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~_ THE LEADING” WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

VOL. IV, NO, .23

"“HAZELTON, B. G, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915

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PRICE $2.00 A YEAR

‘CHAMPIONS “ONCE! ‘AGAIN

. Six Straight. Wins ‘Demonstrate

“Hazelton’s Superiority and
- | Carry OFF, Cup |

eee A ta, ate

The Hazelton*hockey team ‘are

* ‘champions of the-Northern.B,-C..

Hockey‘tLeague for: the season |
By .. defeating . New

cinched the title, and the Ross

‘cup: will be located here for the

next year. Saturday’s game"at
New Hazelton. was close, fast
hockey, McKenzie fscored for

- New Hazelton in the first min-

utes play. For Hazelton, Perey

- McDougall seored on a rebound
“ -in-the second ‘period, and Irwin
was responsible for. the deciding

tally in the final session... Me-

"+ Leod and Duke Harris handled

the game.
On Thursday. night, Smithers

: brought down a erowd on appec-
.« jal:train to see their team lose by
- a seore of 8-3. —
- even’ more one-sided’ than the

The game. was

seore would indicate, two of the

; Smithers’ woala-being scored ‘off
, Hazelton players,
‘” Hume scored four, Perey McDou-
gall three and Al McDougall one.
’ Jardine -and Keddy scored for
" Smithers,
— teame: Feo
a Hazelton: Taylor, 0! Shea,. Irwin,
-- |, Po MeDougall,
ae Huse, Kinghorn, McKay. _
+ Qetithera: Crandall, Clark, Keddy
. MePerlans, McEwen Jardine, ”

Far Hazelton,

. Rollowing are _ the

a

A. MeDougall,

“Referee, McDonnell,
-. Judge of play, O'Neil.

Following i is the league ‘atand-

. Won Lost |
Hazelton, en | ee |)
. New Hazelton, Baie Bent
| Sew Hazel 0. 5 .-

“Next scheduled’ game,” Hazel.

7 ton at Smithera, Feb, 10,

‘The local team is trying to. ar-
range:to play Smithers on Satur-
day 13; New Hazelton: playing
here Wednesday. « mo

2 Const! Hockey ~ ;
“Vancouver, Peb. 6 —At Port:

~ Jand, last night,‘the “home team

defeated’ ‘Vancouver, 8-3.: The
result: “of: this - ‘game - leaves the

. -championship i in doubt,” ;Vancou-

ver having -won seven games and

Steamer Scued ;
tokio, Feb, 5:—Japanese war-

- ahipa have ‘peized. the Norwegian

steamer Christian Bors,.. botind};

ae fram Shanghai to San Francisco.

“Serious Explosion a ie ;

; Fayetteville, W. Va., Feb. 6:—{6
An- explosion occurred in: the

‘mines of the New River Coal Co.
at Carlisle today;: - It.-is. feared

OWA :
“Thee sowing meeting in connec:

we tion: with. the. W. A. will be:held.
vo. pf Mya, Hoskins? house. on. Feb,
‘Uth, 'gt-8 p. m,,.to work for’ tha

, cold, , Steg
. oo. friends -are-asleed to remember
os that the home cookery). in. nid. ee

Belgian Fund.

° continued the: ‘offensive, and took

-] Many. cases, fought” with . bayon-

‘| fista,” A story‘is told of one‘inan

aren itionary forces, , in..a- deseription
of the: battle, of--Jan, .26, when’

_ teatly in, thie morning, was pre-

Givenchy, north of, ‘the canal; and
_*."} passing over ‘our front trenches,

RUSSIANS.

; Petrograd, Feb, 6, :Report’ iby
thé general staff’ of the Russian
army: —"‘Combats- on tha Bzura
and Rawka rivers continue with
undiminished energy:
fensive movenzent, | oui: troops
erossed the Bznra, near its
mouth, captured a portion of the
enemy? *g position near Dakhova,
and dislodged the Germans from
their bridge head. In the viein-
‘ity of Borgimow, Goumine and
Wolaszdlowieeka, our attacks al-
ternate incessantly with those of
the: enemy, - ‘ander unbrcken ar-|.
tillery fire. On remainder of the
left bank ‘of - the . Vistula front,
the artillery fire has diminished
somewhat. - We blew Up a bridge
on the Nida, which had just been
constructed by. ‘the enemy near
the village of Gerniki, and repuls-|
ed several attempts, by the enemy
to launch an “offerisive’ on the
Nida, near Rembowel.’-
“In the northwest Carpathians,
in the direction of Oujok, we

In an.of-}

as many as 8, “000 prisoners. -To
the southeast of Oujok, we are
still being subjected to very high
pressure by the enemy’s forceés.’”

