Exeter Times, 1902-12-4, Page 2tHE Mit
• P- 68.65 ner cwt.; evitje a, tendency to
advance. Lambs are steady at from
$8.50 to $1 per etvte No Change in
eu110. Beeks are rioneleal and net
wanted
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
In Trade Centres.
'roma% Dee. 2, Wheat —• Mar-
ket is quiet. No., Spring is nomi-
nal at 67c east, and No. 9 goose at
6516 east. 'Manitoba wheel- steady;
No. 1. herd,: 80c grinding In tren-
ch; N. 1 Northern, 811e griuding
Su transit; No. 1 hard quoted at 80e
Coderieh, and No. 1 Northern at
18Le.
Barley -, The market is firm, with
No. 43'extrit quoted at 45 to 43e out -
aide. and No. 3 at 41 to /2e low
freights to New York.
Buckwheat — Demand is limited
Axel Prices nominal at 52 to 53e out -
Peas — No. 2 white quoted at 72
Lo 73c outside.
COril — Market dull, with buyers
of new Canadian at 15e west.
Flour — Ninety per cent. patents
Arra at $2.70 to $2.721 middle
treighte, in buyers' ;sacks, for ex -
ort. Straight relieve of special
brands for, domestic trade quoted at
$3.80 to 38.10 in .bbls. Manitoba
flours firm; Hungarian Patents, $4,-
10 to $4,50 delivered on track, To-
ronto,' bags included; and Manitoba
strong bakers', $8.80 to 83.90.
Millfeed Bran, $15 in bulk here,
and shorts at $3.7. At outside
pointe bran is quoted at 813.50 to
814. Mimi:feint bran, in sacks, .$17,
and ;shorts, $10 here.
Hogs continue steady and unehang-
ed. The top price lor ehoice Wigs
is $6.I2S per cwt.; and light and fat
bogs are ipsoted at $.5'.8,7L, per cwt.
:gags to Fetch the top price must bo
oS prime quality, and settle not be-
low 100 nor above 200
Following is the range or prices
for live stock at the Toronto cattle
yards to -day:
1 Cattle. •
Export cattle, per ewt
Da., light ,,. ... — ...
Botcher cattle, choice
, Do., ordinary to
Igood ... ... ...... .- .,.
Stockers, per ewt ... -
1 Sheep and La
IExport , ewes, per ewt
, Lambs, per ewt .... ...
11111013.s, per ewt ... ...
Chilled sheep, each .., ..
1Milkers and 0
Cows, each ,.. ... ... —
I Calves, ecteh ... ... ...
Hogs,.
-
Choice hogs, per ewt
Light hogs, per cwt
Heavy hogs, per cwt ...
• Sows, per cwt ... —
Stags, per (aft ... ...
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady, with cars
loads quoted at $7.50. Cured indats
in. small supply, with prices firm.
We quote: Bacon, long clear, 11 to
11te, in ten and case lots. Pork,
01055, $21; $21; do., short cut; $23.
Smoked hams, 13S- to 140; rolls, 12
Lo 12So; shoulders, 11 to 11tel
backs, 15 to 15 c; breakfast bacon,
15 to 15,1e,••, 1
Lard — The market is unchanged.?
We quote:, Tierces, 101c; tubs, li.c; ;
I
Pails, Pel to 111e; compound, Elt to
&Ole.
$1.50 $5.25
4.00 4.50
3.75 4.50
8.00 3.50
2.50 8.25
mbs.
8.40 3.35
3.50 4.00
2.50 2.75
2.00 3.00
tilvess
35,00 58.00
2.00 10,00
5.75 6.32.*
5.50 5.871
5.50 5.871
4.00 4.25
2,00 2.50
OURTHSPEROUS FARMERS
ARE INCREASING IN WEALTH,
DEBT DECREASING.
Comprehensive ,Report on Agri-
• cultural-Condi-U:0ns in
Ontario,
The Ontario Department of Agri-
culture has siust published a courpre-
hensive report giving details of the
ealues of the agrieultural resources
' of the province in 1901, with tables
showing the comparative values dim-
ing the last ten years, a number of
other valuable statistics are given,
with regard to crops, weather, mean
temperatures etc., which would
I
-pgove eXtramel37 Isere' to • stet,
COUNTRY PRoDuen.
dents cd Canada's growing agricul-
tural resources. •
Beans — The market is dull. Afe-i
n quoting the averege value of
dium bring $1.75 per bushel and•
sand -picked $2. I live stock one of the reasons for the
country's prosperity is easily seem
Dried apples — Market quiet, with The average value of working horses
prices nominal nt 31 to sic per lb. 1
was $85, about $13 higher than the
Evaporated jobbing at 61c, per lb. riding price since 1802; cattle figured
Honey — The market is steady, at $83.21, the highest average since
with strained jobbing at 8 to 81e
1895; and all classes of live stock
per lb., and comb at $1.50 te 31.75.
had increased in value at about the
Hay, baled — The market is un-.
same ratio. The price of farm labor
thanged, with offering•s Car
had also risen, the average rate per
lots worth 30.50 to 30.75 a ton ou
track. year being 3165 with board, and
$2313 without, or for the working
Straw — The market is quiet, with
eer lots on track gnoted at $5.50 to season 317.78 per month with board
35.75 a ton for first-chiss oat straw. and 327.05 without, which were
Onions — Market is steady at 0
considerably higher than the average
4,
to 45c per bushel for Canadian. for any time during. the previous ten
afford every reasonable encourege- years.
ment to the syndicate. ACRES 'UNDER CITLTIVA
There were assessedn the pro -
old, 10 to 50c per pair, and young, TION.
