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Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
Treasury Balance

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.-Today's statement
of the treasury balance in the general fund
shows: Available cash balance, $23S, 1O9, 1865;
gold coin and bullion s17,S5,9Ss; gold certifi-
Gates. $70,9S1S10.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
Sugar and Coffee
By Associated Press

| 7
NEW YORK, Oct. S1.--sugar-Raw steady.
Fair refining, 3.4ec: centrifugal 96 test, $500;
molasses sugar. 3.05e. Refined steady; crushed
5.70c; powdered, 5.10c; granuated. sc.
Coffee quiet. No. Rio. SIC; No. San
tos Sc.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01

GRAIN AND FEED uOo bs.)--wheat, No. l..
$1.s5; do 600 lb sacks) s1.9o: corn. $50;
cracked corn. sl.65; feed meal. s1.76: bran,
heavy. $40: rolled barley. s1-5O; oil cake.
meal $3.50; seed rye. $1.75; shorts. s1.b5;
Egyptian corn. si.eS; white oats. Sl.7S.
HAY-(Selling price per toni: Choice wheat
hay, s1s@17: No. / wheat. or wheat and
oat $14q15 choice tame oat. s160OG1750 so;
wild oat. $1,000 alfalfa, s16.00 straw. $6@s.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
ON Stocks
DAILY MININe Gall

Official sales-200c Johnnie Con- at sac: 5000
Consolidated Mines at 2Sc; 10000 do at SIC
(B. 6O); 1000 Clark Copper at SIC.
Listed Stocks
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
TlEZNENN1ZlgZ[Zla
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
CHICAGO. Oct. 31-Lower prices for wheat
az the principal European grain centers had
depressing effect today on the local wheat
market. A the close wheat for December de-
livery showed a net loss OF 3ac. The market
opened weak because of Id decline at Liver
pool Shorts bought freely on the decline and
prices rallied to a point above the close or
yesterday. Before the end of the first hour,
however, sentiment again became bearish and
prices dropped almost 1c. The decline was
caused by break OF from ssg2hc at the
chief European markets because Of the action
of the Bank of England in raising its rate of
discount. The sentiment continued bearish for
the remainder of the day but the strength of
corn and oats steadiea the market somewhat
The close was easy. December opened %Wlc
lower at S6GI96hc, advanced to 9T%c and closed
at 967sc. May sold between $1.0iA@1O5% and
closed at $104%.
The corn market was strong all day because
of the active demand by cash houses wet
weather in the belt, small local receipts
and the claim that eastern stocks of corn are
now down to minimum and advances Of from
1G3c In the price of cash corn were the main
reasons for the urgent demand. The close was
strong AID close to the high point. December
opened a shade lower to a AGDasc higher at
567sG57hc advanced to 5S7s@5S@ and closed
at 5Sssc.
Oats were in active demand by cash houses
because OF diminished receipts, and the market
was st:,,.it all day. December opened 1h@1lsc
higher at 49N6D491kc, sold between 4ShQ49lac
and closed at 49ssc.
Provisions We're firm buying of lard by
local packers, higher prices for live hogs and
the strength of corn and oats. At the close
January FORK was up 10c, lard was TIC higher
and ribs SC up.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 31.--wheat spot, dull;
No. red western winter, Ss 11zd; futures
steady; Dec. IS 27sd: March SIS 45sd; May. ss
3%d.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct ,21.-wheat was de-
pressed no sales cash. s165. Barley, depres-
80 Ii o~1r AIarI
cash, s16O. Corn, nominal; large yellow. s17d
Q175.
Market Ranges
wheat-December, ssSc; May 9Sa4c; July
$1.Nz.
Corn-December. $3.50; May, 5sRsc July, eoc
oats-December 499sc; May. 4s1sc; July
521aG52%c
Lard. per 100 lbs November. sS.67h; Janu-
airy, sS.57H; May ss.T5.
Short ribs, per 100 lbs. January s7e2h; May
S7.926.
Cash quotations were as follows; Flour
steady.
wheat-No spring. sl91Os; No. 3. ssc@st;
Corn-No. 2, 59AQ59Mc; No. yellow, soA
@6O1sc.
oats-No 2, 4sSc: No. white. 4s94Slzc
Rye-No. 2, 76c
Barley~Good feeding, so9s2c; fair to choice
mailing. Sic.
Flax seed-No. l. s1.19h
Clover-Contract grades. s1575.
Short ribs, sides. loose, S797is@S3715 mess
pork, per bbl., s1as7h@14; lard, per 100 lbs,
$50; short clear sides, boxed. S75QS.25
Whisky, basis of high wines, S1.35.
Receipts. Shipmts.
Flour. bbls .,..,.,...... 80, 100 800
wheat. bu ............... IS, 500 q, 500
Corn bu ..........243 243400 2i9, 900
oats bu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 500 2S7, 900
rive bu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000 500
Barley. bu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 200 $4,000
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
Los ANGELES STOCK EXCHANGE

