v % * |pi v^p % j$*v ^ w % ita-v 70L. 3, NO. 15. SUUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1912. $3 PER ANNUM anif;!!'s Statement Regarding the Recent Libel Suit |ohn Hill, Jr., of the Chicago Board of Trade, Reviews the Situation. On Friday, the eighteenth day of October, in the criminal assize court at Kamloops, the editor of The Herald was found guilty of criminal libel. The case, which terminated so disastrously for The Herald, was the outcome of a campaign into which this paper has been forced by a chain of circumstances familiar to our readers. We do not intend to resurrect the history of this campaign, neither is it our intention to fill the columns of this journal with lamentations over the fate of the libel case, or with the voluminous material which we have gathered prior to and during the progress of the recent proceedings, in support of our old attacks upon the man who brought the case into court, one George John Hammond. Let it suffice for us to say that The Herald went into this fight alone, That there was never anything in it for us but the gratification of knowing that we were modifying the disastrous (effect of indiscriminate, misleading advertising literature which (was flooding the continent regarding Fort George, and the belief that the future would justify our attitude—a belief which (we still adhere to in spite of the verdict returned against us in (the Kamloops court. We went up against the bankroll of a man (who has accumulated a vast fortune in the operations to which |we took exception. Our business was badly affected by our 1 determination to carry the fight into the last ditch, and the libel (proceedings instituted against us have cost this journal thousands of dollars. In spite of the assertions made by the organs (controlled by Hammond there is but one interested party in the ■Northern Interior Printing Company, Ltd., owners of The iHerald, and he is the man who conducted the fight against the Interests, and we say here and now that NOT ONE DOLLAR IAS EVER BEEN CONTRIBUTED TOWARD THE HERALD'S CAMPAIGN FUND BY ANY PERSON WHATSOEVER. We admit that in order to meet the heavy demands ■upon our resources during the campaign we have been assisted pn our financial affairs by many gentlemen who appreciated our position and who had confidence in our policy, but this money pa to be repaid with interest. It was our fight. We took all the chances. We have lost; so be it. There are many circumstances in connection with the case vhich we would like to refer to at length-circumstances which vould place our version of the story in a light which would fcommand general public respect for our work, and appreciation pf the facts which induced us to follow the line of action pursued by this journal in the past. But in spite of everything we can say now the fact remains that twelve fellow-countrymen of purs filed into court at Kamloops and found that the editor was ("guilty as found in the indictment." The public look at results; ve bst the case, the editor was subjected to a withering address from the bench, and he walked out of the courtroom vith the stigma of a nominal sentence upon him. The fact that (tha prosecution feared to allow the case to go to trial where the (operations of both the complainant and the defendant are natters of common knowledge: that we were not allowed to bresent documentary evidence on which we largely relied to lubstantiate our charges, and that we were hampered by limit- fed financial resources, did not enter into the consideration of fhe proceedings. It was a question of law and justice, and the law seemed to have the best of the deal. And so we bow to lhe decision of the twelve fellow-countrymen; and we shall refrain from publishing the evidence which we were not allowed fc> introduce at the trial, for this is a paper with rather high Ideals for a country newspaper on the outskirts of civilization, pud it shall not be said that we are poor losers, or that we seek redress by utilizing the columns for which our subscribers pay In a long explanation of facts in support of our version of the Affair. We leave the public to judge for themselves. There is • regular method of redress open to us. Before we lay the story of Mr. Hammond and his operations amongst our record of subjects which do not justify further discussion (for the development of this country has obviated the necessity of future reference to his townsite opera- T'ons, and his advertising campaign is now a thing of the past) p must dwell upon some matters in connection with the trial (which have been so shamefully misrepresented that in justice P° the people who support this paper and to the gentlemen involved we must publish our story. •In the bill of indictment prepared by George Hammond's attorneys in the case against us, exception was taken to refer- *nces