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Exeter Times, 1909-07-29, Page 6ORGANIZED GANG OF THJEYES Robberies Are Frequent Since the Great Fire in Cobalt. A despatch from Cobalt says: Ever since fire destroyed many dives down in french town, rob- erios have been reported, and the police believe that an organized gang of thieves are operating in the town. Following the hold up ;,f a roan with revolvers un Ow road, there was an attempt made to en- ter Mayor Lang's house on Wed- nesday night.. Bert Normandy, ho has had $70 in cigars and to- bacco stolen from the skating rink, was on watch at midnight, and he gave chase, but full in a trench, and the thief was lost. A gang was arrested on Wednes- day night on Susaginaga Lake, the Dunn fancily forming the nucleus. Three poen put up a strenuous fight, end the women set dogs on the police. Almost all the goods taken frurn the rink were found, and many articles that citizens have missed for months were located, On Sasaginaga Lake, on Wednes- day night about $230 worth of goods were taken from a tent. A viger- eus effort will bo made to stamp out incipient lawlessness, us previ• ous to this Cobalt has not been troubled by the light-fingered tribe. SLEEP IN ESKIMO TENTS AS COMFORTABLE AS A STEAM - HEATED HOUSE. Tents in the Arctic Regions Under Snow Becomes L uhearably Warm. Along the whole coast of Arctic 'America Eskimos or evidences o their former existence, are found Judging from the abanduned house and villages they were once numer ous along the north shorn of Alaska but now their numbers are being fast reduced by the contagious dis- eases brought in by white men, against which they have developed no ininiunity. At Point Barrow, where a few white men have been engaged in whaling and trading for a quarter of a century, and where there are also a - missionary and school teacher, is still a village of 200 or 300' Eskimos. Anothcxr• settle- ment of much less size has gathered at Herschel island, where the whale ships have long wintered. In all the 500 miles of eons', between these two villages there are hardly a dozen Eskimos. Inland perhaps a couple of dozen families live in tents and follow the caribou from place to place. LIVE IN ESKIMO TENTS. bag. During the worst gales that blow on that coast, ono can keep the tent warm and comfortable all day, while reading or smoking at one's ease, and at night take off one's clothes and sleep with as much comfort and safety as in a steam - heated house. PERMANENT HOUSES. Having had this good night's rest, he can face the next day's cold with greater chez aulness, Con- trast this tent with those often used by polar explorers, in which f they lie awake most of the night, • buttoned inside a wet sleeping - bag listening to the flapping of the - tent, and wondering how soon every- • thing will blow to pieces. The permanent houses of the natives are constructed of drift- wood heavily sodded over. Form- erly they were heated with blubber lamps, but now small stoves have taken the place of the primitive apparatus. They keep the houses too hot for comfort, at least for white man, but the Eskimos strip to the waist and do not mind it. Mnay times the temperature was found to be over 90 degrees Fah- renheit, and once a clinical the- momcter, left in a house where the writer was attending a sick boy, was found to register 103 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest tempera- ture it was capable of Indicating. In the summer these houses become damp, so the people move out doors into tents. Formerly both natives and white anon constructed houses out of snow blocks in which +- t ave! ' -ep w rile i winter time. Occa- s ovally snow houses aro still used, but since it has become possible to secure canvas or boat drill from the traders, a tent. is preferred. I have spent months in different }rinds of tents and find the one used by the Eskimos by far the most comfortable and safe, writes a avelor. Willow sticks about 10 et in length are stripped of their bark bent into a curve and allowed to dry. Fifteen or twenty of these light curved sticks are stuck up in the snow and lashed into a hemis• pile rice! form over which two covers of light boat drill are thrown. When snow is shovelled around the margin and well packed down, thi, low, round tent will stand any wind that, blows. The snow floor is co\ eyed with caribou :skins on top of which the steeping bags are placed. There is plenty of drift wood along the rivers, so the traveller need but carry a small sheet -iron stove to cook with and to heat. the tent. AIR SPACE PROTECTION. The air space between the covers tanakes a great protection against the outside cold, so that while cook- ing a meal the tent often becomes unbearably hot even with the doors open. At night after the fire is out the bodily heat from the people sleeping in such a tent will raise the interior temperature over 50 degrees (Fahrenheit) above that outside. Hardly any frost forms upon the walls and one is able to sleep com- fortably with the head outside of the S• 4• GRAVE CAVED IN. Shocking Occurrence at Burial of Murdered Man. