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NOTES OF THE TURF. The death of Pikes Peak is reported from Charleston. The Swiss government has prohibited the drawing of the sweeps which have been promoted there on English racing, and many of which have been under suspicion as to their bona fides. No English owner has as many race horses in training as James Hennessy. the French turfman, who hopes to again win the Grand National Steeplechase with Lulteur III. He has fifty head at work, including his juiniiers. English trainers have big lots to look after in some cases. Hon. George Lamhton and II. Persse each have 5! horses in their stables, while W. T. Robinson and Frank llartigan are each training R J. Mackenzie has recently been elected vice-president of the Western Division of the Canadian Northern Railway, a line that when it has closed a "an of less than 200 miles will be transcontin-enta extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and tapping many hundreds of miles of the richest agricultural portion of America. The building of this railwav and its tributaries throughout that "reat northern country is the realization of the life strn--le of Sir William Mackenzie, father of R. .T. Mackenzie. The latter probably has personally superintended the construction of more miles of railway than any man of his age.
