Lethbridge Daily Herald (June 9, 1911)

              Lethbri.dge. Alta..
TEAMSTERS
ARE GIVEN
SUPPORT
Traces and Labor Coun-cil
End
Demands
lorse Their
BRICKLAYERS, TOO
\
Delivery Wagon Drivers
to be Put on Same
Basis
BOW ISLAND'S
THIRD BIG
WELL
Gas Flows in Huge Quant-ities
From new
>ource
With Proper Weather Conditions a Huge Yield is Assured in
Territory That was Practically Bald Prairie Four Years Ago
—District of Fine Homes and Enterprising
Never Looked Better
Farmers—Country
E. Coste. of Toronto, president of !
Judging by the tone of the meeting lhc Prairie Fuel (Jas < • < > . , which has j
Of l i i c Trades and Labor unions held , a franchise to supply natural gas to:
In st. night in,, the labor temple l-he ! this C1t}', was in the city last n i g h t , ;
labor situation in the city is once i leaving for Calgary this morning. !
more si rained, arid ihe outcome does I whilc in tne cil>' ^r- Coste told of j
not look any too bright at present. | lht- company striking gas in its third '
(The object 01 the meeting was t o d e - j u e 1 1 at Bow Island at a depth of 1,-
Wil .sou
A Y c l l s
Xe\v . D a t o n
200.000 bushels
200.000 bushels
170.000
500.000
busJir
bn si 10
}Iilk River ....... ; .............. >
.400.000 bushe
250.000 bushels
50.000 bushels
1.825.000 bushels
CRi
WINTER
WHEAT
Very Optimistic Report
Reaches Government
From South
(Special to the Herald).
Kdir.ontoii, .June A.—From reports
supplied by a thousand correspondents
throughout the province, the depart-ment
of agriculture is now engaged
hi the preparation of its first crop
b u l l e t i n of 1911 season. This bulletin
Agricultural Society Held
an Important
Meeting
RACE TRACK
j To be Fixed up and Made
One of the Best in
Canada
take in connection with the cst of anv struck vet.
s t r i k e of the .newly organized Team- Wllile in the cit-v. Mr- Coste did
Ler-hbridge planning: for the
| grandest exhibition ever held in
'Southern Alberta in barely two
months, the directors bestirred them-which
will be issued in a few daysjselves lasc night at tbeir regular
will tell of niiiformly favorable grow-i monthly meetin&. and planned out
ing conditions, we'll To the average citizen an estimate 'hand, and far in the distance, and one growing- in scores of fields. The farm , ... : advanced g*r.a-.i.n. ,ia Iarge amount of w°rk ^hich must
of a crop of nearly two million bush-|l s im-uressed *'ith our S'Jorious lieri- of every farmer who neglects to kill j aad largely increased crop acreage ini t > e
pis from nnint* aim,~ r r -, 'l taee and inwardly hopes that Death's j this weed, as well as other bad weeds, i *U ih? thirty-seven districts "into
SILTS u.ton, which was declared on j noi see mayor A«ams or tne council^* from points along a line of rail- :summons will be Ion- delayed until jsliould -be decorated with a sign bear-! which the province is divided.
June 2. After discussing thc situa- j about the proposed change in the (road that four years ago was uot pro-it l l e fliture development of the country i ing these words in letters as larse as! ''N""t in vears has there been sue-in
—" - ' - ' - • ' •"—»»•'-- — -.-- :, ,:,..„, ... . ,Qessed w€ are still only jpainter can paint and board " c a n ' a l,ri«h! crou outlook at thi, ^J1^ been heM back s° far on the oth-jscratching
the soil, for even though {carry: "I am a careless farmer. .My
h to cridorsc the action of the! a1- ils meeting last Tuesday. A. \V. ,!(-ne irrigated area around Stirling, j the fields of grain seem abundant in [land is losing in value
done in order to have the new-grounds
in shape for the event. They
are well pleased with the progress al-i
ready made on the main building, but
Lhal all the unions voted unanimous-U»e communication from the company Iducins auy grain at a11' except from is
teamsters in tlieir stand for higher j Dinffn«an. -who is looking after
•wages. The bricklayers also voted to j company's interests here, spoke
si and by their previous decision n o t i c e on the subject.
theseems almost ridiculous but the troub-it h e i r n'imber -and extent, the un-care."
to I touched prairie is vast, far greyer in
mayor
to use any brick or other material Adams told him tha t as far as he
on the jobs .they are now working on
except- what- w:is drawn before the i to submit the bylaw asked for to the j cent crop prosp
•strike was declared.
