•i! '• to THE DELTA TIMES Volume 7 LADNER, B. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1913. $1.00 A YEAR. REVIEWS THE SHAMROCKS ELECTION OF A. SMITH GOES President of the United States LEGISLATION ORGANIZED OFFICERS TO PORTLAND
Member for Delta Emphasizes Acts Tho Outloolc for Tliis Season Espe Annual Meeting of the Delta Board I Asahel Smith, the Well-known "Po of Interest to His Constituency cially Blight—Expect to Have of Trade to Be Held on tnlo King," Accepts Contract Pleased With Grant. Better Team. Monday. t with Pol.tlalld Flnn.
"Naturally I view the grant by the Enthusiastic and optimistic the The annual meeting 'of the Delta Having signed a contract with the provincial government to provide for | Shamrock Lacrosse club of East Board of Trade Is to be held in Mc Columbia Agricultural Company of Portland to act as superintendent of steam ferry between Woodward's Delta at a meeting held in the old Neely Hall on Monday afternoon at a school house last Wednesday even-! three o'clock. At this meeting be their agricultural experimental farm, anii I.adner with much satisfaction," ing have again made preparations for ! sides the election of officers and the for a period of three years, Mr. Asa 1 Mr. Frank J. MacKenzie, M. a fast season of sport. The officers I presentation of the regular routine hel Smith, the "Potato King." who I- i' when interviewed by the Delta as elected for HI13 are: Honorary reports from the various committees has done much to make the Delta president, Robert McKee; president, and officers of the association for famous for potatoes, will leave for representative, with respect to It. Kittson; vice-president, H. Weav* the year 1912-11)13, several matters Portland In the course of a few I , vork of the session of the Legis- er; secretary-treasurer, L. Dennis, - of importance will be discussed. Two Weeks. laturs which closed last week. "It | and the executive committee, Douglas , petitions are to be presented from A short time ago, Mr. H. A. Mac- project of much importance to ', Honeyman, Robt". Kittson and George' the people of Canoe Pass, the other j Donald and Mr. Asahel Smith took tlie farmers of Delta and with ampl' e Dennis. "Bob" Kittson was appoint-1 also asking for light and power ex-j the opportunity of visiting the ex- rnment assistance this work, ed captain of the team for the com-1 tensions of the B.C.E R. line on the perimental farm of the Columbia Ag »-hich will cost anywhere from f 4 0,- Ing year. i Goudy Road. These petitions have ricultural Company, which Is situated . n to $00,000, can be carried for The meeting took the form of a: already been presented to the B.C. about 27 miles from the mouth of ward to a successful conclusion. smoker and thH reports of last year's; E.R. Company, but as far as Is known the Columbia River on a delta coun "The .Mi-Bride government, I may committees and the officers were all j no notice has been taken of them. try. This company own and control B0 Bay," continued Mr. MacKenzie, received with enthusiasm. The treas-1 The people In these districts, feeling 13.000 acres or land in that district, "unlike many governments that in urer's report showed a very healthy that the influence- of the Board may which is considered to be the richest . trs gone by have been in the habit financial state of affairs, there be- aid in securing these concessions i agricultural district in the stato of making large appropriations just Ing about $20 in the treasury from h^ve placed the matters in the hands I Oregon. Thc country itself is much • election times and decreasing last year. of one of the .oard members to In- j similar to the Delta, with this differ- grants after having been safely A number of lacrosse enthusiasts troduce. ence, th_Lt there the vegetable surface :-. iraed to power, has this year In- were preBi nl from Ladner, among There will also be an attempt soil extends to a depth of about four ed the appropriations for public whom were; Messrs. VV. Walters, H. made to have the date of the annual feet. The company, having procured throughout the province and f-l-iter, Hugh Burr and Findlay Mur meeting earlier, in order that all the jBuch a large tract of land, and wish- tho general election is still some in t0 ray. farmers of the municipality may havs I S operate an experimental de- off. As concerning Delta, the ^Although perhaps belonging lo an the opportunity of attending the do- j monstration farm in the district, ferry project has been liberally aid;? opposition section of the municipality ' liberations of the board. As it is, jbear d of the fame of .Mr. Asahel ed, and there has been an increased :.. far as lacrosse matters are con-; it is stated that at this time of year | smith, and forthwith caused him to vole for provincial highway, which ls|- rned, the visitors made stirring i a number of them are busy ln pre-1 sign a contract with them for three I Mineeting link between the cen- speeches, expressing the hope that! paring for the spring work on the years. It is understood that it was tres of the Lower Mainland and the I'm shamrocks would have a very; farm. A large gathering, however, a long time before Mr. Smith could states across the border, and cutting successful I "ason. The meeting! is anticipated, and it is expected thnt be induced to leave the Delta, where through the heart of the Delta con-1 throughout seemed to be unanimous \ now the board has established Its i-e iias resided for auout 17 years, stltuency, the Improvement of this: that the boys from East Delta would \ usefulness that this year, will be one coming here in 1896. trunk road ls a matter of interest to have a fine chance of securing the of the most prosperous yet experi Having a very extensive knowledge and experience of the best methods 1 all settlers and of value to all sec-'cup this year. The opinion was ex- enced. tions of the community. Roads and | pressed that a stronger team would of farming, especially on delta land, bridges and other necessary public, be fielded and th. organization would FEBRUARY HONOR ROLL. Mr. Smith will undoubtedly prove ery successful at his new occupation, works throughout the riding will also be in a position to do better work, _- „•• "V ., , ,, . and although regrettinag his removal receive ample attention. than heretofore. The following Is the honor roll for j,.__,., (1li. ,,,_,,.,„> ut„ ._,„__ "1 may also point out," said the February for the Ladner Public from this district, his many friends Woodrow Wilson, Democratic P resident of the United States, who unite in wishing him prosperity there. was today formally inaugurated at Washington, D.C. member, who from first hand knowl ROVERS TIE WESTHAM. School: edge knows the needs of his constitu- Entrance Class—1, Roiand I.an- •that work being done on the; n the ning; 2, Violet Hoey; 3, Nellie Ellis. With a final score o£ two a RURAL MAIL. Pacific Highway is largely of a per- New Westminster Rovers escaped a, Fourth Class—1, Marjorie Mason; manent nature. Th grading-, the, drubbing at the hands of the West-! 2, Viola Richardson; 3, Eva William- e Tenders Invited—Xew* Service Will iitching, Ibe ballasting of the finish-1 i * soccer eleven in the Na- j son. PREPARATIONS NEW LIVERY ham s anQ Be of Great Convenience to' ed road-bed must be done some time tional Cup series last Saturday at Senior 3rd—1, Harcid Siddall; 2, Farmers. and prior to the permanent paving. | McCallau's field, Ladner, through| Carrie Eyton; 3, Leonard Grant This, the government appropriations ! the phenomenal work of Home, their' Junior Third—1, Thomas Foster; (Prom The British Columbian.) COMMENCED HAS OPENED have provided .for. When the West-1 goa* custodian. The Rovers playing] 2, Jean McDiarmid; 3, Alex. Eyton. Sealed tenders, addressed to the minster and Greater Vancouver sec-|one man 8ri0rt and missing the ser- First Reader—1, Stewart Gifford; Postmaster-General at Ottawa, will tlons of the highway have been per vices of McLeod, Tomlinson and 2, Walter Jordan; 3, Mattle Nicolich. be received up to April 4th, 1913, Canneries Now Making Preparations Finn to Be Known as the Palace for the conveyance of His Majesty's manently paved, then we shall hope Lyons, were fortunate to hold the Second Reader — 1, Constance for Big Sockeye Run—Little Livery Stables Open for the government may see its way clear IslanderB to a draw. The Rovers Francis; 2, Harold Lanning; 3, Percy malls six times per week between to continue the same policy