HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-06-10, Page 71BUSH FIRES ARE RAGING
Lumbermen and Miners at Elk Lake Try-
ing to Save Their Property.
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A despatch from Elk Luke says:
Bush tires have started earlier than
usual this season. l'or three days
past men from Booth's two (umber
camps up' the Montreal River have
been fighting fire, and they make
no bones about blaming the pros-
pectors for it. The "Big Six" Min-
ing Co. have been fighting the same
enemy during the past week. On
Monday night the fire worked its
way down to the outskirts of the
town of Smyth, just across the
river from here. Tho sight was im-
pressive as night came on, even
the smallest branches being sharp-
ly silhouetted against the flames.
.1 despatch from Dauphin, Man.,
says : A destructive forest fire is
raging for a hundred miles between
Crooked River and Bowman, and
from Hudson's Bay Junction W near
the Pas. The value of the timber
burned will not, be less than $75,000,
so far, and probably some of the
farmers remote hum the railway
have suffered very severely. Ruby
Lake lumber mills were destroyd
un 1Vdaez;day might, and consider-
able damage has also been done to
the C. N. H. tracks.
A despatch from bt. John, N. B.,
says: .1 telephone message from
Oak Bay, near St. Stephen, reports
a forest fire which broke out on
Thursday afternoon, swept through
two miles of heavily timbered land,
leaving a track a mile wide, and
is still burning. The property is
owned chiefly by Jesse Bartlett and
Wm. Kierstead. Bartlett's mills
at 1Vaweig were i„ danger.
DO PARENTS KNOW BEST
A DAUGHTER WHO SAYS 511E
THINKS THEY DON'T.
The Happiness of many a girl Has
Been Sacrificed to Prejudice
of Parents.
Why is it that parents always
fancy they have a right to sit in
judgment upon the love affairs of
their children
In all probability they resented
parental interference in their own
courting days, and possibly mar the door. And the girl's parents
tied, in spate of it; yet, for some began now to regret that the ori -
undefined reason, they consider ginal lover had ever been discard -
their choice of a son or daughter- ed
in-law to be of far greater import For the fourth time the unfortu-
ancc than their children's choice of nate girl essayed to please her par -
daughter in London Answers.
a husband or a wife, writes a ents. Yet another suitor was pre-
sentcd, and found wanting.
Their methods aro often mean- Upon this the maiden ingenuous -
particularly in the case of a laugh- ly confessed that she had never real -
ter. When the object of a girl's ly abandoned her first lover at all.
choice is brought home for the first AN .1 the assistance of four amateur
time, it is to undergo an examine- actor chums of his, she had laid a
tion which he has virtually no lot to convince her parents of their
chance of passing, for the parents injustice, and the result had proved
have failed him in advance. iso satisfactory that only the efforts
With unreasoning prejudice they of three of them were needed. Two
augur the worst from each detail. months later the wily pair were
If he is careful of his person, he is married.
a fop; if he can speak intelligently
upon general topics, he is conceit-
ed and forward; and if, on the CHILD WITH SMOKER'S HEART
other hand, he is shy, and has lit- '
tle to say, he is evidently an idiot -'
TINE SON-IN-LAW SCORED. Using Cigarettes.
against unreasoning is strategy.
For example:
The fancily of one girl criticised
the than of her choice so adversely
that she felt it would be unwise to
attempt to bring him borne again.
She promised to think seriously of
giving him up.
After the lapse of only a month
she introduced a second suitor to
the domestic circle. This one was
received with gloom, and compari-
son was made between him and his
predecessor -much to the advant-
age of the latter.
With exemplary willingness the
maiden dropped the new -comer,
only, however, to submit yet an-
other for inspection a month later.