Poultry — Offerings of boxed lots
i
fair, and prices steady. Chickene,
! Vine° 23,086,178 acres, with which
:56.8 percent. was. cleared, as coin -
55 to 65c; live, 50 to 60e. Ducke,
Geese, Pared with 22,885,401 10:ITS and
slressed, 65 to 80c per pair.
to 7c per lb., and turkeys,
52.4 per cent. cleared in 1892.
GI 91, to
11c per lb. for young. The production of wheat was 15,-
• 943,229 bushels from 91.1,587 acres.
Potatoes — The market is firmer,
This means a crop of 17.4 bushels,
ear lots being quoted at 80 to 82c
worth 311.56 per acre, a fairly
strong argument against extensive
-wheat-growing in this mixed farming
country. The production of oats
was considerably less than oral': Year
per bag on track. Small lots sell
• at 95e to $1,
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter — The market was fairly
1894, both in total and yield
active to -day. Receipts fair and the
demand good. We quote: Fines t ler acre; the crop amounting to
78,334,490 bushels, or 32.5 bushels,
Ib. prints, 17 to 18e; large rolls and
tubs, 16 to e7c; secondary grades,•iwortla 311.77 per acre. Although the
tubs and rolls, 181 to 114.-c; bakers', i croP was smaller, the high prices
prevailing, owing to the war in
aa to 13c; creamery prints, 90 to;
21e; creamery solids, 19 to 10Sc. iSouth Africa, inade it worth several
Eggs. — Market is firm. We quote:imillions of dollars_ more than the
Strictly, new laid, 23e; cold storage, 'larger crops of several previous
20c: pickled, 180; seconds, 11c. years. Similarly the potato crop,
Cheese — The market is unchang- although only 18,116,867 bushels,
i•d. Choice large cheese, 12ec, and nearly three million. bushels less
121: to 13c. 1 than in 1900, had a gross market
value of over 32,000,000 in excess
UNITED STA.TES MARKETS. I of the 1900 crop. The value of the
potato crop was in Marked coMeast
Milwaukee, Dec. — Wheat—Stea-
to that of the -a-heat, being 350.06
dy; closed, Na. 1 Northern, 70 to
761c; No. 2 :Northere, 741 to 753e; per mum, or 318.81 higher than the
M
76eRye—Steady; ouNo. 1, average for the previs nine years. ay, :.
Bay was also a splendid crop, aver-
fil flarleyFirra: No: 2, 661e;
aging 1.81 tons; With a value of
:sample, 85 to 50c. Corn — Decem-
ber, 42' to 4.2e. 1311.47 per acre, a very much more
Buffalo, Dec. '2. Fleur — Firm. valuable erop "than it had proVed
weceseespeing„ closing ste.ong.ei, • Toe for ten years before. The total hay
No. 1 Northern, car loads at 79c product was 1,632,1117 tone, woisth
asked; No. 1 hard, carloads, 83.1e; $37,01.2,4.3;10,
whiter steady, No. 2 reel, 79c. Corn LiVn STOCK FIGURES.
—Unsettled; No. 8 yelloiv, 64c; new, There were in the province 620,343
60c. Oats—Strong; 4 -.To• white, horses, worth 350.088,465; 2,-07
351e; No. 2 mixed, 31e. Barley. — 620 cattle, worth . $59527,]10.10° 'T
.55c. at
19 to 630. Ilye—No. 1, in Rtora, ,1,761,799 sheep, yeieed
1793 • 1 101 885 hogs worth $9, -
Toledo, Dec. 2. — Wheat. closed — eoe ' '
srhile the poultry number -
Dull. higher; gasb, 784e; December,
ed, lia 111 species, 9,745,536, valued
78.ee; May, 80e.
—Dull, higher; December, 32/e; May, I
43ic. Oats at 52,8'9'172. • •
Thee° were in tho province 1,107
er; December; 11,10;
1,15„e_eco, 2, 5sc. a„„e cheese factoriee, which produced
134,062,517 pounds of cheese from
Dell, higher; 'November, $0.80;
Onry. $0.$7S; may, seasee; prime 1,434,510,520 poUnds of milk. The
cheese waS worth .312,269,0785 while
till -101.11Y, 81.75; prime alsiko, 38.50.
316,814,538 was paid for the milk.
