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The Herald, 1909-06-18, Page 2SOO GATES CARRIE' OFF. Four Gates of Sault Ste. Marie Canal Broken. One Vessel Sunk, Another Ashore and Others Damaged. Water Rushing Through the Canal --7-Take Long Time to Fix. 8 ult Ste, Matte, D:lieh., despatch: This •afternoon the Canadian Soo docks were practiealiy put out of commission by one of- the worst accidents that ever 3iappened in marine circles in the Soo • - or vicinity. At present the water from Like Superior le pouring through in a torrent; and it will probably be a month before the locks are again available for • marine trade. Three boats, the Assini- lwia, of tlxe 0. P. R line; the Perry G. Walker, of the Gilchrist fleet, and the Crescent City all figured in the aecideut. Tlie overflow of water threatens to 'wast), out the. piers at the foot of the locks, At 2 this afternoon the Assini- bola was in the locks, bound down; she was followed by the Crescent City; all figured in the accident at the upper gate. The Walker was coming up the river, presumably to lock through on an • up trip. Just as the Crescent was en- tering the canal, and before the gates 'could be closed at the upper end, the Walker eraahed into the lower gates, S. breaking them and allowing the Assini- bole and Crescent to rush down with the overflow of water. CRASHED INTO CRESCET. The Assiniboia missed the Walker, barely grazing her side, but the Crescent dashed into her and received a hole in her side six feet square. The Walker was also considerably damaged. The • Crescent .and the Assiniboia proceeded to the 'Michigan side, where both now lie. The Assiniboia seems to have suf- fered minor injuries, while the Crescent is lying on the bottom. The Waller reached the centre of the river and grounded, and was later towed to the Miehigan side by two tugs. Her in- juries are not yet known. THE TOWN EXCITED. The entire town is excited this even- ing over the accident, and hundreds have visited the canal to look at the .scene. The water is pouring through in torrents; and unless the flow is stopped at once property below the canal will Suffer. • When the boats came ':.drown after tht accident •they travelled est .fifteen.acilesa 1.ger hour through the, airaiai •it is •a miracle that they, •es ped sue easily as they did. PASSENGERS ON' ASSINIBOIA. Passengers on the Assiniboia are not yet aware how closely they cane to death. Had the' boat turned turtle in the Locks not a soul would have escaped. A movable dam at the head of the Socks it being placed in position at the present tine in an endeavor to have the locks repaired, but since it has not yet been tried there is some doubt as to its effectiveness. 'I'hc four large gates have been swept away. and there remain only the frail emergency gates, which are not of nneh use, providing the dam refuses to work. A YELLOW CORD POLICE -FORCE NOW. Sent by Regent of China to Yuan Shill Kai. New York, June 14.--A cable des- patch to the Herald from Pekin says: A. report is current, though it is im- possible to Cay of how veracious a nature, that five eoart officials are now on their way to Honan carrying the imperial yellow coral, signifying the throete's order that Yuan. Shill •5a1 shall tomtit suicide. The report is accompanied by cir- cumstantial details to the effect that the officials are to watch Yuan Shia Kai day and night, giving hint two attceeths in -whish to carry out the order. '.ate present persistent revival of the death atony comes caineideat with the reported serious illness of Prinod Ching, and is given color by the admitted .fast that the prese>it., Dowager -Empress is lama on Yuaa Shih Xai's death. ' HURT AT CIRCUS, Charges at Public Enquiry Against a Montreal Inspector; • Montreal, June 14. ---Formal charges were made at the Royal Commission We afternoon by ex Captain Bitignet against inspector Lamouche of con - duck unbecoming a police officer, de- claring that he had been seen drinking iu a public house after midnight, that he had returned illegally to ttie owner a •piece of furniture seized in a gaming house, and that in sub- staxice the conduct of the inspector was of the nature to have an unfavor- eblo effect ori the discipline of the police force of the city. Mr. 