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Evening star., 1903-12-23
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

During the coming month there will bs
paid to the holders of securities listed on
the local stock exchange the sum of nearly
100000 in the shape of dividends and inter-
est. This does not represent the entire
quarterly proportion of the yearly amount
paid on this account, as dividends are paid
both quarterly and semi i-annualfy. 1t is
timated that stockholders and owners of
securities listed on the Washington stock
exchange receive annually over $2.0OO.0OO.
This aggregate does not include the Sfs1 900
which Is the annual interest charge on the
bonds of the District.
Nearly all the national banks of the Dis
trict pay dividends In two tnstallments, but
the dividend periods do not in all cases fall
IN the month of January The same Is true
IN the case of several of the fire Insurance
of the year is marked by the preparation Of
dividend checks on the part of the great
majority of the corporations doing business
here.
The payment of money on this account
has an influence on the local money market,
and when it Is considered that IL is a period
wien corporations generally throughout
| the country hand over a portion of their
earnings to stockholders. the increase In
the available cash Is an appreciable one
1t Is estimated that this dividend and
interest paying period means that through
out the country some $40 600 900 will be
paid out by corporations and distributed
among the holders of securities The effect
or the January interest payment Is recog-
hlzeu as quite a factor in the general
money market.
Gas certificates formed the bulk of the
trading at todays meeting of the stock
exchange, $4,000 of the total sales of S1I 400
brought 113S and 113A, and the balance
went for 113 The bidding fell to 1127s. but
none OF the certificates was offered at less
than ll3 During the past week or so tho
selling OF this security has been quite large
ana the price has steadily. though slowly,
receded. The market, however has not
peen forced and the ability to absorb the
onerings made is attributed largely to the
present tendency of the market towar ri the
bond list. as well as the attractive c.tarac-
ter OF the certificates an investment
Twenty shares OF Capital Traction stock
were offered at 1221a, but the highest bid
was 10. which was finally raised to the
asking price and the trade made.
There was nothing done In the securities
OF the Washington Railway Company, but
the quotations remained unchanged as COM
pared with those of yesterday.
AT one time there seemed to be a prospect
that some trading would be done In Mer-
genthaler as the bid and asking prices were
within one point of each other, but there
was nothing DONE
Tomorrow the approach of Christmas will
be observed not only by adjournment over
until Monday, but also>some of the MEM
bers Will no doubt receive tokens of the
season of more or less value. On account
OF the uncertainty as to how general the
gifts OF Santa Claus will be distributed
there Is likely to be large attendance, as
of course, there would be little Significance
attached to the gifts unless the presenta-
ton was made in person and in as public
manner as possible.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
HE HAS RESIGNED.
Register of Wills Dent to GO Back to
State Department.

It was learned this afternoon that Mr.
Louis A. Dent. register of wills for the
District of Columbia. has rendered his res
ignaton. to take effect April 1 next and
that the President intends TO appoint Cor
poraf James Tanner as Mr Dents sue
Cessor.
The understanding Is that the President
VIII tender Mr. Dent an important ap-
pointment In the consular service one
which is regarded as a promotion over the
ONCE he now holds. 1t Is not known whether
Mr. Dent will accept the consular appoint
ment or remain in this city and resume the
practice of law.
When asked this afternoon by a Star re-
porter whether the statement that he had
rendered his resignation was true, Mr..
Dent declined TO discuss the matter in any
way.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
THE COTTON MARKET.
Continued Excitement Marks the Trad
ing at New Orleans. r. III

NEW ORLEANS. December 23.-The
volume Of todays business in the cotton
market was colossal, and the excitement
which has pervaded the exchange the past
ten days was, IL anything. intensified Prices
fuctuated widely. May sold above the Ia
cent mark. Brown pushing 1t to 14.03. later
taking about 10000 bales around 1890. He
forced March UP IS points, and at 1888
bid for 10000 bales. He and his brokers
bought almost everything offered. Prices
broke and recovered increasingly. the bull
leader several times furnishing much-need-
ed support.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Bids on Irrigation work.

