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.THE OREGON ' t DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER - 21, 1911. 17 EFFORT TO ADVANCE E I CHRI MAS TURKEYS IS IN VAIN on Front Street and Quotations Will Not Likely Go Any Higher This Winter; Supplies Plentiful. PortUnd Whol.sal. Mukrt. Turkeys 18 to 22c Egga 85c, steady. Butter firm. Cheesa firm. Poultry steady. Apples , in good supply with fair demand. Dressed msats weaker. The turkey market Seems somewhat unsettled, commission men making ef forts to bring quotations ud to about 24c, but having apparently failed so far. Today 22c ruled, and ths quantity of birds on hand is not expected to per mit an advance for the Christmas trade. It is taken for nractlcaly settled that the retail price will be 2 bo, top. Culled birds are selllnjr as low as 18c and even less on Front street. The poultry market remains steady with heni bringing 13c to 18 He ana springs 12o o lie. Receipts In live tur keys and geese were quite liberal today. NO FRESH HALIBUT V. Y There was no fresh halibut In the market today, and there la not telling if ny will be In the market tomorrow. Somehow the fishermen on the sound are having poor luck. BRAZIL NUTS SCARCE While nuts in general are plentiful enough to meet al demands, there is 5 aid to be a scarcity in Brazil nuts on 'ront street. Brazil nuts are not in great demand except at Christmas, time. APPLE MARKET The apple market Is more active than for some time, but values are unchanged because receipts have increased fully as much as the demand. Many packers have held for the holiday trade, and aa result the Front street men are having no trouble In filling orders. Fancy stock is quoted at $1.60 to $2.25. while common grades are quoted at 76o to 1.60. EGGS AT 35 CENTS The egg market is a little firmer than yesterday, an ' some effort is being made to advance values a cent. The ruling price today, however, was 85c. BUTTER AND CHEESE The butter and cheese markets re main steady and firm, with no Indica tion of an early change. SHIPPERS' FORECAST V Protect shipments as far north as Eeattle against minimum temperatures or about 38 degrees; nortnenst to Spo kane, 20 degrees; southeast to Boise, 12 deerees: south to Slsklvou. 22 degrees. Minimum temperature at Portland to night, about 86 degrees. PORTLAND JOBBING PRICES Orals, riouf and Kay. These nrlces are those at Which whole salers Sell to retailers except as other wise stated: WHEAT Producers price nominal; track delivery, club, 79(ffR0c; bluestem. 82088c; fortyfold, 81c; Wlllnmette val ley, 8081c; red Russian, 7879c; Tur key red, bjo. BARLEY Producers trices 1911 Feed, S1.0031.60; rolled. $32; brewing. 137 OATS Produrrs price Track No. 1, spot delivery, white, 180.60; gray, $30. MTLLHTUFFS Selling price Brsa 124.60; middlings. $31.00; snorts. $26.60; Chop, $19 00(9 J5. 00. HAY Producers' price 1911 crop Vslley timothy, fancy, $15CJ16; ordinary, l3ri14; eastern Oregon, 16.50317; Idaho, $17: mixed, $12015; clover, $10 Ci'll; wheat. $11; cheat, $11; alfalfa. $)l Sf? 1 3: oats. $11. X FTjOUR Bemng price ir-aienis, $4 B0; Tyillamrtte, $4.80 per barrel: loca' Straight. $4,054 $5: bakers', S4.30O 4.60; export grades, $8.65. Batter, JSggs ana Poultry. BUTTER "Extra creamery, cubes and tuba, 86c; prints. 87c: ordinary prints, 84W 36c: dairy. 18184c. BUTTER fat jrToaucers- ones w. o. b. Portland, per pound, xsc. EQUS Local extras, Bh3e; spot uvlna- Drlce. 34c f. o. h Portland: eastern rresn, zwwsuc; Aprils, zsc. POULTRY Fancy hens, 1213c; rprlngs, 12c: ge-se, 12c; dressed. 14c; ive young ducks. 17c; old ducks, 18c; turkevs, nllve, nominal, 19c; dressed, J8(ft22c; pigeons, old, $1.00; young, $2 6.40. CfTEEBK Fresh Oresron fanev. full cream, triplets and daisies, YlVid per in.; xoung Americas, lsftc; storage flats, 17c; Young Americas, 18a Bops, Wool ana Bides. HOPS Producers' orlce 1911 crop, choice, 42H; prime, 42c; medium, 41 41ttc; 1909 growth. 