From present indications
le with the "average man" is that heju.s she than the land that is pro'dnc-hasn't
seen the country this year and (
iriS'.
s concerned, he would be willing j has no idea, whatever, of the raagnifi-! Coming within sight of
The figures siv-!fields with, noxious weed,
Alfalfa Ready to be Cut
Around Stirling- are many fine loo?:-
ling fields of spring grain especially
Stirling. |In the viJ5age the gardens are surpris-mustard.
'irigly well advanced and the alfalfa
l.r,sh! crop outlook at tins stage L. work on acount of the lack of the
hnr , „ -r , , ll'" SL'aSO'!- Said Ge°- Harcom, therewithal. 'However, the $100,000
but 1 don t j deputy minister of agriculture. Mr. voted some thne ago is now at tkr
| l i a r c r , u r t is superintending compila-tion
of the crop bulletin. Not. all
the reports of the crop correspond-e
n t s have been received as vet, but
disposal, and at last night's meeting:
they made arrangements for the ex-penditure
of most of it. The main
business before the meeting was to
people if the company, would agree Jen provide, of course for the continu- i"cve into s!ght and the farmers who ! is almost ready for ihe "first cuttinn.
no ac- to ™nccl Ulcir f™cllisc j>" «'<•' rat
tion will bf taken ir: the matter by
-thc unions until the material alreadv
payers voted against thc new bylaw.
Mr. Dingrnan did not seem particu- I
jance of the present ideal weather con-litions
and the falls of rain in proper
witli
11 to grow are fairly soaked : in the neighborhood of Letbbridge
condemnatory adjectives. It 'several fields of alfalfa also looked as
i li ar li v f , - i t - I - drawn is used. It is just possible '<lU)™nk' u> l l l is ib in• . madei -
that the .difficulty will be settled be-j "° definite repl-v- Tl>c mayor thought-fore
that .time, but the different team lllis a ^air
"'the'
i quantity between now and
seems an outrage upon Providence.-though they could be cut at any mo-harvest
! f hat He who has given this country men t no.w.
jsuch a blessed land, should have crea- i A very prosperous looking farming
the majority are how in and coudi-! reach some decision regarding' the
tions reported aro most satisfactory, (race track and the erection of the. ne-
Jn portions of Southern Alberta op- Cgssary stables and pens for the live
pressed by drought last ' year, fall !s{:ock exhibit, and for this purpose R.
wheat is now safe with sufficient E- McArthur, engineer, and E.E. Gar-moisture
already to carry it to ma-l
u r i t y . An average rainfall during the
ver,- architect, were present.
'Mr. McArthur reported that he had
owners are non-committal when
subject is-broached. A- 15 percent, in-crease
in the wages of the teanrsters
siii'lUy means that they will have to
raise their schedule of prices to cov-er
the amount, and thus the onus
•will fall on the general public, II
iliey were not paying as high or high-er
wages than those paid in the oth-er
cities of Alberta they say that
they would feel at liberty to concede
the? increase, but as the matter stands
they refuse to take any action. An-other
thing about which they feel ag-grieved
is that they were given hard-ly
three days' notice of the decision
of the teamsters to go on strike if
their demands were not met.
Another point raised at the meet-ing
last night had reference to the
to .be paid delivery men
th is
plenty or
there are
other
would be clad to
companies
set a franchise
With a fair rainfall this month and ;tu«s upon that-land who are so care-
,Iess and lazy as to allow grain and
which -July the farmers on the Coutts line 'soil to be, ruined this weed. Re-region
is that tributary to Weils Sid-g.
U is only a few years ago since
supply gas to ""'•'the- city on the terras
this company has.
t o l w i l i harvest a crop of 1,825,000 bush- j member;: that T? every field you see r
the AVells farm was the onlv one in S^n crops.
i;rrsri.T. month is all that is required j'oolced °ver the present race course,
to ensure a f u l l growth'of all other ancl .fou"d -° faults msMy. It is
too low in comparison with the re-ihat
now most of the
APPEAL WAS
LOST BY
CITY
A. R. and I.
A trip through this strip of territory
some careless neighbor who has per-mitted'
tlle
almost double the amount ever |mustard' the owner o^be particular leouatry-seems to be under cultivation
harvested .from bpth branches of: the |P!eee °f la»d Is/nor to blame. It is Kight'ai the siding lhe Alberta Farrn-
With an early start, the: best of !™^Qder of ^e^rounds, and tie ^ad
weather, and increased acreage there!
