Morning Oregonian., October 25, 1902, Page 13, Image 13

THE MORNING- OKEGOMAft, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1902.
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WHEAT MAY BE HIGH
Values Maintained Under
Enormous Shipments.
FOBEIGH RECEIPTS CONSUMED
Lntent Strength Shown by the Mar
ket Doc to-Bad Condition of
Native Grain Rained in
Western Europe.
MINNEAPOLIS. Oct. 24. (Special.) The
weekly letter .to tJio Commercial West, on-the
forctcii irraln trade, says:
Tho remarkable manner In which values have
been maintained In the face of enormous wheat
shipments Is what Is puzzling the trade, and
no matter what reason may be advanced, the
broaa fact remains that It gives evidence of
latent strength which It is impossible to con
trovert and would be dangerous to ignore. Sen
timent, no doubt, plays an Important part In
the movements of wheat, but Is generally con
fined to minor fluctuations, and some far more
substantial reason must be sought to account
for any sustained movement, or even lack of
movement In a certain direction which admit
ted facts appear to warrant. It frequently
happens that the real reasons are obscured to
the average trader, and that causes will be
found in directions which aro little suspected.
We think the primary reason for the present
condition of the market is the bad condition of
eo much of the native grain raised in Western
Europe. English wheat, for instance, according
to the last Qazette average, was selling at 23s
lOd, which marks a fall of 7s to 8s a quarter
since last Spring, and the fall in foreign wheat
has been infinitesimal In comparison. Com
paring the present price of maize, with duty
and railway carriage added, it is immediately
apparent that English wheat must bo much
cheaper, and there can bo little question of It
being largely used on the farms in place of
maize. What is tho case In England Is prob
ably the case In Germany, Holland and Bel
gium, so that not only is foreign wheat being
largely Imported and Immediately consumed,
but native wheat also must be steadily disap
pearing, and the question naturally arises.
What will be tho result when shipments show
a marked falling off. as they are bound to do
sooner or later? If tho market can show such a
brave front In the face cf supplies which have
probably never before been equaled, it Is not
unreasonable to suppose that prices aro on a
safe level, and that purchases might now be
made with" comparative safety. '
ENGLISH BUYERS INTERESTED.
Firmness in Hops at Xciv York In
creaNcd. NEW YORK. Oct. 24. (Special.) Renewed
Interest from English buyers operated to In
crease the firmness In hops. The market closed
firm, with choice Pacifies" held up to 31c Ger
man cables note activity and firmness. Coast
"wires report purchases of California choice at
25c State markets rule firm.
Tomatoes show easiness, with offerings Irreg
ular as to quality. Purchases of full stand
ards I. o. b: Baltimore are made freely at 00c
regular on 3 pound; Inferior quality offers at
85c f. o. b.; Jersey packing, 3 pound, firm at
.$1 15 for spot. Gallons quiet but steady, at
?3 253 CO. Corn is firm, with offerings light.
California apricots Tare 10c higher on extras.
Salmon is steady, but business is Jobbing in
chaM?r. The Coust wires nil chlnook fish out
of first hands. Flat sockeye advanced to $1 40
here Cohoes quoted at 97e for tails.
Smyrna figs advanced c for spot, with 015c
quoted for layers, and CfceSc on bags. Cables
report further advances in primary market.
California stock cleaned up.
Prunes are active, but lower on small sizes;
large fruit held firm and scarce Apricots and
peaches remain steady. Raisins, spot seeded,
are active, but the tendency Is easier on both
domestic and Coast pack.
California almonds are in better supply, and
the feeling steady. 14c ruling on Nonpareils.
New Naples walnuts In transit offered at 12ia
Oranges advanced at today's auction 23c per
barrel on Jamalcas. California offerings light
and firm on fancy.
Salem Hop Market.
SALEM. Oct. 24.-(SpecIa'l.)-Salem hopdeal
ers report the market very firm, with prices at
255225'Xc Growers are not letting go as freely
as was expected at 25c Krebs Bros, refused
an offer of 254c today for 700 bales of choice
hops. Today sales are reported at 2323Ac
CAXXED GOODS HIGHER.
Spot Tomatoes and Corn Advance
Ten Cents Per Dozen.
The strength In the canned goods market re
sulted in an advance of 10c per dozen In spot
corn and tomatoes yesterday. The Maine corn
pack is the smallest on record, and the New
York State pack has shown a decided falling
off. Tho shortage In the Eastern tomato pack
Is responsible for the shortage In that article.
A Baltimore broker Is quoted by the New
York Journal of Commerce of the ICth as say
ing of tomatoes:
The market on all varieties of corn shows a
very strong tendency at the advance noted early
in the week. The volume of business done has
been good. It Is now practically impossible to
buy good standard Southern goods under 70c
f. o. b. Some fair standards might be plckeJ
up at C3c to G7?4c. but we do not think the
quantity available is undesirable. In shoe peg
variety wejtnow or little In standard to be had
at under .(c. and some fancy has sold at
considerably above that figure f. o. b. country
The market is practically bare of Maine style
pack, with holders quoting S74c on ordinary
grades and up to l)3c on best quality. A lot of
very fancy Js reported told at $1 here. " On the
whole, tho situation looks very strong, and we
think that buyers who have not placed their
orders will have difficulty in accomplishing
business except at an advance, for packers are
not offering freely in any quarter.
Commercial IVotes.
The New Haven oyster season is fairly com
menced, but the unusually poor condition of the
oyster has caused some of the largest dealers to
only fill one-third of their orders.
Probably the largest corn pack in Maine this
season is that Just finished by the factory at
Harrison, the number of cans being 403,724.
Less than half the usual amount Is the general
rerort from factories.
The largest single cargo of cocoanuts that
ever reached New Tork was unloaded last
week, and by actual count numbered 700,000,
representing a wholesale value of $21,009. They
came from San Andreas and Corn Island.
There has been a rapid Increase In the growth
of sugar beets about Tekoa since the establish
ment of the factory at Waverly. Shipments of
a dozen carloads or more are being made daily,
and good profits are being made by producers.
A new nickel field has been discovered on La
Blanche River. In Ontario. The discovery Is
fully 130 miles from the Sudbury district, and
lies north and east of Lake Wahnapltac which
has hitherto marked the eastern limit of the
nl;kcl belt.
Southern California crop estimates are as fol
lows: Dried peaches. 340 cars; dried apricots.
215 cars; other ijrults. 100 cars; walnuts. C30
cars; almonds. C cars; honey. 135 cars; beans
653.000 sacks. Bee authorities assert that the
estimate of the honey output Is too high.
One Bon Homme County. South Dakota
farmer dug nearly 400 bushels of potatoes from
three-quarters of au acre of ground. At tlie
extremely low pric-i of 23c per bushel his cron
would bs worth $100. This would be at the
raf of $133 per acre, or enough to buy the land
three times over. "
Tho largest run of Cohoe salmon that has
ascended the Frascr River for years is making
Its way to the spawning grounds at the head
waters now. Many fishermen are operating on
tho river, and they have all been making big
catches. The cold-storage plants have all they
can handle, and unless the run slackens tho
boats will have 'to be limited to certain num
bers. The Yakima cannery, which commenced op
erations this Summer, has had a successful
year, and the proprietors, Gandy & Cleary, aro
preparing to double the capacity of the plant
for next season's work. New and Improved
machinery to be run by a 35-horse-power en
gne will be put In.
"The prune, crop Is the largest In the history
of Kern County," says tho Kern County Echo.
