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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-30
NEW York Stock Market.

Wall ST.. New York, April 30-STOCKS-
The first transactions in stocks carried
prices upward. The gains were generally
SMALL but the dealings were on liberal
scale, compared with the recent average.
Very heavy blocks of Union Pacific and
ST. Paul changed hands. Great Northern
preferred rose a point, and Northern Pa
cific Reading and New York Central large
fractions Canadian Pacific fell q point.
A substantial demand prevailed for the
western railroad stocks for a while, under
which the market rose further. Union Pa
ciic did not share proDortionately in the
advance and when realizing forced 1t a
fraction below yesterdays closing, the rest
of the list fell back. The market rose af-
forwards to the highest of the hour and
again fell back slightly. The best prices
indicated gains of 2 points in Union Pacific
preferred, Northern PACIFIC and ST. Paul.
11ak points In Great Northern preferred,
IL points in Reading. 1as points in New
York Central and point IN Kansas and
Texas, Amalgarnated Copper and Smelt-
in..
Bonds were irregular at noon.
The market was very dull at midday. st.
Paul reacted to 1873. United States Ex-
press yielded points
A handful of stocks were advanced
again. but continuous realizing in Union
Pacific, which carried it down a point. and
heaviness in United States Steel, threw
a damper on the movement. Minneapolis
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few GREEN BUGS.
They Do Little Damage in
Kansas Wheat Counties.
C0burn's Report Shows Wheat
Condition 81 Per Cent.
ACREAGE is LARGE.
Breaks All RecOrds-Only 8 Per
Cent PlOWed Up.
North and West Counties Rank
High on Condition.

Kansas wheat condition is "a, with an
acreage larger than any in the history
of the state. The condition of the wheat
is 51z per cent lower than at this time
last year, but allowing for plowed up
acreage this year of per cent, the acre
age is still $4,000 larger.
Indications are, therefore, that KAN
eas will have another 100000 bushel
crop of winter wheat.
These are the facts shown by the Co
burn report on wheat condition, which
report was issued at o'clock Monday
afternoon.
The ten largest wheat producing coun-
ties in the state show an average per
cent of 1872 per cent, and the acreage in
these ten counties has fallen off 26,029
acres. The following are the figures for
the ten counties which raised the larg-
est wheat crop in 1906 compared with
the present showing for 1907:
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Bucklin was Surprised.
Bucklin. Kan. Apr

BucKlln, Kan, April 29, 1907.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
Just think of it here on this the 18th
day of April in the year Of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and seven at
three o'clock p. m. the thermometer reg
istering 80 above and with a downward
tendency, the ground covered with ice
and snow, the trees almost breaking
under their load of ice and still snow
ing; where is that comet whose tail sent
such a wave of heat down on our heads
in March? We could stand a little of
that heat. mixed In with this weather
all right. The wheat generally around
here is looking fairly we'll or was until
this snow came. We do not know what
effect this cold snap will have on it,
but hope that it will not hurt it. Oats
and barley are not doing very well, and
corn planting has been held back by
the long continued cold dry FEATHER; we
needed the moisture that we are getting
today but we did not need 1t quite so
cold: but it is said that every cloud has
a silver lining; tomorrow the sun may
be shining bright and warm.
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Average ..2.O1S, O29

