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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-10
UNION PACIFIC
SHORTS IN HOLE
Price Mounted Upwards Then
Urgent Buying Causing
Wild Fluctuations.
RECOVERY PACE TOO RAPID.
Was some Falling Back---J. Y. stock
holders Asked 10 Prepare Their
Proxy Blanks.

New York Sept io-The stock market
opened active ana strong with prices
generally higher. Southern Paeihc was
up e4 Union Pacific ~ and Reading
lA
The opening was strong and orderly
! with interest centered around the posts
where Union Pacific and Southern Pacihc
arc dealt IN.
on transactions Of sooo shares Union
Pacific opened at quotations ~ is1 and
1854, as compared With 1stA at the close
yesterday. Southern Pacific on trans
actions OF aO0 shares gained from
60 "a points. Union Pacific preferred
showed an ADVANCE Of "a over last night
Other stocks in which Mr.. Hartman
held large interests, notably Baltimore
a Ohio Atchison and New York Gem
trial. showed gains ranging from laree
fractions TO IA. United States Steel was
strong on moderate volume OF trad
ing.
Prices yielded from the high opening
within the first quarter Of an hour In
very unanimated market but were ris-
ing again by 1880 o'clock. The reaction
had reached ~ In Northern Pacific, =
In southern Pacific and J In New York
Central. Great Northern preferred and
Erie. Professional operators who had
short sales at the high opening level
found resistance 10 the decline and re-
bought their stocks. on the rebound
prices rose higher than AZ the opening,
Union Pacific preferred touching 1871,
Reading i5S7s and a. s. Steel s.
The market then became somewhat
quietcr
Very heavy buying orders flowed into
the market when u was seen that prices
were resisting the FIRST selling pressure.
Early IN the second hour Union pacinc
shot up f the urpfarrod stock II. south
ern Pacific : Reading ~ and the list
generally from I to over points. The
shorts In Union Pacific found them
selves In acute distress as the price con-
tnued 20 mount upward and their urg-
ent buying caused wild fluctuations In
the price Of II to q between sales.
Union Pacific sold al a2is, rise or s
points over last night southern Pacific
a. l2sas, rise Of 5as over last night,
Reading az 1907 a rise Of 9. and L. 5.
steel az 70, r rise Of 2as
The pace proved too rapid for the re-
cnvery and prices fell back A statement
was issued by Kuhn Loeb & Co. and
National City bank interests, as follows;
IT is announced that Kuhn Loeb 4
Co. and the National city bank inter
ests are acting IN unison in Union Pa
chc affairs and they request stockhold-
crs TO prepare their proxy blanks which
they have and forward them 10 the Of
fees OF the company"
This refers to vroxies for the annual
meeting Of the Union Pacific on the see
ond Tuesday ia October
LONDON STOCK MARKET.
fondon. Sept io-The death Of e. H.
Hartman was anticipated By the stock
exchange and after long period OF un-
certainty the effect ~ the railroad mag
Mates death was not as pronounced as
had been anticipated. Prices were mark
ed down at the opening but the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-10
MINING, BUSINESS AND STOCKS.
TINTIC PROPERTIES
ANNOUNCE DIVIDENDS
Post Returns to Stockholders
This Morning.


