ALLEN NOW PLAYING "ISOBELL, OR THE TRAILS END" « ---- ------ VOL. 88 ---- -------- THE LIBERAL IS ELECT Gordon Defeats Denne, Gov- ernment Candidate, By 1- | 300 Majority. Peterboro, Feb. 8 --Peterboro this morning was slowly waking up | to the fact that there had been a lo-| «al political upheaval. Belated re- | turns being recetved show that the | liberal gain in the West Peterboro | bye-election, rendered necessary by | the resignation of J. H. Burnham was more extensive than at : NO. 32, first re- | ports, and the lead of G. N. Gordon, liberal ,candldate, has been in- creased to over thirteen hundred. There is now only one poll to hear from. The standing this morning was as follows: Gordon, 4,165; Denne (government), 2,844; Camp- bell (U.F.0.), 2,497; Burnham (in- dependent), 2,497; McMurray (la- tor), 1,011, The official report of the return- ing officer will not be available un- til Friday. With five candidates in the field, it was not expected that the turnover would be so sweeping Every available means was used to bring out the voters by both govern- ment and liberal candidates. It is estimated that thirteen thensand votes were polled out of a possible sixteen thousand five hundred. This is an unusually large vote for the constituency. » 4 aily British OTTAWA TALKS OF GENERAL ELECTION | | BLAST HURLS VICTIMS High Teacher And Five Pupils Killed By Nitro-Glycerine Explosion. Lawrenceville, Ill, Feb, 8 --Fm- mett Bunyan, school teacher, and five of his pupils were killed instan*- ly and two others wounded serious- ly when gq can of nitro-glycerine ex- | ploded yesterday near the. cross- | roads school, about three miles west lof here, | The explosion occurred during the noon recess when one of the boys {found the can near the school. Not [knowing ft contained explosive, he playfully tossed it to a companion and the blast followed. One wall of the schoolhouse was jcrumbled and Mr. Bunyan and eight aa I boys were hurled fifty feet in the air. Several girls who were on the DRURY GIVES laren side of the schoolhouse at the {time were knocked down and stun- {ned by the blast, but not seriously ONLY SOLUTION The I' ele immi- tion is a prob- e result of the liberal vic tory 1 W Peterbaro. Although bers of the government de~ to discuss the possibility such an outcome, therd is a g wing among government ipporters which favors an ap- peal to the and the adoption of such a course would not create much surprise in well-informed If the government decides to dissolve, a dissolution would probably come following the passing of supply. # In the early days of the last the opposition leader ented an amendment to the tor general negatived by Simi- be Ottawa, Feb a gener y discussed here tence of i people, circles 88, calling a election, This was a majority of thirty-four lar tactics likely to adopted again, and while the government supposters feel sure of a.normal safe majority, it is admitted the situation will need close watching. are Officials of Lawrence county ex- | plained the belief the explosive in- |advertently was left wheré found by {workmen in the oil fields near hero, as nitro-glycerine is used in '"'shoot- ing" wells, The boys killed ranged in ages from twelve to sixteen years. For Usemployment--It Is the Undamming of | Trade. HALF LEGISLATURE Toronto, Feb. 8 --Industrial un- | The four defeated candidates have issued messages addressed principal- | ly to their campaign workers. When it became definitely known last night | that G. N. Gordon was elected, lib-| eral supporters took possession of the opera house, where a motion pic- ture programme was in progress. It is the first time in nine years that Peterboro has elected a liberal repre- sentative to the Dominion parlia- ment. Defeated Candidates Speak. After the first twenty polls were fn, Mr. Denne conceded his defeat and thanked his workers assembled in the committee room for their ,co- operation and support. J. C. Camp- bell, defeated U.F.0, candidate, ad- dressed his. supporters in similar, terms, He said 'he looked forward to re-entering the local political Held at some future date after the re-dis- tribution promised by 'the* govern- ment. He sald that one effect of with its corelatives of | {Premier Drury to Receive the Third Degree in Toronto. employment, dole systems and distress, occupied the attention of the legislature ves- terday. Faced on all sides with requests to 'do something at once," Premier Drury expressed his grave concern | at the state of affairs in urban centres and invited the co-operation of all groups in formulating any scheme that might help to relieve the situation. "The problem has given the gov- ernment serious concern," said the premier, "and we Jugioh skcendingly the extent of unemployment. There are some who think the government Toronto, Feb. 8.