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THE GALVESTON TRIBUNE : FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1903.
COTTON MEN.
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Jacinto, Soon to Arrive in Gal-
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RED TAPE BY THE MILE.
Experience of a British Officer Who Need-
ed a Screw Driver.
Collier’s Weekly.
There is red tape in the methods of the
American war department, but for gorge-
ous complication of system, a recent illus-
tration in the British army eclipses all rec-
ords on this side of the water. An officer
had occasion to use a screwdriver, just a
plain, ordinary twenty-five-cent screwdriv-
er. In a moment of rashness he decided
not to buy it on Ids own account, but made
formal application for the implement from
the supply of the government stores. The
request for a screwdriver was read, ap-
proved, indorsed, by one officer after an-
other up the long ladder—whose rounds
were festooned with red tape—until it
reached the topmost seat of authority,
whose action was final. There the appli-
cation' was solemnly considered and start-
MALLORYtiHE
N. Y. & r. s. s. co.
Proposed. Sailings Prom
GALVESTON TO NEW YORK
Steamers Marked * Call at Key West.
Ss. San Marcos*.. .Tuesday, Dec. 15, uoon
Ss. Conchi Thursday, Dec. 17, noon
Ss. Lampasas* — Tuesday, Dec. 22, noaa
Ss. San Jacinto..Thursday, Dec. 24, noon
PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS.
Unsurpassed. Tickets issued, all classes,
to and from Europa at lowest rates. Cor-
respondence solicited.
J. B. DENISON. Agent. 2322 Strand.
ADOUE & LOBIT
BANKERS
AND
Commission /YLesrchant?.
SIGHT DRAFTS ON LONDON, PARIS.
STOCKHOLM, BREMEN. HAMBURG,
FRANKFORT and BERLIN.
HAYWARD, VICK & CO.
BROKERS.
Private wires to New York, New Orleans
•nd Chicago.
Prompt execution of orders for purchase
or sale of Cotton. Stocks, Grain and Pro.
vision*.
TELE PHONE 53 =5 23.
A H. LANGBEHN. F. A. LANGBE3IN.
LANGBEHN BROS.
gUOCBSSOUS TO
J. MOLLER & CO.,
STEAMSHIP AGENTS.
Ships Chandler
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS
- and Commission Merchant*
TT. L. CROSS CO.
have in stock a full assortment .. goods
in their line. Including BEEF and PORK.,
which they are offering low to the trade
and to sonsumers.
2014 and 2016 STRAND
ed back on its downward path through the
various official channels, until - it’ reached
the audacious officer who had made the
request, and forgotten about it in the in-
tervening weeks.
He was informed that screwdrivers were
supplied only in boxes of tools, and not
singly. He was not daunted, but, with ad-
mirable persistence, filled out another form
requesting the box of tools, in order that
he., might obtain the screwdriver. After the
same, weary , amount, of delay and formal-
ity, this, application came back. . Its in-
dorsement stated that boxes of tools were
only supplied to carpenter shops. The pa-
tient officer scratched his head, and then
remembering that he had set the ball .roll-
ing when he wanted a screwdriver, coupled
this with the document relating- to the box
of tools and the carpenter shop, and set
himself down again to fill out a blank ap-
plieation. This time He asked for a carpen-
ter shop, and a month later received word
that a duly equipped and appointed car-
penter shop would be supplied him.
Three months from the time he had hap-
pened to want a screwdriver he received
a carpenter shop. Through an oversight
in packing, there was no screwdriver in
the box of tools.
WORSE THAN FIRST REPORTED.
Consul at Alexandretta Well Within His
Rights When Attacked by Police.
By Associated Press.
Constantinople, Dec.- 11.—The United
States latest advices regarding the Alex-
andretta. affair confirm the reports of
violence of the police and the__ attack on
Consul Davis, who only used his cane
in self-defense.
It appears that Attarian, a naturalized
American, who asked for the consul’s as-
sistance to enable him to. embark for
Egypt,, was arrested by 'a' subterfuge.
After he embarked on the consular boat
with Mr. Davis, Atariah was invited to
land to undergo fumigation, whereupon
the man was suddenly seized by three
policemen and promptly locked up. Mr.