This one was practically shown
` Infant of Four With Disease from
Take the case of a young girl A case of smoker's heart in a
within the writer's experience, who child not quite four years old has
one day brought home a sweetheart been discovered in Oxfordshire in
some few years older than herself. the course of the medical inspec-
He was received with grins disap- 'tion of school children, and is now
proval by her people, and the ob- the subject of ini•estigation by the
lection urged against, hint were :County Education Comnmittee.
many. The daughter was forbidden It is stated that the childs' fa-
te see him again. ther trained him to smoke, and
Love, however, proved stronger makes money by exhibiting his ac -
than filial obedience, and, six complishntent at local shows. The
months later, the daughter married boy is said to smoke ten cigarettes
her forbidden lover. Her parents' 'a day.
feelings were outraged. I A heart specialist, question^d
lour years later the father, hay -with regard to the care, said thating failed in business, accepted a ; smoker's heart was not hereditary,
partnership with his own sun -in- land, therefore, it followed that. the
Jaw ' boy must have smoked. In the case
Unfortunately for their welfare, of a child very few cigarettes would
some dpughters are too obedient, ,;suffice to cause the trouble, which
and the happiness of many a girl l takes tho form of irregularity of
has been sacrificed to the wanton 1 beat. It is very common among
prejudice of her. parents. the classes who smoke twist or pig -
A young fellow, who carne from a tail tobacco, but with those who
pror but ambitious family, fell in smoke better kinds the result of
hoe with a pretty girl, whose cir- over -smoking is more often shown
cumstances were superior to his in sudden faintness. A change in
ew n. the brand of cigarettes often results
His attentions were favored by in an attack of smoker's heart, as
the gill. but resented by her pee- the smoker thinks the new ones
pie. Being parvenus, they acted in milder than those he has been ac -
the parvenu manner. They had uo customed to, and consequently in -
objections to urge against the creases his consumption.
young man personally. but ho was 4.
poor -and poverty is the worst of
climes. So they prevailed upon the
girl to give him up. '
in a spirit of recklessness, the
7'0 VISIT ENGLAND.
Italian (ping Will .Arrive in London
latter straightway married another in August.
girl, and within a few months the A despatch from i'ar:, says: The
Gaulois states that the King of
Italy will visit England in August
and Germany in September.
The ('zar will visit Kin Edward
Perhaps the hest weapon to use at Cowes about the end of July.
traditional uncle in Australia had
died and left hint a small fortune.
Tho obedient daughter never mar-
ried.
SUITORS AND STii.1TEGY.
ALL IS BRIGHT OOT WE
Ideal Growing Weather Is General Over
the Prairie Provinces.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UAI'I'1:NIsGs MOM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE.
'THE WORLD'S MARKE fS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TItUDE CENTRES.
Telegraphic Briefs From Onr OutsPrices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and
and Other Countries cell Other Dairy Produce al
Recent Ereuts. Howe and Ahroail.
GENERAL. BREADSTUFFS.
A bitter feud war is being waged
b,' rival clans in North (Anna. Toronto, June 8. -Flour --Ontario
Numbers of Anarchists from Bus- wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.65
ma have taken refuge in Australia. to. $5.75 to -day in buyers' sacks out -
Hon. Thomas Price; the Labor side fur export ; on track, Toronto,
Premier of South Australia, is $5.80 to $b.90; Manitoba flour, first
dead. . patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track,
Dr. Theodore Barth, long ono of Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to
the radical loaders in Germany, is $b.80, and strong bakers', $5.60 to
dead. *5.70 on track, Toronto.
Nine Moslems and six Aruteni_ Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 North-
ern, $1.32, Georgian Bay ports;
No. 2, $1.29%, and No. 3, $1.28%.
Ontario Wheat -Prices of No. 2,
$1.37 to $1.38 outs.do.
car just Barley -Feed, 62 to 63e outside.
The fishing scshooner Souris Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 57%
Belle was so battered by ice aloes to 58c on track, Toronto, and 54%
that, she went down off St. John to 55c outside. No. 2 Western Can-
ada oats 56c, and No. 3 at 55c, Bay
ahs were hanged at Adana, on Wed-
nesday.
