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New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

,~1i.go March 1o-Wheat for May delivery de-
cliued nearly Sc a bushel on the locai ezcls.ise ne
.a5sv as result OF heavy sales by several OF the
,I,,s longs At the close the net loss for the
day was 2lsc 70 21ic. Corn was UP &c. oats Wee
1.c higher Provisions were &C 10 I-72' " ~
The wheat market very nervous all day.
The government report on farm reserves ielt
traders IN an undecided frame OF nalnc. out Nile
nrevaiIiug opinion seemed TO be that the report
vas an aid to the bears The market suInpea
ebarn1Z during the first half hour on quite general
aoe+ taxing but soon rallied along with corn
offerings from commission houses and longs. how
ever were liberal and prices soon declneo as asaIn-
T-y1o market was bearishIy affected By the weak
rsss of foreign markets and By excellent weather
IN the Southwest for the fall sown crop Senti-
rnent became extremely bearlsn curing the iasl
hour because Of active selling by ouLs' the May
delivery being especially heavy Inc mar Nsl
closed weak and near the bottom price May
opened I.c lower 10 sc higher at So9sc 70 s5t4S
eGd off 70 q35sc and closed at $3.50 TO s3Sac Clear
ancos of wheat and -four were equal 10 5000
t-stats The worlds visible supply decreased ..
s6o o0o bushels for the week Primary receipts
we're 445 900 bushels. against $4,000 bushels on the
sana dav last year Minneapolis. Duluth and Chi
cago reported receipts OF 301 cars against 195 cars
last week and 53I year ago.
The corn market was strong all day on active
buying by shorts and commission houses Small
farm preserves. firm cables and hght receipts, were
the main reasons for the demand. The market
weakened late in the day wheat but the close
Us arrn Nav opened &c to Lc i.c sc
higher at 64l.c to 64ssc sold sissc and then ad
vauced to 65@,c. The close was at G5c 10 65isc
Local receipts go cars, with of contract
grade
al day. in sympathy with corn and because OF the
government report May opened i.c higher at
53sac sold at 53i4c. and then advanced 10 5ic. The
close was at 53s.e. Local receipts 39T cars.
Provisions were weak because of liberal receipts
of live hogs at Western packing centres AT the
close MAY pork off Jc 70 fiec at S12 t4t2- Lard
was down lstzc 10 l5c at s. so 10 s. Seis- Ribs
were &c lower AT So asiz.
Estimated receiots for tomorrow: Wheat 3
cars; corn. 1lG cars, oats. lsl cars: hogs t2ooo
head
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
FERRY COMPANIES.
LIVESTOCK MARKET.

New York, March 10. 1905.
BEEvEs-Receipts we're 81 cars or go head, all all
saughterers and exporters None were
feeling steady reported light
arrivals tomorrow. Dressed beef in moderate de-
cables unchanged for live cattle and refrigerator
beef No shipments reported from this port to-day To-
sheep 100 quarters of beef and the Oceanic
200 quarters Of beef for the Swift
Beef Company and the Morris Beef Company
EAIyES-Receipts $50 head, including car
that IN and sold late
yesterday. The feeling steady for all sorts and
s9 so per 100 NJ at So: 81 so
Gs5 late yesterday OF good Western calves at
calves at s121131c 10 for city
saIes-s Sanders IA n AZ 50 80
II do I2e 10. at IS 30. do l30 ID, at so DO
Kerns Commission Company: Indiana 1S4 10
81 So
SHEEP AND LAMB>-Recetpts were 10 cars or
clT1 Including for slaugterers and for
making cars sold The few sheep offered were
selling at steady prices lambs slow. but not quot
ably lower ! held over Common 10 good sheep
(ewes sold S49s5 per 100 D medium TO prime lambs
ar 81 15QS7 75 bunch clipped lambs al So So few
yeariings al Sc SLOW at s110i1c NJ
Dressed lar7hs 10iaG1Sc with 122c general
price country dressed holouse lambs higher al S4GSio
saIes@S Judd & CO. IS lambs. "a n average at
81 per 100 rb state vearngs a 10 es So state
Kerns Commission Company: EOS Western lambs 81 n
Sanders: IS state iarnbs rs 10 81 so: 43 50 10
at 81 q: clipped % n at s6 60; state sheep 30
10 at 81: ? bucks $50 n. at 81 25
HOG-Recepts 34is cars. or eis7 head. all
for saIghte-ers except head. This feeling was
steady for hogs; for Digs No sales had been
ported late hour Country dressed hoss steady at
Saies-AfcPhe & Co. date yesterday: state pigs
Il n average 81 80 100 ib stays 4l fb at IS 90
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
MINING NOTES.

