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| E ,_ A despatch from Winnipeg says : â€"â€"_WThe weather man continues his A despatch from Ottawa says : Anuother instalment of the invesâ€" tigation of the Labor Department into the increase in the cost of livâ€" ing is published in the current isâ€" sue of The Labor Gazette. _ The present â€"chapter deals with the mkolesale prices of hides, tallow, leather and boots and shoes, which mwre now higher than at any time in the past twenty years. Compared w‘ith the average prices for the deâ€" rade 1890â€"89, the increase is apâ€" proximately 35 per cent. _ During the mounth of April the Boll of death through accidents to workers in Canadian industries was 94. In addition, 246 serious Xnjuries to workâ€"people were reâ€" ‘Bnow and Sloct Follow a Hot Day in the Woest. queer vagaries. Friday was opâ€" pressively hot and close, ideal crop weather. Saturday was cold, with high winds; all night snow and sleet, and the thermometer close to frcezing. Following recent rains, however, reports from all parts of the west are most optimistic. Some old farmers go as far as to say they cannot remember a season with less real cause for complaint. The earâ€" ly seeding, with the cold weather following, caused heavy rooting, and the growth will be very fast aend strong when the hot weather Rnally arrives. _ Brandon district reports the crops looking as well as ever they did at the same time ef the year. In four days of hot weather the growth was phenomenâ€" CGlon Curtiss Made a Flight of 150 AMiles. f A despatch from New York says : Gilenn H. Curtiss, known as the sviator who had captured the inâ€" ternational speed trophy at Rheâ€" Ims, France, arose from the tide Hats of Van Rensselaer Island at Albany at 7.03 o‘clock on Sunday morningâ€" in the smallest biplane that has figured seriously in t‘he' world‘s great flights, sped upward to a height of 1,000 feet, maintained ‘ * miles, then swung over Catskills at a far greater ht, once attaining a maximum almost 5,000 feet, dropped down wbove the Hudson waters for anâ€" other forty miles, and landed finalâ€" y at Governor Island at noon. He had covered 150 miles in an actual fAlying time of 2 hours and 46 minutes. : i A fire at Minneapolis destroyed four implement warehouses, on Satâ€" urday, doing damage to the extent of a million dollars. Dominion Labor Department Shows Cost § of Living Is Higher. AVCIOENTS TO WORKXME! {. A despatch from Ottawa says: 361,050,500 bushels; British India, A statement prepared by the Cenâ€"| 253,592,377 bushels; Canada 166,â€" sus and Statistics branch of the’744,000 bushels; Italy, 155,711,230 Department of Agriculture shows bushels; Spain 144,511,581 bushels; that among wheatâ€"producing counâ€"| Cermany, 138,399,277 bushels,; Arâ€" + Armtres\ of the world Canada now ) gertina, 133,581,000 bushels,; Hunâ€" ranks fifth. In 1908 Canada rank-,aary, 125,363,287 bushels; . Austraâ€" ed tenth. The total production of lia, $2,328.514 bushels; Great Briâ€" wheat in Canada last year is giveni tain and Ireland, 64,525,212 bushâ€" \las 166,744,000 bushels, as compared|els. In 1908 the order of precedence with 112,434,000 bushels in 1908. in respect to production was as folâ€" !â€" Last year the wheat production lows: â€" United States, Russia, by countries was as follows: Rusâ€"| France, British India, Hungary, sia, 786,472,363 bushels; United| Argentina, Italy, Germany, Canâ€" A despatch from Ottawa says : The northern wilds of Canada will ‘probably have a distinguished visâ€" Ator this summer. Earl Grey, who Jast year visited the Yukon, is conâ€" templating a journey overland to Hudson Bay. If the present plans are carried out, the Goverror Genâ€" eral will leave Ottawa in July for Winnipeg, and will there be taken ty a party of the Northwest Mounâ€" A despatch from Ottawa says:{ soen or Churchill, or Hudson Bay, The northern wilds of Canada will| whichever i? chosen as the largi terâ€" t "bis fati s . ,_|Ikinus of the journey, the Goverâ€" probably hare a attinpiited vit | on Untoret mall be prl by the Gon ; & . s C ernment steamer Earl Grey, and last year visited the Yukon, is conâ€"|in this vessel will journey through templating a journey overland to| Hudson Bay and