Davis, in attempting to interpose, was
assaulted by the police and obliged to
defend himself with his cane.
Attarian is still a prisoner.
A report that the United States cruiser
San Francisco had left Beirut for Alex-
andretta is premature.
HISPANO-AMERICAN UNITY.
By Associated Press.
New York, N. Y., Dec, 11.—A movement
in favor of Hispano-American unity is
acquiring an importance which merits
attention, according to the Times corre-
spondent at Madrid, who cables:
“The Ibero-American union is working
hard to interest the South American
states and republics and it is said these
states show eagerness for union. Many
of the South American republics are
sending letters expressing interest in
any enterprise tending to develop the
relations between these republics and
Spain.”
It sometimes happens that a man loses
his health by drinking too often the health
of his friends.
The Mallory line steamship company is
having a runway constructed on pier 24
for the accommodation of the new steam-
ship San Jacinto. The work is being
done by the Wharf company.
The new steamship San Jacinto of the
Mallory line has recently been launched
at Chester, Pa., and was scheduled to de-
part from Chester for New York city
yesterday. She is on the time card to
leave New York for Galveston next
Wednesday and it is supposed /will make
this port in five days. There may be
some delay, however, in the proposed
schedule. The new steamship is a very
handsome- vessel and will add materially
to the shipping interests of this port.
ARRIVED.
Ss Irak (Br.), Liverpool .
Ss Lacroma (Aust.), Pensacola. '
SAILED.
Ss El Valle (Am.), New York.
Ss Penrith Castle (Br.), Bremen and
Antwerp.
VESSELS IN PORT.
Steamships.
Cayo Bonito ...........................Pier 12
Cayo Largo ............................Pier 36
Dora Baltea ...........................Pier 27
EL Sud ....... Pier 41
Erna ....... Pier 27
Frankfurt .................. Pier 15
Golden Cross ........ Pier 35
Imani ................ Pier 41
Irak .....................
.............Pier 10
Jamaican .................
.............Pier 10
Jeanara ..................
.............Pier 35
Lacroma ................'
.............Pier 36
Montenegro ..............
.............Pier 13
Northam ..................
....... Pier 14
Nueces ...................
.............Pier 24
Swanley ..................
.............Pier 29
Teodora de. Larrinaga...
.............Pier 33
DESTINED FOR GALVESTON.
American ................
...Liverpool 11-28
Almerian ............ ....
...Liverpool 11-18
Ashanti ..................
..Fleetwood 11-18
Blakemoor ............. ,
.........Tyne 11-12
Bray Head ..............,
....Swansea.12- 3
Cayo Romano ............
......London 11-23
Comal .....................
..New York 11-12
El Dia......................
..New York 12- 8
El Dorado.................
. .New York 12- 5
El Norte..................
.New York 12-10
El Rio......................
..New York 12- 8
European ................
....Antwerp 11-27
Galicia ...................
...Liverpool 11-30
Giacoma....................
..New York 12- 6
Hellas .....................
..New York 12- 2
Hornby Castle ...........
.. ..Antwerp 11-26
Inchdune .................
■ Manchester 12- 2
Inchmarlo ................
...Hallowell 11-27
Inchmona ...............
....Antwerp 11-23
Llansanopr ...............
Las Palmas 11-26
Llanthony ............ ...
Lomoor ...................
.........Hull 11-17
Manchester Spinner ....
...Hamburg 11-30
Maria de Larrinaga.....
■ Manchester 11'- is
Mineola ..................
..Rotterdam 11-24
Monomoy ................
........Leith 12- 2
Montauk .................
.Sunderland 12- 7
Norseman ...............
...Liverpool 12- 9
Pilar de Larrinaga.......
.Manchester 11-28
Politician ................
...Liverpool 11-27
San Marcos................
. -New York 12- 5
Star Cross... .Cardiff via
St. Vincent 11-15
Telesfora ................
-Manchester ll-ia>
'Shurland Castle.... Barr
v via Cuba 11-17
Venus ....................
....Calcutta 11-14
Bark.
Jomfruland ..............
......London 10-10
AMONG JHE COURTS
WILL FILED.
In the probate court yesterday Mrs.
