The Herald, 1906-12-07, Page 6J
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Twenty or Thirty Passengers and Crew Lose
Their Lives in the Disaster.
Prominent Business Men Among the Lost --
Wreckage Coaling Ashore,
THE DEAD.
Crew of the Jones:
CAPTAIN JAMES CRAWFORD.
EDWARD LENNOX, Mate.
CHARLES SHAW, Chief Engineer.
WESLEY SADLER, Second Engineer.
" SCOTTIE," Fireman; real name un-
known.
R. SIMMONDS, Fireman.
JAMES TILLEY, Fireman.
WM. SMITH, Deckhand.
FRANK JACKSON, Cook.
, Assistant Cook; name un-
known.
GEO. M'EWEN, Wheelsman.
WM. ROSS, Wheelsman.
Passengers:
J. T. DONALDSON, Owen Sound.
ALEX. LYONS, Yukon.
MRS. LYONS, his mother, Owen
Sound.
LOUIS ALLEN, Owen Sound.
JAMES FOX, Southampton or Hep-
wort'h.
T. M. WAGG, Manitoulin.
Three unknown men for Graham's
camp at Silver Water, Manitoulin.
Owen Sound despatch: The staunch
tittle coasr:ng steamer J. H. Jones,
which for years has covered the route
from Wiarton and this port along te:e
east shore of the Bruce peninsula to
the south side of the 3fanitoulin, has
gone to the bottom, carrying with her
over a score of human lives. There
has been more or less apprehension
sauce last Friday. The Jones left there
on 'Dhursda+y, and was not reported at
vanioue- points of call up the lake. It
was thought at first slxe might have
sought shelter at some inaccessible point,
but the worst fears were realize dto-date,
when Mir. McAuley, manager of +the Doe
minion Fish (Company's plant at tilde
point, who has been foremost in the
search for the missing men, announced
that the Indians sent out to book tor
traces of thein had come upon evidences
that lure of the saddest tragedies in the
history of the great lakes had been en-
acted. Two lifeboats, a section of the
arabin, and some freight found by the In-
dians on the Christian Islam deft un-
questionable evideaee that the worst had
happened.
Mr. Fred. Lyons, whose mother and
brother are amongst the victims, wired
' from Wiarton this evening that two
bodies had been found. and that there
was no question but that the Jones
was dost. Owen Sound's loss in num-
bens is much smaller than the terrible
calamity which haus fallen upon 'Marton.,
,where almost the entire crew had their
hones,
The Jones was a wooden. steamer.
Her dimen, ions were about one hundred
and twenty -live feet over all in length,
with twenty one feet beam and vane
feet draught. She was built in (G•od-
erich in 1888; and bad weathered many a
gale. It is r .,L concluded that in at-
tempting to retie' Lion's Head a sea
broke in tl emitters forward on the
main deck end keeled the vessel over,
and that a never righted up before
another rya swept her under.
Mr. J. T. Donaldson, local manager
of the Wolverine Fish CO. ,is among the
victims. He was on his way to Tot:
eranoray to close the seapon's business.
For the past four years he Chas been a
popular citizen, and with his now grief-
stricken wife resided at 363 West street.
Mr, Alex. Lyons, who only recently
arrived home from several years spent in
the Yukon, was accompanying his
mother, Mrs. Lyons, to spend a short
time with his sister at Lion's Head, and
both are victims. It is a coincidence
that their meetin0
his return was accidental and the re-
union then was of a touching character.
Mr. Lyons escaped shipwreck in a ter-
rific)gale"on the Pacific coast on his way
down, and the steamer on which he was
then a passenger went down on her re-
turn trip, with a heavy list of fatalities.
His mother had long been a resident of
this town, and a brother, Mr: Fred
!Lyons, is a checker at the 0. P. R.
sheds and recently erected a large rest-
aurant near the station.
Mr. Louis Allen. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Allen. was on his way to Tob-
ermoray to join a companion in a brief
trapping outing, and his parents are
prostrated over their loss.
The books of the boat carry the only
record of the passenger list, and the ony
names of the passengers that can be
obtained are:
James Fox, an elderly gentleman from
Southampton or Hepworth, on his way
to Lion's Head.
T. M. Wagg. merchant, of Winde-
mnya, Manitoulin Island.
Three men for Captain (;raham's camp
at Silver Water, on the Manitoulin.
Unquestionably there were etherswhose names time alone may reveal. as
at this season of the year there is little
chance of bodies being recovered.
