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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26

who manipulated the deal Of 1897.
That deal will not be outlawed 70. over
year yet.
~eA
When the Sangamon County grand
Jury takes up the bribery cases against
the Gas Trust and Warehouse people
1t will also indlct many legislators for
perjury on their oath Of office.
Although this oath is administered to
l53 citizens of Illinois every two years
1t Is not commonly known that each
Representative not only lifts his right
hand and solemnly swears to do his
duty. ETC.. but he also signs his name to
the oath Of Office which closes with the
following sweeping oath.bound prom
Use:
Nor will accept or receive. Directs
or Indirectly, any money or other valua
BILE thing from any corporation. com
pany or person for any vote or influence
| may give or withhold on any bill. res
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26

Totals ....... 81, S6G,7H $S,9iS,0G'
%e
We don't hear much about Bumps
Billings tax schedule.
%e2A
Bumps" Billings should explain to
the public just what he ever gave for
the streets he claims to own.
%6A
The profits of the Bumps Billings
gas gang In Chicago must be something
enormous, judging from what their imi-
tatOrs make In other cities. A dispatch
10 the Tribune from Cincinnati says
'The Cincinnati Gas Company can sci!
gas at % cents n thousand feet or ut
rents a thousand feet and the price II
charges will he all profit. The by-prO'
ducts more than pay for the cost of pro-
auclng the gas.
"rhese facts have been revealed In
the last weeks gas agitation. and they
come from the books of the Cincinnati
Gas Company. They have been unin
teutiOnally set forth by Attorney War
rlngtOn, the chief counsel for the gas
company. and NJ. NJ. White, president
Of the Fourth National Bank, generally
reported to be the heaviest individual
hOlder of gas stock In Cincinnati.
"rhe statements We're made by War
ringtOn In his speech and by White In
an interview In a local newspaper"
%SA
Gas Trust Akin will not be ren0min
ated for the office Of Attorney General
of Illinois.
When the Sangamon County Grand
Jury investigates Legislative bribery
It must not forget the Gas Trust agenl
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26

claim he hOgged the fund put up for the
killing Of bill regulating the Chi.
cago Stock Yards. The main features Of
this transaction are herewith given rs
IN illustration of the methods by which
the corporations. and trusts were taken
care of In the last Legislature. Early
In the Legislature two bills were intro.
duced affecting the interests Of the
stock yards. One was put In by Rep
resentatlve Henneberry. Of Will Coun-
~. tho other was presented by Repre-.
sentative white, Of Mason County. The
White bill was the one most feared by
the stock yards people. II was sent to
the Committee on Live Stock nnd
Dairying. and fund Of five hundred
dollars u man for most of the members
of that committee was put NJ and
placed In the hands Of the Old-timc
member for distribution after the bill
was killed.
The bill was killed In the committee,
but the Old-tlme member refused to dis
gorge. lie paid eleven members sums
ranging from $3.50 to $500 each: the
Test got nothing. The old-timcr hog
ged all the rest for himself. There are
men In Chicago today who are ready
to 60 before the Sangamon grand jury
md give the facts to that body, rs they
have given them to this paper. Arising
out Of this transaction Is another story.
| ar absolutely true one, the facts Of
which are vouchcd for and which Is
l As,uN ts.A ~ 1ss6 SssvV
occasionally on the part OF individual
boOtllcrs. One Of the many who were
left on the outside by the leglsla tive
ring this time was a prominent mem.
her Of the House. who was u leader In
the FOrtic,h General Assembly. aud
who was accused with others Of the
gang of holding ont the share Of the
spells which belonged to the small.fry
fellows. This was the reason he was
not allowed Into the clique this time,
This member got on to the transnc.
| tiOn over the stock yards blu, and after
the deed had been done by the com
mittec, he quietly re-lntrOduced one OF
the two bills which were dropped. II
was u copy Of one of the old measures
| WIN now Iltlc pustcu OH ".
He pushed 1t ahead with amazing
rapldlty, and after he got II to secOn,
reading he was communicated with b!
the veteran corporation lawyer. who
worked mt the Chicago end. lie was
sent word that he could have $1,000 II
he dropped his bin. This message wa'
conveyed by u member hailing from q
territory contiguous to Chicago. Thu
member also brought hack the answer
to the Chicago lobbyist, after which III
called up by long. distance telephone tn
prominent man who was offered til.
$1,000 bribc. A long talk by phone en-
sued. with the result that the prOml
nent member went mp to Chicago owe
the !. c. II. X. that very night. lie me
the old lobbyist and the portly mem
Der who had carried on the negotiate
He got his "wad," returned to the Leg
islature, and his stock yards bill wa
never heard of afterward. The name
Of the parties concerned In this dea
are known to dozens OF angry Cool
County members, who have given then
to The Eagle, and who stand ready t
give them to SangaMOn County gram
jury.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26
/Re

