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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-03-19, Page 34 NORTHLANDS OF CANADA The West Could Produce 1,300 ?Killion Bushels of Wheat. A despatch fent Ott•.wa slays: In the Agricuflura! Ce,,,itutttre thother day, ilk l:. Young, Superintk ,keit of lite railway and swamp lands' branch of the Department (if Interior, Faye some 'nest ink resting figures and estimates in re- gard to the p,s.it,:l:lies .,f grain -grow - Ing in the ceireetara west. If the wheat crop of 1906 totalled ne hundred mil- lion bushels on 11 seal• d area of 86,- (50(t.(X1() asses, i1 was, hc• claimed, no etretch of itneginat un to look in the future kr n wheat production of 1.300.- 00e .300:(sue,: lathe's, weirih practically three times the total f ere gn )rade of Canada at the present tune. Of the 86.0(ei,000 acres referred to above. only 51)00,000 acres are tinder wheal. One farm of 375 acres, with which he was acquaint- ed, neer Saskatoon, hull given a net return last season of $14.33 an acre. '1 he lntit.tde did not geeen the climate (n (.analis. In summer it was just as warm in Fort Simpson. on the Mac- kenzie River, as it was in Winnipeg or Ottawa. \'egitnl+les sush as cabbage, lettuce, one potato..': tied Ixeen success- fully grown as far 'sorts as Fort Good (lope. within 14 miles of the Arctic cit` cle. Last summer Mr. (%:away, inspec- tor of Indian Affairs, saw as fine vege- tables al Fort Good (tope as ever were gown anywhere in Canada. 'the g;rotvlh in the tar north, owing to the lung da*s. was rapid beyond belief. .Wheat of geed quality there 1•att 62 pounds, to the bushel, grown at Fort Suites -en, in latitude 62. A geed many elaternents had been tnudeas t„ the wail - able nrea of agricultural land in the. reinete northwest. One gentleman, who t.ad traveled over a great porton of this country, declared that there was 1t 0,(!00:t * miles west and north <,f the Athabasea. Another competent w:tness had said (her.' was as much nveilnble land in that region as was now settled west of Winnipeg. The southern bnun- duu•y et the Province of Tokolsk in Si- beria was n hundred miles further north than Edmonton. yet in 1900 Tekolsk had a pc►puletion of 1.500.000, and pro - eluted 64.000,003 bushels of wheal alone, rend over 10,000.000 bushels of oats. If this was so, why should we not derive nu equal !►milt from the portions of our Northwest Territories, which at pre- sent are remote from settlement. But in addition to its agricultural p;ossih:pates. enough was known about the mineral resources of the northern country 10 preys. that it was possessed r f unt•'eht wealth of gold. :diver. cop- per, iron. and man; other trenerals. CONTRACTORS ARE EAGER. Nineteen .Tenders for .(York on the Tranucontinental. A despatch from Ottawa si.ys: Ten- e!ers for the construction of 363 miles of the Nal.onat Tritnscentinental Rail- way. covering six se^tions between Moncton and Lake Nep!g on, were open- ed by the commissioners on Tuesday. Nineteen tenders were received, the con- ttact,rs showing greater eagerness this year to undertake construction work on the national railway than was the case last year, when meth r w es more scarce and wages higher. 1t is understood that the figures quoted this spring by contractors are a tittle lower than last year. The names of the successful ten- derers will not be known for seine weeks. pending the report of the min - mission's engineers as to the figures quoted ou east class of work. The Gland Trunk Pacific. as usual, tender- ed for each contract. in accordance with the policy of the company to make t'ie construction of the road as cheap as ros,ible, so as to reduce to a mini- n►um the amount on which rental will have to be paid. .