Provo sept 90 Al the REGULAR
monthly meetings of the directors OK
the Sioux Consolidated. Iron Blossom
and Colorado mining companies this
morning the regular dividends wero
posted lu spite OF market conditions
thoge companies are going ahead pro-
ducinE revenue for their stockholders
Tho total amount that the companies
win dispose Of on the dividends posted
is S2il,6jl23 for the month of septem-
ber
Colorado viii pay dividend of s
cents. payable sept 20. the books viii
close sept H. and will be opened on
sept N The amount that viii be paid
out is $4,000 and brings the total divi-
dcnds from this company up 90 N,19o
000 since u first started 60 pay diyl-
bends In June, 1907
The dividend from from Blossom viii
be- cents share payable Sept o.
The books close Sent 20. and open on
sept. 2e The dividend from this COM
pany viii amount to so. 200. AZ the CONF
pany has 10000 shares of its l.ooe. no
shares " stock still in the treasury
This s the third dividend paid hy this
company this year besides paying a
stock dividend.
with the paying ~ the present divi-
demo the Sioux Consolidated company
Viii have paid out just so cents a share
bon earnings to its stockholders The
total amount 90 be paid ont win be
S52.i5G23. The company has an OUT
standing capitalization OF 1f5.3S9 shares.
The dividend on sioux viii be paid ou
Sept 20. The books close Sept IS ana
open again on sept a. The company
will pay a dividend Of cents thus
month
The Sioux property win have paid in
dividends since ore was encountered.
$685. 800 20
At the meeting of the board Of Gi-
lectors Of the Black Jack Consolidated
Mining company an assessment 81 /
cent was levied
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market was quite unccnccfned and u
recovered quickly and well when the
buyers came forward. BEFORE the rar-
hot opened several prominent lobhefs
made wide prices ri ! 10 2 points below
parity
Repurchasiur bv tho hears who had
sold short ON fhc chance ~ MI HART
mans death aud buying on American
account. however. soon brought the mar
kct 90 q much higher level Union IA
cino after being 1874 cx-div rose 10
1898. United States steel common
changed hands between "a and - tx
div. aud then reached lqM Southern
racne went from i2i 70 i25A.
The belief ~ general that big Wall
street interests are protecting Tho mar
ket
Tho operator reported last night To
De in trouble b. an outside broker.
American securities closed Arm. Prices
hardened az the end.
ON the curb after market hours buy
iug for New York parties sent prices
up with rush. southern Pacific reach
cd lal. Union Pacific 80 and United
states steel common It.
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PRODUCE.


Chicago. Sept iO-Despite an advance
OF Id IN the price of wheat at Liverpool
the market here today was heavy early
IN the session. There was an early fur
~ in the September delivery at the
start, but the price soon dropped back 1c
on profit-talxing Opening quotations
were = lower to 2 higher, With Deem
bec az S9s 10 a6ss selling based on CON
tinued liberal receipts in tho northwest
caused slight declines early. December
easing on TO 9i4 Increased receipts OF
corn caused weakness IN the market for
that grain ~ tho start Prices at the
start we're 2. higher 10 3 lower. Deem
Der being at 81 10 e0t. For time the
price OF that option moved within the
opening range.
prompted by a constant increase IN
stocks. After opening unchanged to a
lower at 1915 10 S9is, the December de-
livery dropped 10 80.
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TODAY's MONEY MARKET.

Now York. sept &c.,. Money ou oau
steady eiH2Ag pel cent, ruling rate.
eh per cent. closing bid. ca per cent.
and offered AZ 2i per cent
Time loans dun tud strong for 80
days J034 per cent fnr on days 3s,
naA per cent for slN months. 37sUt
ucr cont
CLOSE. Prime mercantile paper pta
ga per cent
Sterling exchange weaker with actual
husineee In bankers bills Ht slSika0
ff.si.q5 for 6n-day bills. and at Nk630
far demand
Commercial bills. sl4MS4.Niis
bar silver. DIES cents
Mexican dollars a. cents.
Government bonds steady railroad
bonds strong
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Provisions IN general we're inclir.s
he weak early In the day because or ,f .
easier tone ~ grain rcpter,ber r.
was an exception and showed \ rain ID
10, owlnR 90 GOVERNS by shorts
Prices At the opening mere 2i. los.
TO zoe. higher
Wheat The market rallied sharpl, l,t.
~ the session ON buying by short. M,
ccmhtr advancing from e6t 10 oS Tt
close was strong with December IN II.
Corn THE low point FOR December mo-.
reached az ae's Z go The market rallied
materially lstc In the day In svnrs,t,
with the upturn ln wheat. December az.
vancng TO e0ai. The close was Ann r,itL
December isaA higher at 0E "a
Close Whee, sept. LOsls bee.
I'm May, i.oo7s
corn-.sept. s7A az Dee. So, "a,
oats-sept., 4o,.. Dec. ss4 NAV r
Pork-sept 23.Sait; Jan. Is. eTts
i.ard-Sept, i215. Oct. i2t7is0fa
Nov, II. soa q .Ssta Jan. "a. 7sis aio r.
Ribs-sept.. .75i Oct. II 60. Jan. a,r.
Eye-Cas s. io~ =: sept, 81 Dec s,
Barley-Cash, f5ffe5.
Timothy-sept, 9.75: oct. s,@; Mare..
clover-cash, lex March. i2B
SUGAR AND COFFEE
NtW Nihs SEPT. lV.-SNRar. raw firm
Fair refining. 40 centrifugal. as tcsi
40 molassos sugar, as
Rehned-Steadv Crushed, 5 s.. powder
cd rs. ersnulated, SIS
Coffee-Steady. No Z Rio ~, No. 4
Santos. Hsm9
RUTTER AND EGGS
Chicago, Sept 10 Butter STEADY.
Creamerics. 2iikN2eta dairics 226rs
lgRs-Steady At mark. cases Included
IS. receipts. S.i29; hrsts, %. prime irsts.
p
Cheese STEADY. Daisies. I5is ne,
twins 4asni5' young Americas rs. long
horns. IS
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ooLUMBus con. STRONGER.


