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Prices. of Grain, Cattle 1n Trade Centres Toronto, August 4.â€".\\tha'£â€"â€"’1‘he market is quiet. for Ontario grades. No. 2 white and red Winter quoted at, 75c on low milling rate, Manito- ba wheat is firm. No. 1 hard sold at 91c Godcrlch, and No. 1 North- ern at 90c Goderich. No. 1 hard 97c grinding in transit, lake-and rail, and N0. 1 Northern at 96c. Oatsâ€"The market is quiet, \vjth Flourâ€"Ninety per cent. pa'tents quoted toâ€"day at. $2.80, middle freights, in buyers’ sucks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at $3.25 to $3.45 in bbls. Manitoba. flour steady No. 1 patents, $4.20 to $4.30; first Cox'IPMarkct is firmer. No. 3 American yellow quoted at file on track, Toronto; No. 3 mixed at 604}, Toronto. Canadian corn purely nominal. (air olioi'ings. No. 2 white, quoted at 30 to 3045c high Heights, and No. 1 white at 32c cur-:t. Barloyrâ€"Jl‘rudc is quiet. No 3 ex- tra quoted at 43c middle freights, and N0. 3 at 40 to 410. ‘ Ryaâ€"Thc market is steady at 52c middle freight for No. 2. Peasâ€"lh‘ade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 61 to 620 high freight. and at 630 east. bakers‘, $3.90 .to $4, and "strong bakers’, $3.80, Toronto. Millfeedâ€"Bran steady at $17, and shorts $18.50 here. At outside points b‘ran is quoted at, $15 to $15.50, and shorts at $17. Maniâ€" toba. bran in sacks, $18, and shorts at $21 here. Beansâ€"Trade is very quiet, with prices nominal. Prime white are quoted at, $1.75 a. bushel. _ Frayâ€"The market is quiet, with deâ€" mand slow. No. 1 old timothy is Worth 311 on track. Toronto, and Potatoesâ€"The ofi‘orings are fair and prices unchanged. Loads are quoted at, 500 per bushel, and small lots at 650 per bushel. THE MARKETS medium grades $9 to $10. No. 1 new is nominal at 89 here. Strawâ€"«The market is quiet at $5.25 to $5.50 per ten for car lots on track. 'prsrâ€"Trade dull, with prices nom- inal at 17 to 20c. Poultryr-The market is steady. Chickens, 60 to 750 per pair; ducks, 70 to 90c per pair; turkeys, 12 to 130 per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Buttextâ€"The receipts of butter con- tinue good, and prices generally un- changed. Wo quoteâ€"Choice 1-1b. rolls, 15 to 16c; selec'ted dairy, tubs (uniform color), 14 to 15c; seconâ€" dary grades (store packed), 12} 'to 13c; creamery prints, 18 'to 19c; solids, 17% to 18c. Eggsâ€"The market is quiet. We qu‘ote: Strictly new laid, 144» 'to 15¢; fresh (candled stocks), 14c; sec- onds and checks, 10 to 110. Cheeseâ€"There is very little doing, with prices unchanged. We quote:â€" Finest, 9; to ICC; seconds 9} to 9ic. Dressed hogs firm. Cured mea'ts are steady, with a good demand, We quote : Bacon, long clear, 10 'to 10§c in ion and case lo'ts. Pork, mess, $19 to $20; do. short out, $21. Smoked mamaâ€"Hams, 18 to 134}c; rolls, 11436; shoulders, 1045c; backs, 15 'to 15$; breakfast bacon, 14 to 141.1,0. iardâ€"Market is unchanged. Tiex'ces 9&0; tubs, 9&0; pails, 10c; compound, 8 to Be. Montreal, August kâ€"Grainâ€"Peas,‘ 63c high freights, 72c here; rye, 53c east, 58§c afloat here; buckwheat, 484; to 490; No. 2 oats, 38k to 390, in store here; flaxsecd, $1.15 on track here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 524w; corn, 60:: for No. 3 yellow American. Flourrâ€"fllfanitoba patents, $4.20 to $4.30; seconds, 33.90 to 34; strong bakers’, $3.50; Ontario straight rollers, $3.50 'to $3.60; in bags, $1.70 to $1.75: p8.- tents, $3.75 to $4. Feedâ€"«Manitoba bran, $19; shorts, $21 to 822, bags included; Ontario bran, in bulk, $17 to $18; shorts, in bulk, $20 to $21; middlings, $21. Provisions-JHaeavy Canadian short cut pork, 322,50; short cut back, $22; light. short cut, 521.50; compound refined lard, 84} to 91:; pure Canadian lard, 10'to 19%; finest, lard, 10; to 11ic;hazns, 13s} to 144.30; bacon, 14 to 15c; live hogs, $5.75 to $6; fresh killed abattoir hogs $8.50. Butterâ€"ll‘mvnships cremnery, 18:} to 18:21:: Quebec, 18:; Cl'emnery, 181} to 18%c; Quebec, 18c; “\estern dairy, 1‘50. Eggs~â€"Cnndled, 15 to 170; straight receipts, 14% to 15c: No. 2, 12gc. Cheeseâ€"Ontario, 9ic for White and 9&0 for colored; Townships,'9§c; Quebec, Bic. Hloney -â€"lWIhite clover, in sections, 11 ‘to 12¢ per seQion; in 10â€"1b. tins 81:. UNITED STATES MARKETS. \\'h( N0 '79 [orthc Milw ‘irm. Minna Dul Nol‘t BUSINESS AT MONTREAL COUNTRY PRODUCE LQflpOliS, Minn., Aug. 4.â€" ‘â€"July, 87c; September, 771l to Dec., 76ic; No. 1 hard, 8750; Northern, 845 to 85k; No. 3 3m, 81 to 84c. 