Hudson Straits, Hudson Bay. If the present plans| where commercial craft in a few are carried out, the Goverpor Genâ€"; years will be making regular voyâ€" eral will leave Ottawa in July for ages withcargoes of wheat and catâ€" Winnipeg, and will there be taken tle from the Canadian west. The ty a party of the Northwest Mounâ€" steamer will then come south and tea Police over the route of the Jand His Excellency at Quebec. Hudson Bay Railroad to Hudson This will be the most ambitious Bay. This will involve a very stiff â€"p:ece of pioneer travelling ever atâ€" pece of wilderness travelmg, tempted by a Governorâ€"General of much of it by canoe. Atâ€"Port Nelâ€". Canada. FROM ALBANY TO NEW YORK. The Governorâ€"General Will Explore the Northern Wilds. WITH THE MOUNTED POLIOCK Last year the wheat production by countries was as follows: Rusâ€" sia, 786,472,363 bushels; United States, 713,286,923bushels ; France. In 5 Years Canada Has Risen From 10th Place in Wheatâ€"Producing Countries. OW N THE AFTH PLACZ WEATHER CHANGEABLE. The loss of time to employees through trade disputes during the month was approximately 49,110 working days, compared with 50,â€" 570 days in March.. Ten of the disâ€" putes were settled. ~The employers were successful in two cases, the employees were successful i~ threo, avd. compromises were effected in five cases. § During April there wore 16° laâ€" bor disputes in existence in Canâ€" ada. six more than in April of last year. About 122 firms and 3,704 employees were affected. ported to the Labor Department. Sxteern railway employees were killed and forty injured during the month. 3, will be a statutory holiday in Canada, although, in view of his Majesty‘s proclamation that ‘he would follow the precedent of King: Edward and keep May 24 as thei Empire‘s general holiday in honor of the Sovereign, there will be no general observance of next Friday 'as a hbholiday. Being a statutory holiday, haowever, all banks will ba. closed, thus making the third bank holiday in Canada within two. weeks. The Cabinet Council on Saturday decided that no proclaâ€" mation should be issued to exempt Friday next from the provisions of the bills of exchange act, which doâ€" clares that the King‘s birthday shall be a statutory holiday. Seventeen thousand persons have ergaged passage to Europe from New York in the month of June: Scheme of Navigation to hbe C-are: fully Investigated. : A despatch from Otfawa says : A survey is to be immediately commenced to ascertain the possiâ€" bility of making a navigable route keitween Edmonton and Winnipeg by way of the North Saskatchewa. River and Lake Winnipeg. _ Exâ€" plorers have reported that a six or e‘ght foot waterway can be estabâ€" lished on this route at a comparaâ€" tiyely low cost, with few lockages, as the river has a deep and broadi channel for nearly theâ€"whole disâ€" tance. _A vote of ten thousand «icllars was made in Parliament last session to defray the cost of the sirvey. The survey will be made under the direction of L. R. Boâ€" ligny, who was one of the subâ€" chiefs on the Georgian Bay Canal survey. Five partiecs will go in and carry on surveying operations on as many sections of the route. It is, expected that the work will be finished this summer. Friday, June 3rd, Will be a Statuâ€" tory Holiday. A despatch from Ottawa says: The birthday of King George, June ada and Australia. EDMONTONX TO WINNIPEG. THE KING‘S BIRTHDAY. A Portuguese Anarchist, accused of complicity in the plot which teâ€" sulted in the assassination of the Eing and Crownm Prince of Portuâ€" gal, has made a confession, impliâ€" cating 1,148 persons. j All the Jews in Moscow with the exception of 191 families of the first guild have been ordered to produce proofs of their right to remain outâ€" side the pale. The French submarins Pluviose was;sent to the bottom with her 37 mer{ in a collision with a crossâ€" channel steamer. s & Bookmakers shot and killed a jockey who pulled his horse on a Reoumanian raceâ€"track. The Spanish police believe that a bomb which exploded in Madrid on Monday was intended for King Alâ€" fonso. |Ttedâ€"caughtfire near Brockvilic, or Friday, andjthe engine was considâ€" erably damaged. No person will bo. admitted to Sunday baseball