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- Washington, March l. 19f:
L. IltDS. p. DRAKE. Superintendent
OF insurance OF the District OF Column
pa, 90 hereby certify that the MASSA-
tHJSEITS MUTUAL LIFE INSTR
ANCE CO. located at Springfield In tho
state OF Massachusetts has c0ruuIied la
an respects with the laws Of the district
or Columbia applicable 10 it, and Is
OF columbia Its appropriate business Of
making insurance on the lives OF or
against accident 20 persons and in
SurauCe connected Herewith Its CON
oluOn and business on the 31St dav of
december Of the year next preceding
Lhe date hereof is shown by the state
Meni, under oath, as required by section
% OF the amended Code Of Law of the
district Of Columbia. 10 be as follows.
Aksiegate admitted assets. $50, Jll I26 90
Aggregate amount Of Habili-
Ties except cdpitaD. In
Guiding reinsUFs nee. and
special accumulations. 30ss1.1 o.
General surplus on policy
holders account........... 262s. 9s4 81
CapIlal Observation-Disclosures None
amount OF insurance iu force 1853 66S. 4JG %
Amount OF losses sustained ITs5 g2S 50
year ....,....................... 1854. 215 81
Amount Of expenditures Tor
the year. .................. 4.S32,I95 &c
In witness whereof / have hereunto
6uDscTlDed my name and caused my Of
hclal seal 10 De affixed the day and year
ITst above written.
(Scal) THOE + DRAKE
superintendent Of Insurance District
Of Columbia
Washington Agency. 1905 New York
Avenue northwest. CHAS T. NESRIT
and JOHN b. SLEMAN. Jr. Managers
Tor the District Of COLUMBIA IT
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Strength Of Ne7U York 7>uczouS
Feature Of Ioaqy S Stock Marker
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

REPORTED by ". B. HibDs & Co., 1HG /
Street. Members New York stock Exchange |
Chicago Board Of Trade, ami Washington stock |
EXChaUre.1
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NEW YORK.

Up to this point. critical observers
aver. the bull crowd has been operat-
ing chiefly on technical conditions. such
as the scarcity OF stocks. the floating
or speculative supply of securities hay
ing got very low. and the existence Of
vulnerable short account Tt would
seem now 20 be a question. they say.
whether the movement can be carried
further without an increase of outside
interest. and. if not, whether the re
Quired outside interest can be dcvcI-
Cped. Commission business yesterday
was very light.
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II this proves to he merely the nor
mai reaction which I believe it to be-"
said trader. whose views are fairly
! representative. Il shall conclude that
nc are likely to have a rising market
until after the Republican convention.
While that hurrah is on il viii be easy
10 create the impression here that
Roosevelt is as good as elected which
ought TO bc sufficient for bulge of 2
or per cent I'm the market. If stocks
have "A sharp rise on the results Of the
Republican convention they will bc
sale for after the Republican enthusi-
asm has abated a little the Democrats
Will get the stage. and then those bulls
who did the Roosevelt shouting will
begin 10 tell us. significantly. that after
all there IS nothing 50 uncertain as
politics. etc, and those of us who are
long VIII be scared out of our stocks
1t would seem TO me to be entirely
feasible for the bull crowd 10 work this
market up 10 the Republican convention
and sell out on the nomination in the
manner 1 have described
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CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

Market opened weak. l to Il points
Ower. Noon steady.
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The board of directors of the MerEsn-
thaler Linotype Company today declared
"a regular quarterly dividend Of 2ia per
cent.
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prices were quoted on the grain market
today:
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MISCELLANEOUS BONDS

