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ng 2,fJ4X),19. When the
pas 1,
ed by • the Gtwrnmeut:
init. charge. on Ahfis.,fund would
e .coot of. construction of tbe
re n'i Bay Railway,
urvey is now being
•ade. WhUer t4wis Apiderstandmg
en 'formally iflcor-
pur*te4 in
*Slation,, it is unde.r-
*tood tlrntthe, report of the
survey i calved and the Governf
en JrQVIc1E
ueficix
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esp,klY
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Veatem
reports- a ilia 1.tiovey
have bcOn received from4,441310 to
time by. parties now in tse. field,
but it. .1* not expected any c'm-
p1et ursitxtboritittive report as to
the ruQat favorable route or (th0
cost will be really before tile spring,
and it is hardly probable the-Oioe--
ernment will be able to bring down
a. hill for the -construction of the
road untit next sesison.
0. 1ETE1tNS' REQUEST.
;.74 11404
Abt, in teMen
Ask ior Gralt
464 from all liaitt of Cana
ed to Parliament hill on Thur.
day from the City Hall to lay be-
fore, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the
meinbers of the Government a me-
morial, setting. forth their claims
to land grants from the Domin-
ion similar to, those granted the
r-irit-Africa.:sreteiarts. A: -small
eputatiour representing the Im-
perial -South Africa Veterans' AZ.
twiation in Canada, waited on
Sir Frederick Borden to prefer the
$42a6 request, made somo tune ago
before the Minister of the Interior,
that the 'provisions of the South
Africa voluntary bounty net,
-passed last oession, be -extended -to
all veterans of the campaign now
citizens of Canada. The Minister
of Militia promised that the request
would be carefully considered by
the Government.
ttat S1 o oc
ht' in the TetSkam-
)5 • Uri° Railway
talion at. TemSgaMi, and the
Isnd8olne structure,- corepleted
ibout one year ago, at a cost of
ifteen tlalutand dollars, is biruins,
wive stone wane stand.
The operator bad just time
tlierthe Volatil-
v&i on e and make his eseape.
he books and records in tlus o ice
rere saved, but the iire spread so
apidly that nothing could be done
o check the flameo. Wooden
uilding adjoining,. occupied as
estiturant and baggage -room, was
aved.
.WINNIPEG MMUS.
•
• IfeelMeist • May • be Named
" e:ron .
A despatch from Winnipeg say:
Lhe forxnatiort of a Highland regi
ent hete is believed to heal:1364
in Oohed fact. A meeting
as held on Thursday, when the
k tangible form. •
son, a prominent b
hister, is likely to be named
ieutenant-colonel, withMa
Ingb E.
formerly of To -
onto, as The name for the
orjs niot favored is the Cameron
Efighlander, and it is said Mr.
.- Cameron has sororaised a do-
nation of .10,000 if his clan is thus
'honored.
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OES MOTHER TO DEA,T11.
,Seventeen Sontesiged to
Lite Imprlisottmenti---
'despatch from Toledo, Ohio
Harvey Itazelt_the oerctitoen
boy found guilty of the
der of his mother, WM on iced-
Isy afternoon sentenced to life
risonment in the Ohio State
itentiary at Columbus. Ilazel
convicted of slaying his .mo.
*Is, 1908, by beating her
lezth with a hammer, after
h he robbed her of $.5.7. The
attraed-considerahle-
becsus.e of the defence of
V TUB T1� ICE*
.re- and Sleigh Disappear
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St. Vawreisee. *
patch from Quebec
at of the subiirV. of 'St.
ur named 14emaY4 *MI6 drivs
ss the ice bridge Irani the
ore to St. Nicholattomme
Iles* west of this „city, on
went through the ice
red.., No -irate p1 the -
r rig has been aiscov-
,. who was
* way to St.- Nicha
hitiery, in a luta
1,!( remairs may not I,
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INHALED SULPHURIC GAS.
