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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-08-13, Page 71, ge • TOTAL LOSS IS X5,000,000 First Statement of the Actual Damage By the Great Fire in British Columbia. A despatch from Fernio, B. C., says : Asked for a statement of fire losses, President Lindsey, of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, has given out the following official statement : "Fire area -Valley of Elk River coal mining district in Kootenay, B. C. ; is approximately 30 miles long and two to ten miles broad. "In this area are situated the City of Fernie and the Towns of Homer and Michel, all mining camps. There is a largo raining plant at Coal Creek, near Fernie, whence comes the largest output of coal. Although the fire has been within two miles of Coal Creek, the town may be said to be safe, and although the fire is all around Michel there is no grave apprehen- sion as to it. "Homer has escaped with little loss on its mining side, but Fornix has been completely obliterated, only 23 houses and three business houses being loft. On both banks of the Elk River are a large num- ber of sawmills, all of which, with one exception, have ben swept out of existence, and probably a large number of men have lost their lives in the woods. The bodies re- covered so far number 16, and there will be more, but in the woods only. "The loss of the Crow's Nest Pass Company, owning mines at Coal Creek and Fernie and Michel, will be $200,000; the C. P. R. will lose $200,000; the Great Northern Railway will lose about $250,000, and the lumber companies not less than a million. The loss of timber to the (.'row's Nest Pass Coal Com- pany will be not less than a mil- lion. "The loss to the City of Fernie will be not less than two million. There is no rain in sight, and the fire continues slowly up the moun- tainside, but nothing but a very high wind would do much damage, as the valley along its lower por- tions is swept clean of everything combustible. Relief in the form of money, supplies and bedding have come in with great freedom and everyone is now under canvas at Fernie. There are about 3,000 wo- men and children at Cranbrook, to the west of Fernie, and about 1,500 of Lethbridge, to the east, but they are being slowly brought back to ''.4Phcrnie, where tent accommodation can be provided for them." TRAGIC INCIDENTS OF FIRE. One of the most tragic fatalities of the fire, and one which shows the extremes to which people were driven to escape the heat, was the finding of the bodies of a family of Jour in a well, a miner, his wife and children. where they had tried to get relief from the terrific heat. The head of the man, whose name was William Ford, was badly burn- ed, while his wife and children, a l:oy of 2 years, and a girl of 8 years, all died of suffocation. There was little water in the well, which was curbed with wood, and after climb- ing into it he and his family were evidently unable to get out again, and the curbing burned down al- most to the water's edge, suffocat- ing them. Even more pathetic is the awful manner in which Mrs. Addie Tur- ner, an aged invalid woman, who lived with her son in Fornie annex, met death. When it was seen that the house was going to be ignited by flying embers in the gale, Mr. Turner, a trainer, prepared his wife and children for flight. The aged woman could not walk, and she pleaded with them to leave her and save themselves, but finally, when the house was caught by the flames, Mr. Turner wrapped the old woman in a wet blanket, carried her out of the house, and laid her on the grotind. He then seized his wife and children and fled. Nothing but the blackened bones of the old woman were found by the search- ing party. Mr. Turner and his family escaped. PEOPLE FLOCKING BACK. Every day scores of people aro returning to Fernio, and before ten days have passed it is expected that the majority will have returned. There are no new developments except that donations of supplies and money continue to pour in from alt direct'ons. Food is plentiful at present, and sleeping quarters ade- quate. The sanitary conditions aro being very carefully watched, and there is no fear of danger from that quarter. Cranbrook has dono marvels to- ward alleviating the suffering thou- sands of Fernio refugees. Tho mo- ment word was received that Fernio was burned the citizens began to or- ganize committees to receive and care for the people, public subscrip- tions opened, tents erected on va- cant lots, and citizens began to ga- ther blankets and clothing and va- cant stores on the main thorough- fares were opened, to bo used as distributing bureaus for clothes and blankets. Provisions were donated, a corps of cooks got busy, and ev- erything was in shape to receive and handle the refugees almost be- fore they arrived. The big rink was fitted up as an