canada from coast to coast halifax ns from august 4th to addition to the fum market value 18th halifax the oldest of british which thy have already received settled cities in canada celebrated the j since the pool was inaugurated in 176th anniversary of its birtn the february 192 it has sold more than british special service squadron ac- j 100000 cattle of a value of 3200000 eompanied by a warship representing j regina sask the pure seed grow- australla aided in the celebration a ers of saskatchewan are making pre program of yacht races pageants and parations for organized merchandis- sports of all kinds featured the period ing of the best quality products under of carnival the standards and regulations of the toronto ont more comprehensive canadian seed growers assn whilst than ever will be the exhibit of the the marketing association is only get- federation of british industries at ting under way a substantial quantity this years canadian national exhl- for export each year is already assur- bition according to the exhibition j ed among the leading varieties and manager for the federation who has kinds of seed to be handled being arrived at toronto from london both marquis wheat banner and victory british and french exhibits are to be oats o ac no 21 and caoadian open to the trade five days before the thorpe barloy premost flax prolific formal opening of the exhibition this rye arctic sweet clover grimm alfal- years display it is announced is to ta superior brome grass and west- include a far more representative orn rye grass showing than last year a number of calgary alta irrigated farm british manufacturers spurred on by lands at taber in south alberta are the marked success of those who show- attracting prospective settlers fromj ed last year having entered the can- the united states end eastern can adian field for the first time between ada and several land scouts have been thirty and forty separate exhibitors sent to the vicinity by colonization will this year form part of the british organizations 1 toronto showing at the international building i dawson yt a rich strike of si- manitoba wheat no 1 north winnipeg man for the yearjver lead ore has been made on claims 153 no 2 north iaiii which closed june 30th the profits onjon galena hill one is eighteen feet man oats no the cattle pool of the united states in width and seventy per cent lead v growers ltd amounted to 30870 with 30 to 50 ounces of silver sev- the above eif bay ports which will make possible a distribu- 1 eral big mining interests are now be- y track roronto no tion of one per cent on the value of coming interested in the area accord- milifeed del montreal freight- spring pigs 9 to 950 sows 6 to their cattle to be paid to shippers in ing to report tags included bran per ton 29 7 n shorts per ton 31 middlings 37 i airplane crash e fec fl m s 205 agreement of london signed ruhr evacuated wtffiln year isle royale in lake superior is soon to be converted into a matchless sporting reserve and placed at the disposal of the public on it are forests and herds of deer caribou and moose and other game the weeks markets 2955 final session of reparations conference results in most important conference since treaty of versailles london aug 17 the agreement here and four formal letters exchanp- of london the most important inter- among the french germans ant national compact siree the versuces hiigians regarding the ruhr treaty was partly signed zrd partly it was the ruhr problem which held initialled at a final plenary scmion of up the agreement until yesterday the london conference last night just morning when at 4 oclock a messea- one month after the interallied de- ger from german headquarters woke liberations began herriot to hand him a note from speeches were made by spokesmen chancellor marx informing herriot for the united states great britain that germany while contending the france germany and belgium i jn ruhr occupation is illegal takes noto the hardwon settlement that not only of the french decision to remain an- puts the dawe3 plan into operation other year subject to ratification by the french the final ruhr agreement is in ef- and german parliaments but solves feet a compromise herriot stood rm the ruhr problem through the french for his year but gave away on many written guarantee of evacuation other poirts and agresd to the german j within one year from friday last j wish as to the form xhe agreement tjhorta irjjr r t documents embodying the his- should tafc onoris wo wiaaiings tori under3tanding lnc fourproto- in the first of the four ruhr riocu- r iota j ils n 1di nm aj o per on car iow cqg rekardm tne dawes plan a fifth uients the french and belgian in finest wests 1751c finest protocol under which final signature a letter to the germnns state that cw 57c no i 3725 n cheese a w jeasts 17he butter no 1 pasteur- to the other four is promised following they stick to their view that the ruhr ized 35ic no 1 creamery 345ic parliamentary sanction to what the occupation is legal but will evacuato seconds 33c eggs fresh extras various conferences have agreed upon within a year from friday last 40c fresh firsts 33c i j best veals 775 med lots 6 to d omcij riinmc uav 7 grassers 325 to 350 hogs british empire may i mixed lots average quality 975 to be selfsupporting i j10 bulk 990 to 10 very light uijiwuvaimu 50000 perish and miijlions homeless villages inundated by devas tating floods sweeping widespread chinese areas a despatch from shanghai says millions have been rendered homeless and at least 50000 persons have been drowned in devastating floods