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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-12-2, Page 3TllE YUKON REGION. VIEWS OF THE MINISTER QF THE INTERIOR. • 1%e Most Feasible Route—Administration and Postal Services --A Large Influx of Gold -Seekers Expected --The Boundary Question a Grave One. Winnipeg, Nov. 27. --Hon. Mr. Clifford Bitten, Minister of the Interior, arrived in the city to -day. Yesterday afternoon Manitoba's representative in the Domin- ion Cabinet gave an audience to a repre- sentative, when the following hurried in- terview occurred:— "Whio:l ionto into the Yukon do you think is the best?" "Well, that all depends. Do you mean a winter route or one that will be more serviceable when the waters are open? I thisk the White and the Ohil000t pass routes are the hest in the winter, and the Stiokeen route is the best when the waters are running and the river is open." "Do you think Major Walsh and party will get in safely?" "They are there now. We will not know how the new laws on mining are being administered until we hear from him. We will, however, send in more men, as our force is not sufilaiontly large. Our postal service will run regu- larly onoe a month, and it will depend on the major's report whether it will be increased when travel is easier and the difficulties to be overcome are not so great." "Will the Government aid a line of telegraph into the Yukon P" "Not this winter. Wo do not know what we may do next year." "1)o you expeot that there will be a large influx of gold -seekers into the new country next spring?" "Yes; the general indications look •that way. This is also the opinion of railway, steamship, and other transport- ation companies, who naturally reoeive the most inquiries about the country, and have a better knowledge of the num- bers who contemplate going." "Do you think the country is riob in mineral wealth?" • "Yes; I think there is a large amount of gold in the Yukon country." "Where is Mr Ogilvie, the surveyor?" "I left him on the coast. He returned ,to Ottawa via the Southern Pacific rail- way, ailway, and will there prepare has report for the Government on the Yukon. I do not know whether he will return to Klondike or not " "'Will Dawson City be the headquarters of the Dominion officials?" "No; Major Walsh has instructions to look around for a more suitable location to ostablis't himself and his party, one that will be more in the center of the mining regions. Where that will be is not known, and action Will not be taken until the major is heard from." "Is there anything now regarding the boundary line between Alaska and Can- ada?" "Not yet; there are certain phases of the question which have to be looked into carefully, and Mr. King, our chief astronomer, went out with me for that purpose. As to whether there will be a commission on the question appointed by the United States and ourselves, I do not know; the subjeot is a very grave one." Mr Sifton said it was the policy of .his department to cancel all overdue time sales on Government lands pur- ,obased many years ago, and whioh had nob been improved. By this means a larger area would be open to bona fide settlers. He declined to express an opin- ion on the reported decision of the Pope regarding the Manitoba school question. PORT ARTHUR MURDERS. Two Hen Poisoned and After Death Their Bodies Were Cremated. • Pembroke„ Nov 26.—Oliver Prevost, alias Gauthier. sentenced by Judge !Armour to seven years for stealing pork and furs at Renfrew, has made a terrible confession to Crown Attorney Metcalfe here. Some time ago he left his wife and 'wont off with a Mrs. Gauthier from Valleyfield, Que. Assuming Gauthier's 'name they went to Port Arthur and started hotelkeeping. Two men named Rene Dobin and Fred Corriere lived in a shanty near the hotel. The men called on Prevost on February 10 last to trade some pigs, and they remained for supper. Prevost says the woman (Gauthier) put poison in the tea for the men, but would not give him any tea. Both men left the table before their meal was finished. One dropped dead in the house, the other immediately on reaching the door. Realizing they would be arrested for murder, and to sorean themselves, they placed the bodies on a sleigh, took them to their shanty and laid them on their bed. After searching them and taking what money they found they set the place afire and cremated the bodies. Pre- vost says hp frequently quarreled with .Mrs. Gauthier and was afraid she would poison him also, as 'she told him she always kept poison on hand. Mrs. •Gauthier deserted Prevost and returned to her husband at Valleyfield. She was called to Pembroke as a witness and is now held in Pembroke on orders from the Port Arthur authorities, Cotton Operatives May Strike. London, Nov. 26.