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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-20
MARKETS TODAY.
Wheat Takes a Sensational
Jump This Morning.
May Deliveries Are Sold at
$1.O7 Per BusheI.
SHORTS WERE NERVOUS
They Appeared Excited About
the Future.
Little Change Is Noticed In Live
Stock Trade.
SHORTS WERE NERVOUS

Chicago, Feb. 20.-WHEAT-Wheat for
May delivery today sold at $1.07 a bushel.
market was extremely active and the
volume of trading was of enormous pro-
portions. The sensational advance was
due largely to the anxiety of shorts, who
were afraid to maintain open trades over
two days recess of the board.
Trading in the wheat pit today was a
repetition of yesterdays bulliSh enthuSi-
asm. The volume of business was large
price of the May delivery continued on
It's upward flight, selling at 1c over yes
high price record market was established
on the opening sales the price being I'm
opened sc lower to 1sc higher, at 92s4@
93c. Strong Liverpool cables were mainly
responsible for the initial advance. There
and the price quickly sold from $1.04@
102A The principal long offered July
freely and that option declined to 924c-
Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago re-
ported receipts of 272 cars, against 233
Later, on light offerings and Mondays
fluctuations of 1aG9zc occurring between
sales. July advanced to SEC. Liberal
May dropping back to $1051a and July to
"a s. as ce ef %s fo {hs d MiSn Of y
July closed PIC higher, at 951sc
CORN-The heavy selling in wheat in
duced considerable LIQUIDATION of corn.
and with only a scattered demand the
market developed an easier tone. The
opening was strong on higher cables and
small receipts, May being unchanged to
1sc higher, at 561sQ56Ac, while July was Is
1t14c to 3s01zc higher, at 54Szd55c. Shorts
were active buyers at the start, but COM
mission houses and local longs had plenty
of corn for SALE and the demand was
soon satisfied. The principal selling was
in July. The option declined to 5415c,
while May eased off to Sc. Receipts were
2SS cars.
The close was strong, with May up $40
&c, at 567sG57c. July was ssQ12c higher,
at SOC.
OATs-Selling by local holders caused
oats to rule barely steady. after the
to &c higher, at 45Q451sc TO t5ssc. On
good general demand the price advanced
to 1870, but later declined again to 4514c.
Receipts were 167 cars.
PROVISIONS-Fn feature in provision
trading was the active investment md
covering by shorts. May pork opened
1214d171ac higher. at s15.75. The price
weakened momentarily, going back to
$780, but soon regained all the loss. May
and sold I'D later to 81 971k; ribs were up
121ac at the start, opening at $7.55, but
WI WHE "a ash No. red, s1.o6a1 10:
No. red, S1.00Q108; No. 2 hard, 95cQ$1. 90;
No. 3 hard, seas. 90; No. 1 northern, $1.03
d1.06; No. northern, 98cqS1.04; No.
CoRN-No. 3, 4s1kG441c: No. 4. A@4s1kc.
OATS-No. ?, A1A4i4c.
FLAx-Cash: NV, s.. 1872; S.-W. ,$11114;
Feb, $1.111a; May, $11315
TIMOTHY-Fab., So %; March, So 10.
CLOVER-Feb., S11.55.
BARLEY-Cash: 40J60c.
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DEFENDS THE WOMEN.
Shafroth Says Election Frauds
Were Not Due to Them.

Washington. Feb. 20.-Former Con-
gresham John L. Shafroth of Colorado,
who resigned his seat because of cleo
ton frauds in Denver, denies that these
frauds were committed mainly by wom-
en-. In an interview today Shafroth
said:
of the persons implicated very few
were women, not more than one in ten
at the outside. The frauds were COM
mitted in the lowest part Of Denver,
where not many women live. The in
cident was not characteristic of the
women's voting in Colorado and it is
preposterous to make it an argument
against female suffrage. Everybody
knows there are bad women as well as
bad men but what would any good man
think if it were proposed to take his
vote away from him because a few bad
men somewhere had cheated at an cleo
ton. In Colorado the women vote as
generally as the men, and fraud is much
rarer among them. AS a rule their cleo
ton methods are honorable, and the in
f1uence of woman suffrage on the state
has been distinctly for good
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COAxED HIS WIFE AWAY.
T. Y. Sanderson Sues George Shears, a
stockman, for $25, 900 Damages.

