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Engineor Bound and Helpless in Hands
of Burglars.
A despatch front Vancouver, B. I:.,
rays: Surmised by four burglars who
held guns at his heed and then bound
his Bands behind his back and threw
him under a table, Walter \Vitttney er,
engines•r .:f the Vancouver breweries,
mailed for the boilers of the plant to
explode and blow him and. the te,e-
lers to pieces, on Tuesday night.
The night engineer was just turning
hitter into the boiler after hi, lunch
when four masked tncn covered him.
They krwcked him down, tied his hands
behind his back and carried him to the
main office of the brewery, where he
was thrown under a table.
Ile watched the burglars qu•eparc to
blow the .<afe with nitre -glycerine, mete
tally calculating that within a very few
minutes the lack of water in the boilers
<,r the plant would cause an explosion
that would bring the building down
about their ears. At the first attack on
the safe with explosive; the polices ar-
rived and opened fire on the gang, who
escaped. The engineer rolled out to
the boiler and was freed. lie rushed
le the engine -room, and was just in
time to save the plant.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
RAPPEKINGS FROM ALL O%rr.l TILE
GLOBE.
Telegraph itriefs Front Our Own and
Other Countries of Recent
Evans.
CANADA.
Biscuit manufacturers in Toronto
have Increased peltas.
The first train over the C. P. R. bridge
at Parry Sound was run on Saturday.
During the year ending August last
this trade of Canada amounted to $610,-
32 6,157.
Isle old Catholic church at Longue
Pointe, Quebec. was burned on Thurs-
day; tom $75,000.
Two hundred and fifty men have been
laid off by the Grand Trunk in Point
St. Charles.
The grand stand at the Montreal base-
ball grounds wa.s deetroyod by tire on
Saturday.
Engiroers and firemen on the Tools -
kerning Railway have asked for in-
crYaSe l wages.
Winnipeg milling companies havo re-
duced the price of all grades et (bur
ten cents a sock.
The New Ontario section of the Trans-
dx.ntincntal will be tite last to be com-
pleted.
The Ontario Government will eon -
shier the appointment of an agent -gen-
eral tor Ontario in England.
One hundred and twenty-five men
have been laid off by the Griffin Pack-
ing Co., Edmonton.
Vice' -President Bosworth of the C.P.U.
announces a reduction in freight rates
to points west of Winnipeg.
Toronto bankers and grain dealers
deny that the banks are not furnishing
suffident funds to move the western
snips.
J. S. \irponeld was senlenced to lour
years in the ikorchester Penitentiary
for robbing North Sy.Iney Post Office.
Risme for the wreck near Regina last
week has been placed on the crew of
tho passenger train by the coroner's
jury.
The Ottawa Cebir.et hes nppntnled
Mr. W. i.. M. King to investigate Ja-
panese immigrant -in into British Colum-
bia.
James A. Blair has offered i,ondon
/20.000 toward an Isolation hospital U
the city will pay him 5 per cent. unlit
els death.
Alberta hits over five hundr'd miles
of Mniedistanep telephone lines and
several local exe'hanges operating, all
owned by the Government.
Lorekon goal dealer.; sny they are un-
able In get their enters Mesa at the
mines and a coal famine may result 'n
Met city.
young man was drawn into a me-
re, e•' in Brantford tt-'tery, and had his
r1i thing stripped off rompletely. Ile
cooped with n few hrideen.
The Metietne list (WHIM has der'dod
1,1 ninrtgng.' the waterworks and gas
plants In preference In selling ti'ben-
noes at thio thne of tight money.
The Dominion ("nal Co. denies the
report that they are bringing in 2.a(10
)
men --or any other number -from the
old rntintry to work in their roll'r!ia.
:\ Montreal airy has awarded \1rs.
3. E. ilobasnn $3.000 end two ehildren
$1.(ri) cath for the death of Mr. Rob-
son. who w•ne kilted by the G. T. R.
Two Hien were arrested at sleet Ste.
Marie. en Saturday, with burglars' pro-
perly in (heir possession. who are be-
lievisit to 1* the authors of the iitaek
Eland lettere that here been circulated
Doses of late.
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GItEAT BRITAIN.
ford Curzon of Kedleston witl contttst
\Vest Iiuron for the British (louse of
(;onlmona.
The new Cunard liner Mniiretania on
a speed trial on a three-twndred-mile
course averaged tl.36 kraits an hour.
