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X' PARTIAL LIST OF DEAD IN NORTHERN ONTARIO; SIX TOWNS BURNED Property Valued at $4,000,000 is Reported Destroyed and it is Feared the Death Toll May Reach Sixty Present Disaster is Regarded as Greater Than the Calami- ties of 1911 and of 1916. At Haileybury 16. Mrs. T. A. Cobbold, wife of the Di- visional Court Clerk. Mrs. Boon. Felix Des Jardines. F. Roehon. Unidentified child. Ailoreen, a boy. Three months' old baby, unidenti- fied. Two bodies so badly burned that sex cannot be determined. H. Elphick, aged 45, single, brother- in-law of the late Gal. Hay, president of the Mclntyre Mine, also reported dead, but unconfirmed. At Heaslip 17. Robert Bond, his wife, their eight children; his wife's brother, John Marshall. Amoa HeasJip, his wife, and their two sons, and James Fleming and his son. At Chartton 3. Mrs. O'Hara, Elderly unidentified man. Unidentified baby. Towns and Villages Burned. Haileybury, North Cobalt, Heaslip, Charlton, North Timiskaming, Thorn- loe. Also several settlements along the White River. New Liskeard and Englehart partly burned. Towns and villages which escaped: Cobalt, Latchford, Earlton, Elk Lake, Grc-wganda. The fire zone does not extend north of Englehart. A despatch from Cobalt says: j Raiin, which began to fall about six; o'clock Thursday evening, has definite- 1 ly checked the spread of the forest, fires in the di-itrict, and with the dan-i ger of further loss of life at an end,! organized efforts are being directed: toward recovering the bodies of vic-i tims and providing relief for the liv-, ing. It is estimated that the property loss will be at least four million dollars. While it will be days before any-! thing like an accurate estimate of the, death toll can be arrived at, the con-i sensus cf opinion in the town is that at least 60 lives were lost. Already! about 35 bodies have been recovered: in the neighborhood of Ha-ileyburyj Heaslip. about 28 miles farther north, on the Tirniskaminfr an! Northern: Ontario line, and at Charlton, somej twelve miles beyond Heaslip. A num-j her of the bodies are so terribly burn-: ed that identification is impossible. ' Now that a clearer idea of the ex-| tent of the fire can be gained it ia! learned that several small centres j which were earlier reported to have been burned were not in the path of the flames. Notable am~n these are Earlton. Elk Lake and Gowpanda. On I the other hand, the village of North Timiskaming, n-ot previously mention-' ed as having suffered, is now known to have been burned out, and also several smaller settlements north and west of the town. North Timiska- ming is on t.h-e boundary between On- tario and Quebec at the head of Lake Timis-knming. Whether there was less cf life there is not established at the present time. It is estimated that about 1.000 re- fugees have left here fcr North Bay> in two s-pecial T. and N.O. trains. Pec-pie here estima-te the property j Itosses at $4,000.000. which is divided,] Haileybury $2.000,000; North Cobalt' $500.000; and other points $1.500,000.' The number homeless is estimated at 5,000, cf whom 2,500 lived in Hailey- bury, an;l the ether half elsewhere. The are.is burred over extends from Mileage 104. near here, to near Engle-j hart, a iMstance of 38 miles. Two rf the heroines of the fire at; Hail-eybury were te'ephcne opera'ors, Miss Marjorie McGte and M!? Addie. ' They remained at their posts until ( the bf.ck stairs of the building were on fire. The last message they got out wns one to North Bay asking that a relief train be ;>ent as ?>oon as pos-j siMe. The two girls put out on Lake Timi'k.iming in a small boat and' landed on a smaH island where theyi spent the night. They arrived here suffering considerably from exposure. 1 Doubt is expressed whether Hailey- ibury will be rebuilt, and it is said by prominent residents that the town; wil'l be unable to redeem its $250,000 outstanding bonds and that it is the duty of the Prury Government to atand behind these bonds with its; guarantee. On every side the opinion ! is expressed that the disaster is worse 1 than the calamities of 1911 and of 1916. Tragic Incidents. A most tragic incident occurred at Heaslip. Hero Robert Bond, his wife, 1 thoir eijrh-t children, and Bond's wife's] brother, John Marshall, had taken re- fuge in a root house as the flames approach e:l. Searchers to-day found all eleven suffocated. Other residents of Heaslip or vicinity who