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THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. -.â€"â€"‘ BREADSTUFFS. Toronto. Jan. 13.â€"Wheatâ€"â€"The market is firmer. No. 2 white and red are quoted at 673- to 68c low Heights. No. 1 spring quoted at 684c on Midland. No. 2 goose quot- ed at 650 on Midland. Manitoba wheat steady; No. 1 hard dull at 870 grinding in transit, and No. 1 Northern at 85c git. No. 1 hard, 840 North Bay, all rail, and No. 1 Northern, 82gc North Bay, all rail. Oatsâ€"The market is dull, with prices easy. No. 2 white is quoted at 30 to 30§c low freights to New York. Peasâ€"The market is quiet. with No. 2 quoted at 72 to 729,L high freights. - Barleyâ€"The market is quiet, with No. 2 extra quoted at 450 middle freight and No. 3 at 42c middle freight. Cornâ€"Market steady. No. 2 new Canadian, 46c bid west; No. 3 new American yellow nominal at 52c on track, Toronto. Ryeâ€"No. 2 is nominal at 49c mid- dle, and at 48y: west. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 is quoted at 500 middle freight. Flourâ€"Ninety per cent. patents are dull at $2.65 to $2.67 middle freights, in buyers’ sacks, for ex~ port. Straight rollers of special brands. for domestic trade, quoted at 83.25 to $3.85 in bbls. Manitoba flour steady. Hungarian patents, $4.10 to $4.20, delivered on track, Toronto, bags included, and Maniâ€" toba strong bakers’, $3.80 to $3.90, Millfeedâ€"Bran, $15 in bulk here, and shorts at 517. At outside points bran is quoted at $14.50, and shorts at. $16.50. Manitoba bran in sacks, $17, and shorts at $1?I here. _.â€"t.. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beansâ€"Trade is quiet at unchanged prices. Medium brings $1.65 to $1.75 per bush, and handâ€"picked $1.90 to S2. 'Dried applesâ€"Market quiet, with prices unchanged at $4} per lb, and evaporated at 7 to 7lc. Honeyâ€"The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained, 8 to Bic per 11)., and comb, $1.50 to $1.75. ‘ Hay, baledâ€"The market is firm, with offerings limited. Car lots worth $9.50 to $10 on track, the latter for No. 1. Strawâ€"The market is car lots on track quoted $6.25 a ton. 'Onionsâ€"The market is steady at 40 to 45c per bushel for Canadian. Poultryâ€"The market for boxed lots continues quiet. Chickens, old, 45 to 550 per pair, and young, 60 to 75c; live, 40 to 500. Ducks, dressed, 70 to 85c per pair. Geesz, 7 to BC per lb; turkeys, 11 to 1250 . per II) for young. Potatoesâ€"The market is steady, with offerings increasing. Cars sell at $1 per bag on track, and small lots job at $1.25. quiet, with at $5.50 to UNITED STATES MARKETS. 13 .â€"-Wheatâ€" hard. 2 Minneapolis, Jan. May, 744} to 74am on track, 74fic; No. 1 Northern, 7330; No. Northern, 72%c. Milwaukee, Jan. 13.~â€"Wheatâ€"Firmâ€" er; No. 1 Northern, 76 to 761.1: ; No. 2 Northern, 74.} to 755C; May, 755‘ to 7553c. Ryeâ€"Steady; No. 1, 51c. Barleyâ€"Firm; standard, 60c ; sample, 4.0 to 551m. Cornâ€"May, 135m. Duluth, Jan. 13.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"â€"Cash, No. 1 hard, 75gc; No. 1 Northern. 72ic; No. 2 Northern, 70%c; May, "753a Oatsâ€"May, 34c. Dun‘alo, Jan. 13.â€"Flourâ€"â€"â€"Quiet, steady. Wheatâ€"Nothing doing, Corn â€"Stcady; No. 2 yellow, 530; No. 2 corn, 51c. Oatsâ€"Stronger; No. 2 white, 3721sc;No. 2 mixed, 35in Barleyâ€"4:9 to 62c. Ryeâ€"No. 1 in store, 57c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Receipts are fair, and the demand good for choice grades. We quote :â€"-Finest 1â€"l‘b rolls, 19 to 20c; selected dairy, tubs, 17 to 18c ; choice large rolls, 18 to 19c; sec- ondary grades, rolls and tubs, 15 to 16c; bakers, 13 to 14c; creamery prints, 23 to 24c; (10., solids, 20 to 22c. Eggsâ€"Trade quiet. Strictly new laid, 28 to 30c per dozen; fresh, 18 to 20c; seconds, 14 to 150. Cheeseâ€"Market continues firm, with good demand. We quote :â€"Fincst September, 13 to 13gc; seconds, 12 to 1291c ! IIOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are firmer, with carâ€" louds quoted at $7.50 to $7.55. Cured meats are firm, with demand fair. We quote :â€"Bacon, long clear, 10% to 11c, in ton and case lots. Pork, messI $21 to $21.50; do., short cut, $22.50 to $23. Smoked hams, 13 to 13lc; rolls, 11; to 12¢; shoulders, 11c: backs, 14 to 1413c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 14¢. Lardâ€"Market quiet, with prices un- changed. We quote zâ€"Tierces, 11c tubs, llic; pails, 1143c; compound, B: to 10c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jan. 13.