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STOCK MARKET OUTLOOK
SPECULATION Is SUFFERING RE-
LAPSE FROM BULL CAMPAIGN.
Extent, and General List VIII Be
Dull the Coming Week.
social to the indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK. April 1.-THE outlook of the
stock market for the coming week is anything
but encouraging The market financial district
IS now suffering a relapse from the effects of
the withdrawal from the market the power
fu interests which engineered the bull cam
paign
All last week the action OF the market from
DAY to day showed that this campaign is en-
tirely over-for the present least-and there
IS now nothing ahead of the specuator but
market of his own making. apparently. During
the bull campaign there was considerable talk
Of the public getting back into the market but
the upward tendency did not last long enough
interest the public. and now the opinion is
general again that the outside is not doing
much in stocks. And in the market itself there
s nothing TO stir prices either way to any con-
siderable extent.
With these conditions. all that can be hoped
for Just nov Is a narrow traders market in
which prices will not move great ways either
Up down Developments from day to day
viii. OF course. affect certain stocks, as, for
example, the movement of the local gas stocks
Saturday. but, these movements will be confined
a few issues and will not have much effect
upon the general market.
Saturday sales and the range:
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

PROPOSALS FOR CLOTHING AND EQUIP
AGE SUPPLIES-Chef Quartermaster's once
Chicago ILL.,. April Ia, 1904. Sealed proposals, in
triplicate, will be received at this Office until l2
O'Clock noon. Wednesday. May !. 1904
livery at the New York depot OF OF olive drab
covert cloth. serge. lasting and shirting flannel
for delivery at either Chicago philadelphia
Boston or San Francisco depot, OF dress caps.
hat letters and hat numbers dull finished bronze
hat cords: wool stockings. light weight: russell
marching and black cafskin shoes. all strictly
conforming to standards and specifications. Gov
eminent reserves right to rejeft accept any
or all proposals any part thereof Preference
given to articles of domestic production and
manufacture conditions OF quality and price Tin
GLIDING the price Of foreign production and
ufactures the duty thereon) being equal Par
ticulars and blanks for proposals will be fur
nished upon application. Envelopes containing
proposals TO be Endorsed Proposals for Clothing
ana Eoupnge Supplies and addressed TO
LIEUT.. COL. w. II. MILLER. Chief Quarter
master.
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the current to be ten miles hour. II he
navigates against the current he accom-
plishes ten miles an hour with respect to
the shore, though he has been travelling at
the rate of twenty miles an hour through
rhe water. If he goes with the current he
accomplishes thirty miles an hour with re-
spect TO the shore, though he has not been
going any faster through the water This
is one of the reasons why il is so difficult
to estimate the speed of an airship.
1t is also the reason why airship captains
will always prefer to navigate for their own
pleasure in calm weather. and, when they
find an air current against them, will steer
obliquely upward or downward to get out
of it, Birds do the same thing. The sail
inN yachtsman whistles for a fair breeze,
without which he can do nothing: but the
river steamboat captain Will always hug
the shore TO avoid the freshet. and will
going rather than the incoming tide We
airshipmen are steamboat captains and not
sailing yachtsmen.
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Sealed proposals will be received by the Board
of School Commissioners of the city OF Indian
apolis, until O'Clock p. May 10. 1904 at the
Office of the business director, In the Public
Library, for the following work. separately:
l. For the erection and completion OF a school
building the corner of Laura and Ohio streets.
in the city OF Indianapolis.
ii. For the installation. complete. OF heat
ing plant in said building.
Plans and specifications for said building and
for said heating plant file in the Office OF
Clarence Martindale. architect. Indiana Trust
building.
Each proposal on the building must be ac-
companied by check for the or 81 o0o
Each proposal on the heating plant must be
accompanied by a check for the OF 500
Checks must be payable TO the Board OF school
Commissioners Of the city of Indianapolis and
must be certified good by bank or trust COM
pany in Indianapolis and in any bidder
whose bid shall be accepted shall not, within
FIVE days after notice Of acceptance, enter into
a written contract with the board 10 perform
the bid and secure the contract by bond in the
form and with sureties 20 the approval OF the
board. his certified check and its proceeds shall
board liquidated damages for such failure,
and the bidder shall be liable for nothing beyond
the proceeds Of the check for the failure IL be-
ing impossible TO anticipate the exact amount
of damages such failure would occasion TO the
board.
The right is reserved TO reject any all bids
submitted JOHN l.. CLELAND.
indianapolis. April Is 1904 Business Director
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THE GRAIN MARKETS.
ArURpAY's CLOSING OPTION PRICES.

