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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-15

CHICAGO. April 15.-Wheat to-day open-
ed strong. prices advancing nearly l cent
above the close of yesterday in the early
trading. The bullish features were light
northwestern receipts and the absence OF
Ia to l. higher at S07. to 81. and sold at
81 "a. May corn was unchanged. at 81. and
sold at 67Ll.
May oats opened unchanged, at SO, and
sold at 53i].
May provisions opened weak. pork 1s,s
to Is lower. at 1904; lard oka5 lower,
at S.1ehaS1o. and ribs lower, at 7.021z.
The high point for May was 02ha02L
The market was Arm all day on reports
of dry weather in Kansas and 'Nebras ska.
The close was firm. with May s4a7s higher,
91laa9lss.
Wheat: May 31sa9lHs; July. SSH: Sep
tember SSssaS3a.
Corn: May. S54: July, sS7lasl; septem.
Der. S2s..
Oats: May. old SsK: May. a2,s: July,
old. 4aas: July. A.: September. 3Tssaslh
Pork: May. 1880: July. l322lA: Septem-
Der. l3.a2lsal3 1890.
Lard: May, s.U2la; July. s.22lt Septem-
Der. S.4Y,.
Ribs: May. ss7,.; July. 7.loh: septem.
ber I.3IIi.
Rye: Cash. IS
Barley: Cash. 8SaS3
: Timothy: April. 40.
Glover: Nothing doing.
Prices held steady and with range OF
one-half cent. The close was steady, with
May 4 higher, at 67h
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Government Securities
WOULDN'T MARRY AN ORPHAN
So Orphan Folded Wedding Dress
and Killed Herself.

NEW YORK. April 15.-Ella Schweitzer
stopped sewing on her white satin we'd
ding dress yesterday afternoon after she
had read the letter from her iance which
was brought by the postman to her
uncle's home at 1863 Hancock street.
Williamsburg. where the orphan girl had
lived for years.
She put the dress away in a drawer.
Then she laid on a table in the sitting
room all of her trinkets and bits Of jew
elry with a little written tag on each
saying to whom they should go. There
was little chip diamond ring for her
dearest chum Mary. coral necklace for
another girl. her prayerbook. that was
once her mothers. left to her uncle Henry
Schweitzer. After the girl had made dis
position of all her possessions she left a
note saying: please bury me in my we'd
ding dress
Then she locked all the doors of the
house, her uncle being away at his bust
ness at the time. and attaching a gas
tube to the fixture. she lay down on a
sofa and inhaled the gas until she was
dead.
The uncle found the girls body last
night when he went home from his work.
He also found the letter from the f1ance
1t was signed only LOUSY and said in
one part: y
You have deceived me. thought that
Henry Schweitzer was your father. I
have just found out that he was your
uncle and that you are an orphan. can
not marry you"
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COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK. April 15-The cotton mar
ket opened Arm at an advance of 1a13
points in response OF better cables than
due. talk of too much rain in the western
belt and covering of shorts. There was
no aggressive buying, however, and it
looked as though local traders were fear
full of a renewal of liauidations in the
near months. At any rate the market was
nervous after the opening and during the
middle OF the morning sold OF to within
3a5 points of last nights finals on the ac-
tive months.
Futures opened firm. May s91:
June. 9.s2: July. 9.O3: August, S.31: Oc-
tober. 9O2; November offered, 9O2: De-
cember and January. 3.N5: March, 90.
The market was very quiet late in the
about to points net higher. while new
crop positions were relatively steady on
wet weather reports, and about points
net higher. There we're reports OF
cloudburst In Mississippi.
Spot cotton quiet: middling uplands
1000: middling gulf. 10.25al0.2s.
Estimated receipts at the ports today,
10000 bales. against 20.55s last week and
bales. against IS. 500 last week and SO. es5
last year Todays receipts at New Or
leans. 6,c35 bales. against 1889 last year,
and at Houston. 1906 bales, against 5,e4f
last year.
LIVERPOOL, April 15.-Spot cotton {:
Moderate business done: prices un.
changed: American mddling. fair. s1o:
good mddling. J.s6; middling, $50; low
middling. SIG: good ordinary 4.72; ordi-
nary. 4.22. The sales of the day were
100 bales. OF which 800 were for specu-
lation and export. and included $500
American. Receipts. 1000 bales. no
american. Futures opened steady and
closed quiet and steady. April. JO7l,:
April-May. 5.Hs: May-June. 5O3la June
July. 5:Gls: July-August. 30h2: August
September, 4.9i. September October, 4Jo;
October November. $50: November-De
cember. 4.sS: Overwhelmingly, 1854:
January-February, AS
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LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