Wash Gas Co, scr. A, &c l902-25. los %.
Wash Gas Co., ser. b, 6's l9O4-2I. lJ5 %.
Washington Gas CerL......... ll6k lis
L. :. Flee Light Deb. Imp 1902. lJj %.
4. :. Elec. Light, Cert. Indebt.... 1913
Ches. & Pot. Tel. Co. 5s......... l0IH lC6
Wash Market Co.. lst 6's. 1892. 100 o..
Masonic Hall Assn 5's c.. Ie) .
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Railroad earnings for the first week in
June encourage the belief that traffic
receipts from the various roads through
out the country will show better results
in the rest of the year rs compared with
the last few months. Returns received
yesterday for thirteen roads showed for
eight roads total gain in gross earn
ngs of over $4,000. and for five roads
a decrease Of $l3l, 600. So far this month
thirty-fOur roads have reported for the
first week I'm June. the increase being
81 per cent. compared with the CORE
spending week "a year ago.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK. June 1.-THE following /
prices were quoted on the exchange to- /
Eay-
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
OF the
DISTRICT or COLUMBIA
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
Of the
RIGGS NATIONAL BANK
Of Washington. ID. G.
At the close Of business June Q 1901
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National Safe Deposi: & Trust. IA; go.
Washington Loal s. Trust 2J91 2l2T
American Security & Trust-......- 49, 80.
wash. safe Deposit. 80 80.
rn,cu Trust & Storage .........-.. l07 100
Warrington Savings Bank...--.-.. los ITO
Home Savings Bank........-...-.- l33 80.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.
RAILROAD BONDS.

Capital Traction r. r. Fs-..---.- ly0 lUS
Net. St. r. X. 5's, l955-------.--- - "a
Met r. r. Cert. Indebtedness A.. III us
Net. r. r. Cert indebtedness B. lJl 10
Columbia r. r. 6's, l9l4.......... lQl 100
Columbia r. r. I'd mort. ST.. Ilt Nv
CITY & Suburban 5's............... 1888 lO6H
Anacostia & Potomac 5s....-..-.. -
Wash. Street Railway 4s...-..... 20 80.
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LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in.........
Surplus fund. MISREPRESENTATION.
I ndiyided profits. less ex-
peuses and taxes paid.
National bank notes out
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RAILROAD STOCKS.
NATIONAL BANK sTC

LAplLal ATdCl4Ci- .s---s.--.-.-- 1917 ia
Washington Street Railway pi..... SIX 8,
" Washington Street Railway CON- - II
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-13
Barely Escaped Collision.

The bark Olympic, arriving yesterday,
nineteen days from Kaanapali, Maui,
with nine passengers and a cargo of
$4,000 bags of sugar, narrowly escaped
collision with the piIot-boat Pathfinder,
lying at anchor Off Meiggs wharf The
olympic was following the barkentine
Coronado, just in from Honolulu, after
a trip of twenty-three days, with pas
sengers and a cargo Of %, 4O5 bags of
sugar, and when the Coronado came to
an anchorage sheered off to pass her.
The Pathfinder lay directly in her path
but by skillful maneuvering the OIym-
PIC avoided collision and the probable
destruction of the small boat.-Chroni-
Gle, June 3.
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New Mall Docks.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-The
Harbor Commission did not meet yes
terday as was expected and will defer
action on the adoption of the plans
for the new Pacific Mail docks until
next Wednesday. The docks will cost
100000 each instead of $3.50, 900 as
was originally estimated and will be
the finest structure of the kind in
this country Passengers viii land
from the big liners on the upper deck
OF the new wharves. all the lower deck
being reserved for freight Other new
features will be provided.
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TO RE.ESTARLlSH
JAP STEAMER LINE

NJ. Shiraishi, managing director of
the Togo Kisen Kaisha line of steam
ships, which were recently withdrawn
from service between this port and
night on the steamship Empress Of
Japan and is due here Friday, says
the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4.
He Will remain here several days and
will then proceed to the East, where he
is to confer with President E. H. Har-
riman of the Pacific Mail line and
others relative to the Enlistment
of a service to the japanese ports.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-13
FRUlTLESS TRIP
OF CRUISER TACOMA

