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GOVERNMENT'S OFFER TO END COAL STRIKE REJECTED BY MINERS All Negotiations Have Ceased and Prospect of Settlement Not Bright at Present Miners' Federation Continues to Demand National Pool. A despatch from London, says: The three shillings and sixpence, while miners on Thursday night refused the what was left ov\er should be used to Government's offer of 10,000,000 to keep up their wages for the next four months, and all negotiations for the moment at any rate, are off. The decision was reached by the meeting of the miners' delegates after the milters' executive had been to the Board of Trade to hear from Sir Robert Home the Government's final decision. The Government on Thursday went a long way to meet the miners in the hope of reaching peace. The owners had already agreed to give up every cent of profit for the next few months, and the miners in return agreed to a cut throughout the industry of two shillings per day for every person employed. The earnings of the industry for March, however, showed that even if every penny went in wages they must be reduced by a little over four shil- lings. To help the miners the Government promised them a temporary subven- tion so that the cut should be only three shillings and sixpence, and on Thursday, Sir Robert Home increased the offer to the definite sum of 10,- 000.000, so that the reduction in May should be only three shillings, in June increase wages inAJuly and August. The only condition the Government proposed waa thatMn return for this aid the miners and owners should agree on a permanent system of di- viding profits and wages which should hold good for at least a year from the end of August and should then be terminable only on three months' notice. In making this offer Sir Robert pointed out that the mine owners had already agreed to the principle of di- vision, which he described as "the greatest advance in industrial matters which I know of in any industry, either in this country or in any other country." This made a standard wage for workers the first charge on the pro- ceeds of industry. Capital was then to share the standard profit and any FIRST LAUNCH OF THE SEASON SS. "Idejford," which was launched in Montreal on April 9, from the Canadian Vickers yard. This vessel represents the last word in high-class cargo steamers. GREAT BRITAIN RECOVERING FORMER FINANCIAL FOOTING Chamberlain, in Introducing New Budget, Announced Con- siderable Progress Made With Wiping Out Indebtedness to Other Countries C ertain Forms of Taxes to be Removed. Canada From Coast to Coast Victoria, B.C. A number of Aus- tralian sheep farmers are desirous of surplus left after this had been paid> iwin e a w o1 mi " on Vancouver to be divided between wages and ! Island _ *>. cost $500,000, providing they profits in fixed proportion. In answer to Sir Robert's offer, can obtain a free site. Vancouver, B.C. The Nanaimo Bri- Frank Hodges replied that the miners ; tish Columbia Fish Meal and Oil Re- could not possibly accept more than a ; finery has commenced operations with two-shilling reduction, and once again ! a daily capacity of twenty tons of fish, insisted that no settlement which did ', Five tons of fish make one of meal and Great Britain took delivery of no less than 1,415,892 barrels valued at $15,- 030,474; United States, 905,924 bar- rels valued at $9,248,604; while other countries took 1,236,702 barrels valued A despatch from London says: Great Britain is planning to pay this year interest on loans from the United States amounting to more than 40,000,000. This announcement was made in the House of Commons by Austen Chamberlain, taking the place of Sir Robert S. Home, Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he introduced the new budget. During the last fiscal year Great Britain reduced her indebtedness to the United States by L'75,000,000. England still owes foreign countries. excess profits duty, removal o/ the surtax on cigars and replacement of the existing fixed duty of seven shil- lings and an ad valorem duty of 33 1-3 per