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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK. December 3.-The cotton
market opened steady at an advance Of
:;a6 points and sold to . points net
higher right after the call in response to
better Liverpool cables. talk of steadier
interior markets, bull support and cover
ing. Offerings of December seemed
slightly heavier at the advance and a re-
action of > or points in that position
checked the upward movement but the
market held generally steady and within
point of the best during the middle Of
;he morning.
Futures opened steady. December. o o.
h30; January. S.96. March, S94; May, $50;
July. sos; October S.66
The market eased off from the best dur
ing the late forenoon under scattered real
1zins and moderate local selling in the abb
Sence of aggressive support with Decem-
her selling within l point of last night s
close. while other months were :; to ;
points net higher at midday
Spot quiet: middling uplands. 90; mid
Tiing gulf. $50.
Estimated receipts at the ports TODAY
10000 bales, against J4,202 last week and
f'i66 last year. For the week $4,000
bales. against 436.1O1 last week and 30
81 last year. To0ays receipts al New
Orleans. 2.J4, bales against 1904 last
year. and at Houston. 1851 bales. against
l.Go6 last year.
Liverpool Cotton Prices.
LIVERPOOL December 3-Closng:
iotton-Spot, quiet: prices points high
CT: American middling fair. 80: good
middling, ZIG: middling. 5G2 low mid
ding. 4s2; good ordinary. 4.3l: ordinary,
39l The sales of the day were 6.DU
bales. of which 800 were for speculation
and export. and included $500 American.
Receipts, 1900 bales, including 1890
American. Futures opened steady and
",osed quiet: December 4161e. December
aad January, 40: January and February
40; February and March 4.14: March
and April. iI3i2: April and May 4I4
May and June, "A: June and July, 474:
July and August. 4.13. August and Sep
TENDER. As; September and October 463
October and November. ASK; November
and December. 80; December and Janu-
stGy. 4.55le; January and February. 30
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, December 3.-Builish senti-
ment in the wheat pit had subsidized ma
teriaIly today and the market early in the
session was barely steady. May opened
a to J.. lower at 1885 to HOS. and sold
at 110A.
NAV corn opened shade lower to 1915
higher at 621aa623s to 625s. sold at 6212
and then rallied TO 62$4-
May oats opened unchanged to 1saA
higher at 51ls 10 Jl$s and advanced to
DIS
Provisions opened ) to ~ over.
Trade was quiet all day and the wheat
market was heavy the greater part of the
time: covering by shorts was about the
only support. The close was firm, with
Nav 19a9s higher at 1.109s.
The corn market rallied later on cover
ing by shorts based an official fore
cast of unsettled weather for the corn
belt May advanced to 631sa63l4c.
The close was strong. with May al 63lsa
GA
Close: December wheat, 1Oots: May,
LOS: July. 1O33sa1 .03$4.
Corn-December. 61a4: May. 63isa63A
July, 6234 September. 629s.
Oats-December, 49R: May. 521sao2A;
July. AIS.
Pork December, 14.4O; January, 1917;
May. 16.22ia.
Lard-December, 9.15; January, go;
May. $40.
Ribs-December. $40: January, S.3213a
$50; May. S.512.
Rye-Cash, &c; December, 1917; May,
1914
Barley-Cash, 59a64k
acknowledgements $50: March, 39J
CloVer-December, $50; March, 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

Gas stock continues to be strong in the
trading on the local exchange, and at the
meeting to day an option on the stock
was sold, a transaction which has not &C.
Cured for some time past.
In this case IS was given for an option
on 100 shares, and several lots were sold
at 67A and 671s. One of the brokers Of
fered TO sell 800 shares for 6S, but without
result. The bid at the close was S7as and
Ga asked
Washington railway bonds sold for Sc
and S61s, and then the asking price was
S6l4.
An advance was made in the bid for the
bonds of the telephone company from
104i., which was recorded yesterday, to
1o61s. with the asking price 1917. The
new financing plan for the company,
which had just been announced by the
papers filed in Albany, n. Y, in which
state the company secured its charter.
contemplates. as stated in this column
yeterday, large increase in the capital
stock. and it is assumed that a portion of
the new issue will be used in redeeming
the bonds or to be exchanged on some
basis which has not as yet been made
known.
There is also a good demand at bet
ter figures for the Potomac Electric
LlSnt DOnuS OF the nrSt issue, Dut the
transactions in them are not numerous.
The stock of the United States Trust
Company sold for 90 and that was the
bid, with the asking price at 81.
1t is noticed by those who have ex-
amined the statements just issued by
the various financial institutions of the
city that great strength is shown in
the cash reserves and also an increase,
a nf 20
The amount of money now in the banks
is sufficient to finance quite a volume
of business aand one that is much larger
so 1t is thought, than what is repre-
scented by current transactions.
An arrangement has been made by
which Robert n. Harper will buy the
seat on the exchange owned by G.
Bowie Chapman. The consideration is
not named, but it is said the figures
are close to $4,000.
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THE BALTIMORE MARKETS

