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'i I -THE WEST, PAST Al FnURE Addresses by Lord Strathcona and J. J. Hill to Winnipeg Canadian Club. A despatch from Winnipeg says : • 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 , SKldresses. , His Lordship referred eloquently to the great influence of the Cana dian clubs throughout the Do- • minion in strengthening the feeling • of loyalty of the dominions over , eeas, of which Canada was the first. t<> the Old Country. They who had endeavored to do their duty in th» • past looked with assurance toward , the young men oi Canada, feeling that they would do their utmost to- ' ward conserving and strengthening â- â€¢ the tie which bound, and, be trust . ed, would always bind, the domin- ions to the Mother Country. Turning to Mr. Hill, the vener- • »b!e Commissioner expressed his . jonviction that his friend would not _ forget that day, some time in April, 1870, when they met for the first 'fcjme 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. * His Ixjrdship then dwelt on the Fort Garry days, when the popula- tion of Winnipeg was perhaps 120, ji at the outside, 200, and contrast- ni those early conditions with the thousands and thousands of people R'ho now throng the streets of Win- nipeg. Looking back those forty ^ears at the chana;c of conditions, Be felt no hesitation whatever in predicting that the next fifty years would see an even infijiitely greater change than that upon which be looked back- Mr. Hill said:â€" "1 go back for 53 years, when I came W^est from 1 Canada. At that time Canada had | r.o North-West. A young boy or man who desired to carve his own way had to cross the line, and to- day â€" it may surprise youâ€" one out t>i every five children born in Can- ada lives in the United States. Now you are playing the return match, and the North-We»t is getting peo- ple from the United States very i rapidly. We ' brought 100 land- j seekers, mainly from Iowa and 8outhern 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 v.ill make as much progress on the land in one 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 l:a/d 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 ! Now, Chicago was years older than Winnipeg before she had the population you have." CiSADA TO BBILD C BUISERS A^nnouncement Eegarding Navy for Canada â€" Vessels for Pacific and Atlantic. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS aitfENOGS FBOM ALL OTEB TOE GLOBE. Telegr^iiola Briefs FroM Oor Ow* aA«i Other Countries el Bcfcat EfenU. CANADA. Rev. Dean Egan died at Barrie, on Sunday mornlug. Applications for the Ontario loan continue to come in rapidly. A now pest has been found in the spruce forests of Ontario. William Smith committed suicide in a Kingston hotel, on Thursday. Pidhoney, the Galician murderer, was hanged at Winnipeg on Friday. The H. & 0. steamer Prescott â- was burned at Montreal on i"ri- day. Strathcona Hall, at Niagara-on- the-Lake, was destroyed by fir© on Thursday. Earl and Countess Grey will spend a couple of weeks in Winnipeg in October. The Grovernment has let the con- tract for a new steamer for the hy- drographic survey service. Magistrate Denison, of Toronto, has decided that hotel proprietors can sell cigars on Sunday. C. Q. Henley, a postoffice clerk, was arrested at Lindsay on a charge cf robbing the mails. A magistrate at St. Thomas dis- missed the charge against a restau- rant-keeper accused of selling cig- ars on Sunday. M. Busson of St. Constant, Que., who was on his way west on a har- vesters' excursion train, was killed at Ridout, west of North Bay, on Thursday. The Molsons Bank has decided to allow none of its clerks to marry unless in receipt of an income of twelve hundred dollars. Charles O'Shaughnessy, ledger- keeper in the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Vancouver, was drowned while swimming on Satur- day. Lieut. -Col. Crowe of the Royal Field Artillery will succeed Col. Taylor as Commandant of the Royal Military College, the latter's term being up on October 12 . A despatch from London says: The Canadian Associated Press learns on high authority that the vessels to be loaned to the Cana- dian Government by the British Admiralty will be