we had made about the past record of the complainant. F order to verify all the information we had received on the subject J, B. Daniell visited the States last summer and made ^"•angements with a gentleman named John Hill, Jr., of lh'cago, to appear before a commission in Chicago, with other witnesses, and give evidence which would support our statements. The commission failed to materialize owing to the fact It rv" °ffieial of the court did not send the necessary papers I o Chicago in time to have the testimony taken and to get the Papers back in time for the case. We, therefore, telegraphed I r; Hill asking him to come west armed with documentary pidence and testify in our behalf. John Hill, Jr., has been a pemler of the Chicago Board of Trade for over 25 years. He I aa ^airman of the "bucket-shop" committee whose duties were to protect cash grain and to safeguard legitimate specn- lation by prosecuting the bucket-shops in Chicago. That his efforts were successful, and were appreciated by the Board of Trade of the city of Chicago may be gathered from the following resolution adopted by the Board of Trade Jan. 13th, 1902: "Resolved: That the thanks of the officers and members of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago in annual meeting here assembled are hereby tendered to Mr. John Hill, Jr., for his determined, unfaltering, courageous and successful efforts for the suppression oftbucket-shops and of every form of uncommercial conduct," "Resolved, that a copy of the above be sent to Mr. John Hill, Jr." In addition to his work on the Board of Trade Mr. Hill was also Chairman of the" Civic Federation Committee of Chicago. His work for this organization was the suppression of gambling. In order to secure evidence against the gamblers Hill had to employ low characters. It was noticeable in Kamloops that Hill's testimony regarding Hammond was not disputed, S. S. Taylor, a business associate of Hammond's and his star lawyer, confining himself to trying to impeach Hill's testimony by referring to the so-called crooks that Hill had employed. On the 17th of August, 1898, Hill's house was dynamited, and his wife and himself narrowly escaped with their lives. The police circulated reports to the effect tb-*t Hill had dynamited his own house for advertising purposes, and color was lent to this theory by the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a paper then performing similar services for the gamblers and bucket-shop men of Chicago, to those rendered townsite promoters by such sheets as the Fort (Jeorge Tribune, the Vancouver Saturday Sunset or the Victoria Week. We have on our files the reports of the Chicago Record, the Chicago Times-Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Evening Post, and the Chicago Daily News reporting how the grand jury had denounced the charges made against Hill and censured the police. Mr, Hill has been held up to all sorts of abuse by the organs which champion Hammond's cause, Some time ago we received the following letter from Chicago, and we publish it verbatim. It is an expression of opinion which may vot meet with the approval of everyone who reads it, but we think that it will interest our readers, as the charges it contains are laid by a man who has made a long study of speculation. We print the letter hereunder, as it is evidently intended for publication by the sender: Chicago, October 31, 1912 Dear Mr, Daniell: I arrived in Chicago Friday evening October 15th; it required almost a week to return from Vancouver, as I met with numerous delays. I hasten to write you at the earliest opportunity as I wish to convey to you my impression gained by a three weeks' sojourn in British Columbia. It was my first visit to that part of the world and I must confess that I am disappointed in your people and their methods in so far as I was able to get their attitude toward the investor in, and the promoter of townsite, farm and orchard properties. The opportunity given me to analyze this situation was unusually favorable owing to my work in your defense in the case of George J. Hammond, President of the Natural Resources Security Co., Ltd. against you for libel. I made a close study of the methods of the promoters and the claims they make for their respective townsites.etc. To say that I am surprised, does not express fully the effect upon me of the information I have gleaned, rather say that I am dumfoiinded. That British Columbia cannot see that this townsite, orchard, farm boom spells disaster, leads me to believe that your lawmakers and courts are hypnotized by the glamour that the promoter's bankroll shed3 over his operations. The newspapers the world over seem to have become "creatures of advertisers," so that, while the bankrolls are working, the public will not be informed in a conscientious manner of the true