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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-08
HREBT HAS SUPPORT
Light Receipts and Better
Export Predictions.
COARSE GRAINS HIGHER
Provisions Lower on the Hog
Markets Condition.

Chicago. Dec. Light receipts and pre-
dictions of a better export inquiry sup
ported the wheat market today, May clos
ing Y to 4sc over yesterday Corn at
the close was Ac and oats &c higher
Provisions closed steady, 212c lower
The wheat market opened with a show
of strength derived from the lightness
of northwest receipts, May 1.qAc better
than yesterdays close at 69}4q69asc.
Shorts were early buyers and commits
sion houses executed a plentitude Of coun-
try orders. mainly from the northwest.
Talk of better export inquiry hoated
around, a decrease In the visible was pre-
dicted for this week, and Argentina re-
ported rains in the midst of harvest op-
erations, all of which acted as an incen-
tive to buy. Towards the close the wheat
market eased off on proit-taking and
selling against calls, above which mark
the price fioated most Of the time. May
closed at 69Ac, 12Q3sc better than yes
terday.
Corn ruled firm, strengthened primarily
by light receipts, but to a degree by
wheat, the fluctuations of which market
1t followed in small way. Trade was
dull throughout the session. Receipts at
primary western points were $4,000 bush
els, against 74,C00 a year ago. May
closed nc better at 325.c.
oats were steady and quiet, a little
higher with other grains. The market
was largely scaIping one, and the range
narrow in consequence. May closed 5sc
higher, at A1sc.
Provisions were steady and the mar
ket dull most of the time Larger re-
ceipts of hogs over expectations, and low
er prices for the same, coupled with some
selling by packers, were the causes for
the falling off in the price, but the mar
ket held steady at the decline in sympa-
thy with grain. May pork sold from
So. 1893. 7712 to $9.S711, closing 21kc under
yesterday at $3.50. May lard. from s.. IS
to $.4714, and closed PIC under at $545.
May ribs ranged from So to S5.271k and
closed 2i2c down at $5.25.
Estimated receipts tomorrow: Wheat.
100 cars; corn, 1885, oats, 100; hogs, 34,-
900 head.
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
CHICAGO
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DRY GOODS MARKERS

New York. Dec Further upward
movement in bleached cotton iuaugurated
by Lonsdale four-foUr advancing 10 Sc
per yard. Expected that Fruit OF the
Loom Will go to SIC tomorrow. No
change in heavy brown sheetinss and
drills. Fine browns and grey goods and
/. Cocheco best fancy prints opened at 5is
Prints opened at size. Print cloths
strong at sac for regulars. Coarse COZ
ored cottons still tending against buy
ers. No change in woolens and worsted
goods or silks.
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METAL MARKET.

New York, Dec. THE attention Of 10
cal metal trade was centered largely on
spelter throughout the day, which metal
displayed inherent strength and a fair de-
gree of activity; firm cables and light Of
ferings were the dominating influences at
work The other departments were quite
destitute of interesting features. At the
close the metal exchange called pig iron
warrants neglected. Lake copper duh and
nominal at $17Q17.25; tin steady for spot
and weak for futures at 81. $50 Lead
unchanged. Spelter firm at s4.70d4. so
The brokers' price for lead is S4.4O and
for copper, $17d17.B.
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FUNNY
Continued from First Paxe.)

Mr.. Mercer (Neb.) then announced the
death OF the late Representative Green
of Nebraska and after the adoption OF
the customary resolution, the house. at
1875. as a further mark of respect. ad-
journed.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa re-
introduced in the house today his bill OF
the last congress 10 appropriate $4,000
eco for the construction of the Nicaragua
canal. Representative Sherman Of New
York re-introduced the anel-sca1 ping
Dill
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For Crtnnled Children Only.

Philadelphia. Pa. Dec. Peter A 3.
Wideas- t1e millionaire traction rag
nate ~ thls c.ty. to5ay announced hat
h had purchased -..t--y-.siS acres = Iaal
AZ Logan. q e-5u-5 % Pniisdslp5sa. "a
za5ca be intends 30 erect srd srd1w a
home hospital ard school tor crippie5
children. az a cost OK S2saeos.
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COTTON.

