HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-8-15, Page 6David Walters
BANK ROBBERY
rid Alice Davis Taken into Custody.
Palmar 'douse, Toronto
A despatch !mei Toronto eays
Clever werk by Deteetive Richard
Tipton, assisted by other members
oi the Toronto Police Depertment,
resulted in the errest at the Pal-
mer House on Se.tardey night of
David Walters and Aliee. Daeis, who
are believed to be membeee of the
an of safe-blowers who atole more
than. $350,000 from the Bank of
Montreal at New Westminster, B.
0,, on Septeznber 14, 1211. Walters'
right nanae is said to be Walter
Davis, A search of the personae
effeete belongieg to the pair re-
in the recovery of $2,020 in
bills o,f the series taken from the
e bank. There ems ale° $7,185.50 in
bills, gold and silver, making a, to-
tal of $9,205.50, all of which the
Police believe is part of the pro-
eeede of the: big haul. Frielli re -
coeds in the deteetive, aloe it ap-
pears thee Walters had previously
been arrested in the United States
under the names of O'Day and Fer-
guson.
Some time ago the police received
a tip that some of the otelen bills
were being circulated in Toronto.
Aceordingly Detective Tipton sent
to the bank for a complete list of
all the ramaey naissing, These lists
were sent to the hotels, cigar stores,
theatres and other places in the city
where a large amount of money is
handled, with instruetions to re -
Port to the pollee% case any at-
tempt was made to pass bills ofthe
series described.
PRICES OF FARM PEES
tooanAkdO
PlEPORes FROM Tee eeernem TRADS
CENTRES OF AMEFUCA.
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Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese and °time
Produce at Home and Abroad,
BREA.DSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 13.—Flour—Winter wh.sat,
90 per cent. patents, $3.80 for new, at sear
board, ama at $e.85 for home consump-
tion. Manitoba flours (these quotations
are for jute bags, 1a otton bags 10e
more):—First patent, $5.70; second pat-
ents, $5.20, and stropg bakers.. $6, on
track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wbeat—No. 1 Northern, $1.12,
Bay ports; No. 2 at 41.08. and NO, 3 at
$1.05, Bay ports. Feed wheat sells at 62
to 63c, Bay ports.
Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, red and
mixed, 96 to 98c, outside.
Peas—Nominal.
Oe.ts—Car lots of No. 2 Ontario, 42 1-20,
and No. 3 at 41 1-2o, outside; No. 2 at 450,
am track, Toronto. No. 1 extra W. 0. feed,
41 1-2o, Bay ports, and No. 1 at 40 1-20,
Bay porta.
Barley—Nominal.
Corn—No. 2 American yelthw, 78o, on
track, Bay ports, and at 82o, Toronto;
No. 3, 810, Toronto, and 77e, Bay ports.
Rye—Norainal.
13uckwhea,t-2Torainal.
Bran—Manitoba bran, 823, in bags, To-
ronto freight. Shorts. $24 to $25.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Dairy, choice, 23 to 260; bakers',
inferthr, 20 to 210; db.oiee dairy, tubs, 22
to 23e; creamery, 27 to 28e for rolls, and
26e for solids.
Eggs—Case lots of elew-laid, 25e per doz.;
fresh, 23e.
Oheese—New cheese, 141.4 to 14 1-20 for
large, and 141-2 to 14 3-4o for twins.
Beans—Hand-picked, $3 per busbel;
primes, $2.25 to $2.90.
House—Extracted, in tins. 11.1-2 to 12 1-2e
per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2.26 to
03, wholesale.
Poultry—Wholesale prices of choice
dressed peultry:—Chickens, 18 to 190 Per
Th.; bens, 13 to 140; ducklings, 16 to 110.
Live poultry', about 2cs Jeerer than the
above.
Potatoes --Canadian, new, $1.25 to $1.50
, per bushel.
PROVISIONS.
Bacon—Long clear, 131-2 to 140 per lb.,
in ease lots. Pork—Short out, $24.50 to
$25: do., mess, 520 to $21. Hainse-Medium
to light, 17 1-2 to 180; heavy, 16 1-2 to 17o;
rolls, 13 to 13 1.20; breakfast baton, 18 to
18 1-20; backs, 20 to 21e.
Lard—Tierces, 130; tubs, 131.40; Pails,
131-2c.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 13.--Oats-0anadiareWest-
ern, No. 2, 45 to 451-20; do., No. 3, 44 to
641-2*; extra, No. 1 feed, 45e. Barley—
Manitoba feed, 63 to 64c+. Flour—Manito-
ba, Spring wheat patents, fiesta $5.80; do.,
seconds, $5.39; strong bakers', $15.10; Win-
ter patents, choice, $5.25; straight rollers,
$4.85 to $4.90; do., bags, $2.25 to 52.30. Rolled
eats—Barrele, $5.05; bags, 90 lbs., $2.40.