--An event unique in the annals of Free Masonry, as | well as in the history of the legisla- {ture will take place this evening at [St. Andrew's Lodge, when Premier | Drury recéives his third degree. Hon, | Peter Smith will occupy the chair. {| Hon. Nelson Parliament and Hon. | F. C. Biggs will act'as warden and | Hon. Thomas. Crawford as chaplain. | He H. Dewart, K.C./'and "Hon. G. H. : : 4 | Ferguson will be present. At the has nothing to do but oreate work. | banquet, after the conferring of the That is not true. The credit of On- | degree, Mr. Dewart will propose the tario is not unlimited. Two millions | : h ver month is being spent on the| joo (0. the Dewly initiated candi. Chfppawa scheme alone--a very | ; ! considerable expenditure-- which is helping a large number of men. I am convinced, however, that with Of the 110 members of the leg- | islature 56 are members of the craft {and have been invited to the func- | tion. ! KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1921. 1in the community. MASONIC MEMBERS | WE ARE GETTING ON. The accepted attitude of French Canadians toward the Empire has been that the last shot to be fired ion behalf of the Empire in British | North America would be in the pro- vince of Quebec, but Armand La- | ANY INFLUX | vergne, in his address a day or two | SC | ago, stated bluntly that he owed no : > > . ' 'The Ontario Government's allegiance to the British flag. We {challenge his statement, fy he pro- | fesses to speak on behalf of Quebec, | Position oR Immigration [for the British flag and British con- | Is Explained. nection furnish the charter of liberty Toronto, Feb. 8.--In consequence { to the province of Quebec. Without | {ritsh eonnection the province of of articles which have been appear- | Quebec would have no guarantee | i that the bi-lingual system would be | Ing in the press in regard to the im- {eontinzed. | migration policy that is being follow- [ we sappose that Mr. Lavergne | ©d by the Ontario government, Hon. {and C, J, Foy have the right to ex- | Manning Doherty, minister of agri- press their opinions in regird to the | culture, made a statement in the leg- British flag, just as any other per-| islature yesterday afternoon, The son would have the right to express | charge has been made that the On- | his opinion in favor of, say, the an-|tario government was responsible | nexation of Mexico. If these men | for an influx of immigrants at a time { believe what they say, it is far bet- | When they could not be absorbed. He or for the country that the should | stated that the last thre months 66 i iar for . y son | farmers, farm laborers, and domes- | come out and express their opjnions | tics had come out under the supervis- openly. But they should have gone |,. of the Ontario government. Pre- | farther and given the reasons for | vious to that a party of 210 had been | the thought that is in them. | brought out. They were farmers or | Moreover, it was very question- | far laborers. Every precaution had | | | | able taste on the part of these |been taken to see to it the unemploy- speakers to express views of such a | ment situation was not aggravated, controversia. character at a non- and he detailed instructions he had | political gatiering. We are satisfied Sivan to the agent-general to this ef- | that the majority of those Present | Foplving to Mr. Dewart as to the did not sympathize with the state- | advertisement appearing in old coun- ments made by these speakers. The | try papers, Mr. Doherty said he knew only effect such addresses can have | nothing about it until about the time is to stir up bitterness and ill-feeling | the matter had been mentioned in the papers in this country. He had a The late var has shown that the | COPY Of a paper in. which the adver- British flag, to the vast majority ¢ |!isement appeared. It was a very Canadians, is something dearer than | S™all advertisement, probably about their homes, their families or their wider 0150 hex 0 be idea lives. Wha: possible good could | spring. these speakers have hoped to ar complish by the expression of such views ? Moreover, these men DO owe a | duty to the British flag, notwith- |the year," said tle minister, "and I standing thir denial. They both {3m not just sure but we could ab- profess allegiance to Canada, and, if [50D in this provite when our farm | Se No tention, "There was ni intention of bring- | ! 