Kansas City, Feb. 20.-George Shears,
a wealthy ranch owner and cattle man
of Latham, Butler county, Kansas, was
sued yesterday in the circuit court for
$25 900 damages by Fred V. Sanderson,
a carpenter of Kansas City, who al
leges that Mr.. Shears coaxed his wife
away from him. Sanderson was mar
ried last July. He says in his petition:
Until October we lived happily to-
gether and enjoyed the aid, comfort,
service. support, companionship, So
ciety, love and affection of each other"
In October, he alleges, Mr.. Shears in
duced his wife, Mary, to leave him,
which caused him great anguish and
distress. Mr.. Sanderson went yester-
day with a deputy sheriff to the stock
yards and pointed out Mr.. Shears, who
was there with consignment of cat
tie. Mr.. Shears made no comment
when the petition in the lawsuit was
handed to him. Mr.. Shears is about
so years old
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MIR. DAVIS Is BUSY.
Trying to Figure Out Insurance on
Big Stock.

w. H. Davis, of the Parkhurst- Davis
Mercantile company is hard at work
now with the insurance men, figuring
out the value of the stock of goods
which was destroyed in Saturdays fire.
The books of the company, in connec-
ton with current price lists, are used
to determine the value of the stock on
hand. Mr.. Davis says:
II anticipate that there will be no
trouble about reaching a settlement
with the insurance men, most of whom
are now here. We are checking up the
stock as rapidly as possible. I think
that they have not yet settled with Mr..
Nulvane for the building, and there
fore nothing has been done toward re-
building"
Workmen are beginning to burrow
into the wreckage in the basement for
the purpose of getting at the fire which
is concealed therein. There is still con-
siderable smoke rising from the ruins.
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PEOPLE PAY BILLS.
CONTINUED from First Page.l

CONTINUED from First Page.l
equally responsible for appropriations,
SO 1t is now established by the records
OF the state board of equalization and
OF the state board of railroad assessors
that one faction-the one known as the
Burton faction, and headed by Treas
urer Kelly-controlled absolutely and
practically unanimously those two
boards, majority being members of
both. and while all other property in
the state was raised in assessment
seven per cent, the railroad property
in the state had its assessment act
ual1y lowered.
Note this: Had the railroad property
In the state, SIS, 492, 0S7, as shown on
page 81 of the auditors report, been in
creased the same per cent as farm and
other property, the increase in assess
1nent of railroad property would have
been $4,164, 446. The average rate per
cent of tax for 1903 in the state, as
shown of record in the auditors office,
is 4.39 per cent. This per cent on 81
1854, AS, the amount railroad property
would have been increased if raised as
other property was, would amount in
tax to S152.S191S. THE RAILROADS
OF THE STATE SAVED THIS
AMOUNT. OTHER TAXPAY ERS
PAID IT.
THE UNFAIR DISTRIBUTION.
Having shown that on the assessment
of 1903 railroad property was lowered
II the raise was made equitably over the
state or if the board favored some and
Disseminated against others. In the
table published herewith every taxpay-
er can see just what was done to his
county and to others. The result is
astonishing. There were only two of the
1O5 counties in the state that received
a straight reduction on all taxable
property in the county as returned by the
county clerk, and those two counties
were Miami and Neosho (the counties
or the state treasurer and the auditory.
Out of the six counties in the entire
state that received a reduction on per-
sonal property as returned by the coun-
ty clerks were those of Miami, Neosho
and Smith (the counties of the state
treasurer; auditor and secretary of
state). Miami and Neosho received
straight reduction of 10 per cent on all
taxable property; Smith received a re-
duction of so per cent on personal prop
erty
Attention is called particularly to the
two tiers of counties running from
Johnson and Douglas south to the ter
rltory line, comprising Johnson, Miami,
Linn, Bourbon, Crawford, Cherokee, La
bette, Neosho, Allen, Anderson, Frank
lin and Douglas. Compare the average
value per acre as fixed by the board of
equalization for 1903 to that fixed by the
board Of 1902; also, the differ
ence in amount of state tax required
by the board of 1903 over that of 1902
and the per cent of increase. The per
cent OF increase is as follows:
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they fixed the average value of land at
SO, as against $7.S5 in 1902 Can this
board, or any one, give any good rea-
son why the land In Allen county
should be assessed at SO per acre and
the land in Neosho county at 1895?
Allen county has natural gas and has
oil in the southern part. Neosho coun-
ty has natural gas and oil fields from
the north extending entirely through
the county. The farm land. for agri-
cultural purposes, IN Neosho county is
equal to that of Allen county; the acre
age of the two counties is about the
same; yet the total state tax of Neosho
county is $25, 514, as against $35, 0S1 for
Allen county.
Taking the counties of Smith. Phil
lips, Rocks, Osborne, Mitchell, and
Jewell, which surround Smith county,
the home of Secretary Burrow, the In
crease of state tax of 1903 over that Of
1902 is as follows:
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Truly Succeeds cavert.