Newfoundland ran behind 8150,-
600 in its finances during the fiscal
y' past.
harbor. Her crew were rescsued.
-___ . ports.
UNITED STATES. Peas -No. 2, P5 to 96c outside.
The rats of the United States eat Rye -No. 2 74 to 75c outside.
$100,000,000 worth of grain yearly. torn -No. 2 American yellow,
ti3con track, Toronto; No. 3, 82'%0
Pittsburg steel mills aro running on track, Toronto; Canadian yel-
to full capacity. for the first time low, 76% to 77%c on track, Toronto.
in twenty years. Bran -Manitoba, $23.50 to $24 in
Three municipal officials, eonvic- sacks, Toronto freights; shorts,
ted of stealing money from the $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights.
city of Boston, have been sent to
jail.
An engineer on the New York
Central wrecked his train at Me-
dina, N. Y., to save the life of a
child on the track.
GREAT BRITAIN.
A speaker at the Royal Institute
in London said there was a scien-
tific justification for cannibalism.
The London Morning Post criti-
cizes the action of the Dominion
Trades and Labor Congress in at-
tempting to restrict emigration to
Canada.
CANADA.
Toronto manufacturers have ad-
vanced the price of biscuits one
cent a pound.
Building permit valuer at Toron-
to for the first five months of the
year aggregated $6,827,830.
Bev. Dr. Lyle has been elected
Moderator of the Presbyterian Gen-
eral Assembly.
The Poison's Iron Works Com-
pany will erect a new and large
shipbuilding plant at Toronto.
The hours of civil servants at Ot-
tawa have been increased to from
9 to 5, with an hour and a half for
lunch.
Mr. I. B. Lucas, M.P.P. for
Centre Grey, has been sworn in as
a member of the Ontario Cabinet
without portfolio.
Regina police are on the trail of
"Dutch Henry," a noted outlaw,
whose record entitles him to be shit
at sight.
The Ontario Government decidhd
to issue another public loan in Ca
nada of $3,500,000 in 4 per cent. 30 -
year bonds.
Shareholders of the Elgin Loan
Company, which failed six years
ago, will receive a dividend of 8 1-3
cents on the dollar.
Rev. J. W. Wright pronounces
Entwhistle, the present terminus of
(irand Trunk Pacific construction,
the toughest town in the west.
A witness at the Montreal civic
inquiry swore that Ald. Proulx
asked him for $300 for an appoi at
ntent to the police force, but he
refused.
Tho Grand Trunk Pacific ti tin
men are said to have applied hi a
Board of Conciliation, alleging that
conditions in the west are very
onerous.
Recent advances in beef hide•,
and calf -skins have increased prices
being paid in the country from sixty
to one hundred per cent. over the
level of lust year.
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WHEAT GOING IV EST.
Unusual Situation in United States
-Cash Wheat Mearre.
A despatch from New York says:
For the first time in history wheat
has been shipped back from New
York to the west for consumption.
Recent inquiries have been receiv-
ed front as far away as Texas for
New York red wheat. Already two
boat loads are en route from here
to Buffalo, four more are loading
and some shipments have been made
by rail. This unusual action is
made possible by the great scarcity
of cash wheat all through the west.
No. 2 red sold here on Thursday
at 81.47, and $1.50 was asked at
the close.
DEAD MAN ON PLATFORM.
Startling Discovery by C. P. R.
Winnipeg says: weather, with light rains and plen- .Agent Nest of North Ray.
highest point of ty of warmth, has been general A despatch from North Bay says:
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$4 to $5 for choice qua-
lities, and $3 to 83.50 for seconds.
Beans -Prime, $2, and hand-pick-
ed, $2.15 to $2.20 per bushel.
Maple Syrup -95c to $1 a gallon.
Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13.50 to
$14 a ton on track here, and lower
grades, $11 to $11.50 a ton.
Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track.
Potatoes -Car lots, 95c per bag
on track. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.-
15 per bag on track.
Poultry - Chickens, yearlings,
dressed, 17 to 18c per Ib. ; fowl, 12
to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 22c per ib.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 18% to
19c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to
16%c; inferior, 14 to 15c. .Cream-
ery rolls, 21 to 22c, and solids, 18
to 19c.
Eggs -Case lots, 18% to 19c per
dozen.
Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to
14%c per lb., and twins, 14% to
14%c. New quoted at 12%c for
large, and 13c for twins.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long, clear, 13% to 13%c
per lb. in case lots; mess pork, 822
to $22.50; short cut, $25.
Hams -Light to medium, 15%c;
do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 12 .to
12%e; shoulders, 11 to 11%c ; backs,
17'% to 18c; breakfast bacon, 16%
to 17c.
Lard -Tierces, 14c; tubs, 14%c;
pails, 14%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, June 8. -Peas -$1.05
to $1.00. Oats -Canadian West-
ern, 59c; extra No. 1 feed 58%c;
No. 1 feed, bs%e; No. 3 Canadian
Western, 58c; No. 2 feed, 57%c; No.
2 barley 72% to 74c; Manitoba feel
barley, 66% to 67c; buckwheat, 69%
to 70c. Flour -Manitoba Spring
wheat, patents firsts, $6.30 to $6.50;
do.,seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba
strong bakers', $5.60 to 85.80; 1Vin-
ter wheat patents, $6.75; straight
rollers, $6.50 to $6.60; do., in bags,
$3.15 to $3.20; extras, in bags, $2.65
to 82.80. Feed -Manitoba bran,
$22 to $23; do., shorts, $24 to 825;
pure grain mouillie, $33 to $35;
mixed mouillie, $28 to $30. Cheese
-westerns, 12 to 12%e, and easterns
11% to 12e. Butter -22 to 22%c.
Eggs 19 to 20c per dozen.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, June 8. -Wheat -
July, $1.29% to $1.30; Sept. $1.10%
to $1.10;;; Dec. $1.08%; cash, No.
1 har 1, 81.33% to $1.34%; No. 1
Northern, $1.32% to $1.33%; No. 2
Northern, 81.30% to $1.31%; No. 3
Northern, 1.28% to $1.30%. Flour
-First patents, $6.40 to *0.60; sec-
ond patents, $0.30 to $6.50; first
clears, 85.05 to $5.25 ; second clears,
$3.65 to $3.85. Bran --In bulk,
$23.50 to $24.
Buffalo, June 8. -Wheat. --Spring
wheat firmer ; No. 1 Northern car-
loads store $1.35%; Winter nomin-
al. Corn -Stronger : No. 3 yellow,
80c; No. 4 yellow, 79e No. 3 corn,
79% to 79%c; o. 4 corn, 78%c;
No. 3 white, 80%e. Oats -Steady.
Barley --Feed to malting, 77 to 81c.
NOTHING TO FIGHT ABORT
Count Bernstorff Says Jingoism Will Soon
Pass Away.
A despatch from New York says :
C'ount Von Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador, who came to New
York on Wednesday to receive an
honorary I.L.D. at the Columbia
University commencement, took
occasion in the course of au inter-
view in the afternoon to pooh-pooh
the talk of impending or probable
war between England and Ger-
many. "England has no need to
worry about the likelihood of war
with my country," he said. "Tho
jingoism of a few easily excitable
persons in England will soon pass
over. Between the two Govern-
ments there is no misunderstand-
ing or enmity, and the sentiment
ot the two peoples toward one an -
ether is not hostility or bitterness,
butt a healthy, temperate, good.
natured rivalry'.
"Germany is eery proud of the
progress which Count Zeppelin and
cur other aeronauts have made.
