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' nh ilHHMIIS : ' .JL V ' J ' ' . ?fy!*!!?*'T*'W** L ^fy^f m. KOTEBM EST CBOP IPORT Rain Is Needed in Some Sections of the Maratime Provinces. 'A despatch from Ottawa says: A bulletin covering the conditions of crops and live stock in all parts of Canada as reported by special correspondents of the Agricultural Department, under date of June 16th, \,as isued by the census and â- tatistics oflace on Thursday. In general the report shows that despite the backwardness of the •Pringi which retarded early growth in practically all sections of the country, conditions in all the Pro- vinces are now very satisfactory, end except in some localities of the Maritime Provinces, where the rain- fall has been light, there is promise of an excellent harvcHt. ^ Wheat, the great staple crop of the country, has a reported area of V,750,400 acres, which is 1,140,000 acres more than last year. In the Maritime Provinces and Quebec there is little change, but in On- tario the area is less by 106,600 acres, of which 88,300 acres is fall wheat. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta show an area of 6,878,- 000 acres, being 1,2.54,000 acres more than last year. The condition of fall wheat at the 15th of June was 82.15, and of spring wheat 92.15 per cent, of the standard for a full crop. The area of oats in the Dominion is 9,302,600 acres, which is 1,361.- 600 acres more than last year, and its condition is reported as 92.32 per cnet. Barley, the cereal crop next in importance, has a total area of 1,804,900 arres, or 119,200 acres more than last year, and its condi- tion is 91.49 per cent. Rye and peas are less than last year, with conditions of 87.90 and 90.59 respec- tively. Mixed grains, with 5f 2,000 acres. and hay and clover, with 8,210,300 acres, are practically of the same extent as last year. The former has a reported condition of 01.71 and the Inttor of 00.36 per cent. The condition of pasture is 93.55 per cent. Tlie Province showing the largest area of oats is Ontario, with 3,142,- 200 acres, and also the largest area of hay and clover, with 3,535,- COO acres. Quebec is the next highest in hay and clover, with 2,923,000 acres. This Province has also 1,574,100 acres in oats. Saskatchewan has 1,817,000 acres in oats, Manitoba 1,390,000 acres and Alberta 820,000 acres. In the three Maritime Provinces the total area in oats is 529,300 acres. At the end of June, 1908, there were 122,392 farms in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and at the end of 1908 the homesteads entered (less all cancel- ations) increased the number to 190,234, or by 10,853,760 acres. In Manitoba the net increase of the two and one-half years was 4,393; in Saskatchewan, 41,423, and in Al- berta, 22,020, but these figures do not take account of farm lands pur- chased from railway companies and other corporations in the same period. The drouth of summer and autumn was less severe last year than in 1007, but it had the effect of reducing the number of farm ani- mals in the older Provinces. In the whole of Canada horses exceed the number of last year by 14,324, whilst milch cows are less by 68,440, other horned cattle by 245,057, sh<?ep by 126,014 and swine by 457,349. THE CORPORATION TAX. President Taft's Scheme Laid Be- furc the Mcaatc. A. despatch from Washi .gton Bays: President Taft's much-her- alded corporation tax plan was pre- Eeuted to the United States Sen- ate on Friday by Mr. Aldrich, Chairman of the Finance Commit- tee. Briefly stated, the plan im- poses a tax of two per cent, upon the net earnings of every corpora- tion, joint stock company or as- sociation, organized for profit, and having a capital stock represented by shares, and every insurance com- pany organized under the laws of the United States or of any Senate, territory, or district, or organized under the laws of the United States or of any Stale, tprrit<jry, or dis- trict, or organized under the laws of any foreign country, and engaged in business within the United BtaLes. Kvery latitude is given to concerns subject to the tax for the exemption of expenses, cost of maintenance, dciireciation of pro- perty, debts and the interest there- on, otiier forms of taxation and all expenditures usually taken from net earnings and accounts. Every corporation is also given an exemp- tion of 85,000 of earnings before the tax shall ajtply. move. The line will be 794 miles between this city and Edmonton. The Dominion Government will establish two exjjerimental farms in the country tributary to the G. T. P., one in northern Saskatcho wan, and the other in Alberta. They now have an official out there inspecting the lands available. APPROACHING EDMONTON. G. T. I'neiflc TrackH Will be Laid Into City by July 7. A despatch from Winnipeg says: \i ord was received here on Friday from the end of the steel on the O. T. P. Hint the track will be laid into Edmonton by July 7. Gangs are now 18 mil'Ts from that city, but the •trenglh will he doubled and they vill now be able to lay from four to six miles per day. BallastiriR gangs are well up with the work, and the entire lin* will be reo/Iy for traffic whon the crop begins to WOMAN'S BODY RECOVERED. Found in LoMcr Niagara River Budly Decomposed. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., says: The headless body of a woman taken from the lower Niagara River on Saturday is sup- posed to be that of Mrs. Calli:ir- ine Whipple, of Buffalo, who jumped into the river above the Falls on April 22nd, during the Spring ice jam. Decomposition was so far advanced that immedi- ate burial was necessary. Identi- fication may be established by the few shreds of clothing which still *ling to the body when it was taken from the water. The body of an- ot'icr woman is floating about in the whirlpool. It is believed to be that of Mrs. Vesper, who last Sun- day afternoon jumped into the river at Eagle Park, Grand Island. AMBUSHED BY BANDITS. RuH.slan General and His Dauf;htcr Killed. A despatch from Warsaw says : Gen. Sytin, chief of the gendarmer- ie, while returning to Kielce on Saturday, was ambushed by ban- dits, who fired several volleys at him. The General was shot through the breast. He died on Sunday night, ffis daughter, who was ac- companying him, was killed. A pa- trol, sent in pursuit of the bandits, lost one killed and one mortally wounded. Eowboat Swamped in Gale While Crossing Lake Kiilarney. A despatch from Killurncy, Ire- Isuii, s.'iys : A largo rowboat, car- rying five .\ineri(-au and four Eng- lish tourist* and four Irish boat- men, was swamped in a gale while crossing Lower Kiilarney Lake on Wednesday afternoon. All of the touriiti and two of the boatmen were drowned. Tho victimi are; â€" Mrs. A. A. Hilton and son, of Ta- coma, Wuth. ; Mr. an<J Mrs. Ix)ng- li»a<l, or liougheod, of Boston ; MIm M. B Catiini, vr Colum, cl Mas- rachuielts (town not known); !lcv. B. Bartoii and si»ter. of Ixvndon: aud Mill Florence Wilkinson an<> co::ai«D, of Brentwood, Ktr^x , r.oaiiQta Coo TooDejr and Oou. Tho boiii wa« • four otrrd cr<ift, ii««d iiif taking «ii:i;<.'iii about tho lake. Vlokt of the pa»»e«iper« w«r» guests at the Great Houtbern Uo- tel. The party started out on Wed- nesday morning sightseeing. When the lower lake was reached it was found that a heavy wind from the north-west was blowing. Several other boats that iind started over the lainn oourso put back. It was not long before anxiety began to be felt concerning the boat which had CO itinued on the course, and sftarchers, who put out when the Mind died <Iown a little, discover f<l her overturned with two of tho boatmen clinging to the keel. Tho Rev. Mr. Barton and two of the women could be soon in tho clis- lonoe, supported by an oar, but they sank before tho rescuers could reach Ihom The others had a' ready disappeared. Tlio tno boatmen who nere res- eurd wer* too exhausted to give any account of the accident. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS QAITEMNGS FROM ALL OVEB TUB ULORE. Trleeraphlo Briefs From Our Own â- ud Other Countries of Recent Eveula. CANADA. Hon Arthur Boyer of Montreal has been apixjinted to the Senate. It is reported that the Ontario Government will establish a super- annuation system for teachers. The reports of the Ontario fac tory inspectors emphasize the re- vival in trade. Mrs. Lajoie waj committed for trial at Hull for cruelly abusing her young daughter. According to a telegram received at Vancouver, the Crow's Nest strike has been settled. Several reductions have been made in the Intercolonial staff in the Maritime Provinces. The Gillies limit mining lands un- sold under the recent tenders will be again offered for public sale. Five commissions in the British army have been awarded to this years's graduates of the Royal Mili- tary College. Fire at Barrio on Thursday des- troyed Querin's barbeir shop, H S. lleynold's grocery stock and W. R. Mitchell's confectionery. Chief Justice Howell of Winnipeg has decided that the police are jus<> fied in using decoys to obtain evi- dence against criminals in the cells. Mr. John Lawton of Applin and Mr. R. W. Raspberry of Hamilton are dead as the result of being kicked by horses some time ago. The Government has let the con- tract for the construction of a plant at Ottawa to experiment with peat in the manufacture of gas. Board of Conciliation have been formed to deal with the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian North- ern labor questions in the west. The action brought on behalf of the Czar against Ivan Proskowreak- off, a defaulting Governor, at Win- nipeg, has been settled by compro- mise. Two new aerodromes, built by Messrs. Baldwin and McCurdy, have arrived at Pctawawa, and will be experimented with under the dir- ection of the