"There wll be produced this year In this dis
trict In the neighborhood of 2,000,000 pounds of
prunes. The grape crop is also quite large, and
probably 25 carloads will be shipped. Each
carload contains 15 tons."
The first window glass ever rolled west of
the Mississippi River was made in Coffeyvllle.
Kan., last week. The failure of natural gas
in the Ohio and Indiana fields has caused the
Eastern manufacturers to seek locations where
cheap and plentiful fuel may be secured. The
factory at Coffeyvlllo Is a 12-pot plant.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Grain, Flour, Feed, Etc.
Though the Eastern and foreign markets were
off yesterday, there was no change In the sit
uation locally, wheat .being quite firm, owing
to keen competition. No great amount changed
hands. The recent advance here is credited to
heavy buying by Washington millers, whose
stocks were short Flour Is unchanged. Feed
Is strong, with prospects of another advance.
WHEAT Walla Walla. 66C7c; bluestem,
720:73c; Valley, C7c per bushel, export value.
FLOUR Valley, f3 1003 20 per barrel; hard
wheat straights, $3 053 30; hard wheat pat
ents, $3 203 50; graham. ?2 90S 3 30.
BARLEY Feed, ?21 per ton; brewing, $22;
rolled, $22.
MILLSTUFFS Bran, $10 per ton; middlings,
$23 50; shorts, $19 50; chop. $17.
OATS No. 1 white, $1 O2&01 05; gray, $1
1 02 per cental.
HAY Timothy. flOQll; clover. $7 50; cheat,
?S per ton.
VegetnWca, Fruit, Etc.
The trade In fruits was not heavy, but prices
held steady. Receipts of Forest Grove grapes
were light, as the rain Interfered with picking.
Sweet potatoes arc scarce, and wlU be until
Monday.
VEGETABLES Tomatoes. Oregon, 4030c
oer box; turnips, $1 per sack; carrots, $1
1 10; beets, $1 per sack; cauliflower. $1G1 25
per dozen; cabbage. 1V.C per pound; celery.
Denver, $1 per dozen: peas, 3Q'4c per pound;
beans. 4Ge per pound; lettuce, head, per doze,n,
25c; green onions, per dozen, 12c; rcorn, 15
20c per dozen; cucumbers, 75c$l per box;
green peppers, 3Q:4c per pound; Brussels
sprouts, 7c per pound.
GREEN FRUIT Lemons, $3fi'3 50 per box;
oranges, $45 per box; bananas, $2 2582 75;
pineapples, $5 50 per dozen: apples, table, S3c
$1 23 per box; cooking. 50575c: peaches, 40
00c per bqx; pears, 75c$l per box; cantaloupes,
75c$l per crate, huckleberries, Cc per pound;
grapes, Sweetwater. 40?50c per box; Niagara.
40c per crate: Concord, 3540c per basket, 22&c
per half basket: California Tokay. $1 23 per
crate: Rose .of Peru, $1 23 per crate; Muscat,
$1 25 per crate; Cornlchon, $1 15; grape fruit,
$3 50 per box; quinces, Oregon. S3c$l per box;
cranberries, Tillamook. $7 per barrel; Ilwaco,
$8; pomegranates. 5c per box; persimmons,
$1 23 per box.
DRIED FRUIT Apples, evaporated. 7548c
per pound: sun-dried, sacks or boxes, SiffOc;
apricots, 78c; peaches, GQl2c; pears, O&lG&'c;
prunes. Italian. 3',4&54c; , figs, California
blacks, 45c; do white. 5G&c; plums,
pitted, 4Q5Hc
RAISINS Loose Muscatel, 4-crown, 8c; 3
crown, 7V4c: 2-crowh, 7c; unbleached seedless
Muscatel raisins, 7c; unbleached seedless Sul
tans, 8c; London layers, 3-crown, whole "boxes
of 20 pounds. $1 85; 2-erown, $1 75.
POTATOES Best Burbanks, 0070c per sack;
ordinary. 5055c per cental, growers" prices;
Merced sweets, $1 75Q'2 per cental.
ONIONS Oregon and Washington, 75c$l per
cental.
Batter, EggN, Poultry, Etc.
There are too many chickens on the street to
suit the- trade, and prices continue weak,
though, not quotabiy lower. Oregon eggs were
In better supply yesterday, one house getting
30 cases". Butter Is firm, with the creamery
supply short of the demand.
POULTRY Chickens, mixed, $3 504 25; per
pound, 10c; hens. $44 50 per dozen: per pound,
11c; Springs, $33 50 per dozen: fryers. $2 50
3; broilers, $22 50; ducks, $4 500 per dozen;
turkeys, young, 12&13c; geese, $&JfG 50 per
dozen.
CHEESE Full cream, twins, 14015lic;
Young America, 1517c; factory prices, 101c
less.
BUTTER Fancy creamery. 27&30c per
pound; dairy. 18S?20c; store, 1215c
EGGS 25030c per dozen.
Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc,
HOPS 2225c per pound.
WOOL Valley, 12',415c; Eastern Oregon, S
14V4c: mohair, 2028c
HIDES Dry hides, No. 1, 10 pounds and up,
1601514c perlound; dry kip. No. 1, 5 to 13
pounds, 12c; dry calf. No. 1, under 5 pounds,
10c; dry-salted, bulls and stags, one-third less
than dry flint; salted hides, steers, sound, 00
pounds and over. 89c; 50 to 00 pounds. 7
Sc; under 50 pounds and cows, 7c; stags and
bulls, sound. 55Kc; kip, sound, 15 to 20
pounds, 7c; veal, sound, 10 to 14 pounds. 7c;
calf, sound, under 10 pounds, 8c; green (un
ealtcd). lc per pound less; culls, lc per pound
less; horse hides, salted, each. $1 5002; dry,
each, $101 50; colts' hides, each. 2550c; goat
skins, common, each, 10013c; Angora, with
wool on, each, 25c$l.
PELTS Bear skins, as to size. No. 1, each
$50 0 20; cubs. $205; badger, each. 10040c'
wildcat. 25050c; house cat, 5010c; fox. common
gray. each. 30050c; do red. each, $1 5002; do
cross, each. $506; do silver and black, each
$1000200; fisher, each. $300; lynx, each, $203;
mink, strictly No. 1, each, 50c$l 50; marten,
dark Northern, $0012; marten, pale pine, ac
cording to size and color, $1 5002; musk'rats,
large, each. 5010c; skunk, each, 40050c; civet
or polecat, each. 5010c; otter, for large prlmo
skins, each, 30050c; wolf, mountain, with head
perfect, each. $3 5005; wolf, prairie (coyote)
without head, each, 30035c; wolverine, each'
$407; beaver, per skin. large, $50; do me
dium. $304; do small, $101 50; do kits 50073c
SHEEPSKINS Shearings. 15020c; short
wool, 25035c; medium wool, 30G0c: lonir wool
GOc0$l each. b '
TALLOW Prime, per pound, 405c; No nnrt
grease. 2&3c
Groceries, Nuts, Etc.
COFFEE Mocha. 232Sc; Java, fancy. 2UQ
32c; Java, good, 20024c; Java, ordinary, IS
20c; Costa Rica, fancy. 18020c; Costa Rica,
good, 10018c; Costa Rica, ordinary. 10012c per
pound; Columbia roast, $11; Arbuckle's. $11 03
list: Lion. $11 13: Cordova, $11 63 list.