Lillie E. Wachsen made application for
letters of administration upon the es-
tate of Henry O. Wachsen, deceased. At-
tached to the application is the last will
of the deceased. The will directs, first,
that all of the just debts and funeral
charges shall be paid, and bequeaths to
his wife, Lillie Eunice Wachsen, all of
his estate and property of whatsoever
description for her own use and benefit
during her lifetime, stating that the
omission to give his children anything
being intentional. Mrs Wachsen is made
sole executrix without bond.- The will is
dated June 3, 1899, and was signed, in the
presence of A. B. Tuller and John Forth.
CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS.
In the county court today the case of
the county of Galveston vs. John A.
Johnston is on trial. This action is for
condemnation of lot 9. in the southeast
block of outlot No. 23. The commission-
ers appointed by the court allowed the
defendant the sum of $75, to which he
GET WHAT
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THE OEiOIFlE
OASCARETS Oandy Cathartic are always put up in blue metal box, our trade-marked, long-tailed O
on the cover—tablet octagonal, stamped COO. Never sold in bulk. All druggists, lOo, 25c, 50c
Sample and booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. ’
excepted, hence the proceedings in the'
county court.
HABEAS CORPUS.
Yesterday afternoon at 4.30 o’clock
Fannie Freeney petitioned Hon. Frank
M. Spencer, judge of the Tenth judicial
district, to be heard upon habeas corpus,
making the usual allegations of jPegal
confinement in jail, etc. Judge Spencer
set the case for 11 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
SUIT FILED.
In the district court:
Fannie Freeney vs. state of Texas,
habeas corpus.
COUNTY COURT.
(Hon. Lewis Fisher, Judge; George H.
Law, Jr., Clerk.)
County of Galveston vs. John A. John-
ston, condemnation on trial.
BENEFIT OF ST. MARY'S.
Bazar Has Been Opened in the Old
Flatto Building.
;A bazar for the benefit of St. Mary’s
cathedral opened yesterday in the old
Flatto building and will continue today
and tomorrow. Ladies of the parish serve
ah ■ excellent lunch and supper each day
and are well patronized. There are
fancy booths in charge of the married
ladies and the Children of Mary, and a
candy and flower table in, charge of “The
Three Little Maids.” A handsome paint-
ing on tapestry, entitled “Spring,” has
attracted much attention.
LIFE WAS BLIGHTED.
New Hampshire Man D ed Broken
Hearted After Being Tricked
by a Bunco Sharp.
Franklin, N. H„ Dec. 11.—John F.
Leighton, who was bunkoed out of $3,500
eight years ago by John Reed, a confi-
dence man, and who never fully recovered
from the mental depression into which he
was thrown by his unfortunate adventure,
died of softening of the brain at his home
here today.
The incident to which reference has been
made, created a considerably sensation at
the time. Mr. Leighton’s' owji story of it
was, in effect, as foll&ws?’5 !f
The bunko man apjdesCred set Air. Leigh-
ton’s house, representing hjgnself to be
Arthur Folsom, of Concprd. formerly of
Laconia, and pretended to be a familiar
acquaintance of Mr. Lejgftfdh’S son. Fol-
som and taken into the sSonfidence of the
unsuspecting farmer, who went with him
to a neighboring farm which Folsom pre-
tended to want to purchase. At a cross
roads in the vicinity they met an appar-
ently intoxicated stranger, who exhibited
a large'roll of mdney, representing that he
had $20,000 which his father had left, and
that he wks searching for his sister, who
was married to a poor man in the vicinity..
He said that his father wished him to di-
vide the $20,COO -with his sister.
The stranger desired to play cards, and
Folsom, entering a game, easily won quite
a roll of his money. Finally the stranger
with the $20,000 declared he would not play
for small stakes any longer and that if
Folsom desired to play with him he must
put up a stake of $5,000. Folsom had only
$1,500 on his person, but M. Leighton was
persuaded to go to the Franklin bank and
negotiate a loan of $3,500.
Cashier Proctor warned Mr. Leighton to
beware of bunko men, and E. G. Leach,
who happened to be in the bank, suggested
that' he ought to be careful not to buy any
gold bricks. But Mr. Leighton declared
that he wanted the money for no such
purpose.
