ibis IB... FAIR SHTORIOIss.. - TO-DAY JACKIE COOGAN in "CircusDays" a MON., TUES., WED. "If Winter Comes"? T0 C( CONTEST CLUB'S CLAIM To Right to Hold Racing At Niagara Track. ATTOREL SENTRA WOKE Decides fo Launch a Test! (Case in the Ontario Courts. Toronto, Pot. 18.--Following de- partmental Investigation into the status of the Belleville Driving Club's charter, and the powers, con- ferred therein, Attorney-Géneral Nickle has decided to contest the right of the new Niagara race-track principals to operate a race mest, with attendant betting, umgler . its: eathority. The prosecution whigh will short- By be launched in the /courts will be in the pature of a tesf case, in which according to Hon. Mr. Nickle, the province will receiye necessary light as to just where {t/stands in relation hanging around loose awaiting spec- ulstive purchasers. While the jud- foal intelligence that the province fAesires is general, the Individual right of the Niagara people te op- erate will be vigorously attacked. Hon. Mr. Nickle did not specify just which of the supposed vuiner- able points of the Belleville charter will be attacked in court by the provinc¢e's legal talent, but he de- clared that, generally, all points would be contested. There are sev- eral questionable features about the charter, including the population of Niagare, the distance of the track from the urban centre, the right to conduct racing under the terms of the old charter, and as to whether the owners have kept it alive. The Attorney-General is provided with the evidence as to betting, fur- nished by Inspector Greerg on his visit to Niagara op the first. day's r.cing. A summons will be issued and' on ths Strength of Mr. Greer's evidence the case will be *unched. ------------------ n OTTAWA; WANTED IN KINGSTON Albert Shane Is O Is Charged With Having Received Stolen - Goods. Wanted in Kingston on a charge of 'having received stolen goods. Al- bert Shane was taken into custody at Ottawa on Wednesday by Con- stable Thomas Mullinger and brought back to Kingston. The ac- cused will be arraigned in the po- lice court on Friday morning. 'The arrest of Shane follows the theft of clothing from » Kingston store. The case is under investigation by the police and some interesting developments are expeoted. THE CHEESE BOARD. Nineteen And One Half Cents Bid-- No Sales. Mere were 283 boxes of gqolored cheese offered for sale on the Fron. tenac theese boeyd Thursday, but thoro were no sales. The bids start- ©! at 19 cents and closed at 19% conts, (iibson, Murphy and For- ster ng that price. The factories représented were St. Lawrence 25, Thousand Islands 23, Verona 75, Model 60, Glen- burnie 70 and Arigan 30. The secretary, William Pillar, read a resolution passed by the Pic- ton checse board stating that the dairymen's association was largely fafluenced and controlled by the butter interests who passed resolu- tions unfavorable to the cheese men; and asked that the cheese factories be properly represented at the an- nnal convention to be held at King- | WINNIPEG ELECTION 18 GROWING WARMER Liberals and Laborites Stage a Spirited Campaign to Win the Seat. Winnipeg, Oct. 18.--With promin- ent speakers from Eastern Canada and even as far as the British Isles | enlisted, the campaign of Liberal and Labor candidates in the North Winnipeg by-election is now assum- ing a fighting formation. . Several meetings are scheduled for this week and early néxt week. Polling will take place Oct. 24th. Concentrating its platform into one mammoth meeting. the Liberal party will hold a rally on Monday, | Oct. 22nd. Hon. E. J. McMurray, | M.P., solicitor-general for the Do- minion, whose elevation to the Ca- binet necessitated the election, will be supported by Hon, Dr. H. 8S, Be- land, minister of SolMders' Civil Re- establishment at Ottawa, and Rob- ert Jacob, member for Winnipeg in the Provincial Legislature, who will cceupy the chair. W. C. Robinson, Labor represen- tative for Blackpool in the British House of Commons, is aiding Alder- man A. A. Heaps, nominated by the Independent Labor party, in his campaign, while Miss Agnes Me- Phail, M.P., for North Grey, and J. F. Callin, M.L.A., for Fort Franciy, also are supporting him. The big meeting of the campaign - will be held Wednesday night, when al! three speakers will piace Labor's platform before the electors. Mr. McMurray Js also opposed by J. A. Martin, Labor, running as an Independent, and Paul Gigcejezuk, Independent. TIME TO MAKE CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION Lord Haldane Knocks ldea of imperial = Federation-- Sounds a Warning. London, Oct. 18.