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lNUBEASE lll ESTIMATES “Bi-WW? WE“ l‘llliE One Hundred and Thirty-nine Million ' Dollars Looked For ' A despatch from Ottawa says: The main estimates for the next fiscal year, ending March 31, 1912, which‘were tabled in the House on Friday, provide for expenditures amounting to $138,863,200, of which $28,180,200 are to be spent under the provisions of various statutes. The sum to be voted for the year is $110,682,330, as compared with $100,468,173 called for in the main estimates for 1910-11. For the na- val service the appropriation asked is $3,831,500, as compared with 3,- 676,500 in the previous year. Of the vote, $3,000,000 is for the pur- chase and maintenance of ships, the upkeep of dockyards at Halifax and Esquimalt, and the establishment of training schools. To meet the cost of taking the decennial cenâ€" sus $1,000,000 will be appropriated; For the preliminary work in 1910- 211 $50,000 has already been provid- For the annual drill of the miâ€" litia $1,325,000 Will be voted in- stead of $1.175,000 as'in 1910-11, and a new appropriation of.$50,000 is to be made for paying instruc- tors, expenses of teachers qualify- ing at military schools and for the purchase of equipment of cadet corps. For the National Transcon- tinental $27,000,000 will be voted, the same amount as for 1910-11, and for the construction of the Quebec bridge $2,000,000, of which $500,000 was voted last sessmn, but not expended. . That the Government has still some idea of carrying out the plan of a canal from Edmonton 'to Win- nipeg by the Saskatchewan River is indicated by the fact that the sur- veys begun last year are continued, andthe appropriation increased from $10,000 to $25,000. Votes are asked for two new monuments. For a memorial to the late King Edward $20,000 will be voted and for one to Madeleine de Vercheres, to be erected at Ver- cheres, $15,000 will be provided. Wâ€" SOME DISEASES DECREASE. Report of Provincial Board of Health for Week. _ A despatch from Toronto says: According to the report issued on Friday by the Provincial Board of Health, the weekly returns of con- tagious diseases totalled 1,077 from 709 municipalities. The returns show 1,077 cases and 181 deaths for the month, as compared with 1,292 cases and 248 deaths in November, 1909. The cases are apportioned as follows zâ€"Infantile paralysis 21, sombre-spinal meningnitis 5, small- pox 28, scarlet fever 240, diphtheria 224, measles 65, whooping cough 23, typhoid fever 266 and tuberculo- sis 105. I RELATIVE RE SPON SIBILITY. _-.. In the Protection or Level Railway Crossings. A despatch from Montreal says: Chairman Mabee of the railway comniission.spoke out on Friday with no uncertain sound as to the relative responsibility as to level crossings. The chairman said it would be absolutely ruin to saddle the companies with the whole cost of safety appliances, and that the municipalities will have to pay their share. In fact, it was no use for them to try to get out of this responsibility. It would be decided, concluded the chairman, whether a third is too much for the municipalities to pay. FOR THE CORONATION. "â€" A Representative Contingent of Canadian Militia. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Militia Council has now un- der consideration the question of sending a representative contingent of the Canadian Militia to parti- cipate in the coronation ceremonies in London next June. It is pro- bable. that a composite regiment of about 200 will be sent, embrac- ing each arm of the service and drawn from each Province. There will also be a detachment of the Northwest Mounted Police. ifâ€"‘. BAN 0N 11mm 8. Proposed Law in Philadelphia Inn-n poses $50 Fine. A despatch from Philadelphia says: In an effort to curtail the long hatpin evil in this city an orâ€" dinance was introduced in Coun- cil on Friday providing that no person upon the public streets or on conveyances shall be permitted to wear a hatpin the exposed point of which extends more than one- half inch beyond the crown of the hat. A fine of $50 for each and every offence is provided for in the proposed ordinance. Councilman Schumucker declared that the lives of riders on Street cars and pedes- trians on crowded streets are im- periled by the long hatpins. moon an it an? Said to Be Very Rich, andthe Sale Has Stimulated Other Owners A despatch from Cobalt