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Exeter Advocate, 1909-07-29, Page 7OPGANIZGD GANG OF THIEVES Robberies Are Frequent Since the Great Fire in Cobalt. A despatch from Cobalt says: Ever since fire destroyed many dives down iu French town, rob- eries have been reported, and the police believe that an organized gang of thievei are operating in the town. renewing the hold up f a nlan with revolvers on the rued, W there was an attempt made to en- ter Mayor Laeg's house on Wed- nesday night. Bert Normandy, who has had $70 in cigars and to- bacco stolen from the skating rink, was on watch at midnight, and ho gave chase, but fell in a trench, .and the thief was lust. A gang was arrested on Wecines• day night on Sasaginaga Lake. the Dunn family forming tho nucleus. Three Wren put up a strenuous fight, And the women set dogs on the police. Almost all the goods taken from the rink were found, and many articles that citizens have missed for months were located. On Sasaginuga Lake. •.n Wednes- day night about eeeu worth of goods were taken from a tent. A vigor- eus effort will bo made to stamp out incipient lawlessness, as prevt• ous to this Cobalt has not been troubled by the light-fingered tribe. SLEEP IN ESKIMO TENTS AS COMFOR'T'ABLE .1S A STEAM - HEATED HOUSE. 'Tents in the Arctic Regions Under Snow Becomes Unbearably Warm. Along the whole coast, of Arctic America Eskimos or evidences of their former existence, are found. Judging from the abandoned houses and villages they were once numer- ous along the north shore of Alaska. But now their numbers are being fast reduced by the contagious dis• eases brought in by white men, .against which they have developed no immunity. At Point Barrow, where a few white men have been engaged in whaling and trading for a quarter -of a century, and where there aro .also a missionary and school teacher, is still a village of 200 or 300 Eskimos. Another settle- ment of much less size has gathered at Herschel island, where the whale ships have long wintered. In all the 500 miles of coax: between these two villages there are hardly a dozen Eskimos. Inland perhaps a couple of dozen families live in tents and follow the caribou from place to place. LIVE IN ESKIMO TENTS. Formerly both natives and white men constructed houses out of snow blocks in which to sleep while travelling in winter time. Occa- sionally snow houses are still used, but since it has become possible to secure canvas or boat drill from the traders, a tent is preferred. I have spent months in different kinds of tents and find the ono used by the Eskimos by far the most comfortable and safe, writes a traveler. Willow sticks about 10 feet in length are stripped of their bark. bent into a curve and allowed to dry. Fifteen or twenty of these light curved sticks are stuck up in the snow and lashed into a hemis- pherical form of er which two covers of light boat drill are thrown. When snow is shovelled around the margin and well packed down, this, low, round tent will stand any wind that. blows. The now floor is covered with caribou skins un top of which the sleeping bags are placed. There is plenty of drift items] along the rivers, so the traveller need but carry a small sheet -iron stove to cook with and to heat the tent. AIR SPACE PROTECTION. The air space between the covers makes a great protection against the outside cold. so that while cook- ing a meal the tent often becomes unbearably hot even with the doors open. At night after the fire is out the bodily heat from the people sleeping in such a tent will raise A de -patch from London saes. the interior tem ferature over 50 The Morning Post says: "Surely der •tes (Fahrenheit) above that the sanest and most hopeful me - cm teide. thud of dealing with pauper chil- dren is to send them out to Canada Hardly any frost forms upon the walls and one is able to deep com and the other British dominions aide with the heed outside of the as early as possible.' bag. During the worst gales that blow on that coast, one can keep the tent waren and comfortable all day, while reading or smoking at one's ease, and at night take off one's clothes and sleep with as touch comfort and safety as in a steam - heated house. PERMANENT HOUSES. Having had this good night's rest, he can face the next day's cold with greater cheerfulness. Con- trast this tent with those often used by polar explorers, in which they he awake most of the night, buttoned inside a wet sleeping - bag listening to the flapping of the tent and wondering how soon every- thing will blow to pieces. The permanent houses of the natives aro constructed of drift- wood heavily sodded over. Form- erly they were heated with blubber latnps, but now small stove's have taken tho place of the primitive apparatus. They keep the houses too hot for comfort, at least for white man, but rho Eskimos strip to the waist and do not mind it. Mnay tinges the temperature was found to bo over 90 oegrees Fah- renheit, and once a c•'inical the- rmometer, left in a hole.? where the writer was attending a sick boy, was found to register 108 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest tempera- ture it was capable of indicating. In the summer these houses become damp, so the people move out doors into tents. GRAPE CAVED IN. Shocking Occurrence al Burial of Murdered Man. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Angus Roos, who was murdered on Saturday at Frank, was buried at Blairmore on Wednesday besi:le his father and mother. While four men were lowering the coffin the grave caved in, two of the men be- ing precipitated into the newly -dug grave under the coffin, which had to he righted and the pit dug out again. The wife of the deceased fainted at the occurrence. CONVICTS PANIC-STRICKEN. ('ire at New Westminster Penitenti- ary Caused Scare. A despatch from Vancouver says: The works adjoining the Provincial penitentiary at. New Westminster were destroyed by fire late on \Wed• ne day night. the damage amount- ing to $10,000. The convicts quart- ers were untouched but the in- mates were panic-stricken. and clamored piteously for their re- lease. SEND P UPERS TO ('.1N.AD.1. Britain N mil,( find it Sanest Comae. Sa}• Morning Po -t. JAIL AS A LABOR BUREAB Scarcity of Harvesters Leads Winnipeg Magistrate to Try Experiment. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS QAl'I'ENING 9 FijOI ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. Teleirapblo Briefs From Our Owe sod Other Countries cd Recent Events. CANADA. James Dale was attacked by masked men near Cobalt and rob- bed. Hon. L. P. Broudcur has prowls - cd to assist the movement for a dry- dock at Montreal. A little lad but nine year of age is under arrest at Toronto. eharged with pocket -picking. United States immigration offi- cers say fewer people are entering the States through Canada. Stephen 11. Patterson, a Brock- ville park -keeper, fell a distance of eight feet and was killed. Tht Ontario Government sub- scribed $1,000 towards the Parlia- mentary memorial at Halifax, N.S. Seven thousand dollars' worth of diamonds are said to have been smuggled into Canada from Eng- land. The bank statement for June, which has just been issued, shows clearly hoy rapidly trade condi- tions are improved. The Ontario Board of Health has approved of plans for a waterworks system and sewage disposal plant at Cobalt. Miss Audilia St. Denis is suing the Manager and President of the defunct Banque. de St. Jean for the amount of her deposit. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson and other directors of the Grand Trunk aro cooling from England to make a trip of inspection of the 0. T. P. to Edmonton. GREAT BRITAIN. Tho budget fight in the British Commons is becoming very bitter. London papers have spoken in glowing terms of Canadian win- nings at Risley. The remains of Oscar Wilde are to be removed to a more honorable resting -place. Mr. John Lavery, the famous British artist and bachelor, was married to a Chicago girl. Six Yorkshire tykes on a world tour have decided to cross the :American continent via the C.P.R. UNITED STATES. The body of an Armenian was found in a trunk in a roots at Lynn, Mass. The C. P. R. has invaded north- ern Maino, and will break the monopoly of the Aroostook S: Ban- gor Railway. The New York police had a fierce fight with a band of gypsies whom they sought. to place on a steamer for deportation. It is probable that the Joint Con- ference Committee on the tariff at \Washington tt ill place a duty of $1.25 per thousand on lumber and 83 per ton on print paper. GENERAL. M. Aristide Bria; d has been naked by the President of France t� form a Cabinet. Peru and Bolivia will make an attempt to settle their differences without recourse to war. Germany is striving eagerly to gain trade concessions from Can- ada. A Berlin paper has decided 'o send a special correspondent over in August. PAGEANT ON PAGEANT. Britain'• \:sty gathering For Still .Another Review. .\ despatch from London says : The simmer of 1909 will be remem- bered as a season of naval pagean try. Last month the greatest as• semblage of war craft in the his tory of the British navy took place off Portsmouth. On Saturday they will gather at i'rtsmouth, where on July 31 they will be reviewed by the King. and on the following Mon- day the Emperor of Russia will base an opportunity to see them, his yacht comes to ('owes for the meeting with the King. ROCK SI.IIIE KII.I.ED TWO. And Three Other Men lien. Burled Down Bank. .1 despatch free► Grand Forks, B.