games in Pittsâ€" burg except upon presentation of a ticket to be obtained only at some morning church service. The revolt in China is spreadâ€" mig, and a score of villages have bâ€"en devastated. Three hundred of the poorest sewish families have been banished from Kiev. Mr. Justice MacLaren of Toronâ€" to has been elected Viceâ€"President of the World‘s Sunday School Asâ€" sociation. Dr. Robert Koch, the famous bacteriologist, is dead. Several Chinese were killed and a chapel destroyed in riots near Changsha. The Hill railroads. are to float $806,000,000 worth of _ bonds in Hurope. / Queen Alexandra received the H‘gh Commissioners of Canadga anud Australia in audience, and exâ€" pressed her gratitude for the exâ€" pressions of sympathy sent her from the oversea colonies. Twentyâ€"two persons were drownâ€" ed in a collision between two steamers in the English Channel. The Earl of Stamford is dead: It is suggested that King George‘s coronation take place on Empire Day next year. It is reported that Sir William Van Horne will leave shortly for Australia to advise the Governâ€" ment regarding the construction of a railway mrcross the continent, with extensive irrigation works. The WOO("k surrounding the boiler of a Grand Trunk locomotive attached to, thoe International Limâ€" A right of way through Garden River Reserve has been secured for the railway from Sault Ste. Marie tc Sudbury,â€" and tenders for the eccnstruction. of the road_ will be Called at onas. Harry Southwell, a young Engâ€" lishman, out of work and despondâ€" ent, shot himself near Brantford. Bis body was found in the bush by: scme boys. The 25th anniversary of the death of Dollard and his heroic band, who saved Ville Marie from an attack by the Iroquois Indians, was celeâ€" brated at Montreal on Sunday. Nine mines shipped over 600 tons ol ore from Cobalt last week, the largest consignments â€" being deâ€" spetched by La Rose and Kerr Lake properties. Amendments to the liquor laws, hxing the hours of closing barâ€" rooms and stores, were introduced in the Quebec Legislature. The ‘Rutherford Government of Alberta has resigned, and Chicf TJustice Sifton has been called on to form a new Government. Mrs. Mary Johnson, an aged wiâ€" dew of Stamford, was killed by a train at a railway crossing, on Saturday. Reggie Bell, aged three, of Parâ€" ry Sound, and Leonard Friend, aged four, of Kingston, were drowned,, on Saturday. Manufacturers are successfully competing with farmers for men brought out under Government auspices. Luigi Rosso was fined fifty dollars at Niagara Falls for assisting his brother, a prohibited immigrant, to enter Canada. The Canadian Northern has filed plans with the. Railway Commission for its entrance to Ottawa. ‘ General Traffic Manager Tiff the Intercolonial is in favor of tending the railway to Toronto The Government is sending the steamer Stanley with a surveying palty to Hudson‘s Bay. ‘ General Traffic Manager Tiffin of the Intercolonial is in favor of exâ€" The C.â€"P. R. will .rebuild the bridge at Lachine. There have been no forest fires in Ontario this year. Telegraphic Bricfs From QOur Own and Other Countries of Recenat Events. CGONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYVER THE GLOBE. UNITED BTATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL. CANADA. Toronto, May 31.â€"A limited numâ€" ber of choice heavy cattle are quotâ€" ed as high as $7 and $7.30, but Montreal, May 31.â€"Prime beeves sold at from 6% to 7c per pound ; nretty good animals, bl% to 6!%%¢, and the common stock at 414 to 5:4c per Ib.; milch cows, $30 to $60 each; calves from $#3 to $10 each, orâ€"3!4 to 6c per Ib.; sheep, 5 to 6¢ ner lb.: lambs at $4.50 to $6 each. Gcod lots of fat hogs sold at 10 to 164 eper 1b. e ad, stock, 22 to 2%!%c;, straight re ce‘pts at 19 to 20c per dozen. Montreal, May 31.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 37%% to 38¢ ; No. 3, 861 to 37¢; Ontario No. 2 white, s(o; do., No. 3, ‘35¢c; do., Noâ€" 4 Bc‘ Barleyâ€"No. 3, /56‘%e¢; No. 4. 