LIVE STOCK mAftgors. 1 This represented a decline of nearly
, a minion dollars in value of both
Toronto, Dec. • 2. — There was • a cheese and milk sieve the previous
good brisk trade, with prices firm,' year, although ovee .7,000,000 more
bet not quotably changed; there was pounds of cheese were made, the
31. quick sale for all the better kinds value of the cheese decliningfroin
of eattle here, and apparently' more 30.19 conle to 9.09 cents . per
()mild easily hnve beea disposed of. 1 pouncl.
flood to clioice ,hipping eLatln sold There were registered against the
et from 4/ to 5.1,e per pound. A few, Matinees of the province 7,757 chat -
selected lots of prime cattle were 1014mortgages as eecurity for. $2,-
P01 ted as selling ep to $5.40 -per; 851,759, et deerease qf over a gear -
(est, Butcher cattle of the right ter of a minion dollars in this line
eind -were ill demand, and while 11. 01 I iltbilit,•v,
was 111)0111 the quotable limit• for since the previous year.
etds of cattle, fro111 ten to twentyA Tzp r TVP TIT TP
e ;1 11 8 more pt. er cwWOO SeVera I V'A A A A A.."'
0 C
a- Department of Intenor Denies
.• Story.
tieles paid for selections;-medinne to
good cattle sold at from 81 t
eionsiti, ',Shore was a rail' clear-
411ee (yr an the F1 un! here by nyidday.
elxport bulle are ward:ed, rend fetch
from 8,1,.• to 410 per pound. With an
ruiward tendency. (400d feeders are
teSe) wanted at unchanged but steady
priees. Mich cows of the right Mild
lirep high in price, selling up to close
et) $60 each-, the supply to -day• wee
of itoor i t p.. Good VCR I cattlx
ere et 111 311 o0 op to 810 ea('h;
i cos to-dtty ran from 82,50 to $10
• owl).
' Sheep are firm et from $3.40 1.
An 01) ri,w0 'despatch says :—The,
Department of the 'Interior says
therele no truth ia the report pitb-
lished some time ago that, destitu-
Hon exists among the Patagonian
Welsh settleslocated at Saltcoetst
it is admitted, however, that dissate
isfaetion preestila aneeng the settlers
over PI01110 of the tirrangements exist-
ing between themsels'es and the
Welsh committee in 100, OJd Counti7
which made the negetiatioes to send
0 them 1,o Canada.,
RIVAL SYNDICATES.
Two Schemes lor Taking Settlers
• Into New Ontario.
A Toronto deetpatch says: Mk: J.
P. leVan and Judge Utt, of „Ohleago,
111 returned to Toronto on \\refines's,
day with the intention pf concluding
theit negotiatioes with the Govern --
Mont in reference, to the colonization
scheme 'they' are promoting, The
Provincial Government has approved
of the prepositioes submitted by toe
Syndicate, and Mae submitted to
them en amended agreement. Cotin-
set for both sides to the :Agreement
are now working 00 the final ' details,
and the prospects are that a elate's,:
factory arrangement will be coma
pleted before Messrs, Mt and Egan
leave the city. Mr, Egan states
that the project has aroused great
interest among the tenant fginers in
the Northwestern States, and that.
the prospects are excellent for se-
curing a large number of useful set.-
tieee for ..NewOntarionbiligtrt rer let
tiers for New Onterio-
A RIVAL SYNDICATE. ;
Ateliers. E. Getchell and john
F. Langan, of Chicago, interviewed
Premier Hass on Wednesday,.with re-
gard to a scheme for the entrodue-,
tion of settlers from the United
States into New Oetaria, based • on
soMeWhat siniffar lines to the ar-
rangement now coming to a canciu-
elm with Judge lItt and Mr. Egan.
Mr. Getchell, in na interview, stat-
ed that the project he represented
-was as yet in 0 very embryonic
state. Mr. Getchell is a real estate
dealer in Chicago, and Mr. Haitian
is an 'attorney associated with him.
Mr. •Langan is a Canadian Sly birth,
DOUKHOBOR CHIEF.
"John the Baptist" Is Being'
• Vainly Searched fax.
A Winnipeg. despatch says: " john
the Baptist" hes disappeared from
vient, and only the Donkhobors know
where ho is Oevernment agents
have gone threugh the colonies, but
base) not located Ilion and when the
Donkholan's are asked regerdieg his
whereabonts, tho question is answer-
ed With a, Shrug et shoulders, or else
they say he IS at some distant vile
lege.' if the Doukhobors are 91055"
0(1 fax inforniation regarding him,
they ,exhibit extrenie nervousness., Os
though they did not Wish to be
questioned on •the matter.
Mr. 13, M. Ward, of Yorkton, aerie -
ed 10 Winnipeg.on 'Thursday, In con-
versation Mr. Ward Made the above
statement, end said 'that the Douk-
hoboes he(1 gone back to their vil-
lages only becessise the Government
forced them to do no, 'and beecalse
the weather made tramping uncrent-
feetables."As soon as the suminer is
HUNG ON WINDMILL.
:Terrible Death c4 a Dairyman Near
• BowManville;
A BoWinaiwille• despatch says.: One
Of the Saddest aecidents that eVer
happened here. Occurred early on Sun-
day morning, through the :etMets. • of
Whieh Mr. J. M. joneSe, ene of ;the
Most respected residents of •tho
neighbothood, lost his life. Mr.
