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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
SMALLPOX DEVELOPS,
First Case Within District in Six
Weeks Proves Fatal,

For the first time In six weeks case of
smallpox has been recorded at the District
health office, and as the victim was an en-
ploye of the navy yard, it is feared that
spread Of the disease is likely to occur
there. The victim was Joseph Jones' thir-
ty-four years old. He was out walking
Sunday, and, according to his relatives
was apparently we'll, but Monday morning
he became Ill, developing fever; his con-
dition became worse, and he died that
night.
A physician had been summoned to at
tend him in the afternoon, but according to
the health officials the man was beyond
medical aid then, as he had developed
hemorrhage smallpox, which is looked
upon as the most serious form of the
malady. He will be buried from his home,
BOT street northeast, tomorrow
The physicians of the health Office were
not apprised of the ms death until late
yesterday afternoon, and it was not until
after they had exami.- ID the body that they
found he had been suffering from hemor-
rhagic smallpox. The physician who at
tended him said he suspected that Jones
had been suffering from smallpox as soon
as he examined him.
The health officials have put the B street
house under strict quarantine. Those who
will be temporary prisoners are the widow
Of the dead man, his two small children
and three men who are employed at the
navy yard. These persons had all come in
contact with Jones up to the day he died.
They were examined by the officials, but
were not found to have been infected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
TO HELP THE MARKET
SECRETARY SHAW ANNOUNCES
PLAN OF RELIEF.

Secretary Shaw has made the following
announcement: ''I have received in the
last ten days an unusually large number or
letters from business men representing all
sections of the country, complaining OF the
extraordinarily high rates Of interest l
have conferred. during the same period. by
letter or personally. with large number
of bankers scattered through the south ana
middle west, as well as in the east. l have
today conferred with the committee OF the
American Bankers Association, now In ses-
sion in the city. These gentlemen represent
Chicago, st. Louis, New Orleans. Atlanta,
Pittsburg, Indianapolis. Des Moines and
other cities. From the best Information l
can get think the following describes the
situation fairly we'll: vrs-,
Cause Of Money stringency.
"Our blessings are the real cause Of the
actual stringency in money. recognized
everywhere. An unusually large crop and
unexampled industrial activity have Gre
ated an unprecedented demand for money.
The world Is everywhere prosperous and
money is in great demand throughout Eu-
ro.,e as well as in the United States. We
never had such a volume Of credits and
they are based on an unequaled volume of
assets. The manufacturers of cotton are
buying that staple by the trainload. The
cotton planter, unlike the western farmer,
demands actual cash. and he carries It
paid In checks, which he deposits in the
bank to his credit, and therefore does not
absorb actual money, as does the cotton
planter. This money should be returned
to the banks when the planter settles with
his merchant soon after the 1st of Janu-
airy. but between now and then the cotton
consuming country, as well as the cotton
producing country, Is short of money.
New England has sent millions to the
south, and the manufacturers Of cotton
throughout the south have exhausted the
capacity of local banks and are trying to
borrow elsewhere. There Is no occasion
for alarm. but believe there Is occasion
for relief.
Plan Of Relief. r0
''This have decided to grant in the fol-
lowing manner: I win deposit 10,O0O, 900
in existing depositaries In the cities desig-
mated below. to be secured by bonds accept
able for savings bank investments under
the laws Of New York and Massachusetts,,
taken at 80 per cent of their value; these
deposits to be returned, one-half on the
10th Of January. and the remainder on the
LIST Of February.
II will also buy SIC, 600 600 of, the bonds
OF 1907 at the following prices: Registered
bonds ex. interest at 1O1, and coupon bonds
at 1O2. In the event that the bonds pur-
chased are now held as security for gov
eminent deposits, security of the charac-
ter above indicated will be accepted in lieu
thereof. Not more than 100000 worth,
however, will be purchased from any sim
gle institution under these conditions
New York and New Orleans, 81 SOC, 600 each;
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago
and st. Louis, 100000 each: Cincinnati
Louisville, Atlanta and Memphis, 100000"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
IMPROVED PLUMBING.
Steps Taken for Safety Of Third Pre-.
cinct Police.

