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THE %YEST, PAST AND FUTURE
Addresses by Lord Strathcona and J. J. Hill
to Winnipeg Canadian Club.
A desp]t from Winnipeg says:
Lord StraT,cona and James J.
Hill spoke 'before the C'anadiau
Club on Wednesday to a record
crowd. "Tho West: Its Past and
lea Future," was the theme of the
addresses.
His Lordship referred eloquently
o the great influence of the Cana
ian clubs throughout the 1)o•
minion in strergtheniug the feeling
of loyalty of the dominions over
seas, of which Canada was the first.
to tho Old Country. They who had
endeavored to do their duty in the
past looked with assurance toward
the young ~nen of Canada, feeling
that they would do their utmost to-
ward conserving and strengthening
the tie which bound, and, he trust,
•ed, would always bind, the domin-
ions to the Mother Country.
Turning to Mr. Hill, the vener-
able Commissioner expressed his
conviction that his friend would not
forget that day, some time in ,April,
1870, when they inet for the first
time in St. Paul, sotnew•hcre near
the river. Things were at that day
in a similar pioneer stage to that
prevailing in and around Winni-
peg.
His Lordship then dwelton the
Fort Garry days, when the popula-
tion of Winnipeg was perhaps 120,
•on at the outside, 200, and contrast -
•ed those early conditions with the
thousands and thousands of people
who now throng the streets of Win-
nipeg. Looking back those forty
years at the change of conditions,
'he felt no hesitation whatever in
predicting that the next fifty years
would see an evcu infinitely greater
change than that upon which he
laked back•
Mr. Hill said :-"I go hack for
53 years, when I carne West from
Canada. At that time Canada had
no North-West. A young buy or
man who desired to carve his own
way had to cross the lime and to-
day --it, may surprise yua---one out
of every five children born in Can-
ada lives in the United .bates. Now
you aro playing the return match,
and the North-West is getting peo-
ple front the United States very
revisits,. 11'e brought 100 land -
seekers, mainly from lova and
Southern Minnesota last night out
of St. Paul, going to tho North-
Wost. Now, these people have all
the way from five, ten to twenty
thousand dollars each, unci they
nil' make as much progress on the
land in ono year as any one man
coming from the Continent of Eu-
rope can make, doing the best he
can do, in ten, fifteen or twenty
years. (Applause.)
"Tile great stream of population
that has settled in the 53 years I
have lived in the States has set-
tled in the country west of Chica-
go. When I canto through Chicago
had 90,000 people, or claimed to
have. Within 100 miles of the city
it was wild, unoccupied prairie. To-
day Chicago claims three Trillions
of people. Think of it! Nearly
half of the population of the Do-
minion! Now. Chicago was years
older than Winnipeg before she
had the population you have."
CANADA TO BOILD CRUISERS
-Annbuncemz nt Regarding Navy for Canada
---Vessels for Pacific and Atlantic.
A despatch front London says:
"The Canadian Associated Press
learns on high authority that tho
vessels to be loaned to the Cana-
dian Government by the British
Aclatiraity will be two third-class
cruisers, one for the Pacific, and
the other for the Atlantic. The -o
hips will require refitting and al-
t ation, which will be done on this
do at the expense of the. Canadi-
an Government. The officers of
eso ships will also be loaned to
rads, and be paid by Canada.
'hen Canada starts to build war-
ps, which the Canadian Associ-
ted Press understands will be of
the Bristol type of cruiser, they will
be built in Canada. A representa-
tive of a leading firm of shipbuild-
ers will=shortly proceed to tho Do-
minion to select a site for n ship-
yard. Regarding the site of a ship-
yard on the Pacife. a prominent
naval expert was asked his opin-
ion by a Canadian official and he
replied : "Vancouver is more suit-
able than Esquimault, though it
might also be necessary to have a
dock at the latter."
The Canadian Associated Press
further understands that the idea
or having submarines on the St.
Lawrence River and the Pacific
coast has been suggested, and the
suggestion has been received with
some favor.
