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A dcspntch fur/m ()ttax i slcads taken up. The total number The influx of settlers intv thc (hunt-‘01. "mries {Ur January was 2:698, as CS M”(murmured with 1,308 in January of 5151531 yo. 1', an increase of 1,399. Amâ€" _ ‘lci-icans led, with 913 homestead en- C’C’l’dS? R’v'W’W'LS N‘Ci‘lVV-‘l 1? the 1131' lilies, and there were, in addition, migration Department llldif‘élll‘l.l1{1tj43 rctui'uing Canadians from the the arrivals from thi> American ‘Ullltfltl States. Entries by Canadi- States. particularly from the Nmtlr ‘ mm totalled 66]. English immi- wcst, will exceed the Um‘. hundred Egi‘aufs‘ took 33] homesteads, Scotch ihousand mark. During the iii‘stffl. and Irish ‘39. The remaining month of the y,:-.‘ iherc has, been lr-l‘i horncstcads taken up during an increase of over one hundrcdlfim month were by people from. par cent. in the number of liome-‘olhez‘ European countries. diam wmt this yvar promis greatly surpass nil pi-m-iuus re.â€" IT IS BEUWNG A TORRENT Over $60,000 Enrnm‘l Durng Fifteen Months’ Existence. A despat-ch from Ottawa Says: According to a return talflad in the House on Friday, the net profits on silver and bronze coinage from the opening of the Ottawa. branch of the Royal Mint- on Jan. hi, 1908, till March 31, 1909, has bf‘i’ll $63,- 857. - The Stream of Immigration From the United States Is Increasing. Feared Epidemic May Spread to Quebec Province. A despatch from Montreal says: It is now feared that the epidemic of hydrophobia which prevails amongr the dogs of Ontario towns and cities has spread to Montreal. Inspector Innes, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Aniâ€" mals. has kept close track of the growth of the outbreak. It has been feared all along that the dis- ease would strike Montreal. For that reason no dog show will be held this year, and all the stray‘ dogé are being collected and de‘i stroyed. Their worst fears were‘ realized with the shooting of a. mad dog in Westmount by the West- mcunt police. The Society has is- sued a warning to the public. One School at Sault Ste. Marie Closed. A despetch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. says: The diphtheria epidemic has become so widespread here that one school has been closed and others depleted of pu- pils. The disease is gradually spreading through the 800, and the present mild weather, it is believ- ed. has resulted in an increase of cases, Considerable alarm is felt. It was suggested on Wednesday that moving picture shows and other places of amusement be closed. Steelton is also in the grip of the dreaded disease. it being even more prevalent there than in the Soc. 1 Friday that. the first slide occur- red, but it was a comparatively small one. A wrecking train was at once sent- out from Revelstoke to clear the track. About 100 men, mostly Japs, were engaged in this work, and while the gang was so employed another avalanche swept down from the mountains, over- whelming between 40 and 50 of the wrecking crew. For a, distance of over a. quarter of a mile (she track was covered with snow and ice to a depth of 30 feet, and the victims were buried beneath huge masses of snow. ice, rocks and timber. As soon as the news of the disaster reached Revelstoke a fire bell soun- a gang of workmen were 0 caning; a snowslide off the tracks a. mile west of Rogers’ Pass, a second avalanche swept down the moun- tain, carrying death and "destrucâ€" tion in its wake. The spot where the accident occurer is a very dan- gerous one, at the summit of the Selkirks at a place known as Rogâ€" ers" Pass, between Field and Golâ€" den. The U. P. R. track at this point passes through a gully, or what is generally" known as a “dip.” The mountains on either side rise to a height of some eight tlmusand feet. It was at noon on A despatch from Revelstoke, B. (1., says: At mifinight Friday, while FIFTY PERSONS ARE KILLED Go Down to Death By An Avalanche on the C. P. R. PROFITS OF THE MINT. Dll’fl'l‘Hlt M ONTREA L- A L.\ R ‘31 ED . ERIA FPID E H 10. 