HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-10-22, Page 2TEE 111IDS IS.
REPORTS mom wttm LEADING
TRAD34 cENTREs.
Prices o Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
anclat Other Dairy Produce
at Horae and Abroad.
MARKETS OF WORLD.
Toronto, Out, 20,--Wheat-The
userket is firm for Ontario grades on
Unthed offetiegs, No. 2 white and
red winter aro quoted at 76 to 77c
low freights. No. 2 Spring t 7Se
to 8e oust, and No. 2 goose at 70c
eat. Manitoba grades ateacly, with
ao No. 1 hard °leering, axed the
price is purely nominee At upper
lsa.ke ports No. 1 Northern is quoted
at 88e, and No. e Northern at 82c.
Oats -The inereces ie unchanged,
with demand limited. lee. 2 white
is quoted at 28 to 28. west, and
at 29c east. No, 1 white, 29e to
80e east.
Barley -The dentand is fair, with
ofTerings lixrdted; No. 2 quoted at
45e nriddle freights; No. 8 extra, 48e
micelle freights, and No. 8 at 41 to
a2c midnle freights.
Rye -The market is quiet, with
prices steady at about 50e high
freights.
Peas -Trade is dell and prices un-
changed. No. 2 wilite quoted at
02 to •68c high ire/gilts, and at 64c
east.
fluelewheat-The market is dull,
with quotations 41 to a2c at. out -
ie points, •
Corn -The market l quiet, with
prices .steakly. No. 2 yelow Amer-
ican quoted at 56ec on track Tor-
onto; No. 8 yellow at 55c, and No,
mixed at 54a Toronto.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
unchange'd at $8.05 middle freights
In buyers' seeks or export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domes-
tic trade quoted at $8.40 to $8.55
in blols. Maxitoba flour unchanged;
No. 1 patents"$4.75 to $4.80; No.
2 patents, 84.45 to 84.50, and
strong bakers', $4.30 to $4.35 on
track, Toronto,
Mi Ireed-Bran steady at fa% and
shorts at 318 here. At outside
points bran is quoted at 818.50 and
shorts at $17. Manitoba bran in
seeks,. $18 and ehorts at $20 here.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market is steady, with
receipts fairly large. There is a
good demand for choice qaalities. We
quote :-Firest 14b. ro Is, 17e to
18c; selected 'dairy tubs, 16 to leyee;
secondary grades, 12e to 14c; cream-
ery prints 21 to 22c; solids. 19c to
20e.
Eggs -The market is firm. We
quote :-Strictly new laid, 20e; fresh,
gathered, 18c, and piekled sell at 16
to 17e per dozen.
Cheese -Market is quiet, with pric-
es steady. elre quote: Finest, 11.ec
per lb., and seconds, 11 to ilea
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are unabangekl. Cured
meats erm, with a fair demand, We
-quote :-.-Bacon , Jong dear, 1.01 •,to
10ecs in ton and case lots. Pork,
mess $18 to $18.50; 'do. short cut,
$21 to 821.60.
Smoked nieats-Hams, neat to,
medium, 14 to 14ec; do., eteaery, 13
to 18ec; rolls, 11 to 11ec; shoulders,
101e; backs, 15 to 15S,e; breeklest
baron, 14e- to 15e.
Laid -The market is steady, with
fair demand. Tierces, gee; 'albs,
inl,e; pails, 91c; compo'ead, 8 to 9c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal,. Oct. 20. --Manitoba
wheat is higher, being quoted at
83ec or No. 1 Northern, and 77ec
kr No. 2 Northern, ex store, Fort
Menial/1; this as above the export
price, and as yet the millers are
buying up most of the offerings; all
that 1ms come here so far bas been
coneigned to a raillime firm, and it is
doubtful whether niech will he ex-
pected before the close of eavigation.
Eggs are firm, with an upward ten-
dency, on account of the cool weath-
er. Batter and cheese are steady.
Grain -Peas, 63c high freights, 721 -
to 73c afloat Iwo' rye, 53c east,
581c afloat here; buckwheat, 52e;
No, 2 oats, 85c in store, and 831 to
Bee afloat; flaxseed, $1.15 on track
here; feed barley, 50e; No. 8 barley,.