"> believe that the
•had been
too
done, .there
ing Co. has an elevator and -f.-'iio | ~ ~ ~ ' " " " ""?'w~"' "ft-s".1"."--*"***-^^ r^ar^r Over he bad '*e~iae'£i- •'-ha^
. -. - , , . , to seed and TliejacreS on both side* of the track be-1 "ne m" the hest ever .harvested _in Al- ^ ^ ^practicable* to" " "" " ' " "
between Letbbridge and the American !^._t0 ^^^f^^\ over the I^ng to it. On the 'brow Of a hill east j 1"5)~en"'a - ' Mimpmucaoie
boundary ^ a revelation,
of occupied land is either
Li-erv b'•i^t !i c. o,untry, onto the farm of some care-
jreen .." wi..t.h• ' nil farmer. In several cases farmers
of the track is one of the. most sub- j
-ntia] farm homes to be found in
grain or brown with the soil that is lllad t0 ploilgh "p 'tlieir winter wheat' |«ie south, and it is there the alert
being turned up by the ploughs. The "tha spring- to kill the mustard, which |manager of the company; Mr. Golds-farmers
themselves are most optimis-tic—
and why shouldn't they be, for
•appeared on their farm, through no
snce of their own. -Still, with
worlliy, lives. On this farm there are
15SO acres in winter wheat, 21'So acres
and See
average Lethbridge citi-izen
know that on unirrigated land, al-
Thc city lost its appeal against thc j most at his very door, ~is one of the
| decision of the Supreme Court in jmost productive districts in the coun-a
n f l ! the action brought against it hy J. j t r y ? Eight miles south-east is what
never did conditions point to a more !aM- the warnSn-=* ancl a]1 the lessons jin spring- wneatf and m in oats, Sev.
bountiful harvest. i taught in the past, mustard is seen jeraj hundred acres of the spring
Get — • - ' iwheat:
Does the _ . _,_
NOTHING BUT
THE BiLU SAYS
T'HE PRESIDENT
the union voted to consider the team-sters
driving delivery rigs as being
on the same basis as the other team-sters
in the city, and they will
therefore apply to thc merchants for
the same wages. This means that
drivers of single delivery rigs will
G. Robertson & Co., for damages [is known as Wilson Siding—named
done to their stock by water which |after E. 13. Wilson, comptroller of the
flooded their basement from the A. R. & I., and it" the place never be-
| street. The case \vr>§ heard yesterday comes other than a siding, Mr. Wilson
at Calgary before the Supreme kan °e proud of it. for adjacent to it,
Court, en bane with Chief Justice j2re the borne? of some of the most
T.'arvey, Justices Heck, Scott and,enterprising farmers in Southern AJ-ask
for $70 per month and of double j -Stuart on the bench. C. F. P. Cony-iberT-a- A!I around there are immense
rigs. $75. The Herald called on sev- j bearc. K.C., spoke at length on be-!field3 °r ?rai»—** fine fields as one
era! of the merchants this morning to j half of the city, addressing the court
inquire what action they were pre- for about two and a half hours; A.
pared to take in the matter, but all ft. .Dunlop, of -Shepherd & Dunlop,
•wf-re non-committal. The object, they ! proceeded to argue Robertson's case
said, had tint, been broached to them, j when the court, stoppcc
hut it- is understood that thc execu-j it was not necessary for him to speak,
•tive of the union will call upon all i as they- had decided to dismiss thc
merchants today to find out their i appeal, which was done with costs.
feeling in the matter. The retail j
clerks' union refuses to make any |
s t a t e m e n t , but; if the drivers of de-!
livery ri£s are i-ailc-tl out there prom1-j
ises !o be a serious situation. The
merchants, however: intimate, that if i
they are forced to meet thc demands ;
of the unions they will have to raise
their prices, also to cover their
creased expenses.