says: considerable attention has since One of the biggest of recent Por- :upine deals was consummated here on Thursday. Mr. Thomas Reilly sold the Godeâ€"Burns group of claims in Shaw township to buyers repreâ€" senting strong Toronto financial interests, although the purchasers’ names have not been disclosed. The price, which was close to one hun~ dred thousand dollars, is spread over a period of ten months. Un- usual local interest attaches to this deal. About three months ago the discoveries were made known, and Ithl’lSllUllDfl’llllttllS Alberta Man Confesses to Killing Another been given to Shaw, Langmuir, De- loro and other townships in the re- serve, stimulated through the Gode-Burns' finds, in which a dykc some fifty feet in width is shown with rich vein mat-tor, with free gold some three feet in width. Thomas Burns was formerly em‘ ployed at the Buffalo mine, while George Code was an orderly at the mines hospital, and they decided to try prospecting, with the result of a sale at one hundred thousand dolâ€" lars the first year in spite of their lack of experience. m Near Denbow East ‘ A despatch from Calgary says: The inquest on the remains of a man found in Bow River, near Den- bow East, on June 29 last, termin- ated tragically on Wednesday'at Dkotoks, when Thomas Mitchell Robertson confessed to having shot and killed Tucker Peach, at the same time implicating John Fisk as accomplice. The body when found was headless, but the head was found a couple of weeks ago and the body exhumed and identi- fied. The police had been watch- ing Robertson, who was a brakes- man on the C. P. R., running be- tween Field and Medicine Hat. Peach disappeared since last May, and Robertson claimed to have purchased his ranch. The head was identified by cotton woolin» the ear sockets. Robertson broke down while on the stand at the inâ€" quest. The police have left for Carbon to arrest Fisk. usronrs rayon run LEADING TRADE cunrnns. Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and Other Dairy Product: at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 6.â€"-â€"Flourâ€"â€"â€"Winter wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3.40 to $3.45 outside, in buyers’ sacks. Manitoba flours éh‘irst- patents, $5.40; secondpatents, $4.90, and strong bakers’, $4.70, on track, To- ronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 North- ern, 971/3c, Bay ports; N0. 2 North- ern, 95%c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 92%0, Bay ports. _Ontario Wheatâ€"8.4V2 to 850 out- ade for No. 2 white and red win- I‘. ‘ Barleyâ€"56 to 58c outside, and feed 48 to 490 outs1de. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, BBC, on track, Toronto, and at 33c outside. No. 2 .W. C. oats, 37%c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 36%c, Bay ports. Cornâ€"Old No. 2 at 59% to 600, Toronto freights. New No. 2 Amâ€" erican, 531/2 to 54c, prompt deliv- ery, and 50% to 510, December de- livery, Toronto freights. Peasâ€"Good No. 2,‘ bugs, 84 to 850 outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2 at 61 to 620 outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 at 47c outside. Branâ€"Manitobas, $19, in bags, Toronto, and shorts $21, in- bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $19.50, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, $22.50, in sacks. - free from m COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"Spysf $4.50 to $5.50; Baldwrns, $4 to $4.75; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assorted, $3.50 per barrel. Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.60 to $1.70, and small lots, $1.80 to $1.90. Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins, 10 to 110 per 1b.; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.25 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $1.85 per dozen. Baled Hayâ€"No. 1 at $12.50 to $13.50 on track, and No. 2 at $10 to $11. Baled Strawâ€"$6.50 to 7, on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"Car lots 65 to 700 per bag. *- .Poultry-â€"â€"The receipts are fairly liberal. Wholesale prices of dress- ed poultryâ€"Chickens, 12 to 12%c per lb. ; fowl, 9 to 10c per lb. ; ducks 13 to 140 per 1b.; turkeys, 17 to 180 per 1b., and geese, 120 per 1b. Live, 1 to 20 less. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Dairy prints, 22 to 23c; do., tubs, 21 to 22c; inferior, 18 to 190. Creamery, 26%, to 27c per lb. for rolls, 24% to 250 for solids, and 23 to 24c for separator prints. Eggsâ€"Case lots of pickled, 26 to 27c;.cold storage, 26 to 27c; selectâ€" ed, 30 to 31c, and strictly new-laid, 35 to 370 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"Large, 12%c, and twins at 12%0. Hoer PRODUCTS. " Baconâ€"Long clear, 13 to 13%c per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $24 to $24.50; short out, $26 to $26.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 16 to 16%0; do., heavy, 15 to 15%0; rolls, 12% to 130; shoulders, 120; break- fast bacon, 18 to 18%0; backs (pea meal), 19 to 19%0. Lardâ€"~Tierces, 13%0; tubs, 14c; pails, 14%c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 6.â€"Oats â€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 39% to 39%0; extra No. 1 feed, 38% to 39c; No. 3 Canadian Western, 38% to 38%0; No. 2 local white, 38%0; No. 3 lo- cal white, 37%c; No. 4 local white 37 to 37%c; Manitoba barley, No. 4, 48 to 48%0; Manitoba feed barley, 47 to 47%0. Flourâ€"Manitoba spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.- 10; Winter wheat patents, $4.75 to $5; Manitoba strong bakers, $4.90; straight rollers, $4.35 to $4.50; straight rollers, in bags, $2 to $2.- 05; extras. $1.65 to $1.75. Feedâ€"~â€" Ontario bran, $18.50 to $19; On- tario middling, $22 to .2250; Maâ€" nitoba shorts, $21; Manitoba bran, $18; pure grain mouillie, $31 to $32; mixed mouillic, $25 to $28. Cheeseâ€"Westerns, 11-5-8 to 11%0, and easterns, 111-8 r0 11%0. But- terâ€"Choicest fall make, 25 to 25%0, and seconds, 24% to 250. Eggsâ€"Se- lected stock, 29 to 300; No. 1‘ stock at 25 to 260, and No. 2 at 19 to 200. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Dec. 6.â€"â€"Spring‘ wheat higher; No. 1 Northern, carloads store, $1.12%; Winter, No. 2 red, 9.30; No. 3 extra red, 910; No. 2 reCent tm‘rmerance speech was adâ€" dressed, llie consumption of alco- white, 930; No. 2 mixed, 92c. Corn â€"â€"No. 3 yellow, 573/20; No. 4 yellow, .. - â€" _ __._-..____.....â€" ._â€"_. __,._. Wâ€"«m It'll-BURN CONVICTS Twenty-five Per, Cent. Constitute the Penitentiaries’ - Population A despatch from Ottawa says: The report of the penitentiaries branch of the department of justice, tabled in the commons on Thursâ€" day by Hon. 'A. B. Aylesworth, gives the average daily population of the Canadian penitentiaries durâ€" ing the last fiscal year as 1824, as compared with 1625 in the previ- ous year, and 1407 a decade ago. ' The creeds of the penitentiaries’ inmates are given as follows: Roâ€" man Catholic 931, Church of Eng- land 344, Methodist 199, Presbyter- ' ian 183, Baptist 72, Lutheran 51, other denominations 21, Buddhist 17, Hebrew 17, Unitarian 2, no creed 22. The report of the parole officers show that 286 paroles and 17 par- Tables are submitted to show that dons were granted during the year, of the 1859 convicts who constitute the penitentiaries population of the Dominion, 1392 were born in Can- ada, Great Britain, or other Brit- ish countries. . Canada heads the list with 1071, the other countries ranking as fol- lows: England 208, Ireland 50, Scot- land 39, other countries 24. Of the foreign-born inmates of the peni- tentiaries, 184 were born. in the United States, 98 in Italy, 36 in. Austria, 36 in Russia, 32 "in Ger- many, 23 in France, 13 in China. and 45 in other countries. While the number of foreign- born convicts generally has iti- creased from 14 per cent. in 1900, to 25 per cent. in 1910, those born in the United States have increased less than 2 per cent., and still con- stitute less than 10 per cent. of the penitentiaries’ population. as compared with 244 paroles and 14 pardons granted in the previ- ous year. It is observed by the parole officer that the result of the parole system continues to be sat- isfactory. In this connection the opinion is expressed that the time has arriv- ed when the oversight by the Do- minion parole oflicer should be re- stricted to those released from fedâ€" eral institutions. Some of the western provinces have already ap- pointed parole omcers to look after the interests of prisoners released from provincial jails and reforma- tories, and the view is taken that it would be but right for the east- ern provinces to undertake the supervision of its prisoners. The gross expenditure on peni- tentiaries for the year was $536,325 , and the net revenue was $45,686. M Oatsâ€"4N0. 