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f rsrr rra: '«»* f'For Tea You Can't Beat Lipton'a The Only Thing "Just as Good" Is Another Cup jp( LIPTON'STEA Sold Only in Airtight Pacliagea. DM i mSTBY OUTLOOK Mr. J. C. Ruddick Says the Home Con- sumption Is Steadily Increasing. A despatch from Stratford says: Bome very encouraging facts were laid before the Western Dairy- men's ConvcntioQ, held here last week, by Mr. J. C. lluddlck, Dairy Commissioner, in regard to the outlook for the industry. For- i;h© fiscal year ending with March next our dairy exports are estimated at only $25,250,000, as compared with $31,007,561 in 1903. Meai.time, however, the home consumption is believed to have i>4creased by $25,- 000,000, so that the production for the year about ending will really be $8,582,439 greater than in 1903. For the year ending with March ne.\t the production seems to have increased more rapidly than in the year immediately preceding, be- cause, while the home consumption is still growing, our exports of dairy products for the current fiscal year will be $2,000,000 ahead of these of 1910. For the expansion that has taken place in the year near closing the partial opening of the American market to our dairy products is largely responsible. In the month of August, 1909, as a result of the reduction of the United States duty on cream from five cents per pound to five cents [.cr gallon, we exported 1,650 gallons of cream to th» American market. In November of the same year this increased to 70,000 gallons. For October last the amount was 327,- 064 gallons. It is believed that the value of our exports of dairy pro- ducts to the United States for the year ending March next will be $3,000,000 as against less than a quarter of a million the year be- fore, and practically nothing prior to the change in the American duty. The total value of the milk produc- tion of Canada was^laccd at $100,- 000,000, and it was said that an ad- dition of 500 lbs. of milk per cow to the average production, some- thing easily iwssible, would add $10,000,000 to this. The prediction was made that much more than this will be done ; that in a few years a larger pro- portion of the two million odd cows in the Dominion will be made to increase their milk flow by fifty per cent. Even with this increase, Mr. Ruddick contended, there need be no fear of over-production. If the production remains stationary, the home market, if the expansion continues at the present rate, will absorb the entire output of the dairy industry ten years hence. In addition to this, tliere is the Am- erican market. Although the United States is the largest pro- ducer in dairy lines in the world, that country imported nearly $7,- 000,000 worth of butter and cheese in the calendar yoar of 1909, and will import larger quantities ia fu- ture. NEWS OF THE DAY IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYER THE GLORE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World ia General Rcfore Your Eyes. CANADA. It is estimated that 300,000 immi- grants arrived in Canada last year. The Ontario Government propos- es to sell certain pulpwood conces- sions. Mr. Clark and his daughter, Mrs. Robert Young, were robbed by high- waymen near Hamilton. The Lord's Day Alliance finds that conflict of laws jjrevents pro- per enforcement in Quebec. Cases of malicious damage to the Hydro-electric transmission line have been reported at London. The transfer of the Ontario Steel plant at Welland to the Montreal Car & Foundry Company has been completed. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has given no- tice of a resolution for the renew- al of the Pacific steamship subsidies of £25,000 annually. Norman McMillan, the young son of J. W. McMillan, was struck and instantly killed by a Grand Trunk express train at Stratford, on Thursday. GREAT BRITAIN. The British Parliament will be opened by the King on February 9. Mr. A. J. Balfour says the fiscal controversy retains its old place on the Unionist programme. A bull dog kept a dozen London policemen at bay when they tried to enter the room in which its mas- ter had committed suicide. SETl'LTRS' HARDSHIPS. Beads Uloekod by Heavy Snow In Saskatchewan. A despatch from Moose Jaw, Sask., says: The first teams since Christmas to reach the city from Leeville aud Dcivdrop, 63 miles southwest, arrived on Friday even- ing. The six ineinlMMs of the i)arty told a story uf much hardship and sufTcring. They had made the journey in three days, which, con- sidering the fact that thny had to break through bad drifts in the hills, was fairly good time. They brought in two men who are badly frozen, one so badly that it is thought his feet may have to be am- putated, and tho dead body of a woman, who died southwest of Lake Johnston and was being brought to the city by her husband. Ho had niat!e but slow progress on his mel- ancholy trip, it having taken him five days to travel thirty-two miles, whon he was picked up by the party. The men reiwrt much har<l.ship ain(jiig the settlers owing to the ter- rible cold and storms. One man is said to have carried a sack of Hour six miles l)ccause he could nui Kot a horse through. The parly will take back with them four team louds of supplies. . » FKillT WITH HKillW.VVMEN. Deleelivp Sayors Filially Wounded in Itrhish Columbia. A despatch from Victoria, B. C, says: G. C. Sayers, said to be a dc'tictive, was brought here on Wednesday in a dying condition from Alberni, where ho on Tuesday night had a desperate fight with two men wanted in Saskatchewan for highway robbery there and for breaking open box-cars on the Grand 'Trunk at Yorkton, Sask. The story ia that ho trailed the two men from the latter place and caught up with them in a camp near Alberni. He posted one of llTs men outside, while he himself entered the camp to make the ar- rest. A desperate fight ensued, in wfliich Sayers was shot in three places, but with what strength he had left he backed up against a wall and there fought till he fell from loss of blood. The comrades he ha<l posted outside, however, succeeded in arresting the men, who are held at Alberni. Sayers re- cently made several arrests single- handed in Edson. UNITED STATES. Canada has scored a diplomatic victory on the fisheries question. In a railway smash on Friday at Batavia, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw of Toronto were among the injured. The American section of the In- ternational Waterways Commission favors Government control of Long Sault Rapids power development. GENERAL. The Kaiser's speech at the open- ing of the Diet offended the Demo- crats and Liberals. It is officially denied that Persia appealed to the American people against Britain and Russia. The fisheries agreement between Canada and the United States has boon signed at Washington. SAFE AT CHURCHILL. Dominion Geological Party, Given Up ns iiOHt, Tnrns Up. A despatch from Winnipeg says : J. M. Macoun, of the Geological Survey, who, with his party, was wrecked last September, in a gale off Wager Inlet, Hudson Bay, and given up for lost, is safe at Church- ill and with his fourteen men, on a 1,000 mile walk, accomi)anied by dog trains, carrying outfits and supplies, headed for Giuili, whence this news comes by wire. The re- port arrived at Gimli by the first mail sfago to reach there from the North this Winter. Macoun's party reached Fort Churchill about Dec. 1. COBOM TIOI FBO RRAHE Elaborate Tentative Arrangements Have Been Completed. A despatch from London sayp : The executi\e e.-mmittce hu'inii in charge the plans in connei:lifi'» with the coronation of King Ceorfio, m( t on Thursday and comi)lcted teiit.i- tive arrangements, which will, if anything, be on a more o.<tensl,o scale thart at the time of King Ed- ward's coronation. The rriuto of the procession to Westminster Abbey on June t'2 will bo the same ns on the last occ.i- sion, an<l tho royal prcgroRs tbtcagh tiio cajiita! after the cere mony, which was postponed in Ed- waid's time, owing to the King's delicate health, will occur on Juno 23. Still another royal procession to tho guild hall for the coronation entertainment has been arranged for a subsequent <lay. The coronation festivities will ex- tend from June 19 to June 30, and will include a naval review at Spithcad, at which the King will be present, probably a military review and a rtival reception in honor of the colonial and foreign envoys. $400,000 ilRE AT WINNIPEG. Firemen Worked All Night With Thermometer at SO Below Zero. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Winnipeg has had another midnight midwinter fire which will cost tho insurance companies about $100,- 000, the building destroyetl being the Kelly block on Banuantyne avenue east, in the very heart of tho wholesale district. The firms suffering are : The Winnipeg Fur Company, $200,000, insured for $180,000; John E./.ingor, tobacco- nist, $80,000, insured to 00 per cent.; Kilgour Bros., paper deal- ers, $25,000, insured to the full ; the Wingold Stovo Company, $25,- 000, insured to $10,000. The origin of the fire is still unsolved, but it is supposed to have started from an electric light in tho fur company ofTices. It started about 11.30 on Saturday night, and the firemen were not through till 7 Sunday morning, with tho mercury 30 be- low zero. There were n»any cases of frost bites, some of tho firemen having to retire for treatment. The high-pressure service was in goinl working order, but the depth of the buildingâ€" 100 feetâ€"rendered the streams ineffectual, whether from front or rear, on the fire in the centre of the building. RULING PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS FORM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFF8. Toronto, Jan. 17.â€" Flourâ€" Win- ter wheat 90 per cent, patents, $3.60 at seabord. Manitoba flours â€" First patents, $5.40 ; second pat- ents, $4.90, and strong bakers, $4.70, on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat â€" No. 1 North- ern, $1.04 to $1.04%, Bay ports; No. 2 Northern, $1.02, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 98>^c, Bay ports. Ontario wheat â€" 86 and 87c out- side for No. 2 red and white re- spectively. Barley â€" Malting qualities, 56 to 58c outside, and feed 48 to 50c out- side. Oatsâ€" No. 2 white, 35c, on track, Toronto, and 33c outside ; No. 2 W. C. oats, 38%c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 37c, Bay ports. Cornâ€" New No. 3 American, 52% to 53c, prompt shipment, To- roto freights. Peasâ€" No. 2 shipping lota 80 to 81c outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2 at 61 to 62c outside. Buckwheatâ€" No. 1 at 47 to 48c outside. Branâ€" Manitobas, $20, in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $21, in bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $20.50, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, $22. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" Spys, $4.50 to $0; Bald- wins, $4 to $5; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assorted, $3.50 to $4 per barrel. Beansâ€" Car lots, l.GO to $1.70, and small lota, $1.80 to $1.85. Honey â€" Extracted, in tins, 10% to lie per lb. No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.50 per dozen ; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen. Baled hay-No. 1 at $12.50 to $13.50 on track, and No. 2 at $10 to $11. Baled strawâ€" $6.50 to $7 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€" Car lots, 75 to 80c per bag- , Poultry â€" Wholesale prices of dressed poultry :â€" Chickens, 12 to I2%c per lb. ; fowl, 9 to 10c per lb. ; ducks, 13 to 14c per lb. ; <>irkey3, 17 to 19c per lb, -ind geese, 12 to 12%c per lb. Live, 1 to 2c less. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Dairy prints, 22 to 24c; choice dairy solids, 21 to 22c; in- ferior, 18 to 19c ; choice large rolls, 21 to :2c. Creamery, 27 to 38c per lb. for rolls, 25c for solids, and 24 to 25c for separator prints. Eggsâ€" Case lots of pickled bring 27c; cold storage, 27 to 28c; select- ed, 30c, and strictly new-laid, 35 to 38o per dozen. Cheeseâ€" Large are quoted at 12%c wud twins at 12%c. OLD MAN MUKDERED. Terrihle Crime Commtttod Near Wcllesley Village. A despatch from Berlin, Ont., says: A terrible murder was reveal- ed on Friday morning by the find- ing of the blood covered body, fro- zen