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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-07-01, Page 7GOVERNMENT CROP BEPORT Rain Is Needed in Some Sections of the Maratime Provinces. A despatch from Ottawa says: .\ bulletin covering the conditions of crops and live stuck in all parts of Canada as reported by special correspondents of the Agricultural Department, under date of June 15th, was lamed by the census and .statistics office on Thursday. In general the report shows that despite the backwardness of the sprung, which retarded early growth in practically all sections of the country, conditions in all the Pro- vinces are now very satisfactory, and except in sonic localities of the Maritime Provinces, where the rain- fall has been light, there is promise of an excellent harvest. Wheat, the great staple crop of the country, has a reported arca of 7,750,400 acres, which is 1,140,000 acres more than last year. In the Maritime Provinces and Quebec there is little change, but in On- tario the area is less by 106,600 acres, of which 88,300 acres is fall wheat. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta show an area of 0,878,- 000 acres, being 1,254,000 acres more than last year. The condition of fall wheat at the 15th of June was 82.15, and of spring wheat 92.15 per cent. of the st..,ndard for a full crop. The area of oats in the Dominion is 9,302,600 acres, which is 1,361,- 500 acres more than last year, and its condition is reported as 92.32 per enet. Barley, the cereal crop next in importance, has a total area of 1,884,900 acres, or 119,200 acres more than last year, and its condi- tion is 91.49 per cent. Rye and peas are less than last year, with conditiAhs of 87.90 and 90.59 respec- tively. Mixed grains, with 582,000 acres, arid hay and clover, with 8,210,300 acres, are practically of the same extent as last. year. The former bus a reported condition of 91.71 and the latter of 110.30 per cent. The condition of pasture is 93.55 per cent. The Province showing the largest area of oats is Ontario, with 3,142,- 200 acres, and also the largest area of hay and clover, with 3,535,- 600 acres. Quebec is the next highest in hay and clover, with 2,923,600 acres. This Province has also 1,574,100 acres in oats. Saskatchewan has 1,847,000 acres in oats, Manitoba 1,390,000 acres and Alberta 820,000 acres. In the three Maritime Provinces the total area in oats is 529,300 acres. At the end of June, 1900, there were 122,39.2 farms in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and at the end of 1908 the homesteads entered (less all cancel- ations) increased the number to 190,234, or by 10,853,760 acres. In Manitoba the net increase of the two and one-half years was 4,393; in Saskatchewan, 41,423, and in Al- berta, 22,020, but these figures do not take account of farm lands pur- chased from railway companies and other corporations in the same period. The drouth of summer and autumn was less severe last year than in 1907, but it had the effect of reducing the number of farm ani- rnals in the older Provinces. In the whole of Canada horses exceed the number of last year by 14,324, whilst milch cows are Tess by 68,440, other horned cattle by 245,057, sheep by 120,014 and swine by 457,349. WINTER WIiEAT KILLED. Other Crops in Alberta Look Very Well. A despatch from Calgary says: Winter wheat will only be a quar- tet to a third of a crop, owing to much of it having been winter killed. A great part of the land has been resown to oats. Grow- ing crops look splendid, and give promise of a large yield. Weather in southern Alberta has been excep- tionally favorable for wheat grow- ing, and the grain is not only grow- ing rapidly but healthily. One sam- rle sent in on Thursday from Dr. Gras's farm at Bowden, near here, is a trifle over 33 inches in height, and is in prune condition. Farm- ers in southern Alberta predict a record yield if present conditions continue. 