Militia Department. The proposed union stock yards at St. Boniface may not be estab- lished because of an old agreement binding the C. P. R. to maintain its stock yards and shops in Winni- peg- UNITED STATES. The motormcn and conductors of the Pittsburg Street Railway are all on strike. Tho United States Senate in- creased the House rate on shoes and sole leather Rnc per cent. A fifteen-months-old child was fatally stung at Holland, Mich., by bees that swarmed on her. A nurse in a Detroit hospital kill- ed a new-born babe by placing it by mistake in a carbolic acid bath. No trace has been found of Ivcon Ling, the Chinaman who is believed to have killed Elsie Sigcl in New York. The United States Senate Jias amended its wood pulp and pajHir schedule, so as to admit mtchanical- ly ground wood-pulp free of duty. Tho International Waterways Commi.'^sion will probably recom- mend the construction of a dam across the Niagara Biver to raise the level of the great lakes. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS REFORTS FROM THE LEADING IRADC CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese ond Other Uair; Produce at Home uud Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Juno 29.â€" Flourâ€" Ontar io wheat 90 per cent, patents, )|)5.30 to $5.40 to-day in buyers' sacks out- side for export, and at $5,40 on track, Toronto. Manitoba flour ; ftrst patents, $b.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.80 to $0, and strong bakers', $5.65 to $5.75 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheatsâ€" No. 1 Northern, $1.35 Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.33, and No. 8 at $1.31. Ontario wheatâ€" No. 2, $1.35 out- side. Barley â€" 60 to 62c outside. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white &9c on track, Toronto, and 55% to 56o out- side. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 60c, and No. 3, 59c Bay ports. Peas â€" prices nominal. Rye â€" No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat â€" No. 2, 70c outside. Cornâ€" No. 2 American yellow, 82 to 82%c on track, Toronto, Cana- j dian yellow, T6c outside, and 79 to i 80c on track, Toionto. I Branâ€" Ontario, $21 in bulk out- side. Manitoba, $23 to $23.60 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. KILLED II A COAL Seventeen Miners Suffocated or Burned to Death in Pennsylvania Mine. A despatch from Wehrum, Penn., says; As the result of an explosion of gas in mine No. 4 of the Lacka- wanna Coal <t Coke Company, shortly after 7 o'clock on Wednes- day morning, seventeen miners were killed and sixteen injured. With the exception of one of those killed, they are foreigners. Just what caused the explosion has rot bren ascertained, but it probably resuslted from an accumulation of gas. The few men who escaped from the niino were burned and blacken- ed, indicating that the force of the explosion was heavy. None of them was in condition to give details, tut from one it was learned thai the explosion seemed to strike every portion of the mine simul- taneously. As soon as it was known that an accident had occurred at the mine, the greatest excitement prevailed both at the mine and in the 'little hamlet, a short distance away. \Mves, mothers, sisters, and bro- thers rushed to the mouth of the mine tearfully imploring some tewe as to the fate of their loved ones; A number of the foreign women, screaming and crying, tried to rush into the dark pit of death. GREAT BRITAIN. Oxford University conferred the honorary degree of D. C. L. on Eafl Grey. The Pacific Cable Board has promised to reduce its press rates by half. Mrs. Howard Gould wag granted separation from her husband, with alimony of $3,000 a month. The steamer Mauretiviia has clip- ped another fifty minutes off her best previous eastward travi;;at- lantic record. Lcir<l Charles Beresford, at the Imperial Press Conference, advised tho colonies to undertake the work of protecting the Imperial trade routes. At a meeting of London financi- cl men it was declared that Mr. Lloyd-George's bu<lget was unsound an<l unjust, and that it would drive capital from tho country. GENERAL. The powers will withdraw their troops from Crete on July 27. The German Emperor has refused to occejit the resignation of Chan- cellor Von Buolow. The Emperor of Russia reached Stockholm on Saturday to pay a visit to the King of Sweden. RANK TELLER MISSING. F. W. Sussex Disappears From Rocanville, Sask. A despatch from Rocanville, Sask., says: F. W. Sussex, teller in tho Union Bank here, has mys- teriously disappeared and the in- spector from Winnipeg is here mak- ing an investigation, but so far no- thing has been given out for pub- lication. Sussex came here from Palmcrston, Ont. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beansâ€" Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Maple syrupâ€" 95c to $1 a gallon. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy, $12.50 to $13 a ton on track here, and lower grades at $9 to $10 a ton. Strawâ€" $7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoesâ€" Car lots, 80 to 85c per bag on track. Poultry â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 15c per lb; fowl, 10 to lie; turkeys, 16 to 18c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and large rolls, 18 tol9c; in- ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, 21 to 22c per lb. Eggsâ€" 19 to 20c per dozen. Cheese â€" Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per lb, and twins, 14% to 14j:]c. New quoted at 12%c for large, and at 12%c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13^+0 per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut, $25.50 to $20. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 6% to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%o; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 17% to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 1C% to 17c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 14 to 14%c ; tubs, 14% to 14%c ; pails, 14% to 14>ic. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, June 29. â€" Grain â€" Oatsâ€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 60 t.1! 00%c ; extra No. 1 feed, 69;% to 60Kc;'No. 1 feed, 59% to COc ; No. 3 Canadian Western, 53% to 69c. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 72% to 74c; Mani- toba feed barley, 07% to 68c. Buck- wheatâ€" 60% to 70c. Flourâ€" Mani- t<.ba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30 to $6.50; do., seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.00 to $5.80; Winter wheat pat- ents, $6.75; straight rollers, $6.50 to $6.60; do., in bags, $3.15 to $3.20; extra, in bags, $2.05 to $2.- 80. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; do., shorts, $24 to $25; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouillo, $23 to $30. Cheese- Westerns, 11% to 12c, and easterns at 11% to 11%. Butterâ€" Finest creamery, 23 to 233-^0. Eggsâ€" 18Ji to 19c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Chicago, June 29.â€" Wheat â€" No. 2 red, $1.60 to $1.55; No. 3 red, ^1.35 to $1.40; No. 2 hard, $1.25 t^ $1.26; No. 3 hard. $1.20 to $1.- '>4 • No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to $1.32; No 2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.23; No. 3 Spring. $1.17 to $1.25. Cornâ€" No. the prime variety sold as high as $6.55, and ordinary loads were firm af $6 to $6.40. Tho supply of butchers' fell far short of the de- mand and prices rose according- ly. The finest grades of this class ^ veie firm at $5.50 to $5.80; ordin- I P.ry good loads selling freely at $5 j to $5.25. Cows were in strong de- I niand and took a rise of 15 to 20c. j Stockers and Feeders â€" Steady de- mand, but supply short. Milkers and Springersâ€" Good milkers and near springers wanted. Sheep Lambsâ€" Easier, except for Spring lambs, which were quoted at 8% to 9%c per lb. Hogsâ€" Selects quoted at $7.75 f.o.b., and $8, fed and watered. EXTEND ME.\T INSPECTION. Packers Urge Upon Gorernnicnt That Local Dealers be Included. A despatch from Ottawa says : The extension of the meat inspec- tion provisions to local meat busi- ness and compensation for animals condemned and seized were urged befo-e Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon. Sydney Fisher on Wednesday morn- ing by a deputation which included representatives of Blackwell and Flavelle, Toronto; Laing & Co., of Montreal; Matthews, of Ottawa; Hatton, of Collingwood ; Fearman, of Hamilton, all big firms doing beta interprovincial and export business. The delegation declared that the provisions of the pure food act to which they were subjected should be extended by Provincial legislation to local butchers and packers who do business in a single Province only and are therefore net subject to the Dominion act. Sir Wilfrid and lion. Mr. Fisher were urged to use their influence with the Provincial Legislature to have local pure food legislation similar to the Dominion act. The Ministers pro- mised to use their influence to have the request carried out. 73%c; No. 4. 71% to 78c. Oats- No. 2 white, 57%c ; No. 3 white, 51 t • 66c ; No. 4 white, 50 to 54c ; stan- dard, 56c. Miuncapolia, June 29.â€" Wheat â€" July. $1.27% to $1.27%; Sept., $1.08%; Dee., $1.00%; Cash, No. 1 hard. $1.31%; No. 1 Northern, 81.29% to $1.30%; No. 2 Northern, $1.27% to $1.28%. Flourâ€"First patents, $6.30 to $6. .50 ; second pat- ents, $6.20 to $6.40 ; first cleors, ?>o.05 to $5.25; second clears, $3.65 t<i $3.85. Branâ€" In bulk, $22 to $22.60. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, June 29. â€" Prime beeves sold at 6 to 6%c per lb. ; pretty good animals, 4% to 5%'c ; common stock, 2% to 4%o per lb. Milch cows from $25 to $56 each, most of the sales being at from $35 to $45 each, (""alves, from $2,50 to $10 each. Sheep at 4c per lb. ; Iftmbs from $3.75 to near $0 each. Good lots of fat hogs sold at 8% t3 8%e per lb. Toronto, June 20. â€" Exporters' of EXPANSION OF "SOO" WORKS. First Steel Made in the Open Hearth Furnace. A despsatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: Mr. W. C. Franz, manager of the Lake Su- perior Corporation, in an interview- stated that tho new No. 3 open hearth furnace made its first steel 01) Wednesday. The foundation work on No. 3 blast furnace has been started and it is expected that iu two weeks time work will be commenced on the new structural mill, which will include all require- ments for making structural steel. The making of steel in tho new open hearth furnace on Wednesday brings to successful culmination ilie first improvement under tho new management, that is, since Englisl' capital was introduced into the con cern. Mr. Franz said it would take about a year to complete the blast furnace and about seven months to have the structural steel mill in operation. , FIRE-CONTROL FOR GUNS. luTcntion for Warship Tested With Satisfactory Result. Sir Percy Scott's secret invention of an electrical fire-control for the big guns of a warship has just been tested with, it ia understoond, the most satisfactory results, in the Channel. The cruisers Good Hope, Argyll and Arrogant, on which the tests have betn cfonducted under |biri Percy's Scott's personal supervi- sion, returned to Portsmouth re- cently. By aid of the new invention a complete broadside can be grouped, trained and fired without the pres- ence of a gunlayer. The mechan- ism can either be operated from the fire control Elation or from the conning tower. Under the present system the guns are trained by gunlayers, and they then have to be connected with the conning tower before the officer fighting the ship can fire them simultaneously. NOW IT IS COAL FAMINE. Western Miners Said to be Behind With Orders. A despatch from Regina, Sask., says : Already there are serioue forebodings as to the probable re- sult of the great strike in the west- ern coal fields on supplies for thi» Province next winter. The mines are hundreds of cars behind in or- ders now, and cannot possibly catch up with the business, which has al- ways kept them running steadily to supply the demands. It is difficult at this time to see how a famine among the homesteaders can bo avoided. Dealers are doing the best they can to safeguard against this, and will lay in as large sup- plies from tho American mines as possible. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Great Rrit.nin and Germany Hare Nothing Under Discussion. A despatch from London says : ♦ Foreign Secretary Grey, in the course of a speech hero on Wednes- day night, said there was nothing under discussion between Germany and Great Britain at the present moment which was liable to create difficulties between the two coun- tiies. nor was there anything in th« innermost deliberations of the Brit- ish Government which was likely to cause anxiety to Germany. 4, • CUICAGO'S AUTO SLAUGHTER Machines Killing Three Persona Every Two Weeks. A despatch from Chicago says ! Automobiles are killing Chicagoane this year at the rate of three per- sons every two weeks. In 1907 the slaughter was one person every three weeks, according to police statistics. BECIPBOCITY CLAUSE KILLED No Free Trade in Coal Between Canada and the United States. A despatch from Washington says : Rather unexpectedly to itself the Senate late on Wednesday con- cluded its consideration of the coal Bchedulos. The Finance Committee through Mr. Aldrich reported an amendment fixing the duty on bituminous coal and shale ot sixty cpnts per ton ; on coal slack or culm, at fifteen cents per ton ; coke and compositions used for fuel at twenty per cent, ad valorem. A drawback equal to the duty is allowed vessels in the foreign trade. This scale, Mr. Aldrich explain ed, was a reduction of .leven cents a ton on coal under the house rr.te. The amendment, he said, also left out the house reciprocity piovisii'n. He did not believe, however, that the House would remov? it.-; di.ty on coal even if the recipiociiv j lo- vision were le<ft iu the bill. Numerous attempts were mads to rduce the rate, and there was one effort to obtain free coal, but all were voted down and the commit- tee's scale retained. By a vote of fifty to twenty- eight, the Senate Finance Com- mittee's amendment placing a duty of $1.50 a thousand feet on sawed lumber, with differentials on fin- ished lumber was carried. This is fifty cents below the Ding- ley rates. In quick succession several other ijaragraphs of the lumber schedule were agreed to. By amendments offered by Mr. .â- \ldrich and agreed to by the Sen- ate, the duty on clapboards was in- creased from $1 to $l.,'iO per thou. .sand ; on laths from 20 to 25 cente per thousand pieces and on shiuglee f ;•<>);! no (o 50 cents. â- 1»r