52ec. Fleur -Manitoba patents.,
e4,80; seconkle, $4.50; strong bak-
ers',$4.25 to $4.50; Ontario straight
rolers, $3.90 to $4; in bags, $1.90
to $2; patents, .$4.15 tto $4.40; ezr-
tras, $1.70 to $1.75: rolled oats
$1.80 per bag, $3.80 per bbl. Feed
-Manitoba bran, $17 to $18; shorts
320, bags inclu;ded; Ontario bran,
in bulls, $15.50 to $16.50; eltorts,
In bulk, $20.50 to $21.50. Deans--
Ceetice primes, 81.70 por bush in car
Iota Provisions -Heavy Canadian
short mit pork, $20.50 to $21; .
short tut, $20 to 820.50; comerbanid
-refined lern,Sc; proeaserthan lard,
ficrIcett rendered, 10 to
1,01c; bares, 12e, to 14d; :baton 14 to
15e; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $8
to $8.25. Eggs'-,Cankileid selected,
19c, and straight receipts, 17c; Mon-
treal limed, 16 to 17e. Cheese-On-
intio11e, to 114e; Townships, 10ie;
Quebec, 10gc. Butter -Townships
memory, 201 to 21e; Quebec., 20,ec;
:Western 'dairy, 16a
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UNITED STATES MA nicc,,,rs,
Buffalo, Oct. 20. -Flour -Steady.
Wheat -Spring bleier; No. 1 big,her;
86e asked; winter firm; No. 2 ro'cl,
84c. Corn -Quiet; No. 2 yellow,
Silic; No. 2 corn, 50c. Oats -Quiet
No. 2 white, 4'1 ,c; No. 2 mixed, 39c.
Baseee--Nosterp, 51 to 63e c.i.f, Rye
-No, 1, 59e in store. Cabal
freights -Steady,
Duluth Oct. 20.-Wheet-To ar-
alive-No. 1 hard, 821c; No. 1, North-
ern, &tee; No, 2 Northern 78,10; Oc-
i ober, 81ic; December 'net; May
78Se,
Mi cheapens, Oct, 20.-e Wheat -
December, 804c; May, 791c; on track
No. 1 hard, Wee; No, 1 Northern,
82ec; No, Northern, SOSc; No. el
Northern, 76 to 70c,„
alliwaincea, Oct. e0e-Nheat-No. 1
Northern, 84 to 840; No. 2 Norths
ern, 81 to 88ce No. 8 Northern, 79e
to 79ec. Rye -Deli; No. 1, 56 to
561c, Barlee's--LoWeri. NO. 2, 6504
sample, 40 to 00ec. 00 eceme
ben, 45 to 45:Se.
CATTLE MARKETS,
Toronto, Oct. 20. -Liberal offerings
of live stock were mode at the Week -
ern Market to -day, and business in
all lines was brisk. The prices of
the best grades of butchers' arid
feeders held erne weile those of the
lighter classes of stockers and bat -i
cabers' were barely steade, 1
Hardly any good exporters came
forward. and very few of the "rough ;
and medium. qualities. One load of 1
rougis ones, 1,250 lbs, to weight,!
was sold for $4.20, and another lot ,
of ten, averaging 1,260 lbs,. also
changed lianas.
Not enough choice butchers' to sup.;
ply the demand were offered, andl
valeta in consequence were stroug,1
without an advance being recorded.;
Choice enixnals of this class contirme
to be midi enquired after.
First-class short -keep feeders for
the dietilleries conanan,cled a steady
market, and buyers could levee done
with more then they got. The values
of these were pretty firm in inost
cases, Isut some Of tlae sellers come'
planed that the buyers were more
particular than before, a,nd that any
tattle not quite up to the standard
were not so easy, to get rid of.
A number of light stockers and
canning cows and bells were on sale,
but vakess in these were low by
reason of the liberal receipts there-
ot.
An active tra.kle in lambs was re-
ported, several choice lots lerInging
as much as $4.25 per cwt. But the
heavy deliveries depresse:d the mar-
ket, which closed weak, The Prices
of exporters' and bucks were stead-
ily maintained.
Calves continued steady and un-
changed,
An active enquiry for mina cows
was a feature, Not enough came
forwexd 10 supply tho domand, and
even those were not of the higil
quality desired by the buyers of this I
market.
Tbe deliveries were SO cars, 1,217'
cattle, 1,661 b.ogs, 2,748 sheep and
Iambs, and 89 calves,.
Owing to the light offerings of ex-
porters' the quotations of these were
nominally maintained. Best ex-
porters, would bring $4.60 to $4.75;
fair to good, $4.40 to $4.601 and
light 34.10 up.
Export bulls of choice quality were
quoted at $4 to $4.25 per cwt., and
medium at 38.50 to 83.90
Heavy export cows sold at $8,543
to $4 per cwt.
The 'demand for the best grades of
butchers' was brig.., the supply be-
ing limited. Lower grades
were steady and mechanised. We
quote ::-Picked lots, 1,075 to 1,150
lbs.,' 34.135 to 34.50; esood loads,
$4 to 34.25; fair to good loads.
88.60 to $3.90; conunoe. $3 to
33.40; rough and inferior, $2.25 to
$2.80; canning cows and bulls. $1,75.
to $2.25 per cwt.