Special Dispatch To The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. December 3.-WHEAT-
Easier; spot contract 0oli al .O61s spot No =
rcd western. l.osi, al .oS'iS: December OGi "a
U6ss: January. LOO sal 0t$s; May, 1.l2ss asked
steamer No. red. 03i al OBS; receipts 4I,s!
bushels exports. $4,000 bushels: southern on
grade. t.o:ial.H .
CORN-Steady: new spot contract 61aG1i.
year, 6ia6Tis: January, G6@sa6iia: February
66sSst6a, steamer mixed. 6Ia6iis: receipts
-: 80 bushels; exports. a. 2S6 bushels: new
southern white corn. Gl2iaGGa. southern
yellow corn, 6l5. a66S,.
oATS-Firm: No. . white. ;,5r. sales: No =,
white. 54Isa55; No mixed 13txa5i; receipts
.aIO bushels.
EYE-Firm: No. western export, SoaS2t,: re-
Ceipis, LOGS bushels
HAY Firm. unchanged
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Qdict.
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Princess de Broglie Seeks Divorce

PARIS, December 3.-The Princess de
Broglie. who was Miss Estelle Alexander
of San Francisco, and later married 8. B.
Veit of Chicago, has begun divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband on the
ground of desertion. She is singing in
Paris restaurants to earn livelihood for
herself and children and every night she
makes round of the better known cafes.
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Brown & Co. Schedule Filed.
Dispatch TO The Sta.

Special DlspaIch 10 The Sta'.
NEW YORK. December 3.-The sched-
ule of a. O. Brown G. Co, the bankrupt
brokerage firm. and also the schedules OF
the individual members Of the firm were
filed in the United States district court to-
day. The firms schedule gives liabilities
of 81 .69a. G,o65 The assets are given as
s., 22S, ISL
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tEx-dividend per cent
Closing Quotations.
AT the close of the stock market the
following stocks had changed in price
since above quotations there being no
change in balance of the closing prices:
RAILROADS.
AtchiSon, top. S. Fe., com, ?Sl4.
Atchison. Top. e. S. Fe.. ptd.. lo2.
Baltimore x Ohio. pfd.. 1o7&
Chesapeake Il Ohio. Jol..
Chicago & y. W, com, 11i14
Colorado & Southern. com, I2i4
Denver & Rio Grande, pfd.. 49,.
Erie, com, :S2l2-
Great Northern. pfd., 1il.s.
Illinois Central. l4Sis.
Interboro Metropolitan, ptd., :i4..
Kansas City Southern, COM, Bis
Kansas City southern pfd.. 669s
Louisville & Nashville. 12l5s.
Mo, Kansas and Tex, COM. Is
Mo-. Kansas and Tex. pfd.. TIA.
NJ. S. p. and S. S. NJ, COM, 1875.
Missouri Pacific, 6JL.
New York Central and Hud. R, 116i2.
y. Y. Ontario and Western. 45A.
Norfolk and Western. $50.
Rock Island, com, 2il..
Rock Island. pfd., 60as.
Southern Pacific, com. llIa,.
Southern Railway, conf, 2Iil.
Southern Railway. pfd., 5S's.
Texas & Pacific. :31s
nlfu ave,
Union Pacific, com. 1885
Wabash, com, lI12.
Wabash, pfd.. 31Ss.
Wis Central, com. "G's
Wis Central pfd.. g.
INDUSTRIALS.
Anal. Copper. S31a.
Am Car & Fdry, COM, ib"s.
Am Ice Securi.. 2.,3s.
Am. Tel. and Tel. I'D.
Am Wooden. pfd.. 93l..
Central Leather. com, ISIS.
Colorado Fuel and Iron. com. - y
Col and Hooking Coal and Iron, 24"s
Great Northern Ore, t3i2.
National Lead. com, SIS.
Pacific Mail Steamship. 3ti".
Peoples Gas of Chicago. 100.
Pressed Steel Car, com, $50
Tennessee Copper. i4A.
t. S. Cast Iron Pipe, com, 2Jli
L. S. Rubber. com. :i43s.
L. S. Steel. com. 54i..
L. 5. Steel. pfd., 112i&.
Va. Car. Chem, COM, 4"as
Va. Iron Coal & Coke, "a.
Westinghouse Flee, Man., ssh.
BONDS.
Chi. Rock Isl. & Pac. As. 1875.
Inter. Metro. 4as.. 74fs.
Penna Convert. :;Es. 1915, 9IS4.
Union Pacific Convert. As. 1855.
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TRADING LESS ACTIVE
Irregular Recovery Followed a
Depressed Opening.
FEW TRADE INCENTIVES
Americans Quite Heavy in the
London Market.
FOREIGN HOUSES SELLERS
I Union Pacific and Reading Led Rail-
ways-Consolidated Gas and
General Electric Indus
trial Features.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK. December 3.-There were
no particular incentives in todays gen
eraI financial situation for the making of
new speculative ventures on either side
OF the account. The stock market open
ed for the most part materially below yes
ferday'S closing prices, but the depres-
sion did not continue long and was in
fact followed by irregular. but quite
general recovery. Such declines as were
recorded in the initial transactions APP
peared to represent little more than a
renewal of the markets tendencies yes
1erday afternoon.
American shares were. however. quite
heavy in the London stock market and
that circumstance furnishes further
pretext for operations for a fall. Foreign
houses were sellers in the local market of
about 20GD0 shares of stock.
Money market circumst ances were prac-
ticaily the same as those noted yesterday,
being firm and active. Sterling exchange
was shade easier. but additional Ship
ments of gold are generally reckoned
upon next week.
Although, as noted above, the opera
tons here for foreign account We're on
the selling side, the London stock market
was generally steady. The discount rate
of the Bank of England was left I'M
changed at 212 per cent and the bank
weekly statement was a satisfactory eX-
hibit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
Berlin Ratifies Treaty.

