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The Seaforth News, 1925-01-15, Page 2Canada from Coast to Coast Halifax '.N•S.-A new scallop bed has been recently discovered by the Canadian Government steamer in St. Mary's Bay, while making a survey along the coast in the fisheries service. A similar discovery near Digby last year has proved very valuable and considerable activity is expected in connection with the new field. The scallops find a ready market in Boston, Three Rivers, Qne.—It is the inten- tion of the St. Lawrence Paper Mills to double its present plant in Three, Rivers, inorder to get a daily output. Of .800 tons. In addition, the Inter- national Paper decided some time ago to increase their output to 450 tons daily, ancl the Wayagamack Pulp, has, added to their present plant a new company, the Wayagamack News, to manufacture newsprint. Timmins, Ont. --For the third' quar- ter oe 1924, Northern Ontario's gold production averaged $2,120,349 month- ly, or on a basis of $25,444,184 yea'•:y. This is the largest output in the his- tory of the gold mining industry of Northern Ontario. Winnipeg, - Man. --The formation of. a Mining Bureau as a branch of its activities, has been announced by the Winnipeg :Board of Trade. The bur- eau will collect data on the mining SPEND FUND ON HAND FOR BENEFIT OF IRISH situation in the province and will do everything possible to foster greater mineral production in Manitoba, Regina, Sask.—Up to the 'end' of October more than 1,000 libraries were in eirculation in Saskatchewan, as compared with about 800 at the same time in 1923. The average number reading each book in the library is 17 families or in the neighborhood of 30 persons. More than 500,000 books were 'circulated during; the year. Edmonton, Alta.—That Hollanders,) who have located in Alberta, are mak-I ing good and, are satisfied, is the statement of Baron W. Van Roeelc-1 eren, of Rotterdam, after a tour a, i Creston, B.C.—What is believed to' he a record price for apples has just been received by the R. J. Long ranch i:ear here. It -shipped to carloads of Delicious apples to Enelend-1,000 cases at $3 a case—picked from. 200. selected trees. The yield per acre] figuxes out at $1,200, Dawson City, Y.T,—The farthest; north quartz mill on the American, continent was in operation on the' property of the Treadwell Yukon Co., at Keno, at the end of December suf-, fleient ore has been mined to keep the, mill working full capacity for more than a year, ernshing 100 tons of ore. a day. DOMINION SCIENTISTS S TO VIEW SUN'S ECLIPSE iI Norman 'li an 1'•I, iivis, president of he Woodrow Wilson fonndntiou, is showu presenting to Viscount Cecil the plaque that is representative of the $25,000 peace plan award made by the Wilson foundation, Proposal to End litigation Hamilton Chosen as Vantage BRITISH COLUMB IA O LEAD PARTY t Y O1 Over Money Collette in Ground by Party of ' • the United` States. Astronomers. A despatch from Dublin says;—A A despatch from Ottawa says:— proposal to cease the litigation in the Party of five from the Dominion Ob - United States between the Free State servatory at Ottawa will go to the Government and the Republicans over "tress roads point" six miles south of the 52,500,000 collected in the United Hamilton, Ontario, to make scientific States for the Irish cause before the 'observations of the eclipse of the sun Free State Was established was cis-; to telto place on Saturday, Jan. 24. cussed on Thursday at a special me; The observations to be made by the geese of the Gaelic League. The money; Ottawa Party are not dependent upon is now on deposit in New York banks a state of visibility; that work will end trust companies. Speakers at be left to other scientific parties which Thursday's session of the congress re- will be at work en the same spot. Ter- eotnmended helping the league out of restrial magnetism ithe - magnetc Its financial difficulties and to compose force exerted by the earth as a political differences in the language; whole—and wireless receiving condi- movement. 