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er 2% Rae Selly SRA 2 SEE i Se NG & ee . Limited, through the periad immense concerns ¢ by the Ei over the ful li g astriad sphe Known as Canada's largest & -philanthyopist whose benefactions mounted into the who took a of his cotintry, Sir John was equally well | of known for his abhorrence of anything approaching the snobbish. A merchant UNION COAL DROP WORKING TOOLS Western Canada. Affected to the Extent of 12,000 Workers. A despatch from Chicago says: -- America's union coalfields are in the grip of a bituminous and enthracite 'strike, which became effective at mid- night on April 1. In Canada, the strike is expected to, be effective in the Western rPovinces, but mot in the East. Railroad officers asserted plans had Te was | ed, the Eaton Machine . was sent overseas at Sir | John's | Not satisfied<with this, Can- ada's merchant prince gave 'the Goy- the freé use of his steam trol duty off the Labrador coast. Of generous proportions were. Sit ohn's donations to the many auxil- funds necessary:to carry on the war. The Patriotic Fund, the Victory Loan campaign, the Navy League, the Red Cross Fund and numerous others reaped the bepefit of his munificence. Fitting recognition of this and many other features of his war work came, when on June 8, 1015; he was created a Knight. Bachelor. Lady, Baton, his mother, Mrs, Tim. othy Eaton, four sons, Timothy Craig, John David, Edgar Allison, ¥ Gilbert McCrea; one' daughter, Florence Yori one brother, Major W. F. Eaton Oakville; and 'two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Burnside, and Mrs. C. E. Burden, both of Toronto. of 'Alberta and Eastern British Col \umbia, they signalled the commence- ment of possibly the most bitter strug- gle between the operators and" men ever known i nthe mining history' of Western Canada. Nine thousand men, all members of District No. 18, United Mine Workers of America, laid down their tools and the mines are idle ex- cept for the pumpmen and others who remained on duty at prevailing salar- ies to protect the mines. An arrange- ment between the Western Canada Coal Operators' Awsociation and the miners' officials to "this effect was reached Friday afternoon. How long the strike may continue been made to suspend certain freight) in an unknown quantity; much: will trains, especially on coal roads, It is| depend upon the Board of Concilia~ estimated that 18,000. railroad men in) | tion appointed by the Dominion Gov- _ Pennsylvania ate out of work as a result of the strike, A despatch from Seattle says: --| Apress oy 2,600 coal miners in| quit work at midnitht, | hide ine Workers officials an-| nounced, Mostiof the commercial mines in the Stabe eve unaffected by the strike order, having been placed on a non- union' Basis in the summer of 1921. The stoppage of work, it was believed by those in touch with the situation, wotild hot render*the fuel situation in the Pagific acute, Mins on Vancouver Island, B.C. wheré a large tonnage is procured annually, are not unionized. ~~ A despatch - from Calgary, Alta, saye:--When the whistles blew 'on Friday night at the union coal mines | | ernment. At present both sides to the |, controversy have taken the most de- termined stand and: the miners have | ¢ refused to accept the revised scale of wages. offered by 3s operators, tou 10,000,000 00 War Medals Issued by Britain Nearly 10,000,000 war medals have been issued by thé British and 1,500, 000 more are to be issued, according to 'an announcement by Sir Laming 'Worthington Evans, Secretary of State for War, in the House of Com- mons. - The war medals and victory medals are about equal in number, be-, ing slightly over 8,500,000 each. There | have been 860,500 of 1914 star medals issued and' 1,600,000 star medals 'for the firstetwo years of service. ROYAL , ASSENT GIVES LEGAL "EXISTENCE A "despatch from London says: Royal assent was given Friday after- moon 6 the bill ratifying the Irish Treaty, and a new chapter of Irish history was begun: | The Irish' Free: Btate has now a legal existence, and | its Provisional Government, under Arthur Griffith and. Michael Collins, ia 'endowed with full powers to ad-'ger-which besets the infant Free State. |$4.40; ay meinister the country until the general] A long, weary period of anxiety and i election. Britain has given up the Fight-to intervene in Ireland's internal oconeerns, and on the Provisional