--S8peaking at Edinburgh University last night, Viscount Haldane said the time, was coming when changes would have to bé made'in the British constitution. Great Britain had overcome the majority of her diffioulties with re- gard to the dominions; she had made the privy council imperial and {had ancimperial war office., He, said he would like to see the navy and the civil service united in the same way and believed the efficiency of the government of the empire would thereby | be sub- stantially raisad. So long as Great Britain and the dominions worked together, con- stantly studying each other and de- veloping their common ends so long they would likely hold together. The moment they tried to tie up the em- pire in some imperial (federation symptoms of peril would appear. Therefore, it seemed to himr-that a written or rigid constitution would be wholly inappropriate to the Bri- tish Empire. MANNHEIM FOOD RIOTS CAUSE SEVERAL DEATHS Clashes Between Rioters and Police--The Public Services Cut Off. Mannhiem, Germany, Oct. 18, -- From six to eight persons are re- ported dead and many others woun- ded as the result of yesterday's food riots in Mannheim during which frequent clashes occurred be- tween demenstrators and police. The trouble was the out-growth of high prices of food, resulting in a general strike and the cutting off of the water, gas, electric and street car services. A state of siege was declared by the police last night, and the streets were closed at nine o'clock. prin, Ontario Conservatives are to hold a convention in Toronto on Nov. ston on January 10th ond 11th next. 20th. "You Said It, Marceline!" MEN are so inconsistent; They spend TIM™ and on a girl ver they Lave MOST OF) ih order to convince her ha {on en. i mie Tomi Late at night and early In the morning; At twenty, and at forty; And he also thinks differently 'About her on Thursday, To Tuesday--that is, If he happened to meet Creature on Wednesday. But, generally speaking, All that most WOMEN waste care again yesterday rejected German efforts to enter negottfations the French and Belgians on in the Ruhr. sur- the von Hoesch, with resumption of work The greatest official rounds the-interview between French Premier and the German Charge in Paris, but it is understood that the German di- plomat told Poincare three things: (1) The German Government had given orders that Rhineland turn to work. unable to pay for reparation liveries in kind, the money. « WONT ACCEPT * GERMAN HELP Poincare Rejects Offer of Assistance in Rubr. STRESEMANN'S OVERTURE Chancellor Says German Gov- ernment Cannot Finance Deliveries in Kind. Paris, 18.--Premier secrecy the Ruhr railwaymen (2) The German Government (3) The German hold and Deliveries Test of Good Faith, Poln- the and should re. 1s de- because it had not Goyernment again Proposed that :he German and the occupying autherities conference on the Rahr puzzle. He handed Pointare two memo- randa, one of the German reason for abolishing the coal tax, other an exposition of the German inability to finance reparations kind. a the in LAST EDITION. CANADIANS ARE NoT KEEPING U.8. "WET" -- General Victor Williams Says Blame Rests Upon Ameri- cans Themselves. Toronto, Oct. 18,--According to General V, A. 8S. Williams, commis- sioner of Ontario police, practically the entire rum runaing industry be- | tween Canada and the United States is in the hands of United States citi- zens, says the Toronto Evening Tele- gram in refutation of the impression in the United States that "it is Ca- radian bootleggers who are keeping the United States in an illegally moist condition." "They're practically all Ameri- cans," said Gemeral® Williams. "It I had control of policing the high- ways of tho provines, I would seize six or seven Amerfean automobiles every day, engaged In this trada. Why, as it is, we esught four New York Satte automobiles just recently engaged in rum running. In tho last case our mien got the car 'and Federal authorities took it over. "And as forthe beat trade, I have seen with my own 8yes the situation at the Windsos border. I have seen Detroit owned Sgufiches come over to our side, at Petite Cote, load up with r and beer and g0 back to own country. | am told that lerican oflicials do not want to stop this trade. If they do want to, why on earth don't they do it? business is manag- ed, operated financed by their own citizens, Who use motor boats and automobf of United States ownership. ely they should have some re ibility {n control- ling the situation." | WRITE UPON WHITE CARDS First Pri. Paiie Case: of Psychic Phenomena. SRS ARE CALLED (P Before a Commiltee of Scien- tists In a Long Island Garden. New York, Oct. 18.