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GOYEB)1ET CROP REPORT THE `WORLD'S "'""""'KILLED I1
Rain Is Needed in Some Sections of the
Maratime Provinces,
A despatch from Ottawa says:
A bulletin covering the conditions
of crops and live stock in all parts
of Canada as reported by special
correspondents of the Agricultural
Department, under date of June
15th, was isued by the census and
statistics office on Thursday.
In general the report shows that
despite the backwardness of the
spring, which retarded early growth
in practically all sections of the
country, conditions in all the Pro-
vinces are now very satisfactory,
and except in some localities of the
Maritime Provinces, where the rain-
fall has been light, there is promise
of an excellent harvest.
Wheat, the great staple crop of
the country, has a reported area of
7,750,400 acres, which is 1,140,000
acres more than last year. In the
Maritime Provinces and Quebec
there is little change, but in On-
tario the area is less by 106,600
acres, of which 88,300 acres is fall
wheat. Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta show an area of 6,878,-
000 acres, being 1,254,000 acres more
than last year. The condition of
fall wheat at the 15th of June was
82.15, and of spring wheat 92.15
per cent. of the standard for a full
crop.
The area of oats in the Dominion
is 9,302,600 acres, which is 1,361,-
500 acres more than last year, and
its condition is reported as 92.32 per
cnet.
Barley, the cereal crop next in
importance, has a total area of
1,864,900 acres, or 119,200 acres
more than last year, and its condi-
tion is 91.49 per cent. Rye and
peas are less than last year, with
conditions of 87.90 and 90.59 respec-
tively.
Mixed grains, with 582,000 acres,
APPROACHING EDMONTON.
G. T. Pacific Tracks Will be Laid
Into City by July 7.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
1v ord was received here on Friday
from the end of the steel on the G.
T. P. that the track will be laid into
Edmonton by July 7. Gongs are
now 48 miles from that city, but the
strength will be doubled and they
will now be able to lay from four
to six miles per day. Ballasting
gangs are well up with the work,
and the entire line will be ready
for traffic when the crop begins to
move. The line will be 794 miles
between this city and Edmonton.
The Dominion Government will
establish two experimental farms
in the country tributary to the G.
T. P., one in northern Saskatche
wan, and the other in Alberta..
They now have an official out there
inspecting the lands available.
WOMAN'S BODY RECOVERED.
Found in Lower Niagara River
Badly Decomposed.
A despatch from Niagara Falls,
N. Y., says : The headless body of
a woman taken from the lower
Niagara River on Saturday is sup-
posed to be that of Mrs. Cathar-
ine Whipple, of Buffalo, who
jumped into the river above the
Falls on April 22nd, during the
Spring ice jam. Decomposition
and hay and clover, with 8,210,300
acres, are practically of the same
extent as last year. The former
has a reported condition of 91.71
and the latter of 90.36 per cent.
The condition of pasture is 93.55
per cent.
The Province showing the largest
area of oats is Ontario, with 3,142,-
200 acres, and also the largest
area of hay and clover, with 3,535,-
600 acres.
Quebec is the next highest in hay
and clover, with 2,923,600 acres.
This Province has also 1,574,100
acres in oats.
Saskatchewan has 1,847,000 acres
in oats, Manitoba 1,390,000 acres
and Alberta 820,000 acres.
In the three Maritime Provinces
the total area in oats is 529,300
acres.
At the end of June, 1906, there
were 122,392 farms in the Provinces
of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and
Alberta, and at the end of 1908 the
homesteads entered (less all cancel-
ations) increased the number to
190,234, or by 10,853,760 acres. In
Manitoba the net increase of the
two and one-half years was 4,393;
in Saskatchewan, 41,423, and in Al-
berta, 22,020, but these figures do
not take account of farm lands pur-
chased from railway companies and
other corporations in the same
period.
The drouth of summer and
autumn was less severe last year
than in 1907, but it had the effect of
reducing the number of farm ani-
mals in the older Provinces. In
the whole of Canada horses exceed
the number of last year by 14,324,
whilst milch cows are less by 68,440,
other horned cattle by 245,057,
sheep by 126,014 and swine by
457,349.
was so far advanced that immedi-
ate burial was necessary. Identi-
fication may be established by the
few shreds of clothing which still
cling to the body when it was taken
from the water. The body of an-
other woman is floating about in
the whirlpool. It is believed to be
that of Mrs. Vesper, who last Sun-
day afternoon jumped into the river
at Eagle Park, Grand Island.
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AMBUSHED BY BANDITS.
Russian General and His Daughter
Killed.
