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COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK. March 20.-The cotton
market opened steady at unchanged
prices to an advance of points. which
was hardly full response to the higher
cables owing to a bearish view Of the
ing crop OF 13,i0S.si1 bales, including
linters
When II was found that the linters
amounted 10 34;97O bales, the largest on
record thus reducing the crop OF cotton
10 13,O36.0O0 bales. comparing with the
governments estimate OF 1:,ea0 900 bales,
the market worked up to a net advance
Of 2a3 points. but local traders were
heavy sellers on the bulge. demand did
no; seem 10 be broadening and later in
the morning the market eased OF again
10 net loss OF about 1a3 points in con-
sequence. Weekend figures were rather
bullish, and further rains were reported
in the eastern belt.
Futures opened steady. March. 93e
December. 9-15a916: January. 9.13.
Futures closed easy. Closing bids
Ma >ch. 9.31: April 9.2S: May, 9.28; June,
917: July. 9.16: August. GA: September
9.l2: October. 9.1c: November, COS; De-
cenber. 9.os; January. 9Os.
Spot closed quiet. points lower; mid
ding uplands, 965; middlins gulf. 80;
10 sales
The market closed easy. with prices net
4aI points lower. Estimated receipts at
the ports today, 1900 bales, against
1851 last week and 1880 last year. For
the week. 10000 bales, against 81, 4Ss
last week and 1881 last year. Today's
receipts at New Orleans. 1.408 bales
against 23o4 last year. and at Houston,
..,02I bales against Az? last wear
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1t matters little what It II that you
want-whether q situation or 4 servant
want ad In The Star will reach the
person who can fill your need.
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liar silver, steady. % 15-led per ounce.
Money. 21ta2H per cent.
The rate OF discount in the open market for
short bills IL 2sxa21s per cent.
The rate Of discount in the open market for
three-month bills 10 "a per cent
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The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London.
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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Recipients of Prizes.

The first prize was awarded to Lord
Rayleigh and Prof. William Ramsay OF
University College, London. for the dis
coyery of argon. new constituent OF the
atmosphere. The second prize Of $1,000
was not awarded. no competitor having
exactly complied with the conditions. The
third prize Of 81 900, was awarded to Prof
Henry de Varigny for the best popular
treatise on atmospheric air. Several
papers submitted in the competition have
been published and circulated as a part
Of Smithsonian contributions to knowl-
edge
There have been many small grants
under the fund for special investigations
AZ to the presence of harmful gases and
other foreign substances in air, kite n.y.
ing, such as was done at the Massa-
chusetts Blue Hill Observatory for the
scientific observation OF the upper air: re-
searches in the propagation OF sound; re-
searches in the production Of low temper
atures. and many other Investigations
most Of which have ultimately some prac-
teal application among the arts and
sciences, but which would never be car
ried on by any commercial company
with a view to immediate dividends.
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Liverpool Cotton Prices.

LIVERPOOL March 2o.-Closing cotton
Spot: Quiet: prices five points higher;
American middling fair. SIS; good mid
ding. 5.22; middling. 500; low middline
49,: good ordinary. 4.4S: ordinary. 4.l4.
The sales or the day were 5000 bales, Of
which 900 were for speculation and ex-
port and 100 American. Receipts. Il 900
bales. including 18.30O American. Futures
opened and closed steady. March 4.94:
March-April, 4.94; April-May, 1891:
May-June. 4.9o. June-July. 4.y8h: July
August. 4.aste: August-6eptember. 496;
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4.93t: October-No-
vemher. i.91t.: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 49O:
December-January, 4.Ss; January-Febru-
AIRY. 4ssia
Additional sales made late yesterday
amounted 10 1000 bales all American:
800 OF these were to the trade and / 500
Tor speculation and export.
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FARMERS AND MECHANICS NATIONAL
Bank OF Georgetown. Waahington. D. o.. March
declared an extra dividend Of foar per cent.
payable on and after April 1, 1903, to the
for transfer Of stock clcsed from March e 70
April /, inclusive. {. W. EDMONSTOSx Cash
fer mhZO.SI,epl
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been quite remarkable, and there are
practically no instances where the figures
expressing such funds are not written in
larger aggregates: This is condition
delight in; they like to see the surplus
rolling up. and in fact this item is looked
upon as showing to large extent the
success Of that particular business.
tefprises are apt also to look at another
item and that is the one Of loans for the
purpose Of trying to see in what way the
corporation Is making money and to what
extent it Is succeeding in employing the
fund which has been intrasted to it's
keeping by the depositors. A large num-
Der Of the latter are also the customers
Of the bank as borrowers.