Gov- genet. alone now rests the responsi- of gesturing order 'and of pre- TO IRISH FREE STATE Te roid a wei tribute to the statesmantile courage and earnest good-will 'at this most critical junc- ture, of Sir James Craig and his col- J He saw hope in the rew ! co-operation of the Northern and Southern States for a peaceful future of the country, but he minded no words in defining the imminent present dan- uncertainty lay before it, and he pre- ferred bo face the facts brutally and | M acknowledge that the Free State was "exposed to deadly foes who would nbt hesitate to use any means, however oie 26 ta Sir John Is survived by his widow, | Loe 5-23%-1b; tins, 17 to 18¢c per 1 Ontario John Biill--"Haven't you found your feet yet, Pat?" o Pat---"Sure, and I know Where they are, but divil a bit. will the pig let me stand on 'em!" oy "The -- Show (London) - a Bs breicast basen, 20 to ---- ors erormed not so ty Markets of the World th ben sb Ha dino Ra 2s. they are per- Qured meats Long Toronto. Northen or 19; i lies, 31350 to anitoba wheat--N: 1: Northern, 0 47; v! $1.58% 2 weight Is, $47; heavy | Canada, had Manitoba ocate--No. 2 CW, 57%e; |. Td freon 10% to 17c; | he required 9% qunts, extra' No. 1 feed, 54%c; No. 1.feed, tube § 17 to he 17% il 17% 1a doo; and ad 1 ; Ant AL first this esird mibriey Was. he, On tand first this card Manitoba barley--Nominal, {16 0, 18%01. tubs, 16%: o. Ther pari | wit 18s b 'put it ol Si promise to pay later in gold or All the above track, Bay ports. {17 0 17%¢ prints, 18% to 190: le i American corn--No. 2 yellow, 76¢;| "Choice steers, $7.76 to $8.50; No. 8 yellow, de; No. 4 yellow, 78%es | do, good, $7 to $7.60; butcher steers, track, Toronto. choice, By to $7.15; do, good, $6 to Ontario oats--No, 2 white, nominal, | $6.50; di, $5 to $6.50; do, com.,|t0 &. merchant and get: him to Ontario 'wheat--Nominal. $4 to' 80, "butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 | it in his strong-box. Every Phonon] Barley--No. 3 extra, test 47 Ibs. or | to 3 do, med., $5 to $6: do, com., $4 of importance in the early days had better, 67 to 60c, according to freights lied 5; butcher Cows, choice $5.50 to | a strong-box--a great iron-bound outside. ¥ canners tudded Buekwheat--No, 2, 78 to 80c. © (and, cutters, § ¥1 To $2.25; butcher pulls Torn and. Nr ot Bye. No, 2, 86 to 89c. A , $4.60 to 3.50; do, com, $3 to $4; a flour--First pats. nom- coders, $6 to $6.75; do, fair, Sours, the Torche 23 i 5 plow $5.60 to 6; stockers, od, ! do, fair, $3 to $47 late, A to Osho. them (it was only in 1835 that even, springers, $70 to $90; calves, choice, | the banks began to allow interest on $10. to $ils Koi med., $9 to $10; do, ! deposits), but the gold and silver in| com., $5 to J lambs, choice, 33 to | these formidable-looking strong-boxes 314, 50; do, 4% ., $6 to $7; , lof! "another day were reasonably safe} cho ice, $8 to $9; do, good, $6 Shes do, cot, $1.80 to FE50 hogy, ted oe in out SEIEnt answeged Mast on' Ea ig $12 5% Ks ah a oy pata; Montreal. } . Oats--Can, West. No. 2, 65c; do,| in the early days who were ing | extent for the scarcity of ol d No: 3, 61c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat | for. places to deposit money. ere! silyor. They were also, it may be hoted, fate. 1 1sts, $8.50. Rolled oats, bag 90 | was little gold and silver in the count a source of occasional profit. to the Bran, $37.50. Shorts, $38.1 try, for--like all new countries--Can- | marchants, for there were usually. Hay, Re. 2, per. ton, car lots, $28 to | ada had an sdverse trade balance, and' somes of 'them: that were never pre- money, especially , bended Cheese, finest Westerns, -15% gi0 constantly to He the colony. fonted for povement St dnd a SS utter choicest entamiery, 38 % | Trade was local, and 'was carried on| known, 'uctusilly, where the Indians : Fon 55 bag pt Bt Sh. 108 srpiein sent by bir or bed tha a wo for nt rehant' oc Finding a Cure for Diabetes, that" in" use in some parts of rural | stil anothe Canada evento-day. The necessity of 'mude its ap It is reported that a group of does having banks of deposit was hot there- | authorities, i tors, working inthe medical Jaboras | fore nearly so' urgent then as it is| ar purchases Old, large, 26 to 26c; twins, 25% to toTies of the University of Toronto, NW; and the stosldng of the hoe wha, were ; 26%%c; triplets, 26 to 27c; ' Stiltons, | have discovered at least a palliative, | wife and