the
way of mi ing. Up Legate’ Creek the
ConsoHdateéd Mining and Sinelting Co.

So satisfactorw have been the resulis
obtained that how the company. has
control of four groups on that isame.
nountain and this season four separate
camps are belng estiblished, and four |
gaga.of workmen will be employ ed op
ening up.the claims. The four gronps
are BH. & M, the BE. & K., the Friseo and
the Zonamay. “The trail to. the Dro-
perties: has ‘been: gveatly improved nnd
after this seRsou's work it is quite pos-
sible that ‘work can be’ continued all
the yenr on these properties

oho
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Dr Wrinch reports, nn exceptionally
‘| fine meeting of the medical men-at

BC, organtzation wis formed. ‘There’
were doctors present all the way from
Hazelton to MeBride. ; !
a) Gh Leggat, relleving agent for. the,
Oo. NOR, left here: ‘Tuesday night: for

Reining cars. oe

‘agent there £ for Q tint, oS

With a site selected at Falls River,
for its plant, and merchandise arriving
in the Besner Block store at Prince
Itupert, there is more evidence of act-
.{ivity by the Power Corporation of Can-
An early announcement of a sta-
rt on construction. of the power plant

worry about in the Old country, declar
es T. H. Johnson, manager of Canadian
who is
back from a trip overseas The Labor
Government, he says, is sound, and has
ihe best of intentions, without frantas-

(Prince Rupert is cheerfully disposed
toward the news of the purchase of the
Canadian Northeastern Ry., at Stew-

that there is no harm in having 1 more
prosperous neighbor, and that the in-
vestment of more capital in the north

Canndian
Fisheries Association in Prince Rup-

as'n deep sea fishing centre, appear ‘to

Surprising his numerous friends in

‘oO

T. D. Proctor,
Peier’s Church, Hazelton... +

Rer. Rector of St.

J. C. Brady in
Hazelton for a -
Tory Meeting

turned from the session of the House

representative Conservatives from the
Skeena district. He expressed himself
us pleased with having come as there
was such a goodly number of delegates’

ciation had taken up so ‘much ‘time; the
uot touch on mattérs of the session but
ance to this district.

return to power of the Conservative
party after the next general election

-|Rev. Proctor’s
‘| Seventh Year
Now Completed

t Seven ‘years ago on. the 1st of duly.
Rev, 7, D Proctor arrived at Hazelton
to take over the work of the chureh of
England in that section, Those years
have been successful and the church
has made progress under his miuistra-
tions. Mr. Proctor came to Hazelton
from Lashburn, Sask., where he spent
three years covering an extensive terri-
tory which, after he left, required, three
ordained men to continue, The follow-
ing is taken from “The Sheng” of April |:
1919, (the Sheat is: the. Universiy, oft
t, Saskatchewan journal) :—
~ “He “was. born: in ‘Manchester, the
World’s. great cotton centre. Fé -re«
‘ceived: his early education at a church
school, Droceeding later to the Man-
chester School of Commerce. It ‘was
at this time that he received his first
inspiration: for a ministerial career,
being Ucensed by the Bishop of Manch-
ester as a Lay Reader. In 1913 he
heard Bishop Llody’s appeal for the
church in western Canada, and arrir-
ed in Saskatoon in Jime of that year,
In the falt he entered Emmanuel Col-

From coast. to coast the’ people of Can-
ada were aroused over tha tarriff ques:
tion and the lack of action on the. part
of the King government . at _Ottawa.
Even the prairie broviness were begin-
ning te see the importance of the tat-
riff question to them.

Mr. Brady said that he felt greatly
encouraged as a result of the last Bes:
Sion and the attention he Teceired ate
the hands of the various ministers with
whom he had business,
ceeded in securing for lis riding sever-
Ql concessions for which he had been
trying for years.

JC. Brady, M.P., just recently re-

of Commons at Ottawa, arrived in Haz-
elton on Saturday evening to meet. the

present. As the business of the Asso--
federal niember stated that be would.,

refer only to a few parts of import
He predicted 0

with Hon. R. B. Bennett as Diemler, .

He- had: suc:

Smithers Notes :

‘Frank H. Taylor returned to “town:
from Vanconrer .. on ‘Saturday. hight:
after completing: his new deal with”
Noah Timmins of. the Hollinger’ Mine’
for financing ond development of. the.

the

‘stock.

Properties of Owen Lake Mining & "De--
velopment Co, Ltd, Control passes to"
Timmins at & price of about a million,
aud a .quarter dollars but Mr. Taylor’
is retained as President and resident
hanager. aud holds about one fth of

Rev. W. McKenzie of Powell Riv er,

new minister ot the United Ohuz ‘ch. iw

{| Week > nnil the owners arrived by pas-

| Priest for’: Vancouver, .
party: are: on: their: way; eaat: ‘and ‘are !

eaulpped. ta. 2 enn. all the way, wk
Burns Lake‘ where he’ will. Religre. the oa “

lege, where he has shown a spirit of
determination to achieve his ideal,
bas won for him the esteem of his fel-
low students. In all college activities
he has shown a keen interest, especial-
ly in athletics and. debates,. He has
done food mission work at Coxby, Ar-
clee, Hewitt’s Yanding, - Hughenden, |:
Sutherland and Patience Lake, during
the summers of 1913 to 1018,

- "In 1915 he answered hig country's
call nnd joined the C. A, IC » but
Whs discharge’ in 1016, owing to im:
ness ‘In 1918 he was again accepted
and went to Regina where he s00n
gained Moniotion to the rank’ of ser-
geant. Last December he was able. te
again resume his studies, and thus fin-
ish his college work, He graduated
from Emmanuel (post-graduate) | with
the Divinity Testamux and L. Th., and
carries with him the good Wishes of allt
his fellow. students," ;

_ MORE RUPERT CARS HERE
Three more cars from Prince ‘Rupert
were shipped to New Hazelton - last]:

senger. train to continue thelr journey
to the south ox east over the highway. |:
The parties thus travelling “were: Rarl |:
Barty, find Mr, Morrison}. Dr: Alexan-.
der and family’ bound for: Vancouver ||
and. the: south; Jas, Black: ‘pnd: Thos,
.Mr., Barry. ‘ahd

necn Dleetoral District,

decided to change the name of the or-
Fanization from Board

Chamber: of Commerce, : which dg. the"
tore generally used . term.

ing .
5 i. Hoskins - to-day: on the: charge. :
of” inausladighter’ laid . against
‘Lewis Jones - arising out’ of the. death .

20th,

Smithers, preached for the first time
last Sunday evening, A receptian Os
being held at the chareh on Wedrass
diy; to-night ,

Howard Tilton, | n Mining’ Bnpineer
from the Monareh Mine at Titel, wis
making examinations. on Hudson, Day,

—the Goldfields Consolidated Co. of
Nev. ‘ada.

-At the ‘Counell meeting of the Smith- .
ers District ‘Board of Trade on Mon-
day evening Vice-Presitlent 11, -F.
Noel reported as deligate to the ecan-
vention of Associated Boards at Prince
Rupert on June 2ith, A recommend-
tion was mnde to the Public Works De

partment on the necessity for errvell.
ae the highway from Prince ‘George

’ Hnzelton, particularly. in’ Omi.

Tt wns -alse
of. Trade. to
.

whe preliminary ‘hearing ‘is proceeil-
hefore >. ‘Stipendary ‘Magistrate

David. *

of: thé “twvo- men-—Ferner and Karigon.
—killed in the motor “Recldent on June:

Mountain last. week for his priie: us ,

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