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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-02-11, Page 3.1 MONEY FOR HUDSON'S BAY More Than One-third of the Cost of the Railway Has Been Provided A despatch from Ottawa .gays : The proceeds from the sale of pre- empted lands in the west under the act mimed lint session, allowing each homesteader to purohaso at $3 per acre an additional 120 acres of Dominion lands, thus obtaining a farm of 320 acres, havo now Mounted oto over six million dol- lars, the total number of acres taken up during the last quarter !f 19013 being 2,009,139. When the 1;11 was passed it was tacitly sgreed by the Government that }he first charge on .this fund would le the cost of construction of the stent is in a position to draft the hill providing for the construc•tiou of the road, provision will be made for the application of the fund in the manner designated. Tho es- timated cost of the whole road is fifteen millions. It will thus bo seen that more than one-third of the cost Of the whole undertakiirg has already been raised by the sale of lands under the western lands act. Progress reports of the survey have been received from ,time to time by parties now in tho field, but it, is not expected any coin - sed Hudson's Bay Railway, plete ur authoritative report as to �r pe co which the survey y is now being the most favorable route or the 'made. While this understanding has not yet been formally incor- porated in legislation, it is under- stood that w hen tho report of the a. bill for the construction of tiro fr survey is received and tho Govern- road un:r next session. • cost will be ready before the spring, and it is hardly probable the Gov- ernment will bo able to bring down 1 TELAGAMI DEPOT BURNED. Operator Had Barely Time to Make His Eseape. A despatch from North Bay says: Fire broke out at six o'clock on Wednesday night in the Temiskam- ing and Northern Ontario Railway station at Teinagami, and the handsome structure, completed about one year ago, at a coat of fifteen thousand dollars, is in ruins, only the massive stone walls stand- ing. The operator had just time to briefly report that the building was on fire and make his escape. The books and records in the office were saved, but the fire spread so rapidly that nothing could be done to cheek the flames. Wooden building adjoining, occupied as restaurant and baggage -room, was saved. WINNIPEG KILT1ES. New Regiment May be Named "Cameron Highlanders." A despatch from Winnipeg says: The formation of a Highland regi- ment here is believed to be almost an accomplished fact. A meet;ng was held on Thursday, when the project took tangible form. R. M. Thompson, a prominent bar rioter, is likely to be named for lieutenant -colonel, with Major Mngh E. Maclean, formerly of To- ronto, as major. The name for the corps most favored is the Cameron 'Highlanders, said it is said Mr 1). C. Cameron has promised a do- nation of $10,000 if his clan is thus honored. + BEAT HIS MOTHER TO DEATH. Lad of Seventeen Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. A despatch from Toledo, Ohio, says: Harvey Hazel, the seventeen- year -old boy found guilty of the murder of his mother, was on Wed- nesday afternoon sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. Hazel was convicted of slaying his mo- ther Jan. ►l, 1908, by beating her to death with a hammer, after which ho robbed her of 857. Tho ease attracted considerable atten- tion because of the defence of ado- lescent insanity. WENT THROUGH THE I('E. Nan, Horse and Sleigh Disappear in the St. Laurence. 'A despatch from Quebec says: 'A resident of the suburb of St. Sauveur named Leniay, while driv- ing across the ice bridge from the Quebec shore to St. Nicholas, some 'elven miles west of this eity, 00 Wednesday, went through the ice and disappeared. No trace of the m tl, 1n'rse or rig has been discov- ered. Lenay. who was a machin id, was on his wry to St. Nick lag to repair machinery in a n::1 there. The remains may nut he recovered until spring. VETER.