'v. K. Laflamme, for the Citizens' Committee, gave notice of his intention to examine some thirty police officers who have been promoted during the last year or two, •for the purpose of seeing whether any of then have paid for their p1omotions. It was expressly declared that no constables were to be examined on that point. tom LADY A f ;ERDEEN. Boston Gaelic School Circulating an Unfounded Statement. Boston despatch: While Lady Aberdeen was being feted by prominent people of the city and state in Boston to -day, members of the Boston Gaelic School were circulating a statement that her ladyship was not in America for the sole purpose of assisting in -the battle battle against tuberculosis, but that she had a sinister motive, a motive un- friendly to Ireland and Irish interests. When the faets were brought to the attention of La<ly Aberdeen to -night she expressed great surprise. "It is absurd," she declared. "I am doing everything I possibly can to help Irish industries, and nothing could be further from niy mind than any plan inimitable to Irish interests." In part. the statement circulated read: "The east]e clique has raised the cry of tuberculosis among the Irish, and has sent Lady Aberdeen to Boston to enlist others in the anti -Trish industry- cru- sade. She and Mrs. O'Connor have come here in the interest of the British -Amer lean Alliance. but it nunat not be won at the cost of libelling the Irish people." A MAKESHIFT LINE Now the Boundary in Passauiagued- Fly Bay in Canada. Eastport,. Maul-, .tone* 14. --The boon. dilly Iine through the Passamaquoddy fishing grounds, which has been in dis- pute for seventeen years, is about to be settled. Dr. W. F. Bing, the Canadian Commission, has spent several days at Campobello Island consulting old docu- meats and taking testimony. On start- ing for Washington, where he is now conferring with Commissioner Anderson, he said that the matter would be re- ferred to The Hague Tribunal. unless settled. The present makeshift line tbrows most of the fishing grounds of the Passamaquoddy roads into Cana- dian territory and cuts in two Pope's 1`olly Isjand. , , • C •se eaasate The fishing industry at Eastport, worth millions annually, is virtually n- fected by the settlement. The fishing grounds have been debatable territory since the wor of 1S12. The people of the town of T,ulee for a year kept can- non trained on the waters to prevent Canadian interference with their weirs. Seats Collapsed and About Twenty Persons •Injured. Natick, Mass., June 14. --Four potions. who were moat seriously injured by the collapse of a section of seats at a circus last night, were so mueh unproved to. day that they were removed from the Iaeonard Morse Hospital to their homes. About twenty people the more or less severely. in$nred by the accident, whit .% was caused by a .section of the seats ;giving way, throwing about 150 people. toethe gr lend. Most of them received only Ionises and other minor injuries, and were taken borne in carriages. An attachment was placed upon the shams, sad •i1i the officials arrested. fihe7 were released shortly afterwards, bowebbr, upaet paying the claims de. a iaaded `L those who were bort: BEAT THE RECORD. FIFTY CENT COWS. Dominion Departmeat of Agricul- ture-, Dairy Divistoo, Cow Testing Associations. Cow.;testing ' association members are astonished., to put it mildly, at the re- velations of ;tire ; scales and test, In one herd of 17 cows the average yield was 4,380 lb. milk, 4.2 test, and 183 ib. fat. The highest yield of milk and fat from a 7 -year-old cow, whose test was oxtly au average of 3;8 for the full period of lactation.Her total yield was 7,200 lbs, milk and 274 lbs, fat. Notice how high this is above the average, 2,820 lbs. milk more. The yield of the poorest cow, a 10 -year. -old, :was only 3,050 lbs. milk, 3.7 test, and 111 lbs. fat. Notice how ranch this is below the average yield, 72 lbs. of fat less. 'Put this 10 -year-old cow gavo much less than half what the 7 -year-old did. There is actually a dif- ference between the two yields of 4,150 lbs. milks and lea lbs, fat. Is the one cow worth; twicemuch as the other? Carry the Figur' one step further in order to aseertarefit. Valuing milk at $1. per 100 lbs., and even putting the cost of feed at otil3lr $.10, one cow made just 50 cents profit.,oa the year's busi- ness; Did that pay labor, or interest, or any return for supervisiou or supply any incentive•to keep sows? But even assum- ing that the, first caw consumed feed to the value, ; not <si $30 merely, but fifty donuts ,°the px •:,*it is $22, or just 44 times as ,Much a, with the second cow. Supposing one could just deposit the profit made on each cow; with the kind that makes $22 profit one could attain a bank balance of $1,000 by keep- ing 46 cows, but with: the other kind it would necessitate keeping two thous- and! Who