The CRANKY Consolidated Mining. Smelling and
POWER Company is now operating to full capacity.
treating an average Of about 1900 tons Of ore
day, which gives 1t production at the rate of
about 2.4o0.00o pounds month This Is at the
rate OF about 2s 100000 pounds per annum yet for
the twelve months ended June So 1907 the COM
paxiy produced only IL, 4l0,5 ,57s pounds. The COM
paIy mas succeeded in reducing wages from, a 81
TO a S3 90 day basis. that IL is now pro-
duclng copper for a fraction under 10 cents a
pound The management IS planning 10 Increase
It's reduction capacity the coming summer to per-
nit 1t to handle 4.500 tons of ore daily
The Esperanza has issued estimate of ore
reserves showing that they fell from 141 s6s tons
TO $1,000 tons during last year. The estimated
proht from these reserves and the estimated tail
inss is s3o7,790 AS preliminary to the annual
report soon to be published the company estimates
casn and assets readily reaizable the end of
the year as $3.50. $50 The Esperanza is one of
the Leading mines of Mexico and is being managed
and developed along the most improved and yet
conservative lines.
The output OF gold from the Cripple Creek dis
tr1ct for February amounts TO S,622 tons, with a
total valuation of s1.25O713. The tonnage exceeds
that OF January by 1887 tons. and the increase is
largely due TO the decrease in snelter recently
put INTO effect on ore of SIS value and unJe-. The
Golden cycle was the largest producer.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
SUE WESTERN MARYLAND AGENTS.
Receiver Asked for Coal and Coke Company
Missouri Pacific Losses.

Baltimore. March 1e-Application for a receiver
for the Davis Coal and Coke Company the sell
ing agent of the Western Maryland Railroad has
been made to the State Circuit Court here by
Lyman & Read. coal miners. who claim to be
creditors the amount of si,75s. No order was
in few days. The petition filed last Sat
urday night, but the fact did not become known
publicly until to-day.
In it's answer the Davis Coal and Coke Com
pany admits the alleged Indebtedness, but sets
forth that this concern has no property and
assets, it being simply the selling agent of the
Western Maryland Railroad. and that all its obli-
cations obligations of the Western Maryland,
and that all its debts have been paid by the rail-
road company
The Western Maryland about one hundred
thousand acres OF coal land in West Virginia
Lincoln, Neb, March ie-During the last six
months the Missouri Pacific Railway has lost $3.50.
S39 81 the lines in Nebraska In a protest
against reduction in freight rates the officials
of the road fled general financial statement with
the Railway Commission to-day. Every depart
ment met with loss it is reported
Houston. Tex, March 10-An ancillary bill was
filed here to-day in the Federal Court asking re-
cevershp on behalf of the Mercantile Trust Com
pany, Of Boston. against the international and
Great Northern Railroad.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
SURETY COMPANY UNION.
Talk Of Merging Seueral Middle
Vest and Eastern Concerns.