of assist Reagh; 4, Walter Lanning. the city of New Westminster and Spring Yet. Business. claim that Cairnduft netted a goal what will be known as rural route ance to this very necessary and Im which the referee, Proudfoot, would First Reader—1, Frances Web portant work In/these days of motor ster; 2, Irene Baker; 3, Albert Rog No. 1. The actual distance to be not count, as he did not see It scor covered by this route will be thirty- car travelling, with the result that ed. erson; 4, Marjorie Lanning. Already the Chinamen and Japan Under the name of the Palace Liv eventually there will be a perman one miles and the courier will leave Second Primer—1, Frank Leon the south side of the river dally at ese are flocking to the canneries ery Stables, Messrs. R. Vorheis and ently paved, hard-surfaced road from ard; 2, Florence Robinson; 3, Fred Ill' ILD HIGH TENSION LINE. 8 a.m., taking in the post offices of which are now making preparation R. L. Hanford have opened a new the market centres through this rid Williamson. for the anticipated big sockeye run. Strawberry Hill, East Delta, Sun livery near the Municipal Hall. Al ing, 20 miles to the cities across tho Now that the B.C.E.R. light ser- First Primer A—1, Martha Alex bury, Burvllla and Annieville. All Aa far as has yet been reported spring international boundary. Such ai vice into Ladner has been thoroughly ander; 2, Ursula Leary; 3, Ernest residents along this route may se salmon are still scarce, and although though before this time these stables highway would be of inestimable completed theservice between Burns' Kirkland. cure dally mail delivery by having a number of the pioneer fishermen have been open for business, but a ar already fishing, the majority aro value to every producer In this con- j-.anch and Ladner is being recon- First Primer B—1, Godfrey Cal a mail box placed at their doors for e few head of horses were kept. Now, stttuency, : structed, and high tension poles and vert; 2, Edgar MacDonald. which a yearly rental of $1 per year still waiting. however, they are purchasing new "With respect to general legisla- wires installed. The service, though will be charged. For the first time in four years the | live work, the present session has completed, at the present time is con- Buttermeir and Dawson Cannery oft horses, about 14 head of stock now POWER LINES IN MATSQUI. For the convenience of patrons In lieen fruitful of measures or great sideied unsatisfactory, giving an un obtaining money orders and postal Ilarlock Island will open, and it is being stabled there, and these are practical Importance." said the Delta 8teady, weak light, and In order to ; AnnnTTq1**-nT--n March R_ notes through rural couriers, the de expected that some improvements will suitable for both heavy and light partment has Issued special printed be made to their canning apparatus. aember, "Indeed it has been easily -mproVfi the service It was thought wlthTt™d^'the Western ckn-rforma team work. ui my opinion th, most su >siu-to > that a high tension tne between company must begin the1*0™*3 of application, a supply of The Currie, McWilliams Cannery on •esslon from every standpoint. The -. n and J'adneL. "?'' i erection of pole lines for supplying which Is placed in each mail box as Westham Island and the Dease Can Mr. Hanford has tieen connected Burn anch well as being carried by the courier nt-ry will both be operating again this with this business for some. time. Mr. nils considered have been largely of, remedy the present defects. The high |„„fct __„ „„...„_ _._ ._. _.._-_,-.., light and power for the municipal for the use of intending remitters. year, both using the new patent sani It. Vorheis, however, has been until i public nature and the legislation i tenB|on 1)0les will be 65 feet high. ity of Matsqui, and the first under a-- lieen along progressive lines, and A patron may procure a money tary process of packing. Spring sal very recently manager of Smith's taking, about ten miles of pole lino, n the interests of the general pub- SURPRISE PARTY. | order or Postal Note by lining ln the mon will not be canned but will be grocery store in East Burnaby, near must be completed within 90 days. particulars on an application form k* pt for market and cold stornce pur poses, the canneries awaiting the ar New Westminster. The new firm ex "IMSSSSS-". ... __,_. ,:„ i „—„ „»-««-.«,-••-." _ ,* , »»«__, • _•!-#"*i^-^-.--_ I to gridiron the municipalit^ y with rival of the sockeye run before'oper pect to have one of the moBt up-to- 1 date establishments ln Ladner and thlare thfuture amendmene any pre-emptot providinr magy thaBscurt lns | „venty of the friends of Mr. F. Kirk-1 ^.^ ..^ ^ ))(, |f| /p-.,',.,. to Ithe money reeeiv"- .. ations are commenced. will make lt their endeavor to give Iree lands menus a good deal to the land, VVOSthani I-...11J. »a supply any amount of current at The money order or postal note. landse'eker who now can go Into any his home as a surprise party, and "'flint In the district. as the case may be, la purchased by satisfaction. DESTROYED BY FIRE. of Hie reBerve lands of British Co a splendid social evening; was spent -"_.£ next the counci] the courier at the distributing post lumbia, except the Ihdian Reserves 1„ the usual amusemen s Cards | office to which he ls attached and law by the Matsqui council, giving Is personally delivered on the route The residence of Mr. George Swan, and park lands and pick out a home thdancins eveningg and. musiA cjoll occupiey timed wamoss t exof i ,.*__ ..._-. .. .' . " ... . . the Western Canada Power Com t. the applicant or his duly authoriz of Gulfside, was totally destroyed by HALL TO COST *'J(l,(lOO. stead. perienced by the musicians, who at pany authority to erect many miles ed representative, when courier fire at 3 o'clock on Friday morning "A public, act of Importance to the tended, In making music for the ot role lines for local distribution makes his next regular trip. last. Mr. Swan had a narrow es- Richmond Council Decides to Build riding is the measure which gives au- dance, which was held In the capa of power, as well as the right to lf personal delivery is found lm-|cape, being awakened by Ills hired New Structure on tlle Old thorlty to the public works depart cious basement of the house. A build and maintain the big trans- Site. ment to control extraordinary traffic number of people from I.adner at- practicable, the order or note may man after the flames had a strong "a highways, making It an offence to , tended mission line from Its main works ibe enclosed in an envelope addressed hold on the building. The house and SEXSM1THS, Richmond, March 4. through at Stave Lake to Sumas | to the applicant (remitter) and de- furniture wer a total loss, Mr. Swan —The question of the site of a new ruin mads by such traffic. The e at Stave Lake through Matsqui to ipoaited in his mail box. If, on the estimating their value in the neigh municipal hall to laka the place of Wide Tire regulations have been BROKE THROWS-- WHARF. Sumns. Four miles of this lino will lother hand, the remitter so desires, borhood of $1,000. The origin of tiie one destroyed by fire some time abused, Auto traffic Is also regu- be In this municipality, and for the Ithe courier may, as the agent of the the fire is a mystery as the occupants ago, was settled by the council yes luted, and the amendments to this on Tuesday afternoon as the Iienvy use of the highway for the line the Remitter and at his request, mall the had retired for some hours before terday afternoon when It was decided n.i-.isure are especially Important to n.t'.E.R. truck was leaving the Mo riding throughout which there Neelv "wharf for Rums' Ranch, the I companly will pay" the municipality j money order or poBtal note to the the f're was discovered. hy threB votea to two tn favor of tho site of the old building, and the .good^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ dea, of motflr traffic. .^ | [Ulnplanningg gat.^^^^^^, way under ^ the weight | MM*, ft.