Official sales--1o U. s. Long Distance T. &
T. Co. at $50; 10 Broadway Bank and Trust
Co. at s155 900 Central Oil at SSc.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01

NEW YORK. Oct. S1.-Following were the
official closing quotations today:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
FINANCIAL

LOS ANGELES. Oct. s1.-Bank clearings
were 1926, ,17672 against $1,739,6 ,641.s7 for tho
corresponding date last year. decrease of
s41s,0s5.15. Following is comparative state
ment
1907. 1906. 1906.
Monday ..s1 eG2 1858 $t,679 s3s "a 3i6, 0S6 SO
Tuesday .. Lees, ,791.6t 1906 071.03 1875, ,453.44
Wednesday :. LIZA, 394 1875. 255.10 1000, 313 IS
Thursday 49,. 132e, 176.7s 1739, ,6iiS7 15lS,57l1 Is
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
New York Stocks
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. s1.-Following were the
closing quotations today:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
Building Permits Granted

Following are the permits issued from the
lfce Of the chies inspector OF buildings yes
rday and classified according to wards
pef.,,ffe Vnfllaa
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
San Francisco Mining Stocks
By Aosociated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct sl.-Following were
official closing quotations today:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
New York Bonds

By Associated Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01

Following are wholesale jobbing prices: =.
ORANGES-fPer box)-Fancy Valencias, ". 20
"a TO- according to size; choice, s2.7504. 90.
APPLEs-(Pe box)-Belleheur. 4-tier. sl.so
~ tier, s1e5; Jonothans $325 50-lb box; Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
ASSETS
1O7 SOUTH BROADWAY
November 1, 1907

Loans on Real Estate of the appraised value Q
over 100000 ...................... ..........
Loans on stock of this Association OF book valu
of more than $4,000. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Advances to borrowers (secured) .....:.......
Accrued interest on loans. ...............-'
Furniture and Fixtures. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. :,
Cash on hand and in bank. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-01
Equitable SaMngsBank &C. ]: :: 81:

We beg to offer you, subject to pri
tion company First Mortgage Pc
annually, with n stock bonus of 100
chants Trust company, trustees.
November magazine. Compliments
South Broadway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
RIGHT THIS TIME.