A circular was received at the Santa
F'e general offices today announcing
the appointment of N. V. Truly to the
paymaster of the Cane Belt railroad,
one of the new lines recently acquired
by the Santa F'e, to succeed Mr.. C. F.
Cavert, resigned. c. F. Cavert Mr..
Truly's predecessor, is well known in
Topeka, having formerly been en-
ployed in the office of the auditor of
disbursements of the Santa Fe. and
going from here to the Cane Belt His
plans for the future are not known
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chicago Livestock Market.

Chicago, Feb. Receipts to-
day, 200 head. Market nominal. Good to
prime steers, $4.S0d5.75; poor to medium.
14-S9i $50 SIoc re ana feeders $250q4l5
ners, S1.6Od2.60; bulls. $2.00d450; calves,
s.. 5Od5.50.
HOGS-Receipts today. 1900 head; esti-
mated Monday, 5000 head. Market sc
lower Mixed and butchers, s. 15@5.5O;
heavy. -s5.10sa5. 40; light, s465Q5.20: bulk Of
sales, $5.15d5. 40
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1000 head.
Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice
wethers, $4-00d4.60; fair to choice mixed,
s.. 50d4.25; western sheep, $420Q5.10; native
lambs, s4.O0Q575; western lambs, 100000.
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kansas Citv Livestock Market.

Receipts today, 200 head. Market I'M
changed. Native steers, S4.O0a5.25; south
ern steers, s.. 1904 25; southern COWS, 81. IS
@3.25; native cows and heifers, 81. 75G4. 25;
stOckers and feeders, s.. 0014. %; bulls, 81. so
$3.50; calves, $S.0Oq6.50; western steers,
S.. 1904 SO; western cows, 81. 00GI3. 40.
HOGS-Receipts today. 5000 head. Mar
ket higher. Bulk of sales, IS. 15Q5.4o
heavy, $5.30Q550; packers, IS. 20Q5 40; pigs
and lights, IS. 00G5.2O.
SHEEP-Market nomina1ly steady. Nut
tons, $4.00d5.25; lambs, S5.0Od6.O0; range
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Sentenced to Be Hanged.

Manila. Feb 20.-Corporal Ayala.
ringleader of the members of the CON
stabulary force who recently revolte5
at Vigan, Luzon, was captured last
Monday. He has since been tried. con-
victed and sentenced by the court at
V1gan to be hanged Very few of the
men who deserted their posts remain
uncaptured. and most of the arms and
ammunition taken with them has been
recovered. A reward of 50. 500 has been
offered for the capture of Ricarte the
reVolutiOnist leader liz
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Chicaeo Produce Market.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 2O-BUTTER-Mar
ket firm. Creamery, 15q1572c; dairy, 1870
zzf e;c.cs-N5ar,,et firm At mark. cases in
ccluded, 27G291ac.
CHEESE[Market strong. Daisies, 1870
lie; Twins, 10Q101zc; Young Americas, lOA
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Tur-
keys, 12c; chickens, 1112d12c; springs, 12c.
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z51Lc; No. white 45c.
40d41c.
RYRNo 2, Coo.
prairie, $7.25G7.50.
BUTTER-Creamery. 21q2Sc; dairy fan
ETGS-Fresh, Csc
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opened Other PeopIe,s Letters.

Redding, Cal, Feb. 2O.-Tom Reyn-
olds, a nephew of Postmaster J. E.
Reynolds, has confessed that he opened
over 800 letters and extracted what
coin and paper money he found in
them during the past three months
while employed as utility clerk in the
Redding pOstoffice. He made the con-
fession when arrested at the instance
of POStOffice INSPECTOR COvne
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Brown Divorce Suit.

Suit for absolute divorce was filed in
the district court yesterday by Lena o.
Brown against Oscar A. Brown. Brown
the defendant, is now serving a 5O-day
sentence in the city jail for beating his
wife. The plaintiff states that she was
married to the defendant in 1891, and
that they have four children. She fur
Their states that he has been guilty of
gross neglect and extreme cruelty. She
wants a division of property and the
custody of the children,
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Nearly Forfeits Hia Life

runaway almost ending fatally start
60 horrible ulcer on the leg Of n r
Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill For fon n
years 1t defied all doctors and All rero-
edies But Bucklen's Arnica saIva La5
no trouble to cure him. Equally good 1t f..
burns, bruises, skin eruptions and piles
2Sc at Arnold Drug Co., 821 North Kan
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New York Money Market.

