A ^f**^ H GRAIN) FORKS Lf t the center of Grand Forks valley, the premier fruit growing district of Southern British Columbia. Mining and lumbering are also important industries in districts contiguous to the oity. ' Kettle Valley Orchardist IflD OULl paper of the citizens of the district. It is read by more people in the city and valley than any other paper because it is fearless, reliable, clean, bright and entertaining. It is always independent but never neutral. TWENTY-FIRST YEAR—No 19 GRAND FORKS, B. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922 "Tell me what you Know li true: I can guess as well ss yoo. $1.00 PER YEAR LIGHT RATE SAME AS NOW; WATER ' MAY BE HIGHER Council Succeeds in Reducing Power Co.'s Demands Half a Cent Per Kilowatt Hour — Fall Fair Wants Donation Cbeakamus, which went out in the floods last October." The Northern Construction coinpany haa all tbe material on the ground for two more Howe trues spans and work on tbe Quesnel riyer will proceed rapidly, It is understood that work will commence in a abort time on several timber bridges between the two Cottonwood rivera. The Spokane Concrete company expects to start manufacturing concrete pipe fnr the irrigation system on the 25th inst. ETAX »M FEELING STRONGER. EVERY DAY, DQC, BUT AM NOT EXACTLY TRAINING FOft. A PRlflZE.' FIGHT Tbe mayor and all the aldermen were present af tbe adjourned meeting of tbe city council, held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. A deputation from the Agricultural association was present, Fred Clark and* E. F. Laws acting as spokesmen, soliciting financial assistance towards tbe fall fair, the council being aaked for I a do» nation of about 1350. The council promised consideration of tbe matter in tbe final dealing with the estimates. Mayor Hull reported the result of the interview with Lome Campbell, ot tbe West Kootenay Power company, siatiog that the city bad been successful n securing a rate of 2J- eents a kilowatt hour in plsce of the 3 cents asked by the company. A preliminary discussion of the estimates occupied considerable time, it being the feeling of the members of the council tbifl wbile no in crease would be charged th? consumer for electric lights, yet in view of tbe increased cost to the city of power purchased, it would be necessary to make an increase in tbe water rates some 25 cents, or possi bly 50 oents, per month per consumer. Sizing up roughly tbe estimates situation, it would appear that aome 110,000 extra will bave to be raised tbia year over and above last year's estimates. Tbe school board alone require some 130,000. Tbe final estimates was laid over until the next regular meeting. An enquiry was receive for lioense rates from tbe Idternational Amusement company, offering a round-about and attractions generally. The clerk was instructed to inform the company thai a license fee of $50 a day would be required. The various committees presented tbeir reports, which were adopted. BLANKS ARE IN THE MAIL Questionaires Are Being Sent to All and Must Be Returned by March 31--Minimum: Bachelors, $1200; Benedicts, $1500 HE'S GETTING BETTER. GIVE HIM TIME "No longer does tbe devil wiggle a wicked forked tail, but now be shakes a shimmying shoulder," Straton de* dared. "Tbe devil of today is no longer the bold, brazen devil of years igo. The new model has arrayed himself like an angel of light. "Nor does the new devil care wbere be goes; be tempts tbeologi ans and sometimes entees the pulpit. "Brimstone' of Dante's time has turned to jazz, movies and the tbea ters of 1922. "Tbe 1922 devil is an advocate of jazz, and a regular attendant of movies and t theaters." Supreme efforts of the new devil, according to Straton's analysis, are: To undermine tbe virtue of women; to destroy masculine bonor; to Wreck the marriage vows, to checkmate tbe church; to overthrow tbe old-fashioned bome. "These things are tbe 1922 mode) devil, and these are some of hiB works," he concludes. THE WEATHER The following is the minimum and maximum temperature for each day during the past week, as recorded by tbe government thermometer on B. F. Law's ranch: Mas. Marob 10—Friday 40 11—Saturday 41 12- Sunday 40 13—Monday 45 14—Tuesday 43 15—Wednesday.. 52 16- Thursday 49 Min. 33 27 26 12 27 36 33 Inches Snowfall 2.2 Rainfall ... 044 Work Upon Bridge Over Quesnel River Proceeding Radidly * s Quesnel, March 16.—Joe Kelly's bridge gang of about thirty men arrived on Saturday's train. Tbey will continue work on the P.O. B. bridge over the Quesnel river. A pile bridge was driven last spring and trains ran over tbis until late fall, when a Howe truss span was put in over the main channel. For the last four months the bridge gang has been working on the Cheeki bridge near Income tax forms and personal property questionaires are now being sent out through the mail by G. W. Cripps, provincial income tax assessor at Vancouver. The forms must be filled in and returned by March 31. The income dealt witb on them is for the whole year 1921 Persons wbo have not received forms from tbe taxation departmeni are required to get tbem before tbe end of tbe mantb and fill tbem in to avoid being penalized. Three Months' Grace Taxation officials will send out atatemeuta of tbese taxes due within a couple of weeks after the ques- tiooafres are sent in to tbe government. About tbree months will be given after tbat for the payment of tbe charges. Separate income tax questionaires are seoi out for all companies and tbere are others for farmers. The Bachelor Tax Bachelors must pay income tax in excess of $1200, Married men must pay on all over $1500 and $200 is allowed for eacb cbild. Otber exemptions allowed both married aod single men include dependents, such as father, mother or other close relative aod also life insurance. In connection witb the income returns a statement has to be furnished sbowiug all tbe personal property a person bas, witb the exception of automobiles, household furniture and wearing apparel. All'yachts, sailing ships, launches, notes.bonds, stocks, reference books, professional books, medical, dental or scientific instruments