4• - SUPPLY DRINKING 1►'.1'1'1:R. Suburban Electric )tailwa%M Must Equip .111 'Their ('ars. A despatch from Toronto says: The following regulation was made and promulgated by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board on Thursday, to take effect forthwith: "Leery electric railway company ir. Ontario, subject to the jurisdic- tion of the hoard, shall provide in each passenger car which runs twenty miles or more. a suitable re- ceptacle fur water, with a cup or drinking utensil attached upon or near such receptacle, and shall i;cep such receptacle. while the car at Ducks, in British Columbia. 1'p is in use. constantly supplies} wit) to the present, the officials have cool drinking water for the use of received no information regarding passengers and the conductor and the capture of any of the Wren iin- tnotern►an in charge of such car. i•11catecl• This regulation shall not apply to! - --4.- street railways in towns or cities." Canada now has 23.000 miles of railway' Some young then haven't even a The face value of courage shows latae excuse fur ea trying a 'ane. up when it far, misfortune. r1RE.CONTROL I'D R Gl'NS. invention for Warship 'Tested With Satisfactory Result. Sir Percy Scott's secret invention of an electrical fire -control for the big guns of a warship has just been tested with, it is understoond, the most satisfactory results, in the Channel. Tho cruisers Good Hope, Argyll and Arrogant, on which the tests have betas t onduoted under Vol Percy's Scott's personal supervi- sion, returned to Portsmouth re- cently. By aid of the new invention a complete broadside can be grouped, trained and fired without the pres- ence of a gunlayer. The mechan- ism can either be operated from the fire control station or from the conning tower. Under the present system the guns are trained by gunlayers, and they then have to be connected with the conning tower before the officer fighting the ship can fire them simultaneously. 11;5.0011 11 1: ►►• . t 1111 1' O R 11 t N D I T S. Canadian I'atifle Blakey Issues Announcement. A despatch from Winnipeg says: it was announced at the local of- fices of the Canadian Pacific on Thursday that a reward of $b,000 would be paid by the company for the arrest and conviction of the mien who were guilty of holding up the express train a few day's age, ELEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED Rowboat Swamped in Gale while Crossing Lake Killarney. A despatch from Killarney. Ire- land. says: :\ large rowboat, car- rsina five American and four Eng- lish tourists and four Irish boat- men, was swamped in a gale while crossing Lower Killarney Lake on Wednesday afternoon. All Of the 1..ur.ist+ and two 01 the boatmen M•, .Ir. 1,.,41 The sictims are: - NI : - 1 1 II : n and son, of Ta- , • t't .ash.: Nits and Mrs. Long- ! • r f.uughead. of Boston : Miss 1I II Cation. or ('etun,, of Mas- sa• -t::. -•Its (town tint known); Rev. R Barton and sister. of London; and Miss Florence Wilkinson and cousisn, of Brentwood, Essex ; i'oatnten ('on. Toeney and ('on. .flee -en The heat was a four -oared craft, used (•.r taking visitors about the lake Mo..t of the passengers were guests at the (Treat Soethcrn Ho - CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS EKON ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Telegraphle Briefs From One Outs and Other Countries el lieeent Events. CANADA. The reports of the Ontario fac tory inspectors emphasize the ro• vival in trade. Mrs. Lajoie was committed for trial at Hull for cruelly abusing her young daughter. Several reductions have been made in the Intercolonial stall' in the Maritime Provinces. Five commissions in the British army have been awarded to this years's graduates of the Royal Mili- tary College. Fire at Barrio on Thursday des- troyed Querin's barber shop, H. S. Rey'nold's grocery stock and W. It. Mitchell's confectionery. Mr. John Lawton of Applin and Mr. R. W. Raspberry of Hamilton are dead as the result of being kicked by horses some time ago. Board of Conciliation have been formed to deal with