-â€"Grainâ€"No. Manitoba hard wheat, 70c; No. Northern, 68c in store, Fort Wil- liam, December ; peas, 72a» to 73c high freights; No. 2 oats, in store here, 35 to 35§c, 30c high freights; rye, (if);. to 50c east; buckwheat, 50c east, in store. Flour-Manltoba patents, $1.20; strong bakers’, $3.90; Ontario straight rollers, $3.50 to $3.65; in bags. $1.70 to $1.75; pat- .ents, $3.70 to $4.10. Rolled oatsâ€" 1 Millers‘ prices to jobbers, S2 in bags, and $4.15 per bbl. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $17.50 to $18; shorts, 820, bags included; Ontario bran, in bulk, $16.50 to $17.50, shorts, in bulk, 31‘). Beansâ€"Quotaâ€" tions are nominal at $2 in cars. on track. Provisionsâ€"Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $24 to 25: short cut backs, $23.50 to 824; light short cut, $23.50 to 524-; compound refined lard, 8; to 91c; pure Cana- dian lard, 11c: finest. 12 to 1275c ; hams, 13 to 140; bacon, 14 to 15c ; dressed hogs. $7.50 to $7.55 ; fresh killed abattoir, $8.75 per 100 lbs. Eggsâ€"Selected, 280: candled stock. 20 to 20%;; Montreal limed, 17;c ; straight receipts, 185 to 19c: No. 2, lfiéc. Honeyâ€"Best clover, in secâ€" tions. 11 to 120 per section: in 10- lb tins, 9:} to 100; in bulk, 8c. Poultryâ€"Turkeys. 13c per lb; ducks, 10 to 12c; young chickens, 11 to 12c ; fowls, 850 per I‘D. Cheeseâ€"On- tario, 13c; Townships, 122C. Butter ’â€"Fancy Townships Creamery, 23c ; fine creamery, 22c; Ontario creamâ€" ery, 21c; dairy, 17c for selections ; Western Ontario rolls, 18c. LIVE STO CK MARKETS. Toronto, Jan. 13. â€"â€" Under the in- fluence of light receipts a stronger tone pervaded at the Western cattle market, export cattle gaining con- siderable strength. Hogs advanced 12§c also. Veal calves of good stock continue scarce, and in brisk demand. The milch cow market Was steady, and a. few sales were transâ€" acted therein. Sheep and calves were steady. The arrivals were .54: cars, consisting of 667 cattle, 554 sheep, 1,460 hogs, and 19 calves. Cattle. Export cattle . ...$4.50 $5.40 Do., light 4.25 4.75 Butcher cattle, choice. 3.75 4.50 Do., ordinary to good. 3.25 3.50 Stockers, per cwt . . . . . . 2.50 3.25 Sheep and Lambs. Export ewes, per cwt.. 3.25 3.40 Lambs, per cwt 3.75 4.50 Bucks, per cwt 2.50 2.75 Culied sheep, each . . . . . . 2.00 3.00 Milkers and Calves. Cows, each ...30.00 50.00 Calves, each 2.00 10.00 - Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt... 5.87} 6.12; Light hogs, per cwt 5.75 5.87:} Heavy hogs, per cwt... 5.62:} 5.877;, Sows, per cwt . . . . . . . . . 4.50 5.00 Stags, per cwt . , . . . . 2.00 2.50 â€"~_._..+_..\... SAMPLES OF GRAIN. Another Distribution Will Be Made This Season. An OttaWa (lespatch says: By in- struction of the Hon. Minister of Agriculture another distribution will be made this season of samples of the most productive sorts of grain to Canadian farmers for the improveâ€" ment of seed. The stock for distri- bution is of the very best and has been secured by the Director of the Experimental Farms from the excelâ€" lent crops recently had in the Canâ€" adian Northwest. The distribution this spring will consist of samples of cats, spring wheat, barley, Indian corn and potatoes. The quantities of cats, wheat and barley to be to The samâ€" sent this year will be sufficient sow one-tenth of an acre. ples 0; Indian corn and potatoes will weigh 3 lbs. as heretofore. Ev- ery farmer