| would wish to cast eyes noon. So H
j promising is th? crop that a couple of M
.elevator companies are considering i-4
'i the ere.ction .of an . "xeva.f or thpre i' ^
him and said! ., ,. 'f. fl" '". ' •<
l l 'es oohing m
j a i l directions rue grain is near at
New York. June fi.—"The
bill, the whole hill and noth-ing
but the bill." Thus Pre-sident
Taft summed up an
earnest u'ea for fhe.unamend-ed
adoption by the senate of
the reciprocity agreement he-
Tore a representative audi-ence
last night. The occasion
was the OBii'suer given by the
Xew York Produce Exchange
CO the Interstate Cotton Seed
Crushers Association.
was drifted- during a heavy
iwindsiorm gjx weeks ago, 'but the
"|grain is coming along nicely since
' j i h e recent rains, and there is every
' prospect of an average crop—another
'iproof tliat Alberta grain can't be kept
•from growing even if it is buried. A
' [ f ew other fields, where drifting had
1 ]occurred, indicated that the soil had
MINISTER WAS
moye-.'tlie
track fifty feet to the side *» had:
been suggested, so that the only ;u'ay
to overcome the difficulty would be
to fill in the present bed of-the" track
raising it about two feet. He had
talked the matter over with- Mr. Haagv
of Calgary, who had told him that
this would make as good or even a
better track than the Calgary race-course,
on account of the peculiar na-ture
of the loam to be found here. If
this Is the case LethbricSge "will have
the fastest track in Western Canada,
The measurements of the track as it
stands are correct according to the
Toronto, June 9.-Word reached the |stfrndard Jaid down ^n racing_guides,
city last: night i,hat yesterday morn- nd in
in Particular pains
jbeen too well worked and was so fine
"^[on top that-the wind hadn't much diffi-
^ j c u l t y playing hob with it. Adjoining
^ j t i ie Alberta Grain Growers farm to
•^•ithe south west, i? the big farm of the
"^ | Iowa Laud Co.. where there are 300
•^ jaeres in winter wheat. Tfli) acres in
"^[.spring wheat. P.rtO Rrr^s in flax and
"^i-00 in oats. Flax i? being seeded on
•*• .many farms in the south country t h i s
^jyear. Herbert Johnston- is the man-i ,-
^i'ager of this excellent farm
<»>••• •+• **• ••• <+
be taken to have the proper grades
observed on the stretches which-'will
overcome one of the present dlffl-
(Continued on bark
CORONATION
in-
The teamsters have apparently
jnade up their minds to remain out
until the team owners decide to
REHEARSE THE CEREMONY AND
ALSO THE GREAT PRO-CESSION
divine of Toronto, strolled out into
the woods from the Gleason Health
resort o» KHSI Mill, Elmira, N. V., j On motion, the engineer was re-the
body being found by an attend- |q i lested'to prepare plans and spedfl-ant
Ications for the work to be done to put.
Rev. H. S. Maa;e« was associate Ithe course in the besc possible shape,
secretary of temperance and moral and to advertise for tenders. Th«
' r e f o rm of the Methodist church ol-^specifications will be ready tomcrr-
' CjKi.ula. nnri \vns known from 13-ali-,row- 3T1<3 the worl< wil! be proceeded
fax to Vancouver. lie was in the:ft'ii:h as soon as .possible.
' s a n i t a r i um sufferinc from neurasth^n-i Earns and Sheds Must b« Bui!t
. ia, partlv due to hard work and : ^''th regard to the pulldings.necps-i
n a r t l v to financial worries occasion-:sary' besides 1he main 'ha31 and the
ed bv misfortunes nf a relative. " jfandsta^- * ™ ^clded that horse
! barns, and sheas for catt.le, sheep- and
!swine must be built. No plans have
| been prepared for these buildings, so
plr. Carver was instructed to prepare
• plans and specifications for them, as
j POOH as possible. They will fcc pre-
Isented at the meeting of the biiildinsr
]committee today if the architect can
j prepare them. The matter of ths
London, June S.—The coronation
preliminaries occupied much of the
. . attention today of the officials who
meet them, and ,„ the meantime all |have the ceremonv -n hand Ear]v i
tne owners affected are ignoring the ,th}s morning tfaere wag a rehearsa! of !
Likely to Come Into Lethbridge on the Old C. P. R, Right-of-Way!
