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League @) in game Wduiiered by any ney trimmings that have to make 4 Datime Sactacls ore in the American the 3% It was not urday evening that Toroms of the game Jealiagll! a wonderful club the Mab! have gathered together. Speed of the primary essentials of a hockey club and in their 9 to 1 victory over the Mapla Leafs the at leaders, who are making a yun-away race of the four-month "schedule, showed speed to burn and ~ they burnt it wtih reckless aban: on, sft #5 1s one of the greatest fac in the Canadiens! succeas but also have a team spirit that ges that of any of the other "clubs, the individual units of i am nm ne the i e love © and not merely em livelihood and the sued rg that composed the used by Manager Cecil Hart Saturday night have been weld- together into - a wonderful, smooth-working and tireless team 'that 'seems to gain speed and co- heslon as the game progresses. The F ens 'were the ninth and last 'of the other N.H.L. clubs to appear here this season and before ur- day night Rangers, Bruins, Cougars and Ottawa had all made 'more or 'Jess convincing impressions on lo- od] followers of the game but from mow on there will he one team that stands out above all others. the Canadiens, The machine {is built ; around three important cogs. Howle Mo- yens at centre is perhaps the most colorful player in the league and the forward line functions with him as the pivot; Herb Gardiner is as good, if not better, than any other defence player in the league and {] Hainsworth in goal is with- out & peer and his coolness in goal ts the heat that breaks out og: Sationatly in other parts of the ma- chine. : SOCCER RESULTS OLD COUNTRY SOCCER ENGLISH LEAGUE 4 6 0 1 . 2 v3 2 1 4 2 , 2 1 4 2 6 2 1 2 0 4 4 1 . - STeIies CORO WOW ROHR DW I= London, Ont., Jan. 7.--BStirat- won 8 § tod victory over Lon- 8 Canadien professional y league game last night, It the third time this season in h Roy Brothers' sextet defeat- the locals. Stratford completely the Londoners taking lead in the first three minutes reasing {night's game is as follows i-- Gu PW hI THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. MONDAY. JANUARY 9, 1928 S PLAYING TONIGHT'S FIXTURE HERE » ve 3 Me LD] CANPRO STANDINGS - standing of the clubs in the C e, including Sunday = a at 10 wd YOON NNN Montreal, Jan, 9.--The Montreal Gazette, in its sporting columns this morning, says. "There are indications that Sat. urday's Boston Maroon game, of parts of it, may be fought out again at the monthly meeting of the Board of Governors of the Nationa! Hockey League, scheduled today in New York. "Following Saturday night's bat- tle at the Forum, the directors of the Montreal Maroons went into session, and later announced that they felt bitterly regarding the treatment they were receiving, "At the time of the alleged blow some of the heads of the elub were in the vicinity of President Cal- der's seat and claim they saw Cleg: horn deliberately butt-end "Hoo- ley" Smith, After the game they approached the league President and asked him to go to the Ma- roon dressing-roomy and look at Smith's back. Calder visited the room and inspected Smith's back, but stated that he had not seen Cleghorn butt-end Smith, nor had the referees, as no penalty had been awarded. He left the matter at that, CYCLIST IS KILLED AUTOISTS INJURED Ingersoll, Ont, Jan, 8.--Albert F, Lightheart, Beachville, died at Alex- andra Hospital on Saturday night following injuries sustained in the afternoon when struck by an auto- mobile near Munroe's crossing on the Beachville-Ingersoll highway. Eric Odenhahl, 271 Finkle street, Woodstock, ditched his ear in an ef- fort to save Lightheart, John Milan, who was riding with him, sustained a fractured skull in the crash, Lightheart, on a bicycle, swung off to one side of the road to avoid a car coming in one direction and Oden- hahl saw him too late to stop, Albert Odenhahl, brother of the driver, was also admitted to the hos- pital but was later able to return home. The driver escaped with bruises. ightheart, who was night foreman at the Beachville white lime quarry, was on his way to work when the accident happened. PROHIBITION URGED AGAINST IMMIGRANTS Washington, Jan, 8.