The bid of William isothweu & Son, con-
tractors. to do the plumbing work at the
third precinct police station, 21st and K
streets northwest, has been recommended
by Engineer Commissioner Biddle for &C.
ceptance, as this firm was the lowest re-
sponsible bidder for the work, their price
being 8, 400.
There will be little delay in carrying out
this work as the insanitary condition of
this station house was made known to the
Commissioners several weeks ago, when
Chemist Lynch of the District health Of
fee reported upon various police and fire
stations of the District. In describing the
conditions Of this station DR.. Lynch said it
was the worst station in the city as far as
sanitation is concerned and that the con-
ditions existing there invited the spread Of
tuberculosis.
DR.. Lynch reported that already germs OF
this disease exist at the third precinct and
that in the past fifteen years nine police
men who have used the dormitories have
died from tubercular trouble, and he recon-
mended that all the policemen detailed at
that station at present undergo thorough
examination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
DEPARTMENTAL SUPPLIES.
Keep Commission Recommends q Cen
trail Purchasing Board.

The committee on department methods, Of
which Assistant Secretary Keep is chair
man. has made an important report to the
President on the purchase Of department
supplies.
The report points out that each depart
ment publishes its own advertisement for
supplies, receives Its own bids and makes
Its own recommendations to the board of
awards. There Is no cooperation among
the departments and the result Is that one
department pays one price for its purchases
and another pays something else.
The commission says the remedy for this
is an obvious one. 1t submits recommends
tons from the subcommittee that had the
subject in charge and indorses the changes
that are proposed. except for a few modifi-
cations.
The following are the concluding recon-
mendaitnos:
First. That the attention Of Congress be
called to this subject. in order that the
necessary legislation may be obtained.
Second. That after such legislation shall
be obtained the concentrated purchase sys-
tenn be nut In operation by executive or
der.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
NEW YORK COTTON.
The London Market.

NEW YORK. December 1.-THE cotton
market opened steady. at unchanged prices
to a decline of points under scattering
liquidation. Gables made a fairly steady
showing, and the spot sales in the English
market were heavy. but New Orleans was
shade easier and the market here gradu-
ally worked off under liquidation with
prices during the middle of the morning
about 8 to points net lower. Trading
was quiet, with the trade awaiting the
government estimate of the crop this after
noon.
Closing: Cotton-Spot in fair demand
prices 8 points higher: American middling,
fair. 672; good middling. 6.1S; middling,
6.04; low middling, $50; good ordinary,
5.46: ordinary. 5.22. The sales of the day
were 1900 bales. of which 1000 were for
speculation and export. and included H.
6U0 American. Receipts. $1,000 bales, In
Guiding 35,S00 American. Futures opened
steady and closed steady; American mid
ding g. o. c.. December. SO; December
and January, 5.64; January and February,
5.61; February. $50: February and March,
SCI; March and April, SCI; April and May,
5.63; May and June, 564: June and July,
5.Oo; July and August, 5.67; August and
September. $780, September and OCTOBER,
$50; October and November. 5.42.
Today's Cotton Summary.
-A1I ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

The announcement made in New York
from the headquarters of the Mergenthaler
Company that in addition to the regular
dividend of $3.50 per share that would be
paid at the first of the year, the extra
dividend would be IS per share. On the
local exchange this stock will sell ex-divi-
dend, Friday next, and at the meeting to-
day the bid and asking price was made
with a full knowledge of these facts.
There was not much change made in Tia
quotations in consequence Of the amount of
compared with 20SA of yesterday, while the
asking price was 200, a quarter Of point
less than the figure Of yesterday. There
were no transactions
The bid for Greene Copper today was on
the same level as the asking price Of yes
terday, namely, 27h This advance In the
figures for this stock was in harmony with
its course on the New York curb market,
where today even higher prices were paid.
The president of the company. Col w.
c. Greene, Is reported to have said in the
course of an interview in New York yes
terday that something in the nature of an
increase in the capital stock OF the COM
pany by an issue of $2.5O0.OOO has been
talked of. but the matter has not been for
maily acted upon by the directors. inc
latter, he said. would not meet to consider
the proposed increase until after New
Year.
There was not much interest manifested
in the opportunities to trade at the meet
ing today of the stock exchange and the
consequence was very little was done, ana
the figures were put in with but slight
change from those that have been quoted
for several days past
1.-THE present trouble with mining stocks
seems to be that too much money taken
from the investors goes into the promoters
pockets, and far too little into the actual
dpvplnnmPnt
in Moodys Magazine. 1.-The prevailing GUS
tom Is to capitalize a group of claims at
from 100000 to $5,OO0,00O, place 25 per
cent to 40 per cent in the treasury and dis
tribute from 60 per cent to IS per cent
among the promoters, who at once set
about to dispose of their own stock, even
at cost of rs per cent or more for ad-
vertising and commissions.
'The public invests millions Of dollars
in this stock, not one dollar of which goes
into the development of the property. The
project proves a failure notwithstanding
every natural advantage favored 1t"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Sherwood is Elected.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. December 11.-Gen.
Isaac r. Sherwood. democratic candidate
for Congress from the ninth district. win
get the certificate Of election. The su-
preme court SO decided today. The court
sustained the demurrer Of Gen. Sherwood
to the mandamus petition of Elmer G. Nc
Clellan, the republican candidate. to COM
pei the state canvassing board to take no.
cast for Sherwood was upon an independ-
emit ticket. he contending the Dana law
was not properly repealed in the last gem
eral assembly. The court refuses to do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Closing Quotations