55¢; feed barley, 54c. Flourâ€"Maâ€" nitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60 ; do., seconds, $5.10 ; Winter wheat patents, $5.25 to $5.35; Maâ€" niloba strong bakers‘, $4.90 to $5, ao.. in bags, $2.25 to $2.35; extras, $2 to $2.10. Feedâ€"Ontario bran, $19.50 to $20; Ontario middlings, $22 to $23; Manitoba bran, $18.50 to $19; Manitoba shorts, $21 to $22 :â€"pure grain mouillie, $32 to £33; mixed mouillie, $23 to $28. Cheeseâ€"10%4 to 11}c. Butter <â€" Firom 23% to 244c. Eggsâ€"Selectâ€" Rolls, smoked, 15c to 15%¢; meâ€" dium and light hams, 18e to 18%¢; heavy, 16%c to 17¢c; bacon, 18¢ to 2(c. Lardâ€"Firm ; tierces, 16¢; tubs, 16%4c ; pails, 1614 ; stocks very light. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats â€" L ng clear bacon, tons and cases, 1b4¢ to 15)%c; backs (plain), 21¢ to 210 ; backs (peaâ€"meal), 21%%4c¢ to yge; shoulder hams, 14¢ to 14%4c¢; green meats out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Wholesale quotations :â€" Porkâ€"Short cut, $31 to $31.50 per berrel ; meoss, $28.50 to $29. ‘ Potatoesâ€"Delawares, 553c to 60¢ per bag out of store and at 45c to 50e on track Toronto, and Ontarios s5c to 40c per bag on track. Eggsâ€"19c¢ to case lots. Millfeedâ€"Manitoba bran, $19 per ton ; shorts, $21 per ton, track, T« ronto. Ountario bran, $20 per ton ; shorts, $22 per ton on track, Cheeseâ€"12%e for large and 12}%¢ for twins. ~Old cheeso, 12%c for large and 13¢ for twins. Beansâ€"$2 to $2.10 per bushel for primes and $2.10 to $2.20 for handâ€" pcked. > we Ontario â€" Flour=â€"Winter _ wheat patents for export, $3.175 toâ€" $3.80 in buyers‘ bags, outside. _ Oe Barleyâ€"No. 2, ble to 52¢; No. 3 extra, 49c to 50c;, No. 3, 46¢ to 47¢ cutside; Manitoba, No. 4, 49¢ on track, lake ports. Peasâ€"No. 2, 70c to 71c. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 67¢ to 68c. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 51¢. Manitoba Flourâ€"Quotations at Turonto are:â€"KFirst patents, $5.50 ; second patents, $5; strong bakers‘, $4 80; 90 per cent., Glasgow freights, 278. . C se Butterâ€"Creamery prints, 22¢ to 22¢c; Beparator prints, 20c to 21¢, Dairy prints, choice, 19¢ to 20c ; Inâ€" feiror, 15¢ to 16c. > 10ronto Oatsâ€"Canada Western, No. 2, 35¢; No. 3 C.W., 34c at lake ports for immediate shipment; â€" Ontario Nos. 2 white, 33¢ to 34c outside ; No. 3 white, 32¢ to 33¢ outside, 36¢ on track, FKoronto. Cornâ€"American No. 2 kilnâ€"dried yellow, 64%¢; No. 3 yellow, kilnâ€" dried, 67%¢ ; No. 3 yellow, 66¢ ; Caâ€" nadian carn, 6l¢ to 62¢, Toronto freights. BREADSTUEEFS, ; Toronto, May 31.â€"Ontario Wheat â€"No. 2 mixed winter wheat, 99¢ to $1 outside. j > â€" Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 northâ€" ern, 97¢; No. 2 northern, 95¢ at iake ports for immediate shipment. THE WORLD‘S MARKE IS Prices of Cattle. 6ram, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. REPGORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTEES. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. LIVE STOCK MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCKHK. PROVISIONS. per dozen in lthe average â€" range for the best butcher stock was from $6.40 to | $5.60. The, medium and cs;mmon Chicago, May 31.â€"Cash grain â€" Wheatâ€"No. 2 rod, $1.10%4% to $1.â€" 11%!% ; No. 3 red, $1.05 to $1.09 ; No. 2 hard, $1.08 to $1.1114 ; No. 3 hard $1;: No L. Northetn, $1.11; No:â€" 2 Bakesâ€"Roastsâ€"Broilsâ€"Toasis Minmreapolis, May 31.â€"Wheat â€" May, $1.08, July, $1.07 to $1.075 ; September, 96)%c. . Cashâ€"No. 1 hoard, $1l441% to $1.11°i; No: I Northern, $1.08% to $1.10% ; No. 2 Northern, $1.0614 to $1.08% ; No. 3. $1.03% to $1.05%. Branâ€"$18 to $18.27. Flourâ€"First patents, $5.â€" 30 to $5.50;, second patents, $5.10 to $5.30; first clears, $4.15 to $4.â€" 25 ; second clears, $2.90 to $3.20. grudes of butcher cattle brought freom $5.50 to $6.25. Cows and bulls for butcher purposes, $5.90 and $6 per cwt. for the best quaâ€" lity, with secondary grades from $4.50 to $5.25. Milkers and springâ€" eors, $65 and $74 per head, with the low figure of the range fixed around $45. Sheep and lambs were steady. Hogs woaker at $9.50 to $9.75. ‘ ‘‘Years ago,"‘ said Mr. Whyte, Lsouthern Alberta was one vast grazing country. Countless herds ranged there. Toâ€"day the great bulk of that land has been transâ€" formed into wheat lands. / Unless the farmer takes up the work of feeding cattle in the stalls I do nct know where the meat supply of the world is to come from. And take hogs.