two third-class cruisers, one for the Pacific and the other for the Atlantic. The-e â- hips will require refitting and al- teration, which will be done on this side at the expense of the Canadi- an Government. The officers of these ships will also be loaned to Canada, and be paid by Canada. When Canada starts to build war- ships, which the Canadian Associ- ated Press understands will be of the Bristol type of cruiser, they will be built in Canada. A representa- tive of a leading firm of shipbuild- ers will shortly proceed t-o the Do- minion to select a site for a ship- jrard. Regarding the site of a ship- yard on the Pacific, a prominent naval expert was asked his opin- ion by a Canadian official and be replied: "Vancouver is more suit- able than Esquimault, though it might also be necessary to have a dock at the latter." The Canadian Associated Press further understands that the idea o* having submarines on the St. Lawrence River and the Pacific coast has been suggested, and the suggestion has been received with some favor. The Bristol type of cruiser, which it is understood Canada will build, CFtablishing a shipyard for the pur- pose, is a second-class protected vessel, being of 4,800 tons burden, and capable of developing a speed of 20 knots an hour. Britain is at present building five such vessels herself, to be completed next year. They will have turbine en- gines. The third-class cruisers Canada will borrow will probably have a speed of from 20 to 22 knots and be of from 2,000 to 3,000 ton- nage. SUSPICIOUS DEATH. Toronto Young Man Died at Che* mong Park. A despatch from Peterboro' says : Residents of Chemong Park are ahocked and appalled by the death of Arthur Bollard, the nineteen- year-old son- of "Alive" Bollard, the Toronto tobacconist. His death was apparently due to injuries re- ceived in an attack made upon him «u Monday night. Mr. G. E. Mc- Pherson of Toronto, the brother- ic-law o|Uhe 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 fellows, 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. * A mutiny of a section of the army at Athens has resulted in the overthrow of the Grecian Ministry. 1, Floods Occasion Immense Damage at Mon- terey, Mexico, A despateh from Matamoros, Mexico, says : A West Indies hur- 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 conilltious vliich aro unprecedented in this part of uortheru Mexico. Rain h.ad been falling in torrents fur three da,\ s over a scope of territory ex- •tcntiing west from Matamoros to Torroon, a distance of three hun- dred miles, and south nearly [our Jiundie<l miles. Many ihousands of square miles of territory are un- 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 i,500, and the number rendered homeless at 20,000- Saturday night in Monterey was one of death, desolation and dark- ness. The floo<l waters of the Santa Catarina River continued on their rapid course throughout the night, And tp add to the honor of the sit- uation, rain commenced to fall and caused untold suffering to the thou- sands of homeless peons who had congregatetl on the various plazas. The destructive flood, due to the continued fall of rain, swept every- thing before it, and hardly a ves- tige is left of what was a few days ago a conglomeration of small huts, swarming with families belonging to the poorer classes. The number of dead is variously placed at from 400 to 1,000. The victims were from the poorer classes. The flood reach- ed 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. It is thought that the damage will be far in excess of the first esti- mates sent out in Saturday night's report. Monterey smelter, one of the largest in Mexico, suffered loss variously estimated at from $1,000,- 000 to 92,000,000. GREAT BRITAIN. Q. Manville Fenn, the novelist, ii dead. Premier Asquith announced in the House of Commons on Thursday that Canada would build a fleet of her own. Sir Eklward Seymour will com- mand the squadron which is to re- piesent Britain at the Hudson- Fulton celebration at New York. UNITED STATES. Great forest fires are raging in IJaho, near the Canadian border. A locomotive ran over an auto- mobile at Kankakee, 111., killing two women. Trot McCauley, a sailor, was beaten to death in