have to be listed in detail. Only One Tax Paid On the total value of the personal property the taxation officials will figure out what has to be paid as tax. But a person will not be called oo to pay tbe personal property tax uuless it comes to more than the income Ui. In tbat case it is not necsssary to pay the income tax. A person has to pay only one of these taxes, tbat being the one wbicb is th egreater. Tbe income tax jb figured out on the following basis: 1 per cent on income above tbe exemption limit and up to $2500; 2 per cent on all between $2600 and $3600; 3 per cent between $3500 and $4500; 4 per cent between $4500 and $5500, and so on in similar progression. Vancouver Man's Calendar Reform Plan Accepted by Washington To Vancouver goes tbe distinction of having advanced tbe plan of calendar reform tbat tbe recent convention at .Washington, D.C., unanimously adopted. Tbe new method of measuring,time was invented by Moses B. Cotsworth, a statistician of the Terminal city, It was obosen after careful deliberation in preference to ten otber suggestions. The gathering was known as the United Statea national convention to receive, discuss and consider plans for improving tbe calendar. Following are tbe proposals pre* sen ted: Plan No. 1—Tbe "International Fixed Calendar Plan," advanced by Moses B. Cotsworth, Vancouver, B.C. Plan No. 2—The "Equal Mouths or Liberty Calendar," advanced by Joseph TJ. Barne8,Mioneapolis,Minu. Plan No. 3— The "Perpetual Calendar," proposed by L. C. Pope, of Fort Myer, Florida. * Plan No. 4—Tbe "Swiss" plan, advocated by Dr. A. F. Beal.Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. £Plan No. 3—The "Black" system; plan 6, the "John Robertson" plan; No. 7,the "AlexanderPhillip" plan; No. 8 the "Ghilain" 'plain; No. 9, the "Decimal" plan, proposed by Edward Skille, Drummond, Wis. No. 10, a plan presented by Dr. D. C. Savage,,of Nashvilie, Tenn.; No. 11, the. "New Era Calendar," invented by Howard Q. Warren, of Princeton University. Folia wing tbe discussion Joseph V. Barnes offered tbe following resolution: Whereas, after due consideration of the different plans proposed, this convention is convinced of tbe superior merits of the first (International Fixed Calendar) plan, whicb provides for tbe Betting aside of New Year's day as an independent legal holiday, and wbich also provides for setting aside of the extta day in each fourth year as "Leap Day" (making itean independent legal holiday),and divides the remainder 364 days oj eacb year into 13 months of exa itly four complete weeks eacb, by placing a new month between June and July, and suggesting "Sol" as tbe natural nahoe for sucb new month, because it will include the time the "Solstices" come in both the northern and the southern hemispheres; Therefore be it resolved, tbat tbis United States national convention on calendar reform does hereby endorse tbe "International Fixed Calendar" plan as being, in its opinion, the most simple, the moat conveniently arranged, and tbe most desirable of all the plans proposed to the convention, and we do hereby recom mend its adoption by tbe law-making bodies of the nations of the world. The resolution carried unanimously. It is significant that although tbe Calendar convention was' assembled by the Liberty Calendar Association of America, Mr. Barnes.the founder of tbat association, proposed tbe de cidiog unanimous resolution recommending all nations to adopt Mr. Cotswortb's "International Fixed Calendar" plan, wbioh had previously been unanimously recount! nded by both tbe Royal Society of Canada and tbe government of Canada. Norris Government Defeated in Manitoba Winnipeg, March 14.—By a vote of 27 to 23, tbe Norris government was defeated on a stisight vote of censure resolution in the legiolature this evening, and as soon ap the lieutenant-governor, Sir James Aikens, returns from Torooto on Thursday, Premier T, C. Norris will place his and the resignation of lbe government in his bands. A general election at an early date is inevitable and tbe only point in doubt is whether the lieutenant governor will induce the government to carry on until election arrangements are made or whether be will call upon one of tbe group leaders to forn> a government tbat will do so. ' In view of the apparent impos - sibility of any group leader forming a government tbat woul d ommaod a working majority in tbe bouse, it is oonaidered probable that Sir James Aikens will make an effort to get the Norris administration to stay in oflice till election arrangements are completed. Meanwhile tbe house stands adjourned till to- mjrrow afternoon. The Modern Devil Shakes Wicked Shoe The following indictment of present-day society is made by a New York preacher. Perhaps some of tbe vices of modern times are not any worse than ihose practiced by the people a generation or two ago. Modern methods must be used in fighting tbe 1922 model shimmy shaking devil. You can not combat tbe up-to-date satan who shakes a wicked shoe on the dance floor witb tbe weapons our gjaodfathers used against the old-fashioned brimstone- breathing Mephisto. This is tbe answer of Dr. Jobn Roach Stration, famous reformer, to Dr. Robert Stuart Macartbur, wbo quit Calvary Baptist church, whicb he founded, because he could not stand Stration's sensational style. Dr. Straton will preecb next Sun day on tbe subject of Dr. Macartbui's reeighatioo from tbe churoh. What Happens to I Old Railroad Ties The railway -passenger who sees piles of worn-out cross ties .piled up and set on fire by repair nags along the right of way sotMtta-MS wonde<\" why this is done and asks why people are net allowed te use them for fuel. The Pennsylvania Railroad has issued an information pamphlet dealing with this subject whicb states:— "In the first place, it is far from true that all the old ties are burned. A considerable number are constantly being sold to persons living on er near the right ef way, who buy them at nominal priees, usually ten or fifteen cents apiece, aad use them for firewood. .-.