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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01

slider them all is liable to hesitate about
taking the buying side, particularly on
puises- In the southwest, where tneLe Is
a big crop the feeling is moderately pear
ish and wheat is beginning to move free
ly to market centers. In the soft wheat
districts especially east of the Mississippi
river, where the crop is light, there is an
exceedingly bullish feeling. Some returns
from Nebraska are beginning to come IN
and show smaller yields than expected,
but others show good yields.
The export trade is not an aggressive
buyer. The cash handlers and those who
do an export and elevator business as
rule are inclined to the bear side, as is
natural when new crop begins to move
There is one important influence winch
the grain SPECTATORS, particularly the
bulls, should not ignore. There is every
evidence of a stringent money market all
over the country and big interest rates
during the period when the crop move
ment will be largest.
ened to annihlate the corn crop again
this season has been broken almost every
can not expect over three-fourths of an
average crop under the most favorable
circumstances from now on, yet there is
world CT rough feed being raised and the
hay crop pgeEeraly was never better. 1t
is therefore very doubtful as to whether
or not any wheat would be fed this sea-
son in case of a corn crop failure. In the
speculative market there was a hot time N
the corn pit last week, with the news all
bullish, and every effort made by all the
DUH leaders 10 get up crop scare anu
back 1t good and strong. Hot, dry wealth.
er, with sensational reports or crop DAM
age from hot winds in Kansas was the
bull incentive. 1t is always hot in July,
and more less dry, but this year, with
the corn crop two three weeks late
and not making good progress, it furnishes
a motive for the speculative bull interests.
and attracts increased local and outside
trading on the buying side. Like all wealth.
er markets, corn in subject to wide f1uctu-
atoms. and with the price of all months
above SOC, there is a question in the minds
of those who are bearishly inclined as to
what price the bullish conditions will be
discounted. It is such erratic market
that no one can play it with safety unless
they have a wider margin than usual.
A. G. GOODWIN COMMISSION co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01
WOULD RAISE WOLVES.
Ranchmen See a Good Thing in the
Doilar-a-Scalp Bounty.

Dighton, Kan, Aug. 1.-The county
commissioners of Lane county have
stopped paying bounties on wolf scalps
pending the investigation of a story that
a wolf breeding ranch has been estab-
lished in the northern part of the coun-
ty. With the price of scalps 81 each, the
business of raising wolves pays better
than many of the industries in this part
of the state. 1t is reported here that
several of the ranchmen in the northern
part of the county have established a
breeding place for the animals in some
of the canyons along Walnut creek.
A surprisingly large number of pelts
have been brought in from that part of
the county, and an investigation will be
made.
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MARKETS TODAY.
Bullish Market i'm Wheat Re-
ported Today.
Caused by UnfavOrable Crop Re-
port in North.
STOCKS TAKE A JUMP.
Northern Securities Decision
Felt on Wall Street.
Cattle and Hog Markets Are at
StandStill.
STOCKS TAKE A JUMP.

Chicago. Aug 1.-WHEAT-There was a
bulliSh sentiment in wheat today due large
" to the unfavorable crop reports of yes
tcrday. and with a cessation of the liqui-
few days the market became decidedly
strong soon after the opening. Initial sales
OF September were shade lower to
shade higher, at lS12db1Sssc, but within the
1880 on a good commission house demand.
Receipts at Minneapolis, Duluth and Chi
cago we're 249 cars.
Reports of blight in South Dakota were
the main bull features. September sold up
TO S09sc and closed at the top, with
gain Of 1%d1Bc
CORN-Corn opened easier on favorable
weather. September being unchanged to
wheat had a strengthening influence and
the market was a little frmer, with Sep
TENDER selling at 52ssc. Receipts were 145
cars.
September closed with a gain of &c, at
b21kc.
oATS-The strength in wheat was bull
factor in oats and the market became firm
er after opening steady. September was
or &c at the start, opening at 33Ac. Re
cetpts were 258 cars.
OVISIONS-Provision opened quiet
but firm with fair demand tor ribs. Sep
TENDER pork opened 10c higher, al $13. 70:
September lard was up sc, at $7S71z, and
ribs PIC higher, at $500.
No. 3 red. 79GSec; No. 2 hard winter 7glkc;
No. hard winter. 79c; No l northern
spring SIC: No. ? northern spring, SIC; No.
CORN-No. ?, 521kc: No. 3. 52a52hc.
OATS-No. ?. Bic: No. 3. SOC.
RYE-Sept.. 5115c; Dec, 521zc.
FIlAx-Cash: NV, SIC; S.-W., 93c;
Sept, SIC; Oct, 94c.
CLOVER-Cash: $3.50: Oct, $500.
BARLEY-Cash: 32a5Oc.
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Joe Goodlow Falls.