Detroit on Sat- urday night. The Grand Trunk Railway shops 0,1 Port Huron are to be enlarged fifty per cent. A Unitarian minister in Massa- chusetts claims to have grown a bug-proof potato. A negro ballplayer was killed by liglhtning during a ball game at Cairo, III., on Friday. J. J. Hill and J. P- Morgan may acquire a controlling interest in the G. T. P., it is said. Twenty-five persons have been ar- rested at McKee's Rocks, Pa., fol- Icwing the murderous riots on Sun- day night. An insane negro who had wound- ed twenty-one citizens of Monroe, Ga., in a mad rush through the town, was killed, and his body burned in a public square. GENERAL. Bombs have again made their ap- pearance in Barcelona. A new glacier was discovered by a touring party in Alaska. The first aeroplane flight in Rus- cia was made at Odessa on Tues- day. Latham, the French aviator, cov- cied ninety-five miles in about two hours- Revolutionists in Yemen, a prov- ince of Arabia, are massacring and pillaging. Fire in the Russian town of Kre- mentchug, Russia, has rendered a thousand families homeless. Over a hundred persons have died of the plague in Amoy in the last fortnight. Henry Farman flew over 118 miles in his aeroplane at Rheims, or Friday, breaking all time and distance records. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS KEPOBXa FKOH THE LEADISU lEADE CE^dUES. Prieea •( Cattle. Grain, Cbeese and Other Dairy Produce at Homa and Aliroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 31. â€" Flour â€" On- tario flour new Winter wheat pat- ents, $4.15 to $4.20 in buyers' bags CL track, Toronto ; new wheat flour foi export, $3.95 co $4 outside in j buyers' 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, $1.21%, Georgian Bay ports. Ontario Wheatsâ€" New No. 2, 97 to 98c at outside points. Barley â€" New, 65c outside. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white, 47>^c on track, Toronto, and 47 to 47>^c outside. No. 2 Western Canada oats 43j^ to 44c and No. 3 42c Bay ports. Peasâ€" No. 2, 90 to 92c outside, nominal. Buckwheat â€" Prices purely nomin- al. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow, 79j^c on track, lake ports. Cana- dian, 75c on track, Toronto. Bran â€" $22 for Ontario bran out- side in bulk. Manitoba, $21 in sacks, Toronto freights ; shorts, $'i4 Toronto freights. 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- er grades .'813 to $13-50. Strawâ€" $9 to $9.50. Potatoesâ€" New Canadian, 75 to 85< per bushel. Poultry â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 16c per lb. ; fowl, 13 to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 20c. ESTIMA TE OF ONTA BIO CBOPS Statistics Prepared by the Agricultural Department Statistics forecasting the yields of the various crops grown in Ontario have been prepared by the Depart- ment of Agriculture from the re- ports of correspondents in every part of the province. To the pro- duction of Fall wheat it is estimat- ed 663,276 acres of Land were de- voted, anl the probable yield is fjicd at 15,996.562 bushels, as com- pared with 679,612 acres and 16,- 430,476 bushels in 1908. Other es- timates are as follows : â€" Spring wheat â€" 135,161 acres, yielding 2,215,314 bushels, as com- 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 5;0,388,569 bushels in 1908; oats, 2,- 695,585 acres, yielding 87,9t;6,527 bushels, as compared with 2,774,- 259 acres and 96,626,419 bushels in 1908; peas, 381,609 acres, yielding 7,8-12,927 bushels, as compared with 396,642 acres and 7,401,336 bushels in 1908 ; lieans, 45,029 acres, yield- ing 857,663 bushels, as eompared with 46,477 acres and 783,757 bush- els in 1908; rye, 94,661 acres, yield- ing 1,694,368 bushels, as compared with 87,908 acres and 1,453,616 bush- els in 1908; liay and clover, 3,328,- 445 acres, yielding 3,8^5. 145 tona, as compared with 3,253,141 acre* and 4,635,287 tons in 1908. The yields of the following hav» not yet been estimated ;â€" Buck- wheat, mixed grains, potatoes, mangel- wurzels, carrots, sugar beets, turnips and fruits. The numbers of Live stock oa hand on July 1st were : â€" Horsea, 728,308; milch cows, 1,075,496; other cattle, 1,593,088; sheep and lamba, J. 130,667; swine, 1,551,187; poultry, 12,086,380. Live stock sold or slaughtered is year ending June 30. 