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020,000,000 Canada’s Naval Defence Act to be Passed in Early Part of Session; A despatch from Ottawa. says: It was semi~omzfally announced on Thursday afternoon that» the bill to give effect to the decision of the defence conference will be intro; duccd at an early stage of the sesâ€" sion, and will be entitled the Naval Defence Act. It will be followed by proposals for the construction of twelve vessels of cruiser and deâ€" stroyer class, nine of which will be placed on the Atlantic and three on the Pacific. This will involve a. capital expenditure of twenty mil- lion dollars, as well as an annual outlay for maintenance and upkeep of over three million dollars. While no decision has been reachâ€" ed as to where the new navvy shall be built, strong pressure is being brought to bear upon the Governâ€" ment. to ask Parliament to consider the desirability of expending the whole sum in Canada under the Prospector Traced Vein for Over Two Miles. A despamh from Edmonton, Ai- berto, says: A prospector just in from the Peace River canyon, which lies beyond the great divide a. short distance, brings in news of a reâ€" markable discovery of mica in that distant and isolated country. He prospected a vein for over two miles, and found it to average about fifty feet in thickness and of un- known depth. The quality is re- markably fine and it can be lifted in great- sheets of the purest ma- terial. The mica is worth from $25 to $100 per ton, a price which makes this mine richer and more important ias a. commercial commodity than any gold mine discovered. It lies just beyond the divide at the foot (-f Mount Selwin. Man Who Pretended to be Mr. Ron Gets $170 From Cashier. A despatch from Montreal says: man walked into the store of A. Rea & (30.. St. Catherine street, on Friday afternoon, and, repre- lenting himself to the lady cashier as being Mr. Rea. said he wanted $170 in a hurry. The young lady, it is said by the secret service men, handed over the money without any hesitation, as the man was well dressed and seemed to be well ac- quainted with the business. Reports at Discoveries Received in Toronto. A despatch from Toronto says: The Ontario Department of Mines has received reports of material gold discoveries in the district sur- rounding the township of Whitney. Soigreat is the interest that al- ready, according to the depart- ment’s advices, there are 500 prosâ€" pectors in the field. The route to the gold field is by the Driftwood River, a, tributary of the Abitibi. The field lies west of Night Hawk Lake, near Porcupine Lake. Mr. Thos. W. Gibson, Deputy Minister of Mines, states that samples of the ore show visible gold, and some plwces in the district are said to be rich in the precious mineral. The department is making investiga- tions. VANUUUVER TIMBER DEAL United States Company Pays $1,500,000 for the Property. ’A despatch from Victoria, B. 0., uays: One of the largest individuâ€" al timber deals in the history of Western Canada. has just been closed whereby the American Finâ€" ance and Securities Company, of New York, purchases from the Caâ€" nadian Pacific Railway 54,000 acres of timber lands on Cowichan Lake, Vancouver, B. (7., for approximateâ€" ly $1,500,000. This is said to be the finest tract of timber remaining 1n British Columbia. The. timber, winch consists largely of fir, is of an unusuall; dense growth: Ex- perts who were employed by the New York company report that the timber averages more than 90,000 Laet to the acre and that the tract GOLD FINDS IN THE NORTH. GREAT MICA D EI’OSIT. A CHERRY THIEF. supervision of British experts loaned to Canada for that purpose: The details as to the proposed training ship and enlarged dry docks have not yet- been worked out. The Admiralty is said to take the View that bigger docks are more a. necessity than the construction 01' a fleet, but it is hoped that some arrangement on this point will be reached before Parliament meets. The other legislation will in- clude bills to amend the bank act, to amend the insurance act, to raw tify the French treaty, and it is hoped as a result of the coming conâ€" ference. between Mr. Lemieux and the British Postmasterâ€"General in England next week to include a. bill for the reduction of cable rates in, the session’s business. There will also be a bill to amend the ‘militia. act, to give effect to the imilitary end of the defence