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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-4-26, Page 3HUGE DAM AT KENOGAMI WILL FLOOD FOUR HUNDRED SETTLERS' FARMS Buildings and Lands Sacrificed ced and Owners Moved to Fresh Tracts to Again Undertake Pioneer Work. A despatch from Quebec says - •One hundred and fifty settler families In the parish of St. Cyriec have been notified that this is the last .summer they will be able to farm the acres which they have wrested with devoted Tabor from the bush. Two years ago thismunicipality was organized by pioneers who had gone to Chicoutimi county to carve out new homes for themselves. As soon as their harvest is gathered this fall the families will be moved with their stock and their portable possessions to Begin town- ship, where they will begin again on the arduous labors of settlers in virgin country. Then the little village they had built at St. Cyriac,'the fields they had won from the bush acre by acre, will be covered many feet deep by the water of the great new storage basin which will corns into existence when the Huge dam at.Kenogami is completed. Four hundred and five settlers' lots will be expropriated by the Quebec Running Streams Commission to provide for the flooding that the dam will cause in the townships of Kenogami, Jon- quieres, Lateeriere, La Barre, Mesy and Plessy. A survey board of three officials is now engaged in estimating the values of the buildings and farms to be sacri- ficed and arranging for the amount of compensation to be paid to the dis- possessed settlers. Signs Emigration Agreement The Duke of Devonshire, formerly •Governor-General of Canada, and now Colonial Secretary in the Bonar Law government, has signed the Empire Settlement Scheme of Emigration. It provides for the settlement in Canada of 5,000 children under fourteen years of age within the first year, 4,000 wo- men and a limited number of families: TO DRAFT DEFINITE REPARATIONS PLAN Belgian Policy to be Followed at Coming Brussels Conference. A despatch from Paris says :-The coining Brussels conference will de- cide on a definite Franco-Belgian re- paration plan to be handed Germany when the Reich asks for terms, the correspondent learns. Hitherto the policy has been to in- sist Germany first submit her scheme. Now Belgian counsel has prevailed. As a result it has been decidedthat the victors will state the terms. If, and when Berlin approaches the For- eign Office, France will request that the Ruhr be restored to normal con- ditions by order of Berlin. When, after a lapse of two, or three weeks, the French Government is sat- isfied that sincerity is implied, the ew reparations program as at pres- ent being elaborated here will be com- municated simultaneously to Germany and the other Allies. A detailed summary of this plan was published Friday morning. While officially denied by' the .Temps, it sug- gests the present deliberations are developing along new lines and that France shall be compensated for sac- rifices in her claims by establishments of an economic agreement with Ger- many over coke, iron,textiles and chemicals. as Marshal of Poland, Marshal Foch, former genemalissdrno of the allied, armies', who is to receive the highest military honor Poland can bestot-, that of Marshal of Poland. BRITISH WORKMEN SAIL FOR CANADA Salvation Army Bringing Out Second Party of Boys. A despatch from London says: - Owing to the strike of agricultural workers in Norfolk a party of 25 farm laborers from that county sailed for Canada on Friday on the steamer Montcalm, which carries over 1,200 settlers. Ten wireless experts, sent by the British Government, sailed on the Montcalin to carry out experiments between Vancouver and Fiji, a dis- tance of 6,000 miles. It is stated that, altogether, fully 5,000 passengers are goingto Can- ada arid the United States aboard four liners leaving the Clyde this ' week -end. The Salvation Army on Friday signed an agreement with the. Duke of Devonshire, Colonial Secretary,giving effect to schemes designed to encour- age settlement overseas under Sal- vation Army auspices. Classes affect- ed are single women, widows with families, boys and orphans. A second party of boys is sailing • for Canada next week. Their