Bids have been opened at the Interior De-
partment for constructing the 500foot tun-
mel preliminary to the work of building the
Salt river Irrigation project In Arizona.
About $4,000 is involved in this part Of the
project, and Wilton & Ross Of Riverside,
Cal, who bid $SS Is q -tneal foot. were tho
lowest of the four bidders
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Appointed to Succeed Beavers.

announcement was made today Of the ap-
polntment OF c. NJ Waters as superintend-
ent OF the division of salaries and allow
ences of the Post ONCE Department, to sue
ceed Geo w. Beavers. to take effect Janu-
airy next. Mr.. Waters Is now acting su-
perintendent of stha division.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets.
Baltimore Markets.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

BALTIMORE. Nd, December 2s-FLOUR-ouiet
unchanged; receipts ~, 7Oe barrels
WHEAT-Firmer; spot, contract, S71SaS7E; spot
No. red, western. sShass%; December s7tsa
SaE: SE January BsassH; February. SSAas9; May.
s6A; steamer No. red, 70; receipts 30 2S7 bush.
els. Southern by sample, 73aS7A; southern on
4SAa49; December, 403<ab0; year. 4Ssta4o; Janu-
ary aSAa49; February 4aa49A; steamer mixed
41Ha47se; receipts, IS $50 bushels. New southern
42ha48H
OATS-Firm; No. white 4la41M; No. 2 mixed
30h sales: receipts, IL, at bushels.
ceipts. A766 bushels
HAY-Dul1, unchaugad tIst
GRAIN TREIGHTH-Firm: steam tp liverpool
Evening star., 1903-12-23

quarter, 2s ID January
BUTTER-Firm; fancy imitation. fes20; fancy
15af7 f'
EGGS-Firm. 80
CHEEsEsmSteady; large at IL: medium at I21at
small at 1cs..
SUGAR-Weak; fine. 4s6La
Evening star., 1903-12-23
CHAIRMAN HANNA's SUCCESSOR
No Such Proposition Made to secre-
tary Root.

Secretary Root was asked today If It Is
true. as reported. that he is 10 succeed Mr..
Hanna as chairman of the republican ma
uonal committee. He professed ignorance
OF the foundation for any such report, and
SAID no such proposition had been made to
him
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Infantry Coming East.

Col Andrews. adjutant general of the de-
partment of California, has notified the
War Department that the I'd Battalion, 50th
Infantry. 10 officers and 217 enlisted men,
Commanded by Lieut.. Col Davis, left San
Francisco yesterday afternoon for stations
In the east. st5 IlsF.
Evening star., 1903-12-23

Mary A. Scott, through Attorneys Niles
& Whit. today fifed suit against Henry C.
Scott for divorce. She says in her petition
1888, in Baltimore. Md. and has one child.
Inf1delity on tho part s6 the defendant -
alleged.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
The Bennington to Be convov.

Itswas'announeed at the Navy Department
that the gunboat Bennington win convoy
the torpedo boat destroyers Preble and
Paul Jones from San Francisco to Panama.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales-Regular call. IL O'Clock noon-wa shingtou
Gas cert, 81 900 at 1884, 81 600 at 1884, 81 600
at 11SS, $1,tOO at 113A, 81 600 at 49, 81 600 at
l13, $1,000 at 113, 81 600 at 1IS 5000 at i13h
Capital Traction. 80 at 122L
Arlington Fire Insurance % at 80
Washington Gas l at 57h
After call-Capital Traction, 2 at 123
Lanston Monotype 100 at IA.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co, bankers
and brokers. 1419 F St, members New York
stock exchange, Washington stock ex-
change and Chicago board of trade.
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Today's Government Receipts

National bank notes received TODAY for
redemption, S653966; government receipts
from Internal revenue, SS0S. S.017; customs.
81 .0i5, 625 miscellaneous, S211544, expendf-
lures, $1,610,000; available cash balance.
S225, ,904, So
Evening star., 1903-12-23
To Display White House China Sets.