Joe Goodlow the old colored man who
conducts the peanut stand at the north
east corner of Eighth and Kansas ave-
nue., slipped and fell upon the car tracks
in the middle of the street this morning
and came unpleasantly close to being
run over by an approaching car. Super
intendent Patten of the Topeka Railway
company, helped him up and to his
stand at the side of the street. Goodlow
is a paralytic. In condition in which
most persons would regard themselves
as fit subject for public charity the old
man has made a living for years in fair
weather and foul by selling peanuts and
popcorn to passersby. And he is an
honest tradesman. He has had several
experiences like the one this morning
but has never yet come to serious harm.
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FOUND DEAD IN BED.
Mysterious Death of William
Nottingham.

William P. Nottingham, a pens:oner
of the civil war. was found dead in hiS
room at the old Curtis house in North
Topeka last night. Nottingham, who
was about 20 years of age, had been
drinking heavily for the past few
weeks. and it is supposed that his
death was the result of old age and
alcohol.
Nottingham lived at the Curtis house
before the food, but has been staying
at the home of J. F. Blake, 2O09 Harri-
son street, since that time. Last Mon
day he returned to North Topeka. Not
tingham has no relatives in this part
of the country. and it is supposed that
his former home was in Palmyra. n.
Y He has lived in different Kansas
and Oklahoma towns for many years
and was well known in the vicinity of
Cottonwood Fails.
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1t doesn't take very large population
to raise wheat, and this is another rea-
son why the more sparsely settled
counties of the west take to it so rapid
ly. Trego county, which raised 1888, 1873
bushels of wheat. has a population of
only 2,772. In other words, it raised 1872
bushels of wheat for every man, woman
and child in the county. Rocks county
raised 402 bushels per capita, and Bar
ton county $40 bushels per capita. The
eleven new million bushel counties"
have an aggregate pOpula ton of SO, 455
and they produced 1868, 122 bushels of
wheat 254 bushels per capita for the
eleven counties.
The big crop and sparse population is
why there was such great demand for
outside harvest hands this year.
farmer can put in a large acreage of
wheat by himself when he has the whole
fall to do it in, but when it comes to
harvesting the crop and doing it all in
about ten days. he is compelled to hire
from three to six men to help him. and
probably all but one or two must come
from outside the wheat belt. When a
thousand farmers want harvest hands it
makes a big demand in the sparsely set
tied counties The counties with large
populations like Sedgwick, Cowley, Dick
inson Marion. Saline and others, called
for few harvest hands, but the big de-
mand come from counties with small
population
The great thing about this years
wheat crop is that it is another record
breaker. No other state has ever any
where near equalled the great Kansas
crop of 1901, but the one this year will
doubtless exceed that and go about the
hundred million mark, but if So it will
be due to the great crop produced by the
new short grass counties
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Glad to See the Cars Again.

Armourdale, Kas., Aug. 17Street
car service was resumed in Armourdale
yesterday afternoon for the first time
since the flood, and joy was unre-
strained among the residents of that
part of the city. The first cars to pass
through the streets were Nos SOC, 504
and $50. with 500 in the lead. From the
time they crossed the Kansas avenue
bridge at $40 o'clock until they reached
the car barns in West Armourdale,
they were greeted with a continuous
ovation. AS the cars passed along
Kansas and Usage avenues, laborine-
men laid down their tools and. taking
off their hats. waved them in the air
and shouted for 10y
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Grain Latter.