The British Roast of Trade returns
show increasers of over $15,0(0,000 in
hi -ports, and of over $25,fifxt,000 in ex-
perts for the month of (Sniffier.
Speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet
in l.ondun, on Saturday, Sir John Fish-
er ridiculed the idea of Germany's being
able to invade Itrl!ain.
'floe King's birthday honors include a
Privy Councillorship tor Sir Charles
Tepper, it Knighthood for Chief Justice
Wes, and a C.M.G. for i)egwty Post-
master -General Cculter.
UNITEi) STATE3.
John Moore, a Toronto youth, Ls held
at Buffalo for larceny and burglary.
Mrs. CormeIla Mcltelvio used the
American (lag to hang herself at Haiti -
mere.
Residents at Montclair, N.J., are plan-
ning the eeslablLshment of a cooperative
kitchen for the whole town.
I'rof. Drake of the University of Michi-
gan is advocating the nomination of
President Roosevelt for King.
John Merlin, a butler at White Plains,
New York, shot his etpbye:'s son and
then committed subside, on Saturday.
The Santa Fe Railroad ons f1n<+t1
$3.'30.01)0 at Los Angeole. on Thursday fur
granting rebates on shipments of lime
and cement.
Women of Yardley. I'a., worked from
dawn till dusk one day recently sweep-
ing hop !twee; and rubbish on the streets.
An appeal has been sent to President
Roosevelt to relieve rho money strin-
gency in the west so that the wheat can
Le marketed.
The United States ('overnmetit fore-
caster has estimatol That within twenty
years this country:; limber supply will
have been exhausted.
By throwing loop bottles into the
nano* Poltretnan Ward and a few
others .stopped a diosastttous fire at a
roller skating rink at Pittsburg.
Tho report of the Interstate tommer'o
Commission shows that SAO persons
were killed on Ute railroads In the
Lnital States in the year ending June 29
Inst.
A celluloid comb In the hair of a
Long island aebooi girl was sat on fire
by the flame of n lamp near which she
had fallen asleep. She *seeped serious
injury.
GENERAL,
A Berlin firm will rennufecture mile.
Intl airships for all nations.
The Persian city of Astrebed has been
Vetd1 by Tureomans and the inhabitants
put to the sword.
Tho Russian Government (has given an
order for len new lorpede-l'ont destroy-
ers to tvi.it $14.000,000 in all.
Russian life lnatirance coniptmies have
cancelled all loticit.i held by persons
connected with Ihe third Duma.
The taleet report teen Karatagh, Rus -
ass, state that 3,41111 prions perished in
the landslide there on October 21.
The increase of crime in Emote has
gnat rise to a popular demand for the
reetnration of caplet' pt.nnshment.
The North German Lloyd Steanvahip
Company will provide sp'einI ritual kit -
delis for Jewish emigrants on their
tranaatiantic steamers.
The latest repeirla from Karatagh. the
Ikikaran town destroyed in a landslide.
indicate that About 1(000 purple in the
vicinity periehi'd in the cntantmphe.
The I'residente of Nicaragua. ',endur-
es snit Wender met at Amapele. and
agrest to forget pest differe,tcee. and to
abide by previous Treaties of friendship.
The Shntee Minister of Foreign Ai -
fairs bee notified the repres.'nlnlives of
Britain mei (testa that they cannot by
means of their reefed treaty interfere
with Persia's independtence.
YiLL AESTNICT EMIGRATIO
Japan's Foroiga Minister Says He Will
Control It.
A d•'spileh trent Tokio seri : In an
Inl.'rvt.'w %vith the -o; inIi 1 gree, 4.11
Ttnir..liy MI:ni.eb-r .el Fon"gn Affairs
(layashi said that the relations between
Japan and (,a United Stales were as
eni•+.tth an•% .s'rt,al ire pyre, and the
cause if eivilorntwm as '11011 as coimmin-
117 of interest tleenanate' the lasting;
peace and fr:eoetship of bhp two t:ations.
Minister Nayathi admitted that the
fr:lltigretion qu.`ab..I1 was th Irs,st ser-
er us matter. ant was uppermost in the
public mind, hub he oral lusilivr that it
Nsuhl be aelti.al w.tleut 1 frielenn. Al-
ready it prartiealty hes been deckled.