conditions. That you were out of step with the times has been proven against you. You did not realize the true functions of the present day newspaper, which is to take the advertiser's money and "be good," Although convicted of libel you wiil at no distant day be thanked by thousands whom your campaign have saved from loss. In the crude frontier days "bunco-steerers" and "cappers" directed the public to gambling dens, urged them to "take a chance at a square game, etc." Progress and civic pride have wiped out that element, but in Vancouver "spider and fly" method of selling townsite lots to the chance passerby, who is attracted by a gaudily dressed window on the business thoroughfares is as heartless a business as that of the bunco-steerer. Taking the spider and fly method, in connection with tl. e selling of lots by mail to residents of the States, of England, and of Eastern Canada, by means of flashy and deceptive literature, "follow up" letters, etc., the whole business savors of fraud. It is worse than the old get-rich-quick schemes, which have been driven out of the United Stages by the postal authorities and federal prosecutions. It speaks well for your moral stamina that you have not (Coutinutd on Page Two.) REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY IS VBY MARKED There has been considerarle activity in the local real estate market recently, the sales affecting close-in acreage principally. Mr. John Bronger sold his preemption, District Lot 2440, to an Edmonton real estate firm for $200 an acre. This acreage is situated directly across from the northwestern section of the Indian reserve on the Nechaco, Mr. W. F. Cooke, of the Northern Lumber Co., sold Lot 1433, a quarter section of land half a mile west of "Fort George Centre, '' to the south of the Collins Addition, for an equal sum. Indications point to a growing demand for close-in acreage, and we believe that very large figures will be paid as such property changes hands en bloc in the future, BIG MINERAL PROSPECTS IN THIS DISTRICT Edmonton Alta., Doc. 1.—Mineral wealth is in evidence everywhere in the Fraser valley, said G. L. McDonnell, a prospector, on returning to Edmonton from western British Columbia, where he was sent by an English syndicate to report upon the mining possibilities. He walked from Mile 140 to Mile 53 over the grade for the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. The trip was a tough one, he added, but it was interesting from the fact that the scenery is more picturesque than that in the Kicking Horse Pass of the Rockies. "With the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific through the mountains," Mr. McDonnell said, "the old Cariboo will return to its former fame as a producing district. Barkerville is not likely to come back but other camps will spring up. Fort George seems destined to t e the center of the next big gold mining development. "Prospectors, who know every foot of the country, believe there is much gold there, saying that the old-time miners only quit when placer mining gave out; they had no apparatus or process to reduce the quartz. Now new possibilities arise." For obvious reasons Mr. McDonnell was reticent. He Would not give exact locations. However, he said that silver and lead are plentiful, also that copper shows strong on out-croppings, adding: "Prospectors say gold should be there too." He indicated also that his report will be satisfactory to his principals in Fngland. "The Fraser valley is the most beautiful and interesting of the two routes through the Canadian Rockies," he continued. "It is wider and more expansive than the panorama in the Kicking Horse Pass. On the southern side of the river, say down as far as Mile 100 the mountains are some distance off, their snow-clad peaks silhouetting the sky-line, shutting out that which is beyond. Beyond is the Cariboo country. "On the other side of the stream, here threatened by the tumbling river of many rapids, and there, where the river suddenly diverts on its bending way for perhaps twenty or thirty miles to the northward, are expanses of timber, the green leafed overtopped with the masses of the amber tints of other hardier woods, all billowing, surging up from the fifty-by-fifty-mile plains until the reach the railway grade, jump it, and in their course climb the mountains until they recede into the barrenness beyond the timber line." Mr. McDonnell said that between 4000 and 5000 men are working on the new railway in the valley. The ring of their picks and shovels on the shale, the thunder of blasting, the stamping of hundreds of teams: the lowing of hundreds of steers being taken in for food, the crunch of beaching scows heavily laden with supplies; the commingled sounds of all these find no echo outside the mountains which encompass this army of workers. There was a shortage