'aukee, Wis, Aug. 4,â€"fW'hcatLâ€" No. 1 Northern, 883C; No. them, 86 to S'c'éc; new Sept., quâ€"«Steudy. No. 1 52 £0 Barleyâ€"Dull. No. 2, 58 to .unplo, 37 to 52fic. Cornâ€"Sept rn HOG PRODUCTS Minn. , Aug. 4.â€"«Wheat Edge: No. 2 Northern Sfific; Sept:, 89136; Dec quiet, \vjth white, quoted (Ii etc Bufl‘alo, N.Y., Aug. 4.â€"Flourâ€"- Firm; light demand. thaflâ€"«Wlntor strong; No. 1 white, 7,0c; No. 3 ex- tra, 76%; Spring, dull; No. 1 North- em, 9050; No. 1 hard, 92. Cornâ€" Stx'ong; No. 2 yellow, 57k; No. 2 com, 56%. Oatsâ€"Unsealed; No. 3 white, 38:0; No. 2 mixed, 36gc. Bar- leyâ€"‘Wostern in store, quoted 52 to 57C. Ryeâ€"No. 1 old in store, 58 asked. Canal freightsvâ€"Steady. St. Louis, 1310., Aug. Ilaâ€"Wheat closed 1â€"Cash. 792C; July, 78%c; Sept, 793C; Dec., 81c. Toronto’, Aug. 4.â€"4Recoipt.s of live stock at, the Western Cattle Market were large, 78 car loads all told, composed of 934 cattle, 1145 hogs, 1666 sheep and lambs, with about 50 calves. Trade was gcâ€"md for all of choice quality, but slow and dull for all of common to inferior quality. Butchers’ catitlé of good to choice quality were firm at, quotations giv- on below. Prices for expor'tcrs and butchers of good quality hold firm at Tues- day's quotations, when quality is taken into consideration. There was not enough shipping cattle to supply the demand. The highest quotations were for two loads of exporters purchased by Dunn Bros., weighing 1275 lbs. each. at $5.121} per cwt. The run of sheep and lambs was large, but prices remained about steady at quotations given. Deliveries of calves were not large and prices remained steady. Receipts of hogs were large. $6.25 was paid for selects and $6 for lights and fats. The quality of exporters offered, of which there was a limited nunu'er, was none too good. Only a limited number of stockers and feeders were offered. The de- mand for them was none too good and prices were easy at quotations given. Export Bullsâ€"Choice quality bulls sold at $4 to $4.25 per cwt.: good bulls sold at $360 to $3.80 per cwt. Exportersâ€"Best loads expor'tcrs are worth $5 to $5.12; per cw't.; medium to good at about $4.75 'to $4.90. V A few mil'7h cows and springers sold at $30 to $50 each. Expor'tj Cowsâ€"Export cows sold a}, $4.00 per ow't. Butchers‘ Cattleâ€"Choice picked lots of butchers, weighing from 1025 to 1100 lbs. each, equal in quality to best exporters, sold at $4.65: loads of good sold at, $4.40 to $4.50; fair to good, $4.25 to $4.35; common, $3.75 to $4.00; rough to inferior, $2.65 1:0 $3.25. Stockersâ€"Oueâ€"year to two-year old steers, 4.00 to 700 lbs. each, are worth $3 to $3.40 per cw't'.: on”- colors and of poor breeding quality of same Weights are worth $2.75 to $3 per cwt. Feedersâ€"«Steers of good quality, 800 to 1000 lbs. eaCh. at $3.40 to $37.75 per cwt. Milch COWSâ€"much cows springers are worth $30 to each. ADVANCE IN LAND PRICES. Returns of Transfers by Compan- ies in the West. A Winnipeg despaich says: The immense number of land transfers which have been taking place recent- ly was shown to-‘day when the Land Department of the C.P.R. issued its regular monthly statement. During July the company disposed of 267,â€" 647.32 acres, for $1,020,404.70; for the same period last year the sales amounted to $562,876.50, which sum was received for 155,344.93 acres. The Canadian Northwest Land Company disposed of 21,500 acres for $140,400 during the same period against 20,850 acres for $128,000 in June, 1902. Since the beginning of the year this latter company has sold 220,000 acres for $1,100,000. Calveaâ€"Calves sold at $2 to $10 each, or from $3.50 to $5 per cwt. Sheepâ€"Primes, $3.65 to $3.75 per cwt. for ewes, and bucks at $2.75 to $3.00. Sheriâ€"keep Feedersâ€"«Good steers, 1100 ,to 1200 lbs. each, are worth $4 't'o $4.25 per cwt. The great advance in the price of land which is current in Winnipeg and all over The Northwest, strange to say. has not yet been felt in St. Boniface, but it will be, for the Town Council of the venerable caâ€" thedral town approved of the plans ofiered by the Winnipeg Electric Railway to construct and operate 13} miles of street railway there. The contract will be signed by both corâ€" porations, and work will be com- menced at once. Mr. Munson stated he upected the railway will be in operation by October 1. Spring $2.50 'to Report of the Discoveries in Peace River District. Am Ottawa. despatch says :â€"-â€"The statement that steam coal had been found in the Peace River district is confirmed by Mr. Hugh