--A prohibi- tion for seven years agains: all im- migration except seasonal labor from Canada and Mexico and a ma- terial strengthening of existing im- migration laws, including certain provisions of the La Follette Sea- man Act, was proposed yesterday in a bill by Representative Blanton. Democrat, Texas. Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee announced he would seek to increase by $500,- 000 the $925,000 appropriation car- ried in the Labor Department of aliens during the fiscal year bhegin- ping next July, SKIERS PERISH Bregenz, Austria, Jan, 8.--Two avalanches in the Vorarlberg dis- trict, former Austrian Crown land, have resulted in the death of four skiers, The first, on the FEuerser See, buried three skiers, Hermann Graemer, an engineer, his wife, Clara, and Hans Rein, a business man. The second occurred near Cabag Ulmer, where three skiers were buried, and two of them res- cued. The third, Joseph Gregal, a mer- chant of Meran, was killed, and his body had not been recovered tonight. KINGSTON 8, BROCKVILLE 3 Kingston, Ont., Jan. 7--Kings- ton and Brockyille juniors opened the O. H. A. schedule here last night, the locals winning by the score of 8 to 3, in a fast and well played game. way through the game Kingston were superior, though Brockville lost many chances through poor while | passing and failure to follow in op their shots. AIONREY "il i > CONACHER DISLIKES PLAYING HOCKEY NOW IN TORONTO New York, Jan, 9--The New York World says that Lionel C doesn't like playing hockey in Tc Fil ber of the New u er, a member ; york Aerigaus, an hay a" style, 5 a particularly fas skater, The World avers, but the pa- per comes 10 his' defense and casts a few at the Toronto fans by hy i ak vo. aeh 'Conacher .is one yer w dom gets. ful credit for his ability. In a recent game in Toronto he was the best man on the New York team, but the Torenmto fans had nothing but jeers for him. "Usually," the paper says, "the person check takes the hard- est bump and does the flop, and that may be the reason the Toronto fans, particularly, do not like his playing." The World says that Conacher has expressed himself very bitterly over the way the fans of his home town treat him, "Conacher is understood to have put an end to any negotia- tions (for his transfer to Toronto) by stating he would not play with To- ronto." NEW YORK RANGERS BLANK CHICAGO §-0 New York, Jan. 9--Lester Patrick's New! York Ranger hoys read the papers of how Canadiens, the lead- ers in the international group, had made 9 goals in a game with Tor- onto's withering Maple Leafs on Saturday night and they went out in their game with the Chicago Black Hawks at the Garden Arena last night to duplicate the stunt, They didn't quite make it, they stopped at five but that was plenty to beat the Chicago Black Hawks, tail-enders of the American division, The score was § to 0, U, ©, 0, DEFEAT MeGILL Montreal, Jan, 7.--~Upper Can- ada College of Toronto defeated McGill juniors, 2-1, in an 'exhibi- tion game played here yesterday. It was mainly owing to the scoring obility of Clark that Upper Can- ada defeated McGill, for Clark tal- lied four counters--the 'first in the opening period, and the second five minutes after the third period began, and wut a time when the score was tiled, McGill held a decided edge in the second period, hut went score- less, to finally have their efforts rewarded four minutes after the third period hegan, when Hutchi- son flipped a perfect pass out from behind the net to Waugh, who beat the Upper Canada goalkeeper eas- ily. WOMAN SPURNS LIFE PRESERVER AFTER SHE LEAPS INTO RIVER Detroit, Mich., Jan. 8.