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THE SEASON'S HARVEST
The Field Crops of the Dominion Has
a Value of $432,533,000.
A despatch from Ottawa, says: value, computed on an estimated
According to the statement issue:i population of 6,940,000, is $62.34
on Wedue:sduy front the Census per head.
and Statistics Office an aeea of 27,- Fifty per cent. of this year's
503,663 acres of field crops has wheat. crop, 72 per teat. of the oats
yielded a harvest a hich, computed and 68 per cent. of the barley re -
at average local Market prices, has manned in farmers' hands at the
a value of $432,533,003. • Wheat, end of November. The condition
oats and barley aggregate in area of the new crop of Fall wheat at. the
16,29.,100 acres and in value of same time was 75 per cent. of a
$200,070,000; hay and clover off standard, and 73 per cent. of Fall
8,210,900 acres have a value of $121,- plowing was completed.
884,000; rye, peas, buchwheat, A statement on the caro and
mixed grains and flax, grown on shipment of fruit made in the pres-
1,525,700 acres, have a value of *23,- ent number of the Census and
044,000; beans, potatoes, turnips, Statistics Monthly by the commis -
and other roots, corn and sugar sioner of dairying and cold stor-
beets, grown on 1,471,913 acres, age is worthy of emphasis. "There
have a value of 878,535,000; Fall I is not a sound apple grown in Can -
wheat, with a yield of 24.40 bushels ada any year, and picked from the
per acro, shows a value of $21.10; tree at the proper time." Mr.
Spring wheat, with 16 bushels, Ruddick says, "but could be de -
shows $12.84. livered in Great Britain or the
alio total value of the wheat har- North-West in perfect condition if
174st in the North-West Provinces cold storage were intelligently ap-
Ir; $72,424,000 and in the rest of the plied in transferring it from the
Dominion $18,804,000. tree to the consumer."
The value of all field crops in the .
various provinces is as follows: -
Prince Edward Island .8 9,409,000
Nova Scotia . ...... 20,083,000
New Brunswick 38,042,003
Quebec .... .... 80,896,000
Ontario .... .... 185,309,000 A despatch from London, says:
Manitoba .... .... 86,660,000 Carrie Nation says that when she
Saskatchewan .... 37,614,000 comes to London she will begin her
Alberta .... .... .... 14,622,000 cleaning campaign with the House
The average value of field crops of Lords. She adds: "I don't know
for the Dominion in the year is whether they will let me in, but I'll
$15.72 per acre, and the average try."
C-1RRIE TO
ATTACK LORDS.
That is it She Can Secure Entrance
to the House.
'CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS FROM LLL OVER
THE GLOBE.
elegrai►hio Briefs From Our Own
and Other Countries of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
The postoffice handled nearly four
hundred million letters last year.
Mr. Alex. Maclean, Trade Com-
missioner to China, died at Shang-
hai, on Wednesday.
Mr. Alfred Misner of Niagara
Falls had his nose kicked -off by a
horse.
irsiLtines Lashamb , a thirteen -year -
,Id L"uy, was dr ned while skat-
ing near Corn on Wednesday.
Leone, the seven-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. John Weir, was burned
to death at Moncton, N. B., on
Wednesday.
An effort will ha made to main-
tain winter navigation on the St.
Lawrence from Quebec to the sea.
The C. P. R. has given an order
fur 20,000 tons of rails to the Al-
goma Steel Company at the Soo.
James Daly, an old pensioner,
was picked up on the street in
,ntreal, on Wednesday, and died
,un after in the hospital. His
Bath is ascribed to the severe cold.
lion. William Pugsley, speaking
at St. John, said a number of im-
portant public works will have to
be postponed, owing to the neces-
sity of keeping the expenditures
within the income.
William Mahal -icy and Mrs. Ro-
selle McCarthy j,roke smallpox
quarantine at Chatham. N.B., to
get married, on Tuesday. They
were fined $40 each. and as Ma-
haney could nut pa, he was sent to
jail for forty days.
GREAT BRITAIN.
r- Miss Kate Gilmour. stewardess of
the steamer Sardinian. has been
awarded a Lloyd's medal for saving
litat sea.
1 r. 1/avid Lloyd -George, speak-
ing at Liverpool. said he could find
the money needed to provide old -
age pensions without taxing any-
body's fo.•d.
r
James P. Farrell, Nationalist
member for North Longford in the
British Parliament, has been sen-
tenced to six months in jail for ad-
vocating a boycott.
