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long and two to. ten miles broad.
n -are—sit0W the
City of Vernie and the Towsss of
Homier and Michel, all...mining
camps. ,, There is a large mining
planet a3at Coal Creek, near Fernie,
whence cores the largest output of
coal. Although 'the fire has been
town„ any-..hc. a4rd too be sat e, . a
although " the fire is ,all around
- Michel there is no grave apprehen-
sion as to it.
"Homier has escaped with little
loss on .its mining side, but Fernie
has been completely obliterated,
only .2a. hn.nses-...and.. # reo.. busincs
—_._bd. .s --being- left. r botch- iramks'
of the -Elk River are a large num-
ber of sawmills all of which, with
one u exceptionhave ben swept out
,,
" 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
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C:c a tiree3C, an llieratitaiti 1eTi , :
will be $200,000; the C. P. .Rs will
lose $ ; 0'; the---Gr-eat Northern
Railway will lose about $250,000,
and the lumbOr companies not less
than a .roar.- -he lossof timber
to the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Com-
pany will be not less than a mil-
lion.
"The loss to the City of Ferns
will be not less than two million.
There is no rain in sight, and the
fire continues slowly up the moun-
•tainsidc, but nothing but a very
high wind would do much damage,
ass • the valley along its lower por-
tions is swept h'lean of every -thin
combiz°stible. Relief in the form o
money, supplies and bedding have
come in with great freedom and
everyone is now under canvass at
Fernie. There are about 3,000 wo-
men and children at Cranbropk, to
the west of Fernie, and about 1,500
at Lethbridge, to the east, :bttt they
are being slowly brought back to
Fernie, where tent aeeormnodation
can -be provided for them."
TRAGIC INCIDENTS OF FIRE.
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curbed with 'wood, and after Climb
jog into .xt bo rc u i .14,heals,'
evidently dela!+ ti get out wain,
and the curbing burned down al-
most
most to the water's edge, suffocat-
ing 'them.
Even more pathetic is the awful
Manner in which Mrs. .Addie Tur-
an a e 4"
f-. , 'e 'r son in Fernie 40.4x,
met death. "When it was seen that
the house was going- to be ignited
by dying embers in theale, `Mr.
Turner, a miner, prepared his wife
and children for flight. The aged
woman could not walk, and she
pleaded with them to leave her
and---saver-thentselves,hut fine"
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
i ' ii 'tem"g ifs t a
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.
PFOPLE-FLOCKING
0 nom TEE I4FAflIN G
cfti)E CEN ',EES.. '
ice3 of Cattle, Grains Cbc.T,t0sand
Other ,Dairy •l'rcduee at
► e,a*d.1004.01t,
RAPl1ENINOS }'KOL ALI OVER
THE GLOBE.
t'0 .ialo 'Br'iefs., 'Fiero Our, l
and; .other Coantries of
eat tveats•
Cool Weatbcr Ilas Ioi1owoL:the S�orohin
es
One' of the most tragic falalities
of the fire, and one which shows
the extremes to which people were
riven to esca e the heat, was the
uding of the odies of a family of
four in a well, a miner, his wife
at'tutttcf ::,
en i , Ie3' ;In, "' tc "' f f,..
� pie
irk"0 tf a her �estp
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e foss o`. ,. `
O»� 1'• R. ,asks'.for , 23,0 ,haaa~r -
Vest handsfor' the prairie harvest.
Several' towns - in Saskatchewan
are getting 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 taaus.
5t,7C'i . `are ..id e'..
T, _
paring-- to snake Montreat the sum-
mer port for their Atlantic steam-
er8.
London's 'customs returns for
July were $65,935.78, an increase of
$10,409.13 over June.
The examination of school chil-
dren's teeth is_advocated by the Ca-
nadian Dental Association.
The C. P. R. are said to be im-
porting men from Ghiosgo to take
the � y���**p� ,cif rca�Qrtr nies.
., '�`'nr..w.SIE;JrL:,s'L+4d'".61..:t.;......�-r«..,. ...v.ra,F'.,...k.:...3_....
from succession duties for .this year
has already been exceeded by $189,-
000.