Galveston, Dec. Cotton - Quiet;
z 7-16c
New Orleans. Dec. -Cotton-steady;
middling, 73sc.
Liverpool, Dec. T-Cotton-Spot business
high American middling. 5-l6d.
New York. Dec. 7.-Cotton-Spot closed
quiet: mddling uplands, lille; middling
gulf, 15-16c; sales. SO bales. Futures,
closed steady; December. N.55; January,
S7.42; February S7.45; March, $40; April
S750 May. S7.51; June, S7.51; July. $7.53;
August, $749; September, $7.13; October,
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Gompers Meets with an Accident

Detroit Mich. Dec. Secretary Morri-
son, Of the American Federation OF labor.
today received from Washington The fol-
lowing telegram in reference 70 President
Gompers. sent BY James O'ConneG. r-esi-
dent OF the Machinists' union: "Gonpars
colided with street ear yesterday. and
seriously hurt. No a31es broken. May
be hurt internally. Unable 70 say whether
ne viii be aole 20 attend convention
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N-wYorA Woney aarket.

New York. Dec. Money on call
steady at SCI per cent Prime mercantile
paper. 5lzd5 per cent Sterling exchange
steady, with actual business in bankers
bills az - SSlzd4.Ss2tc for demand ard al
A.Sll4df.s1sI for sixty days. posted rates.
81 s2iz and 81 s7lz; commercial bills g. So.
silver certificates. 5SiFT50; bar silver 81
Mexican dollars, 47i4. government bonds
strong; state bonds inactive; railroad
bonds easier.
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- -.-''..---....--.......... Us
Bennett &
yesterday was a good day on the local
hog market, and the several interests
were more than satisfied. There was a
very fair run Of hogs and though the
supply was good, the demand was equal
~ good, and all the hogs on sale, both
from the wagon supply and the car lots,
were promptly bid upon and sold at the
best market prices. Yesterday, as many
times, before, this market more than
Aeld Its own, and the tone of the trad
ing and the market strength were pro-
nouncco. As compared with all other
markets, the Wichita point sustained its
own reputation for keeping up a strong
demand and a good activity, and more
tnan that, exhibited a comparative
strength far beyond any Of the rest. For
instance, Chicago reported a quotation Of
TO 10 cents lower; st. Louis. also to
10c lower; and Kansas City weak to Sc
lower. This comparison shows that the
Wichita market held its own very well.
and that the prices paid for all kinds Of
hogs at this market are the best that
could be gained at any other market. All
the several classes of hogs have BUYERS.
81 = 4SeC1'4AiS TIE l4uIH-
Der Of hogs they would like to. One buyer
said yesterday, after all the hogs were
sold; i would have bought 20 cars OF
h5gs TO-DAY willingly, had they come in.
and paid a good price for them" AS il
was, there were II cars in, for all Of them
and each took his chances. This is the
best market which can be shown any,
where, and the repeated proofs Of this
remain a potent fact beyond dispute.
Yesterday was good day, and the ship
pers received the best treatment and got
the best prices for their hogs.
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preme court today. signed an order per-
hitting the State Trust company, which
was appointed the temporary receiver of
the company on Monday last in the pro-
ceedings for a voluntary dissolution Of
the corporation, TO grant receivers certi-
fcates to the amount of $4,000, to carry
on the work Of publication.
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Talk OF a Carne~ in FIaysrr,l

Chicsso. Dee. TAX Of a corner n
faXseed was started IN some quarters
here today by the bulge ~ ~ 20 S re-
cent. watch carried Jhe market 20 the
top 81 rle present crop. TIE surface
causes were the Eight receipts and the
Duluth advance. but 5he December SEED
: said to De almost entirely in the ban e
OF a few Northwestern firms.
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g'orejrn tstociksaud Money.

New York. Dec. 7.-Commercial-Adver
Users London financial cablegrsm: The
markets here opened cheerful today, on
a rumor that General White had repuised
a great attack by the oBeTs on Lady
smith They dropped later on the abb
sence Of confirmation Of the report. Con-
soils were 102as T1O31z. the decline following
the announcement OF the action Of the
Bank of France in raising its minimum
business discount rate from to 81, which
was unexpected"
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Pzoen5x. Ariz.. Dec T--fsoverno~ Mz--
p5y today E-aute,i relutsitieu papers ssr
see ex--z65-laz - bce E7sha-. WAITED
e Tom GEee- oouaty- Texas tor re
murder OF = y. Power. committed 81
September. 1sS5- Upsaaw vas zrTestsz
et Globe. two weeks ago.
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Post-IntelIigencer Changes Hands