Closing Quotations
It the close of the stock market the fol.
lowing stocks had changed in price sincs
above quotations. there being no change In
balance Of the closing prices:
American Ice Securities, 81.
American Sugar. 1904.
Anaconda, 292.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, 1O5
Baltimore and Ohio, 1881
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, S1N.
Canadian Pacific, 1877.
Chicago, Mil. & st. Paul. 1884,
Colorado Fuel and Iron, 57T.
Erie LIST pfd., 75%.
General Electric, 1852.
Great Nor. pfd-, go
Sho. cts, S3A.
Kansas City Southern. pfd, SIS.
Louisville & Nashville, 1851.
Mexican Central. 26H.
M, X. & T., common, AN.
Missouri Pacific, SAN.
National Lead. 75S.
New York Central. 134A.
Northern Pacific, 222h.
Pacific Mail Steamship. AN.
Peoples Gas of Chicago, "a.
Reading, 1905.
Rock Island, common, 31%-
Rock Island, preferred, 81.
Southern Pacific. 95.
Southern Railway, 34;s.
Texas Pacific, S7as-
Union Pacific. 1854.
u. s. Ruber. 53M.
yr-s--s o>-A-- 6fNAl k1A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Grain and Provisions Summary.
THE BALTIMORE MARKETS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special D1sparcn 10 Tue Star. -
Easier; spot. contract. 75a75H: spot, No: red
western 7sa7sA; December, 75a75A; Ja aaI
receipts 17.743 bushels; southern on grade 6sa16
CORN-Easier: spot. old. 51Aa51%; new, 49Aa
uary 4sa4sIs; February 4sa4sh; steamer mixed.
At: receipts. .304 bushels; new southern white
corn 471ia491a; new southern yellow corn, 47a49k.
OATS-Steady; No. white 401aa41; No. 8
white. 391aa4O: No. mixed, 80 sales; receipts,
IS 2S6 bushels.
RYE-Firm; No. 2 western, domestic 76a77; re-
ceipts 1872 bushels.
HAY-Steady, unchanged.
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Quiet. unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call, IL O'Clock noon-washington
Rwy. and Elec. As, $500 at S6ss, $500 at SGh
Washington Rwy and Elec CONF so at 43, so
at 43.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd. 10 at S7A.
Bristol Gas and Elec.. Is at 40, % at 40.
Mitchell Mining, GO at 81.
National Union Insurance, at Z.
Columbia Title Insurance, 5 at f.
After call-Washington Rwy and Elec. pfd., 10
at 81, 8 at 81.
Capital Traction, 30 at 143.
Mitchell Mining, so at 5ss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11

An Irish trademark, applicable to every
article manufactured or produced in Ire
land has been registered, and Ireland thus
becomes the first country to have ma
tional trademark as a protection against
fraud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
The World Of
Finance and Trade

Va.-Car. Chem. CON-, 1914.
Western Union, 81.
Wisconsin Central. pfd., 50.
United States Steel 5s, OTIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co.. bankers
and brokers' 1919 F street. members New
York stock exchange, Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board OF trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Todav,s Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption were 31.302; government re-
ceipts from internal revenue. 1904 .210; Gus
TOMS $SO5.Os7: miscellaneous. $40,352; ex-
penditures, 81 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
CURB QUOTATIONS.