cent, on sparkling wines by a specific duty of 15 shillings per gallon. These changes Ivave been made be- cause the higher duties proved unre- munerative and were injurious to Bri- tain's allies. The corporation profits tax proved to be a disappointment, producing only 650,000, instead of the expected 3,000,000, but the Chancellor hoped the tax would justify itself the corn- chiefly the United States, calculating i ing year. the exchange at four dollars to thei The Chancellor characterized the pound, l,l(il,500,000. ] past year as one of the most remark- The Chancellor's estimates of re- j able in Britain's financial history, and venue and expenditure of a year ago declared that the financial results have been borne out with remarkable i were satisfactory when it was taken accuracy, a surplus of 230,500 ,000, | into consideration that his last state- only about 4.000,000 under the esti-, ment was made when trade was boom- mated surplus, being recorded. ing and prospects were rosy, and that No additional taxation is proposed upon that sunny prospect there des- at $15,349,997. This is a considerable; and tnere wi ." be no furtn{ir reduction cended with almost unequalled sud- in the current year. The denness and completeness deep de- inerease over the record year 1913-14 Toronto, Ont.-A total of 341,325 cases of supplies were sent overseas during the war by the Canadian Red j May 24 Set for of chief paints are the reraoval of the ! preMion, which still continued. not include the national pool would be produces fifty gallons of coarse oil. | Cross, according to R. B. Bennett, of satisfactory. Fifty Mine Pits Destroyed by Flooding A despatch from London says : * The irreparable loss of many millions of pounds has been sus- tained in Scotland through the miners' stoppage and the flood- ing of the mines. Fifty pits can never be pump- ed out again, and even those which may be saved will be in a dangerou's state for many months to come. The coal owners declare not more than 50 per cent, of the miners will find work when the pits there are re-opened. FOUR IRISH REBELS ARE EXECUTED Shot at Cork Military Bar- racks for Levying War on Crown. A despatch from Dublin says: A raid in Dublin on Wednesday night by | the Crown forces resulted in the big-j Edmonton, Alta. Great activity ' Calgary, Canadian representative to -i prevails in the boat building trade. ' the International Red Cross Conven- i During the week a full car of twenty-' tion at Geneva. The amount of money foot heavy freight canoes and lighter raised totalled $9,000,000. Gifts bo Irish Elections A despatch from London says: Elections will be held in the Historic Waggon Among Treasures of Paris A despatch from Paris says: Waggon No. 2,419 has been added to Paris' collection of war souvenirs. On Wednesday night its monument- luvfi nuiivy iieigfjn laiiutra 111*11 115111^1 | . . ,, . ^ . f T , 1 1 ' u.> itigjii. ito iiiuiiuui boats for the trapper and prospector i France in money amounted to nearly l ortn an(I ^ outn 'eland I al bujk was dr&gged through the !left for Uhe far north. This represents ; five million francs, in addition to 94, -i May 24, under Strong military , streets to the surprise and distress (if | a portion of a large order placed by 000 cases of supplies valued at nearly protection. i many good citizens who were aroused This announcement was made ; from their beds by the noise, and on thousand in the HoUSti of Commons on < Thursday it was lifted onto the rails the Hudson's Bay Company with the , five million dollars. Alberta Motor Boat Company. An ! Peterboro, Ont. Six order has also been received for two | muskrats were caught in the marshes Thursday and means that with- ' ' n tne Court of the Invalides. There, heavy cruiser type canoes for the 1 of Otanabee River and Rice Lake this jn a month the country will be | ' n ^ u hospital which Napoleon foun.l- Royal Canadian Mounted Police which j spring, according to estimates of local j n ^he midst of another period of i ^ *" r *" 8 veterans - 't looks enormous 1 and out of place, but Paris is rather proud of it, for it marks an historic they will use in patrol work, and j fur buyers. One buyer computed that acl ite tension | other boats have been ordered by the pelts enough for one hundred Hudson j <_,;,. Hamar Greenwoo Dominion Forestry department. Medicine Hat, seal ecats, valued at $32,500, had been ucuai illiciib. \ iuai.a, v<iiuiu M BAfVWVi llttu M . , i A.ta.