Some Of the trading at today's meeting
Of the stock exchange was centered in the
bond list. One of the brokers had some
small lots of the 6 per cent certificates Of
the gas company for sale and disposed of
a portion at 1N1a. and still had some
which he WAS willing to sell at the same
but there was no more demand for them.
This is about the level of prices which
have prevailed Of late for these securi-
ties. and while there has not been much
done in them. still the gradual shelving
off I'm the premium which has been in
progress since their issue five years ago
has attracted attention and has given rise
to gossip as to the possible plans OF the
company. On the LIST of June Of this
year the certificates will become redeem
able at any time at par. or it is within
them outstanding until 1923.
When first issued. some five years ago.
they sold readily at 100. which is on a
per cent basis. but the falling away in
the premium has been looked Upon as an
indication that the option Of the company
would be exercised. although there has
never been any statement made or any
official announcement as to what was in
tended.
A bid of 70. which is fractionally better
than the highest recent selling price of
the bonds Of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company, was made for three OF
the bonds. There was none offered at less
than 1875, and 50 there was no trading.
There was not much done ir the rest of
the list. and in that respect the day closed
much as has other days of late.
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Southern Pacific Meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 1o.-The
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
which owns the $500 miles of line from
San Francisco to FL Paso, including both
the San Joaquin and the coast routes to
Los Angeles, and has a capital stock of
$50. 100000. had it's annual meeting of
stockholders here yesterday.
or the total of 100000 shares the nine
men who attended voted 1.5g9.9OO shares
for the following eleven directors, who
were unanimously elected:
w. D. Cornish, f. f. Calvin. c. H.
Redinxton, William F.. Herrin. l. w. Holt
man, Homer S. King, James x. Wilson,
DR.. r. K Ainsworth. H. A. Jones, Will
liam Hood and j. l.. Willcutt
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THE BALTIMORE MARKETS.
-iai Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Nd. April l5.-wHEAT-
Fifmer: SPOT contract. ~ ,a94a.; spot No. = rrt
western sl.aya,s: April. 9liaa94a.: May. 85I.,
eSis: July. .tOia asked; steamer No. 2 red
grade. ROAD
CORN-Dull; spot mixed, 6s'sasa: No. z white
6aI,aIrss: April. 6S,su6a: May. G9l4a83ss: July
10 sG5 bushels: exports 700 bushels: sout AerI
white rorn. SIa1o: southern yellow corn
G,iI ,afiaS
OArS-Steady: No. 2 white 57I1a59: No.
white. siA5s: No. mixed. ;Jiaaj6; receipts
:, ~, bushels.
RYE-Dull: No western domestic SASS.
HAY-Essier: No. ! timothy. 1870 asked No
/ clover mixed. I4.GOal4.5O.
GRAIN FREItiHTS-Very quiet UNCHANGED.
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IN TROUBLE.
Receiver Appointed for Great Lon
don Railway

LONDON. April 1j.-Londons great sys-
tenn of underground railways and tubes is
in financial difficulties. Its affairs are
complicated but as precautionary
measure the courts today appointed Sir
George Glib, chairman and managing
director of the Metropolitan District Rail-
way Company and Underground Electric
Railway Company. receiver for the latter
company. which constructed the latest
TUBE railway and electrified the old under
ground concern. 1t has issued capital
amounting to about S61 .OGo.ONV
The application for the receivership was
made by Speyer Brothers. the bankers.
who are the largest holders of the COM
pany'S securities. There was no opposi-
ton to this action, which was necessary
in order to avert the possible shutting
down of all the lines by action of smaller
creditors.
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Paris Art Show Opens.

PARIS. April 15.-The eighteenth annu-
al exhibition of the Societe des BeauX
Arts was opened today at the Grand Pa
lais by President Fallieres with the ira
ditonal ceremony of such occasions. The
reputation of the salon. which precedes
by a fortnight the great classic spring
exhibition Of the Societe des Artists
Francois, has considerably deteriorated
of late years. and this years exhibition
lacks anything remarkable or of star
ting Importance.
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First Race at Aqueduct.

AQUEDUCT. n. Y, April 1o.-First race,
for three-year-olds and upward. selling;
FIVE furlongs Pantouf1e. 1O7 (Bergen). 10
to and & to I, won: Voorhees,. 1OI CIV.
Doyle). to :. place. second: Frank Lord,
lN3 (ShillingD. s to : to show. third. Time.
LOO -. Momentum, Nanno, Berrymaid
and Bigot also ran.
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THE FOREIGN BANKS.