1114 Japanese 1invernnl. of prop ees (o
rminel enugretinn in :melt n manner as
1e tteneft Japan and at the eento time
er.nfortn to the wishes of the Ameri'an
Gevernulent, and is taking nuns( active
stets In this .tire.1.on.
1 tte Foreign Minister believds teal
Jnq.an will lee able to Active the Twit -ton
In (his manner. d ri ,tiring eenly the pa -
ionise et the people of both dmuntries.
Our, thing certain is that the Japerleae
ree•vernment Ls tot collet:et.c for tee
emigration of its preppie into any (01111-
11).
LEAD1Nu MARKETS
liltli.11l:5TUFFS.
Toronto. Nov. 12 Ontario Wheat -
No. 2 White or red, :o•:k to 93%e; No. 2
mixed. 9O.; geeixe wheat, 89c to 90e.
Manitoba Wheel -No. 1 hard. $1.07;
No. 1 northern, $1.(5; Ne. 2, 31.03.
Barley -No. 1, 84c; No. 2, Bee No. 3
extra, 80c.
Oats -No. 2 white, :.ac to 51a, outside;
mixed, 53c outside.
Bye-R8e outside.
Peas -.89c.
Corn --No. 2 yellow, America 69%c,
l'oronto freights; No. :1 yellow, 69%c.
Rtie'kwlteat--7nr nutstse.
Bran --$21 to 121.50 in bulk ota.side;
shirt,. $23 to 123.55.
Flour --Ontario, 90 uer crit. patents,
about 13.80 bid, $3.95 asked; !Manitoba
patents. special brand..at'i to 16.20; sec-
ond patents, $5.40 to 15.60; strong bak-
ers', 15.30 to 15.40.
COUNI'ItY PRODUCE.
Butler -Market is very strong, but
q.tot ntions are unchanged.
Creamery. prints .... .. .. t!&: to 30e
Ito solids 24c to 250
Dairy prints .... 21<: to 20C
do solids . . !lc to 24c
Cheese -Steady at 13i3O and twine al
110.
Eggs -New laid rule firm at 30c; stor-
age, 25c.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 7c to 10e;
hens, 5' to 7c; ducks, 7c to 9c; geese,
7e: to 9e; turkeys. 12e to 14e.
Potatoes-Ontariois are firm at 755c to
80e in car lots on track.
Boarn-e;leady at $1.80 M $1.90 for
prunes and e1.% to $2 for hand-picked.
Honey -Strained steady at Ile to 12e
per lb., and combs at 11.75 to 12.50 per
dozen.
Rated (lay -Timothy is quoted at IVT:
50 to $18.50 per ton In car tots on track
here.
Baled Straw -Finn at 19.50 to 110.50
rear ton on track.
PROVISIONS.
Sinoked and Dry Sailed Meals -long
clear baron, Ile to 1tye for tons and
,aces; hares, medium and light, ISM to
15yse ; heavy, 14%e to 15e; hack, 1GKit
to 17c; shoulders, 10 ae to let; m113, Ile
to 11%e; breakfast bacon, 150 to 15'/,c.
Green swats out of pickle, lc less than
smoked.
Dressed fogs -0.75 for lightweights
Arid $5.25 for heavies.
Pork Short cut, $22.75 to $23 for bar-
rels; mesa, St0 to $21.
Lard--Fu•ru; tierces, ltyc; lobs, 12%c;
pails, 13c.
M()NTiREAL M klI ETS.
M.tntreat, Nov. 12. 1'hern are no new
feature_; in the local flour and feed mar-
kets. Manitoba spring wheat patents,
$1i.t0 to $6.:10; second patents, 15.50 to
55.70; winter wheat palettes, $5.75 to
SG, straight rollers, 55.:01 to 15.75; in
bags 32.6() le $2.70; extras, 32.05 to $2.10.
Ontario bran in bags, 124 to $_5.
sl..rt., in begs, S25 to 120; Maiut•ihs
liras, 1n Lag.,, F!2 to 123; aborts, Sae to
$27.
Newly -laid eggs are quoted about 30(:
to Sic per dozer in cage lots, wehite
safes of selected sleek were made at
Itis to 27c; No. 1, 22c to tic; s000nds,
16'14c to 17c.
The butter market Is quiet. Quotetlons
t.: -day in round tots quoted at 27%e to
tete, according to qucnttly end district.
Cheese prices show a wide range, and
Quehecs may be quoted at 11%c to 12e.