New York, Feb 2O-MONEY-Money on
call nominal; no loans. Time money easy;
so and so days, $685. per cent; months,
444A per cent.
CLOSE: Prime. mercantile paper, $40
5A per cent; sterling exchange firm, with
"a S6K for demand and at 81. S3G4. 1914 for
60 day bills posted rates, 81. S31a@4.S4 and
81 S61k; commercial bills, $4.821zQJ4 S2%4.
lars, 43c.
RONDS-Governmen bonds strong
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St. Louis Livestock Market.

St. Louis, Mo, Feb 2o.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today, 800 head Market steady,
Beef steers, 50. sod5.S0; stockers and feed
erS, $2.20d4.00, COWS and heiferS, &. 25d4 %:
Texas steers, 81. 75d4.20; Texas cows and
heifers, e 10d3.I-
HOGS-Receipts today, 5000 head. Mar
ket 5d10c higher. Pigs and lights, 81 S56D
$50: packers, 81. 95q5.35; butchers and best
heavy. s5.00d5.50.
SHES P-Receipts today, 1000 head.
Market steady. Natives, $s.75d46O; lambs,
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Of the state board of railroad assessors
show that an increased tax has been
laid upon the taxpayers of Kansas, I'M
fairly distributed over the state, and
the assessment of the farmer, the mer
chant and the laborer raised; the assess
ment of the railroads reduced.
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Cotton Market

New York, Feb. 2O.-COTTON-Sales to-
Quotations per 100 pounds: Middling up
lands, $3.50; middling gulf. $1475.
Galveston, Tex, Feb. 20-COTTON-
Market firm at 131ac per pound.
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Kan.a. Citv proouo. nart..

Kansas City, Feb. 20.-CIose-WHEAT-
Receipts today. ss cars. Quotations.:
red, $106Q1.oT; No. 8 red. A.o3Q1. o5.
CORN-May, 477s64Sc; July, 7sxd477kc
Cash: No. mixed, 441zc; No. 2 white,
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Range of Prices on Stocks.

FURNISHED by ]. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephone
1856 Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co., Kansas City, MOI
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Sugar and Coffee Market.

New York, Feb 2O-SUGAR-Raw su-
gar firm. Fair refining, 1862 27-92c;
centrifugal, Sc test, u-32Q3ssc; mOlaSSeS
sugar 2 9-16c Refined sugar steady.
Crushed, -s5.15; powdered, $4.55; granu-
lated, SAB
nc
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Wool Market.

ST. Louis, No, Feb. 20.-WOOL-Market
nominal Territory and western mediums,
1S019c; fine medium, 15Q17c; fine, 15Q16c.
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ST. LOUIS FIRM GETS 1T.
Given Contract for Furniture in the
Kansas Building.

The Lammert Furniture company of
st. Louis gets the contract for furnish
ing the furniture for the Kansas build
ing at the ST. Louis worlds fair The
Kansas commission has just awarded
the contract.
The commission had expected that
the furniture would cost 5000 or
more, but they get it for less than ST.
900. and the best leather furniture at
that The ST. Louis firm offered to lay
it down in the Kansas building at
catalogued wholesale prices, which
other bidders would have to pay, with
out counting anything for profit or
cost of handling. The bids were opened
some time ago. but they were some
what complicated. and the commission
held them up to ascertain if the st.
Louis firm really meant to furnish the
furniture called for as cheap as ap-
peared in the bid.
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Open High Low Close Yes
Kansas City Grain.

Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephone
Stock Co., Kansas City, Mol
Kansas City, Feb. 20
Open High Low Close Yes
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FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock Co., Kansas City, Mol
Chicago, Feb, 20
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New York Butter Market.