►NS' It EST. Men Who Fought in Fenian Raid Ask for a Grant. A despatch from Ottawa says: Representatives of the Veterans of '66 from all parts of Canada march- ed to Parliament Hill on Thurs- day from the City Hall to lay be- fore Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the members of the Government ame- morial settirig forth their claims to land grants from the Domin- ion similar to those, granted the South Africa veterans. A small deputation, representing the Im- perial South Africa Veterans' As- sociation in Canada, waited on Sir Frederick Borden to prefer the same request, made some time ago before tho Minister of the interior, that the provisions of the South Africa voluntary bounty act, passed last session, bo extended to all veterans of the campaign now citizens of Canada. The Minister of Militia promised that the request would be carefully considered by the Government. INHALED SULPiIURIC GAS. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS r r11E WORLD'S MARKETS HAPPENINGS FRO11 ALL OS'I:lt 1111: GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ouli and Other Countries of Recent Et cuts. CANADA. Toronto's tax rate will remain at 18% mills. The net receipts from succession duties in Ontario in 1903 were $1,- 153,740. Ontario and Minnesota may take joint action for the creation of game preserves. Dr. Ilaanel reports the success- ful smelting of iron ores by elec- tricity in Sweden. 1)r. Milton Hersey reports a. large quantity of brandy in the chocolates seized at Montreal. It is reported that the C.N.R. will enter upon the extension of their lines in Nova Scotia. Charles Vezina way fined five hundred dollars in a Quebec court for libelling Hon. A. Turgoon. Charles Mitchell, a Teterboro' postman, was committed for trial on a. charge of robbiug the mails. - Edwin Barnhart was sentenced at Brockville to five years in the peni- tentiary for eloping with Mrs. Pyke and robbing tier husband. The 850,000 fortune of G. W. Todd, the miser, who died nt Ham- ilton, was all eaten up in law costs, except sufficient to pay two notes of 85,000 each made by the old man. A man who died at the Verdun Asylum was known as the human ostrich. An incredible quantity of iron, glass, nails, wird and other stuff that he had swallowed was taken -fron' his body. GREAT BRITAIN. Baron Burton, head of the great English brewing firm of Bass c1, Co., is dead. The National Service League, of which Lord Roberts is President, has a scheme by which 400,000 trained men can be added to Bri- tain's home defence in four years. UNITED STATES. Thomas 1.. Lewis has been re- elected President of the United Mine Workers of America. President Roosevelt has been of - Fatal Accident to Employee of fered 810,000 a week for thirty Toronto Paper Company. weeks to head a wild west show. A despatch from Cornwall says: Tho inhaling of sulphuric gas in the pulp department of the Toronto Paper Co.'s mills the other day resulted in the death on Wednes- day night of J. Sibley, one of the employees. Sibley and another man, named J. Morin, remained in the roost after the digesters were emptied, contrary to orders. When tho cooled gas began to settle, they ran for windows. Morin got there all right, but Sibley inhaled some of the gas and was overcome. He was taken to the General -Hospi- tal, where he died .Ho was a na- tive of England, 32 years of age, married, and leaves four children. + POi.I('E RESENT ATTACKS. Several Libel Actions are Entered in Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: Ald. Prouix, chairman of the Civic Police Committee, has entered an action for libel fur 85,000 against E. W. Villeneuve, who preferred charges against his administration, and an action for 810,000 against La I'atrie, which editorially de- clared that the police department was rotten to the core. Chief of Police Campeau has also entered an action against La Patric on sitnilar grounds. A $40.000.000 CONTRACT. `irhish Firm to ('onstruet the New Spanish