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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-05
BANKING STATISTICS.
The COMPTROLLER states that:

ile COul-tIOllGr states I0aL.
Up to ana including Oct. 81 1898. there
have been organized 5,151 national banks
% per cent of which have been placed in
voluntary liquidation and less than per
cent in the charge of receivers. AT the
close of the year there were in active
operation ,59S associations. with author
lied capital stock of 1924. 552. 1856 The out
standing circulating notes of the banks
on that date amounted to S239. SAG 2S1. of
which $2l0Q45.456 were secured by bonds
and the remainder. 500 ,S25, by lawful
money on deposit with the treasurer of
the United States for the account OF
hquidating the insolvent banks and those
reducing circulation. The circulating
notes outstanding are S9,5S2.7H in excess
of the amount on Oct. 81, 1897.
During the year there We're organized
tifty-siX banks, with total capital stock
of $50, 665.0 900.
The number of banks leaving the sys-
TEN during the year. by voluntary lidui-
dation. was siXty-nine. one of which was
subsequently placed in the charge of a
banks which liquidated amounted to ST.
800. 900 and the circulation to 81 lSi sos The
combined capital of the seven jnsOlyent
banks was $1,000 600.
The comptroller is required by law to
publish his annual report statistics rela-
tive to banks chartered and operated I'M
der state authority. He states that:
The returns from institutions of this
character to the number Of 51i5 have
been received. and in addition state
ments from 75S private banks and bank
ers. The aggregate resources of these in
stitutions amount to S4.e3 SOS. 257: loans
and discounts s.. 3S0.S74, $50; capital stock,
$50 0IS 7sS, ana deposits, 1866, 797, 296.
The total banking funds of rational
banks as shown by reports on July a.
1898. and other banks at date of latest
returns, amounted to $7.416 355, 56S, an in
crease since 1897 of 1884, 02S, 69S.
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BANK NOTE CHANGES
Comptroller Opposes All Proposed
Currency Reform Measures.
DEP0SITORS WOULD LOSE
NO CONSIDERATION SHOWN FOR
THEIR INTEREST.

Under All Plans Proposed the Losses
In Redemption of Notes of Insol-
vent Banks Would Fall Upon the
Depositors-The Present System
Should Be Maintained.
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company of trtyhee Pullman
through Of number the
Philadelphia company Before leaving Philadelphia friend OF this
gentleman bought physicians Ripans Tbu He laughed
present but afterwards had be very grateful Tor
using members Of the became his
regular patients they every regard Tabu mighty handy
things to havea along al extended railway journey
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LITERARY NOTES.

The Christmas number of Scribner's
Magazine has several notable art fea-
lures. The brilliant cover in silver,
gold and colors is from a prize design
by Albert Herter. There are also six
teen pages of eolor-printing of an IN
usual kind-reproducing Maxfeld Par
rish's very original scheme of illustra-
ton and decoration, accompanying F..
]. StImson's poetical version of a scene
from Wagner's "Rhine-Gold." In the
article on John Ruskin as Painter"
Mr.. Spielmann has included reproduce
lions Of many unpublished paintings
and sketches, secured only by reason of
his long personal friendship with Rus
kin. Another artistic feature is the
frontispiece by the young artist, Wal
ter Appleton Clark, whose reputation
has been made in the pages of Serb
ner's.
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PUERTO RICANS DISPLEASED.