('., says: Two men lost their lives as the result of a rock slide on the Canadian Pacific near here on Wednesday. Later. when a crew were clearing the track. another A despatch from Winnipeg says : of last year. and if necessary a elide occurred. and buried three of Daily the fear of a scarcity of farm special constable will he placed on them. hurling them down the steep labor this summer grows space each car. On Thursday Magistrate bank. All were foreigners. The Daly decided to try an experrrnent• boric of one wan brought here. Also Kith favorable news from the agri Hearing of the scarcity of men. he ono of the injured 8 eultural districts. At the present released all short -terns prisoners on ---_f- _- lime there are four hundred appli- condition that they get employment. rations on file with the Provincial General Grain Agent Atheson of Government. and nearly seven bun- the C. P. R., who has just returned dred with the Dominion i►nmigra- (tom a tour of inspection of the ton Akers. asking for men. but crops. says the grain is at about neither can supply any. Tho C. P. the Bayne stage of development as in A despatch from Vancouver, B. It. is at present endcatoring to ar- other scar.. and esptcially in Mani- C., says: Captain Sparrow of the range exeursione from the east. but toha the harvest will he about the steamer Tartar brings a report of rep•'rts received indicate that men same tine as last year. He does • gold strike on the Seehelt pettln- there are also scarce. When the not look for more than an average sola, forty miles up the coast. The excursions are en route this tear crop, whic;t would mean a yield of strike is close to a Japanese logging every effort will be made to pre- AVont a hundred million bushels of camp. Six men .teked eta claim.. Vint a recurrence of the rosea ism wheat. The quarts is said to aserage $60. 1,0111 ON l'%('ll•It (01ef. )lade on the ! eehelt 1'en- tasula. .1 Strike THE WORLD'S DIARIiEIS1WARNING TO DEPARTMENTS 11LFORTt 1'RO31 TIIE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. !'rices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese anti Other Dairy Produce at Uowe and .(broad. 1111EADSTUFES. Toronto, July 27.-Flour-Outari.-, wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.25 to $5.35 to -day in buyers' sacks out- side for export, and $5.40 to $5.50 on track, lorouto. Manitoba flour; tirst patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.75 to $5.90, and strung bakers', $5.50 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.33, and No. 3, b1.39. Ontario wheat ---No. 2, $1.20 out- side. New Ontario wheat about $1.10 outside. Barley -Old No. 3 extra, 63c out- side. Oats --No. 2 Ontario white, 57% to 5Se on track, Toronto, and 54y to 55c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats, 55c, and No. 3, 54%c, Bay ports. Peas -Prices purely nominal. Buckwheat -Prices purely nom- inal. Corn -No. 2 American ycllx,w, 80%c on track, Toronto. Canadian yellow 76 to 77c on track, Toronto. Bran -$19.50 to $20 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $2:' in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24 Toronto freights. COUNTItY PRODUCE. Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to $14 a tou on track Isere, and lower grades, $9 to $10.50. Straw --$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes -Small lots of old, 75 to 90c, and new, $3 to $3.25 per barrel, on track. Poultry -- Chickens, yearlings, dressed. 12 to 13c per lb; fowl, 9 to 10c; turkeys, 14 to 16c per lb. THE DAIItY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c; in- ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 24e, and separator 19 to 20c per lb. Eggs -Case lots, 20 to 21c per dozen. Cheese -New l2jc for large, and at 12%c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%c per ll, in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut, $25.50 to $26. Hams -Light to medium, 15' to 16e; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c ; rolls. 12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 18 to 18%e; ; breakfast Lacon, 16% to I7c. Lard -Tierces, 14%c; tubs 14':;e ; pails, 11'4c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, July 27. -Oats -No. 2 Canadian \Western, 58c; No. 1 extra feed, 55'4e No. 1 fted, 57%e; No. 3 Canadian Western, 57c. Barley --- So. 2, 72,' to 74e; Manitoba feed barley, 67ee to 6tc.t Buckwheat - 69',•1 to 70e. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts. $6.30: Manitoba Spring wheat potents. seconds, $5.'s0; Winter wheat pat- ents, 86.75; Manitoba strong bak- ers, 85.60; straight rollers, $6,50 to $6.60; straight rollers, in bags, to 83.20; extras, in bags. $2.h0 to 82.90. Feed -Business in most lines of milling feed continues quiet. ('heeee-11',; to 12c. and eastern!' at 11'; to 11!.<e. Butter - Pound lots, 21?sc; jobbing 22%e. Eggs ---19, to 20c. Selected stock. 23c, and candled at 20c per dozen. UNITED STATES M.1RK1•:TS. Minneapolis, July 27. --Wheat -- July. 81.30; Sept., $1.09,,; Dec., 81.07; cash. No. 1 hard $1.32% to $1.32%; No. 1 Northern, $1.31!/ to $1.31: , ; No. 2 Northern $1.29'.; to 81.29;, : No. 3 Northern, $1.27 to $1.28%. Flour -First patents. $6.10 to $6.30; second' patents, 8e c:s $6.20; first clears, 85.01 to $5.• is ; second clears. $3.U5 to 83.ee lttan-In 100.1b. sacks. $21.50. Chicago, July 27. --('ash wheat - No. 2 red, $1.18 to 81.20; No. 3 red, new, $1.14; No. 2 hard, 81.18 to $1.20; No. 3 hard. $1.15 to $1.18: No. 1 Northern, $1.39 to $1.40; No. A Northern, $1.24 to $1.30; Spring. $1.20 to $1.28. Corn -No. 2, 73':; to 71e; No. 3, 72c; No. 3 white, 751/c; No. 3 yellow. 73 to 73%c: No. 4, 60 to 69c. Oats -No. 3, 45 to 45%e: No. 3 white, 46' to 50'c; No. 4, 42 to 46„c; standard, 49 to 52e. Government Expenditures to be Limi=ed - Strictly to the Sum in Estimates. .1 despatch from Ottawa says: That the Government is making an effort to cut down expenditures is indicated by an order-iu-Council roc•ently passed. The order is based in a report to Council by the Min- ister of Finance, suggesting that the chief spending departments be admonished to live strictly within the appropriations fur the current fiscal year. A copy of the order has been served upon every department. 1t points out that in the interests of economy it is absolutely necessary teat no works be undertaken for 'which provision has not been made in the estimates, and that expen- ditures for authorized services be limited atrietly to the sum author- ized by the cetinaatcs. The object doubtless is to pre- vent, if possible, the growing prac- tice of continuing the outlay upon specific projects after the ,proper appropriation has been exhaust- ed, and so obviate the necessity of supplementary estimates to cover the over expenditure. Mr. fielding desires to include in his main estimates next session, as nearly as may be, the total ex- l:euditure projected for the ensu- ing fiscal year. Butchers' -- Steady demand for ;choice butchers' cattle. Medium and common cattle steady at late declines. Stockers and feeders - 1)emand for good stock. C'alves- Market steady for good butchers' calves. Milch cows --Steady de- mand for good milkers. Feeders - Steady around $5. Choice butch- ers' cattle --Steady to easier around $5.25 to $5.50 for picket extra choice heifers and steers. Tho ordinary run of fair to good butchers' eas- ier around $4.50 to $41.90; common to inferior mixed butchers' cattle, 50c off. Hogs -Steady at $8 f.o.b., $8.25 fed and watered, and $8.50 off cars. + HEADING FROM '1'l1E COAST. Grand Trunk Pacific Is Pushing Eastward. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., nays : The first shipment of tics from Morseby island for the moun- tain section of the O. T. P. has ar- rived at Prince ltupert. '1'o accom- modate the immense quantity of construction material unloaded at the harbor, as well as a shipload of steel rails now on its way around its Uan er at Falls. the Horn, a second wharf will be g built by the company. This news A despatch from Niagara Falls, is confirmed by 0. A. McNicoll, the N. Y., says: A launch party of four- teen young people of this city had a narrow escape from going over the Falls early on Wednesday night, when the motor boat in which they were riding sprang a leak. With the water rushing into the boat GREETS TIIE BLl'EJACKETS. 1.ondon Coes Wild as Sailors March Through !ler Midst. A despatch from London says: Tho bluejackets of tho 150 warships row in the Thames, who hereto- fore have filled tho role of hosts, aero guests of the City of Loudon on Wednesday. Twelve hundred of thein marched through the prin- cipal thoroughfares and were greet- ed with unbounded enthusiasm. Tho decorations along tho lino of !march were on a lavish scale, and demonstrated the widespread in- terest awakened in Londoners by the stay of the fleet in the very heart of the city. After tho parade the officers and men were tendered a luncheon at the Guildhall, as guests of the Lord Mayor and Cor- poration Council, and subsequent- ly enjoyed a vaudeville entertain- ment, the first ever permitted at the Guildhall during the many cen- turies of its existence. + S.1WEI) FROM CATARACT. Disabled Boat, With 1.1 