â€"At the present market price of pork it is quite possible for a farmer to makeghis poor grade wheat, or the damaged variety, CLRUTIONARY NOTE: Be sure you get this storcâ€"set that The nameâ€"plate reads ""NEW PERFECTION,* Evory dealer overywhere ; if not at yours, write for Descriptive Circular 7 to the nerrest agency of the has a Cabinet Top with shelf for keeping plates and food hot. Drop shelves for the coffee pot or saucepans, and nickeled toweliracks. It has long turquoiseâ€"blue enamel chimneys. The nickel ficish, with the bright blue of the chimneys, makes the stovevery attracâ€" tive and invites cleanliness. Made with 1, 2 and 3 burners; the 2 and 3â€"turner stoves can be had with or without Cabinet. "I know of no more indolent life than that of the wheatâ€"grower,"‘ saru Mr. Whyte, in an interview the other day. ‘"After he has.gathered his crop there is absolutely nothing for him to do until the following spring. Because of this we find the average westerner leaving his holdâ€" ings and wintering at the coast or in California.. I think if he could be induced to take up the feeding of cattle in the stalls and the raisâ€" ing of hogs, that it would be a bl‘essing to him and to the great plains country as well.‘‘ A despatch from : Toronto says : Mr. William Whyte, Second Viceâ€" President of the Canadian Pacific R:ilway, prescribes mixed farming for the western wheat grower. _ NEED OF MIXED FARMING Mr. William Whyte‘s Prescription Prairie Provinces, â€" UNITED STATES MARKETS. The Queen City Oil Company, TNew Perfectior ©il Ceookâ€"stove Toronto. No drudgery of coal and ashes; no stooping to get at the oven; no smoke, no dust, ro odorâ€"just good cooking with greater fuel economy. Irons and water in washâ€" boiler always hot. The liut Now He‘s Charged With Tryâ€" irg to Kill His Wife. A despatch from Brantford says : Antonis Steinposka, a Russian, was charged by his wile with atâ€" tempted murder here on Wednesâ€" «diay. The evidence brought out an wteresting romance. _ Steinposka& was a guard at Warsaw, and=securâ€" ed4 life imprisonment for allowing & state prisoner to escape. He feignâ€" ed lunacy and later escaped from the asylum to Canada. His wife fcllowed him. â€" Recently quarrels, developed. The prisoner was reâ€" manded. SA MA ® bifinad nines Anidiihee mentieml iertacdrecstedcl nds l e tr d o) LASGAL: 2 white, 40% to 4lc; No. 3 white, 375 to 39)%%c¢; No. 4 white, 35 tbo 37c ; standard, 4044 to 41c. €2%ic; No. 2 yellmMc; No. 3, 58 to 60c ; No. 3 white, 61%4 to 62c; No. 3 yellow, 59% to 60¢ ; No. 4, 5544 to 57V¢; No. 1 white, 564 to 60¢c; No. 4 yellow, 55% to 5b6c. Oatsâ€"No. 2, 38 to 88)c,; No. Northern, $1.07‘5 to $1.10;, No. 3 Spring, $1 to $1.07144. Cornâ€"No., 5 ©£90% to 602. 2 â€"white. Codnalit s ‘"‘This year the area sown in wlheat in the Provinces of Manitoâ€" ba, Alberta and Saskatchewan wil‘ be from eight to eight and a halt rullion acres. Saskatchewan along, vill have about 4,600,000 acres, ana there are ninety million acres of arable land between the 49th and 55th parallels of latitude in that Province alone. . We have only touched the fringe as yet."‘ easily worth three dollars a bushâ€" elâ€" Western packers tell me thero is no better tasting or sweeter baâ€" con than that raised on wheat. So ‘"Anyway,"‘ ho continued, ‘"‘the westerner is being forced into diâ€" versified farming because of the oifficulty in procuring men to harâ€" vest his wheat. Look at the great ctrop there now. It has all to bo gathered in a short time or else the wind will break the husks and half of it will be lost. Last year wo tcok out for him an army of 80,000 men. . We had some difficulty in retting that number, and what will the situation be as the acreage exâ€" tends you can see to what advantage the big wheatâ€"grower could turn his surplus crop, provided he did so without making a regular business of it and so glutting the market.‘"‘ BAKES bread, pie and cakeâ€" bakes them perfectly all through, end browns them appetizingly. ROASTS beef, poultry and game with a steady heat, which preâ€" serves the rich natural flaver. BROMLS steaks and chopsâ€"maker them tender and inviting. TOASTS bread, muffins, cracke ers and cheese. ROMANCE IN HIS LIFE,. Limited,