Campbell of Cow Bay, C.B., who has arrived here after some months of prospect- ing in the region referred to. Mr, Campbell was successful in staking out an area. of coal lands upon which he calculates there are 250,- 000,000 tons of good coal. This is in the district near Hudson HOpe, not far l'x'mn the entrance to tho GREAT FIELDS OF COAL. LIVE Lambstâ€"Prices Ste $4 each. ady at STO CK MARKFJI‘S and $50 THE HOUSE OF UUMMUNS Notes of Proceedings in the Can- adian Parliament. ject. The viously in his great 1 and compc The commissioners are to make a yearly report to parliament, and their accounts of receipts and ‘exâ€" penditures are to be audited by the Auditor-General. The agreement between the govern- ment and the Grand Trunk Pacific Company consists of 50 clauses. The company is to Construct the western division, from Winnipeg to the Pacific coast, and lease from the government and operate the eastern diViSion, the construction of which the government shall commence as soon as the surveys and plans have been made and the line located, and shall complete with all reasonable despatch. The company is to commence loca- tion and construction of the West- ern division immediately and com- plete it by Dec. 1, 1908, putting up $5,000,000 as security, the money to be returned when the division is opened in order to facilitate its com- to be returned when the division is opened in order to facilitate its com- plete equipment. ' For seven years the company is to have the use of the eastern division free of charge, paying all operating expenses and expense of maintenâ€" ance. For the balance of the 50â€" year term of the loan it is to pay the government 3 per cent. annually as rental. If for the three years beâ€" tween the 7th and 10th years the earnings are not sufficient to pay the interest, the arrears of interest are to be capitalized and addut to the total sum on which interest is to be paid for the remaining forty years. The company is to have the right to renew the loan at the end of fifty years for a. further fifty-year term, provided the government does not Wish to operate the road. The company is to spend twenty million dollars in rolling stock, of which five million dollars’ worth skull be for the eastern division. The eastern division is to be open to any railway company upon terms fox" running powers to be fixed by the government. Other companies are 'to have running powers over the western division on terms to be fixâ€" ed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Comâ€" pany and the government, and the company is also to have running rights, at reasonable rates, over the Intercolonial. The fixing of these rates, in case of disagreement, will be left to arbitration. The capital stock of the company is to be fortyâ€"five million dollars, twenty millions preferred and twenty five m'illions common stock, the common stock, to be taken by the old Grand Trunk Railway Company. Interest on the bonds. of the prair- ie section equal to the cost of Con- struction 'to be paid in full by comâ€" pany. The government Will for seven years pay interest on the cost of its construction of the mountain section up to $30,000 per mile. For the next three years if the government continues to pay the inâ€" terest on the bonds, the sum so paid shall be capitalized and repaid to the government with interest at 3 per cent. per annum. For the re- maining forty years, the company defaults in paying interest on the whole of the bond issue, the govern- ment will pay it, taking up the couâ€" pons and ranking as a bondholder to the amount thus paid as a guar- antee of the company. The company is permitted to issue bonds. to be included in the authorized issue dur- ing construction of the western secâ€" tion. T'hc government guarantees the bonds on the prairie section up to $13,000 per mile: and on the mounâ€" {ain section up to $40,000 per mile, .the bonds to run for fifty years at 3 per cent. interest. The company GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC npany is bound to buy its and supplies and equipment ""hcn they can be obtainâ€" the the are the ed as readily and cheaply here abroad. not specie the shipp through C Canadian be no higl‘ ports. ' The company is to provide ample shipping to take care of the through traffic inward and outward, and shall send all traific it. can lawfully influence and comtrol to and from Canadian ports. The government is to furnish the company free right of way through government lands for its western