Trade in feeders and stockers con-,
timed good, and quotations remain-.
ed about the same as before. Our
prices follow :-Feeders, choice steers,
1,050 to 1,150 lbs„ $8.50 to 83.80;
heavy short -keeps, 1,150 to 1,250 •
lbs., $3.90 to 34.15; stockers, 600
to 800 lbs., 32.75 to $8.25; stock
calves, yearling steers 400 to 600
lbs., $2.50 up; off colors aid poor
quality, same weigats, $2.25 to
$2.50 per cwt.
Instirery 'bulls, 1,000 to 1,106
lbs. sold at 82.50 to $8.12e, per
cwt.
Mil& cows sold at 830 to 86.0
each, according to quality.
Lambs opened firm, but the mar-
ket became easy at the close. We
quote :-Export ewes, $3.40 to 83.-
50; lambs, $3.75 to 84.15; export
bucks, $2.50 to $2.75 per cwt •
Oalves con nue steady a 2 o
$10 each, and 4 to 5ec per lb.
Hogs were quoted as follows
Selects, 160 to 200 lbs. prime bacon
quality, off cars here, 85.40; lights
and fats, $5.15 per cwt; sows, $4
per cwt„ and stags $2 to 83 each
STREET CAR HELD UP.,
Daring Robbery by Two Highway
men at Toronto.
A Toronto casspaech eays: A daring
hold-up of a street ear conductor
took place on King street west en
Thursday morning. Car No. 022
was held up at 12.80 by two highe
wayinen, and Conductor Wan- Hose -
aid of 068 Queen street west was
robbed of $25. The cer, Which Was
on ItS last trip, was run/Xing to the
pancesealles bens. There were Ito
passengers on board. At Wilson
a,veaue two men lumped on the ear, •
one, of them :pointing a revolver at
Howard, whilst the other grabbed
the box, Howard made an effort to
ring the bell to alarm the motorman,
when his assailant threw him off the
car, stunning him. The motorman,
ITarry Irwin, stopped his ear, took
off the handle bar, gave chase to the
man with the fare box, bit Min on
as heo.d and i'ecovered•
the meantime the man who had been
struggling with the conductor got
away, taking with him the pouch
with the cash which each conductor
has to carry, amountieg to $925.
The pollee at No. 6 station were
notified that the robbers lad gone
down Dowling, avenue. P. C. Cron-
in, 246, ran down Huxley street clad
; met two young men running. He
grabbed one by the throat, pointed
this revolver at the other, threatening
to shout if be did not surrender, and
he surrendered. At the police sta-
tion the two men were identified by
the conductor and gave their names
as Wm. Band and Joseph Ross, 237
Parley avenue, both aged 23.- The
revolver which Rand Is charged with
;presenting at the conductor was not
found on either prisoner, neither was
the conductor's pouch and money,
Conductor Howard was badly injured
about the head, which is now swath-
• ed in bandages. Tis wouncis were
' dressed by Dr. Harrison.
Howard's pouch was found next
morning an a yard close to the scene
of the robery, but there is still no
trace of the revolver flourisbed by
one of the highwaymen. The sum
of $1.40 was in the pouch. Some
money and tickets are still missing.
TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN.
London Boy Confesses to Laying
Chain Across Rails.
A London, Ont., despatch says:
Arthur Davis, aged 15 years, was
arrested on Wednesday charged with
having placed a piece of heavy chain
across a rail in the Grand Trunk
yards hero a few 'days ago. The
place is close by the Thames River
Bridge, and railway men say that
had a train attempted to pass over
the chain it would certainly have
been 'derailed. The embankment is a
15 -foot one, and but for the fortu-
nate discovery of Davis' act,- a ter-
rible wreck must have resulted. The
goner, who bears a bad repute-
tiore has confessed his guilt
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JURORS FLIPPED COINS.
Reached a Verdict With the Aid.
of a Few Nickels.
A despatch from Lawrenceville, Ill.,
says: in the Laavrence Circuit Court!
here a. jury trying the case of the
State against George Ryan, charged
with assault to commit murder,
could not reach a verdict after be-
ing out thirty-six hours. One of
them suggested flipping nickels-
hea,ds to convict, tails to acquit. Tile
idea wae adopted, and the second
flip showed four heads and eight
tails, resulting in aequittal. The
court accepted the verdict, but did
sot know how it Was reached until
text day. The State will get a
eels' trial and the jurors May be in-
dicted,
NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT
X,erge Increase in Acreage and.
Condition Goo&
A. Sydney, N.S.W„ despatch says:
The Goverrithent cetinuttes tee area
of wheat in New South 'Wales at 1,-
826,048 acres, or 226;600 twee
abased tlio, area in 1902. The condi-
tion ofthe Wheat le dirsiinetly good.,
DIED IN A RAGE.
Fatal Outburst of Passion Over
Act of Auton-sobiliats.