A despatch from Warsaw says :
Gen. Sytin, chief of the gendarmer-
ie, while returning to Kielce on
Saturday, was ambushed by ban-
dits, who fired several volleys at
him. The General was shot through
the breast. He died on Sunday
night. • His daughter, who was ac-
companying him, was killed. A pa-
trol, sent in pursuit of the bandits,
lost one killed and one mortally
wounded.
CHICAGO'S AUTO SLAUGHTER
Machines Killing Three. Persons
Every Two Weeks.
A despatch from Chicago says :
Automobiles are killing Chicagoans
this year at the rate of three per-
sons every two weeks. In 1907 the
slaughter was one person every
three weeks, according to police
statistics.
RECIPROCITY CLAUSE KILLED
No Free Trade in Coal Between Canada
and the United States.
A despatch from Washington
says : Rather unexpectedly to itself
the Senate late on Wednesday con-
cluded its consideration of the coal
schedules. The Finance Committee
through Mr. Aldrich reported an
amendment fixing the duty on
bituminous coal and shale at sixty
cents per ton ; on coal slack or culm,
at fifteen cents per ton; coke and
compositions used for fuel at twenty
per cent. ad valorem. A drawback
equal to the duty is allowed vessels
in the foreign trade.
This scale, Mr. Aldrich explain-
ed, was a reduction of seven cents
a ton on coal under the house rate.
The amendment, he said, also left
out the house reciprocity provision.
He did not believe, however, that
the House would remove its duty
on coal even if the reciprocity pro-
vision were left in the bill.
Numerous attempts were made to
rduce the rate, and there was one
effort to obtain free coal, but all
were voted down and the commit-
tee's scale retained.
By a vote of fifty to twenty-
eight, the Senate Finance Com-
mittee's amendment placing a duty
of $1.50 a thousand feet on sawed
lumber, with differentials on fin-
ished lumber 'was carried. This
is fifty cents below the Ding-
ley rates. In quick succession
several other paragraphs of the
lumber schedule were agreed to.
By amendments offered by Mr.
Aldrich and agreed to by the Sen-
ate, the duty on clapboards was in-
creased from $1 to $1.50 per thou-
sand ; on laths from 20 to 25 cents
per thousand pieces and on shingles
from 30 to 50 cents.
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, June 29. -Flour -Ontar-
io wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.30
to $5.40 to -day in buyers' sacks out-
side for export, and at $5.40 on
track, Toronto. Manitoba flour;
first patent4, $b.20 to $6.40 on
track, Toronto; second patents,
$5.80 to $6, ; and strong bakers',
$5.65 to $5.76 on track, Toronto.
Manitoba wheat -No: 1 Northern,
$1.35 Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at
$1.33, and N'. $1.31.
Ontario :To. 2, $1.35 out-
side.
Barley -60 to 62c outside.
Oats -No. 2 Ontario white 59c on
track, Toronto, and 55% to 56c out-
side. No. 2 Western Canada oats,
60c, and No. 3, 59c Bay ports.
Peas -prices nominal.
Rye -No. 2, 74 to 75c outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 82
to 82%c on tra.±, 'Toronto, Cana-
dian yellow, 76c outside, and 79 to
80c on track, Toi.,nto.
Bran -Ontario, $21 in bulk out-
side. Manitoba, $23 to $23.50 in
sacks, Toronto freights; shorts,
$24.50 to $25, Toronto freights.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$4 to $5 for choice quali-
ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds.
Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and
• hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per
bushel.
Maple syrup -95c to $1 a gallon.
Hay -No. 1 timothy, $12.50 to $13
a ton on track here, and lower
grades at $9 to $10 a ton.
Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track.
Potatoes -Car lots, 80 to 85c per
bag on track.
Poultry - Chickens, yearlings,
dressed, 14 to 15c per lb ; fowl, 10
to 110; turkeys, 16 to 18c per lb.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c;
tubs and large rolls, 18 to19c; in-
ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to
24e, and sep'ar*tor, 21 to 22c per lb.
Eggs -19 to 20c per dozen.
Cheese -Lang' kheese, old, 14 to
14%c per lb, and twins, 141/, to
14%c. New quoted at 12%c for
large, and at 12%c for twins.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%c
per lb. in case lots ; mess pork, $23
to $23.50 ; short cut, $25.50 to $26.
Hams -Light to medium, 5% to
16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls,
12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c;
backs, 17% to 18%c; breakfast
bacon, 16% to 17c.
Lard -Tierces, 14 to 14%c ; tubs,
14% to 14%c ; pails, i4% to 14%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, June 29. - Grain -
Oats -No. 2 Canadian Western, 60
to 60/e ; extra No. 1 feed, 59% to
60%c; No. 1 .feed, 59% to 60e ; No.