RICE Imperial Japan. No. 1, 5Uc; No. 2,
4c; Carolina head, G?i7Hc
SALMON Columbia River. 1-pound talis,
$1 S5 per dozen; 2-pound tails, $2 73; fanc
1-pound flats, $1 90; -pound flats, $1 25;
Alaska pink, 1-pound talis. 95c; red, 1-pound
tails, $1 30; sockeye. 1-pound tails, $1 CO; 1
pound flats. $1 00.
BEANS Small white. 4Vic: large white. 4c;
pinks. 3&c; Bayou. 3&c; Lima. 5c per pound.
SUGAR Sack basis, net cash, per 100
pounds: Cube. $4 50; powdered. $4 35: dry gran
ulated. $4 25; extra C. $3 75; golden C. $3 65.
Advances over sack basis aa follows: Barrels,
10c; half-barrels. 25c; boxes, 50c per 100 pounds.
Maple, 1301Gc per pound. Beet sugar, granu
lated. ?4 13 per 100 pounds.
HONEY 13c per No. 1 frame.
NUTS-Ppanuts. Qc per pound for raw, 83
fcc for roasted; cocoanuts. 83090c per dozen:
walnuts. 1501014c per jtound; pine nuts. 10
l-hc; hickory nuts. 7c; Brazil nuts, 14c- fil-
iZlXV'1?'' tancy Pcans. "HHc; almonds,
15UlGc; chestnuts, lGc.
GRAIN BAGS-Calcutta, $0 2500 50 per 100
for snot.
sorting1 vtM- s' 20 80 I1- ton: 100s.
m C: rock- Pef tn. 50s. $20; 100s
$1B oO. "V orcester salt. bulk. 320s. $5 per bar
rel; linen sack3, 50s, 86c per sack.
1z?LSTrfa,1 cas- 2ic per salln: tanks.
liic; boiled linseed, cases. 62c; .barrels. 57c;
raw linseed, cases. 60c; barrels. 55c: turpen
tine, cases, 72c: woqd barrels, 6Sc; Iron barrels,
COc; lots of 10 cases or more, 71c; gasoline
cases. 2Cc; barrels. 1014c Collier and Atlantic
white and red lead. In lots of 500 pounds or
more, 6c; less than SCO pounds. Cc
Meats and Provisions.
BEEF Gross, cows. 33Hc per pound; steers,
4c; dressed. G07c
VEAL 7H8VsC
LARD Portland, tierces, 13c per pound; tubs.
13Mc: 60s. 13'4ci 20s. 134c; 10s. 13;. 5s. 13c
Compound, tierces, DHc per pound; tubs, 9Hc;
Eastern, 10-pound palls, kettle rendered. 14ie:
standard, 14c.
MUTTON Gross, 3c per pound: dressed, 6c
LAMBS Gross, 34e per pound; dresspd, GVic
HOGS Gross, GV4064o per pound r dressed, 7
74c
BACON Portland, 17010c per pound; East
ern, fancy, 1714c; standard, heavy. 15Hc; bacon
bellies, 1514c
HAMS Portland, 15ic per pound; picnic,
1114c per pound; Eastern, fancy, 1501514c
DRY-SALTED. MEATS Portland clears, 14
15c; backs, 14013c; bellies. 1510c; plates, 10c;
butts, 9010c. Eastern Regular dear sides, un-
smoked, 13c; smoked, 14c; bellies, average 25 to
30 pounds; unsmoked, 13&c; smoked, 1494c;
plates, 13c
SAUSAGE Portland, ham, 1214c per pound;
minced ham,- 1014c; Summer, choice dry. 1714c;
Bologna, long. 8c; welnerwursts, 9c; liver, 7c;
pork, 9c; bloofi, 7c; bead cheese, 7c; bologna
sausage link. 714c
PICKLED GOODS Portland, pigs' feet. 14
barrels. $4 50; -barrels. $2 50; 15-pound kit,
$1. Tripe. 14-barrels, $5 50; U-barrcls. $2 75;
13-pound kit, $1; pigs' tongues, -barrels, $0;
U-barrels, $3; 15-pound kits. $1.
SAX FRANCISCO MARKETS.
Prices Current for Prodace at the
Bay City.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24. Vegetables Cu
cumbers, 40065c per box;- garlic, 20214c per
pound; green peas. 35c per pound; string
beans, 35c per pound; tomatoes, 35065c;
onions, 40050c; eggplant, 6Oc0$l.
Apples Choice, OOcrcommon, 25c
Bananas 75c$2 50. .
Llmes Mexican, $40 4 50.
California lemons Choice, $2 50; common,-50c
Oranges Navel. $1 6004 50."
Pineapples $304.
Potatoes River Burbanks, 30GOc; river reds,
55003c; Salinas Burbanks, 75c$l 15; sweets,
$1 25. .
Poultry Turkey gobblers. 1618c; do hens,
16018c; old roosters, $55 50: do young, $306;
small broilers, $3 2503 50; do large. $404 60;
fryers, $44 50; hens, $506 50; old ducks, $34;
do young, $305 50.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2S14c; do seconds,
20c; fancy dairy. 23c; do Eeconds, 21c.
Eggs Fancy ranch, 4214c; Eastern, 2214
2714c
Cheese California cream chedder. 12013c;
Young America. 131401414c; Eastern. 14'016c.
Wool Fall Humboldt and Mendocino, 13
14c; mountains. 80 10c.
.Hay Wheat, $10013 50; wheat and oats, $10
012 50; barley, $7 500 60; alfalfa, $801160;
clover, $7 5000 50; straw, 3714055c per bale.
Hops 22025c
Mlllstuffs Bran. $21022; middlings, $23 503
Receipts Flour. 21.651 quarter sacks; wheat.
12,115 centals; barley. 10,030 centals; oats, 1070
centals; beans, 11,372 sacks; corn. 434 centals;
potatoes, 6440 sacks; bran. 2160 sacks; mid
dlings, 507 sacks; hay, 394 tons; wool, 242
bales; hides, 8C6.
EASTERN LIVESTOCK.
Prices Current at Chicago, Kansas
City and Omaha.
CHICAGO. Oct. 24. Cattle Receipts, 20.000.
Market slow. Good to prime steers, $3 75
0 75; poor to medium. $204 75; stockers and
feeders, $1 230 4 50; cows. $205; heifers, $1 25
02 40; canners, $204 50; bulls. $3 5007; calves,
$304; Texas fed 'steers, $3'506; Western
steers, $3 4004 75.
Hogs Receipts today, 1S.000; tomorrow, 10,
000; left over. 3000. Market strong, and closed
at yesterday's quotations. Mixed and butch
ers, $0 6507 10; good to choice heavy. $0 90
7 2214; rough heavy. $6 300 0 90; light, $6 30
0 90; bulk of sales, $6 7506 05.
Sheep Receipts. 5000. Market for sheep and
lambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $3 5004;
fair to choice mixed, $2 5003 50; Western
sheep, $2 6003 75; native lambs, $3 6005 50;
Western l'ambs, $3 7505.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 24. Cattle Receipts.
4000, Including GQ0 Texans. Market steady to
weak. Native steers, $40 7 93; Texas and In
dian steers. $3 5004- 23; Texas cows, $1 73
3 23; native cows and heifers, $1 5004: stock
ers and feeders, $4 2004 85; bulls, $2 5003 40;
calves, $3 CO 00.