eating hall and sleeping place. At each meal fully 1,500 people are fed, and every night 750 sleep within the walls. • FIREBUG CAUGHT. Started a Number of Blazes in Moncton, New Brunswick. A despatch from Moncton, N.B., says : After leaving a trail of incen- diary fires behind, Frank Williams, aged twenty-eight, and believed to be mentally unbalanced, was ar- rested by the police early Wednes- day morning, and is in jail await- ing trial. While staking his rounds about 1 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing Watchman Cowan of the Iluild- t rs' Woodworking Company saw flames coming from a lumber pile. As he approached it a ratan sprang from behind the pile and fled. An alarm was given and the fire ex- tinguished with little damage. The ratan fled towards Humphrey's Mills, and a few hours later a barn owned by Mrs. Joseph Stultz burst into flames. and was burned with all its contents. the loss amounting to $400. While the barn was burning a fire broke out among the big pile tinguished after destroying two hundred ties. Tho police had been notified of the firebug's disastrous work, and a patrol was sent from the city. Williams was captured. --T PIGSKIN GRAFTED ON 1101'. Successful Operation Performed in St. John Hospital. A despatch from fit. John, N.B., says: Two months ago Eugene Mc- Auliffe, the 14 -year-old son of Jere McAuliffe, the actor, fell under a train and his left leg had to be am- putated close to the trunk. Tues- day evening eight physicians per- formed a skin grafting operation Some days ago a boy friend gave a largo section of skin, which was successfully grafted. On Tuesday a young pig was chloroformed and skin taken from it to cover a grr.at raw wound on McAuliffe's body The pigskin has completely taken ti ties along the I. C. B. tracks. hold and McAuliffe will recover The men employed on the work This is the first operation of the were summoned, and the fire ex- kind ever attempted in Canada. 1Y[ACHINE A TOTAL WRECK Zeppelin's Great Airship Was Struck By Lightening and Burned. A despatch from Stuttgart, Get- -litany, says : The great flight of the Zeppelin airship, which looked like placing the practicability of aerial navigation for war purposes beyond all doubt. had an unfortunate con- clusion on Wednesday. The airship left the Enke of Constance on Tues- day morning for a trip to Mayence and return. The machine respond- ed absolutely to the control of its pilots and was navigated over the Lake ..f Constance down the Valley of the Rhine. over Atreshnrg and several other cities, and was ex- pected back at Friedrichehafen, the starting point, on Wednesday morning. Owing to • defect in one of the motors. however, a descent had to bo made on •Jilateau Ave miles from Stuttgart. Preparations were being made to have the defect prepared when a thunderstorm arose, and to the dismay of the crowd of bystanders the giant air- ship broke from its moorings, ex- ploded and burst into flames. The storm blew up unexpectedly. A tierce gust of wind tore the bal- loon from its anchorage and drove it in a southwesterly direction for fifty yards. Here the rear end of the great fabric drooped and smoke and flames burst mit frotn one end to another. In a few seconds cane an explosion and a great column of fire shot upward into the air. This was followed by the crashing down C. tie earth of the motors and frames tbat had been attached to the underside of the airship. Sever - •i bystanders were Injured. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TIRADE CENTILES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. IIREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 11 -Ontario Wheat -Old fall wheat quoted at 84c to 85e outside; new at 84c to 85c out- side. Manitoba Wheat -Quotations at Georgian Bay ports; No. 1 north- ern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.- 09; No. 3 northern, $1.08. Barley -No. 2, 58c to 60c, out- side; No. 3 X, 56c to 57c. Bran -Quoted at $16 to $18 per ton in bulk outside; in bags, $2 more. Corn -No. 2 yellow, nominal at 86c t.► 86%c, Toronto freights ; kiln - dried, 84c to 84 4e. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, nom- inal, 44c to 46c outside ; Manitoba, No. 2, 48%c, lake ports; No. 3, 46%c; rejects, 45c. Shorts -Quoted at $20 to $21 in bulk outside; in bags $2 more. Flour -Manitoba, first patents, $0; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers'. $5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- ents, $3.30 to $3.35. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Buttar-Steady and a little quiet- er. Wholesale prices are: - Creamery, prints .... .. 25c to 26c do solids .. . .... .... 23c to 240 Dairy prints, choice 23c to 24c do ordinary .... 2lc to 22c Dairy, tubs .... .... 21c to 22c Inferior .... .. .. 