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den." Ci P, R. track at this point passes through a gully, or what is generally known 'as a "dip." - The mountains on either mide rise to 'a height of some eight thonsand feét.. If was at noon on Friday that the first slide ocour- red; but it 'was 'a comparatively ~ pmall one. A wrecking train was at once sent out. from Revelstoke to clear the track. About 100 men; mostly. Japs, were engaged in this 'work; and while the gang was so employed another avalanche swept down from the mountains, over- whelming between 40 and 50 of the wreckitig ¢réw. For a distance of over a quarter of a mile the track wag covered with snow and ice to a depth of 30 feet, and the victims were buried beneath huge masses of 'snow, 'ice, Tocks and timber. As soon as. the news of the disaster reached Revelstoke a fire bell soun- oo ie wa 'disaster no e Ww el ag te k that 3 oa) 58 Work: was Sleaping vars trying by a ed, all of them living in the vicinity of | 188 oy the avalanche. were employ- ed in clearing the track when the slide came. The bodies of 87 Jap- anese have also . been recovered, |: making a total of 51 recovered to date, and itis feared that a nom- ber of others yet lie amongst the thcusands of . tons of snow, ice, trees and rocks piled high in' the canyon. Eh The dead, so far as/identified, are as follows :--' Assistant Roadmaster Fraser. of Revelstoke, Conductor Buckley, Fireman . 'F. Griffiths, Brakesman Mahon; Engineer Phil- lips, Engineer Portruff, F. Wagner, laborer; H. Martin, laborer. 100 AVALANCHE VICTIMS Lying Beneath the Tightly Packed Snow and Debris. A despatch from Wellington, Wash+ ington, says: Eighty-six names are now 'on. the list of 'dead and miss- ing passengers and railroad and postal employees, who were carried down hy the avalanche which de- stroyed two Great Northern trains on Tuesday morning. = Statements of the number of laborers fighting tie snow, who were sleeping on 'the ill-fated trains vary from 20 to 80. An estimate of 100 dead is conser. vative. All the dead were residents of the northwest. Of the injured, only Rev. Bishop Winget of Ohica- BO was from the east.' No ens who has seen the wreckage has the slightest hope of finding any of the missing. alive, The explorations hive uncovered none living, and some" of the bodies are shockingly mangled... An avalanche of dry snow, might have covered its victims ralive, but the gorge at Wellington is"packed tight with 'wet snow, ice, huge trees and glacial boulders of enormous weight. Two. of the bodies recovered were STABBED TO DEATH. Italians Had a Fatal Encounter in Toronto, A despatch from Toronto . says: Pasquale Ventricine, : an . Italian laborer, living at 265 Claremont " #treet, stabbed Raffacle Fabkio, a fellow 'countryman, to death, near the boarding house of Mrs. Tony Butcher, 909 Manning avenue, at © 8.8) Sunday. night. = Tony Bush, | brother of Mrs. Butcher, who was present at the time of the stabbing, | declares that Ventricine had been dritking and stabbed the other without, provocation other than the advice of his victim, who urged him $0 go home as it was late. = The ner declares that Tony Bush, dead man, and three others set m and that the stabbing Tony. - of anoth: pr the ush is borne out by ¢ Italian lad. 'States Senate, Plats, former! ; o Re (1 banks bill has | total those of electricians who were liv- ing in a cabin at the edge of Wel lington, and who were carried three | hurdred feet down the slope. All Thursday a stream of men with: packs strapped to their backs wound - about the mountain path from Skykomish to Scenic and Wel lington, carrying food and supplies for the injured. Some are digging for the bodies of friends or rels- tives. they" were not wanted.. A laborer' was caught takin trinkets from a woman's body, and ho was compelled to start down the trail at ence. One hundred and fifty men dug for bodies in the de- brig all day. Among the bodies found 'on Thursday were those of ex-Prosecuting © Attorney R. M: Barphart of Spokane. = Conductor J. L. Pettit, who, after a trip on foot 'to Bkykomish, went back to hig post, and Mrs: M: A. Coving- ton of Olympia, who left Bpokane to celebrate her golden wedding in Bezattle on Thursday. FIELD CROPS OF CANADA. Increase from 1860 to Present Rep« resented 451 Per Cent.. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Census' Statistics Burean has prepared a statement of the value of the field crops of Canada at four stated 'periods. * It shows that in 1800 the total value of the crops was $96,701,643. In 1880 it had in- creased to $158,403,683; in 1000 it grew to $205,071,914, 'while last year it was $532,002,100° or an ins crease of 451 per cent. in 40 years, me Me LL RGR MORE MONEY IN. CANADA, Bunk Deposits' Show Big. Tncrease| During Past Yoar. A despatch from on in the meles. The story | At a meeting of the wy Bush is borne ont by | North Amorien. 