**-*** •*>•"* to ^ShiS £ tSfSSL? people of the municipality will be i ne amendments to the Game Act 0f the machine, and the hind wheels Representatives of tho company "•• remitter, SWITCHES COMPLETED. asked to vote $20,000 for the erec Rur "ih make It necessary that a license jrrashed through the wharf. It was met the council at Abbotsford on *»' couriers aro also authorized tion of municipal headquarters, 0 1 ' hunt must be taken out, Is a meas-j „ome time before the big machine, Saturday when an agreement was! ,"** r^Blilred to accept for reglstra- It Is reported that the Challucthan This subject has been much dls- '" of protection for farmers of Delta, • weighing itself about 4 tons, nnd tlon aU claMeB of reached which will b.i ratified *b~v '""* •"" *-••_•>--_ - mailabl—.e Blatter- , Bwltch on the Great Northern has ciiBBod In Richmond, and yesterday • while It Is In the Interest! of ,elng loaded with about ;t tons of lt bylaw at the next meeting of & J"^ Eft jgftitfcX been extended and Completed, now afternoon tho council sat In private "ii„ protection throughout the prov-)(,BD]- snd equipment, could bo raised having a capacity of about eight for over three hours upon It and • H will prevont Irresponsible per- onto the solid planking, but fortun The ' company must «*».no. J^rSRSptedTr ftSfibS" freight cars. The spur at Goudy was unable, even then, to come to •ons from shooting farm stock while ately no damage was occasioned to Road has alao been completed and a unanimous decision. limiting over valley lands, and, as the truck. ThlB portion of the wharf construction of local lines within | », „_ gj „,„-„» of t„. lengthened, now having a capacity of 1 ... .„.„...... thirty days Applicants for powerL,, f . ,*.„ ,„ . On reassembling In council, a mo it will prevent these people from IB now under repair. Formerly It mal matu r pfilron ll(l about five freight cars. tion waa tabled by Councillors Gay • •lug their friends, ln this act ted of two-inch j or light WiUlinone-fOUrth Of J^ttl»|-»lMd by means of a card notice de had been construe f of lhe llneB win be furnlB> nnd McCallan: "That owing to the '•irniers are, however, deemed prlvl- _--_-""r I/I„_ hnt Mr I lohnston !o any ' '- !posited' In" Ills' mall box, that such double planking, but Mr. J. Jonnston, fld ln_tallat)on ,_--_ nA.thOM fur-|^atter hag been received at the dls- destruction by flr > of the town hall I characters ln so far as hunting the proprietor, Is having It recon ( ther from the line will be charged trlbutlng office, and Is requested to XEW WESTMINSTER MARKET. and It la necessary that a new town ii their own land Is concerned, and structed of solid four-Inch planking a rate In proportion to the distance |meot the cour|er nt the box on the hall be built, and whereas there Is •'-d not take out a license. from the distributing line. Ilatter's next trip in order to rwelve Fresh halibut made Its appear some doubt as to the possibility of "For the Delta riding, consisting acquiring a clear title to the present ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ section referring to any particular! Lines will also be erected to sup- ldei|Very and give the neressary re ance on the New Westminster weekly '- ihree municipalities, the changes ply power to the pumping stations *pt therefor market last Friday morning for tho grounds If the town hall la removed. the municipal act respecting thei provision. . I ce at the government dyking projec'. I ' jf the patron falls to meet tho i.,, „ , Kever»l month-- ..n,i -, | and tho council has been assured of ulirii'tttlons of voters la Important.; "The government, wishing to matte Here electricity has reduced the'courier at the appointed time, the g™ ' ™ ' , , , 1 1 j such title If the present site Is re- " change Is based on the principle the opening and closing hours oi cost of operating these big pumps,patron Is advised by means of a sec ge.alded the . riv 1 of the silmon ! talned, be It resolved that ths new " the man who pays the taxes Is hotel bars uniform and aid in iiiniHi- a fl lh , H more than five per cent. There are ond notice that the registered mall," .. ' »"* j". °\ r '\, "** " " I town hall he built on the site of Htled to vote, and If the mnn who ntlng Joy riding and the frequenting other large users of power who will Imntter hasjieen returned to the^s-1 'j^^SSSt exc.p. those of Ithe old hall, at the corner of roads Ids the last agreement of sale is of road houses after the ritj^ noieis y profit materially by the introduc- itribnting office" where lt. will be held I f.^'''^, ,,*''*L*''^.."V, 'V- ""ol!," the same Three and Twenty." Me for the taxes on the property, had closed their bars, amended lie •_^-_-_----^^^H a •• , r. - .. .. t \\ f",.t
PAID LAST TRIBUTE THE PRKSBYTKRY. employed as agricultural laborers, 'lhe Hinlus with whom he is now ltev. Alex. Dunn Delivered Eloquent LABOR CONDITIONS IN Or. Herrtdge Nominated Tor IModer- working in llritish Columbia, being principally Sikhs, are of a superior Sermon at Funeral of The Royal Bank of Canada atorship of General Assembly Old-Timer. • FISHING INDUSTRY U —Satisfactory Reports, class. Incorporated 1869. Aliss E. Stewart, of Vancouver, (From The British Columbian.) (From The British Columbian.) gave an address on Chinese city The Old-Timers who were at the j Rev. Dr. Herridge of St. Andrew's mission work in. which she repre- funeral of Mr. Ferguson on Wednes Capital Authorized *25,000,000 Labor Commission Hears interesting ^^^^^^^^^______^^^^^churchy Ottawa, was unanimousl^ y scnted the condition of the Chinese day, in St. Stephen's Church, re Capital Paid Up ¥11,500,000 nominated for moderator of the Gen-| iu Vancouver, particularly that of quested the pastor, Rev. Mr. Gordon Rest *12,500,000 Evidence Sitting at Steveston— ernl Assembly at the afternoon Bes-! tne slave girlSj ot whom there are Melvin, to have the address of Rev. Fishermen's Earnings. sion of the New Westminster District a considerable number Alex. Dunn on this occasion pub Aggregate Assets, One Hundred and Seventy-Five Million Presbytery in St. Stephen's church The place of the next meeting of lished in the British Columbian, and Tuesday. It was also announced the Presbyterial was arranged to Mr. Dunn kindly consented to fur Dollar*. in connection with the General As be in the Mt, Pleasant Presbyter nish a copy of his remarks, as fol It is the aim of the management of this Bank to make every de sembly which meets in the first ian church of Vancouver. lows: positor welcome-, and to give the best possible attention to his financia STEVESTON, March 4.—Condi week in .Tune that all ministers and affairs. . tions of fishing on thc rreser river Last evening after the greetings The death of our dear friend, John | missionaries of the church would of the Presbytery were extended by Ferguson, a native of Kircudbright- were investigated by the Labor Com have an opportunity of attending mission yesterday afternog.n. A tew the moderator, to ltev. R. A. McRae shire, Scotland, and formerly a farm tSA.VINOS DEPAHTMKNT assembly deliberations, through the of Cloverdale and Rev. Mr. Logan er on Sea Island, Richmond, suggests witnesses presented themselves to generosity of several wealthy mem Accounts may be opened with deposits of Oa* Dollar and Upwards giv reasons why the Industry was of Vancouver, Air. M, .T. Knight to some here today old and happy e bers of the church who had contri rendered an excellent solo and Mrs. memories. These memories date Interest paid or credited at the highest current rates', est May 21st and so largely in the hands ol' Orientals buted $100,000 toward the purchase I,.,..,,.,, o,.,,,. ...,..,. .,,. n,i,tv„aa f„.ii--,„. ir v-_ November 30 th each year. to show how they could be super of rallwav tickets V record at- _ Scott gave an address telling from i875 and even earlier, when seded by white men. A Japanese of ,hl3 ln an ,1USS,on ot CUma whio1 tendutofathered at this meeting l . - the Richmond and Delta of today had II. F. BISHOP. MANACJKH LAX* NEK, •C, witness declared that I'or six years was st rior the Pre!bv «•**"•*•« forty-seven years -QOt receiVed their new names, given up to the la two year:, lie- I'I.II v emrthy and oomnrehenslve re-*8^ "'"' v_lth ivllk'h f° -Jttd.been ,«pon their formation Into munrolpall- men had made nothing at n"l, taking tiie seasons through. Mr. !'. s. Faulkner, formi rly : th ' "" ^"''^ ° espanson L* , , in ,»•-> «-«n eiy. endiary maglBl rate -u ste\.