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:4»;::.,unevs:sb:nw...wwe .v i.» .- v,.-_‘ .lill WEST, FAST AND FUTURE Addresses by. Lord Strathcona and J. J. Hill to Winnipeg Canadian Club. A despatch from Winnipeg says: *predicting that the next fifty years Lord Strathcona and James J. ' Hill spoke before the Canadian Club on Wednesday to a record crowd. “The West: Its Past and Its Future,” was the theme of the addressee. His Lordship referred eloquently to the great influence of the Cans. diam clubs throughout the Do- minion in strengthening the feeling of loyalty of the dominions over seas, of which Canada was the first. to the Old Country. They who had endeavored to do their duty in the past looked with assurance toward the young men of Canada, feeling that they would do their utmost to- ward conserving and strengthening the tie which bound, and, he trust- ed, would always bind, the domin- ions to the Mother Country. Turning‘to Mr. Hill, the vener- able Commissioner expressed his conviction that his friend would not forget that day, some time in April, 1870, when they met for the first time in St. Paul, somewhere near the river. Things were at that day in a similar pioneer'stage to that prevailing in and: around Winni- peg- ‘ i ’ His Lordship then dwelt on the Fort Garry days, when the popula- tion of Winnipeg was perhaps 120, or at the outside, 200, and contrast- ed those early conditions with the thousands and thousands of people who now throng the streets of Win- nipeg. Looking back those forty cars at the change of conditions, e felt no hesitation whatever in WWW SUSPICIOUS DEATH. Toronto Young Man Died at Che- ' mong Park. A dcspatch from Peterboro’ says : Residents 'of Chemong Park are shocked and appalled by the death of Arthur Bollard, the nineteen- year-o-ld son of “Alive” Bollard, the Toronto tobacconist. His death was apparently due to injuries re- ceived'in an attack made upon him on Monday night. Mr. G. E. Mc- Pherson of Toronto, the brother- in-law of the deceased youth, says that Bollard was returning from a. dance at the pavilion of the Che- mong Park Hotel, when he was pounced upon by several young allows, who were alongside the road that Bollard had to take to get back to the cottage where he was staying. This information is said to have been obtained from Bollard after the alleged assault took place- V ___â€"â€".â€"â€")f DIED LIKE HEROES. Six Hen Were Drowned in a Steamer Wreck in Alaska. A despatch from Vancouver, B. 0., says: The passenger steamer Ohio, Seattle to Alaska, crashed on the rocks off Steep Point, near Ketchikan, Alaska, at 1 o’clock on Friday morning and is a total loss. Six are dead: Purser Stephens of Seattle; George Ecclcs, wireless operator, of Winnipeg, and four would see an even infinitely greater change than that upon which he looked back- ' Mr. Hill said :â€"â€"“I go back for 53 years, when I came West from Canada. At that time Canada had no Northâ€"West. A young boy or man who desired to carve his own way had to cross the line, and to-' dayâ€"4t may surprise youâ€"one out of every five children born in Canâ€" ada lives in the United States. Now you are playingthe return match, and the North~West is getting peo- ple from the United States very rapidly. We brought 100 land- seekers, mainly from Iowa and Southern Minnesota last night out of St. Paul, going to the North- West. Now, these people have all the way from five, ten to twenty thousand dollars each, and they will make as much progress on the land inrone year as any one man coming from the Continent of Eu- rope can make, doing' the best he can do, in ten, fifteen or twenty years. (Applause) “The great stream of population that has settled in the 53 years I have lived in the States has set- tled in-the country west of Chica- go. When I came through Chicago had 90,000 people, or claimed to have Within 100 miles of the city it was wild, unoccupied prairie. To~ day Chicago claims three millions of people. Think of it! Nearly half of the population of the Do- minion! New, Chicago was years older than Winnipeg before she had the population you have.” others, and a number are missing. M J. Honey, a prominent railroad contractor, connected with the Gug. gcnheim interests, who escaped from the doomed ship, wired the followingzâ€"“Stephens and the others went down while trying to save the lives of the passengers, in- stead of looking to their own safe- ty. Stephens could easily have sav- ed his own life if he had given a thought to his own safety.” a.