of fresh meat in several camps visited by Mr. McDonnell, but this is explainable, he says, by the fact that the beef were detained. IIJ.MUl.MiH d»IWOiV| i.jfl IB.III * **. l ,n.vjAJ j- > I « f FORI GEORGE HERALD ' PUBLISHED BY THE NORTHERN IMEHIOR PRINTING CO. Ltd. J. B, DANItLL. PHES1DEN1 Devoted to the interests of Fort George and the entire Northern Interior. Subscription $3.00 a year. J. B. DANIELL. Editor. The recommendation recently adopted by theCreston and Cranbrook boards of trade, that legislation be enacted varyihg thc conditions under which pre-emptions are procurable in British Columbia is likely to obtain early and favorable consideration by the Lands Department, which is inclined to see merit in the pro posal advanced--which is that a smaller money payment and the requirement of additional actual work in the improvement of preemptions is to be reviewed at an early date, and changes in the law regarding them are almost certain. At present the department is collecting all data and information bearing on the subject, in which respect the inspectors of pre-emptions will no doubt render valuable assistance. Mr. H. Cathcart, the newly-appointed inspector of agencies, is now on his first official tour of the provincial interior. Referring to the many references that have appeared in the provincial press of late having Daniell's Statement Regarding Recent Libel Suit (Continued From Page One.) followed the mob and become a part and parcel of the dishonest system which is giving a false prosperity to British Columbia. If Hammond alone can sell over two million dollars' worth of Fort George lots to residents of the United States, Eastern Canada and other foreign districts, turning land worth two or three dollars an acre three years ago, into cash at the rate of $1000 to $4000 an acre, by simply driving a forest of stakes 25 feet apart in one direction and 120 feet apart in the other direction , (Townsite lots in Fort George are 25x120 feet) and Fort George is similar to the other townsites I see displayed for sale, then the apparent prosperity has no permanency. It will fade away as soon as an outraged public, or some honest public officer, or a powerful newspaper, attacks the system and stops the flow of gold into the real estate shark's maw. But the pity is that the loss will fall on working men and servant girls who have been induced to buy lots in some land of milk and honey, such as Fort George, where flour is $28 per barrel, and oats $3,40 per bushel. Where on October 3rd, 1912, there was no sugar, no bacon, and very little flour for sale, and the railroad is still several hundred miles away; a three-hundred-mile stage ride being necessary if the buyer wishes to view his real estate. Cruel men like Hammond do not hesitate to mislead the public. His record in the United States has been exceedingly unsavory and his methods in British Columbia differ none from those he used in the United States, where in 1899 at Chicago he formed the Combination Investment company, promising great riches to investors in his pools in grain. So successful was he that within ten months he was able to abscond with a fortune, and when the bankruptcy court closed up the affairs of the company, the report of the referee contained the following reference to Hammond as an officer of the company: ' 'The proceedings here taken was the filing of a bill by Gallagher, who was one of the officers of the Combination Investment company, which company, I will remark, so far as I have been able to ascertain, was formed for the purpose of fraud, and it certainly was carried on in that spirit. The responsible officers, who appear to have been in charge, have absconded apparently with a large part of the funds, as no explanation has been made of the discrepancy from $300,- 000 of debts to $27,000 of assets. The filing of the bill resulted in the appointment of a receiver and the holding of about $27,000 in bank, which, were it not for the speedy stoppage by the power of the court, would presumably have been drawn out by these absconding officers." Georgo J. Hammond was the President of this concern and one of the absconding officers of which there were only two. The creditors number about fifteen hundred, many in Canada. This ended Hammond's career in Chicago and after a year or more in "retirement" Hammond slipped into Minneapolis and with his partner in the absconding affair formed the Coe Commission Co. As President of the Coe Commission Co. his career in Minneapolis much resembles his present relation to the world of finance in Vancouver. He was dazzling the public by boasting SSOO.OOO capital and surplus when the Coe Commission Co. went broke, owing several hundred thousand dollars to over a thousand creditors who never received a cent; $12,000 was all that was left of the boasted $800,000 and the