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Angus Roos, who was murdered on Saturday at Frank, was buried at Blairmore on Wednesday beside his father and mother. While four men were lowering the coffin the grave caved in, two of the men be- ing precipitated into the neIJ-d g grave under the coffin, which had to be righted and the pit <ing out. again. The wife of tho deceased fainted at the occurrence. ---4. CONVICTS PANIC-STRICKEN. Fire at New Westminster Penitents. ary Caused Scare. A despatch from Vancouver says: The works adjoining the Provincial penitentiary at New Westminster were destroyed by fire late on Wed- nosdny night, the damage amount- ing to $10,000. The convicts quart.- ers were untouched but the in- mates were panic-stricken, and clamored piteously for their re- lease. SEND P.►1'I'ERS TO ('.►N.►DA. Britain Would Find it Sanest Course, Says Morning Post. A despatch from London says: The Morning Post says : "Surely the sanest and most hopeful me- thod of dealing with pauper chil- dren is to send them nut to Canada and the other British dominions as early as possible." JAIL AS A LABOR BUREAU Scarkity of Harvesters Leads Winnipeg iiagistrate to Try Experiment. A despatch from \Winnipeg says: Daily the fear of a senrcity of farm labor this summer grows apace with favorable news from the agri• cultural districts. At the present time there are four hundred appli- cntions on file with the Provincial Government, and nearly seven hun- dred with the i)orninion immigra- tion cfftcers, asking for men, but neither cnn supply any. The C. P. I{. ie nt present endeavoring to ar- range e e rsiens from the east, but reports received indicate that men there are also scarce. When the excel -shins are en route this year every effort will he made to pre - Vent a recurrence of the rowdyism of last year, and if necessary a special constable will be placed on each car. On Thursday Magistrate Duly decided to try an experinments Hearing of the scarcity of men, ho released all short-term prisoners on condition that they get employment. General Grain Agent Atheson of the C. P. 11., who has just returned from a tour of inspection of the crops, says the grain is nt about the same stage of development as in other tears, and espteially in Mani- toba the harvest will be about the same time as l(►st year. He does not look for moa titan an average crop, which wntigl mean a yield of about a hundred million bushels of wheat. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS 11A1'PLNINC3 FROM ALL OPER IRE GLOBS. Telegraphic Driers From Our Ona and Other t'uuutrles el Recent Events. CAN'AI).\. James Dale was attacked by masked men near Cobalt and rob- bed. Hon. L. P. Broudour has promis- ed to assizt the uwtcunent for a dry- dock at 11•,utreal. A little lad but nine years of age is under arrest at Toronto, charged with pocket -picking. United States immigration offi- cers say fewer people are entering the States through Canada. Stephen 11. Patterson, a Brock- ville park -keeper, fell a distance of eight feet and was killed. Tht Ontario Government sub- scribed $1,000 towards the Parlia- mentary memorial at Halifax, N.S. Seven thousand dollars' worth of diamonds are said to have been smuggled into Canada front Eng- land. The bank statement for June, which has just been issued, shows clearly hoy rapidly trade condi- tions are unproved. The Ontario' Board of Health has approved of plans for a waterworks s3 stent and sewage disposal plant at Cobalt. Miss Audilia St. Denis is suing the Manager and President of the defunct Banque de St. Jean for the amount of her deposit. Sir Charles It•ivers \Vilson and other directors of the Grand Trunk are conning from England to make a trip of inspection of the G. T. P. to Edmonton. GREAT BRITAIN. The budget fight in the British Commons is becoming very bitter. London papers have spoken in glowing terms of Canadian win- nings at Risley. The remains of Oscar Wilde are to be removed to a more honorable resting -place. Mr. John Lavery, the famous British artist, and