The Bristol type of cruiser, which
it is understood Canada will build,
establishing a shipyard for the pur-
pose, is a second-class protected
vessel, being of 4,800 tons burden,
and capable of developing a speed
of 26 knots an hour. Britain is at
present building five such vessels
herself, to bo completed next
year. They will have turbine en-
gines. The third-class cruisers
Canada will borrow Lill probably
have a speed of from 20 to 22 knots
and be of from 2,000 to 3,000 ton-
nage.
MANITOBA APPEALS FOR 11 ELI'
Eight Thousand Men are \Vanted al
Once to harvest.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Manitoba will soon be in desper-
ate straits unless sufficient help
Ian be immediately secured to
gather the big crops, was the gist
of a statement made by Premier
Roblin on Wednesday night. The
trop is not only ripe, but nearly all
put. Tho serious problem is how
It is to be cared for until placed in
the elevators. Eight thousand la-
borers are wanted in the province,
and there are not more than 500 in
light. "As the cast is largely in-
krested in the prosperity of the
est, wo appeal to them to assist
us as much as possible by sending
the young men they can spare
save one of the best crops the
st ever was blest with," said the
remier.
COPPER FROM FLAGSiIIPS.
Lord Nelson Souvenirs heady For
Distribution.
A despatch from Toronto says:
Conli;rg as the representative of the
British and Foreign Sailors' So-
ciety. Rev. Alfred Hall of Durham.
S. A., is in Toronto to distribute
rho Lord Stratlicona shields made
out of the copper from laird Nel-
son's flagships, the Victory and
Foudroyant, to the universities,
colleges and schools of the Domin-
ion, and also to superintend the
distribution of British navel sou-
venirs made out of the historic cop-
per from these ships, in aid of the
Nelson Centenary fund of that so-
ciety, which is the largest sailors'
society in the empire. The Prince
.•f \Vales is patron. and Acheiral
Brrostord one of the Vice -Presi-
dents of the society.
HUSBANDS ARE INHUMAN
J
• Wife -Desertions and
Common in
Non -Support Are
Montreal.
A despatch from Montreal says:
r dealing with a case of desertion
not non-support on Thursday,
Judge Lanctot told a pathetic
ory. "Scarcely a day passes,"
e Judge said, "that I do nut have
onplaints from women that they
ave been deserted by their bus -
ands, or have been refn`ed suffi-
cient money to support their chit -
dice. I intend to deal sternly with
these husbands if they come before
me."
Then the Judge related an inci-
dent which Sent a sliver of horreer
through the courtroom. "Only
yesterday," he said, "a woman with
• baby in her arms approached MP
In the Court House corridor, and
appealed to me to force her hus-
band to pay something towards her
support. While she was speaking
the child diced in her amts. Tho
mother's anguish went right to my
heart and I only hope the inhu-
man husband twill be brought be -
fere rue."
When Henri Rousina, real estate
agent, failed to comply with the
Judge's request that he contribute
to his wife s support. Judge Lane -
tot generously said : "if he won't.
1 will." ane! calling Mr. Ouimet of
t!.e ]fou. , l:cfusc, be handed
hire fire dollars to pay over to the
t ife
CONDENSED NEWS iTEi%IS
OJI't•E\INGS FROM ALL OVER
THE GLOMS.
Telegrepaie Briefs From Our Owa
tad Other Countries of
gavot Events.
CANADA.
Applications for the Ontario
loan continuo to coupe in rapidly.
A new pesthas been fouud in the
spruce forestb of Ontario.
11'illiaw Smith committed suicide
in a Kingston hotel, on Thursday.
Strathcona Hall, at Niagara -on -
the -Lake, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday.
Earl and Countess Grey will spend
a couple of weeks in Winnipeg in
October.
Tho Government has let the con-
tract for a new steamer for the hy-
drographic survey service.
Magistrate Denison, of Toronto,
has decided that hotel proprietors
can sell cigars on Sunday.
C. G. Henley, a postoftice clerk,
was arrested at Lindsay on a charge
cf robbing the mails.
A magistrate at St. Thomas dis-
missed the charge against a restau-
rant -keeper accused of selling cig-
ars on Sunday.
M. Busson of St. Constant, Que.,
w ho was on his way west, on a har-
vesters' excursion train, was killed
ut Itidout, west of North Bay, on
Thursday.