perished were Amos Heaslip, his wife and two sons, and two other men, a father and son, named Fleming. The Heaslip family had also taken refuge in a root houfie on t'he farm -adjoining that of the Bonds amd were stifled by the dense smoke. At Haileybury Mrs. T. A. Cobbold, wife of the Division Court Clerk, metj her death while trying to rescue her ninety-year-old uncle who lived with them. The uncle was taken to safety by recwr, but Mrs. Cobbold could not be reached and perished in the ruins of the home. Cobbo>ld was hurt- self severely burned. Other victims tn the town were: Mm Doon, an eld- erly man named Fetix Des Jardines, a paralytic, a patient in the hospital who could not be carried to safety; & young man named Roohon; a child not identified, a lad named AUlotean, son of the late Jack Aillote-an; a three months' ol.l ha\v, whose body was found in l.ahf Tinrskaming, the par- 1 ents be-iii;: un! - .Kwn; fo\ir unidentified! men! two unidentified women; and two persons -whose bodies were so badly burned that it was not possible to determine the sex. NOTED WORK OF SIR HENRY THORNTON TURK DEMANDS FOR EVACUATION OF THRACE HALT ARMISTICE CONFERENCE A despatch from Constantinople says: Abruptly, though not un- expectedly, the Mudania conference came to a halt on Thursday afternoon. When it will be resumed is a matter of conjecture. The question of the evacuation of j also came to Constantinople. It a understood that the Allied Generals will go into conference with the High Commissioners on certain serious dif- ficulties which have arisen at Mudania. According to unofficial information, Pafi'ha, the Nationalist Re-re- Thrace was the cause cf the rupture, isentative, suddenly raised the question it was announced at a late hour! f the evacuation of Thrace. General Thursday night. The attitude of the; Haritt-gton replied that that would Turks and Greeks was very bel'.ieoes, j come a* ter the condusaon cf the peace threatening the succt-ss of the e.-n- i treaty, as set forth in the joint Allied ference. I nt>te - Ismet insisted heatedly en an T i. r> i earlier evacuation, and it was found Ismet Pasha, in * fieny moc-i, upset ^ agreement for the conference on Thursday. He de- the % re5 , nt ^ ^ imp M t r , ;, t . 1 Mom belli, of Italy, support- Harington, but the French delegate, General Charpy, was non- General Harington, attempted to committal reason with him after the fashion At ,. Wg juncture M. FrAikiin- which had proved so effective with Bouillon, the special French envoy, minor preliminaries, but Isnvet was intervened, declaring that he had been AIRMEN LEAVING FOR THE EAST adamant. France was with Ismet. instructed by the French Government Members of the British air forces leaving tor service in the Near East. | Brigadier-General Raring-ten, Com- to support the Turkish demand. The They were originally destined for Mesopotamia, but rutih orders deflected j mander of the Allied forces and head discussion grew very warm and the them to the new scene o activity. i of the Allied delegation, ratumed Allied Generals adjourned to confer | Thursday evening on the Batt:e;hip with the commissioners at Constan- Iron Duke, and the Italian delegation tinople. c'ared that the Turfen army must enter Thrace imm ite!y and his tone was determined and <ieiu.nt. Canada From Coast to Coast New Head of Canadian Na- tional Railways Achieved Success in England. A despatch from London says: The appointment of Sir Henry Thorn-' ton as chief of the Canadian National; Railways has created a big sensation! in railroad, circles here, where Thorn- ton has occupied a foremost position, especially since the war, when he ren- 1 <itre,i services that won high recogni-: tion n-. t only from the British but also the Allied Governmnts. Sir Henry's original appointment as general manager of the Great Eastern railway in 1912 was a big surprise to the railroad world. President Lord Clau-d Hamilton's justification of it at the time on the ground that it was impossible to find a British railroad man to fill the position excited keen ; hostil-e comment. 