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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-09-03, Page 2AIR. at Failed ance. the Sheds e Kopt. vista 'old, Rheims, Aug, ourth d y of aviation week e„ in ea 'ly this. morning with vapour of rain, accompanied g windo. But toward night x conditions improved in a e rain ceasing and the wind lighter. ,The Esnault-Pelterte ma which has been supplied with new ngg, was the only aeroplane to snake its asepearance before noon. It made a•dozen nuns ill. au effort to leave the ground, but none was successful. Prince Albert Leopold of Belgium, ac- companied by the members of his fami- 1yy; is among the latest new arrivals in Ilhelms, The prince spent the morning in visiting the sheds where the machines are kept. The committee after further consider- ation of the thirty kilometre (18.63 miles) speed situation, has decided to apply the penalty of one -twentieth of the elapsed time to every machine that failed to start or did not cover the dis- tance Sunday and yesterday. The penalty for both days has been unposed on Curtiss. Bleriot and others, Both Curtiss and Bleriot consequently will compete in the final speed tests next Sunday with a handicap of one- tenth against Tissandier's time of 28 minutes 591-3 aeconds. The feature of to -day's contests will be the continuation of the trials in the Grand Prix de Champagne, which car- ries the sum of $20,000 in six prizes to aeroplanes covering the greatest distance without taking on fresh supplies of oil or fuel. iIGHT. LID ON, Drastic Prohibition Laws Enacted in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala„ Aug. 30, The spec- ial session of the Alabama Legislature, which adjourned last night after twenty- two working days, accomplished the chief purpose far which it was called, by passing drastic prohibition laws and capping the lar>s by submitting to the people an amend,. •t to the. constitu- n +in • i :, ture week At • •an• prohibition measurements were passed. Under the new law a person may not have liquors anywhere, but in his home. Beeping liquors at places is made prima facie evidence that they are for sale. .Prose- cutions are to be made before chaucel- lors and not juries and state attorneys and sheriffs may be impeached for fail- ure to execute the laws. Foreign corporations may not due business of any kind in Alabama if it is shown that they sell or manufacture liquors in other states. Oep AN AWFUL TALE. SUFFERINGS OF CASTAWAYS ON A PACIFIC REEF. stood within a few feet of him watch- ing 'him drown, • As she stood there, wringing her hands, she had her four childrou, from: the baby one. year old to theeight-year-old girl standing be- side her. We thought we would be able to find water on the reef, but the sail- ing directions lie. There was another wreck on the reef, and we thought it 'leas• .a store ship. We boarded it, but efoured nothing to eat. It was musty and old and all it held was a •bottle with abort two gills: of water, that must have been there for years from the horrible taste of it. The carpenter and I drank that. ' We afterwards found some-rniore water, and although it was, in a bad state, we drank it. We then decided to build a punt from the •vzr1eck- age, and while we were working on this we lived on shellfish." Captain Drowned Before Wife's Eyes - Woman Drowned Children Fear- , ing Cannibalism -No Food or Water for Two Weeks. Victoria, B.C., Aug. 30. -Because no wreck had occurred in the vicinity for years, the British government some time ago ceased leaving supplies for ship- wrecked mariners at desolate Middleton Island, iu the South Seas, and because supplies were not found there, as they had 'been led by the sailing direction to expect, the crew of the Norwegian Inquo Errol (formerly the Carisbroke Castle), experienced all the agonies of approaching starvation during the aw- ful two weeks in which they hadno morsel of food nor drop of water. Sev- eral of the seamen went insane, and others, including Capt. Anderson, per- ished in their endeavors to make and float a seaworthy raft. Mrs. Anderson, the master's wife, sacrificed her ;four children, and then committed suicide, when, after the death of her husband and father, she heard the seamen dis- cussing a project to resort to cannibal- ism. The story of the marooning of the Errol's crew, and their subsequent ex- periences, was brought here by the Australian Line Makura, this morning. The survivors of the Errol's hapless company had reached Sydney shortly. fc, the sailing of the Canadian -Nus fan",.steamer, having