i : The Cameron Family Formerly ! NEUKWEAR THAT WILL WEAR de from Imported Fag- ish, Swiss and Italian Silks nut . Collier's Toggery YEAR 86: No. 28¢ -- ie Rs a ssa OSEPH ROGERS FOUND GUILTY Of Abduting Fifteea-Year-0id Eva Cam- oon, of Cataraqui, } ROGERS SAID HE HIRED HER AND THAT SHE HAD HELPED | HIM IN HIS WORK. : Lived | in Kingston---Judge Lavell Re- | manded Prisoner Until Thursday | For Sentence. ! After being out for three-quarters | of an hour, the jury in the case of | Joseph Rogers, charged with abdue- tion, returned a verdict of "guilty" early this afternoon. Judge Lavell remanded the pri- somer until tem o'clock Thursday morning for sentence. Richard A, Hamilton, an ex-warden of the | county, was foreman of the jury. The prisoner took the verdict with little LS SHdtia. Eva Cameron, the fifteen-year-old girl who figures in the case, was pre- | sent when the Jury rendered its ver- dict. The girl is to be sent to the Alexandria School, Toronto, her case having already been disposed of by | Magistrate Farrell, | Joseph Rogers was on Wednesday morning placed on his trial on af charge of having abducted Eva, the | pretty fifteen-year-old daughtér of John Cameron, of the village of OCataraguf, on or about November: 7th, 1919. The prisoner, on befng arraigned, pleaded "not guilty." Antbrose Shea, of Kingston, ap-| peared as counsel for him. J. L.| Whiting, crown attorney, conducted the prosecution. | John Cameron, father of the girl was first called by Mr. Whiting. He | iw a blacksmith in Cataraqui. He | formerly lived in Kingston, but went | te Cataraqui the first part of October | last. itness said he was a widower, with twb sons and one daughter. The { daughter, Eva, was fifteen years of | age in April last. She had been | keeping house for the witness. The | latter knew the prisoner for some { time under the name of Anderson, | but fn May last found that his name i was Rogers. f Witness said his daughter left on | a visit to a friend in Inverary on | October 16th last. turned home on October 18th, and | on October 20th she left again, Wit- | ness did not know his daughter was { leaving, #nd did not give her per- mission to go. Three weeks later wit- ness located his daughter in the ¢ity with the aid of the police. Wit- | ness said his daughter was not mar- | vied. . Punished His Daughter. Asked by Mr. Shea, counsel for the prisoner, witness sald he never knew of his daughter working for the pri- His daughter ve | I priest's sister, at the hotel, Mrs. Ker- EE ---------------------------- he D J aily B KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919 . FAMOUS ADMIRAL VISITS QUEEN CITY v Canada's distinguished On the Admiral's right fs Mayo EXPECT MINERS TO RESUME WORK (Canadian Press Despatch) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 10. The settlement of the strike of the soft coal miners today and a seedy resumption of work was strongly forecasted this morning by officials of United Mine Workers of America before the organization's general com- mittee resumed consideration of President Wilson's proposals for emting the tie-up. This diction . was made in face of strong opposition which devel- Oped yesterday and which prob- ably will prolong 'the argu- ment for and against the presi- dgnt's plan, nro pr Priest Commits Sqicide. Philadelphia, Dec. 10.- Rev, Ed- ward B. Henry, a Catholic priest, | committed suicide Yesterday. by leap- | ing from an eleventh-stery window of a hotel. According to the police, Father Henry came here from St. Louis this morning with his mother. They Joined Mrs Vincent Kerens. the ens 8 a daughter-in-law of the late iichard C. Kerens of Missouri, once prominent in Democratic National politics, guests photographed in Toronto. r Church. THE LATEST NEWS OF. THE WORLD Desai Tat "came From Near and TONS FOR OR READERS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBIA FORM. The Whig's Daily Condensation of the News of the World From Tele- graphic Service and Newspaper Exchange. Broadway, New York. will- revert to wartime ' darkness to conserve: coal. = An endowment "und to establish in Toronto a school for textile in- struction has been started. Sir Robert Borden went to Mont- real Tuesday to see Hon. C. C. Bal lantyne, and to consult with others on the political situation. At Medicine Hat, Alta., the entire citizens' ticket was elected over the labor slate in the munjcipal elections, | For mayor, M. A. Brown won. Reports are curreat thag a house Viscount and Lady Jellico SECURE A ROYALTY ON ALL OIL FINDS | --n ; If Big Strikes Are Made In the West Oil Royaities | May Go. Toronto Globe Despatch. Ottawa, Dec. 10.