Bran—$22; shorts, 526; middlings, $27;•
=online. $30 te $34. Hay—No. 2, per ton,
oar lots, $16 to 517. Cheese—Finest West-
erns% 131.4 to 133-0*; finest Easeerns, 121-2
to 12 7-8a. Butter—Choicest creamery, 261.4
to 261.20; seconds, 26 to 261-4*. Eggs—Se-
lected, 28 to 290; No. 2 stook, 21 to 220. Po-
tatoes—Per bag, oar lots, $1.60.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 13.—Steere sold from $4
to $6.50 per 100 lbs., cows from $3.50 be $5.
Few good bulls were offered, and OU the
common men the price ranged. from $2.50
to $3.25. Sheep sold fairly steady at 40
a pound and lambs brought 4c for com-
mon and 61.20 for good. Hogs were
about 75e lower than a week ago, selects
welling at 58.50 per 100 lbs. •Calves brought
$3 to $10 each.
Toronto, Aug. la—Cattle — Exporters,
choice, 57.26 1 $7.50; bulls, $4.50 to $5.25;
cows, $5 to $5.60. Butcher—Choke, $7 to
$7.35; medium, $6 to $6.75; cows, $5 t&ee$5.-
60. Calves—Steady, $7.50 to $8.50. Stoelrers
—Steady, $5 to $5.35. Sheep—Light ewes
at $4.25 to $4.76; heavy, $3 to $3.60; pring
lambs at 55 to 5650. Hogs-.3electe, $8.15
f.o.b., and $8.60 to 158:76 fed and watered.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Aug, 13. — Vebeat—Sept,
el 3-8 to 911-2*; Deo., 92e; May, 963-8*; No.
1 bard, 81.037-8*: No. 1 Northern, $1.03 3-8e;
No. 2 do., 81.0134 to 51.01 7-8. No. 3 yel-
low corn, 72c; No. 3 white oats, 37 V) 39c.
No. 2 rye, 631-2 to 64c. Bran, $19 to $19.50.
'lour—Leading local patents in wood, 2.
e. h., Ifimicaoolie, 58 to $5.36; other pet -
mats, $4.75 to $5; first clears, 53.50 to 83..
75; second clears, 52,40 to 82.70.
-Buluth, Aug. 13—Wheat--Na. I hard. 51..
043.8; No. 1 Northern, old, 51.033-8; No. 2
Northern, old, 81,01 3-8; Aug., 210. 1 North-
ern, 045-8*; Sept., 925-8c ; Dec., 93e bid.
MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS
WHY BONDS FLUCTUATE IN MARKET
PRICE.
Their Value la Doeerned by Law of Supply
and Demand, Like That of Everything
Else—Unpopular Bonds Often Steady In
Pries Owing to Narrow Market—Ont.,
Edged S.ecurlties Appear to Have
•Fleashed "Rook Bottom"
The articles contributed by "investor"
are for the sole purpose, of gaiding pros-
Peotive investors, and, if possible.eof sae-
ing them from losing money tbrough
placing it in "wild -oat" enterprise. The
impartial and reliable character of tbe
information may be relied upon. The
writer of these articles and the publisher
of this paper have no interests to serve
In connection with this matter, other than
those of the reader.
(By "Investor.")
man who had never invested as
laiking the other day. "If these bonds
are such gilt-edged securities, why- is it
they fluctuate in price. Here a few years
ago Toronto debentures sold at a price
to yield. only 33.4 to 4 per cent., and now
you can buy them at a muele lower priee,
where the return is 41.4 to 4.30 per cent
Then, perhaps, in a year's time the price
will have gone up again, and you will be
luokr if you can get them where the re-
turn is better than 4 per cent."
The value of almost everything is gov-
erned by the law of supply an.d demand.
/2 more people want to buy than there
are those vrb.o want to sell the price goes
up. If, on the other hand, the buyers
are fewer than he sellers the price goes
down. There ia nothing particularly mys-
terious about it. Moreover, the number
of people who want to buy or sell higie-
grade bonds depends on the loaning value
of money. When money is ve17 cheap
they buy the expensive, low -yield bonds,
When money is dear they turn to those
of higher yield. Consequently, when
money is dear low -yield bonds tend to de-
cline in price, until their yield approxi-
mates the more nearly the loaning value
of money, while when money is plentiful
and the average rate low the reverse takes
place.