which ont wheat new no 2 white red or claims two victims mixed 110 to 115 fob shipping points according to freights r c j ont flour new 90 per cent pat rorestry service men instant- j j bags montreal prompt ship- ly killed in thunder bay 6 25 toronto basis 625 rv rjn j t j bulk seaboard 595 district third injured j man flour 1st pats in jute sacks port arthur ont aug hjuniori per bm 2nd pats 770 hay extra no 2 timolhy per ton tvi it it a t a nn t n rxcra ino z ununny per ton pilot kenneth mcbride 20 of brant- track toronto 17 no 2 17 no ford and victor gilbert kingston 8 15 m 13 lower grades s10 foresters are dead and pilot e c to 12 burton is in the hospital here suffer- straw carlots per ton 950 to or moiiinir widesnread areas of from a compound fracture of the sltsfesteetf s4l leg and body bruises and burns- jgs s andard aned f of villages thousands of refugees he result of an airplane crash near che la 19 to 2 are pouring into pekin it is impos- savanno early last evenjng twins 19 to 20c triplets 21 to sibe to get even an approximate esti- the plane was one of seven being 22c stiltons 22 to 23c old large 23 mate of the fatalities but 50000 is u3ed in tn district by the ontario to 24c twins 24 to 25c triplets 25 said to be a conservative estimate j government in forestry patrol work to 26c unusually devastating floods with burton and his comrades were flying buttorfinest creamery prints 37 accompanying widespread destruction gcaoc and were on a forced trip to 8e ha 1 areameg 85 to 8bc no of property have been reported from searching for gcaob which had 2 g z carton3 various sections of china during the missing since thursday but 42 to 44c extra loose 40 to 41c last few weeks late in july there which was located todayand brought firsts 35 to 36c seconds 27 to 28c were serious inundations in the provj port arthur where thke planes live poultry her over 5 lbs 26c inces of chihi and hunan on sat- ying do 4 to 5 lbs 24c do 3 to 4 lbs 15c urdav further floods were reported senior pilot burton told the canspnng chickens 2 lbs and over 45c fromcwangsi a siniangxt it w w that hisplane run into lter 15c duckhngs 4 to 5 lbs was reported that the loss of life had bump on one wing which set him on d poultry hens over 5 lbs been up until that time comparatively j ed tha machine went into a spin- 2 do 3 to 4 lbs 18c spring chick- amall ning nosedive from a distanco of ens 2 lbs and over 50c roosters a despatch from washington 1000 feet into a muskeg swamp one 20c ducklings 4 to 5 lbs 35c savs ten million people are affected a a haif mi from savanna sta- beans can handpiekedb 6v4 by famine in china according to an tion kenneth mcbride died of w dllet svrud imi announcement by the china interna- nj 53 portly after the accident and go g f ffi ij 40 tional famine commission obtained gilbert succumbed in hospital here two ga map sugar lb 25 to 26c for the american red cross by jacob hours after being admitted and 18 honey 60lb tins 11 to llc per gould schiirman the american min- hours after the smash lb 10lb tins 12 to 12 c clb tins ister in pekin the estimate is that 10000000 will be needed for operations the emergency slief mea- unconscious beside the wreckag western crops ripen under good weather development at home and conservation necessary es pecially in canada a despatch from london says i measures to safeguard tho empire haresting will be pretty gen- j against the possibility of a world fa ecal in manitoba this veek m m timber as foreshadowed in a paper read at the meeting of the brit- a despatch from winnipeg says 1 ish association at toronto on wednes- crops in manitoba and southern al- day are out in an interview which berta are ripening fast under favor- 1 p fras6r story technical officer able weather conditions some wheat to tho pore3try commission has given is being harvested and harvest will be tho times proi story lg of the opin pretty general in the districts mention- j ion that at n0 diatant dato the empire ed by monday next new crop oi rye become s9 supporting provided a reasonable development at canadian dollar nearly at par in us quoted at 9994 cents on new york market highest since september 1922 new york aug 17 the canadian dollar came within a very small frac tion of par value in- the new york market yesterday it was quoted at 9994 cents tha highest- point it has reachod since september 1922 the position of the canadian dollar has been improving steadily during the past few weeks due largely to the transfer of funds from tha united states to canada for investment be cause of the low interest rates pre vailing hero predictions are that canadas money will reach par during this week in the last week of september 1922 it gained equal value with un ited states money and during october and a part of november of that year it was at a premium in the new york min- in smasn id iulb tins ib to lbc 11d tins kecent rains have caused great im- m t world except british columbia i that fate which dealt death to burtons 12 to 13c 2v4lb tins 13 to 14c provement in tho hay crop every where and california where soft woods relief comrades sent succor to him as he lay ccmb honey per doz no 1 275 toj pasture j cou be grown so well the forestry mea- unconscious beside the wreckage of a a n vi 1 n sures now under way art carried on f his plane gcaod piloted byj f jg dxmstto 43cf s moked glyrine pronounced is already coming on the market lake jgyg of the woods milling co bought tree home with adequate conservation of cars from s manon thursday gvfc reaourccg throughout tho empire par- 2 cw fine sample crop in maniwta t in canada