20c; 1912 contracts, 22j4c; 1918 and 1914. 17o lb. WOOL, Producers' price Nominal, (911: Willamette valley. 14HO17He; feastem Oregon, 9M6o. MOHAIR 1811. selected, 85S7c. CHITTIM BA RK Producers price S911 less carlots, 6 Oct carlots. CHc t o.' b. Portland. " TALLOW Prims. ,per lb.. 4o; No. I, snd rrrcpse, t&2 V4c. HIDKR Pry hides, 19o; green, (O 10c; salted hides. lOMiffJllci bulls, green salt, 8c; kips, 11c; calves, dry, JOc; celf skins, salted or green, 17c; green "hides lfflHc less thsn salted: sheep pelts, salted. Novsmber, 90c; December, fill: dry, ivo id, HOOD RIVERAPPLES arrive in EXCELLENTCONDIT ON Large Number of Boxes Opened After Long Shipment Reveal Every Ap ple as Perfect as When Packed at Shipping Point. Hood River, Or.. Deo. 2 L John B. Castner, who has been in the New Eng land states teaching the apple -men of Massachusetts how to pack apples, re turned last week. While In Boston Mr. Castner visited a. number of wholesale frultmen and st the establishment of Sands, Furrow & Co. opened 60 boxes of apples sent by the Davidson Fruit com pany. , Of the entire lot opened Mr. Castner says that he failed to find an apple In any of the boxes that was not up to the standard. This firm stated that they were highly pleased with Hood River fruit as did also the firms handling the union apples. The apples opened were from the orchard of Oscar Vanderbllt They were selling for the following ? rices: Spltzenbergs, $8.76; Kewtowns, 3; Delicious, $4.60. YOUNG WAPATO STER DRESSES 72.14 POUNDS c'V Oroosries. ir SUGAR Cubes. $6.80; powdered. $6.60: liifrui. 0 berry. $6.40; dry granulated. 1 7 16.40: u yellow, io.tw; Dest. .o; ) Honolulu plantation cane granulated, 6o iiw )pnn Abova Quotations arb SO davs net f cash.) rtch: Japan, no. i. swstto: imo. i. 4 He: New Orleans need. ( i& o; Cre ole. 6c. SALT Coarse, half ground lOtts. $8.60 per ton; 60s, $9.00; table dairy. Sfta. $1$: A Overbeck & Cooke Co. H BROKERS Stocks, Bonds Cotton, Grain, Etc. 216-217 Board of Trade Building ' Members Chicago Board of Trade. Correspondents of Logan ft Bryan, Chicago, New York, Members New York Stock Exchange, Boston Stock Exchange. Chicago Board of , Trade, New York Coffee , EX- . change. Nam York Cotton ? Ex. . change, New Orleans Cotton Ex- change, Winnipeg Grain Exchange The Shorthorn steer bought yesterday at the stockyards in. North Portland by the Union Meat company from A. O. Dunn, shipper, of Wapato, Wash., when butchered this morning, dressed 72.14 pounds, the biggest percentage known of In the world, according to D. O. Live ly, vice president of the stockyards com pany. The steer was but SO months old and weighed, alive, 2100 pounds. At live weight he brought $10 per hundred, the Bale having been made yesterday as reported. The steer was shown on the moving picture films depicting the livestock pa rade at the recent state fair at Salem. Mr. Lively states that while the live weight of the steer was quite phenom enal, the remarkable feature Is the splAndid percentage shown in dressing. So far as he knows, the Wapato steer has established a record, which means a strong Indorsement for this section of the country as particularly favorable to stock raising. SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS (United Tresa Leued Wlre.t 8an FranclBco, Dec 21. Wheat Aus tralian and propo, $1.66 1.57 ; Califor nia. $1.47 1.62 H; northern wheat, bluestem, $1.67H 1.80: club, I1.62V4G? 1.65; Turkey red, $1.67 01.60; Russian red, i.601.53. Barley Feed, rood to choice, $1.80(3 1.82A: fancy, $1.86; poor to fair, $1.725 (ft 1.77 Vi; shipping and brewing, $1,800 1.86. Bggs California fresh, Including cases, extras, 45Ac; select pullets, 80c. Butter California extras, 33 Ho; prime firsts, 28V4c; firsts, 27 He: stor age extras, zsc; do prime firsts, 26c. Cheese New California flats, fancy, 15c; firsts, 14c; California Young Amer icas. fa.ncy, 16c; do firsts. 