Returning to the cross roads the stranger
put $5,000 in a tin box; Folsom put, in $1,500,
and. Mr. Leighton put in $3,500. The in a
game of three-card monte Folsom was de-
clared the winner of the $10,000 stake, and
handing Mr. Leighton a tin box exactly
the same in appearance a.s the one in which
the $10,000 had been placed, he remarked:
“Keep this while I go to the depot with
this man and when I come back we will
divide.” But he never came back.
Mr. Leighton succeeded in opening the
box with a chisel, and found twe news-
papers and a letter warning him not to tell
any one of the game.
The police were notified and a search
instituted, Mr. Leighton even going to
New York to secure the. aid of Pinkerton
men in getting back his money, but noth-
ing was seen or heard of the sharper until
John Reed was taken at Clinton, Mass.,
while attempting to work the same old
game on a farmer in that locality. Mr.
Leighton visited the jail where the bunko ;r
was confined and identified him as the man
who called himself Folsom on July 30.
1S95.
Although the loss of $3,500 did not cripple
Mr. Leighton : financially ..the, experience
through which Ire passed had a serious
effect on his entire afters lifexh
Pavement Paragraphs.
The postponed meeting of the Minervas
will be held tonight. ’ 1
Services will be held at 'Temple B’nai
Brith at 6 o’clock this evening and 10
o’clock tomorrow morfiihg. 'z-
The annual sale of’•'the/ T&dies of the
First Presbyterian chttkch; vftiich was to
have been held on th? !llfh, is postponed.
The date will be announce^'1-'later. The.
postponement is owifig’to tSfe : illness of
one of the members. 1'
An entertainment will b Craven by the
B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church
tonight at 8 o’clock in the Baptist Sun-
day school rooms Admission is free. An
attractive program, consisting of read-
ing, music (vocal and instrumental), and
living pictures, has been prepared.
COTTON EXCHANGE VISITORS.
Visitors introduced on the floor of the
Cotton exchange today Were: R. Patton,
Pierce: L, T. Fuller, Dallas; C. W. Jones
and Charles H. Moore, Kansas .City, Mo.
HER OWN ACCUSER.
Hand of Church Fellowship With-
drawn. From Prominent New
York Woman.
Utica, N. Y., Dec. 11.—At a special
meeting of the Tabernacle Baptist
church ,the society decided to withdraw
from a prominent woman communicant
the hand of church fellowship. The
nominal charge was “walking disor-
derly.’
The modest retirement of the objec-
tionable communicant was the climax of
a mysterious case which rivals anything
that has ever been encountered in Utica.
It is a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
outdone. The habitual use of opium is
said to have made this woman her own
accuser.
She is said to have, repeatedly attacked
herself by exposing her alleged misdeeds,
and then, recovering from the spell, she
would rebel against the accusation.
The mystifying tempest which the
woman created lasted for several
months. ‘
Last spring a preacher was amazed by
the receipt of an anonymous communica-
tion attacking the character of Mrs.
Martha Owens. The letter not only de-
famed her character, but demanded an
investigation.
A few days later Mrs .Owens called
upon her pastor for advice. She said
she had received a threatening, defam-
ing letter, and was astounded when told
that the minister, too, had received such
a letter. She implored the minister to
investigate, naming a woman whom she
suspected. The letters continued to ar-
rive, and the woman became more arid
more enraged, engaging the aid of the
church deacons.
Recently, Mrs. Owens was called to the
office of the district attorney and ques-
tioned very closely about the letters. It
was there that the work of a New York
handwriting expert was of value. The
woman was compelled to write, from
dictation, a duplicate of one of the let-
ters she had received.
Ths letters and her copy looked en-
tirely different, yet the expert, after
examining them closely, pronounced
them the product of the same hand.
At first the woman denied the intima-
tion that she was the author of the let-
ters. Later, with the spirit of one who
has but awakened from a dream, the
woman gave the church board the
startling explanation which resulted in
the erasure of her name from the church
books.
She told the minister and the deacons
a pitiful story of how she had been ad-
dicted at times to the use of opium with
a mixture, of ipecac and sulphate of
potash.
After taking the mixture for a time,
she said, she usually lost control of her-
self, when she imagined that she was
some one else who had a grudge against
her real ■ self.