--A count of the ballots oast in a majority of the cotton - spinning districts of Lancaster upon the question of the acceptance of the reduc- tion of wages proposed by the employers ee shows an overwhelming majority against the proposal of the cotton manufacturers to submit the wage question to arbitra- tion, and a general strike of employees in the cotton industries now seems inevi- table. The employers a month ago stated that the emergency demanded a reduction of five per cent. in wages, asserting that without a reduction of expenses their business could not be continued at profit. If the cotton masters are firm in their intention to impose the five per cent. reduction it is impossible to see how a general strike involving 200,000 opera- tives, whioh will paralyze the greatest industry of the empire, can be averted. Found Dead on the Track. • South Finch, Ont.,`Nov. 29.—A sad accident happened on the Ottawa and New York railway after six last night to. a young man named John Neil McMil- lan who was fotind -dead on the track. He was working for the railway, and, the night being dark, it is supposed he, fell between the oars. He was a single man, about twenty years of age. His father is Angus McMillan, a farmer, who lives about two miles from here. The deceased was highly respected and. well liked by all who knew him. THE POIRIER INQUEST, Arrestor the Widow and Iter Lover --Cat- tle ICXtnfrters' Losses. Montreal, Nov. 27.—Miss Mary Ras- taleh, a young lady of Lachine, left her home on Wednesday morning, and has not been seen since. No reason --eon be assigned for her disappearance, and Detective Carpenter bas been requested to' snake inquiries. She is about 25 years of age, five feet in height, and rather slight. As a result of the' Coroner's inquest in the ease of Isidore Poirier, a carpenter living at St. Canut, about six miles from St. Soholastique, who was found lying on his bed Monday with bis throat out, his widow, Madame Poirier and her lover, Samuel Parselon have been arrest- ed. It appears that Parselon's visits to the house were so frequent and at such hours as to cause a scandal to the neigh- bors, and that he frequently gave Poirer drink to send hilt asleep. On Sunday they had all been drinking together and that was the last time Poirier was seen alive. A long butcher knife was found near his pillow, and the wounds about the neck and throat were of such a char- acter as to preclude the idea of suicide. The export live stook season of 1897, just closed, was probably one of the worst, if not the worst, in the history of the trade for the shippers' pockets. It is estimated by most of the prominent ex- porters that the average loss during the season is fully $6 per head, and some of thein have even gone as far as to say that the above figure, if anything, is be- low the mark. In round figures, there- fore, exporters have lost in the neigh- borhood of three-quarters of a million dollars. 'Phis has been principally due to the fact that the engineers' strike, whioh. was in full blast throughout most of the season, demoralized the markets, while there was a large increase in supplies on account of the jubilee celebration. These were far in excess of the requirements of the trade, and the inferior quality of stook sent forward from September to the close of the season bad a further de- pressing effect upon values in foreign markets, and shippers were obliged to stand the consequences. The total num- ber of cattle shipped was 119,188 head, of whioh 12,171 head wero United States, shipped through in bond, this being one. of the newest features of the trade this year. The sheep exporters have shared the misfortune of the cattle shippers,, and those who have sent forward a large number state that the trade during the whole season was bad. In May prices in England opened at 123eo for choice stook and advanced to 18c, but the market did not remain long around these figures, as in July it declined to 9c, whioh is 4o from the top, and for the balance of the season ranged from 10o to lac. The ship- ments for the season were 61,254 head, showing a decrease of 19,417 oompared with 1896. The horse trade has Leen the meet profitable one to shippers during the past season, yet the shipments show a small decrease as compared with last year. The total number exported for the season 1897 was 10,051 head, as against 10,088 in 1896, showing a decrease of 87 head, while in 1895 there were shipped 12,755 head, or 2,704 more than went for- ward this year. The trade throughout the summer months has been most unsatis- factory to those who were unfortunate enough to be in it. The prioes realized in London during the past season for good, suitable horses averaged from 420 to 486 per head, and such stook as this would cost shippers in the country from $60 to $110 each. Some sales of fancy driving, carriage and thoroughbred ani- mals have been made at prices ranging from £80 to £160 in the London market, but of course these figures are very rare- ly obtained. COUNTERFEIT BILLS. Ones Raised to Fives --Death From Ex- posnre---A Cold Spell. Winnipeg, Nov. 27.