16c; Oregon fancy, 16c: do jounj America California storage, fancy flats, 15c: New York Cheddars, fancy singles, 18c; daisies, 18 He: do storage, single, 17 He; daisies. 18c; Wisconsin Cheddars, singles, 17c. Potatoes, per cental River Whites, $1.1001.35; Alameda, $1.16 1.66 ; Sa linas Burbanks. $1.60 1.85; sweets, $1.66(1.76. Onions, per cental New yellow, 90c t1.15. Oranges Navels, fancy, $2.60 a $.00; choice, $2.00(2.26; standard, $1.50 1.75; tangerines, 1.151.J5. SEATTLE MARKETS (L'ulted Press Luted Wire.) Seattle, Wash., Dec. 21. Butter Washington creamery, firsts, S738c; eastern fresh, 3035c; do storage. 28 32c. 1 Eggs Local ranch, 40c; eastern fresh, 303ic; do storage, 27fo'29c. Cheese Tillamook twins, 16 He; do Young Americas, 18Ho: Wisconsin Young Americans, 20c; do twins, l7c; cream, 20c; Coos Bay. 16Ho; Hmburger, 17Ho. Onions Yellow.- $1.50 per sack; red, $1.60; Walla Walla. $1.251.60. Potatoes $23Sj27 per ton. New York Cotton Market. Open. High. Low. Close. Jan. 892 898 8SB 885887 Mar 910 912 901 9010902 May j. 922 922 911 911Ct)912 July 926 930 919 9190920 Aug ... 9191921 Sept 930 982 927 9260927 Oct. 982 938 928 928fo929 Dec 942 946 930 9300931 L IVESIOCK MARKETS SHOW STRONG II THROUGHOU NATON Sales At North Portland Yards Today Confined to Hogs; Receipt of Cattle Are Light Shipment of Hones From Idaho. 4 Xa the Stockyards. 4 4 North Portland Hogs steady 4 to strong, cattle steady, sheep 4 steady. - 4 4 v ; 4 South Omihl .Hon itrnnr in A 4 higher, cattle strong, sheep 4 e sieaay to higher. 4 Chicas-c Hon ilnilr rottl A 4 strong, sheep strong. 4 4 4 4 KAnmrna City Hogs steady. 4 4 cattle strong, sheep strong. 4 PORTLAND LIVESTOCK: RUN. Hogs. Cattle. Calves. Sheep. Thursday ..... 605 8 1 748 Wednesday ..162 19 ., 288 Tuesday 288 113 i 1014 Monday 977 648 IT 994 Saturday .... 910 96 Friday ...... 99 1$0 .. 440 Week ago ... 704 $10 601 Sales at the yards In North Portland this morning were oonfmed to hogs, nearly 400 bead passing hands. The transactions Indicate a firmer tone In the market, one lot of good stock of medium weight bringing $6.60, the top. Receipts of cattle were light, only eight head coming in. A carload of horses, S6 head, were Included in the reoeipts at the yards this morning. At Chicago and Kansas City the live stock markets indicated a firmer tone today, cattle being reported strong at the three places. At SOnth Omaha tho hog market showed an advance. Sheep too, were reported stronger. North Portland swine values; Best packers f 60 h'savy 6.45 Good light 6.45 6.60 Rough and heavy 6.00 6.25 Poor and heavy 6.00 5.60 sheen values t North Portland. Select lambs $ Choice lambs 4.75 Common lambs 4 00 Yearling lambs 4.60 Old wethers Fancy ewes s if. Ordinary 3l003.'26 nn rorutna general cattle range 6.10 4.80 4.26 4.76 4.00 3.50 ...$ 6.75 6.60 6.50 4.50 6.00 P&.25 4.85 4.60 M.B'J 4.00 4.25 8.00 100s, $17: bales, fj.zo: extra fine bar rels, 2s. Ks and 10s, $46; lump rook, $20.60 per ton. HONEY New. $3.78 per case. BRANS Small white. $4.90: large white, $4.86: olnk. $4.26; bayou. $4.75; Llmas. $7: reds, $5.60. Fruits ana Vegetables. APPLES New crop. J1.00Q)3.00. POTATOES Selling nrlces: Ordinary Oregon, $1.26; poor, $1.00l.O5: buying price, 95c01.35; sweets, I 0 J He. ONIONS Yellow. $1.50; garde. 78c. FRESH FRUITS Oranges. $8.26 per box; bananas. So lb.; lemons, $4.50ra6; limes, $9 a case: grapefruit, $607: pine apples, 6c per lb.; cranberries, $11.60 12; peaches, 75c; pears, $1.60; grapes, $1.1031.26; Jap oranges, $1.25. VEGETABLES New turnips. II Ml sack; beets, $1.60; carrots. $1.2501 60: cabbage, 80$1.00: California tomatoes. 