--Spurn- ing a life preserver thrown to her when she jumped from the Belle Isle bridge into the Detroit River and waving farewell with a shrill scream, an unidentified woman committed suicide late yesterday afternoon, A pedestrian crossing the bridge saw the woman strip off her fur coat, hat and gloves and hurl her- self from the bridge rail. She leaped into the deepest part of the channel, He tore a life preserver from the railing and tossed it to her, but the woman only waved bood-bye, and sank without at- tempting to reach the preserver, he said, Members of the Harbor-master's crew searched the water near where the woman was reported to have sunk to avail, Police sald the woman had discarded a brown snd gray muskrat coat, with checked lining and reddish brown velvet hat with pink os- trich plume, apd gray gloves. In the fingers o fone glove was found 12 cents in pennies. INDIAN FARMERS RAISE GOOD CROPS Ottawa, Jan. 8.--Indien farmers in the Prairie Provinces in 1927 rajsed, in round numbers, 1,000, 000 bushels of grain. Notwith- standing a late spring last year, the Indisns seeded 64,534 acres, which was sn increase of 2,385 acres over 1926. Over 6,000 acres of new land were broken and the area summer-fallowed was close to 30,000 acres. These facts are disclosed in a survey of Indian conditions fin the Prairie Provinces issued under the direc- tion of Dr. Practically all thelg, oo APPEALS APPEADLS EAPP) London, Ee. Jaw. Apia 41 vile is sheet yesterday This is a Intermediates will ice is hard enough - a battle royal, ville in an intermediate battle. Toronto Arena. stones around 42 pounds, the good eld summer time. them with their team play. tactics of the locals, on due to mild weather conditions, surface, tions in Oshawa and Whithy. series. real sense of competition, a game unless it is between junior Canadiens are to hockey what the Yankees are to baschall. two teams stand out in their respective sport and, barring accidents, will continue to do so for several years to come, The Flying French- men were at their best here Saturday night, with their speed both on the attack and in back-checking, and baffled The speedy thrusts of the visitors were a treat to watch and were a marked contrast to the ring-around-rosy No wonder such a super team has only lost one game in nineteen played this season, scheduled to meet Shamrock Juniors here tonight WAL fixture, but at time H not the game will go on due to" the soft condition of the ice. Harold Luke and officials of the local club A Fx hon aligracon, & did mat | Jock any Worse y 'on Fri night and there is refore a will go on. Definite announcement 0) bi ne of writing it is not known 'busy week in district hockey circles. Tonight the Sham- rock Juniors are billed to meet Bowmanville, while tomorrow Oshawa ko to Port Hope for a Stuck gn or Port Hope to play n W Peterboro Juniors will be entert | for these two teams are of day night Port Hope will, providing the ice is hard, play in Bowman- n addition to the foregoing there is Oshawa City League twice, Tuesday and cannot find enough variety in that there are a few games going on at me Deviding the nesday night ed, That promises to be al the same calibre. Fri- ursday nights, If local fans The trustees in charge of the Dominion curling championship here in March have limited the weight of stones to 47% of a stone does not play such an important part on artificial ice as it does on changing natural ice. Allow a fifty-pound stone to rest for three or four minutes on sticky ice and it takes a good rap to remove it. There is no sticky ice at the artificial ice palaces. winning rink from Halifax, skipped by Professor Macneil, all used unds. The weight Last year the The Major Ladies' Bowling League will get under way again to- night at Motor City - Bowling Club tonight after a "rest" of a few weeks, The Major City is one of the most active bowling leagues in operation in Oshawa at the present time and the interesting part of it is that the majority of the players are members of the various teams that play softball under the Major Ladies Softball League in Fans who turn out to see the girls play ball will do well to drop around and watch them drop the maples. These They dazzled the Leafs It is a question as to whether or not the Oshawa-Port Hope Inter- mediate tussel scheduled for the latter place tomorrow" night will go The ice at Port Hope, is, no