stiff, of an aged I'olo named Franz Tobinski, tied to a post a few feet from tho kitchen door of his liouse, two miles west of Wol- lesloy village, near Berlin. Rob- bery wBs tho motive of tho crime, and it is known that the murderers got away with $130 in gold, which Tobinski had kept in a little tin box. This box was found lying out- side in the snow. Fifty yards away from where the body lay was found a bloo<l-stained hammer of moclium size of a kind used by blacksmiths. There were tracks of two men in the snow and also of a team of horses, but the jKjlice have no clew as to the identity of the murderori. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 12 to 12j^c per lb. in case lots ; mess pork, $24 ; short cut, $20. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 16c ; do., heavy, 15c; rolls, 12%c ; shoul- ders, ll%c; breakfast bacon, 18c; backs (pea meal), 18%c. Lard-Tierces, 12>ic; tubs, 12%c; pails 13c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, Jan. 17.â€" Oatsâ€" Cana- dian Western, No. 2, 40 i^ 40%c, car lots ex store; extra No. \ fee<l, 39 to 39%c; No. 3 C. W., 38% to 39c; No. 2 local white, 38c; No. 3 local white, 37c ; No. 4 local white, 36c. Flour â€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.00; do., seconds, $3.10; Winter wheat patents, $4.- 75 to $5 ; strong bakers, $4.90 ; straight rollers, $4.33 to $4.50; do., in bags, $2 to $2.10. Rolled oatsâ€" Per b'b!., $4..1.t; do., bag of 90 lbs., $2.10. Barleyâ€" Fce<i, car lots, ex store, 49 to 50c. Cornâ€" American No. 3 yellow, 57% to 58c. Millfced â€"Bran, Ontario, $19 to $20; Maui toba, $18 to $20; Ontario middlings $22 to $22. £0; Manitoba shorts, $21 to $22; inoui'.lii, S." ti lo $30. Egg, â€"Selected, 32o ; fresh, 45 to 50c , No. 1 stock, 27j ; No. 2, 23 to 2Sc. Cheeseâ€" Western, 12 lo 12 1Sc; eastern, 11 to U%c. Butte.' -Choi- cest, 25%c ; do., seconds, 23 to 25c. UNITED STATES MAHKETS. Buffalo, Jan. 17. â€" Wl.eit - Spring, No. 1 Ntirthern, tai loads store, $1.19%; winter, no offerings. Cornâ€" No. 3 yellow, 50%c; No. 4 yellow, 49c, on track, through bil'- ed. Oats- No. 2 white, 36% c ; No. 3 white, 36%c; No. 4 white, 35%c. Barleyâ€" Malting, SMJc to $1. Rye- No. 2, on track, 85c. Minneapolis, Jan 17. â€" Wheat â€" Mav, $1.00% to $1,09 3-8; July, $1.09%'; No. 1 hard, $\.\0%\ No. 1 Northern $1.09% to $\.\0V.; No. 2 Northern, $1.06% to $1.03%; No. 3 wheat, $1.04% to $1.07%. Branâ€" j$21 to $21.50. Flourâ€" First pat- ients, $4.95 to $6.35; second p(.tont8. PDIP ll IiSTBY OF CAMDA Quebec Province Leads All the Dominion in Production. A despatch from Ottawa says : According to statistics collected by the Forestry Branch of the Depart- ment of the Interior, there were 622,129 cords of pulpwood used in Canada during the year 1909. Of this the- total value at the mill was $3,464,080. In spite of a decline in the price of pulpwood the value of the wood consumed increased more than $550,000 over that used in 1908, the quantity used being more than thirty per cent, in advance of that used in the previous years. There are some sixty pulp mills in the Dominion, and of these re- ports were received from fifty. Half of these mills are in Quebec, one- fifth in Ontario, and the rest are located in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. The Province of Quebec furnished over half the pulpwood, Ontario gave one-third, while the rest was ob- tained from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Two species of timber, namely. spruce and balsam, furnished nine- ty-nine per cent, of the wood used in the making of pulp. Poplar, hemlock and jack pine were also used. Three-fifths of the pulpwood cut in Canada during 1909 was ex- ported to the United States for manufacture. Nearly all this wood went from Quebec. The average price received for it was only forty- five cents more than was paid at the Quebec mills. The pulpwood shipped from Canada in 1909 fur- nished 46 4-10 per cent, of the raw material used by the ninety pulp mills of the State of New York, and an appreciable portion of that used by the mills of New England and Pennsylvania. The