The Molsons Bank has decided to
allow none of its clerks to marry
unless in receipt of an income of
twelve hundred dollars.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Premier Asquith announced in rho
House of Commons on Thursday
that Canada would build a fleet of
her own.
UNITED STATES.
Great forest fires aro raging in
Idaho, near the Canadian border.
A locomotive ran over an auto-
mobile Tat Kankakee, Ill., killing
two women.
A Unitarian minister in Massa-
chusetts claims to have grown a
bug -proof potato.
J. J. Hill and J. P. Morgan may
acquire a ce;etrolling interest in
the G. T. P., it is said.
Twenty-five persons have been ar-
rested at, McKee's hocks, Pa., fol-
lowing the murderous riots on Sun-
day night.
An insane negro who had wound-
ed twenty -ono citizens of Monroe,
Ca., in a mad rush through the
town, was killed, and his body
burned in a public square.
GENERAL.
Bombs have again made their ap-
pearance in Barcelona.
A new glacier was discovered by
a touring party in Alaska.
Tho first aeroplane flight in Rus-
sia was made at Odessa on Tues-
day.
Latham, the French aviator, cov-
eted ninety-five miles in about two
hours.
Revolutionists in Yemen, a prov-
ince of Arabia, are massacring
and pillaging.
Over a hundred persons have
died of the plague in Annoy in the
last fortnight.
Estimates have been asked for
the construction of an Imperial
Assembly Hall at Pekin.
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'1'111: GREATEST EVER.
IS hat the Canadian National Exhi-
bition Looks Like.
The greatest year in the history
of the Canadian National 1'xhibi-
tion is assured. There are horses
from across the ocean as well as
from across the line. Jerseys from
the Street Railway King of Toron-
to and horses from Sir William Van
Iforne's Manitoba farm. There are
sheep from Canada and from the
United States. There are manufac-
tures finished and manufactures in
the making. There's everything
end an abundance of it. Add all
this to the greatest bill of special
attractions the Canadian National
Exhibition ever offered and you
have all the elements of a world's
fair --and a few things thrown in
besides.
itl'NDRFED LOST LiVES.
_,'w Seriously injured by industrial
Accidents in July.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
During the month of July industri-
al accidents occurred to 3i., work
people in Canada. according to re-
ports received at the Labor Depart-
ment. Of these. one hundr, d were
fatal and 255 resulted in serious in-
juries
tl'STR.tl,l.t_S NEW NAVY.
One Armored Cruiser and Twelve
Smaller \•esaels.
.\ despatch from London says:
The Admiralty announced on Wed-
nesday (list the lustrnlian •netad-
ron of the imperial navy u i!' ee.;;-
sist of one arn;or,d envier. $!,nee
other cruisers. six for pe,io-he.;r1 (0-
stroyers and three s.ete.ear..-<
AUTUMN SOWN CROPS.
Results of Co-operative Experi-
ments During the fast Year.
Four hundred and ten farme
throughout Ontario conducted e
periments with autumn sown cnol
during the past year. Reports hav
been received front thirty-six of
counties of the Province. Thos
counties which furnished the grea
est number of good reports of su
cessfully conducted experiment
were Middlesex, Huron, Bran
Norfolk and Muskoka. The exper
neuters deserve much credit fo
the good work which they hav
done, not only for themselves, Lu
for the farmers generally. Averag
results of the carefully conductec
co-operative experiments with Au
tonin sown crops aro here preset
eel in a very concise form.
\Winter Wheat -Four varieties o
winter wheat were distributed las
autumn to those farmers who wish
ed to test some of the leading varie
ties on their own farms. The av
el age yields pro acr of stra
and of grain aro as follows: Int
penial Amber, 1.4 tons, 24.1 bus.
Abundance, 1.3 tons, 23.9 bus.; Bul
garian, 1.2 tons, 21.9 bus.; an
Nigger, 1.4 tons, 21.9 bus.