1 A. a ding, sand mo Bightseers were told that! ih - odes a Tr. P. Bi far fate the: Nation Rives, nour selman, carrying some ; McOurdy made 'a number successful flights with the aero- plane, Baddeck No. 1, at Baddeck ay, on Thursday. = : The mineral 'production of On« tario for 1909 was valued at $32, 652,072, nearly $7,000,000 more than in the preceding year. Lord Mount Btephen has placed securities worth = $300,000 in the hands of trustees at Montreal to encourage the immigration of poor British boys. 2 The Dominion' Government has decided to" remit 'tonnage dues on American vessels at lake ports; in return for similar action by the United States. ; : The revenue for February shows an increase of $1,606,751, and the total receipts of the Dominion for tha current fiscal year will be near- ly one hundred millions, Dr. Hodgetts, Becretary of the Provincial Board of Health, says there is no doubt as to the genu: ineness of the recent case of hydro- phobia in Hamilton hospital. 5 Gladys Price, aged even years, of Niagara Falls, was bitten by a myzzled 'dog a few days ago. Ths {animal has been proved to have {been affected with rabies, and the little girl was taken to Toronto for treatment, : Eight men who attended to a horse belonging to Mr. D. CO. Ganip- bell of Coldstream, 'have gone to New York for Pasteur treatment. B |The horse was bitten by a dog some time ago, and died in agony. The men had a dreadful time 'with the poor animal. : GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Rufus Isadcs ds to be pointed Solicitor-General of Britain: ' : Mr. Percy H. Illingworth has been appointed. a junior Lord of the Treasury in Mr. Asquith's Cab inet. ; ap: UNITED STATES. 2 "A ship arrived at New York on Friday with 's cargo of rubbe worth over $6,000,000. : Avalanches and = mountain floods have: rendered the railroads of naithwest. Washington helpless. to 3c per dozen, and storage, 2bo |. ; and at 13%e for twins. Great} '114. to 143o; shoulders, 113 to 18% ried oan, 72, and No. 3 yellow, 60 to 69)4c, Toronto freights dian corn, 64 to 85¢ freights, "mre i "Bran--892 to $22.50 if. b To-| st. ronto, and shorts at $24, in bags, Toronto. ---- : COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples--82 fo $3.80 per barrel, 3 : according to quality. = 2 ors were, active, a fow. & ick Beans--Car lots outside, $1.85 to! milch cows selling up to $75 « $1.95, and small lots, $2.10 to $2.-| Sheep and lambs firm and ur 20 per bushel; 7. [7 i gs ed ~ Hogs advanced an Horey--Combs, dozen, $3 to #2.- cents. Bele 50, extracted, 1037 to 11¢ per lb. fio. Baled hay--No. 1 813/50 to 814, | Soi le th is out. 50 'on track, and No: 2, $13 to $13. | reach Baled straw--8$7.50 to $7.76 on track, Toronto EWC Potatoes---45 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios, AT A Poultry~Turkeys, dressed, 18. t 194 peridb.; ducks, 13 to 160; geese 13 to 14¢; chickens, 14 to 15¢, an fowl, 11 to 120; Res i : SH 70 NEW GOLD FIELDS. Many Prospectors and Others Lea ing Cobalt Tor Beyee Tp. despatch fro Son . p from" 4 THE DAIRY MARKETS. (The latest rush in the mining ay Butter ~Pound prints, 91 to 30; = fo Bryce fowaship. bout eenty tube and Jarge roils, 20 to Ble; in- Park: Several par xo oh forior, 16 40. 18¢; creamery, 28 to templated: goin pa 29¢, and solids, 26 to 96%c per. Ib. abatal Rothe: any Eggs--Case lots of new laid, 30 ro ind per dozen. ; Cheese--13¢ per lb. or a In Tor large, |ROId on fairly 3 af for 1axge, (are responsible. for' the Fuck. : : is : liar Just i s terri y ; p. y « WOTy. was prac % 0 HOG PRODUCTS. | [ics was practically Bacon--Long clear, 143 to 15c|real River per-lb. in case lots; mess pork; $27 ts. to $97.50; short cut, $29 Hams~--Light i to medi flurry. ai 16; do; heavy Rg medinm, derable id y 14% to 180; rol ve been caused in Co- 3 | breakfast bacon, 18 to 1830 ; backs; | (5 Sh AP Rl ard-_Tieroes, 15% to 16c; tubs; | 16 to 164{c; pails, 168} to 164c. aia Three railwaymen lost their lives a ina fie whish destroyed a ¥. M.C, A. building near Schenectady, N.Y. A woman committed suicide abi Chesaning, Mich, 'rather than with her daughter to the Canad west. Gl AS 'New liquor regulations make i necessary for every saloon in Ch sea, er. nl The Duited | ; gr or the present year hed the construction of nd four sub Senator, an Bhe tleships a Mass,, to have a car announe-|". Bates % {daval pion J