Furnished by e. r. Chapman & Co. &c. B. Chip
man, manager), members New York stock exchange,
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PHILADELPHIA Stock Exchange.

Furnished by Dick Bros. & Co.. 1912 II st. o.w.
Phones Main 6440-6441.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-11
Today's Cotton Summary.
Furnished by Dick Bros. & Co.. 1912 st NV.
Main
NEW YORK COTTON.

NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-28

2 Judge Frank b. Smith, Of the fourth
r circuit has given stiff sentence 70 a.
\ saloonkeeper who was found guilty of
: selling liquor on Sunday. Anton
S Mosher, of Presho, in Lyman county,
! was charged with selling two bottles of
, beer and bottle of whiskey on Sunday.
Judge Smith fined him the sum of 800
! and revoked his license, which will
: prohibit Mosher from again engaging
in the saloon business anywhere in
South Dakota.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Friday night TO rob the vault in the
county treasurers Office ia Rapid City.
Burglars forced the conrt house door
with crowbar and entered the office
through transom. hole one by two
feet was made through the brick wall
of the vault, but the steel lining baffied
tn eburglars. They left their tools.
which were traced to the railroad yards.
Mo arrests have yet been made. The
work was apparently that of unskilled
thieves,
The circuit court of Beadle county,
Judge Whiting presiding, devoted last
week In hearing the case against II L.
Hubbard, charged with killing g. w
Cakebread on the Winter ranch west Of
Huron two years ago. Hubbard was
tried soon after the tragedy, convicted
OF manslaughter and sentenced to the
penitentiary for fifteen years. new
trial was granted by the supreme court
and resulted in Hubbard's acquittal.
After the first trial ne served about
fifteen months in the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls.
The government omnibus bill carries
appropriations amounting to 1927, 900
for South Dakota: An additional
appropriation of $1,000 is made for the
Deadwood public building previously
authorized. The limit of cost of the
Yankton building is increased by 81 800
to permit of needed improvements.
New buildings are provided for Lead,
and WATERFOWL, $4,000 being
provided in each case. Salaries of
postmasters in South Dakota have been
ordered increased 500. the new rate
after July 1st to be as follows: Aber-
deem, $500; Canton 81 1900; Castle
wood, $1,000; Chamberlain, e1.7o0;
Fairfax, $1,000; Fort Pierre, 1920;
Hartford. 81 100; Huron. e2.400; Sioux
Falls. %, 200; sturgis, u 600; Wagner.
q, 100; WATERFOWL, c2,6Oo. The salary
Of the postmaster at Pierre has bsen
ordered reduced from u, 400 to ta,ao0.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-28

Peter Becker, OF Elktou, stole hi
neigirbors Jersey COW and concealed it il
his bedroom. The COW bawled all nigh
inspite of his efforts so quiet her By
/ tying carpet over her head Passers
by heard her and an Investigation fol
lowed 1t was found that Becker is
kieptomatic, his home being filed with
stolen goods.
Dakota end of the 81 81 d." division
has been mo~ed from Sanford, Iowa, tc
Mitchell, South Dakota, thus making
Mitchell the base from which the Black
Hills extension of the Milwaukee will
be operated. This gives Mitchell added
prestige and Importance as railroad
center.
The indicati ons now appear 20 be
good for the sinking of deep well &C
Pierre before the close of the year to
settle the question of what lies below
the artesion water. 1t has been
believed ever since the discovery of gas
in the artesian flow here that either
dry gas or oil could be secured if
greater depth was reached, but on
account of the expense nothing has been
done in that direction.
OF the South Dakota delegation in
congress, Senator Gamble and Kilt.
redge end Representative Martin will
leave Immediately after adjournment.
Representative Burke will remain in
the east until July IT, On that date
his family sails for Europe to be gone
several months. He will be in the east
a good part Of the summer in connec-
ton with his duties as chairman of the
congressional campaign committee.
N. l. Lowthiar, who was elected
department commander of the G. A. r.
st Yankton encampment was born in
ontario in 1S40. He moved to Iowa in
1855 and later to Minnesota, March 8,
1862, he enlisted in Company G. Fifth |
Minnesota volunteer infantry. which
attached to the old eagle brigade of the
Sixteenth army corps. During his
term of service he was in the Red
River campaign, Grants campaign
against Vicksburg and at Cornith and |
Tupiio. At the operations around
Nashville he was in Gen. A. ]. Smith
corps, which afterwards was sent to
Mobile. He was in fifteen distinct
engagements, and was mustered out in
1854, when he settled in Freedom
county, Mimi. In 1878 he located in
Grant county, now South Dakota,
wher he has since resided.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-28