1 } they must remember that she has to thank the British flag for her glorious constitution and the bene- fits derived tierefrom. | farm laborers. Hon, G. Howard Firguson moved the adjournment of th house in ord-| [detest e htt testers ARRESTED FOR Brantford, Ont, Feb. 8.-- Fred Lee, an employee of the Cordage Company, threw a ball hold of the immigration yoblem. On- . tario, he believed, had Lit had the was consideration which it shld at the ¥ an » dominton : ¥ v which gave thé west the Feference the taxes of the dominion, Whi 'Secession the Big Issue--La- the | Times says that the South African | | elections, which are taking place to- | day, will be the first Dominion elec- {tion in which secession from the Bri- ing them out hek at this season of |tish group of nations has been a liy- {Smuts and the fusion of the South | the City to carry out ail . . African party nd the Unionists-- dai : try to be proud of | operations commene in the spring, ap 3 y ant Ine . ogists: Canada is a country p! '|a very large numbei of good. British jGen. Hertzog and the Nationalists, | who are for an independent republic, {and the Labor party, which insists on | 80d many important social issues, and declares the Na- er to discuss the subjet more fully, | Her: oo : a % {He commended M. Doerty for the |tHonalist secession policy a remots {active manner in which ie had taken | idea. 1! ticle .says, is in doubt. The probabi- Jity points to a sufficie BEDI PremTs Sm in regard to immigration. Ontario, { E0vernment, but the, possibility that he pointed out, paid 45 Percent, of |the fight will go against him is hy no means negligible, The writer declares . 1 WHERE PICTURES ! AND MUSIC OF QUALITY RULE ! g| LAST EDITION. MOTOR CLUB MEN GATHER Hear Addresses By President "Aud Secretary of Ong e. The annual meetin ston Motor Club was held in Queen's University cafeteria on Monday eve | ening: The gathering was the larg- est and most enthusiastic ever held | mn Kingston. The oecasion Was mark- ed by delightful addresses containing Toronto. Feb 3 8.--Toronto school | information of great importance to tdachiers Tate BY a Chor majority, | "Very Owner and driver of an auto- rejected a scheme of group ingurance i mooie, which was proposed to cover the en- | 1» Hughes, tire teaching saff of the city. Ac- | the chair, cording to an official of one of DOMINIONS MUST MAKE PROPOSALS London, Feb. 8.--"I am quite sure nothing will ever be done to organize an empire partner- ship by proposals emanating from Great Britain. The im- pulse has got to come from the dominions themselves," sald Lord Milner, who retired yes- terday as colonial minister, when interviewed. He was dis- cussing how the six independ- ent governments can give one another the greatest mutual as- sistance and most effectively uphold their common interests. Teachers After Hubbles Defeat Insurance Plan g of the King- president, occupied and the outside guests the were Dr. Doolittle, president of the teacher's association. "Many of the | Ontario Motor League and Secretary adverse votes were cast by girl tea-| Canadian Automobile Association; chers who are confident of capturing | Mr. McWilliam, secretary, Ontario a husband, ere they do much more | Motor League; Mr. Wilson, mayor of teaching." | Gananoque; Dr. Bird, Gananoque; Mr, Thompson, editor Gananoque a a ama | Journal and Mr. Reece, also of Gan- SOUTH AFRICAN | aBOque A music! Programme ws; T | 1ende red. Mr, Hughes extended a ON ON bearty weioma. [in had hope: to | RAVC repras:otativas from the Brocj. sille and Naranee, and the club aims to have tam in the league in the near future The report of J. K. Carroll, retary-treasurer, 8 ship of 93, $266.00 T. M. Asselstine, of the sign com- mittee, reported that markers had been placed on all roads leaving the city, except the Perth road. Mark- ers placed on the Barriefield hij) had been twice removed, and it was pointed out that under the Ontario act, persons removing or defacing a road sign or Marker, are liable to a fine of fifty dollars. At this point # resolution was Passed calling upon of the pres- sec. howed a member- and a gredit balance of bor Sound in Attitude Towards Flag. London, Feb. 8.