the strong-box of the mer | rote. redeemable at the Army B néw, 24 to 26c. and perhaps a cure; for diabetes: These phat. answered thes purse: fairly} Office in Quebec in Government bills Butter Frosh dairy, choice, 22 tol tations, like all typical university men; Well. {of exchange on T.ondon. These - 'hills' 28 reamery, i fresh, finest, 2lare quite reserved when interrogated | Just as deposits were accepted by ssed current as readily as money, . Ber Eh. a to de; "No. 2, 37 to their work and do not wish to the. merchants, so. discounts were; and without doubt they did mich to Dh ced Four 8 ing chickens | zaite any false hopes in the minds of | | usually. made by them. Especially | familiarize the penple of Canada with 30 to 35c; roosters, 20 to 25¢: fowl, 24 the public. But the very fact that| aftel Jay's tresty in 1794, when Can-| Raa to B0c; ducks, 85c; turkeys, 45 to 50cy | they are working on this problem and was first permitied to trade di-| currency such as banks might,<it gee #, 25c. that they have made some progress rect with the United States, some of | established, be expected to provide, Live poultry--Spring chickens:. 224s very encouraging and is another, the merchants made a Yory handsome : {Continued next week.) to 28c; roosters, 17 to 20¢; fowl, 24 to prot the great value of scientific] 30c; ducks, 38¢; turkeys, 45 to boc; research. It is only when some great pease, 90 to B35. discovery is announced that people did w aid, candied, 3 to 82¢; realize that, in a modern institution cartons, 84 to 3 [of higher learning like Ontario's pro-|. iv Redo yushel | Yineial university, research is continu- $3.85 to $4. ly going on and that the results of tif thod Maple products--Syrup, per, imp. ! Lally investigations are always of ad-| =. Me0US, England". grows. 82.6 fie Sugar 1. 2 imp, gals » $2.35. vantage to 'the people of the province | bushels of wheat fo the acre as against Yn and of the Dominion: Should a cure | Canadw's: 16.5, The Courcil Seien- 60-30-1b. tins, 14% to 1De| gy Gighetes be made available fo the | medical profession the resultant sav- ing of life cannot be computed in|' ebec, $1.25. Seed potatoes,| dollars and cents but will be worth 1s, $1.76 a bag. many times more than the amount! tarisis ot Srasted gk meats--Hams,. med., 32 tol in research at the university.|b acre 4c; ked vd 47 to 60cs" | €00! L 7 Spoken iscoverers will not benefit a ve "heen Ang ghtee try, he French authorities in New Franos re- sorted to the expedient, in order to "| overcome the scarcity of coinage, of issuing face value; but ultimately it became good deal of hoarding of inconvertible--mere fiat money--and Seriain periods), or he © face vajie, like the Co 'lars of the American : After the British conquest, the Government of Nova Scotia ed for. a time treasury. notes--familiarly were convertible, a useful service. During the first half- Ontario flour--90 per cent. patent, bulk, seaboard, per bbl, nominnl, : Milifeed--Del. Montreal freight, Dols oe included: Bran, per' ton, feed the practice of a number of merchants to issue notes or 1.0.U.s--kncwn "bons," from the fact that they cd 'marked good (bon) for a certain ount of money: So logy. shorts, per ton, '$30 to Te Ba! ed flour, $1.70 to $1.80. Baled. a rac Toronla, Jet Jor ton, 19;7¢ Noun Saige $14 to S20); winen Straw. Car fots, per ton, track, To- ; ronto, $12 to $18. Unofficial quotations--Ontario No. 1 commercial wheat, $1.36 to $1.42, outgide. - Ontario No. 3 side. Qntario eorn--b53 to 60c, outside. Ontario flour--1s5 pats, in cotton sacks; 98's, $8.20. per- bbl.; 2nd. {babel ran. Straights, in Bik Manitoba flour--1st pats., in cotton. sacks, $8.70 per bbl; 2nd pats., $8.20, Oheese--New, large, 20 to 20%c; puing, 20% to 21c; triplets, 21 to 21%ec. Fodder cheese; large, 18%c.| to. Be erable currency, and 'made up to oats, 40 to 45c, out- Chenp Fertilizers for Cana | Their Majesties. to Visit ; War Graves in France London, March 31 Tt is authoritatively: announced tha the King and Quee: ilk a State s visit to the tific: Research is trying to perfect Q methods of providing cheap fertilizers Farmers. « | « Smita' By the use of Fertilizers and scien~ Eggs new laid comb honey, per doz, $6.50. $1 Potatoes---Ontario, 90-Ib. bag, $1 to! old} iver, and ib circulated freely at ifs = - "| of 'course it fell to a fraction rh known as "shinpldsters"-<but these ; and "performed. & century of British vule, it became also