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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-30
ToDAY's MARKET RErORTs

Chicago Nov. 30.-WHEAT-Despite
favorable weather for the fal soWn crop
of wheat in this country, the local Wheat
market was firm today owing to moQerate
demand inspired by an advance OF :2so 70
Id at Liverpool Smaller receipts in the
northwest also caused some buying. Trade,
however. was rather quiet during tne
early part of the day. AT the start prices
were 1k014c to 12c higher, December open
ing at 81 03% to $104. Later DECEMBER soId
at 81. O3s4 @103b. Minneapolis; DuIutn ana
Chicago reported receipts of l, los cars
The market slumped sharply later IN the
day on general selling, brought out by an
increase of nearly three million bushe!s
in the visible supply of wheat in the Unit
ed States Declined to $1.O31sG1. 03A. Buy
the session. The market closing steady,
December 1kc lower at 81. 0312@LO34s.
CORN-Official forecast of cold wave
tonight in parts of the corn belt had a
weakening effect on the corn mar c,1c
and sold off to SIC.
The market became firm during the last
half of the day owing to buying by sew
eraI leading bulls. December advanced 10
621lc The close was firm with December
a shade higher at 623sc.
OATS-Oats were weak because or re
newed liquidation of the December deIiV-
cry and on selling of May by cash IN
terests December opened 1sc lower at
4Sssc. sold at 4S1Ac and then declined to asa
PROVISIONS-Prov were steady
as a result of a 10c advance in live hogs
Trade was quiet. Prices at the opening
were unchanged to 21ac higher.
RYE-Cash and December: f4075c; May
'BsA1RILEY-Cash: 561kd61c.
TIMOTHY-November $3S5; March,
S' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1925; March, $3.50.
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New york Produce Market.

New York. Nov. 30.-BUTTER5-Mar
ciaI S1kc1; extra, 301ad31c; third to first,
21G29c; held common to special, 21Q29c;
state dairy common to fine, 2Od29c; pro-
cess common to special, 1SG25c; western
factory first. 201Ac; western imitation
creamery first. 21@22c. :,
cream specials. 1414G1519c; ditto September
small colored or white fancy, lac; ditto
large, 14c; October large and small best,
1314c: late made, small best, 13c; good 70
prime, 11a4d12Ac; common to fair, lo1sq
EGGS-Market firm. State Pennsylvania
and nearby fancy selected white, 4Sq50c I;
ditto fair to choice. SS146c; brown and
mixed fancy SS6I40c: fair to choice, 32436c;
western firsts. 35636c; seconds, 314S3c:
POULUTRY-Dressed weak: western
spring chickens, 15020c; fowls, 1Od13c;
spring turkeys, 14d22c.
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THE SPILLWAY WORKS.
Only Diniculty Is That 1t works Too
Well.

Venice was transferred to Topeka for
awhile Sunday morning and Street Com
missioner Snyder with a force of men
spent the Sabbath day making it possible
for the people of the East side to go to
church. Since Biddle creek has been filled
up and a spillway constructed down the
alley behind Locust street the heavier
rains have been Overlooking in this neigh
borhood and causing miniature floods
Sunday morning the water came rushing
down from the immense basin above the
cemetery and filling up the Spillway it
washed down Locust street over the pave
ment and on to the banks of the Shunga-
nunga. New pavement is being construct
ed at this point and the foundation of the
pavement. regular hard slick bottomed
layer OF cement. was an excellent passage
way for the rushing water and before the
morning had passed the water was UP to
the level of the curbings and flowing
street wide. Street Commissioner Snyder
put his men to work on a huge foot bridge
which spanned Sixth street and allowed
a passage over the whirling current The
to accommodate the big flow of water in
this district and yesterday the whole
street was filled. making a river three
feet deep. The grading caused by the paw
flow away at once and none of the cellars
IN this part of the city were flooded. No
damage was done whatever except to
part OF the completed pavement where the
This Locust street spillway drains a sec
ton of land about a mile square and
Sloping al a steady angle to the street. 1t
IS lust south of the cemetry and has
this district Street Commissioner Snyder
said this morning that if dam could be
built at this point it would hold from forty
to fifty feet of water the year around.
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MISSED THE PAPERS.
SteinheiI,s Murderer Failed to Attain
His Main Purpose.