An Unfortunate Craft.
The Jones, as she was popuarly desig-
nated,
esig
nated, was well known all over the
northern part of Lake Huron, including
the Georgian Bay. She was of "tug"
build, and was for many years engaged
in co]leeting fresh fish. packed in boxes
from the various fishing stations-Tober-
mory, The Ducks, Cockburn Island
Kil-
larney, the Bustards, and points on the
east coast of the Georgian Bay, com-
pleting her journey at Owen Sound.
Of Iate years the franchise of these sta-
tions has been. under the control of the
Dominion Fish Company and the boat
was formerly owned by that. organiza-
tion. That she was staunchly built
was proved conclusively when she was a
few years ago sunk between Kagawong
harbor and C]apperton Island as the re-
sult of a collision with the steamer
Pacific of the Northern Navigation Com-
pany's fleet. She was floated and re-
paired the next spring and put on her
old route, her first captain after the
accident being the man who was first
mate of the Pacific at the time of the
collision. Curiously enough the same
season the Pacific was completely des-
troyed by fire at the owner's dock in
Colingwood harbor.
The fate of the Jones, so similar to
that of the Jane Miller a score of years
ago, should be sufficient in the way of
warning to deter any small vessel from
venturing on the Georgian Bay during
the season of bad fall storms. The
Jones was a good vessel of her class, but
was too small to weather the seas that
have proved too much for larger vessels
such as the ill-fated Asia. It is not neces-
sary to suppose that she struck a rock;
to all appearance she simply foundered
as the result of being overwhelmed by
waves too high to be overridden.
The Mute Story of Disaster.
The fury of the storm. which wrecked
the steamer Jones on Georgian Bay and
caused a loss of life variouely estinxated
at from 25 to 40 is indicated by the find-
ing of the lifeboats and wreckatge by In-
dians on the Christian Islands. TheJones was making for Lion's Head, and
was seen early in the afternoon of last
Thursday off White Cloud Island, eigh-
teen miles from Owen Sound, battling
with the sea, the white spray frequently
dashing over the hurricane deck and
breaking around the wheelhouse. Again,
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Jones watts seen, •eff •Cage Chokerand ,in
the eludes sof an hour should, with res•
sanable headway, have been in a. positions
to snake that/tun southwesterly past the
"head" and to the welcome bort. 'Yes-
te'rday, nearly one hundred susses direct
by wast and on the opposite shores of
Georgian Bay, were fouled the evidences
of a great trai ody. ilhe 1lictauresque
Christian 'skalds, that dot the soutlis
eastern shores of Georgian Bay, are to-
day giving up One by one the evidences
of x terrible oalai mitay. From thus great
Christian Island, it^hdeli forms one pillar
of 'the gateway to stennwers passing from
Owen Sound or Oollingw.00d to Midland,.
to the little islets, lutndeedGs in number,
that form the group, there is on Georg-
ian: Bay in. suunitber no more attxlaeled
spat. Their beauty is enban+eedt, too, ,by
mhiaterials.storic association, for there Indianan
lore and Jesuit record find their richest
USING THEIR SAVINGS.
Large Withdrawals From the Govern-
ment Banks.
Ottawa, Dec. 8. -Public accounts for
the last fiscal year were tabled to -day.
They show the receipts on account of
consolidated fund to have been $80,139,-
300, and expenditures on the same ac-
count $67,240,640, giving a surplus of re
ceipts over expenditures amounting t
$12,898,719. The expenditure on capita
account was $11,913,570, and $518,8
was added to the net debt of the Do-
minion, wllh now stands at $267,042,-
977.
Railway subsidies to the amount o
$1,637,574 were paid, and $2,400,771 dis
bursed on account of bounties.
At the close of the fiscal year the bal
ante at the credit of the depositors i
the Postoffice and Government satdn�
banlcs amomited to $01,910,622.08, a de
crease of $106,274.57, compared with ti:
balance held on June 30, 1905. The with
reeve s exceeded the deposits by $1,
907.761.62, while $1.801,487.05 was add
ed for interest acerned .thus making a
net decrease of $106.274.57.
Investments .an account of the sink-
ing funds of the various loans were
made during the year to the amount
of $2.317,436.74, making the total
amount held in this account $48.010,-
409.53.
As a result of the redemption of loans
carrying sinking funds, the outlay under
this head is decreasing. The average
rate of interest paid on the gross debt
for the year was. 2.75, as compared with
2.81 in the previnus year. and the net
rate of interest fell from 2.26 to 2.21.