succes- sors in the camp here are already training and a fourth party also has been selected. Commissioner Lamb has sailed for! Canada to advance the settlement scheme with the Canadian Govern rent. • REBEL DERVISH CHIEF RETURNED TO TRIBE Has Spent 23 Years in Prison • and is Now Nearly 100 Years Old. A despatch from London says: -- after twenty-three years in prison, Osman Digna, the Dervish chief, who for sixteen years defied British troops, may be pardoned and returned to his tribe, •He is nearly 100 years old, and the Foreign Office will be asked in the House of Commons Monday to free him. In the Sudan in 1884 at the head of 10,000 Dervishes he broke a British square by a wild charge and tempor- arily captured British guns. Finally Kitchener, then a colonel, captured his camp, but Osman later won it back. Kitchener was wounded In a fight with Osman's Dervishes in 1892. The old man's last effort was made in 1898 when at the head of 85,000 men he again attacked the Britith. He had been appointed Emir of Emirs and Governor of Berber, but the Mandi's overthrow ended his influence and he was captured in 1900. He has been in jail ever since, RUSSIA EXPECTS A GOOD CROP THIS YEAR Winter Grain Area Has Been Increased -Farm Labor Plentiful. A despatch from Moscow says Agricultural authorities in Russia concur in the opinion that the present winter has been favorable to good winter crops. It is estimated that winter grain fields this year, in com- parison withlast year, have increased their areas on an_ average of 18 per cent.; in famine districts, 42 per cent.; semi -starved districts, 20 per cent, and in the rest from :8 to 4 per cent. It is hoped the favorable conditions now prevailing may increase the area during the coming spring sowing time by 20 per cent. as compared with last year. The problem of farm labor is not worrying Russia; there are more hands than the country can absorb at present. The .Government has ad- vanced to the agricultural population. about 20,000,000 pude of seeds, and to cover the lack of working cattle the, Gover#iment has taken measures to obtain it from Mongolia and Kirghi, steppes. Prizes Offered for Longest Flight of Baby Airplanes. A :despateh from. London says s-- The•T9aily Ma11 Were a prise of a 61,000 tile Itrngeet flight -not less than i`ty mile• -•-,of an airplane with an Onagixte Gf 74 horsepower and one gal - loft •1' i°ua The 09ra edition is open. 41 the .world ad wig take~place in }�nglgmtd uestt fleeitembbee. �4: HAPPY ONCE MORE To the thousands of Canadians,who love the outdoors and especially the sport of fishing spring spells freedom to seek and prepare their food in the open for precious week -ends. The three fishermen in the pictureare about to enjoy bice sucoes•s of their day's fishing in salmon cooked over a camp fire. Roughing it fora night or two is the nearest many modern men can get to an express4on of their pioneering instincts. PLANE DROPS .FOOD BATTLE IN CAVE HAS FOR MAROONED PARTY SENSATIONAL ENDING Nine Men and Woman Will be Three Irish Irregulars Drown - Carried to Michigan Shore ed While Trying to Escape by Aeroplane. and Others Captured. A despatch from, Grand Rapids, A despatch from London says:-- Mich., says: -The nine men and one The spectacular siege of the little band woman marooned on South Fox Is -of Irish Republicans, which had been land, upper Lake Michigan, now have holding out against the Free State forces in a cave 100 feet from the tap food supplies sufficient for two weeks. of the Clashmeelcon Cliff, on the wild A DeHaviland army plane, sent by shore of the Shannon, in County The Chicago Tribune, flew over the Kerry, has come to a sensational island at 3.30 on Friday afternoon ending. and dropped two sacks of 200 pounds Two of the men who had been fight of food each -beans, bacon, sugar, to- ing under a continuous machine gun bacco and other supplies. The men in fire since Monday night, fell from the the aeroplane saw the marooned peo- cliff into the Shannon while trying to pie come out of the cabin. and carry escape in the darkness of Wednesday in the food. • night, and were drowned; Commander • The second Tribune plane is at Lyons of the hillside fortress, dropped Charlevoix, Mich., and the one that 100 feet to the