The Ontario Government bas ap-
pointed M. J. N Hare, an agricul-
tural expert, to assist the farmers-
����AtA�-.r�:�3u�]fe
a --Oat iadtan ..private ytaa-note
gaged in commercial ' enterprise can
- enter U. S. ports without going to
a customs' house.
A prospector retirrned with •$3,-
�00 g+old--dttst-franc behind- the
den Efir Mountains, and. a rush has
begun from.Port .Blanes , B. C. `
A carload of speckled trout from
Osceola, Wis., has' been placed in
lakes near Hcnora, and the fish
will be protected for ten years.
J. A. D. !oitras, fo 'veer 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 devises from
May to October inclusive.
ne
retnrning to Fernie, and be ore ten
days have passed: it is expected that
the majority will have, returned.
There are ne new des elopments
except that &illations -suPplies
and money continue -to pour in from
all direct'ons. Food is plentiful at
present, and sleeping quarters ade-
quate. The sanitary conditions are
being very carefully watched, and
there is no fear of.danger from that
quarter.
Cranbrook has done marvels to-
ward alleviating the suffering theu-
sands of Fernie refugees. The mo-
ment word was received that Fernie
was burned the citizens began to or-
ganize committees to" receive and
care for the people, public subscrip-
tions 'spelled, 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 he 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 QAUGIIT.
,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 making his rounds
lux Watchmim Cowan_
ere Woodworking Company eaw
s As he approached it & man sprang
, from behind the pile' and fied..
alarm was given, and the fire ex-
tinguished with little damage. The
man fled towards Humphrey's .Mills,
and a few hours later a barn owned
by Mrs, Joseph Stultz buret into
tames, 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
The nieil einpIoYed- 'on the work
were summoned, and the fire ex-
tinguished after destroying two
hundred ties. The police had been
nctified of the firebug's disastrous
work, and a patrol was sent from
the city. Williams wes captured.
PIGSKIN GRAFTED ON BOY.
S.uceessful Operation Perforated in
St. John Hospital.
A despatch from St. John- N.B.,
Aulifte, the 14 -year-old son of Jere
MeAuhfre 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 ekin grafting. operation
Some days ago a boy friend gave a
!ergo section of skin, which war
successfully grafted. On Tuesday
a rung pig ' was chloroformed and
skin taken from it to cover a, gmt
raw wound oe McAuliffe's body
The pigskin has coinpletely taken
hold and MeAuliffe will recover
is is the first operation. of the
kind ever attempted in Canada.
ACME A
OTAI
C
Zappelita eat Airs'ship Was struck B
Lightning indi Purnea.
A derpateh from Stuttgart, Ger-
many, says : The great" flight of the
Zeppelin airship, vzhieh looked like
Vaeing the practicability of aerial
navigation for war purposes beyond
all doubt, had an unfortunate eon.
• elusion on Wednesday. The airship
left the Lake of Constance on Tues-
day morning for a trip to Mayence
and return. The machine respond.
ed absolutely to the control of it5
and was rita%igatO over the
stke of Congta,nte down the Valley
the Rhino, over Strachurg and
sev`eral other citier, and Was ex-
ris
were being made to have- the defeet
prepared when a thunderstorm
arose, and to the dismay' ef the
crowd of bystanders the giant air -
chip broke from its moorings, .ex-
pleded and burst into games. °
The storm blew qp• Unexpectedly.
A fierce gust of wind tore the bal-
loon from its anchorage arid' drove
;t 'a couthaesterity direction for
Otty yards. Hero the rear end of
the great fabric drooped and sraiiike
and flames burst otit frsossa one end
'to another. In few secorals came
an explosion and a groat enitunn of
fire shot upward tato thc. air. This
the earth .0 tho r,letors and
frames that bad been aqaehed
t its tin ers
.1I No. 2' ortterr, *:1
O. 3 northern ,
axle h. ,•, b to 000,: oat -
tide ;We. 3 X, 56' to 57e.