Dangerous
Resolutions
f,$� TOW. fellers, since it's the be-
l� ginntn' of the year when we
oegtaa be ntakln' good res-
bluticna, wouldn't It be a dandy thing
If we'd try to be f. iends with the
'Pirates'? Ynu know they say wo
should love our ennermles--"
"Gosh. Billie talks like a Sunday
school!" interrupted Ike Jones. Cap-
tain 13111 Mumford, of tho "Bloody
Robbers," paused an /natant, until Ike
was properly smothered by an ava-
lanche of cushions. Then he resumed,
earnestly:
"Think o' the dandy games wo could
have together, If we both played Lair
'stead of always fightln ."
The other "Robbers" looked rather
dubiously at one another. Somehow they
thought it would seem funny not to
be warring with their old enemies, the
"Pirates." But Ilhlilo had great in-
fluence, and finally It was toted that
the attempt should bo made to patch
up a year's truce with the "Pirates."
At the edrlhe time this meeting was
being held there was another gathering
of boys In the woodshed attache] to
Mike Flanntgan's house. Mike Flan-
nigan. as every ane knnwe. was cap -
talo ot the "Bloody Pirates," and he
'A TREACHEROUS PuSIt
It was who was speaking to the **fet-
ters of the gang."
"You, Reddy; ain't you the teller
that went aroun' eayln' it was time
to eleo' a captln? Well, we're here
UNITED STATES. now an' we're Navin' our meetin'.
Who Is It yure goln' to elec'? All I
Two stnall children were burned got to say is that whoever else you
to death in a fire near Ogdensburg, want for capon will have to down
N. Y., on Tuesday. me first beforo he kin hev tho honor:"
The Standard Oil Company and
Mike waved his eat threateningly,
Republic Oil Company have been whereupon the look of defiance upon
ousted from the State of Missouri.
Van Dwight Sheldon, an engin-
eering student at New York Uni-
versity, was shot and killed by a
bur3lar, on Wednesday.
A woman who gave evidence at
the night -riders' trial at Union
City, Tenn.. refused to leave the
courtroom without an armed guard.
Edward Hines, Presidant of the
great new lumber combine, says
lumber will shortly become cheaper
as a result of the new organization.
It was stated at the preliminary
hearing of the Pittsburg Council-
men accused of corruption that
some of the men were bribed with
sums as low as five dollars.
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison, officers of the
American Federation of Labor,
have been sentenced to terms in
prison for contempt of court.
GENERAL.
A plot to assassinate acting Pre-
sident Gomez of Venezuela has
been frustrated.
Thieves carried off large numbers
of gold and silver memorials from
Roeskilde Cathedral, the burin{ of
Danish Kings.
The Chinese Government has
dubbed the Dalai Lama "sincere
and loyal spreader of civilization,,,
and has sent hint back to Lhasa.
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(111.11(11 BUIIN:D.
Roman Catholic Edillee at Coteau
4111 l.ae Destroyed.
despatch from Montreal. says:
The Roman Catholic Church at
Cotea do Lac wits destroyed by fire
on Wednesday night, entailing a
Inas of over $50,000. it as at first
feared that the fire would spread
to a large convent near by• and the
nuns and pupils to the number of
over 300 made a hasty exit. The
church was burned to the ground,
hitt the convent was sif%ed.
TRAGEDY IN COBALT 1llN
Three#en Killed While Descending the
Shaft.
.1 despatch from Cobalt. says:
lit an accident at the Columbus
mune at 2 o'clock
an Wednesday
morning. William Hamilton, Ot-
tawa: Fr: 'd Nell,, of West Temple,
11.9., and Edward Nation of St.
Pierre. were killed The accident
seems to Iia(t' been / nosed by the
cable slipping from its wheel as the
men were descending the shaft in
the bucket
The three men had been carry -
lea out blasting operations, and
at midnight came on deck for din•
tier, but forgot to turn on the air.
