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LGLARK‘S Pork..Beans é'very Yours sincerely, GEO. W. LEE, Chairman, T. N.0O. Rly, Commission. The good wishes of the genial chairâ€" man of the T. N.O. will be warmly reciprocated by the people of the North a of whom will wish him and the other members of the Commussion Col. MacLaren and Col. Martin, the staff and the railway itself all prosâ€" perity and progress for 1927. . The advance of the North Land is closely concerned with the railway, its exâ€" pansion and success, and with the North Land working for the railway and wishing it well. and the railway working for the North Land and its benefit, the advantage and developâ€" ment of both may well be expected with all confidence and faith. Hosts of old friends here were deâ€" hted to greet again Mr. Jack Belâ€" *eau, of the T. N.0. Railway, who xÂ¥ been away from the town for some five years, but who is now on a run that brings him to Timmins. Jack is one of the oldâ€"time baseball players of this district and was popuâ€" lar in sport and other cireles here. ‘©FThe Kindly coâ€"operation of all our patrons in every possible way has made the operation of the railway very pleasant. The continued eviâ€" denee of prosperity is truly gratifyâ€" ing and there is every reason to ‘beâ€" lieve that 1927 will be a record year in the North. To each and every one concerned, may the New Year bring continued health, happiness and prosâ€" perity. ‘‘*It is the desire of the Temiskaâ€" ming and Northern Ontario Railway‘s Commission to extend its grateful thanks to the people of Northern Onâ€" tario and othéers for their continued patronage which has spelled success for the road‘s several undertakings. Not for a long period has Canada facâ€" ed a New Year‘s opening with more reason for confident hope in the imâ€" mediate future than is now clearly observable as we enter the sixtieth vear of Confederation. ‘‘The year just closing has been a very pleasant and successful one and we have much to be thankful for. 1I appreciate to the fullest the coâ€"operaâ€" tion of all who contributed to the suceess. The policy of the governâ€" ment, headed by Hon. G. H. Ferguâ€" son who is always deeply concerned in the real interests of the North, the kind and always available assistance of the members_of his government, and the excellent services rendered the North by the Minister of Mines, Hon. Charles MceCrea, have contriâ€" buted largely to the suecess and prosâ€" perity of this part of Ontario which we serve. To our sister railways. warmest New Year greetings.‘"‘ Mr. Geo. W. Lee, Chairman of the T. N.0O. Commission, has issued the following New Year‘s message to the people of the North Land :â€"â€" Chairman Geo, W. Lee of the T. N.O. Railway Issues New Year‘s Message to the North Land BELIEVES 1927 WILL BE AFECORD YFAR FOR NORTH Will meet in the Hollinger Recreation Hall the first and third Fridays of each month at 8.30 p.m. J. THOMAS, President MRS. E. RICHARDS, Box 692, Sec‘y. GEO. HALE, Treasurer P. VARKER, President R, BURNMAN, Secretaryâ€"Treasurer, Box 1507, Timmins ggetings held in Hollinger Recreation all, third Saturday of each month. Open to all of Cornish birth or Corâ€" nish Associate. Cornish Social Club â€" Toner A. MacDonald Barrister, Solicitor,. Ete. @oOLDFIELDS THEATRE BLDG Phone 34 Timmins A delicious and strengthening food. Sold everywhere W, CLARK Limited, Montreal St. David‘s Welsh Society whose work or sport requires energy and vim With the perversity for which it is becoming more or less notorious, The Northern News once again mistaking opposition for originality rushes to the defence of the police. The Northern News points out that the police say that it is ‘*absolutely necessary‘‘ to use drug addicts as ‘‘special agents.‘‘ Some police believe that it is necessâ€" ary to use the third> degree. _ Some officials are so broad in their ideas of what is ‘‘absolutely necessary‘‘ that only wtchfulness prevents the methâ€" ods of the star chamber, the thumbâ€" serew and the rack from being brought into common use again. The Northern News can follow this sort of reasonâ€" ing, and call it demoeracy, but it realâ€" ly is the ‘"bunk."