only twenty per will be mado in a few days of the ot tho prese british umber present weather imports come from within the empire the fino cool weather of recent days with canada as the principal source has retarded development of rust in the resources oi the dominion which southern manitoba but at the same by themselves would be capable of j market its lowest point since tho war time it has held back the ripening pro- making the empire selfsupporting was in january 1921 when it was at cesses of the grain crops it is claim- were abnoat unlimited the loss from a discount of 14 per cent ed that there has been actual damage f fires however was appalling ottawa aug 17 in the absence ot from rust only in isolated fields and it during the last five years no fewer the acting minister of finance hon is expected now that rust damage will t ten million acres of timber had george p graham from the city to- not be general in any way a sltua- been destroyed in canada by fire the night no official comment could bo tion which threatened to be serious on rea remedy f forest fires was obtained on the rise of the canadian was relieved by favorable weather j to public opinion in the areas dollar on wall street some of the rye harvesting is general in the conce and to get settlers and j factors in the rise which has brought brandon district and many farmers 0 to realize the importance of canadian money so nearly to par will start work on barley next week canadas timber resources to the em- might be found in the recent and pro- in the district of tilney in southern p p story says the united jected borrowings by the canadian saskatchewan wheat is being cut and kingdom has five million acres of un- government and its railways for most harvesting will be fairly general in a produc land suitable for cultivalof which bonds the united states is week southern alberta reports con- tion for tne purpose of a forest sta- j the potential market up to date bor- siderable cutting tion there was scarcely a country rowings on behalf of the government recent rains have caused great im- tho wor except british columbia and the canadian national railways have totalled 76825000 in 1924 which is a big increase over the first commission has acquired 127000 acres 1 zoc cookea nams 4a io iac by various chinese philanthropic malonty flew overhead and spotted ro jg 2 cottage rolls 20 to organizations and dr schurman re- the wrecked machine and was able to breakfast bacon 23 to 27c spe- ports that the famine commission is get immediate aid burton will prob- cial brand breakfast bacon 29 to 31c laying plans to meet the distress which ably recover he has not been told backs boneless 34 to 38c will follow the destruction of the crops a later despatch from pekin says the international famine relief com mittee announced on thursday that wag ate burton count j- it was from an upcurrent of air which 17 to j tilted the wing a cure in diabetes cases for planting i moon provides no guide the latest estimate of the number of deaths from the floods which have been sweeping china is 14115 the com mittee estimates that 15000000 per sons are- affected in the floodod areas in the provinces of hunan chihli kiangsi fukicn kwangtung shang- tung hohan and hupeh a despatch from baltimore md for western crop seers says an important discovery of the of the death of his comrades nor will cured he be told until his pnnhihnn im to 70 lbs 17 70 to 90 lbs 1650 f j the harvest moon is set in the rnoved conditton is im- bg 1550 lightweight m the treatment of diabetes and in m tq iuumine thj abor3 qf p j jlrolls in barrels 32 heavyweight some cases substituting for it lias been mcbride was a flying student and it rolls i ma8e by johns hopkins hospital phy- was his first year in the game gllbertj lard pure tierces 17 to 18c stcians who are conducting the clinic the harvest field not to act as a wea ther prophet meteorologists say wes- eight months of last year of this 50000000 was borrowed by the na tional railways at vary advantageous terms in october and november the can adian government will float loans to talling 198000000 to meet maturing i victory bonds and treasury notes most of these bonds probably will be taken up in the states then tho steady betterment ol hang for five hours over 300foot cliff natural resources bulletin a despatch from chamonix r rance the natural resources intelligence says three italian mountain cimb- servico of the department of the in- ers underwent the terrifying experi- export steer choice 750 to 775 experiments and to some extent the smiiks w 572000000 do good 650 to 7 export heifers result of chance the clement of who do lhe propnesymg by rule and d lffi 586i in the previous twelve months exports m terior at ottawa says time was in canada when nothing hut clear white pine would v con sidered in building operations white jiine was the standard lumber for practically all purposes nnd the cut of this universally adaptable timber vms enormous this demand of the market and ence of hanging for five hours from a rope over a 300foot precipice before being rescued unaccompanied by guides they had reached the summit of the aiguille de grepon an 11000- foot feak without mishap and were on the way back when one slipped dragging the others with him down the side of the mountain the rope 650 to 675 taby- beeves 750 to chance entered when it was discover- re bnd n b g f bom 10 butcher steers choice 625 to ed that a patient being provided with the moon has absolutely nothing to the bamg iod were 474 0 llloaf com insuun f d u th t tzjzor with 394000000 in th 5 to 575 do com 350 