AGAINST PEOPLE.
POLITICAL FEELING RUNNING HIGH
IN BRITAIN.
Emergency Meeting of the National Lib-
eral Federation -Government Urged
to Reject the Lords' Amendments to
Education Bill.
London, Dec. 3, -The intensity of
the political feeling aroused by the
treatment of the education bill in the
House of Lords found ecxpressiom to-
day in an ennergen�ey meeting of the
General Committee of the National Li+b-
eral Federation, at which a resolutionwits unanimously adopted urging the
Government to reject the Lords'aamend-
ments to the bill and 'resolutely to de-
termine that the present Parliament
shall not come to an end until steps ane
taken to bring to a finial arbitrament the
question. whether the House of Peers
should any longer possess the, right to
neto the will of the peolpe as de-
claredby the House of ,Com.m.one.."
The meeting was the largest and
most representative of its kind 'which'whichhad assembled during the last twenty
years. The speaker warmly the action of tine Peers, declaring11 that the Mousse of Commons should not
waste another day in eonnearlering the
amendments to the bill, which should be
returned to the House of Lards 'without
debate, and the Liberal Government
f
ought to apply the only remedy, which
- 1 nnust be drastic and final.
A letter from. Sir henry Campbell-
- Bannerman was read in which the Pre-
- ander said that it was realised by all
ns Liberals "that the House of Lords would
- hasten to assert itself as the instrument
e of Unionism as soon as the Gauntry Ten -
ARTIFICIAL VEGETABLES.
But Producer Failed to Say Whether
They Are Edible.
Paris, Dee. 3. -The Academy of
Sciences listened yesterday to Prof.
D'Arsonval describe artificial vege-
tables, which he -exhibited, and which
were produced by the methods. of
Prof. Le Duc, of the Nantes Medical
School. Prof. D'_4rsonval interested his
colleagues greatly, but, unfortunately
for the lay public, he did not say wheth-
er these so-called vegetables are edible.
While they were described as vegetables
they have nothing of the vegetable in
their make-up, but they behave after
their production as do the real vege-
tables they resemble under natural con-
ditions. Into the composition of these
products nothing seed in pill form, one
part of sulphate of copper and two parts
of glucose.
These are deposited in bouillon made
of gelatine, to which is added three per
cent. of ferro-cyanide of pottasium and
a Iittle sea salt. The seed develops
sometimes on the surface of the liquid
and sometimes in its depths, giving
birth to plants resembling seaweed and
other marine plants. It was announc-
ed that these artificial plants were not
merely scientific curiosities, as Prof. Le
Duo has been able to recognize that they
enjoy the same properties as the plants
they resembled, and were influenced sim-
ilarly by heat and light.
OTTAWA'S CHURCH CENSUS.
In Many Cases Cards Incomplete -
Pastors Asked to Aid.
Ottawa, Dee. 3. -The task of count-
ing the thousands of cards for the
purpose of arriving at the church
census was commenced to -day. In
quite a number of eases the cards are
incomplete, the canvasser failing to
state the particular pastor or congre-
gation preferred. These earls will be
handed over to the different minister-
ial bodies to classify as judgment may
direct.
There is also a large number of
mixed tickets, in which families are
divided in church preference. Separ-
ate cards are being made out for each
on; 'cards
thousands of Roman
Catholic cards have been turned hi, the
edunt of this great body will be in-
complete, due to the: refusal of Arch-
bishop Duhamel to co-operate. The
Catholics have a thorough organiza-
tion of their own, the priests making
a 'census every year, keeping the fig-
ures up to date.
In the case of the 'Protestant bodies
the census is likely to prove helpful.
To hunt up those who do net attend
ehurch er .Sunday school will be left
to the pastors. If the clergy and
others do not fdIloty it up the whole
fruit of the •census he lost.
A FLOATING MINE.
Relic of Late War Drifts Ashore, Killing
Ten Villagers.
London, Dec. 3. -The Kobe corres-
pondent of The Standard cables that a
floating mine, a legaey front the Rus-
sian -Japanese war, has been driven
ashore at Akita, on the west shore of
Hondo, where it exploded, killing ten
villagers and wounding fifty-six.
,dared: a verdict against the Unionist
Government and the Unionist policy."