At the present time money is command-
ing a high rate, and, as a result. the price
of high-grade bends has declined. Fur-
thermore, the past year has emelt a large
number of small fires, houses, factories,
warehouses, etc., and the usual number
of large ones, several towns having been
practically wiped out by Are. The result
has been, of course, that the insurance.
companies have had severe losses. Nov,
when an insurance company leas a, loss
they must either pay it up in cash as
soon as .the amount has b'een peeved or
frighten all their polioyholders into oan-
oellation, losing their good. name and
consequently their nteans of existing and
making an inoome, or raise tlie money
promptly and pay off the losses. To raise
money it is often necessary to sell some
of their inveetments, and as the high-
grade, Tow yield bonds always command
a ready market these are sold, sometimes
at prices one or two points below the
market in order to facilitate a ready
sale. This, of course, tends further to
depress the market for high-grade bonds.
it also means that these companies are
temporarily out of the market for bonds
during a period more or less prolonged,
In wheal they are catching up the usual
amount of cash reserve they oensider it
prudent to carry.
This has happened this year, and so a
very substantial buying power has been
removed from the market for. high-grade
bonds temporarily.
Everything considered, the beet Judges of
the bond market are of the opinion that
the pribe of bonds has about reached
"rook bottom." Money is showing an un-
mistakable tendency toward lower prices,
and while England has been out of the
market now for a considerable period
any resumption of buying frora that quar-
ter, not to mentthn our own fire insur-
ance companies, will cause high-grade
bonds te resume their former heights or
at least move up from the very attrac-
tive prices they now command.
It is easily eeen, then, that fluctuatione
in bond prices are natural. A stationarY
prize often infers the narrow market that
is usually the lot of unpopular securi-
ties, nobody wanting to buy and holders
hesitating to sell for Jeer •of breaking
the market for their own security. .
AT WIFE'S TEA.
Wife—"John, which will you
have? iced tee,. bouillon, °old col -
fee. grape-juiee r lemonade7" `
Husband — "Neither. Haven't
you got something to 'amid
PE IINE
KILLED
Explosion of Black Damp Caused a Disaster in a
Mine in Germany
A despatch from Bochum, Ger.
many, says: An explosion of bleak
danap and teal dust en Thursday
morning in the Lorraine «haft oi
the, eetelfield in the village of
(Ilerthe, four miles from Boole -um,
,eost the lives of 103 mineres, hecord-
Jug to the efffeial repast. Two oth-
ers were severely and twenty-three
slightly injueed. Death was peee-
tecelly inetantaneeue in all casee.
The cam* et the explosion hs e not
yet, been definitely ascertained, but
it is thought that a blast reaelied
a big pecket -of gas. The dey resift
themselves along the verioes levels,
when a eerious fire claire) expIesiot
oceurre,d. The detonation was
heard at the siteface, and the el-
ciale on duty immediately formed
rezeue parties' of the men belonging
le the night 'shift, who rushed beak
to the pit mouth together with the
villagers. The rescue crews, whieh
did such "geed work at the time of
the Fretich mine disaster at Cour-
near Lets, en iarch 10,
1901, when 1,230 raimate were killed,
terrIVefd hate early iii the afteinoon,
but were unable to penetrate the
of 850 mere had east descended into galletiee, einang to the lertMes and
the woelkings, and were distributing the poisonatui gesee.
THE NEWS IN A PARABRAPH
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER
TUE GiLOBE IN A
'NUTSHELL,:
Canada% the Empire and the 'World
in General Before Your
EV88.
CANADA.
The Postoffice Department will
issue etamps in roll form.
Hydeceeleetrie power in 11a,miltan
is reduced to $17 per h..p.
l
ontse.reed dodoes and other citi-
zens are proraotiug a hospital for
il
Rev. W. r.Mortimer, ft:innerly of
London, Ont:, died it the Methodist
mission fielel in China,.
The Grand Trunk terminal, situ-
ated .in Brockville since 1855, is
shortly to be removed to Prescott.
The Wreck- Commission found the
Empress of Britain responsible fer
colliding with the collier Helvetia,.
Several nurse a have left Rock-
wood Hospital, leingston, for Ot-
tawa, to assist in attending typhoid
eases.
T. 0, Meredith, LC., London,
Ont,, was appointed Corperation
Counsel a Toronto at a selary of
$15,000.