While Bumps Billings bank gets
or lightly with its assessment for tax
es, the building associations are heav-
lily soaked.
But then the building associations
are composed of poor people.
They have no Gas Trust to back
them NJ.
They have no rich friends.
They must settle.
Here is the way the poor mems
huildinS associations are assessed:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26

The best way to fight the Gas Trust
Is to organize ward clubs to fight 1t.
In this way public sentiment can be
reused to fever heat, and the bride
giving scOundrels and brlbe-taking leg,
islators will he driven from Chicago
forever.
Organize!
Organize for your rights!
Organize against the Gas Trust
which Is sapping the life blood out 81
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26
Chicago and which owns Its streets b!
virtue Of legislative bribery!
The Gas Trust must 20.

The Gas Trust had an awful nerve
to buy up the Legislature and to sc
cure the passage Of a measure killing
all opposition to It when 1t had no fran
chise from Chicago to do business 1t
self.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

The following quotations We're made
on the Boston exchange yesterday on
stocks held in Worcester and vicinity:
BOSTON QUOTATIONS.
(Reported by Kinnicutt & DeWitt)
TIL rCNrINaSTOCtIES
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
lHoward crosby & Cox Boston letter.

(Howard, Crosby & Co.'S Boston letter.
Boston, Sept. 19.--Wheat was very dull
today and practically without feature.
There has been no new development as
to the big selling of December, but 1t
seems to be the popular idea that it was
for the account of the September longs.
The primary receipts continue to get
heavier, being 1885 cars today, against
lila same day last year; they were smaller
than last week, however, when they were
2100 cars. The pit crowd seem rather
puzzled at the steadiness of the market.
The only interesting feature was the SELL
ing of big line of December wheat, esti-
mated to be in the neighborhood of 5000, 900
bushels. or even more. Some important
interest was either putting out a short
Bradstreet's weekly statement of the
worlds available supply of wheat shows
an increase in the worlds stocks of
6,O9S, 900 bushels, of which amount Europe
increased 100000 bushels The stock of
wheat in Chicago private elevators
amounts to 5,074, 600 bushels, a decrease of
IL 600 bushels. French country markets
closed dull. with English country markets
quiet. London reports hardly any demand
for wheat off coast and on passage. At
ter making a new low record, wheat re-
acted and closed practically unchanged
There was series of up-and-down
waves in the stock speculation during the
first hour. The opening was strong and
higher on an easier feeling with regard
to money and some sharp advances were
scored notably in Tennessee Coal & Iron
and Brooklyn Rapid Transit. The bear
faction then renewed its pressure, and
there were general reactions, but these
We're in turn followed by smart recov-
cries. Pacific Coast was adversely af-
feoted by reports from Chicago that the
assessment upon 1t had been raised mate
rally; Federal Steel common was weak
and American Steel & Wire lost its early
advance. The general railway list, after
feverish fluctuations reached higher
levels than last night. There seemed to
be some outside buying and Soma die
position to support various stocks, but
the strength was mainly the result of
continued covering and selling orders
were comparatively light. The strength
of Union Pacific preferred was noticeable.
the buying being good and showing con.
fidence In the value. Insiders on A. M. T.
predict materially higher figures before
the end of the year and say that II will
do TO buy around 100. Western Union at
tracted attention by being one Of the
strongest stocks in the room. The ah-
senee Of large LIQUIDATION In Leather is
said to have been a source of gratifica-
ton to the pool and it is intimated that
these stocks will be advanced as result
The principal argument against fhe
granSers is the fact that none Of them
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
THE MARKET ELSEWHERE.