—One-dollar bills of the new Dominion issue are being raised to five by taking the figures from the revenue stamps used on cigar boxes and pasting them over the figures on the bills. The ground -work of the bills and stamps ie the same, and the change is easily effected, and hard to detect in the ordinary handling of the bills. A despatch from Lethbridge says the recent cold dip caused the formation of ice iu portions of B ells, River, resulting in the sudden rise of the water, which flooded two railroad construction camps near here. Thirty men narrowly escaped with their lives. The rise was so rapid that two men were imprisoned in a tent for two hours. By climbing the tent -pole and tearing a hole in the canvas, and wading through ice-oold water, they escaped from what seemed certain death. Several men were badly frost-bitten, Sam Hooton, the foreman, so badly that he had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. The Dominion Government is cancel- ling largo numbers of patents for land ou whioh the payments are overdue. This will take a considerable area of land out of the hands of speculators, and render it available for settlement. lvilt3l.at Dennison's Sentence. Brampton, Nov. 27.—Wm. Dennison, convicted of stealing lierses, wagon and harness front different farmers in the county, was yesterday sentenced to three years in the Kingston Penitentiary. Den- nison pleaded drunkenness, and said that he as not responsible for his actions when he took other people's property. His wife bade him an affectionate fare- well in the sheriff's offioe. Town Constable Beatty landed a pri- soner in jail last night. He gives his name as Johnston, and the charge against him is robbery of jewellery from the house of a farmer living in Halton County named Learmont. Constable Beatty notified Constable Bradley, of Milton, of the arrest, and the ]atter took the prisoner to the county town this morn ing. An Unusual Incident. St. Louis, Nov. 25.—lt is somewhat unusual for labor unions to take action regretting the death of wealthy men, but there was a noted exception when local union No. 8, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and .Joiners of America, adopted resolutions of respect. to the memory of John E. Liggit, the million- aire tobacco manufacturer, who died on Tuesday. The resolution recites that the deceased was a very good friend of organized labor and the sympathy of the onion was tendered to his family and friends. The Toronto City Council rejected the recommendation of the Board of Control that tenders be invited for a supply of cheap power. The aqueduct scheme, was thus given another set -back. H6 CURE WAS PERTINENT. The Story of a Man who Suffered the Agonies of a Living Death. MEDICAL EXPERTS PRONOUNCED HIM INCURABLE AND 'HE WAS PAID A LARGE DISABILITY CLAIM. The Case Probably the Most Wonderful in the History of Medical Science --Brought from Hopeless, Helpless Inactivity to Health and Strength ---A Reproduction of the Check by which the Disability Claim was Paid. +rr��m�rrr�,tiwm�r�rJtiwtw�r�rr�rwr�m No other medicine in. the world has ever offered such undoubted proof of merit. WHAT DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS have done for others they will do for you, if g'l'en a fair trial. From the Meaford, Ont., Monitor. About two years ago the Monitor pro - Vcured an interivew with Mr. Reuben Petah, of Griersville, in order to ascor- Ztain from bis own lips If the reports twere well founded that be attributed bis w most astonishing return to health to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People The result of the interview was published in the Monitor under the date of Jan. 17th, 1896. Mr. Petch's oase was certainly one of the most extraordinary in the annals of medicine in Canada—if not in the world. He bad been i11 for five years and in that time he consulted no less than six of the best physicians he could find, but none could give hint the least relief. His limbs and body were puffed and bloated to such an extent that he could not get his clothes on, and for two years he had not dressed. He had lost the use of his limbs entirely. His flesh seemed to be dead, and pins could be stuck into various parts of the body without being felt or creating the slightest sensation. He could not move about and if he attempted to -get up would fall and would have to be lifted up. He was unable to open his mouth sufficiently to take solid food, and had to be fed with a spoon like a child. ilia doctors sai,i his trouble was spinal ,ole.r- osis, and that he could not possibly get bettor. He was in fact nothing snore or less than an aniinated corpse, so helpless was be, lie w.:5 a member of the (,:ana- dien i)utn,ii Li!e Association and was under tier rules entitled to disability insurance .and made a claim for it. `iwo doctors, on behalf of the assooiation, wore sent to examine him, and they pro- nounced him permanently disabled, and in accordance with their report be was paid $1,650. This was