Aliatural gas explosion at Leam-
ington wrecked a large house being
pbluioyltees.for Canning Compa,ny. em-
_
Mrs. Geo. T. Tuckett, wife of the
head of the Tuckett Tobacco Co.,
Hamilton, died after a few weeks'
illness.
J. H. Driscoll, former manager of
the MeOlary Manufacturing Co.'s
branch in Winnipeg, was killed by
a street car.
Miss Rose Zaibe died at Hamil-
ton as a. result of eating candies,
Four others were seized with. vio-
lent convulsions.
The Montreal Harbor Comtaise
sioners will this fall begin building
their new elevators, each of 2,500,-
000 bushels capacity.
Lake and ocean going vessels will
be required to have wireless equip-
ment as a result of the recent In-
ternational Congress.
Between $20,000 and $28,000 dam-
age was done by fire to Peck es
Wills' sash and door factory and
other buildings in Belleville.
Dr. David Robertson, Registrar
of Halton, and some yeaas ago its
representative in the Legislature,
died suddenly at Nelson, B. 0.
Allan Williams, seven-year-old
son of John Williams, physical in-
structor at Ridley College, was
drowned in Twelve Mile Creek.
Dr. Daniel efea,gher of Montreal
was found deed in the home of a
relative he was visiting in King-
ston. Heart trouble was the cause.
Montreal workingmen will erect a
monument to Mr. J. A. Rodier,
founder of the Trades and Labor
Council in that city, who died two
years ago.
Twenty-five -thousand dollars'
wprth of Cobalt silver was shipped
on Friday by the Teutonie to the
Bank of England to be mined into
British coins..
Police Sergeant Abraham Nashe a
member of the Windsor force for
twenty-six years, and distinguished
for bravery, has been appointed a
Provincial detective.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Premier Borden may pay a visit
to Germaearbefore his return.
Two suffragettes were sentenced
to five years' imprisonment in a
Dublin 'court.
Sixty M.P.'s and a number of
Peers witnessed the military aero-
planes in flight on Salisbury Plain
on Thureday.
Mr. Asquith announced that a
committee would be appointed to
inquire into the eezoeities in the
Peruvian rubberedietricts.
The Master of Elibank, Chief
Liberal Whip, has been raised to
the Peerage and resigned his seat
ie. the House of Commons.
The Unionist candidate., Sir John
Readies, was returned for North-
west Menchest,er, rendered vaea,nt
by the, resignation of the Libeeal
member.
THE
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eeccenwereeee''
ILLUSTRATION FARMS
'Commission of Conservation Will Send Experts to
Guide the Owners
UNITED STATES.
Presidett Taft vetoed the wool
tariff bill,
Seventeen Detroit Aldermen haere
been arrested on charges of brib-
ery.
Governor Woodrow Wilson ac-
cepted the Democratic nomination
for the Presideney,
Coe Theodore Roosevelt was
nominated for the Presidency at the
Progressive National Convention
at Chicago, ,
The. T.T. S. Senate passed the
Panama Canal bill, retaining the,
provision exempting American yes -
eels from tolls. -
Two U. S. battleships, the Ne-
braska, and Connecticut, naet with
serious mishaps duriog the fleet
'manoeuvres on Friday.
The United States Senate ep-
proved of the House provision for
eentrol of the Panama, Canal be the
President a the eThieed Sta,tee.
OF,NERA
President Leconte of Haiti was
killed ii. at 4Jcplosion and fire at
the Palace.
There was serious earthquake
Cottateedneple on Friday, many
housebeing damaged.
A despatch from Ottawa says;
For the purpose of demonstrating
to Canadian farmere how they may
get the be:st out of the land in the
most economic manner, the Com-
mission of Conservation has chosen
re number of farms throughout the
Provieces for illustration purposes.
In each case the Oommissien has
chosen farms whese owner agrees
toebe guided by the agricultural ex-
perts provided. These are F. C.
Nunniek, the Commission's agri-
cultural expert, and John Fixter,
formerly ferre superintendent of
Macdonald College. The illustra-
tion foams have already been elmsen
in the eastern Provinces, and both
Mr. Nunnick ane Mr. Fixter are
now in the wee+ arranging for il-
Instration farms in the Prairie
Provinces. In Ontario there are
eight larvae, in Quebec six, and New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Weed
and Nova, Seale three eaela
The Ontario illustration farms
are as follows: Lanark eounty, farm
owned by W. Hands of Perth; Es-
sex eounty, farm owned by Nelson
Peteason, Ruthven, end farm owned
by R. F. Taylor, Essex; Norfolk
county, farm owned by A. M. Cul-
ver, Simeoe ;;Waterloo county, 'farm
owned by Paul Snyder, Elmira; On-
tario country, farm owned by Tho-
mas Hall, Brooklin ; Dundas ,e0lia-
ty, farni owned by Whittaker Bros.,
Williamsburg.