beach while being haul - delivered the food returned to Gay- ed up the cliff, but rose and was shot lord. Both will return to the island and killed while trying to escape, and early to -morrow to rescue the Wil- the four others of the little party, in - son plane, which is in trouble four eluding Walter Stevens, of London, miles from the camp. The Tribune were captured, according to a despatch planes will also bring off any or all to the Central News from Tralee. of the people if they desire to reach The men in the cave, evidently be - the mainland. lieving their position insecure, were As soon as Chicago received word endeavoring to sally forth and reach that nine men and a woman were the protection of an adjoining cave starving on the lonely island, with when the casualties occurred. The their only boat gone and the ice break- body of Commander Lyons was wash- ing up so they could not get to the ed out to sea by the rising tide. mainland, plans were made to rush lives at every step, crawled and flop- result the youth's grandfather has be - ped over grinding ice hummocks a queathed Major Thorn a handsome distance of a quarter -mile to the shore, German chateau and a large estate, arriving utterly exhausted and badly Prince Rupert Converses --,by by Radio With Halifax • assistance, Wilson 4 Company, the packers, made up liberal food pack- ages and employed aviators to carry the relief. • As the plane flew; over the island the food was suspended on ropes and dropped to the marooned victims, as there did not appear to be a good landing place. Three planes alto- gether were employed, and carried food, newspapermen and photograph- ers and started away. One of them, a big De Haviland, came to grief -with a broken landing gear, but the plane sent out by The Chicago Tribune con- tinued on its way. It also carried 200 pounds of provision.s, medicines, a photographer and a. reporter. The survivors on the island are in better condition than the three men who, on their third attempt, stretching over a period of •two weeks, finally managed to get to the mainland. The journey required two days and two nights. Part of the time they carried their boat across aolid ice to open Their boat finally was crushed by the floes, and the men, rieldng their death in a railway accident, and as a Inherits German Estate. Major J. C. Thorn, of Vancouver, es- caped from a German, prison camp dist- guised as a war widew. 'Wileile in Ger- many he saved a young German from bruised. They had been without food for more than a day anda night. 410. Canada Instanced as Source of Copper A despatch from London says:- A despatch from Prince Rupert, B. C.,, says :-Radio communication tests between Prince Rupert and Halifax, Lecturing before the Society. of Arts: N.S., have proved successful. The tests relative to the importance of base were carried out by Jack Barnsley, of metals to • the nations as instanced this city, communication being estab-� during the Great War, Sir Richard li'shed in a few hours. Redmayne, ex -president of the Insti- Incomplete Returns. tute of Mining and Metallurgy, said "What did you get for Christmas, Canada, particularly British Colum- Bobbie?" bia, presented the likeliest source of "I got . a lot of stuff, but pa ain't an increased supply of copper. through playin' with it." TAXES AND IIIDDLEMEN DO COT OF U.S. GOODS TO CANADIAN BUYER A despatch from Ottawa 'says: -- How $100 worth of goods imported from the United States by Canadian wholesaler, under a duty of 35 per cent., because of pyramiding of profits on the cost of the goods, on profits and on sales taxes paid, cost the consumer in Canada $247.20 by the time the goods had passed through various hands was shown to the special Agri- cultural Committee of the House on. Thursday by Isaac E. Pedlow, retail merchant, of Renfrew, Ont., and a former member of the Commons. In the case of goods inmported by a wholesaler and sold by 'him to a manufacturer and then, in manufac- tured form, passing in turn through the hands of wholesaler and retailer( to consume; the pyramiding was even greater, and the $100 worth of goods( without allowance for cost of rnanu-• facture, cost by pyramiding -alond $832.55. Of the added cost through sales toot and duties, in the first instance the Treasury collected a total of $44.11s while the consumer paid $69.94. tri the latter case, the goods beinghandis ed ' through additional channels, the Treasury received $19.7$ in sales taxes • while the consumer paid $32.55 in sales taxes and profits on same. The Treasury received $85 in duty, while the consumer paid $77.77 in respect to duty and profits on duty. The Week's Markets TORONTO. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.31%. Manitoba oats -Nominal.. Manitoba barley -Nominal. All the above track, Bay posts. Am. corn -No. 3 yellow, 983 e; No. 2, 97e. Barley -Malting, 59 to 61c, accord- ing to freights outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 76 to 78c. Rye -No. 2, 79 to 81c. Peas -No. 2, $1.4b to $1.50.. Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, bags included; Bran, per ton, $29; shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, $36; good feed flour, $2.15 to $2.25. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, $1.20 to $1.22, according to freights outside. Ontario No. 2 white oats -49 to 51c. Ontario corn -Nominal. Ontario flour -Ninety per cent pat, ins jute bags, id.ontreal, prompt ship ment, $5.10 to $5.20; Toronto basis, $5.05 to $5.15; bulk seaboard, $4.95 to • 6. Manitoba flour -1st pats., in cotton sacks, $7.10 per barrel; 2nd pats., $6.60. Hay -Extra No. 2,er ton, track, Toronto, $14; mixed, $p11; clover, $8. Straw -Car lots, per ton, track, To- ronto, $9. Cheese -New, large, 26e; twins, 26f/zc; triplets, 28c; Stiltons, 29e. Old, ( large, 31 to 82c; twins, 88 to 34c; Stiltons, 35c. I Butter -Finest creamery prints, 42 to 43c; ordinary creamery prints, 41 to 42c; dairy, 26 to 27c; cooking, 24c. Eggs -New lards, loose, 88 to 34c; new laids, in cartons, 37 to 88c. Live poultry -Chickens, milk -fed, over 5 lbs., 250; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c• 1 do, over 5 lbs., 24e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 2 to 24e; do, 2 to 4 lbs., 18 to 2c; bens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 26o; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 22c; roosters, 17c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 80c; do, 4 to 6 lbs., 28c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and • up, Dress30c.ed Poultry -Chickens, milk ' fed, over 5 lbs. 35c; do 4 to 5 lbs., 33c; do, over 5 lbs., 80a; do, 4 to 5 lbs. 25e; do, 2 to 4 lbs., 25c; hens, over br lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 6 lbs., 28c• do, 3 to 4 lbs., 24c; roosters, 24c; ducklings, over 6 lbs., 30e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 29c; , turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 40c. Beans -Can., hand-picked, lb., 7e; ' primes, 6lho. j Maple products-Syrup,er imp. gal., $2.50; per 5 -gal. tin, $2.40 per gal. Maple sugar, lb., 23 to 15c. Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11% to 12c per Ib.; 5 -2% -Ib. tins 12% to 13i/zc per ' Ib. Ontario comb honey, per dozen, $3.75 to $4.50. Potatoes, Ontarios-No. 1, $1.05 to $1.10; No. 2, $1 to $1.05. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 25 to 27c; cooked hams, 85 to 40c; smoked rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 28 to 80c; breakfast bacon, 80 to 83e; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, •35 to 88c; backs, boneless, 84 to 40e. Cured meats -Long clear bacon. 50 to 70 lbs., $18.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $18; 90 lbs. and up, $17; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $88; heavyweight rolls, $35. Lard -Pure tierces 18 to 16%c; tubs, 16% to 17c; pails, 17 to 17%c; prints, 18%c, Shortening tierces, 14% to 151%.c; tubs, 15% to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16%c; prints, 17% 1814c. Heavy steers, choice, $7.60 to $8 butcher steers, choico, $8:°75 to $7.50 TEiacm-ae• 4- Asice a Mewi4Akr t'ANDE. tjloNROE .PaaM0t-,g AN' ( Dow I O w til Ft'6Nr •. w LTH JE FFfi4E3• plq'!st Nouci /NAT • .1 hits eseenenesese r-- Natural Resources Bulletin The Natural Resources Intel- ligence Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior at Ottawa says: ` In order to assure the con- tinuance of the forests of On- tario, provincial and other nurseries are making prepara- tions