---Aun article in the ng issue. Two forces oppose Gen ent, by-laws. JM, Hughes reported upon the recent convention held in Toronto, Twelve hundred men were present matters were i with, among them the question | of lights on horse-drawn vehicles, { The executive committee asked for a law making it*compulsory that all horse-drawn vehicles have lights at nights, and asked that the municj- palities be allowed to enforee the daw; but here it Was shown that the law should apply to the whole prov- ince, One chief of police said that he applied common sense to all of the laws. The use of the spot light | dealt The result of the election, the ar- al majority to carry on the Another interesting develop- |ment in connection with Queen's | Park is that several members of the | government, including Hon, F. ©. | Biggs and Hon. Peter Smith, have commercial -stagnation. The longer | joined the order 'since coming to To- we hold up the stream the more un- { rento employment and the greater depres- | of twine at Kaloosoo Bayajain, a fellow employee, to awaken Bayajain so that he wgquld not be drawn into a machine and the life crushed out of him Bayajain hailed his deliverer to the police court on a charge of that the action of the Engljsh-speak- ing Unlorists in sacrificing their po- litical identity in order to strength- en the hands of Gen. Smits' Dutch- speaking party was unique in recent history, and suggests that it has had a considerable effect upon the think- is illegal now. -- Dr. Doolittle Speaks. Dr. Doolittle received a warm greeting ang told of his previous visits to Kingston, as champion bi. He characterized as "unfortpate" | the advertisement to which refegnce had been made. "Too much care cannot be taep to protect both the province and Ye immigrants," he added. "If I haveq proper appreciation of our pasition i1 all the work the government might plan it could not do enough to wipe out the unemployment situation, "That situation is the result of the campaign was that the farmers were never united so strongly as they are to-day. An appeal was then made for funds to help defray Mr. Campbell's election expenses and was well responded to. The labor candidate attributed his defeat to a general split in the la- bor ranks. He said the labor men did not stand together and the elec- tion forces of the liberal and gov- ernment candidates were too large to cope with: The feature of the voté was the immense pluralities which the rural districts gave to Campbell. Has One-third of Vote. Ottawa, Feb. 8.--Out of the con- fusion occasioned by the multiplica- tion of candidates in the federal bye- election in West Peterboro, G. N. | Gordon, the Liberal nominee, emerges to-day elected to the house | by approximately one-third of the | total number of votes cast in the | constituency. Although members of the government are not inclined to | commit themselves on the result of | the polling, which reduces their fol- | lowing by one and adds one to the | supporters of Hon. W. L, Mackenzie | King, the returns seem to indicate | that J. H. Burnham, ex-M.P., who | contested the riding as an indepen- | dent conservative, cut deeply into | tie vote which might otherwise have | been recorded for the government. Had Mr. Burnham not been in the field, Roland Denne, the government candidate, would have had _.a sub- stantial lead over Mr. Gordon. Con- versely, had the former member's attitude been such that the govern- ment could logically have endorsed his candidature, he might have car- ried the day against his liberal, farmer and labor opponents. The Government's Majority. Ottawa, Feb. 8.--With the elec- tion of a liberal in West Peterboro, interest in the government's ma- jority in the commons has been greatly increased. At the present standing, the government will mus- ter a majority of thirty against the combined opposition, with the pos- sibility of this figure being reduced by three or possibly four members and being further reduced by absen- tees from the house. The govern- ment supporters at present number 131. . ---------------- sion." {Canada's Wheat Production Producers and dealers in many lines, the premier declared, had Shows a Large Increase taken their profits during a time of rising prices, and it was in the pub-| Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 8.--The total lic interest that men who had so |Production of wheat in Canada dur- done should now take their share of | ing 1920 was nearly 70,000,000 ba- loss. The farmer had done and still | shels more than during 1919, figures was doing this. Why should not all [made public here by the dominion do their share ? bureau of statistics disclosed. The "I think it would be a good thing | Year's yield was 263,189,300 bushels if the influence of the house could [Produced from 18,232,375. acres of be used to undam the channels ot [land and that of 1919 was 193,260, trade," continued Hon. Mr. Drury, {400 bushels produced from 19,126.