This report is a painstaking analysis
of statements made by one thousand
of the boards most experienced and
careful observers representing all por-
lions of the state. particular attention.
however, being given those counties
having the greatest wheat acreage,
and incidentally those from which
damage by green bugs has been most
loudly ard persistently proclaimed.
Is Not Guesswork.
Secretary Coburn says: cit should
be stated that this is not a report of
probabilities, of what may happen, or
what the situation may be next week
or next month. but of conditions as
they were in Kansas in the last half
of the fourth week in April. 1t is not
an expression of opinion by the secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture;
It does not deal with conditions past
or present in Oklahoma or other out
side territory. 1t is not the wall of
some unfortunate and detected Jones
or Brown whose wheat field or neigh
borhood has suffered mishap; not on
the one hand the weird wOrd-painting
of an emissary sent out in a Pullman
car by spectators to spy the land
through bulls eyes and smoked glass
es nor on the other of an artif1cially
inspired land broker whose early ex-
pfrinS options prompt his painting the
landscape in rose tints, but Is the
sober consensus of what the men on
the ground, neither bought nor sold,
Every day statements are published
of what may occur and the various
disasters that will follow unless there
is a change of weather within a given
time. or that if misfortune, reported in
the next county, should come and de-
stroy the wheat the yield would be
greatly diminished. All of this when
analysed amounts to no more than a
restatement of the accepted fact that
unless 1t rains a long dry spell is
probable. Anxiety and actual damage
are by no means identical; green lice
do not of necessity spell great loss, and
April bugs do not avouch a breadless
year"
Acreage Is Large.
Winter wheat-Last years winter
wheat area was 6.239,O41 acres; in
December the growers reported the
sowing for this years crop as approx
mately 100000 acres. This in the
main safely passed the perils of winter.
The continuous warm, growing wealth
er of early spring caused it to advance
remarka bly,, and 1T was unusually for
ward and flourishing, but later unfa-
vorable circumstances have changed
the situation. The high conditions
prevailing everywhere three and four
weeks ago have in a major portion of
the wheat territory been lessened
somewhat each day since by the alb
normally cold April, including several
severe freezes. a lack of the rains
which would have sustained or pro-
NOTED its vigor, and, in various south
ern counties. damage inflicted by my
riads of the green lice reported so
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harmful in Texas and Oklahoma. Cor
respondents mention these as present
to a greater or less extent in thirty-six
commissioning in some constderab BILE
damage and in others none. These
counties are in the southeastern fourth
of the state. What the lice have con-
tributed to the aggregate deterioration
is not apparent. but their most serious
injury is reported done in the thirteen
counties of Butler. Chautauqua, Cow
ley, Elk, Harper, Harvey. Kingman,
Marion, Mcpherson. Montgomery,
Sedgwick Sumner and Wilson. 1t is
in these that the largest areas will be
plowed up. Only one of the thousand
reporters mentioned the presence of
Hessian fly, and but two referred to
chinch bugs. Correspondents dwell on
the fact that fields showing the least
promise and the earliest to succumb
to unfavorable circumstances, have
been those seeded on stubble, in corn
stalks or on ground poorly prepared.
In numerous instances, too, where
stands were excellent and growth thrift
ty, overpasturing left the plants with
insufficient vitality to Withstand their
later trials.
10 to % per cent as likely to be
plowed up, Chautauqua, Butler, Mont
gomery and Elk being the worst, but
these have small wheat acreages. The
present returns, however, indicate
that but a small proportion of the
aggregate will be plowed up, approx
mately perhaps 6,2S9,OOO acres con-
stitute a larger field than was ever
previously devoted to winter wheat in
Kansas. and its general average con-
dition is reported as "a. The better
conditions are returned from the
western part of the state, and espe-
cially from the northwest.
In the twenty-five counties having
so per cent of the area sown to wheat
last fall essentially the same percent
age is plowed up as is reported for
the state, and the condition of that al
lowed to stand is given as S3, but one
point below the general average on
the whole.
One year ago the condition of the
6,239,041 acres left after all blowing
up was done. was se.5. and the crop
1914 bushels, or the greatest in
come bearing wheat crop grown. June
., two years ago, the condition of the
5,405.963 acres left standing was I'll,
greatest income bringer up to that
time.
The close of April exhibits Kansas
with an empire of growing wheat.
somewhat beset in places, but bravely
waving salUtes to her unfailing sun
shine and showers whose alchemy
transmutes them into gold.
The unfavorable conditions for
wheat have likewise been detrimental
to oats. and where these crops sus-
tanned most damage and promise
least, larger areas of corn would be
expected, although the general re-
turns al this time do not pressage
that a more than ordinarily large
acreage will be planted
Conditions I'm the Counties
The table below shows by counties
the probable area of winter wheat
sown in each last fall, the per cent
estimated plowed up, and the per cent
of present condition (based on 1000
for the remainder:
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LOSS OF TRAINED MEN
Uncle Sans Best Help Bought of by
Corporations.

Washington, April 3O-The con-
slant draft on the Economic force" Of
the geological survey made by large
mining organizations which offer the
government experts much larger sal
aries than they get from the govern
ment is seriously impairing the eff
cheney of that branch of the service
says survey report on the investiga-
ton of metalliferous ores in 1906 The
report adds:
1T is only by years of practical ex-
perfence in the field that the geologist
however excellent his preliminary
training, becomes competent to carry
on independent work in investigating
a mining district and the loss of train
ed men in this work is for a time ire
parable
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Kansas CITY live Stock.