attal Aerideet to Employee of
" .Tororito Paper CompaiY-
A des' pateh from Cornwall says:
The
The inhaling of sulphuric gas in
the pulpdepartment-,of-the-Toront
Piper .0o.'S mills the, other day
resulted in the death on Wednes-
day' night of J.- Sibley, one et)te the
employees. Sibleyand another
man, named I. Morin, remained in
the room after the digesters -were
emptied, eontrary to orders. When
the cooledgas began to settle, they
ran for windows. Morin got. there
all re.„.,lit, but Sibley interhx1 some
of the. 05 and WS,* overcome. He
was taken to the General Hopi
tal, where he died .He was a. na-
tive of England, 32 years of age,
married,' and leaves four children.
.. POLICE RESENT ATTACKS.
Several Libel Actions are 'Entered
lioatreal.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Ald. Prottix, thairmin of the Civic
Polka Voinmitteee;has entered an
action for libel for $5,000 against
neuve, who refer
charges against his adminiztration.
nd an---ectiott4or -410,00is
*OK which editorially d
ared-that--the-police-department
was rotten to the tore. Chief of
Police Campeau has also enterecT
114 action, against La Patric on
similar grounds.
A $40,000,000 CONTRA.CT.
II lob arm to Coastnet the New
Spiel:ask Squadron.
,
patoll'' from Madrid says:
Tbe binet'lias 'decided to accept
the -*rider: of Vickers' Sons and
Maxim,he English shipbuilder
of the conatruel,jon 'of the new
qiiadren, on condition
rmconsents to certain
The amount' of the
*40.000,009,
th
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`A despatch froni Vinnipeg
*her a yeses ope ation th
plus of thaIisnitobs telephone
testes* is approximistely,s. qii*rter
et a rflHnn dollafA.after. clednet-
*/4 the cost of .torne COO miles ot
fooseptlistance lines and a. notriber
of rand system*, which have hem
oeastraeked by the Oovernmenti. In
ltiofVihe Provincial Go
t purehaseit. all the line
franchises, etc., from the
tolb.
showing 1115
aOlinet * reduction in
'ate' and toll* within the o
ilariet` of Manitoba, and ths .
now being prfttored for presnta,
tion to the Atanitoba Parliament
provides' 'for varlinis reduFtions
as, been made, exceptii
classes of long-dista
With thi* Ai* Anent
Province will also
t
ov
ui
Li
-
est*
Or
salt
‘001u
flker
' j.%
T
* at
iB , 01 .
,
k•At r :. 1ftS7 e '
MinntW4
Ontro..zu.y take trk,rofi
, ..aetion.. A ca'4Prx ' reuit. e f$ A $4OO.I
100 ritV$017044. ,anitoba ,wheati-, .,1,,..
.1 ' ePorts. the %feces*. o Northei,n, and *Lot,* or
el
. iron ores yielee- o4. Northern, (Georgian, , Bay
A 4 Hweden. ports, oe' r Northern, $1.17 to
erst rt1)ort4 a 1.,..17'0.1.1 rail; and No. 2 N4)rLb-
rge
quantity of lran4ly , in the 1 ern at $1.13% to $1.14 all, riil.
o xelze41 at Montreal. 1 Wheat-.Ont&rj_.No. '2 mixed at
$
0.
it.
It is reported that th
il1.enter upon the extension of
4 --Ontario No. , white, 42 to
their lines'in.,No" ra Scotia. 42 C autsidel and at 450- on_traek
Charles Vezina, was fined fvo Toronto; No. 2 Western Canada
hitkiidred dollaro in a Quebec court oata quotod at 45e, lake ports,
for libelling lion* A. Turgem. and No. 1 feed. 42e, take ports.
Calories Mitebell, , Teterboro Aye No. 2 quoted at Or/ to -68e
postman, wait vommitted for trial utsiele.