'Sir Henry mads good, however, and came to be recognized as one of the commanding: personalities in the Brit- ish railroad world. He completely re-; volut ionized the Great Eastern sys- tem of managemnt and control, mak- ing it a model line in many important] respects. Summersid'e, P.E.I. Machinery has been ordered for a modern cr,!d stor r age plant to serve this town aa well as the surrounding country. The num- ] erous fox ranches in this locality who ' are very large users of meat and ' abattoir by-products will now be able to purchase the- meat in large quan-< titles at a time and place in cold ' storage for use in the warm weather. : Sydney, N.S. The largest cargo of steel products ever E'bipped to the | Antipodes cleared ftam here oh Sept. 20 for Australia and New Zealand. ' witft 2,200 t-jns of the output of the Dominion Steel plant on board. St. John. X B. Final approval has been given by the International Board of Health for the grant of $27,000 r^r ^ year for two years from the Rncke- ' feller Foundation for the promotion of a health program in New Bruits wick. The money will be devoted to- extending the system of medical in- spection and clinical work throughout the entire school system of the prov- ince, and was available when the schools re-opened. Montreal, Que. Flour shipments from the port of Montreal to Europe are considerably heavier than last sea- son and give indications at present of keeping up to the new level. Up to the end of last month and including Sept. 2. the total shipments of Can- adian flour reached 1,732,949 bag, as compared with 1,582,038 bags for the same period last year. Not a liner has left this port without carrying a consignment of flour. Toronto, On*. Ontario is to have ! a great poultry community, similar to that at Petaluma. California. The City of Petaluma, with a population of over 6,000 people, was organized and built entirely on the product of the White Leghorn. There are more than (i.000,000 hens in the district, and annually over 400 cars of egjfs are shippt.l therefrom. The Ontario com- munity will he started on a tract of oOO acres north of Toronto, which is to be subdivided into approximately 75 poultry plants, each owned independ- ently, but working en a semi-eo- r operative basis. Upward of 100.000 layers will be accommodated and it is estimated that 100 cases or more of eggs a day will be produced when the community is fully developed. This product will be graded in accordance with the government standard, and sold under the community trade mark direct to the consumers. Arborg, Man. The first annual sheep fair and fat lamb sale held here, combining the interests of sheep breeders, livestock exchanges and agricultural colleges, was a great suc- cess. More than 700 animals were shown and sixty prizes donated bring- ing money to over 300 head. At the conclusion of the sale, (589 of the ani- mals shown were purchased by out- side parties. An important feature of the sale was the distribution of a carload of purebred rams of spetial quality, to encourage breeding in the district. Edmonton. Alta. Coa! production in the Drumheller fields has mounted to 6,825 tons daily and will shortly be increased to between 8,000 ar.d 9,000 ' tons. All the coal camps in Alberta and Eastern British Columbia are nowj working, and much of the product is, being shipped to Saskatchewan nnd Manitoba. It is expected ample coa!, will be mined to meet at the require- ments of Western Canada. Vancouver, B. C. Refrigerator space for carrying approximately fiOO.OOO boxes of apples from British Columbia orchards to Great Britain and Europi- will be provided this sea- son by steamers sailing from this port. Last year the services carried nearly 300,000 boxes of apples to the other side of the Atlantic, via the Panama Canal. CANADIAN NEWS ITEMS United Kingdom. Total grain ship- ments last year were 7,500,000 bush- els, a record. One hundred and three bushels of oats to the acre wa the yield of a 20- a^-re field of irrigated land on the Raymond Agricultural Scnoo! demon- ] stratum farm. Other <listricts in A1-; btrta report large yields. Radiotelephony was used by an aeroplane to direct artillery fire for the first time in Canada at Camp Sarcee, Alta. An aeroplane from the' High Rivr Government air station co-operated with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, and assisted the fir- ing by means of radio-telephony. Offi- cers of the artillery state that the directions c>f the pilot in .the air were heard distinctly on the ground an i enabled them to direct the firing of the battery with great accuracy. Gold production in Ontario for the' first half of 1922 shows a maiked in- crease over a similar period last year,, and gives promise of an output ex- ceeding $20.000,000 for the full year, 1 as compared with $14.624,085 in 1921.: according to returns received by the; Ontario Department of Mines. Silver production also shows a correspond- ing increase over the corresponding period in 1021. An influx of experienced agricul- turists from Holland to Canada is likely, according to J. C. C. Sandberar, who is visiting 1 Ottawa repre.