manufac- ture of the pulpwood exported in 1909 kept 69 of the 251 pulp mills of the L^nited States running at full capacity for the year. Had it been manufactured in Quebec it would have kept running 71 milU of the same size as those running in Quebec. CAPITAL AND M ieHATlON Mr. White, Vice-President of C.P.R., Speaks of the Prosperity of the West A despatch from Montreal says: Mr. William Whyte, Vice-Prcsidcit of the C. P. R. in, Winnipeg, who is here conferring with Sir Tboiuas Shaughnessy, is enthusiastic i:vtr the prospects of the west. In speak- ing of the buildi ig of the new line" he said: "During tho summer there have been constructed 609 miles <f railway, including 56 miles of dou- ble track. We jvre now engJiged on the programoie for this year, and it is probable t'lat as rnoch construction work wiU be done in 1911 as was done iu 1910. Labor tor railway building was never so scarce as in 1910, aril wages were never so high. "During the yar a determined effort was continued to turn back to various parts of the United States the American farmers >vho were removing to C'aniu'<» In spi^e of this campaign by interested peo- ple in the United States die m- vc- ment of farmers from that country into Canada in 1910 was lavjjer than ever. The incrj.'ne in immi- gration from Europe has also been considerable, and the it has been o» steady increase in the araoun;. ot land under cultivation. Capital has come into the west in large vol- ume. There never was a year when there were so many Englishmen in the country seeking renumerative investment for their capital, and there never was a year when there was so much money actually iuvest- ed." $4.85 to $5.23 ; first clears, $3.35 to $3.75; second clears, $2.33 to $2.95. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Jan. 17. â€" Choice steers sold at 63< to 6%c, good at 6 to C%c, fairly good at 5/.^ to 5%c, and the lower grades at 4 to 4'.iC tier lb. The demand for hogs was fictive, with sales of selectCK.! lots ut $8.25 to $8.60 per 100 lbs., weigh- ed off tors. Supplies of sheep com- ing forward are small, for which the demand is good and sales were made at 43-.;i to 4,%o per lb. Lambs were firm under a good demand at 0% to 6%c per lb. A fairly good trade was done in calves, at prices ranging from $3 to $12 each, as to quality. Toronto, Jan. 17.â€" Some of the choicest butcher heifers and steers sold in the neighborhood of $5.80 to $3.90. Lambs were considerab- ly higher. Sheep were steady te firm. One dealer paid as high ai $3.85 per cwt. Hoga show indi- cations of easing off. MOONSHINE WHISKEY. T>vo Men Lose Their Lives Ncaf Ste. .\gatho, Quebec. A despatch from Montreal says I Illegally manufactured whiskey, with poisonous elements in it. has caused the death of two men near Ste. Agaihe, where "moonshine" liquor flooding the whole district. After taking the raw liquor tho men were found unconscious, and never reciwered. An autopsy on Gilbert Legaro, one victim, proved that he had died from the effects of potash, uii.'ccd with the liquor to give it the flavor of matured spirits. -^ A CRIME MLL BAD ECfiS Boards of Trade of Montreal and Toronto to Ask Legislation. A despatch from Montreal says : As the result ot unite<l efforts on the part of the Montreal Produce Merchants' Association, the Mont- real Board of Trade and the Toron- to Board of Trade, an attempt will be made to secure legislation mak- ing it criminal to offer for sale bad eggs. .At a meeting of the Montreal Produce Merchants' Association on Wednesday, tho matter was brought I up and President Guun statenl that ' figures prepared by the association showed that during last year 17,. 000,000 dozen of eggs in Canada were rendered unfit for consump- tion by late marketing. The loss by this was estimated at $3,400,- 000. Out of a total production of 120,000,000 dozes of eggs a year in Canada, it was estimated that fully seventeen per cent, was spoilt by delay in marketing. President Qunn announced that efforts were being made to secure a sjjtem ol ctaiidardizing eggs and also to have it i»ode a erirniual offence to sell b::d eggs.