Oantinuing, the !letter said: "Still, we
may plead guilty to a certain. sense of
surprise at the violence of the manifes-
tation, now that it has coxae. The edu-
cation bill was ,passed by :the House
of Commons was a bill which the country
demanded in un:miretakable terns e.t the
general election. It now seems to have
been turned into a travesty of its orig-
inal form. A.s amended; it perpetuates,
L•f it does not extend, the very grievances
and wrangle fixed upon the country by
the act of 1902. Of one thing you may
rest assured: We will have no tamper-
ing with the main principles upon whish
our hill is founded. If within those
limits an arrangement can be reaehed,
all well and good. if not, it will be for
us to see that on: this question of edu-
cation, said on, others, a way is found
by which the -wishes of the country may
be made to prevail."
FINAL ESTIMATES.
FIELD CROP ACREAGE AND YIELD
FOR xgo5.
The following are the final estimates
of the product of the 1906 crop, as com-
piled from returns of actual yields made
by threshers and our staff of corres-
pondents. The figures are slightly be-
low the forecast of August:
Fall wheat -787,287 :acres, yielding 18,-
841,774 bush. or 23.9 bush. per acre, as
compared with 17,933,961 and 22.5 in
1905.
Spring wheat -171,745 acres, yielding
3,267,000 bush., or 19.0 bush. per acre,
as compared with 3,58.2,627 and 18.8 in
1005.
Barley -756,.163 acres, yielding 25,253,
011 bush., or 33.4 bush. per acre, as com-
pared with 24,265,394 and 31.4 in 1905.
Oats -2,716,711 acres, yielding 108,341,-
455 bush., or 39.9 bush. per acre, as
compared with 105,563,572 and 39.0 in
1905.
Peas -410,350 acres, yielding 7,388,-
987 bush,, or 18,0 bush. per acre, as com-
pared with 7,100,021 and 19.0 in 1905.
Beans -51272 acres, yielding 950,312
bush., or 18.5 bush. per acre as compar-
ed with 846,443 and 16.7 in 1005.
Rye -79,870 acres, yielding 1,327,582
bush., or 16.0 bush. per acre, as com-
pared with 1,714,051 and 10.9 in 1905.
Buckwheat -100,444 acres, yielding 1,-
7702,903 bush., or 10.8 bush. per acre, as
compared with 2,199,632 and 21.7 in
1005.
Potatoes -139,064 acres, yielding 15,-
020,209 bush., or 110 bush. per acre, as
compared with 14,366,040 and 108 in
1905.
Carrots --4,980 acres, yielding 1,598,-
693 bush., or 321 buakie per acre, as com-
pared with 1,846,059 and 335 in 1905.
Mengel wurzels-09,3,52 acres, yielding
32,863,192 bush., or 474 bush. per acre,
as compared with 33,216,930 and 481 in
19Tu05.
rnips-132,512 acres, yielding 57,-
000.151 bush.. or 431 bush. per acre, as
compared with 57,654,086 and 426 in
1905.
Corn for hnsking (in the ear) -289,-
456. yielding 23,988.682 bushels. or 82.9
bushels per acre, as against 20,922,919
and 70.9 in 1905.
Corn for silo and fodder (green) -180,-
796 acres, yielding 2,149,413 tens, or 11.89
:ler acre, as against 2,284,812 and 12.36
in 1905.
Hay and clover -3,069,917 acres, yield-
ing 4,862,830 tons, or 1.58 tons per acre,
as against 5,847,494 and 1.94 in 1905.
Statistics of Live Stock.
Horses No. on hand, 688,147, against
672,781 in 1905 No. sold in the year
ending June 30th, 64,761, against 62,588
in 1005.
Cattle -No. on band, 2.063,618, against
2,889,503 in 1005. No. sold in year, 741,-
476, against 714,007 in 1005.
Sheep -No, on hand, 1,304,809, against
1,384,153 In 1905. No. sold in year, 574,-
41(3, against 603,739 in 1905.
Swine -No. on hand, 1,819,778, against
1,900,460 in 1905. No. sold in year, 2,-
222,758, against 2,267,583 in 1905.
Poultry -No. .en hand, 10,254,834,
against 9,738,493 in 1005. No. sold in
year, 3,473,708, against 3,340,802 in 1905.
FOR FARMERS..
SAMPLE'S 011 CHOICE GRAIN FOR
THE IMPROVEMENT OF SEED.
