Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Oct 1920, p. 1

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OUR NEW FALL HATS Have Arrived. Collier's Toggery VOL. 87 : NO. 243. STANDS BEHIND ALL HE DID Hon. G. H. Ferguson Con-| sidered Himself Superior to Regulations. Toronto, Oct. 2.--Hon. George | Howard Ferguson, minister of lands, forests and mines in the late Hearst government, stated at probe yesterday that he considered himself superior to the department's | rogulations. At the afternoon ses- sion, R. T. Harding, government counsel, inquired about Hon. Mr Ferguson's disregard, while minister of a section of the regulations which stipulated that territories offered to lumbermen, must be so done under public comfpetition. The minister admitted the regulation, which, if strictly adhered to, would preclude the letting out of a hundred cords without public tender. He was pre- pared to stand behind all he had done in the department. He made the point and emphasized ft, the revenue to be derived from the north country was not the biggest consideration, but the development of the country, BiG THANK OFFERING BY PRESBYTERIANS General Board Appoints Day of Prayer in All the urches. At a meeting of the general board of the Presbyterian church in Can- ada, it was announced that five and one-quarter million dollars had been subscribeéd\ to the thank offering, of which more than one and one-half million had already been paid. Plang were laid for the continua- tion programme in home religion life service and literature and mis- glonary education. Today the 'board will make ap- poifitments as editor and business manager of the new church weekly. Sunday was appointed as a day of prayer in all the Presbyterian chur- ches in Canada. that other denominations had also chosen the same day. de COURT HOUSE CASES. To Be Heard Next Week by Judge H. A. Lavell. The following are the cases for trial at the non-jury sittings of the | county court which will be opened un Tuesday by Judge H. A. Lavell: _ Gilbert Thompson et al, vs. W, J. : gtt et al, for possession of lands ha Kennebet. W. H. Godwin & Son vs. Neeleys, Limited, for brokers' commission. Chandler-Jones Lumber Co., vs. Dennison and Gunters for damages for breach of contract. Ceylon Robinson el sl -vs.'H. BD. Fyne, for $763, amount of a cheque upon which payment was stopped by the defendant. ' B. Borodorff vs. Lawetsify, Rosen & Co., for price of goods sold and delivered. M. 8S. MoFarland ve. Betsey Bailey, for work done and materials supplied. A. Speizman vs. M. Rosen & Co., for price of goods sold. F. G. Eccles vs. R. T. Grimshaw, for wrongful deprivation of his goods and chattels. A. W. Richardson vs. Mary Kav- anagh, for taxes due under a lease. EFFORTS OF 0. B. U. MAY BE THWARTED It Is Hoped There Will be No Coal Strike in West. Calgary, Oct. 2.--There were no further developments last night in the strike of the one big union miners in Drumheller Valley. About fifty per cent of the men are out. Crow's Nest miners are ordered out Monday and strike may show little strength then. In the meantime, confidence is expressed that negotiations be- tween the operators and the united mine workers for an Increase of a dollar and a half a day in wages will be concluded satisfactorily and that this will have the result of killing the efforts of the One Big Union to organize a strike throughout the pro- vinge. Prince to Stock a Zoo ' On His Alberta Ranch ---- ; London, Oct. 2.--The_ Prince of Wales {s collecting African big game, us well as many smaller jungle ani- mals, including some from Australia, tor experimental p . 4 hese will be piaced in a ils ranch ii Alberta. Some Austra- ian animals collected on his Austra- lian tour accompanied him on his _cruise on the Renown. He plans to thip his collection to Alberta next spring. wv yy Cattle Brockville, Oct, 2--There has been Quite an extensive movement of late in the sale of pure-bred cattle from points in Leeds County to the United States. One carload of Ayrshires went to Illinois and another consign- ment of the Holstein breed to Cali- fornia. : the timber | that with him | It was announced | menagerie on. {| Passed in favor of immediate peace EWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and | Near Are Briefly Recounted. | N The United States destroyer, Call, | rack a mine entering the Bay at | | Riga. | Senator Gideon Robertson there are huge coal reserves piled up | | in Alberta. | The New York-to-Nome aeroplane | No. 3 