1:} rctm-ning Canadians from thé United States. Entries by Canadi- 1 I ‘mv; totalled 66]. English immi- grants took 33] homesteads, Scotch ‘ST. and Irish ‘39. The remaining ‘ 1‘5 homesteads taken up during stvads taken up. The total number of entries for January was 2,698, as (winnpmfed with 1,308 in January of 1 year, an increase of 1,399. Am~ enuans led, with 913 homestead en- h‘ix‘. and there were, in addition, Increase from 1860 to Present Repâ€" resented 4-51 [’01- Cent. A dcspatch from Ottawa says: The Census Statistics Bureau has prepared a. statement of the value of. the field crops of Canada at four stated periods. It shows that in 1860 the total value of the crops wau $95,701,643. In 1880 it, had in- creased to $158,403,533; in 1900 it grew to $205,071,914, while last year it- was $532,992,100 or an inâ€" crease of 45! cent. in 49 years. Dreadful End of a Montreal Man's chauch. A despatch from Montreal says: John Logan, a steamfitter, wound up a drunken spree at his home, at 24 Archambault lane, early on Friâ€" day morning, by upsetting the kit- chen stove, setting the houSe on fire. and burning himself to death. Logan was alone in the house, hav- inn; turned his wife and children out on Thursday. When the fire- mex- were called to put out the fire they found Logan’s body, badly burned, lying near the overturned stove. ‘ (Ira! other cases of the same kind have been reported and the police are on the watch for offenders. Other cases of the same kind are alleged to have taken place In some of the nickel shows. WbdnCsdaL some person unknown, deftly clipped them off above her neck, taking the silk ribbon which tied them. The little girl did not discover her loss until her return home. Then there were tears. Sev- Bold Robbery in a Large Store in Toronto. A despatch from Toronto says: A fifteen-year-old girl who lives on William street, gloried in a beauti- ful" head of hair. Two long, black braids fell down her back clear to the waist. Going through one of the large down-town stores, on The dead, so far as identified, are as follows :-â€"â€" Assistant Headmaster Fraser of Revelstoke, Conductor Buckley, Fireman F. Griffiths, Brakesman Mahon, Engineer Phil- lips, Engineer Portruff, F. Wagner, laborer; H. Martin, laborer. The bodies of twelve white men have been recovered and identified, ali of them living in the Vicinity of the avalanche. They were employ» ed in clearing the track when the slide came. The bodies of 37- Jap« 1111050 have also been recovered, making a total of 51 recovered to date, and it is feared that; a numâ€" ber of others yet lie amongst the thcusands of tons of snow, ice, trees and rocks piled high in the canyon. (lo-d, and within half an hour a relief train conveying physicians and over 200 railroad men and other citizens was enroute to the scene. The relief train had just passed Gonogle when a third slide occurâ€" rml, covering the track for some distance and damming the Wapita River, which runs nearby, but there was no further loss of life. When the relief train arrived at the Scone of the disaster no time was lost in the work of rescuing the bodies and clearing the track, a work that was rendered particularly trying by a fierce blizzard. FIELD CROPS OF CANADA. WAS BURNED TO DEATH THEFT 0F GIRL‘S HAIR. Chicago, March 8.â€"Cash wheatâ€"- N1). 2 red, $12214; N0; 3 red, $1.- 18 to $1.21; No. 2 hard, $1.15 to 1.15%; No. 3 hard, $1.12% to $1..- 15; No. 1 Northern, 851.17%, to $1.‘ 18%; No. 2 Northern. $1.15 to $1.« 17; No. 3 Spring, $1.13 to 31.15%. Buffalo, March 8.~Wheat'â€"â€" No 1 Northern, earloads store, $1.23% Winter, nominal. Cornâ€"Weak No 3 yellow, 63910; No. 4 yellow 610, No. 3 corn, 630; No. 4 corn‘ (303/30. Oatrszo. 2 white, 530; No 3 white, 510; No. 4 white, 50c. Bar- leyâ€"Feed to ma-lting, 71 to 77c. Byeâ€"No. 2 on track, 860. l Montreal, March 8.â€"Oats - No. 2 Canadian Western, 44% to 45c; No 3, 43% to 440; Ontario, No. ‘3 white. 440; Ontario N0, 3 white, 430; Ontario No. 4 white, 42c. Bar- ley-~No. 3, (500; No. 4, 580; feed ‘barley, 500. Flourâ€"Spring wheat :patents, firsts, $5.80; 010., seconds, 85.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.- 50 to $5.60; Manitoba strong bak- ers’, $5.10; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feelâ€"Ontario bran to $23; Ontario middlings,1 $23.50 to $24; Manitoba bran, $22; Manitoba shorts, $23; pure grain monillie. $31 to $33; mixed mouillie $27 to $29. Cheeseâ€"Westerns, 121/2 to 13; eastcrns, 12 to 12%(2. Butter â€"Choicest creamery, 2514 to 260. Eggs-Stiictly new laid, 300 per dozen. Baconâ€"Long clear, 14% to 150 per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $27 to $27.50; short cut, $29 to $29.