Joness resided .about two Miles eeet
of the Lowewhere lie:and hin two
0011S fa:11110d 000 carried on a doirY
and milk business. Alter he had re-
tired on S'aturday eveniag, there:bee
• ing a high, wind -bloWiag, he got up,
and hastily •dressing himSelf went
dat to the barn to stop tile windmill,
which is erected on tap of the barn,
from relining By .some Means he
was Caught in the Machinery and hiS
left arm drawn in up to the shoul-
der. This Vas about 1/0,,Inight, and
he remained in this Position alone,
•
and unable to extricate lainaself,
til daylight Sunday morhing. When
he wont out Mrs, jciriess was elleePe
around again,he continued, “they ing, anti on awakening later did not
111 resume their march,. He. Ina
eealize, what time it was,. and supe
posed he bad gone out as early • as
uncial` to attend to" things' around.
barn.• When discovered on Sunday
Morning he was -partly conscious,
• but hiS sufferings theeughout .the
hOure of the night had been terrible.
Medicalaid was at onee called in,
but the -shock and expasere had been
100 11110111, 000 110 010:1 011 Sunday af-
ternoon. Deeeased was unlyerSally
tour Of the world,
tested to their satisfaction the hos-
pitalittr of tho' farmers along the
railway • track, they will have no
hesitation in taking part in another
fanatical search for Jesus. They are
11011'h
canting and praying their
villages, (10(1 although quiet for the
present, a morement IS Said to bo �n
foot. to. Induce the entire I/eel:1101)er'
population to loin in a 01155101)0137
" •JOhn the Baptist,' is lost and 1e'913°e0ed, w9,15 a Prominent' 'fig -
mullet be located, and the theory of ure in the Agricultural had Farmers'
is institute Societies, and wes one, , of
the people living in the vicinity
the leading officials in the Methodiet
that he is working hard to accom-
Church. 8'c leaves a widow, 111<00and. frequently represented to Mr. pile& his desire in again attempting
claughtm.s, and three sons, william
Getchell the magnifieent opportuni- to march 'the Doukhobors to Winni-
and Fred, who are married, ba.work
ties felt investment Offered in NrOW peg ilO noon as th------ther will per -
nut of it."
Ontario, Finally Mr. Gretchen says
he !aid the matter before some
wealthV clients. who assured him of
financial backing if the prospects
were severable. As a result of the
AFTER NIAGARA POWER.
the farm With him; and- Chart*. Who.
Was' with Howard's Scouts 'dering
the recent African Campaign.
o T°r°1:1
to Capitalists Form an In-
EXPLOSION KILLED 13.
interview with Premier Ross his
eatisfied that the Gov.ernment will ' .; dependent Company.
A cies-patch .froM Toronto says: A
synd Foote o t Toronto capi. t ails t 0,
•
8 --
AMERICAN CATTLE. understood toinclude Mr. William- A Chicago despatch says: With a
Seven Also Injured by Blowing up
of Oil iji Chicago.
:Mackenzie, President of the Toronto- deafeahig report a boiler in Swift
'
Great Britain Has Closed Ports to Railway, and AU. Fredaxid Companys plant exploded short-
eric Nicholls,
Shipments. Manaeing Director of the Canadian 1Y after e10 o'clock on Saturday
morning,. Thieteen lives. Were Sac-
rificed, and scores of employe's, "Vis-
itor% and others were injured. Huge
boilers were .sent through•the roof of
the structure and hurled hundreds ef
feet. Nobody within the boiler rexim
survived to tell the story of the sac-
ei dent. A careful investigation on
Sunday convinced the experts., thet
the explosion was.due to carelessness
on the .part of an employe „whose
OW11 Me was also sacrificed. The ex,
plosion was of such force that ad-
joining buildings were wrecked, torn,
and twiete.d likeoys.
t. Men, evoihen,
and boy's Who esibrk in adjoining de-
partments., were hurledthrough win-
dows to the ground. Many of them,
escaped with',but slight bruises, but
Ilia most of the victims were hurt
to sucli.*,an extent that it , was .neces•-
.sary to remove them to 'hospitals.
General Electric Conapany, has been
A Lonclon 'despatch says:—The [fore:led to secure power from. Ni-,
Board of Agriculture has closed the isgera, .1.04
to provide against the
ports of the 'United Kiegdom against supply being monopolized Ameri-
the importation of animals from cans. J. W. Lanemeir, elmirman of
the Niagara Fall Park Commission,
has been interviewed on the subject,
and he in turn has interviewed Pre',.
mier Ross. 'Elte Toronto company
Maine, New liampshire, Vermont,
Mass.achnsetts, Connecticut, gold
Rhode islond. The order takes effect
December .5. Cargoes arriving in
the meanwldie will be -the subject of seeks privileges along •the lines of the
special investigation. This is the reThrights •already conceded- to the Con-
sult of the discovery that the dread- 'a.dian Niagara Power Company and
ed fo,et, and month disease is wide- inc Ontario FONVC:e Ceinpany, both
spread among • cattle in the New of which. have very large Worl.'s 'now -
Ems,rlancl. States. There is a prospect
of a considerable rjee in. the price
-of •beet • In collet:tin:Since of .00.. re-
striction upon cattle imported from
Nen,' England,- arid this is causing
some uneaeinese, especially ill. view
of 'the continued prohibition cif cattle
impOrte from.Argentina. - There is a
fear, too,that the prohibition
against Now England:may be extend-
ed to ether districts and porta of
the 'United States. -
A NEW KIMBERLEY.