may apply. but only one sample can be sent to each appliâ€" cant, hence if an individual receives a sample of oats he cannot also reâ€" ceive one of wheat, barley or pota- toes, and applications for more than one sample for one household canâ€" not be entertained. There samples will be sent free of charge through the mail. Applications should be addressed to the Director of Experiâ€" mental Farms, Ottawa. and may be sent in any time before the lst of March, after which the lists will be closed, so that all the samples ask- ed for may be sent out in good time for sowing. Parties writing should mention the sort of variety they would prefer, and should the. avail- able stock of the kind asked for be exhausted, some other good sort will be sent in its place. 4â€"...- RATS CARRY DISEASE. Responsibility for Spread of Bu- bonic Plague Fixed. A Victoria, B.C., despatch says :â€" Dr. Fagan, secretary of the British Columbia Board of Health, who went to San Francisco to investi- gate the reports regarding the hu- bonic plague, has made a report to the. British Columbia Government in which he states that a. force of men is employed at San Francisco in dissecting rats, and rats that have been found dead have shown Hague bacilli when examined, lie recomâ€" mends that strict quarantine be maintained against vessels arriiing from San Francisco. -â€"-â€"â€"-§â€"-â€" , Two hundred \thousnnd Mauser rifles_ have been ordeer for the Turkish army. GREAT DURBAR REVIEW. Men of Many Tribes Pass the Royal Party. A Delhi, India, despatch says The Viceroy, Lord Curzon of Ked- dleston, and Lady Curzon, and the Duke and Duchess of Connaught on Wednesday reviewed the retainers of the ruling chiefs in the Durbar arena. The variety of costume and para- phernalia afforded one of the most Striking pictures of the Durbnr fes- tivities. Contingents from all parts of Greater India participated, most- ly retaining the distinctive features of their customs. The flags and other emblems of the State of Cutch were carried on camels and elephants, accompanied by armed men on stilts, while Arab irregulars danced past the Viceroy to the music of their own instruments. The famous gold and silver guns of the State of Baroda attracted much at- tention. The ancient Mahratta flags. descended from the Mogul Emperors, were borne past on an elephant car- riage. The martial Rajputs were clad in mail armour. State bands, camel kettleâ€"drums, richly capariâ€" soned elephants and horses, and agile Before swordsmen, many shouting battle cries, followed one another in quick succession. A royal elephant car- riage, two storeys high, showed how the palace ladies accompanied the princes of bygone days. The retinue of the State of Kashmir included a fine detachment of curassiers and a huge giant. The great Sikh were represented by large, soldierlike bodies of men armed with maces, spears. matchâ€"locks and handâ€"gren- ades. Each contingent was headed by an elephant bearing a gorgeous howdah, in one of which the sacred book of the Sikhs occupied the place of honor. The book was guarded by the chief priest. The venerable Chief FARMERS ’ OPINIONS 0n the High Tariff vs. Low Tariff Question. Low tariff and high tariff letters in about equal proportions appear from week to week in a Montreal paper. In the last received two Northwest farmers express their opinions. One of them signing himself "Pam" ud- vocates free trade. He says "Whether duties are high or low, two vital points must be considered as to who pays them or who gets them. llere I call to mind a remark of the present Premier when the Germans were threatening to place extra duties on Canadian stuff that they would pay them themselves, showing his opinion to be that the Government would simply take them from its own people and the Cann- dian would not sell his goods for less than usual. This would certain- ly be the case. The internal wheat raiser, say would raise his price and another