Townships, 12%e to 12!See Ontario,,
1 Ke. to 12%c for currant receipts.
Pmvision.a--Barrels vh'>rt-cut mess,
22.511 to $2J; half barrels, $11.75 too
$1x3.25; clear rat backs, 32:1.50 to $24.-
5ii; king -cut heavy ate. s, $20.50 to $21.-
fi:; half barrels de., $10.511 to 31115; dry
salt long clear Moon, 10'/.e to 1l y.;c;
bets. plate beef, 113.50 to $1.5; half bar-
rels do., 17.25 to $7.75; torts. heavy
mess Beef, $10 kr 311; half barrels do.,
$5.50 to $(i; 'semivowel owel lard. 9%c to 1lc
pure lard, 11%e to 13e; kettle -rendered,
13Kc; to 11e; hams, 13%e to 1vc, acoord-
hie to sire; breakfast bacon, tic to 16c;
\\ indsor bacon, lac to Dile; fresh -killed
e('attoirdresse'1 hogs, 19; alive, $6.10
to $6.25.
BUFF:LO MAUKI•:r,
Buffalo, Nov. 1`!. -Wheat --Spring,
unsettled; No. 2 red, 81.02; winter low-
er. torn --Easter; No. 2 white., GO', and
No. 2 pekes", 66%c. Oats- -Easier; No.
t white, 53e.;c. Barley -$t to $1.10.
Rye -No. 2, 89c on crack.
NEW YON{ WIIEAT MARKET.
New York, Nov. 12.- Wheat. -Spot
weak; No. 2 red, 81.02i/, elevator; No.
1 northern Duluth. nominal r.o.b. anent;
No. 2 hard winter, nominal Leis afloat.
LIVE STOCK MARIt1•: r.
Toronto, Nov. 1t. -Ont of the large
rim were a few loads, scarcely five
were exporters cattle. These sold at
!1 to 11.25 per cwt.
The prices of good cattle ranged from
St to 14.50. and picked lots would tiring
up to $% per cwt. (tomrn<in and mixed
lots were abundant, and tlhetr quota-
tions violet' from 12.50 to 13.5 per cwt.
Canners ranged from 75c to $150 per
cwt. Sates of choice cows were record-
ed at $3 to 13.50 per cwt.
A plentiful supply of light slorkers
trade prices weal: and business slow.
Their values ranged from $2 to $2.G1
per cwt. Distillery feeders sold el $2.71
In $3.50 per cwt. and ;Moil: bulls were
worth $2 to 1,1.25 per cwt.
Goal milclt cows were ::old at $40 to
150 each. (omnten and fair cows
brought 120 tri $37.51) each.
I'hP prices of calves ranged front 2 to
res per 1b.
i:xport ewes sold at Si In $4.25; harks
and rulLs, 12.50 to $3.50; tenths. 15.25
In $5.4e) for choice, and 31 to $1:60 for
Inferior animals.
Priers continued steady at fel ter ib.
for select hogs. i.ight rough hogs sold
at 4% to 5c per 1b.
BRITAI SAVED FROM STRI
Dispute Betweeji Railways and Employes
Settled.
A despatch from London says: The
dispute between the railway companies
end their employes has been settled and
there will be no strike. Eleven of the
lending companies and the representa-
tives of the Amalgamated Society of
Railway Servan(h hive signed an agree-
rnent drafted by Mr. Lloyd -George. pre-
sident of the Petard of Thule, provid-
my ter the cnnsttirration of disputes toy
is board el conciliation, cotnposed cqu-
r,lly of directors of the enmpamieg and
if the tremble canto: be settled by the
helot
The agreement is lerminnble by a
year's notice nt the end of six years.
The settlement, what Is ;epode' as
0 dataLthing Mr. Lloyd -George's reptile -
bon for feat and diplotrnecy, involves
renresa'ons by both sides. The Com-
petitor are able to claim that they have
not yielded to tee+, demand for recogni-
tion n1 the union, but at the sante lime
they hind theuuselver In eompulwiry
teisida intervention in disputes with
their employes. iloth sides urof•'ss sat -
employes, with an appeal to arbitratinnL',fa'tieou with the result.
GREATEST OE DIAM(1\T)e.
Presented to King EArt nod on 1(1,
Birthday.