1.50 crate; beans, 12o lb.; green onions, 16o dozen) peppers, bell. lOo lb.; head lettuce, $20)2.60 crate; hothouse, $1 1.25 box; radishes, 15o dozen bunches; celery, $44.6) crate; egg plant, 10c lb; cucumbers, hothouse $1.40 dozen; peas, Ic; cauliflower. $2.00 crate. Meats, rish and Provisions. DRESSED MEATS Front street: Hogs, fancy, 88Ho per lb.: ordinary, 8c; heavy, C7Hc; veals, extra, 1313Hc; ordinary. HH12Hc; poor. swioc; spring lambs, 7H9c; mutton. 6avc; goats. c; oeer, tbi 9c. LARD Kettle leaf tierces. 18o lb.j steam rendered, tierce, 11 o per lb.; compound, tierces, 8 Ho per lb. HAMS, BACON, Etc. Hams, 16 H 17HOI breakfast bacon, lGH27o; boiled ham, 2$Ho; picnics, HHc; cottage, 16c; regular short clears, smoked, 12 He; barks, smoked. 13Hfjyl4c; pickled tongues, 76c lb; FISH Nominal Rock cod 100 lb.: flounders, So; halibut, H70 striped baas, tOc; catfish, 12 Ola He; salmon, lOo lb.; soles, 7o per lb.; shrimps, 12 Ho lb.; perch, 7J8c; tomcod. 80; lob sters, 26c; herrlnrs, 8fli6c; black bass. lOo; sturgeon, 12Ho per lb.: silver smelt. 80 lb.: black cod, 7 He; dressed shad. 7o; roe shad. 10c; shad roe, 20o lb; Colum bia smelt, 16o lb. OYSTERS Shoatwater bay. per gal lon. ( ); per 100 lb. sack. ( : Olym pla. per gallon $3; per 100 lb sack, $9; eastern In shell. $1.76 9 9.00 per 100; razor cisms. dot. Valnts. Coal Oil. atw DINBBED OIL Raw, bbls., T7o gal., kettle boiled, bbl., 79o; raw, in cases. 82c; boiled. In cases, 84o gallon, lots of 260 gallons, lo lass, oil cake meal, $44 per ton. VfHlTW LEAD Ton lots. 80 per lb.t 100 lb. lota. 80 per It.: less lots. SHo per )b. BENZINE 86 degrees, cases, 14 Ho gallon: Iron bbls.. IlHo per gallon. HKJtrar xnaniia, so; inu. 1 COAL OIL Cases: Pearl, 14o: lUr, 19c per gallon; ter white, bulk. SO 18 Ho per gallon; special water white. lirtsiso. Select steers Fancy steers Choice steers Feeders Common steers Fancy heifers 6.00 Fancy cows Feeder cows Fancy bulls 4.25 Good ordinary bulls Stags Fancy light calves Medium calves 6.006. 60 Ordinary calves 4.004i6.ou The shippers to the yards today were: Hugh Cummlngs. Talsev. Or., one cor hogs; Frank Crawford, Condon, Or., one car hogs; Paul Webb, Heppner. Or., one car sheep; Charles Hunter. Wallowa, Or., one car hogs; H. Larkln, Alverton, Wash., one car hogs: J. Madison, Wel ser, Idaho, one car hogs; S. G. Cloldt, Pomeroy, Wash., one car cattle, calves and hogs; J. D. Huston, Caldwell, Ida ho, one car horses; W. A. Whltted, Ju lietta, Idaho, one car hogs; C. J. Hal strom, Welser, Idaho, one car sheep; R. F. Stubbefleld, Enterprise, Or., one car sheep. Thursday's UTestook Sales. HOGS. Ave. lbs. 109 hogs 72 83 hogs 242 1 hog 200 84 hogs 280 84 hogs 205 1 hog 410 Prloe. $6.40 6.36 6.35 6.60 6.85 6.00 WALL STREET SHOWS E E CONFIDENC IN STOCKS ANDADVANC FOLLOWS Metal Stocks Gain Nearly a Point; Irregular London Market Has a Slight Effect on the Conditions In New York. New York, Dec. 21. The Irregularity of the early London market gave local opening prices unchanged to a shade lower, while the strengthening of money rates In the European centers caused some uneasiness during the early trad ing among a few scat te' red holders of securities. For a time the market was inclined to show signs of liquidation, later, however, a more confident feeling was shown, due to tho report of the "Iron Age" which gave out the report that orders wero about to be placed for 600,000. tons of steel rails. This coupled with the rumors of higher prices for finished steel productu, caused a strong turn In the Industrial group which brought support to the rails. Spe cial strength was noted In the copper Issues. Amalgamated, Smelters and Utah Copper all showed strength throughout the day. Copper metal being advanced to 14 cents gave a renewed buying movement, all Issues showing gains of from H to 1 point. Range of New York prices furnished by Overbeck & Cooke company: Description Open.)Hlgh.Low.jClose. OMAHA LIVESTOCK South Omaha, Dec. 2L Cattle, $000, strong. Steers, $6.76 8; oows and heif ers, $4.2505.60. Hogs, 6300, strong to 5 higher. Price, $5.90 6-20. Sheep, 4800, steady to higher. Year lings, $4. 