--What scien- tists termed as the first prima facte evidence of a case of psychic phen- omena performed in daylight was on record here yesterday. The Rev. Mrs. Josik Stewart, pas- tor of the First Independent church at Cleveland, O., working for the $2,600 award offered by the Scien- tific American, apparently succeed- ed in producing genuine examples of spirit writing on small, white cards furnished by the Investigating com- mittee. The tests were madé in broad day- light in a garden at the home of Mrs. Ned Wayburn, Bayside, Long Island. They came after several un- successful attempts indoors. Writings included messages from the late Willlam Jones, who was a noted psychologist of Harvard uni- versity, and the signature of the late Willlam T. Stead. There were few of the usual trap- pings of spiritism in the tranquil garden where Mrs. Stewart obtain- ed her messages. Used Flowers. She sat near a small rustic table at they Poincare, in replying to the Ger- man diplomat, took note of the first declaration, and, with respect to the second declaration, said that if Ber- lin could not now finance deliveries in kind it was Be'lin's own fail, due to the stupid Ruhr fight. With regard to the coal tax, he declared that, regardless of what Berlin (id, it would te maintzined in the Ruhr, and, in view of tle second declara- tion, he régarded the third declars- tion useless. H¢ ° repeated "that France "for deliveries in kind! as a test of a Ger, man cessation of resiitance. He ad vised the German Gsvernment io get together with ths Ruhr indust- in a fainting conidtion early morning in August Vour-0id. Domestic. a-------- Belleville, Oct. 18.~~James Bohan, a wealthy your married man of T by Justice Kelly to months' found guilty on & charge of attempt- ed rape and assault on a seventeen- year-old domes W. H. Hastings. renton, was semtenced here today twenty-three imprisonment 'on being in the home of LB. for West The girl was found hy Mr. Ireland one and hospital Mr. and Mrs. Ire-| land were crown. witnesses. rialistg to meet the conditions which the French and Belgians would insist in the Fuhr, ind warn- ed the Germans the! no jeneral re- gun until the Ruhr prob2m was in a way of settlement It is reported that te German spokesman made ne dearation of general reparations, butlimited his observations to the sitwtion in the Ruhr, which has becne rather critical since Berlin hb hampered the Franco-Belgian pls for direct accord with the Ruhradustrialists by notifying them thathe German Government would nopay for de- liveries in kind. KNIGHTS OF COVMBUS GIVE MADNIC RING | To a Methodist Escopal Min- ister Who Id-eaving Olean, .Y. Olean, N.Y. Octl8.--An event believed to be witht precedent in New York state t« place in this city last night wh Olean Council No. 338 Knights (Columbus, pre- sented Rev. G. R.'illiamson, D.D., former pastor of @ First M., E, church with the lirty-second de- gree Masonic ring'he occasion was a public farewelleception for the clergyman, who 5 been appointed vastor of the Fi Methodist Epis- copal Church oforth Tonawanda. PRESENTS [SS TAYLOR. Attorncy-GeneraNickle Introduces Her TThe Bar. Toronto, Oct 8.--O0sgoode Hall had a new expence this morning when for the fiitime in the record of the grey old llding an attorney- general official in the presenta- tion to the ju: of the week of a number of stuits at law for thelr 'call to the be Among them was Miss Mary icKendrick Taylor, daughter of J. Dr. Bruce Taylor, principal ériueen's university, Kingston. Shid Attorney-Genere: W. F. NickIK.C., hail from the same town cKingston, and it was out of compent to her that he appeared. were twenty-four men also to the bar. i -------- nS (FNEeN WITNESS. J ou x su io wonpss on parations negotiatiors coild be be; treatment was found necessary. Bo- han received a severe tongue lashing from the court, who said that if the women folk of the land were not protected, then modern civilization was not superior to that of past ages, Squirrel Had Sixty-eight Golf Balls in Its Nest Montreal, Oct. 18.--Noticing a squirrel scampering off to the woods with a golf ball, Mrs. Archie Mc- Lean, Lachine, who was playing in a foursome at the Somerville golf course yesterday, chased the little chap to the mest. Looking into a hole in a tree she found that it was filled with golf balls, and on count- ing them found they numbered sixty- eight. The squirrel doesn't lose anything gnaterial by this discovery, because Mrs. McLean later bought a bag of nuts and emptied them in the cache. ; Lloyd George Pays Visit To Tomb of Lincoln Chicago, Oct. 18.