BERLIN December 3.-The bundesrath
today ratified the treaty of commerce be-
tween Salvador and Germany
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Liverpool Grain Prices.

LIVERPOOL, December 3-Closing:
Wheat-Spot firm: No. red western win
ter, SIS Id: futures quiet: December, os:
March. as 9l4d; May, Is sgd. Corn-Spot
steady: American mixed new via Calves
tom. Us 3lsd; futures dull; January, 5s
SD; March, Us 53sd.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. II o'clock noon--Washing-
ton Rwy. and Elec. Is. 81 600 at S61s, 81 900 at
So. 81 900 at S6ls. $1,000 al S6L.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd., at sc.
Washington Gas 10 at G7la. 100 at SO (buyer
COZ. % at 67A, ) at G713. 10 at 67&s.
United States Trust. 10 at S6, 10 at 90.
American Graphophone COM, Il Mt 1914
American Graphophone pfd.. 1875 at 1919.
After call-Washington Rwy. and Elec As.
81 900 at S61s.
Washington Rwy. and Flee. pfd., at ssh.
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The World of Finance and Trade
Washington; New York; London.
new YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished by w. b. Hibbs & Co. bank
ers and brokers. Hibbs building, members
New York Stock Exchange. Washington
Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of
Trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
FINANCIAL.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF the
American Security and Trust Co.,
At Washington in the District Of Columbia a,
the close Of business November ~, 1908.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
Firmer Tone for Money.

In view of the firmer tone of the money
market there was rather more discussion
with regard to the outlook for the bank
statement Saturday. particularly as the
banks have lost to the subtreasury in
their operations with that institution since
Friday last nearly S5.00O.O0O On account
of the irregular tendencies which have
prevailed in the stock market throughout
the week there was also much conjecture
as to sthe probable changes in the loan
item in the bank statement.
During the greater part of the business
session upon the stock exchange trading
was conducted upon a smaller scale of
activity than has prevailed recently.
Leading stocks In respect of animation
We're Union Pacific, Reading. Northern
Pacific. Great Northern preferred, St.
Paul and United States Steel common.
The United States Steel issues exhibited
uncertain tendencies. for which the pros
peCtive. revision of the tariff was held re-
sponsible. although. on the other hand
there was more general recognition evil
dent of the exaggerated character of the
reports with respect to the improvement
in steel trade conditions since election
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
Pacific Mail a Feature.

