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THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1923

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Telkwa Hotel
Serves the traveller to and
through the Bulkley Valley:

MAKE THAT YOUR HEADQUARTERS

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Rates $1.50 per day up.

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European or American Plan

| The headquarters for the Bulkley
Valley. Tourists and Commercial men
hd this a grand hotel to atop at.

All trains met. Autos, livery or rigs

@ecaddie horses provided.

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. Typical all steel first-class
National Railways.

They are made in Canada,
System, an all steel equipment being the stan

NEW ALL-STEEL CARS BEING INSTALLED ON NATIONAL SYSTEM

coach, of which forty-one have been ordered this year by the Canadian
These cars have been assigned to the main run of the
dard adopted by the Canadian National Railways.

Hunters Should
Make Sure Are
Within the Law

The current game laws enact
that it shall be unlawful—

To kill the following migratory
birds at any time: Eider ducks,
wood ducks, swans, cranes, cur-
lews, band-tailed pigeons, doves,
willets, godwits, upland plover,
avocets,- dowitchers, knots, oy-
ster catchers, phalaropes, stilts,

surf birds, turnstones, and all!

other shore birds not provided
for with an open season:

‘To kill the following migratory
non-game birds at any time:
Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars,
gannefs, grebes, guillemots, culls,
herons, jaegars, loons, murres,
petrels, puffins, shearwaters and
terns, and the following migrat-
ory. insectivgroys birds: Boho-
links, catbirds, chickadees, cuc-
koos, flickers, flyeatchers, gros-
beaks, humming birds, kinglets,
martins, meadow larks, night-
hawks or bull-bats, nuthatches,
orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows,
swifts, tangers, titmice, thrushes,

vireos, warblers, waxwings, whip-
poorwills, wrens and all other

Is It Worth While

‘Keeping timber for B.C. Industries?

Keeping fur and

Keeping a green forest for posterity?

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Then—

f PREVENT FoREsT FIREs

dt Pays

- Keeping alive a prosperous payroll?

Keeping timber for manufacture?

feather in B.C.?

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perching birds which feed entire-
ly or chiefly on inseets;

' To take the nest or eggs of any
migratory non-game bird or mi-
gratory insectivorous bird at any
time. To buy, sell, trade or offer
'for sale any migratory game bird
or their nests or eggs:

To use any automatic, swiyel
or machine gun or battery, or
any gun larger than a 10-guage,
or a pump gun wishout a perma-
nent plug;

To hunt game of any kind from

one hour after sunset to one hour
before sunrise:

To carry loaded firearms in, or
discharge same from, an auto-
mobile or any other vehicle;

To carry firearms in an auto-
mobile during the close season on
game birds without being in pos-
session of a permit issued by the
Game Conservation Board;

To kill golden or silver phea-
sants;

EARLY SPUDS

Donald Grey - New aazetton

description at any time for the
purpose of hunting game animals
or birds; .
Td carry traps or firearms with-
out 4 licence;
To hunt game birds from any
sail boat, power boat or airplane:
To use any other person’s li-
cence or to loan or transfer any
licence under any circumstances;
To trap bear throughout the
province;
To hunt on game preserves,

bird sancturies or other prescrib-
ed areas, —

READY TO SHIP

FIFTEEN TONS ON HAND

Enrly Rose and Early White Potatoes
Dry, clean and first quality

Barrister Solicitor
Notary Public

L. S. MeGILL

: SMITHERS :

B.C. LAND SURVEYOR
J. Allan Rutherford .

All .degcriptiona of sur-
veys promptly executed.

Sunday,

To use pitlamps or lights ofjany!

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D. MeDonatd left Tuesday for
the prairie on a tour, expecting
to return within the next month.

Mrs. Dobbie, Copper City, was
@ guest at the week-end with her
sister, Mrs. Post.

Miss Bella McDonald was up
at the week end visiting her par
ents, and returned to Rupert on

Miss Parks, Winnipeg, teacher
of high school there, is spending
a portion of her vacation in Usk,
visiting friends.

Messrs. Churchill Bros, of
Remo and Pacifie respectively,
spent the week-end enjoying the
cheery atmosphere of this berg. |

Wm, Sehanzlin, Detroit, Mich.,
is a visitor in town, looking over
the mineral field with a view of
finding something interesting
which may appeal to him.