~--In view of the wide public interest aroused in the prospect 'of great oil fields being de- veloped in northern Alberta, it is stated that the oil base regulations were changed some months ago by the Hon. Arthur Meighen, Minister of the Interior, so that a royalty fan | be collected on new claims. of Large sums have been cdliected | from oil lease rentals, and this will if a big strike is made. It is true | that the Government has been pay- ing a bounty of 134 cents a galion on petroleum produced from Cana. dian wells. At one time there was 8 royalty clatise in oil bases, but the | Hon. Frank Oliver removed it on the ground 'that 'it was ridiewlous to pay | a bounty and collect a royalty There- fore holders of leases were granted | immunity from this tax until 1930, and all such lessors will retain the | , exemption. It is net improbable that the! bounty twill be later discontinued it] & big strike is made. It was grant- | ed to encourage exploration, and the | need would no longer exist if a large | quantity is found. The bounty rep- | resents one-tenth of the value of | | Western oil and one-fifth. the value of Eastern crude oik it is stated. In Fitish Whig OR « " FR ate } MEN appreciate a Tie * i that retains ta whape. Artificial Silk will not do this. Se we stock large. iy pure Sik, fa English and Swiss weaves, Collier's Toggery © are seen in the front row. LLOYD CEOREE HS COALITION VIEWS give another large source of revenue | PO NOT ME Accused of Tryihg to Ride Two Hor D EE SAA IS GRITICIZED ONTX FLAG FOR IRELAND Premier's Stand. | Th Independent Liberal Press Hoste 1 ET WITH MUCH FAV OR IN LONDON LAST EDITION, BUSNESS MEN i | BIG CHRISTMAS BONUSES GIVEN TO EMPLOYEES New York Banks and Broker- age Houses to Distribute Record Amount. New York, Dec. 10. --Employees of banks and brokerage houses are { looking forward to Christmas with | confidence that the bonuses they will (For the City Councl----A Slate To Be h | receive this year will be higher than | notneed { ever before. Although none of the | . | banks or brokerage firms has made | Pe ------ : | formal announcement of the amount : : to be distributed it is predicted, con | STREET RAILWAY PURCHASE y fidentially that in most cases it will | be 100 per cent, of the employees' | yearly salary. booug A Re This is-predicted-on the fact that IS ADVOCATED BY SOME OF THE the year has been a most prosperous MERCHANTS. one for the banks and other firms, | {and the amount of the bonus gener- | § Line Al a | ally is decided by the amount of pro- | A Winter Bus Suggest od fits made during the year. Last year | The Retail Men Are Going to Get | many. of them gave 50, 75 and 100! Into the Civic Elections, per sent, bat this Jears Bgures will} A large meeting of the business op uM of he a have] men of the city was held in the Board | recetved one or more salary increas | O° Trade rooms on Tuesday evening | es during the year. { Tor the purpose of discussing the ap- i | proaching efvic elections and nom:- | NEW PARLIAMENT nating representative business men BUILDING READY {for the offices of mayor, utilities | commissioners, aldermen and Board' | Next ' Session of House, 'But | of Bducation. | Not Senate Will be Held { M.S. Grace, president of the Re. js On the "MHiiL» tail Merchants' Association, presided; vp - at the meeting, and stated that it Ottawa, » 10.--~Officlals of the | was called to (consider the part the Department of Public Works stated | hav i that there is absolutely certainty that business men were to take, as thay | the next session of Parliament, to be | all had a vital interest in the indue- | convened in all probability before the | trial and commercial prosperity of miadie Pry, i be Ms {the city, and as this was, indeed. tha ! rita 8. y | fhe, A lo of the buliding. > be tr foundation of its welfare, they were | timately occupied by the Senate will | bound to give their serious conside- { have to be shut off because it is un-| ration to everything connected witn finished there will be more space in {the administration of the business of the Commons side than the two | ive city. | Houses have had in the Victoria Mu- | { seum. It is expected that the building| The meeting Was then thrown { will be entirely completed for the | oben, and Mayor H. W. Newman was 1921 session. | the first speaker. He said that the | business men had always been looked | to as having, perhaps, more concern {in the city's business than possibly any other citizens. The city was fortunate in having some 'business men-in council egch year, but many New York, Dec. 10.