An. Albany, N.Y., despatch says:
Bryan Sheehan, aged 57, died of
apoplexy on the western -turnpike
just outside tee city limits on
Tuesday from the effects of a fit of
rage while berating an automobile.
party, which had passed hen, and
scattered a drove of his cattle fel-
leeeng his waggon. Sheehan was
standing up in his wagon, fiercely
enouncing the automobile, wbich
was driven by- F. S. Howen -of this,
city, when he suddenly pitched head. -
long from the wagon, and when pick-
ed up was dead, Sheehan was well
known as one of the 'pioneers in the
cattle business in connection with
the West Albaitystock yards.
VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE.
Sun Spots 172,000 Niles Long by
e 58,000 Miles Wide.
A 'Washington despatch says: The
United States Naval Observatory on
Wednesday made observations of the
extraordinary veep of solar spots
visible on the sun, the largest group
discovered i11 the last decade. The
observations are under the direction
of George H. Peters, who made a
statement, saying:- ”The group con-
sists of about nine spots in all and
now show indication of condensing
inti) two principal spots, or groups,
somewhat separated. Tuesday the
total lengthof the disturbed region
was 172,000 miles, with a width of
about 58,000 miles. The group was
easily seen by the naked eye at the
Naval Observatory by several ,of the
astronomers and ought to be conspi-
cuous objects for several 'clays yet.
A brilliant aurora was observed last
evening."
SHOT HIS SON DEAD.
Sad. Accident on St. Lawrence,
Near Brecksville.
A Brockville despatch says: San-
ford Darling, of McIntosh's mill, and
his 18 -year-old son were duck hunt-
ing on the St. Lawrence Fiver in a
skiff .on Thursday. The father shot
at some decks, which 'dived after the
shot. He asked his son, who was in
the bow of the skiff, to watch for
them to rise while he reloaded. Be-
fore 1 e had Meshed leadin,g the son
exclaimed that the decks were in
sight again, in the excitement of
the mornent the gun was, in some
unaccountable manner discharged in
the father's hands, the full charge
passing through the boy's side,. al-
most disemboweling hen. The lad
uttered an exclamation and immedi-
ately fen back dead into his father's
arms.
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
young Mae Accuses His Father of
Two Murders.
A Chicago despatch says; Frank
Pavlik created a dramatic scene in
.Tudge ClifTord's court. Pointieg an
accusing finger at his father, charged
with killing bis wife, he declared
that the latter was guilty not only
of wile -murder, but also of matricide,
”The murder of my mother is not
the first one committed by my fa-
ther," said the accuser. "In -Bo-
hemia, where I was born, he killed
Iiis own mother. He because enrag-
ed at my grandmother and struck
her a vicious biota For three weeks
elle suffered and finally stied. My
father was never punished for that
crane."
Attornees. for the defendant told
the jury Coy would make no cloniale
of the cheese that the defendant kill-
ed his wife, but would eeek to morel
him ineafee • e I
GRAVEYARD OF TEIELAKES
1,ONG POINT ISLAND ON LAKE
ERIE,
The Pile of Sand That Causei a
Wreck Almost Every
Year.
"Cleasoyani el the Great Lakes" is
the name that. Itae been applied to
'bleak Long Point Bland, witieli Sias
ite begun:nig a few miles east of
Port Berwale Ontario, turd thrusts
itself unwelcomed twenty miles out
into• the middle of Lake leries fetch-
ing up some elatesfour miles west
of Buffalo.
Graveyard indeed it is, as. the spars
and •deck timbers tied ironwork that
cover the whole south beach testily,
but it is aleo the finest fiehing and
hunting preserve of the Great Lakes.
On the sand eels there are thou-
sands of deer; in the marshes in the
fall and spring, wild deters and geeee
congregate in nellions„ and off the
north shore there are as game Imes
and pike as fishentem ever threw
line for.
iskathis triangular, iwerity
miles long and about six miles broad
nt 'its widest part. Of the eighteen
thousand acres contained in it six-
teen thousand are purely marsh, en-
der riot more than six feet of water
all the year, and overgrown with
quill -reeds, through wbice aunkireds
of narrow waterways run. A few
hundred euads back from the eolith
beach are the sane continous
from poira to mainland, sending off
a half a dozen points short ridges,
that reads out into the marsh like
the teeth of a gigantic comb.
The saudbills are surmounted by a
thick growth of red cedar, and
through these scurry innumerable •red
foxes, Through these also, the deer
bave their runaways, braieg .worn
off tae lower limbs to a height of
four feet and beaten the ground un-
derfoot to a firmness :tot exceeded
by that of paved streets.
SOUTH OF THE SAND ITJLLS
there is the beach, on width one can
walk ball a ems, without being ro-
wel -eel to step froin wreckage. For
half a mile from, shore yellow bars
extend, in parallel lines, changing
with every breeze, and ever waiting
for eniva vessels that may be
blown in their direction.
It was United Empire Loyalists
who fast made use of the islauid. A
certain Capt. Ryerson obtained it
from the renesieh Government to
complete his grant of land on the
mainland. For many years it form-
ed an admirable breakwater for the
excellent harbor of Port Ryerse, on
the north shore of the bay.