trustee for the Estate sued Hammond for almost two hundred thousand dollars, tho books of the company showing that he hud drawn out at-least that much in excess of his salary, etc. ln the end the help received 27 per cent, of tho wages due them "at the time of the failure, again Hammond faded away to slip into Vancouver and the confidence of tho Baitish Columbians and become President of the Natural Resources Security Co. The people and the courts of British Columbia back up this notorious swindler even to the extent of convicting you of libel for publishing the truth about him, but I predict that they will apologize to you within twelve months and that Hammond will get his desserts if he does not take the same course that he did with the money of the Combination Investment Company's funds and abscond. That your conviction waB really a victory and a tribute to your courage in refusing to retract or apologize is emphasized by the fact that you have succeeded in making a public record of George J. Hammond's (alias Fred J. Francis) Rogues' Gallery picture taken in May, 1898, when he was arrested for wire-tapping. His whole record has been that of a swindler, and you were amply provided with proof to convince any fair court of that fact, but evidence, which in our courts would have been accepted without question, especially when offered by the defence, was not. permitted to go to the jury. That the not result of Hammond's operations in British Columbia will equal the results of his various criminal operations in the United States will be your vindication and the shame of your courts and newspppers who now encourage him in his nefarious promotions. 1 hope you will continue the light and the reward is sure to be yours. Sincerely, To John B. Daniell, JOHN HILL, JR. Editor Fort George Herald, South Fort George, B.C. for their text the stated deter-; mination of the government to erftct a joint traffic and railway bridge in partnership with the G.T.P. railway company, at Fort. Fraser, Deputy Minister Foster, states that this announced inten-1 tion of the government is erron- ^ eous and decidedly premature, Correspondence has taken place with the railway company, and, the fact has been ascertained that \ that company is willing to be joined by the government in the erection of such a bridge as sug- \ gested. It is now the business. of the department to investigate. fully the question of cost, and ascertain if the joint bridge proposed can be built with no more expense in the governmental contribution than would suffice to erect an independent vehicular traffic bridge, when necessity arises for such a structure. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 3 of the Munieipaltiea Incorporation Ast the ownera of the land within the following ilescribed limits, to wit; within the limits ot Lots 933 and 934, Cariboo Distriet, in the Province of British Columbia, intend one month after the date hereof to present to the Lieutenant-Gover- nor-in-Council a petition askinB for tho Incorporation of the said lands as a City Municipality under the corporate name of the City of South Prince George. Dated this 22nd day of November, 1912. J. B. DANIELL. WANTED 150 HEAD of horses, cattle or dairy stock to winter. Good sheds for stabling if required. For further information apply to REEDER & ROSS, Soda Creek P.O. CHURCH SERVICES. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH-lst, 3rd and 5th Sundays in month, Holy Communion, 8 a.m.; Evensong and Sermon, 7:30 p.m. Second and 4th Sundays in month, Matins, 10:30 a.m.: Holy Eucharist and Sermon. 11 a.m.— Rev. R. H. Isaac. Williams, Vicar. KNOX CHURCH-Services every Sunday at 3:30 during winter. Sunday- school at 2:30. C. M. Wright, Minister. THE NORTHERN LUMBER & MERCANTILE COMPANY, LIMITED W. F. Cooke Geo. E. McLaughlin Russel Peden ——Our Lumber and Merchandi —Stock is Complete ise We have an especially good stock of Winter Clothing and Bedding, You cannot afford to overlook our stock of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers when buying. Remember, we have had a great deal of experience in outfitting parties for the field, and excel in in this line. Estimates cheerfully given for all material going into your building. OATS FOR SALE. STEAMBOAT OPERATORS. The Northern Lumber & Mercantile Company, Limited ACREAGE FOR SALE Subdivision of Lot 483 This property is situated within one mile of the Railway Depot and terminal yards, right across the railway and traffic bridge of the Fort George G. T. P. townsite and Indian Reserve. It is the choicest property in the district and the best buy on the market today. Because it was the first established post of the H. B. Co., 50 years ago, Because it was the first selected pre-emption by the early settlers. Because it is like Strathcona to Edmonton. Then why buy twenty-five foot lots