In his latest public pronunciamento
which was given out a few days ago
in reply to a statement made by Attor-
ney General Hadley of Missouri, Presi-
dent Ripley of the Santa Fe utters
much sound logic.
1t certainly does not seem exactly
Just, after railroad builders have taken
the risks and exercised their ingenuity
in opening and developing new sec
lions, to refuse to allow them to share
In the prosperity of those sections,
other than a bare return upon their
original investment
In other words, a railroad company
should be allowed to consider that its
property has increased in value just
as other property increases in value.
and that element should be considered
In fixing rates.
1t does not follow, however. that the
railroads themselves should be the
Judges in this matter, for inasmuch as
they have practical monopoly of tho
business, they could
make rates unjust to other lines of
buslness-and that is just what hap
pens when the railroads are not re-
strained. This is matter that should
be passed upon by a commission that
is fair to both the public and the rail-
ROADS, just as our various state and
railroad laws intend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t isn't exactly sign of generosity to
give away your friends.
When death finally overtakes a man 1t
finds him all out of breath.
To be run over by an automobile gives
one that tired feeling.
It's when a fellow is down in the world
that he is on his uDpers.
1t isn't the depths of a mans love that
counts so much as the length
Some people seem to have an idea that
he laughs best who laughs loudest.
All the oculists in the world won't help
the man who is blind to his own inter-
ests.
3 Nell-s'Maude writes such gushing let
ters'' Believes, she always uses foun-
tain PEN
You can always tell from the lonesome
ness of man how much you can borrow
from him.
If some men didn't parade their homes
ty with a brass band We wouldn't know
they had any.
THE reason marriage is so often fail
ure,'' remarked the Cynical Bachelor, is
because those who don't marry too young
wait until they are too old
1.-The more poets the better" remarked
the commercial-looking person. All, you
are a lover of poetry" ventured the liter
airy man. MOT SO you could notice it,
replied the commercial-looking person.
TT a manufacturer of waste baskets"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There is to be no change in hosiery
the coming season. says fashion note.
Still, it is to be hoped that hosiery will
be changed occasionally.
n q H.
Our old friend, Colonel CASTOR, ad-
vances the theory that widow can get
a new husband whenever she needs one.
This department believes a widow can
get new husband whether she needs
him or not-in fact, the less she needs
one, the more likely she is to get him.
a.
I'VE have noticed says the Law
renee World. that the Topeka papers
are mighty dull on the days when they
contain nothing about the Topeka city
attorney having a rumpus with some
body Which is equivalent to saying
that the Topeka papers seldom have a
dull day.
An exchange prints an editorial on
the bad features of the statute of
limitations One of these bad features,
not mentioned by the exchange, is that
it can't be enforced against cold stor-
age eggs.
*
DR.. Crumbine says water must no
longer be sold with the oysters, but we
fear the doctor won't have the nerve
to enforce his order at the church oys-
ter supper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago NewsI
Ore way to destroy weeds Is 70 marry
a widow.
ueDe arc exclusive: they like to stick to
their owc sets.
But the average man is too selrlsn rear
ly to enjoy life.
If the doctor prescribes bark the pa
tient shouldn't growl
More physique and less physic is what a
good many of us need
When a singers voice fails he is unable
to take up his notes.
Wanted-The address of an artist who
can paint the signs OF the times.
Paradoxieal though it may seem. man
who lays up money salts it down
If a man is a success he knows it; if he
is failure all his neighbors know it,
It's some of the things that children
learn in school that they get punished
for.
Many a man who covers his wife's cof-
fin with flowers never gave her IS for pin
money.
To lover there but two places in the
world-one where his sweetheart is and
the other where she isn't
Beware of the man whose debts don't
worry him. He would steal your u m orel-
la If he saw it in the vestfbule of a
church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