Hogs Receipts, 10.000. Market 50.10c lower;
bulk of sales. $0 7006 7514. Heavy. $6 6300 80;
packers. $0 6500 75; medium, $6 7500 80;
light, $6 57140 0 80; Yorkers, $0 7506 80; pigs,
$G0C 50.
Sheen Receipts, 21.000. Market steady. Mut
tons. $304 10; lambs, $45 25; range wethers,
$33 93; ewes; $303 85.
OMAHA. Oct. 24. Cattle Receipts, 3000.
Market slow and steady. Native steers, $4 50
S; cows and heifers. $304 25; Western steers.
$3 500 5 73; Texas steers, $3 5004 50; cows and
heifers, $3 5504; canners, $1 500 2 55; stockers
and feeders. $2 7505; calves, $300; bulls, stags,
etc.. $204.
Hogs Receipts, 4500. Market lower. Heavy.
$6 700 6 75; -mixed, $.0 721400 77; light, $0 75
06 80; pigs, $5 750 6 50; bulk of sales. $6 72i
0 75.
Sheep Receipts. 500. Market steady. Fed
muttons, $3 350 3 63; wethers. $3 1003 50;
ewes( $2 5003 25; common and stockers, $1 50
3 15; lambs, $3 "5005.
Metal Markets.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Notwithstanding an
advance of 12s 6d to 119 15s for spot and
118 5s for futures In the London market, tin
here was weak and lower, spot closing at 26.30
020.35c.
Copper was dull In the local market, but
without material price changes, there being de
clines noted in the big prices of one or two
grades. Standard closed at 11c; fcake, 11.75
12c; electrolytic 11.60011.80, and casting,
11.60011.80c London prices, like those of tin,
were higher, an advance being reported from
that market of Is 3d, with spot consequently
at 32 10s. and futures at 52 13s 9d.
Lead was unchanged In both markets, closing
here at 4!&c, and In London at 10 15s.
Spelter was unchanged here at 514c, and In
London at 19 5s.
The English Iron market declined slightly.
Glasgow closed at 57s Id, and Mlddlesboro at
51s 9d. Locally Iron was steady and un
changed. Warrants nominal. No. 1 foundry
Northern, $23025; No. 2 foundry Northern. No.
1 foundry Southern and No. 1 foundry South
ern soft, $22023.
Tea Standard Case Decided.
Js'EW YORK, Oct.. 24. In the United States
Circuit Court here, Judge Coxe has rendered an
opinion In a case that has attracted wide at
tention In the tea trade. The court's decision
was In favor of the defendant, ex-Collector of
Customs BIdwell. Tho suit was over some
country green teas, which had been imported
here, and the action was brought to test the
constitutionality of the tea standard act ol
March 2. 1901. and also the right of the Secre
tary of the Treasury, If the act were constitu
tional, to fix such high standards below which
all .teas were not allowed to enter this country.
The standard established In 1001 was much
higher than prior to that time. The plaintiff
Imported a lot of country green tea which was
admitted to be below the standard, which was
alleged to be too high. The plaintiffs attacked
the constitutionality of an act that excluded
a wholesome article. That was the first point.
The second was that If the tea standard act
were constitutional tho Secretary of the Treas
ury had acted unreasonably In selecting ' so
high a standard. The Government asked for
and was given a verdict on the ground that
the plaintiffs had not made out a case.
Coffee and Sugar.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24. Coffee Futures closed
steady. 5 points higher. Total sales. 15,250
bags, Including: October. $5 050510; Novem
ber. $5 0505 10; December. $5 20; January,
$5 25; February. $5 30; March. $5 40; May,
$5 5505 60; Juno, $5 60; September, $5 60. Spot
Rio quiet; No. 7 invoice, 59&c; mild steady;
Cordova, 712c
Sugar Raw firm; fair refining, 3 11-1 6c; cen
trifugal. 90 test, 3c Molasses sugar, 2 13-lGc.
Refined firm.
Mining Stocks.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 24. oTflclal closing
quotations for mining stocks
Alta $0 05
Kcntuck Con .
Mexican
...$0 oi
20
Andc3 5
Belcher 8
Occidental Con
Ophlr
Best & Belcher... 7
Caledonia 95
Overman .......
Potosl
Savage ,
Seg. Belcher ..
Sierra Nevada
Silver Hill ...
Union Con ....
Challenge Con ... 8
Chollar
Confidence GO
Con. Cal. & Va... 80
Crown Point .... 1
Gould & Curry... 4
Hale & Norcroos. 16
Julia 2
Justice 5
Utah Con
Yellow Jacket .
NEW YORK. Oct 24. Mining stocks today
closed aa.'follows:
Adams Con $0 15
Alice 30
Little Chief $o 10
Ontario S 25-
Ophlr 75
Brtece
Brunswick Con .. 0
Phoenix
Comstock Tunnel. 5
Con. Cal. & Va... 77
Horn Silver 1 25
Iron Silver 70
Leadvllle Con ... 3;
Potosl
Savage
Sierra Nevada
Small Hopes
Standard 310
BOSTON, Oct
24. Closing quotations;
Adventure
Allouez . ,
$ 21 OOjOsceola-
2 25 Parrott
$ 56 00
25 00
125 00
1 12
153 00
95 00
10 73
21 00
.21 00
0 BO
3 87
50 50
Amalgamated .
Bingham
Cal. & Hecla...
Centennial ....
Copper Range .
Daly West
Dominion Coal.
Franklin
Isle Royale ....
Mohawk
Old Dominion .
C5 12 Qulncy
28 50Santa Fe Cop..,
610 001 Tamarack .....
17 5PTrlmountaln ...
00 60'TrlnIty ........
50 OOjUnlted States
131 25! Utah
0 50jVlctoria
13 25lVlnona ,
40 00i Wolverines ....
10 00
Wool at St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 24. Wool steady; territory
and Western mediums, 1618c; fine, 1201614c;
coarse. 12015c
MO DEMAND FOR STOCKS
LIGHT TRADING AND IRREGULAR
MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK.
Greater Ease in Call Money and For
eign Exchange Rates Speculation
Devoted to Specialties.
NEW YORK, Oct 24. Some relief was shown
at the greater ease of call money and foreign
exchange rates, but there was no demand for
stocks, and the list was irregular throughout
For reasons that are not altogether clear, the
substantial financial interests continued to hold
aloof, and even the pool manipulators remain
Inactive. The rise in the price of coal and
further rumors of labor troubles In various
parts of the country were among the fow de
velopments of the day.
The strong features at the opening were Lack
awanna, Reading, common and second preferred,
Baltimore & Ohio and Toledo, St. Louis &
Western Issues. .Operations In the last-named
stock wero again believed. to be largely ma
nipulative, and Baltimore & Ohio lost its initial
gain. FJrmncss was shown in such issues as
Atchison, Union Pacific,. St Paul "Missouri Pa
cific and. Colorado -Fuel & Iron. The latter
was stronger on-reports of-buying by Interests
opposed to those In control. An early sale of
St Joseph & Grand island second preferred
was made at a decline of over 2 per cent, and
later a further loss was. recorded. Liquidation
In Baltimore & Ohio was presumably due to the
fact that the option on the rights expired today.
Trading was- very light all through the morning
session, and fluctuations were narrow. Specu
lation was devoted to tho specialties, the early
movements In Colorado Fuel & Iron and Toledo,
St. Louis & Western Issues being continued.
Colorado Fuel was the real feature, transac
tlonsln tho stocks aggregating more than one
fifth of the total business, with a net advance
of 414 per cent. Favorable reports concerning
the coal stocks and the steel and Iron Issues
failed to Induce any demand.