17c to 18e Poultry -Wholesale prices, live weight: Spring chickens, 14c to 15c; fewl, 100 to Ile; ducks, 8%c to 9c; dressed, about 2c higher. Eggs -20c to 21c per dozen in case lcts. Cheese -Large, 12%c to 13c, twins 13c to 13c. Honey -8% to IOc per pound. Beans -$2 to $2.10 for primes and $2.10 to $2.20 for (rand -picked. Potatoes-Ontarios, 80c to 90c per bushel in farmers' waggons; Ameri- cans, $3.35 to $3.65 per barrel in car lots on track hero. PROVISIONS. Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar- rel ; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lard -Tierces, 120; tubs, 12%e; pails, 12%c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats - Long clear bacon, 114c to 11%c, tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 14%e to 15c; hams, largo, 12%c to 13c; backs, 17%c to 18c; shoulders, 10c to 11c; rolls, 10'/,c to Ile; breakfast bacon, 15c to 15%c ; green meats, out of pickle, lc teas than smoked. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 11. -Grain -The market for oats is firm, with a fair demand; Manitoba No. 2 white, 48e; No. 3, 47c; rejected, 46e per bushel in car lots, ex store. Flour - Choice Spring wheat patents, 86.10; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5; straight rollers, $4.30 to $4.50; do., in bags, $1.90 to 82.- 10; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feed - Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; shorts, $25; Ontario bran, $20 to $20.50; middlings. $24 to $25; shorts, $21.- 5C to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille, 830 to 832; milled grades, 825 to $28 per ton. Cheese -The market continues firm, with westerns quoted at 12% to 12'/,c, and easterns at 12 to 12%e. Butter - Finest creamery being quoted at 23% to 24c in round lots, and 24%c in a jobbing way. Eggs -Sales of selected stock worn made at 23c; No. 1, 20c, and No. 2, lac per dozen. UNITED STATED NI 11tKETS. Detroit, Aug. 11. -Wheat -No. 1 white, cash, 95%c; No. 2 red, cash, 96%e; Sept., 98c; Dee., $1.00%. Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 11. -Wheat - Cash, 96%c; Sept., 97%c; Dec., 81.69. Corn -Cash, 82e; Sept., 82c; Dec.. 601Ac. Oats -Cash, 50%e; Sept., 48%c; Dec., 48'ec. St. Loris, Mo., Aug. 11 -Wheat - Cash, 94e; Sept., 95%c; Dec., 97%c. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto. Aug. 11. -Only a very limited number of gond export cat- tle were on sale. Their prices were quoted at $5 to $5.50 per cwt. Some light and medium animals sold at around $5 per cwt. Good loads of butchers' cattle, *4.50 to $4.95; medium, $3.75 to $4.35; comm•.n, $2.50 to $3.50; choice Cows. 83.5') to $4.25; tom• mon cows, e2 to $3; canners, 75e to $2 per cwt. There was a goad enquiry for choice and fair mtt.ch cows and springers at *40 to *00 each. Some of the calves brought for- ward were of poor quality, and sold at easy prices. Quetatinns were 2'/ to 5',c per pound. Lambs were 25e higher. while ewes were steady. Prices were :- Export ewes. 83 75 to *4.40; bucks, $3 to $3.25; lambs, $5.50 to $6.25 per cwt. Select hogs went down to *6.75. fed and watered. Light4 and fats were soiling at Ste 5o per cat. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER 'I'IIE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Owu and Other ('ouutriea of Recent Events. CANADA. One hundred and four children died at Montreal last week. • Men idle in western cities refuse to work at the harvest. Gainsboro', Sask., suffered a $30,- 000 fire loss on Thursday. The 0. P. It. asks for 25,000 bar- s est hands for the prairie harvest. Several towns in Saskatchewan are gutting telephone service at $2 a month and under. The July output from the collier- ies of the N. S. Steel & Coal Co. was 59,318 tons. Tho C. P. R. aro said to be pre- paring to make Montreal the sum- mer port for their Atlantic steam- ers. London's customs returns for July were $65,935.78, an increase of $10,469.13 over Juno. The examination of school chil- dren's teeth is advocated by tho Ca- nadian Dental Association. The C. P. R. are said to bo im- porting men from Chicago to tako the places of the striking mechanics. The estimate of Ontario receipts from succession duties for this year has already been exceeded by $188,- 000. The Ontario Government has ap- pointed M. J. N Hare, an agricul- tural export, to assist the farmers of Ontario county Canadian private yachts not en- gaged in commercial enterprise can enter U. S. porta without going to a customs' house. A prospector returned with $3,- 000 gold dust from behind the Gol- den Ear Mountains, and a rush has begun from Port Haney, B. C. A carload of speckled trout from Osceola, Wis., has been placed in lakes near Kenora, and the fish will be protected for ten years. J. A. D. Poitras, former Treasur- er of the Lachine, Quebec, School Board, was sentenced to three years in penitentiary for stealing $2,000 of the board's funds. The Railway Commission has is- sued an