Kansas City. Mo, April 90,-CATTLE5Moo
Receipts today, 10000 head, including. 400
head of southerns. Market steady. Native
steers, 81 1906 20; southern steers, $4.01a5.5o;
southern cows, So. 00G4. 60; native cows and
heifers 81. 1905 40; stockers and feeders,
So. 50G5. 90; bulls. $3,00@4. IS; calves, 5000
$50; western fed steers. 81. 25Q5.75; western
fed cows, S.. 25Q475.
HOGS Receipts today, 5000 head. Mar
ket steady to strong Bulk of sales &c 81 ssso
SIS; light. $500. 471z; pigs, $5.0oQ5. 60.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head
Market steady. Muttons, IS 25q6. 80; lambs;
ewes S.. OOl6. so.
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Chtcaoo Live stock Marker.

today, 5000 head. Market steady. Beeves
81. 20Q6. 80; cows, $1S0Q4.S0; heifers, $500
$5.30@6.5 so; poor to medium, $4.25do.2o );
stockers and feeders, $2.9Oq5.15
ket generally &c higher. Light, Sc: 45q6.65
mixed. s.: 4oaS 621z; heavy es W. Sc. 2Sg6.s7l |;
choice heavy. $6.45@1577z; bulk. s6.o2ls
$3.50.
Market steady Native, 81 50d6 80; west
ern, 81 50d6 80; yearlings, $7.00q7.75; lambs,
sc. 500D8. IS: western, $6500S.70.
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HE MISSES THE BUGLEs.
General Pond Has Heard Them for
Forty Years.

ST. Louis. April 30.-Brigadier Gen
eral Pond, recently retired from the
United states army, accompanied by
his wife, arrived today from Monterey
Mexico, en- route to Washington, D. c.
From there they will proceed to
Plattsburg. N. Y. Brigadier General
Pond said he felt like a fish out of
water"
81 miss the bugles," he said. "I've
been hearing them for 40 years, and
now I can not become accustomed to
waking up by an alarm Clock He
has been visiting his son in Mexico
since his retirement
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POLICE COURT NOTES.

Two more prisoners escaped from the
police matror this morning, ard the
police are hoping that they will keep
going. While Mrs. Thorpe. matron,.
was talking to visitor in her office,
Mary Dupree, serving a rs day SEN
tencc for street walking, and Carrie
Tense, opened the street door and walk
ed cut. They had been let out to
scrub the stairs leading to the wom-
ems ward and Mrs. Thorpe's Office.
Robert Larson, a youth who was ar
rested Sunday for being drunk, carry
ing a revolver and resisting an officer,
is on his way to the reformatory at
the institution several months ago, and
resumed his bad habits. Parole Off
Ger Crawford came after him today.
Harry Gruber. who has. made the po-
ice plenty of trouble in former days,
and closed by running away while
serving a sentence, returned to his
happy home in Parkdale last night, and
started rough house. His mother be
ing the only member of, the family
present. got the full benefit of his bad
spell" He abused her, wrecked the
furniture ard fms by upsetting the
table and breaking the dishes. About
that time Detectives Voiles and Keller
dropped in and removed the youth. At
the police station he was attached
with chain, to large lump OF metal,
and put TO work on the rock pile. His
elopement several weeks ago was due
to the absence of this weight As
Jailer Woodruff came out with the fix
ture he said; "Harrys.I have strong
attachment for you
Roy Crawford, ma mayer of the local
Crawford amusement Eouses, was ar
rested Monday on the charge of main
tanning a sign over a sidewalk The
offerse consisted of failing to remove
~, ofr-iP nT1K
Sixth and near the Santa Fe offices
on Ninth street. These signs are cleo
trio transparencies, directing the pub
lie TO the Grand opera house. Craw-
ford is the first man arrested on this
charge, but as the days of grace given
several other advertisers have expired,
further arrests are expected this af-
ternoon and tomorrow. The owners of
the signs were first warned to take
them down.
Marshall Flansburg and his wife.
Mrs Julia Flansburg, who were ar
rested Saturday night on a charge of
disorderly conduct. were discharged
last evening by Judge Urmy.~, There
was no evidence to convict them of
anything but excitement, which seem
ed to be due to a row with Norman
Frisbie, keeper of the hotel where the
FIansburgs resided. Mrs. Flansburg
SAYS the Frisbie children were in the
habit of assaulting the Flansburg
other weapons. She further stated
that when F1ansburg objected to the
performance, Frisbie had him arrested.
and then told the police to arrest her
on general principles.
Mrs. FHansburg complains that she
was not allowed to state the case in
police court. Judge Urmy would not
allow her to go into details because he
had found no evidence against her.
and intended to discharge them without
loss of time.
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Chicago, April q
. open aiSn LOW LIOSS Ne,