New York, Feb. 20-BUTTER-Mark
firm State dairy, 14Q21c; fresh creamery,
15Q26c-
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Does it not appear to the taxpayers
that there is something radically wrong
in this manner Of equaliZing the taxable
property of the state by increasing the
tax in Miami county 29 per cent, that
of Smith 7.3 per cent and that of Neo-
sho county 1877 per cent, as compared
to that of Allen county Bis per cent,
Atchison 305 per cent, Cornanche 40.1
29.9 per cent, Edwards 695 per cent,
Ellis, Al per cent. Graham 45.1 per
cent, Haskell Ala per cent, HOdgeman
47.6 per cent, Lincoln 1913 per cent, Lyon
38 per cent, Mcpherson 3S.1 per cent,
Phillips 31.9 per cent, Morton 1913 per
cent, Ness 81 per cent, Pratt 53.4 per
cent, Rawlins 1873 per cent, Reno 1871 per
cent, Republic 35.2 per cent, Rocks 42.7
31.5 per cent, Saline 45.5 per cent, Scott
45.4 per cent Sedgwick 1873 per cent,
Sherman 31.1 per cent, Stafford 1874 per
cent, Sumner 264 per cent, Thomas 4S.2
per cent, Trego 37.9 per cent, and Wash
ington BIG per cent.
In the county of Nemaha, the home
of Governor Bailey, the state tax was
increased % per cent, an increase of
$8,S56. as against 2.9 per cent, or 1870,
in Miami county, the home of Treasurer
Kelly. The average value of land per
acre, as fixed by the state board, in
Nemaha county, is $9.05, while that of
Miami county is $631 per acre. In
Miami county the state board gave a
taxable property in said county and in
creased the assessment of Nemaha
county % per cent Any one familiar
with these two counties will say that
the average value of land in Miami
county is at least equal to that of Ne
maha county.
WHAT IS SHOWN.
These facts are not set forth for fac
tional or political purposes, but because
there has been a cry raised against the
increased taxation. This cry was raised
for a purpose. If it was to determine
what was right and to punish the re-
sponsible parties it was proper. But if
it was the cry stop, thief" raised by
the thief himself, in order to escape OBJ
servation and for time to start pur-
suit after somebody else, it should be
understood by the taxpayer. AS Lin
coin said: You may fool part of the
people all the time or all of the people
part of the time, but you can't fool all
the people all the time" The reports
of the state board of equalization and
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WALKAWAY FOR INDIANS.
z, n. @. A. Basketball Players No
Match for Them.

The Topeka 7. M. c. A. appears not
to be in the same class with the Has
kell basket ball players. The Indians
administered the second defeat of the
season in a game played last night in
the home gymnasium with a score of
AZ to 6. There was considera BILE coarse
work on both Sides Haskell making IA
fouls to Topeka's &C. All six of To-
peka's scores were made on free throws
from fouls The line-Iln WAS
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In Neosho county, the home of Audi
tor Wells, they reduced the average
value of land to s4.95 per acre, as
against $3.50 in 1902; in Allen county
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Died in BALTIMORE Fire.

Baltimore, Feb. 2O.-It was thought
that not a life was lost in the fire here,
but a charred body has been found in
the water at Bowler's wharf. The body
is so badly burned as to be unrecog-
nizable.
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sas avenue te. INDEPENDENT telephone 1851
Liverpool closing cables: Wheat sd
higher; corn Esd higher.
Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, IS
cars; graded. L. Corn, 2SS cars; graded, O..
Oats, 1877 cars; graded. s.
Northwest grain receipts today: Mime
apolis, 30 cars; Duluth, &c cars. A week
ago: Minneapolis, 367 cars; Duluth, ITO
cars A year ago: Minneapolis, III cars;
Duluth, 80 cars.
Chicago: Privileges, for Tuesday: July
wheat-Puts, SIC; calls, CSC; curb, 9514c.
July corn-Puts, 54Ac; calls, Sc; curb,
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Fouls-Y NJ. c. A, &c; Haskell, IA
Goals from fouls-Y. NJ. c. A, 6; Has
O; Haskell, 16. Officials-Augustus and
Shields.
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Passengers from Brazil,
New York. Feb. 20.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived today on the
steamer Byron from Brazil were: Bish-
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Market Gossip

FURNISHED by the H. H. Lee Commission
Company, Commission Merchants and
receivers and shippers of grain. 623 Kan
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op Kinsolving of Brazil and Henrique
Schuber, Brazilian commissioner to the
St. Louis exposition.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-08-13
WESTERN CANADA
Three Divisions Affording Great Chances for
Observation-Disclosures Wheat-Growing
and Mixed Farming.

The old Romans used to say that
Gaul was divided into three parts;
so is the Canadian North West. Gaul's
divisions were political: those OF the
Western Canada prairies are created
by the unerring hand OF nature.
The First Division.
Chiefly because OF the elevation OF
the country. the absence OF large
lakes and rivers. and the operations
OF the Chinook" or Pacific ocean
winds. which readily cross the Rocky
mountains in Southern Alberta
through gaps and passes. the south
western portion OF the Canadian prov
inces is regarded as somewhat arid,
and less fertile than other portions OF
the country.
Although this has been a prevailing
idea In the past, It has been left for
American settlers. who have invaded
this district within the past two or
three years. to prove that splendid