Hamilton went down again. nod
attended to this. and then return-
ed to t .r top. About 2 o'clock the
three erre sent down again in the
bucket, and up till the time of an
investigation the rest is a matter of
surmise. It is supposed, however,
that when they were about sev-
enty-five feet (hien the snide slipp-
ed off the I% heel. The engineer
stopped immediately and steps were
at once taken to see how matters
stood. Mr. Showell, the captain,
was basals called and 41,,, ended by
the rope ladder. .\t the depth of
silent( fife feet he came across
the ',ticket. which was empty. and
rang for it to he raised. More men
hal ing arri(ed the party proceeded
to the bottom. a depth of 240 feet.
Hamilton was not dead when found,
but the other tno men had breath•
ed their last. Pile minutes after-
wards Hamilton expired.
Reddy's face disappeared end he cow-
ed before the powerful Mike as did
the other "Pirates." There was no
doubt that Mike would be captain, all
right.
"Since we're haute' a meetln' " con-
tinued Mike. when ail question of the
captaincy was settled, "I think we
might pass a reaolooshutn to lick the
stutlns out of them 'Robbers' the com-
ing year."
Amid frenzied cheering the vote was
made unanimous.
Both meetings were finished at about
the same minute. Thus it happened that
a group of "Pirates" met a similar
number of "Robbers" not far from
Mike Flannlgan's home.
t Captain Billy. who was among the
MiKE WAS MADE A TARGET
"Robbers," saw his opportunity. Ad-
vancing toward Captain Mike, he ex-
tended his hand peaeeahly. The latter
was disturbed for the moment. Was
thls some trick of the "Robbers"? They
would see that they couldn't tool IIIM.
As Bile thought passed through his
lnird ha caw that Just behind 131111, was
a snowdrift. The lernptet;on was too
great. One sodden, strong push from
Mike and Billie was noundeting up to
his neck In the snow.
But this was (oo much for the other
"Itoht.crs." Forgetting their good reso-
lutkns they charged the "Pirates" so
savagely that they were utterly routed.
Then they deliterately (PA Mike, whom
they had captured. to a lamppost and
used him for a target for their snow-
balls until the poor "Pirate" began t0
•despair cif escaping/ with his life.
That evening Billie toll I.leutenant
Skinny of the adventure. In conclu-
sion, he said to Skinny. co'.ndentielly:
,"No decent people c"old he frt. nds with
them 'Pirates.' They ain't got any con -
'sciences at all.
.1 BLAST FOR TOBACCO.
In the course of my association
with tobacco, about twenty-five
years. 1 have known men 111 this
time, r(ery working day, to be in-
haling tobacco dust or fumes pro-
duced in the process of tnaunfac-
ttlre says a writer in Lancet. Un-
interrupted grand health is the gen-
eral rule of all poi -tinny= engaged in
tobacco proceedings of every kind
and generally of large consumers.
[NE WORLD'S MARKETS 1
I1LI'0 :TS 1'1:031 TUE I.rAUI':G
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices ot Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Howe and Abroad.
11REAUSTUFFS.
Toronto, Dec. 29. -'Ontario wheat
-No. 2 white, 93 to 9-1c outside ; No.
2 red, 95c to 95%e; No. 2 mixed,
93c to 94c.
Manitoba wheat -=Spot No, 1
northern, $1.09 to $1.03.%; No. 2
northern, $1.05 to $1.051/; No. 3
n, rthern, $1.03 to $1.03%, on track,
lake ports. All rail No. 1 northern,
81.12 to $1.12'x; No. 2 northern,
$1.69 to $1.09%, delivered at On -
tar=o points.
Barley -No. 2, 53c to 55e; No. 3
extra, 52c to 53c; No. 3, 50c to 51c,
outside.
Oata-Ontario No. 2 white, 38c
to 38%e, outside; No. 2 mixed, 37c
to 37%c, outside, Manitoba No. 2
western Canada, 43c on track, lake
ports.
Corn -Old, 69c, Toronto freights,
for No. 2 or 3 yellow; n3W No. 2
yellow, 68c; No. 3 yellow, 63c to
64e, Toronto, No. 2. or 3 yellow;
new No. 2 yellow, 69c; No. 3 yel-
low, 66e to 66%c, Toronto freights.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 56c to 56%c
outside.
Peas -No. 2, 86e to 86%e.
Rye -Dull; No. 2, 69%c to 70c.
Flour -Manitoba, first patents,
$3.80, seconds, $5.30; strong bak-
ers', $5.10; Ontario winter wheat
patents, $3.70 to 63.75, buyers'
sacks, outside.