1909 :â€" Hora- es, 78,461 ; cattle, 800.228 ; sheep, 333,441; swine, 1,986,432; poultry, 4,177,503. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 20 to 23c; tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c ; in- ferior, 15 to 17c ; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, ^% to 23V»c per lb. Eggsâ€" New laid, 23 to 24c. Cheeseâ€" 12%c for large, and at 12%c for twins. A BL.IZE OF LIGHT. Mght Seme at Canadian National Exhibition. The "Electric City" is a fitting name for the Canadian National Exhition grounds at Toronto this year. All the big buildings are fit- ted with exterior decorations of electric light and they turn the Ex- hibition nights into the whitest kind o' days. 'This brilliancy added to the martial music, the movements ol trotips and all the panoply of dis- play makes the night scene at the Canadian National one never to be forgotten. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 13% to 14c per lb. in case lots ; mess pork, $24 to $25; short cut, $24 to $25. Hams â€" Light to medium, U]4 to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c ; rolls, 13% to 14c; shoulders, 12c; hacks, V% to 18o; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 14>$c ; tubs, 14^-^0 ; pails, 14%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL- Montreal, Aug. 31.â€" Oats â€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 44 to 44%c; No. 1 extra feed, 43J^ to 44c ; No. 1 feed, 43 to 43VaC ; No. 3 Canadian Western, 43^ic ; barley. No. 2, 66 to 67c ; Manitoba teed barley, 64 to 65c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.90; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, seconds, $5.40; Winter wheat pat- ents. $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.20; straight rollers, $5.75; straight rollers in bags, $2.66 to $2.75 ; extras in bags, $2-40 to $2.- 50. Feedâ€" Ontario bran, $22 to $23 ; Ontario middlings, $23.50 to $24.50; Manitoba bran, $22; Mani- toba shorts, $24; pure grain mou- ille, $33 to $34 ; mixed mouille, $25 to $27. Cheese â€" Finest creamery, 5!3 to 23%c. Eggsâ€" Selected stock, 2b]4 to 26c; No. 1 candled 22^^ to 23c; No. 2 at 16 to 19o per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug. 31.â€" Wheatâ€" Spring wheat dull ; Winter easier ; No. 2 red, $1.10; No. 8 white, $1.09}-^. Cornâ€" Firm; No. 3 yellow, 76Xc ; No. 3 white, 75%c. Oatsâ€" Steady ; No. 2 white, 39%c ; No. 3 white, 3S%c; No. 4 white, 31% to 38c. Ryeâ€" No. 2 on track, 73c. Chicago, Aug. 31. â€" Wheatâ€" Cash â€"No. 2 red, $\.03% to $105; No. 3 red, 93c t-> $1.02}.;; ; No. 2 hard. 99%c to $1.02; No. 3 hard, 92c to $l'; No. 2 Northern, $1 to $1.02; No. 3 Spring, 93c to $1. Corn â€" No. 2, 68% to 69c ; No. 2 white, 70 to 70^20; No. 2 yellow, 71% to 72c; No. 3, 68% to 69c ; No- 2 white oats, 35Kc; No. 3 white, 36% to 37% c ; No. 4 white, 36% to 36c; standard, 37 to 37%c. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Montreal, Aug. 31. â€" Prime beeves sold at from iJi to 6%c per lb ; pretty good animals, 3% to iJAc : common stock. iH to 3%c per lb. Milch cows, $25 to $35 each ; grass fed calves $3.50 to $8 each, or 3c to 5c per lb. ; young veals, $3 to $5 each. Sheep, 3% to 4c per lb. ; lambs 5% to 6'4c per lb. ; good lots ot fat hogs, 8% to 8%c per lb. Toronto, .\ug. 31.â€" The stocker ttadc was quiet, but two loads of Manitoba stock sold at $•». Milkers and springers â€" Firm demand for good stock. Sheep and lambs â€" Spring lambs selling up to $6.50. Calvesâ€" $.">. 50 to $7. Hogs- Selects $7.65 f.o b., and $8 fed and water- ed. \^INNIPEG FACTORY BURNED Western Plant of McCIary & Co., of London, Destroyed. A despatch from Winnipeg says ; Fire on Saturday night practically destroyed the big Winnipeg branch oi McClary and Co., of London, 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 8ix-.storey brick one, was valued at $60,000, and the loss will be about $40,000, a^ the foundation and a couple of storeys are still good. The insurance on the stock was 883,000, and on the building $33,000. YOUNG MAN KILLED. Another is Unconsoions and Ma; 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, 16-year-old son of John Swithen- bank, who