Paris, Nov. 30.-The Libre Parole. an
antisemitic journal. is still keeping up
the cry that President Felix Faure, who
died in this city, in 1899, was the vic
tim of a political murder because he in
tended to refuse the request for a re-
trial of the Dreyfus case. 1t claims
now that .Adolphe Steinheil, who was
found dead in his residence in Paris
last May, was murdered with the con-
nivance of his wife and the political
police. and that the object of the crime
was to obtain. possession of certain let
tiers written by M. Faure, which the pa
ped alleges, compromise men now &C
tive in public life.
Continuing, the Libre Parole says that
Steinheil was fully conversant with his
wife's manner of life and that he had
possession of papers, for which he de-
manded $500, 000 This sum was by those
implicated considered exorbitant and
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MORE TIME TO TARIFF.
Hearings Are Likely to Extend Beyond
Period Originally Fixed.

Washington. Nov. 30.-Among
those who have followed closely the
tariff hearings before the ways and
means committee of the house there is
an impression that Representative
Serene E. Payne, chairman of the
resist the requests for an extension
of the time for witnesses to be heard
on the proposed revision of the tariff.
1t is claimed that not sufficient notice
was given by the chairman to per-
nit those interested to gather pertin-
ent facts in regard to the schedules in
which they desired changes. This
was emphasized more especially at
the hearings last week, nearly all of
which required sessions until mid
night.
Mr.. Payne also has been asked to
extend the time in which it will be
possible to file briefs, the date orig
inally set as the limit being Friday
next, when some witnesses who were
not allowed much time to address the
committee will be heard again. The
chairman of the committee and those
whose sincerity with regard to the re-
vision of the tariff has been question
ed are DESTROYS of dispelling any inn
preston that all witnesses will not be
given an equal opportunity to be
heard
Today the committee held a hear
ing on the schedule for flax, hemp
and jute, but this was not expected
to arouse much interest, nor were
many requests for changes looked for.
Tomorrow cotton and silks will be
considered and on Thursday the tar
if on wool will be the subject for
discussion Both of these hearings
trating the general desire with regard
70 tariff revision
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ment, with an additional loss from
1re, burglary, etc., Of $S7 30. the The
deficit of 1909 Il is estimated. again
will exceed 100000.
Attention is particularly called to
a number of Improvements in business
methods of the department as tending
siderable amounts. Recommendation
is again made for the creation of the
position of director of posts, at a high
salary, and who shall hold office dur
to have a continuity of policies for the
benefit of the postal service and the
people of the United States.
The necessity for good roads is
pointed out in connection with the de-
velopment of the rural free delivery
service. 1t is suggested that should
congress grant the department author
ity to utilize rural routes still further
by the esta blishment of a limited par
Gel post confined entirely to rural de-
livery routes, it would then be possible
to earn additional revenue mounting
to millions of dollars and at the same
time benefit the farmer by enabling
him to have merchandise delivered
when ordered by telephone or postal
card, which otherwise would not be
purchased. 1.-THE special parcel post, ;"
says the postmaster general. will en-
able the farmers to have small par
cells delivered at their gates. to live
better, and to obtain easily the neces-
saries of life" Permission is request
ed to eSUd DllSn eXDerlmentaI1y a limit
ed parcel post in not to exceed four
counties in order to demonstrate the
practicability of the plan.
Urges Postal Banks.
The postmaster general again urges
legislation permitting the establish
ment of postal savings banks or de-
positories in connection with post
offices.
Experiments with stamp vending
machines, says the postmaster gem
eral, are still being conducted, with
every prospect that the defects which
developed in the preliminary tests will
be overcome. These machines, it is
exjected by the department, will add
immeasurab bly, to the public convent
enCe.
The campaign of education IN the
school houses in matters pertaining to
the ordinary operation of the postal
service, so as to emphasize the i'm
portauce of careful addressing, the
placing of the name and address of
the sender on envelopes, etc, is rec
commended to be continued so as to
save hundreds of thousands of letters
and packages from going to the dead
letter office each year, as is now the
case.
A marked improvement in the eff
cheney of the service is noted by the
postmaster general which, he says, is
due TO the policy of retaining post
masters of all grades whose records
have heen satisfactory He believes
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consequently an arrangement was per-
fected with Nine. Steinheil to burglarize
the house, she to take advantage of the
occasion to rid herself of her husband.
The paper gives the name of the detec-
tive, who it alleges directed the opera
ton, and it declares that the name of
the actual assassin has been disclosed
by Marietta Wolfe, who was cook in
the service of Nine. Steinheil. No doc
uments, however. were found, as Stein
he'll had confided them to the keeping
of a friend. The whole house was ran
sacked only to find that the papers had
been removed to Switzerland
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OLD SETTLERS TO MEET.
Annual Session at First Christian
Church on Saturday.