The sets Of china used by the different
administrations since President Lincoln's
time win be put in cases and displayed In
the corridor Of the White House under the
eastern terrace for the inspection of callers
Each administration buys q new set.
Evening star., 1903-12-23

Inquiry into the death at Des Moines,
in yesterdays Star, whose charred remains
were found by her husband. resulted In q
verdict OF murder. No arrests have been
made. S s -
Evening star., 1903-12-23

state Department to suggest The Hague
tribunal as the proper place for the settle-
ment OF the isthmiaa problem.
The ambassador quoted, in explaining the
attitude of European powers. said:
Panama Is a closed chapter in the his
tory OF nations. and The Hague court is not
the place for settled questions but for pend
ing problems, which are referred to wllN
the full approval Off all the parties Interest,"
60. When Russia. Germany and France
recognized the independence of Panama
they set thefr seal of approval on the
prompt action of the Washington govern
nlent in pledging itself to guarantee and
maintain the Independence of the republic
II had previously recognized Nations can
hardly be expected to settle questions of
sovereignty or national honor at The
Hague Morepver,d In my opinion 1t would
not be within the province of the Washing
ton goyernmgnt to- grant such request
from COLOMBIA IT. is to Panama not to
washington that Colombia should take such
q prOpOSitfOn
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Proper Subject for Reference.

There is. however. a question between
Colombia and Panama which with all pro-
priety might be referred to The Hague and
to which reference the United States will
scarcely offer objection. 1t is the question
OF the assumption by Panama of part of
the Colombian debt. If General Reyes
should ask the United States to use it's good
off1ces to have this matter brought before
The Hague, Panama might safely acquiesce
In such proposition. The difficulty In
making this request would be that Colombia
thereby would recognize the independence
OF the new republic, but this must come
sooner or later"f
Evening star., 1903-12-23
Realizes the Gravity Of the
Situation.
he CABLES TO BOGOTA
ENDEAvoRING TO KEEP HIS
CoUNTRYMEN FROM HosrILITIEs
Assures Them That War on Panama
Means War With the United
States.

"War on Panama means war with the
United States" is the substance Of cable
grams which Gen. Rafael Reyes, the CO.
lombian minister, has sent to the Bogota
government and to his more influential fol-
lowers throughout Colombia
Realizing the full gravity Of the situation,
General Reyes has abandoned diplomatic
terms in his dispatches and is endeavoring
to bring the Colombian people face to face
with the situation as he knows it here.
From high officials of the administration,
ambassadors and ministers with whom he
has conferred he is convinced that the
United States will not permit Colombian
army to land within the territory of Pan
anna. and that although Secretary Moody
has instructed the American commanders
in isthmian waters to avert bloodshed If
possible they are also under orders to pre-
serve order on the isthmus at any cost.
Gen. Reyes and DR.. Herran and Mr.
Wayne MacVeagh. their counsel. are rush.
Ing work on the note to the State Depart
ment. Gen. Reyes Is not certain what day
this will be completed, but no time will be
lost presenting 1t to Secretary Hay. Here
tofore Gen. Reyes has not been in any
ton. thinking that in the meantime the war
feeling in Colombia would subside. Dis
patches, however. which he has received
from President Marroquin and from infiu-
entail Colombians have caused him to
hasten his work, and it Is his present inten-
ton to return to Colombia and assume per-
sonal command of the army as soon as he
has filed his note. In Colombian quarters
1t Is pointed out that unless Gen. Reyes
soon returns the war party in Bogota may
gain the upper hand and his hitherto pre-
dominant influence there will be seriously
injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
GREAT FIRES OF HISTORY.
A Lot of Them Wherein Fatalities
Were Large.

121o-London destroyed by fire and thou
sands burned.
16G6-London again destroyed with SINH
lar loss of life.
1729GConAagration in Constantinople
burned 1000 persons.
1S2lForest fires in New Brunswick kill
ed 100 persons.
1sss-Scores burned at Charleston. s. C.
1S42-Fire burned 100 people at Hamburg,
iSi5-Forty-five killed BY fire in business
part of New York
1s45-Fire destroyed 10 in Quebec.
1s58-Thirty lives lost in Philadelphia.
1251-Twenty- hundred buildings
burned at San Francisco with scores of
people killed.
1s62-Troy, N. Y, destroyed with large
loss of life.
1S63-Two thousand persons persisted by
fire at Santiago, South America.
1S66-Portland Ne. partly destroyed
with scores burned.
1S71-Forest fires in Wisconsin and Mich
igan killed 1,0a0
1SS2-Newhan house fire in Milwaukee,
140 killed
I9oo-Windsor hotel fire in New York
burned so persons.
190O-Fire at Hoboken, N. J., killed 500
persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
MANY "WATCH" PARTIES.
Topeka Churches Will Be Occupied
Tonight.