Squadron. A despatch from Madrid says: The Cabinet has decided to accept the tender of Vickers Sons and Maxim. the English shipbuilders, for the construction of the new Spanish squadron, on condition that the firm consents to certain modifications. The amount of the contract, is *10.000.000. TELEPHONES OF THE WEST The Surplus Revenue in Manitoba Is a Quarter of a Million Dollars 'A despatch from Winnipeg says: (Atter a year's operation the sur- plus of .the Manitoba telephone a)stem is approximately a quarter of a million dollars after deduct- ing the cost of some 600 miles of long-distance lines and anumber of rural system., which have been rnnstruct<'d by the Government. In January. Ines, the Provincial (.ov- ernment purchased all the lines. ptarrte, franchises, etc., from the Bell Telephone Company, which had a monopoly in Manitoba. At the time of the ipurchase officials of 4h' Government promised s reduc- e tion in rates, but to date no re - Dr. James B. Angell, President of tho University of Michigan, will resign some time this month. Shipment,. from tho United States ports on the great lakes were 25 per cent. less in 19v6 than in 1907. A New Jersey man claims to have discovered a process by which cop- per can be tempered and made in- to cutting tools. Slot machines that deliver an accident insurance policy for a dime have been placed in New York cafes and hotels. President-elect Taft, now on a visit to Panama, says he believes the great canal will be practically completed in thirty-three months. GENERAL. KingMenelik of Abyssinia is re- porteto be dying. The Cape -to -Cairo Railway will be completed in three years. The Crown Prince of Mervin has been injured in all automobile 3C- --- 1n cident. oats with a The Italian earthquake relief goodsteady demand for car lots. fund has now reached a total of Peas -No. 2, 94 to 95c. Oats - $16,000,000. Canadian' Western No. 2, 47c; ex - Two hundred Chinamen lost, tra No. 1 feed, 46%c; No. 1 feed, their lives in a fire which destroy - 45%c; Ontario No. 2, 46c; No. 3, ed a fleet of flower beats at Pan- ton. The French Minister of Marine has proposed a scheme of naval Flour-- Manitoba Spring wheat pat - reform involving an expenditure of eats, firsts, 85.60; seconds, $b.10; 815,000,000. Manitoba strung bakers, 84.90; The new Freud' tariff increa,:s Winter wheat, patents, 85 to 85.25; the maximum duties against United straight, rollers, $4.e0 to 84.70; States products en an average of straight. rollers in bags, $2.15 to 20 per cent. $2.25; extras in bags, $1.75 to $1. - The British steamer Clan ltanald 85. Feed -Manitoba bran, 821 to went to pieces off the Australian $22; Manitoba shorts, $24; On - coast, and the captain and forty- tario bran, 821 to *21.50; shorts, '$`21 to 824.50; middlings. $24.50 to six of the crew were drowned. Newfoundland has agreed to the 825; Imre grain mouille, $28 to terns of the fisheries treaty which 830; mixed tnouille, $25 to $27. will shortly go before the United. C'hee'se -Finest Western. 12 4 to States Senate for ratification. i 13%c ; easterns, 13% to 12%e. But - TI e South African conference ter -Fall creainetg, 26%e; Winter REPORTS F11031 THE LEADING 11iAU1: l'ENTItES. [''fees of Cattle. Gtah►, Cheese anti Other Dairy Produce at Unwe and Abroad. BREADST UFFS. Toronto, Feb. 9. -Flour - On- tario wheat 90 per centpatents, 83.75 to $3.80 to-duj in buyers' sacks outside for export. Mani- toba. flour, first, patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5, and strong bakers', $4.90. Wheat. -Manitoba wheat, $1.11 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.08% for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern, 81.17 to 81.17''/., all rail, and No. 2 North- ern at $1.13% to $1.14 all rail. Wheat -Ontario -No. 2 mixed at CANADA GETS GRAIN TRADE Improvements in Harbors That Have Already Brought Good Results. A despatch from Ottewa says: The annual report of the Depart- ment of Public Works, tabled in the Commons on Wednesday, shows that for the fiscal