The annual meeting of the Old Set
tiers Association of Shawnee county
will be held on Saturday, De-
cember 5th, 1908. at the Christian
church between Sixth and Seventh
streets on Topeka avenue. All residents
of Shawnee county who came to Kan
sas in 1875 or earlier, and their descend
ants, are eligible to membership Come
promptly at ten in the morning for
social hour. and business meeting IN
the afternoon. Dinner will be served at
twelve. The afternoon programme IN
clldes music and many short papers of
personal experiences of the early days
in Kansas.
Bring your baskets of eatables well
filed and take the day for a good time.
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kansas CITY Produce Market.

Kansas City. Mo-. Nov. 3O-WHEAT-
Market unchanged. December. 9T7sc: May.
$1.015s July CSC Cash: No. hard, 99cm
81 .O3: No 8. 97c@S1.O7; No. > red, $1.0415; No.
g. $1O16I1. 021h.
CORN-Market unchanged. December.
5715c: MAY and July 5Sc. Cash: No. ,
mixed. 57lad5Sc; No. g. 5Sc; No. white,
$50 G59c; No. 8, 5S24c.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. white,
4Sd501bc: No. , mixed, 471z@49c.
RYE-72676c.
HAY-Market steady Choice timothy.
50 1910 90: choice prairie, $S.00dS5 so.
BUTTER-Market firm. Creamery. Soc,
EGGS-Market steady Fresh extras. 32c;
current receipts. &c.
WHEAT-ReceiptS. 1S5 cars.
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TOO SMOOTH FOR OFFICERS.
Footpad From Missouri Escapes at
Atchison After Being Arrested.

Atchison, Kan, Nov. 3O.-The home
talent footpads who made a desperate
attempt to hold up M. F. Maloney on
South Fourth street Wednesday night,
after shooting their victim in the foot.
came back to Atchison Saturday night,
crossing the Missouri river in a boat
near the oil refinery. Chief Ham was
pretty sure who the footpads were on
the night of the attempted hoIdup and
the encounter plain clothes officer had
with the two men in the lower yards
of the Missouri Pacific Saturday night
confirms his belief. The officer was
knocked down, after he had arrested
one of the men, by his pal, who step
ped from behind a car. Both men then
made their escape down the Missouri
Pacific track
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Kansas CITY Live stot1s.