This will be the last night of the old
year of 1908 and in the churches of To-
peka many bands of prayerfu1 watchers
will await its passing. No uniformity
will be observed in the various church
service to be held tonight and tomor-
row except among the members of the
Christian Endeavor society who have
announced that union services will be
held at the First and Third and at the
North Topeka Presbyterian churches
Friday morning from 8 to 10 a. m. A
similar meeting previously announced
for the Westminster Presbyterian
church has been recalled. People in the
southwest portion of the city have been
asked to attend the First Presbyterian
church meeting.
At the Central Congregational church
a prayer service will be held at p. M.
New Years day instead of tonight.
The First Methodist church will hold
its regular prayer meeting service to-
night and watch night services will be
held at the Jefferson Street mission.
Communion services will be held at
Grace Cathedral at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
At the Church of the Assumption
services the same as on Sundays will
be held at and 10 a. m. and vespers.
A union watch night service will be
held in the First Presbyterian church
| tonight at which the Presbyterian, Con-
gregationaI and First Cumberland
! Presbyterian congregations are expect
| ed to be present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Progressive Flynch will be a feature
of coming Clay Center church fair.
Conway Springs is to sink we'll for
public water. The springs have weak
eglsd
An enterprising Great Bend grocer
makes wheelbarrow deliveries to his
customers.
The St John chemical engine was
found frozen when wanted for its
initiatory fire.
Blackleg is troubling Mcpherson
county stock growers. An occasional
bath is suggested.
Mr.. Fivecoats. of Chanute, should
be able to pull through the winter
without freezing.
The Newton golfers are great pedes-
TRANS. They have just added twenty
acres to their possessions.
At Columbus a jointist was given a
$500 fine and 270 days in jail and a
motion for a new trial ovarruled.
The state superintendent took "a day
off, to scold Albaugh. 1t is possible
that his vacation may be extended.
A jolly crowd of Abilene girls will
open the leap year season by taking
their gentlemen friends to the theater.
The newly appointed sheriff of Bar
ton county was met at the train hV a
brass band. That beat a hearss a
trihe.
An Emporia lady is preparing chill
dren to enter the Teschetizky school.
Those with fran constitutions should
sidetrack.
The town "snipe shooter at Newton
is so years of age. He has been pick
ing cigarettes from the cutters for
many moons.
An Emporia man found a gold watch
in a -four bin and was given five sacks
of -four as reward He is now search
ing coal bins.
The Marquette steel gang filled uo''
after pay day and drove that usually
demure town frantic by an exhibition
of gun play"
Later Developments indicate that
considerable sympathy and dynamite
were wasted in the case of Mr. Willes,
of Junction City.
The story comes from Mcpherson of
a nine-morths-old child that can talk
plainly and CAD all over the neighbor-
hood. OF course it's a girl.
The present bevy of "slKule ma ans
at the state association are the best
looking, the neatest dressers and hap
piest appearing crowd that has been
in Topeka in ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31

The conditions in the west are thus
set forth by the Pittsburg Dispatch:
The farmers of this vast region, with a
population of 2O,OOO,OOO people. have
more money than ever before. Counties
with $4,000 inhabitants, owning $500
farms, have on deposit with local bank
ers from two to three millions of dol
lars, or an average of about $1,000 to
each farm. and this money is such a
drug in the market that deposits are
refused, bankers not knowing what to
do with it. The west, with Chicago as
the center, furnished the 500, 600, 600
needed to move the crops this year, and
that money is now returning and being
sent to the east for investment, a vir-
tual reversal of the usual order of
things. The western railroad earnings
are from to u per cent greater than
the high tide figures of last year. and
what is true of the agricultural dis
tricts is true of the conditions in com
mereiaI and industrial centers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
SAVED 100 LIVES.
Agent of Santa Fe Road Dis
tinguished Himself.