New York, Sept. 19.-The delicate
tension of the speculative temper was
well illustrated by the course of today's
market, which seemed to be going pros
perously on its way towards recuper-
alton and recovery in prices until the
last half hour Of the trading After
that time, prices We're bowled over in
every direction, like a set Of ten pins
which had been set up simply to be
knocked down again. The selling
movement was in full force when the
market closed, and prices tending rap
idly downwards
Some Of the earlier gains, through
largely reduced, had something still left
on the credit side, though in other
prominent stocks the notable advances
achieved earlier In the day were COM
pletely wiped out. The market gave
every appearance of having thrown off
the money scare.
Reports from abroad of more concil-
iatory attitude on the part of Kruger
ana the decision Of the French govern
ment to pardon Dreyfus, caused a rally
in the foreign markets There as well
as here the short interest had been
largely over-extended. and they found
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

some difficulty in securing stocks to
cover short contracts. Professional
operators who had secured stocks at a
low level, had turned bulls, and there
was fair volume of buying orders
in commission houses this morning. at
traeted by yesterdays late recovery in
prices.
Prices were marked high at the open
ing, and trading was very active for a
time, but on a descending scale After
prices had got back to near yesterdays
close, a demand developed for stand
ard railroad stocks. Some of the spe-
cialties, notably the New York Traction
stocks, which have suffered recent vio-
lent losses, were marked up rapidly
against the bears. Late in the day a
very buoyant tone carried the coalers
upward under the lead of Lackawanna,
which advanced an extreme liz
Other members of the group rose 2
to points. Metropolitan's extreme
rise was 61a. Brooklyn Transit was up
at one time 49, Many other special
ties were up between 2 and points,
and the active railroads very generally
showed gains of III to . per cent 1t
did not take the bears long to wipe out
all of the gains in Brooklyn Transit,
and the course of prices turned quickly
downwards, the selling movement con-
tinuing actively to the close.
Bankers express the opinion that
money will continue hard at 6 per cent
or above One of the vagaries of the
situation is that sterling exchange held
steady today with buying for London
account of over $4,000 shares of stock,
while it dropped sharply yesterday in
spite of London's selling of over 10000
shares. Competent authorities do not
look for gold imports until much later
in. the fall.
Bonds showed gains, and held better
than stocks in the late weakness. To-
tai sales, par value, 2,S90,00O.
United States bonds were unchanged
| in the bid price.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
MONEY IS EASIER,
Stocks Rally With
Some Sharp Gains
in Wall Street.
BROOKLYN TRANSIT UP 4.
Boston Specialties Harden
General Market
Notes.
BROOKLYN TRANSIT UP 4.

Money was easier in New York, at
6@7 per cent, and evidences came in Of
discrimination against certain stocks.
The National City Bank emphatically
denies the report that it refused to loan
on Amalgamated and Anaconda shares.
In Boston the principal creditor bank
at the clearing house settlements adj
vanced it's rate to four per cent this
morning, thereby establishing that
quotation, but street quotations are
not much affected, say 4hQ5 per cent
on call to good borrowers. The Trans
vaal situation seemed a little more
promising and the result Of the better
feeling was a good rally in the stock
market led by the coal shares, which
continued pretty much all day and en-
couraged the view that the sharpness
of monetary activity and ensuing stock
market liquidation has passed. The
banks undoubtedly are building up re-
serves this week and the sharp iquida-
ton of speculative accounts must aid
in this process. Yesterday Tennessee
Coal & Iron rose 61a, Brooklyn Transit
4, Manhattan 2, Lackawanna SA, Jer-
sey Central 81, c., B. & Q. rs.
The following quotations were made
on local stocks and bonds yesterday:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
Much the Better

Now, # YOU had been I'm touch with
the nillionaires'' of Wall street on Sat
urday or Monday, you would probably
have made a lot of money, and, anyway,
you wouldn't have lost any. If you can
not keep in touch with the millionaires y
you can easily keep in touch with us by
getting our daily market letter, which
bas been bearish on stocks for a week and
has advised selling. on the rallies. Now,
with wheat it is different, for we have
been bullish on it and have advised pur-
chase on every break BY the way. wheat
is UP a little SO we're mot so cold" Send
for our free book and read up on margin
trading.
Xad crosby Z Co., s e Sa s s. SsT s6 SSsa
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
TREASURY STATEMENT.