section of the community would pay it, and the importer from other parts would take a like ad- vantage. We may possibly make the foreigner pay us a duty by putting it on an export, if he can get the article no cheaper anywhere else and he must. have it. Then he may bring his factory here to get the benefit and send the product across. Then our Government to save the situation must put an excise on it. If his own Government also exacts a duty it will make the product ex- tremely dear. The manufacturer can- not export unless he can sell at a price that will pay the duty and leave him a fair living. Here he is helped out by the local dealer, who, according to fair repute adds the duty to what he could easily sell for internally and then wonders why the Nabba, escorted by men mounted on richly caparisoned horses, and ac~ companied by bounds and hawks, was a striking feature of the dis- play. which for wealth and coloring, diversity of components and number of spectators may be considered to have been the most brilliant of the Durbar display. hâ€"â€"-â€"+â€"â€"_â€" KING OF SPAIN SHOT AT. While Driving in a Carriage From Church. A Madrid despatch says: An atâ€" tempt Was made on the life of King Alfonso on Saturday night. A man ‘fired at one of the carriages of the Royal cortege. Nobody was hurt. As the King and the Duke of Soâ€" tomayor, Grand Chamberlain of the Court, were returning from church, a man who was standing in the street fired a shot from a nistol at one of the carriages. He was imâ€" mediately arrested. Nobody was struck. The King, on hearing the report, put his head out of the carâ€" riage window, but his mother imâ€" mediately pulled him back into the body of the vehicle. The prisoner when questioned gave his name as Feito. He said he inâ€" tended to kill the Duke of Sotoâ€" mayor, at whose carriage he aimed. His pockets contained the visiting card of the mayor of Madrid, reâ€" ceipts for several registered letters. and some unposted letters, marked “registered,” addressed to President Roosevelt, King Edward of Great Britain, the Kaiser, the Czar and the president of the High Court of Justice of Mexico. Feito said his 'infe was a French woman, and that at one time she had him confined in a lumatic asyâ€" lum. He said he was not an Anâ€" archist. He made his statement to the examining magistrate with perâ€" foot composure, but his wards and actions slhowed clearly that he was out of his mind, “_§_.__ BIG FIRE IN LONDON. $40,000 Damage to the McClary Works. A London, Ont., despatch says : Fire u‘id $40,000 damage at the Mtâ€" Clary works here on Friday night. Originating by friction in an oiling machine in the tinware department, it spread rapidly to the upper floors of the fourâ€"storey building. Two hundred employcs at work were com- pelled to beat a hasty retreat, but all got out safely. The fire was conâ€" fined 10 the department in which it. originated, chiefly owing to the pre»‘ sence of fire-proof walls. The fire service of the city was again proveu to be inadequate, and it is probable that. in this matter the fire will have a good en‘ect. The heavy ma-z chinery on the ground floor of the , damaged building was all saved. and i the. firm state that they will be in a position within a week to resume operations upon the usual scale. They have a large stock of mam”: acâ€" tured goods, which escaped the flames, and claim that they will not‘ be crippled by the fire. During the progress of the fire, Chief Roe was buried beneath a falling piece of cornice. and had a marvelous escape from serious injury. The loss is covered by insurance held in a num- ber of companies. 