Tho afternoon session brought no develop
ments, and such trading as was reported came
from out of town. Virtually all the buying for
London was done by one firm of brokers. In
addition to Colorado Fuel, strength was shown
by Lackawanna, Reading second, Virginia-Carolina
Chemical, Cotton Oil, Tennessee Coal,
Amalgamated Copper and Pullman.
Call money rulod at between 4 and 5 per cent,
but before the close of the day fell to 2 per
cent, the lowest figure reported in some time.
Demand sterling worked down to $4 88.40, and
the great par of the day's business was on the
selling side
Railroad bonds were sluggish but steadier all
around. Total sales, $1,245,000. United States
bonds were all unchanged on the last call.
Closing Stock Quotations.
O
D"0
BTOCK3.
Atchison . '. ...
" do pfd
Baltimore & Ohio
do pfd
Canadian Pacific
Canada Southern
Chesapeake & Ohio.....
Chicago & Alton
Chicago, Ind. Sf. Louis.
do pfd
Chicago & Eastern 111.
Chicago Great Western.
do A pfd,
do B pfd .V...
Chicago & N W
Chicago. R. I. & Pac...
Chicago Term. & Tran.
do pfd ..At
C. C. C & St. Louis.
Colorado Southern ....
do 1st pfd
do 2d pfd'.
Delaware & Hudson...,
11,400) 89
88
89
800
101
iool
100
108
20,900
100
108
103
94
04
U4
1,200
130
130
130
84
51
30Vi
73
91
"2.000
51'
30
400
30
213
1,800
30
30
84
30
83
600
1002201fe
220
100
230
199
400
200
100
'i.300
306
200
20
20V4
20
3?V,
3714
'33
7
100
32
32
73
48
170
46
49
Del.. Lack. & Western.
300J
250
258
239
Denver & Rio Grande.
do pfd
Erie
do 1st pfd
do 2d pfd
Great Northern pfd....
Hocking Valley
do pfd
Illinois Central
Iowa Central
'do pfd
Lake Erie & W.estern.
do Dfd
100
44
44
91
44
01
39
08
62
189
05
01
14b
44
77
5
120
138
135
139
25
18
110
110
29
62
173
155
77
91
,33
1(13
68
88
78
76.
84
73
31
68
101
104
72
37
93
44
It
84
48
26
38
27
53
200
100
3.800
600
600
800
"i.ooo
500
100
01
39
30ft
cay,
53
68
52
9514
93
i-id
i48
44
44
78
78
Louisville & Nashville.'
3.000
13014
138
Manhattan Elevated
1.200
13511
134
Metropolitan Street Ry.
300
139
Mexican Central
Mexican National ....
Minn. & St. Louis....
Missouri Pacific
M.. K. & T
do pfd
New Jersey Central....
New York Central
Norfolk & Western...
do pfd X.
Ontario & Western....
Pennsylvania
Reading
do 1st pM
do 2d pfd
St. Louis & San Fran.
do 1st pfd
do 2d pfd
St. Louis S. W. .......
do pfd
St. Paul 7.
do pfd
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway ....
do pfd
Texas & Pacific
Toledo. St. L. & W...
do pfd
Union Pacific
do pfd .
Wabash
do pfd .-
Wheeling & Lake Erie
do 2d pfd
Wisconsin Central ....
da pfd
Express Companies
Adams
American
United States
Wells-Fargo
Miscellaneous
Amalgamated Copper
"406
"6,7o6
200
100
'is
18
111
20
02
20
G2
15.000
7714
70
"'"OOO
0.800
'33
33
103
0.100
6814
SS4
8
5.500
5,000
100
S3
76
7514
75
400
31
2.000
2.900
200
11,000
1.400
400
4.100
4.800
12,200
200
400
l.lOO;
102
195
72
87;
44
33
48
10316
91
40
300
27
53
27
53
100
235
142
230
4,400
200
1.100
64
05
35
02
20
44
40
05
97
62
89
Amer. Car & Foundry..
do pfd'
American Linseed Oil..
35
92
do pfd
Amer.' Smelt. & Refln.,
1.000
"""300
47
46
97
62
do pfd
Anaconda Mining Co
07
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
900
61.800
63
Colorado Fuel & iron.,
Consolidated Gas
Cant Tobacco pfd....
General Electric 1
Hocking Coal
International Paper ...
do pfd
International Power ..
Laclede Gas
National Biscuit ......
National Lead
North American
Pacific Coast
Pacific Mall
People's Gas
Pressed 8teel Car
do pfd ,
Pullman Palaco Car...
Republic Steel
do pfd ,
Sugar
Tennessee Coal & Iron,
Union Bag & Paper Co
do pfd ,
United States Leather.
do pfd
United States Rubber.
do pfd .r
United States Steel....
do pfd
Western L'nlon
American Locomotive .
do pfd ,
Kansas City Southern.
do pfd ,
aw
200
218g
2181
218
100
100
180
180
185
23
23
10
X3Vi
10
77
81
84
45
28
300
19
900
" 400
600
"lOO
82
81
'46"'
28
75
103
61
05
'46
2S
75
164"
122
74
42
103",
01
90
200!
2.900
1.100
200
3.100
l.OOQ
5,400
1,400
. 01
90
230
235
1234
22
70
124
00
22
22
78
124
65
13
77
14
90
18
55
40
89
01
80
03
35
50
70
123
05
300
14
00
100
200
"e.'ooo
18
IS
as
2,900
200
100
300
100
Total sales for the day, 304,700 shares.
BONDS.
U. S. 2s. ref
do coupon
do 3s, reg.
do coupon
do new 4s,
reg.110 I Atchison adj. 4s...
110 2. & N.W. con. 7s
108 D. & R. Q. 4a ,
108 tf. Y. Cent. lsts...
reg.. 136 Northern Pac. 3s..
, 06
,135
101
102
73
103
04
10-1
ao cqupon
do old 4s.
do coupon
do 5s. reg
do coupon
iji ao 48
reg.. .111 ISouthern Pac. 4s..
Ill Union Pacific 4s...
...iwtVi west shore 4s
..105!W'ls. Central 4s.... 92
Stocks at London.
LONDON, Oct. 24. Closing quotations:
Anncnnda. K
Norfolk & Western 70
do Pfd ot
Ontario & Western 34
Pennsylvania 84
Rands ,.. 11
IReadlng 35
do 1st pfd....... 43
fin nf1 jmr
Atchison 01
do pfd 103
Bait. & Ohio..... 111
Can. Pacific 140
Ches. & Ohio 53
Chi. Gr. Western. 30
Chi.. M. & St PilOu
De Beers
... oj nouwrcrn Ky 3S
... 45 do pfd 96
' Southern Pacific .. 73
.. 40 Union Pacific 107
...70 do pfd 03
.. 64 U. S. Steel 41
..152. do pfd 00
...142 Wabauh 34U
..30 do pW BOg
. . 62 Spanish 4s 85
..160 - ,A
D. & R, G
" do pfd
Erie
do let pfd...
do 2d pfd....
Illinois Central
Louis. & Nash
M.. K. & T...
do pfd
N. Y. Central..
Money, Exchange, Etc.
NEW YORK, .Oct 24. Money on call steady,
at 25 per cent; closing bid and asked, 22
per cont; prime mercantile paper, 6 per cent
Sterling exchange easier, with actual business
In bankers' bills a$4 80,3754 86.50 for de
mand, and $4 83.23 for 60 days; posted rates,
84 and $4 87; commercial bills, $4 82.75
and'?4 83.25.