doubt, quite soft and the Port Hope Club would not care to play on a sugary At the best under natural ice conditions the surface would not be what might be termed "good playing condition" and therefore it is doubtful if many Oshawa fans will take in the attraction, ers of hockey like to see a game played on a real fast ice surface, Follow- The local ladies' hockey team is evidently going ahead for the lessees of the Bradley Rink, Messrs, Barnhardt and Campbell, have allotted a practice hour for them tomorrow night, no reason why Oshawa should not have a girls' team in an organized league playing with towns and cities from the district, has formed a team and intends to play games with the other institu- With teams from Bishop Bethune Col- - lege, Whitby Ladies College, the Collegiate and a City team there would be good competition and keen interest would be shown, ever, it is too late now but with an artificial ice arena promised there should be a movement made early next winter, There is absolutely The Collegiate How- Tonight's game between Oshawa Shamrocks and Bowmanville pro- bises to be a hum-dinger for the team that wins carries a bulge on the At present Oshawa leads, with Bowmanville a very close sec- ond, Whitby and Bowmanville also have a postponed game to get in and that may have some bearing on the league standing. are by far better attractions than even intermediate or senior, the youth- ful players putting all they have into their game and thus creating a There aremany people that will not ge to Kid games teams. LEAPS ONTO RIVER TO ESCAPE WARDEN, BUT IS STUCK IN MUD London, Eng., Jan, 9.--Break- ing away from a working party outside Parkhurst Prison, a con- vict, Francis Eric Deacon, of Bir: mingham, dashed towards the River Medina closely followed by warders, Coming to a mill pond fed by the river, he jumped in, apparently intending to swim across both, but stuck fast in the mud and was unable to move. The warders got a boat, pulled out to bim, and recaptured him without difficulty, FAREWEL AUDIENCE FOR CARDINAL ROULEAU (Canadian Press Cable) Rome, Jan. 8,--Pope Pius yester- day gave a farewell 'audience to Cardinal Raymond Rouleau, who is returning to Quebec. He entrust- ed the new Cardinal to convey his fatherly good wishes and Apostol- ick benediction to the Pope's "be- loved children in Canada," who, he said, were so dear to his heart. At the last moment, in bidding farewell to Cardinal Rouleau, who is Archbishop of Quebec, and who recently received the red hat, the Pope concluded: "Au revoir a bientot." COL. AMERY PEELS Victoria, B.C., Jan. 7.--Insisting that he take off his coat and do the job properly, Right. Hon. L. C. M. Y, British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, planted an English oak tree in the Mayor's Grove at Beacon HIll Park today, "He has been longing for exercise, and now he has rgot fit," Mrs. Amery remarked. With represen- tatives of ex-service men in atten- dance, Col. Amery placed a wreath on the war memorial here, "GHOST MEN" . Memphis, Tenn, Lagu AO in a letter today "the most brutal crime ever committed" N. H, L, RECORD International Section Canadiens Ottawa Maroons Toronto N.Y: American United Detroit N.Y. Rangers Boston ,..,. 21 Pittsburg ,, ' 10 Chicago . N Games Tuesday--Ottawa at Canadiens; Toronto at Americans; Chicago at Boston. 1230 $13 States Section rers20 0 7 4 BEATEN BY 1 TO 0 BY BOSTON CLUB Boston, a 9--Toronto Grads, Canada's 1 Olympic aeam, went down to defeat 1 to 0 here Saturda night before the University Club ton in the second and final en- counter of their®two-game series. The defeat marked the second re- verse in 47 starts for ¢ famous Canadian sevtet heir only other set- back' bein hande i the Fort William club in the Cup series last year, | Previous decision to the Uni- versity Club-Grads series here on a total goal basis was ruled out by the Shcounters at 1-all, he Grads ere orious 2 to 1 Friday night. Clark y Stellar left wing of the ton club, was the lone scorer of the evening, while some exhaust: ing hard work by the entire Univer- sity Club