year 1907-08 the total expenditure was $11,189,384, an increase of $1,851,959 over the previous year. The items include the following :---Harbor and river works, $2,447,8e2; dredging and new dredging plants, $3,344,306 public buildings, $4,331,901; tele- graph lines, $462,233. A fact emphasized in the report is that Canada is profiting by the experience gained at the older 81 outside. harbors of Europe, and laying out Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 42 to in each case a comprehensive 42%c outside, and at'45c on track, scheme of development. The result Toronto; No. 2 Western Canada already is a vast increase in ship - eats quoted at 45%e, lake ports, and No. 1 feed, 42,'..;c, lake ports. Itye-No. 2 quoted at G7'/, to 68c outside. Barley -No. 2 barley 56 to 57c outside; No. 3 extra at 54 to b5c, and No. 3 at 52 to 530. Buckwheat -59c outside. Peas -No. 2 87c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow 69% to 70c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 yellow at 68% to 69c, Toronto. carloads, store, $1.16%; Winter, higher; No. 2 red, 81.12; No. 3 extra red, 81.10%; No. 2 white, $1.10; No. 2 mixed, $1.10. Corn --Higher; No. 3 yellow, 66c; No. 4 yellow, 65%e; No. 3 corn, 65 to 651/2c; No. 4 corn, 04% to 65c; No. 3 white, 68'/.,c. Barley -Feed to malting, 63 to 70c. Minneapolis, Feb. 9. -Wheat - Canadiarr corn, 65%c on track, May, *1.09; July, $1.09%; cash No. Toronto. 1 hard, $1.11%; No. 1 Northern, Bran -Cars, $20.50 in bulk out- 81.10%; No. 2 Northern, 81.08% to side. Shorts quoted at $22.50 in $1.09; No. 3 Northern, $1.061/2 to hulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Winter, $3.50 to $4.50 per barrel for good qualities, and $1.09%. Itye-No. 1, 76c. Corn - at $`2 to $3 for cooking apples. May, 63 5c asked. Barley-Stand- Boans-I rime, 51.80 to $1.90, and ' Barley -Stand- ard, 66c ; samples, 61% to 64c; No. hand-picked, 81.90 to 82 per bushel. 3G2 to 64c; No. 4,01y2c. Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 '' $1.07%. Bran -In bulk, $21.50 to $22. Milwaukee, Feb. 9. -Wheat - No. 1 Northern, $1.13 to $1.14; No. 2 Northern, 81.11 to $1.11%; May, per dozen, and strained, 10% to Ile per pound. LOST IN A BLIZZARD. Hay -No. 1 timothy, 810.50 to 811.50 per ton on track here, and lower grades at 89 to $10 a ton. Straw -86.50 to 87.50 on track. Potatoes-Ontarios, 60 to 621/2c per hag. Poultry --Chickens, dressed, 12 to 13e per pound; fowl, 10c; ducks, 12 to 13c; geese, 11 to 12c; turkeys, 16 to 17c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter --Pound prints, 22 to 24c; tubs and largo rolls, 21 to 22c; in- ferior, 20c; creamery rolls, 27 to 28c, and solids, 26c. Eggs -Case lots of selects 28 to 29e per dozen; picked, 26c, and new laid are quoted at 30 to 32e per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, 13%c per pound, and twins, 13;yc. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 11 to 11,'/4c per pound in case lots; mess pork, 20 to $20.50; short cut, .824. Hants ---Light to medium, 13% to 14e; do., heavy, 12% to 13c ; rolls, l0% to 11c; shoulders, 10 to 10%c; backs, 16 to 16%c; breakfast ba- con, 15 to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 12„c; pails, 13c. BUSINESS IN tiONTREAL. Montreal, Feb. 9. -Grain the feeling is firm, 45c; No. 4, 44c. Barley -No. 2, 63% to 05c; Manitoba feed, 55% to 56e. Buckwheat ---551,:i to 56c. called to bring about federation! creamery. 