A despatch front London saes: Popu-
lar interest at Sandringham on Satur-
day renlre'i in tie presentation to the
King of the greatest diamond. the ('ull!-
naee which will soon be nailed to 1M'
Rri!!sh crown. Extrnnrdinary precau-
Ikens were taken for safeguarding the
tnagniil^eel jewel. which ear Itlehard
Solomon, representing the Trensvenl
Government. tru.k with hint under
strong esc'•Ab frorn i.nr4lon. Wolver-
ton loftily station. the nearest to
Sandringham. was cl•os.vl to the pub -
lie when the train nrrivnl at 12.53. The
party drove le the regal residence nc-
eempenied by a dozen detectives end
were received 1•y the King innno'elfa(•ly.
The rercmonv of pressentatioen wea
brief And almost infernnal, and then the
whole party. including two Kings.
those of fleitoin and Sorin. and three
Queens. those of Britain. Spain and
Nerway. inspeetel and t lmireti the
magnificent stone. King Edward hag
Tot elNalcd what disposition to make
of the .dtainonit. B will he neretenry
be e•'nelet the hest experts on the mese-
ism of cutting. It Is ender -toad lhnt
Sir William Brookes will to allowed M
make certain hots of the great jewel
with radium and electrh-ity for seien•
fiflc purposes. With the test result
fnsslhle in rutting there weed be n
.Angle s'ton.e of tont or five ounce. from
the nrlltlnel seven. The Exee skor. Ihe
h rgeat nrevlous diem•>nd. weight wile
ems remise and Three-quarters. But
thee' N n!!..0 a lin ' hiliry that the store
Mich! fiv into fragments when cutting
la attempted.
OltItl:Rr 1'011 COAL.
Pltlsbury Con••erns Decline lu 'supply a
Million 'len•.
A deepnteh frorn Pittsburg says: Or-
d.'rs aggregating .'e1a1,e00 Ions were re-
•'eived in Pittsburg end refus'd by k -'aI
coat .enny erns in the past week, in shite
e1 the fact that premiums were offered
for peompl shipment. rind it breasted
known nn Saturday that the amount of
mal otters declined within the past
few weeks have ag regnle.l perhaps
1.(Mil.(110 lens, and all Meral.te of lack
of rnilrond Irnnsps rtalion facititi.:..
The shortage et cars. which itat been
most pronounced recently. has become
more ncnle through heavy dernnnds by
the South for cotton mnvhtg. and is
the lake sen. ns ends hes. 5. it,. Pills.
burg roal king., could not see (heir way
l: take nn mare coat orders. as It is
thought they have more resters now
than can he filled. The great bulk of
the roe' was ordered from the Virile
west.
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M1101HT OF 1. V10111 1S.
Report of Work on Western Division of
(:rand Trunk Pacific.
A despatch front t)tteiia says: The
monthly report of progress in the West-
ern .division of the Grand Trunk Pnel-
pc *hews that up to the end of Oce).
her 242' miles cif lraek heti been laid
hv,m Winning westward, of wh:eh 5e
had been haltasteil. The etompeny It
still ahnrt nl !Mier ea. Two hundred
Irtlok letterer, were required for work
near 1?dmonton, nut af'er the most
♦'renrwms work only 32 could be ob-
hainod.
PERISH IN FALLING IIOUSES
A. Terrific Hurricane Sweeps Over Niar-
seilles, France.
A despatch (rein Marseilles, France,
says: A hurricane swept over this elle
on Friday night, causing immense dam-
age to ducks and other water front pro-
periy. The gni works were Heeded by
the terrific dewnlaour that a.xoonnpaniel
the storm, and the city wet plunged into
dart:nesse A number of p.eiple were
killed by nnilapsing bows',, 1 ut iu the
ocnfusion and the darkness it is impos-
sihte to determine the extent of the
cesualitie:.
.V1 of South France continues to suf.
1 . from the Bootle following the ere
evt. rains. 1n many plass the (mind
tions aro worse than the horr..rs l..iich
f.:lloWed the September' storm. The es.
tensive coal station at Grasseseaic hits
been completely flooded and all out*
ha-. been suspended.
FO1111 11F.N SWTt T FO DE4111.
Trying to Cross the SI. Lawrence Near
Montreal.
A despatch from Montreal says: De-
tails of a drowning tragedy that oc-
curred on Friday on Cote St. Lois,
near Beauharnois, have been received in.
the city. On 'Thursday night three
Pol(sh immigrants all Ned at Cascade
Point, opposite Beauharrots, which is
situated about 20 mites from Montreal.