Local surety companies were interested yester
day in dispatch from Chicago which said that
movement under way for consolidation oe
the leading surety in the Middle West and
East It was said here that while such merger
had been talked OF for long time, great many
serious obstacles in its way.
The companies mentioned possible participants
in the proposed merger were the National Surety
Company, the 1Ftna Indemnity Company Of Hart
ford, the Metropolitan Surety Company, the
Peoples Surety Company and the Maryland Casu-
atty Company. The American Surety Company. the
largest of the local concerns, not mentioned
William 3. Joyce president Of the National Sure
ty Company which to be at the head Of the
movement, said yesterday that such consolida-
ton under discussion. but added that the pres
ent plans only in embryonic state He
said that the taking OF business at ridculously low
rates by many of the smaller companies had so re-
duced the margin OF profit that consolidation
with larger and stronger seemed 10 be the
only logical outcome.
officers of several other companies pointed out,
however that the obstacles in the way OF the pro-
posed merger We're too great to be overcome The
surety companies, for example, issue many bonds
which run IN perpetuity and ii would be next to
impossible it was said, to change such contracts,
would have to be done in case of a merger. The
surety companies also have moneys deposit with
the treasurers of the various states to insure the
carrying out OF all contracts entered into. Here,
too. surety say would be obstacle to
merger
would be that the enlarged company would have
capital of several million dollars. At present
company bond to the extent of only 10 per cent
OF its capital and surplus, and this causes much
inconvenience to the small concerns In the case OF
large municipal. state federal contracts.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
SUGAR CUSTOMS FRAUD
Described by Witness an Federal
Bribery Case IN Brooklyn.

The of contrivances seven or eight years ago
10 cheat the government OF customs duties by
rsusing the scales weighing sugar on the Will
.zrusburS piers OF the American Sugar Refining
Company to give false records revealed at the
trial Oliver Splitter, the concerns dock superin-
fendent. the charges of conspiracy and bribery
tu the United States Circuit Court. Brooklyn yes
.ercay. The information obtained by Sp1tzers 8
counsel IN cross-exa-linnE J. O. Sreznski, special
ssent Of the Treasury Department
Brezinsk. who was with Richard Parr, another
sreciaI agent. when the latter discovered device
On November 90 1897. whereby one set of scales
un6erweigaed fourteen pounds on every thousand.
testified that a man named Richard Whalley, a
former ernploye Of the sugar company, had said,
after doing detective work the docks for the
government. that device for causing the
scales 10 weigh light was in use. He didn't know
what the new device was, but he knew that ii was
not the scheme of eight years ago. He explained
that this was a system OF balls and weights a
duplicate OF which he turned over TO the govern
nlenf.
Brezinsd explained that the government was led
70 make the investigation by Whalley. Charles N
Daley Of No &C Broadway, Manhattan, and a
man named Anderson. They purposed TO divide
the reward between them. with the exception of a
quarter OF the amount. which was to go TO some
unknown person. The chief witness yesterday vas
Richard Parr. who told about discovering the wire
whereby the scale beam was slightly detected, and
about Spitzer's attempt TO bribe him His state
raents were corroborated by Brezinski-
II F Cochrane, tho attorney Of record in the
case tried 10 disparage PARIS testimony by bring
ing out that he had owned racehorses ana ire
ouented pocIroons. The trial viii be continued.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
GREENE CONSOLIDATED CHANGES.
Board of Directors Reduced and Only One
Vice Presidency Retained.

At the adjourned annual meeting OF the Green e
Consolidated Copper Company. held yesterday. sew
eraI amendments the bylaws were made, the
most important of which the reduction Of the
board of directors from twenty-one to seven mem
bers 1t was voted also to have only vice
president instead of two, and to dispense with
the services of executive committee
The following were elected directors: Alfred 70
rner, [. c. Rice, ". D. Thornton c. D. Fraser. F.
E. Searle. J. W. Allen and P L. Foster. The an
nuaI meeting of the company will be held here
after the second Tuesday in March. instead Of
on the second Wednesday in October The officers
of the company for the ensuing year will be w.
d. Thornton president; c. D. Fraser. vice-p presi-
dent; J. W. Allen, secretary and treasurer. and
G. D. Borden, assistant secretary Their election
is assured because there are no other candidates
IN the field.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11

