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on anuary Show 128,000, 1 fn. British Columbia and the fed abolit 210,000. 1 ber recruited to date, "including fficers, is now over the 240,000 mark. To the total number the 1st mili- tary District (London) has contribut- 'edi a little over 20,000 1#%, the 2nd | District (Toronto) about 54,000 men, ' the 3rd District (Kingston) a little Markets of the World Breadstuffs, . Toronto, Feb. 15--Manitoba wheat ~In store. at Fort William, No, 1 Northern, $1.28; do., No. 2, $1.20%; do., No. 8, $1.18, | 'Manitoba oats--In store at Fort! William, No, 2 C.W., 48%¢; No, "8 CW. 40%c; No. 1 extra feed, 41%c; No. 1 feed, 39%c. . American corn--No. 8 yellow, 80%c¢. Canadian 'corn--Feed, 74 to 76c. Ontario wheat--No. 2 winter, per. carlot, $1.12 to $1.14; slightly | sprouted and tough, according to! sample, $1.08 to $1.12; sprouted or! smutty and tough,, according to sam- ple, $1 to $1.05; feed wheat, 90 to 96¢. Ontario oats--No. 8 white, 48 to 44c; commercial oats, 42 to 43c. Peas--No, 2 nominal, per carlot, $1.80; sample peas, $1.25 to $1.75, aécording to sample. Barley--Malting, outside, 64 to 66¢; do. No. 2 feed, 57 to 60c. Buckwheat--Nominal, 76 to 77c. Rye--No, 1 commercial, 92 to 94c; rejected, 83 to 8bc, according to sample. Manitoba flour--First patents, in jute bags, $7.20; do., seconds, $6.70; strong bakers', $6.50, in jute bags. Ontario flour--New, winter, $4.80 to $5, according' to sample, seaboard or Toronto freights, in bags. Millfeed--Carlots, per ton, deliver-| ed, Montreal freights: . Bran, $25; - shorts, $26; middlings, $27; = good feed flour, bag, $1.76. | Other unofficial quotations were:-- Spot Manitoba wheat--No. 1 rack, lake ports, » $1.45%; No. 2, $1.43%; No. 3, $1.40%. Cornmeal--Yellow, 98-1b, sacks, in carlots, $2.20; small lots, $2.85 to $2.50. ; Rolled oats--Carlots, per bag of 90 lbs, $2.50; in smaller lots, $2.60 to $2.75. Windsor to Montreal. Linseed 'and Oil Cake Meal--Lin-| ' seed meal, No. 1, $4.75 per cwt.; do. No. 2, $8.76 fob. mills. Oil cake meal, $38 per ton. Gluton feed, $30° per ton. . Country Produce. Butter--Fresh dairy, 27 to 80e; in- ferior, 23 to 26¢; creamery prints, 84 to ; solids, 82 to 34c. ggs--Storage, 28 to 20c per dog. selects, 81 to 82¢; new-laid, 38 to 3bec, $9 cage lots. onéy--Prices; in 10 to 60-lb. tins, ! 12. to 12%¢c; comb, No. 1, $3; No. 2, $2.40. : Beans--§4.90 to $4.40. i Poultry--Spring = chickens, 17 'to _18¢; fowls, 18 to 14¢; ducks, 17 to 18¢; . geese, 16 to 19¢; turkeys, 23 to 26c. Hhcete Large: 19¢; twins, 19%e¢. otatoes--Car lots - of Ontarios, i rough, (Manitoba Jon Miiary De and of chews? about i 46,500, the 11th District (Alberta about 23,000, and the 13th Dis nearly 23,000. ily During January -the Toronto Dis- trict recruited over 8,000 men, the "Maritime Provinces about 2,000, West. ern Ontario about = 4,000, Eastern" Ontario about : 8,000, Quebec about.| 2,000, Maritime Provinces about 2,000, Manitoba and Saskatchewan over 5,- 000, Alberta 8,000, umbia nearly 2,000. Tr 50c; No. 4 local white, 49c.. Barley, Man. feed, 62 to 63c; malting, 70 to 7 Buckwheat, No. 2, 80 to 82c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7.80; seconds, $6.80; strong bakers', $6.60; Winter ~ patents, choice, $6.70; straight rollers, $6 to $6.10; straight rollers, = bags, $2.85 to $2.95. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.25; do., bags, 90 lbs, $2.50. Bran, $24. Shorts, $26. Middlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie, $31-to $83. Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $20 to $20.50. Cheese, finest westerns, 18% to 18%c; finest easterns, 18 to 18%c. Butter, choicest amery, 84 to 34%c; seconds, 32% to 83¢c. Eggs, fresh, 87c; selected, 29 to 80¢; No. 1 stock, 27¢; No. 2 stock, 24 to '25¢. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.85 to $1.90. Minneapolis, Feb. 15.--~Wheat, May, $1.26% to $1.26%; July, $1.24%; No. 1 hard, $1.33%; No. 1 Northern, $1.27% to $1.30%; No. 2 Northern, $1.23 to $1.27%. Corn, No. 3 yel- low, 76 to 77c. Oats,. No, 3 white, 46 to 45%c. Flour unchanged. Bran, $19 to $20. Duluth, Feb. 15.--Wheat, No. hard, $1.27%; No. 1 \ $1.26%; No. 2 do, to $1.24%; No. 2 Montana, $%1.23%; May, $1.26%; July, $1.26%. Lin- Je cash, $2.20; May, $2.30%; July, 1 Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Feb. 15.--Choice heavy steers, $7.75 to $8.25; Butchers' cat- tle, choice, $7.50 to $7.75; do., good, $7 to $7.50; do., medium, $6.16' to $6.75; do., common, $5 to. $5.65; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.50 to $7; | do, good bulls, $6.76 to $6.10; do., rough bulls, $4.50 to $6; butchers' cows, choice, $6.76 to $6.85; do., good, $6.75 to $6; do., medium; $5 to $6,405 do., common, $4 to $4.50; feed- ers, good, $6.26 to $6.85; stockers, 700 to 900 1bs., $6.10 to $6.75; can- ners and cutters, $3.26 to $4.50; milkers, choice, each, $76 to $100; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $60; springers, $50 to $100; light ewes, $7.26 to $8.25; sheep, "heavy, $5.26 tp $6; do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50 yearling lambs, $7 to $7.76; lambs, cwt., $10 to $12.50; calves, medium to choice, $7 to $11; do., com- mon, $4 to $4.50; hogs, fed and wa- tered, $10.26; do,, weighed off cars, 3 2 to $10.60; do., f.0.b., $9.90 to Montreal, Feb. 15.--Butcher steers, $7 to $7.50; good, $6.50 to $7; fair, $6 to $6.50; medium, $6.76 to $6; rough, $5.50; butcher bulls, best, $6 to $6.50; medium, $6.50 to $6; can- ning bulls, $4.25 fo $5.50; cows, best, $6.50; good, $6; fair, $5.50; $4.50 to $5.26; canners, $3.25 to $4; milking cows, $60 to and British Ool- | pe istrict | . ukon) | 5 CALGARY TROOPS Demolish 'the Bar of One House. Belief That German Was Owner, | A despatch "from '" Calgary, Alt. says: Another riotous outbreak on the part of soldiers belonging to the garrison here occurred on Thursday night and for two hours the author- ities, police: And militia were: power- less 'to cope with the mob.' Riverside Hotel, a two-storey brick and frame structure in the Riverside district, north of the.Bow River, was attacked by a crowd of about $00 soldiers and civilians and. thoroughly wrecked. The windows were smashed, frames and all, and most of the furniture pitched out into the snow, where is was broken to bits by the shouting crowd. The bar was raided and the stock passed around among the riot- ers, who speedily grew to about 2,000 strong, at least half being civilians, and under the influencé of the liquor orgy of wild destruction followed. The building was reduced to a mere shell amie I mt KING'S PROCLAMATION x more apparent. This { "netitrals," whose im; * | leading the enemy. This {ous food crisis, bit with advertise-| further attempts at an >| ticles of diet and the feverish A despateh from Washington says: Germany and Austria have formally notified the United States that begin: ning March 1 commanders of their submarines will consider armed mer- chant ships of the Entente allies to be warships, and will treat them ac- cordingly, : "Under. such instructions comman- ders would be at liberty bo sink with- out warning any armed vessel, wheth- er passenger or freight carrying. The notifications were presented orally to Secretary Lansing by Count won Bernstorff, the German Ambassa-~ | dor, and Baron Erich Zwiedinek, charge of the Austro-Hungarian Em- bassy here. Notes. from