“ YOUNG MAN KILLED . Another is Unconscious and May Not Recover. A despatch from Streetsville says: The level and unprotected crossing has claimed another vic- tim. While driving over the level -crossing out of Streetsville, on Fri- day, Thomas Gaunt, aged 21, and only son of John Gaunt of this town, was killed instantly by the C. P. R. Chicago flyer. In the rig with him were Fred Swithenbank, 15~ycar-old son of John Swithcn- bank, who received a severe frac- ture of the skull, and John Ward, also of Streetsville, who escaped The horse was almost out to pieces and the rig was smashed into kind- ling wood. J? Pidhoney, the Galician murderer, was hanged at Winnipeg on Friday. The It. 85 O. steamer Prescott was burned at Montreal on Fri- day. â€". new on in Floods Occasion Immense Damage at Mon- Wllllll terey, Mexico. 'A. despatch from Matamoros, ‘ Mexico, says: A West Indieshurâ€" ricane which spent itself on Satur- day along the stretch of the Gulf of Mexico coast, between the mouth of the Rio Grande and Vera Cruz, produced meteorological conditions which are unprecedented in this art of northern Mexico. Rain had been falling in torrents for three days over a scope of territory cxâ€" ltending west from Matamoros to Torreon, a distance of three hun- dred miles, and south nearly four hundred miles. Many uthousands of square miles of territory are unâ€" der water. The rivers and smal- ler streams are all far out of their banks, and a low estimate places the. number of people drowned at 1,500. and the number rendered homeless at 20.000. Saturday night in Montercy was caused untold suffering to the thou- sands of homeless peons who had congregated on the various plazas. The destructive flood, due to the continued fall of rain, swept every- thing before it, and hardly a vesâ€" tigc is left of what was a few days ago a conglomeration of small huts, swarming with families belonging 10 the poorer classes. The number of dead is variously placed at from Hot. in 1,000. The victims were from i the poorer classes. The flood reach- cu‘ its crest between 1 and 3 o’clock Saturday. morning. Many families were swept to death with hardly a chance for their lives. Victims were swept from their homes, on the tops of which many had sought , shelter. 3 It is thought that the damage will Ibe far in excess of the first esti- ‘uation, rain commenced to fall and l l one of death. desolation and dark- mates sent out in Saturday night’s ness. The flood waters of the Santa report. Monterey smelt-er, one of Catarina River continued on their the largest 1n Mcxrco, suffered loss rapid course throughout the night, variously estimated at from $1,000,- and to add to the horror of the sit- 000 to 82,000,000. THE WORLD'S MARKEI‘S unronrs ruon Tut LEADING nuns cnn'rnns. ESTIMATE or unit CROPS _ ' Statistics Prepared by the Agricultural Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home andAbrond. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 31.â€"Flour â€"â€" On- tario flour new Winter wheat pat- ents, $4.15 to $4.20 in buyers’ bags cn track, Toronto; new wheat flour for export, $3.95 to $4 outside in buycrs’ sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.80 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.30, and strong bakers’, $5.10 on track, Toronto. Manitoba. Wheatâ€"No. 1 North- ern, 81.21%, Georgian Bay ports. Ontario Wlieathcw No. 2, 97 to 980 at outside polnts. Barleyâ€"New, 55c outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, 47%c on track, Toronto, and 47 to 47%c outside. No. 2 Western Canada cats 43% to 44c and No. 3 420 Bay ports. » V Peas~-No. 2, 90 to 92c outside, nominal. . Buckwheatâ€"Trims purely nomln- a1. Corn-No. 2 American yellow, 79%0 on track, lake ports. Canav dian, 750 on track, Toronto. Branâ€"$22 for Ontario bran out- side in bulk. Manitoba, $21 1“ sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, 824 Toronto freights. ~0â€" COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beansâ€"Prime, $2.10 to $2.25, and band-picked, $2.50 to $2.60 per bush. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy new $13.50 to $14.50 a ton on track here, and low- cr grades $13 to $13.50. Straw~$9 to $9.50. _ Potatoesâ€"New Canadian, 75 to . 85v per bushel. Poultry â€"â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 160 per 1b.; fowl, 13 to 140; turkeys, 18 to 20c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 20 to 23c; tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c; 1nâ€" ferior, 15 to 170; creamer-y, 23 to 240, and separator, 22% to 23%c per 1b. Eggsâ€"New laid, 23 to 240. Cheeseâ€"â€"12%c for large, and at 12340 for twins. __...â€".. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon-wLong clear, 13% to 140 per 1b. in case lots; mess pork, $24 to $25; short cut, 824 to $25. Hams-«Light to medium, 14% to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%0; rolls, 13% to 140; shoulders, 12c; backs, 17% to 180; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17c. Lardâ€"Tierces, 14%c; tubs, 14%0; pails, 14340. .' BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 31.â€"â€"â€"Oats - No. 2 Canadian Western, 44 to 44%c; No. 1 extra food, 43% to 440; No. 1 feed, 43 to 43%c; No. 3 Canadian Western, 43%0; barley, No. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba iced barley, 64 to 650. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.90; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, seconds, $5.40; Winter wheat pat- cuts, $6; Manitoba strong bakers’, $5.20; straight rollers, $5.75; straight rollers in bags, $2.65 to $2.75; extras in bags, $2.40 to $2.- 50. Fecd~â€"Ontario bran, $22 to $23; Ontario middlings, $23.50 to $24.50; Manitoba bran, $22; Mani- toba shorts, 824; pure grain mou- ille, $33 to $34; mixed mouille, 25 to $27. Cheeseâ€"Finest crcamcry, to 23190. Eggsâ€"éâ€"Sclected stock, 25% to 26c; No. 1 candled 22% to 230; No. 2 at 16 to 190 per dozen. ..-_...â€"- UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug. 31.-â€"Wheat-â€"Spring wheat dull; Winter easier; No. 2 red, $1.10; No. 2 white, 81.09%. Cornâ€"Firm; No. 3 yellow, 76%0; No. 3 white, 75%c.,- Oatsâ€"Steady; No. 2 white, 39%0; No.- 3 white, 38f/4c; No. 4 white. 37% to 382. Ryeâ€"No. 2 on track, 73c. Chicago, Aug. 31.â€"-â€"Wheat~-Cash -â€"â€"No. 2 red, 81.03% to 81-05; No. 3 red, 930 to $1.02}; No. 2 hard, 599ng to $1.02; No. 3 hard, 92c to $1; No. 2 Northern, $1'to $1.02; No. 3 Spring, 93c to $1. Corn â€"â€" NO- 2. 633/2 tIO 690; No. 2 white, 70 P to 70%c; 170. 2 yellow, 71% ,to 72c; NO- 3, 531/6 t0 590; No. 2 whiteoats, 35%0; No. 3 white, to 37%c; No. 4 white, 35% to 36c; standa_rd,. 37 to 37%c. , LIVE STOCK MA ltKl‘TT. Montreal, Aug. 31.-~Primc bccvcs pretty good animals, 3% Us 4:14:03; common stock. 2% to 311,1? pm- 11;. Milch cows, $25 to each: Crasu‘ fed calves $3.50 to each. ur ;;.. . sir sold at from 4% to 5%.; pm. “Hi! Statistics forecasting the yields of the various crops grown in Ontario have been prepared by the Depart: ment of Agriculture from the reâ€" ports of correspondents in every part.of the province. To the pro- duction of Fall wheat it is estimatâ€" ed 663,275 acres of land were de- voted, anl the probable yield is fixed at 15,996,562 bushels, as com- pared with 679,642 acres and 16,- 430,476 bushels in 1908. Other es- inmates are as follows:â€" -Spl:lng wheat â€"â€" 135,161 acres, yielding 2,215,314 bushels, as comâ€" pared with 142,124 acres and 2,- 197,716 bushels in 1908; barley, 695,262, yielding 18,273,285 bushels, as compared with 734,029 acres and 20,888,569 bushels in 1908; cats, 2,- 695,585 acres, yielding 87,966,527 bushels, as compared with 2,774,â€" 259 acres and 96,626,419 bushels in 1908; peas, 381,609 acres, yielding 7,842,927 bushels, as compared w1th 396,642 acres and 7,401,336 bushels Department. in 1908; beans, 45.029 acres, yieldv 1132‘ 857,663 bushels. as compared With 46,477 acres and 783,757 bush- els in 1908; rye, 94,661 acres, yieldâ€" ing 1,594,868 bushels, as compared with 87,908 acres and 1,453,616 bushâ€" els in 1908; hay and clover, 3,228,‘ 445 acres, yielding 3.885.145 tons, as compared with 3,253,141 acre! and 4,635,287 tons in 1908. The yields of the following havl not yet been estimatcdrâ€"Bucke. wheat, mixed grains, potatoes, mangel-wurzels, carrots, sugar beets, turnips and fruits. The numbers of live stock on‘ hand on July lst were zâ€"Horses. 728,308; milch cows, 1,075,496;other cattle, 1,593,088; sheep and lambs, 1,130,667; swine, 1,551,187; poultry, 12,086,580. Live stock sold or slaughtered in year ending June 30. 1909 :-â€"Hors- es, 78,461; cattle, 800,228; sheep. 333,441; swine, 1,986,432; poultry, 4,177,503. bunâ€"“5 to 50 per 1b.; young veals, $3 to $5 each. Sheep, 3% to 40 per 1b.; lambs 5% to 6%0 per lb. ; good lots of fat hogs, 8% to 8%0 per lb. Toronto, Aug. 31.â€"The stocker trade was quiet, but two loads of Manitoba stock sold at $4. Milkers and springersâ€"Firm demand for good stock. Sheep and lambs â€"- Spring lambs selling up to $6.50. Calvesâ€"$5.50 to $7. Hogsâ€"Selects $11.65 f.e-b., and $8 fed and water- ________'!‘.