Seattle, Wasa-, Dec The Post-IntelE-
senceE has formally changed hands. The
names OF the new purchasers are under
stood to be 2 {. Hughes ana Maurice
MeAHken. leading Republicans z. p.
PIpsr. The editorial head = the paper. and
george I. Pi2er the business manager.
VII retire The purchase price. Is u
ders.god 10 be 80 e95-
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Nothinr Serious Ais the rnnn

Rome, Dec. cardinal Rampolla. The
papal secretary Of state. has just uotjded
the diplomats TIA; the pope is suffering
from a slight cold. and keeps 10 his room
only as q precaut o.
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Bonds were not active and were m
clined to be easier in sympathy with the
break in stocks. Total sales, par value,
s., 265, 600. United States twos advanced
4. and new fours. old fours and fives Is
in the bid price
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To carry on the Harner EEousa

New York Dec lon the application
of George l. Rlves. counsel for yhe d.
recto2s o. the Harper < Brotae-s' cor
poration. Justice GIders,eeve. n the 81
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Kansas, $500; Allen. COW, ]. A. Funk
houser to H. 3. Watts & Son, Fayette,
No., $500; Shadeland Bean, bull, ]. A.
Funkhouser to Henry Ackley, Wensville,
Kansas. $500.
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Trea.nrY s&t1trment.

Washington. Dec. 7.-Today's statement
OF the condition OF the tress ury shows:
Available cash balance, IS, ~. 1Is: gold
reserve. sZs9. -. zis.
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CASH QUOTATIONS.

FIour-Steady.
Wheat-No. 3 spring, 62a641kc; No. ? red
661sG6Sc.
Corn-No. 2, SOl4c; No. yellow, 8O4d
SO5sc.
Oats-No. ?, DC; No white, 2415Q251ac
Rye-No. 2. SIC.
Barley-No. 3 S7643c.
Flax seed-No. l, $1.H
! Mess pork-Per Dbl, IS. 1569. 20.
Lard-Per 100 lbs. "a. 9212Q5. 921a.
Short ribs sides Qoose), $5.00G5. 25; dry
sailed shoulders. 52sG512c; short clear
( sides Cboxed), $5.25G5.35.
/ Whisky-Distillers' finished goods per
! gallon, Sl.2S19.
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS
Receipts. Shipments.
/ Flour, bbls. ............ 10000 1900
Wheat, bu. ............ 5000 1000
/ Corn, bu .272000 1S3, coz
Oats, bu. $1,000 2l5,CO1
Rye, bu. ................ 1000 1,oJ0
Barley, bu. ............ 5000 $500
! on the Produce Exchange, today, the
market closed as follows:
Butter-Steady; creamery. I6q26c; dairy
16022c.
Cheese-steady; 11slQl21ac.
Eggs-Firm; fresh. Poe.
Dressed poultry-Firm; turkeys, s15c;
chickens, IGSc.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, No., Dec. 7.-Wheat-May
67lzc; cash. No. ? hard, 65Q66c; No. s, 90
N64c; No red, 69d71c; No. 3, 65G6Sc
Corn-May, PC; cash, No. . mixed 27&c;
No. ? white, 27&lc; No. 3. 271zc.
Oats-No. white 2502512c
Hay-Choice timothy. 50. O0a9. so; choice
prairie. $7.O0G7.5o.
Butter-Creamery, 22a25c; dairy, 1Sc.
Eggs-Fresh, 16c
ST. LOUIS
St. Louis. Dec. 7.-Wheat-Higher No.
> red cash. elevator. 6S2.c; track, lie; De-
cember, 6S94c; May, re; No. hard, 67Is
Q6Sl9c.
Corn-FEiEher: No. . cash. Geftc; track.
S0Ac; December. 29izc; May 3llsc.
Oats-Higher; No. cash, 2+c; track
2r2c; December. 235sc; May, 25c; No. .
white, 35izG27c.
Rye-Higher: sc.
NEW YORK
New York. Dec. 7-Wheat-Spot steady;
No. ? red. 7fssc, Z. O. b., afioat: No
northern Duluth. $3.50. f o. b. afoaJ 10
arrive (prompO: No. hard Duluth s9%c:
options closed strong at 2.Gtlc net ad-
vance. March, 7sIsc May, use; July,
75lzc: December. PIC.
Corn-Spot steady: No. >. 1850. Z o b.
afiost and Ss5sc elevator. Options closed
firm al unchanged 10 Isc advance; May
SSS~c; December, 3S7xC
Oats-Sp0t steady; track. mixed west
ern. 2aa2lc. Options quiet.
BGtter-ReCeipts. 2S5 packages, firm:
western creamery. es827c; June creamery
--a-5c; factory. 15-T9}c.
EgGs-Beceipts. 455e; steady; western.
ungraded. AT mark. l5T2Itec
LIVERPOOL.
Liverpool. Dec T.-Wheat-Spot. NJ.
red western winter. steady. IS I'D. No
l northern spring. steady. = I'D. FUTURES
steady; December, Is I'd; March. IS sd:
May. : SD.
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GOOD Day FOR HOGS
Better Receipts and Good
Firm Demand.
TOPS UP TO $3.50
No Cattle Market and Little
offered.