Cash quotations follows: Flour was
dull and easy: winter patents s47O94SO;
straights. 81 40d460; spring patents, s4 4OI4 20:
straghts. s4Q420: bakers, 81. 7593.40 Wheat
No. spring, ssds6c; No. g. s5G96c; No. 2 red,
96d97%c. Corn-No 2, 52Aq524c; No. yellow
52lza52a4c Oats-No. p S7h@3sc; No. white.
41Q43c. Rye-No 2. zoe. Barley-Good feeding
32435c; fair TO choice mailing, 44Q55c. Flaxseed
No l. $f.OS: No l Northwestern sl.16. Prime
timothy seed $3.50 Clover-Contract grade
s1075. Mess pork, per brl s12d12 1919. Lard,
per 100 lbs, s6.4566.4712. Short rib sides Qoose)
Sc. i21ad6. % Short clear sides (boxed). Sc. 500
6.75. Whsky-Basis of high wines, SIPS
Receipts-Flour 3d. 500 brls: wheat, 1900 bu
corn. Ill 100 bu; oats. 1872 600 bu: rye, 4 900 bu
barley, 1850 blu. Shipments-Flour, 19. 200 brIs
wheat, is. 600 bu: corn. 81 300 bu; oats, $780, 700
Blu; rye, 2, 800 bu; barley. 1890 bu.
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directions The disaster to the Russian battle
snip fetropaviovsk at Port Arthur put Russians
oown and had a temporarily depressing effect
on inc foreign section of the Exchange but al
most all sections showed substantial advances
curing the week. which resulted yesterday In a
disposition to take profits and this put end
70 the advance. The Indications. however are
mat the buoyancy will continue. German opera
tors having recommenced 90 buy largely. 'espe-
cially in South African mines.
Inc money market already anticipates a still
lurther reduction OF the bank rate. large ship
nents OF gold being expected i'm the near future
from various quarters to London
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Local Cash Prices.

Wheat quiet: No. red s1.O2 track: No. 2 red.
s1.02 on milling freight; No. red. s9c track;
April. 81 track; May, csc; wagon, 81.
Corn steady; No. white, 49c; No. 3 white
acc; No. white 47e; No. white mixed. acc:
No 8 white mixed, 49c No. 4 white mixed, 47c
No. yellow. 4s15c; No. yellow. 49ikc No. 1
yellow. 47c; No. mixed, 49c; No. mixed. 49c
No. 4 mixed, 47c.
Oats dull, and nominal; No. white 41c; No. 3
white, 42c; No. mixed, 40i2c: No. mixed, 40c.
Hay steady and nominal; No. l timothy s12;
No. timothy, 5000
Inspections: Corn.No white. car; No 9
white, 49, No. white Mixed /: No. yellow,
q No yellow. 2: No. yellow, 2; No. 2 mixed
l: No mixed .; NO. mixed, 2; total, 40 cars.
IL cars. Hay-No. timothy, cars; No. 2 tim
othy, /; total, cars.
WAGON MARKET.
Wheat-$1.
Corn-53d60c.
Oats-Sheaf, ssG10: shelled oats, 45d5oc
Hay-Clover. sSq10; timothy. $11a14; mixed, SIC
oil; milet, s5q9.
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Rates Abroad.

LONDON.-Money, 1d2 per cent: discounts.
z l-l6er2 s-l6 per cent. Consols, SS1sGSSA
PARIS.-Exchange on London. 20m 45Hpfg.
Discount rates: Short bills pa per cent. three
months bills. 25s per cent.
BERLIN.-Exchange London. 20m 451Apfg.
Discount rates: Short bills. ga per cent; three
months bills, rs rer
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Puss in Boots--Find the Hing

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NEW YORK. April 16-Total imports of dry
goods and general merchandise at this port for
the week ending to-day valued at S1l. 3d.
2Ss. Exports of specie from New York for the
week were S547,095 silver and s1,571,S2S gold
Imports of specie at New York during the week
were $24.43f gold and 49, S0 silver.
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THE MONEY MARKET.
Rates on Loans and Exchange-Clear-
fngs and Discounts.


lND1ANAPOLIS.-Com paper, 6 per
cent: time loans 51z4s cent
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New York Rates.