‘ It is very probable that no convictions for breach of the law regarding narcotic drugs would be possible in this North Land apart from the methods recently used. But because that may mean a reflection on the methods used rather than on the medical profession, The Advance protests against the system adopted. The Cobalt defender of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and its drug addict friend suggests that The Adâ€" vance has not made familiar with the evidence given in all the cases. Only in two of the cases has The Advance been able to study all the evidence, but that is surely enâ€" ough, and too much. _ On the one hand there was a medical man, known, reâ€" spected, honourable and above reâ€" proach. On the other, was the word of a man confessing to being a drug addict, admitting cunning, â€" not denying the charge of the theft of drugs from an hospital where he was confinedâ€"unable to refute the fact that he had been in jail on more than one occasion,â€"a man whose evidence had a remarkable sprinkling of the most ~anusual **I don‘t know‘s,"‘ "‘I ® The newspapers of the North Land are taking note of the recent perâ€" formance of two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers and one drug addict who travelled through the North with the intention of securing convictions agaffist the doctors â€" for alleged breach of the act respecting the sale of narcotic drugs. The proâ€" cedure seems to be particularly obâ€" jectionable because it appears to be generally admitted by the medical men and by others who ought to know that there are practically no addicts in this part of the country. If there were trafficking in drugs here, and the medâ€" ical man or men engaged in the traffic were singled out and the **special agent‘‘ used to secure a conviction, there would be some exeuse for the procedure used, although even then objection might fairly be taken to the type of ‘"‘special agent‘‘ and some other features. But there is no sugâ€" gestion made that there is any general traffic. So far as Timmins is con‘cernâ€" ed, The Advance knows from the inâ€" formation given by the police that the only known addicts coming to town to reside in the course of the past ten years found it necessary ko burglarize drug stores and medical offices to seâ€" cure the narcotic drugs. When ordinâ€" ary addicts could not secure a supply, there is certainly reason to investigate the plans whereby an addict, used as a ‘‘special agent‘‘ could succeed. To The Advance the whole proceedings appear as a method to induce medical men to supply the drugs, and then prosecute them as offenders under the law. The whole idea of British jusâ€" tice and deceney revolts against any cunning schemes to trap men into apâ€" parently breaking the law, and then suggesting that they are eriminals. The Advance has been particularly incensed at the two charges levelled against Dr. Day, of Connaught. It is true that he was honourably acquitted on both counts. But he should not have been placed on any defence. He has been for some years an honoured and esteemed member of his professâ€" ion and of the citizenship of the disâ€" trict, Everyone who knows him knows that he is not in any unlawful traftic. Particularly in a country like this North Land, the people are indebted in special way to the faithfulness, the carefulness, the skill and the sympathy of the medical men. In return, sureâ€" ly, the public owes support to the doeâ€" tors in seeing that they are not made the victims of trickery. ‘The public should present a solid. united front aâ€" gainst any to debase the honâ€" ourable ealling of the physician. No one will have any sympathy with the peddlers of noxious drugs, but that is all the more reason why medical men of character and high standing should be protected from being made the vieâ€" tims of improper methods. What Does the North Think of This Kind of Law Enforcement? What Price the Evidence of Confessed Drug Addict Who Admits Theft of Drugs from Hospital and Other Things! Can the Authorities Justify Themselves? Dr. I. T. Brill, D.D.S8. Phone 320 Marshallâ€"Ecclestone Block Dentist Open Evenings (.â€"Do you remember something he admitted to you once about another inâ€" stitution he was in? A.