The San Francisco Chronicle of June
says: The cruiser Tacoma, Capt. R
f. Nicholson, from Honolulu May 18th
| arrived here yesterday, having spent
four days, May oath to 18th, cruising
in search of doubtful islands hereto
fore reported in the neighborhood OF
IL degrees north latitude and 1876 de-
grees west longitude. The Tacoma
found no islands or shoal water and
saw no signs of land.
James D. Hague of New York, who
by authority of the Secretary of the
Navy, accompanied the Tacoma for
the purpose of participating in the
search, says that this result is abso-
lutely conclusive so far as it concerns
the ocean area actually seen from the
track line of the Tacoma. The area
thus examined is about one-third of
the questionable region where islands
have been occasionally reported, and
may, possibly, yet be found. The search
Of the Tacoma was restricted to four
days by her limited coal supply. AS
she carried nc appliances for deep sea
sounding. her exploration was wholly
superficial.
These results afford no hoped for
light on the loss of the United States
steamer Levant, which disappeared
mysteriously in 1860 on her voyage
from Hawaii to Panama, and which
is now believed to have been wrecked
On rocks somewhere in her sailing
track. This belief is founded upon
almost unquestionable evidence, in
dictated by the finding of wreckage
of the Levant on the south end Of
Hawaii about nine months after her
departure from HiIo.
Mr.. Hague has recently obtained
some further data concerning this
wreckage and it's significant relations
to the question of the Levant's fate.
He is more than ever confident that
the vessel did not founder in mid
ocean, but was wrecked on some reef
or perhaps island, where possibly
there might have been. and in such
event still may be, survivors. The
search of the Tacoma was undertaken
in hope of finding such an island, if
there be one. In this respect the re-
suit is disappointing. In other re
spects the result of the cruise is bene-
fetal, since it tends to the ultimate
removal from the charts of an exist
ing menace to navigation
The cruise of the Tacoma in search
of the mysterious island or shoal was
the direct result of a report made by
Captain Lawless of the steamer Aus
tralia two years ago. He claimed to
have seen discolored water, indicat-
ing a shoal, in latitude Is degrees SIS
minutes north, longitude 1876 degrees,
10 minutes west.
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Made q Fast Trip.

Another of the Turner-built vessels
famous in the Pacific for smart pas
sages. has made a fine trip. The bark
entfne Geneva only eleven days from
Mahukona, Hawaii, was reported as
passing the Farallones yesterday after
noon. with good prospects of reaching
the harbor before night. The Geneva.
like the brig GaliIee. now en- route
from Washington island. and with
many a good run to her credit. is a
product of the Benicia shipyard.
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TIDES. SUN AND NOON.

New moon June 18th at 1888 a. m.
Times Of the tide are taken from the
United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey tables.
The tides Kahulu and HiIo occur
about one hour earlier than at Homo
lulu.
Hawaiian standard time is 10 hours
so minutes slower than Greenwich
time, being that of the meridian of 157
degrees thirty minutes. The time
whistle lows at 1870 D. m. which IL
the same as Greenwich. 0 hours o min
utes. Sun and moon are for local time
for the whole group.
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LikeIlke Returns.

Wilder's steamer Likelike arrived
yesterday afternoon at 4:45 from Ka-
waihae with Alfred W. Carter and A.
A. Wilder as passengers. The steamer
departed on Saturday for the big island
Tor the purpose of bringing back MI
Garter, who is TO appear in the Circuit
Court this morning on the Parker
Ranch controversy.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Eaw. Electric G. -.
81. r. T. 81 L. Co.. Pd
Fl. +. r. & L. Co., G
Mutual J Ell. co..
o. &. & L. Co.
Hilo B. &. co..
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
WEATHER BUREAU.
Honolulu, Alexander ST.,

Honolulu, Alexander ST.,
June II, 10 p. m.
Mean Temperature-76.3
Minimum Temperature-73.
Maximum temperatures
Barometer at 9 p. m.-30.03; rising.
Rainfall, "a hours up to 9 a. MO-.
Mean Absolute Moisture-6.2 grs. per
cub. #.
Mean Relative Hnmidity-64.
Winds-N. E.; force, o to q
Weather-Clear.
Forecast for June 13-Light trades,
fair weather.
r. G. LYDECKER,
Territorial Meteorological.
ARRIVED.
Sunday, June II.
Stnr. LikeliI1e, Napala, from Hawai-
haze, 4:45 p. m.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
Per stmr. Likelike from Kawaihae,
June IA. w. Carter, A. A. Wilder,
Representative Purdy.
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METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.