NEW YORK.-Money on call nominal: no loans
Time loans easy: sixty and ninety days. 21z93
per cent; six months, 80. Prime mercantile
paper, 4ui1z per cent, Sterling exchange steady.
with actual business In bankers bills at a. ST. $50
1910 for demand and 81 S5n4 So 10 for sixty
day bills Posted rates. s4.S5Is and si.SS. Com
meTcial bills, $I.S4La4Si%
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Treasury Statement.

WASHINGTON.-Saturday statement OF the
treasury balances in the general fund. exclusive
OF the $50. 000O 600 gold reserve in the division
of redemption, shows:
Available cash s221. 6S7. 40
Gold 109 545 090
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NEW YoRK.-Bar silver 53Ac; Mexican dol
lars, 43c.
LONDON.-Bar silver. 2ilzd an ounce.
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Personal, Local and General Notes.

d. Lesseng has been appointed travelling
auditor of the Vandalia.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific will
on May 10 extend the service of it's trains
south from Fort Worth to Dallas This
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Belt Road Traffic.

In the week ended April Is. there were
transferred over the Belt road 1S4sS cars
Belt road engines handled at the stock.
yards 627 carloads of live stock and for pri
vate industries located on it's line l,22
cars
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ALLEN-Dr. w f. Allen died on Saturday,
April is. 1904 Funeral from the residence az
Mrs. o. r. Olsen. 265 Downey avenue. Irving
ton. Ind. Tuesday, April 10. 1904, at 10 a. m
Friends invited.
O'CONNELL-John Murt O'Connell. April II.
1904 aged thirtyNthree years Funeral from
residence les Mckim avenue. at $50 a M and
from Holy Cross Church at a. m. Wednesday
April %. 1904. All friends invited.
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WANTED-HEI.P.

WANTED-Competent cook: best resident sec
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BUSINESS CHANCE.

BUSINESS CIANCE-Wanted: Homesteaders
Personally conducted excursion May II for
free homesteads in North Dakota; No / hard
wheat farm. Write GEO. MARTIN, vice presi-
dent American immigration Association for the
Northwest $50 N. Ill. St, Indianapolis.
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LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
Upward Price Movement Well Main
taf.ed-Cheaper Money Expected.

LONDON, April 1.-THE upward movement
of prices on the Stock Exchange was fairly
maintained during the past week, but Mas
rather less marked In Americans tnau ~ othsf
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MEDICAL.

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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

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not mentioned. SMART vOORHIS, Law
renee, Ind.
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All advertisements inserted I'm these columns
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line. Telephone 23S and your ad. will be called
for.
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new YORK CLEARINGHOUSE BANKS.

STATEMENT OF THE ASSOCIATED BANKS OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 16.
totals and the
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MONUMENTS.

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RESTAURANTS,

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IBy A. w. Thomson's Wire.l
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sIncrease. decrease. Reserve on
posits othes than u. ST. increase s. 405,
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Inspections for the Week.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-07
ADMIRAL HASOYA REPORTS.

line nrst fleet OF transports, on see
Ing our flag displayed on an eminenue,
began landing troops at 8 p. m. Tne
troops, who were forced to waue
ashore, were in high spirits.
In order to facilitate the further
landing of troops piers are being EJECT
%. Our division is assisting in the
work."
The report Of Admiral Kataoka, COM
mander of the Third squadron, gives
additional details OF the landing. The
admiral reports that his squadron con.
voyed the first batch of the seconu
army to the Liaotung base and adds
that the Kara Maru grounded near the
base. She was assisted by the pro-
tected cruiser Akitsuchima, which sue
ceeded In floating the transport, which
reached her destination later.
Beyond the announcement that a
Japanese force had effected a landing
at an unnamed place on the Liaotung
peninsula aud the giving out OF Az
miral Hosoya's report the government
absolutely refuses to disclose the ma
ture of the plan OF operations. Cen
eral Fukushima of the general staff
merely told the foreign correspondents
that on May some strength of the
Japanese army began to land on the
1f8Otunp noninSu1a
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-07