•_. "That it about as far as the mB- read company has been able to go, thus far, in finding an outlet for worn-out ties. Such a method ef disposal is practicable only in those cases i '..ere the ties can b« delivered at a public crossing, or other point where they can be obtained safely by the users, and where the eost of so delivering them is not greater than the nominal prices obtainable. "The Company cannot sanction the public going promiscuously over tracks and through yards to gather up old ties. To do so would bt practically letting down the bars against trespassing on the tracks, an evil which has been the causa of about half of all the fatal accidents on railroads in the United States. "Efforts have been made to interest dealers in firewood in buying tha old ties, but not thus far with much success. The causes appear to be that the old ties are often dirty; that they contain more or less stone, grit and slag wedged in tho cracks, which might injure the saws used in cutting them; that in many cases they are partly decayed; that they are dried out, and that their fibre is more or less crushed, so that they burn out too quickly. These an among the reasons assigned by dealers who have not been willing to pay the railroad company enough to cover the eost of collecting the tiea nnd delivering them to a point at which they could bo removed. "Efforts have also been made to dlspore of old ties in a number ol other ways, including sale for wood- pulp purposes, for the extraction oi chemicals, for burning and sale of the ashes for fertiliser, and foi manufacture into charcoal, but without success in Interesting parties engaged in these occupations. . 'The Company will be glad to continue and wherever feasible to extend, the present practice of selling eld ties to individual consumers foi n, minal prices' at points whore they ci.n be delivered without danger to Ihe purchasers and without costing, for collection and transportation, more than they are worth as fuel. The management will welcome any other suggestions by which more of the old ties can be usefully disposod of or made available for commercial or industrial purposes." The Canadian Pacific Railway goes further than the Pennsylvania Railroad and gives away ties to any who will take them, such giving being surrounded with the necessary, safeguards as to trespassing. Tht experience of the Canadian Pacifu is that ties are taken only whet there is no standing timber in thi vicinity, and that in many cases tl farmers taking the ties do not ui them for firewood but for generall purposes around the farm, indicating that tha valne of old ties firewood in this country is tremely small. IN KOOTENAY Returns From Sixty Out of Sixty-nine Polls Give Dr. J. H. King a Lead of 1100 Votes Fernie, B. C, March 14.—Returns from sixty polls out of a total of sixty-nine in the East Kootenay constituency tonight indicates tbat Hon. Dr. J. H. King, minister of publio works in the Ottawa government, has been elected to parliament io tbat riding by a majority of at least 1 iilOover his Labor Progressive opponent, H. M. Brondson, of Cranbrook. Tbe figures for the sixty polls, whicb in-Iude all the arger centers of population, stand]tonight: King, 3016; Brondson, 1855. The remaining nine polls are in remoter sections of tbe riding and will not return their polls tonight. Tbe^electiou was made necessary by tbe fact that R. E. Beattie, Progressive member ior lbe riding, resigned. Dr. King, former provincial minister of public works for British Columbia, resigned at Victoria and entered tbe contest tn East Koote • nay following bis appointment to a portfolio in tbe Mackenzie King cabinet. Tbe election of Dr. King completes Premier King's cabinet, and gives British Columbia one representative in tbat administration. FOSTER'S FORECAST Washington,March 13— The week centering on March 17 will average above normal tempertures on meridian 90 from tbe Gulf of Mexico to tbe far north. The hiSh temperature of that disturbance will be in northwestern Canada about March 15, on and all along meridian CO March 17, and in eastern sections March 19. A cool wave will be in northwestern Canada near March 19, on meridian 90 March 21, in eastern sections 23. Unusually severe storms will prevail from March 11 to 19, and whatever relief tbere is in store for America and* Canada may be expected during tbat ten days. March will be full of storms and improvements in crop weather will come witb tbe storms. 1 expect that about one-third of tbe continent will get below normal crops and two-tbirds will get bumper crops. Altogether tbe best average of crops are expected for North, America tbat will bave been produced for many years. Just as we were about to start tbe press to print this week's issue of The Sun, the first buttercup of tbe season was brought into our office by Miss Helen Mason. It should be a sign that spring is juet around the corner. Election Coctests Occupying Time of Gabinet Ministers Victorio,March 15 —Election con tests contiuue to o.cupy a large part of tbe time ol Premier Oliver and his ministers. Ouly Hou. W. H Sutherland and Hon. E. D. Barrow are at tbeir desks, and the former left today for Nelson. Hon. William Sloan will leave for Nelson tomor- rnw, too, which will leave Hon. E. D, Bairow tbe only member of tbe government on the job. The government is confident of winning tbe Nelson fight, bnt it is hardly expected thatHhe CraDbrook by-election will be brought on for eome montbe, nor tbe one in Vancouver to replace M, A, Macdonald. THE SUN, QRAND FORKS, B. C. AN IH.EfmtmmlT N_L«3->t?E*l 9. A. EVANS. EDITOR AHD PUBLISHER SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANOE One Tear (in Canada and Qreat Britain) $1.00 One Year (in the United States) 1.50 Addresr -" ~~ 'cations to Thk Grand Forks Sun, Phonk 101R Grand Forks, ti C. OFFICE: COLUMBIA AVENUE AND LAKE STREET. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922 Muscle Shoals. It would be absurdly wasteful to allow the $85,000,000 already spent .there to be charged off to profit and loss— or rather to loss alone. It may be that no one will make a better offer than Mr. Ford; but Secretary Weeks thinks that the Detroit man is trying to drive a rather hard bargain with his fellow citizens. It is a part of Mr. Ford's proposal that the government, sell to him for $5,000,000 nitrate and steam plants that Sec retary Weeks says have a scrap value of more than $8,000,000. England is glutted with cotton cloth that it can not sell; Austria is unclothed becausee it can not |juy. While Russia is starving, American granaries bulge with surplus corn, The world is full of goods that it can not exchange, and there are so many ships on the sea that hardly any of them can get a profitable cargo. The term Grand Canon applies to that part of the Colorado river which lies in northern Arizona. Itis a gorge 217 miles lo g, 4000 to 6000 feet deep and from 1 to 15 miles wide at the top. Far away to the north, however, on Green river, a tributary of the Colorado, there begins a greatly depressed river bed that continues through Utah and Arizona for 1000 miles, ''morr mysterious in their depths than the Himalayas in their height." A Russian statistician has discovered that .he Russian birth rate, which was almost 40 a thousand before tlie war, was only 13 a thonsand in 1919, -and that the death rate, which was 25.4 in 1913,was75 sixyears later. We give the figures for what they may be worth, for we imagine that the vital statistics of Russia would be hard to collect and mt to be trusted; bnt there can be no doubt of the tremendous waste of population. In only twelve of the "governments" of European Russia the loss of population is estimated at three million. * "Business in oQr town is tolerably good," declares an exchange, "nnd if the pessimiSts who are waving their hands would only take some Hags in them, it might be considerably better." On a high point' of Mount Adams in the state of Washington are one hundred and thirty six apparently human footprints, made in mud that has long since turned to stone. The tradition of the Yakima Indians is that the spot is the place where "the great canoe" landed after theeFlood, and that the footprints were made by the people who stepped from the "canoe" to the ground, softened by the long inundation. Many labor unions have a financial strength that the public does not realize. For example, 150 members of the Elevator Constructors' union in San Francisco went on strike against a cut in wages. The International Brotherhood of the craft voted at once to pay every striker his wages under the old scale—$9 a day. Some of the money came from'the treas ury of the organization, but most of it came from a levy of 10 per cent on the wages of members of the union who fwere working in other cities.' Tho great purchasing power of foreign moqey in Austria makes tourists thrive but the Austrians suffer An American dollar will buy two fowls, or a goose, or sixty heads of cabbage, or six pounds of butter. It will pay for a month's rent of a large well-furnished room or of a small apartment in the best part of Vienna. The salaries of lawyers, schoolmasters, clerks and other brain workers, if measured in our money, range from $12 to $18 a month. A doctor gets from 15 to 25 cents a visit, and domestic servants from 40 to 75 cents a month. Close Examination of the Diamonds shown here only accentuates their charm. They, are stones that will appeal to those who prefer a' small, good diamond to a large, faulty one. Select a Diamond Now A small payment will reserve it for you. An occasional sum on account from now on will put you in pos , session of the best of gifts without your having felt the cost.- J. C. TAYLOR - Jeweller and Optician Bridie Street Grand Forks Nothing Else is Aspirin -■— say "Bayer" Whether we are growing better or merely going faster is a conundrum for philosphers. Consider the latest scheme for a cafeteria: the diner takes his seat at a table on a slowly moving section of floor, picks up the dishes he desires as he passes the counter, pays the cashier as he sweeps by her cage and then continues to eat with what show of leisure he can muster as he continues to revolve iu his orbit. Sot a square meal but around one seems tp be the aim. A flock of swans that belong to the bishop's palace at Wells, Somerset, England, use the ancient moat as their swimming pool. From one ofthe palaqo windows hangs a ropo that reaches to the water and that is attached to a bell in the building, and whenever the swans are hungry thoy tug at the rope until ihey succeed in ringing the bell and some ono throws down food to them. A bishop's daughter taught them the trick. Non official radio messages—music, sermons, vaudeville, lectures, personal advertising—must now be sent at a wave length of 300 meteres in the United States. The department of commereo reserves the wave length of 485 matres for weather reports, crop and market reports and other official and semi-official announcements. From Detroit, by way of Roger Babson, the statistician, comes the news that Henry Ford is at work on a composition of cotton and forniajdehoyde and glue, whicli may be called "cottonoid" for convenience, and that if his experiments succeed he can block out auto mobile bodies as a cook cuts out doughnuts. Presumably the engine will still have to be made of sterner stuff; Incidentally^ for the instruction of tliose who believe that the day of "opportunity" has gone by, Mr. Ford recalls that seventeen years ago he could not get trusted for a chicken for his Thanksgiving dinner. Last year he paid the government $7(5,000,000 in taxes. It is interesting to know that the historic flag of Ireland is not green but blue. Green as the national color dates only from the revolution of 1798. It was then accepted by the people, but there -was never any official action to change the color of the Irish flag, which in early days was blue. Nor has the harp always been an emblem of the country. Originally the Irish flag boro a golden siui- burst. Later it displayed three golden crowns, and it was not until she seventeenth century that the harp displaced them. On the royal standard of the United Kingdom, where the Irish flag i.s quartered with those of England, Scotland and Wales, che harp appears