1tions during the period of the eclipse, Prof- Henry eareni of Galway' are the two features to be examined urged that Irish funds in the United ; by the Dominion Observatory scien States should not be frittered away' fists. In litigation, but should be devoted' The eclipse will, if weather condi to the Irish people. Eamonn de Ve tions pein'rit, be about ninety-five per, lera, one of the leaders in the suit In cent, visible from Ottawa and Mon -1 New York to restrain the Free State treat, while Toronto is almost in. the Government from recovering the direct path of the shadow. For pur- money on deposit, said he would re- Poses of observation, the Hamilton commend that his side to the legal , Mountain will be the best spot, it is action agree to cease the -litigation stated, and laymen astronomers are and dei tete the money to the Irish-' advised to go there if they wish to speaking districts, if the delegates ape, make the most of the opportunity. The proved, and a special independent little cross roads of Long's Corners committee was appointed to admin- I has been chosen by the astronomers, ister the money, because it is secluded, and there will A motiom in this sense was proposed. be no interference P p � by merely curious It was supported by the priests and ,Persons. lay delegates, the latter including Pat-- rick O'Maille, Deputy Speaker of the Free.State Parliament. General Rich- Vancouver Exceeds Previous and Mulcahy, former Minister of i)e- Volume fen"e, anal other Generals opposed the • of Shipping motion, describing the'question as a most contentio,:s one. The motion A despatch from Vancouver says:— eventually was withdrawn, and a corn- All records for this port in volume of elittee appointed to promote a special deep-sea shipping, lumber exports and congress of the Gaelic7eague in three wheat movement were broken in 1924, months to again consider the recon- according to figures given out by the mendation. Merchants'' Exchange. Deep-sea' ships to the number of 1,002 entered the harbor last year, as 1,100,000 Francs Spent compared with' 837 the previous year. on Paris Races Vancouver exported 6,983,595,000 feet of lumber, as compared with 290,766,- 412 feet in 1923, a new high record in the history of the port. Grain exports totalled 66,873,788 bushels, against 24,668,017 the pre- vious year. Altogether, 1,579,811 cases of canned fish were shipped in the cast 12 months,'"as compared with 968,866 cases in 1928. B ITI I I MR RACE TO ARCTIC. A A despatch from London says:— It is learned by the Canadian Press that Britain intends to enter the air race to the North Pole with an ex- pedition next May under the leader- ship of the young British Columbia explorer, Gretter Algarsson, and Com- mander Worsley, who commanded the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's ships, the; Endurance and the Quest, in their at tempted explorations of the South' Pole. As planned at present, the expedi'- tion will make for Spitzbergen, pro-. Beed northwards as far as the ice will; permit, and establish the base some- where in the neighborhood of 61 deg. north, The final 600 miles' air dash to the Pole, which will be the most 1hhazardous stage of the venture, will be undertaken by Algarsson and one companion in a special seaplane, fitted a with skiis and floats. Algarsson intends to land at the Pole and take observations and to re- turn with the expedition along the coast of Greenland, reaching England via New York. It is expected that the expedition will bring back some valu- able data which will be at the disposal of the British authorities RAILWAYS TO TAP NEW ! The Week's t� GOLD FIELDS AT ROUYNai Pets Announcement That C.N.R.I TORONTO. Mao, wheat --No. 2 North,, $2.01%; Plans Line Into Area ..,No. 2 North., $1.95%; No. 3 North., Causes Excitemnet. $1.9".t; No. 4 wheat, $1,793,4. • Man, oats --No. 2 CW,' 75'i/4e;'' N A. despatch from Rouyn City, Que., 3..CW 72%c; extra No. 1 feed, 73% says;—Tlie news has just reached No. 1 feed, 71%c; No. 2 feed, 68i/ here to the effect that surveyors are to Ali, the above c,i,f, bay ports, be set to. work immediately in locating Am,; Coro, trade, Toronto—No, a route for the prospective