been reseued by steamer Tofu, after two weeks of znent Asn the reef, following June 18. e wet;e able to give it clear account ir sufferings, and two, if they live, mentally unbalanced. tit Palmer, a seaman, has the eoolledtion of fourteen days of on the reef. "We are the last 'went" -two," he said. "That's g the captain's wife and four Five' of us got away 'from We went all over but found reef, We raft, and both get in's wife AN "ASSASSIN?' Grand d Sct Men Asked to In JuryAS Who Sold Paper. St. John despatch In his ad- dress to the grand jury to -day Judge Forbes asked them to find true bills against two Greeks who sold -.Free Speech, the paper edited by Ca Bruce 1lteDougalI; who was arrested in Moncton last Week, and is now in jail here. lie- ferrixig to the paper, the Judge said: "No man is safe from this midnight as- sassin, who travels in the guise of a secretary, and imperils our families when we are not prepared to come down with the cash." McDowall, it is likely, will be sent upfor trial before Justice White in the Supreme Court. There are eight counts in the charge against him, and should he be convicted he's liable to two years in penitentiary on each count. s• MORE BOMBS® • Two Exploded in Barcelona To -day -Fear More Trouble. Paris. Aug. 30.--A deepate1i to the Journal from Barcelona says that bombs, which have not been heard of since the recent occurrences, have again made their appearance. Two were ex- ploded to -day outside the women's pri- son, where the revolutionists are incar- cerated. Another bomb was thrown out- side the barracks and narrowly missed blowing up .a crowded trolley car. None, of the bombs did more than material damage. The civil governor has not disguised the fact that that if another defeat is experienced by the Spanish forces at Mall the agitators will profit by it to esille.blutiessemeay umvenient. KILLED OLD MAN. Pascal Parent, Aged Seventy -Two Years, Victim of Bull Quebec despateh : Pascal Parent, aged 72 years, of Notre Dame de Sacre Coeur. near Rimouski, was killed by a vicious• bull in a field at his hone on Sunday. The animal had been chained tip owing to his vieiousncss, but was liberated by the old man. who had gone to feed. it. The victim was well known and highly esteemed, and was Mayor of the parish. BUG -PROOF POTATO. Massachusets Minister Has Succeed- ed in Growing New Variety. Montagne, Mass,, Aug. 30. --The Rev. Antos N. Somers, a Unitarian minister here, stated to -day that he has succeed- ed in growing a "bug proof" potato. lie said: The vines of my potatoes have a peculiar odor, which is offensive to the potato bug, for it never goes near them. 1 have taken bugs from. planta of the usual type in the next row in my potato pateh, and put them on my new vines, in half an hour I cannot find one." ee4 SECRETARY ARRESTED. rc"P" se seeded to a 'Q", . oats. Tit imide a fine couple of root g a,ntly supplied and great -grail 00044010/1442044•40001144110: .1 which dwell the [ FAR kleeteaeatiessaseeaseaseet RESULTS Ole C' PERIM SOW Fourhundred throughout Ontar meats with auLiu the past year. ceived from this'(, of the province, furnish the great e. ports of siccesst merits w er 3\iids Norfolk •Mite ere des mu,. Vert; tv i'I they Tor $ltrnselves, in orally'. Average re, conducted _eo opera' autumn sotrn ci in si very concise 'Winter Wheat s+RA'1'l\'1'; J:t't.- tcaptu t ablerie thate gas (rlitrog .'Il AU'1'C'\L� pliere, cmn'erting 01.planta On such a d ten farmers lation would show nc .onductecl expert bean tilret.dy naturit wit crops dining the previous growth 0 its have been re- faints where neither alft clover have ever grown, a v of the counties iation' for • alfalfa often s se counties which results, espeel illy= at first, 1 ittinller of goodre- a prompt development of tl conducted ; ;xperi- with correspondingly great Huron, ,'(;rant, the crop, The eeperinie'nt- _ y ONTARIO'S ACIRTCULTCli. tL GREAT- . . 