NE-NNE. - SWINE.
Barometer corrected to 80 y. and sea
level, and for standard gravity of Lat
IS. This correction is-Og for Honolulu.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-08-26

the protective tariff which has built up
our cigar industry to its present enor-
nous proportions. AS we all know,
smoking is an acquired taste, and once
the Philippine cigars here, at the very
low prices they can be produced, the
consumption will increase enormously
and the use of our domestic leaf decrease
correspondingly. We cannot grow to-
bacco in competition with coolie labor.
We cannot manufacture cigars in COM
petition with coolie labor. Should our
industry be crippled? Should we let an
industry which employs such vast num-
bers in the growing of cigar leaf tobacco
and the manufacture of cigars, be de-
stroyed? Should countless citizens be
deprived of occupation and the means Of
making living? Should land adapted
for tobacco raising in our country and
the improvements thereon suffer de-
crease in value? These would be the
ultimate results of free introduction of
tobacco and cigars from the Philippines.
AS regard the situation, this Philippine
question is the most important matter
as far as our trade is concerned, that we
have ever been confronted with; and if
free trade, or material reduction be
granted, it will have the most disastrous
consequences"
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the limit that they were accustomed to
pay for the most perfect leaf, only five
short years ago. Conditions in the cigar
leaf situation have changed so radically
as to still have stunning effect on those
who do not fully realize their scope.
While the output of our cigar industry
has nearly doubled since 1898, reaching
the figure of seven billions and half,
the supply of cigar leaf, particularly in
the domestic line, has not and could not,
keep pace with the strides of our cigar
industry. A shortage of leaf was the
ing from year to year. Besides, the ele-
ments have disastrously interfered with
the growth of the leaf'which naturally
resulted in an inferior product and high
er prices for the same. Thus it was with
last years crop and thus it is again, to
some extent, with this years crop. No
mood buyers may be, they have to take
what the market offers and take it at the
advanced price corresponding to the Pc
culiar condition of the market. Over
five thousand cases of all kinds of leaf
were. therefore, contracted for during
the week, and more would have prob
ably been sold il the right stuff could be
got like the Connecticut broad leaf. The
pinching scarcity of domestic wrapper
leaf naturally drives the buyers to the
Sumatra, which is experiencing boom
all of it's own.
Not in the past dozen years has the
Sumatra found such favor with the
Western jobber as during his present
stay in the market and the Sumatra
season promises therefore, to be an ex-
traordinary one.-Journal:
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Baldwinsville, N. Y.

, E. Van Benthuysen of Amber, n Y. is
still buying He has purchased about
200 cases which he is receiving at the
new crop is looking especially fine and
few more weeks of favorable weather
will enable the growers to harvest the
best crop grown for years. Many of the
growers are now topping 1t is the opin-
ion of we'll posted tobacco men that as
rule growers do not top low enough. 1t
is claimed that if the plants are topped
low that the weight lost in the small
leaves taken off is more than made up in
the large leaves, and the market value of
the crop as whole is increased. A few
crops are being cut, but most of the
crops are not yet ripe enough for cut
ting.-GaZevte.
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WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EpGERroN, WIS. August 26, 19O4

EDGERToN, WIS.,. August rs, 1904.
One of the greatest guessing contests
OF the season is being conducted in the
Crawford and Vernon tobacco sections
where more than half hundred buyers
are riding about the country and guess
ing that the tobacco they see growing in
the fields will escape wind, hail, rust and
frost; reach maturity and be harvested
with care; will cure in the sheds without
shed burn, pole rot or other blemish; be
removed from the curing barns and
stripped in suitable case, and be worth
from to II cents pound some time
after the new year opens.
This characterizes the movement of
contracting for the new crop in the
fields that has been under way for the
past two weeks, during which fully a
thousand acres of standing tobacco has
been bought-or rather options taken
upon-for. of course, everything hinges
upon the ability of the growers to deliver
sound tobacco, in good packing condi-
ton, nearly six months hence. The
indications are that the rush will con-
tinue until most of the early valley crops
have been taken over.
Heavy storms have swept the greater
portion of the tobacco growing sections
of the state during the week, which of
course has done some damage to the
growing crop, by wind beating and
sprinklipgs of hail. but they have put an
end to the drouth and put the soil in ex-
cellent shape to mature the later fields,
which with warm weather promise we'll.
The harvest is now we'll under way in all
sections, probably from 10 to Is per cent.
of the crop is already secured. Nothing
in old leaf has developed during the
week worthy of notice except the usual
small business.
The shipments out of storage amount
to six car loads, 300 cases, from this
market to all points since last report.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-08-26
EVANSVILLE, WIS.,, Aug. "a, 1904.