Tho night was stormy, but the immi-
grants said they wished to eros to Ma-
kchevilba, so that They could take the
train at Lteauhank.13 for New York. No
ene would lake the risk. and the wren
stayed all night a1 the hotel kept by
Mr. Arthur Perron. In (ha meriting
though the weather was still stormy,
Coo. Valois, telegraph operator at the
Soulanges Canal, consented to take
them across. and Mr. Perron, the hotel -
keeper, also decided to accompany
there. When 'Bout two hundred feet
from the shore at Me4oclteville a sud-
den squall upset the skiff, as it enter-
ed the rapids of the Pointe Au •G!tasant.
The three Poles, who could not swim,
were inimediately drowned, and Mr.
Valois was swept to death by the cur-
rent. Mr. Perron clung to the over-
turned skiff, until Napoleon Forster, ALS included in the Turtle Mountain Ile -
fisherman, reached him and dragged
him safely Into another teat.
GIRLS PLAYED FOOTPADS.
One of Them Got a Black Eye and Now
GOVERNMENT PORiST RFS1•.RVE.R.
Many Square Miles Set Apart by the
Western Prottares.
By the Fere.t Reserves
Act," of 1906, a numcer of tracts of
wooded country throughout Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alherin were set
aside sus permanent forest reserves. Ot
these a number had previawlly been ret
aside by or,ter-ir, eouncn; the areas of
some were, however, }amen , ivhife a
few now ones were added. The total
areas now so rereerved in the different
previnces are as follows: Manitoba,
2.575 square miles; Saekalehewan, 740
square miles; Alberta, 186 square miles;
British Columbia, 1100 square unites.
In Manitoba there have been set
apart six reserve;. The largest of these
is the hiding Meuntatt Forest Reserve,
willt an area of 1535 square miles. A
short distance to the nerth is the Duck
Mountain Forest Reserve, comprising
seine 1253 square miles; end to the
rerthwest of this reeeerve is Porcupine
Forest ltee erve Ne. 1. with an arca of
nearly 325 square miles. \Vest of Lake
hfauiteba is the Lake Manitoba \Vest
Forest Reserve, the area of which k
nearly 250 square miles. Part of the
area covered by the Turtle Mountains
Seeks Redress..
A despateh from Manfred says: In
the Recorder's Court on Thursday a
young man named Hugh (Reid ons tried
en a charge of a-sitult, preferred against
hint by Three young lady friends. On
Thanksgiving night these three dressed
in reale attire, blackened their faces,
anti started out for a frolic. Seeing
Beiti ioming up a dark street they de-
cided to make him believe they were
holding him up. They grabbed him.
but he did not catch on to the )oke, and
started defending himself with his flats,
end gave eine M the girls a black eye.
The girls turn started to explain who
they were, but the damage was done.
Reid pleaded not guilty In the charge.
It.tiil admits that the girls were ac-
quainlanccs of his, but claims that they
did the hold-up businnas so well that
t.. did not recognize them.
3100,004) 1'1111: VI' 11)11:)VTO.
e I epeniion of the tell llotecnurt Was
Averted.
A despatch teem 'Toronto say.: A
fire, which fair it time threatened to
develop into a repetition of the disas-
trous oonfiagrati.on of April 19111. 1904,
which wiped out nearly hall of the
down -town wholesale district, destrny-
e 1 a wholesale house at 70 Bay Slree1
on Saturday evening, inflicting a floss
of $100,000 or more on five whotesnle
fond manufacturing firms. The fire
broke out only a short dlstence front
the spot in which the litg fire got its
start, and this tact That Its progress was
checked is due lo grand w.:rk by the bri-
gade. The building is live stories in
height, and is one of those which wits
retinal since the great fire of three
years ago.
NEW 111PIiTi111U % (1'IW.
Munich Professor Hays Pyncyanase h
Quick and Sure.
A despot ih from Munich says: Pmt.
Rudolph Emmerich, of the Univeraityol
Munte•h, announces that he has &senv-
ered n new cure for diphtheria which
he considers effective in the most dan-
gerous cases, rind which acts quickly.
"1'yocy:masts" is the name of the rem -
tidy. It is produced from the immo-
lation of pyoeyanaeut toeilli. develop•
ed in liquid cultures. Aupllralion is
made by blowing it inn) the threat.
serve, with an area of nearly 110 square
teres. A part of the Fend -hill country
south-east of Brandon ha; eke been set
/mist as a forest reserve, and within this
experimental work in Bares% planting
has been done; the area of the Spnire-
wonds Forest Reverve, as It is called, 'a
110 squarer mites.