• Meetings will be held from time
to tirae at these points, and will be
addressed by experts.
TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
WHAT IS, TRANSPIRING AT THE HUB
OF THE PROVINCE.
The City's Hotel Accommodation—Figuring
on Who'll be the Next Mayor— '
Harvester Excursions.
Attention is being called to Toronto's
la,ok of hotel accommodation. Complaint
is made that we are losing touriet base
nese. conventions and other gatherings,
winch bring business to the merchants,
because we do not proeide Plasma to sleep
and eat. Certainly in the last seven or
eight years since the King Edward Hotel
'was completed, in a period when this oity
has increased in population by over fifty
per cent„ there ems been comperatively
little increase in the hotel accommoda,
tion.
The (lineation has zest because inter-
twined In it is the problem of liquor licen-
ses. *No doubt Ibe liquor men are xnakiag
the most of the laok of aocoramodation.
They say it is due to the insecurity of
thelicense situation. Not only do thee'
critioith such radical proposals as Mr.
Rowell's "Abolisb. the Bar" platform, but
local option and license reduction cam-
paigns are also to them. an anthema. Even
if the bar is not abolished at oae fell
swoop they fear that one of these days
we mar have a local option campaign. in
Toronto, and they are not sure' what the
result would be.
HOTEL CAPITAL SHY.
Every little while a' story is cirOulated
that some one is prepared to spend a
miilion dollars or more in a new palatial
hotel, but that they are prevented from
doing do by the instability of the license
situation. There Is an excellent site for a
hotel at the corner of Bay and Front
streets, unbuilt upon since the fire, and
opposite the site of the new Union Sta-
tion. With the retail business moving
up Yonge street there would seem th be
an opening in that district. While the
extreme north end, with its increasing
railway business, alao looks attractive.
But the hotel men's eapital is timid.
Temperance people declare that holels—
bar hotels in big 0i:ties—can be made to
pay without liquor licenses. The best
exataples in support of Ibis theory are,
perhaps, to be, found in Atlantic, City, al-
though it is doubtful if anyorie needs to
go dry in Atlantic City, even if he is
staying at a temperance house. No doubt,
some of the big Toronto hotels make big
money out of their liquor licenses. Ac-
oording to rumor, tbe profits of the King
Edward bar are almost fabulous, and
some of the others do a rushisg trade. In
others, such as the Queen's, the operations
of the bar are more incidental. But en
the vast majority of the 110 licensed he-
tels in the city the bar ie the chief in-
dustry. They provide only rooms and
meals to keep within the law. In fact, in
sonta 7011might always find all the rooms
"full," and. if you asked for. a meal you
might not be refused it, but you might
have to wait an hour for it.
There is admittedly a lack of middle-
class hotel .accommodation. In -Chia To-
ronto suffers like all big cities. The Inan
from the average home finds when he
travels that he either has to pay for
luxury that he does not wa,nt, or that he
Was to put up with uncomfortable rooms
and distasteful food. '
WHO'LL BE NEXT' MAYOR?
Though the municipal elections are still
almost five months away, mayoralty can-
didates are already jockeying for position.
It has been assumed that Mayor Geary
will not again seek' reelection. He has
had three years of it, which, under or-
dinary circumstances, is supposed to be
enough for any man. The last two terms
he has had. on easy terms; last election
he ha,d no opposition and the year before
no really serious gpponent, But the
Mayor's chair he attained in the first
Place only by hard struggles. The first
time he was a candidate he offered him-
self as a lamb for the slaughter. That
was in the historic fight that Dr. Beattie
Nesbitt made for the position. Nesbitt's
opponent was joseph Oliver, a Liberal.
Nesbitt was beating the party drum for
all he was worth, and Would certainlY
have beaten Oliver in a single contest.
Recognizing this, influential Conservativea
who did not relish the idea of Nesbitt, in
the oity's chief magisterial position in-
duced Geary to run, with the almost epee -
1y avowed purpoee of splitting the Con-
servative vote, eo that Oliver would be
elected. The plan worked, and it is G. It.
Geary Toronto has to thank for keeping
Dr. 'Nesbitt out of the Mayor's chair in
-Um days when the Farmers' Bank was
else getting ander Way: +
THE HOCKEN-GARY FEND.