In the may '70s an English noble-
• man organized a, stock company and
bought the island from the captain's
heirs. Fifty deer from the Carnelian
Noetewest were turned loose -upon
the Inlee and many guards were set
at work ki ling the foxes and rattle-
snakes and looking alter the new
denizens of t•he cedars. The 'deer
multiplied rapidly. By 1885, when
the company had had thc islamd
fenced off,had budlt lodges for the
keepers aria had erected clubhouses
for the members, it is estimated that
there were 8,000 deer on the island.
Since that time the company has
had no end ol freebie in protecting
its property. Its deer have been
hunted pereds•tently by poachers. Its
own keepers even have fought for
the pritelege of kiring the deer they
wanted, and eventually won it, after
a detective sent to watch them had
been shot.
Fishermen with hook and line are
not molested, so plentiful aro the
game fish, but the company prote.cts
the ducks and geese with all its In-
genuity. For twenty years it had
littic troulle with them, but recent-
ly it has been almost impossible to
prevent poaching.
At the time of the purchase of the
island a. Government surveyor mease
tired the land and the company hunt
-a flimsy fence around its property.
ON THE NORTH snomr,
in twenty years the marsh grew
amazingly, so that in the first nine-
ties there were .several ernes .of new
land, outside the company's fence.
On this new land one day a poacher
squatted and built' a hut. Keepers
ejected Mm, by force, but the squat-
ter took the matter to the coerts
and won. It was decided' that the
new land was no man's land and
that to hold it, it was necessary to
squat tse it, just as the poacher had
done, Other poachers got on the
ground before the company took pos-
session, and since then the company
has bad to guard its line fence with
almost a bankreptmg force of keep-
ers to prevent poachers from ewer-
etepping a few yards when the shoot-
ing on their side of it gives out.
Apart from the keepers, there are
only two fanzines on the island,
those of the lig:lithos:et keepers of the
upper and lower points. The apper
keeper is not farther removed from
neighbors than the average farmer,
but the lower guardian is isolated
from every one.
It is twenty miles as the crow flies
to the Canadian mainland and thir-
ty to the American, while to reach
the nearest 'keeper ee must paddle
througb. marsh and swale for fifteen
miles. In the winter, whop the ice
has not formed clear across the bay,
there are teeny months whee he can-
not see any save those of hls own.
family,' and with his pipe and his
newspapers of ancient date* he must
be content, '
In 1897 the winter cease on very
soddenly, and tee Government 'tug
that carried provisions to the keep-
er was unable to cross the bay. The
keeper, a man named Cook., was on
the Verge of starvation for nearle a
week, 4 freshet hawing washed out
his teller. The opportune , arrival
of the Long Point Company's tug
from Pore Burwell prevented' the
adding of another 'tragedy to the
long list fo/' Which Long Point has
been reef:oaf:1W •
MOST OF LONG, POINT'S FAME.
Jas dome from len-se:et .. The is-
land lies in such s position as to be
a natural menace to naleganen, no
Metter from whet 'direction a gale
blowe, The prevailing weal on
Lake Erie le from theeenueletveet,
and the Log wave1i,. getting)" their
• nelpeees at Toledo, and paced by. a
eixtS breeze,. sleike the south
shore with tneuendeue force. A ship
(Aught ie a strong wind cannot
avoid being forced from its course,
arid if it fetches up against Long
Point there is little Slope for it, All
(done; the south shore the bottom of
the lake seems to be quicksenkl, and
o thousiescl anchors meld hardly
prevent •a boat from drifting:.
• Within tee poet there is excelatia
anchorage. The bottomsis of firm
clay, and not ewe in the strongest
northwest gales Steve vessels .irifted
Let there arise a southwest storm
and every need on the lake earned -
la Lely puts for Long Point Bay, and
often te tee fall 01)0 can count a
score or more of ships, from 400-
1ooters to eighty -ton schooners, 411
waiting for the wind to go 'down.
• During the greet November storm
of 1897 sixty -41i110 vessels lay wait-
ing there for a week, hiding beldnd
the Sand hills, against which thun-
derous waves were beating on the
other side, not niore than -a quarter
of a rune distant. Not once was
eno-ugh wind or sea felt aboard them
to cause onies.coffee to quiver in the
cup till the waves running below the
point heel thrilled the inner
bay. Men oe the ;decks of the ves-
sels in the, fleet 0110 night early in
that storm were suddenly startled by
the sound of a gun. The report was
followed in a few mInntes by a rock-
et that shot far resew tee sand
Immediately a number of sailors put
off :and clambered up the side of the
bills. They saw a, big boat
WALLOWING IN THE WAVES.
Sea was headed 'down the lake, and
not a man among the crowd but
parl•laayelvatret ethhee apeillgeittel,wilivinalscerr racethe
point. After an Smiles struggang,
however, she sank.