the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian North- ern labor questions in the west. The Government has let the con- tract for the construction of a plant at Ottawa to experiment with peat •in the manufacture of gas. Tho action brought on behalf of the Czar against Ivan Proskowreak- off, a defaulting Governor, at Win- nipeg, has been settled by compro- mise. UNITED STATES. Tho United -States Senate in- creased the Hou';, rate on shoes and sole leather Ilse per cent. A fifteen -months -old child was fatally stung at Holland, Mich., by bees that swarmed on her. No trace has been found of Leon Ling, the Chinaman who is believed to have killed Elsie Sigel in New York. GREAT BRITAIN. Oxford University conferred the lonorary degree of D. C. L. on Earl Grey. The steamer Mauretana has clip- ped another fifty minutes off her \•est previous eastward transat- lantic record. At a sheeting of London financi- el men it was declared that Mr. Lloyd -George's budget was unsound and unjust, and that it would drive capital from the country. GEN ERAL. The army of the Moroccan insur- gent chiefs was completely repulsed in an engagement near Fez. An insurgent army is at the gates of Fez, and the Sultan of Morocco is in clanger of losing his throne. BURIED IN WHEAT. Grain Trimmers on Steamier Lake Manitoba Entombed. A despatch from Montreal says: Sixteen trimmers at work on the steamer Lake Manitoba were buried ender 16,000 bushels of wheat on Wednesday night, and narrowly es- caped death. In fact, their escape from death is little less than mira- culous, as they lay for tout hours en top of heaps of whea: under the decks. They escaped suffocation by taking turns at breathing under the narrow ventilator pipes. The sixteen then were spreading grain i.t the hold. but as time went by and the bunker filled up there was no diminution in the flow of grain, which poured in bushel after bushel. The gang of trimmers worked heroi- cally, but when they were compell- ed to stoop under the deck the task got beyond their control. The hold was filled to the brim, and the six- teen hien were away tinder the deck, unable to fight their way to the stopped -up exit. which was the only hope of escape. For some rea- son the grain kept coming in until the men were prisoners. It was only after hours of imprisonme t that their fellow -workers missed them and dug then out. All the men returned to work on Thursday. TIlI STIEI.I. F\1'Lol►I:1). `eret. \► Oldie -en 11 minded at tel. The party started out on Wed- 1►'orkpoinl Barracks. 11. Wed- nesday morning sight seem When;� des arch from \;. terra, 11 C., TIIE WORLD'S MIMI'S BLPOItTS FltO)i 7'11E LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Blies of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Houle and Abroad. BREADS'i 1JFFS. Toronto, June 29. -Flour -Ontar- io wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.30 to 85.40 to -day in buyers' sacks out- side fur export, and at $5.40 un track, 'Toronto. Manitoba flour; first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.80 to $6, and strong bakers', $5.65 to $5.75 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat --No. 1 Northern, $1.35 Ueurgitus Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.33, and No. 3 at $1.31. Ontario wheat -No. 2, $1.35 out- side. Barley -60 to 62e outside. Oats --No. 2 Ontatio white 59e on track, Toronto, and 55% to 56c out- side. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 60c, and No. 3, 59c Bay ports. Peas -prices nominal. ltyo-No. 2, 74 to 75e outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 82 to 82%c on track Toronto, Cana- dian yellow, 76c outside, and 79 to 80c on track, Toronto. Bran -Ontario, $21 in bulk out- side. Manitoba, $23 to $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Maple syrup -95c to 81 a gallon. Hay -Nu. 1 timothy, $1.2.50 to 813 a ton on track here, and lower grades at 89 to $10 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car -lots, 80 to 85c per bag on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 15c per lb; fowl, 10 to 1lc; turkeys, 16 to 18c per Ib. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and large rolls, 18 to19c ; in- ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, 21 to 22c per lb. Eggs -19 to 20c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14j%c per lb, and twins,• 14% to 14%e. New quoted at 12%c for large, and at 12%e for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%c, per lb. iii case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut, $25.50 to $26. Hams -Light to medium, 5% to 16c ; do., heavy, 14 to 14' _c ; rolls, 12% to 13c ; shoulders, 11% to 12c; hacks, 17% to 18%c; breakfast bacon. 16% to 17c. Lard -Tierces, 1.1 to 14%c; tubs, 14% to 14%e; pails, 14% to 14%c. KILLED IN A COAL MINE Seventeen Miners Suffocated or Burned to Death in Pennsylvania Mine. A despatch from \Vehrum, Penn., I was in condition to give details, says : As the result of an explosion 1 ut from ono it was learned that of gas in mine No. 4 of the Lacks- the explosion seemed to strike Cranna Coal & ('oke Company, every portion of the urine simul- shortly after 7 o'clock on Wednes- taneously. day morning, seventeen miners As sour as it was known that an were killed and sixteen injured. accident had occurred at the mine \1 ith the exception of one of those the greatest excitement prevailed killed, they aro foreigners. 3ust Eoth at the mine and in tho'Iittle uhat caused the explosion has not hamlet, it short distance away. hien ascertained, but it probably Wives, mothers, sisters, and bro- resuslted from an accumulation of thers rushed to the mouth of the gas. mine tearfully imploring somo news Tho few men who escaped from es to the fate of their loved ones. the thine were burned and blacken- A number of the foreign women, cd, indicating that the force of the screaming and crying, tried to rush explosion was heavy. None of them into the dark pit of death. the primo variety sold as high as $6.55, and ordinary loads were firm ar $6 to $6.40. The supply of butchers' fell far short of the de- mand and prices rose according- ly. The finest grades of this class vote firm at $5.50 to $5.80; ordin- ary good loads selling freely at $5 to $5.25. Cows were in strong de- mand and took a rise of 15 to 20c. Stockers and Feeders -Steady de- mand, but supply short. Milkers and Springers -Good milkers and near springers wanted. Sheep Lambs -Easier, except for Spring lambs, which were quoted at. 8% to 9%c per Ib. Hogs -Selects quoted at $7.75 f.o.b., and $8, fed and watered. EXTEND MEAT INSPECTION. Packers Urge l'pon Government That Local Dealers be Included. A despatch from Ottawa says: The extension of the meat inspec- tion provisions to local meat busi- ness and compensation for animals condemned and seized were urged before Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon. Sydney Fisher on Wednesday morn- ing by a deputation which included representatives of Blackwell and Flavelle, Toronto ; Laing & ('o., of Montreal ; Matthews, of Ottawa; Hatton. of Collingwood; Fearman, of Hamilton, all big firms doing both interprovincial and export business. Tho delegation declared that the provisions of the pure food act to which they were subjected should be extended by Provincial legislation to local butchers and packers who do business in a single Province only and aro therefore not subject to the Dominion act. Sir \Wilfrid and Hon. Mr. Fisher were urged to use their influence with the Provincial Legislature to have local pure food legislation similar to the Dominion act. The Ministers pro- mised to use their influence to have the request carried out. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. l:\P1NS1ON OE "SOO" WORKS. Montreal, June 29. -- Grain - Oats-- No. 2 Canadian Western, 60 Tit•st ti• 60%c; extra No. 1 feed. 59% to 60'/.c ; No. 1 feel, 59% to 60c ; No. :s Canadian 'Western, 58% to 59c. Barley -No. 2, 72% to 74c; Mani- toba feed barley, 67% to 68e. Buck- wheat -69% to 70c. Flour --Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 56.30 to 80.50; do.. seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.60 .0 $5.80; Winter wheat pat- ents, $6.75; straight rollers, $6.50 to $6.60; do.. in bags, *3.15 to 83.20; extra. in bags, $2.65 to $2.