"a charge of robbing the mails. Barley -No. -2 barley $6, to 57e
hut 0 Atsidei No. 3 extra at 54 to 55e,
fru"Szevt4r
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.97
Py lid rob i
s
ner hub
74 7,4 , • .•
Todd, thc mitet, who did at Hani!
ilton wa alt aten up iii la.wcoats,
except su1liiezit. to pay two notes
of it 5,000 each Made by the old man
A Mall who died at the Verdun
Asylumwas known as the human
ostrich., An incredible quantity of
iron, ,glass, mils, wire and other
at-1-10-1tal iiwallow
_rota -his b
- GREAT BRITAIN.
Baron Burton, head of the great
English brewing firm of,. Bass
Co., is dead. ,
The National Service League, of
which Lord Roberts is President,
has s. seherne by which 400,000
trained men can be added to Bri-
tainPs Ileum defence in four years.
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UNITED STATES.
Thomas L. Lewis, has been re-
elected President of the 'United
Mine Worker's of America.
President Roosevelt has been of-
fered $10,000 a week for thirty
weeks to' head a wild -west show.
Dr. James B. Angell, President
of the University- of Mielligan, will
J.014;0,114.4'01* time this month.
--ShiPtninta TiOrn -the-1".rnited
States ports, on the 'great lakes
were 25 per tent. less` in 19v3 than
--047.
A New Jersey man claims to have
discovered a process by which cop-
per can be tempered and made in-.
to cutting toots. -
Slot machines that deliver an
accident insurance polieyfor
di
ime have been placed n New
York eafes and hotels.
President-elect Taft, now on is
visit to Panama, says he believes
the, great eared will be practically
eompleted in thirty-three months.
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GENERAL. •
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.King Menelik of Abyssinia is re-
ported to be dying. .
The Cape-te-Catro Railway will.
be eompleted in. three. years..
The Croivn Prince of Servia has
been injured in an automobile ac. 'Montreal, Feb, 9. -Grain In
eident. • . •oats the feeling IS Sue* with
---The--.----Itttliatt torthqUalte—relief oodrottistlys deniand
fund has now reached a total of *--Nos, 2, 94 to DSc.,,
*an We,tern No.2, 4 e; e
undial hinamen -1 feed, 4c; No., I -feed;
heir. in afir4 which destroy 4 3401-Ontatio:-.71bro-.1-_-..$4- cs-,----2,
ed a, fleet of fiower .boats at eau No., 4, 44e. Barley
2,
ton 634 to Me; Manitoba feed,
The French . Minister. of- Marine 5Ge. Buckwheat-54gto 56C.
has propose4 *a scheme of naval lour Manitoba Spring sirbeit.pato
reform involving an expenditureof c11t8, firsts, *6.430; seconds, *6-10;
$45,000,000. Manitoba 'strong bakers, -$4,
'Tito new .Erencli tariff inereasos Winter .wheat patents, 45 to *6;
the maximum duties *Whit United straight rollers,. $4.-00 .."to $4.
States ,proditetS on, An Average of straight -rollers- )4 hags .$2.15 ,to
2b per cent. . . 0,25; 'eittras in bags, ilt.75
. The British steamer Clan rfanald 65. Feed- -Manitoba, bran, i to
.tnt A° pieces off the the ,,Australian _Manitoba , shorts, n -
rot: and the Eaptain. and , of the crow weredrowned. forty- t,airio bran,' *21 to '21.504 thetts„
Newfoundlandaix has agreed t,o-the - pure grain .nioluile, 28: t
, , 0 $24.50; saladitngi, 04.50 t
terin
' of fisheriti treaty which: ,; 'mixed, InOnille, 0-$
a).
will *borgo before the United , Imeie---Finest Western,
6�3 to '7O on.track, To onto,. and
y_ellow at eia„14, to Toronto.
Offe#,441a# corn, n track,
Toronto:
Bran -Cars, $20.50 in bulk out -1
sale.. Shorts quoted at $22.50 in
bulk outside.
UNTR,T PROD
Apples -Winter, $3.50 to $4.50
per Isarrel, for good qualities, and
at $2 tob$3 for -cooking apples.