confer- ence An Increase of Fifty-three Per Cent for August. A despateh from Ottawa says: The total immigration into Canada for the month of August this year was 15,387, as compared with'10,- 082 for August last year, an in- crease of 53 per cent. The immigra- tion from the United States was 8,024, as compared with 4,684 for August of last year, an increase of 71 per cent. The immigration by ocean ports was 7,363, as compared with 5,398 for August of last year, an increase of 36 per cent. The toâ€" tal immigration for the first five months of the present fiscal year was 105,636, as compared with 90,« 385 for the same period of last year, an increase of 17 per cent. Well-Known Ottawa Business Man Run Down on Railway. A despatch from Ottawa says: Waker M. Barry of the firm of Har- risvfic Barry, furniture dealers, and a well-known business man of Otâ€" tawa, was killed here on Saturday afternoon. He was crossing the Grand Trunk yard and was run down by a shunting engine. He died in the hospital a. few hours later. Deceased was 44 years of age. Deliberate Act of a Russian Boy of Fifteen. A despatch from Canora, Sask, says: Georgina Downs, an Engâ€" lish-speaking girl, thirteen years of age, was disembowelled by a shot fired from a gun in the hands of a. Russian youth, fifteen years old, on Wednesday. He deliberately pointed the gun at the girl exclaim- lng, “Your money or your life," at- thc same time pulling the trig- ger. He claims he did not know the gun was loaded. Neighbors in the absence of the girl’s father, who is away working in the Mani- toba harvest field‘s, came to Canora. for a doctor. who went out accomâ€" paniedby Constable» Wilson of the at Montreal on Thursda contains approximately 5,000,000,â€" 000 feet of mverchantable lumber. h. N. W: M. P. to investigate the matter, but the girl was dead. Cowichan Lake is about 100 miles north of feattle and 22 miles from the nearest point of the Nanadmo and Es-quimalt, Railway, a branch of the Canadian Pacific. It is sti- pulated in the contract, that the purchasers are immediately to erect a. mill with an annual capacity of at least 100,000,000 feet, and that the railroad is to build a branch line from Cowichan harbor into the timber. The Canadian Pacific tiniâ€" ber holdings in Vancouver are all Crown grant lands, and it has al- ways been the roud’s policy to sell its timber only where the purchaser will agree to operate the properties and guarantee a certain amount of traffic over the line. WALTER M. BARRY KILLED. BrigadierrGengi‘al Buchan died IMMIGRATION RETURN S. GIRL SHOT DEAD. :Ly. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Oct. 12.â€"-Flour - On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents) $11 to $4.05 in buyers’ sacks on track, Toronto, and $3.90 to $3.95 outside in buyers’ sacks. Manitoba, flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10, and strong bakers’, $4.90 to $5 on track, VToronto. Mafiitoba; Wheatâ€"No. 1 North- ern, $1.01%, Bay ports, and No. 2 qutherp at $1, Bay port-s. Barleyâ€"No: 2, 56 to 570 outside], emf! Nag extrz}, 54 to 55_c_outsxde. Ontario wh-e'atlâ€"NJ. é mixgd, 96 to 970 outside, and No. 2 whlte, 97 to 980 outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, new, 37 b0 37%0 outside. New Canada West oats, 37% to 158C spot, Bay ports. Peasâ€"82 to 850 outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 69 to 700 outside. Buckwheatâ€"55 to 5650 outside. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, 68% to 690 on track, Toronto: for shorts in bulk. COUNTRY PRODUCE. APP1e5-$1 to $2.75 per barrel, avcgordingifiq quality. Frankâ€"$18 to $19 o‘utside in bulk for Ontario bran, and 3520-50 to $21 Beansâ€"Prime», $2.25, and hand- picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Honeyâ€"Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3_;_ extracted, 10¢ per 1b. Hay~No. 1 timothy, $15.50 to $16 a ton on track here, and N0. 2 at $14 to $14.50. Strawâ€"$875 to $9.50. Potatoesâ€"55 to 60c per bag on track for Ontario, and at 75c for New Brunswick. Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 12 to 130 per 1b.; fowl, 10 to 11c; tur- keys, 17 to 19c per 11).; ducks, 1b. 11 to 130. Eggsâ€"Case lots, 24% to 5.550 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"~12‘Ac per 11). for large, and at 12%0 for twins. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Oct. 12.â€"-New crop oats, No. 9. Canadian Western, 41% to 420; old crop oats, No. 2 Cana- dian Western, 42 to 42%0; barley, No. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba feed barley, (54 to 650; buckwheat, 55 to 551/230. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, sxecâ€" ends, $5.20; Winter Wheat patents, $5.50; Manitoba strong bakers’, $5; straight rollers, $5 to $5425. straighb rollers, in bags, $2.35 to $2.50. Feedâ€"~Ontario bran, $21 to 22; Ontario middlings, $22.50 to $23.50; Manitoba bran, $21; Maniâ€" toba shorts, $23 to $24; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $25 to $27. Cheeseâ€"Westerns, 11%t011%c; easterns 11%to Ill/go. Butterâ€"Finest creamery, 241/2c. Eggsâ€"Se}ected stock 25% to 260; No. 1 candled, 22% to 23c; No. 2, 16 to 190 per dozen. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 21 to 220; tubs and large rolls, 19 to 200; in- ferior, 17 to 18c; creamery, 25 to 25%c, and solids, 21 to 22c per 1b. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15% to 160; (10-, heavy. -14 to 14%0; rolls, 14% to 150; shoulders, 12% to 13c; backs, 181/, to 200; breakfast. ba- con, 17 to»18c. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€"Long clear, 15 t015%c per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $26.50 to $27; short cut, $28 to $28.50. Lérdâ€"Tierces, 150; tubs, 15%0; pails, 15%0. 1 Northern, $1.05 to $1.06; No. 2 Northern, $1.03 to $1,05; No. 3 Spring, $1 t, . $1.04. Cornâ€"N0. 2, 60% to 60%0; No. 2 white, 61%12; No. 2 yellow, 60% 120 60%0; N0. 3, 60% to 60,140; No. 3 yellow, 60% to 60%c; No. 4, 59% to 59%0. Oats-â€" No. 3, 39c; 3 white, 38% to 393/10; No. 4 white, 38 to 39¢; stanâ€" dard, 41%c.. Chicago, Oct. 12â€"C‘ash wheat, â€" No. 2 red, $1.18; No. 3 red, $1.08 to $1.16; No. 2 hard, $1.06 to $1.- 12; No. 3 hard, $1.04 to $1.08; No. Minneapolis, Oct. 12.â€"Wheat â€"- December, 99% to 99%0; May, $1» 02% to 31.02%; No. 1 cash, lard, 31.01%; No. 1 Northern, $1.01; No. ‘2. Northern,-990; N0. 3 Northern, 97 to 98c. Flourâ€"First patents, $5.20 to $5.30; second patents, $5 to $5.10; first clears, $4.35 to $4.55; second clears, $310 to $3.30. Bran -~â€"In 100â€"11). sacks, $19.50. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Oct. 12.â€"â€"Prime beeves UNITED STATES MARKETS TRADE Revenue and Expenditure for the Last Six Months. .A despatch from Ottawa, says: The financial statement of the Do- minion for the first half of the pre- sent fiscal year shows an increase of $6,526,297 in revenue as compar- ed with the first [six months of 1908- 09. On the other hand, the expen- diture on consolidated fund account decreased by $1,098,335, and on capital account by $802,582. For September alone the increase in revenue was $1,570,709, while the total expenditure decreased, as compared with September of last year, by $2,584,275. Judging by the figures of revenue and the expendi- ture for the first half of the year, sold at 4% to 5c per 1b.; pretty good animals, 3% to 41/2c; common stock, 2 to 3%0 per 1b. About a, dozen lean old cows were sold at $9.50 each, or 1%0 per lb. Calves 3 to 5%0 per lb. Sheep, 31/2 to 3%c per 1b.; lambs, 5% to Go per lb. Good lots of fat; bogs sold at 9% to 9%0 per lb. Toronto, Oct. 12.â€"â€"Anything real- ly good that could be picked out sold quickly from $4.85 ’00 $5; fair to medium loads at $4.20 to $4.60; :11; other grad-es were easier, but everything on offer was sold. The demand for feeders was strong, with prices firm for good bulls, steers and heifers, but. the light rough stock were a shade lower- Milkers and springers were in ac- tive demand for good quality. Calves steady. Sheep and lambs were steady to firm. Hogs weak, owing to the poor quality, but anything of good weight and qua- lity sold at $8, fed and watered. Farmer Discovered Treasure Valu- ed at $50,000. A despatch from Ogdens‘burg, N. Y., says: A farmer named Vost- burg, living near Champlain while plowing on Tuesday, turned up a, quantity of gold coins, tarnished by the weather and dirt in which they reposed. Digging farther, he found more coins than he could carry home at one time. Their value is estimated at $50,000. It is believed the treasure was buried by persons who stole it from the British army which camped near Champlain during the Burgoyne campaign. The robbers probably lost their lives subsequently and One Hundred Thousand Dollars in McGill University. A {lespatch from Montreal says: It is announced that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has