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The Seaforth News, 1926-03-11, Page 3PORT ARTHUR TO MANITOBA BOUND.►, Y A OF A"` ITY A despatch frolic says:—Northwestern Ontario, from Port Arthur to the Manitoba boun- dary, is a hive of •activity. ;Old -tine residents cannot recount a winter so full of business. Tho soil is covered with, snow knee-deep, but still .the op- erations go on, the workers seeming to enjoy the zestful tang of a typical winter in the hinterland: Along the railway lines, on both sides, are immense piles of pulp and cordwood; ood; the banks of streams are the temporary resting -place of thou- sands of ties. Men are busy trapping in the bush or hunting for minerals. Enginers :are mapping out a route for an immense power line from Big Falls, seven miles north of Atikolcan, to Fort Frances, where the ultimate electric energy will be used in mage pulp and papor mills. During the ,past three winter months building after building has been added to the structures in the hinterland hamlets. '. Mine Centre, the trackheadquarters of the British- Canadian Mines Co., developing the Foley gold property, is building up rapidly. New stores are dotting the Port "Arthur lute Put hp several new structures. All along the. Canadian National, Port Arthur -to -Winnipeg line, bride .and brti'ding• men aro operating where con- ditions permit: Little station houses, built in Port Arthur and placed our flat ears, are being deposited on a site to mark a new stopping place. Atikolcan is• the seen° of activity. IIere the Backus interests are erect- ing track buildings in connection with their power developmeet. At Big Fails they have 150 men working. Every train brings in snore. Fort Francon, -a frontier town, is leaping abe,ad. of her American neigh- bor, International Falls.' The • Can- adian town- now has a population of 5,500. ' W. H. Elliott, the Mayor, is prophesying that within the next five years . Fort Frances will be applying fora city charter. Fort Frances is setting apart addi- tional property for a tourist camp- ground. The Mayor and city officials 'have seen to it that the necessary at- tractive folders are already off the press and ready for distribution. They look for the greatest tourist trade the northwestern end of the province has Main street. .:..Tho mining company even enjoyed. CANADA EXPORTS SEED GRAIN TO ARGENTINE, Record Consignment of Fifty Tons Loaded at New York. t3, despatch from New York says:— The largest shipment of Canadian seed grain ever "shipped to tbe Argen- tine was loaded here on the Vestvard, of the Houston -L F. C. lines. Totalling in all •approximately 50 tons, the ship- ment was made up of 18,000 bushels of pedigreed Marquis wheat and .15; 000 bushels of pedigreed Banner oats. It was consigned, to the Bunge and Born Corporation of Buenos Aires, from the Moose Jaw branch of the Carnelian Seed Growers' Association. The loading of such a large consign- ment of grain aroused' no little inter- est and the event was marked- by -a luncheongiven by the captain of the carrying vessel. Frederick C. Hudd, Canadian Trade Commissioner of New York, attended, while Harry Lesser, president, and_ Alfred Meale, vice- president of the lines, were also present. Moving pictures of the loading activities were taken for public dis- tribution. Sir Austen Wins French With Smiles and Smokes A. despatch from Paris .days:—Sir Austell Chamberlain is ono of the most popular. British foreign secretaries that France has ever known. His close friendship with Premier Briand seems to delight the people•of this country and the press never records the meet- ings of the two statesmen without fre- quem allusions to the welcoming smiles in which they ane. wreathed. Two factors tend to contribute to this happy state of affairs. In the first place Sir Austen speaks French, and it is noted with enthusiasm that his French is so improving that he now picks the "mot juste" with all the facilities of an old Parisian. And secondly, Sir Austen, and this seems very important, is able to smoke, cig- arette for cigarette, -with the French. Premier, who is a)most never seen without a "gauloiso Maryland" droop- ing from the corner of his mouth. On