Diamonds Are Found. in British
Columbia.
A Vancouver, 13. C., despatch says:
Herbert Wemyss, M. E., late of the
South African diamond mines, claims
that diamonds will be found in Sa-
milkanieen, B. C. la fact, Mr.
Weneyes claims to have found several
sparklere in the rough. While tun-
neling. some quartz ho was surprised
to conie across the same formation
as in the diamond quartz mines, and
secured. What he chtims are three or
four diamonds. The Samilkameen
dietrict is a great coal country, and
the" possibilities of diamonds there
hove often been spoken of before. "The
country is full of great resources,
but is outside the line of travel, and
is not tapped by 'any railway.
• NEW WAR MEDAL.
Will Have-. Effigy of His Majesty
on the Obverse:
Are Ottawa. despatch says ;—The
King 'has eppreved of the medal for
'Oneritoriotts eervice', in future bear-
ing on the obverse the effigy of his
Majesty in place ef the effigy of lier
late Najeety Queeli 'Victoria, the
medals for "distinguished conduct in
tlep field and for "long service and
good conduct," hearing on the ob-
verse the effigy of his Majesty, in
place of the trephy ef . as at
present. The' King's effigy will he
that recently approved for the new
“Africa general service" mechil, sur-
mounted by the ••inseription. "Ed,
•warclus VII., Rex Imperator."
DIED 'FROM HORROR.
Nan Killed by Train and Specta-
• tor Expires.
, A New York despatch says alp).
McLaughlin was instantly killed by
a south -bound Harlem express train,
on the Ninth Avenue elevated road
at 72n0 street, on Friday, and a
witness of the accident dropped dead
from ellock. About thirty persons
were etanding <ih the platform ot the
72ne1 etrect station when thes acci-
eent ,oceurred, and among tOein ivete
Enimaduel Dreytue, a clerk at police
headquarters, '.11.10 sight of the ,susi-
den death affected him. violently, 0,110
he fell clown, dying almost instantly.
RECORD IN CUSTOMS.
31.88,800 Collected at IYIontreal on
Friday.,
.A Montreeil despatch eitys
Customs duos collected by the Tree -
:airy Department of the Montreal
Customs house on' Friday created a
record. The Senn. or 3188,800 WAS
91,' ed lo the credit of the Custems
aecount, The million dollar nta.r11
has glyeady been passed for tbia'
inonthmei the receipte for' this ecat.,
11011 0<0 already more than a million
11 ent.off.,ar of 11 <t sea11011.
under construction on the C.anadian
side. An engineering authority- has
stated that. when.these two..works
and the two already operating on
the American Side are. ill Itull opera-
tion; about 25 per cent. of the wo-
ter passing: down the Niagara' River
will have been diverted 1017 power
purposce. r.Ehe latest move is taken
by :Some as an indication that the
Toronto IlailWa.y Company and Can-
adian • ,General Electric Compaay
have not been able to make satisfac-
tory terms with the Ontario Power
Company' for a supply..
THREE WEEK'S TOUR..
--
Milner, to Visit the BaSilt OS and
•Several -Battlefields.
The" London Times' correspondent
at Johannesburg says Lord 3.,tilner
left on Monday on a three weeks'
tour of the Orange River Colony.' Ho;
will returinvia -Kimberley and West-
ern Transvaal, visiting the •battle-
eields of Paardeberg and MageSsfon-
tein. Lord 'Milner will meet the Ba-
suto chief, Lerothodi, at Ladybrand.
There has been for some time an nu.-
dercurrent of uneasiness among the
natives owing to 'the reports that
the Government was going to disarm
the Basutds:
Repatriation is progressing ixi. all
parts of the two eelonies, and . one
cannot go far Withoutseeing • here
and there a, white tee': or improvised
dwelling' of sod or 'sun-dried bricks,.
Despite theft. Meagre surroundings,
:LOOK TO CANADA.
Texas Range Owners Wish to Se-
cure Grazing Lands.
A Tacoma, Wash., -despatch says:
Texas cattle men are seeking to se-
cure large areas of grazing lands in
Western Canada fen. the purpose of
shipping thither • arid • feeding ,big
herds of cattje from present over-
crowded TexaS ranges. Oliver Wren,
o large stockman of Texarkana., says
that Texas this year has been ship-
ping thinner beef to Kansas City and
Chicago than ever before. There wee
no hay to feed with legit winter, and*
last .epring's range arca has become so
circumscribed by settlement that
stockmen must mOve or ,,go , out of
business, as many have :already done.