~-There can|capable of rengPring most valuable be only one flag for Ireland and that | service were reluctant to assume of- the flag of the United Kingdom, Bis- | fice. He urged his hearers to con-. ! hop Luther B. Wilsoff told the mem- | sider whether they could not devote | bers of the board of foreign missions | some of their time and recognized {Of the Methodist Church yesterday. | abilities to the interest of the city. {In introducing seven visiting Ulster | He was glad to be able to say that { men, who Fecently arrived here to|the past year had been a very suc- | combat the work ¢f the Sinn Fein in | cessful one, and he had no complaint | attempting to ebtain recognition of | to make respecting the manner in | the Irish "Republic" in this country. | which the aldermen had discharged | "We regret that there is not time | their duties, but he would. like to | to hear each of these men," declared | see more business men stand for of- { That of United Kingdom, Says Met- | } hodist Bishop, ses--The Express Speaks of the | Bishop Wilson, who presided at the | fice. Premier's Political Egg Dance, London, Det, 10.--The. Independ- ent Liberal Press naturally criticises at length Lloyd George's speech at | 8g of the United Kingdom. Manchester, in which he advocated | the continuation of Governmegt, dian recognizes Liberal tone of his speech and read- | © . ily admits that "the case tor a Coa- | lition Government has force, for it | carried . franchise, seml-socialistic legislation more the the education, Coalition | The Manchester Guar- | wotations Furnished » Bougard, | rit unmistakably hi y I and | Atehison sala we nny easl- B.&O. .. ......... | meeting, "but I believe that I express | the feeling of the board when I say | |Abat. we recognize there can only be| HAL [one flag for Ireland--and that the, J: R. Forster said that as one Who be | knew the minds of the Citizens, the 2 | business Mes were looked to to as- sume a position of leadership in elvie STOCK MARKETS, { affairs. The puvife wanted men of i S------ j recognized ability and knows integ- as mayor and alderman, and no- | Where could men be found whose own business was so vitally connected with everything that affected the i prosperity of the city, as among tha { business men themselves, and declar- | ed that the cash register was a meter | by which to judge the commercial and industrial growth of the city, and Should Assume Leadership. Ryerson & Co., 287 Bagot ------en New York Stocks. Opening Close 85 84% % ly, swiftly and probably more com. | C-P.R. BE mya, pletely than any other government [Reading aan? | ties as yet. id | would have done. On the other | Southern Pac. { hand, the Coalition, called into be- | So. Railway .. | Ing to give us a good peace, has given | will be built near Amerongen in Holland on ground leased from | Count Bentinck for one of the sons of former Emperor William of Ger- many. The head office of the reorganized Willlam Davies Company will be in | Chicago. The business will vir{:ally- be earried on from Chicago. but offi. cially the operations of the whole business will be in Canada. A tax of halt a million dollars on a pint of whiskey will be asked of Congress, the international reform bureau's executive committee decid- ed at Washington, in the event the | Supreme Court declares the war- time prohibition anvendment uncon- stitutional. soner in the paper hanging Diisinndy. : "Did you ever punish your daugh- | M'Alester, Okla., Dec. 10.--Ge ter?" asked counsel for the accused. ar, ec. 10.--~George | Burton, prosperous business man, Witness said he had punished her. | who for years has borne a good re. He had used a strop on her in the | putation for veracity, told this story, ast six months. 