1t Is natural they should not be in favor
OF paying any more for the use of the
are obliged to. and so they are apt to
watch the current rates here and else
where In order to find out whether or
not they are paying half cent more
than they should. The officers of the bank
and the directors. and also the stock
holders. and some Of these may also ap-
pear In the roll of customers of the bank
as borrowers OF its funds. naturally feel
that the interests they represent require
that they should get the rate OF interest
up to the best level of the current de-
mand.
But in such a market as exists in this city.
where the volume OF business is neither
as large nor as active as Is the case In
such q center as New York the rate for
money Is not made each day. but tends
to remain fixed for periods. This is the
case at present. The current rate for
money on real estate loans. as well as
for collateral loans. is per cent, and
that has been the rate ever since the re-
covery set in from the late financial de-
preston.
During that time the rate for money.
when II could be obtained. was per cent
When the money market became easier
then the rate fell again to per cent,
which Is looked upon by some financiers
as tho normal rate in this city Those
who hold this view. of course. acknowl-
edge that. money has been cheaper than
that and that a "a and a per cent rate
has been given here. But such times are
regarded as exceptional, just as the times
Of higher rates.
IT IL also predicted by some observers
that It il likely money rates will stiffen
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WIZ1zE GIZ22N0NG1ZE CXSE1

Of Importance. In the stable STUN
bled on an empty champagne case
which was of the same brand as one
had noticed in the vault of the
bank. 1t might mean something OF
nothing, but / had long ago learned
to take particular notice of small
things, and many is the valuable clew
that this habit has given me.
Since the return of Saunders and
McGrath, they had been working on
the clew of the anonymous letter, and
the information it contained about the
mysterious boxes which had been seen
to arrive at the bank at night. They
had located the author, a discharged
messenger, who bore grudge against
the teller to whose instance he attrib-
uted his discharge. From the mes
senger they learned that the boxes had
been delivered at the back entrance
of the bank late at night. They. had
been brought to It in a one horse
express wagon, but the wagon had not
displayed a license number and the
driver, although mufled in a great
coat. had evidently not been a regu-
lar expressman, SO the messenger in
formed them. He gave a fairly accu-
rate description of the wagon, which
had been of peculiar construction.
81 had seen just such a vehicle at
the bankers residence, a sort of de-
livery wagon which seemed to be en-
ployed in hauling feed for the extern
sive stable of the banker, as 1t had
been filed with sacks of oats and
bales of hay when l saw 1t.
THE next morning 1 reported sick
at the bank, but my service with the
banker was not at an end. had shifted
my position from janitor at the bank
to assistant gardener and general fac
totum at the presidents residence.
Armed with note from the banker to
the gardener, put in my appearance
at his residence. The gardener didn't
seem to like my appearance. He re-
garded me with cold suspicion, while
he read the note from his employer,
and, it seemed to me, he rather reluc-
family accepted me as his assistant. /
verify believe he would have driven
me away on some pretext. If it had
not been for the explicit terms Of the
note the banker had written at my die
tation.
The gardener was a tough looking
customer. There was an atmosphere
of suspicion about him which put me
on my guard and caused me to watch
him with caution. He was a smooth
individual, however, and had served
in my new capacity for three days
without discovering anything worth
mentioning, when he set me at the
task of wheeling out the ashes from
the big bin in the cellar The bin was
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situated at the rear of the furnace,
near the entrance of the basement.
and in passing to and fro at my, task.
4 l noticed several wine-cases piled in
a dark corner of the basement. took
advantage of the first opportunity to
examine them and, while the lids
were securely nailed down, / found.
by lifting them, that they were as
heavy as chunks of lead.
That night / burglarized the bank
er's basement, while two of my COM
panions kept watch outside to see that
was not disturbed. In the cham
| pagne-cases l found the molds and
other accessories Of the counterfeiters.
and large quantity of metal and
newly manufactured coins.