But the English yellow journals are
of course wrong in their efforts to
make war talk out, of our efferts
to conquer the air. We are build-
ing no secret fleet of war airships,
and we have no secret balloon*
hovering over the English coast.'.
15 cents dearer, with prices firm.
Exporters likewise, and many ani-
mals that under ordinary condi-
tions would not be looked upon as
in this class were bought for ship-
ping. Stockers and feeders want-
ed. Milkers and springers in firth
demand for good milkers and near
springers. Sheep and tenths un-
changed. Calves unchanged. Hogs
weakening. Selects quoted $7.70
fed and watered, and 87.40 to
87.50 f.o.b.
SMOTHERED IN SAWDUST BIN.
Peculiar Accident to Son of a Lon-
don Man.
A despatch from London, Ont..,
says: While playing in a bin of saw-
dust, Gordon, the year and ten
months' old son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Knokles, of 1 High Street, was
smothered to death at about 1
o'clock on Thurssday. When Hed-
ley Weaverly, an employe of Mr.
Knowles, returned after dinner and
went to the bin of sawdust, which
is used as fuel for the engine, to
put on more fire ho saw the hand
of the child sticking out. The boy
was covered only about four or five
inches and at the place where he
was buried the sawdust was only
about 18 inches deep.
A DECREASE OF 5,448.
Immigration Figures for :April Show
a Falling Off.
A despatch from Ottawa says
The total immigration into C'anada
for April was 21,237, as compared
with 29,723 the same month of last
year. The immigration from the
United States was 12,609, as com-
pared with 9,08.1, an increase of 39
per cent; 11,628 arrived at ocean
ports, as compared with 20,669 for
April of last year, a decrease of
44 per cent. In addition to the
immigrants arriving at ocean ports
there wore 2,728 classed as returned
Canadians, that is they were either
Canadians born or had been in
Canada before.
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ATTACKED THE G FAR D.
William Duff's Desperate Effort to
Escape From Moose Jaw Jail.
A despatch from Moose Jaw,
Sask., says: William Duff, under
trial here for horse -stealing, made
a desperate effort to escape on
Thursday morning. He succeeded
in breaking the lock from his door,
and securing the iron bar he at-
tacked the guard fiercely, and it
was only after assistance had been
rushed in that he was overpowered.
SET STREET CANS ON FIRE
Motormen and Conductors Dragged From
Cars and Severely Beaten.
A despatch from Philadelphia In many instances care were sot on
says: The attempt of the l'hiladel- fire and in oth.,r cases thrown
phia Rapid Transit to operate its across the tracks. The police were
cars on Wednesday with strike- powerless to control the angry
breakers imported from other cities strike sympathizers. When they
resulted in the first serious rioting charged the mob it separated only
which has occurred since the strike to form again in the vicinity of an -
of the street car men began on other car.
May 29. In the Kensington dis- One policeman was shot and prob-
trict, where many mills are located, ably fatally injured; another was
the feeling ran high. Mobs of men, clucked in a water trough, whilst
women and children pulled the nearly a hundred persons were bad -
motormen and conductors from ly battered either by the police or
their cars and heat them severely. by strike sympathizers.
GHOSTS HOLD 1 t' STEAMER.
Crew Left Because of Row They
Made in the IIold.
A despatch from Rome says : The
Italian steamer Moncenisio, hound
for New York with a cargo of pu-
mice stone, has been held up at
Palmer() by ghosts. On the arrival
ot the steamer at Palmero from the
Lipari Isles, the crew refused to
continue the voyage because ghosts
were making a row in the hold,
which they believed presaged ship-
wreck. the police searched the
vessel, expecting to discover that
members of the Mafia had stowed
themselves away on board, hoping
to escape to America, but they
found nothing. As soon as the po-
lice left the steamer the ghosts he -
came livelier than ever. The crew
left her, and refuse to re -embark.
Other hands cannot be obtained.