bachelor, was married to a Chicago girl. Six Yorkshire tykes on a world tour have decided to cross the American continent via the C.P.R. UNITED STATES. The body of 111 Mass. The C. P. R. has invaded north- ern Maine, and will break the monopoly of the Aroostook & Ban- gor Railway. The New York police had a fierce fight with a band of gypsies whom they nought to place on a steamer for deportation. It is probable that the Joint Con- ference Committee on the tariff at Washington will place a dutyof $1.25 per thousand on lumber and $3 per ton on print paper. a .. r wentan was trunk in a room at Lynn, GENERAL. M. Aristide Brinnd has been asked by the President of France to farm a Cabinet. Peru and Bolivia will make an attempt to settle their differences without recourse to war. Germany is striving eagerly to gain trade concessions from Can- ada. A Berlin paper has decided to send a special correspondent over in August. PAGEANT ON PAGEANT. Britain's Navy Gathering For Still Another Review. A .despatch from London says: The summer of 1909 will be remem- bered as a season of naval pagean try. Last month the greatest as- semblage of war craft in the his- tory of the British navy took place off Portsmouth. On Saturday they will gather nt Prtsmouth, where on July 31 they will he reviewed by the King, and on the following Mon• day the Emperor of Russia will have an opportunity to see them, his yacht comes to ('owes for the meeting with the King. RO('K 5111JE ti1Li.ED TWO. And Three Other Men \Were Hurled Down Bank. A despatch from Grand Forks, 11.C., says: Two men lost their Ines as the result of a rock slide on the Canadian Pacific near hero on \Vedncsday. Later, when a crew were clearing the track, another slide occurred, and buried three of them, hurling them down the steep bank. All were foreigners. The body of ono was brought here, also one of the injured. GOLD ON PACiFiC COAST. A Strike Made on the Seehelt Pen. insula. A despatch from Vancouver, 13. C., says : Captain Sparrow of the steamer Tartar brings a report of a gold strike on the Sechelt penin- sula, forty miles ep the coast. The strike is close to a Japanese logging cramp. Six men 'tnked out claims. The quarts is said to average *00. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAI(. FROM 11tE- LAI+D'S SHORES. Happenings In the Emerald lsle of lutereat to Irish. DIM Andrew Kerr, a tailor residing at Connor, near Ballymena, shot him- self while despondent. The Iter. Desist Lewis, a clergy- man of Belfast, committed suictde. 111 -health led to the act. The Belfast. liner Lord London- derry was abandoned on fire off thc�' I'ortugueso coast. The crew was saved. Mrs. Ann Roberts, a native of Llanyrnyneck, died in Oswestry workhouse, aged 100 years. She re- membered Waterloo. The lands of Tiskah, Kilaboy, Co. Clare, were recently cleared by cattle drivers. Twenty head of cat- tle were driven for four miles. Donegal County Council has pro- cured a grant of £1,500 to extend the pier at Buncrona, as a means ni developing the herring fishery there. The dead body of a farmer named John Brown, residing between Mar- kethill and Heady, was found in his home, on its knees, with hands clasped, as if praying. In a Donegal breach of promise case for $2,500 damages the lady plaintiff said she had been courted for ten years by the defendant, and then "thrown down." In an out office of a farmstead not far from Ballantrain, County Monaghan, a cat had kittens, and in the same nest is a brood of young price, which have not been inter- fered with by pussy. Robert Kelly of Dublin, is suing Lloyd's newspaper for publishing in same reminiscences of Fenian Day in Ireland, an article which charg- es Kelly with the murder of a con- stable, for winch he had been tried and acquitted. Tho death occurred recently at her residence, Graigucagarron, Galmoy, County Kilkenny, of Mrs. Elizabeth Dillon, at the age of 101 years. Deceased belonged to the farming class, and was to full pos- session of her faculties up to the last. During the operations in connec- tion with the foundation of the New Convent Schools at Belturbet, County Caven, Hugh Reilly (a work surtrlone l,a''o'FP4-^t�Lri ,.. auuu Elizabeth coin bearing date 1593. The coin is in a good state of pre- servation. The De: ry Chamber of Commerce, County of Derry, have passed a re- solution protesting against the in- creased over -taxation of Ireland caused by the budget proposals, and stating that tho proposed new taxes will have the effect of crush- ing Irish industries. While Robert Lytle, Wood Island, Ballinarnore, was cutting