Millfeed-Bran, $19.50 to $20.50
per ton in bags, outside; shorts,
$22 to $23, in bags, outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -Winter stock quoted at
$3 to $4 per barrel for good qua-
lities, and at $2 to $2,50 for cook-
ing apples.
Beans -Prime, $1.70 to $1.75, and
hand -piked, $1.80 to $1.85 per
bush.
Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to Ile per
pound.'
Hay -No. 1 timothy is quoted at
$10.50 to $11 a toil on track here,
and No. 2 at $7 to $8.
Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track.
Potatoes-Ontarios, 60 to 62c per
bag. Delawares, 75 to 800 per bag
on track.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 11 to
13c per pound ; fowl, 8 to 9c; ducks,
10 to 12c; gesso, 10 to llc per
pound, turkeys, 16 to 18e per
pound.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 25 to 27c;
tubs, 22 to 24c; inferior, 20 to 210.
Creamery rolls, 28 to 29c, and solids
27c.
Eggs -Case lots of cold storage,
25 -to 26c per dozen; selections, 28
to 30c, and new laid aro quoted at
35 is 40c per dozen.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 10% to Ile
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
)$19 to $19.50; short cut, *22 to Block of Apartment lleeses Burns
$22.50.
Hams -Light to medium, 13 to cd in New York.
13V; do., heavy, I2c; rolls, 101/c; A despatch from New York says:
shoulders, 10 to 10'/,c; back', 16 to More than a thousand persons
16%c; breakfast bacon, 14% to 15c. were made homeless and hundreds
Lard -Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%c; of thousands of dollars' worth of
pails, 12%c. property destroyed in a Ere which
burned out a block of apartment
houses between Second and i'lurd
avenues and Forty-fourth streets,
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to $1.08% bid. Rye -No. 1, "75e.
Corn -May, Ole. Barley -Stand-
ard, 65%e; sample, 59 to 65%c, No.
3, 60 to 63c; No. 4. 53c.
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IMPROVED TERMINALS.
Canadian Northern Railway's Plans
for Port Arthur.
A despatch from Port Arthur,
says: General Manager McLeod of
the Canadian Northern is in -the
city. He stated that the company
would make large additions to the
terminal facilities here. Some are
definitely arranged and others are
in contemplation. To increase the
freight storage capacity at the
docks a shed is now being built over
the steel dock. A now dock is to
ho built just south of the present
dock, and on it work will be start-
ed as soon as feasible. It will be
used as a steel dock during the
early summer and for freight when
the fall rush commences. The busi-
ness will necessitate anothtr new
dock after that. New tracks will
be laid through the yards, includ-
ing lines to the new elevator to be
built by Piper & McWilliams.
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A THOUSAND HOMELESS.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec. 29. -Grain --Cana-
dian western No. 2 white oats are
selling at 46%c; extra No. 1 feed
oats at 45!•Qe, and No. 1 feed at
45c per bushel in car lots, ex store.
Flour --Manitoba Spring wheat pat-
ents, firsts at $6, seconds at $5.50,
Winter wheat patents, $3 to $5.25,
straight rollers, $4.60 to $1.70, do.,
in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extra, *1.-
75 to $1.85. Feed -Manitoba bran,
$21 ; shorts. $21; Ontario bran. $21
to $21.50; tniddlings, $21.50 to
$25.50; shorts, $21.50 to $25 per
ton, including bags ; pure grain
mouille, $30 to $32; milled granas,
*25 to *28 per ton. Cheese - The
local market holds steady with west-
erns quoted at 12% to 12'/.,c and
easterns at 11%to 12c. Butter --
Fresh receipts of creamery are sel-
ling at 25%0 anti Sept. make at
28%c in a wholesale way. Eggs -
New laid at 35e ; selected stock at
27c, and No, 1 stock at 21e per doz-
en.
i'NITEn ST.%TI:S M .1 it K ETS.
Buffal ,, De 29. -s' nI- Spri'ig
hent, steady : Nt,. 1W\1.1, intern ' nr-
loads. store. $1.13; Winter, firm.
Corn-Piehcr : Ns a yellow. C.?c :
No. 4 vellow. 611.:s.; No. a corn. 91
fn (31'4e: No. .1 cern. fiflY, to Ole;
No, a white. cal! . flnfs--T.nwer,
No. 2 whits, 5a!;e; No. 3 white.