The next morning one could see
two spars standing out. of the water
ten miles above the loWer point. To
one two men clung; to the other
third man was hanging. Two hun-
dred men saw them, but not all the
21)0 were able to eelp the three.
Occasionally one of the three chang-
ed his position; one could imagine
ee was looking for a boat. no next
'day one appeaxed,. a big ore boat.
She sighted the men and started to
rescue them. Three times she sail-
ed around them before she was 'able
to get close enough to pick thein off.
They .were actually frozen to the
Evers.
The steamer that sank was the
Idaho, carrying a crew of twenty-
two men. 1 -ler captain had run past
?he shelter Long Point held out to
eirn and it was only when Le bad
nearly reached the upper light that
he saw his 'danger, In coming
about to run undet the point the
Idaho sprupg a leak, and the race
against kleeth taen lasted only half
an hoer, He was making good
headway against the leak, but the
wind threw eim upon one of Long
Poings bare, and the graveseuel re-
ceived a score more corpses.
In the hundred years 01 navigation
it is estimated,* and the estimate is
probably low, that 1,500 men baste
been drowned near Long Point.
Nearly every year there has been a
Iserious wreck off the island. At
seven places on the beach there are
whole hulls of vessels, cast high
and dry by the waves. A dozen lie
on the bars and there are perbaps
FORTY saw= SUBMERGED.
• Some of thein )lave been there so
long that their names are forgotten;
others stili retain.the paint.
A few years ago palsies of the
Dean Richmond were cast ashore
tbere, though the Dean Richmond
sank, no one knows where, almost
a score of years ago. • Few people
are rescued from vessels that sink off
the Pointe,
The crew of the John IL Noyes,
which sank in 1838, escaped by find-
ing a foothold on the side of the
'bids, only to be starved 'to death
through their inability to find tee
Slut of a keeper. A sailor who con-
tinually repeats the words "John
Dennis," aud is now in a Oancullan
ineane asylum, was cast ashore a
year later in almost the same place
and was.found to be crazy. Three
vessels went delvzi that night but
no one knows from which one .
was reecued. One negro °illy has
lame cast ashore there, to live, and
'immediately after he saw Ids rescu-
ers approaching he jumped againdeto
the water, to drown.
One tragedy of the island, with a
dash of comedy, deserves to be
chronicled. A fisaerman of the main
land, Helmer by name, an octogen-
arian, 'dreamed al a box of geld
underneath the °ply beech tree on
the ieland, Finding on one who be-
lieved him' oft . he set oalone to pad-
dle aroundthe point forty miles to
the scene of his dream. There he ex-
cavated about the beech tree's roots
the marks of Ids digging still re-
nraining, and he found, not a box of
gold, but a cask of old port wine.
Lightning played around him as he
heaved the cask aboard his skiff.
Childishly, he disregarded it and set
off. In hall an hone tee storm
caught eine and the skiff the
cask, washed sahore nelct 'told
of his death, It was pot, however,
the fa,ult of the storm alma' the
bunghole of the cask ead been tam-
pered with and a good quart of the
wine had been removed. Probably
the old man fell overboard in 'trying
to remove another getixt.
LABOR IS SCARCE.
C. P. R. Cannot Get Men at 82 Per
Day, Mr. Meleicoll Says,
A Montreal despatch says' Mr. D.
General Manager of the
0., P. R., commenting on labor con-
ditions in the west, says:- "I have
batches of letters here from contrac-
tors telling of delay in work on aa -
count of inability to seeure labor*
We pay $1..75, $g, and in many eas-
es more that: $2 a day for men, yet
,we cannot obtain them. I think this
scarcity of labor is a favorable sign
aft en indication of prosperity. • If
there were lebor to spare, 'it Wotad
be the result of industrial depression,
end *heft there is none to be ban it
ie becatase there is general prosper..
itv."
CATTLE POR TH: E N'ORTHWEST.
'NODemand foe Stocleare on the
•. • - atanehos.
. lVtle. F. 37, Irodsole Dominion Live
Stook Oomtnissionero says that at
earesent the trade an stockers be-
tween the °icier pravinees and the
North-west Territoeles is in a very
unsatisfactory condition and mane
•:of those . who have been ekapping
young cattle to the Northwest this
seaso11 have base very meals disap-
pointed in the pricee realized..
Meier date oS September 2.241, Mr.
• ChM, W, Pet -come •Secretary of the
Territorial Live Stoels Association,
writes : 'selethes. the past 'ft/Mc-from
four hundred • to eix hundred stock-
ers have readied Oalguey altonct- and
the emend here is absolutely asil.
These people meet either take their
steck elsewhere or low: eeavily."