- 80. Feed --Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; do., shorts, $24 to $25; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, 828 to $30. Cheese -- Westerns, 11% to 12e, and easterns at 11% to 11%. Butter -Finest creamery, 23 to 23i4e. Eggs -18! to 19c per dozen. UNITED STATES MAIIKETS. Chicago. June 29. -Wheat -- No. 2 red. $1.50 to $1.55; No. 3 red, 1'1.35 to $1.40; No. 2 hard, $1.25 G' $1.26; No. 3 hard. $1.20 to $1.- 44; No. 1 Northern. $1.30 to $1.32; No. 2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.28; No. 3 Spring, $1.17 to 81.25. Corn -No. 2, 73''% to 731/;c; No. 2 white, 75 to 754c; No 2 yellow, 73% to 74e; No. 3. 73 to 73„c ; No. :1 yellow, 7:11!4 to 73%e; No 4. 71'; to 72c. Oats - No. 2 white. 57' .c : No. 3 white, 51 t • 56c ; No. 4 white. 50 to 51c ; stan- dard, 56t;. Minneapolis, Juno 29.- Wheat - July. 81.27' to $1.27,'.,; Sept , $1.0.8%; Dec $1.06%; ('ash, No. 1 hard, $1.31%; No. 1 Northern, rho lower lake was reache(i it was says: cergcant Wilkinson of the $1.29% to $1.3034; No. 2 Northern, Army Ordnance Corps at Work- $1.27'4 to $1.28!4 I'lour- -First point Barracks was badly wounded patents, $6.30 to $6.50; second pat - found • f ,e found that a heavy wind from the north-west was blowing. Several other boats that had started over Steel Made in the Open Hearth Furnace. .\ despsatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. says: Mr. W. C. Franz, manager of the Lake Su- perior Corporation, in an interview stated that the new No. 3 open hearth furnace trade its first steel on Wednesday. The foundation work on No. 3 blast furnace has been started and it is expected that in two weeks time work will bo commenced on the new structural mill, which will include all require- ments for making structural steel. The snaking of steel in the new open hearth furnace on Wednesday 1.rings to successful culmination the first improvement under the new management, that is, since English capital was introduced into the con cern. Mr. Franz said it would take about a year to complete the blast furnace and about seven months to have the structural steel mill in operation. IN A CYCLONE CELLAR. 'Three Persons Imprisoned for Two Weeks in Texas. A despatch frorn Galveston, Tex- as, says: In removing a cyclone - wrecked house on the farm of Charles Dilson, in Brown county, 01► Wednesday, the wreckers dis- covered a storm cellar in which were Dilson and itis wife and 12 - year -old daughter, more dead than alive. For two weeks they had been prisoners in the cellar, with barely a morsel to eat for a week and nothing to drink for two days. Raw potatoes had been their sub- sistence for six days. They will survive. After the storm WI' wrecked their home the three Dil- sosns were missed and searchers believed that they had deserted their place and moved away. Tho house had been blown over and cov- ered the storms cellar, which was about 20 yards from the House, and searchers knew nothing about it. The trio of prisoners tried to dig their way to the surface with their hands and succeeded only in cut- ting a tunnel which afforded them air. 4, 1'Ot Glll'1''1'11h: RAILWAY. Mr. Dodd Built Wire Fence .across Track and is Now in Jail. A despatch from Yorkton, Sask. says: E. Dodd, a farmer in this locality. who has opposed the C. P. H. running through his farm, ever since the road was constructed, built a wire fence across the track on Tuesday, and he is now in a cell charged with obstructing a train. He had notified the engineer he would stop frim sometime soon. When the line was under construc- tion Dodd held up a gang at the point of a loaded gun for several days, until restrained by the police. NO ('.12'SE FOR AL ARM. Great Britain and Germany Have Nothing Under Discussion. A despatch from London says: Foreign Secretary Grey, in the course of a speech hero on \Wednes- day night, said there was nothing tinder discussion between Germany and Great Britain at the present moment which was liable to create difficulties between the two coun- tties, nor was there anything in the innermost deliberations of the Brit- ish Government which was likely to cause anxiety to Germany. 