Kansas City Mo-, Nov. 3O.-CATTLE-
Receipts 10000 including 300 southerns.
Market strong to Toe higher. Native steers,
81 75GI7 so; southern steers, s. 2505. 10; south
ern cows. s.. 25d3. so: native cows and heif-
ers, 81. O065 so: stockers and feeders, 81. 500
4S0; bulls $2-40@4 90; calves, So. 25M6. 90;
western steers S350@5.50; western cows,
81 5004 50.
HOGS-Receipts 10000 Market 1Oc high
err Bulk of sales. s.. 40d5.S5; heavy, $500
S 80: packers and butchers, S5.50@5.S5; light,
So 3015. IS; pigs, $4.00d5. 90.
SHEEP-Receipts 10000. Market steady.
Muttons. S4O0G475; lambs. "a. 5066.25; range
wethers. SO. 7565. %: fed ewes, $2.50dL4.2 IS.
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Chicago. Nov. So.-cA'TTLE-Recei
about q 600. Market steady to 10c higher.
Beeves So. 400D7. 10; Texans, s.. 50G4. 40 west
ems, So 206J5.70; stocl1ers and feeders. s.. 701
40: cows and heifers. $1.50G500; calves,
IS. 00GJ7. 90.
HOGSEReceipts about 1900 Market 1Oc
higher, Light, s490G5.S0;' SOD $1,000
900: heavy. $5.S5@605: rough. s.. 35d5 IS ;
good to choice heavy. $5.55G6. 05; pigs, s.. go
"a 80: bulk of sales, So. 406I5.S IS.
SHEEP-Receipts about 5000. Market
10c to 25c lower. Native. s.; 40a4 90; west
So. 75N6. 40: western, $3.55Q630.
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New FORK Money Market.

New York. Nov O.-MONEY-Money on
can easy, l12GI2 per cent: ruling rate, clos
ing old and offered at Ia per cent. Time
loans n easy and quiet; go days, "a per cent;
per cent. -
Close: Prime mercantile paper 394@41A
Sterling exchange firm with actual bust
ness In bankers bills at S4S4.5OG14. 60 for
commercial bills. $4S46I4 S4lA
lars. 45c.
BONDS-Government and railroad bonds
eaSy.
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dent of the woman's Relief corps. has
appointed Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball of
Larned Kan, as chairman of the COM
mittee on legislation to prevent desc
Grafton of the flag.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Cooper of Wich-
tia are late arrivals in Washington
They are registered at the st. James.
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DEFICIT CROWS.
POstOffice department Further
Behind Than Ever.
Outlook for the Coming Year Is
Little Better.
THE PARCELS POST.
1t Is Believed Would Help Out
the Situation.
GonnraI MovarsS RoDOrt Urges
THE PARCELS POST.
General Meyers Report Urges
Postal Savings Banks.

Washington, Nov. SO.-In his an
nual report for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1908, Postmaster General
Meyer gives the total receipts for the
year as sos $3.50, and the total ex-
penditures as 1925, 225,1O8. thereby
showing a deficit of $16.S73,222, the
largest in the history Of the depart
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WHEAT CROP IS SAVED.
A Foot of Snow Falls Over North
western Kansas.

Goodland, Kan, Nov. S0.-It has
been raining and showing here for the
past four days; and the ground IS COW
cred with a foot of snow. This to-
gether with the four inch rain October
18th, puts the wheat in northwestern
Kansas in splendid shape, almost in
surin1@a CROP
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Refuses to Haul American Cattle.

Winnipeg, Man, Nov. Se.-Ine
Canadian Pacific railway today re-
fused to carry American cattle through
Canada for export. No United States
vessel with cattle aboard is now al
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The Last Train

mornine is the Union Pacific No. los
at SIS a. M, arriving in Kansas City
at 1915 a. m. The afternoon train
returning is the earliest train into To-
peka at 6:15 p. m.
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CnLe owens Fired.