Marketquotation: Opened steady; weak
ened to "a to 5 cents lower; closed strong
Total receipts, 1.ls0 divided as fol-
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B. r. Dunn.

D1stTiex Passenger Agsnt
Cornes xaiz street. AID DsaglAz ARENA
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On the Produce Exchange, today, the
market closed as follows:
Butter-Steady; creamery. 16q26c; dairy
16022c.
Cheese-Steady; 119zQ121ac.
Eggs-Firm; fresh. poo.
Dressed poultry-Firm; turkeys, s15c;
chickens 7TSc
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GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS
n. High. Low. 7 Close

CHICAGO.
Chicago, Dec. THE leading futures
ranged as follows:
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A|1SkQ RehiQe|Q|0[y.

We can honestly say it is the best
constructed refrigerator ever put on
the market. 1t will keep provisions
longer and use less ice than any other
made.
The inner frame is made from per
fectly odorless wood, and is lined with
zinc, polished as bright as a mirror,
presenting a very clean and attractive
appearance.
They are also supplied with Patent
Syphon and solid metal shelves.
Our space will not permit us to say
anything more in regard to this article,
so we would like you to call and in
spect them yourself We have them
in all sizes and are from SIS to $500.
If you get more ice than your re-
frigerator will hold we would advise
you to get one Of our
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next year to try to carry his state
against expansion in this direction
OF course, it does not require two
guesses 10 name this Senator. And
no politician in Illinois will begin to
get ready TO wear Billy Mason's shoes
on the strength of this wild threat.
Senator Mason cites the action of a Ia
Dor organization OF Chicago as evil
is against holding the Philippines.
He is disposed TO think that the argu-
ment against Asiatic cheap labor is
going to cut a great figure in the ques-
ton of the final DISPOSITION of the ar
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IMMIGRATION In CALIFORNIA.

Mr. c. p Huntington at a dinner
lately given in San Francisco in his
honor, made speech which contains
some excellent points, a part of which
are republiShed in another column.
Mr.. Huntington thinks directly 70 the
noint. as it is quite natural for a man
to do who deals with immense inter
ests and deals with them with very
clear brain.
AS Californian he talks very
plainly to his fellow citizens, but not
in a way to please the boomers. He
alludes to the intention of Russia TO
absorb Finland, which will force a
large emigration of the Firms. These
he says, fought to find in California
a beneficial harbor of refuge" because
it is a State that can easily support
Is, 600, 900 of inhabitants. But he says:
"What have we to offer them? Land?
Yes but can We give them what
they will need at a price at which they
question. In California we are con-
Icerned with the problems of great
ranches, the owners of which have
been unwilling to divide them up.
These people need small farms. What
California needs today is more people"
The State of California has been
lately afflicted with DIR uths. But for
fifteen years it has been most griev-
'Ously afflicted with boom disease,
and the city of San Francisco has suf-
fered SO severely from it that her pros
perity seems to be declining The dis
ease produces extremely exaggerated
ideas of values, so that the poor and
industrious immigrant refuses to enter
the State and pay these prices for land.
Every year thousands of farmers are
prevented from developing the agricul-
tIra1 resources of the State for this
reason.
The owners Of the large ranches are
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THE SLAVE TRADE.