EXPi,OSION iN SPANISH MINE.
Six Men Killed and Many Injured
as Result of Fire Damp.
A despatch from Madrid says:
An explosion of fire damp occurred
on Wednesday in the Mosquetara
mine, in the Province of Oviedo.
Six ruiners were killed and several
injured.
DEGREE FOR EAR1. GREY.
Oxford Will Make Ellin a D. C. 1,.
During His Visit.
A despatch from London says:
The University of Oxford will con-
fer the degree of D. ('. L on Earl
Grey during his approaching visit
t., England.
CZAR AND KAISER TO MEET E.
European Situation Promises to Enter Upon
a Decidedly Peaceful Stage.
A despatch frotn St. Petersburg at St. Petersburg. It was supposed
in tome quarters that German medi-
ation, which had eiehd the crisis,
had left an inheritance of bitter-
ness which w',uld estrange the two
Monarchs and lead Russia to identi-
fh herself more closely with Great
itritain's continental policy
The meeting. which, according to
some reports. has been arranged by
the initiative of Emperor Nicholas,
is taken to mean that Russia prefers
anamicable with am a e arrangement rr►t.. (3er-
many to the doubtful issue of an
•
antagonistic polioy. If Emperor
William also meats President Fa1-
lieres, as reported from Berlin, the
European ativation may be regard-
ed as sabering upon a deeticledty
place( uI pbass.
LiVE: STOCK SIARKET.S. says: A meeting between Emperor
Montreal. June 8. --More than William and Emperor Nicholas has
half of milkmen's strippers sold been arranged and will take place
at 3!/y to 414e per pound; the best in the waters of the Finnish Gulf.
A despatch from cattle sold at shout 5%,c per pound, The exact date of the meeting will
but they were not extra; pretty be decided upon later, hut it will
d I Id ' ►' bbl will b J 1
''Optintistic to the
goo animas so at 4/ to b/,c;
probably y wt a one 1 The Ger-
at .-faction," just about describes over the entire northw,�t, and in 'lhe C. P. 11 agent at }'arrre, 2.30 common stock, .s' to 44c per man Emperor will arrive on the
the crop report issued by the C. P. some places the growth has been ex- miles west of North Bay, found pound. Large milt+ cows sold at Imperial yacht Hohenzollern, while
eeptional for the first of June. At the dead body of a man lying on the from $',.3 to $05 each • the others Nicholas will he aboard the Stand -
R. on 1Vednesday. It combines re Balcarres the grain is reported to station platform on Wednesday sold at $$5 to $50 each. Calves *2 art, accompanied ov M. Iswolaky,
Stand -
port, tl -fromeve
r
c tier
p
section ,.f t,c
I,
e up eight inches: at Arcola, from evening. From papers found on to 8q each. or 3 to fie per pound. the Foreign Slimily"-, and Admiral
prairie c� entry clear through to the four to seven incites; at 1Vaskada, the b,•dy he was evidently i►an Sheep from 5 to 51,62'c per pound; Voevodsky, the Minister of Marine.
Rockies. and, in its essence. :ails four inches; on the Portal section. 11,.t',,ohue, of Palmerston. where lemhs fr, m a4 to $7 cath. Good
that all the wheat has bees -•.an. front two to five ouches, and in the he has relatives lir spent two l,,ts of fat hogs 8% to 8%c per
while the percentage eV oats. tier- , Lacombe brunch in the far west-, weeks in Sndhury Hospital recent- round.
ley and Sax which remains to l.c ' the same height. ;11l over the west l,•. There was no evidence of foul Toronto. .Tune ct -Butchers' cat -
put in is sr:o;l. Ideal grew ;es , the acreage in grains has increased, play.
The news of the proposed inter-
view between the Sovereigns. corn•
ing so soon fter the settlement of
the Balkan crisis. has aroused e.$-
Ltlr were in strong dhmand and fully er speculation among the diplomats