25c; fresh receipts, 24e; has decided on Pretoria for the, dairy rolls, 21c. Eggs -New laid, administrative centre and ('ape 35 to 35c; selected stock, 28 to 29C; Town for the legislative centre. SPEECH WAS SHORT. Opening of the Manitoba Legisla• lure on 'Thursday. :1 cle,patch from 1\•innipcg says: The Legislature was opened on Thursday afternoon with the usual duction has been made, excepting ceremonies, but with great de - in certain classes of long-distance spatch, by Lieut. -Governor McMil- tolis. With this fine financial lan. The speech from the throne showing the Province will also nn- was remarkable for its brevity and Flounce a reduction in all telephone for its lack of anything debatable rates and tolls within the boun- or constructive. Simple reference dories of Manitoba. and the hill was made to the telephone legis- lation to the effect that it had been a paying investment . Beyond that. nothing noteworthy was al- luded to. now being prepared for presenta- tion to the Manitoba Parliament prevides for various reductions ranging from 20 to 35 per cent. from the present rates. The example set by Manitoba impelled the Alberta Government to follow suit, and the Government system in that Province will also show a big surplus for the first year. • ----,.- The Young Man -"Gracie, what is it your father sees in n to oh- ject to, darling?" The Young Wo- man (wiping away a tear) -"Ho doesn't see anythins in you, Al- gernon; that is why he objects. ' No. 1 stock, '25 to 26c. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Feb. 9. -Exporters -- Steady demand for choice steers, but bulls are a little easier. Butchers' -Really choice butchers' cattle are scarce, and the best rea- lized top prices. A few picked lots sold nt 85.15; the general rua, however, for choice lots was from $4.40 to *4.75. Fair to good loads averaged 81 to 81.30; mixed and nommen classes 83.50 to 81. Sheep and lambs -Fair demand for ewes and Iambs; prices firer at last week's rates. Hogs -Firm ; select at 80.60 f.o.b. and $6.sn fed and watered. Calves -Steady at last quotations. Milcb cows --Fair de- mand for good quality ; common not required. Butchers cows of good quality wanted. UNITED ST.1TI:S MARKT-Pi. Buffalo, Feb. 9.--Wheat--:Spring wheat, firmer; No. 1 Northern, ping fro:n the great lakes to the sea. Boston and New York havo lostto Montreal in the European grain trade, and St.. Jc.hn is in a position to successfully compete with Portland. Not only the more important ports have been attend- ed to, but the department has not. lost sight of the needs of the les- ser harbors, where wharfs, break- waters and shelters have been con- -strutted, and dredging carried out. The construction of dams in the interest of navigation and for water conservation is strongly re- commended in that part of the re- port dealing with water powers. Tho total mileage of telegraph lines under the department is 7,225, with 393 offices transmitting dur- ing tho year 103,000 messages. James Seniple's Bravo Fight for Life was Unavailing. A despatch from St .John, N.B., says: Half covered with snow and ice, the body of Janie» Semple of Fredericton, who, with his teant of four horses, made such a gallant struggle for life when lost on Lake Spednik, near Vanoeboro', in last Saturday night's blizzard, was found on the lake on Thursday af- ternoon close to the spot where three of his horses were discover- ed dead on Tuesday. Search for the unfortunate man had been kept up, and the searchers had passed several tines close to the spot where the body was eventually found. It lay half concealed by drifting snow, and from appear- ances Semple had made abrave fight to the last. There were signs that he had fallen into the water, and managed to scramble hack on the ice only to succumb to the cold. It was supposed that he had Leen dead -.ince Sunday. Tho body was found on the American side of the lake, and about five miles from Vauceboro'. RIGID PROHIBITION. No i.iquor or Firearms Allowed on G. T. P. Construction. A despatch from Winnipeg says: W. A. Quinte)1, Dominion Com- missioner of Police, announces that prohibition will bo enforced be- tween the C. P. It. main line and twenty miles north of the National Transcontinental Railway in the districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay. Rigid prohibition of firearms is also to be enforced along the entire lino of construction wort . ----.