Wren is en route toBritish Columbia
to aeeertain if he and other stock-
men can secure land on which to
fatten their herds., Which they pur-
pose shipping north by rail. They
cal liraiit necesSary to inveSt large
al/10134s in • the building of sheds:,
which "thdy are illlliflg 10 do if they
can buy, ranges or lease them for
long, 1,<i i', of yee 1'S . • -
the people are glad to get back up -
CATTLE EXPORT • TRADE.
on their land, and seem< fairly well;
contemted, theie condition being • no
werse than thee: of eettlers in anew
country. In the rniilbanciiu dis-
trict which waS visited, the farms
showed 100,000 acres under dultiya-
`Mon, the craps beiag well advanced.
• .
FARMERS HAVE NO SHARE.
•
tand COmpany Has Reservations
'Upon Oil Wells of Kent. ,
A Toronto despatch say: The dis-
covery of oil in Boleigh township,
in the vicieity of Chatham, has made
a nember of farmers -wiser, but liot
richer men. • These 11.1011., who have
been happy in the belief that they
owned the „n1).oPe1'ty, now discover
that .they • owa oely the surface
rights. rrhe original patent to these
lands r was • granted on October 436,
1840, to the Canada. Companys the
Crown reserving all. miees of geld
oe silver 'that mightte foetid' there-
in. Tho, Canada Company in tern
sold the land, and reserved- to itself
any petroleum wells which 'might be
found. This appears eo be the ease
in brief; and there appears to be no
remedy for the farmers of :Kent.
QUARANTINBP, AT BOSTON,
Disease Among Cattle Le0d,r3 to
- Order From Washington.
Waslihigton, D. C., .claspatch
seys: Secretary of A,grieulture Wil -
sou on Thursday promulgated an, or-
der establishing a quarantine Of cat-
tle, sheep and other ruininants and
swine in. the New England, Statee,
011 prohibitiag the exportation of
elicit animals from the port of Bos
10<1, until further ordere. This ac-
tion is token on account of the 'dis-
covery of a, highly contegioue
CO,I46 knewn no foot end nueith
ettetii-
u< NOW 'FlOgl 000. ,
Very Successful Season Closes at
Montreal. •
• A Montreal despatch says: After a
settisfaclory season the export cattle
trade closed on Friday. Thetotal
expenditure' of the live stock • trade
for 1992 amounts to 37420,073;
which is a decrease -of 3190,713 com-
pared with that of a. year ago, but
this shrinkage of value. is accounted
for in the following items, viz., lei -v* -
01 freight rates, very light ship -
Monte of horses, and a decrease in
the export of slitep.• The total °ex-
ports wore 77,193 head of cattle,
45,331 • brad of sheep 0.110e548 head
of fioeses which • shows all increase
of 3,105 head ot cattle, et decrease of
8.107 sheep and 6,883 horses, as
coiepared with. the number:3 of 1901.
The average ',vie° paid foe cattle at
country points throughout the • sea-
son wets 370 per head, which -is an
advance ,of 35 per head °vet! tha av-
erage fletre paid a year ctgo, and
'shows :that the feonnees ha's° recele.-
ed the sum of 35,403,591, besicics
$829,155 for tilde shee,p, mid. 399,-
280 for horsek 'rho (mantas; of hay
and grain consumed on the :vostages
ainotinted in value to 3192,1500.
JAMAICA'S SUGAR GROWERS
Agitating Sox' Reciprocity With
tiriited States,
A, Kingston, Jainalegt, deeliateh
say's: The newepapere, pl a titers nd
merehante of Jamaica are joining in
,ari agitation, with 'the view Of in-
dueing the Government to open • ne-
gotiett toe s wi tli 1Vashi ng ton for
reciprocity treaty along Bees likely
to meet with 0111. aPprovel of the
'United; States, It is felt that the
11111 advantag eft Of the abolition of
the forget' bounties will be lost un-
less same 011c11f,41.'osly is forthcomitg,
NEWSITEM' C ''I't0AOS'elNe'sl'itterto fev.i.PttrtOeinninZtveli:'1,1i'Tetielolti
L Chaelesto
**rm.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
°"
Wctaskiwin,N. AIA'
W. T., will hare a
sch
public-•:ool next year.
T. T. Moore has been PrineiPal of
Acton Public School fov 24 years.
Hamilton bricklayers' wages have
been advanced to 40 csiit s an hour.
Ottstome receipts at Toronto • for
last month, show an increase of 358,-
868,87.
Hamilton. Council will submit a by-
law totaise $100,000 for needed im-
provements in the city.
The city council of St. Thomas
have. authorized the Mayor and trea-
surer to raise $3,000 to operateothe
street railway.
The Bruce Mines and Algoma rail-
way, fifteen mile,s long, and tapping
the Rock Lake Copper Mines', has
be.en completed.
r
General Manager Hays of the
Grand Trunk soya Governinent as-
sistanee will certainly 116 asked for
the new Pheific Inc
Some thirty or forty gratuities,
ranging from 317 to 385, for re-
turned South Africane, are lying in
the account offiee of the Department
of Militia at Ottawa.
• There were 37 hm
oestead• entries
made, at the Dattleford land office
in the month of October, and nearly
as many in the first live day
vs of No -
ember.