Before we left the bankers resi-
dence, the gardener was a prisoner.
and before the night was over we
had nabbed Mason and farley and
Cashier Powell. The gardener turned
states evidence and gave the whole
thing away. The three society men
held out firmly to the last. They were
convicted only after considerable DIFF
ficulty. Except for the assistance of
the gardener in securing evidence, we
should never have been able to have
made out, against them, anything
more than a strong circumstantial
case. We recovered about $4,000
from the culprits, and in the banks
vault was more than $4,000 of the
counterfeit money. The night watch
man at the bank was also implicated
and convicted.
The gardener, who had many
aliases, was an old offender. He had
worked at one time in the Frisco
mint, and was regarded as skillful
workman. After leaving the mint, he
had put out a gold coin of the
twenty-dollar denomination, but had
been caught and had served a prison
term for it. He had drifted east, after
serving his term, and had figured out
the plan which he had there put in op-
Grafton. He had manufactured the
coins, using the big furnace at the
bankers residence for that purpose,
and had secured the three society
men, all Of whom were heavily in debt
and therefore ready victims, to palm
on the money. Their method was to
take good money from the bank vault
and replace it with the bad, which
they worked OF at the factory in the
weekly pay roll. The cashier at the
bank had secured the place for the
counterfeiter at the bankers resi-
dence, but this had not been with any
particular design further than 1t was
a place that was especially suited to
the necessities of the counterfeiter."
Copyright. 1903, by w. @. chapmaaa
(Cepyright n Great Dsitain)
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MLEcSOAf5
NF NE CUyztIzRTZZZZRS

moved It from the shelf. cut the core
which fastened the mouth of 1t while
the attention Of the inquisitive cashie,
and teller was directed elsewhere.
Having shaken the mouth Of the
sack open and frayed the ends Of the
cord SO that my ruse would not be
detected. 1 purposely stumbled and
fell as crossed the vault. The coins
poured out upon the steel floor Of the
big vault in bright yellow stream
rolling hither and yon, while / sat de
jectedly In the midst of the golden
flood and rubbed my knee and cursed
The two bank officials showed live
ly concern at my stupid accident, and
both set about gathering up the coins
l assisted them as much as possible,
but my pulse was beating too fast for
my help to amount to much. My ruse
had fully served my purpose. The
ring of the coins upon the steel floor
of the vault had not been true They
had rung dull and heavy, and knew
them at once for their real false char
came when fingered them deftly, as
l restored them to the sack whence
they had come. There was no mistak-
ing the feeling of them. They were
greasy and slick; that Shiny touch
which discloses the spurious coin in
the dark as well as in the light. Every
one touched had that slippery, soap
stone surface which counterfeiters
cannot overcome except by the use
of metal of the same fineness as that
of the genuine coin.
"As l replaced the sacks, after clean
ing the shelf, l was careful to weigh
each of them in my hand. There were
Is sacks, each containing thousand
dollars in half eagles, which were light
in weight.
Il now felt sure of my ground, but
it was still necessary that we secure
proof against the teller. l had not
suspected the cashier, until his evil
dent trepidation when / spilled the
sack of gold.
The mystery was now more COM
pick and interesting than ever. While
had discovered the big reserve of
the counterfeiters l had no evidence
against any one, and was still afraid
to make arrests. l wanted the makers
OF the coin and their machinery, and
wanted them badly, for this was the
biggest case that / had thus far in
nv career been engaged upon.
That night l did some tall think
ing. and also made secret trip to the
bankers residence, which l carefully
examined from the outside, going
over the extensive grounds about the
house and the outbuildings at the i'm
minent peril Of being shot for a bur-
glar. Here discovered only one thing
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DICKSON and /
were again foregather-
ing in front Of the
CHEEKY log fire at his
home. He launched
into q capital story of
counterfeiting in high
places.
Il was once stationed
in the city of a great
international expos
ition, to watch for cul-
prits that we're ex-
pected to put out the
customary counterfeit.