mckinney D1laIoly programme
Arouses Adverse Comment.
San Juan de Puerto Rico, Dec. A.
The report put in circulation here that
the United States government viii take
no degnite action to establish a COM
prehensive scheme of Puerto Rican adj
ministration for at least a year has pro-
voked much adverse comment. A meet
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Captin Sigsbee spoils a good story,
but replaces it with another equally
good, in denying, as he does in the De-
,cember Century, that his orderly en-
tered the cabin of the Maine imme
diately after the explosion, made
formal salute and reported the destruc-
ton of the ship. Had he done so, he
would not have been seen, for the ex-
plosion extinguished all lights and left
the cabin as black as a pocket. AS a
matter of fact, the orderly ran into his
commanding officer in a dark passage
leading forward through the super
structure, and reported that the ship
had been blown up and was sinking.
Captain Sigsbees story Of the destruc-
ton of the ship will lose nothing, It is
understood, from the simplicity of his
style, the incidents being too terrible to
need reinforcement from rhetoric.
The Christmas number of the Metro
,1o1i+oD Ma paziua is q handsomely il
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Every American will be interested in

Every American will be interested in
a page of Photographic reproductions
in the Christmas Ladies Home Journal,
which presents Mary Anderson in
Her English Home The pictures We're
made expressly for the Journal, and
show Mary Anderson de Navarro as
she is today, her 2-year-old son, and
the exteriors and interiors of the de
Navarros' delightful English home.
These pictures will be treasured by the
beloved actress admirers in this cOun-
try, as they give an interesting glimpse
of Mrs. de Navarro's daily life and her
surroundings.
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The Christmas number of the Metro
politan Magazine is a. handsomely il
lumined affair, replete with interesting
tales.
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Mr.. Benjamin Kidd, the distinguished
English sociologist and publicist, has a
paper in the December number of the
Atlantic Monthly, through which Mr..
Kidd makes the deliberate express
sion of his judgment regarding lex
pansion," finished by him on the day
of his sailing for home. after his two
months visit to America.
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Are women mean in money matters?
is the subject of a symposium in the
Christmas issue Of the American
Queen. The symposium is cleverly
worked out by Gertrude Atherton and
Adeline Sargent. Lois Knight contrib
utes an article on Christmas church
decoration, and gives a number of orig
inal illustrations for adjoining churches
in holly and mistletoe for the holiday
season. The cover is clever sketch
by Traver. titled Under the Mistle-
toe" presenting woman paying the
forfeit of kiss beneath the mistletoe
bough.
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The comptroller calls attention, as a
summary Of his views upon the proposed
plans, to these propositions:
First-As a fundamental proposition,
any bank-note system depending for
security upon the commercial assets of
banks and sanctioned by government
should be inherently fair in its relation to
the deposit-holding creditors and the
note-holding creditors of an insOivent
bank
Second-No system is inherently fair
which creates q preference of the note
holder over the deposit-holder in the dis
trihntion of the assets of an insolvent
bank
Third-In none OF the older countries,
to the success Of whose uncovered note
systems we are referred as tending 10
justify the experiment in this country IS
the note-hoder by the law preferred
over the deposit-holder in case OF insol-
yency Of banks Of issue. Canada, with
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Goverisment Ronils
Bid Asked
Chicauo Market.

Reported over prtvate wire by H. c. Friedman & Co.,, Bankers and Brokers. 10 Wall Street. N T.. and 763 Chapel Street, Room ? and g. New Haven. N. A. Tanner, Manager of Local Branch.
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Closing Prices.