PARIS, April l3-Three per cent rente.
a6 francs 37L7 centimes for the account
Exchange on London - francs, l2L cen.
times for checks.
BERLIN. April i5.-Exchange on Lon
don ~ marks. AL. pfennigs for checks
Discount rates. short and three months
bills, per cent.
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Closing Quotations.


At the close of the stock exchange tn
Following stocks had changed fin prfc
since above quotations, there being n
change in balance Of the closing prices:
Amalgamated Copper. J87t
American Beet Sugar Co.. 1914.
American Can Co, pfd.. SIX.
American Car & Foundry, 3D.
american Car & Foundry, pfd.. OILY.
american Cotton OIL Co, 26a.
Am. Ice Securities. 4..
Am. Locomotive. 44ss.
Am. Smelling. $685..
Anaconda. 49,.
Atchison, Top. & g. Fe. 76..
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, II.
Canadian Pacific. l,o.
Central Leather. -
Chesapeake and Ohio. 31sI.
Chicago. Mil. and st. Paul, lis.
Chicago and NV. 14Sh
Colorado Fuel and Iron. 2.311s
Colorado Southern. ISL.
Consolidated Gas. lis.
Corn Products. -.
Del. Lack. and West, as
Distillers' Securities, :,Oa.
Erie. common. III.
Erie, LIST preferred, 34A.
Erie, I'd pfd.. 23is.
Great Northern Ore. 81
Great Northern. pfd.. 122ss.
Interboro Metropolitan. 10.
1nterboro Metropolitan. pfd. 27ss.
Mo. Kansas and Tex. COM. 24h
NJ. S. p. & 8. s. NJ. 112la.
Missouri Pacific 49,.
New York Air Brake. 60.
Northern Pacific, 1854
Pennsylvania r. r., 1161..
Peoples Gas of Chicago, s9%.
Pressed Steel Car, :.,s3h.
Reading. 1U.s.
Republic Iron and Steel. 17h.
Republic Iron and Steel. pfd., 6S.
oss-Sheff1eld Steel, 49,.
Southern Pacific. -.
Southern Railway. pfd., 39A.
Union Pacific. 127
u. g. Steel. "a
L. 8. Steel. pfd.. %
Utah Consolidated, 30
Va. Car. Chem. Com, 1914.
Wabash, TO-
Western Union. j31a
Westinghouse Elect. Man., .s5ls
Wooden Goods. 2Us.
BONDS.
b. r. r. IS 71h.
marlborough Met. AIS GS7s.
United States Steel 5s. 95N.
Union COnver. A. bJia.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales. Regular call. IL O'clock noon-W ashing
ton Gas cert. Is. $500 at 1O4H. 500 at lO41a.
Capital Traction Is. 500 at 11Oh.
Capital Traction. 20 at 1874.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd.. at "A.
Washington Gas 2S at 8OH. ) at eos.
Mergenthaler Linotype. at l93a..
Mitchell Mining. 100 at u. 100 at y. 100 at u
After call-washineton Rwy. and Elec. pfd.
10 at -.
Capital Traction. 8 at 100.
Washington Rwy. and Flee. pfd.. 1 at "a.
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The World of
Finance and Trade
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished by ". B. Hibbs & Co.. bank
ers and brokers. Hibbs building. members
New York Stock Exchange. Washington
Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Of
Trade
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Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
$1.3lS.9 95. Government re-
ceipts: From internal revenue 3776.452:
customs. $1.031. S11: miscellaneous, $685.
p57. Expenditures, $2,33O.OO.
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This statement is somewhat at variance
with most reports that have come to hand
regarding the matter. This man says that
his informant told him that. in spite of
the scarcity Of currency late in the fall
and early in the winter. wheat was car
rfed forward from the northwest in a con-
siderably larger volume than was cur
rently reported. He also says that ac-
cording 20 the judgment and statement
of his informant the traffic of the north
western roads will continue pretty light I'M
til this years crops begin to move The de-
gree of activity in the Butte district will,
of Course. Ae an important factor in the
traffic of the Northern Pacific, and the
extent to which the lumber industry in
the far northwest revives will also play
an important part in the gross earnings
OF both the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern. At the present time the lumber
business is still very dull
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Bar silver. quiet 2S.ad per ounce.
Money 2a2I. per cent.
The rate Of discount in the open market TO
short bills is 2iYa2as per cent
The rate Of discount in the open market TO
three month bills is 2hta2s. per cent.
sEx. div
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BULLS AND BEARS