WHEAT-Nothng new of Importance
mas developed during the past week in the
wheat situation. Threshing returns from
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are said to be
improving, especially in the northern sec
tons of these states. In this state and in
Nebraska, while large yields are indicated
there are enough reports of disappoint-
ments to indicate the final estimate of the
wheat crop will be less than was counted
on earlier.
Late reports from the Pacific coast indi-
cate either improvements of maintenance
IN the outlook there. Reports as to quail
1ty continue very favora BILE generally
While the week has been more or less
favorable for the development of the
spring wheat crop. the damage previously
animated is now being confirmed by late
information. Wheat in the Red River
valley, Notwithstanding the drouth, is re-
ported to be filling well and generally i'm
proving. but late wheat is poor. In
North Dakota the wheat is reported to be
filling well and ripening fast but very
poor crop. In this state the wheat crop
in many sections is not yielding entirely
UP to expectations. The quality generally
Is very good and there is a fair demand
for 1t at market centers and from interior
mills.
The speculative wheat market has been
fairly active the past week. with an ad-
vancing tendency based on reports of dis
appointing yields. There are so many diff
ferent factors now at work in the wheat
market that the trader who stops to con-
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BELT A NEW ONE.
Continued from Page -

wheat. is comparatively poor this year.
Montgomery county. which two years
ago raised 1,642, 2S0 bushels. this year
will probably have less than a half mil
lion Not only was the yield small, but
the acreage fell off 40 per cent.
ON A WRONG BASIS.
This falling off in the counties which
have heretofore raised a large share Of
the wheat crop of Kansas is doubtless
responsible for the estimates that have
been made that the total crop will be
considerable less than that of 1901. These
estimates have not taken into account
the fact that the wheat belt is moving
west and that the big" wheat was
raised in the short grass counties this
year. Rocks county, which two years
ago raised 1,490034 bushels, this year
produced 1888. 735, according to the above
estimate. Norton in 1901 raised only
224, $50 bushels, but this year it is cred
tied with 1.463.85s. an increase of more
than 600 per cent. In fact the eleven
new million bushel counties this year
raised three times as much wheat as
they did two years ago. The figures
showing their comparative yields are as
follows:
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nrennessee,s Farmer Dead.

San Francisco, Aug. Thames H.
Chaffee, one of the heroes of Bret
Harte's story "Tennessee's Pardner," is
dead in Oakland. at the age OF 80 years.
For fifty-four years he and his old part
ner. Chamberlain, lived and mined and
trusted each other, no shadow ever
clouding their friendship and it was the
chivalrous affection which existed be-
tween these two men which Bret Harte
painted in his Incompatible manner.
The partners lived for years at Second
Garrette forty miles distant from the
Yosemite, and thousands of Americans
and people from all parts of the world
who have visited the valley have met
the old pioneers. Chaffee was born. at
WorcheSter. Mass.
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a Short Grass Wheat Yield.

Goodland, Kas.. Aug. From a 1885,
acre tract of land John Trachsel, whose
farm is near Goodland, raised 2.325
bushels of good wheat this year. Mr.
Trachsel obtained his big yield by let
ting his wheat land lie idle last year
He has tried this plan for several years
and believes that If it is followed by
the wheat raisers in the western part
of the state it will revolutionize the
wheat industry. He says he has found
that larger profit can be made by
allowing the land to lie idle every other
year than by farming it continually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01

These nine counties along the eastern
edge of the wheat belt raised more
corn than the other twentv-nine coun-
ties in the wheat belt. The tendency
has been to increase the corn acreage
in these counties and decrease that of
wheat. which shows that corn is fol-
lowing wheat the latter pushes west
Another thing which an analysis of
this years crop figures show is that
the Sixth congressional district is coming
to the front as wheat country. Here
tofore the big part of the wheat belt has
been confined to the Seventh district,
and the bulk of the crop in bushels is
still there this year, but the great in
crease has been in the Sixth district,
where eight new counties were added to
the wheat belt Now all of the big
Sixth district is in the wheat belt except
six counties. Jewell in the northeast and
Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace, Logan and
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Kansas CITY Livestock