-. SQUADRON FOR PACIFIC. Three Armored Cruisers Vili be Rent to British Columbia Coast. A despatch from I,ondc►n says that the artne red cruisers Eurynlus, Hogue and Cressy, of the Fourth Cruiser Squad- ron, now al Bermuda, will proceed at the enti of the month to the Pacific Coast. The despatch states further that the Dritiah Government and the Admir- e ty have consented \villi the greatest reluctance to this depleteean el avail- able cruisers in home waters already characterized by the extreme naval ectt of as a dangerous strategic weak- ness. but that the disturbing turn et (%eats in the Pacific melees it aAsolute- ty necessary that the China squadrv►n le reinforced by a strong fleet of ob- servatien .,n the North American Paci- fic (:oust, 1VY►%1iN 1111av1:s WILnV•'Rxi.ss, first to Tra%el From Fort tenurial! and Reaches Winnipeg. A despatch from W►nrtipeg F:,,. \its. !leech, the first white woman to Traver -c the country between Fort Churchill and Wrens' Ileuse, via fork Factory. arid Win. Beech and Carl Beech. the first white men to bring d•:gs ire rn Fort Churl hill t•o \\'innipeg over the moue rout.•, over 1.100 Hailes through 1 tut a e- d('rtess. nrriycd in Winnipeg • n \\'ed- mettl y. alt'r a meat unique trip. which was fraught with no little trouble and herdshlp. 1'. r twenty days the party u -ermined at ttte titcettlh 4,1 the Nelsen River. rind during all that time the dogs stere without feed. end the reticles of ite• party \yerr r. e! t cd to niinimutn. fi'1'A1tI11\(. A'1' Dt'NDi-. Quarrel .ineme Dalian Lales•rrs at a Stone Quarte. A .le • hatch from !fame' al says: An Italian wh,e cannot speak Engtsh was taken to the City Hospital ;.1 n tale hour en Thursday night, in a \• ry dnng er- ous condition as a result • f a wound the 1-owels which was inflicted by a felloweeeintrymen in a quarrel. The teen were eutpkcycci at f)e'ol tie's stone gunny at Dundas, and it is understood that they had words. One pulled a knife on the man wh-, is in the hos- pital. and then 'nude his escape. Chief 'l'ot's was mantled. and nt once went to the e.ene. Ile gave instructions for the rt-rnov.tl of the injured men to the city, and he was brought on the 11.15 car. accompanied by a couple of Itali- ans. neither of whore can speak Eng- lish. Chief Twins itt midnight had not fiuctee-cted in arresting the men who did the cutting. It is f••nred that the wounded !elan iniac• be iralnity injured. - --.g. CHOPPED 11011SE TO DE %Til. Brutal Crime Committed in a Statile at Montreal. A despatch from M.,nlr.'nl nays: The police on Thursday were inference, of a brutal act committed on Tuesday night In a btatdle owned by Mr. A. Gauthier on Wet geurs street. Mr. Gauthier states that on going to his stable in the morning he Bound his hors' lying dead on the for. The 1,nin111 had been hack- ed Went the head and body in a fenr- CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Il.tF1'ENINGS FitOM AI.L 01-.1 TUB GLOBE. Telegraph fillets From Our Own •u0 Other Countries of Recent Events. CA.\A11A. Chatham General Itospital ie over - Saskatchewan 1-eg;islature is to meet on April Ynd. There Is an outbreak 4J1 glanders at Oxbow, Sask. Seven illicit stills were seized last year in the Montreal district. A fah/eatery ler testing ore's, metals fuel and Iced is to be established in Toronto. Wood is scarce in Peterboro. Only e ne Ilrnr has a supply ut maple ane beech. Norris Stevens, a St. t latharines hetet- keeper, ens pined $100. for setting; liqu.er after hours. Caretakers of Galt puplic schools must not Leave (heir buielings during 'sheet hours. The ()Marie Minister of Education will require tire drills to be pra'•tised in all the schools of the Province. No gold has teen I i'oughl out of the Frndlnler River district, B. C.. despite the finds reported. About seventy per cent. of the cows iu the Winnipeg (lair:e, are sail to be in- fected with tuberculosis. Count. rh it money is prevalent in Petencx:rough, end is alleged to Le coin- ing from Lindsay, '1tie Grand Trunk Railway has been granted special leave to appeal to the Privy Council en the two -cent fare ques- tion. Unle-s the steel market soon improves, the N. e. Steel (:o. at Sydney Mines will mase 0 ten per scent. cut in wages. Eighteen Hindus were. lined $500 each til Vane.ouver for failing to pass the test under the Natal act, tut the sentences will be Appealed. Judge Snider has given lois award( 'n the arbitration at Hamilton reducing the price of street -lighting to be paid by the city by $15.50 per lamp yearly. Foley Bros., Larsen .t, Stewart have been awarded the centred kr the first hundred -elite eeclkm of the Grand Trunk _Pneific. from Prince Rupert eastward. Finnrle:al returns hrought down in the Neva Scotia legislature showed (hat the expenditure for the year ex- ceeded the revenue by over $160.000, Thomas Anderson, chief trader 4,1 the Hudson's Bay Company in \1ec•kit.zie district,, died while on his way out, lowing retired from the cempnny's ser- vice. The 11. 