There are several reasons for this
coadition of Wales. . Finished cattle
have been sellin,g at unprecedeastedly
low prices. It is stated on good
authority that the entire olitpue of
one of tee Sagest ranebes in South-
ern Alberta, was sold at $32.50 per
head, for threeyeae-41 and roar-
yeeaaeld cattle. Naturally, there-
fore :nen that paid $22.00 per aead
for yearlings two eeen's age and
ha,e'e sold teem Ibis season as three
yearsolds for prices in the neighbor-
hood of $82.00, are net anxious to
buy stockers this fall at anything
like the prices prevailing foe the last
two oe three years.
Again, winter feed is scarcer than
usual on the ranches this fall; and.
as a consequence many of the cattle-
men that esmally purchase a number
of stockers at this seawallof the
year eave scarcely Stay enough to
carry their breeding Stock through
the winter.
Another reason for the present, en -
satisfactory collation of the stoeker
trade, not Only in .tbe N.orthwest,but
also in the deter provinces, is the
P005 quality of a large number of
the young cettle that have . been
Placed on the maaket during the last
few years.. Many of these were as
her from tbe right laud of raw mar
terial• from which to make finished
beef as they well could be. During
a period of high prices markets are
not s0. discriminating in thee quality
of the goods offered, but • when
prices are low, markets are more
sensitive; they are morc. easily over-
stocked; buyers are more careful in
making their selectiens; and - it be-
comes a case of the survival of • the
1 'fittest only. A high class product
of any kind will always commandea
bale price; but on a depressed market
tinferior stuff roust be sacrificed at
!prices far below the cost of produc-
rionh
Te ranchers have also discovered
that, they mese be more careful in
the selection of tboir bulls than
heretofore, and Ontario 'breeders will
, do well to inakaa note of this. Lur-
ing recent years every bell -calf that
was engeble for regietration was
saved with a view to selling Min
at some sort of price for the rancl-
es; but the ranchers eave dincevered
that they must pay more attention
to quality and breading, 'and that
first-dass bells are cheaper at a
good price than registered scrubs as
a gift. It is safe to predict that in
a very short time it will not be pos-
sible to sell irderior bulls to the
ranchers at any price.
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THE FRUIT MARKS ACT.
Any Private ICFay Prosecute a
Retailer.
The Inspectors of the Dominion
Fruit Division are now devoting.
special attention to the enforcement
of the Fruit Marks Act.. Several
prosecutions have taken place in
Ontario, all ,of Which resulted in con-
victions, and several are now rend-
ing in. Nova Scotia.' These are mea-
ly for marking inferior fruit No. I;
although there is such a large
aracrunt of erst-claes fruit in the
countrypackers still persist in try-
ing to palm ofT inferior fruit as No.
1.
3,fr. W. A. MaciCinnon, Chief of the
Fruit. . Division, says. that retailers
are beginnings ,to. undoestatal the
scope of tho 'net much better - than
ionnerly, and appear well aware of
the existence of the law and of the
fact that it is being enforced by in-
spectors. They. also understani the
fact that it is at the disposal of an3r
private citizen. A, Prosecution is
now pending in Toronto by a private
citizen against a retailer who is said
to have disclaimed responsibility.
Only a single basket is involved, but
it is dear that if individuals do not
protect themselves in the case of
single baskets, they are not likely to
do so at all, as ninety per cent. of
their purchases are of single baskets.
It will be, the policy of the Depaets
meet to bold the retailers more
strictly to account in the future for
the st'ackages of fruit wbich they pass
on the public. If the retailers do:
not themselves complain when -they'
find dishonest peeking it is because
they are willing to share in the
fraudulent profit. Of course, 'the
original packer will always be prose-
cuted When be. can he discovered,but
that .will not excuse the retailer.
MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE.
Tried to Blow Up British Legation
at Pekin.
'A Uespaech to tee London 'rimes
from I'elcin says that a mystellous
• outrage was attempted at the Brit-
ish Legation ort Tuesday night, on
the occasion of a ball given by mili-
tate, ofilcers. An effort was tapper-
ently made to blow up the magazine
where eaeplosives mid ammemition
for the defence -of the Legation are
stored. Con-operently the' breech
bloat and eights of a 4.7eirreh gun
were stolen. These have since been
found in the native city. 'Wires were
lein to .counect with an electric bat-
tery,. but the connection Iced not
boon made, otherwise' there • might
have been a very serious explosion.
The incident 'ClraWS attention to the
policy which has made the British
• military establishment in tee Lege.
tion (mortars the Worst ins-to:Ilea al
any, 211Palau. ,
TICKS FRO
-HAPPENINGS mom; ALL OVER
• THE GLOBE,
Telegraphie Briefs From Our Ow
and Other Countries of
Recent Events..
CANADA.
Stratford Armories, without the
land, were sold for less than $250.
The Senate of the University of
Toronto has ratified the agreement
for federatiou with Trinity lIniver-
sity.