Some might hove been afraid of the loss
of prestige which- a defeat would bring,
but it did not work out that way in
GearY'S case. When Oliver relinquished
the office, Controller Hocken aspired to
the succession. Under other eireemstano-
es, Hocken might have beaten Geary, for
his sources of strength' in the Conserva-
tive party were muoh the same, and ap-
parently snout equally as strong as
Geary's, and he had many influential
friends among the Liberals.' But the Lib-
era,Is who don't expect nitaly of the sweets
of office in Toronto remembered Geaey's
service to Oliver and there its little doubt
that ie the strenuous struggle flat re -
stilted Liberal votes decided the issue.
That was three years ago. After 'a
year's alesente" from Council M. Hocken
rettirtred to the Board of Control. He did
not again esea,y to defeat Geary, though
the afnmosity kindled between them has
never died out, end not inftequently
blathe up at bonrd Meetings. But all the
time Controller Ilecisen has regarded him..
-Self as the logical successor of Meeor
Geary. And at the mement, he probably
expecte that in the year of grace, 1913, it
will be Meyer la:Olsen.
obaneee are, utiskethtedly, good, -beit
there art 'several possibilities whith have
to be reekoned wtElf. In the fitst Ogee,
Geary has not definitely annotinted that
he will not be a aafelidate again. Diming
the present term hie name heel been fre-
quently menthened in conneottort with
permanent Melo and other positions. But
stated he seek foUrth, tont as lifaYor,
.Controller Hooken" May give hint another
teat, ,ae4 allege Geary CoMpletee the
Year teoreateggroeieele thee .116 hat be.
gun it Hocken Might *051 him,
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' CHURCH A NEW ASP/RANT.
But, preeeeee, the darkest shadow across
Controller Hooken's mayoralty aspirations
is oast by • Controller 'lamely Onurele.
Many people do not take Church seriously,
but he gets votes. During Mayor Geary's
absence in England he has been acting
ifiayor„ and has been stirring thitigs up
in a way that has drawn some favorable
comment., even from his critics. Ile -as
erratic, is handioapped by a serious deaf
nese, and lacks stability. But he is en-
ergetio and hail fellow well met. Re is
etrone with tb.e Conservative organize,
tions, with the Sons of England, the
Orange association even as Controeer
Hocken. While, not being es extreme as
Hocken, who is editor of the Orange Sen-
tinel, in his anti-Catholic pronounce-
ments, he might get most of the Catholic
vote' Hocken is strong with the 'Lurch
vote, Church would appeal io "the boys."
'So that in a straight contest bezween the
two it would be !lar& to p•elt the 'winner.
And then there would be the clangor cf
a third candidate. Perhaps sone dark
horse Oonaa' wive or mayee a Lif.eral.,
J. J. Ward, Controller fcr many 118,1re
but defeated last January, a Roman
Catholic Liberal, has loan' had aopira.
Clone to he Mayor of Orange Ceneervallee
Toronto. He wanted to min when Geary
and Hocken were fightaig it out, ant as
his expectation of election. was baberi on
purely partisan support, leadeng Libceals
who wish to keep parte polities out of*
civic,affairs as far as possible, counselled
otherwise. He sacrificed hope then, but
he might not do so again with Hocken and'
Church as contenders.
Altogether the mayoralty contest this
year promises no be one of the maost in-
teresting in many- years.
THE CALL OF THE WEST.
The days of the harvester excursion's to
the Northwest are with us again. It is
an interesting sight to journey down to
the Union Station and see one of these
eecursions get under -way, for. of course,
Toronto ie the chief concentrating point
for eastern Canada ead most of the ex-
cursionists begin their main journey from'
here. There they are by the hundreds,
representing, before the season is out,
nearly every municipality and school sec-
tion of old Ontario. The majority are
men, mostly young men, but there is a
goodly smattering of women, too. In re -
recent years they are not as in the old
days, all Canadians, but often half are
new arrivals from the Old Country, who
are glad te take advantage of the phe-
nemenally low fare to get as far west as
they oan. The farm life of the prairie
appeals more perhaps to the Sootehman
than th the Englishman, into whose blood
the virus of eity life has often entered
and who does not warm up to the idea,
of going away off a -thousand miles from
anywhere. -•
For the most part it is a serious-minded
crowd. Sometimes .a few young bloods
make trouble and give the whole party
a bad name. They are not out for a frolic,
but to most it is a serious business. Ca.
nadiana are a pretty serious people any-
way. Some leave them plans all made to
remain in the West. But the majority
are. modern ,leshues, going to have a look
around, and come back if they don't like
it As Ontario knows to her cost many of
them find it a land which promises "milk
and honey" in a figurative sense at all
events. And they never come baok—at
least to stay.