404.76: wethers, 3.764.10; lambs, $5.5006.00; ewes, $3.40(3.75. MONEY MARKET London, Dec $1. Consols, 77 1-16; silver, 26; bank rate, 4 per cent. New York. Deo. 21. Sterling ex change, long, 4.83 H; short, 4.87; silver bullion, 64. Ban Francisco, Deo. 81 Sterling ex change, 60 days, 4.82 Hi sight, 4.86 Doc, 4.8 1 f4 ; transfers telegraph, $ per cent premium; sight, par. SPOKANE MINES Hecla, 160dil80. International Coal A Coke, 68061, Jack Walte. 1115. Lucky Jim Zino mines, 21 24. Nugget Gold Mining company, $8 42. Rambler-Carlbee, 5fH65. Snowstorm, 22 H 23. Stewart, 1020105. Standard Sirver-Lead Mining company, Copper, 20 bid. NORTHWEST BANK STATEMENT Portland Banks. Clearings today $1,871,976.70 Year ago 1,620,166.47 Gain today Balances today Year ago .$ 51.811.23 . 165,116.80 96,064.21 OASOLiNE Red crown and motor. l$22o gallo:.: 86 gasoline.. 18Q$6Ha gallon; V. JAV F naphtha, 1$ 10 Ho gaiion. TIIRPFNTINB Tn csasS. fXnf wood barrels. 70 He: iron barrels, I60 per sal toni 10 case lets. TSo TAFT CONGRATULATES NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA (United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, Dec. 21. An exchange of courtesies between President Taft and Czar Nicholas of Russia took place today, which Is "Nicholas day" in Rus sia. The cabled messages were an nounced from the White House. Pres ident Taft cabled the czar as follows: "I beg to offer your majesty my cordial felicitations on this anniversary, and assurances of my highest regard, and my good wishes for yourself and the nation over whleh your majesty reigns." Czar .Nicholas cabled in reply: "Pray accept my cordial thanks for your congratulations, and my good wishes." SHUSTER'S COUSIN GOES TO HIS RESCUE (tTnlted Press Leased Wlra.1 New York, Deo. 21. W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer-general of Persia, Is to have the assistance of his oousln, Edward Shuster, for the past six years in the quartermaster's depart ment in ths canal zone, in his contro versy with Russia. Edward Shuster is in New York today after a hurried trip from Panama, on- his way to Teheran. Rent a Piano Rent a piano, $3, $4 per month; Kim ball, Checkering, Fischer, Kohler, and many other good . makes. Kohler A Chase, 178 Washington street Amal. Copper Co. Am. car Sc F., c. Am. Can. c do pfd Am. Cotton Oil, c Am. .LiOCO., o. . . . Am. Smelter, c. do pfd Anaconda M. Co, Atchison, c do pfd B. & O., c Beet Sugar Brooklyn R. T.. . Canadian Pnc., c (Jen. leather, c. do pfd C. & G. W., c... do pfd C, M. A St. P.. . Chera. & Ohio . . Colo. F. & I., o... Cons. Gas Corn Products, 0 Dela. A Hudson . D. & R. O., o. ... do pfd Brie, c (i. Northern, pfd. ice "securities . lllnois Central. Internatl. Harv. Interurb. Met., c do pfd Lehlgn Valley.. K. C. Southern L. & N M., Kt. P. & S.. M., K. & T., c. do pfd Mo. Pacific ... Nat. Lead .... Nevada Cons. . . N. Y., Ont. & W Nor. & W., c. . . N. American... N. Pacific, c. . . Pac, M. S. Co.. I'enn. Railway. P. G.. L. & C. Co. Reaalng, c do 2d pfd do 1st pfd... Kep. I. & S., O. . do pfd Rock Island, 0. do pfd St. L. & S. F., 2pf Ht. U. & S. W., c do. pfd South, Pao., c. . Southern Ry, c. do. pfd Tex. & Pacific . T., S. L. & W, c. do. pfd Union Pac, c. . . do. pfd U. S. Rubber, a. do. pfd U. S. Steel Co., c. do. pfd Utah Copper . . . Va. Chemical . . . Wabash, c do. pfd W. U. Telegraph.j west. n,iecino 68H 11 46 86 74 88 1064 20 io 74H 137 10H 32H 128Vi 141 110 15H 49 1S1 H 27 167V 1352 29 674 54H 11H 47 75 H 88 106 $7H 106 V. 10314 67H 77 240H 22 103 6 77 240 U 21 20 110 76 Hi" 10 '20H 43 32 128 112 15 49 184 28 167 13bH 29 89 64 19 108 118 123 152 V6 27 85 24 45 41 80 113 29 71 22 174 93 48 I '68 111 b4W 55 I 6i 14 78 69 39 65 19 108 73 113 29 71 "A 22 175 93 48 'C9' 111 f5 65 6 14 5 63 11 48 78 19 110 74 136 ft 63 11 36I138 10! 