when you can get 11-2 acres for half the price and within closer radius of the G. T. P. Depot. Sole Agent, W. B. DEAN, Calgary, Alta. Local Agents, Roberts, Jones & Willson South Fort George, B.C. m, ,*■»-* ..THE HERALD for fine Job Printing** 1SETTL1NU rAiiw m™ - Mr H S. Clements, member lor Comox-Atlin, has given notice , the Dominion House of the lollowing resolution: "That in view of the large ■jreas of agricultural land in Brit- L Columbia at present unoccu- [ied and undeveloped, immediate ition should be ..taken by the Ideral government to encourage rriculture by assisting actual 'ttlement on such lands, and also /establish a small number of xperimental farms in British lolumbia, particularly in the lorthern part of the province. "That the government should [ike immediate steps to revise he present Indian regulations in British Columbia,'with. the idea P establishing in that province bore industrial schools, and also lore systematically and thor- lughly develop'the reserves held ■or the Indians in order to fur- lish them with a higher standard If educational facilities than they It present possess. "That the members of the fed- Iral service in British Columbia Ire at present receiving salaries hat are inadequate for their pelf are, considering, the high lost of living in the province, and [nmediate'steps should be taken i the government to substan- tally increase the salaries now laid." QUESNEL B.C. il U C( Most modern up-to-date hotel in the interior of British Columbia. New four-storey building. Accommodation for 120 guests All outside rooms---large, well-lighted and ventilated. Steam heated. RATES $2.00 PER DAY UP Weekly and monthly rates on application Wire for rooms Wire for rooms i REMOVALJF STUMPS The Agricultural Gazette of lew South Wales, issued under e direction of the minister of igriculture of that country, says farmer there has discovered at a mixture of equal parts of ulphuric and nitric acid will de- roy a stump of the hardest 'ood in a few weeks. The stump of a mahogany tree jhree feet six inches in diameter •as destroyed so completely in ve weeks by the use of 12 cents' vorth of acid that it could be mocked to pieces with a garden toe. On the subject of applying lhe acid, the Gazette says; "The icids are used in equal parts and iothing is added to them. A hole bored in the stump with a two- Inch augur, deep enough to hold ]he quantity of acid to be used, ind then one acid is poured in md the other added. The hole is [hen plugged airtight with a ooden plug." A stump three feet in diameter piould be treated with about one- lalf pint of each acid. The nitric icid is poured into the stump ••■st, and the sulphuric acid is idded in all cases, and not the averse. In mixing these acids mch heat is generated and care ■ust be taken that not over a Mf-pint of each is mixed at one "me which must be allowed to •ooi before any more is added. wth of these acids are extremely onosive and should not be allowed to come in contact with ie person or their clothing. A run of twenty-one miles over the pwcn prairie roads by the Calgary lotof lire apparatus saved the business fection of the town of Langdon from destruction recently. Fifty-five lSe? a£te,r the ca» for helP was rata .IVn Val«ary, the city motor pump ■th, n.T1?8 wa,ter from » 8lou*n '•*» ■^outskirts of Langdon into thellicks ■rock, where a general store and stock ■™e*e consumed. The timely arrival of IS™ the "re ,nto the "W"'"* oinga. go Outsiders Reliable information given on anything in Port George district. Property looked after. Real estate reference Al. R. SPINKS SOUTH PORT GEORGE, B. C. E. L. KEPNER, Proprietor City livery, Feed &. I. A. WHITE, PROPRIETOR, Single and Double Driving Horses. Saddle and Pack Horses. New Buggies and Thoroughly Reliable Rigs, DRAYING AND EXCAVATING DONE. RIGHT-OF-WAY MEN WANTED Men for cutting right-of-way by the'acre, west of Mud River. " Good prices. Work all winter. Apply GEORGE HARDIE, South Port George, B. C. The Little Nugget Cafe The most modern and best-appointed cafe in Fort George. FIRST-CLASS CUISINE Meals - SO Cento Short Orders a"Speclalty Mrs. F. C. Nahbwald, Proprietress Cor. Hamilton and Third South Fort George. Intend Building? NOW is the time to build, whilst seasoned lumber is obtainable. Labor conditions are now in your favor. We contract to design and construct your building, guaranteeing satisfaction: Call or write us. Bronger & Flynn Builders and Contractors SOUTH FORT GEORGE Fresh Meats Beef Mutton and Veal Wholesale and retail THE B. C. MEAT MARKET FORT GEORGE AND SOUTH FORT GEORGE P. G. B. BODEKER Land Timber Cruiser Pre-emptions Located. SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C. Estimates Submitted. Robert Spinks South Fort George : B.C. P. A. Landry J. H. McGregor J. F. Templeton T. A. Kelly, Timber Department Gore & McGregor CIVIL