branch yellow, $1.41. line of the Canadian National Rail- Millfeed—Del. '•Montreal freigh bags included: Iran, per ton,.. $3 ways extending from the northern shorts pen ton, $88; middlings, $4 transcontinental line of the C,N.R. Good feed flour, per bag, $2.75. right into the heart of the Rouyn gold` Ont. oats—No. 3 white, 53 to 55 fields. ' Ont. wheat—No. 2' winter, $1,54 As a result of this information the $1.58; No. 2 winter, $1.52 to $1.5U camp is alive with excitement, The No, 1 commercial, $1,51 to $1,54,£.0, little log -cabin Town of Rouyn, sitting shipping points, according tofreigh here alone in the wilderness,' his be- Barley—Malting, 89 7o o8, come convinced at •last that the build- I Buckwheat --No, 2, 87 to 91c. F Rye—No. 2, $1,28 to $1.38. ers of railways have recognized the j' Man. flour, first pat,, $10,20, '1' value of the field. It has accepted as rmato; do, second pat., $9.70, Toronto definite the news' brought in by "Moe- Ont.. flour -00 per cent•, pat $7.10 casin Wireless." in bags, 1liontreal or t ionto, do ex- It has been estimated that the C,N, l port, 45s., cotton' bags, c,i.f. R. can reach' here over .a route of Toro reato, $14.80;timothy, 0,li812.50er . track, about `40 miles at a cost of about $2, Straw—Crcrlots, per tor, 89. 000,000. In addition to malting: the Screenings—Standard, rsclea led, mining country contributory to the o.b, bay ports, per ton, $27. railway, the prospective line.would Cheese—New, large, 21c; twin pass through excellent agricultural 2.1' to 22e; triplets, 23e; Stilton" lands and timber country. 24c. Old, large, 24 to 25c; twins, 2 Owtreys of mines and mining clainre to 28n; triplets; 2C to 27c. aro exp;vssing the belief that railway Butter—Finest creamery prints, 3 construction into the Rouyn district to 40 e; N. 1 creamery, s, to 380 • N 2,3i will presaget to 36e; dairy paints, 28 to 30c. a boom of big proportionsEggs—F'rosh extras, in caitous, and wile duplicate ,the scenes which to 77c; loose, 78 to 75e storage e: have marked the pioneer days of all tees,. in cartons, 57 to. 59c; loose, 6 other•..big mining camps of this con- to 56c; storage firsts, 52 to 23c; sten tinent, ' age seconds, 46 to 47c. I1 is pointed out that Dr..H. G.I Live' poultry—Hens, over 6 lbs„ 20e Cooke of the Geological Survey, Ot-! do, 4 to 5 lbs., 18c; do, 0 to 4 lbs., 13t tawa, is authority for statements'cP seg.e112c; iii klings,s. tCnidlba tndup, which ere believed to describe the i8c; geese, 20c' turkeys, 85c, copper -gold deposits of Rouyn asi Dressed poultry—Hens, over 5 lbs., somewhat similar in occurrence to the 26e; do, 4 to 5' lbs., 23c; do 3 to 4 vastly rich niekehcopper deposits of lbs.., 16c; spring chickens, 2 lbs. and. the Sudbury district, over, 80c; roosters, 18e; ducklings, 5 While this information regardirtgilbs. and up, 25c; geese; 21c; turkeys, prospective construction of a branch 98peans—Can. hand-picked, lb„ 054,c; of the C.N.R. was trickling into Rouyn:primes, Se, letter arrived here from Teironto' Maple products—Syrup, per imp. With the unofficial information that algal, $2.40; per 5 -gal. tin, $2,30 per, conference is to be held almost, intnie-;gal„ maple sager, lb., 25 to 26c. diately between. G. Howard Ferguson,' yen -IV -6_9 -lb, tins 151$e per lb.,• Premier of Ontario, and George Wee 10 tins, 18i/ac; 5 -Ib. tins, 14c• IA Chairman of the T.&N,O. Rail -j lb, tins, 15% to 1.6c. Smoked' meats=Hates, meq., 25 to way, with a view to arriving at some 28c; cooked hams, 37 to 38c; smoked ocision respecting the question of ex-' rolls, 18 to 20c; cottage rolls, 20 to ending the Ontario Government rail -'28c; breakfast bacon, 23 to 27c; spe- vay into Rouyn, Prerniex Ferguson cial brand breakfast bacon, 29 to 31c rs knarini to have a favorable impres backs, boneless, 29 to 36c. ion of Rouyn, while Mr. Lee is known' Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50 M be keenly. alive to the possibilities io 7l lbs,, $d17,50;.70 to 90 lbs., $16.80; such a project. An extension of 90 lbs, upp $15.60; lightweight rolls, in )carrels, $83; heavyweight only thirty-seven mike would place' rolls, $27. the railhead of the Ontario Govern- Lard—Pure, tierces, 18 to 18%e; merit lines right in' the heart of Rouyni tubs, 18% to 190; palls, 18% to 19%c; ownship. 