THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1916 - The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA District or BrrrisH CoLumata. A. R. Macdonald, Publisher and Proprietor. 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $2.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Legal notices inserted at B. C. Gazette rates. oy VoL, V. SATURDAY, MAy 27, 1916, No. 39 There seems to be little doubt concerning the outcome of the prohibition plebiscite, even the liquor interests tacitly admitting that a majority of the electors of the province will favor the proposed legislation. The bill, as introduced in the house, makes it clear that the government’ intends to enforce the law if it is approved by the people, and the prohibitionists are much pleased with the measure,although it extends the life of licenses six months beyond the time first proposed. _ Afeature of this Bowser prohibition bill which sets it apart from the other prohibition measures of the Dominicn is that there are strict penalties for infractions, Anyone keeping liquor for sale contrary to the provisions of the bill will receive from six to twelve months’ imprisonment. It is said there will be no option of a fine. In the case of a corporation the fine ig set at one thousand dollars, In cases where the provincial police take action and obtain convic- tions, the fines for all infractions go to the province. But municipal police are also vested with authority under the act and where they successiully prosecute, the fines go to the municipalities or cities concerned, Thus the municipal districts and cities share with the province the responsibility of enforcing the legislation. The biil allows private persons to have liquor on their-premises for their own consumption. No limit is set as to quantity, but the liquor of course must be imported, The vending of liquor will come under the attorney-general’s department. Vendors may be appointed in some places, but generally speaking the provincial police will attend to the work. . ‘Lhe police will sell to the druggists and the latter may in turn fill doctors’ prescriptions, Sale by official vendors is allowed for -mechanieal or scientific purposes not exceeding ten gallons at one time, sales to druggists not exceeding five gallons, to physicians up to two quarts, to dentists for stimulants to one pint, .to veterinary surgeons to one gallon, ta hospitals ’ in such amounts’ as deemed proper by the superintendent of provincial police. Sale will be . allowed to ministers for sacramental wine and to other persons on physician’s prescriptions, There will be no profit for the provincial department, All sales except those on prescription will be at cost. Clergy and others buying ‘from the official vendor must have sworn affidavits that the liquor will be used for the purpose for which it is being purchased, . Every official vendor,druggist and physician must keep records showing the disposition of the liquor. These will be for the ingpection of the department, Except for the provisions regarding sales already outlined and for sales of liquor under judiciary process and the export sales of breweries, ete., licensed by the Dominion, all sales of liquor within ithe province are prohibited. With like exceptions. all giving and ‘having of liquor is prohibited. This does not apply to the Nquor i in private houses for private use, The consumption of liquor purchased ‘from aly person ‘other than the official vendor or by prescription, ate,,: is prohibited. _ The manufacture and sale.of vinegar, sweat cider, unfermented fruit juice and denatured alcohol are not irterfered with. . The owner of ‘any premises permitting drinking within the premises or allowing disorderly. conduct: is deamed guilty of an ‘offence against the act. ‘The officers of any club are deemed. guilty of an ‘offence if liquor is consumed on the premises, © . The duty of enforcing the act will lie upon both provincial and ‘municipal police: oye Provisions are made to facilitate the proving of offencel, The ‘burden of proving the tight ta keep or sell-will lie upon the defend- i) “physician,” 77 The giving of, colorable prescriptions i is. desmned an offence, oe ii Police conatables are given full authority to search all premiien : “under suspicion, --Liquor® improperly: “kept. thay’ ‘be: seized ‘and ‘forfeited: No} appeal in, such‘cages will be allowed, to ‘the. courts. oe - Reference. to the principal ‘penalties. has already been. meide.. i : ~The new bill; if carried at the referendum’ vote, ig ‘ant. . The proof i in the case -of preseriptionis will rest ‘upon the ‘The Market For Horses Since the otitbreak of the war, -\the British Remount Commission has purchased in Canada 15,000 horses, 8,000 have been bought by French contractors and 25,000 by the Canadian Department of Militia. The Department of Mil- itia is now engaged in buying an additional thousand head. The British Remount Commission has and is buying daily in Montreal. French contractors are ‘anxious to obtain supplies and are arrang- ing to buy all that are available both in the East and in the West. It is-understood that as a result of purchases already made, army buyers are finding it increasingly difficult, both in the Canada and in the United States, to readily secure the number of horses they heavy artillery. In addition to the purchases for army account, commercial activity from two distinct quar- ters has exerted a very evident influence upon the Canadian market during the past three “or four months. Since the begin- ning of the year, 6,000 horses reached Winnipeg stock yards from Eastern Canada, and 5,917 were shipped westward, mostly to Saskatchewan. During the months of January, February and ed to the United States. A few {hundred moré went forward to the same marketin April. The horses exported were good farm chunks, weighing from_1,800 to 1,500 Ibs, As high as $500 a pair was paid for animals possessing extra qualities and conformation. This new movement in the horse market is having its effect upon prices all over Canada, y Buyers report that the better classes of drafters and farm chunks are getting scarce -and hard to buy. Thesame holds true of good, big roadsters and sad- ‘jdlers. The noticeable scarcity of good horses of these descriptions illustrates the fact that demand has already overtaken supply and makes it very evident that all the really good, soynd mares in‘ this country should be bred this year, It cannot be too strongly em- phasized, however, that they should be mated with only high class sires. The number or horses rejected by army buyers shows that there is no place for the unsound horse or the misfit; Such animals have been, are now, and always will be a drug on the market. Breed to the- best if you would have the: best. Un- sound or malformed” mares are . [just as bad as unsotind stallions. It is easier to raise a good animal | than ‘a poor.one. .. Manage’ the work this spring so that the best mare on the farm may. -be regularly returned: to the horse, Next year, a crop of good, sound, healthy colts will be as good as a bank account. Canada is likely to enter shortly: the commercial export market .and ‘that market will require all that'you can pro: duce, a ore ips | - Commercial E Printing at THE “MINER: orFice” ; ; Jeter on n'doly 4 1917," ar come into aa vee purehased over 700 since March} require, particularly of the type: {suitable for heavy cavalry or March, 1,805 horses were export-. for the Great Northern “Interior Prospectors, Miners, Landseekers, Surveyors and Sportsmen will find the merchants of Ha- zelton prepared to meet, every requirement in outfitand supplies. Hav- ing been. engaged for ; _ many yeas in outfitting parties for the Northem Interior, Hazelton busi 7 ness.‘men are qualified to give valuabie advice | cand assistance to: new- * comers. Hazelton i is. situated a at . 7 the confluence. of the 2... Bulkley and Skeena rivers, a mile and | ‘a quarter from Hazelton 7 station on the Grand a Trunk Pacific railway. oe Fon may be aide" = "dressed, to OR ' The Distributing Point eee Sg) Sg rey ey