- "There is no unemployment in rura; | 968 acres. The average yield per districts, though farmers are getting | cre increased from 10 buskels in less far their products. If prices 1919 to 14 1-2 bushels in 192¢, with of other broducts were cut in halt | 30 average of 15 1-2 busleis for the there would be no unemployment in | last five years. other lines of industry either, I am | The production of oats amounted convinced that if we could go ahead | 0 530,709,700 bushels, as compared to-morrow and borrow twenty-five | With 394,387,000 bushels in 1419, million dollars for immediate expen- | With an avérage yield per acre of diture on public works we could not | 33 1-2 bushels last year as compared Wile ous NRGEPI Ig a [fith 26 1-4 in 1919 and 22 bushels -- | average for five years. past. SOVIET CAN'T EXIST It is reported that Donald 0'Cal- WITHOUT WAGING, WAR laghan will leave the United States jon Feb. 11th. assault. The charge failed. AS AEE SEER EEE RR XJ oe PEEP P BPP E RPS s + + + * * + + + * * + * + + + * Discoverer of Radium To Visit United States New York, Feb. 8.--Madame Marie Curie, discoverer of radium and one of the foremost women sci- entists in the world, will visit the United States next May, it was an- nounced. She will be accompanied by her daughter, Irene, also a scien- tist. They plan to visit a number of American cities as the guest o' a committee of American women, head- ed by Mrs. William Brown Melony, of this city. The president of Cuba is expected to issue a decree naming a commis- sion to take charge of the sale of sugar crop of 1920-21, Eleven inches of snow fell in the maritime provinces over the week- end. Charies Crone collapsed in To- ronto post office and died suddenly. London, it is badly in need of imJi provement. We must do business in a bigger way if we are going to at- tract the British stock we want." Mr. Ferguson endorsed the pub- licity work being carried on in Eng- land and pledged his support to the minister of agriculture In this work. To Honor Bishop Fallon. Windsor, Feb. 8.--Bishop M. F. Fallon, heii of th» London diocese, recently returned from a visit to Rome, will be presented with an en- dowment bond of $5,000 by Windsor Council ¢c2 Knights of Columbus. The interest from the bond will be used in perpetuity for the education of a student for the priesthood in the Lon- don seminary which Bishop Fallon has established. ------ System of Barter. London, Feb. 8.--Ap attempt is being made to establish a system of | barter, or exchange of goods, be- tween British and Danish business concerns, so as to eliminate the diffi- culties arising from the uncertain- ties of exchange rates. Gen. Wrangel Says That Rus- | sia Is a Great Menace. Constantinople, Feb. 8. --Thae Rus- sian Bolsheviki are unabte to main- tain themselves without war, de- clared General Wrangel, the South Russian anti-Bolshevik: leader, in a statement here to-day, so they are preparing an attack upon Poland and Rumania, "which they will go through like a sho," he predicted. "The biggest questicn in the world to-day is the Russian ques- tion." sa'd General Wrangel, "and @ilization is belug menaced by the new Bolsheviki military propagan- da." "The only thing we ask from the outside world," hs added, "is the moral support and the money which the nations, inciuding the United States, should givé in their own Ia- | terest. 'I never recsived a cent from the French, the British or anybody, but conducted my campaigns by sell. Ag the grain of the country as we alvarced. I lost the Crimea because SEPP ePPet IPP PIN + *! '# GERMANS ACCEPT + * ALLIES' INVITATION *| : + + > 3 + ee ® ° Berlin, Feb, 8.--The German ® government has accepted an in- # vitation to participate ip the I had no more munitions and cloth- ing for my men." ---------- Thousands of British, says ex-Con- troller Halford, Hamilton, are com- ing to Canada next month, the majority wanting to farm. > Four persons, were injured, Mrs. RUINS OF OLD CHURCH ALL THAT SURVIVES OF KLON: DIKE GOLD RUSH CITY. {alarmed by the falling @f in the cycle rider forty years ago, and later, twenty-five years 280, when he rode over one hundred bicyclists from Port Hope to Kingston and was re- celved in the city hall and presented with a gold watch by Mayor Herald. He exhibited the Watch which, he said, had kept good time ever since. On the first Occasion, he rede the high bicycle and on the second, the Present safety. Since then has been a strong supporter of good roads. He was one of the first car owners and has followed