by Prince & Whitely. Bankers and Brokers 52 Broadway, New York, and 15 Center st.
 New Haven Rid Asked
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New York, October 24.
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plans fell out so well that even the cap tain of the Kite was for some time una ware of the presence on board of what one ethnologist called "a grand speci- men" At Herbert Island we collected tVl skulls, each find" being duly sealed in a canvas bag, and at several landing points we added to the skele- tons in our bags, winding up at Cod haven, where thirteen fine skulls and several bones was converted Into res ular graveyard, but each specimen was separately bagged, securely sealed and the cabin carefully locked,
 After the shipping of thirteen skulls we encountered terrible weather The crew meanwhile had their suspicious as to "uncanny' influences aboard, and formed deputation to the captain to assure him that there would be n1 luck about the ship till something" was thrown overheard. The men at the wheel declared in turn that while in the act of steering some stronger hand than ! theirs was constantly turning the ship shoreWard. One veteran helmsman ran us into sandbank. He said he couldn't help it; Somebody seized the wheel and ran the ship aground" The superstitious sailors were firmy per suaded that ghostly "Huskies' as they call the Esquimaus-were piloting the ship landward to induce us to give up i their chiefs body for decent burial. One morning at breakfast an officer told a strange yarn. He said he was on watch during the night when he mo- ticed kyak padded by an Esquimau alongside the vessel. It was bad weather, and he knew it must be a ghostly kyak, for no such craft could have been out fifty miles from the land l on such a night. Added to which he stated that the kyaker had no difficulty in keeping up with the ship. The Es- 1 quimau hailed the watch and kept waving and beckoning with mysterious i gestures and a threatening tone in his exclamations. Suddenly he vanished, 1 to reappear alongside a few minutes 1 later, hailing the ship with mournful wall. The sky was lit up by the vivid northern lights, so the officer stated that he saw distinctly what subse- l quently took place.
 1 Out of the hatchway came process sion of six Esquimaus walking noise 1 ASeoiJ e'AollS ttiC pOOE hCSA' LiiSJ l passed through the bulwark-not over | it-and vanished. The kyaker disap- peared at the same time. The scienti- fic party left the breakfast table and went to the locked graveyard bunk. The seals were unbroken, and were ap- parently the same that we had affixed. The remaining bones and skulls, with
 the chiefs skeleton, are now the prop
 erty of the Academy of Natural Sci
 ences in Philadelphia. The six missing
 skulls have never been heard of. Most
 of the crew refused to go another voy-
 age in the Kite, which they declared to
 be haunted by ''Huskies" in search of
 their desecrated bones.
 I give you the story just as it oc- cured We cannot explain it. If the
 crew had conspired to steal the bones
 to lay the Husky" ghosts, why did
 they take only six skulls, and how did
 they manage not to disturb the seals?
 The abstraction of the skulls made nc
 difference-so the. sailors deolared-to | the Husky" apparitions with which I they said the ship was constantly
 haunted.-London Graphic
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was formed. The cavity of the ball, the primitive digestive sac communicated with the exterior by a small pore. Next one side of the ball became flat tened and then grooved. The groove was bounded by right and left folds, which soon began to arch over and unite at the hinder end. The union eX- tended further and further forward on the dorsal surface until a tube was formed, the rudlment of the spinal cord and brain. That a mollusk, as the sea- squirt was supposed to be, should de- velop hollow nervous system in this manner was very remarkable clrcum- stance and we can imagine with what breathless interest the observer must have watched the further growth of the little embryo.
 For what followed was stranger still. A rod of cells between the nerve tube and the digestive sac became more and more prominent, and soon acquired all the characteristics of a verltable noto- chord Then the hinder part of the embryo began to grow out as a tail, carrying both spinal cord and noto- chord with it. At the opposite end mouth opened into the digestive tube, and the enlarged front end of the spinal cord developed an eye and an organ of hearing. The embryo was now free- swimming larva which was in appear ance and structure curiously suggestive of tadpole, but it was of very minute size. Openings soon perforated the walls of the pharynx region, but the growth of an atrium around the phar- ynx shortly afterward shut off these gill-slits from communicating directly with the exterior. The tiny larva, which thus conformed completely to vertebrate requirements, swan about vigorously for few hours by means of it's tishlilSe tail fin and then-"Oh! what fall was there!"-it fixed itself by some little suckers which had ap- peared under the mouth, the tail grew less and less, and eventually vanished altogether, taking notochofd and spi- nal cord with it; the eye and the organ of Tearing disappeared, and the front end of the nerve tube, too, so hopefully suggestive of brain, dwindled until nothing remained but little shapelcss mass. Gone, Hike the baseless fabric of vision" were all vertebrate char acters save few poor gill-slits. These sits increased in number, various changes in the relative size of other or gans occurred, and the animal stood re- vealed, a prosaic and phlegmatic sea- squirt.-A. E. Stenhouse in Knowledge.
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F Eimatlcral.
The Stock Market.