'prints, 21 to 22e; shortening, tierces, What the C.P:R, will do remains ail4'.8 to 16c; tube, 15 to 1616c; pails, Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Dept. of the Interior at. Ottawa says: • The Saslit}tchewan Co-operative Elevator Cao ideaemie of the largo inidus- o• tries In Canada lot which very little ei is heard,' except amonge.the grails ae. growers who `•are members, of that 2 organization.. In volume of business handled, however, it has a place of ts, itsr own, and its growth has been al- e; I most marvellous, The company is now 8;1 operating 485 country elevators in Western Canada, having built 52 new e' ones during, the past' season. The velopment .of this industry has been b' gradual, being built up as the grain ts, growing areas lef the west have been extended. The company's elevators during the past season have handled a total of 387,554,000 bushels of grain, e- This is but one of the several series:. of elevators owned by grain handling and flour milling companies, There were 4,213,150 acres under field crops',` in the three Prairie Provinces the past season, oat of an available area of 170,000,900 acres. What the future - f. has in store for the grain irarideing in- dustry when the greater part of this s, area is brought,mtder cultivation may e well bo imagined. Getting the grain " to' world markets requires an ;organ- ized eiiort that can hardly beappre ,elated by those not intimately connect- ed with the yr work,but the fact that as 75 much as fem. and five million bushels Y - have been shipped from Port Arthur' 5 and Fort William in 000 clay by lake' - boats gives some indication of the enormous volume handled. During the year ending August, 1923, there were ;i,112 licenses issued to elevators mid track buyers in Western Canada. What this means may be appreolated when it is compared with Canada's branch banking system. In the whole of Canada there are 4,058 branches'' of chartered banks.- Furthermore, the work of the.,eievatore is largely confined' to a few months. SIC DAYS IN STORM r. WITH RUDDERLESS SHIP Twenty-three million francs were staken in at the turnstiles of the Paris racetracks during the 1924 season, says. a recent despatch. The percent- age of the pari-mutuel betting revert- ing to the various racing organiza- tions controlling the tracks amounted to 44,000,000. Twenty-eight million francs were put up in purses and stakes. The (life ferenoe between the receipts and the Boerhaave's Famous Message outlay in purses was absorbed by run- ning expenses and the costs of exploi A despatch from Leyden, Holland, Wien. says: -There occurred recently the The total amount of money bet at 200th anniversary of the death of Dr. the tracks during 1924 spring, sum- Hermann Boerhaave, and Leyden is mer and fall seasons amounted' toty fa - 1,100,000,000 francs. reiterating ge he l ft 10 his h urs mous message he left to his heirs. The doctor's executors found among Princess Mary May his possessions a sealed book entitled Visit Canada This Year "The Deeper Secrets of Medicine." His fame had been such that all Ley- - den despatch from London sa e:- den was keenly interested and eager The Prince of Wales, whonis prepar- for the promised revelation. The book ing for his voyage to South Africa, VAS largesold, unopened, at ainec in our has informed Canadian friends here fortea oshpt It contained too the that he wile not be able to visit Can- world;en words the doctor's cool and to our ada this year. He will, however, do' "Keep yourhhead wyour feet warm, Theft you will defy all No in 1,920,, and m.ettnwhita his wish doctors." is that his sister, Princess Mary, Vis- eountess, Lascellee, should have the United States to Share opportunity of paying an informal visit this year to his western ranch, Holland Cherishes Dr. German Reparations Paris, Jan, 11.