their. Gov- .etnments are to follow, ITALY IS INVITING } WAR WITH GERMANY "JA despatch: from Rome. says: m incident % a "GOES TO BACHELORS | hn A despatch from. London says Governmental machinery stafvation. is | 1s conclusion is not | founded on the statements of alleged | sarily are biased, but is | on re- ports of the actual conditions as re-| Russians of the heights lated by the German press. ~~ |merine. i The theory is advanced that the! The progress in Berlin Government encourages the | which is between Rovno' and publication of alarming reports on the ; is another sign of the resumption food ' situation with a view to mis- | the Russian offensive, which came is 'Obviously "an abrupt halt a month ago, when the German press is Germans apparently succeeded in not only with reports of a most seri- erecting such firm fortifications that vance on Ba § became a 2 erish activi- | waste of energy and ammunition. ties of scientists seeking to discover| It is considered significant that a "| new! ) iy \ 0 var bry rivers, and the occupation by the east of Tche- the latter distriet, Lutsk, absurd. The ments of substitutes for missing ar- the part of the Russians and more formidable Russian of- fensive is being launched against the This is A initial a ! shown marked improvement ' ; - | fronts: : 1 A despatch from * Calgary, Alta,| "The Germans, evidently surprised says: A mob of several hundred sol-' by the fierceness of the new Ru diers completely wrecked the White onslaught, Which promises xt Lunch Restaurant on Eighth Avenue to a general initiative along. 'whola east on Thursday nighft, following up line, have been forced at several the work of destruction by wrecking points in Galicia to retire to their the premises of the same toncern on second line of defence. See : Ninth. Avenue, A rumor that the| The Czar has arrived at the front: ded returned sol- Gi Sl erin manager had dismissed ; diers who had been hired as waiters,y = = 25 ~ COSSACKS CAPTURE Re _ BIG ENEMY OFFICIALS 'and had replaced them with Germans A iid 5d was responsible for the 'attack. The place was owned by the White Lunch Company, and F. H. Naegel is the! manager. Mr, Naegel denied that he d had dismigsed any returned soldiers, or that had 'hired any Germans, but said that he had occasion to dis- miss a man who had a long time been a soldier, but was nob now with the overseas forces, ey, Ambassad sian, has been captured of Cossacks near Keredj. Three com- panions, who were taken prisoners at "the same time as the 'Ambassador, have. Rroved to be fhe Ausizis ili ; 5 ; tary attache and two 'Austrian pri- a + | soners-of-war who had escaped from MOBILIZE BRITISH WOMEN the Russians some time "$1975 to $1.80, and {$80. Sheep, 5 to 7c'lb.; lambs, 8: to| forcement of the conscription act was most promine atesmen an " 3 81.90 3 $2 ap g new Brunswicks| Shc Ib. Hogs, selected, $10.25 'to|set in motion on Wednesday, The bers of Parliament in It ly ope % $10.75; roughs and mixed lots, $8.50| King's proclamation calling upon all dict a declaration of war-o to $10.15; common, $9.25! sows,| eligible bachelors between the ages of . longer FE Jn a or Cer milk 0 Sm SO d e per Ib.; grass , 4% ni was pl HR ; Choe lows. Hams »{to'B%e per 1b. | mails. In London alone 40,000 copies altise : Yo 16%c;. breakfast bacon, 21 to = proclamation were disebned. ob fc backs, ;plain, 25! to 2c; honeléss | MINISTRY CONTROLLS . taneously large posters ih! 28 o! 2,834 SHELL PLANTS fins] 4 unchanged; FUR -- tierces, 13% to 1dc; pails,| A despatch from London says: The pls i, 12% to 12%e, ~ |Ministry of Munitions through the 7% ox jo 3 3 Official From n 1 ' nnounce th ne & Provisions. Bacon, long 'clear; 16% to 16%c S A 0