'FESS Mr. 0: C James, the Pl ovineial Depu- ty Minister of Agricultifre, has been presenting the Toronto Board of Trade with slime interesting information rela- tive to the importance, from an agricul- tural point o,f view•, on the. Province of Ontario. The settled area of Ontario includes 24,500;000 acres, of which 14,000,000 Beres are cleared, 5,500,000 acres wood - lend, 2,000,000 acres • slashland, and 3,- 000,000 sexes swamp, marsh or. waste land Of the 24,500,00 Beres, 23,000,000 acree lie in what is known as Old On- tario, and were Ssetttled betweeen 1788 and 1800. There are besides in the north country •scattered .tracts of land aggreg.tting 1,500,000 acres in extent a.nd settled within the last few years. For agricultural purposes we have to add. another area, of 16,000,000 acres un- occupied and only partly explored as yet. It is known as the clay belt, and is being opened up by the National Trans- continental Railway. la 1906 Ontario produced $12,000,000 worth of beef, $10,000,000 in bacon and pork, and $9,000.00 in cheese. in 1905 the corresponding figures were $27,- 200,000, $27,200,000, $22.500,000 and 815.000,000. In ten years the aggregate value of these three commodities rose from $31,000,000 to $64,700,000. The number of horses on Ontario farms increased from 611,241 in 1800 to 726,421 in 1908, the number of ranch cows from 950.000 in 1898 to 1;113.374 in 1008, swine from 1,6.40.787 in 1898 to 1..816,763 in 1008. In the same decade poultry increased from 9,084,273 to 12,- 225,613. Live stock to the value of $20,- 700,000 was sold or slaughtered in 1890. Li 1906 the figures had risen to $61,500,- 000. The total value of live stock on the farms inerease,i from $104,000,000 in 189$ to $189,500,000 in 1907, and the value of farm lands, buildings and im- plements from $923,000,000 to $1,222,- 000,000. 1,222;000,000. These figures are wonderfully elo- quent of the agricultural progress of Ontario. 'there should be(,ill„ further expansion, through a diseoitraging•note comes recently in the with -nate of the di- reetor of colonization that the rural population has decreased 114,000. The great clay belt of 16,000,000 acres in Northern Ontario, for the discovery of which credit is due the Ross Govern- ment, is capable of supporting apopula- tion nearly equal to that of older On- tario. When the National Transconti- nental Railway is built and the Temis- kaming and Northern Ontario extended to connect with it a settlement of that vast area may reasonably be hoped for, and a great addition to the agricultural wealth of the province. There is room for growth in the older portion yet by more intense farming. A difficulty, of course, presents itself at present in the scarcity of farm Iaborers. dit , for the good ve doi.P, Bitot. _only^ or the "fieri rs' gen- ;lts of the carefully e! experuuerrts with Are here presented_ 1P5 ofwin- ter-ilict x varieties wheat were die Muted last autumn to diose fax we:. wished to test some of the learatase eassieties on their own,':farms.' The t t ;e yield per acre of straw ,and Of 'art are as follows: imperial Amber, La. tJns, 24.1 buehels; Abundance, 1.3 tons:, 23.9 bushels; Bul- garian. 1.2 tool,; ' .9 bushels, and Nigger, 1.4 tens,. 0 bushels. The Imperial A r gave the greatest yield per acre hi t en opai'a'tive experi- luents through ea _ (aria in 1;907 and in 1908. as well, as 609,' It also cane first in popularit - with the experi- menters in each.„ he e v days, The Imperial Amber. aga, be distri- buted thronihoutartovrtrias . autumn as one of the var 'es ftx'r co-operative experhnents. \'Se distribrited the Daw- son's Golden Chef* for co-operative ex- periments throughout Ontario in each of twelve years, h4 net within the last three years. 4teillitling to extensive inquiries which we have made this year the Dawson's Golden Chaff is still the most popular and the most extensively grown variety of. winter wheat in the provin ce. Winter Rye- e average yield of grain per sere of eel: of three varieties of winter rye, distributed in the autumn of 1908, is as follows: Mammoth white, 28.1; Common, 22.1. and Washington, 19.6. In the experiments throughout Ontario the M`am1'nnth White surpassed the Common rye by a average of five bushels per acre, in 1907. 5.4 bushels per acre in 1908,and six bushels per acre in 1909. Fertilizers with Winter Wheat- In the co-operative experiments with dif- ferent fertilizers applied to winter wheat the average yields ,of grain per acre for, five yearsare as f 4loivs: Mixed fer- tilizer. 25.2 buahe+,t nitrate of soda, 23.8 ' bushels';' reinitiate Gf pota:ch, 22.9 bush- els, and superphosphate. 