—Winston Churchill, Provincial House to Open !the British Chancellor of the Bache - on February Tenth quer, and head of that country's cele- --- •- i gation to the Allied Finance Confer - A despatch from Toronto says:•-- ence, announced last night that he had The Provincial Cabinet, by order in -e reached an agreement with the Am - Council, on Friday, fixed: Tuesday,' erican delegation granting Washing - February 10th, as the date .for the ton's demand to share in allied collet- convening of the 'Ontario Legislature, : tions from Germany under the Dawes The anticipation of the Cabinet Min-� plait. It is stated that the agreemeut Were is for ,a short session which is provisional, so far as the Confer - shale prorogue by- Easter, 'land `the' epee ler concerned, for at the request Geneve -neat legislative program is'ac- of the ,United States delegates the cordingly being limited to essential formai arrangement will be subject to enactments projects of bass urgency confirmation by Washington. being deferred for the consideration' Later Col, Logan of the American of the Statute Revision Committee,: delegation, who has conducted the ne- which is et present engaged upon its; gotiations with Mr. Churchill, confirm - labors: led the British version, Liner Cachene Docked at St. 1 John's, Nfld., After Chapter of Accidents. A despatch from St, John's,Nfid, says:—After fighting tempests and putallexisting ever- s strips back in the Victorian ei+it. I e New Era in Naval Science. of London, Jan. 11.—Great Britain's new armada, the foundation of which' is now being laid, will be made up of craft unlike anything that naval T science has ever, seen or heard of be- fore. The design of two new capitals warships, the Noson and the Rodney, C it is said will mountainous seas 15 days, six deys ret. The Antlers ers branch of the`1Gto .1Y;irc; prints, 1.7%$840 18c.' but- Heav beef sters, $7 to P -R, has its railhead only fifty nines' cher steers, choicee, $7 to $7.50; do, outh of Rouyn. The belief is express- fair to good, $5.25 to $6.75; do, com., 5 that this company may also make $4%54.60; butcher heifers, good to sudden break toward building into choice, e:.;26 to $7; do, fair to good, mining country, through lvhich Voice, do, corn., $3.75 to $4.25; with a rudderless ship, Captain West- Without a funnel showing, and`a cott, of the Furness Liner Sachem, scarcely any superstructure, they are!t his ny extension northward would ria-.buteher cows, choice, 54.25 to .4.75; orally pass. ado fair to good, $8.50 to $4; canners To close observers of the situation and cutters, $1,60 to $2,50; butcher t becomes very apparent that only to bulls' $4; goodbologna,, $4,00 $to2 to t5; $2.do7;, fair,fee$3,76ding articularly great merit on the part, steers, good, $5 to $5.50; do fair, $4 of any mining field could attract ea to $5; stockers, good, $4 to ;4.75; do, ause such rivalry among railway. fair, $3.60 to $4; calves, choice, 512 buiklers as is now so manifest in con- to $10; do, med., $i) to $11.60•,' do, rea of Northwestern Quebec, cellon with tapping this Rouyn gold $GOssto s 53 £a cows, $40 cows, choice, had his final Melee with disaseee at designed to serve a double purpose.; a the harbor roar i and won, and the A clear deck space gives a long broad't vessel is safely at .iter dock, while the sweep for the launching of airplanes.' exhausted crew enjoyed its first; real! Heavily armored decks will bo, i rest in over two weeks, The ceipplel planted as a protection- from attacks p Sachem, which had navigated the last from the air. The magazines are be-' 400 miles. from Liv ruaol without a ing grouped forward under the super- c redder and with the steamer Ilan -;armored decks. The absence of fun -I Chester Hero trading et the end of a nets provides unobstructed space for n rope to keep Iter etraight, was just planes. The smoke fumes from the' a coloring the "Narrows" at the mouth engince will be carried of via tubes! of St. John's Harbor, when the last stretching alongside, which will also accident occurred. The steering line aid in throwing up smoke screens, larding to her esoort parted ill the The new ships will be entirely dif-•F narrows' and the liner swung around ferent from any others in the world. broadside, threatening