10 18 18 39 128 18 18 41 32 128 110 : ft 180 27 166 135 Z9 39 64 19 108 13 " 118 30 123 ii 96 m 85 23 44 41 80 69 "lit 71 22 173 S3 48 68 111 64 64 I 6 14 68l 68 15 48 183 27 135 29iJ 38 89 108 31 m 103 152 96 99 84 23 44 41 30 71 112 29 71 22 16 36 174 93 48 111 68 111 66 Total sales 406,100 shares. 0RENC0, OR., STORE FIRE BURNS FIREMAN-CLERK (Special to The Journal.) Orenco, Or., Dec. 21. Otis Cantrell was badly burned about the head and hands last night at a fight which broke out in the Orenco Mercantile company's store about 11 o'clock. The fire origi nated In the gas room that furnishes light for trie building. The volunteer fire department was soon on the scene, and Cantrell, who Is an employe of the firm and a member of the local fire brigade, had Just oponed a door to throw a stream of water on the blaze when he was struck by a flash that burned his hands and face, while his eyerows and half the hair of the head was burned off. The loss to the firm Is small, and Is fully covered by Insurance. A churci service had been held In the hall above the store early In the evening, this be ing followed by a lodge meeting of the Artisans, the lighting plant being kept In service longer than usual, and it Is supposed the apparatus became over heated and caused the blaze. WKEA I MARKET EN I LOWER IN EAST BUT LOCAL MARKET F Receipts of Wheat at Portland Are Larger Today Than on the Corres ponding Date Ijagt Year; Liver pool Market Holding Steady. ' from Seattle, and Jones expressed his willingness to come to Portland. One of the Items Jones remembers of paying, with the money Is $40 a month for nine months for a deaconess In Taylor Street church. He had in tended to collect subscriptions to pay this salary, but was unable to on ac count of lack of time, 10 he paid It from t he hotel's money, meaning to pay back as soon as possible. What will be done with Jones has not been decided yet, although Mr. Wright feels Inclined to prosecute him. Jones declares he has told all. He says the past few months have been a night mare to him. Mormon Families at Orenco. (Special to The loarnsl.) Orenco, Or.. Dec. 21. Daniel S. Gardi ner, C. W. Bourne and H. A. Benson, three elders of the Mormon churoh, held a meeting in the town hall last evening, the pnbllo being given a special Invita tion to attend. At present there are three families, Dappans, Vaughns and Nelmans, comprising the local mem bership. The local members may erect a place of worship In the near future, all depending on the rapidity of the growth of the congregation. COUNCIL COMMITTEE . SAYS EXPENSE IS LOW (Specltl to To Journal.) Oregon City, Or., Dec. 21. The city council, which at a meeting several days ago Instructed the committee on streets to probe the olty engineer's of fice and dismiss all unnecessary em ployes, Tuesday afternoon exonerated City Engineer Noble of all blame and admitted the office was conducted at a minimum expense. The city engineer submitted a report showing that $131, 000 had been spent for street Improve ment this year and that only 4 per cent of that amount had been used for the payment of salaries of engineers and supervisors. Mr. Noble said that four or five times more work had been dona on the streets this year than ever before In tho same length of time. The payroll In December, 1910, was shown to be $361 and the city engineer said It would ba only $300 this month. 