1 for the pri. | 20d it is therefore benéfited. Four Pressed by Ee he pr years ago he lost his watch when soner, witness said tha ow taken his | 0IDE chores in his born. Yesterday « Swear that dhe accused Tome. Wit. Ie slaughtered a cow; and embedded daughter away from or on ighter | IB the stomach be found the missing nena Be out 19 xe is caug: watch, still running and only four when she 3 « . minutes slow. He said he believed iva Cameron sas then Sallod. She each time it swallowed its cud wound sa a { > th itch, : with the prisoner over a year ag ° al Witness told of her visit to Inverary, for Bor and brought. ner home. Res. | perry Honorably ei or her an s Bb Belleville, Dec, 10. --W. M. Meln- ors told witness that®her father was tosh, former superintendent of the McIntosh Rubbov company of this IH, but this was not true, as her city; was honorabiy acquitted at the + lather was not sick. "What induced you to leave your | county court at Picton. He had been home?" asked Mr. Whiting. {charged with misrepresentation with Witness said that several months | intent to defraud and. alse with theft. Judge Evan Maclean held that NeAgo she had considered leaving home. | "Wag there any reason? asked | there was no grotng a aaat "the judge. | Which to base these serious charges *+ Continued on Page 14.) { and nobody appeared fn court fo pro- | secute. : PP ---------- . Preachers Forced to Work. A Self Winder. Alberta there are only two wells incidentally the mann producing oil in commercial quanti- | ' mat Caen, the | business of the city was carried' on. | The merchants were, therefore, call- {ed upon to consider very carefully - & | their. relationship and responsibility 481% | for the city's government. "They did - not represent any class in the com- munity having particular interests to 4 | serve, and their candidature was an assurance that they had only the {best interest of the ofty at heart, and 4 | this was what invited the confidence of the electors at the present time, A committee was then appointed te. Prepare a list of candidates ior 51 | mayor, aldermen, the utilities com- 104% { mission and the Board of Education, 103% | and while this was being done some 49% | very Important matters were dis- { fussed. In the consideration of the atform, it was stated that no plat , {form had been yet presented to tae 78% | public that had not already- been {along the liney followed by the city . | for many' years. ' Noble Steacy advo- { cated negotiations with the railways {with & view to the erection of & { union station and other improved {railway facilities, also better hotel { Unless General | accommodation, and he - received People Takes Place. | strong support, Toronto, Dec, 10.--It is stated to- | w " L Union Pacific . 'usa bad. peace, and has grossly mis- {Haring Pid > oe . managed Irish. affairs." In conelu-| Gen' Motors .. sion, the Guardian declines to be ter- | Studebaker |, . rified by . Lloyd George's assertion ACCEPT THE OFFER "OF SPEAKER'S CHAIR 3261 107 94 65 3% 1051s 658% 92% 22% b1 ce 104% 108% 49% Ottawa, Dec. 10.--The Empire Parliamentary - Association, which last year presented a Black Rod to the Senate to re- place the one lost in the Parlia- ment Buildings' fire, has com- municated with Speaker Rhodes offering to contribute a Speak- er's chair, dais and table for Am. Loe. .. .. regarding the possibility of a labor | AM- Smelters ., ,. | Baldwin Loco. .. govérmment and, declares that true {Anaconda .. <beralism will be no party toa Lib- | thiehem Steel "B". # | eral-Conservative coalition { Pe Nile oe oe % labor. pr Such a prospect only shows | i + . #* how essential it is to maintain a {Inspiration Sopper * | wholly unpledged body of Liberal |U'S. Steel . . Sid the Clerk of the House for the + { opinion which will find in labor aspir- iMidvale:. : new House of Commons. The | ations and efforts far more to sup- | -- offer is being accepted, hut it + | ra ] i port than oppose. i Canadian Stocks, is not likely that the gift will % The Westminster Gazette XH Brazilian 501; Phebe bd ------------------ AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR ; {% be.received in time for the | the speech as the Premier's most Can. 'Steamship. . .. 7 WON 000 | 5 it . Pos es T17% HAS h N THE $10, | ® coming session, : pronouncéd attempt thus far to sof- Can. Loco. .. ...... 100% % ! : i ten outside Liberal. opinion and says Cons, Smielters .. ., 31; x.d. 728 He Succeeded in Fly Feom FER hb ih ht the weakest point is the Premiers' | Steel of Canada ., ... 84% and to fustra ia } tens " : | assertion that coalition makes pos- | . see ------ rriv ay. sible some solution of the Irish prob-| - " y plied. Form Se ngle Ta. | lO In he Shy ne Irish Rule.