on a blue field. But the new free state government can change the national color to green if it pleases, and it is very likely to do it. Common Ground SEE E. C. HENNIGER COMPANY Grand Forks, B. C. Before Buying Your SEED GRAIN and GARDEN SEEDS Warning! Unless you see name "Beyer" on Ublets, you are not getting Aspirin at all. Why take ohanceil Accept only an unbroken "Bayer" package whicli contain, directions wtfrked out by physicians during 21 years and proved safe by millions for Colds, Headaohe, Btracho, Tootach1., Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis., Lumbago, and Pain. Made in Oanada. All dru_;_»i!.ti Sail Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in handy tin boxes of 12 tab- lots, and in bottles of 24a nd 100. Aspirin is the trade mark (registered in (J-mada) of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticaoidester of Salicylicacid. While it is well knowh that Aspirin means Bayer nriiiufaoture, to assiat the publio against imitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company will be stamped with their general trade mark, the "Bayer Cross." . . S.T.HULL Established 1910 Real Estate and Insurance Resident Agent Oriiml Porks Townsite Oompany, Limited Forms [Oriliiir.ls City Property .1 Agents nt* Nelson, Calgary, WllltltpOtf Hnd other Pralrlupoints. Vancouver Agents) PBNDBK INVISSTMKNTS ItATTKNIIUH Y LANDS LTD. Bstabllshcil ln I'.IIO. wc arc In a potlHon to furnish .tillable liifnriitntlnn nonoBrilillir-tlHs district. Writ, fill ...» . 'it M.ltll r-fl. GBAND FORKS Transfer Company DAVIS 8 HANSEN, Props City Baggage and General Transfer Coal* Wood and Ice for Sale " . Office at R. P. Petric'g Store Pfionc 64 C.V. Meggitt Benl Estate nnd Insurance ' .Secretary Weeks has turned over to the American congress without recommendation the offer of Henry Ford for the Muscle Shoals plants for the manufacture of fertilizers and the production of power—if congress will appropriate the money to complete the project. It is generally agreed that something should be done with the power that is available at Written for The Sun by D. E. cJMELROSE The laws of Nature give us life, on this revolving sphere, the law of man produces strife to mar our progress here. First we must creep, then rise and walk, where mischief leads the way, while mother teaches us to talk and words of love to say. We cut our teeth and carve the chairs and twist the kitten's tail, then take a header down the stairs, or backwards o'er the rail. t At six we go to school to learn sweet gems of knowledge rare, where helpful hints we may discern—and practice how to swear. At eighteen years we know it all—just say it with conceit. We wonder why the earth doesn't fall and grovel at our feet. It takes us years of ceaseless toil to learn the golden rule, and sow our wild oats in the soil prepared -in Sunday school. THE CORPORATION OF THE GITY OF GRAND FORKS Proposes to dispose ofthe following lands which have been acquired under Tax Sale proceedings. OFFERS to purchase one or more of the said lands will be re- ceivep by the undersigned on or beforeMarch 24, 1922: Map 23, Block 13, Lots 3, 14, pt. of 4. Map 23, Block 14, Lois 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 20. Map 23, Block 15, Lots 9, 7. Map 23, Block 17, Lots 2. 3 Map 23, Block 18, Lots 1, 2, 9. Map 23, Block 19, Lots 16, 23. Map 23, Block 21, Lots 19, 20. Map 23, Block 24, Lots 23. 14, 22, 16, 21, 19. « Map 23, Block 25, Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8. Map 23, Block .30,1,018 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6,7,8,9,10,11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Map 23, Block 31, Lots 4. 5, 6, 7 and hnlf of 10. Map 121, Block 28, Lots 3, 4' 7 8, 9, 10. Map 121, Block 2PA, Lots 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11. 12, 13, 14, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Map 121, Block 29, Lot 4. JOHN A. HUTTON. City Clerk. Eden and Bluebird Electric Washing Machines M90.00on Terms MILLER & GARDNER Complete Home Furnishers T Very Old Highland WHISKY Supplied to the P. & O. Steamship Line for over forty years; to His Majesty's Transports; to many exclusive Clubs and Officis' Messes all over the world. 15years matured. Ask for Catto's. foh'mai.i at UOVKKNMRNT Milium Nio:im ORCHARDS. FARM LANDS ANI» CITY | . PROPERTY Ex.*t'lent facilities for sf.lll.11_- your farms I We hive (-..-out* at all Const and Prairie] Points WK CARRY AUTOMOHII.K INSURANCE. | DEALER IN POLES, POSTS AND TIES, ANI> FARM PRODUCE Reliable Information ro-ranlln'.. tills distrct I cheerfully ftirnitslTeil. We Hnllc'l your in-1 qMlrfcs. DON'T HESITATE! PHONE 101R FOR FINE PRINTING Improvements Are Constant Solutions of telephone problems are nearly always made in advance of necessity. Improvements are experimented with constantly, so that the standard of service may be at all times the very best. It is not that a standard may be maintained, but that the standard may continue to be as close to perfection as it is humanly possible to have it. F.iobiems of speed, accuracy and transmission are always before the telephone engineers, and the great and precise mechanisms through which the volume and complexity-of telephone traffic is handled are mechanically perfect in the light of present invention, BRITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COMPANY % 1/ THE SUN, GRAND FORKS, B. C. INTERESTING SCENES FROM MANY PARTS . OF THE WORLD (t) Banff winter carnival. Winner of the flwee mile ski race. I*,) "Victow," Neleon'e old ship enteriag drydock at Portsmouth for examination. (8) 8&. "Empress of Russia" being escorted by seaplaneTinto Vancouver Harbor, under direction of the Canadian Alrboard Xntellir Snce Departmimt. • ) Making the largest Ball of Twine in ttw world is the ambition of C. H. Stall, of Cincinnati, by saving every scrap. Mr. SMI works in a wholesale drug warehouse. (6) The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimlravitek and Ws family. He is said to have been chosen a candidate for the Russian throne. (8) Vancouver Amazons, winners of hockey match against Calgary Regents, at