Buckington. w. Va. Nov. 9O..More than
two thousand coke ovens in the Norfolk
and Western fields which have been idle
for almost a year. resumed operations last
night.
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Liverpool cable: Opening-Wheat I'M
changed. corn lad lower.
Second cable: Wheat 1h6Da4d higher, corn
ZG3sd lower.
Kansas CITY car lots today: Wheat 81
corn IA. oats 10.
Kansas City estimated car lots tomor-
row: Wheat 1S5. corn u. oats 49,
Chicago car lots today: Wheat 81, corn
40 oats 167.
Northwest car lots today LOT. last year
Closing cables: Wheat as@1d higher, corn
A@akd lower.
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New RECORD IN Gold Production.

Pierre. S. D.. Nov. 30--The report or
the state mine inspector shows South Da-1
kota's gold production for last year to
have been $7.460.O00. the highest In the
history of the state.
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Now Yorik Sugar and CONGO Marlet

New York Nov. 3O.-SUGAR-Raw,
quiet: fair refining, $3.44; centrifugal sc
test. IS "a: molasses sugar, So. 10. Refined,
quiet: crushed. $3.50; powdered, $500; gran
CoFFEEwMarket quiet No. Rio. 61sc;
lsNn 4 Santos. TIC
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topeka, Kan. Nov. 30.

BUTTER AND
Gasi Sxer by fzS The
: Co. ToDeka. Kan.l
CREAMERY BUTTER-Chicago. 2shc:
Y EL e 7BfsurTER-SOc.
EGGS AND POULTRY.
y c P Ffiss w. 3Srfsass y .t TSEA
PoULTRYIHens. 71kc; springs. Sc; broil-
BUTTER-Packing stock. lie.
[FGrnisRed By sa@l e A Lux. W6oiessi:
FruiI and PRODUCED
florida PINEAPPLEs-Per crate.
Hickory .NUTs-Per bu.. $3.50.
BLACK WALNUTS-Per bu., soc.
TOMATOES-Per crate. $500.
f KGTAN AeeoCc5oANGffs@Peeri 't doz. CSC:
HoNKy PEI case ssiSaS.ss: ~. =,
iFR Frases beT 3d. peE o AL
AlPPfEsEPeE box; s.. 16q1.75
FEkAcY FABLE PEARsEBer PG Sox ssB.
FIGS-Per box. 62@6Sc
CHARACTERISTICS DID, *H-; per Ib''
zCABBAGE-Per cwt.. $50: Wisconsin,
H REp GLOBE Onions per
o9 Up ,a n%IsI oNIoNsLPer crate. S.@.
Observation-Disclosures. per box. $s.2504Oo:
ORANGES-Nayel per box So
BAN AN bncb s75 Jumbo, per bunch;
e. 3: extra large. per lb.. SIC.
CARROTS-Per bu.. 75c.
PARSNIPS-Per bu., 75c.
TIJRNIPS-Per bushel. COO.
REETS-Per bushel. 76c.
COLORADO POTATOES-Per ou., SOC.
NEBRASKA EARLY OHIO POTATOES
- SWEET IST1i PSoiTAToEs-Per bu., 800.
CEI,ERY-Jumbo. per bunch, SOC; Blue
Ribbon. per bunch, 55c
can soc: N z. Extra Selects. per can De:
Standards. per can, Soc. Bulk--N. =.
ner gal, 81 10; Plain Selects. per gal, $175;
Standards. per gal. $1:6O.
Wisconsin. Y. A. 16c: Limburger, Ice;
Daisy. 90 ID. each. 15c: Dairy Twins. to
hoy 151Ic: Wisconsin yellow, Ice; Wiscon-
sin white. Ice; Brick. 16c; Block SWISS
domestice STYLE Ice.
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Chicago, Nov 3O.-CHEESE-Marke
firm Daisies. 131h015c: twins, 131zc; young
Americas. 14M141Ac.
POULTRY-Aiive steady; turkeys, lac;
chickens S1a691zc; springs, lie.
TATOES-Market firm. 60d70c.
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Cotton Market

Galveston. Tex, Nov. SO.-COTTON-
Market lower. Middling. Csc
New York. Nov. 30.-COTTON-Spot
closed quiet. 10 points lower; middling up
lands, 1875; middling gulf, $500. No sales
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Range of Prices on s,ocl.s.
New york. Nov. ao.