fell. Two occupants were seri- ously injured. | | Quebec streets are flooded by the { tide. Much damage has been occa- |sioned to property. { The "Black and Tans". destroyed { another Irish town for the killing of |a well-known officer. | The body of the missing magis- itrate, Capt. Lendrums, was found in ia coffin on a railway near Dublin. | Premier Meighen answers Premier | { Drury. He. declares he never said or insinuated that farmers or labor {were Bolshevists. | 'General Macready is called to meet | the British cabinet on the Irish prob- He may be asked to explain | his interview ¥q. reprisals. | Gold in the form of bars and coin | {and valued at $26,250,000 will ar- | {rive in New York before the close of this week, Fire broke out in Limoiou convent, Quebec, Friday afternoon. The chil- dren were all removed to safety. The loss will be heavy. The Chicago police officials now admit that they have no prospect of locating Ambrose J. Small, the miss- ing Toronto theatrical magnate, and his private secretary, John Doughty. Retail clothing prices at Maurice L. Rothschild's clothing store, Chi- cago, are slashed from twenty to twenty-five per cent.' according to public announcement. Rothschild declared further reductions will fol- low. | st says MASQUERADED AS MAN Indian Married Another Girl and Liv- ed in Tenderloin. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 2.--Posing as a man, Jacqueline Gay, twenty, who says she is an Oklahoma Indian { girl, obtained a.licence, married. and | live four years as the husband of | another girl, it was brought out yes- terday in a suit Jacqueline is waging | against a man she says sold her naro- | | ties. i The woman's story of how she had | | posed as a man to evade the perils | | of the tenderloin, where she worked | | at a mission, had previously been | | told. She related that girls whom she | | bad nursed started her in the narco- | tic habit, but said nothing in her | "confession" of being married. She ld the police that on Sep- | tember 30th; 1916, she obtained a li- cence to marry Winifred McVaugh, twenty, and that the ceremony was performed by Rev. William B. Chal- font, of this city, She says she and Winifred kept house together until July of this year, when she was ar- rested, the police thinking her a man when they saw her receive a packet supposed to contain drugs from Nag- zarena Cavalierrio, whom they ar- rested. Jacqueline then issued a statement implicating Felix -Cardullo, a wealthy leader of the Italian col- ony, as a powe. in the drug traffic, Cardullo was ariested, forfeited his bail and then reappeared. The pres- ent suit is an outgrowth of this case. Unity In Sim on e Bonus Question Toronto, Oct. 2.--Twenty dele- gates, representing eight branches of the G.W.V.A,, in a meeting at central branch, unanimously recommended the adoption, as the official position of the whole asscciation vn the bonus question, the views expressed in the resolution submitted by H. L. Howe which calls upon the federal govern- ment to pay a bonus.of $1 a day for every day of service to every member of the C.E.F. : In supporting his resolution Mr. Howe based all his argument upon the economic fact of the decreased purchasing power of the dollar, claim ing that the government will not have fulfilled its contract with the soldier to pay him $1.10 a day until it compensates him for the dollar's depreciation. Plans were initiated to give publicity to this demand and to line up public opinion in support of this position. $6,250 Monthly to K the Home Fires ling Detroit, Oct. 2.--An allowance of $765,000 a year was made to Mrs. Marguerite Talman Walker, widow of James Harrington Walker, mil- lionaire Canadian distiller, by the consent of Judge Durfee in probate court. Mrs, Walker said she needed $6,250 a month to keep up her home at 576 Iroquois avenue here and her Psummer home in Magnolia, Mass. Russians Desire Peace With World Copenhagen, Oct. 2. -- Reports that the strike movement is. rapidly spreading in Russia resulting in serious disturbances in various parts of the country, have been re- ceived by the Nagousl Tidende from its Helsingfors cbrrespondent. He declares travelers from Russia con- firm recent reports that street con- flicts had occurred in Petrograd in which several of the Soviet commis- sioners were killed by a mob. Per- sistent rumors that Leon Trotzky. war minister, had been wounded and' that General Budenny, noted cavalry leader, was. being court. martialed, also were in circulation, travelers reported. At a mass meet- ing, which was largely attended by Petrograd people, a resolution is de- clared to have been unanimously with the rest of the world. | negotiations at Riga between KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1920. MOSCOW FEELS VERY DOUBTFUL, . Regarding the Outcome of the Peace Parleys At Riga. Moscow, Oct. 2.