5__ Owing to the intense cold the wa- lter froze in the hoseâ€"pipes while the llire brigade was endeavoring,r to ex- tinguish a fire recently at Marion- burg, Prussia. Prof. Koch goes to Rhodesia to study the cattle plague for the Briâ€" tish Chartered South Africa Com- pany, andreceives asicompensation $250 a day and expenses. foreigner gets in and dins at the politician for more protection. The result is the same, only the purâ€" chaser has more to pay for the article, home or foreign." Another Northwest farmer writes as follows :â€"â€"-"I came over the bor- der a year ago with my brother, as we had heard much of the cheap farms not many miles from Wetaski- win and are Well satisfied with this country, ’but We miss the manufac- turing towns we had so near our farms in Illinois. The great quesâ€" tion here is the cost of transporting our farm products on the raiIWays and on the ocean to distant marâ€" kets. If there were factories in Al- berta a large consuming population would soon grow up in this territory and we would not need to trouble ourselves very much about trans- portation. Alberta has every naâ€" tural advantage for ‘becoming a great manufacturing country. There is coal in abundance, the swift little rivers coming down from the moun- tains furnish cheap water-power. We know what protection has done for the farmers of the United States in building up manufacturing towns near them. My father bought his farm in Illinois for five dollars an acre. He recently sold it for one hundred and fifteen dollars an acre. The increase in price was due to the growth of manufacturing towns in the State. My father’s farm was not near enough to the town to be sold in town lots. Its increased value was entirely due to the better market for farm products. However a friend of ours had a farm quite close to a manufacturing town. As the town grew farm lands were re- quired for workingmen's houses and he sold his farm to a real estate syndica_te for five hundred dollars an acre. The syndicate divided it into building. lots and I have heard that they made quite a pile of money out of it. If the Canadian Government would put up the tarifl as high as the United States tarifi' We would soon have plenty of factories in Al- berta. I was surprised to see in one of the Canadian newspapers that when the American farmers now pouring into Albert-a became Canâ€" adian citizens they will force the Dominion Government to adopt free trade. Why should we vote for free trade in Canada when we have been voting for high protection all our lives in the United States ?" ___+_ DECREASE OF PUBLIC DEBT Six Months’ Revenue on Account of Consolidated Fund. An Ottawa despatch so} 5: For six months ended December 31 Canada's revenue on account of consolidated 1‘fund amounted to $31,262,862, givâ€". ing a surplus over all expenditures combined of 57.580190. The reve- nue exceeded the ordinary expendi- ture alone by $11,7l3,174. Comâ€" pared with the same period of 1001 the revenue shows 0. gain of $3,579; ‘ 007. The increase of ordinary ex- penditure during the same-period was only $467,457. The capital exâ€" penditure totalled $1,123,975, or 82.577233 less than for the Six‘ months of the previous fiscal year. A decrease of $1,510,270 was made in the public debt. tam. BEA-NS FOR FUEL. Are Burned in Indiana. as a Sub- stitute for Coal. South Bend, Ind., despatch savs :â€"In South Bend anthracite or bituminous coal cannot be had at any price. People are burning beans aty$1.50 a bushel. and are satisfied that they are getting the worth of ,their money, as the beans make hot fire. A a I NEWS _ inns. Telegraphic am From All Over the Globe. CANADA. Lord Strnthcona has to Brandon College. The Socialists will establish a co~ operative fuel yard in Peterboro'. Marconi is flashing messages across the Atlantic in oneâ€"tenth of a sec- ond. The police estimate that $500 in blogus money is circulating in Ham- 1 ton. An Ontario charter has been grant- ed to the Marconi Wireless Tele- graph Company. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada is applying for incorporation at Ottawa. ‘ Till; earnings of the C.P.R., G.‘T.R. ant ntercolonial for 1902 were $75.