turf re- cently, he unearthed thereaand d A d antlers of a reindeer or elk in a good state of preservation. Mr. Lytle has been offered various sums for his discovery, but ,he has de- clined to part with it at the figures rendered. The prize offered by a London paper for the best photograph of a garden, has lately been awarded to Miss Sophia M. Wallace, of Ard- namona, Lough Eske, County Done- gal, the garden in question being prettily b:,rdered with Canterbury bells, double sneczewort, montbre- tia, and scabious. A remarkable case took place at Derry, when a woman natned Mrs. Duffy, Richmond street, was pro- secuted by the public health au- thorities for allowing a wake to be nekl on her husband's body, who had died fr'trm typhoid fever, and although notified not to do so a wake was held for two nights. On Sunday morning the police in Cashel County, Tipperary, were busily engaged in removing from hoardings, doors. and windows, leaflets "Warning any person not to join the English army, navy or R. I. C.. as whoever did so would bo a traitor to his country." In any place where the police could not cut off the leaflet in full they cut thein in such a manner that they could not be read. DEPTH OF THE SEA. The mean depth of the sen is from two to three miles. This figure however, is often passed, and soundings taken off the island of Guam, one of the Ladrone group in the Pacific, extended to 31,614 feet., or just about six miles -the great- est depth known. The land aver - ago is 2,300 feet, while the high- est summits of the Himalayas are little more than 29,000 feet, which means that the sea -bottom has depths greatly exceeding the eleva- tion of the loftiest pinnacle above its surface. Seas of this profound depth, it may be added, are gener- ally indigo -baro in color. HOW ELEPHANTS SLEEP In captivity elephants stand up when they sleep, but in the jungle, in their own land, they lie down. Tho reason given for the difference betweca the elephant in captihit • and In freedom {s that the anima never acqultos complete e.,nfidcnco to his keeper and always 1engs for liberty, THE WORLD'S 1►1ARKEfSIWARNING TO DEPARTMENTS ---- -� R1.1'OI:TS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CEN'T'RES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Hanle and Abroad. Illtl:.\DSTUFFS. Toronto, July 27. -Flour -Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.25 to $5.35 to -day in buyers' sacks out- side, for export, and 85.40 to $5.50 on track, 'loronto. Manitoba flour; first patents, 436.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, ! 05.75 to 8a.90, and strong bakers', 83.50 to 85.70 on track, 'Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, 81.33, and No. 3, i'i.32. Ontario wheat --No. 2, $1.20 out- side. New Ontario wheat, about, $1.10 outside. Barley --Old No. 3 extra, 63c out- side. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 57% to 58c on track, Toronto, and 54% to 55c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats, b5lc, and No. 3, 54%c, Bay ports. Peas -Prices purely nominal. Buckwheat -Prices purely nom- inal. Corn -No. 2 American yellhw, 80%c on track, Toronto. Canadian yellow 70 to 77c on track, Toronto. Bran -$19.50 to $20 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $22 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24 Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to 814 a ton on track here, and lower grades, $9 to $10.50. Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes -Small lots of old, 75 to 90c, and new, $3 to $3.25 per barrel, on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 12 to 13c per lb; fowl, 9 to 10e; turkeys, 14 to 16c per Ib. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19e; in- ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator 19 to 20c per Ib. Eggs -Case lots, 20 to 21c per dozen. Cheese -New 12'/,c for large, and at 12 c_for_ tin. 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. Harps -Light to medium, 15% to 16c; dc,, heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 11N to 12c; backs, 18 to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 16'/ to 17c. Lard -Tierces, 11,';c ; tubs 14%c; pails, 14%c. _- BUSINESS .