--Recovered from a slight cold and the fatigue which kept him {dle yesterday, Right Hon. David Lloyd George, war premler of Great Britain, resumed his itinerary to-day, going to Springfield, IN., for a visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, and an address there. GAYE FOREIGIER A LIFT AND IS SHOT T0 DENT Homer ©. Lindsay, Hamilton Auto Salesman, From His Car. sider Mrs. Stewart's "spirit writing" as meeting the requirements of the Favors Dr. Banting and used only flowers and ferns to aid her in summoning the spirits of another world. She pressed the flow- ers between the cards. After more than an hour of un- successful attempts the medium asked watchers, sitting a few yards distant, to gather round her. One scientist laid his hand at the base of her gkull, while Mrs. Stewart grasp- ed the arm of an elderly woman. ly. efrart sald. men your" Sevéral minutes elapsed. Then the medium relaxed. "There they are now," she said. "They must. pray for me, won't ? Spirit Writings. J. Malcolm Bird, an editor of the magazine, looked through the cards. Amid the stains left by the crush- ed flowers he read: "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again." Written in heliotrope colors on a second card was a message signed "William Stead." 'How happy .I should have been for such an op- portunity as this." Other similar messages followed. After the seance the committee issued a stateraent saying additional tests will be held Thursday. Wed- nesday's tests, it was explained, were before a subcommittee on the award. Additional tests must be made be- fore the whole committee. "Mrs. Stewart has made a prima facie case," the statement sald. "We are sufficiently well impressed to proceed further." Scientists here to-day were "Im- pressed, but not convinced," and J. Malcolm Bird, associate editor of the Scientific American, said that additional daylight experiments cer- tainly would be necessary before the magazine would be ready to con- publication's $2,600 award. For Order of Merit London, Oct. 18.--The suggestion that Dr. Banting might be appointed to fill the vacancy in the Order of Merit left by the death of Lord Mor- ley, is made by the Daily Mirror, "Js not Dr. Banting, the greatest benefactor of mankind for a gen- eration. entitled to membership? No bonor is too great for his noble ser- vice to humanity," says the Mirror. The Mirror does not know, of course, that Dr. Banting, however much he may merit it, would be pre- vented from accepting such honor by the Canadian parliameni's You 3 Harry Heilman Sells His Fore- most Diamond Foe a Big . Policy. New York, Oct. 18.--Babe Ruth took out a $50,000 life imsuramece policy with his greatest American league rival for batting honors, Har- ry Hellmann of the Detroit Tigers, who is an Insurance agemt during the off season. Hellmann witnessed the triumph of the Yankees in the last game of the world's series with the Giants and talked business with the Babe scon after the big slugger received his part of the winner's share of the series. The policy is made out in favor of Mrs. Ruth and Ba®y Dorothy, Hellmann and Ruth are the keen- est of rivals on the diamond, the former winning out by a narrow margin this year in the race for hitting supremacy, but also warm friends. 25,000 LUMBERMEN IN QUEBEC WOODS More Than 3,000 Camps Will Be In Operation This Coming Winter. Quebec, Oct. 18.--The next win- ter's cut of the Quebec forests is ex- pected to be une of the largest in recent times. Over three thousan.i lumber camps are due to be in oper- ation, employing in the neighbor- hood of 25,000 men, according to Chief Forester Ploche. He stated there was a scarcity of labor In some sections of the lumber dls- trict, and that, consequently, higher wages were being offered as an in- ducement to go out into the woods for the winter. Regarding the situ- ation in the forests of the province, Mr. Piche said that there had been a lot of fog, which, combined with the dew, tended to keep thé leaves and grass moist, The conditions at present ideal, he stated. TRIAL OF CLERGYMAN 5 AROUSING TERE were sor 2 With and Wiroprosentston. Winnipeg, Oct. 1 18. --Attracting national attention, nipeg this week is the scene of a 'church court" investigation presided over by Rev. Samuel Wilkinson, president of the Manitoba Methodist Conference, hearing charges placed against Dr. J. H. Riddell, principal of Wesley College, by Prof. Rev. W. G. Smith, formerly vice-principal of the insti- tution. Dr. Riddell is accused of offences '"'against the law of God and the dis- cipline of the Methodist church." The charges laid by Prof. Smith al- lege that .n geveral instances the accused was guilty of prevarication and mis-representation. Seven specific charges are made, all dealing with the appointment of Prof. Smith, a former member of the University of Toronto faculty, as vice-principal of Wesley and his subsequent dismissal. One of' the principal charges is that Dr, Rid- dell stated during examination for discovery that he had made no de- finite offer to Prof. Smith when he was being engaged in Toronto, that no terms had been discussed and no salary. mentioned. College matters are also discussed in the charges. GIRLS AND CIGARETTES, Mrs. Bigelow Has Never Seen the Combination in Canada. Regina, Oct. 18.