made a donation of $100,000 to McGill, following a promise that if $500,000 were raised from other sources he would cap it by giving $100,000. The $500,000 came from Lord Strathcona in July, and now Mr. Carnegie fulfills his promise. The whole is part of the $2,000.000 fund for which McGill has made an appeal. Fall of Four Inches. (he Earliest on Record. ' A despatch from El Paso, Texas, says: Snow fell generally on Friday in the Texas Panhandle, the earli- est; fall in the history of that sec» tion. Four inches is reported from Dalhart- Ho ofiiefiknew what they had done with their booty. ' BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE A despatch from Buffalo says: A steel viaduct over the New York Central tracks, near the Elk Street Market, was blown up by dynamite at 1 am. on Thursday morning. A heavy charge of the explosive was used and a. large section of the structure was twisted and shatter- ed. This is the fifth dynamite out- rage that has occurred here with- in a year, all of them being on structures worked by other than Fifth Explosion Within a Year on Works Manned by Non-Union Men. union men. The Elk Street viaduct was being SNOW GENERAL IN TEXAS. PLOWED UP A FORTUNE. MR. CARNEGIE’S GIFT. the surplus for receipts over ordin- ary expenditure at the close of the year should be the largest on re- cord and Mr. Fielding’s budget esâ€" timate of the probable increase in. revenue is likely b0 prove to be sev- eral millions too small. The main figures for the month and for the six months are as fol~ lows :~ Revenue â€" September, $8,- 853,659; six months, $47,353,819. Ex- penditure on consolidated fund ac- countâ€"September, $5,210,213; 8‘): months, $31,583,393. Expenditure on capital account‘râ€"Sept/ember, $3,- 967,321; six months, $13,213,063. 7 The lief, debt of the Dominion on September 30th was $320,698,464. Wide Extent. of Country Has Been Devasta-ted. A despatch from Winnipeg says! Prairie fires are raging in various parts of Alberta and Saskatche- wan, but details are scarce. One- third of the Government Park near Wainwright, A1t&., was burned, but the buffalo are safe. Another [is fire is rushing towards the park at. present. Many homestveaders in both Alberta and Saskatchewan have suffered loss. lvlvll V; vaâ€" .‘ ed over a week ago on Dog Creek Indian Reserve. Since then it has burned hundreds of square miles of prairie sod and timber. A large quantity of hay has already been destroyed. Several settlers have lost stock, houses and stables, and narrowly escaped fearful deaths. On three or four days of last week the sun was completely hidden by smoke. The whole population in that region is greatly alarmed, be- cause nothing but heavy rain can extinguish the flames. If a hum wind arises the whole country be- tween Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg may become the prey of the flames. \nuvvv ~u---- V A despatéh" {mm Oak Point, Man, says: Fire is raging 32 miles north of Oak Paint- It _was Etal‘t‘w German Government to Ask for Loan of $125,000,000. A despatch from Berlin says: The Imperial Government will ask for a loan of $125,000,000 in the beginning of 1910, the Tageblati said on Thursday in its financial article, to cover deficits. This ac- counts, according to the news- paper, for the recent tendency to sell Imperial issues on the Boerse. A despatch from Ottawa says: At the Council meeting it was de« aided to summon Parliament for despatch of business on Thursday, Nov. 11th. Branlford Trustees Find System Causes Friction. A despatch from Brantford says: After several years of experiment the Brantford Public School Board will do away with the school saving system. On the ground that too much teaching time is taken up and the pupils fail to show interest in the system. Dr. Ernest Shipman urges Canaâ€" dians to secure a share of the Panar ma, trade. Cabinet Decides Parliament Shal) Meat November 1}. built by the S. J. McCenn Com- pany, of Mercer, Pa., who do prac- tically all their work on the open shop policy. The last outrage here was directed against the same firm. A large construction car and hoist- ing crane, owned by them and op- erated at the Elk Street viaduct, was wrecked ‘hy a. charge of dyna- mite that had been placed under- the boiler of the engine. wi‘Tévérii‘ests havg "been made in connection with any of the job: pulled off here. ABOLISH SCHOOL SAVING. DATE DEFINITELY FIXED. T0 COVER DEFICITS. PRAIRIE FIRES.