first-string team and a great deal of sly remarkable goal- tending by little Ted learned in the Boston cage barely held the game safe from a terrific tour and five- man attack in the final period. Hodder's goal came on a brilliant exhibition of stick-handling five min- utes after the second period opened. BASEBALL DISPUTE ON DRAFTING COMES TO A HEAD MONDAY Chicago, Ill, Jan. 9--The perennial baseball draft dispute, more or less gent since Mountain Landis became commissioner of ,base- ball, but now raging with fresh vigor, comes to a head here Monday with the major leagues standing on the sidelines. The fight here is between the big and little minors, both sdies havin, heen told by the majors to settl their diferences or consider relations with the major leagues broken for all time, Delegates from the International League, Pacific Coast League and American Association, the three class AA minors, are gathering here tonight, all firm in the stand for a continuance of the modified draft, the sore point with the smaller cir- cuits. Thomas Hickey, president of the American Association, is one who be- lieves a way can be found out of the apparent impasse. "Our league is not in a warlike mood," he said. "I believe we can find a way to go along with the major leagues, under the present agreement until some better arrange- ment can be found," f PINGIREY Tat, ANALYSIS OF SEIZED ALCOHOL TO FIND IF $30,000 TAX PAID Winnipeg, Man,, Jan. 3--Dominion authorities today began investigation of the carload of contraband alcohol, seized in the Canadian Pacific Rail- way yards here, December 27, to de- termine whether $30,000 revenue tax on the liquor had been paid, Working with the knowledge that the carload of contraband was ship- ped originally from Mont®al, the Customs Excise Preventive Service has sent samples of the sejzed al- cohol to Ottawa for analysis. This is to determine whether the alcohol was manufactured in a bonded distillery, or was a product of wildcat distillery, It is also. expected to show, ti ii discloses bonded distillery manufac- ture, which distillery it came from, TWO TWIN CITY DAIRIES CLOSED BY KITCHENER M.O.H. Kitchener, Ont., Jan. 3--Owing to the alleged unsanitary condition of their dairies, two Twin City concerns, the Baer Dairy, Kitchener, and the Guaranteed Pure Milk Co. of Water- loo have been prohibited from de- livering milk in this city by the Kit- chener Board of Health, This ac- tion was taken, health officails say, following an inspection of the plants and warnings having been issued. When the dairies clean up they can resume business locally, MANY PROTESTS AGAINST CARLISLE LIQUOR CONTROL "Improved Inn" Enters Into Unfair Competition With Private Interests, Says Manifesto to Home Secretary London, Epg., Jan. 9/--The sys- tem of state liguor control, which has been in force in the Carlisle area for some years, is being threatened.- Protests against fits continuance have been received by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, from the Carlisle Conservative Association, which is making this protest. Briefly, the system in opera- tion fn Carlisle consists of the sub- stitution of the "improved" type of inn for the old time "pub." The chief features are that good food at reasonable prices is as awail- able as is mere liquor, and the licensee's interest in the sales ef- fected is confined to the eatables. The local C vative A i tion maintains that the continu- 4 y ould result if he failed to leave $5,500 in a ecluded spot, Cl s ¢1 chain gracery store ators, signed them- selves Three Ghost Men," to "Put it in the paper that I will not have any bodyguard, and if want to take a shot at me--let of the ten men whose bodies were recovered from the submarine S-4 at Provincetown yesterday was an- nounced today at the Chelsea Nava: , to which the bodies were thea | a § '%s HHT | LH Hospital brought last fight. : ; from the undertaking having been transferred to the national erche- quer, and thus taken out of cir- culation in the district. These profits to date are estimated at approximately £1,000,000. There fis po attempt to deny that the scheme is deemed by its supporters to have proved comr- pletely sucgessful. The present Home Secretary fs a convinced temperance reformer, so whether the protest above indicated will receive much of his personal sym- pathy is problematical. APPROACHED EMPEROB Tokio, Jan. 8.