such things the good relations of two counties may often depend. Robert Hobson Preidileat ill the Steel l'tnupa:i;; of Canada, who diod'i cantly at Isis home in cJai.ii.ton. Prince's -Latest "Cropper" Ma; :Aid Shoulder Droop A de patch front London says:- The Pninoe of Wales' latest accident in the hunting field, in which he sof- ferret a urokett collar -bone, has proved to be one of those blessings which cone in disguise, ie the opinion of his physi- cians They feel that it will teed to correct the slight droop iii one of ids shoulders, which resulted front the breaking' of the Cake collarbone in The prince: has. been caused very littlo inconvenience by this accident end hes been able' to keep' alt his ap- q)oiniments. It will he some time, 41.owower, before he Will be able to dance or 'take part ho athletic' pas- times. John J. Dixon new president of the Canadian Nation- al Exhibition. ation-al-Exhtbition. • MOTHER SAVED BABIES BUT FATALLY BURNED Port Arthur Woman Perished and. One Child is Severely Injured. A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont., says:—Mrs. M. Hotchkoski received fatal burns and her three-year-old daughter is in a critical condition in hospital her following a fire which destroyed their home on Thursday. Mrs. Hotchkoski died in hospital short- ly before noon, retaining consciousness until an hour or more before she ex- pired. Awakened from sleep by heat and smoke, the mother seized her two chil- dren and threw them out of a window on a snow-covered verandah, where they were picked up by neighbors. The eldest child was severly burned, but.a baby was unharmed. Forced from the open window by a rush of flames, Mrs. Hotchkoski fought her way to the rear of her little home, escaping through a doorway. The soles of her feet were burned raw, and her whole body was charred. Australians Invite Canadians to Parley. The four Aiistil:Ilan' wheat pools have extended an invitation to the Canadian wheat pools to send a dele- gation to Australia In August to eon - fel" with pool representatives there. J. M. McDonald, of Adelaide, South Australia, who attended the recent In- ternational Cooperative Wheat Pool Conference at St. Paul, Minn., says that following the conference at St. Paul he reached the conclusion that the Canadian anal -Australian wheat pools could work together, provided the tour Australian pools 'came tip to the standard of the Canadian pools aand, like them, armed a_centrtl sen - ing organization. At present the Ans- i fralIan pools compete against each outer es regard,, selling. IlIr. I1ioDon- L aid added that he was convinced that Ithe Canadian wheat pools hab been strnmen tat in stabilizing wheat pr"ices Iduring the last, six months. British Naval Estimates for 1926 Are $281,785,000 A despatch from London says:— The net total of the British navy esti- mates for 1926 is £258,100,000 ($281,- 785,000), which is a reduction of 92,- 400,100 from that of 1925, notwith- standing that theprovision f starsof tis w construction is increased from 87,235,- 787 to £9;083,698. This announcement was made to -day by W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty. The estimates provide for cat rying on the new construction program which was preseritocl to Parliament last July. It was otigina :y intended . that the floating 'dock for Singapore, which was, included in that-pr•op:ant, should be provided' by the-rcconst.r•uc- tion of a former German dock. Ex- perience, however, has show this to ho impracticable, and 'a new dock is be- ing ordered. THREE CANADIANS IN HONG KONG - Tom Pyburn, of Toronto (standing), William Daley, of Montreal, and. 