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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1903
Page
3
London papers discuss Canadian emigration to Canada amid agency complaints and calls for inquiry. debates over imperial defense costs, Goldwin Smiths views, Campbell Bannerman health rumors, and Liptons failed bid for the Americas Cup mark a period of colonial and political tension.
The Great Northern president Mr 3.3. Hill pushes a Labrador road from Lake Superior to Hamton Inlet to gain Fu nd imports control. Canada would be closer to Labrador by two days, with talk of a steamship line to Faron Teachers are in demand in Manitoba. Fort William convicts escaped from a sheriff near Toronto on a train.
Grain districts report mixed results with cutting progress ranging from ninety percent in Morden and Darlingford to just beginnings in Whitewater. Wheat yields projected around 18 to 30 bushels per acre, rain causing delays and damage estimated at small percentages. Notable notes include hail damage in some areas, pending threshing, and hopes for improved weather to finalize harvest.
A Vancouver dispatch warns of rising unease among Indigenous groups across the plains foothills and coast. Authorities fear potential tribal clashes near the Alberta border as friction between Stoney and Kootenay bands grows amid observed exclusions from hunting privileges and suspected poisoning incidents.
The University of Toronto conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws on Lord Strathcona in a ceremony attended by eminent citizens, graduates and professors, praising his services to Canada and education. A separate report notes a wedding disruption during a Parliament Church service and other assorted items including transportation developments and international notes.
The September 1 crop report shows harvest activity high with limited threshing. Rosser Portage la Prairie Brandon and many towns report favorable weather, cutting well underway, threshing beginning in days and weeks. scattered delays from rain in some districts.
Weather remains favorable for harvest as Miniota reports 60 sent grain cut while Stonewall notes cutting through threshing. Stony Mountain finishes breathing last week and Showflake cuts through with weather favorable. Mowbray reports cutting about through thrash and shearing started with similar conditions.
The coming Australian elections will include women over 21 with full voting rights and eligibility as candidates. About 850000 women have registered, signaling a major shift with potential for a female candidate from Victoria and a notable rise in political participation and reform.
An interview published on this site features Mr. Sidney Humphries of Bristol England accusing Manitoba wheat of failing to meet standards upon arrival in England. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange has emphatically denied the charge in the press.
The Toronto dispatch reports Richard Carsberg an Englishman surrendered to police and requested shipment to England for a crime for which another man was hanged in 1933. His account links a famous London 1881 shooting with Lefroy and Gould, claiming flight to Canada and decades of wandering before confession.
The Imperial Limited of the Canadian Pacific crashed three and a half miles west of Crasett Cant at 8 90 pm on Sept 1 due to a light engine and caboose not sidetracked. Fireman Moran was killed and engineer McMahon died after severe injuries from the impact. Conductor Charlebois was blamed for the misstep and the passenger cars largely escaped with few injuries.
Bulletin 87 from the Bureau of Animal Industry notes that a market horse must be free of chronic disease and sound enough to work on city streets. It emphasizes that many horses sold at market perform hard pulling on hard pavement, with average usefulness under five years and decline due to broken wind, unsound withers, and other faults.
Former Lord Mayor Val entine E. Dillon of Dublin arrives in New York praising Ireland’s new civ ilization and predicting the British government will open the province Noting the eyes are opened he says the next ten years will end the provincial impoverishment once and for all
Toronto report notes Hamilton brewers ending free line service and reducing beer glass sizes from twenty to sixteen ounces. Whisky prices rise by ten cents a glass after October 1 with no distinction between types. Winnipeg building value this year hits 4,181,000 dollars. A private telephone system links Birtle and Sopete.
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