_Amsterdam: —Several German.
submarines ’ have been sent to
Zeebrugge from the naval base

at Wilhelmshaven and: Cuxhaven.
It is assymed that Zeebrugge

willbe the'base of naval opera-
tions which Germany will deliver
against the. transports carrying
England’s new army across the

‘channel to France.

. Amstéerdam:—The movement

of the German. troops to the

western front continues,
Paris, Feb, 6; Official commun-

‘ieation: —During the night of

Feb. 4.5, some German contin-

gents endeavored, ‘but without
success, to advanee ‘from their.
trenches before, Noffe.. Dame de.

Lorette, Our artillery: has’ dona | -

- |some very. effective: shooting: in.

the valley of the Aisne. In

Champagne, - to the north! of
Begusejour, our. troops made

Somme. |
* Cairo:—600 Turkish ae
three guns and 90° camels, loaded:
stores and ammunition: .

ARTILLERY BATTLES GENERAL

CAPTURE 3000. PRISONERS.
“HEAVY FIGHTING EAST AND WEST

some slat progress. . dating Fri-
day.’ -.In Argonne, we have con-
solidated our position on the
ground which we captured on
Feb, 4, at Bagatelle. In Alsace
the German attack to the south
of Altkirch was repulsed.

London, Feb, 6:—Indignation
is expressed by. the French, Swed-
ish and Italian press at the Ger-
man Admiralty’s announcement
of a submarine: blockade... The
‘Paper Blockade”’ was ‘received
with ridicule in ‘England.

Paris,’ Official:—There were
satisfactory artillery ‘engage-
ments yesterday, between Arras
and Rheims. In Woevre atid
Argonne, artillery dispersed con-
voys and set fire to 24 wagons,
A German captive balloon - was
brought down northeast of

with

have b been captured by the: Bett
ishs ©

STORY. ‘OF

- London, Feb. 1e— “Our men, in|

ets in their hands and even knock-
ed out many.Germans with their

who broke into a house’ held.‘by:
éight Germans, bayoneted four
of them and captuced , ‘the. -Fest,
while“he- continued to suck on his
elay pipe,” ‘said an official eye-
witness with ‘the’ British: exped-

Gerihang'- attacked the’: British,
nor’ th ‘and ‘gouth” Of! La. ‘Bassee} .
and succeeded in: cdpturing:some:
of their trenches,’ which a French
official report. today gays have all
been, retakén,-

“The batile, whieh coisa

ceded by the uaual artillery duels. ;
"At eight . oeloek i in: “the morn-.
ing,’ saya’ the eyewitness, “the
PGermans. launched an -assault
againat: ‘the; British and French
on the: ‘south’: ‘tide of the canal
and, at one point penetrated our
lines,” About the same time they:
strongly . attacked our troops-at

temporatily gained a foothold in
places.” : But; as ‘their infantry:
surged: forward through the vil-
lage, our men a jen with

| by” 4 coastwise steamer.
‘| dition, 2 German. submarine ‘hag

Caueagus | WAS | given out;

trenches around. the
Germans showed the
utmost determination in this
quarter, delivering no Jess-than

five: attacks. on the northeast
corner of Givenchy.”

London:--The toll, taken by
the German submarine. 021,. in

a raid. on. Saturday . _afternoon
in the Irish Sea, in- the vicinity

of" Liverpool, stands’ at three
ships; the steamers’Ben Cruach-
en, Linda Blanche and - the “Kil
coan,. the Jatter ‘a small: vessel.
The- crew of. the Kileoan was,
landed « on. the Isle of Man today
In ad-

torpedoed. two British steamers
in the: Buglish Channel. near
Hayre,. the Toko Maru and the
Iearia, The Irish Sea raider
easily made her eseape, and ship:
ping: interesta are: ‘confident that
she-has:returned- to-her base and.
have ordered resumption of nor-
mal traffic today, . int

