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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
MIDWAY HORSE MARKET. Minnesota Tram

M1UWA1 6OhSt MAHhET, minnesota Trans
fer. st. Paul. Mimi, Jan. 23-Ba-rett & Tim
m me ran, leport: Horse trade brisk Retail trade
active and but few horses remain sunsold Draft
ers and general purpose horses remain steady
farm mares and chunks are free sellers Re
ceipts heavy and of good quality All classes
closing as follows: Drafters. extra. $1S5@22O;
drafters. choice, $150@1S5; drafters, common to
good, $135@150; farm Mares extra $150@17O;
farm mares. choice. $135@15O: farm mares COM
mon to good, .s11O@135: drivers extra, $500
$135@175; delivery, common to cood $1OO@135.
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ARIZONA COPPERS.

factor in making this market dull. The fota-
tion Of the Butte & London Copper company
the drop in prices. This stock was put on
yesterday and all lists were heavily over
subscribed. The capital is $1,O0O,OOO; shares
S. par The property is situated between the
Amalgamated and North Butte shafts. The
company holds title perfect to 12O acres. Sub
scribers get stock full paid at $3.50 a share.
1t will be traded In the eastern curbs in
a week or two. Three hundred thousand shares
are opened to subscription in America and
London, Eng, zoo, 900 remain in the treasury,
and 100000 shares are given in payment Of
property, and all pooled for two years. The
promoters Butte men PRINCIPALLY.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
cu1cAGo TIvrsTocK Ian oe-c

: .CHICAGO LlVESTUCK, Jan 23.-Catt1e-Re-
cows ana heieers. 81 .4o@4.sO: stockers and feed
e1s, $2.4O@4.50: Texans, $3.6O@45O. Hogs
Receipts $4,000: market strong to &c higher;
$5.55@5.70; rough heavy. $5.4O@55O: light,
$5.35@5 go; pigs, $4;5o@5.5o; bulk of sales:
@15c higher; sheep, $S75@5.eo; lambs, $3.50
M7.9O. ,.s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
THE COMPARATIVE VISIBLE.
RECEIPTS AND

RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS, JAN. 90.
Received--Wheat. 225 cars, 225, OOu bu; corn,
6, $50 bu; oats. AZ, $40 bu; barley, $4,000 bu;
rye $500 bu: flax 43, $40 bu; -four. 1850 brls;;
millstufs, 100 tons; hay, so tons; CARROTS,
1885, ~
Shipped-wbeat IS cars, G5 $50 bu: corn,
I 44O bu; oats. $3.50 bu; barley, $1,000 bu;
mil 1874 tons linseed OIL 100000 lbs;
| oil cake, 500, 900 bu; CARROTS, 4SS.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23

, LOG prices openea &c higher. ana closed &c
De h s ter nt
mon to fair. quoted So. 25G535: good to choice.
Sood ~ coica s9 non 10 ,a,r' Ss
AZ Good ~ cb%ice - no iaif'
Has So 70 ~ 600 H. AZ 40 900 X, eE Ak
o. HogsTIS' @ao IDS, $o.45; ". ~ lbs. S545;
hs Ak 4n "a 10 he s 90 i se Sse ,bs * ~
90 IT, 40 co 900 W. "o oo ios' ~
G e. a es 20, 90, ISo 1os, M 80, 81
eg' $S;on; 20: ~ iOs' $o:50 49, - IDS 49,
o.. 10y IDS SoSo; ~ - IDS $o'az1a; 49, l'S
ios So So'o, -; l4o IDS So;z0.
S 81 ana Boars-l' 90 IDS, $4:5O:
oAnILELheceipts Moderate. killing cattle
generally steady at yesterdays prices. Quality
averages only medium; good to choice grain ,tin-
lshea STUN scarce. Stockers and feeders active
at strong prices Bulls generally steady. Veal
caves caves s1eaoS. Mich cows STEADY; common
KINDS Dull. Sales: zs.s.e. - g.
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Sotal sales, 99I 100 shares. g. - ! r. -
Additional sales: Union Pacific, 1s2,7oO; pre-
ferred, 200; Reading, 1850 600; frsts, 1900: Sec
onds, 300; Missouri. Kansas & Texas. 1900;
20, 300; frsts, 200; seconds, 600.
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SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK, Jan. 2s.-Receipt.

SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK, Jan 2S-Receipts
Cattle, 2,4O0 hogs. 3,7C0. Hogs &c higher
Sales: IS. 1es lbs, 20: 60, 24o lbs $780,
TO- 2ss lbs S42 Cattle market weak best
beevcs. ], 23O lbs, $4.75; 16 beeves. 1920 lbs
So; 10 cows and heifers. $40 lbs. $2.75: 16
befers 1,O4O lbs, $685.; 10 stockers and feedecs
76o lbs. $2.75; IS stockers and feeders $50
10 CAVES and yea a 4so lbs
calves and yearings. $50 lbs, 1925: 10 calves
and yearlings, 61O lbs, 1918. Sheep, receipts,
6O0 market steady. = 's- -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23

THE DAYS REPORTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES


o arrv No.
corn NC Ice
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
ACTIVE BONDS AND CURB STOCKS.

Quotations to I pm, Jan. %: - H..
American Tobacco Is, 116ss. ., g.,
Rock Island Is, 1915, . 49,
Japanese lists, 1904. 49,. ~
Japanese Eds, 10o 99A, 100. 10.
Japanese AVS, 90, 94B, 50. ;
Japanese second As, OLA "
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy As, 1914.
United States Steel IS, 99A, $685., 99H.
!, Northern Pacific 4s, 1O5A. - -
Union Pacific conyertibles, 1854.
Baltimore. & Ohio As. 104A. 49,.
Reading As, 1O2. r.
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KILLERS HOLD UP
And SELL WELL
sToCKERs AND FEEDERS ACTIVE
AT FIRM PRICES.
Hogs Open Strong and Higher, but Lose
It ALI Before the Close-Averagc
Quality Somewhat Improved over
Yesterday-Liberal Receipts Of Sheep
but Many Strings of Western Stuff
Not offered for Sale.

South St. PauA Mimi, Jan. 23.-Estimated
receipts at the union stockyards today: Cattle.
500; calves $50; hogs, $500; sheep. 1,20o; cars.
following table shows tn. rece.pts from
JAM /, 1906, to date, as compared with the
In
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23

WHEAT RECEIPTS BY ROADS, JAN. 22.
Milwaukee, AZ cars; Omaha, Ii; ST. Louis, Z;
Great Northern, II; Northern Pacific, &c;
500 line, 3d. Chicago, Rock Island & Pa,
cific 8. a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-23
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago. Jan. 23-Close: Wheat May, ,S6Ac;
July, s4ss @s41ac Corn, May, 45c July, .454c
Oats, May, 31A @31Hc; July, 3Oasc.
The following was the range or prices:
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Unlclai receipts for Il
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
A DAY OF RECKONING.
You Cannot Fool All of tho People All
of the Time.

The recent condemnation as unfit for
further service of number of gas and
electric light plants and the closing
down of some of them at dead loss
to the taxpayers should serve as II
warming to other cities, for this is the
fate that is likely to overtalie all such
plants in the long run. For the first
year or two, when no expensive re-
pairs are needed and the plant is thor
oughly UP to date, 1t ought not to be
difficult to make good showing. For
Il few years longer the bad bookkecp-
Ing and inadequate reports, that are
unfortunately the rule rather than the
exception, may blind the citizens To
the deterioration of the plant and to
its increasing losses. But the day Of
reckoning inevitably comes when
breakdown, bad service or demand for
new equipment that cannot masquer-
AIDE as extensions" causes an investi-
CATION, and then it becomes evident
that the plant has been losing prop
osition almost from the start. No plant
should be accepted as evidence of sue
cessful municipal management until 1t
has been operated for several years
and then examined by expert engineers
and accountants
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
HOW CITIES LOSE MONEY.
Municipal Plants Pay No Taxes and
Reduce Tax Receipts.

Reduce Tax Receipts.
The subject of lost taxes is one that
deserves far more attention than It
usually receives from advocates OF
municipal ownership. There is scarce
ly u municipal plant in this country
which mentions this item In Its reports,
although 1t is Just as much IN element
in cost Of production as coal and
wages. The omission is readily over
looked, because it Is negative ex-
pense involving no direct payment, but
only Il loss Of income to the city.
II you own store for which you
are receiving good rental and dis
possess your tenant In order to occupy
1t yourself the rental value of the store
becomes charge against your bust
ness, just as 1t was previously
charge against your tenants business.
and you are out Of pocket unless your
profits exceed the rent you formerly
received. Similarly II city buys out
or otherwise dispossesses n public serv-
ice corporation the real. personal and
franchise taxes formerly paid by the
corporation become charge against
the operation Of the municipal plant
that succeeds the corporation. and the
city is out of pocket unless the profits
Of its plant exceed the taxes lost.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
LONG LIVE THE BOSS!
Municipal Ownership Would Make HI.
Position lmprssnabls.