Bar silver, 50c.
Mexican dollars, 30c.
Government bonds steady; state bonds inact
ive; railroad bonds steady.
LONDON, Oct 24. Bar silver steady, 23 5-16d
per ounce.
Money, 22-per cent.
Rate of discount for short bills, 3ig,3 per
cent; for three months' bills; 33 7-16 per
cent
Consols for money, 03; for account. 93 3-10.
SANFRANCISCO, Oct 24. Silver bars. 50c
per ounce.
Mexican dollars Nominal.
Drafts Sight, 2c; telegraph, 5c.
Sterling on London Sixty days, ?4 84; sight,
$4 87.
Bank: Clearings.
Clearings,
Portland S545.841
Seattle 862,392
Tacoma 345,422
Spokane 303.722
Balances.
$ 55,979
227.691
61.424
48.724
Dally Treasury Statement.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Today's Treasury
statement shows:
Available cash balances..! $224,145,945
Gold 113,758.623
"WHEAT EASY AT CHICAGO.
Late Heavy Selling Caused a Sharp
Decline.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Wheat was easy, and
local bulls disposed of a large part of their
holdings. There was a slight firmness East on
wet weather in the Northwest with light offer
ings here. Lato heavy selling by commission
houses, and locals caused a sharp decline. . Re
ports ot a large Increase In stocks In tho
Northwest had 'i depressing Influence, as did
also reports from Argentina, which showed
conditions favorable. December was relatively
the stronger option, and opened c lower to c
higher, at 7272c to 7272c. On the
early bulge the price advanced to 73c, but de
clined again, going down to -72c. There was
a slight rally at the close, which was c
lower, at 72 c.
Corn opened about unchanged from last
night's close, and during the day the market
was rather erratic. The latter part of the ses
sion was weak. December closed a shado low
er, at 51(51c
Oats were dull and featureless. December
closed c lower, at 31S31c.
Provisions were easier on lower prices of hogs
and large receipts. January pork closed 15f
lower; lard 7c lower, and ribs 57c lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
WHEAT.
Opening. Highest Lowest f"in.
October $0 70
December ....$0 72 SO 73 $0 72 72
May 74 74 .73
73
57
51
43
. CORN.
October 57 57
December .... 51 32
May 43 44
OATS.
Dec. (new) ... 31 31
May 32 32
571,'
51
43
30
IS
32
MESS
PORK.
1572
October . .
Janaary .,
May
October . .
November
January .,
10 80
15 02
14 75
.15 72
.14 85
15 GO
14 73
14 85
LARD.
11 00
10 40
0 12
.10 35
. 0 17
10 40
0 20
10 35
0 10
SHORT RIBS.
October
January
May ..
11 50
a 23
780
8 SO 8 30 8 22
7 82 7 82 7 80
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour Steady.
Wheat No. 2 Spring. 72c; No. 3, 093l72c;
No. 2 red. 70ffl71c.
Corn No. 2. 57c; No. 2 yellow. COc.
Oat-No 2. 28c; No. 3 white, 303330.
Rye No. 2. 49c.
Barley Good feeding. 4042c: fair to cholco
malting. 4458c
Flaxseed No. 1. $1 22 No. 1 Northwestern,
?1 24. a
Timothy seed Prime, $3 85.
Mess pork $10 0017 per bbl. -
Lard-$1111 02 per cwt
Short rlbfl slde. Loose, SU 20g'll 40.
Dry salted shoulders Boxed. $0 7510.
Short clear sides Boxed. $11 8712..
Receipts. Shipments
Flour, barrels
Wheat, bushels .
Corn, bushels ....
Oate, bushels ....
Rye. bushels ....
Barley, bushels .,
19.000
18.000
13,000
.124.000
.242.000
.383.000
. 9.000
. 02,000
356,000
163.000
2.000
12. GOO
Grain and Produce at Ncyt York.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24.-FIour-ReceIpts. 24 -961
barrels; exports, 8775 bales. Market was
unsettled and 510o lower to sell.
Wheat-Receipts. 132.C00 bushels; exports.
103,347 bushels. Market for spot easy; No. 2
red. 77c elevator; No. 2 red. 7777c f o"
b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth. 82c f. o." b
afloat; No. 1 hard Manitoba. 83c f. o. b!
afloat Although wheat started out Arm and
active. Its stability was soon undermined by
bear raids, which in the afternoon provoked
considerable heaviness and lower prices. The
close was 3c lower. May. 77 13-16??78c.
closed 77c; December, 78S"8c, closed 78c.
Hops Firm.
Hides Quiet.
Wool Quiet.
Butter Receipts, 4800 packages. Market
steady. State dairy. 18320e; creamery, extra,
24c; creamery, common to choice, 1924c.
Eggs Receipts, 4800 packages. Market Ir
regular. State and Pennsylvania average bst
2225o; Western candled, 22324c.
Grain at San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24. Wheat easier.
Barley steadier. Oats steady.
Spot quotations:
Wheat Shipping, $1 10; milling, $1 32A
1 35.
Barley Feed, ?1 20 1 21; browing, $1 22
1 25.
Oats Red, $1 151 32; white, $1 251 35;
black, $1 101 35.
Call board sales:
Wheat Easier; December, $1 30; May
$1 31; cash. $1 80.
Barley Steadier; December, $1 20; May.
$1 21 bid.
Corn Largo yellow, $1 471 48.
European Grain Market.
LONDON, Oct. 24. Wheat Cargoes on pas
sage, quiet and steady. Indian shipments of
wheat to United Kingdom, 0000 tons; to Conti
nent, none.
LIVERPOOL, Oct 24. Wheat Quiet; No. 1
standard California. Gs 5d. Wheat and flour
In Paris firm. French country markets firm.
Weather In England fair but cloudy.
Dairy Produce at Chicago.
CHICAGO. Oct 24. On the Produce Ex
change today, the butter market was steady;
creameries, lG24c; dairies, 1520c
Cheese Steady; 10Uc
Eggs Easier, 22c.
Nc,tv York Cotton Market.
NEW YORK, Oct 24. The cotton market
opened steady, with prices 13 points higher,
and closed quiet, with prices 5010 points high
er. BEST MONEY FOR ISLANDS
Roberts Believes In American Money
for-the Philippines.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. Director of the
Mint Roberts, In an Interview upon the
rejection by the Philippine Commissioner
the law passed by the last session of Con
gress providing for an Independent sys
tem of coinage for the Philippines, said:
"If the coinage system provided y Con
gress is not fit for the islands, and not
to bo put In operation there, I think that
the best way would be to have a law
passed by Congress at the next session
providing ihat on and after a certain
date American money shall be legal ten
der in the Islands. "While that might make
some confusion at the start, it would come
out all right in the end. -The money stock
of the islands, aside from what American
money there may be there, is about
$30,000,000 Mexican. It would be a com
paratively easy matter for us to replace
this with American money."
Another Advance in Bottle Prices.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 21. At a meeting of
the, executive committee of the American
Flint Bottle Manufacturers' Association,
representing the Pittsburg, northern and
Eastern districts, it was decided to raise
the price list an additional 5 per cent.
This makes an advance of 25 per cent dur
ing the present month, the former advance
being 20 per cent, which went Into effect
October 3.
COE
Buys and sells GRAIN, PROVISIONS,
STOCKS, BONDS and COTTON
FOR CASH .OR FUTURE DELIVERY.