11, Ca:npkin Company of In- dian (lead, Sesk,, was driven to assign ley the defalcations of Secretary -Treas- urer \Innfor•d, who is alleged to have stolen fifty thousand dollars. Pott At thur and Fort William have arrived at an agreement whereby Fort \\'iiliam purchias.'s that px.:rtion of the railway ryas n the Carpotation !knits, and the road trill be operated by a joint conmessi• n. (TREAT BRITAIN. President Fatlieres of France will pay it visit In London in May. fat Malin"with an axe. Many .et the Inspection of London, England scheofs w- •ands were several inches in depth, rs said +b. stu,vv faults �� bleb might leadt, tragedic•, and in some parts the limbs had leen By a vole of 153 to 33 the (louse of almost cut asunder. Mr. Gauthier ;s Lords rejected the Scottish small hold - convinced that the cruel deed was the ing' bill, rent up to !hent n second work of enemies who %wreaked their time from the commons. vengeance upon his horse. There was inaugurated in 1.onaon, -- -- Englund, on \ionday night, a campaign. IIONE1.11Ahflle IIONEST. seippert•d the every religious denomina- __ tion. lei make Londoners good. Only Teo Adulterated Samples Found The '-teenier Mauretunin covered the h� liteeminent Aunty sls. A desf at •h lean Ottawaa says: A bit!. k•ttn of the Inland Revenue Department, just Veered, sta•etvs That of 141 sample's of honey free; venous parts of the Do- minion k►- ntinkn analyzed by the department, 135 were genuine. 3 were doubtful, t was :..1:1 (15 a comround, and only 2 were a<ltllter•ated. The report strews that strrained honey soli in Canada can reedy always le relied upon as being the g!e ntrine arfi,•le. .1. 0111:11 No\V CIt1EI, O1' Militia Order 1Vas Issued Tra.cliiMak. Intl Apg►ohttmerit. A despatch from Olt;twa seys: a 're- title order was issued en Wednesday r,ppwinling \fa jt r-(;encrr11 i.ake t•o t c ins! e••tor-General and lirlgadier-r;ene•rat 011e r to be chief of staff, from April Ist, 1908. USED NEW ANIESTHETI Doctors Hope for Good Results From the Experiment. ricseatch freest Toronto says: The t pnrnti.en disewer,>•I 1,y Fourneau, a !er .lay lit the (;corral Ilespitnl, an i',•aa:s!nn chemist. which c•nntains no )a►..,• stlie 1: !gamed FV,tvalric. ‘‘hick eYt.!a:nc. yet deprives the person (1 any nese r tiefur•e leen utsrd in Crusade, e-eilsali •n of pain. ants .ugh they are .till in fell (acessestl-ar .4 their senses, e i•. t t.• 1 f r a 5(1'.(115 injury to hes 1)r. Ande-rs.i► made an injection •,f 1 `t'`ls, tlui.i info the sac covering the patient's nnk Sit►:rsc n was taken to the hos- sl::nal eeeord and eurcessfuliy united I pal se✓ me lune ego Buttering! form ►t s<teae p• rt ons of the bowels. Simp• 'ferrite. lecerntion elf the b:ewe'ls through seen c.f'ert\ arts sniff he felt no pain Ir ng klske:l by n 'eine. Three times whaf.'t. r, alth• ugh he had Leen cen- tteal the men leen e.px'rnted in, the seem- an the time. crilinery enatethelic tieing used. ,1n• This: preparation had been tise.l 1 y Whet o; eercation Was t on31i/Cled neves• Pref. Batker, of t'niter.sil}• L;..,ltege. Lary. bait if was fe mel he mild not Lelet .n, England. and cut (1 Iwo hun- euivitc en eplsl:crat en e:et the sante der l cafes • nl' a ght had failed. This rrtncilheltc and still i.ve. r•ew anarthct:c dors ;May with the ill 1'.. Ae•rmsn Andersen, of the snrg.- i c ft -cls et the uncenscious preedueing Ca: slag, theft .lec,de\l to try the ere- }Lod. ... 1r.