New York, Oct 25.-The periodical change developed a very nervous state of feeling in the financial market, due both to the stringent conditions of the money market and to the threatening political outlook The very high loan ing rates for carrying over stocks pre- cipitated quite an active liquidation and squeeze in money rates The un- easiness in London was reflected upon other markets in Europe and there was a. general rise in the rates of ex- change on London and in the discount rates at all continental centers. British consols dropped a full point and gov ernment securities and all other classes of securities, including American rail- roads, showed violent declines The an- nouncement of the postponement of the British cabinet meeting brought some relief and the bears were actively cov- ering in London about the time the stock market in New York opened. There were very large and aggressive supporting orders in the market here at the opening, so that the declines in prices at that time on account of the selling for London account were trif1ing and were soon overcome. Selling for London account was in fact a small factor, and before the arbitrage trad ing was concluded for the day London turned buyer and took a fair amount of stocks in this market. Consols there scored almost full recovery and the upward movement in other depart ments was almost as6violent. Relieved from that depressing influence prices in the local stock market mounted up- wards quite easily. The market was dull in the latter part of the day, but prices were quite firmly held and closed at about the best. Net gains in many instances reached point or over and prices on the average entirely retrieved yesterdays sharp decline. Tobacco was furiously active all day and covered over seven points. The price was low cred in the morning on the announce ment of the incorporation of a new tobacco company with large capital But trades distrusted the first inter- pretation of this new company, and the price was run up on very large transactions, which were largest at top prices. Sugar was held firmly in sym pathy with Tobacco. Pullman sold off six points on the judicial decision hold ing that the company's large real estate ownership involved violation of the charter. The stock recovered nearly 1 points. The sterling exchange market was an accurate barometer of the course of affairs in London. Demand sterling made an upward bound of F cent during the early excitement in London. and while stocks were still be- ing sold here for London account. But with the later relief of the nervous tension in London and with some buy ing here for London account demand sterling suddenly dropped full cent, closing weak. Notwithstanding this violent oscillation in the price of cred it's on London, there was not ripple in the local money market, which con- tinued quiet and easy.
 HEH iORh STOCK MARRET.
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UNIpERsITY EXTENSION.


 The University Extension Center opens it's series of lecture courses this evening with lecture by Prof, c, \. Winchester of Wesleyan university, Prof. Winchester's course will consist of six lectures on Some Victorian Wri- ters," his special subject of the even ing being Introductory; the Peciol; Thomas Carlyle; his Early WorE" |" This will be followed by lectures on the following topics:
 9 Thomas Carlyle, after 1888, Wednes- day. Nov. 2.
 8. Matthew Arnold, Friday, Nov. il. 4. Alfred Tennyson, Wednesday, Nov. 1C.
 D. Robert Browning, General Char ac- teristics, Wednesday, Nov. 30.
 6. Robert Browning, Special Themes, Wednesday, Dec. '.
 Professor Winchester is one of the most celebrated instructors in English literature in the country, and his lec- lures are alike meritorious for the keen interest which they arouse in the great writers and for the large amount of in- struction imparted. The several lec-
 
