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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1924
Page
3
The Conservatives return to power with a large majority in parliament, claiming over 400 seats in the 15-member House of Commons. The Liberal party sinks to a historic low as Labour is repudiated amid fears of Bolshevik influence and potential overreach by the new government.
A shipment of 61 steers from the Prince of Wales ranch crossed the border at Portal North. The Shorthorn and Hereford cattle were the first beef cattle from the E.P. ranch to reach the U.S. market and incurred a U.S. duty exceeding $1,500. Also that day Chicago received 170 head from Lundbreck Ohio priced at $75 each.
The grain carrier Glenorchy bound from Port Arthur to Port Colborne sank in twenty fathoms near Harbor Beach after a collision with the coal boat Leonard B. Miller. Owned by the Great Lakes Transportation Co with Captain F Burke in command the vessel carried a full cargo of wheat valued at 320000 dollars, property of the Canadian Wheat Producers Limited.
Manitoba's eighth annual 200 mile non stop dog derby will be run February 4, two weeks earlier than prior years. The event attracts international attention and brings visitors to the north country's winter carnival with Canadian National Railways expected to enter a fast team.
Nome Alaska reports the cutter Mojave of the U S Coast Guard failed to reach the Arctic Ocean rescue of four seamen from the gasoline schooner Silver Wave. The vessel was driven by ice and forced to turn back after attempting to penetrate the icebound waters.
The Jornal de Brazil reports the government should build an aerodrome in Pernambuco to attract the United States for the planned air mail service linking Key West with Central American ports to Brazil.
A Paris banquet hosted by the French American Society honored Senator Raoul Dandurand and other Canadian notables. Dandur spoke of renewing Anglo French admiration and friendship for France, reinforcing diplomatic goodwill between Canada and France.
The Belgian government will pay the Dominion of Canada 2 225 000 dollars two months from now. The Belgian ambassador to Britain informed the Canadian government of the lability.
Parliament faces a bitter session with a possible general election in the fall. Contested matters include the railway commission ruling on Crow’s Nest Pass rates and the government plan to limit senate powers.
Eight dead and twelve injured after an explosion on a day coach of the Kettle Valley CPR train near Nelson British Columbia. John MacKie MLA for Grand Forks and Peter Veregin Doukhobor leader are among the dead. Inquest opened in Grand Forks on the victims as bodies continue to be recovered.
A Vancouver grand jury presented to Mr Justice Murphy condemns the city and provincial police and the RCMP secret service as badly organized. It criticizes crown prosecutor selection and urges the chief inspector of the city force be honorably superannuated. It notes contraband narcotics remain in circulation.
Mrs. H. M. Aitken of Boston Ontario argues at the tenth annual convention that rural schools were failing to produce land staying citizens, instead steering youths toward professional careers, during the opening session.
Argentine aviator Zanni, who reached Japan after starting from Amsterdam on a round the world eastward flight, abandons the journey here for now due to difficulty in securing ships to guard his intended Alaska leg.
The United States has contributed five million dollars for earthquake relief. A check for five hundred thousand dollars, the latest contribution, has been delivered.
London reported Stanley Baldwin declaring in York that he would keep his promise to the Dominions and that doing so would not infringe on tree trade, presenting a firm position on imperial trade policy.
Ottawa plans a revision of old civil service salaries set at $2400 and annual fees. Exemptions exist for postal and customs staff already revised this summer. The Civil Service Commission seeks across the board increases, but broad adoption is uncertain. The $2400 cap stemmed from a bonus that was meant to offset high living costs.
London. A Canadian influence marked British elections with Sir Hamar Greenwood, formerly of Whitby Ontario, returning to Parliament in East Walthamstow by 3 066 votes over J G Dale Labour. A W Haycock, ex Canadian and Labour, lost Salford West to Conservative F W Astbury. Lieut Col A MacDonnell, ex Vancouver resident, carried Dartford Kent for Conservatives with 20 108 to 19 353 for J E Mills. Col W Grant Morden kept Brantford and Chiswick for Conservatives against a Labour challenger.
Frederick Jelfs appeared in the Hamilton police court facing a charge chalked to his name for cutting a corner too closely with an automobile. Magistrate George Frederick Jelfs fined himself five dollars after noting a family member drove the car and remarking he had been busy fining others for city by laws.