of Miss Annie Grow which took place
very suddenly yesterday in Kansas
CITY, Mo. Miss Crow was the daughter
OF MRS. John Littlejohn of North To-
peka, and had been in Kansas C,itv
working in a printing office and maxi
ing her home with her sister, Mrs.
Bert Streigel. Yesterday she was tax
en- seriously i'll while at work and
Ia1nted away. She was taken to the
home of her sister but never regained
consciousness and died at 4 O'clock.
The remains will be brought to Tope-
ka for burial and will be accompanied
by Miss Frances Crow. a sister of the
deceased. The funeral arrangements
have not yet been made.
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New york Produce Market.

New. York, April 30.-BUUTTER-Mark
weak Street price: Extra creamery, &c.
OFFICIAL prices: Creamery. common o to ex-
ira, 21@27c; held common to first 2OQ2oc;
CHEESElMarket firm. State full cream,
colored and white, small, September. fan
sam, good TO prime. 13@1414c; same, large
September fancy, 15c; ,l same ans; good to prime
EGGS-Market firm. Western storage,
packed. firsts, 171k@1Sc. Official price,
i711c; seconds 161zq17c-
spring chickens. 26@2Sc; fowls, 131zc; tur-
keys, lie Dressed quiet. Turkeys, 10914c;
fowls 10G14c.
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Kansas CITY Producc Market.

Receipts today, IS cars. Market closed 1z@
1c lower. with quotations as follows: May,
1850; July, 741sc; Sept, 7519c, Cash: NO;
red 7s@791ac; No. 8 red, 72@76c.
CORN-Market AQ14c lower: May, 49, :;
July 44Ac; Sept, Acc. Cash. No. mixed,
acc; No. 3 mixed, 451sc; No. white, 471ac;
No. white, 47c.
OATS-Market NC lower. No. white,
42s4c; No. mixed, 4214c.
RYE-Marl1et steady. No. 2, 6o@64c.
HAY-Market firm. Choice timothy, $l4-z5
6D15. 90; choice prairie, $9.50Q100O.
BUTTER Market weak. Creamery, 2Sc;
pd EGGS2Market steady. Fresh. 141kc.
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Burglnrs Secure $500.

Wichita, Kan. April 30.-Burglars
yesterday entered the grocery store Of
H P. Wolfberg, taking $500 in currency
and checks from the safe, small
amount of change from the cash regis
ter and some case goods. They enter
ed through the back door. The door
was locked and the key left in the
door,
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TO ENUMERATION
Guilty Slot Machines Are Burned and
the Ashes Scattered.

Butte, Mont. April So.-Hurled
from the third story of the court
house, after being condemned to In
cineration by Judge Bourquin, what
remained of twenty-five slot machines
were burned in the jail yard here to-
day. The machines were worth S3,-
900. 1t was found that all had been
manipulated so the higher premiums
could not be won.
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New York Money Market.

New York. April 30.-MONEY-Money on
call easy, 2d215 per cent; ruling rate "a,
closing bid and offered at per cent Time
loans irregular. Sixty day bills, 311, 30
day bills, 3s4. 6 months. AZ per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 51zGG
per cent; sterling exchange easy, with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at 81; S6106o
f. S615 for demand and at 81 S36f4. 1905 for so
day bills; posted rates. 4.S4 and $4S7; com
mercial bills, 81. S2A "A S2A.
SILVER-Bar silver, &c; Mexican dol
lars. 507sc
BONDS-CsoXernmen bonds easy.
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Cbicaro Produce Markell.