could afford that? Farmers, the point is evident: Test your cows and ascertain definitcliy whether the fifty cent cow boards in your stables. C. F. W. KILLED MAD BULL. Michigan Farmer Struck It Down With a Stone. Detroit, June 14. ---Cleveland Stroh, a farmer residing near Hastings, perform- ed a heroic deeed this afternoon when he slew an infuriated bull and thereby saved the life of David Purchisr a neigh- bor, who was being pursued by the bull and in a moment mere would have been impaled on the horns of the animal. . That Stroh's...ouly yveaposa'•iyaa e. large stone dates „not ade •,,s;c.froi t. the heroism of they deed.:pr , •l.'urebis wa,s Ieatdinag bull across tine field, when he ,iiddexxlq .became -ugly, a.nd charging ;the`pian, knocked him down. Althuoglt frightfully bruised and suffering from shock, Purchis regained his feet and fled across the field, with the enraged animal in close pursuit. Strolt apeparel opportunely on the scene,. but, being; unarmed, was appar- ently helpless. Suddenly he stooped, grasped a large bound stone front the roadway, and as tlxe bull raced by him Stroh smote it a terrific blow squarely on the forehead. 'The brute dropped to its knees, and, shivering, rolled over dead. The Mauretania Covered 673 Miles on Monday, June 7. NOW York, .lila slag .--•l'he World's re - card for a day's run by a trans-Atlantic liner has been moved up a couple of miles by the Mauretania, and now stands at 07.3 nautical miles for the day. The Mauretania left Queenstown for, New York, on June G. A wireless mes- sage from the steamer; ley way of Cape Race, received by her agents to -day, -stated that_ she covered the 673 miles during the day ending at noon on Mon- dayi; June 7. The best 'previous record of 671 miles was made by the Mauretan- ia en Feb. 15 last, meg RIVERS RISE. Floods in Colorado Doing Much Damage to Railways. (trand .functioe, Coi., Juane 14.---Tb.e flood situation here is serious. • 'Reports from the head waters of Grand and Gun- nison Rivers indicate that the floods are just cotnmencing, After; retraining sta tiorary ati day yesterday the Gunmisea .River rose rapidly during the night, fur- ther threatening the destruction of the municipal pumping plant. Hundreds of men are working to save the costly Red- lands days, which is seriously ander- mined. Grand River rose twelve feet yesterday and is ,the highest in fifteen. years. e,The Denver & Rio Grande Rail- road is keeping a large force of oxen on guard protecting its trades. All parts of the western slope report cotsslderable'denten from floods, BROKE THE LAW. Restaurant Only Can Sell Ice Cream on Sundays. Kingston, Out., despatch: Six confec- tioners were arraigeed in the Police Court this morning' charged with selling ice cream, soft driuics, fruit, gum or to- Laceo on Sunday,' May 23. All pleaded guilty, and were lined. $3 and costs. Magistrate Farrell said that the view one took of the Lord's day act was that unless a place of business was a bona fide restaurant supplying meets, it had no right to keep open on the Lord's day. WATER BALLAST. A FISHERIES STAFF. Protective Service Being Organized at Washington. Ottawa, June 14.---1t is probable that the new uniform international regula- tions governing the boundary waters between Canada and the United States, as finally drafted by Commissioners Prince and Jordan, will not be brought into force by_ simultaneous proclamation at Ottawa and Washington until next autumn. The Federal Government at 'Washington has first to organize a pro- tective fisheries service similar to that now existing in connection with the Canadian Fisheries Department. Hitherto the enforcement of -the fish- eries regulations in the United States waters has been under the jurisdiction of the respective States concerned, and the delay in putting the new interna- tional regulations into force is due, mainly, to the time involved in organiz- ing a Federal fisheries protective staff at Washington. eoa SH(ST ON STREET. Cold -Blooded Murder of a New Glasgow Man. Iltlifax despatch: A young man named Duncan Brown was shat dead in New Glasgow to -day. Several men were in an alleyway, among others Jack Fraser, who, it is said, flourished a revolver sev- eral times. Brown casae along, and im- mediately Fraser began to pick a quarrel with him, and wanted to fight, Brown told hint to go away, as he did not want anything to do with him. Almost imme- diately Fraser pulled it revolver and fired three shots at Brown, all of which took effect in the head and neck, killing him instantly. Fraser