of the futility of stating further evil
dence
The girl made an effort to check her
amusement.
81 will take up your points In Sc
quence," she announced with MOCK
gravity, looking at him with frank
ness so charming that he forgot M
dislike of her and smiled back IN
diligently.
fence, but they were the initials OF the
girl who wan with me. Second, 1t was
she who lost the pin, and, third. the
initials on the handkerchief are not
II. T." .,. r,do- p.
exclaimed Richard, with such evident
relief that the girl burst out laughing
again. "And you don't write clever
theses and tack A Ms on to your
name %
The girl shook her head.
Richard took up her handkerchief
which was lying in her lap.
lit cel tainly looks like H. T. to me-
he said. examining the monogram
closely. 81 am not yet convinced"
The girl handed him the water
sos ked novel. open at the hyleaf.
"To Theodore Harnett." he read
aloud.
He took out his pencil and began
scribling beneath the inscription. The
girl looked over his shoulder.
Theodore, I adore you"-that was
as far as his foolishness had a chance
to go, for in q flash Theodore had
snatched the book from his hands and
sped like a deer over the rocks.
Come back tomorrow" he called.
land tell me how the story ends"
And she did-and not only that day,
b. the next and the next until the
end of their own story. like that in the
water-soaked novel, came with the
asking of a question. and an answer
short but sweet.
But, uh how near you came to
mar ying H. T., didn't you, Richard ?"
laughed Theodore bewitchingly.
well, she's welcome to all the A. Ms
and ether degrees she deserves. I'm
happy with just V. D."
There's one degree that's yours by
nsture little Maid OF Arts" said
Richard, lovingly. cupid must have
conferred 1t onyou at your christening.
1t isn't acquired from books-not
even from water-soaked novels."-
Copyrighted. 1907, by c. H. SUIT
cliIfe.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
HUNOR or THE Day

THAT girl" said the country postmis-
tress. lis carryin' on secret correspon-
denie with in SON some 5 young eS the store
keeper.
Philadelphia Press.
Did you bring your vaccination certifi-
mo, mas am; it didn't take."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
beach"
Yes"
was your trip fruitless?"
mot by any means. / met peach who
handed me a lemon."-Yonkers States
man.
That politician says his youngest takes
he does" answered the irritable
neighbor, keeps shouting at the top of
it's voice without ever saying anything in
cular."-Washingto Star.
Marley-Tell me. candidly does your
wife care for you?
didn't .s@Chicago Record-Heraid.
''Baer is saying things about the presi-
''Get the wheelbarrow, Loeb."-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
quite chummy with Miss Newcombe. I
don't suppose there's much difference in
II can't answer for Miss Newcombe. but
there isn't any difference in Miss Passay's
age. She has been = for 5he past 10
Press.
Biddy-So you're goin' to Flannigan's
funeral?
Mike-Av course OF am. If We don't go
to folks funerals how can you expect
them to come to yours?-Ally Sloper's
Half-Holiday.
She hasn't any friends to speak Of
mo? Then what are they for?'-Puck.
Hes a very prominent member of our
yacht club"
Indeed! What is his official capacity?"
-Four gallons. Life.
Pop"
Yes, my son."
Didn't I hear you telling ma that we
had to economiZe?'
Yes, my boy"
We'll pop. why not begin on soap?'-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.l
The incest thing about most people is
their obituaries.
The trouble with getting a degree from
college is you can't spend it.
There's nobody so cross as the man who
suspects the baby's hair is going to be
red.
The recording angel must have to hire
an extra bookkeeping force around cleo
ton time.
A woman would rather be able to talk
about having three bath tubs than for the
children to be clean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
1t is not polite to call a man Aleck I'M
less that is his name.
How much does a bridegroom usually
pay the preacher who marries him?
Our experience with western society Is
that 1t is very pleasant until the singing
begins.
1t is easier for an active and muscular
man to lose his temper than it is for the
other fellow.
When a man is enjoying himself eating
buckwheat cakes say 1t is indicate
maker
tricateiy dressed woman. he has a long
ing to grab her, take her apart, and see
how she is put up.
1t is mentioned as curious fact that
growth at eighteen. An elephant. howev-
er. is content to travel with only one
trunk.
In the whit1ow-sapp love affair at Mo-
ran. Kan, Whitlow told Miss SaDp that
he would sell his dray and leave the
to kill herself. In a novel, the hero would
have threatened to close his studio.
An Atchison man is known as a kin
crank, and will have nothing to do with
his cousins who come to visit him. A
man walked up to him today and said:
son am nrsDE reDiied: Wen T wba tn ne A{eh
Whenever you see business man or a
clerk leave his place of business and go
out alone for drink, that means the De
case of sociability then: it's a case OF APP
petite, and the man who gives in is in
danger.
A lady of experience gives advice on
kissing to a young girl friend as follows:
BE frugal in your bestowal of such fav-
ors. In the first place. 1 would cut off
all uncles, cousins, and brothers-in-law.
Let them kiss their own wives and daugf-
tiers. Do not kiss the minister, the doctor,
or the lawyer who gives you divorce"
How much kinder old age Is to a wo-
man than to a man. The woman whose
days of usefulness are over can busy
herself puttering around the house, cook.
ing little, washing up the dishes. MAX
ing beds. etc. She can spend her after
moons sewing and her evenings knitting
But when old age settles down on a mar
there is nothing for him to do down town
and how lonesome and miserable he is
After eating his breakfast a long day
stretches before him with nothing to do
At home in the morning brooms are fly.
ing, busting is being DONE the house /,
airing and he is in the way. So he goes
down town, where he finds the world go
ing busily on Occasionally some one
stops him and asks him how he feels. and
then he goes home, where he reads a III
tie and longs for bedtime to come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
ASTRONOMICAL.