The Molsons Bank, Montreal based for more than 70 years, will be taken over by the Bank of Montreal. The merger awaits ratification by shareholders of both banks but is expected to proceed smoothly. Finance Minister Hon. J. A. Robb has approved the transaction.
Giuseppe Serafini, youngest of four executed bandits, reportedly carried three slender steel saws in the sole of his left shoe when hanged. The footwear was examined after the body was cut down, revealing the concealed tools whose origin remains unclear. Authorities expect a reveal soon for the person who passed them to him.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports higher export totals to Britain over the last year. Butter shipments reach 9,169,907 pounds up from 6,792,248 pounds the prior year. Canned salmon valued at 4,461,138 dollars versus just over two million dollars previously.
Miss Bondfield loses to Sir Arthur Holland by under a thousand votes. Holland 15,870 Bondfield 15,093 Liberal candidate J Manfield tallies 9,419. Bondfield was abroad in Canada on a government immigration mission and returned home shortly after parliament dissolution.
C W Tompkins of Montreal is named government supervisor of banking. The role, created last session and effective October, places auditors under the chief inspector who may conduct investigations. Tompkins, a New Brunswick native, has years of Royal Bank executive experience in Vancouver.
Winnipeg reports that Canadian National Railways in co operation with the Saskatchewan Government will start the Turtleford Hafford branch near Prince Albert. Funded by the Canadian Northern Branch Line Trust Fund, unused for years, work to begin immediately and 21 miles are to be completed this fall through Midnight Lake Birch Lake and Glaslyn districts.
A wireless message reports the Azores, a Vancouver built fishing vessel under Captain W Edwards, burned to the water’s edge off the Queen Charlotte Islands. All crew members were saved. The ship was built in Vancouver and was to prospect in South America before the plan was abandoned.
The Citizen says Ontario Government aims to stamp out bootlegging after the favorable prohibition vote by appointing guards on interprovincial bridges between here and Hull to operate like customs officers at border points.
C. D. Hodson, Canadian manager of the Arroyo Mine of the Mazapil Copper Co. at Zacatecas, was shot dead when assailants entered his home. A Mexico City dispatch to the New York Evening World notes the U S ambassador made the customary representations on behalf of Great Britain.
At Montreal harbor the liner Melita found two stowaways dead in coal bunkers. Investigators link deaths to coal fumes. Readings in pockets identify the men as W. E. Kolup, 33, Polish, and Maric Hodner, 35, Czecho-Slovakian.
Brussels reports the League of Nations Council has fixed a provisional Mosul frontier and plans a three man imperial commission to report back. Britain and Turkey must evacuate troops on the wrong side by November 15, averting war over Mesopotamia. Turkey yields more territory than Britain under the compromise.
The interstate labor conference in Melbourne rejected motions limiting war support without parliament and defending territory, then passed a resolution urging constitutional amendment to ban conscription of Australians for overseas military service.
Mrs. Calvin Blair of Billings Bridge praised Saskatchewan's nursing housekeepers as a model for rural Canada. She told the Women's Institutes of Eastern Ontario that a similar service is needed within a few hours, noting Saskatchewan trains its nursing housekeepers in one year.
A ten minute coroner's jury verdict absolves Constables J H Gilbert and F G Lepper of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the shooting death of John Pearson a Swedish laborer killed during a running gun battle at Emerson Manitoba Pearson had escaped immigration custody after illegal entry charges The coroner's jury found he was shot and killed while resisting lawful arrest.
Women fared poorly in British constituencies on election night. Lady Astor secured another victory for Sut ton division of Plymouth, a seat she has held in several parliaments. Early returns show Miss E Wilkenson of the Labour party as the only other woman elected alongside Lady Astor in Middlesbrough East.
The Russian Mennonites who rented 1060 acres from the Fares Ranch last year bought the land at $20 an acre. They have prospered on the old ranch pastures, harvested one crop, and are confident they can pay off the purchase price in a few years. They secured terms allowing extension if crop failures occur.
Willard's 674 acre farm near here was sold at a public auction by R. F. Hodgins of Topeka for $151,650. Former heavyweight boxing champion Jess Willard left the farm two years ago to live in California.
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