4 4 World's Wheat Market. 4 English country markets firm. 4 French country markets 4 steady. 4 Liverpool closed steady. 4 Budapest lower. 4 Antwerp 1 lower. 4 4 Berlin lower. Portland market firm. 4444w PORTLAND GRAIN RECEIPTS. Cars. Wheat. Barley. Flour. Oats. Hay. Monday .... 89 3 14 18 15 Tuesday .... 76 7 9 . 6 Wednesday . 85 6 1 7 1 Thursday ... 77 1 4 t 11 Year ago ... 75 2 8 . 12 Season to date ..7486 265 1376 $93 1766 Tear ago ...7058 327 1123 665 1306 Chicago, Dec. 21. On the lwer Liver pool cables today our market opened lower with a not less of akout cent from last night's closing. The local feel ing being somewhat bearish, advantage wiis taken by many of the local holders to sell wheat This encouraged some short sellers which gave the market a weak undertone. On the low lovel there was a buying spurt, btit It was short lived however, aa all foreign markets came lower towards the close. Buenos Ayres was 1 lower, and the Argen tine weather conditions were reported more favorable with a better outlook. The market lacked snap throughout the session. What activity there was was of a downward tendency. The close was dull and quiet with prices being from to lower. Corn, while steady dur ing the early trading, sagged off In sympathy with the weakness of the wheat market, oats being orfered freely all day, gave that cereal a weak close, at the lowest figures of the day. Liver pool closed to lower. Range of Chicago prices furnished by civerueca & uooite t-"o. : WHEAT. Open. High. Low. Close. Deo 94 94 May 98 98 A July 94 93 B CORN. Dec 63 83 B May 65 64 B July 65 64 A OAT 8. Dec. 46 46 A May 48 47 B July.... 45 44 B PORK. Jan . . . .' .... 1557 May 1612 1602 July 1630 1620 LARD. Jan 917 917 May 942 940 July 955 952 RIBS. Jan 832 830 May 862 860 July 865 JONES, DEFAULTER, RETURNS TO FACE THOSE HE ROBBED (Continued from Page One.) GIPSY SMITH GOES TO CALIFORNIA RESORT Gipsy Smith arrived In Portland at 6:45 o'clock last night and left for Cal ifornia at 7:46 o'clock, where he and his wife will be the guests of James Horsburgh, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific at Paso Roblea, for 10 days. Then he will go to San Francisco where he will begin a series of revival meetings. While the evangelist was in this city he told of the way the people of Tacoma had received him. He said that during the time he preached about 1500 persons entered the Inquiry rooms. From what Gipsy Smith has heard of San Francisco he expects to have a very hard campaign, he says. . BEEF PACKERS MEET HARD REBUFF IN COUR I (TTnlted Press Lut4 Wire.) Chicago, Dec. 21. United States -Judge Carpenter in ths district ooui t here today made it certain that the trial of 10 beef packers indicted for crim inal conspiracy under the Sherman law, will continue when he "denied a motion . by the packers' attorneys that two of IUO BO V Oil bUUULR Ul VllO'lllUlUllUQUt UQ . dismissed. The defense took aa excep tion to the ruling. The court also denied a motion by the defense to instruct the jury to din regard certain statements made In the opening address of Special Government Prosecutor Wllkerson. Attorney George Buckingham opened the statement for the defense. ' Buckingham denied that the packers' operations were In any way responsible for the high cost of living. He quoted the decisions of the United States su preme court in the Standard OH and the tobacco cases, denying that the beef combination Interfered in an unreason able way with trade, and commerce. Eloquently he described the alleged ben efits accruing to the public as a result of the .combination. 