- iton. progress o. the .Presbyterian | , , „ , , , ,,„„„ „„„„__,„ ,„ | J* ^*** >«J '^*^{ gg showed how the Oriental flsh 'men llu lmv lu ( dominated the ludu il, y, : oi mor cause throughout the Presbytery, the church, She had established a date I began to give services, every McLELAN LUMBER CO. than ti ii per cent, ot i lie ( mploj l he following ministers were ap school shortly alter sue went there third Sunday, in the North Ann set- tor the purpose of training girls who tlement. For three years the minis- In the canneries wi n white men, and pointed commissioners to the Gen eral Assembly from the New Wost- would be suitable to make homes, .ter stationed at Langley journeyed Carry in stock a full line ol the otliers were about equallv ilivul -,i The principal feature in connection ] in a rowboat, occasionally In a canoe, ^ between Orientals and Indian flsh- minster Presbytery: Rev. .1. W. ermen. Perhaps there would be from I Woodside, Vancouver; Kev. ,1. 11. with her address waB her belief a distance of thirty-three miles, more ROUGH AND DIMENSION LUMBER 20 to 25 per cent, of white men en-Millar, Agassiz; Dr. P. Wright, Rev. in the efficiency of prayer. Not a or less, preaching in the .Methodist gaged in the actual fishing, The J. W. Whyte, Eburrte; E. C. W. Mc- single appeal had been made, she , Church there. It stood on the main- Sand, Gravel and Cement sanitary conditions among employees Coll, Port Moody; Rev. F. W, Kerr, said, to man in support of the mis- land bank of the Fraser river, a short of the canneries were very bad —Ihey I Prince Rupert; C. M, Wright, Fort sion, but in answer to prayer all'distance (about a hundred yards) to that had been needed throughout'the east of the bridge which now Phone 7 lived like rats. He thought the best |George; T R. McLean, Hazelton; LADNER, B. C. Box 1332 and the following elders: G. P. Gib- the history of the mission had been j connects the mainland with the lsl- way to induce the white man to re supplied. iand. There wer no road3 leadin turn to the fishing industry was by loon Vancouver; J. McKee, Ladner, e M and O. E. McQuaig. Elected Officer"*. Ithe church. The whole congrega forcing the Orientals to live under tion, between fifty and sixty persons, sanitary conditions, and as nearly as More memorization in the Sunday The session of the W. II. M. S. ***************************^ schools, a cradle roll in every Sun - came in rowboats and canoes. possible up to the standard oi.' the department of the Westminster ! Many of the Nortl^Arm settlers of white man. day school, a more accurate system Presbyterial this morning elected of keeping records, an investiga- i that time were located in pairs, as Mr. s. M. McDonald, a cannery the following officers: Mrs. S. Aj .Mille r and Ferguson, Mole and Betts, | D elta Hotel * foreman,' said it was hard to say what! tion into the character and popular Wilson, honorary president; Mrs. ithe McCleary brothers (Fitzgerald the average wages were paid the ty of the library books, and an efA. Lamb, re-elected president; Mrs. | J. JOHNSTON, Proprietor fort to bring the Sunday school land Samuel), Boyd and Kilgour, Orientals in the canneries A con Stoular, Mrs. J. A. Logan, Mrs. E. : Smith and Robson. There were oth- tract was made with the Chinese, scholars into church fellowship, A. Henry, Mrs. Seiveright, first, $ Ladner, B. C. Phone 2 I ler prominent settlers, as Errington, A All Modern Convenl.nces, Newly Furnished, Well Heated, Sam- I and they employed their o*'n men, were the five recommendations second, third and fourth vice-presi I Ferris and Cochrane, but these first but the majority would get from $50 adopted from the report on Sunday- dents, respectively: Mrs. E. CasI name- d i remember belter, they being * pie Room. American and European Plan. First-class Cuisine. to $00 a month, accord.ug to theschoo l work by Rev. J. H. Millar, of pell, recording secretary; Mrs. the ones with whom my boatman and i Prompt Service. amount packed. He had known Agassi/,. Hicks, corresponding secretary; I stayed over night and to whom we % Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Rates Reasonable. some China men who were employed The following resolution was pass Mrs. Mcintosh, literary secretary; ! went, as a rule, in rotation. % McNEELY CONCERT AND DANCE HALL. as expert fillers, make .fo a day. but ed at the evening session: "Where Mrs. J. K. Henry, Home Helpers' , .... that would be n day of fourteen as the government of British Co secretary; Miss Keith, supply sec- j.. .*.* ""»•- be admitted I suppose t NUT AND LUMP COAL FOR SALE. hours. They did not recognize hours lumbia has established an attitude retary; Miss Briggs, mission band £»'!£•?? f T™ or le*3 ,nd ner r****************************^^ peak of pe0 as in the canneries, and some worked of indifference to the enforcement treasurer I P'e we favor (not longer than others. He always found of the criminal code of Canada; Report, were read from the exe- I "£° "??'Z*™*, the,m); but „after g c or at the Indians good steady workers "And whereas the government cutlve committee and on literature, J^ r ^°; , „a ^ 'T^ •Vsked how much n good fisherman j has wilfully thwarted the action of mission band and supply. £>e treai- g ™ ™£,J •»«™*| <*; f,™ the said code as interpreted by the ,, u,c could make, he said he had known a urer a report showed a total of regarding the individuals " who*" m' **I courts of this province; good while fisherman to maiO $1.00 $8-2.12 sent to the general treas have mentioned that tiiey were with "And whereas the government is LUMBER! in a season of six or sevan weeks. urer. out exception a body of superior itself inimical to the protests of the Some years it would average $400 or men, sober, honest, industrious and religious bodies of this province. Thursday's Session. $500. He would put the round ave God-fearing—men of sterling worth Thursday's session of the West- rage of tho fishermen's earnings at "Be it resolved that the members and of nobility of character. Yesterday's session of the West EBURNE SAW MILLS, LIMITED $600 or $700. Available white men of this PreBbytery shall take from Twenty-seven years ago, at a pub were not. in the immediate vicinity. time to time the opportunity of in minster Presbyterial was devoted to! Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of —-— -... _„ TJ,-.—-~ Miacln-S It ic entertainment at Surrey Centre, hut they would always get Erom forming tile people of the signific the department ot Home Missions. remember having heard Rey Eben twenty to thirty men by sending to ance of the action of the government The reports in connection with the eser Robson speak of the North Arm i FIR, CEDAR AND SPRUCE LUMBER an employment agency in Vancouver, in its religious and civil bearingB whole work of the year show a settlement as a model settlement—a and they would stay with tho work it "And that the members of this steady rather than rapid progress. settlement which other settlements Shlii-fles. Lath, Sash, Doors Turnings and House Finishings they could get from $2 to $2.50 a Presbytery shall urge upon the peo Eleven new societies have affiliat might look to as a pattern of dili- Phone It 14 Kburne Prompt Delivery by Kail or Scow day. ple the election of a parliamentary ed with this branch of the Presby igence, enterprise, sobriety and re A. Zitteman, who has fished on the representation more in accord with terial during the year. These are spectability. Eraser tor twenty. years, said that tho moral and spiritual interests of the auxiliaries of Knox church, Sap j After the long journeys from Lang- the price orrered by the canneries tbe province.." perton; Mt. Pleasant, Vancouver; .ley to North Arm we sometimes ar- MUNICIPALITIES AND HOSPITAL. their munrr-ipalities would do their last year wns the best price thfl fish Although not introducing any St. Stephen's, North Vancouver; j rived at the homes of these men wet ermen had got in that time, but the recommendations for the better Good Girls, Cedar Cottage; St. A..