To the Editor
Sir, By instruction of the Hon. Min-.
ister of Agriculture a distribution will
be made this season of samples of super-
ior sorts of grain to Canadian farmers
for the improvement of seed. The stock
for distribution is of the very best and
has been secured mainly from the excel-
lent crops recently had at the branch
experimental farm at Indian Head, Sask.,
and at Brandon, Man. The distribution
will consist of samples of oats, spring
wheat, barley, Indian corn (for ensilage
only) and potatoes. The quantity of
oats to be sent will be 4 lbs., and of
wheat or barley 5 lbs., sufficient in each
case to sow one -twentieth of an acre.
The samples of Indian corn and potatoes
will weigh 3 lbs, each. A quantity of
each of the following varieties has been
secured for this distribution:
Oats -Banner, Wide -Awake, White
Giant, Danish Island, Thousand Dollar,
Improved Ligowo (white varieties), and
Goldfindor (yellow).
Wheat -Red Fife, Preston, Pringle's
SCham'biteplFife.ain, Percy, Stanley, Huron and
Barley, six-rowed-Monsury, Odessa,
Mansfield and Claude. Two-rowed-
Sandtandwell,Sidney. Invineible, Canadian Thorpe
Indian Corn (for ensilage)- Early
sorts, Angel of Midnight, Compton's
Early, and Longfellow; later varieties,
Selected Lemming, Early Mastodon, and
White Cap Yellow Dent. •-
Potatoes -Carman No. 1, Early White
Prize, Rochester Rose, Money Maker and
Late Puritan.
Only one sample can be sent to each
applicant, hence if an individual receives
a sample of oats he cannot also receive
one of wheat, barley or potatoes. Lists
of names from one individual, or applica-
tions for more than one sample for one
household cannot be entertained. The
samples will be sent free of charge
through the mail.
Applications should be addressed to
the Director of Experimental Farms, Ot-
tawa, and may be sent in any time be-
fore Feb. 15, after which the lista will
be closed, so that the samples asked for
may be sent out in good time for sowing.
Applicants should mention the varieties
they prefer, with a second sort as an
alternative. Applications will be filled
in the order in which they are received,
so long as the supply of seed lasts.
Farmers are advised to apply early, to
avoid possible disappointment. Those
applying for Indian corn or potatoes will
please bear in mind that the corn is not
usually distributed until March, and
that potatoes cannot be mailed from here
until danger from frost in transit is over.
No postage is required on mail matter
addressed to the Central Experimental
Farm, Ottawa.
Wm. Saunders,
Director Experimental Farms.
..0.011
POSED AS THIEF.
Hungarian's Cruel Trick on a New York
Banker.
Vienna, Dec. 3.- A Ne w York
banker of the name of Myrok has been
cruelly tricked by a Hungarian, who
wished to return home from the Unit-
ed States and did not have the means
to do so. Myrok says the man visited
hint in New York and represented
himself as Keeskennety, a Hungarian
swindler, for whose arrest a reward of
$12,500 was offered. He suggested that
Myrok buy tickets for both of them
return to Hungary with him and then
turn him over to the police and get
the reward, whichhe would ,subse-
quently divide with the self-styled
Kecskemety.
Myrok agreed, and the pair traveled
to Budapest, where they arrived. yes-
terday. While going to the police
station Myrok's companion gave Y,im
the slip. Myrok has since received a
letter from ,him stating that he is not
Kocskemety, but he wanted to get
home and therefore played a trick on
the unsuspecting banker.
TESTING OF WESTERN HORSES.
Return Affecting Disease in the New
Provinces.
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Ottawa, Dec. 3. -The Departments
.of Agriculture to -day brought down a
return, moved for last session by Mr.
Staples, M. P. It shows that since
February of last year 1,973 Manitoba.
horses were tested with mullein and
1.214 in Saskatcliewa!s and Alberta.
The number of ]sorsa ;uarantined and.
re -tested in Manitoba was 101, the•
other two provinces 112. In Manitoba
757 horses were slaughtered after be-
ing tested, and in .Alberta and Sas-
katchewan 288. Compensation was paid.
on the basis of two-thirds the value•
of the animal, the highest compensation.
in any one case being $100.
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TEN MILLIONS STARVING.
Crops in Cahinese Province Destroyed by
Floods.
Shanghai, . Dee, 3. -The internatiou•
al conunittee coinpcsed c.t the Consuls,
merchants, .missionaries acrd Chinesea
officials has decided to appeal to Eu»
rope and America to assist in reliev-
ing the distressed inhabitants of thea
Province of Kiang Su, where the floods
have completely destroyed the erops in
an area of over 40.000 square milea, re-
sulting in ten million peope being on
the point of starvation,