to strand. Only They will be both floating fortresses F the most expert manipulation on the and airdromes; will have a radius of crew's part' kept the steamer off th action covering thousand's of mil rocks until tugs go': alongside and j y headed her up the harbor. i All on board were reported well, but Charles Evans Hughes the officers and crew suffered ;Crone 'complete exhaustion, none of them haveng been able to remove their clothes throughout the voyage. Extend Air Mail Routes in Europe London, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Malmoe, Sweden, will be linked early this year by a daily air mail and pas- senger service. English and German machines will be used, says a Ham- burg despatch. 'springers, choice, $70 to $90; good light sheep, $6,50 to $7,60; heavies IsROI IIN.E iT DELEGATES : to $4;c god ewe iambs 4154,501oa516; OR OPIUM CONFERENCE bucks, $12.50 to 513; do, -meq,, $9.50to $10; do, cuIie, $8 to $9; hogs, thick ranee, Holland and Britain smooths; fed and -watered, $10.60; do, f,o,b., 510; do, off ears,$11; do, coup' Meet U.S. Demands for An ; try points, $9.76; select premium, Agreement Against' Opium. $2'07' A despatch from Geneva says:— MONTREAL. Three Governments will have new and;. Oats -CW, No., 2, 79e No. 8, 75c ore;, prominent delegates at the extra No. '1 feed, 73c. Flour—Man. eague of Nation opium conference spring wheat pats., firsts, $10.20; aee- when it reassembles January 19. The ends'e 59:?0; strong bakers', $9.50' hange is the result of the determined winter. pats„ choice, $7.60 t0 $7,60, and by the United States delegation Rolled oats, rtnags, 90 8bs., $ Mid Bran, g' $80.26. Shorts538.25, Middlings, revious to adjournment in December $44,25, Hay—No. ,per ton, car lots, r a firm agreement against opium. $14,60 to $ifi: France will send a high Fioreign1 Batter, No..1. pasteurized, '35%e; ffice official and Holland has ap No. 1 creamery, 34rtc; seconds, 33eee. ointed former Foreign' Minister; Eggs, storage extras, 48 to 50c; stor- Loundon, at present Ambassador to •40etfir 20;4 fresh 3 to 46c; storage 5c eCfresli Paris. Britain has named the Mar -•$rets, 53c, quis of Salisbury, Lord. Privy Seal int Com. to fair dairy type cows $2.50 the Baldwin Cabinet. Thie was the to $3.25; canners, $1.85 to $2 coo. result of Cabinet discussions' of the bulls, $8; calves, nixed lata, med. and situation which arose• here through coo, suckers, $8.50 to $10; grassers, India's stand against the United 54; lambs, Hied quality, $11 to 511.26; States proposals before adjournment. hogs, mixed lots, $10,75;- selects, The changes in the delegations is $11.26. taken here to mean that every effort will be made to meet the United States Last Capital Battleship to be demands.. Agreement is expected on Succeeded by Kellogg en Washington, Jan, 11.—Secretary of State Hughes has resigned, effective 0 March 4, and Frank B. Kellogg, Am- St bassador to Great Britain, is to be his P successor. fa Charles Beecher Warren is to be the new Attorney -General. Announce- 0 ment of these important :changes in p the Cabinet came from the White House yesterday with a suddenness that startled official Washington. Mr. Hughes assigns as his reason for relinquishing his post his desire to retire Id private life. all issues except the suppression of Scrapped by'Creat Britain smoking and the production of rawA despatch fromPortsmouth, :Fug,, opium. To this part of the United States program the opium bloc will offer a compromise which itis believed the Americans will accept. Representative Stephen G. Porter, head of the - United States delegation, has : already 'used the prestige'. and power of his:'countaay to the. limit in forcing .the other powers to recognize the political aspects of the problem. Unemployment in Great Britons is on the Increase A despatch from London; says: -- Unemployment increased 10 per cent. in Great Britain. during ' Christiiias week, and there are nearly as many people on the dole lists now as there were a year ago. The Ministry of Labor announced that 1,272,600 persons 'were recorded on, the registers of the employment exchanges on