- share, and certainly would pay any land cold and tired. The genuine Reeves Think Their Councils Will bills chargeable to them for treat eatch was not very big. Last sum ment of the Young People's work in drew's, Vancouver; St. Paul's, Vic- ... Klnuness and consideration dis ment of patients. mer he made about $150 clear. the Presbytery, Rev. M. G. Melvin, toria; Agassiz and Vernon, St Paul's See This Matter in tin* Ifro. played by them, their cheerful per Light. I A statement prepared by the sec • "Would you average $600 to $700 of St. Stephen's church, .reported Mission Band, Victoria; St. Ste readiness to minister to our needs, phen's Mission Band, New Westmin- retary showed that In the last two net on the season, as the last wit that in the Presbytery there were must ever remain indelibly imprinted WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. years patients had been received ness stated," was asked, twenty-three societies. Eight of ster, and the Woman's Association, |upo n the tablet of my memory andand j With the completion of the new from" The "following outside niunicl" "Six hundred dollars, nothing: lie these were open all the year round, East Gollingwood. The number of I w**- f*as*i up anu* *,urn witj, an *n_'Royal Columbian Hospital but a few palltles: Coquitlam, 106; Surrey, does not. fish," was the reply. "You eight open from eight to twelve these societies connected with the 'tense glow whenever an occasion [months away, furnishings and equip- ioi; Burnaby, 100* Langley 56; can start in fishing in .March with months and the remainder open dur Presbyterial to date comprise fit- arises to call lt forth. jment must be ordered very soon if It Delta, 5_; Maple Rldge, ,'M; Chilli' the spring salmon, go on with the ing tho winter months. These teen auxiliaries, six inission bands j when all of these men possessed.'» to bu installed in time for open- wack, 19;' Matsqui, 17;'South Van- sockeye nnd stay with Ihe fall sal societies represented H>12 young and four affiliated societies, making so many n0Die characteristics and so|i»K the Hospital in August. Thirty couver, 12; Kent, 'll* 'Mission. 11; mon in the latter part of November men and women and the averagei n all twenty-five. The total mem- few defects it were as invidious aS thousand dollars is required to fur- Sumas, 8; Richmond, 6. and you would be fishing three
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. $++**** ****** ***********&>***********************> ;• CLOSE OF SESSION. boooooooooooooooooI WASHI1.JTON STATE The Provincial Legislature ° Alter a Business Session- Closes 0 THE DISTRICT IN BRIEF. C S. A. Perkins Appointed. TACOMA, March 6.—-Word was re Honor's Speed. His | O ...LOCAL ITEMS... ceived here today that one of Presi OOOOOOOOOOOUOOC.OOOt- VICTORIA, March 3.—The 1913 dent Taft's last offic.l acts was to v ,^^ ^^******************<**********^ sitting ol the provincial parliament Xew Westminste . i :epoint S. A. Perkins, of this city, > was duly brought to a close on Sat Although February >v.is a quiet. i Republican national committeeman laughter was born to Mr. and Mr. R. Vorheis paid a visti to New urday afternoon, the prorogation month for business in the Lower vv. Swan on Saturday, March 1. Westminster last Tuesday. to the board of visitors of the Ann- taking place at 4 o'clock and the Mainland, New Westminster's statis !:i polls naval academy. tics show that the city did not eto. usual formalities and little ceremony Torpedo Station. .,- F Cullls paid a business visit Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kirkland paid marking the event. The House has growing during the twenty-eight a visit to Vancouver on Wednesday. days. Building permits shot up from BREMERTON, March 6.—Infor Vancouver on Thursday. been in session six weeks. In this mation was received today from the ( . 1 to period it has crystalized into law ap $112,650 for February, 1912, to Mr. S. W. Fisher returned from a $191,735, while customs returns, secretary of the navy by Rear Ad proximately one hundred measures, miral Cottman, commandant of the Mr. J. Ramage went to the Ter brief visit to Vancouver last Wed many possessing more than common which ar an excellent barometer in e navy yard, Puget Sound, that orders minal City on Wednesday last ou a nesday afternoon. importance, being regarded as cer general business, show an advance tain to materially stimulate provin from $46,243.38 to $49,529.07. The had been sent to the district attor :iess visit. m in. cial expansion and prosperity. bank clearing statement for Feb ney from the department ot justice, • •• 4* Miss Heath Fox, of Delta, left for asking him to again take up the mat A MIS-HIT Field, B.C., on Friday, February 27. ruary shows that New Westminster Clement, of the firm of Cle- As outstanding features may be ter of securing title to the Keyport It ts expected that she will return in mentioned the bill which embodies is the eighteenth city in Canada with Did you make n mis-hit ' k Lambert, left on Thursday peninsula and the tide lands along the time you employed the ne July. the revised "free lands for settlers" a total for the month of $2,170,915 „g for a visit to Vancouver. Civic Receipts Advance. the "vest shore of the bay between last " help." mo policy, the bill for the creation of ] ther and Brownsville for the pur Mount Robson Park and its com e Mr. Tom Keogh, the moving pic In the city treasury results are pose of establishing a torpedo sta Don't worry. There are Mr and Mrs. James Laurie have ture man, has again returned to Lad panion measure for tbe extension of equally satisfactory, a total of $18,- lots of g;ood fish in the sea, Strathcona. Also the important tion at that point. This matter was ad rrom their honeymoon and ner, and his performance on Satur 304.13 being collected in February. taken up nearly three years ago by and a sure bait to catch them day night was witnessed by a crowd amendments of the liquor license, tal.eI- up their residence on the 1913, as against $15,920.46 for the the navy department and the com Is a Want Ad. ed house. motor traffic and game protection same month in 1912. Road. acts, the measure reducing taxation, mandant ordered to purchase this Canadian Nor~Bs6vn. j tract. Must of the naval authorities "The New Minister," a cantata the enactment for an asauranco i ,- iiniicli and family, who have a healthful milk supply, the new wa The Northern Construction Com and experts were a reed that thi.--. residents of Ladner during the which is being prepared by local pain has started work op I... Li was the most favorable location ror young people, will be held in Ihe ter act, legislation governing censor .,:,,-, removed to Spokane on ship of moving picture.-:, the enact Island branch of the Canadian :.-•-•.i- such a station and testing ground McNeely Hifll on Friday, March 14. THE DELTA TIMES .Iay morning. ment under which parliament here em Railway. Tbe first '-..•!• - • •;-,:iii be found in the United An excellent entertainment is as after obtains an additional year in been located about six miles w n States. CGNDB-NBBD ADVf*"KT18I"MI_NTS J sured. New Westminster, and a leconti its term of life, while the sessional "Kit" is on Hls Way. \lr and Mrs. John McKee return- ndemnity Is Increased. large gang of men will soon be * ' Tor Sale, For Ew-hnnge, Wanted to Pom New Westminster on Wed- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Teller have work on the two-mile trestl-* over IE* -TTLE, Wash . March 6.-- ''iin.hase, To L«t, Loin, Found. Work lav afternoon. They have been Others are the creative acts in re "Kit" Gould, nephew of Sidna Allen Wanted, Situations Va_"ant, 1 cent per returned after a honeymoon spent in ference to the auditor-general's d the muskeg, one mile further west. word. Minimum, 25 cents for any un« ding the sessions of the I'res- Victoria. After the reception which notorious West Virginia bandit, is advt. These rates for cash with order. partment and the provincial museum, and a sub-contract, has also been let ftee today on a charge of bigamy terv and Presbyterlal ln that city. is to be held in Ladner the couple All Want Ads. must be in by 2 p.m. the further Extensions of provincial to C. R. Schaeht, who will start this ••referred by (be fniher-of his second on Thursday. will reside at Point Roberts, Mr aid toward colonization railway con- work on Monday. This trestle will wife. The father-in-law agreed not Mr F W. Kirkland, P.L.S., who Teller's former home. struction, the measure for the regu- contain over 2,000.000 feet of tim to prosecute if Kit left the city, and has been buBy during the last few lation of crematoria and registration ber. 