--enr.iiff the Government of Holland, which proposes a scheme of assisted emigra- tion of farmers and agricultural hb- I'rers and their famines. Sand-berg is i 1 . nk:n^ a tour of Canada to investi- gate the possibility of settling the surplus of Dutch farmers. A one-week medical post-graduate study course with clinics at various local hospitals wH-J commence shortly under the auspices of Dalhousie Uni- versity. It is thought that the course will become annual nn-i assuina wide proportions if favorably reoeivt: year. The present year n-.r.rks the fiftieth anniversary of the lirs; grad- uation in medicine from Halifax. Heads National Railways. Major-General Sir Henry Worth i Thornton, K.B.E., the newly appointed i head of the Canadian National Rail-' ways system, who commanded the- Bri- tish Army transportation during the war. He arrived in Ottawa quietly thla week and accepted the position after, conferring with the Prime Minister, i He receives $50.000 a year. He re- j turns Immediately to England to re- sign his post with the Great Eastern Railway. Premier Bracken Wins By-Election A despatch from The Pas, Man.,' says: Premier John Bracken was, ejected for this constituency in the Manitoba Legislature on Thursday by: an overwhelming majority. The e'Jec-, tion was deferred when the general election was held on July 18 la-st. Jesting in the Face of Death. During the stormy night of March 2. 1922, the fteamsiip Enhonia, which then was perhaps seven hundred mile * off Cape Race. Newfoundland, picked up an S O S call from the Norwegian ; freighter Grontoft. The storm was : severe, and the injured Grontoft was settling rapidly; but as the Esthonla labored toward her the wireless opera- tor of the stricken vessel a man ' whose name is unknown passed his last moments in sending out a succes- sion of messages that recorded a singular mocking indifference to the fate that menaced. Following the first SOS came the words. "God pity the boys at sea such a night as this. The old mail thinks it might breeze up by night." At eleven o'clock came another SOS call, accompanied by the remark, i "Well, the steward is making sand- ; wiches for th" lifeboats. Look" lilif wo wure Being on a picnic." Toward mi'lmglit the wireless operator of the Efthonia caught 'he words. "The old wagon has a list likfi a run-down reel. , This is no weather to be out in with- out an umbrella." At ten minutes past midnight the, captain of the Grontoft dictated. "\\v are sinking a. ";:; flrcst. The decks UP- awash. The boats are smashed. Can't hold out any longer." But the redoubt- able operator apparently disapproved the tone of the message. "The skip- per dictated that," he added; "he ought to know." On his own account he continued. "Where did 1 put my hat? Sorry we couldn't wait for you. Pressing business elsewhere. Skoal!" Thus ended the mesagf with tiie ac- claim of the old Viking toast. When the Esthonia reached the spot where the Grontoft had been she had sunk without truce. Within the past two years Manitoba has developed practically a new in-; dustry in bee-keeping, which Ais y-ear will bring to the province a revenue of $400,000, according to the provincial apiarist Floyd. Next year. 1 declares this official, if the present development continues, this tlirure will be doubled. Approximately 1,000 bee-i keepers in Manitoba h^ve produced , 2.000,000 pounds of honey this year. Indications that grain shipments, through the port of V;tr.eouver this year will exceed all previous records arc c:m'.ait:e,i in '-hi- mi unci'munl cf the- Merchants' Exchange that more than r-'.xteii thousand tons of grain have already been booked for the A Good Friend Passes i v Byron H. Stau:'i^r. journalist, :her, .- cturer 1 all-roii > 1 friend C hiiiiianily, win- '. ! --..ddoiily In P ' :.'.: He v;i . v, i / k throughout Canada Weekly Market Report Toronto. rocs=.t*Tj. 17 to 2i-: ?<> .i. 20 t> 25i:: Manitoba wheat Mo. I Northern, ducklin--. - t-a ..'