order to all railways for the protection of trestles by watch- men and fire alarm devices from May to October inclusive. GREAT BRITAIN. An Irish company proposes to generate electricity from peat. Only two of the twelve measures forshadowed in the King's speech wore passed by the British Parlia- ment. \Vm. Burke, a motor mechanic, was thrown from an auto at the Brooklands '.rack, England, and died of his injuries. UNITED STATES. The fruit crop of Illinois- is a failure. The Yaqui Indians have killed thirteen persons in Texas. Senator W. B. Allison, the well- known United States statesman, is dead. In South Dakota the dreaded black rust is ruining the wheat crop. In the streets of New York City 1,030 people aro killed every ;,ear. Driven crazy by the heat, two sten committed suicide at Brooklyn on Thursday. Two men were killed and three others wounded in a fight over a school election at Layman, Ken- tucky. Food experts, gathered for con- vention at Mackinac, declared cold storage poisons fish and milk. :\ nurse said to belong to Toronto is accused of the theft of a dia- mond ring from a patient at New York. The mills of the International Paper Co. in New England are closed on account of a threatened strike, and 20,000 men are idle. Nineteen out of every one hun- dred Chicago babies under one year old died in the first 22 days of July. This is about one-fourth the quoted death rate of the city. GENERAL. A military dictatorship ted in Turkey. A revolutionary outbreak is threatened in Colombia. Gertnanv intends to construct 'Another Zeppelin airship. Japan is said to be contemplating the construction of sixteen new warships. There has been further fighting between the Royalists and anti - Royalists in Persia. An earthquake destroyed much property in Algeria, and many lives were lost. Erichsen, the Danish explorer. and two companions have perished in Greenland. ' A CUR:!.. Seventy per cent. of the mulberry trees were destroyed by the Hong Little Joe. aged three, whose eyes Kong typhoon.were sore, was vet y much troubled, Miss Steele, a lady missionary. on arising every day. to find them has been brutally attacked by Hin- glued together. One morning, after due in the Poona district of India. waking up, he said, "s1 ell, if raw Considerable dainties has been eyes hare to stick tip clic way. i'11 done and a number of lives lust by des do to sleep to -night wid e n an earthquake in Algeria. wide ol.en." is predic- SOUDAN GROWN COTTON Iii' LONDON AND SOUTH AFRI- CAN CAPITALISTS. !eidab Estate Requires Much Water From Nile Syndicate - Works 13,000 Acres. Sento four years ago Mr. Leigh Hunt, an American, came into the Soudan with the ingenious project of taking up a concession of cot- ton -growing land from the Gov- ernment, and importing American negroos from the southern States to work it, conceiving, I suppose, that it would bo equally beneficial to the one country to acquire these colored gentlemen and for the other to get rid of them, writes Seth Low ie London Standard. He took the great Zeidab estate, but the ven- ture was not very successful, and Mr. Hunt made over his concession to an association called tho Sou- dan Plantations Syndicate, which has a good deal of London and South African capital invested in it. The original concession was for an arca of no less than 30,000 fed - dans (or Egyptian acres), but the syndicate is for the present only dealing with about 13,000. They have to pay the land tax on all the land they are bringing into culti- vation, and they do not see their way to do this until their water supply can be increased. Isere, of course, wo aro in a rainless dis- trict; the grower is absolutely de- pendent upon the Nilo irrigation. FLOOD TIDE OF NILE. The Nilo rolls past the lands of Zeidab, turbidly rushing up the banks and over then in flood time, and flowing in ample volume dur- ing the remainder of the year. But that great store must be tapped sparingly and under due restriction by the riparian tenants. Egypt has the first claim upon the liquid trea- sure, and will not allow the sup- ply to bo attenuated before it reach- er her own fields. During the flood there is more water than is wanted, and anybody is free to take as much as ho requires. This open time lasts from the middle of July to the end of January, and in those months, technically of flood, though the flood has gone by well before they end, the Soudan as well as Egypt has unlimited access to the fertilizing fluid. Quito lately, in fact since my visit to Zeidab the open timo has been extended for ono month. This is a very welcome indulgence and will be greatly ap- preciated by the cultivators of the dry lands of Upper Egypt, Nubia and the Soudan. ESTATE HAS 40 PER CENT. After the "flood" season is over at the end of January (or now Fob- ruary), the farmer is left to tho "perennial" water of the Nile" which by