--There is a gen- eral feeling of pessimism here re- garding the outcome of the peace the Poles and Bolsheviki. The workers, however, are standing solidly be- hind the Soviet government despite the universal desire for peace. With winter approaching, the situation of the war prisoners await- ing repatriation is becoming more difficult, Officials say the govern- ment is doing everything possible to facilitate their evacuation, esta- blislring evacuation centres in Mos cow, Petrograd, Samara and Eka- terinoslav, and co-operating with German, Austrian and Czecho- Slovak missions. Provisions, cloth- ing, medicine and megns of trans- portation are needed. Vote for Nine Hours As Against Eight Paris, Oct. 2--Eight hundred thou- sand workers of the building trades in the Department Pas du Calais Nord voted to work nine hours daily instead of eight, as prescribed by the Labor Confederation. The workers repudiated every ra- dical suggestion made by the Labor Confederation incompatible with the rapid restoration of the devastated regions and contrary to the best in- terests of French labor. PREMIER'> PLANS READY He Will Make Forty Speeches on Western Tour. Ottawa, Sept. 2.--Premier Meigh- en's coming tour of the west, the itinerary of which is all but ready, is designed to be a real case of carrying the war into Africa. The Premier, it is said, will make about forty speeches, starting at Winni- peg and going through to the' coast. He will pay particular attention to the places which are the great opera- ting base of the low tariff and agrar- ian movements. New South Wales to Force Large Landowners to Sell London, Oct. 2.--The New South Wales Assembly is proposing legisia- tion to co 1 the large landowners to sell land on reasonable terms in connection with the government's settlement scheme. Twenty thousand soldiers are waiting for land, ana only four thousand cases have beem dealt with, Bishop MacDonell Dying. Cornwall, Oct. 2.--~The members of this community and the people throughout the diocese regret that His Lordship Bishop MacDonell, of Al who is a patient at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, is gradually growing weaker. His Lordship re- ceived the last sites ot Hue church yesterday presence of several of the priests, after which he impart- ed his blessing on the kneeling Carr-Harris Appeals, - Toronto, Oct. 2.--Notice of from the decision of Justice Kelly, in the case of Carr-Harris vs. Cana- has been filed by or R. with the HS ms CA eo tice Kelly d the case out costs when it came up before him. Ponzi Is Indicted. Bosten, Oct. 2. --The grand jury indicted to pay profits, for using the a scheme to defraud. Rn fty per cent. mails in Bo eran 7 hv LZ --DOWN 11! A MOTHER-IN-LAW \ SOURCE OF TROUBLE Won't Allow Oharies Wood, Kingston, 48 His Own Child. Toronto, Oct. 1.--~Chief Justice Meredith, in chambers to-day, would not issue a writ of habeas corpus for the. production in court of Gordon Arthur Wood, aged nine months. Charles Wood, Kingston, came back from overseas in 1817, married in 1918, and a child was born on Jan- uary 26th, 1920. Through some al- leged difficulty with his mother-in- home, although Wood expresses per- fect willingness to 'set up a home of his own, He says that he has tempts to see it he failed. He says fhat the last time the door was slammed in his fage. His lordship said that the appli corpus was not ne hoped matters cou ry as yet and be settled. Wun, 5. enty.rlb Tour Honolulu, Oct. 2, -- Twenty-five years a leper, but now discharged by the physician of the United States Public Health Service in charge of the Kalihi Leprosy Investigation sta- tion here without dn apparent trace of the disease in her body, is the re- cord of Mrs. Rosalie Blaidsell, of Press in what is believed to be the first interview of its kind ever pub- lished, Refined chaulmoogra oil, prepared by Dr. A. L. Dean and his confreras of the University of Hawaii, and ad- ministered by Dr. J. T. M§Donald, director of the investigation station, Dr. F. E. Trotter, president of the Territorial Board of Health and their associates is credited by the Public Health officials with having arrestad the disease in three ydars, five months and seven days of treatment, Today Mrs. Blaisdell is living at her home here, going in and out among her friends and taking up the threads of a busy life which were cut when the malady forced her "with- out the camp." RESTRAINING JAPAN Britain and the United States May Join Forces, Tokio, Oct. 2.