Deals in Government. Municipal and Miscellaneous Securities. Owning and operat
ing tne most extensive Private Wire System In the world, we can execute large or
small orders more promptly and satisfactorily than any other concern.
,?Var5ntee to execute orders when limits are reached. We" do not hold you
responsible for more than the margin you place on a trade. We charge no Inter
est for carrying long stocks. .
MARGIXS REQUIRED, Grain, lc pex- hnshel; Stocks, 82 per share. Com
mission, grain, l-8e per Imshel; stocks, 1-4 of 1 per cent.
"We will send you our Book of Statistics and Daily Marke't free. Write for it.
REFERENCES, 75 National and State Banks.
Main Exchange, Bank of Commerce Building. Minneapolis. Minn. Exchanges in
75 of the principal towns and cities of the Northwest, including Spokane. Colfax,
Pullman, Rltzvllle. Dayton, Walla Walla, Moscow. Pendleton. Wires under con
struction to Portland. Tacoma. Seattle, Everett and Vancouver, B. C.
Np IF YOU HAVE AN OPEN TRADE OR ACCOUNT "WITH US YOU CAN
.D. OPERATE IT IN ANY OF OUR 75 OFFICES. "
EXPANSION IN TRADE
FAVORABLE FEATURES DOMINATE
TIE SITUATION.
Lumber Business of Good Volume
Large Wheat Exports for
the Week.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24. Bradstreefs tomorrow
will say:
Favorable features still dominate the trade
and Industrial situation. Some reduction In
the demand for Fall and "Winter goods at
wholesale Is noted, but It Is shown at the same
time that, the completed business In dry goods,
clothing, shoes, hats, millinery and a host of
other lines Is In excess of 1001 and preceding
years. Business on next Spring's account tends
rather to expand, and a similar tendency 13
noted In retail business, particularly at tho
East, where the fear of a coal famine has been
removed by the actual resumption of work. It
Is ruc that In the Northwest retail trade Is
not meeting anticipations, possibly because of
warmer weather, but partially because the
farming element 13 still busily engaged In crop
work.
The motoey situation shows little that Is un
favorable to general business. Reports as to
collections class them as being generally good,
and In some cases better than a year ago.
The lumber business, while naturally 'noting
some quieting of business on the advance of tho
season. Is still ot good volume where weather
conditions permit of the carrying out of the
order. Demand for building material continues
active. In the lumber-producing regions,
strength Is the main feature. The Southern
lumber trade reports unusual activity.
Something In the nature of a shortago In the
world's crop of sugar confronts the trade. The
yield of beet sugar appears likely to be heavily
reduced, and a small falling off In the yield of
the cane crop Is also noted, the net receipts
being a decline of about 10 per cent from a
year ago, which has been reflected In fractional
advances of the raw products.
"Wheat, Including flour, exports for the week
ending October 23, aggregate 7,000.317 bushels,
the largest total for 14 months, against 5.240.
0SS bushels last week, 4,032,134 bushels In this
week last year, and 4,932.078 bushels in 1000.
"Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 85,431,317
bushels, against 100.C5C.051 bushels last season.
Business failures In the United States for the
week ending Thursday, October 23, number 104.
as against 203 last week. 223 In this week last
year, 101 In 190O. and 211 In 1899. In Canada,
for tho week, 23, as against 15 last week.
Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Tho following table,
compiled by Bradstret, shows the bank clear
ings at the principal cities for the week ended
October 23, with the percentage of Increase and
decrease, as compared with the corresponding
week last year:
Clearings.
Inc.
39.1
4.1
4.4
18.3
17.5
17.5
8.3
13.4
10.7
18.1
20.0
17.5
0.3
"6.3
28.4
8.7
21.3
12.3
15.5
13.7
ii.s
Dec.
New York ?l,70v),373.000
Chicago
168,847,000
140.001,000
120.329,000
49.407.000
45.077.000
22.770.000
28.134.438
20.239.000
23,504.000
14.9SO.000
20.430.00U
14.037,000
0,348.000
0.200,000
11.947.000
10.137.000
7.379.000
8.087,000
0.593.000
6.730.000
5.317.000
5.293.000
4.407.000
4.190.000
4.057.000
3.544.000
5.320,000
5.897.000
3.235.000
5.141,093
3,800.000
2.703.00O
2.905.000
3.108.000
4.300.841
2.140,000
3,443.000
1,834.000
1.630.000
1. 079.000
2.008.000
1.019,000
1,084.000
1.041.000
1.300,000
1.059.000
1.760.000
3.154.000
1.200,000
1,384.000
2.007.938
2.159.430
1,837.000
480.000
569.000
1,305.000
1.037.000
1.155.000
1,230.000
1.203.000
1.204.000
481.000
1.148.000
603,000
077,000
600,000
620.000
524,000
575.000
640.000
030.000
547,000
094.000
859.000
401.000
424.000
343.000
283.000
357.000
230,000
322.000
244.000
1S4.O0O
178.000
17.507,000
0.318.000
8,441,000
811.000
6C9.000
481.000
243,000
2.369,000
Boston
Philadelphia ....
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Baltimore
San Francisco ..
Cincinnati
Kansas City ....
Cleveland
Minneapolis
New Orleans ....
Defrolt
Louisville
Indianapolis ....
Providence .......
Omaha
Milwaukee
Buffalo
St. Paul
St. Joseph
Denver
Richmond
Savannah
Salt Lake
Albany
Los Angeles
Memphis ........
Fort Worth
Seattle
Washington ....
Hartford
Peoria
Toledo
Portland. Or ....
Rochester
Atlanta
Des Moines
New Haven
Worcester
Nashville
Springfield, Mass
Norfslk
Grand Rapids ...
Scranton
Portland, Me ...
Sioux City
Augusta
Syracuse
Dayton, O
Tacoma
Spokane
Topeka
Davenport
Greensburg. Pa .
Wilmington, Del
Evansvllle
Birmingham
Fall River
Macon
Little Rock
Helena
Knoxvllle
Lowell
Akron
Wichita
Sprlngfleld.lll ..
Lexington
New Bedford ....
Chattanooga
Youngstown
Kalamazoo
Fargo
Blnghamton
Rockford ........
01.2
33.4
63.4
20.0
14.1
37.0
29.8
3.7
10.2
17.4
21.0
33.7
10.3
14.8
33.5
1.1
18.6
3.8
48.0
4.1
33.5
31.0
53.0
14.2
11.2
10.8
23.4
17.2
15.2
43.3
66.0
14.3
55.7
22.5
24.1
50.0
52.5
44.7
02.9
25.8
24.5
22.2
33.0
Canton ..
Jacksonville.
Fla
Sprlngfieflld, O
Chester
Qulncy
Bloomjngton ....
Sioux Falls
Jacksonville, 111
Fremont
Houston
Galveston
Columbus,. O ....
Wheeling
Wllkesbarre ....
Beaumont
Decatur
Utlca
TotaK U. S...
Outside N. Y....
24.0
22.4
17.0
14.1
30.9
23.4
20.8
11.1
...$2,360,144,024
23.1
10.1
CANADA
Montreal .i
Toronto
Winnipeg
Halifax ..........
Vancouver, B. C
Hamilton
St. John. N. B..
Victoria. B. C...
Quebec ,
Ottawa .........
London .........
$
25.092,690
19.092.978
5.308.007
1.764,593
1,368.035
1.032.089
1.077,064
555,480
1.159.584
2.402.907
874.037
32.1
5C.3
63.3
17.2
23.5
18.0
52.3
15.5
43.3
18.1
Totals, Canada 50.300,005 40.0 ....