22.7 bushels. The unfertilized land gave in average of 19.9 bushels per acre. The super- phosphate was applied at the rate of 320 pounds and the muriate of potash and the nitrate of soda each 160 pounds per acre. The mixed fertilizer con- sisted of one-third of the quantity of each of theother three, fertilizers here mentioned. The usual cost of the fer- tilizers as used in this experiment is between $4 and $5 per acre. Fodder Crips --•In each of six years the seed of 1 ai-v' vetches and winter rye has been a istributed throughout Ontario for co-oi eiritive 'experiments in testing these ernp:for fodder purposes. in the average n Bits yearsexperi- ments. the hairy r teles produced slight- ly the largest yield of green fodder per acre. but in 1909 the largest yield was produced by the winter rye. DTS :l'RII3O T ION OF MATERIAL FOR John Osterholm Charged With Steal- ing Lodge Funds, Niagara Fails despatch: John Oster - 'holm, for three years financial secretary of Clifton Lodge, No. 44, A, O. U. W., tt'as arrested by Patroman Dart last night on a warrant sworn out by a trus- tee of the lodge, charging the appropria- tion of lodge funds to the amount of $702. When he appeared before .Magis- trate Fraser last night he was held in $1,000 bail, which was furnished by two local business men. He will appear at 11 o'clock next Tuesday morning for trial. During the year's -1907-8.9 Oster - holm was elected financial secretary of Clifton Lodge. It is said that his peen- lations cover the three years in which he• held office.. sea STARTED HOTEL FIRE. Writer of Letter Confesses to Having Acted in Spirit. of Revenge. Vernon, B.C„ Aug. 30.-A sensational letter has been received by the officials inquiring into the Oklanegan hotel fire of two weeks ago, in which eleven lives were lost. The letter purports to have been written by a man who confesses that he set fire to the building. Tho letter adds that by the time of its receipt the writer would be well out of the way. He left Vernon only three days ago, and it is said he acted in a spirit of re- venge. bacteria, vigor of i PERIMlsNTS4N 1909. As long as the sirpplif lasts material will be distributed Irce.nf charge in the order in whirl! theapp1ie4 tions are re- ceived from 'Ontaric�farizipis wishing to experiment and to i 'port.the _results of any one of the following "ti'ets: 1. Three varieties of winter wheat; 2. two var- ieties of winter rye; 3. five fertilizers with winter wheat; 4. autumn and spring applications of nitrate of soda and common salt with -Winter wheat; 5. winter ernme'r' andevi. ter barley; 6. hairy vetciies and winter 'z}T,e as fodder crops. The size,„ of each `pint . is to be one rod- wide by twee rods"'lopg. Mater- ial for Nos.'? aitd'4 willirbe sent by ex- press and that for too Others by mail. ''C. A. Zavitz, ALFALFA AS FEED • AND SOIL IM- PROVER. The value of alfalfa, for the produc- tion of feed, as Wei/ 8,416r the improve- ment of the lanil'it grows on, has been pretty well illustrated on • the dairy fame of H: d 'I. McKee, Oxford County, Ont. A call on July lst.by af:•member of our staff, afforded opportunity to see a stout piece of six or seven. acres, seeded three years ago, at the rate of 22 pounds to the acre, with a nurse ,crop of one and, a half, bushels of oats per; acre. Part of the field is a clay loarrl, and: part a gravelly loam. On the sloping portion. of the field, which, if we did not misunderstand, is the heavier soil, the alfalfa was very heavy, apparently good for two and a half tons per acre. Part of the field had been mown, and was some of it in the wind -row, and some, in the dock. The uncut portion was a dense mass, almost as high as a inan's thighs, and pretty well out in bloom, which is rather too far advanced to make the best. quality of hay, one-tenth in bloom being the ideal stage to aim at in cut- ting, when weather and other eondi- tions permit. Two years ago, Mr. MelCee broke up a field that had been seven or eight years in alfalfa, but had been spotted by lee lying on the ground in 'winter. 'prom, this a heavy crop of' ensilage coria had been taken, and this year it was beirig..re- OiY ANXIOUS TO SHARE. Daughter Nations Want to Aid in hnperial Defence. London. Ang. 30,• --Sir Edward P. Mor- ris, Premier of Newfoundland, prior to sailing far home, said the Imperial De- fence Conference had been a wonderful success. "It will be regarded by the historian as the most effective step tak- en in our day to preserve the peace of the world by maintaining Britain as mistress of the seas," he declared. "During the conference there was not a discordant mote. Every Brtirish. colony was anxious to share the burdens and responsibility of empire, and to contrib- ute to a central fund for the meinten ance of the -whole family. "They do not want their lives, trade and liberty any longer to be protected alone by the British sailor and soldier without contributing to the maimten- anoe by sharing the work of both." A STRONG PATRIOT. Says He Manipulated Contracts For French Citizens of Montreal. Montreal despatch: A humorous turn was given to the work of the civic Royal