Stocks Are Fairly steady on the Local
Mining Exchange
Columbus Consolidated was fca-
ture of the local mining exchange 20
day. Two days ago the stock sold
at SO cents This morning il Jumped
up 90 Si.22ia but before the close n
was down % fil2lb There ls evidence
that this stock is heiug manipulated
Tho same as iron Blossom and Colorado
were several mpnths ago. AZ one umr
this year the stock was selling above So
a share. since then 30 has gradually
declined. I'm AN 1850 shares of the stock
were disposed OF
Iron Blossom with "a dividend posted
vast stronger than on yesterday Dulp.
RADIO sold az me same price today 20. 10
did yesterday Sioux Consolidated WA.
selling al - cents This morning, lust
. cents more than the stock win have
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maid in dividends after the roll of velvet
is handed stockholders on Sept 20
The total number Of shares dispose
of today WIS Az 49, while the amount
paid out for mining stocks was $780,
305 so
There was mo- trading on the curb
market
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FORENOON QUOTATIONS.

FORENOON QUOTATIONS.
Bullock 1000 az ~.
Colorado. roo az t11t..
T.. Cr Pa 900 az ga
Gold Reef. 500 al l2is.
% 50
Little Bell 100 al ! .65.
10. Nam, 100 az &c.
Mason v. 800 az 225
Min Flat 5000 az ~. r. So
New York. 2 900 AT 50. $500 Al 7.
Silver King. 50 al a96.
500. Con. $500 al Sc
So. Columba 200 az 49,
al 9.
Tint Cent 1000 al Z.
T. sam. 100 az l0
Victoria. 100 al SO.
West New, 500 I'd 22i5
OPEN BOARD.
Bullock 5000 at1E
Colorado 1900 al I.TIh
Colum con. 300 at % io0 al .22t5.
zoo AZ ll5; i6o at lIah.
" y Dew ] 800 az 1919. 1000 at "A
Iron Bios 800 al 2 27is. S so. @ ESQ az
i.22is Son az l.2S y so. 500 an lea. s.
Lu Rru 5oo AZ $50
Min tat 5000 at z.
foo lnO FOO si
Swansea ENt. 1000 NJ g.
TOTALS
Shares Value
Regular .t... ........21 sos sa9s 10
orcu ...... ..-.r-....222io llsoS. 20
40 ,s5 eco IN, al
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WOOL.


St Louis. sept io-Wool. unchan ged
Territory and western mediums, = 12S;
fine mediums. 2GA. nne. l3dis
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LIVESTOCK.