'Tho Iine to Steveston is ex- Kit is, on his way. FOR RENT—29 acres; good dwell v",, k-, on municipal survey work in Rev. J. J. Hastie attended the ses of vital statistics, altogether with- pected to be completed by May. ing and outbuildings, all land the Delta both for the council and sions of the New Westminster Dis oth i At Port Mann the material for the under cultivation and in good private parties, left on Thursday for trict Presbytery in New Westmin for and advantagaav e of which will be turntable is beginning to arrive over shape. Apply "D.F.," Ladner points up the coast. ster last Monday, and in the morn readily recognized by opponents as the Canadian Pacific Railway and ' • ., • P.O., Ladner, B.C. ing gave a very interesting report on well ag supporters of the party now work on the roundhouse and yards . _ „i i„~ -w-,n«-._ nf I the progress and outlook of the For- fn control. * will shortly be under way. The . It was a curious circumstance that WANTED—By a young man, work ri,e work of re-rocklng portions of ' s in steamer "Strathtay" will be up rivei the somewhat colorless ceremony in .1 '-, on a milk ranch or dairy. Write Delta street haB been commenced to • probably this week with rails from Box 186, British Columbian, New lK cident to the termination of the legis Nova Scotia, and the company wll? the satisfaction of both the farmers | *"' 8 Westminster, B.C. and the merchants along that thor Maple Beach Audition, the old lative session this year ihould mark be able to go ahead with the work oughfare. During the winter season Whalen property at Point Roberta, the thirteenth anniversary of an his on the y.irds. These rails will also portions at the side of this road be- the Bummer home of scores of Lad toric function of similar character in be needed for relaying the old Great Conservative Meeting FOR SALE —Clydesdale Stallion, British Columbia parliamentary his Northern railway track through Port "Dean Swift." This magnificent ,,,I:. very wet. ner people, has been cut into build ing lots and offered for sale by Cur tory. It was on the first of March, Mann. imported registered Clyde stallion On Saturday, February lath. Mr. 1900, that the late Lieutenant-Gov tis & Dorgan, New Westminster, Tenders for a dredge scow for the The Annual Meeting of the Con for sale at a moderate figure, or 11 s* Rich, auctioneer, will sell the ernor Mclnnes was the central figure ,_ _^^^^^^^^^^_^^^^_«i^_ servative Association will beiheld at will exchange for heavy mares. He old Treiiant school property and some at that dramatic prorogation when ba(k filling of the widening work for IB very sure. Trie only reason for buildings on the high school site the New Mrs. F.- G. West, better known as virtually the entire House signified Westminster harbor will be selling, we have too many of hia which was recently purchased from its strong disapproval of his selection ealleu for hy the New Westminster LADNER "Sister Ethel," will hold special evan- own stock now. He is well known the I.adner estate. The Trenant of Hon. Joseph Martin for the pre-, city council at once. Tenders for ON in the Delta, having stood there propi rty contains about one and one- gelistical services in the Ladner Bap misrshlp by vacating the chamber in constructing the machinery with tist church, commencing Easter Mon for several years. F. B. Pemberton," fifth acres. a body, leaving his honor t'o reclta which the scow will be equipped will Victoria, B.C. day, March 24, and extending to Sat the formal speech terminative of the be let at once. Two million feet of Wetalay, March 12th urday, March 29. This effort Is be Crass Seeds—Timothy, Alsyke sessional proceedings to an empty sawn timber will be used in the pro at 8 p.m. i ever, Red Clover, Rye Grass; Bran ing put forth in order that the young chamber, but crowded gallery ject and 309,04)0 lineal feet of piling. members of the congregation may be The afternoon saw no further Mr. Frank J. MacKenzie, M.P.P., and Shorts, Dairy Chop, Corn, Rice Six hundred thousand cubic yard- will be present. Poll Tax Meal. Wheat. Chick Feed, Chick Rice, reached. businesB transacted than the submis of dirt will be used to fill in the sion of the new municipal act, pre GEO. DENNIS. Grain Sacks, may be obtained of H. back of the quay while eighty-six Rev. C. C. Whittaker left on Thurs pared by the Royal Commission, President. \ Rich, agent Brarckman-Ker Milling thousand pounds of steel spikes and Any person having a revenue tax day morning for Vernon where Sun which recently investigated all the one hundred and twenty-two tons of receipt for 1912 bearing any number . . I.adner, B.C. * day School conventions are to be forms and conditions of local gov steel and iron work will be put in'r, between 38S24I to 389001 inclusive, held. Mrs. Whittaker will accom ernment. A woman of the underworld, who these jobs. will kindly notify H. F. Handford. pany him as far as Mission. As lt is intended that this shall be ( - >< in i t lit MI Industry. .i aught in Chinatown by the local widely circulated during the parlia Ladner, as soon as possible. police, was ordered to leave town on superintendent of the Temperance At Coquitlam work is being rushed Department of the B.C. Sunday school mentary recess, and suggestions of on the factory building for the Hynef the afternoon boat by Magistrate Mc- improvement are ipvited so that the iv Nothing In the way of helping Association, Rev. Mr. Whittaker will Stone and Staff Company, Limited address the conventions on temper measure when given -he force of law while the Coquitlam Shipbuilding the wayward person .was found possi during the session of 1914 may rep ble by those who Interested them ance work. resent perfection. Company has started its offices, lum Sutton's ber sheds and warehouses. At Mis- "l'HOYIXCLW- ELECTIONS ACT." selves in the caBe, BO she was ordered The chief law officer of the Crown . ,, . , . , , ... Among the hockey enthusiasts who from the municipality. intimated In the presentation of the i slo^ Messrs. A. S. Rankin and J.^W visited New Westminster on Friday bill that it is the intention o. the Schneider are erecting a box fai Notice is hereby given that the evening of last week were W. Wal government to accept the suggestion tory, which it Is hoped will be In list of voters for the Delta Electoral Seeds i.ast Saturday, Government Bngl- ters, C. Willis. W. Simmons, J. Fen of the Royal Commissioners, and operation early in March. At the District has been cancelled, and that, KROM HIADIXG, KVdLAND tii. r Napier and Mr. Sprott, road su applications to be placed on the perintendent for New Westminster, wick, A. Jordan, W. Fenton, J. Wil- next year establish a department de same time the Empress Manufactur voters' list will be received at my Seedsmen to His Majesy the King. accompanied by Reeve Benson and cock and A. Wllcock. The boys wero voted exclusively to municipal af ing Company, Limited, of Vancouver, is to build an up-to-date jam factory- office at the Court House, Nc-w Councillor W. A. Kirkland. inspected enthusiastic over tjle defeat which fairs. A. J. WOODWARD, Sole Agent. New Westminster administered to Five measures remained upon thei next door to the box factory, which Westminster City, where printed the damage done to the Cloverdale- forms of affidavit fo be used in sup ."ill! Orarvllle St., Vancouver l.adner road by the recent landslide the exponents from the crab town, a c.dor paper at the session's close ; will accommodate the farmers during final score of 11 to 3 resulting from and, therefore, fell to the ground.; the coming strawberry season. port of an application to vote will be 015 .'< rt St., Victurin. .ear Enderhy Hill. It was finally supplied. -elided that the government should the game. The brand of hockey, too, These include the bill respecting I From Coquitlam comes word that Catalogue on application. public irrigation corporation iTostatjthe Canadian Safety Container Co.. The list of persons claiming to •- asked to repair the road. was very good, and none of them were at all disappointed over the fV.\p committee stage by prorogation),, Limited, will build a factory for thr vote will be suspended from an 1 trip. Framr'a bill for amendment of the manufacture of their safety contain after the seventh day or April, 1913, The new arrivals at the Delta Hotel Yale-Cariboo Road Regulation Act. ers and sheet metal in this prosper and a Court of RevUlon will be held is week are: Jno. Erland, Vancou- Place's bill respecting the payment ous city. The cost of the plant ls on the nineteenth day of May, and r P Turley, Vancouver; Tom The cut-over on the local telephone Delta Telephone Co., Ltd. service which has been in prepara of wages antl W. J. Manson's bill re expected to be about $15,001), and notice of objections to the insertion ,.h Vancouver; M. H. Kenney, tion during the past week, is ex garding street lighting in rural dis its capacity will be about 150 can? cf any name on the register of volers Incorporated 191
1<)12 WAS GOOD YEAR CLIMAX OF MEXICAN REVOLUTION FOR SPORTSMEN Vhe
v. maj Report of Chief Game War den Shows Birds Were 2>elta Plentiful.