' The theory as set forth by the woman
is that she wrote the letters in that un-
natural condition and had recovered her
senses when they arrived by mail. She
declared that she did not remember hav-
ing ever seen a»y of the letters before
receiving them. There seems to be no
doubt in the minds of the church heads,
the district attorney, the handwriting
expert, nor the woman herself, that she
vzas her own accuser.
EXPLOSION IN PITTSBURG.
One Man Missing and Many Hurt in
Accident at Cork Factory.
By Associated Press.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 11.—Seven work-
men were seriously burned and a num-
ber of others sustained slight injuries
today in a fire and explosion in the Arm-
strong cork factory on 23d street. One
man is missing. Many of the 600 em-
ployes narrowly escaped from the build-
ing with their lives. Over 100 girls were
carried by the police and firemen from
the second floor by means of ladders. .
The explosion was due to the motor
and boiler and partly wrecked the build-
ing.
NECROLOGICAL.
ALBERT J. WISE.
By -Associated Press.
New York, N. Y., Dec. 11.—Albert J.
Wise, president of the firm of J. H. Bun-
nell &.Co, a prominent member of the
New York bar, died from bronchitis fol-
lowing in Leumi injuries received a week
ago when he slipped and fell near his
home while alighting from‘a trolley car.
He was born 43 years ago in Lima, O.,
and once practiced law there.
J. M. CLARK.
By Associated Press.
Boise, Idaho, Dee. 11.—J. H. Clark,
general manager of the Dewey roads
centering at Nampa, Idaho, has dropped
dead at Nampa from heart failure. Clark
was' bowling with some friends and it is
believed that the exertion and excite-
ment of the game was too much for his
weakened heart.
PERSONAL POINTS.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hartmann of Kan-
sas City are visiting friends in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Dickens of Lam-
pasas are spending a few days in the
city.
George W. Booth of Clarksville, Ind.,
is spending a few days with friends in
Galveston.
Albert Winters of El Paso was among
the visitors in the city yesterday and
left last night for North Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Ellison and
daughter, Miss Elma, ' of Chicago, are
enjoying a few days’ visit with friends
In Galveston.
THE COTTON MARKETS
NEW YORK COTTON MARKETS.
By Associated Press.
New York, N. Y., Dec. 11.—The cotton
market opened firm at an advance of 10
to 16 points on bullish support in local
and southern sources, and in spite of full
receipts, as compared with last year,
ruled very firm at first, with the active
months about 15 to 16 points net higher.
On the advance, however, there was con-
siderable pressure, from parties who are
figuring on a continued heavy move-
ment and pre-holiday liquidation to bring
about further reaction, and shortly after
the opening prices sagged back until the
net gain had been reduced to 6 to 10
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
points. Trading was
fairly active and
the market showed continued
larity.
GALVESTON MARKET.
irregu-
Galveston market for spot cotton closed
firm.
Tester-
Today.
day.
Low ordinary..........
...8%
8 9-16
Ordinary..............
• 9ys
9 1-16
Good ordinary ........
.10 7-16
10%
Low middling..........
.ir/2
11 7-16
Middling .......... .....
.12
11 15-16
Good middling.........
• 12%
12 3-16
Middling fair ....... .12%
Sales, 1500 bales; yesterday, 51.
12 13-16
GALVESTON COTTON RECEIPTS.
Bales.
By I. and G. N.......
.... 1,855
By G., H. and H.....
.... 2,079
By M., K. and T....
.... 3,814
By G., C. and S. F.
.... 1,264
By G., H. and N....
.... 1,933
By barge L. Megget
.... 1,017
By barge Rockwell.
.... 843
By barge J. Jones...
By barge Sam.......
.... 1,750
Total ...............
....15,228
GALVESTON STOCK.
This day
On shipboard—
This day. Last year.
For Great Britain.....
71,239
31,219
For France ............
.. 21,999
51,882
For other foreign.....
66,668
29,171
For coastwuse .........
In compresses and de-
10,141
2,032
pots ..................
129,925
87,214
Total stock ..........
THE HAVRE
259,972
MARKET.
181,578
Havre, Dec. 11.—Spots quiet but steady.
Tester
Close day.
Fully good middling.