Omaha. Sept 10.-Cattle- Receipts. IL
ooo. market steady. Native steers. lisa
10, do. COWS and hrifers 5ooa5 %.
western steers. 100000 Texans. 3.ooG
SIS, range cows and heifers. 7Sdih0;
Gamers. 2.o0W3.o %; stockers and feeders,
ooM 5.f0 calves, 3.0Ws.50. bulls and
stays. 2.75a4.15.
HoEs-Rccoipts. 1870. market steady.
Heavy. z 70G S 90. mixed S0n Z. %: lights.
7.eoWS.iO; pigs. 6.s0u5. 50. bulk Of sales,
7.750S 90.
sheep Receipts. lOn. market steady.
Yearlings, i75d5.i0 wethers. 4.S5d4 IS,
ewes. 3.l5U46o. lambs. 6.i5a7-0l.
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J.R WHITNEY stock Broker.
s34 Atlas Ben t47O. Res. 3004-z
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Chicago Sept. l0--Cattle- Receipts, es-
timated AT 3.o0Oi market steady Beeves,
asa $50 Texas steers. i.l5n6.35; west
ern steers. 4.l5M6. 80, stockers and feed
ors. 3.00u 500, COWS and heifers i.S0d
$50, calves, $500 500
Hogs-Recepts, estimated at 10000;
market steady. Lights S.00ds i5 mixed
l.S5qS 50. heavy. 650S~; rough. sSd
80. good to choice heavy. 7.g0dS.50;
piss 7.SonS. q bulk Of sales. S10aS. IS
sheep Receipts estimated At 1900.
market steady. Native. 2.Sods 10;
western. B. i065.Oo: ycsrlings. 4e0G555:
lambs. native. 4.5OQ7.e. western. 4 50dn
40
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas city. Sept io.-Catue- Receipts.
5000; market strong. Native steers, T. 20
QS.oo, native COWS and heifers. 2.mQ5.5o;
stockers and feeders 3.0O05 N: bulls go
n 5.i5, calves, 3.75G7i5 western steers,
3 zoos. % western cows, ..50n4.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000. market steady to
strong Bulk Of sales. T.90mS2: heavy.
s i0aS.3 30; packers aud butchers SOFA
S 25 lights. 77odS.i5. pigs, 5.50a7.50
sheep Receipts, 5000 market steady.
Muttons, f.2505.&: lambs e.00d7 70.
range wethers 4.ooa5.eo range ewes.
3 25Q4s5.
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
Druggist Draws
Vivid Picture of Snead.

A druggist to whom Fletcher Snead
had several times gone FOR supplies
draws vivid picture Of the man I'm an
account OF a strange Interview with
him last spring. perhaps a little more
than a year after the wed ing In Jer-
sey City. Miss Virginia had gone 10
Mark Rappaport and offered HIM large
fee If he would witness some signatures.
hurrying ahead to arrange things be
fore the visitor should arrive. The house
proved 10 be the old and drearv dwelling
in Flatlands. What follows is I'm Ran
papOrts own words.
Tt seemed very odd that the house
should be dark ] had waited several
minutes when the woman appeared at
the front door. She ushered me into
the front room. bare Of furniture ex-
cept a rough wooden table and two
kitchen chairs. The door opened and
Fletcher Snead came in. but he was so
pale and his face was so drawn
scarcely recognized him. He was only
half dressed, his clothes were shabby.
his head hung down toward his chest
and lis arms swung listlessIy
He gazed straight at Miss \VardIav-.
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
IS KEPT AS A PRISONER
FROM HER CHILDHOOD
Young Woman Sees Little of the World and Its
Society, and Is Deprived of All Pleasures of
Bright Girlhood

places all that the FIVE women had to
eat was dry bread, in another only bis
cults IN pasteboard boxes, in another a
little fruit When medicine was sent,
in one case, II lay unopened on the
mantel until the physician and the
trained nurse summoned By some one
left the household i'm disgust
All, how they did heed money! They
were moving rather than pay rent
Their clothes were not only scant but
rough Old Mrs. Wardlaw was suf-
fering at an age when every mother
may expect TO be the fond cgre Of her
children. Food-foOd enough to keep
alive-was lacking. Aad all this time a
fortune hung on the slender thread Of
a young girls weakness.
Maxwell II. Elliott, a lawyer at 81
Broadway. held power of attorney to
draw Mrs. Martins pension. This IS
his impression of her sense Of need:
"She appeared erratic whenever she
came to see me. Money was her one
idea. She continually talked about It.
She borrowed money of me- every six
months on her pension. And it looks to
me as II she had been paying insurance
premiums with II. Once she said 10 me
IF you will let me have $3.50 down I
will give you my pension for the rest
Of my life Again she talked inco-
herently about policies. loans, and the
like and asked me if I would invest
s. 700 if could make 800 per cent on II.
7 told her that was too much to make
honestly. Once she came here with her
sister, Miss Wardlaw. and she had the
sister completely under her domina-
ffOn -
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
AN INNOCENT VICTIM.