The Imperial Amber gave th
greatest yield per acre in the co
operative experiments throughou
Ontario in 1907 and in 1908, as wel
as in 1909. It also came first in
popularity with the experimenter
in each of these years. Tho In,
perial Amber will again bo distri
buted throughout Ontario tins au
turnn as one of the varieties for co
operative experiments. We dis
tributed the Dawson's Golden
Chaff for co-operative experiments
throughout Ontario in each of
twelve years, but not within the last
three years. According to exten-
sive inquiries which we have made
this year, the Dawson's Golden
Chaff is still the most popular and
the most extensively grown variety
of winter wheat in the Province.
Winter Rye -Tho average yield
or grain per acre of each of three
varieties of winter rye, distributed
in the autumn of 1908, is as follows:
Mammoth White, 28.1; Common,
22.1; and Washington, 19.6. In
the experiments throughout On-
tario, the Mammoth White surpass-
ed the common rye by an average
of 5 bushels per acro in 1907, 5.4
bushels per acre in 1908, and 6
bushels per acre in 1909.
Fertilizers with Winter Wheat -
In the co-operative experiments
with different fertilizers applied to
winter wheat, the average yields
of grain per acre for five years are
as follows: Mixed Fertilizer, 25.2
bus.; Nitrate of Soda, 23.8 bus.
Muriate of Potash, 22.9 bus.; and
Superphosphate, 22.7 bus. The
unfertilized land gave an average
of 19.9 bus. per acre. The Super-
phosphate was applied at the rate
of 320 pounds and the Muriate of
Potash and the Nitrate of Soda
each 160 pounds per acre. The
Mixed Fertilizer consisted of one-
hird of the quantity of each of the
other three fertilizers hero men -
jolted. The usual cost of the fer-
ilizcrs as used in this experiment
s between four and five dollars per
ere.
Fielder Crops -In each of six
ears, the seed of Hairy Vetches
nd of \\inter Ilse has been distri-
cted throughout Ontario for co-
perative experiments in testing
hese crops for fodder purposes. In
he average of six years' expert -
tents, the Hairy Vetches produced
lightly the largest yield of green
fodder per acre, but in 1909 the
srgest yield was produced by the
Winter Rye.
As long as the supply lasts, ma-
erial will be distributed free of
hargo in the order in which the ap-
plications aro received from On-
ario farmers wishing to experi-
tent and to report the results of
ny one of the following tests: 1,
ince varieties of Winter Wheat;
, two varieties of Winter Ityc; 3,
ve Fertilizers with Winter \Wheat;
, :Autumn and Spring Applications
r Nitrate of Soda and Common
nit with Winter Wheat; 5, Winter
miner and Winter Barley ; 6,
airy Vetches and Winter Rye as
odder Crops. Thr size of each
lot is to be one rod wide by two
xis long. Material for numbers 3
nd 4 will be sent by express and
tat for the others by mail.
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TRADE DISPUTES.
Returns for July Show increase of
Five Over Last Year.
A despatch from Ottawa says :
Thr Labor Gazette reports that the
number of trade disputes in exist-
ence in Canada during .duly was
fifteen, an increase of one compar-
ed with the previous month, and an
incre r- ..f five compared with July
!on,. Seventy- three limns and
shout• 4,398 employes were directly
affected by these 192 disputes, of t
which number 31 firms and 3.119 em-
ployes were affected by new dis• I
pules. The lose of t:me to employes ;
through trade disputes during .fitly
was approxi nntely 114.710 a.erk-
ing dans. compared with a les: of f
t;6,S0''. days in June. and 21.000 in
July. 1908. a
1-1• ,• ie. the Tn=sian town of Kre-
t• a ;ohne. Rusin. has rendered a lit
THE WORLD'S MARL{ESS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle. Grata, Cheese sad
Other Dairy Produce at
Homo and Abroad.
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 31. -Flour - On-
tario flour now Winter wheat pat-
ents, $1.15 to $4.20 in buyers' bags
el, track, Toronto; new wheat flour
for export, $3.95 co $4 outside in
buyers' sacks. Manitoba flour, first
patents, $5.80 on track, Toronto;
second patents, $5.30, and strong
bakers', $5.10 on track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 North-
ern, $1.21%, Georgian Bay ports.
Ontario Wheat -New No. 2, 97
to 98c at outside points.
Barley -New, 55c outside.
Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 47%c
on track, Toronto, and 47 to 47%c
outside. No. 2 Western Canada
oats 43% to 44c and No. 3 42c Bay
ports.
Peas -No. 2, 90 to 92c outside,
nominal.Buckwheat-Prices purely nomin-
al.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow,
79'/.,c on track, lake ports. Cana-
dian, 75c on track, Toronto.
Bran -$22 for Ontario bran out-
side in bulk. Manitoba, $21 in
sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24
Toronto freights.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -Prime, $2.10 to $2.25, and
]rand -picked, $2.50 to $2.60 per
bush.
Hay --No. 1 timothy new $13.0 to
$14.50 a ton on track here, and low-
er grades $13 to 813.60.
Straw -$9 to $9.50.
Potatoes -New Canadian, 75 to
85(. per bushel.
Poultry - Chickens, yearlings,
dressed, 14 to 16c per lb.; fowl, 13
to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 20c.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 23c;
tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c; in-
ferior, 15 to 17c; creamery, 23 to
21c, and separator, 22% to 23%c per
lb.
Eggs -New laid, 23 to 2 -lc.
Cheese -12%c for large, and at
12%o for twins.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 13% to 14e
per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $24
to $25; short cut, $24 to $25.
Harns-Light to medium, 14% to
16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls,
13% to 14o; shoulders, 12c; backs,
17% to 18c; breakfast bacon, 16'/., to
17e.
Lard-4Tierces, 14%c; tubs, 11; c;
pails, 14%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 31. --Oats - No.
2 Canadian Western, 44 to 44%e;
.No. 1 extra feed, 43% to 44c; No.
1 feed, 43 to 43%c; No. 3 Canadian
Western, 43%c; barley, No. 2, 66
to 67c; Manitoba teed barley, 6.1 to
€Se.. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat
patents, firsts, $5.90; Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, seconds,
seconds, $5.40; Winter wheat pat-
ents, $6; Manitoba strong bakers',
$5.20 ; straight rollers, $5.75;
straight rollers in bags, $2.65 to
$2.75; extras in bags, $2.40 to $2.-
50. Feed -Ontario bran. $22 to
$23; Ontario middlings, $23.50 to
$24.50; Manitola bran, $22; Mani-
toba shorts, $2.1; pure grain meta-
llic, 833 to $34; nixed mouille, $25
to $27. Cheese -Finest creamery,
23 to 23%c. Eggs -Selected stock,
25% to 26c; No. 1 candled 22% to
23e; No. 2 at 10 to 19c per dozen.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Buffalo. Aug. 31. -Wheat -Spring
wheat dull ; Winter easier : No. 2
red, $1.10; No. 2 white, $1.09%.
Corn -Firm; No. 3 yellow, 701/4c;
No. 3 white, 75%c. Oats -Stonily;
No. 2 white, 3924c; No. 3 white,
38%c; No. 4 white, 37% to 38c.
Rye -No. 2 on track, 73c.
Chicago, Aug. 31. -Wheat- ('ash
-No. 2 red. 81.03% to $1.05; No.
3 red, 93c to $1.02%; No. 2 hard,
09%c to 81.02: No. 3 hard, 9.2e to
; No. 2 Northern, 131 to 81.02;
No. 3 Spring, 93c to $1. Corn -
No. 2, 08', to 69c; No. 2 white, 70
to 70'4c; No. 2 yellow, 711,4 to 72c;
No. 3. 69% to 69e; No. 2 white oats,
35'4e; No. 3 white. 35'; to 37%c:
No. 4 white. 35% to 36e; standard,
37 to 373/0.
LiVE STOCK MARKET.Mont real. Aug. 31.-Prirne beeves
sold at from 4% to 5'/,e per lb ;
pretty good animals, 3% t..
common stock. 2% to 3%c per 11x.
Mileh cows. $25 to $55 reel); guise
fed calves ease° te $s emelt. or 3c
o 5c per Ib. : young vents. $3 to
$5 eneh. Sheep. 3' : to le r•er lb.:
nmhs
5'!. to R';c per 1h. ; go:ul lots
,1 fat hogs. S':, to Vie put- 11,.