Washington, Sept 19.-Today's statement
Of the. condition Of the treasury shows,
Available cash balance, $22S, 099, 1857; gold
reserve, $254 1928 227 net silver, 81 .331 10.
United States notes in treasury, Si6 S56' o77
treasury notes of 1890, $685., SIT; total re-,
eeipts this day, $l,556, l21; total receipts
this month. SIS ,043, III; total receipts this
year, $l26, $40; total expenditures this
day. S1,25O000 total expenditures This
month. $25,9l8 600; total expenditures his
year, $l27 1891, 4O2 deposits in national
banks, $SO97l, 1S1; silver bullion, $7l7, 0S3.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
THE MONEY MARKET.

New York, Sept. 19.-Monev on col
firm, Sal per cent, last loan at g. prime
mercantile paper, 4%a58 per cent; sterline
exchange steady, at 4.s5k@4 .s5% for de,
mand and S3d4 S3A for 60 days; posted
rates, 4.@h and 4s81s commercial bills
4,S1@4 Slh; silver certificates, 59Q59S bar
silver. IS 11-16; Mexican dollars, Az: gov.
eminent bonds steady
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

yield enough to make them a good invest.
ment at anything like the present rate FOR
money A feature that has excited a good
deal of adverse comment was the ease
with which bears were enabled to cover
shorts at near the lowest prices. In gen.
eral the heaviest liquidation is said tc
have been by houses with western an6
southern connections. Sentiment has beer
considerably encouraged by the fact thai
wiped out, and the market is now broad
one In the sense that enormous amounts
OF capital are interested therein.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
Stocks. Bonds, Grain,
Cotton and Provisions

margin.
COMMISSION ON WHEAT, 1-l6 ONLY.
ADVANCES MADE ON COLLATERAL.
IN. =. {
Direct private wires to New York, Bos-
,r WE BEG TO INFORM OUR Gus
I0MERS AND THE PUBLIC GEN
B5RALLY that we have arranged with
the Boston Financial Information Conn
pany TO receive their daily telegraphic
service, which consists of a aBuiletinA
before the Opening" giving probable
movement of market for the dar and
advice as to purchase or sale OF particular
| stocks, The above company has excep-
sslonal facilities for securing inside in
formation, and we consider their advice
we allow per cent interest on all
marginal accounts
NATIONAL BANK REFERENCES
HIGHEST COMMERCIAL RATING. 4
TELEPHONE 6S1-2.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20
THE HARRISBURG GR0Ilp

located at Idaho Springs, Clear Creole ~,
COLORADO, and controlled by the Occiden
lal development Company, bids fair Ia
SOC, take rank with, other great produce
ing mines IN that vicinity. Active work
men u a limited amount of Treasury stock
Is onered at the low price of 10 cents per
snare tull paid worcestershire. II YOU
concern that is reasonably c,rtain 10
yleld you large returns on your money,
don fail 70 obtain block of this stock
at once. 1870
OCCIDENTAL DEVELOPMENT co.
ST Rogers Building,
200 Washington St.. Boston,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-29
STRENGTH or FARM PRODUCTS
Has Been the Notable BasInesx
Featurr Of the Wei

New York. SEPT ZA-EsratEtrsst's co
rnorroE vii cay, The notable fsa,gre =
TIE business situation a. ;he Strength q
szrleslt1ral p-etacts FaH trade can-
tinues goo3. thaggh 4 ia conceded g. aev-
e markets fEaf the b Ezesf parf - sn~
fan Rzsiaess rae seen cone and thzt re-
orders. from n8E on viB rzs re is-xsr-
fgsre. weather eyn5it4oass zhlls favor
able 70 cottsn crgp hars estlaR. are claire
- 20 - Furtfsl = ssrras- grgutA ~
Cause - dry scatter. C'zss5ss as-scuia-
tive interest 81 fsat Efza.e. shsr7 e5Tsr-
lng-azrtiT. - j. GAINED un forsfsn ar-
couns--zat 10 sxesoE5sra1 ssFezEfh ~
IRE uazaszr;u-f1z fa4GFtsy- ths pro1zrts
x which are la art4ve denazzs ast fea9-
iaE gvEara. are al hsresf sa fae
rags advances for bsfa fsfsrss szs
spots Tlslssz sssgHrs was coaster
ably larger fhaa ln rscezfE pe-etsx
Pears. are s5EAtiT s-szaier fsaa taeg
EHrs r. Iss sle-e wAen eaHzS1s saf
rrsaaestso rzslr AeaeEr srerfzsAsG M
arg sglAn.1s are aaE $40 ssEaeT Thaa ~
she ser.nalnx = lar meus2 E 1.4g azss-
tasa aat Fear ard e abeas fHz lTzest
paial sezeass e. shs ESe rr1 The
srtsasson x ~ grfns aErsszzeas 81 ~
gzrzs swazs ess.sz - $50 or. bsE-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-29

