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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 ...1•4•0140•.. 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 - s 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. - --et- 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.,