Beans -Prime, $3.80 to S1.00, and
-hand-picked, $1.9t) to,per bushel.
Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75
per dozen, and strained, 1034; .to
per pound. -
Hay -No. t • timothy, $10.50 _to
$11.50. per Ton on track here, and
lower grades. at $0 to $10's ton.
.Straw -$6.60 to $7.50 on trt4.,
Potatoes-Ontarios, 60 to (age
per bag. •
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 12 to
13a per pound; 'fowl,. 100; ducks,
12. to 1b; geese, 11 to 12e; turkeys,
16 to- 17.0 -Ter pound.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.*
Butter -Pound prints, ‘22 to 240
tubs and largir lotto, 21 to VA*
, 200; creamery rolia, 27 to
28e, awi ,solklo, tec. •
Eggs-Caselotiof selecta! 28 to
20e per dozen; picked, 26e, and new
laid are quoted at 30 to -1320 per
dozen.
Cheese -Large cheese, 13* per
pound, and twins, 131,1.4e.
IMO PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 11 to 11.1/40
per pound in eue lots; mess pork.
20 to $20.00; short cut, -$24. -
Hants -Light to medium, 1334 to
Ile; do., heavy, 1214 to 13e; rolls,
103 te- Ile; Shoulders 10
backs, 16 to 1634c; breakfast •
eon:, 15 to 1.6e.
Lard -Tierces„ 1214; tubs, 12Y
pat, .13c..
BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.,
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,States Senate, for .rati4ation.
The' South. African Wei
ko4; bring aboLutlfbderatio
as detwid on -.Presierie h
adMinistrative,, centre and
Town for legitlatiie centre..
_vat
0 lag o t atiltebt,Leg
tare oa
elip#ch from Winnipeg
The Legislature, WAS Open
Thursday afternoon with the nail
ceremonies, but with great de -
pitch, Lient..0overrtor McMil-
lan. The sipeeeh from the throne
was temark416 for its l'orevity staa
for 'its lack of anything debatable
or tonstruetive. Simple reference
w made to the telephone
n\to ths effett Oak it had
been ltpaying Inv nt :Beyond
that/ nothing notewortbr
,e4
e.„1. eastern*,
Fall iemn
eansery„ 2,50;,,
dairy roilt„ gib
35e; telee
No 1 Stook,' 25
1
12% 1234e. 33
ti)
'eft, sit$314 Win
fresh. roe tits, tie
$ ew lad
d stocka to
OAT. . LIVE
Toronto a.
toady 4nand for ohoi
t bulls ore a little
tehers'---Peolir choice butt
attle are scarce„ and the best
ized top priees. A few pick
* sold att tlis.15i the general rim,
however, for 4410106 lots was ,from
$4.40 to $4.78. Pair to good losds
averaged $4 to $4.30; mixed and
ooterrtgn classes *3.1* to *4. Sheep
Ismbse,..reir demand for ewe*
and lambs; prioes Anti at last
week's rates. Vim; select
at $$.00 to.b. fed and
Meted. Calves teady at lest
otaktons. Milch w* --lair de.
nali Y; common not
it a gootl
ranging from 10 per tent. ladsd 4
front"- the presitat, rett.s„
”.
The esikno *et by liaultoba Th� I
Compalts, whitkirnpelled the Alberta Govorrusent 'ix it your
in Manitoba. At, to follow alit, and this Goyermasat 4ect to, 034
'rchase 011.;etitls ot'sysksin, in. that Proorises will also ow* tiviPi
due.'shnw
,
„
ortsIslosaa:e
- •
s
$
1
'intase ,.,f.'re.Vf6tns A. 1 ' t' 4..: Tl*****. 411 'terna rill'
,. I.,
a*bor a;4
,
),0 _ ' • I.
new. dredfiug planta, $3,
ubile'binielingsk 4,43E00
graph lines,- *40243. .