Chicago, Dec. 31.-Flags were placed
at half mast all over the city today,
Mayor Harrison setting the example
at the city hall.
One Of the heroes Of the fire was
Peter Quinn, chief special agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
system, who assisted in saving the
lives of 100 or more of the performers
from a fate as horrible as the victims
in the theater proper.
Wedged so tightly in a crowd at the
door of the stage entrance that they
could not move, the women, men and
children, composing the company of
performers, were standing helplessly
and with agonizing looks in the face
The stage door was closed.
1.-The massive stage door of the 1ro-
Quois,' said Mr.. Quinn, lis like many
others of it's kind. The two main
swinging doors are used when scenery
is taken to or from the theater and
built in the swinging structure itself
is a, small trap door used by the play
ers in leaving or entering the stage.
This trap door opened inwardly. As
passed it heard a commotion and
saw the door was slightly open ana
peering into the opening I curiously
asked. what was the trouble. Then the
first time I and others who had arriV-
ed outside about the same time, learn
ed that the theater was on fire.
The players, men, women and chill
dren had rushed to this small trap
door for escape, got caught in solid
mass and were so firmly wedged to-
gether that they could not move. They
were banked solidly against the little
door and it could not be opened. Nearly
all of the players were in their stage
costumes aEG the women had not even
had time to remove the paint from their
faces.
1.-THE women screamed and begged us
to rescue them and the cries of the
children could be heard above the
hOarSe shouts of the men. We tried to
force the door open, but the crowd was
banked up too tightly against it.
Then came a volume of smoke and
far in the rear of the crowd we could
had a number of small tools in my
pockets and Immediately proceeded to
remove the metal attachments which
held the door in the place. This was
accomplished with some difficulty and
then we managed to force the crowd
back probably an inch but that was
sufficient.
THE door was then permitted to drop
from its place and one by one the i'm
prisoned players were assisted into the
alley. Even when the last player and
stage hand had reached the alley we
could not realize the awfulness of what
had happened.
81 walked in upon the stage and
found it a seething furnace. The play
ers mad been rescued just in time-a
minute later the flames and smoke
would have reached the imprisoned
ones and they would have been suffo-
Gated or burned where they stood"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
SALARIES RAISED.
City Engineer Will Be Paid $500
Instead of ST. 200.

There was a more pay meeting of
the ways and means committee We'd
nesday night. The meeting seems to
have been arranged rather secretly, and
without much preliminary notice.
James r. McCabe city engineer, will
get an increase in his pay from 81, POO
to $500 a year. This is the increase
which he asked the council recently to
grant him.
The committee decided to create a
new Job; that of assistant city attor-
ney and stenographer," and pay a sal
airy of S65 a. month instead of $50 as at
present w. c. Ralston will hold this
job. He is already discharging the du-
ties of assistant city attorney and
stenographer, and is getting only $50 a
month. Ralston is a practicing attor-
ney and the committee thought that it
was asking rather too much for man
to serve as assistant city attorney for
only $50 a month. Ralston is also a
stenographer and does all the steno-
graphic work Of the office.
Some time ago, the five sanitary po-
licemene asked that their pay be in
creased from $50 to $50 a month. The
committee decided instead to give them
a raise of SIS a month, which is half of
what they asked for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-31
LOCAL MENTION.

F. A. Recob, of lois West Twelfth
street, motorman on the street rail-
way, is the father of a son born this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Ward, of AL East
Third street, are the parents of
daughter born December %.
At o'clock last night hose company
No. went to the Santa Fe yards to
helm extinguish a blaze which was devour-
ing the cab of a locomotive. The cab was
considerably burned, but no other damage
was done. The origin of the fire is IN
known.
A bon fire in the rear of 307 Kansas
avenue caused fire alarm to be sent in
to the department at 40 Wednesday
night. There was no damage to prop
At 1875 this afternoon the fire depart
rnent was called to kuehne's pickle
works A dish of rosin on stove on
the second floor had boiled over onto the
floor and started trouble The floor was
somewhat scorched, but there was little
damage Of consequence.