• 1 c'tn n mal, ,vb., told to be disteincc tctwcen Sandy Itut ak and Daunts Rock in five days and five min - Wes. clipping over two and a half hours from her picvious rec.,rd. Om Ow /Mile UNITED STATES. Four negroes were Isncltecl by a niob at Vancleave, Miss., en 'Tuesday. Three lives were lost in a lire in an menta house at San Fruuc;scu on Tuc-- day. Eight pr:oaners. toter Ir ,ng ttegs es, were publicly (legged at Wiltuington, Det. '(three Italian toys are deed ut Neor- wood, N. J., from eating skunk cabbage rout. A Danville, 111., sten has recently In:d her itioi:sandth egg. This is be- I.eved to be the recurd. The licenses of 36 local seloens in \\'lllianisix.rt. I'n., were held up on He - c'.0 int of gambling disclosures. The \tapir of Terre Haute, ind., re- f testa) Ill•• request of ministers who %vented the toren theatres closed on Sunday, Tre 1'nlifornin Supreme (mutt hes ele- e'►ded, that Eugenee. Schmitz. beane'rle \layer ..1 San Francisco, was unless. - hely convicted of extortion. Iatitha Cable. aged 13. of Rr eklyn, who has 1;C:.tee heiress to $101,000, she will keep to her Choice of Wee: end be n leerher. Dr. Ewing, Ptc'itlent .,t the (:hristinn t'e'll. get at Allahnlnel, to'.i they Nib:seeen- nt y 1'. ngress al Pittsburg that an up. 1 emir in India ons inevi1atile. Judge Norman tyke, of the Supreme (;court, 13r:eokfyn. received n Black (land letter Ihrcetening dentis` Ircnuse of severe sentence. John E. Stevens, f<,rmer'y chit! en- g;meer el the I'annrnn Cann], says the cunni will never Ie ether then a great expense to the t'nited elates. A pct dog bit Arthur Brown al Mill- vill.', N. J.. the teeth tearing the seeing man's eyelid end bruising the eyeball. t• that thje sight trey be lost. A men, sitetiose-t to tie n lunatic. en - t( -red the Merchants' Nati.,nal Bank tit (nuniia and threatened to show up the building unless he was pat;( 85,000. i)r. Charles 11. Parkhurst of \. •.e. leek has filed thnrge. ageinst Mayer \i• Clellan and Police (aornmivi..,ner tette lease ef New Y•erk. reel has asked f• t their removal from • (Bete, A movement for utak' prohibition sewing. %%as begun tit (hallancowa. 'fent!., on -1 uesday. A iIctne nstratioi, in the ev- erting \c cls a.lter:de.I ty 7,1)00 pt fauns. During the ut•a-Ju'e of Fruttk Mont - cal, tri N.,ru►at►, CN.iu., 1115 Wife buil from the barn an old incubuti 1, in which he bad hidden $55. lty a quick i ide he get the money back. E. U. Morten, tuwit c!••rk .1 Meth Canaan, come, has a butg it:u to iuu•- t ig, lices se-, e.•(fo.l.tb then! 1e- women ti. e, at hall prig le singe ret• rt. and its a re ductie it in clube u( llvc, (F.NE1(A1.. Fifteen hundred houses were dc'; ti.)- e:d un Sunday by a lir.: at Niigata, Ji► - pan. Gustave Adolf, Grown Prince of Swe- den, is cs:)plated to his Lied watt the measles. '1't:ere are rune ;re a(Iont at Pekin that China is about to t pend $50,000,000 in naval equipment. The champion ski -runner of Switzer - lend was ut rpt over it precipice to an avulut►rhe And ktilc•d. FI.E11 A Ill NDRI:D YARDS. Professor Itell's new. Aerodrome 1ltikee u Itecord. A despatch from liantmondspot•t, N. Y., says: Profess:r Alexander Grethen' Bell's nr w uerodrei ne, tl:e Redwing. on 'Thursday, in the presence of a commit- tee of the Aerial Experiment Associa- 1:on rind a number of other spectators, flew a distance of 318 feel 11 inches at u height • 1 from ten to twenty feet. The machine is equipped with ate eight- cllindcr meter, and together with its operator weighs 560 pounds. 11 sailed through the air at a ssji'etl of from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour. Atter having covered the distance men- tioned, a portion of the tail gave way, and the acredrome was brought down for repairs. This Is declared to be the brat buccessful public flight of a hca- vicr-thurr-air flying machine in America. DiSGt'1SED FOR LIFE. Citizens of ('on;tr} A. -lands Have Tat- tooed Faces. A cab'e despatch to The New York Herald from Madrid says: Reports from Las Palmus, Canary Islands, tell of an amusing case. Eighty r.'rsens have brought suits for damages against a chemist named Alonso. It appears that during tite carnival to man applied for a novel kind of lac:nl disguise. and the chemist painted nn the man's face a l,.rge green fly. This carnival decora- tion prove.( a papular FUCCeSS and many other revellers cake! and had their fore- heads, cheeks and noses adorned watt! green images of birds, flies and rale 1 its. After the carnival ended the wear - (t s at these decorations discovered that there was no soap strong enough to remove the paint. and ceetnplained to the uulhnr,tic'. A lo:•al expert declares the method employed is the same used 1•y the Indians ter tattooing purposes, and MOUNTED POLICE REPORT (:(,%I%1I`sIONIi1t PERRY REVIEWS 5 11ORK OF TNI: PAST v'I•:.411. The Ven Patrol a Fast 'Territory in a Spit it Indifferent t.