For the first month or
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Twenty-Five thousand men of arms
marched past the massed representa-
tives and special ENJOYS of thirty,
seven nations at New York while 2,
DOC, 900 citizens, seated in grandstands
or standing along Fifth avenue, shout.
ed themselves hoarse in cheers. The
great military parade vas the climax
Of the Hu%dson-Fulton celebration.
With singular unanimity and almost
unparalleled harmony the Massachu'
sets Democracy in convention at
Boston named it's state ticket, headed
by former State Senator James H.
Valley of Watertown for governor,
and adopted a platform of party prin'
ciples.
Through streets ablaze With bun.
ting and lined with the greatest crowd
ever gathered in New York thorough
fares a parade of 10000 men and fifty
four floats passed before the ENJOYS
of twenty-oAe nations participating in
the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
One hour after the opening of the
registration booths on the Cheyenne
River and Standing Rock Indian res
'ervations in South Dakota 1900 per-
sons had registered at the six regis
tration points.
Ralph w. Wheelock Of Minneapolis
succeeds Frank A. Day of Fairmont
as private secretary to Governor Eber.
hart of Minnesota.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

Madrid is beflaggeu and Illuminated
In celebration Of the success Of the
Spanish army in Africa, which was
crowned by the occupation of Mount
Guruga. the Moorish stronghold
Crowds filled the Puerta del Sol and
the surrounding streets acclaiming
the news which means a glorious end
ing of the wal and the early return
of the troops.
1t is understood ut Madrid hal the
government, after consultation with
General Marina, the commander OF
the Spanish forces in Morocco. has
decided to continue aggressive opera
tions against the Moors. Reinforce
ments to the number Of Is, 100 men
will be sent to Africa.
The latest Spanish defeat in Moroc-
co, in which General Diez Vicario lost
his life, is not yet known to the
people Of Madrid and the authorities
are carefully suppressjng the details,
which indicated that the Moors were
resuming the offensive.
A Spanish force from Zeluan, recon
%noitering in the direction of Sokel
Jemis, encountered the Moors and
met with a serious reverse. General
Diez Vfcario, three ether officers and
fourteen men were killed and 1872
men were wounded.
An i%nundation in Southern Wales
has rendered hundreds Of families
temporarily homeless. The floods
were caused by the River Avon
bursting it's banks in consequence Of
unprecedented rain storms.
The Spanish forces in Morocco, &C
cording to the latest dispatches re
ceived at Madrid, were eminently sue.
cessful in turning Mount Guruga and
surrounding the ferocious Beni-Sicar
tribesmen.
A jury at Paris decided that a man
whose wife is lying Of an agonizins
disease is justified in killing her to
put an end TO her suffering if she im-
plores him to do &C.
The arbitration undertaken by tn"
Swedish government to settle the dis
pute between the employers union
and the Confederation of Labor has
failed.
Cholera has become epidemic at
Seoul, Korea, more than 500 cases
having been reported since the dis
ease made its appearance.
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DISCOVERY Of NORTH PoLE

# DR.. Cooks refusal to submit his
observations, notes and other data at
once to a competent scientific COM
mission is all that stands in the way
OF compliance with the suggestion OF
the National geographical society
that such a step, on the part of both
Cook and Peary, should precede any
soficial recognition Of the explorers
claims.
Harry Whitney of New Haven. the
big game hunter who has been
brought into the polar controversy,
believes that DR.. Frederick A. Cook
found the pole and that Commander
,Peary did the same. In expressing
this belief Mr.. Whitney said he knows
no reason for. doubling Cook more
than Peary.
The Explorers club. of which Com
mander Robert f. Peary is president
and DR.. Frederick A. Cook a fornfet'
president, has cancelled the banquet
that was to navc been given DR.. Cook
at New York city.
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UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

The Ferguson block. an eight-sto:y
Office building in the heart Of Pitts
burg's financial and business district
was wrecked by an explosion. ~
least sixty persons werr injured. al OH
half that number being young women
stenographers in the building. whG
were either injured by the explosion
directly or hurt in escaping from tho
building.
Six men were killed and a dozen
seriously injured by an outbound Pan
handle passenger train crashing into
the rear end of a Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul stock train at Chicago
The victims were stockmcn, five OF
the dead being from North Dakota
and the sixth from Montana.