received a severe frac- ture of the skull, and John Ward, also of Streetsville, who escaped The horse was almost cut to pieces and the rig was smashed into kind- ling wood. STORM AT STRATHBOY. Lightning Played Havoc WItfc 'Phones and Elittric Lights. A despatch from Strathroy gayat The worst stt:rm of the season visit- ted Strathroy and vicinity on Sat- urday night. The storm came up with awful suddenness, and th« lightning and thunder were terri- fic. The Baptist Church was struck, part of the roof being torn off, but the firemen extinguished the flamea before much damage was done. Th© fuses at the electric light worka were burned out, and half the town was left in darkness. The telephon* service was put out of business for a time, no less than 25 'phones be- ing burned out. The barns of Wil- liam P. Morgan, on the fourth lin«, Adelaide, were struck, an«i cotoc piletely destroyed, with full sea- son's crops : his loss will be heavy. Austin Carrothers, of the seoood line south, son-in-law of Mr. Mor- gan, met the same fate, and lost barns and crops ; Dan Ward, on tb« fourth line, had ten hogs killed by lightning. THE GREATEST EVER. What the Canadian National E.\hi- 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 well as fiom across the line, Jerseys from the Street Railway King of Toron- to and horses from Sir William Van Home's Manitoba farm. There are sheep from Canatda and from the United States. There are manufac- tures finished and manufactures in the making. There's everything p.nd 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 fair â€" and a few things thrown in besides. . * Estimates have been asked for the construction of an Imperial Assembly Hall at Pekin. DIED LIKE HEROES. Six Men Were Drowned in • Steamer Wreck in Alaska. A despatch from Vancouver. B. C, says: The passenger steamer Ohio, Seattle to .\laska. crashed oa the rocks off Steep Point, near Ketchikan, Alaska, at 1 o'clock oa Friday morning and is a total losa. Six are dead : Purser Stephens of Seattle ; George Ecdes, wireless operator, of Winnipeg, and four others, and a number are missing. M J. Heney, a prominent railroaid contractor, connected with the Gu^ genheim interests, who escaped from the doomed .ship, wired th« following: â€" "Stephens and tb« others went down while trying to save the lives of the pa.ssengeis, in- stead of Io<iking to their own safo- tj. Stephens could easily have sa-r- ed his own life if he had given a thought to his own safety. ' * DYING MAN DROVE RIO. Had Nearly Reached Dcstiuatioa When He Died. A despatch from Ottawa sayoi Anthony Dacey, of Cantley, Que., on Friday started alone to drive 20 miles to a hospital in Ottawa, aa he was ill. W'hen lie reached Hull he found himself unable to driv« and turned into a garage, wlicre be died. At the time he was carrying $2,500. TREK TOJAMIAS WEST Settlers Are Still Pouring in From the United States. 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, Illinois, 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 coming per week in .\ugust as there were in May," Mr. White declared. "Last week the biggest traiuloadof Canadian settlers left St. Paul in the history ot the station. We had estimatc<l from 70.000 to 73,000 United States immigrants for this calendar year, but the number will reach 80.000. Th.ey are mostly de- sirable settlers, and will make g-ood Canadians." 'Do you look for this movement to continue, and n\en to in"roa'e?" "l^pcide<!ly vcs. 1 believe these immigrants will looo be numbered by the hundred thousand. Ther# are to-day 200 firms in Minneapo- lis 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 advertiso- ment." "Do you find any oppusition to your propaganda in the United States?" "Not from the Fedi'i'al Govern- ment. We have <!ome competition from the Southern States, who are after immigration, however, but it is all friendly" In this connection it is iiitereafc» ng to note that Western homestead entries during June, the last month for which figures have been coin» pleted, totalled 4.^05. an incvease of 9r)8 as compared with J una. I90S. For the first six months ol the calendar the entries totallea 17.314. an Increase of S.-Wfi, com- pared with the corresponding per^ cd cf last year.