► Difficulties and Hardship-. The report of the Royal Northwest Mo'tuted Police t r (ho year ending Oc- tober 31s1 last contain- a most interest/- UT nterestirtg: account of the arduous work done 1.) the 600 nie'n of the forcescattered throughout the Canadian west from the international boundary to the Arctic Ocean. "Whether in takurg relief to isolatid settlers in the bitter cold and over the deep snow of the ellen plains,- says C. nuii sNioner Perry, "carrying mail to distant Jludson's Bev rests, to tlts Arctic seas er to detiachntents in- ter nod in northern British Columbia, our men do not fail us. They under - tele, tl►c work with chcerfu'ness and carry it out in a spirit Indifferent to difficulties and hardships." S 1'RI:NI;TI d (11. THE FORCE. The Commissioner points out that the force now at his d`spostai, totalling 1311 and allotted 10 twelve divisional pcsLs and 15.4 de'ashm•'nts, is not near- ly sullici: nt to meet the demands of the western country, now populated by up- wards of 600,000 inhabitants. Applica- tions have come in front all parts of the new Provinces for police protection, and these he has lien unable to meet. 'lit the Northwest Terr.tor:cs," he says, "the strength of the force is not suffi- cient. Punts tire required at different points on Mackenzie River. In the Nee. - wenn district inhuman practice among the lndians have come to light, and 01 the interests of humanity more police posts ought to be established. In Un- gava the same practices are said to take place. There aro no police station- ed in that d strict at present, but some men sltrnild Le sent there." There is n marked increase, ncc.-rding to Col. Perry's report, in the number of crises el crime reported. Last year there were 5.685 convictions. as compared with 3.256 for eleven months of the paecc•ei- ing year. There were eleven charges of murder and six of attempted murder. ASSISTANCE FOR SETTL.EIRS. S;►caking of the patrol of police last winter sent under instructions front the Interior Di pertinent to carry assistance !o any settlers in need through the un• USW!' severity of the winter. the Com- missioner snys: "Some of the settlers in the country west of Saskatoon and south of Ilatt!eford had pushed out 106 mites beim the nearest railway staton, \Vood rens very scarce, and in some cases settlers were obliged to travel sixty miles to obtain it. Some had only oxen, whir•h were quite useless in deep snow, others had no sleighs. As an Inst.anse of the helpless condition of that these Citizens elf the (:unary Islands i mere than one. our patrols found a will have to wear the green pictures Scotch flintily which had gone in dtu•- far the rest •,f their lives. Ak►nso ing November, having only a yoke of barely escaped lynching. oxen and one cow. They travelled 100 mikes on fo:it to their ltontestead. On F0111/11'NDIl1•:D RAIN. their arrival there the cold weather overtook them. ']'tiny were without a Brittle Between Italians and Tribesmen supply of fuel, kidder for their animals, in Somaliland. and, in fract, were without any of the A despatch from Dame says: NCiVC neeessititi of a winter climate. The has been rcectvcd here from Italian Police patrols have gone over thc c0un- s•smaliland to the effect that a local try recently. and 1 have reports that pre - tribe. helped by toI:Eers e,t the Mullah, :Marked Ibis wint: r nearly all ere fully nttarked another tribe under the puttee- ! Posed, and ne anxiety need be felt. ter tion of Italy and killed thirty of their (heir safety. npponents. They then drove tiff a qunn ('.LI\IATf. NOT DANGEROUS. lily of cattle. Itellan troops were then "Many casualties occurred Inst win - sent in in the diaturted rectkon kt pan• ice. but not in arly as runny as wereish the raiders. In lhts they were site- reported. Story after story was pub- cessful. for in cine engagement they laked with great detail, of tragedies killed four hundred of the tribesmen which never happened. The (police and sixty c f the lfulinh's; soldiers. The made a very full Inquiry into ell, and Italians had one elan killed and two i was able to report )hat in every case weeunded, the cnsunitles resulted kern a want of - -- r+•- knowledge of the climate, from rdrun• THE PROB1.I'iI OF SLEEP. kermess er olher preventible causes. - '1'.; show that the climate is not danger - Mr. G.rayboy Disturbed by the ''aria• emus In (hese who know holy to core for Beni; in His Hours of )test. th• me Ives the record of this force is s.