- 675,842, the largest yet recorded. The Department of Fisheries will probably allow traps to be used for catching salmon in British Columbia. The officers of the Wellington Rifles have passed a resolution protesting. against the proposal to reduce the regiment to eight companies. Mr. Wm. Mackenzie has confirmed. the report that his firm has acquired interest in valuable concessions of4 11,000,000 acres in Venezuela. Andrew Carnegie has offered the town of Paris $10,000 for a library, proViding the town contributes $1,- 000 annually for maintenance given $1,000 Captain Bernier has written the Vancouver Board of Trade that he w1ll start for the Pole from there and will build his ship there if he is given $10,000. Toronto is to be the headquarters of the work looking towards the construction of the Quebec and Lake Huron Railway. It will be run in a. 'direct line from Quebec to French 'River. The Railway Committee of the Privy Council has ordered automatic electric bells to be installed at the crossings of the highway in the vil- lages of West Lorne and Rodney by the Lake Erie and Detroit and Mich- igan Central Railways. Mr. Willard R. Green of .Montreal, organizer of the Canadian Marconi Company, says that it is the comâ€" pany’s intention to compete with ex- isting telegraph lines, and that he expects that a. complete system of wireless telegraphy will be in oper .ation in Canada. next summer. GREAT BRITAIN. King Edward and Queen Alexandra will make a. cruise in the Mediter- ranean in March. Prof. Lorenz, the famous Vienna surgeon, was enthusiastically re- ceived in England. A series of balloon ascents for re- connoitering purposes has been in- augurated at Aldershot. A larger number of important or- ders, aggregating 40,000 tons, have been placed in the Clyde shipbuild- ing,r yards. A Peterborough man has developed acute anthrax as the result of a scratch sustained while examining a dead bullock. Representatives of the Irish land- lords and tenants have agreed on a plan to settle the land, question, the success of which depends upon the payment of £60,000 yearly by the Imperial Government. The London Morning Post, in an article headed “An Object Lesson from Canada," suggests that techni- cal schools as managed in Canada might afford a remedy for the weak: ness of English country schools. UNITED STATES. Detroit has voted $50,000 to pur- chase coal for the poor. to he sold at. cost. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill into Congress smitending for a Iperiod of 90 days the duties on coal imported into the United States. Wolcott, N. Y.. is afflicted with an epidemic of carbuncles and boils. llore than twenty persons are afflict- ed and one has died. At Keystone, Nevada, the manager of a copper mine shot and killed three and wounded three others of twehe men who attacked him. in an addre-s at Washington, Mr. 5Carnegic said he had on band 800 new applications for free libraries, and \\ orild likely grant them all. Thirteen persons dead and seven seriously injured is the reCord made by the use of toy pistols in Norfolk, ;\"a., and vicinity, since Christmas Day. A letter has been receiver] by the {First Baptist Church of Somerville, iN. J., from a man who says that he istole 31.50 from the church when a ‘boy; he sent $25 to pay the debt. 1 Sentiment prevented 34 wealthy 'families from accepting an offer of $2,000,000 for the property of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. in Treâ€" ~inont strcet, Boston, in which Danâ€" riel Webster worshipped. The demand for a wage increase varying from 15 to 20 per cent., ,which is to re made by all the bi- ,tuminous coal miners of the country iin the latter part of this month, {will aggregate $2,000,000 a year. j A gang of robbers created much excitement in the western part of {Chicago .on Wednesday night, One ‘of them, an exâ€"policcman, was capâ€" ;tured during a robbery of asaloon. and later three of his companions who had escaped, robbed another so.- Izo'on and killed the proprietor.