Fifty thousand of them are wanted this
year. The job of finding that number
devolves, not on the government in either
of the weetern provinces, or the Dornife-•
ion, but on the railways. The railways
put ehe problem up to their district pas-
senger agents. Each one is expected to
get so many. And so the country is flood-
ed with posters, station agents are told to
get busy, the newspapers are loaded up
with free notices and the restless ones re -
spend. The job falls on the railways be.
cause if the crop was not harvested they
would be the heaviest individual losers
and besides, the harvest excursions coming
at a time when the western farmer is
counting his money, are the most effec-
tive immigration boosters yet discovered.
And every settler moved to Western Can-
ada means more business for the rail-
ways.
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NEIGHBORS.
lf you are genteel in appearance and
courteous in your manner, you will be
welcomed, in every home in your locality,
when you are showing samples of mir so.
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parlor , , SER LOS,
and reliable remedies. The satisfaction
which our goods give, places the users
undee an obligation to you, which wins
for you the same respect, eeteem, and in.
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Man, or pastor, and you will make mote
Money from your Beare time than you
dream of, besides a host of friends. •
This is your opportunity for a pleasant,
profitable and -permanent business. Ad.
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rill Blinding, Toronto, Ont.
WOMAN CUT BY IlINDElt.
Horses Started -While She was
Standing in Front of It.
A despatch from Se, Thomas says:
Mrs. Archibald Donn of Iona Sta-
tion,- met with a serious accident
Friday evening. While she was
standing in front of a sell -binder,
the teem started. badly lacerating
her leg jupt above the ankle.
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YOUNG- GIRL'S BRAVERY.
Though Unable to Swim She Saved
Her Little Brother.
A despatch from Breckville seys:
second brave and successful at-
tempt at rescue from drowning here
within two weeks took place on
Saturday afternoon. Alfred Mas-
sey, aged three years, son of Daniel
Massey, Water street, was praying
on the platform of a launch house.
In atteraptipg to reach some brush
and pull it from the water the little
boy fell in. He was going down the
second tirae when his sister Nellie,
aged fourteen, attracted by his
screams, ran to the dock, and with-
out waiting plunged into the eyater,
which at this point is fifteen feet
deep. The young ere cannot swim,
but secured a bold on her brother
end managed to -keep herself and
him afloat until the father, learn-
ing of .what had happened, rushed
to the scene, jumped in and landed
his two children safely on the boat-
house platform. ere
OTTAWA OFFICIALS.
Suspended Pending Inquiry, Into
Waterworks Affairs.
. A despatch from Ottawa says:
City Engineer Newton J. Ker, and
Assistant City Engineer Parsons
were on Saturday suspended by
Mayor Hopewell from all connection
with the civic Waterworks Depart-
ment. Engineer Wm. Seorrie of
New York, who has been here in
connection with the plane for the
eity'a filtration with the plans fok
the city' s filtration system, was
temporarily pieced in Charge. The
Mayor's action was taken in view
of the coming inquiey to fix reepon-
sibility 'for the break in the new
waterworks intake, which resulted
in the recent outbreak of typteliel
fever.
WOOD PULP AND PAPER. e
Will be Admitted Dety Free to the
IJ. S. From British Columbia.
A despatch from Washington
says: Wood pulp, print paper and
paper board manufactured item
woods of British Colurabie, from
which tla.e, export restrictions were
recently removed by tee Legible,-
ture of the Previtice will be 'admit-
ted to the United States free of duty
under the one operative clause of
;the Canadian Reciprocity Aetee
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YOUNG WOMAN DROWNED.
Canoe Upset and Companion Tried
Vainly to Rescue -liter. .
A despatch from Victoria, B. C.,
says: Through the upsetting of a
eanoe in the Gorge here on Sun-
dae' night, Bessie' Friend, aged 22,
a recent arrival from Glasgow, was
drowned. Her companioee 'e 'young
man nanied. Ransom, dived -in an
effort to rescue here but, 'finally be-
came exhausted arid clitrig to the
canoe until aid arrived.
CANADA SECURITIES COR POFIATION, LIMITED
INVESTMENT SECURITIES
P. H. biAt.q.EV • • • 4.. Conceal Manager.
• , , DIRECTORS.
Robert iliokerdlke, Esq., M.P. President,
Olt' Rodolphe Forget, M.P. ' • Vice -President.
James Carelithere, Esq. • • Vice -President,
Hen. Clifford filfton Lt. -Col, E. M. Maedonald, K.C., M.P.