-.: rurkeys, :IO tc IF WINTER COMES! Perhaps His Teeth Hurt. Many of us remember the story of | the boy who would not eat. his crusts. ] Possibly as a punishment he waa-j changed into the bird in this anecdote, j which Bird Lore prints: A Phila- ! delphla lady keeps a pan of fresh, ; clean water in her garden for the birds. One <lay one of her visitors happened to be a fine, slick blackbird. He moved about, occasionally perching : himself on the edge of the pan and > dipping his bill into the water. Sud- denly he cocked his hear! on one side and then flew a few feet away to where a crust of bread was lying. Pecking away for a moment, he flew with the crust to the edge of the pan and dropped it Into the water When he had stood guard for a short while he quickly took up the softened crust and. swallowing it. flitted away. From a hard dry cruse he haJ made a palat- able morsel. Nothing great was ever accomplish- ed without enthusiasm. Emerson. i New York World. Manitoba cats Nominal Manitoba barley -Nominal. All the above '.ruck, Bay ports. American corn No. 2 yellow, SOc; No. 3 yeldow. 79c, all rail.' Barley N'o. 3 extra, tost 47 Itos. or better, 55 to 58c, according to freights utside. Buckwheat Notiina!. Rye N'o. 2, (53 to (57-c. MtUfoed Del.,' Montreal freight, bafts inchuted: Bran, per ton, -?21: shoits, per' ton, $23; good feed .lour. Ontario wheat No. 2 white. S8 to 93.-, aocortlinjr f o freights ousi :->; ><"'. 3, SS to 90c. Ontario No. 2 white oats 35 to 37c. ! t'rtario corn Nominal. Ontario flour Ninety percent, pat./ in jute bates, Montreal, prompt - - !r.(-nt, $1.50 to $-1 (JO; Toronto ba.i:s. S-I..I," to $4.50; bulk seaboard, $4.UO i> )< I :!f>. >ianitoba floiii 1st pats., 1,1 cotton sacl's, $6.80 pev bbl.; 2nd pats., S(i.^0 Hay Extra N'o. 2. per Ian, trnck, ' Tcronto, $10; irixcd. $13.50 to SH; clover, $13.50 to $14; straw, $9, car' icts. Smoked meats Hams, nied , 2 f i to ;H:; cooked li.-un, -12 to 45c, smoked, rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage roils, ;>."> tn| 38c; breakfast bacon, 32 to 36c; spe- cial brantl breakfast bacon, 38 to 40c; : backs, boneless, 39 to 43c. Cured meats Long clear bacon,' $17; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $48; heavyweight rolls. $40. Lard Pure, itrces, ISV^c; tubs, 16c; pai's, 16^c; prints, 18>c. Shortening, Cheese New, large, 19H to 20c; twins, 20 '^ to 21c; trip-lets, 21. toi 21 He; Stiltons, 21c. OM, large. 23 1 to 24v-: twins, 24 to 24M-c; Sti^ons,! 25c. I Butter Finest creamery prints, 39' to 41'c; orddnary creamery prints, 35 t.i 37c. Dairy, 29 to 31 c. Cooking, 21c. DiYSv^ed poultry Spring chickens, . 30 to 35c; rccU>rs, 23c; fowl, 24 to :'.': ducklings, 22 to 28c; .turkeys, 30 to 35c. I Live poultry Spring chickens. 25c; Margarine 20 u J2 . Eggs No. 1 can ':.,!, of) t-j ."IK;- selects. 38 f; 39c; car .:,.-. IT to 46c Beans Canadian, h;- $4.25: |,rimes. $3.75 to $3. Maple products Syrup. rir imp. g:u.. $:'.2d: JUT 5 imp. tra!--., S2.10; mapCe siiirar. lb.. 20c. Honey 60-lb. tins, 13o pc-r ;'.>.; "- 2H-lb. tins, 14 to loc per lb; Ont ir;o comb honey, per doz. $3.75 tn $4^50. Pobatm;, New Ortarios. 80 to 90c. tierces, 13 to 13^>c; tubs. 13>4 tc lS%c; pails 14 to 14V: prints, Ifi 1 ^ to 1 7r. ('hoii-c heavy stet-rs. $7 ta $7.50; do, good, $o.50 to $6; do, med., 84.50 to $6.50; :,). com.. $3.50 to $4;'but-.her hi ifors. choice. $'> to Sli.50; do. med., $5 ;> $5.50; do. com., $4 to $4.25; birtcher cows choice. $4 to $; '! med., *:! t.) $.'!.. ")0; earner.; -m i uitt: rs. $1 to 2; butcher bulls, iro i, $3.50 to $4.75; do. com.. $2.50 to $8.50; feetkvs. good. ?") ! S."..7. r >: <U>. fair, $-1.25 to $4.75; st<x-kers, good, ?4.25 t.; $; d-o, fair, $3 to $4.50; milkers. $70 to $90; springers, $80 to $100; calves, choice, $10 to $12; do, med.. $8 t . $10; du>, com., $4 la $7; spring l:mii -=. $10.50 t. > 311; sheep, choice, $5 ta $(!; do, good, $3.50 to $4.50; <!,), o..m.. $1 t $3; yeiiriinf. cho-k-c. $7 to $8; do, com., $4 to 5; ho-gs. fc<l and watered, $11.50 to $12; do, f.o.b., $10.75 to $11.25; do, country points. $10.50 to $11. Montreal. Oats No. 2 CW. 52c; No. 3 CW, tiOc, Flour. Man. spring wheat pats., firsts, $<>.90. Rolled' oats, 90-lb. bags, $2.90 to $3. Bran, $20. Shorts. $22. Hav, No. 2, per ton, car lots. $17 bo $18. . . Cheese, finest easterns, lO^c. But- ter, ch'i,-<^- i-ri-amerv, 33c. Eggs, se- lected. 35c. Giood cows. $4; do, me<l., $3.40; good quality cutters, $2.25; com. light bulls, $2 to $2.26; calves, suckers, $8 to $8.75; grass calves, $3 to $3.50;. Iambs, guo<t lobs, $10 to $10.50; med. Iambs, $8 up; .sheep, $2.50 to $4; do, hijrh grade, $3.50; hogs, selects. $12 to $12.25; sows, choice, $9.50 to $10.60..