Chicago, Ill, April 9O.-CHEESE-Mar-
ket steady to firm. Daisies, 15c; Twins, lac;
Young Americas, 15c.
POULTRY-Alive poultry easy. Tur-
KEYS 12c: chickens and springs, 11zc.
BUTTER-Market steady. Creamery, $50
25c; dairy, 1SGD23c.
EGGS-Market firm. At mark, cases in
cluded, 1501511c.
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and ST. Louis rose szpoints and Chicago
Great Western preferred B rs points, while
Illinois Central fell point
Room traders were unable to move the
list either way. The market for the greater
part of the afternoon was in rut, but
just before o'clock Union Pacific recov-
cred its loss and Northwestern advanced
23s points.
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schaefer Going West.

Chicago. April 30.-Jacob Schaefer,
worlds champion 18.1 balk-line billiard
player, who has been sick at his home
In this city the last two weeks. is going
to California for his health the latter
part of this week. He will play exhibit
lions in few large cities in the west.
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Liverpool opening cables: Wheat Ad
lower; corn I'D higher.
Liverpool, 1:30 p. m: Wheat unchanged
Car lots at Chicago: Wheat, 65: corn,
ZIG; oats, 3o7.
n. w car lots wheat: Minneapolis, 165;
Duluth, 342. A year ago: Minneapolis, LEG;
Duluth 70.
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Kansas City Live Stock Smiles Today.

1.-The following sales were made today al
the stock yards, Kansas City, Mo. and
telephoned 10 The Topeka State Journal
by Clay, Robinson & Co.. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices ar all
markets.1
Kansas City, April 30.
CATTLElReceipts today, 10000 head.
Market opened slow and steady
HOGSEReceipts today 1900 head. Mar
steady Bulk Of sales, SIS. 35Q6.45 top, $3.50.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head.
a1lZa ste
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The Price of Health.

The price or health IN malarious dis
trict is just % cents; the cost of a box of
Slayton. OF holland, Ark. New Life pills
cleanse gently and impart new life and
vigor to the system. Sc Satisfaction
guaranteed by the Arnold Drug Co. S2I
North Kansas avenue.
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gar steady. Fair refining, 50 2593.25 cen
trifugal. 96 test, s.. 73@3.76 molasses sugar.
So. O06l3.01. Refined sugar quiet. Crushed,
$50; powdered, $40; graduated. $3.50.
COFFEE-Market steady. No. Rio,
65s064c; No. 4 Santos, 75sc.
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Capital Ark No. so, K. P. A., will
give an amateur theatrical perform
ance at K. P. hall, Sixth and Quincy,
Tuesday evening, April 80. Admis-
sion 10c. The public are invited.
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Cotton Market.


Galveston, Tex, April sO.-COTTON-
Market steady, 111zc.
New York, April 30.-COTTON-Sales to-
day. S75 bales; Spot cotton closed steady
and Is points higher. Middling gulf, ST.. 20;
middling uplands, $11.45.
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KIRK'6 JAP ROSE toilet and bath soar
u Is TRANSPARENT elear you can read
through it, AL druggists and grccers sell 1t.
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Market Gossip.

Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
CFurufshed by J. E. Gall, Commissions
Office 10 w. Sixth st. Phone 1856
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FURNISHED by J. E. Gall Commissions
Grains Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO w. Sixth street. Phone 4S6.l
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Topeka Hide Market
III ices paid in Topeka this week. hasa
on Boston Quotations1
Topeka, April 90
~ = % 6093 0e
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Chicago Markets.

II urnisheI b. j. l.. Gah, Commissions
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and SIocEs
O1lct 10 w. Skill street. Phone 400
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Robert Larson, a youth who was ar
rested Sunday for being drunk, carry
ing a revolver and resisting an officer,
is on his way to the reformatory at
Hutchinson. Larson was paroled from
the institution several months ago. and
resumed his bad habits. Parole Off
Ger Crawford came after him today
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FURNISHED by the City Hay Marleet "a
Quincy street -As
@12.O0. Aoose' III
ALFALFA-Loose. s14oo.
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Na,ionai Board of Trade. Kansas city.

IF,.s nished by ). e. Gall. ~ rnmlsslons.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office Ito w. Sixth street Phone 4S6l