Occupants, purchasing agent, who has returned to the northern point, Mr. Mc - Nicoll found in the trip. that cov- ered over fifty miles of the grade out of Rupert, that rapid progress was being made in the construction work. There is no doubt about the faster than it could be bailed out, track -laying being commenced by the boat was steered for shore, but October 1. GALLOPED TO HIS DEATH. Indian on Hoarsehnck Leaped Into River. .1 despatch from Vancouver says: Victor Lceampe, a member of the best-known family in the Kamloops Indian reserve, galloped deliberate- ly to death on Tuesday evening. Aware that the draw of the bridge over the South Thompson ltiver was open, but crazed with drink, he gal • toped furiously to his doom. The horse cleared the bridge timbers and landed in the fairway. The Indian extricated himself from the stir- rups, but finally sank, one hundred yards below the bridge. The horse swam ashore. 4. ITN l:NDS IN TRAGEDY. C. 1'. R. 4 ondocior Drowned in French (liter. A despatch from North Bay says: 1'honrnr Jamieson, a former C. P. It. passenger conductor, was drown- ed on Tuesday evening in French River. \With n fishing party of eight. Jamieson left North Bay on the steamer Havel B. When near Frank's Itay the fatality occurred During a friendly scuffle with John Russell, one of the party, both rnen fell over the gangway hoard into the water. The steamer was stopped and a skiff lowered, Russell being rescued, but no trace of Jamieson eonld be retold. Jarnieson was s prominent eitizc n of North Bay. and was widely known and respected. .\ a i•lew and six children survive the water stopped the engine, and the party were in danger of being swept over the cataract. A well- known riverman appeared on the scene in a sailing boat, and took ail anchor from his boat, which held the launch against the cur- rent until lie went ashore for a motor boat. + DROWNED 1\ C'LOU'DBURST. Several l'er.ora. Perish in Odanah, Wisconsin. A despatch from Ashland, Wis., says ::1 cloudburst Tate on Tuesday night caused heavy lose to all kinds of property in northern Wisconsin. 1t is estimated the total loss will lir 8500.000. The power plant at White ltiver, which furnishes light to the city of Ashland, and the State fish hatchery near Hayfield were practically destroyed. The dam breaking at White River im- i•erils Odanah. Several persons are reported drowned. Six famil- ies near the ore docks in Ashland had to be taken from their homes. "1'14 1: I'LE1:'IS, (1\ I: \ 1% 1'," ('i, 'al leeton'e of Lord Charles Here•lord's Naval Proposal. A despatch from London 'ass: The Standard, in discussing th,, ap- proaching naval eonferenee. tees that iord Charles Bcresford's scheme alone will meet abet really are very exigent requirements, and sures up hie proposal in the words: "Five nation.. five fleets, one navy." 75,000 SETTLERS TIlIS YEAR Inspector of Agencies in the United Eta.tes l;.epeats His Prod iuti9n, :+.. ,• • �: r!t . r.�. ' A despatch from Ottawa says : , who c Mr. W. J. White, inspector of Do- No Collette1, ..+old speak Montreal, July 27. --Pretty good minion immigration agencies in the , more enthustasticaL - f the future beeves sold at 4 to 5'/,c. common Ugited States, is here and reaffirms (of Canada than did , • �e ci,it' to stock at 2',z to 3%c per lb. Milch :his former prediction that 75.000 ; upon the eonclnsion i f their tri;,. ecus from $25 to 850 each. Calves immigrants will come this year from "As it happet:ed." Mr. White e+. ►- from $2.50 to $10 each. Sheep 3'A the United States to Canada. He tinned. "we were in Lct►,hr dgn to 4c per lb., Iatnhs 6'e to 7c per i.as recently e inducted a party of , the day of tree schc o1 feed. lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold at .American visitors through the '.ellen eight gt:nete '• tees., wer3 f.% to a little over 9c per lb. Northwest. jptrt Up at aar�ti', . :a. d s one a0 "\That impressed the parte people, not only spe+•rlat 'r.. 1, t Toronto. July 27.--A number of most." he said, "was the chara'''•e farmers. steed in lire free! eundey steers sold for both butchers and el the settlements along the 1::^. ` right until lf.ndav morni..g t'apt export purposes at fr• n 85.20 to towns of from foe to ten thouse! d first chance in shy bidding. 11 r. 85.50. Sheep and lambs -Market lehabitants, with itnposiag school scene was a t c.bjcct 1e,soa o! t1 sttady. Export market _. Extra ; houses and other evidences of 'olid growing value c,f Ceeadian f t; n choice heavy well finished rettic-ncnt, and peopled by a en- ' land*. which ;lid nes- foil t•, im;•t+ .1 cattle, $5.90 to $6; medium, $5.e5. periur stamp of men and wo:t.on itse( ..pea the pa,-ty." LIVE STOCK MARKETS.