Toronto. .Aug. 31._ -Thr r:,,eker
,nde was quiet. but two '.'gels of
llfattitohl meek sold et Rt. Milkers
net •prineers -hirer c'.•enand for
eget stoelo Sheen and !nails
pt- ne tenth. telling tip to 80.:,0.'
'altes--53.50 to $7. Hosts_.ct..l... ts.
7.65 1.0 b., and $q fed at:d art^t-
r1 . sad families horrrl?e5. col.
ESTIMATE OF ONTARIO CROPS
1
Statistics Prepared by the Agricultural
Department.
Statistics forecasting the yields of
the various crops grown in Ontario
have been prepared by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture from the re -
Torts of correspondcuts in every
fart of the province. To the pro-
duction of Fall wheat it is estimat-
ed 663,275 acres of land were de-
voted, aril the probable yield is
f.xed at 15,996,562 bushels, as conn -
pared with 679,642 acres and 16,-
430,476 bushels in 1908. Other es-
timates are as follows: -
Spring wheat - 135,161 acres,
fielding 2,215,31.1 bushels, as com-
pared with 142,124 acres and '2,-
197,716 bushels in 1908; barley,
695,262, yielding 18,273,285 bushels,
as compared with 734,029 acres and
20,838,569 bushels in 1908; oats, 2,-
695,535 acres, yielding 87,966,527
bushels, as compared with 2,774,-
259 acres and 96,626,419 bushels in
1909; peas, 381,609 acres, yielding
7,842,927 bushels, as compared with
396,642 acres and 7,401,336 bushels
in 1903; beans, 45,029 acres, yield-
ing 857,663 bushels, as compared
with 46,477 acres :mei 783,757 bush-
els in 1908; rye, 1,661 acres, yield-
ing 1,59-1,868 bu ',els, aa compared
with 87,908 acres a •td 1,453,616 bush-
els in 1908 ; hay at..1 clover, 3,228,-
445 acres, yielding 3,885,145 tons,
us compared with 3,263,141 acres
and 4,635,287 tons in 1908.
The yields of the following have
not yet been estimated :-Ituck-
wheat, mixed grains, potatoes,
nangel-wurzels, carrots, sugar
beets, turnips and fruits.
Tho numbers of live stock on
hand on July 1st were :-Ilorses,
728,308; Milch cows, 1,075,496 ; other
cattle, 1,593,033; sheep and lambs,
1.130,667; swine, 1,551,187; poultry,
12,086,580.
Live stock sold or slaughtered in
year ending June 30, 1909: -Hors -
,es, 78,461 ; cattle, 800,228; sheep,
333,441 ; swine, 1,980,432; poultry,
4,177,503.
LOST FOR THIRTY DM'S.
Man Lived all the Time on Berries
and Roote.
A despatch from Fort William
eays : Lost in the wilderness for
thirty days, during which time he
subsided entirely on berries and
roots, is the almost unheard of ex-
perience of Herbert Reeves, aged
thirty years, who was admitted to
the hospital hero un Wednesday
morning. Wasted in form, ho was
found by a band of Indians near
Gull River, forty miles from Schrei-
ber, where for many days he had
lain almost too weak to procure
the scant food which ho had been
eating before. When the Indians
discovered him he was almost de-
mented, and endeavored to hide
himself, but he fainted in the ef-
fort. Reeves had been working in
a lumber camp, but left over a
month ago to walk overland to the
Canadian Pacific, and was lost en
route, and was without food or a
gun. He still remembers, but only
at random, some instances of his
terrible pilgrimage. He says his
home was formerly in Macon,
Georgia, and that he had served
in the U. S. army.
RIOTERS SENTENCED.
Four Fort William Men Sent to
Central Prison.
A despatch from Port Arthur
says: Convicted of riotous and dis-
orderly conduct in oonnectiun with
the recent strike trouble at Fort
William, four men were on Wed-
nesday afternoon sentenced to the
Central Prison by Judge McKay,
as follows; -Toni Panagroles, sev-
en months; John Pclarbs, seven
months; Charles Arank, nine
months, and Thos. Timber, seven
months. All were convicted on evi-
dence of the police, who identified
totem as in the crowd of rioters on
the day the shooting was done.
.t BLAZE: OF LI(:11T.