1 Sawmill Will Reopen. Astoria, Or., Deo. 21. The sawmill formerly operated and owned by the Old Oregon Mills, and which was sold recently to E. P, Smiley and others, will reshme operations in ths spring under the management of Mr. Smiley, who will' incorporate a company. The property was sold by ths Old Oregon Mills several months ago. accounts with much larger requisitions than had been turned over to them. Tells Story of Pllg-ht. Jones declares that when he left the office of the Oregon hotel August 29 he had no intention of running away. The sight of tho experts going over his books frightened him but he was willing at the time to make a clean breast of the matter. Before he left the hotel he asked fr Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Wright wishing to tell all but both were out. Then he went home and secured hlH fishing tackle In order to get away Wiere he could think things over. He started for Cazadero but missed the car and then decided to try the Columbia slough. He took a Vancouver car and they would not stop at the Slough so he went on to the end of the line and then over to Vancouver. Wandering about the barracks he met a soldier who told him he had a ticket for Tacoma which he would sell cheap. Jones bought the ticket thinking to go to Seattle to con fess to Mr. Dickinson. "When ho arrived In Seattle he found Mr. Dickinson out and "got cold feet," as he expressed It, while waiting so he crossed over to New Westminster to wait developments. He explains his fright by recalling Mr. Dickinson's Btatment that he would send any man to the penitentiary who stole money from htm and nothing on earth could save him. Bells Bis Byegiasses. On his arlval at New Westminster he was still carrying his fishing rod and he left it at a saloon on his way from the depot to the city. En route from Seattle to Westminster he sold his eye glasses to a man on the train for $5, needing the money as he says. After he reached New Westminster he bought a oheap pair to replace them. Afraid of being recognized in the crowds at tending the fairs at New Westminster and Vancouver ho went on to Revel stoke, arriving August 31. There he sold his watch and revolver, signing the bills of sale C. W. Johns. The next day he went on to Calgary with a man named Perkins, whom he had met at the hotel In Revelstoke. The man had 4'fered him work as a time keeper In ralne near Duluth at $76 a month. T(Jls was the position he re ferred to $n tho letters received by his family from Revelstoke. The position called for a bond which Jones could not furnish, so he could not take the job. He bought the ticket Perkins had given to him to Calgary for $8 and then told Perkins he felt he had been cheated. Perkins gave him back a dollar. Meets a Tramp. In Calgary he met a tramp and to gether they started for St. Paul, paying the brakemen small amounts to rldo and riding during the day. He stayed in Minneapolis for several days with out employment He worked for a time for a plumbing company shoveling on a sewer job at Northern Junction, aa Frank Flint. He returned for a fow days to Minneapolis and then went to Hastings, Minn., where he worked at harvesting. Later he returned to Min neapolis and took a job as dishwasher in a restaurant, which ha held until he left for Spokane. In Hastings ha was known as Jones, and from there he wrote his wife, tell ing her to advertise in one of the Chi cago papers if she wished to communi cate with him. He also had s power of attorney made out in favor of Mrs. Jones'. Through Mrs. Jones negotiations were opened with Mr. Joseph, and a ticket was wired by his son Harold for Mr. Dickinson, so that Jones could coma to Spokane. Jones and Joseph met in Spokane Tuesday, and he told all he knw. 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