Banff winter sports. , , (7) S.S. "Montealm" Lounge Room, looking forward. The "Montcalm* is one of the three new 16,000 ton liners for the Atlantic service of the Canadian Paciflo, * INDEPENDENCE ON TWO ACRES house there are prunes, peaches, plums, apples, pears, cherries ana e%Bii a "Concord" vine full of fruit. Mr. Jones sold $200 worth of apples last year—$32 of which came from two trees alone. Tbe chief pride of this model farm in miniature is, however, ths poultry. There are 200 head altogether and the 150 layers are kept m one house—divided off into compartments with a run In front of each. As soon as one run looks stale it is dug up, sown down to rape snd another run used. Scarlet-runner beans are growing all up the south end of the run ns shade. The poultry aro. Barred Rocks and Leghorns. Thc house itself is of an exceptional design the owner's own idea entirely. The floor space is 50 ft. by umiirniiiiifui iiifinnnnniiiiifiii*Mrn»jimnjinjiiii 11 iijj miiiiu uiiuiiiIlHIJIIIIMIJIILf JUfli iiMiimmn'-Linmllirnig Thi-os cows, s couple of hundred K Tons cows, s couple oi nunarea bat, sn orohsrd, small fruit and » market garden, sll en two acres ot had In ths suburbs of Van- Mtmrt How msny sweltering folk In CM dusty oity limits would believe it possible f And yet Mr. Jones does it, snd makes Mmself an Independent man. Method again! Method, foresight aad hard work sre three essentials to success, which have made Mr. Jones huJopendent. He has stacked up three tons of hay this summer off the three-fourths of an acre that he devotes to hay, just timothy and clover mixed, nothing else. All ths milk ls sold locally at 8 quarto for $1, and the neighbors are only too glad to come and get It themselves. About %-acre is devoted to mangolds and feed carrots for the cows, that Mr. Jones haB only a little alfalfa to buy for winter, together with the bran and shorts. He has a machine for chopping the hay before feeding, which is an economy in Itself. The eow stable is spotlessly clean and drained into a tank outside whence ibe liquid manure is taken to the vegetable garden. Cow and chicken manure mixed are generously applied wherever and whenever possible and t*w effect of this added to naturally rich soil Is sweet corn ten feet Man and cabbages. AH the vegetables are sold retail (thus doing away with the middleman) and being a gardener bv instinct, Mr. Jones follows a certain rotation of stop in planting. For instance, brussels sprouts are set out where the early green peas or beans have just been turned under the soil so a* to get foil aataat- age of the nitrogen contained in the stalks and leaves of the legumes. In the same way borecole (curly kale) is planted fmmediatuly after the itatoes. He keeps his own seed from cress, onions, parsley and leeks and finds that it suits Itself to the soil better each year. There ars plenty of currant and rrooseberry bushes and some fine, healthy looking rows of magoon strawberries, but the best of his small fruit are the raspberries, of which he has 700 to 800 canes, and those have proved so profitable that Mr. Jones Is going to plant Vi acre more next year. ta tks ssshsrd on ws side of the 14 _t.. raised 4 ft. off the ground and the space underneath used for dust baths and which, of course, are thus dry all the year round. From these the hens enter the house through «n opening In the floor. Mr. Jones was a dairy farmer in the north nf Ireland before he mis out to Canada fifteen years ago. Up to just lately h' worked in an iron foundry lp town, but found that his little farm was paying him so well that he now gives all his time to it. His wife takes no less interest in it all than he does, so that hoth are "worki" partners"—the id il COl'nbinat.nn. The Illustration - a view of Mi. Jones' farm. THE SUN. URAND FORKS, 1. C. News of the City Mrs. C. C. French, wbo has been vieiting her sister, Mrs. J. T. Stafford, left for ber home in Creston last week. Sbe will return to tbis city in a few days. A number of cabinet ministers of (he provincial government have passed through tbe city during the past few daya to take part in the Nelson by eleetion. E. C. Henniger, M.L.A., went up to Greenwood this evening to take part in a public meeting whicb is to be addressed by Hon. J. D. Mac- Lean and otber speakers. William Tomlinson, a mineralogist and collector and a friend of tbe prospector, wbo was well known in tbis city, died at bis home in New Denver last Saturday. ' The regular meeting of tbe city council adjourned on Monday evening until 1:30 this afternoon owing to the illness of the city clerk and the absence from the city of one of tbe aldermen. Immigration Inspector P. T. McCallum left Thursday evening for a short visit to Nelson. Uev. Hillis Wright returned from Vancouver on Sund.y. Tbere are a number of cases of in Iluenzi iu the city, but tbey seem to be of a mild nature. have been addressed by Premier John diver, Finance Minister John Hart and our local member, was cancelled owing to the inability of the cabinet ministers to reach the city. j Percy Abbott left today for a short visit to Nelson. Born—In Grand Forks, on Friday, March 10, to Mr. and Mrs. R. Parks, a daughter. The public meeting announced Equipment w-.ich Will be UBed in constructing a railway to give access to the site of the dam which the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting it, Power company proposes to erect near Anyox was shipped north from Vancouver this week. It consists of ties, poles, rails and a quan« tity of electrical apparatus. The rails shipped north were used during the construction of the Hudson Bay railway for the purpose of bringing out ties and trestle timbers. Charles F. Law, mining engineer and broker, formerly representative of the late Lord Rhondda'in Peace river, has returned to the coast from New York, where he has been for several weeks on mining business afiecting British Columbia. Mr. Law states that mining men and capitalists in the eastern United States are evincing a growing interest in. the developments in British Columbia and especially in the reports of re cent discoveries of new