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15% to 160, (10., heavy, 14% to 15c; rolls, 14 to 141/20; shoulders, 13 to 13%0; breakfast bacon, 18 to 181/20; backs, 19 to 20%6. I.ard~â€"Tierces, 15% to 160; tubs 16 to IGZC; pails, 161/4 to 161/20. Eggsâ€"421w lots of 110;»: léid, 30 to 31p per dozen, and storage, 256 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"430 per lb. for large, and at 13%0 for twins. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 21 to 23c; tubs and large rolls, 20 to 210; in- ferior, 16 to 18c; creamery, 28 to 29c. and solids, 2G to 20140 per lb. H(mey‘â€"Combs, dozen, $2 to $2.- 50. extracted, 1014; to 110 per lb. Baled hayâ€"~N0. 1 $13.50 to $14.- 50 on track, and N0. 2. $12 to $13. Baled stra‘wâ€"~$7.50 to $7.75 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"~45 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios. ' Poultryâ€"-Turkeys. dressed, 18 to 190 per 1b. ; ducks, 13 to 15¢; geése, 13 to 14c; chickens, 14 to 15c, and fowl, 1] to 12c. Apples~â€"$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€"Car lots outside. $1.85 to $1.95, and small lots, $2.10 to $2.- 20 per bushel. Branfi$22 to $22.50 in bags. To- ronto‘ and shorts at $24, in bags, Toronto. UNITED STATES MARKETS. C rnnKilmdried No. 3 Ameri- can. 72c, and No. 3 yellow, selected, 69 to 691/20, Toronto freights. Cana- dian com, 64 to 65c, Toronto freights. Oats~No. 2 Ontario white, 39 to 39%c outside, and 42 to 42120 on track, Toronto. Canada West oats 42 to 42,160. for N0. 2. and 41 t0 4111/20 for N0. 3‘ Buy ports. _ vv ~‘".} I’”" Peakâ€"No. 2 for shipme 83': outside. Ryeâ€">Nn. 2, 680 outside. Buckwheatâ€"51 to 52c 01 Barlewao. 2, 560 outside; N0. 3 extra, 53 to 540; No. 3, 50 to 51c, and feed, 480 outside. Oats~No. 2 Ontario white, 39 to Toronto, Mar. 8~Flourâ€"Winter Wheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.25 to $4.30 in buyers’ sacks on track, To- 1'onto, and $4.15 to $4.20 outside in buyers’ sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.70; second patents, $5.- 20 to $5.30, and strong bakers’, $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba \‘7hca£¥No. 1 Northern $1.13, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northâ€" ern. $1._ll,hBay port-s. Ontario [Whevatf Winter or white, side. THE W ORLD’S MARKETS REPORTS FROM TIIE LEADING TRADE CEL’TBES. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL rices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese at“! Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. THE D :\ IRY MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE HOG PRODUCTS. Wheatoâ€"No. 2 mixed red white, $1.07 to $1.08 out- x Buy ports. for shipment, 82 to 52c outside for V The last shots had been fifed by the night shift twenty minutes be- A despatch from Juneau, Alaska, says: Twentyâ€"three miners were killed on Wednesday night by an explosion of a powder magazine in the 1,100 foot level of the Mexican mine, one of the group of Treadâ€" well gold properties on Douglas Isâ€" land. Eight men were seriously in- juled and four of these may die. Killed Twenty-Three Men in Alaska Mine on Wednesday Night. } Montreal, March 8. ~ Prime beeves, 5% to 61/40 per 1b.; pretty good animals, 4%. to 51/30; common stock, 3 to 4%0 per lb. Superior 'milch cows, $60 to $05 each; other cows and springers, $30 to each. Calves from $4 to $15 each. or So to To per 'lb. Sheep, about 50 per 1b.; lambs (31/; to To per 11). Tm» Spring lambs sold for $20, or a lit- itle over 200 per 1b., live weight. ‘Hcgs, 9% to 9%0 per lb. Toronto, March 8.â€"*Business was dull and draggy, except for prime butcher cattle, for which thch was a. good demand. All tho choice stock was quickly absorbed and realized from $5.25 up to $6 for picked, well finished steers and‘ heifers. Good cows and bulls werel in strong demand, and realized high prices. Milkers and spring--l ers were active, a few extra choicel milch cows selling up to $75 each.l Sheep and lambs firm and unchangâ€" ed Hogs advanced another 15‘ cents. Selects were quoted at $8.- EXPLUSION "IN MAGAZINE t0 62%0; No. 3 yellow, 61}; to 62,530; No. 4, 55% to 570; N0. 4 white, 57 to 580; No. 4 yellow, 57 to 580. Oatsâ€"~No. 2, 461/40; N0. 3, 45%(3 to 460; N0. 3 white, 46 to 470; No 4 white, :15 to 460; standard, 47%c. Cornâ€"N0. 3. 620; No ta 62%0; N0_ 3 )1. 6‘21 3 Nn A 531/ +n vvy-...w~x.u at; u: ,â€" 875,590 ounmas, valued at $14,358.