Consolidated Gas and General Electric,
together with Pacific Mail. were relative
~ firm features of the industrial and mis-
ceilaneous group. The strength of Pacific
Mail was accompanied by quite positive
assertions with regard to the recommend
alton which the President will make in
his Forthcoming message to Congress.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
general tenor of the document in ques-
ton was discussed and forecasted with
the freedom customary in Wall street
previous TO the regular publication of the
message.
The commodity markets were again
steady. although some Improvement in
the condition of the winter wheat crop
was reported as the result of the recent
greater precipita alton of moisture.
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NEW YORK CURB PRICES.

Quotations furnished 10y r.. +. Hinton & Co.
members New York Stock Exchange; c. Bowie
Chapman, manager, 1901 ST. NV.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION

United States Savings Bank.
AT washington. In the District Of Columbia nj
the close Of business November 81 zoos
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RESOURCES


Loans on collateral ...l. S4,l
Loans on real estate. ............ 1888,
Discounts .............. Ak
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. 81
Bonds. securities. etc. 1,57O,t
Banking house, furniture. fixtures
md
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-21
NOT ON SAME BASIS.
Mr.. johnson Tells Difference Be-
tween Trusts and Labor Unions.

Pittsburg, Kan, April 21.-State
Labor Commissioner W. L. A. John
son spoke last evening at big union
labor meeting held for the purpose of
protesting against the recent decision
of the United States supreme court in
the Buck stove case, in which it was
held that the antitrust laws apply to
labor unions as well as to combina-
tons of capital. The meeting is in
tended to urge congress to enact
legislation remedial of such condi-
tions.
In discussing the difference between
combination of capital and a COM
blnation of labor. Mr.. Johnson said:
"A trust that operates in restraint
of trade is combination of in
dividuals who by their use of their
combined capital, monopolize and
control the supply of ommodities to
such an extent that the great mass
of consumers are at their mercy and
that such combination may be the
sole dictator as to the prices of such
commodity. What is their purpose?
To add untold Accommodations to their
already large capital. In other words,
to make money; to make profit re-
CARELESS of the sitting of individual
enterprises or the throttling of those
who desire the opportunity to engage
In business as competitor. 1t is in
deed well that congress sought to pre-
"But what constitutes a labor organ
fzation and how does it come within
the definition of a trust? The unions
have for their aim and purposes the
Improvement of the standards of life,
to protect their members against the
mercilessness of the present com
petitive industrial system. To
foster education, to bring about
an interdependenc of each wage
earnes on the other to the
end that by united action and through
intelligent cooperation a better ciyiIiz-
alton and better standards of existence
may be established, namely: through a
shorter work day, more equitable d.
vision of the profits Of their toll by
equitable wage rates, to improve the
industrial conditions surrounding their
employment. to secure the opportunity
for the education of their children that
they may not become the slaves of the
factory and work shop. In a word, to
secure to themselves the enjoyment of
the higher moral, social and intellect
ual relations of domestic life. In a
word, organized labor stands for the
uplifting of humanity, seeks to solve
the intricate problems that enter into
our industrial civilization and thus. so
far as it is possible on this earth, to
bring about the brotherhood of man
and fatherhood of God and the courts
have seen fit to call this institution an
unlawful trust.
"a trust or combine may have own
ership Of and a vested right in certain
commodities or property, but the labor
of the wage Garner is not commodity
in that sense. No employer has any
vested right in the labor of a wage
Garner. 1t is his own Individual pur-
chasing power. 1t represents the
strength, the sinew, the brain and
Drawn Of his own individuality 1t is
his to use or withhold and under the
constitution of the United States he is
secured life, liberty and pursuit of hap
piness in accordance to the dictates of
his own Judgment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-21
TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago. April 21-WHEAT-The wheat
market opened active and strong, the May
option advancing 1c higher than the close
of yesterday. Selling was light and the
demand asked for May wheat was strong.
July and September were firm because of
reports that the rains in Kansas had been
slight. Liverpool was reported as being
pence higher. May wheat opened A@5sc
higher, at 94A@e47sc, and sold at 9o1sc.
Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported
receipts of 29O cars
Prices continued to advance until May
touched 961Ac. From this point they react
ed because of realizing sales. The close
was strong, with May up 11sQ14c, at $3.50
95Ac.
CORN-Higher cables and the bulge in
wheat caused a firm feeling in the corn
market. May corn opened 1s@Ac to h@1c
higher, at 66A@6619c, and sold at 66ssc.
The market became stronger as the Ses-
sion advanced because of lighter receipts
and in sympathy with wheat. The close
was strong, with May A@7sc higher, at
66Kc.
OATS-The oats market was steady in
sympathy with wheat. May oats opened
sc higher. at $3.50. and for time held
around that figure.
PROVISIONS-The provisions market
was easier because of a loo decline in the
hog market. May pork 21Ac lower, at
$12.7 Lard was sc lower, at $780, Ribs
were TIC lower. at S6.77h.
RYE-CaSh: 7SGS0c.
BARLEY-CaSh: 700S4c.
T1MOTHY-April. s4.25.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-21
WILL BE HELD AT WICHITA.
The Forty-thfrd Annual Convention of
the State Sunday School May ST,