`tt(Ttcieut. tier rut n were travelling "In llof se inter yer,r. , . d Mr, Gray - try, "I have found that I required less sleep. When i was younger I used to sleep eight tours, and frequently when 1 was very tired I could use nine; but )her.‘ carne n time n few years ago when 1disc: y.re,l that seven hours sleep was ordinarily all ihrequired.t 1 "Now, 1 mentiene.l this fest, cacnnlly, one day. to a friend eof mine. and he said !het this was erre af the benefits that carni, to men as they increased in years; That requiring less 'sleep they heel more time for labor and so could accom- plish more. and that This was one ren - Fen why men of maturer years were Ce onkel es cef greater seine. "A ple Haan! fancy. that. I thought. "Another friend (•f !nine said more plainly that my requiring less sleep was a sign of my Advancing; rtge; that Very young people. young children, re- quire:( a great deaf of Bicep; that as people grew older they required less, until in middle life they needed. say, eight hours of Bicep; hal that ns /nen came to be past middle age they re- quireol less sleep. and my needing k -ss simply showed that 1 was getting old. ",Nest quite se plc nsnnt that, but here is n new complication: • "I find tvitltin the Inc, kw months that I ant egain requiring mere sleep. Whereas for some years seven hours 1 found sufficient 1 now s'e'ep .eight Weirs. And what (Ines; that Wrenn? Does it man that 1 have stepped growing el 1. that 1 ant growing • ung raga.:? or that i am adt•ancing to my sc ^- ontt childhc►otl? away all effete and v41.7,!., mat sr from the "31--tr. This steep business 1 guts.: sytttcm, aryl give tome and vitality to the 1 hadn't baler dwell on (0) ntttch.' whole intestinal tract, curing (;ont;tir►t►• ----- -�'- tion, Sick Headache, Biliou.nees, Ttyrpep. NOTHING iN i'i'. 115, Coated Tongue, Foul Breath, ,Taut. "No , T'.n►nty." said Mrs, Bulli. "1 dice, Iliatthunt, anal Water Rrt+,h. Mrs. %vent yeti to he god While ! am file. R. 8. Ogden, ZVoo.I'tec•k, N.B., writes! ern be ped fair a nickel," Fep;;e.1 "My husband and myself have used 'ciil- 'rotnmy. Ieeern's bum -Liver fillet for s numie••r of "Temniv." she said. "1 %t tint ye years. 1.'c think we cannot .lo witl.,n,t rem; !filer that t. ,1 cannel t e :t a ro • ! then,. they aro the only pills we ever aline unle-s y.,'t ere go':d f 'u- n 1!; I:g•, lake.' SIZE OF TBE LEGISLATURE More Than One Hundred Seats Aro Provided For. '% A despafrh front T..rento says: In accordance with the plan suggested by Hen. \1r, Whitney, the bill respecting r. presentation t. the Legislative A.s senility, the redietributi• n measure, was read a se•cend time en Thursday and referred to a special committee. The duly o1 that i•tely will be "to prepare schcdu'es c.►nt:eining and describing the a:cctreral dielr•irtt entitled to re- turn members to the House." 1t `s composed of five Oott•ervative mem- Lee:, 11•+t►, Messrs. \\'hi ney, Mathew -in and Hanna, and Messrs. 1)argav•! ;Leeds) and SJc1).;,rnt d (West Elgin), And three Opposition members. Nte.srs. 1:. Al. R.ewman, S. Clarke (Northumber- land) and May (Ottawa). In speaking of the bill the Prime Mets ter quoted pre- cedent; for the method of procedure ndoete=d. In his address he did not add trtal.erinlly to the knowledge of the house as 1ee the changes to made in the represtuti:+n, r iterating,' that the schedules were to to prepared by the committee. Ile assert- ed that the membership of the Legisla- ture would be increated to a little over 1(10, and that the northern Ontario and the City cf Toronto w'nuld be given ad- ditonal representatives. lie teeeated that cowtty Ilexes would be adhered to and that inoqualtties ut population in- troduced 1 y termer Governtne:its would b,. correstc•d. The chief point of hnportance in the remarks of the leader of the Opposi- tion was his reference to Toronto. Ila distinctly opposee the llxing of the num. her of a enrbct-s to be elected in lite city at. eight. in view of the number of Cabinet Ministers rending to Toronto it; maximum 1 presentation should bo six. THE WORLD'S .