+ DRUNKENNESS ON INCREASE. Statistics in London Show More Arrests in Tear. A despatch front London says: The p:,lice statistics fur 11;4S, issued on Wednesday, show a large in- crease in arrests for drunkenness, the total being 1,158; 31k were be- fore the court for disorderly con- duct, which also•shows an increase. The total number' of • arrests was 2,852. AWAITED DEATH IN A GRAVE. Japanese Youth's .►tten►pt to Bury Himself Alive. A youth of Kobe, Japan, who sought to commit suicide by bury- ing himself alive and paid an ac- complice 25 cents to spade the earth upon his coffin achieved some degree of notoriety even in Japan, where new things aro happening every day. He failed of his original purpose, however. A policeman was strolling along the bank of the Minatogawa River outside of Lobe one day last month when he happened to spy a joint of bamboo pipe sticking a few inch- es above a mound of fresh earth. Being a Japanese and also a police- man, his curiosity was especially keen. He looked down the bamboo pipe, but could see nothing. Then he began to dig around the pipe. He had a considerable wrench put on his nerves when a voice came out of the end of the pipe right at his ear : "Honorably condescend to go away and permit me to die peace- fully." But ttie policeman did not go. He dug some more and finally unearth- ed a pine box, the length of a man's body and about three feet wide. The bamboo pipe led through an opening into the box. The police- man pried off the cover of the boa, securely nailed down, and dumped the self-appointed corpse out. Yamada Katsutaro, the man who would thus havo died, told the pre- fect of police that he had wanted to die in a seemly farl►ion because he was out of work. The lack of food had suggested to him the prac- ticability of starving himself to death, but in order to be sure that he should accomplish this purpose lie had determined to bury him- self in a securely nailed coffin and await the ravage:+ of hunger. Ho didn't want to suffocate first, hence the bamboo pipe. Tho day before the policeman discovered him, Yamada said, he procured the box and the service of a coolie. Then he dug the hole out on Egeyama and after giving the coolie his obi and fifty sen, his last bit of money, he was nailed up in his coffin, lowered into the grave and covered under six feet of soil. Yamada promised never to try burying himself alive again and the police let him go. .% talAwI'LV CARGO. Ship I,efl Brooklyn for China Willi 5,000 Corpses. A despatch from New York says: Five thousand Chinese corpses bound for their final resting places in the Flowcry Kingdom left Brooklyn on Wednesday on the steamer Hhimosa. The bodies of the dead Celestials were disinterred from burying grounds all over the United States and placed in sealed :askets, which in turn were en- closed in pine Iwxee, each labelled with the nam^ and history of its 'silent occupant and stored between desks on the ship. A WOOERFll11 NEW STEEb Has Cutting Power Four Times as Great as That of Any Other Known. A deepat li frorn London Lays: 11n an address to the Royal insti- ituti(m the other day Prof. Arnold of Sheffield Unii ersity said that 1 w ithin a ;•ear there would be on the market a British steel with quadruplo the cutting power of atp, now known. What Prof. Arni'ld referred to was a pr.,duet of the Continental Steel V►orks at Sheffield. just discovered : el nainrci -N,,, a Superior:* 1S. 1V. Winder, the manager ••f the works, ie an interviee, o,i 1Vedneeda:. sad that the diseovere wes the outcome of litigati•,a insult;it •l 1.)- tho Bethlehem titre' C':,n,patty, which claims the patent rights oil air -hardened high speed rte..^l. Ex- ' p,erimcnts with a i iew t„ rer.deri.13 themselves indep,?.ii'.ut of the American claim were •�oridu;t,':l by the Continental Works and result- ed i:i the dis- ,•. ery. A t•:ol rr..^.(te of the old high speed :t -el, work- ing , ► hard m :t.'r 11 Shcf;i ski. had t , be gr eve! ;t, • ., -. a ;'1y. Last, week a e' n,1 t . ,1 of fie nee pr eels steel et . pat on. It worked with ene k' iruli•ig ► ,t• % day and a Lalf and was still sharp. Mr. Winder says the new sirel will in no way cruse drastic al:erations 1.1 mac'tiaery.