\T MONTREAL. Montreal, July 27. -Oats -No. 2 Canadian Western, 58c; No. 1 extra feed, 55%c No. 1 fted, 57%c; No. 3 Canadian Western, 57c. Bnrley- No. 2, 72% to 74e; Manitoba feed barley, 67% to 68c. Buckwheat -- 69'! to 70c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.80; Winter wheat pat- enti, $0.75; Manitoba strong bak- ers, $5.60; straight rollers, $6.50 to $6.80; straight. rollers, in bags, 4.0.15 to $3.20; extras, in bags, 32.80 to $2.90. Feed -Business in most lines of milling ford continues quiet. Cheese -11'/, to 12c. and easterns at 11% to 11'/,c. Butter - Pound lots, .21%e; jobbing 22%c. Eggs -19',1 to 20c. Selected stock, 23c, and candled at 20c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, July 27. -Wheat - July, $1.30; Sept., $1.09%f Dec., 81.07; cash, No. 1 hard $1.32% to t'l.32°; ; No. 1 Northern, $1.31% to $1.31%; No. 2 Northern 81.29% to $; No. 3 Notthcrin $1.27% to $1.28%. Flour -First patents, 86.10 to 86.30; second patents, $6 to $6.20; first clears, $5.05 to $5. - in% ; second clears, 83.65 to $3.85. Plan -In 100 -ib. sacks, $21.50. Chicago, July 27. -Cash wheat - No. 2 red, $1.18 to $1.20; No. 3 red, new, $1.18; No. 2 hard, $1.1s to $1.20; No. 3 hard, 81.15 to 81 18; No. 1 Northern, $1.39 to $1.40; No. 7 Northern, $1.21 to $1.30; Spring, $1.20 to 81.29. Corn -No. 2, 73% to 74c; No. 3, 72c; No. 3 white, 75'/.,c : No. 3 yellow, 73 to 73'/c • No. 4, 60 to 69c. Onts-No. 3, 45 to 45%e: No. 3 white, 46'/ to 50'/,e; No. 4, 42 to 46%e; standard, 49 to 52c. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, July 27. -Pretty good beeves sold at 4 to 04e, common stock at 2'/, to 3%c per lb. Milch cows from 325 to $50 each. Calves from $2.50 to *10 each. Sheep 3'/ to 4e per Ib., Iambs 6% to 7c per lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold at tN to a little over 9c per lb. Toronto, July 27.--A number of steers sold for both butchers and export purposes at from $5.20 to $5.50. Sheep and lambs -Market ettady. Export market --- Extra holee heatv well finishc<l tattle $5.90 to $0; medians, $b.''25. Government Expenditures to be Limited Strictly to the Sum in Esti►'. s, A despatch from Ottawa says: That the Government is making an effort to cut down expenditures is indicated by an order -in -Council recently passed. The order is based in a report to Council by the Min- ister of Finance, suggesting that the chief spending departments be admonished to live strictly within the appropriations for the current fiscal year. A copy of the order has been served upon every department. It points out that in the interests of economy it is absolutely necessary that no works be undertaken for :which provision has not been made in the estimates, and that e:i,; n- ditures for authorized services be Irunited strictly to the suet author- ized by the estimates. the object doubtless is to pro - vent, if possible, the growing prac- tic•e of continuing the outlay upon - specific projects after tho proper appropriation has been exhaust- ed, and so obviate the necessity of supplementary estimates to cover the over expenditure. 11 r. Fielding desires to include in his main estimates next session, as nearly as may be, the total ex- penditure projected for the ensu- ing fiscal year. Butchers' - Steady demand fur :choice butchers' cattle. Medium and common cattle steady at late declines. Stockers and feeders - I)emand for good stock. Cattes- Markot steady for good butchers' calves. Milch cows -Steady de- mand for good milkers. Feeders - Steady around $5. Choice butch- ers' cattle -Steady to easier around $:5.25 to $5.50 for picket extra choice heifers and steers. Tho ordinary run of fair to good butchers' eas- ier around 84.50 to 84.90; common to inferior mixed butchers' cattle, 50c off. Hogs -Steady at $8 f.o.b., $5•25 fed and watered, and $8.50 off cars. IIE.%DING FROM THE COAST. Grand Trunk Pacific Is Pushing Eastward. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says: The first shipment, of ties from Morseby Island for the moun- tain section of the G. T. P. has ar- rived at Prince Rupert. To accom- modate the immense quantity of construct;on material unloaded at the harbor, as well as a shipload of steel rails now on its way around the Horn, a second wharf will bo built by the company. This news is confirmed by G. A. McNicoll, the purchasing agent, who has returned to the northern point. Mr. Mc - Nicoll found in the trip, that, cov- ered over fifty miles of the grade out of Rupert., that rapid progress was being made in the construction ssbrk' ,'There is no doubt, about the track -laying being - couninenced by October 1. .r. GALLOPED TO HIS DEATH. Indian on Iioarsebaek Leaped Into River. A despatch from Vancouver says: Victor Lecampe, a member of the best-known fancily in the Kamloops Indian reserve, galloped deliberate- ly to death on Tuesday evening. Aware that the draw of the bridge over the South Thompson River waw open, but crazed with drink, he gal- loped furiously to his doom. The horse cleared the bridge timbers and landed in the fairway. The Indian extricated himself from the stir- rups, but finally sank, one hundred yards below the bridge. The horse swam ashore. 