.from the British Columbian.) The year 1012 was an especially noteworthy one In the history of Uiimes game protection in B. C, acoordlng to the report of Chief Game Warden A. Bryan Williams, 'J.P., which has just been presented to the provin- citl legislature. There was, during the twelve-month under review, a very marked improvement in almost "•yifakas a Specialty or"** all respectB over previous years, this being attributed entirely to the fact that the government has shown it self in earnest on the game protec tion question and has not hampered J*ine the department by inadequate ap propriations or failure to give it .proper backing whenever such has been needed. Only a few yoars ago there were many skeplics who re job ana garded game protection as a fad, and money spent upon il as money wast ed. 11 is, however, Bafe to say that few such remain, and thai the peo ple or the province generally are of Commercial the opinion thai money spent In game protection Is money usefully spout. Nor will they begrudge the further additional expenditures that the rapid development of the coun try appears to demand and for which provision will be made by ^Printing the legislature during its present session. That such is the case re sults from the fact thai the moneys voted this department ln past years have been judiciously expended, and the present general condition of the MUtl'I'It OF M.U.KHO AXD game asset attests that even better SUAREZ. results have I,een secured than the Scene of the killing in Mexico City most optimistic would have expect showing Huerta, provisional presi ed. dent and "butcherer," and others (.aine Birds Plentiful. who figured In tho tragedy of that The Hill report of the provincial turbulent republic. No Mexican in game warden gave a satisfactory ac- cident in recent years has aroused 'Oount of the sport obtained within the world to indignation as has the the period which it reviewed. The murder of the ex-president and ex- record for 1912 is even better, and, vice-president of Mexico. Huerta, considering the enormous increase surnamed the "Butcher." has made in the number of huntsmen .that his first astonishing move in con there should be any improvement nection with restoration of the old fiillheads ie somewhat astonishing. 'As it is, regime. But Huerta himself may there is little doubt, that game birds bs tiie next victim of his own were more plentiful last season than methods in fickle Mexico. at any time during ten or twelve years, while the condition of big u^etterheads game is infinitely better than a few Fanners to Organize. 'years ago, this statement, of course, MOUNT VERNON, March 6.—A referring to the province as a should be ample proof that good va large and enthusiastic number of whole. There are a few exceptions, portation of red deer has been stop lue has been ooiaiii_u 10/ ui_ mjney farmers gathered in the Commercial but not many, the most notable be ped through an outbreak of foot Club rooms and discussed the advisa expended In game protection." ing that of the wapiti and common and mouth disease amongst, sheep in bility of purchasing the business and envelopes deer in the northern part of Vancou Good Pheasant Reports. certain parts of Great Britain. The plant of the W. W. Robinson Com ver Island. "An unsuccessful attempt was embargo came into force a short PKE.SIDE.NT HUE-RTA pany of Seattle. Practically all pres made to count the game that came time before the deer were to be ent favored the movement and com The Increase In game birds is into Vancouver during the first few shipped to this province. British "partly attributed to a couple of 'ex mittees were appointea to see about days of the last pheasunt season, but Columbia was not the only one to best of men may kill a hen by ac cellent breeding seasons, the first raising the $50,000 needed to swing the number of available deputies suffer, as New Zealand had actually cident once in a while under pecu fiusiness •especially, as spring came early, and the deal. The ranchers from the could not begin to handle the crowd had deer sent as far as Liverpool. liar circumstances, but such is sel while there was considerable rain, eastern part of the state have raised of men with guns. There is no doubt This is the second year that tho dom the case. Nineteen out of the critical period after hatching $75,000. The object of the purchase however that .more pheasants, attempt to Introduce the Old Coun twenty are killed deliberately. Cards wa» fine and warm, and the young la to place the farmers in position grouse and ducks were brought try red deer has failed for the same "The illegal sale of game has birds were fairly strong before the to handle their hay and grain. into Vancouver than In the year be reason. been reduced to a minimum in the wet weather again set in. In addi fore. The same applies to Victoria, big cities. A few restaurants and tion to this, the various diseases Want to Buy Wapiti, Hardin Not Candidate. in the vicinity of which city pheas hotels were prosecuted, but their Which occur periodically among "Negotiations foi the purchase of BELLINGHAM, March 6.—Speak ants and quail were especially abun offences were of a trivial nature. Same of all sorts seem to have been some wapiti in the states and also j ing on the matter this morning Judge dant. Apart from these two cities There are, however, a few wealthy fiills of •conspicuously absent. True, reports tor a reasonable freight rate on Hardin declared: "I have not been, there are but few places in the orov- people, who should set a good ex cf diseased grouse came in' once or these animals have ber-:; carried on. | am not now and will not be a candi ince from which good pheasant re- ample, who regularly buy game at twice from Vancouver Island, but but without success as yet; so far as! date or applicant for federal district reports were not received. 1 any time they can get it. Not only- J*are that there could not have been any the rates are concerned. Th-e pres- judge to succeed Judge Howard. I "It is most satisfactory that this do these break the law themselves, disease of a virulent nature is pnt rate asked is prohibitive. Had ! have Indorsed Judge Neterer for that should have been such a good year but they encourage others to do it bown by the season's splendid lot it not been for this some forty j otfice." for birds." comments Mr. Bryan also. It would have an excellent o* *;• !s. wapiti would probably have been j Williams, "but the question is how wintering by now in the pen built I result if examples were made of a .Many More Sportsmen. long can it be kept up In the vicin for the red deer at the Coquitlam \ few of these. Unfortunately al Electric Restorer for Men The activity and increased num ity of large cities. With one or two Colony Farm and in the spring the i though those who do this sort of PhOSphonol WStows every nerve ia the body Shipping ber of deputies naturally helped in poor breeding seasons, severe win • to its proper tensioa ; restores majority would have been turned \ tilting are pretty well known, to vim and vitality. Premature derav and all sexual a great degree, and without them ters, or disease occurring, with such out on Vancouver Island and about procure the actual evidence to con weakness averted at once. Phoaphonol will ".cither the good breeding Basons a rapidly multiplying army of hunt vict is extremely dl.flcult. Sooner make vou a new man. Price |8 a box, or two la Tjaga ten kept for breeding purnoses. ' in. Mailed to anvaddre»s. The Scobell Drug nor absence of disease would have ers, tiie whole stock would be prac j There have been no importations of ' or later it will be obtained; in fact, Co., St. Catharines, On*;. p-oduced thc r'onttful supply of tically v.iiied out in a year, and a I nmc birds this year, as it has not one or two persons would have felt birds. Opportunity for making big number oi close seasons necessitat been demned necessary " extremely uncomfortable last 1. u ._, oi • >ui'_e, growing smaller ed. !-.'.;;'. under favorable condi autumn bnd they known how near Stnd smaller. Free pheasant shoot tions, it seems almost impossible, to The receipts of the game warden's 1 .department for 1912 slightly exceed- they were to having to appear ln ing is becoming a thing of the past, keep a fair supply of birds unles-i court." Visiting Willie unoccupied land is being further restrictions are brought in i ed those for 1911, this being due to the large amounts of fines imposed, rapidly settled up, and with these to force. There lia_ been a great SYNOPSIS OF COAL MINING the collections for licenses being disadvantages comes an enormous deal less dissatisfaction over the or- REGULATIONS. Carda Increase in the number of sports- lers-in-coiincil this year as, although surprisingly low. Licenses in all •men from the cities. During the these were still unavoidably late in nroduced n revenue of $5,985, heav CHURCH NOTICES past few years the number of those being published, they were Issued er tielts S201.25. fines under the Coal mining rights of the Domin Game Act $".