about two years after his sickness began. For three years more be lingered in the oondition above noted, utterly helpless, and a burden to himself and friends. He was then ad- vised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He did not hope that they would help him,but in bis Rad condition he was pre- pared to grasp at anything that afforded the prospect of even a slight relief. the first change noted in his cortiition after be began the use of the pills was a dis- position to sweat freely. Then life began to return to his hitherto dead body, and from that time on Ms progress towards recovery and activity was steady and certain. The pubiioation of the interview, con- taining the facts above noted, created unusual interest, not only in this sec- tion, but throughout Canada. That a man, whose limbs and body were all but dead, who had been examined by medical experts, and pronounced incur- able, and on the strength of their report was paid a large disability claim, should afterwards be cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, was looked upon as a marvel. Many were skeptical; not as to the cure —for the fact that he was actively going about proved this—but they did not believe it would prove permanent. In view of the doubts then expressed, the Monitor determined to watch the oase closely, and now, nearly two years after the cure was first published, has again interviewed Mr. Petah, with the result that we are in a position to say most emphatically that this remarkable cure has proved permanent. On being again questioned, Mr. Petah said: "You see those hands—the skin is now natural and elastic. Once they were hard and without sensation. You could pierce them with a pin and I would not feel it, and what is true of my bands is true of the rest of my y, bod Perhapsyou have observed that I have now even ceased to use a cane, and can get about my business perfeotly well. You may say there is absolutely no doubt as to my cure being permanent Indeed I am is even better health than when I gave yott the first interview." "Do you still attribute your cure to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pille?" nsked the Monitor. 'Unquestionably I do," was the reply. "doctors bad failed, as had also the numerous remedies recommended by my friends: Nothing I took had the slight= est effect upon me until I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. To this. wonderful medicine I owe my release from a living death. I have since recom- mended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to many of my friends, ansa the verdict it in their favor. I shall always bless the day 1 was induced to take them." The above are the chief statements made by Mr. Petoh in this latest inter- view, and the Monitor may remark from a long aoquaintanco with him, that we consider his statements absolutely true• and reliable. He has no interest to serve other than a desire to recommend the inedicine that has done so much for him, and we feel sure that if any sufferer will write Mr. Petah, enolosing a stamp for reply, he will endorse all the statements made above. We may further add that Mr. Patch's remarkable recovery leaves no doubt of the wonderful curative powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and it seems reasonable to infer that they will do for others what they have done for him—restore health and vitality, The check at the head of this article is a fac simile of the one by which Mr. Petch's disability claim was paid and is given In further corroboration of his statements. THE TALK OF EUROPE. Brief Recollections Upon Events of Cur- rent Interest Across the Ocean. For some strange reason or ether the chieftainship of the London detective department at Scotland Yard seems to develop tendenoies of a distinctly relig- ious character. The former head of the bureau resigned bis office, whioh is worth $6,000 a year and allowances, in order to devote himself entirely to missionary work in India, and now his successor, Robert Anderson, has pub- lished an extraordinary book, entitled "The Silence of God," in whioh he ascribes the spread of atheism to the failure of the Omnipotent tr entervene to prevent crime. This theory is all the more remarkable from the fact of its being voiced from the head of a depart- ment devoted to the punishment and investigation of crime. Mr. Anderson expresses the opinion that the Divine toleration of such a "monster of iniquity" as the Sultan of Turkey is a striking illustration of the "silence of God" in a •manner as novel and as strange as the theory whioh he advances. In Franco, but more especially in Russia, a widespread belief prevails that the papular hero, General. Skobeleff, nicknamed "the White General," is nob really dead, but that he will reappear when his country has need of his sword. According to the story, it was merely a man resembling him who was buried, his disappearance from the scene having been due to causes of an international