In Saskatchewan there are four re-
serves. Of these Porcupine lieserve No.
2, Ihe largest, adjoins Porcupine Reserve
No. 1; it has an arca of 360 square mi.'s.
In the Doose Meunlen district, north
of Arcola, the Moose \ttuntaln Forest
deserve, of some 160 square miles in
area, has heen created. The (leaver
dills Forest Reserve, in the Beaver
I Ii1Ls, west of Yerkton, 'ewers lw.t (o., o -
ships (nangeg 9 and 10, Townshie
area, 72 :square miles. Sou(h•eest
Prince Albert is "The Pines" Forest Ile -
serve, covering 115 equere miles.
In Albert* !here ere but three reFered
The largest is the Cooking Lake Feret
Reserve, east of Edmonton; its area is
114 squnre miles. Right down in the
south -cast corner of the province, hav-
ing the international ileundary as its
southern limit, while its western limit
is three miles east of the fifth Meridian
a township and a heK of land has Leen
formed into the Kootenay Laces Forest
Reserve. An...her small reserve, Ilya
(:ypres.e Bilk Forest Reserve. Consists
d f halt a township (the soups half of
'r• wnship 8, (tango 1, weset of the fourth
\Mridinrl.
All the forest reserves in ilritish Co-
luntbin are within the railway hell, i.e.,
the strip of country twenty rot's, on
each side of the C. P. R., ceded by the
province to the Dominion. These re-
serves are eight in number. The names
and areas are a.' follows: lone Lake
I'.orest Ite.erve. a short iiistal:es snmi h-
w"et of • K -hili pa, 190 squnre. miles;
\f. me Il:IL9 i'orest Iteserve, a few mites.
cast of the Long Lake ree,'rve, area L('1
square smiles; (Martin Moun; i n Forest
Brservo, n small trivet of tq square miles
lying just wed of Relent) River; Nis-
kenlith Forest Reareve. icing west d f
I.nke Nislnnli!h. w'tk nn area of nlvut
125 squnre teres; 'rranquille Fairest Pe -
serve, nn arca of 11) squar, miles in It e
Trnnquitle I'Iatenm, norlh-reat of Knin-
lonlss Lake; 11,1 Creek Forest Itesrrve,
around the henelwaters of lint Creek,
with an Wren of 306 •quare miles; Don-
ald Forel Reserve, adjoining the C. P.
it. on the north and east stiles for some
dielance on each side of Donald, 72
square miles in extent. nr.e1 the 1.nr:•h
11111a Forest Ile-erve, lying be tween Sal-
mon Arm and Mara Lake and tree tee
au area of about 25 square mIl•a.
Perlin atset=or's figure mit nn ins
-r-:is' ,•f ¶I a M poptilali.en, le a'.^ic; a
. - ,,n of 13.C74. --
VERAGE THOUSAND A PAY
Rate of Immigration to Camels, E'ii.co
April Last,
A despatch from Ottawa says: es r
the first nine months of the present
year ending September 3Ist the final
immigration to Canada fiat been 236,-
008, an increase! of 54.736 as compared
with the crorreepending nine months
of I9n6. 'rhe increal•' above is n.nrij
deul,le the total immigration for 19u0,
and hie the none months the irnmtgra-
t on is nearly nine tittles the total im-
migration of that year.
For the first six months of the pre-
sent floss' year, beginning with April.
the tole' inurnigralisn has •'n 191,610,
of whkh Me (lumber coming keel the
1'n:te.l S ales was S.i3O"^, rn 1 the n tee
1. r vin ocean ports w t3 17.4.e..S. 1'ie
tote! increase as compared with It e
I eorreeponding months of last year
145.930. or 31 per cent. The percentnge
ef increase via ocean ports ft it. Int-
'
nv' m s ratk,:i front the Unitise Sta'es shows
. .Iecrease of Ural, or !! per cent. For
September the irnntygrat.en (rem the
Uni'ed Slates was nearly 4,000. The
number of arrivals via ocean porta for
the rnnnlh was 15.2114.
Since the let of April Inst immigrants
have (leen nrreeing in Cement at it rale
averaging a little over one thousand
per der.