TAXED TO THE UTMOST.
Transportation Facilities Are Inade
quate at Present.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24. R. . Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade tomorrow will say:
No better evidence of industrial and commer
cial activity Is needed than the present inade
quate transportation facilities. Every form of
railroad equipment, from track to rolling stock,
has been Increased and perfected during the
past few years to an extent that appeared al
most exccfwlve, yet tho Nation's business has
more than kept pace.
Unseasonably mild weather has retarded re
tall trade at many points, yet the movement of
goods Is fully sustained by undiminished prep
arations for future sales. Distribution delayed
by high temperature Is not lost, while the agri
cultural community will profit very materially
by the tardiness of frost, increasing their abll-
Commission Go.
Capital and " Surplus, $300,000.00
lty to consume the products of mills and fac
tories. Labor Is more fully employed than at
any recent datb, only a few small controversies
Interrupting. The money market pressure has
been removed, and although securities do not
respond, legitimate trade Is not retarded by
speculation.
Earnings ot the" railways during October thus
far exceed last year's by 4.5 per cent, and those
or 1000 by 12 per cent. Coke Is still the vital
factor in the iron and steel situation. Both tin
and copper advanced sharply, but the former
reacted.
Failures for the week number 223 In the
United States, against 224 Jast week, and 22 In
Canada compared with 29 last week.
DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Mnrrlnpre Licenses.
Adam Gebel. 21; Kate Brethauer, IS.
Nicholas Monner. 20; Annie Robberdlng. 17.
Joseph E. Adcox. 50; Harriet C. Singer. 43.
Axel Ovesen, 27, Sitka; Elena Sampson, 21.
Birth.
October. 2.", girl to the wlfa of Benjamin
Simon, C29 Third street.
Death.
October 22. Arthur J. Van Houten. 15 years
10 days. St. Vincent's Sanitarium; scarlet
fever.
October 23. John Knlss. 2 years 10 months 27
days. Peninsular avenue, near county road;
tonsllltls.
October 22, Gum Ycm. 1 year G months, 80
Socond street; cerebro-splnal meningitis.
October 23, Alma Elvira York. C8 years,
North Pacific Sanitarium; cancer of bowels.
Contagions Diseases.
Bernard Blglln. 740 Ivon street; diphtheria.
Child of A. Phelan. 530 Market street;
measles.
Sidewalk Permits.
S. P. Wheeler. East Seventeenth and Wheel
er; 100 fret-wood.
C. Stein, Seventeenth and Qulmby; 50 feet
wood.
George Moore, Tenth and Washington; 25
feet cement.
S. Wanner, Twenty-third and Northrup; 62
feet cement.
Ed Lyons. East Second and Weldler; 112 feet
cement.
Charles Woodward. Twcnty-flrst and Davis;
130 ftet cement.
Charles Woodward, Third and Sherman: 75
ifeet cement.
Contractors, Twelfth and Montgomery; 96 feet
cement.
I George W. Bates, Twenty-first and Davis; 220
feet cement.
Total, 740 feet cement, 150 feet wood.
BnlldlnK Permit.
T. W. Plttenger. Sellwocd and Rodney ave
nues, 1-stcry cottage; ?900.
Real Estate Transfers.
John R. Graham to Mary Graham, lots 12.
13, .block 10, Stansberry's Addition $ 1
College Endowment Association to Joseph
P. Menth, lots 9, 10, block 15, College
Place 115.
A. and F. G. Arata to M. W. Henderson.
lot3 7, 8, block 24, Mount Tabor Villa... 300
E. E. Miller to Clara G, Bufflngton. S. 25
feet of lot 24. block 20, Alblna 1400
The Tltlo Guarantee & Trust Company to -R.
V.. Gilbert. W. one-third of lot 0,
Edge wood 400
Franz Nlbler, administrator, to Nicholas
Mlckel, 10 acres, section 15, T. 1 S., R.
IE GOO
C. S. Upton to J. and William Huss. lot 2,
block 10, Woodlawn 350
John Clark to V. A. Hudson, lot 18, block
7, Sunnyslde 830
E. B. Seabrook and wife to Mary F. Ca
son, lot I. Richmond 1350
Abble V.'. Graham and husbnnd to Anna
Myers, lots 3, 4. block 19, Tlbbetts Ad
dition I
Columbia Real Estate Company to Alice
E. Glass, lots 29, 30, block 31, Peninsular
Addition, No. 2 70
Augusta Miller and husband to M. A.
Schrelber. lots 45. 46, block 8. First
Electric Addition 100
Louis Goldsmith and wife to Edmond J.
Labbe, three-fourths of an acre, Balch
D. L. C. 2750
J. V. Beach and wife to Jewish Ladles"
End. Society, 50x100 feet. Fifth and
Sheridan streets 1300
Minnie E. Henrlca to J. M. Buroughs,
undivided one-sixth of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8.
block 19. North Alblna 1
T. S. McDanlel et al. to C. N.Rankln.
undivided one-half Interest In SE. H of
block D. Alblna Homestead 300
Lydla Rodney to O. M. Smith, lots 11,
12, 13. block 14; lots 23. 24. block 10;
lot 0. block 15; lots 24. 42. 43. block 17;
lot 4. block 20t lot 18. 47. block 22; lot
10, block '3; lots 0, 10, block 7, Mount
Tabor Villa '.
Clementina Rodney to Llllle Lenderman.
lots 1. 2, 3, Sussex Addition to East
Portland 200
Henrj- Wetnhard and wife to Ereda Del
lar, 05x55 feet. Sixth and Jackson, city. 3000
Sterling Land Company to Nathan Wilcox.
E. Vt of lot3 5, 8, block 3, Doscher's Sec
ond Addition 1000
Sterling Land Company to Isaac Turple,
W. of lots 5, 8, block 3, Doscher's Sec
ond Addition 1000
M. A. Fltzglbbon to M. A. Peterson, lots
8 and 9. block 28. Alblna 1
Nellie E. Sanford and husband to Charles
Butler, lot 21, block 18, Mount Tabor
Villa 630
For Guaranteed Titles
See Pacific Coast Abstract, Guaranty &
Trust Co.. 204-5-6-7 Falling building.
Accident Prevents Reconcllation.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Just when Ignatz
Butzer, of Newark, was preparing to re
turn to Germany to be reconciled to hl3
brother, with whom he quarreled 14 years
ago, he was killed by a train and his body
now lies in the morgue at Orange, N. J.
Butzer and an elder brother were officers
in the same regiment In the German
army. They were members of a wealthy
family of the German aristocracy. Four
teen years ago they quarreled and Ignatz
thruet his sword into the body of his
brother, inflicting a serious wound. Ar
rest, court-martial and a sentence o
seven years' imprisonment followed. The
wounded man recovered.
Ignatz was soon released from the mili
tary prison and came to America. For
several years he subsisted by painting.
Recently he became reconciled, to" the
brother and funds were sent him. to pay
his way back to Germany. H.e was pre
paring to start when he was. Rilled.
Many forms of nervous debility in men
yield to the use of Carter's Little Liver
Pills. Valuable for nervous weakness,
night sweats. Try them.
28.0
17.8
U.8
17.4
7.4
0.5
3.5
7.2
3.4
7.2
P0GS0N, PEL0UBET & CO.
Public Accountants
Hefiiussy Building, Butte
New York Office 20 Broad Street