gold areas in fhe province. Edward Collins, owner of a New York record for several forgeries and passing of worthlees cheques, sat back and listened the other day while Magistrate Sweetser held bim in $2500 bail on a charge of passing a worthless cheque for $100. Tben be leaned slightly forward and enquired suavely: "Would your h nor accept a cheque*!" "Not even a certified one," the magistrate answered GROCERIES We deal in fruits, vegetables and groceries exclusively and have fresh goods arriving daily, and sell them as fast they as they arrive. That's the beauty of having fresh goods—they're easy to sell. Courteous treatment and prompt delivery. THE CITY GROCERY Phone 25 H. H. Henderson, Prop. B1DB THEBE ON CLEVELAND IT brings the whole country for miles around within easy reach. Have you seen the new models) They're as graceful as swallows! As bright as new coin! As weatherproof as a duck. Automobile Steel Bearings. Frame of English Seamless Steel Tubing. Hard Maple Rims. Hercules Brake. Everything complete. Real Quality. Real Value. Easy Terms. We are tbe people',to mount you right. ■ J» R* MOOYBOER gII^dWrks.b!1^! Open Saturday Evenings Ull 10 o'Cloek you deserve some kind for your nerve." of a medal Science Discovers Erysipelas Gure Toronto, March 16.—Two important medical discoveries; were announced Monday by the Academy [of Medicine, says a Paris dispatch to tbe Mail and Empire. One of tbem is a cure for erysipelas, Doctors Cou- beau and Kieffer reporting];that a certain tetrachlorate solution plaoed on the sore causes an immediate bait to extension and infection. Early applications reduce the] fever, tbe doctors declare, aod continued] use cures the disease' Positive relief is promised to tu- bercular cases suffering from asthmatic crises. Dr. Bouveyron states that the respiratory passages can be cleared by the injection of. tubercular toxin in small dosas spread over several weeks, the treatment rendering the patient immune from the nasal breathing difficulties. Virginia farmer gives some rules how not to succeed witb cows. He says; Don't weigh your milk, for then you might bave to figure aod think. Feed your cows timothy hay; it is gqok for a race borse. Cow-testing associations are needless; tbey show yon bow to save and know. Keep the barn hot; cows are Jike woodchucks. Don't bave many windows in the barn; the hired man might look out. Keep the water ieo cold; shivering gives tbe cows exercise. Avoid heavy milkers; they con sume too much valuable time. How to Failin> Dairy Business Paradoxically, sometimes tbe best way to show bow to di a thing is to THK OOVSHNMaNT OF THI _-_.OV-_.Cl_. OF BBITISH COM. MSI A RE SPECIAL TIMBER LICENCES for Thursday night, whieh was to when he could speak again; "but show how not to do it. Thus a Weat To Save tlie Cliild The attention of Timber Licence holders who are taking advantage of the provisions of the 1921 Amendment to the FORE8T ACT, whereby arrears of licence fees accrued prior to 31st December, 1920, have been funded and made payable in annual instalments, is specially directed, to the fact that any renewal fee which became due in 1921 is not included in the instalments above mentioned, and such 1921 and all subsequent re oewal fees must be paid within one year after the date of expiry of the licence in order to maintain the right of the holder to obtain a renewal of the licence. Hobby is Good Printing npHE value of well- ■*■ printed, neat appearing stationery as a means of getting and holding desirable business has been amply demonstrated. Consult us before going elsewhere. Wedding invitations Ball programs Business cards Vi; iting cards J3h'p~ing tags Letterheads Statements Noteheads Pamphlets Price lists Envelopes Billheads Circulars Dodgers Posters Menus THE HUB—Bring your boot and shoe repairs to my shop for neat .and prompt work. Look for the big boot.—GEO. ARMSON Yale Barber Shop Razor Honing a Specialty* P. A. Z. PARE, Proprietor Yalr Hotel, First Stbikt Synopsis of Land Act Amendments A group of Russia's starving children such aa are being saved from death by Canadian contributions. ItnMla'i government may Save ■inred: but ner little children have not. Ruitii's people, a vast horde, but dimly conscious, If at all, of social responsibility other than thnt whicb each man felt for his own Im mediate family, may have brought added trouble and disorganization tn a war-thattered world. Her little children had nothing to do witb It, •nd yet lt Is tho little children of Russia that are faced with thc hideout, ovor-powering brunt of it all. They are not facing it; it is too great for them. In millions thev are tottering to the ground to end their short lives of unrelieved horror in one last agonlted spasm. In the famine-stricken province? ef Russia there are, or were, 38,000, 000 people. Millions already have died of starvation; Nanscn says ten millions more must die. That in eludes men and women, patient. humble peasants who have had no ifcand, no thought, in thc making of -the unspeakable conditions that have swept over their once happy .land. These know they must die, are almost content to die, finding in death the end of suffering and the cessation of horror. But their children—the parents a*re human beings; if they were mere animals the long protracted death •gomes of their little ones would •nil be unbearable. To most of IV.am there com** no help. Tbe task of feeding their children first and then them- selves Is too great; they die and Phis little chap, left alone in the world, crawled into a deserted cottage to die. their children are alone to wander about the country in quest of something, anything to devour. Little claws that should be the pretty hands of children dig in the ground for roots, except when the ground Is frozen, and misshapen little r ec- tres crawl from refuse heap to ruined cottage to see if one small, eatable fragment may not be over- MOBML Again, if thty were animals it would be different, and sailer. Instinctively they would know how ts wrest a living from Mother Nature. But little children must be fed. They must have food found for them, and