DROPOSAI-S FOR STATIONERY AND MISCELL.A-
4 neous SuDplies.-War Dept. Washington. D. c.
March II. 1908. Sealed proposals. in duplicate will be
received here until APRIL Is. 1875 and then
opened for furnishing stationery and miscellaneous sup
piles tbrooms. brushes. soaps. towels etc. Tor war
Bureaus and Offices during ending June 30.
furnished application Proposals
BE- envelopes Proposals Stationery
and Miscellaneous Supplies and addressed 20 NJ r
THORP, Chief OF Supply Div
STATIONERY. ICE. AND LAUNDERING TOWELS
Sealed duplicate, received az the
Secretarys Once Navy Department. Washington. D. c,
until o'clock p m. Wednesday. April 15 1905, and pub
Icy opened iS datey thereafter for furnishing station
cry miscellaneous supplies and ice. and laundering
q for Department Washington during tho
year ending June 30 1909 Blank forms ot pro-
giving Information will furnished
on application the Navy Department TRUMAN Il.
NESWBERRY, Assistant Secretary
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
Notice of Summons.

~ Wetnberg Plaintiff WOLF Weinberg and
60 T1fyora weinberg Defendants Trial desired in
-n+- ~ New York. Summons with notice. To the
sToTe Named Defendants: You are hereby summoned
this action and TO serve
- your answer Plaintiffs Attorneys within TWEEN
L this exclusive OF
OF your failure 70 appear,
Judgment will be taken against by default.
demanded in the complaint. Dated Janu
arv Ard 1905 PURDY. SQUIRE ROVE. Plaintiffs
POstorfce Address. No 100 Broad
va Borough Manhattan. New York. N Y To the
IJefendants Weinberg and Chana Dvorja weinberg
The foregoing summons Is served upon you
,IrsIant to an order of the Hon David Leventrttt
Is+ira Of the supreme State Of New York.
dated the 4h day February. 1908 and fled with the
in the Office Clerk OF the County OF New
YORK In the County Court House in the Borough OF
O York the 18th day OF Feoru-
T90S DATED York, February 4th. 1905
PTRDY SQUIRE & ROWE. Plaintiffs Attorneys. 100
rsroadUav Borough OF Manhattan. New York. n. Y
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
OTHER MARkETS-BY TELEGRAPH.

chicago March t e. es,imated
81 25as5; hefers $38s5 so; bulls So 4ogsi so;
K stockers and feeders s. 20 y
g. 20 FIoGSSRecepts estimated. about 1000:
yet &c lower: choice heavy shipping. 81 79gs+ 70:
butchers. 90 choice light 81 so Gs4 60; light
mixed 81 IS 81 packing. s4 81 go pigs 81 9og
81 40. bulk OF sales. 81 20 81 % SHEEP-Receiets.
Estimated about II 600: market steady TO strong;
sheep, 81 GO q SO: lambs, S6gsI 10; yearlings s69
Cincinnati March 1O-HOGS-Generaliy steady;
butchers and shippers 81 81 90 common sS S5 q
81 s5 CATTLE-Strong: fair 10 good shippers, 81 80
n s. % common s. 25 a IS 70 SHEEP-Strong. - so
"a s5 70 lambs s. 5asT 80.
Tufalo March IO.-CATTLE-Firm. prime
x,-ers q s5 a SO VEAI.S-Recepts iJ0 head:
ana stead. HoGS-Reeeipts. 900 head. active. q
Toe higher: pigs steady mixed and Yorkers
s5ds5 TO- roughs 81 40dSi 90; dairies 81 49, 10
SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 1900 head active;
sheep steady: lambs 10c higher; lambs. s5gST -;
S64s6
Kansas CIV March Io-CATTLE-R Receipts II 600
Including Southerns: market steady 1oc lower:
Sc export dressed beef q
So fair good. s4 s. s. a. Western steers 81 30
-. feeders. s. 80 q 81 81: Southern
steers 81 - 81 30; Southern COWS s. 950St -.
live cows 25Mfx4 h@fsrs 81
h,iIe s3 so 81 20; calves 81 I5 So % To1;S~Fe-
ceipts 20 ooo market lower. top. So. bulk Of
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
GRANT-GREENE SUIT DECISION.
Accounting on Mining Property Valued at
s25.O00,OO0 Desired.