3 Canadian -Western, 58% to 59c.
Barley -No. 2, 72% to 74c; Mani-
toba feed barley, 67% to 68e. Buck-
wheat -69% to 70c. • Flour -Mani-
toba Spring wheat -patents, firsts,
v$6.30 to $6.50 ; do., seconds, $5.80
to $6; Manitoba strong bakers',
$5.60 to $5.80; Winter wheat pat-
ents, $6.75 ; straight rollers, $6.50
t4) $6.60; do., in bags, $3.15 to
$3.20 ; extra, in bags, $2.65 to $2.-
80. Feed -Manitoba bran, $22 to
$23; do., shorts, $24 to $25; pure
grain mouille, $33 to $35 ; mixed
mouille, $28 to $30. Cheese -
Westerns, 1'" to 12c, and easterns
at 11% to .%• B itter-Finest
creamery, 23 to 23%c. Eggs -18%
to 19c per dozen.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Chicago; June 29. -Wheat - No.
2 red, $1.50 to $1.55 ; No. 3 red,
$1.35 to $1.40; No. 2 hard, $1.2;,
to $1.26; No. 3 hard, $1.24 -to $1.-
24; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to $1.32;
No. 2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.28; No.
3 Spring, $1.17 to $1.25. Corn -No.
2, 73% to 73%c ; No. 2 white, 75 to
75%c ; No. 2 yellow, 73% to 74c ; No.
3, 73 to 73%c ; No. 3 yellow, 73% to
73%c; No. 4, 71% to 72c. Oats -
No. 2 white, 57%c ; No. 3 white, 51
t • 56c ; No. 4 white, 50 to 54c; stan-
dard, 56c.
Minneapolis, June 29. -Wheat -
July, $1.273 to $1.27%; Sept.,
$1.08%; Dec., $1.06%; Cash, No.
i hard, $1.31%; No. 1 Northern,
$1.29% to $1.30%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.27% to $1.28%. Flour -First
patents, $6.30 to $6.50; second pat-
ents, $6.20 to $6.40; first clears,
55.05 to $5.25 ; second clears, $3.65
to $3.85. Bran -In bulk, $22 to
$22.50.
A COAL HE
Seventeen Miners Suffocated or Burned to
Death in Pennsylvania Mine.
A despatch from Wehrum, Penn.,
says : As the result of an explosion
of gas in mine No. 4 o the Lacka-
wanna Coal & Coke Company,
shortly after 7 o'clock on Wednes-
day morning, seventeen miners
were killed and sixteen injured.
With the exception of one of those
killed, they are foreigners. Just
V. hat caused the explosion has not
been ascertained, but it probably
resuslted from an accumulation of
gas.
The few men who escaped from
the mine were burned and blacken-
ed, indicating that the force of the
explosion was heavy. None of them
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, June 29. - Prime
beeves sold at 6 to 6%c per ib. ;
pretty good animals, 4% to 5%c;
common stock, 2% to 4%c per lb.
Milch cows from $25 to $55 each,
most of the sales being at from $35
to $45 each. Calves, from $2.50 to
$10 each. Sheep at 4c per lb.;
lambs from $3.75 to near $6 each.
Good lots of fat hogs sold at 8%
t.)c lb.
Toronto8%per , June 29. -Exporters' of
the prime variety sold as high as
$6.55, and ordinary loads were firm
as $6 to $6.40. The supply of
butchers' fell far short of the de-
mand and prices rose according-
ly. The finest grades of this class
weie firm at $5.50 to $5.80; ordin-
ary good loads selling freely at $5
to $5.25. Cows -were in strong de-
mand and took a rise of 15 to 20c.
Stockers and Feeders -Steady de-
mand, but supply short. Milkers
and Springers -Good milkers and
near springers wanted. Sheep
Lambs -Easier, except for Spring
lambs, which were quoted at 8% to
9%e per lb. Hogs -Selects quoted
at $7.75 f.o.b., and $8, fed and
watered.
NOW IT IS COAL FAMINE.
Western Miners Said to be Behind
With Orders.
A despatch from Regina', Sask.,
says: Already there are serious
forebodings as to the probable re.
suit of the great strike in the west-
ern coal fields on supplies for this
Province next winter. The mines
are hundreds of cars behind in or-
ders now, and cannot possibly catch
up with the business, which has al-
ways kept them running steadily to
supply the demands. It is difficult
at this time to see how a famine
among the homesteaders can be
avoided. Dealers are doing the
best they can to safeguard against
this, and will lay in as large sup-
plies from the American mines as
possible.