this time has lost most of the rich mud brought down from the Abyssinian hills. This peren- nial water is carefully guarded lest the amount should run short before the next flood; and for the whole of the immense Soudan there is al- lotted no more than the quantity sufficient to water a bagatelle of 10,000 feddans. How little this is will be seen from the fact that the Zeidab estate alone takes 40 per cent. of the total, having 4,000 acres under cotton, for which its tenants need, or at least prefer to get, the perennial water. Tho remainder of their land they must keep under crops which do not require irriga- tion before the middle of July, and can, therefore, bo left to the flood water when it conies down. SETTLED PROSPERITY. Determining to visit Ziedab, as the largest concern of its kind in the Soudan, I found that the place had an air of settled and establish- ed prosperity ; one might have sup- posed oneself in sone old planta- tion in Madras, or even in Louis- iana, rather than in a district which five years before that was a ravaged wilderness. The house in which the managing director lives is a substantially built, whitewash- ed brick building, rather remind- ing one, with its thick walls, two - storeyed verandahs, and lofty rooms, of those solid bungalos which the old-time merchants and officials used to build in a Madras compound of blossoming trees and flower gardens round it. Leading up to the mansion is a whole street of stables, store -houses, residences for the engineer, manager. doctor, surveyor. and other officials, a nice wide white street, with young trees planted along it. The fellahs and cultivating tenants live all over the estate and about it ; sena iu mud• walled villages built by the syndi- cate itself, with as much attention to regularity and sanitation as the conditions allow ; some in the half - deserted hamlets dotted over this country. Outside one of the thatch- ed huts or tukuls were some full bags of the owner's cotton which I was assured were worth not less than .£20 as they lay. + CROP CONDITIONS PERFECT Cool Weather Has Followed the Scorching Heat in the West. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Crop conditions in Manitoba and in W estern provinces could not be bet- ter. The weather has been cool the last couple of days, and is a relief from the scorching heat, which in some districts threatened to cause a decrease in the yield. "We want harvest hands," is now the cry from almost every sec- tion of the West. Barley cutting is now general throughout Manito- ba, while wheat cutting has start- ed in several places and will be general in a couplo of weeks. Tho Provincial Department of Agriculture reports a demand for help from many sections of the country, but as the harvest excur- sions from Ontario have not started there are few men of the desired class available. ARRESTED IN ITALY. Alleged Murderer of Black Hand Chief at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: A letter received on Thursday by the parents of Vincenzo Marino, who was shot to death a couplo of months ago, tells of the arrest of the alleged murdered Francisco Alagna, alias Cecilagtia, alias Car- lo Tortto, in his native Calabrian village, Perlizzi, on July 20. Through correspondence, the au- thorities of the town were made aware of the facts of the murder, and when Alagna, who disappeared from Montreal immediately after the murder, made his appearance, he was immediately arrested by the gendarmes, and is now being held awaiting action by the Canadian Government. Marino, the dead man, was generally credited with being the leader of the Black Hand Society in Montreal. He had, it is alleged, collected $200 from Alagna, and it was the latter's refusal to return the money when demanded that brought death to him on the spot. Alagna shot him in the sto- mach, and then disappeared. QUEBEC'S RICII DEPOSITS Engineer to Examine the Chibou- gaman District. A despatch from Montreal says: It was announced on Thursday that the Provincial Government had decided to send at once a com- petent mining engineer to the Chi- bcugaman district to investigate and examine the properties which aro reported to contain large cop- per, gold and asbestos deposits, opened by Mr. Peter McKenzie, and also to examine others that have been discovered more recent- ly. One of Mr. McKenzie's sons, who has just returned from that district, located several important discoveries of copper and asbestos. He found a twelve -foot vein of blue quartz, very rich in fine gold, and reports several other important dis- coveries by prospectors in the vi- cinity. A BANKER'S SUICIDE. A. II. Ridout, of Port Elgin, Takes His Own Life. A despatch from Port Elgin says: After a trying illness of a year and n half from nervous prostration Mr. A. H. Ridout in a fit of insan- ity took his life on Wednesday. He had been