Kansas City. Mo. Aug. 1.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today. 100 head. Market unchanged
Native steers. IS. 5Od5-25: Texas and Indian
steers, $22Od4.o0; Texas cows 81 9OS3 90:
native cows and heifers. SI.50G4 IS: stock
ers and feeders. S2.00d4-50; bulls, 81. 9Od3 .:
calves $2-O0n525: western steers, $3.50Q4. 90;
western cows, $2C16330
HOGS-Receipts today 5000 head Mar
ket weak. Bulk of sales $5.O0d5 Is: heavy
s4s5Q5.1212: packers. s5.05G5.25: medium
s5:l545.3O; light. s5.15G535: yorkers, $500
SHEEP-Muttons. S3o0d4s5: lambs. 50 Is
1850; range wethers sso0a5.0O; ewes. s.. %
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Charged with Stealing Powder.

Fort Scott, Kan, Aug. 1.-Owen Has
kell, a fugitive from Jasper county. Mo.
where he is wanted on the charge of
stealing carload of powder by taking
a little at a time, was met by his wife at
the depot in Garland, Kan, on the FRS
co road Friday afternoon He had not
seen her for months. and .as they were
greeting each other on the depot plat
form, Sheriff Owen of Joplin stepped up
and arrested him. Mrs. Haskell fell
PROSTATE on the depot platform
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Government Lets Hay CONTRACT.

Leavenworth, Kas., Aug. 1.-The
largest contract ever awarded at Fort
Leavenworth for furnishing the gov
erEment hay, $500 tons, was let last
week. The specifications called for
baled hay to be delivered in lots of $50
tons at a time. The contract was
awarded at S1010 a ton. Hay can be
furnished below this price at present.
but if the corn crop is short the pric.
of hay will advance and the contractor
may have a hard time.
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Kansas CITY Produce Market.

Receipts today. SIS cars. Quotations;
Sept 6S7kG69c: Dec, 70azc. Cash: No. 2
hard. zoe: No hard, CSC: No. 4, S4d67c; re-
jected hard 62d64c; No. 2 red, 74@741zc:
No. red. 72dT3c.
Cash: No. mixed, 47c; No white, 4712c;
No. 3 white, Acc.
OAT&No. white, 34936c.
RYE-No. 2, SIC.
HAY-Choice timothy. $3.50; choice prai-
RE, s7.25.
BUTTER Creamery. 15a17c; dairy. fan
cy. 15c.
EGGS-Fresh lie
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SUGAR and Cofee Marker.

New York. Aug. 1.-SUGAR-Raw sugar
firm. Fair refining, 3716c; centrifugal, Sc
test 2 11-16c: molasses sugar, 15-16c. Re
fined sugar firm. Crushed, $3.50; powdered.
S. 10; graduated, $500.
COFFEE-Market quiet. No. Rio, 57sc.
MOLA SSES-Market firm.
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Dolliver at Beloit.

Beloit Kan. Aug. 1.-The Beloit
Chautauqua closed its fourteen days
session, one of the most successful of its
five years existence Friday evening.
The leading attraction for the day was
]. P. Dolliver of Iowa. In his talk he
made a strong plea for good citizenship
and the Importance of every man using
his right to vote as an aid in that direc-
ton, citing the example of Mr.. McKin-
ley, who never missed a vote from the
time he was 21
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New York Money Market.

on call nominal. Time money easy: 60
days. per cent 30 days. per cent; 6
months. 5Q5& per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 52kMS
per cent; sterling exchange fairly steady
with actual business in bankers bills at
AS55sn 1864 for demand and at 4S3K
n4.S3ss for 60 day bills; posted rates. S4 S4i%
m4:s5 and $4S7q4.S712; commercial bills,
$4.S3A.
SILXER-Bar silver. 54s4c; Mexican dol
lars 4215c
BONDS-Government and railroad bonds
steady
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oh1caeo Proauce Markes

Chicago. ILL.,. Aug. 1.-BUTTER-Marke
steady. Creamery. 14d1S1sc; dairy, 12l5Q
lie.
EGGS-Marlxet easy, 11d12c.
CHEESE-New cheese steady. Daisies,
11Q11Ac; Twins, 1011c; Young Americas.
u611azc.
ICED POULTRY-Market steady. Tur-
keys, 12c; chickens, 1213c.
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Tillman's Idea of Kansas.