to 425 thc clmc by john d rockefel- butcher cows choice 425 to 5 do r jr was neglecting the treatment med 3 to 4 butcher bulls good 4 to 450 do fuir 350 to 4 bolognas 250 to 350 dinners and cutters 1 to 250 feeding steers choice 0 to 625 do fair 5 to 550 stackers choice 450 to 5 do fair 350 to 425 milkers springers choice 75 to 90 do fair but made a prompt taking glycerine recovery after to sir frederic stupart of the meteor ological office toronto when ap proached for an opinion on the pop ular theory that if there is no frost before the full moon passes there will pi htz t n j- i de none until tho crop is harvested the report is given to the medical avii world as one of the fruits of- the previous twelve months her twenty cents daily supports family of five wedo notconsider that themoon a despatch from tokio says the f stijisssss has anything todo with it- he stated sreat catastrophe of last september nationwide study of diabetes treat- f t- f i sti is cre many a sad event ment tho johns hopkins report avoids sweeping conclusions and mere forest fires have had their eitect upon j between the second and third men this favored species however with however caught on a rock as they went over the edge of the precipice difficulty kaslo bc the canadian mines merger co ltd with capital of 11- 200000 has been registered in british columbia with office at kaslo a group of properties in this area will the result that white pine is not as plentiful as heretofore and many other varieties have had to be substi tuted in building construction spruce has largely taken the place of white pine onethird of canadas lumber cut is now obtained from spruce while the douglas fir of brit ish columbia furnishes about- 15 per with the advance in prices of pine und the merger and spruce the hemlock is finding a larger market at first only the bet ter grades of hemlock were salcsbe 4ul with tho increasing scarcity of the better woods the lower grades have now come into use for purposes whero a higher grade lumber is not required hemlock is ft fairly stiff wood put atjier splintery it holds nails vie and whereit is kept dryor where it i continually under water it is fairly lasting the demand for lumber and thc enormous losses of valuable species by forest fires are gradually forcing cheaper and poorer grades of timber on the market while at present thoss being used are quite satisfactory for ordinary purposes there can bo no question that we will continually have to find substitutes as our better tim ber gran scarcer irj iyi 1025 do country points 977 d t i puled kreav select fed and watered 1180 do o 40 to 50 calves choice 8 to ly reports on actual results obtained 850 do med 6 to 7 do com 350 to 450 lambs chaicj ewes 13 to 1850 do bucks 11 to 1160 do culls 9 to 10 sheep lirht ewes 6 to 050 do culls 2 to 450 hogs fed and watered 1075 prospects promising for australian wheat crop do fob select fed nnd watered 1180 do off cars long haul 1115 montreal oats cw no 2 63 vic no 3 clc extra no 1 feed 61wc no 2 local white 60 vic flour man spring wheat pats lsts 820 2nds 770 strong bakers 750 wjntor jats choice 676 to 685 rolled oats bags 90 lbs 340 to 360 bran a despatch from london says still is creating many a sad event among the thousands of homeless peo ple here the case of tsuneko nomura fifteen years old is an in stance she is employed in one of the i elementary schools where she rings a despatch from ottawa says the bell very hour and doss odd work judgo roand miler of hull que from early in the morning till late in reports that a brisk snowball fight the afternoon she thus earns 20 cents it is just an old wives tale o passengers indulge in august snowball fight a aespaicn irom ionaon says prospects of a large australian wheat e sta tion platform at a day with which she supports a fam- crop are most promising nccording to authoritative sources quoted by the sydney correspondent of the daily telegraph assuming there are no adverse circumstances before the har vest season the crop is expected to total approximately 140000000 bush els as compared with 123000000 last yeai timagami on wednesday afternoon j ily consisting of her mother and three when the tcmiskaming and northern younger sisters since the earthquakn ontario railway train stopped thero they have been forced to live in a sec tor ten minutes tho platform was tion of temporary huts buiit by tha covered with snow and hail municipality at imado park asakusn her father died from injuries in tha rub new boots with a slice of raw great disaster her hope is to rebuild potato and they will then polish as the restaurant her father prosperously easily as old ones king georgo recently reviewed the greatest and most notable array of fighting ihlpa that has been assembled since the great war jcclit victoria and albert and he admiralty yacht enchantress are seen passing by the queen elizabeth resolution and royal sovereign io royal ran before the earthquake british submarine cruises 20000 miles in half year a despatch from london says tho submarine k26 arrived at ports mouth on august 12th on the concilia slon of a 20000niie independent cruise tho longest ever made by a sub marine during the whole of the voy age the officers and crew iived aboard without any assistance from a paront ship everything the submarine needed being carried in her the k26 is the largvst vessel of her class and like oil others in it she is j steamdriven which makes her much hotter than are dieseldriven boats she left portsmouth jan 22 and haa been to port saiu aden bombay j colombo and singapore and mrta in the mediterranean i