all legislation af- fecting automobiles and good roads. When the cars first came, some peo- ple tried to restrict their use to two days of the week, speed limits and other laws were subjects of Intense debate. He dealt with the parking laws and other traffic regulations and showed the vast amount of good work performed on behalf of car drivers by the Motor League, which has an authority on motor legisla« tion in Thomas Phelan, its solicitor. | An effort is now being made to se- cure a blanket insurance policy that will do away with the dozen different | kinds of policies. { (Continued On Page 7.) ---- ng electorate. The Daily Mail, commenting on he South African situation, says the labor party is historically sound in it 'attitude to the British flag, and if Ga. Smits has to resube office with- OUla clear maprity there is no fear thaton the imperial issue labor will let tem down. The Johannesburg corresondent of the Mail says that Gen. Snyts expect: a majority of nine or tem, wt the corespondent's owa opinion & that uiless he can win seats from labor hi will fail to ob- tain a clear majcrits, -- Miners' Stike, Cape Town, Feb, {--Five thou- sand miners in the land district have struck, and their ction on the eve of the electhn cam as a thun- derbolt. The béief wa expressed that the strike wa a Polijcal move, designed to conglidate the labor ranks. There have been Pedictions that the laborites would capture twenty seats in parliment. -- Marriages Restriced By Housiig Shortiqe New York, "Feb. 8.--Rey. F. B Tilly, pastor of St. Jacobw'sLutharan church in Winfield, Queeg, became { Hay Touchy High Prices; ! little of it to Sell number of marriages in hs parish. Cobourg, Feb. He made an investigation qd in a | ed a record price i . statement, he attributed the condi- | ing for $30 a tons digtriet, atlly tion to the lack of places for young | barns, and from $33 he farmers people to start housekeeping. market. "The trouble } }°5 on the "1 know of couples who have!yus have any to sell," salbat few of sought rooms in all sections of Loug | er in discussing the high O"® farm- Island City and Elmhurst. They have things that we have for sac® The met with disappointment every: | the toboggan at the present (2° °% Where and were forced to postpone | we expect will go lower." As a 3201 their weddings. We are hoping the | of 311 this he kave it as his opiliit building situation will be relieved that farm wages must come down of this spring." {else "we shall have to do without | help we cannot afford to hire." Hay has reach- His Trial Again Postponed, |} i i i | fore the French Assizes, had been set | % | 1 | : - | | | Paris, Feb. 8.--Henr{ Desire Lan: | dru, under indictment charged with [#$ #2344400 00 049 the murder of eleven women to|% Lod whom at virious times he had pro- {* NEED TWO COMMITTEES mised marriage, and. whose trial be- | # TO HEAR DIVORCES -- Sia 1st, has succeeded in ob-|¥ Toronto, Feb. 8.--An interest- | # ing report in circulation | : for March taining another postponement of his |% trial. Landru hds been in Jail for |% the past two or three days is two years aud recently was sentenced # the effect that owing to the to five years in jail and subsequent |% ceptionally large number of deportation for swindling. ¢ vorce applications to come % fore the senate divorce comm) % tee it will be necessary this ses # sion to pame two committees # to bandie the work. Sir James % Lougheed said the matter would 3 i -------------- Gave Hair to Government, London, Feb. §.---An English girl has just set an example of patriotism to her sisters o. this or other coun- : The ruined old Russian church at Lake Bennett, Alaska, which is all that remains of the city of 20,000 pedple which thrived at the head of 1! e famous Chilkoot Pass during the gold mush of '98, The village, as it was called, was founded in '08, and it was there that the prospectors outfitted and made rafts and for the sail on the Yukon River. # have to be considered by the tries by cutting off and selling her + senate, The number of applica- hajr and giving the proceeds to the government t. help relieve its finan- % tions already jn is 121. cial situation. The girl': name has 4 : . Bot been made public, sees # Allied conference on repara- #% tions in London on March 1st, 4% it was anounced here to-day. 4 ~ +P. H Bowen maybe fatally, in an + automobile collision at Windsor. #| Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, of Van- : : _#jCouver, is to be speaker of the Sees edstscennae British Columbia legislature. E seeds 0t0e Hy * + * * * > > > iS