--A belief prevailing in Japan that the United States and England may join hands in restrain- ing Japan in her Far Eastern policy has been the basis of much comment in the press. Japan's brilliant writer, Iichiro Tokutomi, the editor of the military organ, the Kokumin, wrate a special article on American-English relations in which he called the United States the "enfant terrible' of the world. Mr. Tokutomi regards the prospect of co-operation between England and America with some anxiety. The world will be obliged to agree wit} what they agree, he observes, but he consoles himself with the thought that such co-operation is unlikely owing to American suspicions of Eng- land and lack of world knowledge. was found dead, seated in a chair.in the office of a wholesale boot dealer, ; beside her. The full charge 'had entered her . The body was by a constable. It is not known whether the girl. was murder- The Irish executive policy is the ed: 7 oy Ottawa on Oct. 21st Eri law, his wife is now at her mother's | never seen his child, and ia four at- | jon for habeas ! Honolulu, given to The Associated' where she was employed. A shotgun, | of , which is to be and | LAST EDITION NOT LIKELY T0 BE REVISED The Government Wil Hardly Change the New Rail- way Rates. | Toronto Globe. Ottawa, Oct. 2.--The government has the railway rates case om Its hands as a result of the conclusion of the argument on the appeal from the Railway Commission. It wants to do something for the sake of appear- ances, but it is reasonably certain that that something will not take the | form of any modification of the find- | ing of the Railway Board. That the case may be referred back for con- sideration on the aspect of discrim- ination is a much more likely contin- gency. Mr. Meigheh the close of the argu hopetul indication. "The arguments presented here," | he sald, "show that many subjects lave been discussed which should be determined by the proper tribunal, and not by the government, other- wise why was the tribunal created? Unless we are going to revise the whole trend of policy the govern- ment must confine itself to deciding {if in any decision a policy was fol- { lowed repugnant to public policy, Of course, if it appears that an error of judgment was made a reference back is proper." This was generally interpreted as { meaning that the government will not accept the responsibility of over- | ruling the commission unless some | gross and obvious error of judgment {1s disclosed, a thing which, at least, { 1s' debatable. By referring the matter back to the commission for a general | investigation Into the allegations of | rate discrimination the government may seek to evade any odium of sanctioning the rates:by "passing the buck' back to the commission. Pend- ing any further hearing, the rates wouid continue in force, a develop- ment whelly satisfactory to the rail- ways. If the case be not sent back for the reasons indicated the best opinion here fis that the judgment will stand, with a vossible rider or something to €ase it off. A further Inquiry by the board is regarded as the more prob- able development, Earl of Athlone May Be Next Gov.-General London, Oct. 2.--The newspapers again are busy predicting the sue- cesson to the Duke of Devonshire as Governor-General of Canada, to be appointed mext summer. The favorite | ie the Earl of Athlone, a younger {brother of the queen. Athlone was th | elected for the appointment in 1914, but owing to the war the appoint- ment was cancelled. Critics now say Athlone's selection is extremely fitt- ing, and express the opinion that the appointment will be popular through- out the Dominion. Canadian circles I London certainly lend color to this w. Applicants For Papers. Watertown, N.Y., Oct. 2.--8eventy- two applicants for citizenship will face Justice Edgar C. Emerson Nov. 20th at his last naturalization term before vetirement. This is a consid- erably smaller number than has been listed for recent terms, the war hav- ing slowed up naturalization. Last November 112 sought cii'zenship. Canada continues to lead in the 'AE ment was not a POLAND TO DICKER | WITH LITHUANIA | Has Agreed to Send Delegates to Peace Conference | at Suwalki Paris, Oct. 2.