--As Emperor Hirchite was returning to his pal- ace from a review foday a man stepped from the crowd and ad- vanced six paces toward the pro- A anothe, weak: him. The revie 10,000 subjeets. Sport Briefs TO ET AT TES Hamilton, Jan. 9--The Reception Committee will fulfil the promises of last year's Hamilton City Council and a banquet wi athletes of Hamilton in the Royal Connaught Hotel on January 20 or 27, Ald. Risley, chairman of the com- mittee, stated today. ~ Plans are now being proceeded with and a- definite announcement will be available shortly, THOMSON TO STAY AMATEUR ontreal, Jan. 9--Jimmie Thom- son, who was reported to have de- serted local ' amateur hockey ranks for. Philadelphia of the Canadian- American, was a spectator at the workout of Victorias Friday and an- nounced that he would line up with the Victorias in their game against McGill tonight. He said that it was unlikely that he would turn profes- sional this year, MeGILL BALLERS BEATEN New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 9--A revamped Rutgers basketball team, playing its first game in three weeks, overwhelmed McGill University here Saturday night, 61 to 17, The visit- ors, wearied by their long trip and a succession of gam with metro- politan colleges, wefe no match for the well-drilled scarelt five and offer- ed little opposition. The first half ended with the score 34 to 9 in favor of Rutgers, MAROONS' WON SECOND Montreal, Que, Jan. 9--The re- vamped Montreal Maroons made it two straight by taking a 4 to 1 vie- tory over the Boston Bruins at the Forum Saturday night. The struggle was a typical Maroon-Boston battle with penalties playing a large part in the game, Seventeen penalties, in- cluding a major to Siebert, Maroon defenceman, were handed out by the officials. The lczcal team earned nine while the Bruins were chased to the timers eight times, DELANEY GETS BOUTS New York, Jan. 9--Jack Delaney, former light heavyweight champion of the world, has signed for two 10- round bouts to take place four days apart of each other, his new mana- ger, Joe Jacobs, announced yester- day. On January 16 Delaney will oppose Solly Montgomery, former entre College football star, in the feature attraction at the St. Nicholas Arena in this city, Delaney will be pitted against Jack Humbeck, Belgian heavyweight, at Mechanics Hall, Boston, on January 20, PITTSBURG BLANKED Pittsburg, Jan, 9--8Speedy and de- ceptive Detroit team blanked Pitts~ burg here Saturday night, 2 to 0, in a National League hockey game, in which Hay, Detroit left wing, did all the scoring, Hay put across both goals in the first period, the first on a pass from Aurie in 3.09 minutes, and: the second unassisted in 433. After which the home aggregation held the invadegs to even terms, or a little better. The last time the two teams met at Detroit they battled to a 3--3 deadlock, CARDS. SELL PITCHER St. Louis, Mo, Jan. 9--Victor Keen, righthand pitcher, has heen sold outright by the St. Louis Card- inalg to the Syracuse Club of the Interhational League, it was announ- ced yesterday. Syracuse is controlled by the Cards. Keen, who came to the Cards from the Chicago Cubs, won nine of his first 11 games last season, The Stars also get Tony Kaufman, a pitcher, from the Cards, while Pitcher Herman Bell goes to Houston, another St. Louis farm. The Cards also reported the sending of Outfielder Johnny Mokan, obtain- ed from the Phillies, to Houseton, GOLF ASSOCIATION MEETS Torontg, Jan. 9--The Ontario Golf Association has sent out notification to the forty-nine clubs that are mems bers of the annual meeting to be held in the Yellow Room of the King Edward, Toronto, on Saturday, Jan. 21 at one o'clock and also the report of the directors for 1927. At the meeting fifteens directors will be elected by ballot, eight of whom must reside outside a twenty-mile radius of Toronto and no club shall be represented by more than one director. Each club js entitled to one delegate at the meeting. Nomi- nations may be sent in to the honor- ary secretary or made at the mect- ing, PASTOR ASKED TO CONTINUE Zephyr, Jan. 8.