then took to his heels, passing through an alleyway, through Duncan Grant's wood. working factory, and escaped. Brown was a young man, about twen- ty years of age, and was lately employ- ed about Rogers' livery stable. Fraser, after going out on the road, was met by a policeman to -night, gave himself up and was lodged in jail. He is said to be a morphine user. He belongs to Iiope- well, and has served a tenn already in Dorchester Penitentiary. Grain Carrying Trade in lVlontreal and Buffalo.' Buffalo, Juane 14. --Reports from Mon- treal that many steamships sailing from Montreal are carrying water ballast in- stead of the usual graiat eargo, are not taken by the Buffalo men to mean that the great bulk of the grain bssiness of the Montreal route has been. diverted to Buffalo, as stated in the press des- patches, sent out from the Canadian city, As a matter of fact the grain re- ceipts at Buffalo show a felting toff ai 2,500,000 bushels, SIR C. BACOT'S PAPERS. Have Been Presented to the bo - minion Archives. Ottawa, June 14.• --The Donninion Arab• ivies hate been en riehed by the receipt of all the private papers relating to the administration. of Sir.Oharles Begot, Governor of Panetta in 1841. They wese forwarded from tiEngkanul, al the instance of Dr. Doughty, by the family of the former Governor, and ' ttre of eonsi.de- able importance, espeei<t ly those deal- ing.with the negotiations trt connection with the drafting of the Ashburton trea- ty. The first of a. sealed of eight paint- ings depicting scenes doting the Quebec T'ereentenafry has also been received at the Aref bves MAY BE TROUBLE. A Great Hush in India Says Lord Curzon in a Speech. Londotx, ,Tune 14.—In a speech before the Royal Colonial Institute, Lord Cur- zon, formerly Viceroy of India, said that a vast majority of the people of that country were entirely without poli- tical aspirations, but a section was fill- ed with illegitimate and impracticable desires, characterized by sedition and disloyalty. He had sometimes thought he could detect a great bush in India, similar to that in Europe to which Lord Rosebery had referred in his speech be- fore the Imperial Press Congress. Lord Curzon added that he was no alarmist, and he hoped the developments of which he spoke might not occur, if they oc- curred at all, until the distant future, but he thought they were nearer than some people imagined. IS STORM PENDING? A Sultry Hush in International Politics. RITISH NAVY. The Conference of Ministers With' the Newspapermen. Which is the blest Way For the. Colonies to Help Britain ? London, June 14. -=The Daily News referring to the speeches of Lord Rose- bery and Sir Edward Grey at the Im- perial Press Conference, says that. statesmen who see the end so clearly ought to have some resource beyond, a despairing appeal to the common, sense of the workingman. The work- ingmanis not to blame. The News,.. points out that if the struggle, the constant talk about which it depre- cates, is to take place, it will be in home waters. If the colonies wish to assist they can take a useful part only by contributing money or ships to thee fleets maintained in Europe. A fleet of second-class Bruisers, such as Canada is supposed to be contemplating, would. represent money wasted. PRESS .AND VTR EMPIRE. The Imperial Press Conference dis- cussed "The Press and the Empire" to -day. Mr. Reginald McKenna, .First Lord of the Admiralty, presided. Lord. Cromer, Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Alfred Lyttelton were present. The following• resolution was on the agenda: "That it is the duty of the press to do everything in its power to co-operate with the naval and military authorities. itt organizing the defences of the em- pire, and to take all possible precautions to avoid injury to public interest in publishing news in time of war. "That it is desirable that the press of Britain and the colonies should act in concert in the wise direction o emigration." DIVERSITY OF NAVAL PROBLEMS. Mr. McKenna anticipated that as a. result of the conference ideas would be cleared, and a way be opened. He dealt exclusively with naval supremacy, and admitted the diversity of local naval problems. British naval defence covered the whole globe. He foresaw the pos.. sibility of the empire being called upon to unite its whole strength in the com- mon defence of the home country. "We cannot," he said, "force our strategic ideas upon yon; we should: fail if we attempted it. If you come and ask us, we will be ready to an- swer you, but we should not neees- sarily