--Lithuania has ac- cepted the invitation of Poland to! send delegates immediately to Suwal- | ki and the Polish-Lithuanian peace | conference probably will begin today ! the French foreign office was inform- ed. It was pointed out at the for- eign ministry that indications were | better for a final settlement of the difficulties between the two coun- {ries than at any time since the crisis eveloped. Both Lithuania and Poland have expressed "willingness to negotiate | | along the lines laid down by the lea- | gue of nations," which during the | last few days has been extremely ac- tive in bringing the representatives of the two countries together. TRANSFERRED TO U. 8S. German Zeppelin Firm Intends Leav- ing Germany. Paris, Oct. 2.--The German Zep- pelin firm intends to transfer its works from Germany to the United States, it has been learned here through a wireless message sent out from Germany. Under the treaty the manufacture of aircraft of all kinds is so restricted that the Zeép- pelin factory had been at a stand- still. The plan is now to transfer the whole manufacturing plant to the United States and there perfect and build airships capable of making regular journeys across the Atlantic. It is understood that financial in- terests in Amerjca are concerned in the undertaking, but no details are forthcoming here. Five Thousand is Jockey Kummer's Bit New York, Oct. 2.--Clarence Kum- mer, the jockey, will receive $5,000 for riding Man o' War in the $75,000 match race against Commander J. K L. Ross' Sir Barton at Kenilworth Park, Windsor, Ont., on ®t. 12th, it was announced today. This sum is one of the largest ever cffered to a jockey for riding one race on this continentl Tod Sloan re- ceived $10,000 from the late W. C. Whitney for coming here from Eng- land to ride Bally Hoo Bey in the Futurity more than a decade ago. Samuel Riddle, Man o' War's owner, visited the colt yesterday, and expressed the opinion that the cham- pion never looked better. Tries Suicide in Coll After Florida Water Peterboro, Ont, Oct. 2.--Jack White, a laborer, attempted to com- mit suicide in the police station by cutting his throat with a small pocket knife which he &hoe. but his wounds will not prove seri- cus. White entered the police station and asked to be placed in a cell. When he was later arraigned in po lice court on a charge of attempting to commit suicide it developed that he had been drinking Florida water and extracts. This, in addition to de- spondency, brought about by unem- ployment; affected his mind and led him to commit the act. Bushel of Potatoes Comes From Ome Tuber Ingersoll, Oect. return of mere than one hundred-fold has ben received by Mrs. Allan Gofton, of Verschoyle, from her potato crop this season. Last spring she planted from a sack one fine tuber, which she cut into. 14 sets of one eye each. These were carefully planted in sep- arate hills, and developments await- ed with much interest. A few days! ego the hills were opened, and the crop filled a bushel measure. There were in all 111 potatoes, with a total weight of 44 pounds. 9 9 Jo-- Trenton's First Fair, Belleville, Oct. 2.--The Town of Trenton this week held .a most suc- cessful exhibition on two weeks' no- tice. Local manufacturers and mer- chants exhibited, and there were many -entries in the horticultural, fruit, home cooking, fancy work, and poultry displays. This was the first exhibition the town has had, and has proved so successful that it is intend- ed to hold a regular fall fair in 1921. Proposes New Land Purchase. London, Oct. 2.--The New South Wales assembly is proposing leg' i, tion to compel the large land owners to sell land on reasonable terms in connection with the government's se:- tlement scheme. Twenty thousand soldiers are waiting for land and only four thousand cases have been deajt with, Raise Montreal Milk Price. Montreal, Oct. 2.--W. L. Carr, sec- rétary of the Milk Producers' Assoc- fation of Montreal, stated this morn- ing that the price of milk was going one cent a quart and would be 8! n cents daring the months of October and November. Expect Coal Strike Will Be Averted London, Oct. 2.