| | MAX ISOLATE TORONTO Port Darwin, Australia, Dec. 10. | and 'speculator in Ontario was fore- | The slate of Ireland, says the Gazette | Capt. Ross Smith, Australian aviator arrived Rere to-day from England, | PEFR O LILES ERA E AD : y 4 » Vaccination of the cast by: Fremler E. C. Drury in an turing the thres Horry a ion ! | address. A modified form . of single | > thus winning the prize of ten thous- | tax will soon be a reglity in Ontario | WOT and the only mrerence is that . 41 Chicago, Dig. 10.--One preacher a NEWS IN BULLETIN. - {| $0, Dic. Jo -- ' jpaper-hanger in spare moments, an- : day that the Provincial Department | and pounds offered for the first avia- {in all probability. Such a policy, the | 3 ppd in the a OS ! of health will take drastic action! re-i. a 4 [other a barber'and a third a shon. § i P°| tor to make the voyage. Smith left po... Minister {ntimated, was a the | SBainst the city of Toronto unless | Y keeper, were 'reported: here yesterday , . There has been a hitch in the soft oh Stan. + i-| Hounslow, London, Nov. 12th 'reach- 'agreement can bé reached : Soai strike Settisment, but dn. agree- 02 3 result of aN Interchurch investi-] NURSIOW: Landon, Now Delhi, India, | S3VINE_ the favocable consideration oy Mirch and the city -counci A Were constantly complaints ardin, | gation of spiritual affairs in IHinois. on Nov. 23rd, From thee he contin. °F the Farmer-Labor Government. It net. ord Observer considers | comply with the bosrd's demand in| r P reg & a the street ear service, and it was a t ix expected to-day. i | The Brad re | rae ] id men pec i ued east until he reached Rangoon, | Jould not be a Somph aw. hut | the speech throughout that of a min. Waking general vaccination against cause for regret that no improvement turning southward at that city, mak- is allow loc P : {the small pox epideniic COMPUIROTY | had by d !ister con his defence, conscious of * } een made in the service in the ing a number of stops along the Ma- °° the part of municipalities. | weakening among bis own followers, | thon Stizens; The Hal. fosting | past twenty years to keep pace with lay Peninsula, and ju the islands of: Ye Dolibl {and anxious to cheek any. tenden: | hu he Hoan 9 ith . hire wih of the city. It was point: Oceanica. He arrived at Bima, near Chicago,/Dee; 10.--Ten years from | OF 10 break away, A nh hac ue y ror . by orc) ed out that had the rafiway company Java; Monday might. Port Darwin'ia | Chisago, Due. 10, bath an trom | IT : Iya ihe Test of the province d teow | Improved its route by taking in the near the northernmost tip of Austrg. | 30 the horse will be but a relic, the | i yenting tion to and from | northern parts of the eity it would hn : ~ (ghost. of 2 Separt tad aivifation, | ; 5 { the oy Sloss Je. pe mand Of the not only have rendered valuable ser. done it, according to H. L.| The Daily Graphic speaks of the | boar ; | Yice to the residents of that section, { satan © | but would have helped to inereass secrelary of the Anti-Cryel-| Premier's dificwlty in riding two -- "| the value of the properties located ety. 'Ten 'years ago we had horses and "asserts that the speech | there. He stated that the city might ves be forced to buy out the service, and It had been & Buy ay. Ald. W. Y. Mills stated that there "The preacher should be a, leader - jit community affairs" the report exports 10 save milk for Canad. | 281d, "but (his is the was we oo = children. « them compelled to spend their time an on ; {to earn a living" The new Irish Home Rule Bill to be brought in on Monday by mier Lloyd Goorge and the prospects are it will pass the British Commons. 3 tpecim Premier Borden spent a day fo WAS IN MOUNTED Porace | Sober Montreal and Cabinet 'changes are ; Sid Fy probable. : % Sir John G. L. 3 i ---- pins li dat. 2 . > a Ra | we BT Br Sot Tt sp 'Yor ie, 10K ) S| Lad na : A rem : 3 ; hes { [ent o company; . the pro- hi a. my som ster f k] Jem re from' Victoria Trenton Memorial 4 ors consider the | priety of the head of the car servis ng tO i 2 : y 3 sitting Specimen » -- 3 . n i Dec. : mem 5 in the council as an aldersian checks: be : : oria¥ tablet and con ' 3 half h iizristadion : : . rena : : {had been seriously questioned. In , Es a tee tri ' king but : % } ead of the company oe could not legally qualify for the of- [fice of mayor as the law at present | Mayor MH. W. Newmds told of the progress harbor ------ % TRE. Soy a0 : : bers of | & . n stated + | pirincip in g8 as ment of the city's finances John B. h B ! : 3 beri debt or Wop was $1,677, 990, 1818, $1,732,000, 1319, $1,774. (Continued Of Page 33 ey Hon. Attorney-General 2 iy ny EP 1 a J é - - : BS me | be 3 n an, the Hon, FB. Chive asst