The following. report, from ‘the
ataff of the Russion, army of the

the Sari Katysh, front. ‘on’, the
evening ‘of Jan: -27, oie’ ‘of out
columns, profiting: ‘by a snow.
storm; ‘crossad ‘the, erest of the

mountajn : nd. - seized, ., -atter a
® violent: ‘struggle, ‘the* village of

tlie, chief. ‘of: the: 8th: ‘Turkish
division,’

his: ‘atalt of sixteen offi-

wcigeintlnde hy

1 Feb. 1, was quiet. ‘mo
ing of Feb,’1, the enemy made a {c

“On,

THE GREAT WAR’ TOLD DAY BY: DAY
reaccupied the whole of our
‘original:
village.

cers, seven surgeons,. and 450
others, and cepturing three can-
tion, more. than 200 rifles, a con-
‘voy train and a large quantity

of war munitions.and provisions. .

The next day the Turks attacked
this column, but, were repulsed
by counter attack, with great

joss, abandoning to usa: rapid-|"
Elsewhere, ‘there!

firing gun.
have been the usual. fusilades,’?

Paris, . Feb,.2, Official commun-
ication: —The night ‘of Jan. Sl-
In the morn-|

violent attack on our trenches on |:
the read of La Bassee. : The
atiack was repulsed and the Ger-
mans left a large number of dead
onthe field. At Beaumonthamel,

tothe north of Albert, German|
infantry. attempted. a surprise
against one of our trenches, . but
were obliged to take flight. aban-
doning’ explosives with which}.
they -had been provided,
Official. —In ‘Argonne there has
been great activity in-the regions
of Pontaine-Madame and_ the

Forest of La Grurie.; . An attack
by. Germans was | repelled near

Bayatelle..” One of our trenches, 7
‘which © ‘was demolished ‘by “two|.
‘mines, Wad ‘evacuated : without! iu

loss; In Vosges‘ and ini Alsace
there is. no.action to report. ° ‘The
anow fall hp ‘been very abamnd
Ante <

LOGAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

| Week's Items of General Interest .
In and: Aroundithe
_ District ae

C. Gibbs, of Victoria, is, here
on a business visit. ,

Miss Irwin, of Prince Rupert,
is visiting Mrs, R. E. Allen.

A. ladies’ hockey match is
scheduled for this afternoon.

Gus Olson and Jim Bates came
in from Omineca this week,

Miss Kate Carr, of Smithers, .

‘lis spending a few days in town.

J.C, K, Sealy left for his ranch .
in the Bulkley last Wednesday, Z

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh |
Tayler, at the Hazelton Hospital,
& sony"

C. P Richardson, of ‘Kitseias, “
was a business visitor in town”
this week. ae .

Frank Jackson is ‘out éf the * ae

hospital, and will leave for: ‘the
coast tomorrow, .

Constable C. FP, Evans, of Fort
Fraser, spent the first part of of: the
-week in Hazelton, .

W. N. Jinking, who. hag spent.
several months in Grotindhog, i
left for the coast: Thrareday.””

The. ‘Hazelton secqnd. ‘team
played at New Hazelton Tuesday

_|night, winning from the” latter ,

‘team: ‘by 7-2,

. Adance held after the hockey.
game Thursday. night, wag well
attended. Those ‘Present had's an. i
enjoyable time, 4

A. N. MeDonald and W. Watson.
are now in Atlin, having made”
the trip from Hazelton, via Car-
Cross Y. T., in seven days,

While watching the hockey
game on Thursday night, J.-D.”
McDougall had the misfortune to '
‘fall-on the ice,’ breaking his col-
lar bone.

The: apecial ‘train, carrying the :
Smithers hockay team; : ran. into.
a hand -car on, Thureday,. near .
Porphery Creek, A. section fore-, : .

man on the car had_ several fin; . had

gers cut off. He was brought to
the Hospital on the train,

Billy. Reid, who has apent the
last-six months.at the Coronado.
Group on Hudson Bay Mountain, -

|is.in town for a few days and -

reports some splendid showings,

Two shifts.are_ working steadily. °

Lon: develapment work, and: three»
carloads of ore are alongside the.:
track ready: ‘for shipment.

. A German Plot ..
‘Patis, . ‘Jan. 6:—A’ plot to blow ,
the liner La. Champaipne,” by:
German: ‘passenger, was frat y
rated -by ary wireless. : "menage:

[on the: voyage..from Mexico ty,