d to me, so I decided to In & very short time, I and mow / feel fine, @) Hay Mangoids, raised by irri. HE Western Canada Irrigation Association held its Tenth Annu al' Convention at the 'ot | Shoes, Ladies' white canvas Oxfords, with | Pumps, with rubber sole and heel; Ladies' white 'dleanvas tan trimmed with rubber sole and I; Ladies' white can- It vas high cut lace boots; Ladies' white canvas Biss white heels, $4.00; Child's, Girls' and Po ; canvas Shoes "for summer % vacation or holi- FShow that fir Sam was pained or sur- distinction | between tweadledum and tw lo in hospitality its doors Away back over a hun- years ago, the North' West Fur Co., with keen appreciation f the advantages of the location, es tablished a post on the present site of e junctiof of the now called North and South 'rhompson , © Its 'excellent water communi. cations; its central position in a wide open stretch of splendid grazing coun- try and its healthy, growing climate, attracted Indians and traders from all parts, and soofr the litle trading-post grew in Importance and population. Beventyfive years afterwards the Canadian Pacific Ratlway thrust its Steel ralls through the main street of the aspiring little community, and it was but an endorsement of the opinion of the old trading company, that Kamloops was Indeed, "The Place In the Bun.™ Where are irrefutable reasons why Kamloops claims the distinction of being the leading inland eity of the Province of British Columbia. Its peographical position marks it as serving a very large area; 250 miles from Vancouver, $90 from Calgary, and 640 from amon { possible rival. With a population of | some 6000, it points with pardonable pride to its Splendid streets and paves ments, to its modern electric lights, power, water and telephone systems, N 7 SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. The Commission And Allison. L Ottawa, Aug. 7.---The whole world seems to be making a dead set against Sam's honorary colonels. According to the London news- papers, there are too many of them on Picadllly and the Strand giving fine old tawny generals, who have risked their lives in India and other parts of the British Empire, the armache answering their salutes. There is a widespread opinion in| Londoh - that these tin colonels of Sam's ought to justify their fine feathers by doing a little work at the front. On top of these criticisms comes the Duff-Meredith report, which puts a 'crinip in two honorary colon- els of Sam's making--naming their names afd pomting out their faults in downright fashion. Honorary Colonel "John Wesley Allison is charged with bad faith toward his friend and sponsor, Major General Sir Sam Hughes, and Honorary Colonel David Carnegie is charged with bad judgement in recommend- ing a contract for graze fuses to the American Ammunition Company when graze fuses could be made for a dollar less each in Canada. This lapse of judgement on Colonel Car- negie's part resulted in $1,666,000 of the people's money being thrown] as it were to the birds. The Com-| mission let Colonel Carnegie down| rather easy. They pointed out that] he was overburdened with work and| imply that he was possibly suffering| from brain fag when he did it. ! As for Sam's friend and supen patriot, Colonel John Wesley Allison, the Commission offers no excuses. They are of the opinion that his left hand knew all along what his right hand was taking, although he didn't tell the Minister of Militia anything about it. Perhaps Colonel Allison didn't think it necessary to tell Sir Sam because he had already received general instructions to "Seratch gravel" and if. Sir Sam didn't know what scratching gravel meant, he ought to. Incidentally, there was nothing in the evidence ty prised when he learned that his end was in cahoots with Benjamin Franklin Yoakum to pull down a commission of one million dollars on the American Ammunition Company contract. That indeed was where their "bit" came in. Colonel Allison 'jfurnished the influence, Yoakum pro-|, duced the manufacturer, and that finished their work. As they had to let somebody else make the profit on the fuses, they naturally cashed in at the start. : Very little time seems to have elapsed between Sir Sam's "scratch gravel" order and Colonel Allison's activity in that direction. The Col- onel had already had some practice scratching gravel where Canadian war contracts were concerned, when he sold Colts revolvers wholesale to the Militia Department for four dol- lars each more than they could be purchased in small lots by retail dealers, From the Colts Company Colonel Allison got a friendly pres- ent for his general work on their be- half but his general work was ex- plained as not including anything he had unloaded on Canada. - The Was; 'as you will ob e, le- dee. He reécetve a commis ts. pedple on Cana- dian busipess. but he accepted a resent for -his_ general .work on thefr behalf: The main value of the ab ~ did not incident, no doubt, was to indicate to Colonel Allison that there was plenty of gravel to be scratched in Canada as soon as he cared to get busy. Of course Yhat could not he until Sir Sam lifted the ban. fter that the Colonel went ahead fast enough. He soon proved that as a gravel scratcher, he had anybody else between the two oceans backed into a corner and yelling for help. When Bir Sam gave Colonel John Wesley Allison carte| blanche to be as greedy as he liked, it wasn't as if he fas coaching somebody who had to. learn about the gravel scratching business. Colonel Allison had al- ready scratched gravel in connection with British, French and Russian war contracts, and knew how to go about it. No sooner did Major Gen- eral Sam give him the run of Can- adian was business than the Ameri- can Ammunition Company was form- ed, which netted him $250,000, practically without turning a finger. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum had previously paid him $25,000 to "sit in" and for that sum Colonel Allison allowed him the privilege of doing most of the hard work. What Col- onel Allison brought to the trans- action, was 'his pull with Sir Sam, who 80 far as the evidence goes does net seep? to have been quite certain as tig hen Colonel Allison ceased to be a distinguished patriot working for sheer love of Sir Sam and the British Empire, and became a gravel scratcher on his own ac- In 14, 1and 2 pound cans. Whole-- d-- pulverized -- Iators. CA he MRE . A ; seasick and to fts uninterrupted steady pro- gress. With abundance of water, con, tinnous bright sunshine "and puted soil-fertility, it contains all, the attributes necessary to future cof mercial and agricultural developments count, Although Sir Sam had issued a mandate to Colonel Allison to) scratch gravel, we are asked to be-| lieve that we didn't know when the gravel scratching began. Sir Sam was, in fact, in a blissful state of ignorance as to his Morris- burg friend's change of heart from | gratuituous lover of the British Empire to Wall Street broker out' for himself. Canadian manufactur-| ers were being constantly told to| "see Allison" and things generally! were running along as if Colonel Allison were still operating on the] old, unmercenary basis, Of course if the Minister of Militia had known the Canadian manufacturers would | not have been told to "see Allison." It would be Allison's business to see them, Colonel Allison, however, seems to have had little desire to! do business with Canadians. He pre- ferred to hatch mushroom he { panies in the United Statés, where he could watch them closer. Colonel | Allison's love for Canada worked out very queerly for this country----he| preferred to switch all the business | he could to the United States. Such | indeed was Colonel Allison's love for Sir Sam that whenever he could he| gave Sir Sam's native land the worst | of it. How Sir Sam's heart must bleed when he reads the Commis-| sion's report, and finds how his | friend threw him down! One can imagine the tears flooding his eyes and waterlogging his copy of the report. Evidently the Commission thinks that Colonel John Wesley Allison didn't play a square game and just as evidently the Militia Départment, now under the tutelage. of Under Secretary McCurdy, believes that he was guilty of a flank movement for word has issued that Colonel Allison may resign if he likes. Just here arise a number of prickly questions. | Does an honorary colonel resign | when his honor has been excised! | by the report of a Royal" Commis- | sion? Sir Sam's making resigns, does his maker resigm with him. Tn pursuit of his boasted virtue of. standing by his friends, does Sir Sam accempany them into oblivation? Sir Sam's hero having been found guilty of grabbling commissions which as a If an honorary colonel of | disinterested altruist he was sup- reflection on Sir Sam's judgment in the choice of friends. 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