 given in this city have invariably been listened to with delight by audiences which taxed the seating and standing capacity Of the hall in which they were given. Those who listened to his mas terly exposition of the masterpieces of Shakespeare last season will be glad to listen to what Professor Winchester has to say of the Victorian writers.
 Last season was the most successful that the local University Extension Center has ever had, and the large and interested audiences was just tribute to the good judgment of the manager in selecting able lecturers. They aim this season to surpass the record of last year. and they are engaging the very best lecturers Prof. Ralph S. Hib- bard, instructor in elocution in Wesley an university and other institutions, well-known to many on account of for mer readings in the city, will give a reading on Wednesday, December IA The third course will consist of three Shakespearan recitals by Marshall Darrich, instructor of Frohmans Lyce- um School of Acting, New York city
 l. Merchant of Venice Wednesday, Jan. f.
 g. Julius Caesar, Wednesday, Jan. il. 3. Comedy of Errors, Wednesday, Jan. 1S
 These will be followed by Prof. Will liam Lyon Phelps, Hon. Wallace Bruce and others.
 The officers of the center are as fol lows:
 President, A. Maxcy Hitler; first vice. president, Charles L. Baldwin; second vice-president, Mrs. Henry G. Newton; treasurer, Herbert W. Snow; secretary Willis K. Stetson; board of managers the above and s. R. Avis, c. L. Ayers Joseph R. French, Mrs. F. R. Honey B. B. Hurd. Dr. Adelaide Lambert Mrs. Henry Rogers, S. H. Street, Mis-: J. P. Studley, J. Rice Winchell.
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have expected to pay the price of pair for the single glove'
 The smile come back again.
 T see. That quite alters the case. We shall be dellghted-the right-hand glove, l think you said, miss?"
 NO, thanks she said, You told me you could not separate them. You told me that twice, Now, don't want to make you tell stories for the sake of seven-and-s six. I will go and buy the gloves somewhere else. But it does seem funny thing that when you ad- vertise every kind of requisite you can't really sell anything. Good morning"
 She left the shop and got into a tram The only other passenger, a somewhat nervous old woman, immedi- ately got out. A girl who laughed loudly and unintermittently with no visible cause could not possibly be sane. Barry Pain in To-Day.
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Opening, Highest Lowest Quotations On the New York Stock Exchange, reported by Prince & Whltely, Brokers, 15 Center
 street, New Haven. ODen Hiph T,ow rnst
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A GREENLAND GHOST STORY

How the Uncanny Influence of Esqui- naau Bones Was Felt on Peary s
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Opening Highest Lowest (

Now York Cotton Exchange.
 Reported over private wire by H. c. Fried- man & Co.,, bankers and brokers, 10 Wall Street, N. r., and 763 Chapel Street, New Haven. N. A. Tanner, manager local branch.
 New York October 24
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 Ches.. X Ohio gen g 471aas. ...... S5H 85A Erie list Con. prior lien g 4s..... 90h e1
 Manhattan Ky Con. mtg 4s.. .... 92H 92A Mo, Kan. X Texas 1st mtg g As S9 89A Mo, Kan. < Texas 2d mtg g As. 62A 62a Mobile x Ohio gen mtg As. Y 7SA N. T., Ont x West gen mtg As 102A 102M N. r., Sus. X West gen mtg 5s.. S2 st
 Northern Pacific gen mtg 4s. :. .100A 101
 Northern Pacific gen lien 3s.. 66H 66% Oregon Short Line Con. 5s. .107 107h Phila. & Reading gen mtg 4s... S01A S1
 Rio Or. & West. 1st mtg g 4s.. S6N S79a Southern Ky 1st Con. 5s...... 97H 97A St. Louis & Southw. list mtg 5s. 70 79A Texas x Pacific list mtg 5s. .107 107h Wabash Ky Co. 1st mtg g 4s. .11315 114A Wabash Ky Co. 2d mtg 5s...... S819 80
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Liver Pills would not make them the fame they enjoy to-day if the curative powers were not in them. Worth will get to the top, and that accounts for the wonderful demand for these little gems. They posi- lively cure Cons tlpation, Biliousness, Sick Headache. Sold by D. A. Gessner, E. Hew- lit X Co-30
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Quotations of Active Bonds. Reported by Boody Mcclellan & Co.,, Bankers and Brokers, 57 Broadway, New York, and S7 Orange Street. New Haven
 Bid Asked