Soutk of City ; Possibl
PLAY JOKES ON GOVERNORS
TWO STATES AT FARGO
GATHERING
OF
j number of hors-3 barns necessarv was
le Location of Station
The Grand Trunk P?cif:c survey 'ed somewhere between Thirteenth j From Calgary the
will come to a Heart ana no aount a
serious state of affairs in bnilding jtne Earl Marshal), and an array of
circles will result. •'(peers and peeresses who will be en-
• i gaged in the principal roles in t,he
|ls almost certa'n that the G'
i-'" use the old c- p- R- Sfad
.was used on the former line to
It ;side of the track.
T. p. j „__
: that I «• ^ -^ •«*••*••<
I *mm~ Mac-start.
: The company, according to the court.
^ statement of General Manager Cham- j -j-i,ft
<^ jberiam, will rush this Calgary-Leth- .'police
CROWN BASES THEORY [actual ceremony, including Lord Rob- feed, for its entrance to Lethbr^—
ON JEALOUSY ierts. Lord Kitchener and Lord Rose-Caving bcen assured that they
Georgetown P. E L , .Tune P.-^TBe j^. i the ^ ^ ^ p
preliminary trial of vVm. >rolmea.ux of!
WILL MANAGE A BRANCH <*.
can
P.
C. P. R. TRACKS WASHED OUT ;brid9c' the company will go west
.VSanltoii, Juiie S.—A terriffr t.hnnd- 'c!*"er over thc C. P. R. trsck or ever
er storm accompanied by a very'01'1* c* their own paralleling it. Of
the station site has no* yet
been chosen, but if the above state-are
correct, as thcre is
.Milltown Cress on the charge of mur-derinii
bis wife by strangiing her, baa
iheen resumed. Physicians testified j
that the marks on the lower part, of j heavy downpour washed our the C. P. 'course.
the neck were of suoh a nauire as to |'«-. tracks west of the town, and a hanf
indicate that they were caused before j belonging to Alex Scott was struck by
death. The crown is proceeding on 'lightning: and burned and four horses,
the (lieory thai jealousy was the |Belonging to Trtos. Carswell and .las. ;reason to believe, it Is reasonable to
pause of the crjms. j(_ani»bell were killed. . . isu&posc that the »tation will be locat-
• (,". G. Dunning, accountant
at. the .Merchants Bank
nranrh of this city, has been
appointed to open and man-age
a branch for the bank in
th-; northern part of the pro-vince.
He does not know yet
what place ho is going to buf
left this afternoon for Cal-gary,
\yhere he will receive
His appointment.
bridge-Coutts line to completion. It
is said that they will build simuitan-
;eously from Coutts and Calgary. They
|will bring their steel arid probably a
good deal o' their other construction
material over the Great Northern for
:the work starting at Coutts.
lof course, the ties will be
ifrom the north, where the company
has large supplies of ties. The out-junder
discussion, and Secretary Mo
:-^'f'ol stared that, from information he
i ^ i-argo. .V D., June 9.—Governor --nad recetred. he thought there would
Bnrke of North Dakota, and Governor.hp nearly 500 horses on exhibit, and
hJf.terhart of Minnesota were both Sa^ fna!: ^ would bg wise to prepare
placed under arrest in Fargo yestt»r-jf o r , about that rnan>'- This w111 re'
«:ay afternoon. The special nolic*1 ''T'•?' .tR" st'"1 3'es *'t" '-".eniy nox
" .staus in each, and five or six more
iorce of thc rnked. Commercial Tra-jwith the single four foot stalls. The
will veiiers ka'ienroo court mnde the ar- 'hox stalls will be twelve feet by ten
rests on bench warrants issued by the'.feet- One feature about the stables
jthat. was decided to-be necessary Jn
(order to have them in keepine
<•'£$ were loaded into a 'i^e
and hurried froni the
court, several blocks
sovernors pleaded not
ro
, m
Jack
5 that the entrance to each
: stall will be from the ^rside of the
„ . , «ot as is often the ca£ft
e offences charged against i|Tom the main passageway. The
be- stalls will be arranged on each side
'of the spectators' aislf. which will
and by having the entrance to each
way will ho safer for the spectator,
and more easily kept cle.in, Mr. Car-
""
«Jeoinc
* ^
! however.
*I wan '
fa. rh? i\vo Oakotas.'for oatMe. sheep and swine sheds at
Aiberta and Saskatche-Jthe meeting tomorrow. Those build-
(Continued on page 8), '