For this season of the year the usual
amount of business was transacted here
during the week. AS the outcome of
the great storm that passed over this re-
region Sunday it caused the damper to
be turned foy a few days in order to de-
termine what effect had been caused,
and as the reports now show there is a
possibility that it will not be turned
back for some time Many fields in the
northern part of this section suffered
most severely from hail and wind, some
of them giving the appearance of being
dragged by comb, while others look as
if steam roller had passed over them.
Before the crop of 1904 is sent to the
shed, as matters look now, there will be
some great scurrying around for leaf
that is now piled high and dry in the va
rious warehouses of the city.
The shipments from here of late were
those made by Fisher & Fisher of 76cs
of 1901, car of 1902 by S. B. Heddles,
and 143cs of 1900-02 by Geo. Rumrill.
Geo. McGiffin of Edgerton sampled
here for the Fishers during the week.
Quite number of the dealers are now
looking over the packings of the past
winter and most favorable reports are
made so far.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-08-26
Lancaster.

LANCASTER New ERA, Aug. 18, 1904.
The most damaging hail storm that
has visited Lancaster county during the
past two decades came along about dark
on Wednesday evening, August II. Be-
ginning towards the western end of the
county it swept through the county at
it's widest part, say nearly twenty five
miles, taking in ten or more townships,
through which is cut a swath perhaps
five miles wide. The townships visited
are among the best tobacco growing Sec
tions of the country. AS is generally the
case, not all the fields along this path
were injured, the hail storm having here
aud there skipped fields. But where the
icy shower fell the damage in many
cases seems to have been total. In per-
haps majority of cases the fields will
be harvested, but good deal is unfit for
any purpose. have seen leaves perfor-
ated in score of places.
At the present time an estimate of the
loss incurred would be mere guess work.
At such times there is always much ex-
aggeration. Some put the figures at
Sl50,000 and even more. In my own
Judgment it will not be less than $50, 900
and will not exceed $4,000
Our local leaf market experienced
rather an unexpected change during the
past week, considerable animation hav-
ing developed. There was a call for 1903
goods and about 1900 cases changed
hands, the greater part being of last
years crop Whether this is part of
the boom which the U. S. Tobacco Jour
nal predicted in a recent editorial review
of the market we do not know, but it
certainly is an emphatic move in that
direction.
All the Havana seed having been
housed two weeks ago, the seedleaf is
now going through the same experience.
Nearly all the crop has been topped
and is now on the homestretch. The
ground in most localities is wet enough
to mature all but the iaggard crops, even
though no further rains should come
meanwhile.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-08-26
VTRooUA. WIs.. Aug. Is. 1904,

For an hour Monday morning good
portion OF Vernon county was visited by
a hard rain, accompanied by hail and
wind. The damage to growing crops is
not SO great as first predicted, although
the tobacco crop of some farmers is
wiped out and corn injured in light
way. It was peculiar storm, travelled
in streaks, brought destruction on one
farm and skipped the next Northeast
of Viroqua, east, and some in the west,
there is damage, what per cent Ce the
tobacco crop, we cannot estimate. Stories
we find to be exaggerated.
Farmers have commenced to shed their
tobacco in small way, but next week
the work will commence in earnest.
Buyers are doing good deal of riding in
the growing districts and many pur-
chases have been made, prices ranging
from to u cents.-Censor.