a reader asks the Advertiser TO YER
ify the statement made in its editorial
columns that the slave trade was kept
up in small way, until the opening
of the Civil war
1t was an open secret up to the time
of the Civil war that slaves were Sc
cretly imported in limited numbers into
the Southern States from Cuba. An
open attempt made in 185- TO bring
cargo of them was defeated by he
Federal authorities. But the hlSn
prices CT slaves stimulated the dealers
in the States to obtain slaves from
Cuba and other West Indian islands.
The only man convicted in the
United States of bringing negroes from
Africa was one Gordon, a citizen or
Mexico He was executed in the
Tombs, New York city, in 1861. The
writer OF this attended his trial and
execution On the trial it was said by
several witnesses who had served on
Gordon's vessel while engaged in the
traffic that it was we'll understood in
the trade that negroes were taken to
the Southern States, after being landed
on one of the Spanish islands. But the
traffic was not large. The sentiment
of the intelligent and conservative class
was not in favor of it. The cotton
planters, who demanded cheap labor,
were to limited extent, in favor of it.
h; hIyt no
Constitution and laws, and the slave
trade was declared to be crime
against the world, they did not seri-
ousiy attempt to encourage it.
Gordon's case developed the fact
that there was little righteous indigna-
tion at the North against this slave
traffic. Gordon had been arrested in
1858, during Buchanan's admnistra-
tion, and charged with slave trading.
The evidence before the United States
Commissioner was, that thirty-five
blacks hal been suffocated in the hold
of Gordon's vessel and had been
thrown overheard. Yet Gordon was al
lowed to go out on a bail bond of five
y
believed that he would never be tried
He dined at Delmon cos famous res
faurant, in New York, every day, and
the writer saw a man who has since
become a prominent Republican and
held a very conspicuous position dur
ing the Spanish troubles, dining with
him on one occasion.
When Mr. Lincoln became President, |
the new Republican District Attorney
rearrested Gordon, and secured his |
conviction and execution.
Although the story of his crimes and |
the suffocation of the blacks was pub
lished in the journals, it created no
sensation whatever. Neither pulpit or |
press, or individual denounced the |
crime, excepting Garrison's anti-slav
cry Standard, which was not generally |
read. The conscience of the North was
'tdrugged with cotton as Wendell |
Phillips put it. One of the rich mer-
of Puritan ancestry, pillar in
the church, declared that Gordon had
been too severely dealt with. But the
war was on, and out of it came the
of thought.
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We Know
By Experience

Wise men use the experience of others
and make it their own.
Those who have taken Hoods Sarsapa-
riiIa are the ones who are competent to
speak of its merits.
The testimonials of cures by Hood s
constitute vast mass of testimony w hich
proves the power of this medicine to cure
great variety of diseases.
These cures often seem marvellous, vet
they are perfectly natural and are easily
explained. They are the necessary result
of purifying and enriching the blood.
a have been troubled with scrofula all
my life, and it effected my eyes so that
was obliged to remain in dark room. I
began taking Hoods SarsapariIla. Now
my eyes are so strong that the light never
troubles me, and my health is good"
Mrs. CARRIE WEEKS, Lompoc, Cal.
HOod's s psri;is
Is the One True Blood Purifier. Price 81.
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Ice Chests.

We also have them in all sizes, from
$3.50 to $500.
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NICARAGUA TO SELL.

MANAGUA nicaragua The Co
vernment is negotiating the sale Of all
its railroads and steamboat lines with
their workshops to Q. F. Nicoll, the
British Consul here. The proposed
transfer carries with it the privi-
Iege of extending the railroad TO Rivas
and also of connecting Managua with
La Paz. The consideration is stated
to be Sc, 800, 900 (silver).
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TOPICS
April 18th, 1899.

won't last long, all probabilities are
that after this cold snap is over we
may have hotter weather than ever we
had before. If this is the case, we
of keeping your butter and vegetables
fresh, and at the same time making
your ice bill small item of expense.
If you are open for suggestions let us
mention a few things about our
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We have just received some very
pretty
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DUE:

Ask your family physician about thu
water, and If he is honest he will en-
dorse it's use.
All who have drank the water speak
in the highest of terms for it.
This climate demands the use OF
such a water and you cannot afford to
be without 1t.
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The sugar men must not forget that
the geographical position of Hawaii,
lying close to the vast resources of
cheap Oriental labor, has for twenty
years, given her a supreme advantage.
On the other hand, if that labor supply
is cut off, her geographical position,
remote from the labor supplying coun-
tries of the West, becomes supreme
disadvantage.
The present time is, in many re-
spects, the most critical in the indus
trial development of the Islands.