• A• fact emphasized in, the . &Port
is that esnada.is profitinfrbbr the
e*Ixt4ence gtined at the older
harbors of Europe and laving out
. r . .
In _ea?b ASO • 1 a comprehensive
rdherne Or development. The resul
'already is a vaot increase irt ship
t ri
gtbP0,),wher
aters and sheltcr* 11*
4, struet.ed, atd dredging, .cartve
tele- out,; The 'o"nstruetion of dams in
he Plterest of navigation and for`
wa.ter conservation is strongly re-
mmended in-that'part of the re.'
Portdealing with water powers.
The total mileage of telegraph) nes
under thedepartment is 7,225,
t with .323 (Aces transmitting slur,
ing the year 103,000 messages.
OH:
rt!zu'flt hs 110
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Si.
carloads store, *1.103; Winter,
higher; No. 2 red, $1.12; No. 3
-extra red, 11.103.4s No. 2 'orbit°,
*1.10; No. 2 mixt:4, *1.10. Oor
No. 3 corn
'NW •
inalting,
.
Minneapolis, Feb. 0.
1434 *Loa; July, $1.00%; east' No.
I hard, $1.13%'.; No. 1 Northern,
$1.10%; No 2 Northern, $1.0,8% to
$1.00; No. 3 Northern, ill.0034 to
siiing. Bran -In bulk, $2L50 to
$22. '
--lifilvratikee,- Feb. `0.-,----z•Wheat•
No. 1 Northerzwlitiz to *1.14 No.
Northern,-IlLII30413144)
$Loox`. 11,ye,--;No. 1, 70e. Cern
MaYs 133340 mama. Barley -Stand.
srd,'66c; .samples, 0134 to 04e; No.
3, 62 to 64e; No. 4, OI.Vse.
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LOST IN A BLIZZARD.
Jaines Semples Brave Fight for
Lite was linavaillog.
A despatch from St -Jahr*, N.B.,
says: -Ralf covered with snow and
me, the body of James Semite of
Predericton, who with his team of
four horses, made ituch a gallant
straggle for life when lost on Lake
Spednik, near Vartoeborai,in- last
Saturday night.'s blizzard, was
found on the laire. on Thursday al.
ternoon vies spot where
three :of his horses were'7discove
ed dead on Tuesday. Search for
the unfortunat's man had been kept
up, and the aearehers. had passed
several times close the spot
where the body' was eventually
found. It lay half concealed. by
drifting snow, and from appear -
*aces Semple had made a. brave
fighb to the last. There were signs
that he had fallen into the water,
and managed, to scramble back on
tlexice only to inecurub to, the'cold.
It was supposed, that he had been
dead since Sunday. Tho body was
found on the Ainerican side of the
, 4! I InSr
Vanceboro".
Rico PROIITHITION.°
o Liquor or Firearaiir Allowei on
G. T. P. Construction.
A despatch 'from Winnipeg says
J. Quintel1, Pon140,00-..,Vont-
missioner f Police, announces that
probibitiom. Will be ' enforced
oars 1110 V. P It. -main line -and
twenty Jatea_north of the National'
lfranseontinental RariwarlifW
distriets of Algoma and Thunder
Bay. Rigid prohibition of Arearms
is alto to he enforced along the
Atire line of construction wort.
vskossEss os
Stitistkm La tondos 'Skw More
- Arrests IA Near.
despateh. from London
aloe itatiXtreit for itoft; issued
edneeday, show a large
in -
,&,ie in.,.'arrosts for drunkenne'ss
e total. being 1,154i: 8IL wore het
(ire the. &Jure for Azsor r:on?,
which' iato,show,1 aa.,
1m t6t411 umber*Of,' arse
AWA1LtED DEATH. IN A GRAVE.
Japanese 'Youth's Attempt tirilury
Himself Alive. -
. ei, area,
'24!
compile+) 5 cents to spade t
eras upon, his coffin achieved some
egree-of -notoriety even injapan,
where new things are happening
very day. He failed of his original
purpose, however.