Municipal Ownership Would Make HE
Position imprssnabls.
Referring to the recent announcement
that 51.1lG persons are on the payroll
of New York city. the Newark Adver-
tiscr declares that in the event Of mu-
nicipal ownership Of street railways.
electric light and gas plants, ferries and
other public utilities the city employees
would constitute political army that
would make change Of ndministra-
ton Impossible.
1t recalls the fact that $4,000 city
employees in Philadelphia kept Phila-
delphia In the hands of the corrupt
Durham machine for years, and only
great popular uprising overthrow the
grafters.
"If Durham had had control Of the
street railroads and other public utili-
ties In Philadelphia through municipal
ownership" 1t observes, 'he could have
laughed ut popular uprisings. He
would have been as absolute in his au-
thorlty as the car"
The point Is well taken.
In other cities the political situation
under public ownership would be ~ It
would in Philadelphia and Now York.
Bosses may be overthrown and
grafters turned out whenever the pub
lie will 1t mt present. Public ownership
of all public utilities would end this.
1t would bind the people hand and
foot and deliver them into the hands
of political grafters. = Long Branch
Record.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
THE GREAT TRANSITION.
Public Property Wasted Because III
Costs Nothing, You Know"
"uol,ov, said "What's that?' And

Public Property Wasted Because "lt
Costs Nothing, You Know"
"Hello! said 1. whats that?' And
stopped to pick it up.
"Yhat" replied the boy who happen
ed to be passing through the school
yard with me. THAT is nothing but Il
lead pencil"
But it is whole one." said l, "and
with rubber on the end"
Il know it," said the boy.
what! Do YOU mean to tell me that
you have seen this here before?'
Eyes, cvcrybody's seen it,"
"All the children in your school have
seen this lying here day after day and
not one boy has picked 1t up?"
"Of course What should we pick
it up for? There's plenty in the school
house. The town buys EN-"
And had been given a text for n
long meditation. Not pick up whole
new lead pencil? And pencil with Il
rubber ON it,!
When was boy we priced even
slate pencils. A boy who hooked any
OO0y . SiitC lJSuSIi Wtto D0ilSu WILL AIS
gave it up, but a lead pcncll-we fought
for lead pencils as the Greeks and
Trojans fought for Helen. We secured
the countryside for old horseslocs to
sell to the blacksmith for money enough
to buy 81 lead pencil, and, having it,
we cut our private mark on it. guarded
1t. kept it as our last resource in trade.
Many time !; precious two inch lead
pencil has turned an important jack
knife trade one way or the other.
never had but ono lead pencil at a time
and very often hardly that until was
fifteen years old. And these tcn-ycar-
Odds scorn to pick up 81 whole one with
rubber! Think of it. The best
eraser / had was a piece of rubber
boot Henry 4. Bailey in Journal
of Education.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
Making Peter Pay For Paul.

Whether n public utility be admin
istered by the government itself or by
private corporation, we hold that
every person Who uses 1t should be held
to pay the cost of the service which
he receives and that no man should be
compelled by taxation or otherwise to
bear any part of his neighbours OK
penses for light and power, for telc-
phone service or for transportation Of
himself or of his goods.
Every proposal that municipality
assume operation Of all public utilities
and reduce rates to persons using
them, regardless of what the service
may actually cost, Is an attempt to
force some men to bear the expenses
Of others, because where the outlay for
operation exceeds earnings the deficit
must be made up by taxation. and this
we Genounce as socialistic and there
fore hostile to justice and subversive
Of democratic government. = Bourke
Cochran
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
DO YOU OWN A HoRsE7
Electric Light Plants Are Like Horse.
In Some Respects.

su 0OUO gNOoPO0sos
The subject Of depreciation is well
worthy of the careful consideration Of
those who are prone to ignore that
item in estimating the cost Of lights
supplied by municipal plants. But as
more people own horses than lighting
plants it may be helpful to consider
depreciation US applied to horses.
You pay $3.50 for a fve-year-old
horse. That's original cost. II you Dor
row the money you must pay interest
OH it. If you don't borrow it you lose
the interest you would get IL you didn't
buy the horse. Either way it's interest.
You feed the horse, and perhaps hire a
man to take care Of him. That's oper-
ating expenses. You get him shod oc-
casionally and call in the veterinarian
when he is sick. That's renewals and
repairs. After few years, in spite Of
the best of care, the horse is no longer
capable of doing the required work
and i; sold for SO, loss of 5000 rs
compared with the original cost. That's
depreciation. If you haven't laid that
by year by year out of the horses
earnings. you've got to borrow 1t to
buy new horse, and you may not
find it easy to do 50 IL you haven't re-
paid the original loan. That's what
happens to municipal plants that don't
provide an adequate depreciation fund.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
GOVERNMENT WAGES LOW.
u. Z. Nsweemb Gives Facts Of Inter.
est 70 Wage Farmers.