A by-law has been passed in Ham-
ilton amending the public health by-
law providing 201 the' reporting ;of
all cases of contagious diseases and
pulnionas7 troubles to the medical
health officer.
•
Old Cariboo is said to be coming
to the front, On the' Point Com-
pany's claim, on Lightening Creek,
33,000 WEIS taken out in six days.
Some Of the old channel weeh ran an
ounce of gold to the bucket.
• An alleged grain boycolt in Win-
nipeg has resulted in- a suit for
315,000 diunag,es against 2-2 indivi-
duals and Arnie engaged in the grain
business on behalf of Mel-ennan
13ros., Parker & McVicar and Jos.
P. Graves.
In a report forwarded to Washing-
ton by the -United States Consul at
Montreal appears a list of United
States companies exploiting business
In Canada. The list occupies near-
ly ten pages of closely -printed mat-
ter, and represents a large m
aount
,of capital.
I ppoultment Ot eA , %
ru., a Atel.
4s eollector of the port oxcionaleo-
-I, 1, declares that it is a ease ol ,
o ility first end eolor eeemul With
T1
1e e 1,In i t ed States Botti'd of Gen-
eral ppraisers has headed down 4
rulingy, placing zine ore, calamine,
and ehee blends On the free Het, 'un-
der seciion 188 of the Dingley tariff,
00d lilies 1Cax1sqj37,1.
i
Texas sinelteesOlidiforS are 1 . 3 L
enter the British C'olumhia _field to
p.urchase Canadian ore. Tla) Sloean
mine owners 'expect to real) gTeat
benefits.
s
ammakr.„
It is reported that rinirkish troopn
have massaered hundreds of Mace4
doniane. .,
•
At • Orio, near San Sebastian,
Spain, several fishermen have essught
a largo whale,
• The gold yield of Victoria for the
ten neonths of the present •
year
amounted to 617,380 ounces.
From Pretoria comes a report that
O /doh find of gold has been anode
eight Miles 10051 02 the city.
Fifteen thousand nativee are now
betng inocaltited weekly with anti -
plague eerum in the Punjab. „
• A Paris inunicipal cauncillor, Dr.
Cherot, has been fined a hundred dol-
lars for slapping a: clerk's face.
The • students of the 1-Irenoverian
University, •Prussia, have' decided not
to accept any- 01 1110 Rhodes seholai.-
The Inscription 'Maritime a France
have decided to allow women to be-
come sailors in some of the Channel.
fishing''sneacks.
''Hoeses are fetching.. extravagantly
higli • rents • in Pretoria. One with
four roams. readily lets, at $40e eV, ,
375 a month. , '
Not less' than four hours instree-
tion in English is to be given week-
ly in the Swedish national element-
ary schools.
13y applying glucose or glycerine lee
their roots a French scientist de-
cl ar es that he has been able to stien-
ulat,e the growth of plants.
A Swedish influitry captain 11010 -
ed Pihlstrom, residing at Falun,
Switzerland, while deinented, • shot
two of his song, aged -ten and, ejght
respectively. ••
The Premier of NOW South Wales
,
has been urged by a deputation nr"
ladies to institute the curfew bell
and prohibit the eniploymentaof bar-
maids.
Charles V. Herliska, American
Consul at Callao, Peru, spoke dis-
paragingly, .01 King Edward at a
Britieh club in Callao, and althaugh
he esea.ped being mobbed Sc was ask-
OREAT BRITAIN. ed to resign by the State Depart-
•••ment at Washington.
Influenza ennead 23 deaths last .
The Danish nobility, once very
week in London.
Theife30,000.naval reserve numenms' is fast dying out, the
,
men in the country.
• leading families having had female
'
issue only for the last. twent3r or
British trade returns show increase
thirty ,eyeare. 31 is expected that •
ed seep orts . to • the cOloniee and to
the -United States: within the next twenty yOlire--tiesses
The Marquis of Salisbury returned or more families win die out. '
to London from the French.Riviera in the .rrench Senate on Tuesday
greatly improved in health. Gen. Andre, Minister 'of War, made
,..Alderman Gilbert Finch, the , reew the statdeaent that typhoid fever ,and
'mayor of Tunbridge 'Wells, was at tuberculoeis were makingealarming
seven years of age a plow boy. ravages in the French army, averag-
• In order to deepen the- Thames, ing 2,174 deaths a year, and mak-
the conseenettors have .deteranined t saIng a death total since the treaty or
expend a taiga sum on dredging the Frankfort of 09,000, while in the
river. German armyfor the same period
The National Review has a story
that EmPeror William made a sten-
derouS ,attack on :Britain and 1Cing
Edward. •
About SO per cent. of the grocers Britain Sending Experts and Ger-
the'Manchester distriet have sign-
many Will Help. .
,ed an Agreement not to give Christ- •
mile gifts.,
,• Boards of Guaedians in several
towns have decided to ask the War
Office to pay many penSione weekly
instead of, quarterly, •
H. M. S. Duke of Edinburgh, with
her six 27 -ton and ten 6 -inch quick -
firing gulIS, is the most heavily arm-
ed .etenSer hi the world.