lis the time when politicians
Keep in touch,
And opinions of the humble
Count for much.
How does Jones of Painted Crossing
Rate the trust?
And would Smith, of Pumpkin Siding
See 1t bust?
II word they chance to utter,
Or a sound.
Swift it travels like a current
Through the ground.
So this world is hung, an earring
Mid the spheres.
Firm attached unto a million
Statesmen's ears.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Now IT is said that w. R. Stubs is to
run for state senator down in his sena-
torial district. A primary law would
prove a great embarrassment for some
OF Mr.. Stubs friends. How could they
run him for state senator, governor and
United States senator all on the same
&ackef3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Somebody suggests that Fish ought
to catch Hartman and swim to the
bottom with him. which brings from
Roy Tapley the opinion that Harri-
man 10 more accustomed to water than
is Fish. Is it not possible, however.
that Mr.. Hartman has used up all the
water in his vicinity for his stock?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Congressman J. Adam Bede, who is
member of the rivers and harbors COM
nnittee, lectured at the Kansas Wesleyan
university at Salina few evenings ago
and said a. canal from Salina to St.
Louis is feasible. 1t might be if Salina
would guarantee to furnish the water
necessary for it as it is needed, instead
of turning it loose all at once-as has
been done in the not distant past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

II Governor Hoch calls a special ses-
sion of the legislature to frame a pri-
mary election law under which state
tickets may be nominated by direct
primary at public expense, will the sem
ate lodge insist on the same hybrid
measure that it tried to pass last win
fer?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

1t will be necessary for the newspa-
pers to use a tremendous amount of
paper early in December. Not only does
congress meet then, necessitating print
ing the presidents message. but Gladys
Vanderbilt's wedding is scheduled to take
place Immediately afterwards. The pa
per mills should make due preparations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Since Senator George Tucker has de-
cided to run for congress in the Fourth
district, it is quite possible that the
Fourth may conclude to change repre-
sentatives after this year, but it will
take strong evidence to prove that the
Fifth will do any such thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Wall Street hears about the high
price of the necessities of life, but when
it sees the bottom drop out of its in
f1ated stock market, it doesn't take any
stock in such talk. Its own stocks are
the necessities of life to Wall Street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Says the Lawrence World: "'Ryan
wants railroads to take off the limit
says the headline over dispatch. Must
be the commissioner thinks he holds
I'VE aces, royal flush or something of
that kind" And the editor of the
world is q good Methodist Think of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

a Methodist using such unregenerate
language as that! Sometimes we are
tempted to doubt that the world-not
the Lawrence worlds growing bet
ter after ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Noting the big increase in the profits
OF the railroads the past year, the Law
renee Journal thinks it would like to
be ruined the same way President Rip
lev saws the railroads are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21

Lillian Russell pronounces the divorce
a blessing, and Lillian has had enough OF
them that she ought to know. Then,
again, most of these people who de-
nounce divorces never had one in their
lives.