â€"Yes, he told me he had been in, another institution and in order to get his morphine he bad set fire to the building at one end so that it would draw the attention of the people to that end so that he could steal it at the other end. Of course, there is the corroboraâ€" tion of the police to a more or less helpful extent. In the first case this corroboration was but slight. :The Advance is not specially impressed with the fact that in subsequent cases the corroboration may have been apâ€" parently more notable. For instance, the search of the addict did not apâ€" parently appeal to the magistrate as particularly effective or complete. In the next case, (though the cases were worked some months before they came to court) the search, according to the This drug addictâ€"the special agent â€"told one story. The doctor told one almost diametrically opposite. _ Who is to be believed? Is it fair even to ask the question? Is such a man, judged by his own evidence, a man on whom reliance should be placed? Do the authorities do themselves credit by using the evidence of such a man? (Q.â€"Do you remember ever treating this man (the ‘‘special agent‘‘)?% A. Y ag. Q.â€"â€"Will you deny that you picked the lock in the till drawer in the Cochâ€" rane hospital? _ A.â€"I will admit I opened it with a key. ().â€"â€"And you stole drugs? A.â€"Yes. (Q@.â€"And you went into the store room and stole drugs? A.â€"Yes. Q@.â€"â€"What was he treated for? A. â€"Drus addiction. Q.â€"Do youâ€"remember the pyjamas and towels you had in your suitcase belonging to the hospital the day you left which you had taken and put in your bag. A.â€"What I was told to take. Added to this, take the evidence of Dr. Paul, of Cochrane:â€"â€" Q.â€"Where? Q.â€"For how long? â€" A.â€"Tlree months. Q.â€"What for? A.â€"Drugs. was that? A.â€"I don‘t know. (@.â€"Was it this year or last? A.â€" I don‘t know. Q.â€"â€"How are you getting paid? A. â€"I don‘t know. (Q.â€"â€"What was the arrangement vou made. â€"A..â€"â€"I didn‘t make any. (Q.â€"You just followed him along like a sheep follows its leader? That was it. > (Q.â€"You were in the Cochrane hosâ€" pital? A.â€"Yes,. Question : You remember you were arrested in Timmins on July 22nd last? Answer: Yes. (Q@.â€"What was the charge against you? A.â€"A quantity of drugs in my possession. (Q.â€"You eut your arm with a knife or some other kind of an instrument? You deny that you cut your arm with some kind of an instrument when you were in the icells. A..â€"I am not anâ€" swering it. I won‘t deny it, or I won‘t admit it either. can‘t remember,‘‘* and so on. _ This manr swore he was in Burwash jail, but did not know whenâ€"1926 or the year before. Read some of the ‘‘eviâ€" dence‘‘ as given by this man when exâ€" amined by Mr. Dean Kester:â€" (Q@.â€"How long did you remain in the Timmins jail? A.â€"I don‘t know ? (Q.â€"â€"Were you ever in jail before you were in jail in Timmins? A.â€" Yes. 2 * * ().â€"When you were downstairs in the cells you threatened to commit suicide? A.â€"Not that I know of. (Q.â€"You told us last time. About ow long? A.â€"I thought it was aâ€" round two and a half or three weeks. (Q.â€"Do you remember when you first met Mr. Millere? A.â€"I cannot remember, Q.â€"Do you remember on or when you met him? A.â€"On round the first of August when released from here. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Phore 610â€"W 22 Wilson Avenue Sweet Clover Milk Bread Have the Wagon Call Wedding Cakes Cakes Pastries Specialty TRY about or aâ€" '.. .;. *,* #4 + .". \# 'Q:fi #. . 8 "4 # $ * %0 % .‘..:. +4 % . 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January 10th, at 8 o‘clock, for the punpose of electing the church officers and receiving reports of the precedâ€" ing year. _A goodly attendance is deâ€" sired. 0000 # _ + # # # t '. ®# .0 w .‘ ve :n aeloe asles te «e #. * .0' o # * “. Auoth * + # # t # ® t p .0 ® t . .# . * .“.’. #*2Â¥6 va* on Â¥ "@ # * .0 o+ «* + z) *¢ #. * sn # # # ”. *# # + «t i+ «t i+ . t® y# '“ # 4 t# * + # w# w .00 *# w # t# .:' ”.“ # K ”.“ «t ." # oo'n.' eetes! * ..0 * #4 + **s ** # # # “. ## e‘ ## # «6 * .. #4 v _# # % ## @ _# t # ’0 # n * w# # * #Â¥% * 0 _ ##4 tw * .# #°% ## ## ®# * * # A* +. ”. oo:oo * 0# % w# ## * ## *# # # # ## *# w # * o# aâ€"te,t *# # :’0 es ##4 tw #.# a°% *# W# ¢.# 0"% * t# a"% * * 6 a #4 44 w# _ a % w# * * @ * # L/ ob S# *, 0_# v ° ‘.1 ® Johnâ€"‘‘I can‘t find a single clam in this chowder."