--""In all my wan- derings about this country I have never seen a girl with a cigarette In her mouth," stated Mrs. W. Bige- low, Dominion organizer of the Wo- men's Christian Temperance Union, speaking yesterday at the conference on anti-narcotics, held here in con- nection with the tenth annual pro- vineial convention. The convention discussed ways and means of restricting the tobacco trafic, especially as regards young people. "If any woman could succeed in driving tobacco out of SBaskatéhewan she would deserve to be canonized," said Mrs. Bigelow. Dope Pays Huge Profits. Vienna, Oct. 18.--Cocalne smug- glers are active in Austria, bring- ing in the drug from Germany and France. The police not long ago found a consignment of 169 pounds. 'One kilogram was sold recently for the squitalant of 33390. It was pur- FOR FIFTY THOUSAND League of N of Nations. mn) ne ! y Imperial Conference. London, Oct. 18.-- The British foreign office is concentrating its attention on the comprehensive pro~ pesals made by Premier Smuts, of South Africa, for settling the repara- tions problem and the .reconstruc- tion of Europe on some basis of se- curity. emphasizes the necessity of ap- proaching this question primarily from the y by studying the German mind and basing all plans with the probable to. of a scheme fathered by the league of nations, which was so successful in the case of Austria. Smuts, believes that the enforce- ment of all claims should be taken out of the hands of the allies and placed with a committee of the league, for he thinks that if this was done the German attitude would at once undergo a change. There is evidence that both Pre-' mier MacKenzie King and Premier Rruce are supporting the plan of the South African statesman. Smuts proposals would ig no way in- 'errere with the plan groposed by Belgium, if considerati: of the en- tire reparation problega by the com- mission appointed for the purposa under the Versailles tréaty, and the amount which Germany is able 10 pay, is the chief subject of discus« sion both here and in Paris. When. ever the Belgian plan is discussed. criticism is directed in financial of | ome ow 8 at gn would be compelled to .m ments before his position stabilized, and this Is generally ri garded as putting the cart before: the horse in London. Services In Boston Reach Out for Mlon-Church Goers Boston, Oct. 18. -- Preachers of many denominations from all parts England will participate in a series of dally services in historic King's Chapel now under way and to con- tinue until next May for the pure pose of drawing non-church goers into some church, regardless of de- nomination. College presidents and prominent writers also will be among the speakers. On one day of each week the services will be en- tirely musical. The first King's Chapel! was er- ected in 1686 and the present struc- ture was built in 1749. It was the first Episcopal church in Boston and ped while the city was besieged by the continental army in the revolu- tion. -------- Canon FitzGerald in Ottawa. Ottawa Journal: Rev. Canon W. F. FitzGerald, of St. Paul's Anglican church, Kingston, wii be in Ottawa to preach at St. Luke's church on the occasion of the annual harvest thanksgiving service which will be ing at eight o'clock. evening, at the same hour, he will Ireland. "Unwritten Law" Wins, Edmonton, Oct. ' 18.-- August Hagen, Danish farmer, was yester- day found not guilty by a jury of the murder of a neighbor, John Zackie, at Park Court, Alberta, on Septem- ber 16th. The "unwritten law" was had been improper relations betwe:n his wife and Zackie, Leaves Million to Charity. Kansas City, Mo., Oct, 18.--A fund of $1,000,000 was left for cha ity by Jacob L. Loose, chairman the board of directors of the Loose Wiles Biscuit company, through his will, which was filed for probate. The money is to be used among the needy in Kansas City. Mr. Loose died in Gloucester, Mass., Sept. 18th. a pb AM. C. C. Nash and Ald. H. Sar gent are mentioned as lkely mayor- alty' candidates at the municipal ol S3ions. he, 53; Monday of Dec And Place Them Wih the introduced into the case by counsel for the accused, who alleged there : The eetate ls valued at $2,000,000, - THE PROPOSAL (OF- SHUTS Premier Smuts, in his statement standpoint reaction of German mentality there- 'This explains the recommendation Premier great The _ of the country and from Canada and here the British officers worship- © held in the church Thursday even-* On Friday give a lecture on his home country, 5