- 310. of which nearly thirteen miL lion dollars is credited to the Co- bals mines. There was a. slight do« crease in gold production, which toialled about nine and a half mil- A despatch from Ottawa says: The total value of the mineral pro« duction of Canada. during 1909 was a little over ninety million (inllars, an increase of nearly five millions as compared with the preceding year. Nearly all metals show an increased output, according to a‘ preliminary estimate contained in a report by the Mines Department. Thr, total production of silver durâ€" ing the year is estimated at 2’7.â€" $90,000,000 Worth of Mineiéals Prdduced in Canada Last Year. {mgtom says: Eiglity»six names are ‘now on the list of dead and missâ€" ing; passengers and railroad and postal employees, who were carried down by the avalanche which de- strcyed two Great Northern trains on Tuesday morning. Statements of the number of laborers fighting the snow, who were sleeping on the ill‘iated trains vary from 20 to 30. An estimate of 100 dead is conser- vative. All the dead were residents of the northwest. Of the injured, only Rev. Bishop Winget of Chicaâ€" go was from the east. No one who has seen the wreckage has the slightest hope of finding any of the missing alive. The explorations have uncovered none living, and some of the bodies are shockingly mangled. An avalanche of dry snow might have covered its victims alive, but the gorge at Wellington is packed tight with wet snow, ice, huge trees and glacial boulders of‘ enormous weight 01m MINERAL PRODUUTITIN 100 AVALANCHE VICTIMS‘ Lying Beneath the Tightly Packed Snow‘ and Debris. A despatch from Wellington Two of the bodies recovered were LIVE STOCK MARKET and a half mil- 3 white. , Wash- 62 Trump Found Broken Rail and ' Flagged Train. A dcspatch from Sudbnry says: lThom is a tinge of romance in con- flmction with the arrost here on Wednesday of James Donaldson, wanted on a charge of being an am ,ccssory to the murder of John Davis, of Parry Sound. on Monday night. Without funds. Donaldson, flflC'.’ assisting in tho arrest of the allcged murderer, fled to Parry Sound, \leking the (‘. P. R. tracks itowa-i‘ds Toronto: Fourteen lllllE‘S ffrom Parry Sound, ho discoveer a broken rail, the danger of which was plainly apparent. He stood at lthe spot and flagged the first train ‘thai came along and doubtless averted a wreck. The grzlicfnl con-i rluctor lu‘oughi: him to Siklblll‘fi‘,‘ :and the circumstances was reported to the local suj'wrintomloulr. in the hope of gel/ting; him work. It was while waiting in the C. P. R. sta-' [tion for some work that he was ar< I few the men were assembled at the elevator to go on top. The maga- zine, which contained 275 pounds of powder was 30 feet from the‘X place where the men were stand~i ing, but every man was killed 01“ injured. Most; of the miners were foreigners. The man in charge 0‘ the magazine had locked the (1001“ where the explosives were storefll and was standing with the other‘ men. He was killed. ' rested 90 f.0.b., $9.15 fed and watered. Some dealers think that hogs will reach the $10 mark before tho nonth is out. lions. The Yukon gold output last year is estimated at $3,960,000, an ‘increase of $300,000 over 1908. The metal product-ion of nickel from the Sudbury deposits was 28,845 tons, valued at the furnaces at $3,913,- 012 An increase of twenty per cent. is shown in production of pig iron in Canada last year as con» pared with 1908. The total pro~ duction was 757,162 tons, valued at $9,581,864, as compared with 630; 835 tons, valued at $8,112,194 in 1908. (foal and coke were produc- ed to the extent of 10,411,955 tons, valued at $24,431,351, a someth smaller production than in 1908, owing to labor troubles at the Nova Scotizb mines. A laborer was caught taking trinkets from a woman’s body, and he was compelled to start down tho trail at once. One hundred and fifty men dug for bodies in the de- ‘bl'lS all day. Among the bodies found on Thursday were those of eXâ€"Prosecuting Attorney R. M.' Barnhart of Spokane. lonductor J. L. Pettit, who, after a. trip on foot to Skykomish, went back to his post, and Mrs. M. A. (loving- ton of Olympia, who left Spokana' to celebrate her golden wedding in Seattle on Thu rsaay All Thursday a stream of men with packs strapped to their backs wound about the mountain path from Skykomish to Scenic and WeIâ€"‘ lington, carrying food and supplies for the injured. Some are digging for the bodies of friends or relaâ€" tives. Sightseers were told that they were not wanted. those of electricians who were living in a cabin at the edge of WeH lington, and who were carried three. hundred feet down the slope. (:00!) ACT LED 'l‘0 ARREST.