division, and is to have one repre- sentative on the company’s Board of Directors. COMPULSORY VOTING . COMPULSORY VOTING. Mr. Charlton's bill to amend the Meetion law will be recommended to the House by a special committee who have been consir‘leringr the mens- ul‘c with certain amendments, Mr. Charlton’s proposition for putting an end to election corruption has been adopted with great unanimity. One of the purposes aimed at is to accomplish compulsory voting. The man who (loos not vote and has not sufficient reason for abstaining is disfranchised for six years. “This provision," said Mr. Charlton, "will "attic the brigade that sit on the fence and wait to be bribed at elec~ tion time.” Official Report From the North- West Territories. A Winnipeg despatch says: The Wheat and other crops in the North- west Territories are estimated to be in good condition, and to he the largest in the history of the coun- try. The Tcrritorial Department of Agriculture has issued bulletin No. 8, conditions being brought down to date, July 15. The report covers the sixteen districts into which the agricultural belt is divided by the department. The total thap crop is estimated at 15,042,000 bushels. Last year's was 13,956,850 bushels, and the next previous 12,808,447 bushels. Before that the crop was inconsider- able. The total Wheat acreage is 727,998, that of the no?“ previous years being 625,757 and 504,697, re- spectively. The yield is lighter than last year, but still a. good one. The Calgary district is reported as having had perfect conditions all along, and another district is ten days earlier. The oats acreage is 365,719; the next largest being last year's, 310,- 367. The crop is estimated at 11,- 803,000 bushels, the best yet, the next largest, that of 1901, being 11,- 113,066 bushels. The barley figures are:â€" Acreage, 42,446; last year, 36,445; crop esti- mated, 1,116,300 bushels; last year, 870.417 bushels. Flax, as well, is the best, yet, and indeed. shows the best of any of the other Territorial crops. The acreâ€" age is 27,599, against 17,067 last year. The estimated crop is 234,- 500 bushels, against 258,185 bushels last. year. spans the Williamette .HIVCI‘ hl lapsed on Friday afternoon. tating more than.one hundr ple forty foot into the water people are known to ha drowned, and it is" feared th list of dead will be much Many fell on two small boat moored to a pier of the bric mediatoly under the spot wl gave way. About 25 were either by striking on the boa‘ or by falling timbers. Ma from the roofs of the boat-ho to the water, but dozens c boats and launches in the quickly picked them up. Th of people had gathered t< Clarence Lutz, .an armless ma the river, which is abou .cighths of a mile wide. A Buffalo, Ne Y., despatch says: Patrolman Michael Dowd was shot and fatally wounded by a 16-year- old boy early mi Thursday. One bullet entered the patrolman's breast just above the heart. The second bullet penetrated the abdomen. and entered the cavity of the stomach. Dowd discovered the boy attempting to remove some potted plants from in front of a house. He made a. rush toward the boy in an el‘l‘ort to cap- ture him. The boy eluded his grasp and ran. Dowd chased him through back-yards and was almost upon the young thief when the boy turned and fired two shots. DoWd fell, fatally wounded. Sergt Vogt had joined in the chase and was not far behind DoWd when he fell. The boy fired a shot at him, but it went wide. Vogt ran to assist Dowd and the boy escaped. Tragic Death of a Policeman in Buffalo. And Hurled One Hundred Into the River. says climed rushed bridge SHOT BY A BOY THIEF. BRIDGE COLLAPSED. company agrees that. when acically otherwise ordered by lippcr, it shall carry freight [1 Canadian territory and to an ocean ports, the rate to higher than via United States A RECORD CROP. Portland.