NEW YORK, April 15.-Although the
activity in the stock market. which lasted
for three weeks recently, began unex-
pectedly during the last hour of trading
on Saturday. it is not belieyed by most
observers that Wall street will be given
a similar surprise today or tomorrow. On
the contrary, 1t is thought that the trad
Ing will be on an extremely small scale
and Of an almost entirely professional
character. In spite of the three weeks of
activity. to which reference has been
made. and the prediction is some circles
that the market will steadily improve
from this time on. there is a remarkable
absence of interest in it's immediate flu
ture. Even the most active spectators
seem to think that for time. unless
something very unfavorable develops to
carry prices down suddenly. it will be
possible to make only meager profits on
day to day transactions.
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CURB QUOTATIONS.

Quota lions furnished by f. F. Hutton 4 Co.,
members New York Stock Exchange: Il. Bowie
Chapman, manager. 1901 st.
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AtldntlC coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio. :.
Brook Rapid Tran.
Canadian Pacific.
c., c.. c. & ST. l..
entral Leather. !.
Cent. Leather. pfd J..
Chesapeake & Ohio.
Chi. Great Western
Chi. Mil. G. St. P.
Chicago & n. w.
Col. Fuel e. Iron.
Colorado Southern. j..
c. & H. c. & L..
Consolidated Gas.
Corn Products.
Corn Products. pfd.
Delaware & Hudson
Del. Lac. & West :.
Den. & Rio Grande.
Distillers' Securities
Erie. common. 800.
Erie. LIST pfd.
Erie. I'd pfd.
General Electric.
Great Nor. Ore.
Great Nor. pfd. -.
Illinois Central.
lnterboro Met.
Interobro Met. pfd.
International Paper
X. G. Southern.
X. e. Southern. pfd
Louisville & Nash.
Mackay Co..
Mackay Co.'S. pfd.
Mexican Central.
NJ. K. & r.. com.
NJ. X. & T.. pfd.
NJ. S. p. & s. 9. NJ.
Missouri Pacific.
National Biscuit Co.
National Lead.
N. Y. Air Brake.
New York Central.
n. Y, Chi. & St. L.
n. Y. Ont. & West.
Norfolk & Western.
Northern Pacific.
Pac. Mail Steamship
Pennsylvania R.R..
Peoples Gas of Chi.
Pressed Steel Car. :.
Railway s. 8. Co.
Reading ...........
Rep. Iron and Steel
Rep. I. and S., pfd.
Rock Island, com.
Rock Island. pfd.
Sloss-Shemeld Steel
s. l.. 4 s. F..2d pfd
St. Louis wv. pfd.
Southern Pacific.
Southern Pac., pfd.
Southern Railway.
Southern Rwy.. pfd.
Tennessee Copper.
Toll. st. L. 4 W.
r.. g. l.. 4 W.. pfd.
Union Pacific. ......
Union Pacific. pfd.
U. s. Rubber. .......
Z. s. Rubber. pfd.
L. 8. Steel.
L. s. Steel. pfd.
Utah Copper. .......
Va. Car. Chem. Co.
Wabash
Wabash. pfd..
Western Union. 80.
West. Elec. Man..
Wisconsin Central.
Wis. Central. pfd.
Wooden Goods. 49,.
Wooden Goods, pfd.
BOZ
Am. Tobacco Is.
Am. Tobacco IS.
B. r. +. A..
inter. Met. 4ks. -.
Rock Island 4s....
u. 8. Steel 5s.
Union Conver. Is.
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The large loss in gross earnings for the
month Of March reported by both the
Great Northern and the Northern Pacific
has attracted considera BILE attention In
March of last year the traffic of those
roads was recovering from the heavy win
ter storms. and the business handled
during March of this year is in COMPARE
son with very heavy volume for the
corresponding month of 1907. A man who
has just arrived from the northwest and
who is vitality interested in the affairs of
some of the railroads in that territory
says that he was informed that the ele-
vators to large extent are bare Of wheat
and that the amount in the farmers hands
is also small
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
MANY LAND SEEKERS.