n. Z. Neweomb Gives Facts OF Inter.
est TO Wage Farmers.
From 1895 to 1904 the average retail
cost Of the ordinary articles Of food
used in the United States advanced NO
less than II per cent 1G.98, to he moro
exact-that Is. the purchaser Of food
for family had to pay $1.17 in 1904
for the same quantity and quality Of
food that 81 would purchase In 1896.
These are official statistics compiled
by the highly skilled experts employed
by the federal government, and every
housewife knows that they do not over
state the advance. Other necessities Of
life have advanced in cost with APP
proXimately equal rapidity.
PROFESSIONALLY wages ought. gener-
ally speaking, to have advanced some
what in proportion TO the increase In
the cost Of living. In private employ
ment this has apparently tnken place,
the average wages per hour reported
by the federal bureau of labor being
1876 per cent higher in 1904 than In
1896 and the average weekly earnings
1916 per cent higher. The advances
thus represented are spread all over the
country; they characterize every pri-
vate Industrial enterprise and have
benefited all classes of workmcn en-
ployed in private undertakings.
How is it with public employment?
A few undertakings conducted under
public ownership employ labor like
that similarly serving private employ
ers in the same communities, and IN
these cases the public rate of wages
has slowly been advanced somewhat
in proportion to the advance in the
wages privately paid. But where any
American government, municipal, state
or national, is the sole or by fur the
largest employer Of particular class
of labor the advances to meet increas-
ed cost Of living have been SO few that
the ordinary investigator will be un-
able to discover single instance.
Throughout the postal service. among
the 25.O0O clerical employees at Wash
ington, in the customs and internal
revenue services there have been no
advances in pay to meet the rise In
cost of food, clothing aud shelter. The
pay of letter carriers, for example, re-
mains precisely where it was fixed
twenty years ago by an act approved
on Jan. 3, 1887.
The largest printing Office in the
world is that maintained Mt Washing
ton by the government, aud there tho
federal government employs largo
force of intelligent and highly skilled
workingmen. A change in the basis
of payment in 1890 from the piece
work to the per hour system prevents
comparisons with dates prior to the
change, but wages have remained sta
tionary since March 8, 1890. although
the official statisticians report that tho
cost of food has advanced since the
rate of wages was fixed by statute full.
ly 1925 per cent. During the same
years the wages Of printers in private
book publishing or job printing estab.
lishments advanced throughout the
United States as follows: Competitors
male. 14.G7 per cent; compositors. fc-
male. 2O.30 per cent; press feeders
male, pal per cent; press feeders, fc
male, 21.27 per cent: pressmen, 11.75
per cent.-H. 7. Newcomb.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
All Right In Theory, but Breaks Dow,
In Practice.

All Right In Theory, but Breaks Down
In Practice.
Theoretically there is so much In
municipal ownership of public utilities
that the practical carrying out of its
attractive features appears simple and
of no serious moment, and for mu-
nicipality to take over and run water.
lights, sewerage and even transporta-
ton appeals to taxpayers, and the
trade Is made without the first assur-
ance that the conduct of these proper
ties will be along practical and bust
ness lines.
1t is the failure to assure the prac-
teal that works the evil, for municipal
ownership is general ownership, and
general ownership results too easily
In its being no special business of amy
citizen or taxpayer to look into or in
quire after the conduct of the proper
ties under control. This leaves the
management to few, who soon find
that they have only themselves to ac-
CONT to, that people are too busy to
demand accountings aud taxpayers
accept any kind of report, just
20 there is the appearance of all being
right and light, water, sewerage, etc,
are given.
1t is this Indifference and neglect on
tho part of taxpayers to take note of
municipal affairs which make munic-
ipRl ownership of public utilities n
hazardous and expensive matter. The
theory of municipal ownership, with
its great saving to each taxpayer, the
extra service given and the great prof
it's resulting, can all be placed in fig
ures beforehand, but it is failure un-
less the taxpayers shall give earnest
and serious heed to the conduct Of
these public utilities, for unless this is
done they will wake up some day with
broken down properties and big bond
issue to make good.-Newbern Week
ly Journal.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
THE CASH BOY TALKS.
His Fathers ldsa Of che Delights %
Municipal ownarahin.