COTTON IN WEST AFRICA.
The Lohdon Times announces that
P. S. Seevers of Texas, who bon en-
tered the service *of tbe Col
Office under the auspices of the Bri-
tish Cotton. Crowing Association, as
1111 exPert on cotton growing, is go-
ing to Northern Nigeria to' com-.
memo operations in cultivation of
the, plant there. Another expert will
Glasgow's • big scheme to spend probably be sent to Sauthern Nie
;.,750,000. in.buying 50 acres of land gerta On a similar mission. The Co -
and building houses for Poor work- Ionia] Agriculture Combittee of Bor-
ers oneit has 0011,1)ee31esouctioned.
London Daily Express says
the Mortality'in British soldiery ex-
ceeds that in .any first -claw poNyer!S
army, :and lays the blaine upon wie
senitatk barracks.
The death is announced 'at Stock-
ton-on-Tees, at the age .01 95, of a
AUs. Fenwick,' who was the daugh-
ter of Capt. jacked:1, Lord Nelson's
captain at the foretop at the -battle
0-1BCrlteaiNnileis. •
seeking to secure gold
bars valued at 3650,000, believed to
have been.consigned to Kruger and
Leyde; and Gen. Botha ,has also de-
manded that they give up for the
poet. people funds amounting -Le 32,-
500,000.
UNITED STATES.
• Broker -Starbuck of NeW York died.
oii 7.'uesday as a, reSult of having a
C0111 removed, . •
At the annuel meeting of the Mass
seehusettei State I3card of Trade . in,
13 os ton res ol I One; ,r11.)rOvilig recipro-
'zit). with Canada were passed. .
• Boring the deer season.
juet. closed, fourteen. /nee were 1(1110(1
nnd eleven wounded ift the wood e of
33tinneeota, Wisconsie and -
Michigan.
eet, le New York wall •Pa-
per king, whose bus -limes has lucreas-
etl alethe rate of a million•dollars
year, has been committed to an in-
.
sent ty asy 1 n in . ,
• °come fertelbe of seetngton, ley„
aged 26 years, slept with a 1)133,001
undet. • his pillow, and 1<, 81111j001 to
901110 0111i1011 189.0, 0,00 on Monday night
shot 1111)1501f :in bed. •,
• DresSelent J 11n Mitchell of the
tilted Mine Workers is to weite •
boOkdealing with; cepltet and lahor;
Which Will include it detailed Story of
the 1900 and 1902 strikpig
A anique expreSs parcel left Troy,
14; Y., Titesday night Containing an
0110171110119 potato, weighing several
901001e, 011(1 60051)300(1 from N. •
Hulett, of Powlett, Vt., to the Njeg
of England,
en tee reseanrents and hotels Of
(2.`10Ong0, • tNVO 1110101efl • 00041' and •Wo-
men who sipsd live or sik hours a
day peelhag pot 100<15 have, ferreted a
lotion,. • in order ' obtala 'Shorter
Seatee end bettee pe3<.
lin, which has been making exPers-
anentn ia cottoui groieing in Togo -
land,• promises to help England i»
the effort to 9,1010, cotton in, Africa.
SOUFRIERE AGAIN ACTIVE.
Inhabitants Evacuating Villages
on WestCoast. •
A Kingston, St. Vincent, despatch
says: A • 'violent • eruption of La
Sourri'ere, the fifth. big outburst since
the catastrophe • of Ma' 7, took
place on WedneSday. • Georgetown.
e 11(.1 11 attelt0
ile ‘1,1i 1 Itatiow
ge oh
.ef s coast
ot s
s t pell ai
s
Vineeq' 106110 again • evacuated by
their inhabitients. Telephonic cdin.-
Implication in those districts is in-
terrupied „to fierce lightning.
Subterranean ruinbling•s .cen be
heard and vol caul c (no u ds 0 50611
Iran' this city. • The,crateClins been
50)01
gn ocfc5110selonbtelYr 1s6i, 000. the terrin'
BOHOTLE R,ELIEVED.
Mad Mullah Is Preparing_
Stubborn Resistance.
:An Aden, tiettbia, despatch says:
General 1111.1)1)11)3 1. flying columa 11.
11010(1 Bolioile, Somaliland, Noveine
bov 10• Be found 35 per centof
the men composing the garrison 5u4'
foul,, front 111 n 101i 11 1 fever. -The Man
1.1t1111.1.1) is in the vicinity of Mudtlig,
prepnring to conteet any udvitrice of
the British.
• 'THEIR OCEAN GRAVES,
Five 1-Itmelreel Dead Chinainea Go
to the Bottoni.
A. Victoria, 13.. ti„ (lest:Aix:11 says:,
The steamer Ven tee r • eSh ich :
took 1.111111)01` 11000 thin 0 Wit to . tele
Cri en t , has winder ed ear. ildkieega, •
Pear New Zedlattel, •when .botinci. from
.Wallingtem to Hoag Nong 0,--
347 tons Of coal and .500 catilne. cone .
tabling .the teihains 01 01101080 .hir, •
interment in Chinas