.....-81%
81%
Fully middling.........
.......10%
SO
Low middling ..........
........78%
78
Futures closed buyers at quotations.
January ...............
......77%
76%
February ..............
......77
76%
March ..)...............
.......76%
76
April ...................
.......76%
75%
May.....................
......76%
75%
June ...................
......76%
75%
December ........."....
......77%
76%
Liverpool, Dec. 11.—Futures opened
steady, ruled quiet but steady and closed
very steady and 9 to-10 points up. Spots
opened quiet with prices steady, closing
10 points up.
LIVERPOOL SPOTS.
Tester-
Ordinary ..........
Today.
...........6.32
day.
6.22
Good ordinary ...
............6.52
6.42
Low middling ...
............6.62
6.52
Middling .........
............6.68
6.58
Good middling ...
............6.78
6.68
Middling fair ....
............6.94
6.84
Sales today, 6000
bales; yesterday, 7000.
LIVERPOOL FUTURES.
Tester*
Today;
day.
January-February
.....6.50-51
6.40-41
February-March .
.....6.49
6.39
March-April ....
.......6.47-48
6.38
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
April-May ..........
6.37 '
May-June ..... ....
...6.15-46
6.36
June-July ..........
...6.44
6.34-35
July-August .......
.. .6.11
6.32-33
August-Septembeir .
.. -6.28
6.18
N ovember-December
..6.60
6.48
December-January .
...6.55
6.44-45
NEW YORK
FUTURES
Tester-
Today.
day.
January........ .......
..12.18-20
11.98-13
February .............
...12.28-31
12.09-11
March .........♦. .......
..12.42
12.20-21
April ..................
. .12.45-49
12.23-25
12.27-28
12.24-26
June ...................
...12.-17 -.V
July ...................
...12.49-50
12.25-26
August ................
...12.14-16
11.92-93
December........ .....
. .12.07-09
11.85-86
Yester-
DAILY INTERIOR MOVEMENT.
Receipts. Shipments. Stock.
January ......
Today.
......12.35-36
day.
12:07-t«
February, X.......
.....12.50-52
12.22.24
March
......12.63-64
12.37-38
April ........ ...
/......12.69-71 -
12.43-45
12.49-50
June ...........
.......12.78-80
12.53-55
July ............
.......12.84-85
12.57-59
August ........
......12.47b
12.20b
December ......
......12.20-24
11.96-98
Augusta ......
. .. 2,609
2,634
46,826
Memphis ...
.... 6,279
6,058
98,798
St. Louis ...
..... 3,981
3,226
14,949
Houston ..
....10,333
12,304
76,199
Totals ...
....23,202
24,422
236,772
GALVESTON GRAIN
RECEIPTS.
By G., C. and S. F., 50 cars wheat, 3
cars corn; by I. and G. N.,,11 cars wheat;
by G., H. and N., 24 cars wheat by M.,
K. and T.. 6 ca'rs wheat; total, 91 cars
wheat, 3 cars corn.
NET RECEIPTS AT ALL U. S. PORTS.
Galveston, 15,228 bales; New Orleans, 12,-
787; Mobile, 1592; Savannah, 798-1;' Charles-
I ton, 1601; Wilmington, 907; Norfolk, 1J56;
; Baltimore, 1534; New York, 54; Philadel-
| phia, 24; Newport News, 138; Pensacola,
13500; Boston, 59: Total. 46,764. Same day
last week,-53,821; same day last year, 36,270.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT.
Net'receipts of cotton at all U. S.. ports
thus far this season,. 4,321,876 bales; thus
far last season, 4,120,840; increase, 201,036.
GRAIN MARKETS
Chicago, III., Dec. 11.—May Wheat—Open-
ing, 81%c; high, 82c; low, Sl^c; close, 81%c
asked; yesterday, 80%@SO%c.
May Corn—Opening, 43t8@43%c; high, 4..%
@43y2c; low, 43l4@43%c; close ,43^@4-3';-sc
asked; yesterday, 43%c bid.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 11.—Cash wheat nom-
inal; yesterday, nominal. May wheat,
81%c; yesterday, 81Uc asked. Cash corn,
42c nominal; yesterday, 42c nominal. May
corn, 41%c asked; yesterday, 41W41U-C.