'Lorne Saundercock, of Brockville (sitting left to right), who are with the Hong Kong defense. corps. ,attached to the East Surrey Regiment CREW OF SIX SAVED FROM SINKING VESSEL Liner Takes Off Skipper and Men Afloat' Since Dec. 17 on Derelict Ship. A. despatch from New York says: TWO wireless messages from the Hol- land -American liner Volendam were put together to make the probable story that the skipper and live men of the schooner General Smuts bed been rescued in mid-Atlantic after spending several weeks on their dere- lict vessel. In one respect, that of dates, their informations received at Halifax and New York did not jibe. While the Halifax radio said that the General Smuts had been abandon- ed and set on fire in latitude 44.05 north, longitude 38.27 west, the New York, message read: "Notify Associated Press captain rescued midnight. Skipper and five men afloat since Deeembor'17 on sail - less, sinking schoner on way Spain, Newfoundland." Shipping records showed that the British schooner left Spain on December 18 bound for St. John's, Nfld, The Halifax message was received by the Department` of Marine and Fisheries. The New York radio was sent by Ossian Lang, a ;passenger on the 'Volendam, to Robert J. Ken- worthy, grand secretary of the Mason is Order. Officials of the. Holland -American Line said they had received no report of the rescue from Captain de Konig, of the Volendam. Attempts will be made by wireless to reach the boat, which is due to arrive at Plymouth, England, on Monday. Payment ofTwent Cents • Made by Wheat Pool A despatch from, Winnipeg says:— The Central Selling Agency of the Prairie wheat pools will snake its sec- ond payment to contract holders this week, it is officially learned here. The payment will amount to 20 cents a bushel, based on No. 1 Northern. The first payment was $1 a bushel, made last November. It is tmderstood that a third payment may he made ,after seding, and a final settlement early next summer. On the basis of 20 cents a bushel, the total amount to be paid out this week will reach $25,000,000. • AIR ROUTE IS OPENED TO NEW GOLD FIELD First Plane Makes Five -Day Journey in Hour and a Half... FIVE CAUGHT IN STORM ON TRIP"Bishop of North Pole" Resigns His Arctic Post. FROIYI PELEE ISLAND TO IYIAINLAND The Right Rev. J. R, Lucas, Bishop , of Mackenzie River, has, eine() A despatch from Windsor says:— All hope was practically abandoned on Thursday. for James Phipps; his wife, Nellie; and their three children,1 aged 9, 5 and 4, who started out at. 4 o'clock last Monday afternoon from Pelee. Island in their sedan to drive across the frozen wastes of Lake Erie! to the mainland at Leamington, eigh- I s teen miles away, and of whom nothing has since been seen. It is feared the pasty, overtaken probably by a snow - , storm that swept across the lake about I that time, lost the trail, and that; Phipps, who was at the wheel of the car, drove into an ice -hole concealed beneath a thin veneer of ice and snow. I All day long the mournful hoots of! shore whistles at Leamington echoed across the expanse of frozen lake, sounding their warnings at regular intervals, in the vain ]tope that the Sum of (',0,000 is Donated to Aid Migration to Canada A despatch from London says:— Leybourne Davidson of Huntly, Aber- deenshire, a pioneer in the rubber in- dustry, and prominent in other indus- tries also has offered to contribute 330,000 to . assist in the migration movement from Great Britain to the, Dominions. The details of the propos- ed contribution are "unsettled es yet. It appears that Leybourne Davidson's gift, which has aroused widespread interest, was the sequel to a speech made by Sir Robert Horne, M.P., for- mer Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Elgin, Scotland, last November, when he emphasized the advantage of send- ing young men from Great Britain to the Dominion. travellers might possibly, still be alive, and that the whistle signals might guide them to share, But as darkness fell and no word came from -the numerous searching parties scattered along the shore and far out over the lake, the hope that the little family still might be alive lowly yielded, to conviction that they had gone .to death at the lake's bottom.' The first news that the party was missing was broadcast Thursday fore- noon, when a mail carrier returning from Pelee Island reported to anxious inquirers that the Phippses had left. the island a few minutes before. 