______ . . STORM AT , STRATHR OY. Lightning Played Home With ’l’lloncs and Electric Lights. A despatch from. Stratl‘roy says: The worst storm of the season visit- tcd Strathroy and vicinity on Sat- urday night. The storm came up with awful suddenness, and the lightning and thunder were terri- fic. The Baptist Church was .stiiuck, the firemen extinguished the flames before much damage was done. The fuses at the electric light works were burned out, and half the town was left in darkness. The telephone service was put out of business for a time, no less than 25 ’phoncs‘be- ing burned out. Thebarn-s of Wil- liam P. Morgan, on the fourth line, Adelaide, were ’struck, and com- pletely destroyed, with full sea- son’s crops; his loss will be heavy. Austin Carrothers, of the second line south. son-in~law of Mr. Mor~ gan, met the same fate, and lost barns and crops ; Dan Ward, on-the fourth line, had ten hog-s killed .by lightning. f: ".45 _.___..._.... THE GREATEST EVER. ‘._--' “hat the Canadian National Enhi- bition Looks Like. ' The greatest year in the history of the Canadian National Exhibi- tion is assured. There are horses from across the ocean as wellas from across the line, Jerseys from the Street Railway King of Toron- to and horses from Sir William Van Horne’s Manitoba farm. There are sheep from Canada and from the W.“â€" ___. if. A despatch from Ottawa says: W. J- White, superintendent of Ca- . nadian immigration agencies in the United States, returned to Ottawa on Wednesday morning from a long trip through Michigan, Illinms, Missouri, Kansas, the Dakotas and Minnesota. He reports the great trek into the Canadian West as showing no signs of abatement... “As many people are comlng or week in August as there were in May,” Mr. White declared. “Last week the biggest 'triiinload of Canadian settlers left St. Paul in the history of the station. We had estimated from 70,000 to 75,000 United States immigrants for this calendar year. but the number will reach 80.000. They are mostly cle- ahlc sci'tlr-rs. and will make good Unnrulitiais.” ' “1)... 31m. look for this movement in- i".i"l'i'li'.!". and mum to increase?” ' " i V l lr'CfllCVC these will $.00“ be numbered I ,. “ n'i"'- ‘."“. . _.'.;-J~..“.D United States. There are manufac- tures finished and manufactures in the making. There’s everything. and an abundance of it. Add, all this to the greatest bill of special attractions the Canadian National Exhibition ever offered and you have all the elements of a world's fairâ€"and a few things thrown in besides. , >X‘ WINNIPEG FACTORY BURNED Western Plant of McCIary & 00., of London, Destroyed. . A despatch from Winnipeg says 2% Fire on Saturday night practically; destroyed the big Winnipeg branch- of McClary and Co., of London,l Ont. The total loss is well on to' $175,000. There was a stock on hand to the value of $135,000, and it' is almost a total loss. The build- ing, which was a six-storey brick one, was valued at $60,000, and the part of the roof being torn off,‘but loss will be about $40,000, as the foundation and a couple of storeys are still good. The insurance on the stock was $83,000, and on the building $33,000. .__._.._ifL.. A. BLAZE OF LIGHT. ._.â€"_ Night Scene at Canadian National, Exhibition. The “Electric City” is a fitting: name for-the Canadian Nationalj Exhition grounds at Toronto this? year. All the big buildings are fitâ€"l ted with eXterior decorations of. electric light and they turn the Ex-' hibition nights into the whitest kind of days. This brillian-cy added to the martial music, the movements of troops and all the panoply of dis- play makes the night scene at the Canadian National one never to be forgotten. ____._...4.__...___. A mutiny of a section of the army at Athens has resulted in the overthrow of the Grecian Ministry. Estimates have been asked for the construction of an Imperial Assembly Hall at Pekin. Strathcona Hall, at Niagara-orb the-Lake, was destroyed by fire on I Thursday. uâ€"uâ€"I-u-I‘ ll CANADIAN WEST Settlers Are Still Pouring in From the United States. by the hundred thousand. There; are to-day 200 firms in Minneapo-; lie-dealing in Canadian lands. Last year there were 50. We are exhi- biting at all the State fairs in the Western States, and this, year’s harvest should be a big advertise-L ment.” “Do you find any opposition to your propaganda in the United States?” “Not from the Federal Govern»i ment. We have some competition. from the Southern States, who aroj after immigration, however, butlit, is all friendly.” 2 In this connection it is interesh ngto note that Western homesteadl entries during June, the last month for which figures have been coms, pletcd, totalled 4,205, an increase oF 958 as compared with June 1908. 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