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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 10

j American oil producers are. troubled oyer . reports which have reached them tending . to show the existence of extensive oil fields 1 in Canada which may. place the Dominion s in the position of a • serious rival of the i United States. West Virginia experts, who 8 have recently teen investigating ■ the northB crn oil situation,-declare that a very high 1 grade of oil exists in Alberta, and the geoI logical formations and signs 'are favourable s through Assiniboia and Saskatchewan; and t as far north as Athabasca. : A movement a has now been started to strengthen the oil ) clauses of the tariff, to-guard against the j Dominion shipping potroloum ; across the f_ border at reduced prices. ' •;■■.. *• According to the "Daily Express," Berlin correspondent, a native of German East Africa, who wont out to kill a boa constructor which his tribe regarded as'a table deli : cacy, was attacked by tho reptile and catom "I wanted to get a few things quickly, as I am going to bo married," was tho explanation of a man who was accused,, of houseJ breaking, at South-Western. Police Court, £ London. • II ■' ■ ■ ':•■■■■■■•■