LFurnrsned by J. T. Gall, Commissions,
Gralns. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO West Sixth st. Phone 49,
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Topeka Nlnrrer.

ing Co.. yards close at noon Saturday.
We cannot use pigs. thin sows or hogs
weighing less than 10 lbs. Do not mar
ker hogs unless same are we'll finished.
as We cannot use half fat stuff. We give
below prices effective once. until fur
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Topeka Hide Market.

1Ouotations furnished by James G. Smith
& Co.. Jos East Third st
topeka, Kan, NOV 30. I,
HIDES-No. 1 G. S. hides. 1OAc; No.
q s hides 9Ac; side brands, sac flat
glue hides. SIC fiat; No. g. s bull hides e!s
&c: No 2 G. S. bull hides, Sc; Deacons, 2oc
ff to &c: slunks. i5c to 25c: No. 1 horse
hides $3.50: No. horse hides, $50; No 8
horse hides. Use: dry flint butcher. heayles,
i2c; dry salts. lie; dry culls. loc Tallo"
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Chicago Grain Market

Furnished by j. E. Gall. Commissions.
Grains Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
office ITO W est Sixth st. Phone 4S6
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Kansas City, Nov. 30.lCATTLE-Re-
ceipts 10000 head. Market strong to 1Oc
higher.
HOGS-Receipts 10000 head: Market 1oc
SHEEP-Receipts 10000 head. Market
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Kansas City Live Stock Sales.

(The following sales were made today AT
, the stock yards. Kansas City. Mo. and
by Clay, Robinson & Co. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at al
markets.
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Market Gossip.

Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth st. Phone 1851
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Grain Market
FURNISHED by ]. B. Billiard. corner Kan
Sas Ave. and Curtis St1

Topeka, Kan, Nov. 30.
wHEAT-No. 2. Ss@sOc; No. 8. s49S6c;
No 4. 79dS1c.
CORN-60c.
NEW CORN--55c.
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Omen High Low

KANSAS City Grain Market
FURNISHED by j. (. Gall Commissions
Grains Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO West Sixth ST. Phone 1861
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Mrs. Mary L. Gilman. national presi-
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WHEAT.

Kansas City. Nov. 30.
Open High Low Close Sat
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-09-25
SCARED The ROBBERS.
odd Incident In England In the Eight
eenth Century.

Odd Incident In England In the EIsn'-
eenth Century.
For time during the eighteenth CEN
fury IN England there was luil ID
the robbery industry owing TO an oou
incident. Shortly after the execution
Of an English burglar named Elliston
curious communication purporunS
TO have been written by him was PUT
into circulation. "Now, as / am dy'
ing man." It ran, II have done some
thing which may be of good use to the
public. l have left with an honest
MANTLE only honest man was ever
acquainted with-the names OF all my
wicked brethren, the places OF their
abode, with a short account OF the
chief crimes they have committed, ID
many Of which have been the accom-
plice and heard the rest from their
own mouths. l have likewise set
down the names Of those we call our
settlers, Of the houses we frequent and
all of those who receive and buy our
stolen goods. have solemnly charged
this honest man and have received his
promise upon oath that whenever he
bears Of any rogue to be tried for rob
berry or housebTeaking he will look into
his list and If he finds there the name
of the thief concerned to send the
whole paper to the government Of
this | here give my companions fair
and public warning and hope they will
take It" 1t is said the hint was so
enrectual that for a long time pick
pockets and burglars In that part OF
England went into panic stricken re-
tirement. And, this being 30, it is Just
as well they did not know that the let
ter was a clever forgery, the work Of
that prince Of wits and humorists,
Dean Swift,-New York Tribune