--The general be- let prevailed last night that a strike of the coal miners will be averted as the result of the decision yester-' day to call for a re-ballot of the miners on the question of ceasing 'work. The re is expected to result in the acceptance by the men of the offer by the owners of an ad- vance In wages of two shillings per shift when the output of coal reaches 248,000,000 tons yearly. TNis was the rate of output for the first three months of the present | tracted much attention A SOLUTION BY CIVIL 'WAR ls One Irish Newspaper's' Opinion of Viscount Grey's Proposals. Dublin, Oct. 2.--Suggestions for the solution of the Irish problem, which are virtually an offer of a ge- * nerous form of home rule, made by Viséount Grey of Falloden, have at-* in this eity, but public opinion generally dis counts the prodability of thelr adops tion. Moderate elements approve of the Viscount's plan, but the Siam * Feln, it is said, would not conscat to enter an assembly for constitwting a = future government unless the law £a' > automatic f.ice to whatever de- cisicns were reached. Under such conditions, on tha other hand, Ulster | we'd refuse to enter. : Sinn JFeln garters welcome the © proposal! that # a settlemen: iz nH: reached within two years, the PFra- Ish, government saou'd withdraw al-. together, leaving responsibility te! Irish people. Leaders of the Sinn: Fein movemen: say that all they ask is free responsihility. 3 Commenting upon the proposals, the Unjonist News Letters condemns + the scheme advanced by the Vis- count, saying: > "It conforms to the traditional pas liey ot all hiitish attempts *o pacify Ireland, In tat it follows tho line cf least. resistance. Until British states- men abandon that policy and Irish legislation upon principle rat er than expediency of the moment, the Irish question will remam unset tled." The Northern Whig, also a Union- ist organ, says: ¥ "The plan simply means that Great Britain is to wash its hands ot Ireland and let the north and south fight it out between themselves. [It ' fs a solution by civil war. There ia no use talking about any solution until the Sinn Fein and its organiza- tion of murder and violence is stamp ed out." BREAKING TISH es RATEPAYERS BACK Laborite Municipal Councils Increase the Rates to Un~ precedented Figures. London, Oct. 2.--One of the first fruits of 'the dictatorship of the proletariat," insofar as it obtains in England, has Jiovided a brand new issue upon which labor and the mids dle classes are now locking Horns, SURI nhs te ru Page since last winter's municipal elee- tions, when labor scored signal sue- cesses in capturing borough govern ments, all previous records have been broken in those municipalities whe labor has direction of affairs. C social experiments, increases in mun- fclpal wages and in some cases a experienced management, have creased the charges on the ratepayer to an Sbearable degree. The taxes due for this year in Leyton, one London's suburbs, will be twenty seven shillings and eightpence in the pound. This means that the house- holder who pays two hundred pou yearly in rent must pay two h : and seventy-six pounds in taxes. Middle Class Union has taken matter up, and meetings of are being held all over the coun Safety Mask for Iron and Steel Polishers Stratford, Oct, 2.--An invent by J. Welsby, 17 8t. Vincent st: Las just been made known. It is : protector for the face for irom an steel polishers. It is a mask which fits over the face, and is in the cf a screen. Iron wires run ae and copper wires up and down. are magnetized, and to them all # nute particlés of steel are attract and thus kept from entering the The invention has been endg the National Safety Association Chicaga, and will be endorsed, it § said, by the International Meta! ishers' Association of Canada. try. = Start Action, Peterboro, Oet. 2.--Notice of tion against the County of Pi : for $20,000 damages for the death D. B. Nichols, and $5,000 for inju e sustained by Rupert Giiddon, ing from an automobile aceident oN the Keene Road near Downer's C ' e's was issued by the law firm 4 Gordon & O'Brien, acting for Nichols estate and Mr. Gliddon. It { claimed that the accident was ea by a faulty culvert on the road. Resigns Place at Ogd r Ogdensburg, N.Y., Oct. 2. H. Mayhew, who has been X -r specialist at A. Barton Hepburn hoy pital since April, has resigned. Mayhew will join a clinic u consistisg of two surgeons 3 interne afid will be associated in { management of a private b which the group has pure I Riverside, part of the residental tion of Jacksonville, Fla. Gets M'Gill Post, Ottawa, Oct. 2.--The ment is made of the appoin Dr. A. B. McCallum, admin chairman of the Research C the new chair of blochemi Gill University. y

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