BANK TELLER MISSING.
F. W. Sussex Disappears From
Rocanville, Sask.
A despatch from Rocanville,
Sask., says : F. W. Sussex, teller
in the Union Bank here, has mys-
teriously disappeared and the in-
spector from Winnipeg is here mak-
ing an investigation, but so far no-
thing has been given out for pub-
lication. Sussex came here from
Palmerston, Ont.
' was in condition to give details,.
but from one it was learned that
the explosion -.seemed to strike
every portion 6f - the mine simul-
taneously.
As soon as it was known that an
accident had occurred at the mine,
the greatest excitement prevailed
Iboth at the mine and in the 'little
hamlet, a short distance away.
Wives, mothers, sisters, and bro-
thers rushed, to the mouth of the
mine tearfully imploring some news'
as to the fate of their loved ones.
A number of the foreign women,
'screaming and crying, tried to rush
into the dark pit of death.
EXTEND MEAT INSPECTION.
Packers Urge Upon Government
That Local Dealers be Lacluded.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The extension of the meat inspec-
tion provisions to local meat busi-
1 ness and compensation for animals
condemned and seized were urged
befoee Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon.
Sydney Fisher on Wednesday morn-
ing by a deputation which included
representatives of Blackwell and
Flavelle, Toronto ; Laing & Co.,
of Montreal ; Matthews, of Ottawa;
Hatton, of Collingwood; Fearman,
of Hamilton, all big firms doing
bowl interprovincial and export
business. The delegation -declared
that the provisions of the pure food
act to which they were subjected
1 should be extended by Provincial
,legislation to local butchers and
!packers who do business in a single
• Province only and are therefore not
subject to the Dominion act. Sir
Wilfrid and Hon. Mr. Fisher were
urged to use their influence with the
Provincial Legislature to have lccal
pure food legislation similar to the
Dominion act. The Ministers pro-
mised to use their influence to
have the request carried out.
EXPANSION OF "SOO" WORK -S.
First Steel Made in the Open
. Hearth Furnace.
A despsatch. from Sault Ste.
Marie, Ont., says : Mr. W. C.
Franz, manager of the Lake Su
herior Corporation, in an interview
stated that the new No. 3 open
hearth furnace made its first steel
on Wednesday. The foundation
work on No. 3 blast furnace has
been started and it is expected that
ie two weeks time work will be
commenced on the new structural
mill, which will include all require-
ments for making structural steel.
The making of steel in the new
open hearth furnace on Wednesday
brings to successful culmination ilia
first improvement under the new
management, that is, since English
capital was introduced into the con-
cern. Mr. Franz said it would
take about a year to complete the
blast furnace and about seven
months to have the structural steel
mill in operation.
The German Emperor has refused
to accept the resignation of Chan-
cellor Von Buelow.
The Emperor of Russia reached
Stockholm on Saturday to pay a
visit to the King of Sweden.
EbEVEN PEOPLE BIIOUEP
Rowboat Swamped in Gale While Crossing
Lake Killarney. -
A despatch from Killarney, Ire-
land, says : A large rowboat, car-
rying five American and four Eng-
lish tourists and four Irish boat-
men, was swamped in a gale while
crossing Lower Killarney Lake on
Wednesday afternoon. All of the
tourists and two of the boatmen
were drowned. The victims are :-
Mrs. A. A. Hilton and son, of Ta-
coma, Wash. ; Mr. and Mrs. Long -
head, or Loughead, of Boston ; Miss
M. H. Catum, or Cotum, of Mas-
sachusetts (town not known) ; Rev.
B. Barton and sister, of London ;
and Miss Florence Wilkinson and
cousisn, of Brentwood, Essex;
Boatmen Con. Tooney and .Con.
Gleeson.
The boat was a four -oared craft,
used for taking visitors about the
lake. Most of the passengers were
guests at the Great Southern Ho-
tel. The party started out on Wed-
nesday morning sight-seeing. When
the lower lake was reached it was
found that a heavy wind from the
north-west was blowing. Several
other boats that had started over
the same course put back. It was
not long before anxiety began to be
felt concerning the boat which had
continued on the course, and
searchers, who put out when the
wind died down a little, discover-
ed her overturned with two of the
hc,atmen clinging to the keel. The
Rev. Mr. Barton and two of the
women could be seen in the dis-
tance, supported by an oar, but
they sank bef-ore the rescuers could
reach them. The others had already
disappeared.
The two boatmen who were res
cued were too exhausted to give
any account of the accident.