Abilene, Kas., Aug 1.-"Kansas prob
ably will be safely Republican at the
next election" said Senator Tillman
THE ferment and excitement of the
Populist uprising is subsiding and as
the Populists were to a large degree
formerly Republicans they are going
back to their early affiliations. the
settling process is going on and nor
NAL conditions are being reached
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ST. Louis Livestook MAKE.

St. Louis Mo. Aug. 1-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today, $50 head; Market steady. Beef
steers, 4.O0Q5.50: stockers and feeders, s. so
d4OO: cows and heifers, $2.25G45O; Texas
steers. SS40Q4.6O; Texas cows and heifers
S2.0Od3OO
Receipts today 1900 head Mar
ket 5dlOc lower. Pigs and lights IS z5T
$50; packers, S5.1OQ5 20; butchers and best
heavy, $5.20d5.45
SHEEP-Receipts TODAY 500 head
Market steady to strong. Natives, s.. ESQ
375; lambs, 81. 25d5G0
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mated Monday. $4,000 head; left over from
Friday, 7,731 head Market steady to strong.
choice heavy, $515d5.30 rough heavy, $3.50
$500; light, $5.20q5.60; bulk of sales, 5000
SIS
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1000 head.
Market steady. Good to choice wethers,
S3.60d3. 80; fair to choice mixed, 81. 75G350;
western sheep, 49, 0063. 80; native lambs, s. Is
AGO.: western lambs. $4.O0@6OO
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No cables today, holiday in Liverpool.
Receipts of grain at Kansas City today:
Wheat, zoe cars; corn, So cars; oats, 13
cars.
Northwest grain receipts today: Mime
apolis, 213 cars: Duluth, Is cars. year
ago: Minneapolis, 104 cars; Duluth, is
cars.
Receipts of grain at Chicago today:
graded. 100. Oats, 25S cars graded, n.
Chicago: Privileges for Monday: SEN
TENDER wheat-Puts 79Ac: calls. sic. Sep
TENDER corn-Puts, SIC; calls, 53c.
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Cotton Market

Galveston. Tex, Aug. 1.-COTTON-
Market steady at 12c per pound.
New York. Aug. 1.-CO1TON-Spot cot
ton closed quiet; Quotations per 100 lbs; !;
$500. Futures closed quiet and steady.
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Chicago. Aug. 1.-CATTLE-Receip to-
daV. 100 head. Market nominal. Good TO
prime steers. $5.o0u5.40 poor to medium
80. i5e14 go: stockers and feeders. 50. 59d4 30.
cows $l-25N 430: heifers. $2.00fl4. 80: Gamers
sl.25El2T 70: bulls. S2.O0G415; calves 81 mn
$40: Texas fed steers s.. G0d4.5O
HOGS-Receipts today, 1000 head; esti-
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Death of Prot. Mond

Rome, Aug. PROF. Ludwig Mond.
the distinguished chemist. died here this
morning. He was born at Hesse-C assel.
Germany March z, 1899
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CORN A BUY

There never was time in the history
OF the Corn market when such enormous
profits could be taken from it, Corn is
today to 10 cents a bushel lower than
at this time last year and the crop is
many million bushels shorter. Pick up
the Government Corn report and see the
great shortage, the damaging weather
reports. the damage from the recent
Hood, the stupendous uses to which Corn
IS now put, all of these reasons and
many others will tend to put September
Corn higher in price than this Country
has seen for % years. We predict 75c
Corn within so days and advise an i'm
mediate purchase.
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Notice.

G. G. Gage corps, No. So The funeral
of Mrs. Isaac Elder will be held al the
home, 433 East Eighteenth street, at
2:30 p M Sunday. The entire corps IL
expected to be present, wearing regu-
lation badges. MRS. DIR. EDISON.
49,. President