-Construction gathered from the marshes near here. ' ? the announcement , declared that the Government was deter- work involving an expenditure of half ! Quebec, Que.-The only known flock l b ?" a million dollars is planned en the Can- ; of snow geese in existence, containing r T jj ^ nn " k 1 1 e . ap " ada Land and Irrigation Company's ! over five thousand weighing an aver- Plication ol tne Home Kule Act. "System in Southern Alberta this sea- j Xge of eight pounds each, has arrived son. Satisfactory financial arrange- j at Cap Tourmente, on its annual ments are said to have been made in northern migration from the southern England for this undertaking, and op- ' states. Each year the birds make this erations are expected to commence a stopping-off place on their way to shortly. The work contemplated in- the Labrador coast, and have been j eludes strengthening main ditches and known to do so for over forty years, the doubling of the present available The flock has been closely protected, Premier or. Of British Columbia, li ^'icloria on Saturday for Otta. . ! --e he will try to per.su-ade the D mm^n Govern- ment to take over t! I'aclfic Great Eastern Railway an incorporate it , - . m . ... , . iJil M ' U J\illlVV<V1 CHI BA*\.UI }f\J* VH Vi -i irest haul of arms and ammunition yet ^ Ui<j l , anudtan Nll ional Rai!ways . made. In a stable at the back of No I He wU , a , so urge th . fedel ,,, amhori . 48 Pembroke street they found and : Ueg , lQ | eglsl: , thn to supplement seized 11 rifles, 33 revolvers, 11 riiot- |tlM , Brllish C(>luml)i:i Uqllol . Control guns, 13,000 rounds of revolver am- ; Ac , und give thal liroviiu:c complete munition, 14,700 rounds of shotgun j control ot unports. cartridges, 6,000 detonators, 48 round* of Winchester ammunition, eight box- e& of various explosives, seven swords, 18 undetonated bombs, 1<> detonated bombs, 90 coils of fuse, two tins of circulated area rf 30,000 acres. and moving pictures taken by the Moose Jaw, Susk. Approximately Moving Picture Service of the Domin- half a million eggs, comprising six ion Paiks Branch, Ottawa. carloads or 2,700 cases, were shipped from this point to Canadian and Am- Montreal, Que. The exclusively Canadian wi.rele.ss news service which Our finger-nails do not grow with event. In wiggoii 2,419 the armistice thai, ended the war was signed by the Ger- mans on November 18, 1918. It waa President Millerand's idew that the waggon should be preserved in the Invalides Museum. The table and the other furniture that it held have been equal rapidity, that of the thumb usu- reserved, and the chairs on which ally being the slowest, and that of the middle finger the fastest. Foch and the other signatories sat are to be arranged in their proper order. Weekly Market Report Toronto. j lb.; 5-2'/j.-lb. tins, 22 to 24c per lb.; Manitoba wheat No. 1 northern, Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per 15- $1.759fcc; No. 2 northern, $1.68 l <i; No. 'section case. erican markets during the month of was inaugurated by the Canadian aluminum, one Bullet-making machine, two magnetos and 11 coils. Mrs. Potter, wife of District Inspec- tor Potter of the Government forces, A Course in Journalism. At the request of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers' Association a short course in journalism has been inaugurated by the Univer- sity of Toronto. This course who mysteriously disappeared on j has been arranged for the week April 23, it was thought during an Rnvbnsh near Clogheen, County Tipper- ary, has received by post a typewrit- . ten letter informing her that the In- spector was "legally tried, convicted and sentenced to death, which sentence was carried out on April 27." of September 12th to 