‘ Oregon. C A section of the bridg the Williamette River h‘ on Friday afternoon. more than.one hundr rty foot into the watex in order to of a 11 out of the to the mom: is to furnish the 2 right of way through lands for its western l is to have one repre- 1 the company’s Board Wat much larger. all boat-houses, the bridge, im- spot where it :5 were injured. the boat-houses rs. Many fell 1t] he vicinity Thousands to watch man, swim )out three- have been that the pr ‘ed spatch which of ccipiâ€" peo- I‘hree col- in- all Dominion Department of_AgricuL ture Gives Some Hints On the Subject. MUST BE DONE BY COâ€"OPERA- TIVE ASSOCIATIONS. THE PACKING UF APPLESJ The English merchant does not like to handle small lots and experi- mental pnckages, says Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, Chief of the Fruit Di~ vision, Ottawa. He Wants thousands of barrels, all uniform in quality. variety, packing and package. This uniformity, however, cannot be se- cured where packing is done in small uniformity, however, cannot be se- cured where packing is done in small quantities in orchards! The time has arrived in the history of the upâ€" ple trade in Canada when large packing houses must be the order of the day. Whether these large pack- ing‘houses are controlled by coâ€"oper- ntivc associations or by capitalists who have a. knowledge of the apple business is a matter of comparative indifl'erence. It does, however, seem quite possible for intelligent growers to unite in (toâ€"operative associations and secure all the advantages that accrue to the capitalist, as well as those that come by packing in large quantities. These store houses are not necessarily expensive buildings. quantities. These store houses 0.113 not necessarily expensive buildings. They should be frostâ€"proof and large enough to accommodate the full crop of the patrons. It is not at all difficult to get plans that have worked well in other parts of the country. The aim should be to secure as large a. quantity of good stock as possible, to grade it uni- iormly, mark it honestly according to the requirements of the Fruit Marks Act, and sell through any medium that may offer the greatest advantages. There is not the slight- est doubt that if such an associa- tion were formed in any of the fruit districts and such a. packing house established. it would attract buyers from every market, and the apples could be sold for spot cash. It is simerely to be hoped that the good business men among the apple grow- ers will take this into their serious consideration. It is not merely a question Whether their OWn apples will be sold at the proper figure or not. They should be. even for their own sekes, deeply interested in the sale of their neighbors' apples. A not. They should be. even for their own sakes, deeply interested in the sale of their neighbors' apples. A careful analysis of the conditions of the trade will show that prices in fruit especially are often sadly (164 pressed for the Want of selling abili- ty on the part of the small grower. It therefore behooves the more intel- APPLE BLIGHT. A number of reports from widely separated districts, complaining o! the ravages of the apple blight. have been received by the Fruit Division, Ottawa. Mr. Peter Anderson, I-Iep- worth, Ont, thus describes the situ- ation in his localityzâ€" "Apples, both early and winter, are sull‘ering from a new disease here. A blight struck the blossoms when in full bloom and withered them as if they had been soorched by fire. it is now withering the small twigs and limbs in the same way. The tops of the trees look as if fire had been applied to about onehali oi the smaller branches until the leaves were all crisp and brown, and even the wood, as far as this extends. is evidently dead." Mr. Arch. MacColl, Aldboro, Ont.. writes that many orchards in, his locality are almost completely ruined by blight, and that many trees will have to be cut out. It is difficult to explain the origin of this trouble, but it is evidently of a bacterial nature. It appears to live over the winter just in the mar- gin of the all‘ected part, near the healthy wood. and not in other parts ligent and larger grower to interest himself in the fruit of his‘lcss fortu- nate neighbor. I perio gin of the all’ectod part, near the healthy wood. and not in other parts of the tree or in the soil. Mr. W. T. Mucoun of the Experimental Farm agrees with Mr. MacKinnon, Chief of the Fruit Division, that the only remedy is to cut out the blighted branches well below the uli'ectcd part, say one foot below any appear- ance of blight. The knile used for this purpose should be thoroughly cleaned or sterilized before being again used on healthy wood. It is ro'rtunate that the dise dies out of its owu ac: ly in the case of the b undut condx for the ol manure s< growth of RUSHENG the full one ng all the b1 ything which :rowth of suc noticeable 1nd that 1 mt out th am: will 1t 'bt. The knue used- for a should be thoroughly sterilized before being on healthy wood. It is tat the disease sometimes its own accord, especial- so of the body blight. It rdis full T0 CANADA. oon as c. It w 11L} fall T l' l’l‘ou' th ill 1t, which lSG 1b