4F CHICAGO'S .t 1•TO SLAUGHTER Machines billing 'three Persona Every Two Weeks. A despatch from Chicago says: Automobiles are killing Chicagoans this year at the rate of three per- sons every 1 wo weeks. in 1907 the slaughter was one person every three weeks, according to police statistics. ECIPROCITY CLAUSE KTLLED No Free Trade in Coal Between Canada and the United States. ears, A despatch freni Washington Numerous attempts were made to says : Bather unexpectedly to itself 1 educe the rate, and there was one the Senate hate on Wednesday con , effort to obtain free coal, but all eluded its c•The \'ration of the coal 1 were voted flown and the commit- s.hedules. The I. Mance Committee : tee's scale retained. en Thursday, when the detonator cats, 50.20 to ,. ir. c through Mr. Aldrich reported an 111 a tete of fifty to tweet the same course put back. It was (f the twclre•p►.nrnd shell, which he 8:►•OS t0 '15.25: second clears, $a.n3 amendment fixing the duty ►,1t eight, the Senate finance Coin - not long before anxiety began to be was examining, exploded. with to $3.85. Bran -in bulk, $22 to bituminous coal and shale at sixty ; miltre's amendment placing a duty felt concerning the bunt which had Captain Gillen. the recently rap- $22.50• cents per ton : on cent slack ..r calm, o f $1 40 a thousand fret on sawed continued on the course, and---- at fifteen cents per tort; coke and p�ointed Arm} Ordnance officer, lumber, aith differentials on fin- filkinson was examining the stores rrarchrrs, who put out when the ` LIVE STOCK \1.t11Kf.TS. compositions iised f, r fuel at twt•n1( •shed lumber was rnrri I Tt aind died clown a little, discoter- • r ammunition in the Ordnance ed her overturned with two of the •bed at the fort of Signal Hill. in beaten n clinging to the keel. The! ,,,rhe manner the detonator of a Rev. lar. Barton and two of the' ttveltt► pound shell went off. rxplod• women could he seen in the dis-' inst. shattering Wilkinson's wrist lance, supported by an oar, but end leg slightly wounding rap - reachsank before the rescuers could fain Gillen. and. Wilkinson was convey - reach them. The others had already ,,I ht motor car to \founds rat Bar - disappeared. I racks Hospital and his Injuries at - The two boatmen -vit.) were res- tended to. Ho tnay recover it cheer weer too exhausted to gi`e kinson's time here expires on Tues. a any .c cin: of the accident. (day next. Montreal. June 29. Prime per sent. ad valet ern. \ area hack .. 11 • ata equal t.. the dish i� ci'l..tt►(1 tes.els is fifty cents below th,' Ding - beeves 501(1 at 6 to f...c per Ili: iec rates. 1n nick succe� ie;► rretty good animals. 14+ to 5';e, in the for►rai)11 q 'i his •, ,r, `.' `..;,;rich ex :'Sia. setetai other paragraphs of the common stock. 2', to 1 Se per Ih. l lumber schedule r.rrr rises ,s1 is. Milch cotss from 821 to $15 each. ..i. t.' n i. I..•: on of retia c•t.ts p.% amendrn^rat; ifferr:l by lar most of the sales being at from •a; ur.de r the bona. t: •, . .1 Irirh and r.Gtr► d to by t!te fi •r. to 45 each. Calves. front $2.50 N. ,m • n.lment, he said, also 'r.;t • 71n- hotire reel tre<itt resist„n. ''t.-• the duty en clapboards ens ie $10 each. Sheep at 4c per lb. ; i 1 , ,, :,.rd fn•i AI to $/.F><) r r t!N,u limbs from $3.7:, to :tear 1,6 r3, 1, it, .1 r t believe. t ...' tt c•t p (food lots of fat hogs sold at s' r+ •i' wontei 1.:n ,t Amit ` t'''' en int!►.•. frim 20 to 2:, ►e.,i 4 i, if tLe t• rt 111 t'.. sap I pie, to: ant' n .hingl .t to 9,;c per lb. � ' � I ' • Toronto. June 29.-Exportei . f I • • r le -:t in the :1.11,:, '' •''' t 3 5' tents.