Bran—Quoted at i10 to '$18 per
ton in bulk outside; in bags, $2
more.
Corn -No. 2 yellow, nominal at
66e to
86%cToronto freights; kiln-
4�Y4f'OCt,teeo i;N7x
2 inaal, 44c to 46c outside; Manitoba,
No. 2, 48%c, lake ports ; No. 3
46%e; rejects, 45c. .rj
Shorts -Quoted at $20 to $21 in
bulk outside ; in bags $2 more.
Flour--Manitobaa, first patents,
$6; €r seconds, $5,40; strong bakers',
i -Onutarh, winter wheat pat-
ents, $3.30 to $3.35.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
gni
er. Wholesale prices are
Creamery, prints .... .. 25c to 26c
do solids ... .... .... 230 to 24c
Dairy prints, choice .....23c to 24c
do ordinary -. . ......21c to 22e
Dairy, tubs ..,. ..,. ,•r. (p���'
-Inferiors-1 s�Y s.es Yl '3'3i�14ltLT.-»JtAi,G:?�:lll:YS I ^' tk
Poultry=-i't ho ale---- rx s....live'
weight : Spring chickens, 14c to 15c;
fowl, 100 to 1 xc ; 'ducks, 8%c to 90;
dressed. about 2c higher.
Eggs 20z to sic per dozenin case
lets,
Cheese—Large, 12%e to 13c,
twins 13c to 13c.
Honey ---6% to 10c per pound.
Beans—$2 to $2.14 for primes
and $2.10 to $2.20 for hand-picked.
Potatoes—Ontarios, 80c to 900 per
bushel in farmers' =waggons ; Ameri-
cans, $3.35 to $3.65 per barrel in
ear lots on track here.
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now the cry from alae ��t e' e, 4ee-
tion of, the West., Barley' eut�•
' " ARRESTED IN ITALY.
A.Ileged Murderer : of Black Hand
A. despatch #r'om ".,Montreal itf3 8 :
A letter received on Thursday by
the parents of Vincenzo Marino,
who was shot to death a couple of
months ago, tells of the arrest of
the alleged murdered Francisco
&lagnat, alias Cecilagna,, alias Car-
lo Tertto, in his na�tive-.e atria».
village, Per^lizzi, on July 20,
Through correspondence, the au-
thorities of the town were made
aware of the facts of the murder,
and, hee•- :t + els, who who:liisaaap eared
'K LILA '•.. '., ."• 'I - «. �
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
1; belie f yy��.'=_
flcmxe#y�-'iir-Mnntre�al: H bads t -i
alleged, collected $200 from A.lagna
and it was the latter's refusal to
return the money when demanded
that brought death to him on the
spot; A agna -shot him -in -the -stir
mach, and then disappeared.
PROVISIONS.
Pork—Short cut; $23.50 per bar-
Lard—Tiereea, 12c; tubs, 121,4c ;
pails, 12%e.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats—
Long clear hneon,--11-3/4c to 11Y2e.
tons and cases; hams, medium and
light, 14%c to 15c ; hams, large,
shoulders, 10c to. 110; rolls, 10%c
to 11e; lareakfast bacon 15c to
15%c; green meats, out o'f pickle,
le less than smoked.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 11.—Grain—The
market for oats is flrm, with a fair
demand; Manitoba No. 2 white,
bushel in car lots, ex store. Flour
—Choice Spring wheat patents,
$0.10; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat
patents, $5; straight rollers, $4.30
Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; shorts,
middlings,' Sg4 to $2p; shorts, $24.-
80 to $25.per ton, including bags;
pure grein meuille, $30 to $32;
Cheese—The market continuea firm
wit westerns -quoted at it 4
.14340, and easterns 42 to 124e.
Butter — Finest creamery being
quoted at 2.35,4,1 to 24e in round lots,
and 24%c in a, jobbing way. Eggs
—Sales of selected stock were made
per dozen.
GREAT BRITAIN.-- -
An Irish company proposes to
generate electricity from peat.
Only two of the twelve measures
forshadowed in the Kinfee speech
were passed by the British Parlia-
ment.
