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ontario swept by buzzard damage estimated in the millions made 100mile trip i in a snow mobilei sault doctor ventured to aid of veteran guide in danger toronto april 1 as if the march i tained there were no cancellations of his life lion were giving his tail one final and few were more than half an hour j a despatch from sault ste marie derisive lash the month of winds camej inte in some cases there were slight j 0nt gays a tale rivalling in inter- to a conclusion in one of the worst hodups while fallen poles were clear- an t and some stories of storms in the history of ontario aued from the tracks and the engineers pj d ivhen perilous trips were over the province but more especially had to proceed cautiously made afoot by dog teams and later by j io the east of toronto the gale made the niagara fruit belt escapedtho j to b duncan mcmillan its appearance jand left in its wake towns villages and cities deprived wholly or in part of their various forms of communication with the rest of the world damage to the bell telephone sys tem alone was placed at between 500- 000 and 730000 so that the total damage all over the province is esti mated in the millions neither of the two telegraph companies would giv an estimate of the damage done their plants but from reports received thousands of poles will have to be re placed or reset hundreds of men will be sent out to begin the reparation of the damage which will not be finally cleared away for weeks communication with eastorn on tario was entirely cut off for the great er part of the day meagre reports coming through told a tale of tangled wires shattered trees and power ser vice demoralized it is believed the loss to the apple orchards will be heavy though telegraph service was gone operation of trains was well main- full force of the storm and damage m q tno lync auto sales who in com- the peach district will be practically pany o featherston as his j negligible there was rain at cnmsj ass driver and dr j h gimby by st catharines and niagara falls a the j t0 batchawana a but no sleet and not violent i roun trip of at least 100 miles where the storm centre in western on- the doctor na been called by the iake j tario was guclph and for this reason supe p co to attend john the cpr telegraph system could not towa a 70yearold guide who was j reach hamilton as its wires are rout suffering from mastoid and in danger od via guelph junction urgent mes- jg ijf sages were telephoned from toronto to j the j was d a snow- hamilton during the day only five western ontario points kitchener waterloo guelph klora and fergus could be reached from toronto while the east and north were absolutely cut off owing to limited communication facilities particulars of the storm could not be secured from many places in many towns and villages break down of hydro wires left the streets in utter darkness while householders were forced to get along on candles the disturbance came from the southwest states according to in formation vouchsafed by tho weather bureau the markets toronto man wheat no 1 north 164 h no 2 north s159h no 3 north l54 man oats no 2 cw nominal no 3 not auoted no 1 feed 48c no 2 feed lrmcwestern grain quota tions on cif bay ports am corn no 2 yellow track to- rohto 85vic no 3 yellow 83c millfced del montreal freight bags included bran per ton 3025 to 3125 shorts per ton 3225 to 3825 middlings 3925 to 4025 good feed flour ar bag 230 ont oats 10 to 42c fob shipping points ont good milling wheat 130 to 132 fob shipping points according to freights barley malting 02 to 64c buckwheat no 2 72c rye no 2 85c man flour first pat 860 to ronto 85vic no 3 yellow 83c ont flour toronto 90 per cent pat per barrel in carots toronto 575 seaboard in bulk 575 straw carlots per ton 9 to 950 screenings standard recleaned f ob bay ports per ton 2250 cheese new large 22c twins 22 he triplets 23c stiltons 24c old large 23 to 30c wins 29 to 31c triplets 80 to 32c butter finest creamery prints 49c no 1 creamery 47 to 48c no 2 46 to 47c dairy prints 41 to 42c eggs fresh extras in cartons 38 to 39c fresh extras loose 37 to 38c fresh firsts 35 to sfic dressed poultry chickens spring lb 35 to 37c hens over 4 to 5 lbs 30c do 3 to 4 lbs 27c roosters 25c ducklings 5 lbs and up 30 to 32c turkeys 40c beans can handpicked 260 per bushels primes 240 per bushel maple produce syrup per imp gal 240 per 5giii 230 per gal maple sugar lb 25 to 2ce maple syrup new per gal 250 honey 50lb tins 11 m to 12c per 10lb tins i1v4 to 12c 5lb tins 11 to 12vc 2hlb tins 14 to 14wc smoked meats hams med 29 to 81c cooked hams 43 lb 45c smoked rolls 22c cottage 25 to 27c break fast bacon 32 to 36c special brand breakfast bacon 33 to 39c back3 boneless 35 to 43c cured meats long clear bacon co to 70 lbs and up 2231 70 to 90 lbs 2375 lightweight rolls in barrels 2425 henvvweight rolls 3950 per bbl lard pure uerces 18 to 18c tubs 18 to 19c palls 19 to 20c prints 20 to 21c shortening tierces 15 to 15c tubs 15 to 16c pails 16 to 16c blocks 17 to 18c heavy steers choice 750 to 8 do good 725 to 750 butcher bteers choice 7 to 725 do good 6 to 675 butcher heifers choice 650 to 726 do good 600 to 650 do med 550 to 6 do com- 5 to 550 butcher n choice 5 to 575 do fair to good 4 to 5 butcher bulls good 5 to 550 bolognas 225 to 275 canners and cutters 250 to 350 ipringers choice s5 to 100 good milch cows 70 to 80 medium cows 45 io 60 feeders good 625 to 