Paul Gallbert, Esq. Edmund Bristol, K.O., M.P.,
Carrel, Esq. 1
. O. Warren, Esq. Col. .larneii Masoniriihit 4. 9. Irvin. Esq.
P. finis Esq. • W. Crant Norden
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VietOria, LC*, Sent. 4, 0 and e*
A despatch from Oteewa says
The fourteenth annual convelet n
of the Oan,adian Forestry Asseelee
tion for the reading and diseussiie.
of papers, and the passing gf reser
lutions based thereon, )vill be 'held
upon the invitation of the Govern.,
meet of British Columbia in the
City ef Victoria, 33,0,, axi Wednes.
day, Thureelay and Friday, Sept. 4,
5 and 6, 1912. Sir Richard MC -
Bride, Premier of the Province,
and Hoe. W, R. Ross, Minister of
Lands, ire taking a personae inter -
et ea this convention, and 411 ad-
dress the delegates upon this sub.
ject which is now the uppermost
one in British Columbia. While
papers and addresses will natutally
deal with matters that concern Bri-
tish Columbia, they will Pot be
fined to this, and in every wa
cenvention will be national in ()hoz,
actor and embrace every part of
Canada.
PRAIRIE REPORTS.
Harvesting Will be General by Last
- Week of August.
• •
A despatch from-Wienipeg eve
The crop report on Wednesday cov-
ering the three Prairie Provinces is
,eaoet gratifying, the feature being
the remarkable 'progress made in
the last two weeks. The -grain is
filling well. The barley harvestema
started at most points. Fall wheat
in Alberta is largely in shock, and
the old fields of spring wheat are
already aut. Harvesting will be
general from August 12th to 21n4,
the 15th being the chute given when
the majority of points will .com-
mence. It means that with aver-
age harvest weather the great bulk
of the crop will be of contreat grade.
Should the West produce two hun-
dred million bushels of hefed wheat,
as there seems every probability it
will, it means that this season's
crop of Western Canada, will be the
dominating factor in the world's
markets.
THE PEAT INDUSTRY.
- —
Mines Department W111 Leave it to
Private Enterprise.
A despatch, from Ottawa says
The Mines Branch 'of the Govern-
ment Departeient of Mines on Wed-
nesday announced. that itsdemon-
stration of the cemmerciai poesi-
bilities of peat as a fuel in Cana' a
had been suecessfully corapl
and that henceforili the activi
of the branch W91141 be applie.d in
another direction, probably the eco-
nomic production and testing of
fuel, concerning which. the depart-
ment already -has a man in • tee
West. The peat industry in Can-
ada will now beeome a 'matter or
private enterprise. There are two
big plants ender construction, ecne
at Alfred, Ont., and anothr at
Farnham, Que., which are expected
to supply Ottawa and Montreal And
possibly ethercities with cheap fuel.
Their eapa,city is about 30,000 tons
per year. .
ELECTRICITY FOE OF HUNGER
—
Currents in "High Frequency" to
Take of Food.
A despatch from Paris, France,
says: Hunger is shortly to be abol-
ished by electricity. -Such is the
prophecy of Professor Begonie, who'
has explained the method to the
Congress of the Society for the Ad-
vancement of Science, now in ses-
sion at Nimes. Bergonie recalled
the experiraerits of Professor Bar-
thejot, who era:lined that within a
generation steaks and other foods
would be replaeed by small pills
containing the neceseary chemical
constituents "to sustain life. Beie
genie .added tbat chemistry
had not accomplished' electricity
will achieve through "high fre-
quency treatment." Therefore we
may shortly be ordering five electric
currents at intervals of seven sec-
onds -instead of soup.
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Ciiide Fakes of $1 and $2 Notes
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Have lie.en Circulated.
4 despatch from Toronto 4e.
Counterfeits ' Caeadian Gove 'n -
meet One -dollar, and two -dollar..
notes "have been pet in circulation
in Toronto and ,Hamilton. The,
police bave come .,across a few of
the bad bills,. and are on the, look-
out for more of them, epel for thoce
who are sending them out, Only
few are as yet known to have boon
put in Toronto, but it has been
learned that quite ,a number have
made thole appeaeenceeirj Hamil-
ton. The bills are v,ery easy of de-
tection. They are photographs of,
the originals on paper of a much;
more inferior quality than the true'
notes. The gieens. rind blacks on
the etehings are not of the same
strong tones As those of the origin -
abs,, but , appear washy, espetially
the greene.
A *usenet were killed through
the earthquake iri Terkee, and mane
are injuted and homeless.