connected with the Bank of Hamilton for thirty years, and for the past seventeen years was agent of the bank here. A prolong- ed stay in a sanitarium and a Eu- ropean trip last year served to stay the progress of the disease but slightly. The deceased leaves a widow and three children. BOTH LEGS Cl'T OFF. Man Killed at London Returning Froin Picnic. A despatch from London, Ont., says: William Mullins, a young man from Dorchester, fell from the steps o` a Pere Marquette train on Thurs- day night while returning from the Irishmen's picnic at Port Stanley and had both legs cut off below the knee, from the effects of which he later expired in Victoria Hospital. GERMAN TOWN BURNED. Six Persons Lost Their Lives in Fire in Baden Province. A despatch from Berlin says : The greater portion of the Town of Don- aueschingen, Baden. has been de- stroyed by fire. Six persons lost their lives. LYNCHED 11 E 111 OF POLICE Ile Was the Most (fated Man In all Turkey. A despatch from Constantinople says: The notorious Fehim Pasha, formerly 1 e id of the secret police, has been lynched at Yenishir, in the Vilayet of Broussa. Fohim was one of the most hated of the palace favorites. He was among the most tinacrupulnus persecutors and plan• c1erers of the public. Ile became involved in a Tow with Germany nl.ont 18 months ago. and it result - CHOLERA IN INDIA. Baptist Mission Board at St. John Receives Rad News. A despatch from St. John, N.B.. says : At the monthly meeting of tht. United Baptist Foreign Mission Board for the Maritime Provinces en Wednesday, it was announced that word has been received that cholera is raging at the mission sta- tions in India. No missionaries have died, but at one station in tho Madras presidency the natives aro said to be dying at the rate of eighb or ten a day. TRAGEDY AT BUFFALO. A Woman Shoots Her Husband in a Quarrel. A despatch from Buffalo says t Mrs. Alexander Sutherland, whoso husband was shot and fatally in- jured early on Tuesday morning at their home on Niagara street, on Wednesday admitted that she had shot her husband. Mrs. Sutherland claims that there had been many family quarrels, that her husband had been very jealous, and that atm had finally detertnined to commit suicide. Going to her husband's room, she started to inform him of her purpose, and in the scuffle which ensued she accidentally shot him.. COAT OF JAIL SAVED S1'LTAN Would-be .Assassin Had Large Suut of Gold When Arrested. A despatch from Geneva, Swit- zerland, says: The Sultan of Tur- key was stabbed in the breast on Monday night by a minor palace official. Tho coat of mail which the Sultan always wears deflected the blow. The would -bo assassin was arrested. Apparently he had been bribed to commit the act, as he had a large sum of gold in his pockets, and his baggage was packed ready lot flight. KRUPP HAS AiR 'I'ORPEi►O. Projectile May be Used Both on Land and at Sea. A despatch from Essen, Germany, says: Notwithstanding frequent de- nials, the Krupp works have appar- ently acquired the rights to the air torpedo invented by Colonel Ungo i f the Swedish army, tinder condi- tions giving the Swedish Govern- ment use of the device. The parti- culars of the weapon are a great secret, but it is understood that the Krupps paid a largo stun for the in- vention after prolonged tests, so it is assumed that the projectile is really effective. Reports say it can bo used on land as well as at sea. PRISON -MADE GOODS BARRED New Zealand's New Law Prohibits importation. A despatch from Ottawa says! The Department of Trade and Com- merce has received a cable from the New Zealand Government stating that the importation into New Zea- land of all prison -made goods has been absolutely prohibited. Hither- to there has been a surtax of 211 per cent. ad valorum on all prison - made goods going into New Zea- land. --f L.Al'GIiFI► .1T AS DRF;.\M. Cape to ('Hiro Railroad Now Built 2.00( Miles North. No longer than ten years ago the Cape to Cairo railroad project of ('ecru Rhodes was laughed at as a dream, but the present moment finds it extended 2,000 miles north- ward from the ('ape, and prospects of the immediate further extension of this southern section are bright. There is only a little engineering dispute as to the more desirable of two proposed routes.t The first step in the construction of the northern section is the building of the great steel bridge which is now being thrown over the Blue Nile 1.000 miles south of Cairo. This bridge will greatly simplify the transpor- tation troubles to and from Khar- tum and will open up a rich coun- try which has been inaccessible to ed in his banishment. He had late- tl:is time. The bridge is 1,700 feet lv been threatened 1v some of his long and rests nn 14 stone piers. many victims. and was fleeing when 1t will carry railroad tracks, wag, captured and killed. gon road and foot path.