4' o'clock Monday afternoon, 'expecting to reach the mainland near Leaming- ton before darkness set in, lJp to that time friends of the family at Learn-ington believed they had' decided to' pro:iong their visit on the island. Eskimos Face Starvation in the Barren Lands A. despatch from Fort Smith, N.W. A despatch from Hudson, Ont., T„ says:—A detachment of the Royal says: The aeroplane superseded the Canadian Mounted Police left Fort dog -sled to -day, and a party, including Smith Thursday morning on a long a prospector and a geologist, took the trek into the Barren Lands in an effort air route to Red Lake, scene of On ; to prevent a band of Eskimos from tario's latest gold strike. The arduous' meeting death through starvation. five-day journey was cut to an hour 1 Word was received here of the and a half. The distance to Red Lake, plight of the natives and Corporal by the air route is 140 miles from this point. The thermometer registered 30 below zero. The air service has been inaugur- ated by Jack V. Elliot, Flamiiton -air- man, air man, and three planes have been sta- tioned at Hudson to carry out a regu- lar schedule of flights. It was indicated Thursday that the development of the new field would be hastened by the advent of air trans- portation. Experts who have gone into the field to investigate will be enabled to return with their reports in a fraction of the time required by the dog teams. Supplies and baggage will also be carried by the planes. March 511t witnessed the inaugura- tion of 'a mail service to the mining camp. More than a thousand letters awaited delivery. Mining Men Are Told of Big Developments A despatch from Montreal says The impetus to the development of Canada which had been given by the discovery of minerals, the preponder- ance of Canada as a nickel producer, petroleum and gas developments in Alberta, and the benefits of research as an aid to the mining industry were presented to the convention of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy here on Thursday. The transformation into a populat- ed country which had taken place in hitherto unsettled portions of British Columbia, through the discovery of minerals in the last century, was now being repeated in northern Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, Charles Camscll, Deputy Minister of Mines, Ottawa, said. The annual pineapple crop of the Hawaiian Isands is worth about $20,- 000,000. Blake, a constable from the regular staff, and a special constable left with two Indian dog team drivers. A large quantity of food was carried on the sleds, The location of the band of starving caribou eaters is believed to be 250 miles northeast of herein the Barren Lands. If. I have enough for myself and fancily, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but steward of that abundance for others.—George Herbert. R. F. Gagen Secretary of the Ontario Society of Artists, who dropped dead on March 2nd while looking over the work of Canadian artists at the Toronto Art Gallery, 1913, relinquished his diocese owing to the ill -health of his wife, _and his resignation becomes effective on March 31. Mrs. Lucas's breakdown is due to the trying life of the earlier days in the frozen North, Dr, Lucas, known to his brother , clerics as the "Bishop of the North Pole, : has a diocese covering 600,000 square miles, with enly about 6,000 people, almost entirely Indians and Esquimaux. On one of his visits to .London he gave some interesting par- ' titulars of his great "parish," "The diocese includes the North Pole," he gaud, "but I don't think an j endeavor will be made to establish d• mission thexe until we know aur way about those regions better.'' The Ca- , titedral Church is at Pert Simpson, and to catch a train we have to etart six and a half' weeks in advance. The nearest railway station is a thousand 1 milds away. "The transformation worked in ouv Esquimaux has been profound. Fon•• merly they used to be dirty, dishonest and untrustworthy. Now, before at.. tending church every week, they insist - on having a bath, no matter how low the temperature may be. They will melt snow in their huts to do it." Eighteenth Child Born in Family I11 With Smallpox A despatch from Kitchener says:— The stork defied smallpox placards when it brought the eighteenth child to Mrs. John K. Weber at her home here, 25 Peter St., Wednesday night. The mother is a victim of smallpox, but the child, a boy, was born in a healthy condition. Seventeen of Mrs. Weber's children are living. Nine of the chil- dren who are quarantined in the,house have smallpox. THE WEEK'S MARKETS TORONTO. Man. wheat—No. 1 North., $1; No. North., $1.563'x; N North., $1.53%. Man. oats—No. 2 CW, nominal; No. 8, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 47c; No. 2 feed, 45c; Western gram quota- tions on ca,f, hay ports. Ani, corn, track, Toronto—No. 2 yellow, 851/se; No, 3 yellow, 88c. • Millfeed-Del. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $80.25 to $31.25; shorts, per ton, $32.25 to $33.25: middlings, $39.25 to $40.26; good feed flour, to bag, $2.30. Ont. oats --40 to 42c, f.o.b. shipping points. Ont. good milling wheat—$1.27 to $1.29, f.o.b. shipping points, according to .freights. Barley, malting -62 to 640. Buckwheat—No. 2, 69c. Rye—No. 2, 85c. Man. flour—First pat., $8,40, To- ronto; do, second pat., $7.90. Ont. flour—Toronto, 90 per cent. pat., per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $5.60; seaboard, in bulk, $5.60. Straw--Carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.50. Screenings—Standard, recleaned, 1. o.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. Cheese—New, large, 22e; twins, 2246c; triplets, 23c; Stiltons, 24c. Old, large, 28 to 30c; twins, 29 to 81c; triplets, 30 to 32c. Butter—fine•-+ creamery prints - Red Luke the Scene of the Big Gold Rush +1 eb I cio¢rP1o� ' .Iz s sl k ..,- n, ATory .o 5 •1S ft 11 we:lee TRAIL .' oleos ROUTE 11 11111 11 1 4.1I1 ie.! � ,2 CAKE RREED tARE RECORDING 'L MSINNRE-"/. /-"ea,e7 ,VOOCE ,r HOWEY \. ��y viCToRIA SYND NOPANDA .\ o CONIAGAS NAMMEL u Ln nM zooOoua p VE4' 5!a PARAPAI FAOgnoo,rr gull wvn ,,� ,tr7.9,1101. p,1pwoad ben,' eP1e'Jds KIIOSON /n fiANITOB=i and D- C N RN/Lsce' o LAc Eu/ i a'ng/iah 2,vrr •p15LPWoc)D eIM1r L OpTrONA CANOE ROUTES' HALF MILE 011114,1, CI�tG4e. .• H Iu,NN,G. MINAKI tt-jrzQUI{{�ECL 75 .IL@5 ' 1e IYf1F11., tt� SIOX- !ti HUDSON isxikUowr As> T `�c HAZARDOUS 'WINTER TRAIL LEADS TO RED LAKE 'GO.LIE riI@LDS. Westminster Abbey Undergoing Cleanup to Continue 20 Years A despatch from London says: -- Westminster Abbey's interior is under- 'going a general scouring with vacuum . cleaners and electrical scrubbers, and '. marvellous decorations in gold and beautiful bright colors are being un- covered on walls and pillars which had greyed under the smoke and dust of centuries. Every foot of the wail and ceiling in the great cathedral is to be restored as nearly as possible ,to its original state. Wall paintings dating back to 1300 have already been uncovered, and pillars which were supposed to be ordinary stone blackened by grime prove to be fine red and white marble. Even the dull decorations on many of the tombs are lovely mosaic when they emerge from the hands of the cleaners. Much of the art work has been effectively concealed because of a var- nish, believed to have been applied under the instructions of Sir Chris- topher Wren, which was supposed to • preserve the colors. This varnish prob- ably did preserve the colors, but it held the dust and smoke and coated the art objects so heavily with grime that modern visitors have had little conception of the brilliant achieve- ments of medieval worlanen. It will probably take twenty years to complete the restoration, whieh is going on under the direction of E. W. Tristram of the Royal College of Art. 48e; No. 1 creamery, 46 to 47c; No. 2, 46 to 46c. Dairy prints, 41 to 42c. Eggs—Fresh extras, in cartons, 40 to 41c; fresh extras, loose, 39 to 40c; fresh firsts, 35 to 36e. Dressed poultry—Chickens, spring, Ib., 32 to 35c; hens, over 4 to 6 lbs., 30c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 25c; roosters, 22e; ducklings, 5 lbs, and up 30 to 32c; turkeys, 35c. Beans—Can. hand-picked, Ib., 6e; primes 5 to 616zc. Maple produce•—Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.40; per 6 -gal. tin, $2.80 per gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 26 to 26c. Honey -50 -lb. tins, 111 to 12e per lb.; 10-11). tins, 11 /s to 12e; 6-1b. tins, 12 to 12/c; 21/4-113. tins, 14 to 16ec. Smoked meats—Hams, nted„ 29 to 81c; cooked hams, 43 to 45c; smoked rolls, 22c; cottage, 26 to 27c; break- fast bacon, 82 to 36c;- special :brand breakfast bacon, 88 to 39e; backs, boneless„ 85 