Wm. Burke, a motor mechanic,
was thrown from an auto at the
Brooklands f.rack, England, and
died of his injuries.
UNITED STATES.
The fruit crop of Illinois is a
failure.
The Yaqui Indians have killed
thirteen personsIn Texas.
Senator W. B. Allison, the well-
known United States statesman, is
dead.
In South Dakota the dreaded
black rust is ruining the vrheat crop.
In the streets, of New Yerk City
,030.people are killed every year.
Driven- ttraw -by-the- heat, wo
committed,suiCide at Brooklyn
Two men were killed arid three
others wounded in a fight ever a,
school election At Layman, Xen-
Food experts, . gathered for con-
vention at Mackinac, declared cold
storage poisons fish and milk.
A nurse said to belong to Toronto
it itemised of the theft of s dia-
mond ring from patient at New
The mint of the International
closed on account of a threatened
strike, and 20,000 men are idle.
'Nineteen out' of every one hun-
dred Chicego babies under one year
old died in the first 22 days Of
july. This is about one-fourth the
quoted death rate 0 the city.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Detroit, Aug. 11.--Wheat—No. I
white, cash, 083,gc ; No. 2 red, cash,
la, Aug. It —Wheat—
$31.00: Corn—Cash, 82c -T -114t.
St. Louis, 'Mo., Aug. 11—Wheats--
' LIVE 0,TOCK MARKET.
T4ronta, Aug. 11. --Only a very
number of good export eitt-
tie were, on sale. Their prices, were
ht and medinm animals1 sold at
°owl loads of butehersi cattle,
choice cows, $3.80 to 00.25; com-
There was a good enquiry for
choice and fitir milch cows and
springerlt at .140 to $60 eaeh.
Some of the calves brought /or -
ward Were of poor quality.? and sold
at easy prices. Quotations were
nabs were • 28e kigher
ewes were steady. Prices wer
Export ewes, *176 tto $4.40
went down to $41.
QUEBEC'S BICH DEPOSITS
Engineer to Examine the Cbibau-
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-
bougaman district to investigate
and examine the properties which
are reported to contain large cop-
per, gold and asbestos deposits,
opened by Mr. Peter McKenzie,
to examine - others -the
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.
Ile 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 -
A HOMER'S SUICIDE. -
A. II. Ridont,.,of Port Elgin, Takes
His Own Life.
A despatch from Port Elgin says
After a, trying illness of, a year and
a half from nervous 13rostration
Mr. A. H. Ridout in a fit of insan-
ity took his life on Wednesday. He
had been connected with the Bank
ef Hamilton for thirty years, and
for the past seventeen years was
agent of the bank here. A prolong-
-64 sta3r in a -sanitarium and IL Eu-
ropean trip last year served te stay
_pregresa. of the disease_but
slightly. The deceased leaves a
widow and three children.
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b? l ' `f r ani many eti4»s:
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wins from Ontario' have net started
there are few mewl of the desired
class available. •
CHOLER IN INDIA.
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Baptist Mission Beartl,,,aLat.,,„Allutv. ow,*
•
A despatch from St: John, N.B..
says : . At the monthly meeting of
the. 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.
bons -in - India. No missionaries
have died, but at one station in OW
Madras presidency the natives aro
gala to be dying at the rate of eight
or ten a day.
TRAGEDY AT BUFFALO.
A Woman Shoots Her Husband in
a Quarrel.
A-- -des b from—Praffa
'W-11:nderaslfrsliaBtah•a;.erld fat";:lily in-
juredsearly -on Tuesday morning at
their home on Niagara street, on
Wednesday admitted that she had
shot her husband. Mrs. Sutherland
at there -had been -many ---
family quarrels, that her husband
had been very jealous, and that she
had finOlY determined to commit
suicide. Going to her husband's
room, she started to inform him of
her purpose, and in the sou e which
ensued she accidentally shot him. i
COAT OF MAIL SAVED SULTAN'
Wouldsbe Assassin Had Large Sum
of Gold When Arrested.