in Russia there ls none, so they must die. Death ls not the worst of li If a peaceful death were all thev suffered, it would not be to bad. It is the hideout horror of the drawn- out struggle, and it is helpless little children that are suffering. They aro suffering to-day and mutt continue to suffer to death, unless— Unless the civilized well-fed people of the world hear their awful cry for help, and give that help quickly, it will be too late for countless thousands of children. The call hat eome to Canada with evidence far too horrible to print. The photographs reproduced herewith merely suggest others, more dreadful, that cannot be published. Will Canada, land of happy, healthy children, heed the call? Th* appeal is being made in the belief' that she will. The "Save The Children Fund" has opened an office i» the Elgin Building, Ottawa, and th* Canadian people are urged to send their subscriptions now to Sir George Burn, treasurer of the fun* at that address. One dollar will feed a child for one month; $500 will feed one hundred children until next harvest. "He gives twice who givet quickly." We .Province Hotel BARBE R SHOP Is now OPEN under the management of an old Boundary Barber. FRANK J. WILLIAMS IMI'tl'KIKr » t E. F. LAWS REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE OFFICE WINNIPEG' AVRNUB CorrotirH okowbbs kxciianue PHONE 164 PACIFIC 8IIBBT METAL WORKS, LTD. VANOOUVM mbtal: IRRIGATION PIPES and FLUMES B. F. LAWS HOLBIDIHTBICT AQBNT K. SCHEER Wholesale and Retail TOBACCONIST Dealer in Saved from death by the humanity of those who have already contributed to this fund. Havana Cigars, Pipes Confectionery Imperial Billiard Parlor Grand Forks, B.C. A. E. MCDOUGALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Agent Dominion Monumental Works Asbestos Products Co. Roofinft New Type j JLatest Style Faces THE SUN Columbia Avenue and Lake Street Ctmiftetfi R101 AUTO LIVERY AT YODI a Modern Rigs and Good Horses at All Hours at the Model Livery Barn M. H. Barns, Prop. Phone 68 Second Street ESTIMATES FURNISNED BOX 332 BRAND FORKS, B, C PICTURES AND PICTURE HMMme Furniture Made to Order. Also Repairing of all Kinds. Upholstering Neatly Don R. G. MeCUTCHEON WNSlMfl AYUOf Minimum price of flint-class land reduced to Is an mt*; socond-class to H.tO an ten. Pre-emption now confined to aar- ▼eyed land* only. Records wUl be granted covering only land suitable (or agricultural purposo* and which I* non-timber land. Partnership pre-emptions abolished, but parties of not mora than four may arrange for adjacent pre-emptions with Joint realdence, but each making necessary Improvements ou respective claims. *, l'ro-omptors must occupy olalms for Ave yean and tnako Improvement* to value of |10 per aero, Including clearing and cultivation of at least 6 acres, before receiving Crown Grant. Where pre-emptor in occupation not leas than I years, and has made proportionate improvements, he may, bees uae of Ill-health, or other causa, be rrantsd Intermediate certificate of Improvement and transfer his olaim. Records without permanent residence may ba Issued, provided applicant make* Improvement* to extent of MM par annum and records same each year. Failure to make Improvement* or record same will operate a* forfeiture. Title cannot be obtained In lea than b years,,and Improvements er 110.00 par acre, Including t acres rtasmd and cultivated, and residence of at least 2 years are required. Pre-emptor holding Grown grant maj- record another pre-emption, lf he require* land ln conjunction with his farm, without actual occupation, provided statutory improvements made and residence maintained on Crown granted land. v Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 10 acres, may be loosed as homcsltea; title to be obtained attar fulfilling residential and Improvement conditions. For graaing and Industrial purposes areas exceeding 140 acres may be leased by one person or eompany. Mill, factory or Industrial sites on timber land not exceeding 40 acres may be purchased; conditions Include payment of stumpage. Natural hay meadow* Inaccessible hr _S!.te,"V *0*qa •****• *** purchased conditional upon construction of a road to them. Rabat* of one-half of coat of road, not exceeding half ot purchase price, t* mass. PRE-EMPTOR*' mil GRANTS ACT. , V'm *B*lf* " th" ■_>** *• •n'srgsd «* nclud* all person* Joining and serving with His Majesty* Forces. Th* time within whioh th* heir* or devisee* of a deceased pre-enptor may apply for UU* und* tJlTTGr.. axuSSZ from for on* yaar from tb* death of such person, as formerly, until ono year after the conclusion of th* present war. This privilege I* also made retroactive. No feee relating to pre-emptions are due or payable l_y soldiers sn preemptions recorded after Jun* M. fill Tax** an ramified fer Or* year*. Provision tar return of monon accrued due aod been uld since lan* 4, 1114, on account ot payments/fee* Interest on agreement* to purc-tas* *SJ[?.0JL5_.,,r M* **>*• ** "MDlMn of #"_£ ******. °* Attmtttlaata. aoqulred direct or Indlreot, remitted ttrnat aa- Itotment to March 11. UM. SUB-PURCHASERS Of CROWN LANDS. Provision mad* for -Moans* of Crown grant* to sub-purchasers of Crown Lands, acquiring rights from purchasers who failed to complete purchase. Involving forfeiture, on fulfillment of condition* of purchase. Interest and taxes. When sub-purchasers do not data whole of original parcel, purchase prloe due and tax** may be distributed proportionately over whole area. Applications must be mads by May 1, if». . -BRAZING. Graaing Aet, 1(11, for systematic development of livestock Industry provides for graslng district* and range administration under Commissioner Annual graslng permits Issued based on numbers ranged: priority for established owners. Stock-owners may form Associations for rang* management. Freo, or partially free, permits for settlers, campers er travelWa up •o ten bead. NEW HARNESS SHOP I have opened a new harness shop and am prepared to make harness to order • and do all kinds of repair work. Shop equipped with modem machinery. All work guaranteed: C. A. Crawford NwuTelephirae Office