In = decision handed down yesterday, Judge
Ievertritt in Supreme Court denied the motion
Of counsel for the Cobre Grande copper company,
an Arizona corporation, to vacate the order Tor
the service OF a summons by publication In the
suit brought by James l. Grant and Netue l.
Grant against William G Greene, the Greene Con-
solidated Company Cananea Consolidated Com
pany and the Cobre company, to have the Cobre
company held accountable for certain mining prop
critics held by the other companies
The plaintiffs in the Grant-Greene suit seek on
behalf of other stockholders 10 have Colonel
Greene. the. Cananea company and the Greene
Consolidated Company account for the Cobre COM
pany and the plaintiffs for the profits and IN
come of mining property valued at 100000 -Four
millions il is alleged has been distributed among
stockholders Of these companies, and the plaintiffs
want an accounting. Colonel Greene it is said.
refused TO give this accounting
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

Boston March 1oT1s slight inproyer1snt IN ne 9cai &
week IS Still maintained ard
dealers looking hopefully toward the future he
ca clothing territory WOOL. ana (
number Of sizeable sales reported The leading do
mestic quotations follows: Ohio ard PeInsyr
3sc: washed 3tg3Ic: fine unwas2ed z4e-oc' nas
2SG23c: medium clothing. 241c one
half clothing, 2Sq24c; oHe-half blood coaoas
three-siEhths blood CunlbinS. Sc
TooJ corIbing 2sq29c; deaine washed. 3TG3sC. do
ashed 3sc: do uumerchantable. 31S2c Michigan " IS
deIgfne unwashed. 2sG2ec One-haf blood u1"sfed 5oE
blood. unwashed. ZSte5Oc neuerle
foc4 I1yvsFsd 2sQc7c Kentucky. Indiana and d.ssoGT
EThree-eighths blood 29G131c oae-qIarter nioo
Secured vaIues-Texas fine. twelve monihs o5eoc ~
six 10 eight months. 5515sc California norther9 oy
ST. middle county 5565Tc southern 53599c- OFeS
eastern staple 67g6sc eastern No Glosniss ts g
+Is s57eec. fine medium staple. 63G65c: fne rneduIn
Clothing 53a55c fine clothing 559toc; one-ns- t;5
5T6e0r7 +hree-eghths blood 55G5sc ore-Garter pioo
1tGss-' TSuIs5-Extra. f5165c: fine A. 55GSIc-
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
MORE wcoLLEN MILLS OPEN.

". NJ Wood president Of the American Woollen
Company said yesterday that his company was
now operating about 10 per cent of its mills
than II did a month ago. He added that some
Improvement could be noted from week to week.
but that 1t was slow. At the present time only
about So per cent OF the companys mills in
operation. Mr.. Wood also said that for time
he had been a strong anti Roosevelt and aGti-ad-
Inintstration man. but that recently he had como
believe that continuance of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration for another four years would not be
so detrimental 10 the interests OF the country as
would be the natural developments Of a ad-
rnfnistration
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
MANY g. G. o. FREIGHT CARS IDLE.

The baltimore g. Ohio Railroad has 1920 idle out
of total Of 1890 cars it was officially SAID yesteF
dav Never before IN the history OF the BaltlInoFe
= obio-tbe Dioueer railroad Of the country
nearly so many cars been out Of service at one
time Al a valuation of $1,000 car this represents
tra g,o 90 of the company's money not earning any
.g.,,ua Coke is one Of the principal revenue
,.oa,ciny commodities carried by the Baltimore &
90, Ia what are known the Connellsvine
Cserr and lower Connellsville regions shipments
~ coke slunped from O. CSC carloads in October last
- % go carloads IL December In tonnage TINS
amounted TO sos 9G tons for October and only vs.
s57 tons during December otosihg OF steer "i'.
~, ~ III. o. ,.s,rtsfIfnect OF work is the OF
in. b.s,-, decline in this business
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
ADJUSTING UNITED RAILWAYS DEBT
Westinghouse Company Receives Permission
to Join with the Other Creditors.