A despatch frera Geneva, Swit-
zerland, says : The Sultan of Thr -
key was stabbed in the breast en
onday night by- a- miner -palace
official. The coat of mail which the
Sultan always wears deflected the
blow. The would-be assassin was
arrested. Apparently he had been
bribed to commit th act, as he h
a large sum of gel n his pockets,
and his baggage was acked ready
for flight.
KRUPP HAS ABI TORPEDO.
Projectile May be Used Both on
Land and at Sea.
A despatch from Essen, Germany,
says : Notwithstanding frequent des
eutly acquire the rights to the air
torpedo invented by Colonel Unge
a the Swedish army, under condi-
tions giving the Swedish Govern-
ment use of -the device. The parti-
culare of the weapon are a great
secret, but it 213 understood that the
Krupps paid a large sum for the in-
vention after prolonged tests, s(i_
tis assumed that the projectile is
really effective. Reports say it can
be used on land as well as at sea.
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.
Man Killed at London Returning
Front Picnic.
'A despatch from London, Ont.,
says.: William Mullins, is young man
from Dorchester, fell from the steps
of.a, Pere Bititrquette train on Thurs.
Irishmen's picnic 0 Port Stanley
rind -Nei both legs cut *, below the
knee, from the effects of which he
later expired in Victoria Hospital.
GENERAL.
military dictatotsbivit• Predic-
ted in Torkey,
A", pevcolutionary • outbreak
Germany intefids to construct
*bother Zeppelin airship. •
Japan is exid to be contemplating
the construction of ' sixteen new
There has been further fighting
between the Royalists and anti -
Royalists irf Persia.
An earthquake destroyed :flitch
prverty in Algeria, and many
lives were lost.
Erithseri, the Danish' explorer,
and two companions .11ave perished
u Greenland.
Seventy per cent: of the mulberry
trees were destroyed by the. 'Hong
Miss Steele, * lady missionary,
has keen brutally attsai*d b3" Itin.
tha Poona district of India,
onsiderable idamag. has bon
GERMAN TOWN BURNED.
Six Persons Last Their Lives in
Fire 1* Bade* Province.
A despatc'h from Berlin says : The
greater portion of the Tom of Don-
aueschingen? Badoi.,.his been de-
stroyed by fire. persons tost
their lives,
LYNCHED HEAD OF POLICE
He Was the Most Hated Mita in all
A despatch from Constantinople
says: The notorious Fehim Pasha,
formerly head of the secret p.oliep,,
has been lynched Yenislur,
one of the most hated of the palace
unscrupulous persecutors and Ono.
deters 'of the publie. Ile became
anvolved in row with Germany
about 18 months ago, and it result,
al in Ms banishment. He bad late-
ly been threaten some of h"
PRISON.MADE GOODS BARRED
New Zealand's New Law Prohibits
A despatch from Ottawa Says:
The Department of Trade and Cora-
merce has received a cable from the
New Zealand Government statingr
that 'the importation into New Zee.- mk,
land of all prison -made goods has
been absolutely prohibited. Hither-
to there has been a surtax of 20
per. cent. ad valoruns on all 'prison -
made goods going into New ?Aar -
land.
LAUGHED AT AS DREAM.
to-Calre Railroad -Now
2,00 Miles North.
No longer- than. ten vt.g-o- tilos
Ccae IttohoCciaoisrowitr.:iliarouldteltroatjeciit5
dream, but the present moment
finds it extolded 2,000 miles north.
ward from. the' Cape, and prospect*
uf the iminediate further extension
of this southern section are brigfit.
There is only tittle engineerzpg
dispute as to the mere desirable, of
two inmoposed routes. • The first fAtp
n the construction .of the northern .
tioit is the building ot the great
steel bridge which is now hing
thrown ever the Blue !sill° 1 -
miles south of Cairo, Vas bri(
will greatly simplify the trntripo
tation troubles to and from Khars
thin and will open ui) rich totIst.
try which has been itmccessible to
this tfine. The bridge is 1,;*06 feet
net And rests ()n, 14 ttone
carry railroad. tradv, vs*
mad iittl foot pat!.
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