� hlARl{ETS 1(1l'UI,Tg3 1110.11 TiiE LEADING Tit,1DE CE1'1R1:9. Pekes of Cattle, Gt'nln, (.:eese an.l 011ier ))airy Produce al home and Abroad. Toronto, May 17.- Fkatr-Ontario !wheat 90 per cent. latents are quoted at $3.50 to $3.55, in buyers' sacks out- side for export. Manitoba flour un- changed, first patents. $5.80 to $6; sec- ond patents, $5.35 to $5.40, and strung linkers', $5.25. Wheat--Martltobe grades were quiet. No. 1 Northern is quoted nt $1.21X, lake ports, and No. 2 at $1.l8X, lake ports. No, 1 feed wheat, 673.c; No. :'- 61 Xe. Ontario Wheat --No. 2 white and red (incited et 9:3c outside, nest No. 2 mixed at 92 lo 93e outside. Oats -Nei. 2 white on track, Toronto, 53e, and outside at 50 to 51c. Corn -No. 3 American new yellow •s quoted at 70:, Toronto, and No. 3 mixed at 69e, Toronto. Rye --Nu. 2 quoted at 83 to 85e cut - side. 13atckwheat-66 to 67c outside. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 86 to 87c out- eide. 13arley--No. 2 quoted at 70:. outside; Ms. 3 extra at 68e outside, and No. 3 el 67c outside. Bran -$23 to $23.50 in hulk, eutsl:le, Shorts, $24.50 to in bulk outside. COUNTitY PRODUCE. Apples -Winter, $1.75 to $3 per bar- rel. Beans--I'rirne, $1.70 to $1.75, and hand-picked, Vete to $1.85. 1 Loney--'fhe mai tut is quiet nl 12 to 13e• per retutncl f' r strained, and at $1.- 75 to $2.50 for combs. tiny-- No. 1 timothy quoted at $l6 to $I7 here in car lots. Bunte -$10 to $10.50 a ton on track here. Potatoes: -Car lots of Ontario. 90 to Mc. and Delawares. 95e to 81 per berg outside. Poultry- Turkeys. .tressed, 13 to 14" per Kure' for choke; chickens, alive, 7 to 1)c' t,<•r pound; dre.•ed, lU tie 12e; ducks, de s•ed, 10 to 11e•. THE DAIRY MMAf(1(l:T'. Batter --Pound prints, 25 to 27c. and li.rg!e rolls. 24 1•, 25( : do.. illi• !•tor. ,►1 to 23c. Cr. ;tent ry rules tit 31 t.. 32c, ;Ps, w :,t< r )worn the beeundery to the and soliels rtl 20 10 30'. Arctic and fromIludse�n's Ray to Alas - Vole; ,to 24c leer dozen in case ka in all sorts of weather, and medical MIs; limed eggs. it+ 10 20c per .tf1zen. ('heese---14 to 11,•2 per pound in a returns for the year show only Three jell ingt say. frostbites." The total number of cnsu- Attie' le the force during the year was fort~•. 'Twenty-six of these eccurtted du►•uig thy, work an the Peary !liver. Yukon Into 1. and were inevifeble un that siervi^e ...sing to the diificulties of the ccuntry , the herd work and the poor food. TiiE TEST. "Whet sort of a looking chnp is Guanyl" "Well, if you ever sib two men in n corner. and one looks bored to death, the other one is Gussy." MILBURN'S LAXA-LIVER PILLS ere mild, sure and saf+aad area perfect regulator of the syrtem. They gently unle,-k the sit tient, clear ---•fh------" }'vire 25 cents or five bottles for 11.00, spends as much time inserting.' end tit rt11 dealer* or direct on receipt of price. w:thetrnwing her w•otk ns in the actual The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Beret), long, clear, 9%c per pound No, 4, 48 to 48,! c; rejected, 46 to 47c, and Manitoba rejected, 49 to 43%c per bushel ex store. Flour -Choice Spring wheat patents, $6.10; seconds, $5.50 to t8.60; Winter wheat patents. 35.30; straight rollers, 64.75 to $5; do., in bags, 32.25 to $2.35; extra. $1.x;0 to *1.10. Feed --Manitoba bran, $23: shorts, $25, Ontario bran shorts, $23.50 to 524; middiings, $26 to 327; '!torts, 24 to 84.50 tier len, including bags; pure grain rnouill.'. $34 to $35, and milled grades, 325 t• a 829 ter tort. Provisions -Barrels short cut mess, $21; half -bar- rels do., $10.75; clear fat hacks, $22 to $23; long cut heavy mess. x24): 1t1t1!- barrels do., 310.50; dry salt king deer backs, 10 2e; barrels plate beef, 813.50 to 315; hall -barrels do., 37.25 to 37.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $10 to 311;• half -barrels do., $5.50 to 36; compound lard, 8! to 9c; pure lard. 1131 to 113;c; kettle rendered, 11% to 12c; horns. 