1'I'N ENDS IN '1'R.►GEDT. C. P. It. Conductor Drowned in French Hiver. A despatch from North Ilay says: Thomas Jamieson, a former C. P. R. passenger conductor, was drown- ed on Tuesday evening in French Hiver. With a fishing party of eight Jamieson left North Bay on the steamer Hazel B. When near Frank's Bay the fatality occurred During a friendly scuffle with John Russell, one of the party, both men fell eser the gangway board into the water. The steamer was stopped and a skiff lowered, Russell being rescued, htrt no trace of Jamieson could be found. Jameson was a prominent citizen of North Bay, and was widely known and reipectcd. :► widow and six children survive. GREETS THE BLUEJACKETS. London Goes Wild as Sailors March Through Her Midst. A despatch from London says: The bluejackets of tho 150'1se.rshijs r.ow in the Thames, who hereto- fore have filled the rule of hosts, were guests of the City of London on Wednesday. Twelve hundred of them marched through the prin- cipal thoroughfares and were greet- ed with unbounded enthusiasm. The decorations along the lino of march were on a lavish scale, and demonstrated the widespread in- terest awakened in Londoners by the stay of the fleet in the very heart of the city. After the parade the officers and men were tendered a luncheon at the Guildhall, as guests of the Lord Mayor and Cor- poration Council, and subsequent- ly enjoyed a vaudeville entert ment, the first ever permitt the Guildhall during the many turies of its existence. SAVED FROM CATARACT. Disabled Boat, With 1-1 Occupants, in Danger at Falls. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., says: A launch party of four- teen young people of this city had a narrow escape from going over the Falls early on \Vedncsday night, when the motor boat in st h, they were riding sprung a leak. With the water rushing into the baa faster than it could be bailed the boatwas steered for she, the water stopped the en the party were in der swept over thctcat known rivernran a scene in a sailing bo;tt, an anchor front his boa held the launch against the rent until ho went ashore fo motor boat. 4. DROWNED IN CLOUDBURST. Several Persons Perish in Odrtnah, Wisconsin. A despatch from Ashland. Wis., says : A cloudburst late on Tu, s.clay night caused heavy loss to all kinds el property in northern Wisconsin. It is estimated the total loss will he $500 000. The power plant at White River, which furnishes light to the city .of Ashland, and the State fish hatchery near hayfield were practically destroyed. The dam breaking at White Hiver im- perils Wallah. Several persons are reported drowned. Six famil- ies near the oro clocks in .Atlilnud" I,ad to be taken from their homes. 4• "i'iVE FLEET'S, ONE NAVY." Cogent Epitome of Lord Charles Bere;fnrd's Naval Proposal. A despatch front London says: The Standard, in discussing the ap- proaching naval conference, says that Lord Charles Beresford's scheme alone will meet what really arc very exigent requircrrent3;.a•ti sums up his proposal in the words: "Five nations, five fleets, ono navy." 75,000 SETTLERS THIS YEAR Inspector of Agencies in the United States Repeats His Prediction. A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. W. J. White, inspector of 1)o - minion immigration agencies in tho United States, is here and reaffirms Iris former prediction that 75,010 immigrants will come this year from the United States to Canada. He 1.as recently conducted a party of American visitors through the Northwest. "What impressed the party rnnst," he said, "was the character c 1 the settlements along the line, towns of from five to ten thousand inhabitants, with imposing school houses and other evidences of solid !c•ttle•r,'•nt. -anti peopled by a su- s r `. 1 stow of men and women who gave them cordial welcome No Canadians born could sr more entlrusinstically of the fat of Canada than did those visit upon the conclusion of their tr "As it happened," Mr. White co- tinued, "we were in Lethbridge o the day of the scho•;l lands sale, when eight quarter sections were put tip nt auction, and $ome GO people, not only speculators, but farmers, stood in line from Sunday night until Monday morning ta get first chance in the bidding. Tho scene was an object lesson of the growing value of Canadian faun lends, which dict not fail to iinpress itself upon the part,•."