676 do fair 5 to 6 stockers good mobile the party leaving tho sault sunday afternoon at 330 and arriv ing back after a successful trip on tuesday at five oclock it is estimat ed that it would take at least a week to cover the ground under present winter conditions with a horso and rig at times the party braved the ice of lake superior and on the return trip took to the bush at havliand bay and j condition of princess successfully negotiated the unbroken continues to improve forest the machine at times under- j going the oxperience of a sailboat in a p f wip r storm standing on her beamends and rrince wales kecovers three men reported drowned while crossing lake erie in launch high price on his head marshal feng yu hslang leader of the national party of chiuc and who is now reported to have been defeated upon whoso bead a reward of 1000- 000 is said to have been offered by tho military governor of shanghai the huge drifts of snow and on the sides of rocky hills crew of freighter are all rescued from recent aural operation london april 5 princess victoria sister of king george who is suffer- tlie duke of orleans pretender to tho throne of france who is dead at palermo sicily of pneu monia lunenburg fleet badly battered terrific northeaster swept the new england coast with disastrous results a despatch from new york says the crew of the british steamer lnlo- ham rescued from the helpless vessel by the steamship shirvan is bound for falmouth england the cunard liner mauretania wirelessed its new york offices at the time the mauretania received tho first distress call from the lale- ham the freighter reported that she was standing on beam ends and in imminent danger of sinking the freighter was stood upon end by a terrific northeaster which swept all f f ing from influenza pneumonia con tinues to improve her physicians an nounced tonight the evening bul letin said there has been further slight and satisfactory progress in princess victoria condition during the day the prince of wales dined tonight with king george and queen mary at buckingham palace he has made such good progress in his recovery from his recent aural operation that his physicians consider it unnecessary to make further reports on his condition amher8tburgont april 5 that three men were drowned in an attempt to cross lake erie on wednesday with a cargo of liquor is now accepted as a positive fact by police here today wreckage comprising part of the cahin and the lifeboat were washed up on the shore near bar point and identified by exdort dock men as be longing to the babe silverwood yncht of toledo export men however refused to give the names of the men on tho boat merely stating that they had attempt ed to stop the nien from putting out with the cargo tho launch however it is stated was occupied by three toledo men arthur suzor andrew kayuh and miko nyitrai a woman who is sup posed to have watched the crafts pro- when the heavy seas overturned it sh advised the amherstburg authorities of tho catastrophe after taking aboard some fifty cases of beer and whiskey the crew prepar ed to sail but were warned not to make the attempt because of a strong gale and high sea that was running cant afford to wait we need the money the younger man is said to have remarked when the others urged waiting the lines were cast off and the iittlo craft started out into the teeth of the wind and waves since that time no race of the launch or its occupants has been found the export men watched them with field glasses they declared until they were far out in the lake the yacht appeared to have shipped water then they declared that only three men gress reports that they left amherst- wero on the boat one a passenger burg about 230 pan and succeeded in from detroit and that they were all getting about three miles from shore inexperienced in sailing boatman is rescued after gallant fight along tho new england coast and took missionary and indians ex perience difficulty in saving man from tee sealing fleet catch totals 170000 pelts with month yet to go aggre gate is 40 per cent more than last year st johns nfld april 4 with 43000 seal pelts in her hold the sec ond largest catch in the history of tho sealing fleet tho steamer beothic ar rived hero today leaking as a result of battling heavy ice floes on the seal ing ground tho catch this year for the whole fleet has already reached tho total of 170000 pelts with tho end of tho seacon still a month away tho total catch last year was 125000 pelts the heavy increase this soason is said to be duo to tho use of airplanes which scout over tho ice fields and mark down the herds for tho sealing vessels manitoba to build road to red lake speculative buyers purchasing claims is fishermen buffeted by worst storm in twentyfive years lunenburg ns april 4 buffeted and disabled by the most damaging weather experienced on the banks in 25 years the bulk of the lunenburg fishing fleet is limping back to port to repair damages estimated at 50000 seven vessels nvrived in port today reporting damage aggregating 20000 and their skippers declared that when all the vessels affected have made port a checkup will find the total loss ex tremely heavy the fleet was off sable island when the first gale struck last monday the gale lasted nearly 48 hours but the vessels rode it out safely and contin ued fishing when the sea calmed down only to have nnother storm bear down on friday tearing away dories and deck gear