--At its last regular meeting the Official Board of Sandford and Zephyr charge of the United Church ex» tended an inyitation to its. minjs- ter, Rev. C. H. Quaife, to continue for the sixth year fin the same charge. é HOUSE FOR SALE 86 King SLE. MUST BE MOVED be tendered 300 | § PETERBORO SENIORS | SMOTHERED 10 TOO | BY U., OF T, SEXTETTE | Toronto, Jan. 9--Peterboro's. hopes or Senior OJH.A. honors, which were rudely jolted by Marlbora's win in the Lift Lock City, practically perished on Saturda moon at the Varsity Arena e U.of T, six smothered a 10t o0 score. The Students were superior in 'every peridd, sweeping in on t of the Petes' goalie for counters wi apparent east. Peterboro . not penetrate the Blue defence of k- patrick and Carrick, while Snyder, in goal, was unbeatable. Although out- played, the Petes made the interesting with aggressive play, that resulted in many penalties and end- ed in a general wrestling match be- tween both teams, just after the final bell sounded, Harley was extra pro- minent for the Students, meting three goals on eleven plays. Teams: Peterboro--Goal, Hails defence, Rose and Clark; centre, Cripps; wings, Kane and McFee; subs, Wil- liams and Foley. Varsity--Goal, Snyder; defence, Carrick and Kirkpatrick ; centre, Ste- wart; wings, Richards and Harley; subs, McMullen and Devins, Referee--Lou Marsh, OTTAWA'S SHOOTING ABILITY GIVES THEM A 4 TO 1 VICTORY Ottawa, Ont, Jan. 9--The brand new goal-getting punch that hour upon hour of shooting practice has brought to the Ottawa Senators earned them a decisive 4 to 1 victory over the New York Americans in a National Hockey League tussle here Saturday night, Against the bering in tactics and heavy bombardment of the world's champions something had to give, and after the opening period, when the New York defence appear- ed to weaken badly, the Senator sharp-shooters had the visitors' goa- lie many times at their mercy, Jie Miller, net guardian for the Star Spangled clan, absorbed a withering bombardment of pucks throughout the last two frames, FIRST EDITION OF PICKWICK PAPERS SOLD AT AUCTION London, Eng., Jan. 9.--A eopy of the first edition of Digken's "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club," has been sold at an auction in New York for $16, 300, according to the Manchester Guardian. The highest rice previously paid for a first clit in is said to be $8,000 at a England. H-CANADIAN BY OWN HAND Cobalt, Jan, 8.~Holding his otgun in such a Rosition that he was able to vor bb { ith a stick in his hand, a French: dian, living seven miles m Moonbeam, west of Cochrane, com. mitted suicide while on his bed in his shack. The report to Pgoyin- cial Police officers here did: not give the victim's mame, . Two other men, both Poles, are in the hospital at Cochrane with their throats cut, the wounds hav- ing beep self-inflicted, ? COBALT FRE IS DEA NEW GRAVING DOCK ON THE TYNE London, Eng., Jan. 9.--A gon. tract was let recently for a pew graving dock for Messrs. win' Dock Company, North Shields: The scheme is to cost £150,000, ($760, 000), and will be a motable pddi- tion to the repairing facilities on the Tyne. The new dock will be 480 feet long, and the work will en the removal of 150,000 tons of garth and the laying of 40,000 of concrete, Employment will be found for 500 men, The job is to ocgupy 20 months. ) PURSUES GREY MARE; FINDS STOLEN LIQUOR Huntsville, Ont., Jan. 8.--It was an old grey mare that led to the recovery of a barrel of stolen r bere eysterday. The barrel g peared from the back of a Street residence. Neighbors they had seen a grey mare away in the dark with a the cutter. Chief Watson the country for a grey mare ally visited a in and found the family township. He ed the Lyne bier Bay 10. She grey re & LOT . by January 24th, 1928