ENGINEERS British Colombia Land Surveyors Land Agents Timber Cruisers Chancery Chambers, Langley Street, VICTORIA, B.C., P.O. Box 162, Phone 684. McGregor Building. Third Street, SOUTH FORT GEORGE. B. C. A.P.ANDERSON BUILDER and CONTRACTOR Office and Store Fixtures. Hamilton Ave. South Fort George A Do you contemplate ij A BUILDING? I fi Then investigate our workmanship and K 14 get our estimates \ DANFORTH & M'lNNIS 53 Contractors i Hamilton and y, A ami Builders I First btreets |*> Fort George. B.C. Victoria, B.C. F. P. Burden, Mgr. F. C. Green, Mgr. Nelson, B.C., A. H. Green, Mgr. Green Bros., Burden & Co. Civil Eminetri, Dominion t B. C. lul Snvettn Surveys of Lands, Mines, Townsites, Timber Limits, Etc. THE= CLUB POOL ROOM THIRD AND HAMILTON STS. DAVIS & FORREST, Props. 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Our GUMLESS SPRUCE SIDING and V-JOINT will not warp, check nor shrink endways, and contains no gum to cause the paint to peel. ;^ REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENTS Farm Lands, Timber Lands, City Property, Garden Tracts. Fire, Accident and Life Insurance. Acreage— Garden Tracts HAMILTON AVE. SOUTH FORT GEORGE ^= ^=J o Roberts, Jones & Willson a EDWARD ROBERISJIotarr Public. E.E.JONES. A. J. SELWYNWILISON, Auditor. REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE AGENTS, AUCTIONEERS, VALUATORS and ACCOUNTANTS. FOR SALE: Farm Lands. Garden Tracts. Timber Limits. Mineral Claims. Valuable town lots. LIST YOUR PROPERTIES WITH US. jfefc™^^tf TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "ERIN" FORT GEORGE, B. C. Offices: Hamilton Avenue, South Fort George: Central Avenue, Fort George, 6. C t AMERICAN PLAN EXCELLENT CUISINE ==^ Mn Corner Hamilton & Third South Fort George, B.C. The newest and most modern hotel in the northern interior Rates $2.50 and $3 Monthly and weekly rates on application ^ Beat of wines, liquors and cigars Albert Johnson, prop. J Christmas Confectionery A complete'stock of Confectionery for the holiday season-OUR OWN MAKE. Catering Tobaccos and Cigars HAMILTON AVENUE SOUTH FORT GEORGE , v • 10 mm yn»««..i _mmhmmm m*rfl7wT.-B*ntr*j JSfa** John A. Fraser, M.P.P, who has recently returned to Quesnel from a trip to the coast, will visit South_Fort George next week. The Fort George & Alberta Telephone Co. have installed telephone instruments on their wire, between Black- water and this place, at Pinker's and Smith's road houses. Several freight teams arrived in town this week from Quesnel. I. A. White brought up the steel cells for the new jail. George Hardie returned from a trip over his right-of-way contracts between here und Stoney Creek yesterday. Mr. Hardie has about 150 men at work. He states that it is a difficult matter to secure men at present. R. C. S. Randall, of the local Government office, is building a fine home on his island pre-emption at the mouth of the Nechaco. The largest single mail to leave Ashcroft for the north over the Cariboo Road left the railway last Saturday. It consisted of one hundred and six sacks. That the work of blasting oue the rocks at the "Hudson's Bay Gardens" is progressing rapidly is borne out by the continuous explosions which are heard in town as the work is carried on. Mr. Jones, one of the Nechaco Valley's pioneer ranchers, arrived in town this week with a freight team from Milne's Landing. John 0. Williamson, of the Fort George Dru*; Company, has on hand a splendid stock of Christmas goods. Before Stipendiary Magistrate Heme this week an Indian named Maurice Quah was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly. J. B. Daniell returned from the coast last Wednesday. He left Ashcroft at ten o'clock last Friday morning in one of the B.X. motor cars, arriving in Quesnel the following evening, the roads being in perfect condition for the cars. Mr. Daniell states that interest on the outside is keen regarding South Fort George, especially in Winnipeg, where he stayed for some time on a business visit. . L. E. Bonner, manager of the 'West Canadian Deep Leads Co., of Stanley, was remanded for trial an a charge of blowing up the ditches of the Lowhee hydraulic mine at Lightning Creek a short time ago. Mr. Bonner was admitted to bail in the sum of $3000. The case was heard before Mr. John Stevenson, of Quesnel. Hon Duncan Marshall, minister of agriculture for Alberta, has placed an order with a firm in Montreal for a thousand pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons and White Wyandottes for delivery early next spring to the provincial poultry farm in Edmonton. The birds are solely for breeding purposes. Stock and eggs will be delivered to farmers and poultry growers direct from the experimental farms in various parts of the province. It is expected that several thousand high-grade birds will be added to the flocks during the earning