to produce up to twenty million seedlings per year. There are large areas in the province which are suitable only to the production of timber, and it is a portion of the pro - .gram of the Ontario Forest Branch to replant these areas. This, however, is but one means of continuing the forest production. The more import- ant and at the same time the most productive method is to protect the forests . already ex- isting and encourage natural reproduction. To do this it is essential that care be exercised and forest fires prevented. The Forest Branch is doing good work but needs the help of all interested in the province's welfare. ICE BARRIER GIVES WAY ON NFD. COAST. Food Cargoes Reach Settle -1 ments Isolated Since January. A despatch from St. John's, Nfld.( says :-A heavy gale has cleared away in part the ice barrier that had isolat; ed many points on the south coast of• Newfoundland for many weeks. Set-, tlements that had been shut off from. the outside world since January and whose people had been suffering from- hunger, romhunger, were placed within reach of relief. The steamer Kyle, frozen in at Lamaline Harobr, is still fast, but ex- pected to work free in a day or . two., In addition to a cargo of food for the': hungry settlements 'along the coast,' the Kyle has on board the candidates representing the Government and Op. position, who will contest two west coast divisions in the election of May 3, as well, as all the election lists, bar-; lot boxes and other election material.. for these districts. Next Monday is nomination day when candidates must be present if they wish to figure in the election. Canada is Foremost as a Wheat Producer .A. despatch from Los Angeles, Cal., says: -The time will come when the United States will buy its wheat from to Canada, according to Joseph I. Brit- tain, 'American Consul -General at ; Winnipeg,' now visiting in. Los An - 5 soles. "T believe Canada is the,great, do, good, $6 to $6.50; do, med., $6.2 to $6; do, com.,;$4.50 to $5; butche heifers, choice, $6.75 to $7.25; do med., $6 to $6,60; do, corn., $4.60 $6; butcher cows choice, $4.50 $5.50; do, med, $8.50 to $4.50; can ners and cutters, $1;50 to $2; butche bulls, good, $4 to $5; do, cone, $8: ,t $4; feedingsteers, good, $6 to $6.•50 do, fair, $5.50 to $6; stockers, good -$5 to $6.50; do, fair, $4 to $5; calves, choice, $10 to $11.50; do, med., $6 to $7; do, com., $4 to $5; milch cows, choice, $70 to $90; springers, choice, $S0 to $100; lambs, choice, $14 to $15.60; do, springs $15 to $18; sheep, choice, $8 to $9; do, culls, $4 to $5; hogs, fed and watered, $11.10 to $11.25; do, f.o.b., $10.35 to $10.50; d.o, country points, $10.10 to $10.25. • MONTREAL. Corn, Am. No. 2 .yellow, $1.02 to $1.03. Oats, Can. West., No. 2, 68 to 69c • do No. 3, 63 to 64c; extra No. 1 feed, 61,% to 62c; No.' 2 local white, 60}t to 81c. • Flour, Ian. spring wheat pats., lsts, $7.30; 2nds, $5.80; strong bakers', $8.60; winter pats., choice, 56.90 to $6. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., 83.10 to $8.20. Bran, $28..Shorts, $80. Middlings, .$85. Hay, No.2 per ton, oar lots, $1i} to 14. a., . Cheese' fines' easterns, 17% to } q.utter, .;, imoicest creamery, 86 to 87e. Eg e aQ eoted, Sac Potatoes, perb161,75c:tar ots,$LPto 36, `ad steers, iive°ragls"gg 1,090' lbs,, poorer steers, $Q.25; do cgoi550i 9o7?, pd.deiry cowsto4; Dein. l;'lis, 3 and up; calves 5 to $5.76, swirly good and rued.; do (gm., $4 to $4.50; do, very coin, enc cull lots $3.50 and $$.75, Hogs, good jots, $1; sows, 8,50 to $9; mixed heavy said xou� b ogs depending on quality, $11.50 to , r est wheat _• producing 'country on earth,,, lee said. "Our .commercial re- • to lations..aee close. and profitable. We have the • consumers; and Canada for n- ; years • to novae -will be producing food- * stuffs in -large quantities. The Can. o adi'ans '4 a splendid, alert, progres. sive -people."' His 'rheorles Confirmed ' Professmr• Albert 71nste.in, whose ' theories of relativity have been 'con- 1 firmed by results deduced from photo, ' graphs of the eclipse of the seinetakeq, i Wet year on the 'rest oosst of Aueig tralia, • There aro two 312411on Boy Scouts In the wo•rld, - Clew se Mud, „Ijid h® t4U Ysf,4 the *qv "No, ho'Als rave and d tootioste.