His Fathers ldsa Of The pslishts Of
Municipal Ownership.
Say. boss" remarked our cash boy
this morning. my paw Is red hot for
minniesickl. ownership don't know
what that is, but paw says everybody
Is going To own everything aud divide
up the profits. He was telling INA
about 1t la.t night.
MA asked him where the people
would, get the money to buy those
things. as they would cost millions Of
dollars.
Paw said, Issue bonds
Yes said ma, but how will you
pay the bonds when they are due!'
Issue more bonds said paw.
But how about the interest:' said
ma. wont you have to tax the people
for thnt?'
why, no. said paw. .Tay the in
terest With bonds
81 don't see how you could do that
said ma.
"'You don't. ch:' replied paw. Now,
when we went to housekeeping. didn't
l pay for all our furniture by giving q
note. and when it came due didn't
give the man another note? You wom-
ell know nothing about finance. You
wait unit! the minnlesickle OWNERSHIP,
gets in power. we will divide the profits
among the people, and no one will have
to work. We will all be vanderbilts.
Won't you be proud of your hubby
Wien he becomes part owner Of all
public utilities? You see, madam, there
are some things you don't know
"And teen paw looked wise. Ma
stood and gazed at him for some time
and then said:
Yes, tee are some things I don't
know. and one of those things is this:
II there Is man more at for the
lunatic asylum than you, don't know
him.
Then commenced to whistle .Ev-
erybody Works but Daddy Say,
boss. you see that lump on the back
of my he,nl? Paw has had that tune
poked at him before. aud wasn't look
ing when his old shoe came dying my
way."-Y0nkers Statesman.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
Co Slow on CITY Ownership.

Until politics in America is purified
far beyond its present condition any
large experiment in government own
ership may be called a 'tlief breeder
with much safety. The more authority
there is vested in the hands of poll
ticians with all due Difference to our
national administration The more cor
ruption there will be. 1t is short
sighted citizen who would take more
business out of private hands aud com
NIT it to the tender merces Of the poll
ticians.--Troy Press.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29

Charley Neitzsch and his
mother, of Mo. Valley, came to
visit friends here Thursday.
The mention Of them is more
than a mere personal, from the
fact of the history connected
with it. Mrs. Neitzsch kept the
Little Sioux postoffice, while
the young men Of this vicinity,
including her husband, were
down South for "three years,
or during the war" She gave
her husband in that great
struggle for the Union. Now
1T seems a real pleasure to the
veterans and others to have
her visit friends of long ago at
Little Sioux. AS before re-
lated, Mr.. Chas. Neitzsch has
the honor to be a native of this
town. Little Sioux Independ-
ent.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-11-29
The Seminole Minstrel Per-
Torrance.

Torrance.
The home minstrel "Show,"
given at the New Opera House
Saturday evening last, by the
members of the Seminole Club,
was a grand success. The house
was filled tostanding room by as
fine an audience as ever gath
cred at that popular r yh 80
and for two hours the songs,
gags, specialties, and musical
selections given by the Club
kept the audience in good hui
NOR. Of course a majority of the
gags had a local application and
each and every one was greeted
with enthusiastic applause.
Their work showed that the
boys had given much patient
work to this performance, and
every member proved he was a
black cork artist of no mean
ability. Each solo was greeted
by applause, and the encores
were responded to by the sing
ers in a happy manner. The
Seminole Quartet was enthu-
siastically recalled and grace
fully responded.
The specialities were first
class and consisted of reading
by Mrs Will Smith, Carlisle and
Blunt, equlibirist, Boies and
Isaac, musical artists, and Har-
mon and Lahman VAUDEVILLE
stunts. Miss Mary Finly sang
the Lullaby song" very sweet
ly and responded to an encore,
and sang the "Swanee River"
j. Ross McLauyh in acted as
interlocutor, Sl4a1er and Har-
mon, tambos, Boies and Sargent
bones. Miss Ella Withrow pre-
sided at the piano in a very
pleasant manner. Taken alto
gether the performance was
one of the best mintrel shows
ever given in this city, and gave
general satisfaction to the large
audience.
After the performance the
members of the Club gathered
at the club house and enjoyed
a two hours social time with
quite a number of invited guests
coffee and cake being served by
the ladies -wives and sweet
hearts of the members of the
Club.