to 48c. Caned meats—Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs, 324,25; 70 to 90 lbs., $23.75; 20 lbs. and up, 322.34; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $42.60; heavyweight roils, 389.50 per bbl. Lard—Pure tierces, 181/4 to 19c; tubs, 19 to 194c; pails, 20 to 201he; prints, 21 to 211c; shortening tierces, 14 to 14/e; tubs, 14% to 160; pails, 1511 to 151c; blocks, 161 to 17e. Heavy steers, choice, 37.50 to $8.80; do, good, •37.25 to 37.50; butcher steers, theme, 37 to 37,50; do, good, $6 to 36.75: butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to $7.25; do good $6,00 Natural Resources.Bulletin. Maple sugar tine will soon be here—that time that is looked forward to by all who own a sugar bush as the first sign of spring. The cold nights give place to the sunny days, the sap hi the maple commences to run, and the sugar -making equipment is again • put into service. Tho making of maple sugar and syrup is almost exclusively a Can- adian industry, although the New England States make some. But Can- ada, being known as the "Land of. the Maple" can claim the maple industry as its own. Are we making the moat of this industry, however? Are we pro- ducing maple sugar that carries an appeal from the standpoint of qual- ity? Unfortunately we cannot give a favorable answer. There appears to be no uniformity in quality or color, the latter varying from a clear yellow to almost a black, while some of the sugar is so hard as to be alnnost un- breakable. In marketing the sugar little attention is given to appearance and often the condition in which it is placed on sale is far from appetizing. Canadian maple sugar makers are missing a splendid opportunity in not catering more carefully to the taste of the consumer in regard to the con- dition in which it 1, sold. Ganacnens as a general rule have a sweet tooth to $6.50; do, ned., 1005 ' .50 to do for maple sugar, and will consume cam„ $5 to 35,50; butcher cows, large quantities of it, if put up in an choice, $5.50 to .36; do, fair to good, inviting forst. Au additional market 34 to 35; butcher bulls, good, 35 is offered in the hundreds of thousands to $5.75; bolognas, $3.25 to 33.75; of American tourists that will bo coming to Canada this year. They will want something typically Can- adian, and, if maple sugar can be offered to them in an appee-ing wrap - good $5, to $5.50; do fair, $•1,50 to per or even in a waxed paper wrapper 35; calces, choice 313 to 314;that is a protection against, contsnr do, good, $11 to $12.50; do, grassers, utation by flies or careless handling 35.50 to 36.50; good light sheep; 37 to they will conssuine considerable quanti- 38; heavies and bucks, $`o,50 to 36..50; ties while in Canada as well as carry good lambs, $13.76 to $14; do med., it beet-- home with them, with rho re - $12 to $12,50; tlo, burls, $9 to $1,1; Suit That a larger market wits lie cre- do, culls, 310 to 311; hogs thick ated for C0.tada's delightful confer smroths, fed and watered, $13.86, dc, f.o.b., 313.25; do, ceuntry points, $13; Lion. ,. e t s d.�o selectpremium, •do oft <a 1 $2.'70. 1. MONTREAL. ills Wild Cat in Hen Coop p - Ott,, Can. West., No. 2, li9c; No. 3, With Pitchfork and Dog 55c;extra No, 1 feed, 58e Flour, 111tint spring wheat pats firsts $8.50• canners ard cutters 32,25 to 38; springers, choice, 385 to 3100; good :Mich cows, 370 to $80; medium cows, 345 to 360;feeders, good, 36,25 to $b 75 do, fait $5 to $6; stocicets, seconds, 38 strong bal._re, 37,60 to{ A despatch .from l si geton, One, ' $7.80. Bran, 330.25. Shorts $81.25, :Ilya —Awakened during the night by Middlings, 309.25, Flay, No 2,'•perthe loud barking of his dog, William ton,car lots, $10 to $13.50. I Menonalcl, Woltord Township, went to Cheese, i11581wste'., 26c; (10,.Iirtest, the poultry house and encotnttered 'a casts 1914 to 193he. Butter, No. 1, `wild cat which had just killed dive pas ten ized,46 to 46'i e, Eggs, storage; extras, 82L storage firsts, 27c; store. geese- Thetic, fresh extras, 42c; I The farmer, armed with •a 11iteef0rk age seconds, - fresh firsts, 37c. Potatoes, .Quebec, ' and aided by his deg, killed the eat, pen bag, car lots, , $2,60 to 32.65; ;which is a splendid, specimen,