Dec, 29.. This total i•ep- A seaman who became dangerously ill while g resents a gain of 103,373 over the pre- g y v e en a freighter at sea re- ceding week, and is' only 13,023 less Gently was moved to a passing liner fn neidocean for medical attention.. than the corresponding week in 1928. says:—rite battleship Monarch, the last capital ship which Greet. Britain serape leader the Waehingtan Treaty, was towed out of Portsmouth •barber this week .Site will be taken to Ply- , mouth end. before the end of the month will go to 3see to become a tar- get for the Atlantic fleet, The Mon- arch from which all usable fiuiehings havebeen removed,, moat be contdilete-. ly destroyed by February. New Zealand to Send Exhibit. to 1925 British. Empire Fair A despatch from Wellington says: -- The New Zealand Government has de - tided to be represented at the Beitjsli Empire Exhibition at Wembley this year. Preparations' are now being hastemed for the renewal of exhibits and replenishment of cinema material, The present decision reverses the one, arrived ,at in October and.. has been communicated to the British Govern- ment by oho` High Coinmissioner for New Zealand. Quest for Identity of First Inhabitant;, of America Captain Allen Le Baron, British archaeologist, who has been explor- ing excavations of ancient villages in Nevada, passed through here recently on his way to the Colcrsdo River to continue his quest for the identity of the first inhabitants of the American Continent, says a despatch from Ton- opah, Nev. The captainis trying to discover, as nearly as he can from archaeoiogical evidence, who these people were and where they came from. 1t is his plan to reopen some of the old turquoise mines and, by systematic excavation, to trace the early races from Boulder Canyon to the eastern border of Ne- vada. Captain Le Berea says the evidence indicating a connection .between the early people of ,this region and the Mayas of Yucatan, Mexico, is accumu- lating. He considers one of his most, important finds a symbol of sacrifice, a grotesque mask, which he uncovered in Aztec Canyon, thirty-five miles south of Las 'Vegas, Nev. it is '-ike the masks known to have been worm by Maya priests when they condicta-i the sacrificial services where thou- sands of victims were inemoktte,l. British Pension Outlay Reduced by Re -Marriage Seraighthits from Cupid's bow haver reduced the number of Britainee Britainwar widows by 86 per cent.' and d ct eeeecl the annual expenses of the Ministry of Pension for keeping these den s dents by 28,000,000, the latest deart- mental report reveals, says a T.oncien despatch. The government's pen =ion list of widows and their children is than it has been since 1917. nee, � 7t there are 2,215,000 rokhert' I c -t• dents still calling John Pull their vldex. In this number are Meet": children, but these are rapidly being reducedas they grow up past the limit for governmental, aid. Bee is Industrious trioLiS BeCai"tKE it is Made That Way British scientists al'a dispelling, one by one, cherished illueions of their childhood, says a::London dee, itch. Now it "the busy little bee' ; utt is being'showit tip. Acre:riling W Ftiank Balfour •'Brbv{*ne, leetux •a' or-the•Royai Inatitution of Great Britain, bees may seem intelligent, but really' are "so awfully stupid." The bee; according,o this scientist, wile joins issue with Henri Fabre and other writers out insect lice, ie busy - only because he is bent that way and cannot •hmsef. "A11 through elphiyolu c v er.tttie+s ' the lecturer declares"you set the idea that these creature„ are sensible, bit alt e `tine these, id;as are culi; destroyethd. o They are dan,g nrr 1 (hose.: things which are inlu_ee,l.e a Female Barristers I rae,.i ling in Englaol Total 41 When seven women eldialates wore celled to the bar a taw daysago they brought the total 'number of female barristers practicing in England to forty-one, says a London despatch. Among the ,ninety-nine'candidatee called on this occasioh wes'e one Amt erican and a citizen of Russia.No rule exists ' preventing foreign, subjects from being called to the English bar.