There has been a constant daily in crease in the number of land seekers visiting Calexico since the first of the year, to see for themselves conditions here, while others are purchasing.
 Among the sales of the past week was tract of 24O acres one and a half miles northeast of Calexico, sold by Waite Preston to S. P. Smith of Louisville, Ky. The purchase price was S1O0 per acre. Mir. Smith and his son will locate on the property and will ship here from Kentucky several carloads of fine stock.
 Leroy Abrams of Stanford has sold to T. J. Wilson of Long Beach and w. P. Wilson of Lawrance, Kan, a tract of 160 acres two miles east of Heber, for $77.5O per acre. They will improve the land at once. A forty acre ranch one-half mile east of Heb CT, has been sold by Beach & Dool to c. H. Taylor of Long Beach for $75 per acre. Taylor comes here to re- side.-Calexico Chronicle.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
ROOSEVELT'S MANIA"

The Union Pacific, which is E. H. Hartman, is cutting down it's working force, and the official who does MT. Harri- mans talking announces that the policy of throwing men out of employment will be continued so long as Roosevelt's mania for reform" lasts.
 President Roosevelt's mania for reform" manifests itself in proceedings to punish MT. liar riman for systematically, delib- erately and elaborately violating the law of the land, and to com pei him to cease his predatory lawlessness. The Department of Justice, inspired by the Ire form maniac" accuses E. H. Hartman, Jacob H. Schiff, Otto H. Kahn, James Stillman, Hen ry c. Prick, Henry H. Rogers and William A. Clark of having conceived and carried out a con- spiracy to destroy competition in transcontinental traffic, in di- rect violation of law, and has begun suits to break up the liar riman monopoly.
 The public is in sympathy with the Roosevelt 'mania," and the Southern Union Pacific : Standard Oil lawbreakers pro pose to make the public suffer for cherishing the insane delu- sion that the law can and should be enforced against those who sit in the seats of the mighty as well as against the man on the street. If Roosevelt is maniac on the subject of reforming the bad habits of railrogues, he is only one of some eighty or a hundred millions of crazies in- festing these United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01

a mischievous error. The cleo tion was not contested, is not contested, never will be contest ed. The futile vociferousness of a few bad losers does not con- stitute an election contest. Those pernicious pinheads have no scruples about misrepresenting and injuring the whole county by venting their petty spite and disgruntlement. They would burn down a house to roast a pig.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01

The San Diego papers have no desire to do anything detri- mental to the interests of Inn perial Valley, but by .neglecting to ascertain facts before writ ing about valley affairs they sometimes assist in disseminat- ing injurious transformation. The Tribune, for instance, takes a foolish story that was printed one day and taken back the next in an Imperial paper, overlooks the contradiction and editorially asserts that the decision in the Salton Sea damage suit is likely to deprive the Holton Power plant of water. The utter base lessness of the story was shown by the Press on Jan. II, and the motive inspiring the yarn was exposed. The Tribune was merely careless in it's attempt to follow Imperial Valley affairs and in it's reliance for informa- tion upon a source notoriously unreliable.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01

Railroads, especially in Penn sylvania, have owned and oper- ated coal mines for years in di- rect violation of law and of the terms of their charters. They have denied the facts persistent ly. Now there is a federal law requiring them to dispose of the mines and get out of the coal producing business by May 1, and the officers of the companies ask the President to suspend the law because it is not convenient for them to obey it. Enforce ment of laws is what the rail- roads term raids on prosper ity."
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
ID WOODLAND GATES, IN. ATTORNEY

Munsey Bldg, Washington, D. c.
 Late Private Secretary to United States Senators Stevhen M White and Thomas R. Bard. Land and other de- partmental practice; also Congressional business. Refers, among others, to United States Senators Frank P. Flint and George C. Perkins, California dele gation in House of Representatives Hon. Thomas R. Bard, Hon. R. J. Wat CTS, Gen. H. G. Otis, Hon. A. G. Hub bard, Los Angeles Chamber of Com merce, Los Angeles City Aqueduct.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
Mexican Bridqe.

Steps have been taken to secure the building of bridge across the New River at Mexicali, as at present it is necessary for Mexicans to enter the United States, cross the river on the bridge recently erected here, and then return to the other side of the boundary if they wish to reach the lands opposite Mexicali.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
Aid For New Road.

The boulevards committee of the chamber of commerce reported at the meeting of the directors that the su. pervisors had promised to lend their aid for the improvement of the high way between this city and the I'm perial Valley.-San Diego Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01

If the Republican Senators think they will be backed by the people in a quarrel with the President, they had better take a day off and think again. Or if they think they do not have to pay attention to public opin- ion, they have another think coming.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-01
cantaloupe Land Ready.

Messrs. Dawson and Scott, recent arrivals in the valley, who have leased tract of land east of Holtyille, have twenty acres of land prepared for planting cantaloupes. They also in. tend to set out quite an area of land to tomatoes.