. AR. Schlosser, who has been th'
efficient assistant 20 S. +. Young 70
the past two years at the Plankintol
reform school, has followed in the foot
steps of his superior and resigned hi
position Mr. and Mrs. Schlossel
expect to retarn to Sioux Falls in the
near future and make Iheir home. Mr.
Schlosser having accepted position
with the Queen City Insurance company
of Sioux Falls.
The case of Mrs Kanfmaan in Sioux
Falls has created more excitement than
criminal case in years. She was held
to the next term of the cirouit court
without bail for murder. The day of
the preliminary hearing there was
strong talk OF lynching and il was
necessary to have a rig and drive very
| fast to keep Mrs Kaufman from the
angry mob. The leader of the mob was
arrested and wiser counsel prevailed
and the law will be permitted to take
it's course.
The Kent hotel company, at Huron,
has been incorporated, with capital Of
100000. Ground will be broken soon,
and the building operations actively
commenced. The building will occupy
a quarter of block on the southwest
corner of Dakota avenue and Fourth
street, most excellent location. The
building will be of brick, three stories !
high, snd will contain 100 rooms.
Every modern convenience in hotel con-
struction will be installed Articles of |
interpretations were filed wednesday
with the secretary of state, the incor-
porat ors being f. III. Kent, ID. B. JEFF
ries and j. d. McCampbell.
Judge Aikens, attorney of Mrs.
Kaufman, is happy in the outcome Of
his application for bail for his client
and is satisfied with the amount at
which it is fixed, although it is larger
than he expected. The court grants
the relief asked for nnder provisions of
section of article of the constitution
which provides: "All persons shall be
bailable by sufficient sureties, except
for capital offense where the proof Is
evident or the presumption great" The
court said: "To our minds the proof
Of the crime charged is not 30 plain and
as to warrant us in denying |
the defendants application. She should
be admitted to bail in such snm ~ IL
Just and reasonable in view Of the cir
The bail was fxed at
p25. 900. the bond 70 b approved by
Judge Jones Of the circuit court.
Connecticut western news., 1906-12-13
LAW POINTS.

The power of the state in the exer- else of its police power to revoke a physician's license to practice is sus- tained in Meffert versus Packer (Kan.). L. R. A. (N. S,), s11.
 The approval by the state commis- sion of a freight based upon limited valuation of the property is held in Everett versus Norfolk and Southern Railway company (N. O, 1 l.. R. A. N. S.), 0S5. not to absolve the carrier from liability for full value of the property if lost through its negligence.
 A passenger notified that the next station at which the train will stop Is hls destination Is held in Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad com pany versus Mullen ull), l.. R. A. (N. S), 115, to have q right to assume that the cGr will stop at the proper place for him to get or.
Connecticut western news., 1906-12-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

Boston wants to know If there is such a thing as nolseless pavement. Sure. 1t is found on streets where merchants do not advertise.-washingt Post.
 In crops, in railroads, In steamships, In all kinds of sports, we go on smash ing records. By and by time will be obliterated and quantity will be vast beyond comprehension. - New York Press.
 What were the Midway" the Pike" the Trail" etc, elsewhere Is to be the 'Paystreak" at the Seattle fair. Thus as we simplify the language 1t Is also seen that we get nearer the truth Indianapolis News.
 Keep your youth on the farm" nd- vises James J. Hill. But the trouble is too many of the youth want to leave the farm as early as Hill himself did, hoping that thereby they may have a chance to make a fortune at least one tenth the size of hls.-Macon Tele- graph.