Herbert H. Lyttle, one Of the best
known professional automobile racers
in the country, was dangerously hurt
and his mechanician, James Bates
was fatally injured in the Long Island
stock a races near Riverhead, l.. I
Bates died a short time after the acci
dent.
Terrified by Black Hand stories
1000 children staTlpeled in a Polish
parochial school in Jersey City when
fireworks were set off i'll the street
and made a mad rush for the doors
Fourteen were crushed, n so seri'
ously that death probably will result,
The steamer City of Erie, from
Cleveland, ran down a schooner hail
ing from a Canadian port off Erie, Pa
The schooner sank ana three of hel
crew, two men and a woman. went
down with her.
Miss blanche Lord, aged forty, was
killed; her housekeeper, Mrs. Mitchell,
painfully bruised and the latter's
eleven-year-old daughter seriously in.
jured in an automobile. accident near
st. Paul.
A slight earthquake was felt through
Southeastern Missouri, Southern anil
Central Illinois and Indiana and West
ern Kentucky. So far as has been
learned little or no damage resulted.
Parker Norton, owner Of the Mine
ola Press, and Edward Baker. pro.
prietor of Mlneola garage, were in
stantly killed in an automobile acct.
dent ear Mineola, L. I.
At least eight men were killed ana
five perhaps fatally injured in a gas
explosion in coal mine No. 4 of the
Northwestern Improvement company
near Roslyn, Wash.
Two men were killed and eight
other passengers we're seriously in
jured, three of them probably fatally,
in a street car accident at Pittsburg.
Four persons YER instantly killed
and three others injured in a collision
between a freight train and a hand
car one mile west of Edgar, Wis.
Near Stettler, Alberta, the wife of a
farmer named Frank Grover and their
two children lost their lives in a
prairie fire..
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Asserting that a monopoly now is
being formed whose object is to OBJ
tain possession of the water power
sites of the country Clifford Pinchot,
chief of the bureau of forestry, who
returned to Washington from the
West, declared that remedial legisla-
ton must be enacted at the coming
session of congress II this great
natural u is to be preserved to
the people.
Secretary of War Dickinson finds
nothing to criticise in the action Of
General Grant in taking part in a tenn
perance and law enforcement parade
in Chicago, Notwithstanding that Gen.
eral Grant was in uniform as q major
general Of the United: States army.
AS to such movements each soldier
and officer has a right to determine
for himself, Secretary Dickinson says.
Robert 8. Person of South Dakota,
auditor for the interior department.
rendered his resignation to take effect
Dec. /. The treasury department an
nounced the appointment Of Lieuten-
ant Governor Howard G.. tShober OF
Highmore, 8. D.. al successor to Mr..
Person.
While the American farmer has har-
vested bumper crops this year Europa
has not been far behind. According
to the European correspondents Of
the department Of agriculture the har-
vest abroad has generally surpassed
expectations.
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THE DEATH RECORD.

Former Governor Miles B. Nc
Sweeney of South Carolina is dead in
a private sanitarium at Baltimore
insolvency rose from a newsboy to
be governor of the state and presi
dent of the South Carolina Press 1850
citation.
Medical Director Christopher J. Gle.
borne, e admiral, U. 8. ~, retired,
Is dead at Washington. He was born
in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1898 and
entered the naval service of the Unit.
ed States as an assistant surgeon in
1861.
Frederick r. Burton, a newspaper
man and novelist, died suddenly at
Lake Hoptacong, N. j. Mr.. Burton
was tie author of several novels,
among them "Strorg Heart" He was
forty-eight years old.
John Van Nortwick,, millionaire
paper and pulp. manufacturer. and
owner Of more water power rights
than any man in Wisconsin, is dead
at his home in. Appleton from heart
failure.
John O'Neill, scout, Indian fighter,
Civil war veteran, former alderman
and father of track elevation in Chi.
cago, is dead at Chicago. He was sew
enty-four years old.
William II. Palmer. head Of the firm
controlling. the largest fleet Of coast
ing schooners in the world, is dead
at Roxbury, Mass. Mr.. Palmer was
fifty years old.
Dan McAvoy, the comedian, Is dead
IN New York witty. McAvoy was one
Of the first American variety per.
formers.