A special dispatch from Pttsburs yesterday stated
that the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company had obtained permission from the
United States District Court in that city 10 JOIN
with other creditors OF the United Railways Com
many of San Francisco in formation of the plan
for the adjustment of the railway company hoat-
ing Indebtedness, amounting to S,5oa.eD
While the plan has not been announced, 1t was
learned from an authoritative that it pro-
vdes for an issue of s. 500 coo per cent notes by
the United Railways Investment Company which
owns the entire capital stock OF the United Rail
ways Company of San Francisco and a majority Of
the stock Of the United Railways Company OF
Philadelphia. to be secured by sS5o00o per cent
first preferred stock of the railways company, half
to mature in August, 1913, and half in February.
1914
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
EXPECT MORE w. U. STOCK DIVIDEND.

The executive committee Of the Western Union
TELEGRAPH Company held its regular quarterly
meeting yesterday TO decide on the dividend acton
n be recommended at to-day's meeting Of the
board Of directors out Of Difference 10 the lltsr'
q was stated the committee withheld the an
ror,cernent Of fits decision until after that meeting
At the last meeting the directors declared STOCK
dividend In some quarters the opinion was eX-
pressed Yesterday that the present disbursement
would be in stock, with. perhaps d percentage ol
cash this theory being based on the fact that
-b amount Of unissued treasury stock IS not quite
sufficient to pay the quarterly dividend other inter
ests predicted that the dividend would be passed
altogether
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
COMPLETES MEXICAN CONTRACTS.
Westinghouse Company Finishes Extensive
Electrical Installation.

The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
coranany has just completed some extensive cleo
,fcsl installations various companies in Mex
ico.
These include a 5eo-horsepower rotary converter,
~-i-b switchboard appliances. for the Guanaiuata
Consolidated Mining and Milling Company. which
is 20 operate mining machinery several large sized
motors for the La Tula Mining Company, and a
number Of electric for the Lake Chapala
Agricultural and Improvement Company, which
are 10 drive equal number Of centrifugal pumps
that convey water over the territory OF the Cha
paia company for irrigation purposes.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
SEEK TO ENJolN KANSAS RATE.

Topeka Kan. March 10.-AI the railroads op-
Grating in Kansas filed suits in the circuit court
here to-day asking an injunction TO prevent the
state board of railroad commissioners from en-
forcing the new freight rate schedule prepared
by the board. The schedule makes an aver
age reduction Of about 20 per cent from the pres
et rates and the railroads contend that the rates
are coufscatorv The railroads also ask for In
.,-c4fons against every county attorney and ship
per in Kansas to prevent them from bringing
large number Of suits 10 enforce the rates
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
HUDSON RIVER OPENED.

The ice which bridged the Hudson River solid
north Of Haverstraw Bay was forced yesterday TO
give way the attacks Of the Central HUDSON
boats when the powerful steamer Homer Ransdel
ploughed her way through exceptionally heavy ice
opening the channel from Newburg down
The boats of this line will begin their regular
daily trips leaving Franklin street at p m and
landing at Cranston's, West Point, Cold Spring,
Cornwall. Fishkil and Newburg. The Pougn-
keepsie and Rondout boats VIII be put in service
IN about week.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
p. r. r. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

Philadelphia March I0.-At the sixty-first an
ruaI stockholders meeting Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company held here to-day resolutions
approving the acquisition of three minor com
panies were adopted These are the Bald Eagle
Valley Railroad. the Southwest Connecting Ra1l-
road and the Junction Railroad The annual re
port recently made public was approved
The annual stockholders election will be held
on March -. and the following directors, whose
terms are about TO expire, probably viii be re-
elected: Clement A Griscom. Charles l. inger-
soil and Henry c. Frick.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-11
KNICKERBOCKER FORECLOSURE.
Property in Mineola, Adjoining Whitney
Estate, Surety for $150OOO

Ernest Talnlan. Henry c. Ide and George L
Rives acting as temporary receivers for the Knic
erhocker Trust Company filed lis pendens with
County Clerk Thomas Cheshire OF Nassau County
yesterday at Nneola, Long Island. In which they
recited their intention to institute action
foreclose mortgage. The action IS to lie against
George Crocker, William L. Stowe and R Living
ston Beeck1nan. The property. given surety for
loan CT s150,000. made June IL, 1904 consists OF
what is locally known the Crocier estate, next
to the William c. Whitney estate.