FINANCIAL
Galveston: Sterling, 60 days, buying
$4.78^4, selling $4.83%; New York sight,
buying, % discount; selling, par;
New Orleans sight, buying % discount,
selling % premium.
London: Bank rate, 4 per cent; street
rate, 3%@3 15-16 per cent; rate of silver,
25%; consols for money, 88%; consols for
account, 89.
New York: Sterling demand, $4.83%;
bankers’ 60s, $4.79%; commercial 60s, $4.79%
@4.79%; commercial 90s, $4.78; reichmarks,
commercial 60s, 93 13-16@93%; commercial
90s, 93 9-16; francs, sight, 5.20% less 1-16;
commercial 60s, 5.23% less 1-15; commercial
90s, 5.25 less 1-16.
New Orleans: Commercial, $4.78@4.78%;
francs, commercial 60s, 5.25 less 1-16; New
York sight, banker’s, par; commercial, $1.50
discount.
CANADIAN’S THREAT.
Says His Country Will Cut Amer-
ica Out of English Wheat
Market in Five Years.
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 11.—George Foster, for-
mer finance minister of Canada, who has
just returned from England, where he has
been making speeches in favor of a prefer-
ential-tariff and assisting in the campaign
of former Colonial Secretary Joseph
Chamberlain, declares that within five
years the Dominion will be able to supply
England with the wheat now sent from
the United. States.
“Last year,” he says, ‘we raised sixty
million bushels of wheat and more than
one hundred million bushels of grain. We
have now under cultivation three million
acres of wheat land, and still have one
hundred million acres just as good which
will be grain-producing land in the near
future. No country in the world will take
the place Of Canada as a food producer.
This is due to the richness of her soil and
the climate.
“We Canadians think the United States
in all its relations with us has been a very
insistent nation. Your people are the best
in the world, but we do note-look upon
1 your government as the broadest-minded
in the world.
“We import from the United States a
large number of agricultural products, but
from us the United States imports very
little. In manufactured goods our tariff
runs about 26 per cent, while that of the
United States is about 49 per cent. The
disparity seems too great. If you want
let us in on a fair tariff, we’ll have to
raise the tariff against you.
“We think our country is just as good
as the United States. There was a feeling
of disappointment among us concerning the
Alaskan award, but that is passing away.
You see, the United States stretches its
carcass across our front door. We’ve got
to step over you people when we want to
get out to sea—that is, if you’ll let us.”
Burn Texas Coal—It’s a home product.
KANSAS’GRAIN YIELD
Record Breaking Grain Crop This
Year of 95,041,902
Bnshels.
Special to The Tribune.
Topeka, Kansas, Dec. n.—The final re-
port of the wheat yield of Kansas has just
been made public by the state board of
agriculture. It is 94,041,902 bushels, an in-
crease of more than three million bushels
over the estimates made in August.
The winter wheat yield is greater by
3,043,912 bushels or 3.3 per cent than its
growers and threshermen estimated at
the close of the harvest, and amounts to
93,313,912 bushels, with a value of $52,062,-
061.
“Contrary to the prevailing tendency of
later years, the area in spring wheat has
increased (over 14 per cent), making a
total for the state of 52,960 acres, and its
average yield per acre was far above nor-
mal, aggregating 727,990 bushels, valued at
$364,293.90.
The corn yield of Kansas this year is
approximately 170,000,000 bushels, Jewell
county leads with upwards of 7.000,000, and
the seven leading corn counties of the
state are ranged along the north line of the
state.
With the record of the state board of
agriculture for authority, this year’s yield
of wheat is the greatest produced by
Kansas, and in the past four years Kansas
has raised three crops each of which has
the distinction of being bulkier than the
production of any other state.
SHE ADOPTED A BETTER WAY.
Mrs. Green: “When George comes home
late I tell you I just give him fits, but he
don’t seem to get any more regular in his
habits.”
Mrs. White: “Fred, stays out late very
seldom now. He used to be away pretty
often, but I said nothing, and whenever he
came home I got him a nice fresh glass of
Sea Wall Bond Beer ard sent him to bed
happy. You haven’t any idea what a
change that makes in a man—f-v s*
George.”
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