12 t.: 13Xc; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15c; Windsor bacon. 143 to 15 ,c; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs. 168 to 33.- 25: live, 35.75 to $5.85. Rutter - Fall grades. 32 lo 33c; fresh receipts nom- inal; dairy. 27 to 29c. Chccse--12% to I3 3ac. Eggs -the tone of the market is caster, and with increosed . receipt., low- er prices are anticipated in the near fetor.'. but no netunl change as yet has taken place; American selected new ltd are rolling tat 30e; ordinary at 27 to 28c, and Montreal limed at 23e per doz- en. 1'•NIT1;1l STATES \t,'lIKEi . \1 nneapolis, March 17- \' Eclat --May, `I.te4'/. k► $1.05; July, $1.03;,; N.+. 1; bleed, $1.0931`; No. 1 Northern, $!.(6s;; Ns. 2 Northern. $1.04X; N •. 3 >\erlhern, rsse to 81.03. Flour -First patents. $5.- :).;; to $5.50: second palents. $5.25 to $5.40; first risers, $4.25 to $4.35: i,eec- oond clears. $3.30 to $3.40. Bran --tit hulk, $21 to $21.50. 51ilceaukee. March 17.-Whenf :Nile 1 Northern. 31.08 to $1.10; No. 2 Northern, '1.07 to 31.08: May. 933'c asked. Rye. -- No. 1, 83 to 83'ze. Barley --No. 2. 92e; sample, ea 1.. 90'. Corn -No. 3 saes, r114c; May. 65c bid. CATTLE MARK i :T. Totont . \lnrctt 17. -The exporters of- fered Were very fete. but among them were several excepronaily choke steers, which trrought $5.23. One kind of A heavy !culls sold for export at $3.75 1� $4.12'X. • • • (,mecca anti (reckon! butchers'' -oat 11 t ery slowly at Tuesday's lowest prune. (lit.• fair land of teutchers' rattle breng:ht only $3.50 le $4.30 per cwt.. whsle Inst week it eau:d have sold cosily for 34 to $ t.:a(►, (.e od I:utchers' e were in fair de- mand, but were aT 1 very s^arre. hair and cec•nnn<on COM; rr,ltl at poly prices. • Not many eteekers were en the mar- ket. but, as there was, tulle demand, most of wtii 1 them were sold re,t'yd 31 per pewit!. Caalves r.e r( claw end prices mere! in case lots: mese, Mrk, $17.50. to $18; j fry ill $3 1') *t6► cwt. Thi. average chart cul. $20.50 to $21. (lams -Light tt medium. 123; to 130; do., heavy. 11X to 12; rolls. 9'/, In 10c; stinkers. 93;c; backs, 1Gc; breakfast bacon. 14c. Lard --Tierces, 113,'c; 'sibs, 1IXe; pearls, 12c. Rt'SINFESS A'1' MONTREAL. Montreal, March 17. ---Eastern Canndn Nis. 2 white oats, 52c; No. 3, 49 to 49Xc; 1 r., a per col tt ;, - al, ut 86.50. so they were not Very ti. ,i' The trade its Amp 1111' fair:v s,tea.ly. and (prices held up. There war ra geeel demand leer the best guide et (.►stein -'c 1 lnttil's, which made the price goo a 1111 a higher. But common lambs sold slowly nt form- er prices. The price .,f 11,egi is unrhnnged. Of- ferings hove been light, but a fairly 'ergo run of bogs k• -day kept the pie es: from going up. SLAVES BEATEN TO DEATH Tales of Horrible Cruelty in Portugueso West Africa. A ,t welch from \\'ashinplc►n says,: secreted .1; I f- tits fa•.e.ng of the .1 yt' ei descripti(en of atrocities attested erten and lvort...:1 that ere dilly seting 1. be perpetrated ul,<,n s!nve latec.rcrs et••ne• to 40 ally, rine) the 0111r children e n e- Cert plias:atf ,ng on the islertera .ef i hove fit ,steady seen Icing beaten Principe rine Saint Theme, ne, Pottuguese t,nitl the 1.1. el limed les the ground.' \\est Africa, tuns given in an address Afar stett ng flint the "cruelties met - sr, "Children's Lives in Africa," by (yen, 4d out !o these degraded human brings J• ober! Veneer of stili Africa. al n co the mainland were beyond .lescrlp- scssion of the lnlernetionnl Congress tem." Geri. Pien•ter continued: "Childri'n on the weifare of the chill. under the tare teem away from It a breasts • 1 the r nuspiccs of Ihc Nt►Iwnal Mottle! s' (' n• J maaI sol l as r'ave►s. S'nvrs in gtrr>Ka. fhe emplthers ynn ' f )heir lorkntas<ters nt'.' ben• "The' ntrCe:t.B 1 have w.tne^s. ed in tern to(tenth; 11(411, W0111en and the- n \\ • •l' Africa have taken Iden en' tnutiinteed. Oren alter n na• n !real upon ate," declared (;en. Pie- five he', 1 roti done In death h. ,s renter• neer. "that 1 cut n,.. elf ke se freers ell Isred. stet the .I.tterent f•en(1 enc .1 tis my ►-ells !vs.,.arid l•nving nit ictally L•dy i're bring (in Peics to ta•tl•o:;zet the than'.:n•ts •:f miles 3woy, 1 1114%•' con otter nalivcu.'' • 1