541-' t•, 55'te : No 4 white. til'! to
51s!e. Barley --Feed to malting,
61 to Os,.
?finneapolis, f1Pt'. "A - WIu. it --
T)cc.. Al 0714: Msv. Rt nett' • n!tolh.
No. 1 herd. *1 1M4! ,•, 1 yr,rth-
nr•• 0 1/ ., \.,r'l,nrn. ill ..
n+1_' . \1•69, , ' \,,t flare, *1.f1't' ' 1.1
01 f13' Tlrtn -510.(10 to *19 "3.
T:lnitr-Fir't natente Ih330 to 05 -
RS • sit^and paten/e. Al 10 to 05.99 •
9.•.t clsere. $1.An to 1114.13. second
(•1""-1. ea 15 in 03 As.
11f ilwe',Ir.•�•
fie nq __ tti 1,ne'
V.,, 1 ' .t' ,rn. *1 11 • Vit, n V -
lai•vp, $; „- to, $1.01; May. $1.001;
Brooklyn, on Wednesday. Twenty
persons were overcome by smoke,
but were rescued by firemen. The
great Bush terminal docks on the
edge of the fire zone were saved by
a fir.;boat, which kept the flames
from sweeping over Second aven-
ue. Occupants of the blazing
buildings were driven half-clad and
shivering, into snow -swept streets,
and a score of others were dragged
unconscious from their apartments
by policemen and firemen. -
A1'TEMP'I' .1T Mt'RDER.
Italian Plunged Dagger Into a
Woman's Side.
A despatch from Montreal, says:
A sensational attempt at murder
was made by an Italian Wednesday
evening on University street, in ono
of the busiest quarters of the city.
The Italian was walking along the
street in company with a woman
companion, when, after some ani-
mated conversation, ho pulled a
stiletto and plunged it into the side
of the woman, who fell in a heap on
the sidewalk. The street was
crowded with shoppers at the time,
and the man took to his heck, fol-
lowed by an excited crowd. After
a hot chase he was captured rano
taken to the police station, when
he gave his name as Francisco Var-
io. The wnntan is at the Royal Vic•
traria Hospital in a critical tun•
dition.
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"Look here, Jiggers, I've a bon„
to pick with you." "I'm with you.
There's a restaurant across the
way. Make it a mutton bone, for
I've quite an appetite."
Bobby ,sees the New Year
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.1N you r. ally see /tie New
Year conn in? exclaimed
,) little Robert, his eyes big
with wonder.
"'Course," responded Tom. who was
all of 6 and who, therefore, ought to
know. "He's a funny ole fellow that
looks like a rag doll."
"Oh. i do hope mamma will let me
stay up to see the new year," murmur-
ed nobble.
But Tom orly laughed unfeelingly- ns
he said. "Naw, she won't; you're to.)
httio."
In truth, Tom f :nd that he himself
if 814 too little to Stay up until midnight
en the last night of the old year, or st
least hie mother thought so.
In the meantime hobble had told his
brother tl.at he was going to try to
keep awake to see Mr New Year. And
he had no tar succeeded that wren he
heard some dark•looking object batter
against the windowpane he thought at
oma that it mutt he the New Tear try•
Ing to get In. Tom had told him that 1t
was gnn'j luck to catch trv+ New Year,
so Bobble leaped from his bed, ran to
the Rlndow and ieraed up the sash
Tho New Tear swayed Just within his
reach. I3nhM• made a grab tor 11 Hs
obtained a arm hold, but, unfortunately,
he lost his halanee and when the "New
Year swayed outward again Bobbie
went with tt.
You have already g,,eesod that Torn
was the misehlefmaker who had lowered
the dummy down from the window
atwvn. Ile was now thin -mighty fright-
ened. To A% old giving itol,htn a had
tall he hastily Int out more yore.
Now, the boy's older sister ktolllo was
giving a party downstairs. Se when
there suddenly nitt•d hick and forth be-
fore the windowpane the figure of a mo-
lls boy In pajamas. apparently suspend.
td by a tope, great astonishment pre.
vafled. Molll., nastily rescued I.er lit-
tle brother, who, though breathleae was
unafraid. Still hugging 1M slummy
tightly, as though tearful it might es-
cape. he cried Jubilantly:
'Flee. ester; t caught the New Year,
and now I'll have gond luck."
/tilt Turn had the III•luck to catch a
Sound spanking.
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