as well as a dynastic character. It may be remembered that his alleged death at Moscow has always been shrouded by a. considerableamount of mystery: It is implicitly believed by the rank and file of the Muscovite army as well as by the peasantry that the general had a bands in the last Chinese -Japanese war, com- manding a Japanese regiment under a false name. Fits most intimate friend, Baron Hetrovo, now dead, was Russian envoy in Japan at the time. His return was announced at Vladikavkas the other day, and several thousand moujiks and soldiers assembled at the railroad station to welcome him, dispersing when the train arrived, but confident that he would assuredly return some day. Hugo Wolf, the well known Austrian composer, has at length been placed under restraint in a lunatic asylum. His genius, whioh enjoys an international celebrity, is of the eccentric order, and his conduct in the past has been of such an unconventional, irascible and alto- gether impossible nature that when, two years ago, a Hugo Wolf society was formed at Vienna for the ciroulation,per- formance and publication of his various operas and compositions it was resolved as the chief and fundamental rule of the association that Wolf himself should be rigidly boycotted. An imperial resoript, bearing the signature of the Czar and dated at Darmstadt, has just been issued, grant- ing a plenary pardon to 200 Lutheran Pastors of the Baltic provinces, who on trivial and vexatious charges of having transgressed the ecclesiastical laws had been deprived of their benefices and ,forcibly deported to distant parts of the empire, Where they have been oompelled to earn their livelihood as best they could. Many of them have likewise undergone imprisonment, their trans- gressions consisting in most cases in having administered Lutheran baptism to the children of Lutheran fathers and mothers who had married members of the Greek church. It is Pobiedenot- soff, the procurator of the holy synod, who is charged with the authorship of the persecutions now bought to a close by the Czar's edict. Just before the King of Siam left Ms capital for Europe nearly every foreign employe of his government, including r number of Americans, many of whom had spent long years in his service, was dismissed on the pretest of economy. Their places have now all been taken by Englishmen, over 89 of the most im- portant ofdces.in the army, the navy, the various branches of civil administra- tion of the government and at court having within the last few weeks been filled by Britons personally selected by the King. Dow She Harv. A little girl 6 year; old was on a visit to her grandfather, who was a Nt w England divine celebrated for his logical powers. "Only think, grandpa what Uncle Robert says." "What does he say, my dear?" "Why, he says the moon is made of green cheese. It isn't at all, is it?" "Well, child, suppose you find out for yon.rself. " "How can I, grandpa?" "Get your Bible. and see what it says." "Where shall I begin?" "Begin at the beginning." The child sat down to read the Bible. Before she got more than half through the second chapter of Genesis, and had read about the Creation of the stars and the animals, she came back to her grand- father, her eyes all bright with the ex- eitoment of discovery. "I've found it,. grandpa. It isn't true; for God made the moon before he made cows."— Philadelphia Aineriean, The Pillar of Safety. Before the erection of the new univers- ity buildings in Jena the professors gen- erally held their lectures in various public halls scattered all over the town. In the body of one of these halls, where the professor of theology used to hold forth, there stood n large pillar. At the close of the session the students applied to the professor for their certificates of attendance, when the latter remarked to one of the young men: -- "But, my dear sir, I never saw you at any of my lectures!" "Oh, Herr Professor, I always sad behind the pillar." "Strange!" was the reply. "You are the fourth who professes to have sat regularly behind the pillaar."—Tagliohe Rundsohau. Prepared for It. He (ecstatically)—Miss De Peyster promised last night to marry me. She (oalmly)--I congratulate you. He—You don't seem to be surprised. She—No, I can't say that I am. 2 heard her say yesterday that she had made up her mind to have a husband,. before the year was out, and that almost any old thing would do. You can't tell how good a house- keeper a woman is by the way she dresses in the street. Two Rinds of Young Men. Some young men take after their fa- thers and some take after the neighbors' girls —Somerville Journal. Too Close Nor Comfort. Hammond—How did Skiuuum hap- pen to lose on that latest deal? I thought that he stood close to the right peoplo. Beans --That was just it. He was up against them—New York Journal. spicy. "Any spicy features in the new play?" "Well," the lady' answered, "John bad his mouth full of cloves. "—Kansai City Journal.