expect you to accept that an- swer. It is only by working out your problems yourselves that you can gain. the experience we have. "We will assist by every method in our power, no matter what is the method by which we are asked to assist: Out of this process of self -development in every dominion we will allconte tC the same idea, namely, that the makUu' tenance of supremacy on the sea ),manes the maintenance of supremacy on all' sets alike:' Mr. 11I'clIenna concluded with an appeal to the press to maintain the navy above party dissensions. TIME FOR OVERSEAS ASSISTANCE. Loncl.on, June 14. The endorsement of Lord Roseberry's pronouncement, con- tained in Sir Edward Grey's speeeli at the Imperial Press Conference to -day, is looked upon as a convineintr reply to those who consider that Lord Rosebery had painted too dark a picture of the European situation. The Daily Mail argues- that Britain has it perfectly elver eonscieneo in regard to the perilous race of armaments, and cites the British proposals to The Hamm Confcvenee in 1907 and the heavy reduc- tion in the British military and naval programmes of the following year, "While the British navy estimates be- tween 1004 and the present year," says the Daittiv. aiail, "have lion reduced by no less than ;{i4,000,000,'the German estimates in the same period have in- creased a ;10,000,000." The London Times will have an edi- torial to -morrow, driving home the argu- ment that "the time demands from the whole empire the most strenuous exer- tions for the maintenance of our suprem- aey at sea. There is a lamb in inter- national polities, but it is a sultry intsh,, It may, unhappily, prove the prelude to a storm, andlrfor the possibility of that storm we must be ready." -- -- a*�►----- • - OFFERS RAILWAY, �` + Eingt:ton Company Will Sell to City for $108,000. Kingston deapateh: The Street Real - way Company has offered the road to the city for $108,00G the amount put into it since its reorganization in 1905. 1t has not yet paid a dividend. Presi.• dent Richardson said the company would eontinue to operate the road, if the city provided power at 83 cents per kilo- watt hour, or half what was being paid at present. This, 'would mean a bonus of x2,500 a year to the company by the city, The matter will be eensiclered at a meeefine of the 41ity Council. Mr. IT. A. Gwynne, of the London,. Standard, deprecated any happy -go-• lucky naval policy, and advocated an. Imperial Admiralty. Mr. 3, J. Park, of the Cape Times, anticipated that when the union was completed South Africa would do more for the navy. Mr. Alfred Lyttelton deprecated an- nual contributions to the imperial navy. He reiterated. that Britain would spend her last shilling for the construction of Dreadnoughts for the defence of the empire, but the times and the circum- stances had changed since Trafalgar. The• time might come for overseas assistance, and in some tremendous struggle of the future, the empire might depend upon' its unity and its consolidation for defence. IIe thought monetary contributions. should take the form of the cost of a warship. The contributors' ideal shotild be to ultimately man it with natives, so that it should form a nucleus for its • naval aspirations. FIGHTING FLAMES. Fires in New Brunswick Interior • Get New Impetus. St. John, N. 13., June I4. ---A rising wind to -day gave new inapetaus to the forest fires which are scourging the interior of New Bintnewiek. In Carleton, Madawaska and Victoria Ceruaxties' the, situation is partionlariy /serious. Over two thousand men in these districts are fighting the flames, but in spite of their efforts great destruction ss being wrought in valuable timber limits and several small mills and outlying farms have been destroyed. The fire is so close to the C. P. R. branch railway in tills district that the paint was scorched on ears passing thvough there to -dal. Fredericton Junction, a tillage ,oms'the • main C. P. R. line, about 40 miles Prom here, narrowly escaped eatinotion to- day. A fire supposed to be extinct since noway a fortnight ago was fanned into • fury by the high wind and from tate burning brush the flames leapeel to the mill house and stables of Sohn Sootit, eonsumingethem. From there the flames • spread to •other dwelling houses; several caught fixe, but by great efforts all were saved, thong]) about a dozen barns, theing more inflammable, were burned. The tnen lost all bhoir live stock. This fire . at peasant scents under aontral, as the Wind to -night has died down, but the teslideuts are - awAlno and watatel a