dragging anchors parting chains and straining some of the ves sels to such an extent that they were forced to man the pumps tho bluenose champion racing schooner of the north atlantic was among those arriving today captain angus walters said the storm was tho worst in his experience the blue- nose which had taken 700 quintals of fish lost two anchors and was forced to abandon much gear that could not le hoisted aboard another schooner had her decks swept clear of dories and all gear tho alachua lost 250 fathoms of chain eight dories and all gear be sides springing a leak she camo into port with four feet of water in her hold dies at ivheel of motor car toll of human life and shipping a coast guard cutter off the connecti cut coast reported that she had lost a seaman when she was caught by the storm another sos call from the freighter blair was picked up but the call was not repeated so the fate of the freighter was still a matter of uncertainty the roaring gale also smashed and sank a dredge off the delaware capes and fifteen men wero rescued from tho dredge finds the scrawlers are most intelligent a despatch from pittsburgh says persons who have been termed scrib blers and scrawlers will find solace in the words of dr william t root of tho university of pittsburgh school of education who expresses the opin ion that as a rule those of low men tality are good handwriters intelligent people said dr root in an address think twenty times faster than they can write and there fore muscular movement is so far be hind the activity of the brain that the result is a poor scrawl a person low in mentality has nothing else to think about but the shaping of his letters but continued dr root it does not necessarily follow that if you are a windsor april 4 after battling vainly ngainst icefloes in st clnr river for five hours saturday after noon archibald campbell who lives on walpole island was rescued by a party of 14 men just as his boat was being driven into lake st clair campbell was returning to the island from algonac where he is em ployed when his rowboat got caught on a hugo cake of ice he struggled frantically for several hours without being able to get it free rev george clayton a missionary on the island john bachus united states customs officer and silas wil liams an indian went to his rescue they pushed a scow out into the stream walking on plnnks thrown from one cake of ice to another in a few minutes they were joined by 11 other indians at length the entire party reached the boat campbell was towed in with ropes j early maple sugar early colonists in america learned from the indians a crude way of col lecting sugar from maple trees ground staked in snow readily sold like pigs in a poke a despatch from sioux lookout says the trail to red lake is now in excellent condition after a sharp frost following five days thaw and unless the ice is weakened in spots travel by horso or dog sleigh should be better than at any previous time this winter local incimpe disposing of claims staked in snow at from 800 to 1000 each expecting to stake again on their 1926 licenses speculative buyers of fiiis class of claim seem to be numer ous and it is likely that some of them may have a good thing in one of these pigs in a poke unless geology is in error the largo aeroplanes of the patricia air exploration syndicate flying from sioux lookout are expected to start their servico this week tliero is a long waiting list of passengers government undertakes im provement of portages on the route a despatch from winnipeg says opening up of road communication to within 40 miles of the red lake min- ing district is assured as the result of an agreement between hon w r clubb minister of public works and t a anderson representing a large mining syndicate according to the terms of the agree ment tho syndicate is to put into op eration a boat servico over part of the route and will furnish transportation between four intervening portages the provincial government has undertaken to improve the roads en gineers are at present making esti mates for the public works depart ment covering those sections of tho routo which the government has agreed to put into shape tho boat service will operate from riverton man on the west side of lake winnipeg cattle boats to have mechanical killers widespreading oak the great hookor oak in california poor penman you are intelligent or jean shelter s000 persons under its vice versa i branches 5 to 550 do fair 450 to a rj i a i i iijli 5 chives choice 1250 to 1350 putters heart attack while l0 do 8 driving on steep hill 6 to 6o0 good lignt sheep 7 o 3 8 heavies and bucks 550 to 650 a despatch from toronto says food iambs 13 to 14 do med stricken with heart failure at lans- 1150 to 12 do bucks 9 io 11 downe avenue nnd davenport road do cus 10 to vll hogs thick w driving his motorcar william smooths fed and watered 133 do f -mi- i- 1 t j i i fob 1275 do country points j l- 1250 do off cars 1375 relect 1 nosl mediately mr milsap was- premium s269 thick fats fob 40ll 1225 mr miilap was routhbound on j cansdcwno avenue when he was montreal j fatally seized at this point the hill oats can west no 2 66c do s quite stfev no 3 iv extra no 1 feed 62c millsap coltap flour man spring wheat pats firts the inclim ss60 o seconds 810 strong bakj guiding hand ers 770 winter pats choice 610 0 the brke jumped scum sd crashed throj to 6151 rolled oats bag 00 lbs j 320 to 30 bran 3025 shoru