Oommiiissoin, when Mr. Rodolphe Brunet, the famous • middleman for the distxttbu tion of road contracts, came into the limelight on the witness stand. Mr Brunet described hiss work as a,patriatit triumph for tibe French-Canadians, nitll opposed to their English-speaking fes low -citizens. Despite his patriotism, however, Mr. Brunet was compelled to admit that he had been quite impartial, and accepted 'commissions from English contractors who warted to get their tenders approv- ed by the Council as readily es he had taken the sane It -ant bus own 'friends of the French -e radian persuasion. Ile will probably spend some time in the witness box. marry. The more r'i'g hent was urge only one case on' est.. tion the women are , a that the, usual deserter • isysically se tel na s cal ill or weak or discouraged, nor desperate because his helpmate's temper and housekeeping, but is an able bodied, young man seeking to indulge a selfish nature. From the best statistics, the committee reports, wife desertion is increasing, and it appears to be due to moral rather than to physical causes. The deserter usually abandons his home because he wants to avoid ordinary cares or some unusual trouble. . The figures on which the committee- men proposing the uniform law base their assertions were gathered from specific instances coming under the observation of William 11. Baldwin, of the board of managers of associated charities in Washington, and the associated chari- ties bureaus in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York But the man is not the only deserter aimed at by the proposed law. It is provided that a woman who, able to support the children dependent on her, deserts them, shall be deemed guilty of desertion. The penality recommended for the of- fense for either male or female deser- ter is a fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment, at hard labor for not more than twelve months. Should a fine be paid, the court may direct it, in whole or part, to the wife or to the children. The offense also ,is made ex- traditable, nes tBS1 11\IIJJ{ TICKS Are Mr. Henry Mott, formerly u rariaai of McGi11 Iimversity, died in. Montreal. The Government has let the contract for a new steamer for the hydrographic survey service. E. H. Iiarrinian, who had gone to Eu- rope seeking health, returned to New York yesterday. Rev. Mr. Dickey of Selkirk, Man., has accepted the Baal to Royce Avenue Pres- byterian 'Church, Toronto. The National Iran Works Company has received several offers of free sites from municipalities outside of Toronto, Mies I911a Bowes, of Brantford, has accepted the, position of lady principal of Alma College, St. Thomas. She will teach English. The text of .the British naval estab- lishment bill, which sanctions the trans- fer of the dock yards at Halifax and iibquimalt to Canada, hes been iseued. At Portadown, Ireland, thirty-five men, who are alleged to have partieipat. ed in the recent riots at Lurgau, between Orangemen and Nationalists, have been arrested. The tail end of Monday's 'hurricane hit a portion of the east end of the lslan.d of Jamaica, betweem Aquavale and Hope Bay, and laid low the banana shads. The loss is heaty. There were no casualties Advices from all over the Kootenay country state that heavy rains fell last night, bringing welcome relief from the danger of fire, which has been menacing those sections for several days. An answer has been received at Van- couver from lion. Mr. Brodeur, Minister of Marine anal Fisheries, to the effect that the canners' request for an exten- sion of the canning season cannot be granted. The loss of the missionary steamer Hiram Bingham and the death of her master, Captain Alfred C. Walkup, ha.s been repotted in a cablegram from Syd- ney, N. 5, W., to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign M,issionariee. Throughthe kindness of Prof. Wilson, Principal of the Putnam School, of Syra- cuse, N. Y., a valuable gift' has been bestowed upon Gobourg Collegiate Insti- tute. It is a geological collection valued at several thousands of dollars, and said' to be the finest of its kind in Ontario. FOUND A POCKETBOOK. John Hall, of Stratford, Sent to tentiary for Theft. Stratford despatch: John Hal eolored man, cook at the Am Hotel, was to -day sentenced to. and a half years in Kingston P tiary for the theft of a poe containing .$68. " The pocketbo owned by J. M. Wilhelm, a North Easthope, who dre the market on Satin' , v Hall wat seen t•• being eenfranted the purse, deals_ MUM. Howeve that before he given a bar ten for him.