Abilene. Kan, April 21.-The forty
|third annual convention of the Kansas
Sunday School association will be held
lat Wonderland park, Wichita, May 5,
Is and z, 1908. Every Sunday school.
|church, or Christian society is entitled
Ito representation Yet it is substan-
|tially a mass convention. And per-
|sons interested In the improvement of
Sunday school work are invited to at
1tend. Over 1000 delegates are expect
led. Wichita guarantees ample enter
|tainment in the best homes of the city
at a uniform rate of 81 a day. DR.. W.
Ia. Biederwolf and his musicians; Mrs.
|Bryner, International lecturer; Mr.
Hudson of Baraca fame; Mr. Monin-
Iger, the teacher training specialist !:
/ Mr.. Brown Of the young peoples mis-
|sionary movement: Rev. E. B. Allen
| of the Marion Lawrence Sunday school.
and score Of other leaders will pro-
wide a platform unsurpassed. All local
arrangements are under the direction
1 of Mr.. A. A. Hyde. For registration
blanks, information and programmes
address the general secretary, ]. H.
.Engle, Abilene, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-21
SHE LEFT A NOVEL.
Mrs. Jessie Lewelling Had Written a
Story of Kansas Politics.

Chicago. April 21-Mrs Jessie
Lewelling Call, the daughter of the
late ex-governor of Kansas, who com
mitted suicide at the Newberry hotel
sunday afternoon, left an unfinished
novel which her friends believe would
have made her widely known had she
lived to finish it.
The manuscript, which is said to be
in the keeping Of Miss Louise Level
ling, Mrs Calls sister, now in Oska-
loosa, Ia, deals with the political life
that conferred around her father. 1t
is partly because of the existence Of
this manuscript that Mrs. Calls init
mate friends base their belief that
she made up her mind to take her
own life suddenly after a sleepless
night or because she had been made
especially respondent by an acute at
tack of her nervous malady. They
believe that the period of premedita-
ton was not longer than a day or
two.
At the inquest held Monday. James
Dewitt, husband of one of Mrs. Calls
sisters, who lives in Oskaloosa, Ia,
was the chief witness. The verdict
Of suicide was in accordance with the
letters left by Mrs. Call. The letter
written to Mr.. Dewitt was philosophi-
cal. In it she said:
Dear Jim:-Impress it upon my Sis
tiers that there is no need Of sorrow
ing on my account. 1t is a happy end
ing for me who suffered like me. If
you can stand the expense I want my
body cremated and the ashes thrown
into the lake. If not, then bury me at
Mitchellville, Ia. 1 regard it all like
the ancient men of Greece, who saw
suicide not as disgrace, but as a
duty when their course was finished.
have finished my course. Its end was
fastened by my illness. You have been
a good man, Jim. Goodby.
MRS. JESSIE CALL"
Mr.. Dewitt was so overcome by emo
ton that he was unable to read the
letter in full and Deputy Coroner Web
ster finished reading it for him. Mr..
Dewitt took the body to Mitchellville,
Ia, last night. The burial will be at
that place.
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New York Stock .sarke%

wall St, New York. April N.-STOCKS-
Opening transactions in stocks today were
so meagre as to have no Significance. Ma
tionaI Lead declined q point and Republic
Steel preferred a point. With these ex-
ceptions none of the changes excedd y
point.
cumscribed and pressure cost Republic
Steel "a point and forced the list down IN
sympathy Subsequently the railroad
stocks developed firmness and there was
a general recovery to above yesterday
closing prices. Pullman advanced n
points, while General Electric lost a..
Trading at noon was listless and prices
were little changed. The small advances
were well held. American Beet Sugar De,
clined point, Pressed Steel Car preferred
IL points. Tennessee Copper ~ points
Cleveland c., c. and ST. Louis points,
and Third Avenue 4N points.
Bonds were irregular. -
Stocks were in scant supply at ruling
prices and bids were raised Canadian
Pacific gained points and Union Pacific,
Consolidated Gas and the United States
steel stocks point
Purchases dwindled and the market be-
came reactionary. Canadian Pacific lost
about all Of its point advance and Hi