Night Scene at Canadian National
Exhibition.
The "Electric City" is a fitting
name for the Canadian National
Exhition grounds at Toronto this
year. All the big buildings are fit-
ted with exterior decorations of
electric light and they turn the Ex-
hibition nights into the whitest kind
of days. This brilliancy added to
tho martial music, the movements
of troops and all the panoply of dis-
play makes the night scene at the
Canadian National one never to be
forgotten.
BEST IN MANY YEARS.
Millers Well Pleased with Quality
of Wheat.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Mr. F. W. Thompson, Vice -Presi-
dent and Managing Director of the
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, in an
interview on Thursday says :-"Tho
greater part of the wheat crop in
Manitoba is already cut, and har-
vesting is well advanced in the other
Provinces. Thrashing is under way
at many points, and it will be pos-
sible in a few days to measure fair-
ly accurately the average yield.
The quality is the best wo have
Lad in many years both in respects
to strength and color, and jt is just
such crops as the present that \Cave
(made Canada famous the world
over in the past for the quality of
her hard wheat. While our official
estimates of the crop have not yet
Leen completed, we believe from
reports so far received that the to-
tal yield will approximate 115,000,-
000 bushels."
EARL'S SON SUICIDES.
Lord Eliot Found Dead with Gun-
shot Wound.
A despatch from London says:
An inquest was held on Wednesday
into the death of Lord Eliot, eld-
est son of the Earl of St. Germans,
who was found dead at Port Eliot,
the family residence. from a gun-
shot wound. Tho verdict was that
the young man committed suicide.
He had acted strangely since his
recent return from Egypt. Lord
Eliot was born in 1885.
CHICAGO'S POPULATION.
Directory Makers Estimate it to be
2,457,600.
A despatch from Chicago saes:
Two and one-half millions popula-
tion for Chicago is the estimate
made by the compilers of the new
city directory, which will bo out
this week. The figures given are
2,457,600, based on the 763,000
names in the directory. The in-
crease over last year is estimated
at 33,600.
,p
('HOLER.t IN HOi.i..1ND.
Over Fifty ('ayes Reported in not.
lenient.
:\ despatch from Rotterdam sats a
There are nine cases of cholera un-
der treatment in the hospital, and
forty-two cases in the obsertalien
wards.
TREK TO CANADIAN WEST
Settlers Are Still Pouring in From the
United States.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
W. J. White, superintendent of ('a-
nadian immigration agencies in the
United States, returned to Ottawa
on Wednesday v' rning from a long
trip throng), Aichigan, Illinois,
:Missouri, '' .as, the Dakotas and
1linnes- ,rle reports the great
trek int., *the Canadian West as
showing ,,., signs of abatement.
"As ninny people are corning
per week in August as there were
in May," Mr. White declared.
"Last week the biggest trainload of
Canadian settlers left St. Paul in
the history of the station. We had
estimated free' 70.000 to 73.000
United States immigrants for this
calendar year. bet the number mill
reach "0.000. They are mestls de-
'irab!e settler.. and tet!! make geed
Canadian' .
Ito sea 1e.•', f.er this reeve nent
to continue, and even to i.1cfra a !"
"Decidedly )ei. I believe these'
itemize:lets trill soon be numb rd
i
i
by
aro to -day
lis dialing
there
the
hundred
200
year
biting
Western
harvest
11
at
Ment.
"Do you find any opposition to
t11:rr propaganda in the United
Mates?"
"Not from the Federal Govern-
ment. We have some competition
from the. Southern States. who are
atter irnmigratie:n. however, but it
i• all friendly•"
in this connee•tion it is interest-
ne lei vete that Western homestead
entric' (siring .June. the last month
for which figure:. have been coin-
;
i feted. totalled 4.i05. an increase
e,r 93S as comparevl with June,
I904. Fer the first Fix months of
the calendar the entries totalled.
17,311. an inerease of 3,585.(`
pared with the cnrrespooding' ri-
thousand
in
There
fi Minneapo-
in Last
are exhi-
State fairs in the
States, and this year's
should be a big ad% ertise
rills
Canadian
were
all
the
:,o.
land
We
s.
le of last year.