A policeman was strolling stens
the bank of the Minatogawa River
oo-6"-di e'ref-uutoe;one- day' bsst month
wlien 110 liappened-rdilits_
of bitinbOo pipe sticking a ineh-
es a mound of fresh earth.,
Being a Japanese and also 4 police-
man, his .euriosity was especially
keen. He looked down the bamboo
pipe, but could Eee nothing,
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. - Ile had a considerable-- .
wrench put on his nerves when a
voice came out of the end of the
pipe right at his ear '
'Honorably condescend to go-
awayand permit me to elle peace-
fully."
But the policeman did not go* He
dug some Mote and finally unearth-
ed a pine box, the length of a Manta
body. andabout three feet wide.'
The. haraboo pipe- led through all
opening into the boa:, ,The police
man pried off the cover of the 1)0)4
SeOirelY Siebita-flow* and -duiutied:
the,: self-appointerl -
Yamada Itatsutato, the man 1410
would thus have died, told the pre-
fect of .police that he had wanted"
to die an a seemly. fasMon because
he was out of work. The, lack of
food had suggested to him the Prac-
ticability of starving himself to
death, but in order to he sure that
he should aeicoiliPlisli this purpose
he had determined to bury him-
self in a 8ecurely nailed calm and
await the ravages of hunger. life
didn't want to anffocitte firtit,- hence
the bamboo pipe. .
-Thei-40,-;before ,the- polieenmn
discovered him, Yamada said, he
procured the box and the- servAce of
coolie. Then he dug the. hole out
on Egeyanne and after giving the -
coolie his obi and fifty sen, his last
.bit of money, he Walt- nailed Up in
his con, lowered into the gravede
and covered under ix feet of soil.,
tdirprornbied-mter
ur,yulsAimseralive again and the
police Jet him go.
pomse
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A GlIASTLI."
'Ship LettllrooklYak tor Clittgai 117
5,000
A despatCh. from New Volt sa
iVO tti011$414 Chitie$6 orpses°
bound' by theirAptd,xeittin,15 places
.the- -Flowery ' Kingdoin left
rooklyn on Wednesday on the
steamer' Sitimoss. The bodies Of
e.A.lead Celestials' Were disinterred'
trom burying grounds all over the
United States and plaieedIrt Sealed •
to.4its, which in turti:were on.
elosed in pine boxes,- each loWled
with the ,133,111e, and history ofits
lent -6001 :t *n4 at�red lictviet!I
2ks it -the ship. '
-*
Power Pour Ti os as
of Any Other Known
pats!! from Londwo ,,wilielt 'claimh the pt‘terst rights '0*
In an address to this Royal *- 1 eir.hardened high tpoeil steli. F.*,
t'l othcr day Prof. Ar oldliveriments with a sits, to resIderi.13
• ld Inivrsity sai
the markot a British steel With 'i tho eJtk till flti,l, 'Vk'orks and. resul
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e...d that themselves itif.loz13,31'..,fat of th
.e.
itltits 'veer there worild he oa , Amerison fla:r.) wtYrt c61:,:-.tdIE;tvil y
ouitsTrupts, the., 6.tittiog powor or cd ira tf-s1 i' ‚4, A v.01 mr.,41
any now known. ' What ' Pr,, ,e,f t!� .(1t,l, liigit speed' st-el, si-ork
Arnold referred to. 'Ives a Or,olt jog ,u3 1111,,nrItt'il nt iihf.:ftli..lel,
of the Contiileatal Steel Works it Isol t..).. be. otsotel •iiv.-•• ti,:.es.; 6,
BlichloM, jiist. dixtoerelxl'',,i .4**t, ' o •li.: a. s,v.rii!,tr t 4 t)18
tmiltea '14Zoi;01 Viisicrior.,” B. N%. cs,...es.,, pri"--riss 'steel....,,.sz, twat ijkl. It
11-rttit t!ie,intinigivof the -...tosks,„', i140 ' -INAkfillt" 'e,r
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