17th anil, while designed primarily for publishers of wet dy newspapers in Ontario, it is ope : to any citizen of the Province. T H subjects of in- struction are: edi >rial writing and newsgathering, English literature and The letter adds that during the time 1 composition, newspaper jurisprudence, Inspector Potter was in custody he Canadian constitutional history, pub- was well treated and shown every con- 1 lie health and hygienp. The lectures March. The shipment is a record for any one prairie city at this time of the year. Senlac. Sasfc. A plant i being Pacific Ocean Services to their liners in mid-ocean has now supplanted, on 3 northern, $1.61%c; No. $1.48V. . wheat,! Smoked meats Hams, med., 37 to |38c; heavy. 31 to 32c; cooked. 50 to . Manitoba oats No. 2 CW. 43%c;'55c; rolls, 31 to 32c; cottage rolls, 33 No. ;t CW, :!8%c; extra No. 1 feed, 'to 34t; breakfast bacon, 40 to 44c; all Canadian liners, the United Slates i38%ic; No. 1 feed, 36-\c; No. 2 fecu, fancy breakfast bacon, 47 to 50c; news service, which has been discon- 35%c. | backs, plain, bone in, 46 to 47c; bone- completed here 'to produce dairy saH tmucd. The present bulletin consists !. Manitoba barley-No. 3 CW, 77*c; less. 48 to B2c. from the salt deposits, and it is ex- pected that almost 850 tons will be produced this season. The dairy salt will be taken by the Saskatchewan Co- operative Creameries at Regina, and the balance of the rough salt, when cleaned, will go to laundries at Ed- monton, Saskatoon. Regina and Moose Jaw. A plant is in course of erection at Fusilier for the manufacture of 66c; rejected, 66'4c;; Cured meats Long clear bacon, 27' feed. 5(i'4c. All above in store Fort William. Ontario wheat F.o.b. to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. Lard Pure, tierces, 15 to according to freights outside. in September. The moose are report- sideration. The letter is signed with the initials 0. C. At the Cork Military barracks Thursday mornin.g, Maurice Moore, Patrick O'Sullivan, Patrick Ronayne and Thomas Mulcahy were executed on editorial work wil' In- given by Mr. P. Whitwell Wilor, a British news- paper man who is a' present on the staff of the School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York. The other subjects will be <tea't with by by shooting. The two former wen profetsc's un the University staff. It convicted of levying war agains*. his.. Majesty at Clonmult, county Cor'., on February 20, and the two latti Mourne Abbey, county Cork, on ruary 15. The total strength of the Boys' Bri- gade for the United Kingdom is now over 59,000. The number of men who lost one or more limb is the war is stated to be 88,000; 26,000 lost one leg. 11,000 an is hiped I hat Ontario publishers will taki f'ul' 'uvantas.t- of t'.ie opportunity i offered them. So far a. can bt discovered, this is the only course of. th' kind ver given in Canada, and the Mtablishment of such a < jurse is am; ;vr indication of the progressiveness of the provincial University. A syDsituR giving com- wm, 962 ,two legs, and 50 both arms. ] ronto. plete information wll be ready short- ly and will be disiri'b'iti.-d fron: the Extension Office, Uni ersity of To- sodium sulphate powder from the de- appeared before the government, and posit there. This will have of 20 tons, and shipments thia summer. Winnipeg, Man. Twelv Winnipeg-made products provide em- ployment for 16,591 employees, with an annual payroll of $24,308,982, ac- cording to a statement of an official of the Made-in-Winnipeg exhibition. There are operating in Winnipeg fac- tories producing 2(54 different commo- dities. Of these 515 industrial estab- lishments are engaged in manufac- turing. Winnipeg, Man. The value of Man- of Canadian news combined with lish news received from the Welsh station. Fredericton, N.B. No changes in the hunting season will be effected until 1922, according to Premier Fos- ter. It was proposed to commence the ...HU.I-B nv v sieers s> 10 iu ov- open season for hunting on October 1, s^T^SU^*^^?