year. Mr. Marshall believes the best way to encourage the industry is to assist the farmers. Mrs. Arthur Murphy, president of the Women's Canadian and the Women's Press clubs of Edmonton, is at the head of a movement to bring before the provincial legislature at its session next spring a plan to preserve for the people the buildings known as Fort Edmonton, formerly owned and occupied by the Hudson's Bay company, organized in 1670. The fort, erected prior to 1805 and known as "the last house of the world," is to be restored by using the original materials. Thu original fort was owned by the Norlli West Fur company and was built in ths latter part of the eighteenth century by J. Hughes, M. Shaw and J. MacDonald of Garth. It was known as Fort des Prairies and Hughes' fort in 1805. This and the Hudson's Bay company's post were amalgamated in 1821. W. Bird, a factor of the last named company, named the place Fort Edmonton after his birthplace in England. The building occupies a prominent site on Parliament Hill. FORT GEORGE DRUG CO. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY Christmas Cards A superb assortment _ has arrived and inspection is invited. Toilet articles, Patent Medicines DrurebU'Sundries Mowuim*. Books, Stationer FARM LANDS IN CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA. In every case our lands were carefully inspected by expert cruisers before we purchased Fort George District. Nechaco Valley Bulkley Valley Skeena Valley THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY will make all these districts accessible to all the world. Every rail laid adds to the value of the land North Coast Land Co. Ltd. General Offices: 619 to 624 Metropolitan Bldg., Vancouver, B.C London Office: 6 Old Jewry. I T . 91,600,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL. CLOSE & BROWN CO. LIMITED General Merchants South^Fort George, B.C. G. T. P. & P. G. E. Railway Construction Headquarters will be on the Fraser River waterfront, adjoining South Fort George, with the opening of spring. This spells good times in this immediate neighborhood. Buy a Lot this spring while they are cheap, and take your profits in the early summer. Also 2 1-2 acre Garden Tracts close in. Write for details. The Northern Development Company, Limited 403-404 Carter-Cotton Building VANCOUVER, B.C. A Winter Schedule Mail and Passenger Service Stages leave the company's South Fort George office for Ashcroft, Quesnel and way points at 5 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays The mail, passenger and express stages arrive from the south on Wednesday and Saturday Evenings BRITISH COLUMBIA EXPRESS COMPANY Auto, Stage and Steamboat Owners | 1836 | Assets Exceed Fifty Mon Dollars | 1912 th. Bank of British North America Tour money Is saler in tbe Bank than in your house or in your pocket. It is not tied up. You can get it out at any time without delay. NOTES discounted. Local and Foreign Drafts bought and sold. COLLECTIONS made promptly. Money Orders issued. FORT GEORGE BRANCH. J. MUNRO, ACTING MANAGER 000 fE make a specialty of Fine Commercial Job Printing. Our plant is the most modern in Central British Columbia, and our prices compare most favorably with Coast figures. Your orders will receive our best attention and will be delivered promptly. No job too big, none too small. WE EXCEL IN TWO-COLOR PRINTING, D The Royal Bank of Canada With which is united The Traders Bank of Canada INCORPORATED 1869 Capital paid up Surplus Total Assets $12,400,000 11,400,000 179,900,000 Head Office H. C. Seaman, Manager Montreal, Que. South Fort George, B.C. Fort George Hardware Co. General Hardware and Sheet Metal Workers. All kinds of tin and sheet Iron work done. Camp stoves LASELLE AVENUE Hot air Furnaces, etc. SOUTH FORT GEORGE. Willow River Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Calls it "a Town of Importance/' Adding— "The establishment of this new town (on the Fraser and Willow rivers) marks a chapter in tne development of British Columbia. It is outwara evidence that each day sees the Grand Trunk pacific Railway pushing farther west and thf1.^" riches of an inland empire are, for the first time, becoming available. That portion of British Columbia west of the Rocky Mountains and east ot tne coast range and drained by the Fraser. Nechaco, Stuart. Salmon and Willow Rivers, hold the centre of the stage in one of earth's greatest dramas- tne development of Western Canada. Approximately midway between Edmonton and Prince Rupert, a territory virtually 700 miles long and 500, mue» wide will contribute to the upbuilding of this new town, , . ,, Do not delay, Write today for maps and pnntea matter, giving fullest information. Pacific Bond & Land Corporation. Ltd. Joint Owners and Sole Agents (D. L. 788.) 517 Pacific Bid., Vancouver, B.C. Local Representative, L. M, Bower, Ail li