uo 3225 middlings f25 hay v m lots 1350 2 per ton it k thought that mr i d a out halfway down j that lh car with no i hv wheel and no foot ran across davenport the low curb on thei 61 that thoroughfare and h the fence which surj cheese finest wests 25c biittji- rounds ih od camrli foundry pipe i 1 pasteurized isvic egg3 f resli shop tlu c r remained upright wit- i 3cc no 1 pa extras id to 41c fresh firsts potatoes l- bag carots 350 calves fair quality 7 do poorer lots 6 to hogs 11 to 112 do select- 1150 sows su75 to 1225 steert northwest 7 cows good to s- do lrcd 4 to 5 io com j1 to x7 upright wit- 1 nesm ruhel to the spot when they j saw mr jlillap sitting mo ion less at the wheel they adjudged that thej shock of itnat with hs fcree had i rendered him iiccrclrus a dtct was called ni afer an examination ha pronounce mr milsap dead for humane slaughter of animals in case of storms at sea a despatch from ottawa says the dept of agriculture has received advice from the high commissioners office that the british ministry of agriculturo has decided to require that in future every vessel carrying cattle or other animals to a british port must be supplied with a proper mechanical killer this action is taken owing to the occurrences on the ss manchester producer on its last voyage with a shipment of cattle to great britain when owing to heavy storms which partially disabled the vessel a con siderable number of cattle suffered severe hardship and finally had to be jettisoned this now order becomes effective may 1 and is intended to provide a means for the humane slaughter of animals which it may be- como necessnry to kill during a voyage because of conditions similar to thoso suffered by the manchester producer water diversion motion is defeated adrift twentyfour hours j on lake michigan a despatch from monroe mich says two men adrift for 24 hours on lako erie in an open iwat and tossed about by a storm which threat ened at any moment to sink their dis abled craft wero rescued by captain joseph dewey and three companions when questioned qbout the rescue capt dewey admitted he had taken his fishing tug out in the storm to save tho men but added that ho could not recall the names of those he saved the two men cruising in a gasoline speed boat were caught by the storm while off middle sister island their gasoline engine became disabled and an anchor line with which they tried to secure the boat parted the dis abled craft drifted all night with the passengers throwing everything m6v- tm6 great jkes and the atlantic able overboard to lighten the ship by ocean cons taut bailing they managed to keep addition approval was given to their craft afloat when they were report of army engineers recom- sighted drifting helplessly before a mending expenditure of 1350000 for northeast giilo wlich threatened to navigation development of the illlnnu dash their boat on the shore itlvcr but ii motion to allow 10000 captain dewey and three fishermen feet diversion of water from lake united states will expend 35000000 on river and harbor developments washington april 4 expenditure of 35000000 for river and harbor de velopment projects was approved last night bv tho house rivera and har bors committed tho commission also approved an outlay of 250000 for a new survey of tho proposed ailunited states canal route across new york state connect- immediately set out in n fishing tug finally got a line aboard the drifting speed boat and towed it into shelter behind tho pieii sets minimum wage allchlgeii was defeated quick work of engineer saves life of man on tracks port hope april 3 eric tytler r aged 26 an escaped inmate of tho tor youths to marry un ontario hospital whitby is reported to have attempted suicide good friday a despatch from london says mor the tracksof the midland three pounds a week about 15 injviiioji near quays crossing when the minimum income necessary in j ktoo on the tracks in front of n england for married happiness ar- 1ilixi t ong success- cording to a decision handed down by f i the train to a stop a magistrate at greenwich the dc4wiflin two feet of tvtler and thus a cision was in connection with the ap- i was averted tytcr was later plication of a youth of 20 for sion to marry his mothe jectcd on the ground that he was too ps- taken to cobourg having ob- princess victoria ill with influenzal pneumonia princess victoria sister of the king mid second eldest daughter of the r hi if ntoiisoonew canadians arrive during weekend young and would poverty under a new law persons of lessj than 21 who wish to marry and canj halifax april 4 three ocean lin net obtain their parents consent may ers brought over 1500 passengers to nppeal to the magistrates who havo halifax yesterday and today the power to overrule the parental objec- 1 majority of the newcomers being sot- tions the youth in this case showed tiers from the british isles four spe- iate king hi ward is ill with what a marlborough hon- bulletin describes f v he was earning approximately 3 is irruciiiu pneuroonl- nu iii k- n cial trains carried tho immigrants and rcet pneumonia there is mc anxiety regarding her because wwk amj thf makistra sct aside his others to their destinations which for rail of physlmip the death of her mother queen alexandra mot opposition und gave him the tho moot part were in wcstorn can- ety the rrincos is 58 vcars of airo r h nnin i itr f r rrgrxy i he princess is 58 years of ago required permission iada