*' ^ heavy steers, $8 to $9; butcheTs 5 instead of September 15th, but the SljJLl** 1 *'* 1 ftLfl ba> P rtS> <lic ', cattle, choice, 89 to $10.25; do. med., M,,... n :_i. /-..:.] A :-_ ! nomilidl. ^1^55^ .? uides ' Assoeialio " I Ontario oats-No. 3 white. 41 to Ifc. " JM? S^JttfTL^?^ shipping tubs, 15', to I8c; pails. 15% to IB^c; points, according to freights outside. pr i n ts, 17 to 17Mic. Shortenang tierces. No. 2 spnng, $1.40 to $1.45; No. 2 n to U i 4t .. tubs , n ^ to 12 pails> winter, $1.50 to $1.55; No. 2 goose 12 to 12'*(. ; prints, 134 to 14c. wheat, nominal. C ' lok ' e lu ' av - v stee '' a - *'' to 50 bulls, choice. $9 to $10; do. good, $(i to ed to have wintered well, and their condition is most favorable. Caribou are also reported plentiful. Halifax, N.S. The Dominion gov- ernment entomologist, after examin- ing the fruit buds in the Annapolis Valley, reported that he had never seen them looking better. Unless some serious weather conditions are encountered he is satisfied that this itoba's faim wealth in 1919 is now i year's crop will run to 1,500,000 bar- placed at $350,296,000. Of this amount! rels, with every possibility of reach- crops were valued at $158,566,000; j ing the 2,000,000 mark. Ail early in- live stock, dairy produce, poultry and dications point to a bumper crop. wool, $191,730,000. The number of live stock in Manitoba was: horses, 379,- 356; milch cOws, 227,872; other cattle, 553,899; all cattle, 781,771; sheep, 167,170; swine, 261,642; poultry, 2,- 731,166. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian flour mills for the first six months of the cur- rent crop year, ending February 28, 1921, cleared for export a total of 3,558,818 barrels. Of this amount Sydney, N.S. Residents along the coast are enjoying the unusual oppor- * (i; c n * r * and it- . mllkers . First patents, $10; second patents', l f rs ' $ l.^ t **:Sf . milkers ' ^ l>d ( , 950 i choice. $75 to $100; do, com. and met!., Buckwhea No > SI 15 to $1 -'0 $r>0 to S60; cnoic ' e springers. $85 toi BucUheat No. 2, $1.15 to $1.-0. $110 ; l mb? , Darlings. $10 U, $11 ; do, nominal. Rye No. 2, $1.30 to $1.36. Millfeed Carluts delivered Toronto spring-, $13 to $14; calves, good to i-hoice, $11 to $12.50; sheep, $(> to and watered, $12.60 $31; shorts, per ton, $33; white mid- dlings, S38; feed flour, $2.15. Cheese New, large, 28 J i to 29Vfcc; twins, 29 to 30e; triplets, 30 to 30c; old, large, 33 to 34c; do, twins, 8314 to 34*nc; triplets, 34 'i to 35c; New Stilton, 33c. Butter Fresh dairy, choice. 48 to 49c; creamery, No. 1, 55 to 58cj fresh, tiO to tile. Margarine 28 to 30c. . f i . . . ... .TJ.il 1 Ert I J IJtT ,G LU OWi tumty of hunting seals without having Eggs-New laid, 30c; new laid, in to go more than a stone s throw from i cartons, 38 to 39c. the beach. Small stray herds of seals Beans Canadian, hand-picked, bus., have come down with the northern ice; $3. 10 to $3.25; primes, $2.40 to $2.90; pack, and it i a comparatively thing I Limas, Madagascar, 7 to 8c; California for the hunters to go out on the ice j T to kill the animals. Seventeen were shot by one man along Lingan Beach in one day. 10 to 12c. Maple products Syrup, per to $12.76; do, weighed off oars, $12.75 to $12; do. f.o.b., $11.50 to $10.75; do, country points, $11.25 to $10.50. Montreal. Oats, Can. West.. No. 2, (il to H2c; do, No. 3, 57 to 58c. Flour, Man.. $10. Rolled vats, bug, 90 Ibs.. $3. Bran. $29.25. Shurts, $31.25. Hay, No. 2. per ton, carlota, $24 to $25. Cheese, finest easterns, 24% to 25c. Butter, choicest creamery, 53 to 53 'sc. E.ggs, fresh, 36 to 3(>c. Potatoes, pet- bag, car lots, 65 to 70c. BuU'her cows, med.. $5 to $.50; canners, $2 to $2.50; cutters, $3 to $4.50; butcher bulls, good. $7 to $8; com., $5.50 to $6.60. Good veal, $7.50 imp. to $8; med., $6 to $7. Sheep, $7 to gal., $2. GO; per 5 imp. gals., $2.50. j $9; spring lambs, $7 to $12 each. Hogs, , . , Maple sugar, lb., 19 to 22c. (selects, $13.50 to $14; sow*, $9.50 to Honey 60-30-lb. tins, 20 to 21c per $10. REGLAR FELLERS By Gene Byrnes i PONT K.HOU/ *x BUT \ THV14K * \ THKT .STtCK-S DOT Of THt COVsiS HEAD? (X3E.S HE- "THE^ TDiiETWE.ll- OR. ONEV OKlE. AT fc TIME.