Hartford, Conn, May TN one of
the stormiest gatherings the party ever
held in Connecticut. the Democratic
state convention chose fourteen dele
gates to the st. Louis convention and
instructed them to vote as a unit for
Alton B. Parker of New York as the
presidential nominee. A climax came
at the end of two hours of angry de-
bate between Hearst and Parker dele
gates in what escaped by a hairs
breadth being personal encounter in
full view of the convention between
former Governor Thomas M. Waller
Of New London and DR.. F. J. Brothers
Of New Haven. The question being
debated was the substitution of the
minority report of the committee on
resolutions for the majority report
The former report favored an I'M
pledged delegation, the latter a pledge
for Parker and the unit rule. Per-
sonalities were banded back and forth,
the attack on Governor Waller includ-
Ing charges that he had deserted the
party in 1896. Much of the actual de-
bate between the chief participants in
the incident
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-07

Toxic, May THE report of Ad-
miral Hosoya, received during the day,
Gives details of the landing Of Japan.
csc troops on the Liaotung peninsula,
cuppressing the location Of the land
Ing place. The admiral says:
"Our Seventh division, with torpedo
boats and the Hongkong Maru and
the Nippon Maru, arrived from the ad-
vance base of the Eaotung peninsula
Ut $3.50 May S. Discovering a number
Of the enemy's patrols we bombarded
them for short time and then land
ing party Of sailors, Captain Nomoto
leading, was ordered ashore: 1t being
low tide it was impossible to use the
boats and the sailors plunged into the
water, waded breast deep for about a
thousand yards and reached the beach
at 1920 p. m. Immediately advancing
they took possession Of range OF
hills without firing a shot and planted
our flag on the hills.
THE gunboats Amagai, Oshima and
Chieokai were employed to distract
the enemy's attention. They discov.
cred hundred Of the enemy and
shelled them, killing several.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-07
MIsTook THEM FOR JAPs.
Russians Kill or Wound 1870 Of Their
Own Troops.

wv" SsSVPOs
Toxic, May 7.-General Kuroki, in
an official report, tells of bloody en-.
counter during the Russian retreat on
Sunday last when large force of Rus
SLAMS mistook small body of their
own men for Japanese, killing and
wounding $50 of them. According to
information furnished by a native q
body of Russian infantry, 1000 strong,
occupying hill near Tengshanhong,
mistook detachment of their own il
fantry, about 200 strong, retiring be-
fore the Japanese troops. and fought
among themselves. In the scuff1e ITO
were killed and 70 wounded and the
Russian cal ts were stampeded, leav.
ing their locds Of stores behind.
According to the story told by cap
tured Russian officer, who partici-
pated IN the battle on Sunday last, Only
i've or six battalions Of Russian in
fantry and two battalions of artillery
were able to retire in order. The
other troops ran away in a state of en-
tire confusion.
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THE RUSSIANS ARE HOPEFUL.
Declare Port Arthur lmpregnable Against
All Attacks By Land and Sea and Are
Not Fearful. # @#

St. Petersburg, May THE details
q the Japanese landing at Pitsewo
have just been received by the general
stan. From information brought to
Fort Arthur by the Chinese sixty
transports are disembarking two divi-
sions, numbering altogether 10000
men. , mr.
No news has been received up to
this hour of any other landing. Strict
orders have been given to Rear Ad-
miral Wittsoeft not to take out his
warships from Port Arthur.
The Japanese landing at Pitsewo is
expected to be followed almost imme.
diately by the isolation of Port Arthur.
Landings on the west coast of the
peninsula are also anticipated. The
Russian military authorities seem rec
onciled to the cutting of of their
stronghold, but they are convinced
that the fortress is impregnable
against attacks by land and sea.
Thongh the enemy may invest the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-07
GOVERNMENT OF CANAL ZONE.
Conference Held at White House to
Frame Rules.

Washington, May IA conference
was held at the White House Friday
at which the general policy to be fol-
lowed by the administration in the
framing of rules and regulations in the
government of the Panama canal zone
was agreed upon. This policy pro-
vides for instructions to be issued by
the president through the secretary of
war to the canal commission for the
administration of affairs in the strip.
following very much the practice in
vogue in the Philippines, where the
acts of the commission are subject to
the approval of the secretary or war.
There were present at the confer
ence Secretary Taft, Attorney Cen
sral Knox, Admiral Walker and the
other members of the canal commits
sion now in Washington. The men,
bers of the canal commission explain
ed to the president the condition of af-
fairs on the Isthmus as they found
them and made recommendation for
the government of the strip. They VIII
embody their recommendation in
written communication to the presi
dent. who will refer them to Secretary
Taft and Attorney General Knox for
such notifications and recommends
lions as they deem best.