Dan McClarty, road supervisor
at this point, was seriously at-
tacked with severe illness. and
had to take to his bed for a few
days, but is again around and
hustling the road work. .

and with Mrs. Drake is returning
to Ketchikan, Alaska, for the
winter, and will return in the
spring to stay.
ed new ore on his claim which is
very promising.

the same ailment, and spent sev-
eral sleepless nights and days,
and medical treatment was pre-
seribed, which did not ameliorate
his condition till Dr. Petrie, of
Hazelton,
personal attention.
resting better.

is investigating the northern dis-
trict for settling on the land for
himself and family, together with
fellow farmers of that country,
‘in an endeavor to get into this
mild ciimate to build homesites
and enter the fruit and mixed
farming business.

rock Orchestra, Barney. Morgan,
returned to Usk Tuesday night,
accompanied by his wife and
family. - )
light fantastic are overjoyed to
met & quorum and expect beauti-

ful strains to stimulate the crowd
when. the next-dance. comes off

_E. Drake completed his assess-
ment work on Silyer mountain

He has develop-

Pat O’Brien is also suffering

Synopsis of

Land Act Amendments

Minimum io@ «of first-clasa land
reduced to an acre; second-class
to $2.50 an acra,

Pre-emption now confined to aur-
veyed lands only. .

Records will be granted covering
only land suitable for agricultural pur-
poses and which ia non-timber land.

Partnership pre-emptions abolished,
but parties of not more than four
may arrange for adjacent pre-emp-
tions with joint residence, bur each
making necessary improvements op
respective claims.

ere-emptors must acoupy claims for
tive years and make improvements to
value of $10 per acre, including clear-
ing and cultivation of at least 5 acres
beiure receiving Crown Grant. :

Where pre-emptor in occupation not
less than 3 years, and has made pro-,
portionate improvements, he may, be-
cause of ill-health, or other cause, be

« granted intermediate certificate of im-

vrovement and transfer his claim. ¢ |
@ Records without permanent residence
fnay be issued, provided applicant
makes improvements to extent of $40]
ber abiiuin and records same each
year. Failure to make improvements
or vecord same will operate as for-
felture, Title cannot be obtained in
less than 6 years, and improvements
of $10 per acre, including 5 seray
cleared and cultivated, and residence
of at least 2 years are required.

Pre-emptor holding Crown grant
may record another pre-emption, if
he requires land in conjunction with
his farm, without actual occupation,
provided statutory improvernents made
aud residenca maintained on (Crown
‘granted land, ‘

Unsurveyed areas, nat exceeding 2u
acres, rouy he leased as hamesites,
title to be obtained after fulfilling resi-
dential and improvement conditions,
and surveying land.

For grazing and industrial purposes
areas exceeding 640 acres may bo
leased by one person or company... «

MIN, factory or industrial sites on -
limber land not exceeding 40 acros
may be purchased: conditions include
puyment of stumpage.,

Natural hay meadows inw.cessible
by existing roads may be purchased
conditional upon construction of r)
road to them. Rebate of one-half of
eost of road, not exceeding half o?
burchuse price, is made.

PRE-EMPTORS' FREE GRANTS
ACT,

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The scope of this Act is enlarged to
tnelude all persona Joining and Serving
with His Majesty's Forces, The time
within which the heirs or devisees of a
decensed pre-emptor may apply fer
litle under this Act {g extended from
for ona year from the death of auch
persor, as formerly, until one year
aiter the conclusion of the present

This privilege is also made re-

troactive. . k

No fees relating -to Bre-emptions
are due or payable by soldiers yn pre-
émptions recorded after June 26, 1938,
Taxes are remitted for 5 years.

Provision for return of moreys an
crued, due and heen peld since Augual
f, 1914, on account of payments, fees or
taxes on Soldiers’ we-emptions.

nierest on agreements to
town or city lots held La eta
AiNed Forces, or fependenta, acquired
direct or Indlrect, remitted from en-
Natment to

Provision made for
Crown grants
Crown Lands,
Purchasers

iasuance of
to sub-purchasera of
acquiring rights from
who failed to complete
purchases, involving forfeiture, . on
fulfillment of conditions of Burchese
interest and taxes. Where sub-pur-
chasers do not claim whole or original
parcel, purchase price due and taxes
may ba distributed proportionately

over wholo ares. Applications must

. be made by May 4, 1822.

GRAZING,

Grazing Act, 1919, for Systematio
development of Hvestock Industry pro-
vides for grazing districts and range
administration under Commissioner,
Annual grasing permits issued based
on numbers ranged; priority for estab.
lished owners. Stook owners may form
associations for range management.
Free, or partially free, permits for
pettlers, cam “ers ar travellers, up to

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came and rendered

He is now

A. Venne, from Saskatchewan,

EveRY MODERN FACILiTy For THE
Correction OF TOOTH ‘FRouBLES

Dr. A. H. Bayne

DENTIST

PRINCE
RUPERT

Rooms 4, 5, 6,
Helgeraon Block

The integra] part of the Sham-

- The. votaries of the

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