The General Board 0., Methodisil
Missions have completed their work .
the total appropriations amountin
to $350,000.
The body of The g
Swede, was found in al
ber yard the other day a
hole in his breast. peg lu•
m-
elandlton Board of Health have' •
sent an to Couneil a by -Jaw for, the
prohibition of spitting on -the side-
walks,
O rading on the lino of Abo xrtunii-
ton Raclial Electric Railway between
Burlington and Oakville will be done
this •
'hohnt...
11elelvey, K.C., has been ap-
pointed Aseistant Provincial Secre-
tary, and R. P. rairbairn, engineer
of the medic Works Department,.
By the contract with the POeseeo •
bone' Light and Power Ciensperry,
Peterbore will receive 120 lights of
2,000 candle power for $4.6,66 pee
la
J. W.
pl\r.eiN•
charged at Hamilien
With stealing a parcel contaieieg 32,.-
000 from the Canadian Express Co.,
Nsville,
lsnot be tried at the present as..
Justice Falconbridge has giv-
en judgment in favor of the 'Inde-
pendent Foresters in • the aetion,
brought by Mr. Marsh of I:fainiltan.
for reinstatement. The plaintiff after
joining the order became a Itarten-
der and his certificate was can
under the rules. '
GREAT BRITAIN.
D. Sheehy, Nationalist, was
turned by a majority of 1,211 In
South Meath bye -election, on Sat
day.
The St. James' Gazeate sayer th
is a hopefulprospect or an earl
settlement of the Newfoundian
French shore question.
It is said lelieg Edward's choice for
Sir Michael Herbert's successor . at
Washington is Sir Henry Howard,
British Minister at The Hague. Sir
Arthur Nicholson, British Minister to
Morocco is also mentioned.
Lieut. -Col. Sir John Burgoyne, tor-
merly of -the Grenadier Geianis, who
brought the former Empress Eugene
00 )tis yacht in the face of a terrifi
storm from Deauville, France, wa
married the other day to Cate
daughter of John Crete Abe
of Parliament for South De eysliire
The Empress sent a gold ter, an
coffee service.
UNITED STATES.
• Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of
,the famous evangelist, died at East
1Northaeld, Mass.
The death rate of the American
army rose from 13.94 in 1901 ta
15.49 in 1902 owing to tholera.
Rev. G. 37. Goodrich, 92 years old,
of Alpha, Indiana, toothless /or 20
years, is cuttieg his third set g
t°o'erci
iiiricleMorse Iron Works and Dre
. Company, which has operated
D
a $2,000,000 peant, in South Brook,
lyn, is in the ends of a receiver.
eigThhteshwouorinednaye.f the
els do not grant Olt; demand for an
•
workers will strike &Wait' employ -
Nearly 30,000 Rothester garment
British Legation
refused to attend the reception niv
by the dowager -Empress of China,
which' the women of the other Le
tions were present.
The services of 1,500 shopmen
the Vanderbilt, railway system teas
dispensed with on Monday, chiefly be-
cause it is held that the Outlook de-
mands retrenchment.
• lIenrsr Courtenay,' waiter in a res-
taurant, at Paterson, N. J. has
been notified by lawyers in Londoi
that he is heir to an estate . valued
at 3250,000, left by an uncle.
Blackmailers have been attempt/el
to extort $50„000 from the Northe
Pa.cific under threats of destroyin
property. A bridge 'was blown
at Helena.
The sixty -foot steel -built flying
machine„ the climax of years of ek-
hatistive study by Prof. S. L. Lang-
ley, secretaxy of the Smithsonian
Institute, 'bas proven a failure at
Wide Waters Va.
GENERAL.
The Russian duty on raw cotton
may be reduced next year.,
Despatches received at Paris say
that a formidable Russian fleet heli
anchored near the Japanese fleet ia
Ma San Pho harbor, south of Corea.
OVER A MILLION'.
.Tames W. Hunter's Shareof His
Uncle's Estate.
A ilespateh from Winnipeg
James W. Hunter, a ,poor carpenter
of this city, aged 86 years, received
the welcome intelligence on Tieuemlay
that he has 'become one of seventeee
participants of an estate valuta at
$25,000;000, beqUeathe'd by an an
centric uncle of Liverpool. Mr, IT
ter's share of the estate will be ov
a million, and he is leaving for En
land at once to claim bie money. „
A WIT,TISDEP,OUS ITALIAN.
Drew Pistol and and Shot Pinta in
the Back at Pore Arthur.
A despatch from Port Arthur earl:
-Two Finns were waIking down the
C.P.R. track on iiMer Street on
Wednesday, night NI?%0X1 tWO Hallam
passed theme jest as they get
past one of the Italia.ne drew e. re-
volver and shot Mae of the Finns in
tee back. nee found by tee police
ho was groaning /Atomises,, but upon
examination the woend proved. to
be Only a slight one. The Italialie.
escaped.,