(574.fin. and half-fines ion, ln Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Who use guns has been steadily earlier than last year, and a much Anglican. under the Fisheries Act $71.25, pro Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the •growing, and last year the increase greater number of not! BS distribut Holy Communion, first and third •-•as admittedly alarming; while ed, so that the publli was fairly ducing a total of (9,038,10. A mark Northwest Territories and In a por Wedding ed improvement in the enforcement Sundays at 11 a.m., second fourth tion of the Province of British Co there were many accidents the only well Informed. Ther' wen'. of Sundays at 8 a.m.; matins, 11 a.m.; v onder expressed is that I here were of the game law Is chronicled, at lumbia, may be leaBed for a term course, the usual number who start Sunday school at 10 a.m.; Evening of twenty-one years at an annual -.at more. tributed to the additions made to Service at 7.30 p.m.; Wednesday Jinnounce- ed shooting before the opening of the staff of permanent deputy, the rental of $1 an acre. Not more than "On the Saturday and Sunday fol the season, or who made a mistake evsnlng, Litany at 8.30. Rev. C. C. 2f,60 acres will be leased to one ap useful service of temporary men. Hoyle, M.A., vicar. ding the opening days of pheasant with regard to the electoral district, and the help of ihe provincial, muni plicant. •hOOtlng," comments Mr Bryan Wil and, as usual if caught and prose cipal and city police. Despite the Baptist Church. Application for a lease must be ments liams, "there was an exodus of mon cuted, pleaded Ignorance. As a activity of the denuty, ninny in Pastor, Rev. C. R. Blunden. made by the applicant ln person to From the cities BUCh us has never matter of fact, the more trouble fringements of the law occurred, this Ladner—Sunday school, 11 a.m.; tho Agent or Sub-Agent of the dis been seen before, There were men. that is taken in informing people being partly attributed to the rapid evening service, 7.30 p.m.; prayer trict ln which the rights applied -for "-roys. and even women, with every on theso points, the more will be grow'h of population and the strong meeting, Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.; mis are situated. « onceivable sort of weapon, and expected. temptation of a plentiful supply of sionary meeting every first Wednes In surveyed territory the land tJfemorial dOgS of many and various breeds. Ileiieliclnl Changes in Act. game. Most of the offences com day under the auspices of the Ladles' must be described by sections, or About one-third of these had little "As it is, there are quite a num mitted were In the neighborhood of Circle. legal sub-divisions of sections, and knowledge of the use of firearms— ln unsurveyed territory the tract ap ber who seem to think 'hat I' is the Vancouver, althoueh as usual the Orescent Island—Sunday school, 2 Cards others had none at all; some, in business of the deputy to go about foreign element eave considerable plied for shall be staked out by the fact, acknowledged that they were p.m.; serv'ce, 3 p.m.; singing prac applicant himself. with copies of the regulations and rouble, chiefly along construction tice and Bible reading, Tuesday, 7.30 carrying guns for the first time in a map of the electoral districts and lines. Pit-lamping deer and wild Each application must be accom their lives. In addition to the men p.m. panied by a fee of $5 which will be explain the seasons and electoral fowl shooting by moonlight are two, Gulfside Schoolhouse—Union Sun from the cities and the regular resi districts to each individual. The bad offences in connection with refunded if the rights applied for Call an J See Sample' dents of the country scattered day school, 2 p.m.; singing practice are not available, but not otherwise. revision of the Game Act was a which it is always difficult to obtain and Gospel service. Friday, 7.30. throughout the province, there are great blessing, and it seems a pity to sufficient evidence to warrant prose A royalty shall be paid on the mer Catholic. chantable output of the mine at the numerouB railroad and other con amend it, but there are numerous cution. Last, year special attention Church services will be held every rate of five cents per ton. struction camps composed principal changes which would be most bene was paid to this class of offence, ly of aliens, and the greater number ficial. One of the most important other Sunday, beginning with Sun The person operating the mine one or two convictions*, being ob day, November 14, 1909: Parochial shall furnish the Agent with sworn of these have firearms of some sort. of these should bo to further re tained, but it is the game warden's Tho majority have only lately conn strict shooting on the waters near mass at 10.30 a.m.; Sunday school, returns accounting for the full quan opinion that until the act is amend 2 p.m.; evening devotion, 3 p.m.; tity of merchantable coal mined and to the country and have not the Victoria and Vancouver. ed to make convictions easier little slightest knowledge of the game low mass the following Monday, 6 pay the royalty thereon. If the coal "Another Important change neces substantial progress can be made. IHWS or. if they have, have no res a.m. F. Klentz, D.L.. parish priest. mining rights are not being operat sary Is to provide for the appoint pect for them and will kill anything Illegal Killing. Methodist. ed, such returns should be furnished ment of temporary deputy game with Impunity anytime if they can "An enormous number of hen Services next Lord's Day at 11 at least once a year. wardens by other means than by ar- and, when they are caught, plead pheasants were killed last season," a.m. and 7.30 p.m.; class meeting, The lease will Include the coal der-ln-councll or their being sworn 1 ignorance. The greater number of Mr. Bryan Williams observed. "If after the morning service every Sun mining rights only, but the lessee in as special constables. A clause these are not 'residents' within the they had only been old birds, murh day; Sabbath school at lo a.m. every may he permitted to purchase what Is also necessary further defining meaning of the act, and have no good would have been done, but un Sunday; Epworth League every even ever available surface rlghtB may be ithe powers ot Jeputies in perform right to shoot without non-residents' fortunately it is only the young ing at 8 o'clock. Rev. C. Wellesley considered necessary for the work ance of their duties with respect to ing of the mine at the rate of $1 i licenses, but it Is impossible for the blrd_ that get shot, and, at the rate Whittaker. pastor. I trespass, as well as some protection an acre. deputies to distinguish them. With they were going at one time, It Ht. Andrew's Presbyterian. ; in cases of assault, insult or ob For full Information application all this army of hunters scouring thC looked as though there would soon Services next Lord's Day at 11 struction in the performance of should be made to the Secretin-. country, many of them not knowing be nothing but old ones left. Noth a.m. and 7 30 p.m.; week night ser I their duties. "Once again the im- the Department of the Interior, Ot -dtie species of bird from another ing but heavy penalties will have vices on Thursday evening at 7.30 tawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent and shooting at everything tbey .,38. any effect. As long as nion are let o'clock; Sunday school at 2.30 p.m. of Dominion Lands. off easily they will kill hens pur Rev. J. J. Hastie, minister. it is really a wonder that there is W. W. CORY, a head of game left; while the fact posely or through carelessness. Deputy Minister of the Interior. The Delta Ttaaea Is published -v«"T that there is an increase, and that Nearly every man brought up has Any corrections In above names or M. B.—Unauthorized publications Saturday frost tbe Time. Buii-«* experienced hunters have had better the same excuse, the sun was tn his times should be sent to the office .he family remedy for Co_ihe and Colds of this advertisement will not be Ladner. sXC 3. D. Ta/tsr. •*»" •aHp-jrt tbls season than for years pa-it _•:_.: coats to little and doee io much I • eyes. Such excuses are absurd. The of the Delta Times. Ladner. B.C. paid for.—106*0. •cirx-d-rwur.
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