2 white, 36%0; No. 3 white, 360; No. 4 white, 350. Bar- leyâ€"Malting, 81 to 860. Minneapolis, Dec. 6.â€"Wheat â€" No. 1 hard, cash, $1.05%; No. 1 Northern, cash, $1.03%; December, 231.01%; May, $1.05%. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, 'Dec. 6.â€"â€"Hogs brought from $7.25 to $7.40 a cwt.; steers, 40 t, 5%c; cows, 3%0 to 40; bulls, 31â€"30 to 3%0; sheep, 4%0; lambs, $6 to $6.10, and calves, $4 to $9. Toronto, Dec. 6.â€"â€"S0me bulls were bought at $5 per cwt. ; butcher cattle, best heifers about $5.85 a cwt. ; general run, $5 to $5.50; comâ€" mon, $4.50 to $4.90; medium cows to good cows, all the way from $3.- 50 to $5; bulls, 3.50 to $4.80. Short- keep feeders $5.15 to $5.25; good feeders at $4.70 to $4.90, and stockers at $4 to $4.65. Milch cows and springers $65 up. Sheep ewes were quoted at $4.50 to $4.60, and rams at $3 to $3.50. Hogs se- lected, fed and watered at the mar- ket, were $6.85 a cwt., the most representative value, and $6.50 f.n.b. at country points. .â€"‘â€"â€"‘>X‘â€""“"’ RECORDS BROKEN AT THE SDO Nearly Six Million Tons in Excess of Last Year. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: All records fer traffilc through St. Mary’s Falls Canal are already smashed this year, with the season not yet over. The November report brings the grand total for the year to 61,886,â€" 900 tons, over three million tons in excess of the record of 1907, and nearly six million tons in excess of the corresponding period last year. The American locks will go out of commission about the middle of next week. The Canadian locks will ac- commodate the remainder. x. >X<_._.__.__. STOPPED AT THE FALLS. â€"-â€" Two Chicago Men Forced to Post pone Visit to Toronto. A despatch from Niagara Falls says: Because they could not pro- 56%c; No. 3 corn, 560; No. 4 corn, 550, all on track, through billed. irons duce $50 each, Frank Hoffman and Andrew K. Tine of Chicago were on Thursday forced to abandon their visit to Toronto friends, after coming all the way from Chicago. The men were refused admission into Canada. by the immigration autlioritiss. They stated they were going to Toronto to spend two weeks with friends. is FARMER BURNED TO DEATH. _ Prince Edward County Man Perish- ed When Barn Took Fire. A despatch from Picton says: A wealthy farmer, Phillip C. Dul- mage, a bachelor, of Cherry Valley, five miles from here, was burned to death in his barn early on Thurs- day morning, along with a num- ber of cattle, horses and the sea- son’s crop. Deceased was about 60 years of age. _,,,____ FISHING FLEET DISASTER. .__..._ Supposed Loss of Fifteen Fisher- men Off Charleston. A despatch fiom Charleston, South Carolina, says: Fifteen fish- ermen are supposed to have been drowned off Charleston, their smacks having been missing for several days. A report says a smack was sighted floating bottom upward on Wednesday. _.__..._+____._ TOOK POISON FOR MEDICINE. ~â€" Dcath of Wife of Professor at Ag- ricultural College. A despatch from Guelph says: Mrs. Harcourt, wife of Prof. R. Harcourt, one of the most popular officials of the Ontario Agricultural College, died suddenly‘on Sunday morning shortly after 9 o’clock, fol- , lowing quickly the taking of a dose of oxalic acid in mistake for Epsom salts. Mrs, Harcourt had been sick for some time, but was getting better. ~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"*I‘ "Sweaty one cau'l'tluh 3 passed the (‘xn‘."..nati0n for entrance to the Royal College at Halifax. The Lord Mayor of London enter- tained United States sailors vto lunch-in the Guildhall on Samar ‘"". - an raw-m II tttlditd Striking Reduction Alcohol in the _______._â€"â€"â€" A despatch from Berlin says: Telegraphic inquiries are reaching Berlin from organs representing the American beer and liquor trade ’ as to what effect the Emperor’s latelyâ€"undertaken temperance cruâ€" sade is having in Germany. 1, Statistics published on Thursday indicate that the :rusade is havâ€" ing a substantial effect. In the navy, to which the Kaiser’s most 1101 among the oflieers and men deâ€"J in Consumption of German Navy creased, respectively, in 1906,: 1907, 1908 and 1909 by 8, 12, 19 and 30 per cent. The decrease in the army is not believed to have been so marked, but the Kaiser is doing his best to popularize the; use of tea and milk, instead of-bcer, among; the troops. 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