‘‘ ANNUAL MEETING OF ST. MATTHEW‘S CONGREGATION The evidence may be **demoecratie‘‘ enough for the Northern News, but it seems altogether too accommodating for The Advance, This paper does not believe it is the sort of method that the people of this country wish to have thrust upon their doctors, It is because The Advance has followâ€" ed the evidence so closely that this paper believes the Government should make a thorough investigation, and parliament itself should deal with the cases and the methods used. The Norhern News last week says: ‘‘Foxes are exceedingly numerous in the North this winter, the obserâ€" ver learned on a trip north a few days ago. There is no food for them in their usual haunts, was the inforâ€" mation given and, in consequence, they are coming out into less shelterâ€" ed places. They have been particuâ€" larly active in the regions near Matheâ€" son, it was stated, and they have raidâ€" ed a number of farmers‘ hen roosters, with more or less success. There are few rabbits to be seen, and report has it that the cireling seasons have brought round again the seventh year widely believed to be fatal to the bunâ€" nies, who are thought to be suscepâ€" tible to a peculiar malady at such inâ€" tervals. _ Last winter, rabbhits were plentiful, it is claimed, but a report from one authority says that it will take seveal years before their ranks, decimated by disease, are restored to their former numbers and prior to another thinning out."‘ t " nza And speaking of *‘‘the evidence,"‘ the questions and answers relative to the supply of narecotic drugs to the ‘‘special agent‘‘ by the officers on the cases is worthy perhaps of a special chapter itself in a future issue. FOXES VERY NUMEROUS IN NORTH LAND THIS WINTER . @ 4 "a 49 C @ )# C P \Z special agent was asked. "I was never out of their sight while I was in their company‘‘ was the reply. ‘*Were you out of their sight at any time after you were searched?""‘ the special agent was asked. _ , evidence, was all that could be desirâ€" ed. @ "Â¥ 6e * «te #‘6 Hollinger vs. Mcintyre Thursday, January 13 3 o o i o i o o n n C C C C C io n K 000 C1 x C ie it t it s o t t s t t t t t s t t t o o o : 5 5 5 5 5 + 4 5 % 5 5. C C . . . t . . . . . o t . o . . t s ib i s n n n i6 n ib in 5 o ib ib 5 5 i5 i5 6 o 5 i4 5 s 5 tb 5 t 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 ib 4 5 5 i 5 . 4 4 Iroquois Falls vs. Timmins Tuesday, January 11th Admission 50c. 5 M C o i i n ib h hh h h h h: h % h ib ib 5 b id ib KK K K c c t s t tSA * 8888 * * *4 t 5 4 4 4 4t M ines Games Commence at 8.15 p.m. sharp Monday, Jan. 10â€"Melntyre at South Poreupine. The schedule of games as publishâ€" ed in The Advance a couple of weeks ago has since been adopted in full hy the Mines Hockesy Leagne. The games for the season are on Mondays and Thursdays. There was a game on Thursday last between South Poreupine and Melnâ€" tyre at Timmins. and on Monday the Hollinger played at South Poreupine. ‘This (Thursday) evening Melntyre and Hollinger try conclusions at the Timmins Rink. The following are some of the other games for the near future for the Mines League :â€"â€" Thursday, Jan. 13â€"Hollinger at Mclntyre. Monday,/Jan. 17â€"South Poreupine at Hollinger. Thrusday, Jan. 20â€"South Poreuâ€" pine at Meluntyre. Wifeâ€"‘*What time is it ?"" Hubbyâ€"‘‘*Quarter to twelve."‘ (He was in wrong. but gave the right answerâ€"it was three o‘clock.) CoMING MATCHES IN THE MINES LEAGUE HOCKET NESBITT, THOMSON COMPANY "‘We Invite Your Enquiries for In vestment Service‘‘ Invest in Water Power Securities LIMITED Royal Bank Building, TORONTO, 2 Montreal Quebec Ottawa Han London, Ont. Winnipeg â€"A basic industry 3 â€"which converts waste energy â€"into a wealth producing product â€"which while used is never consumed â€"and for which there is an ever increasing demand. With a future so proinising and a financial record unexcelled, selected SJecurities of this type provide safe, profitable investments. Timmins, Ont. Phone 428M Thursday, Jan. 6th 1927 Marshallâ€"Ecclestone Building, Timmins ~2â€"15 Goldfields Theatre Building Barrister, Solicitor, Notary. Dean Kester Open Evenings Hamilton 6 #" m '!0 0!0 al", e %4%/ * _#, _4 .0..0 « * 4 6. 3 #‘*ev‘s ies # # Â¥ *4 y3 4