New York. Sept 2s.-The weekly bank
statement shows the following changes:
Surplus reserve, decrease 81. *. 80; loans,
decrease 10; specie. decrease S4,o17,-
500; legal tenders, decrease SOS 900; de-
posits, decrease SO u.s. 90: circulation,
increase SSu5. go. The banks now hold 81
724. $50 in excess OF the legal requirements.
This statement shows the results OF four
days changes
New York, Sept 2s-The Fnancier saye;
'"The statement of the New York clearing
house banks issued Thursday. September
q. covers the average operations OF the
preceding four days only. The showing IS
not favorable but prospects indicate that
the current exhibit viii be the last 10 con-
vey evidences Of the liquidation which has
been z marked feature Of the situation
since the opening Of June. The main
feature Of the statement Is the loss OF four
and one half millions in cash. mostly IN
the form OF legals. The known business
Of the week TO date did not call for a
decrease OF that magnitude. The banks
met the contraction IN large part by de-
creasing their loans. the loss in that item
having been O7.7527o0. The deposits
showed a loss Of 81 236. 20o. which is rather
more than the changes in cash and &C.
posits called for, for the contraction les
sened reserve requirements by over s.. 60 -
0o0, and the remainder, or 81 90 30 came
out OF surplus reserve, bringing the ex-
cess Of cash in banks down 10 &t.724 50.
The next statement OF the banks viii not
appear until October and the ensuing
nine or ten days VIII probably make for
improvement, so far as the New Yoi <
banks are concerned As result % tho
holidays in New York, an amount Of
money rot Easy to calculate will come into
the banks here, and while It IS an uncer-
tain and temporary factor. there = no
qrestion that its effect will be TO increase
the current supplies OF cash. The geld
engaged for import will not arrive IN tire
TO 6gCre in the next statement. hut tho
imports and the rising national bank cir
culati0n figures show at least the -geuc- q
trend OF the situation and what may ~
expected in the near future The demands
for remittance 10 the interior are not in
creasing and while interior banks have
doubtless loaned heavily here Il f. no;
expected that these funds viii operate 20
the disadvantage OF local Institutions.
once the pressure IS over. AZ about this
season every year reserves in New York
begin 20 recuperate and g f only natu-
raj 10 look FOR the usual recovery from this
time on. Unless signs fail. therefore &;
may be set down that the critical point IN
the fall money movement has been
weathered. This does not mean. neces-
sarily. that money rates win strike an ex-
ceptionaly low rate soon"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-29
COMING LOCAL EVENTS.

The finance committee OF Circle No. So.
Isdies Of the c. A. r, VIII please meet
Saturday afternoon at o'clock at 81
Waco.
The board IF managers Of the Deacon
ess' Home VIII meet at the Home next
Friday afternoon at 5 clock. Mrs. James
Allison. secretary.
A royal welcome Is extended 70 every
holy 10 come n the church at corner Of
Water and Pine streets. Interesting
meeting every evening.
Al members Of Sunlower Lodge No. S.
AF. q A. II are requested 70 meet a.
the hall Of Wichita Lodge No. g. az 3
o'clock this morning to attend the funeral
Of Brother William Greiffenstein. CheS-
ter A Latham, v. N
All members OF Albert Pike Lodge No.
enc. 4. F. & A II. who desire 10 attend
the funeral OF Bro. William Greidenste.n
are requested 10 meet AT the Masonic hail.
southwest corner First and Main streets.
AZ O'Clock this morning. WHARF gloves
and auroas VIII BE- furnished
All members % Wichita Chapter Nc
Sc. R \. N, are requested 10 meet at
. O'Clock this morning Al the lodge room,
southwest corner First and Main streets.
10 attend the funeral Of our late oompan-
ion. William G-eiffenstein. By order OF
the NJ. E Il P. n J. Apologize, secre-
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