WHAT kind Of a life was this for
w young gin who only year or so
earlier had looked forward to heauN
and parties. a FINISHED" education and
marriage 70 one Of the well-to-do young
gentlemen OF The countryside? Let us
consider that subject a moment.
All healthful. normal. girl life had
ceased the day Mrs. Martin came 70
soule. Miss Ozie' had been human
unbeam TO the college. winsome smii-
ing. light Of heart. as any young miss
IN any boarding school But the rcming
Of her mother clustered her
The few who saw the child afterward
IN Murfreesboro and Christlausburg are
N one mind on several details. Little
Miss Ole never went forth alone. Her
walks were so arranged that she said
hardly a word 70 anyone save the
6uennas. At first the brightness Of her
splrit faded. then that Of her mind. BY
the time the party gave up their effort
10 re-eStablish SOulc in the buildings
OF MONTGOMERY Female College The sing
ing. slender. sun-bright child Of MUIR
frees boro had become subdued, unre-
sponsfve plaintive woman.
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
Education Plan
Interests Rich Woman.

Mrs Martin and Miss Wardlaw had
made frequent trips 10 New York. AS
wen as one can tell they had conceived
more and more explicitly q plan TO
interest certain rich Wompn in 'aTce
scheme for public education Ia the
south Or tEls. presumably. they talbed
"a Miss Ozie." But 7 do not like 10 pic
ture this child Of twenty. shut mp I'm a
darkened room with four scheminC
danes hearing ~ this anc little else
while her heart CROPPED for r0uthful as
sOciations
With tine legacy left bv Colepel Mar
tin, This little maid might well enough
have made a beautiful home for some
manly Southerncr. Their was about
81 500 in cash and thc-e were -ixteen lots
m Louisville. variouslv estimated a.
worth from 5000 20 Sl0O,Co Put Ocey
Old not have the say as to this property.
ON one OF tho visits TO New York.
Mrs. Martin had herself appointed guar
dlan-January %. l9Ol-of "her infant
daughter and authorized 10 spend $500
~ the child's estate for "supDort cdu-
cation. and maintena once Three wears
later another Offset against the estate
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
Fall Far
From Aristocratic Finensss.


But I hold it is quite fair to assume
that as far back as last August these
four grim strUgglers had so far fallen
from their aristocTatic hneness OF
sensibility as to consent-each one in
her own heart-tO the hurTying of a
day they believed Fate had in store
for their young charge. Why2 Chiefly
because they left behind them in their
wanderings indications of such an atti-
tude in clear writing.
At their instance. Mrs Ocey Snead,
weak unto starvation as this life con-
tinued. made seven wills. more and
more In their favor
Fletcher Sread, who seems not to
have been good for anything else, left
behind him-and the old women in
their turn les II behind them-a waiver
on all his wife-s property written on
paper sack
Old Mrs. N-ardlaw. whose only in
come was a tension OF So a month.
had long ago MADE IT over 10 Miss Vir-
einia. ID Starving as they were.
driver - desperation for decent clothes,
they now 81 rained every nerve to main
taii The premiums on $4,000 Of insur-
ancc.
They besought more than one land
lady not to press them for their rent.
as money would be plentiful after
while"
Finally. they did not give this
woman in their keeping even the aid 10
convalescence which their means per
mitted. They did not administer medi
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
HOUSE OF MYSTERY.

WHEN the idea first took form Of
w finding surcease for ali the ills Of
their poverty in Mrs. Ocey Snead's in
surance money none of US can know.
With the prosecutor Of Essex county,
n. J., I hold II is preposterous TO as
sumo that any OF these gentlewomen-se-
cure in a rare social position back in
Murfrees boro-had conceived any such
purpose in the Soule days.
Nor can I think the purpose when
once conceived was furthered by hyp-
notism or am mental means beyond
the ascendancy Of strong natures over
weak. have talked with most Of these
persons who report strange passings Of
the hands. weird weavings of beads,
fixed eyes, and so on, and I feel-not
to put too fine point on it-that they
are letting a good story run away with
them.
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
Abandon Nicely
Of Lifelong Care.

Not only were these quarters IowIy,
but the women abandoned their life
long nicely OF personal care. As far
back as 1893. when they were rooming
at 2i9 West Forty-eighth street. Man
haitian, their landlord, William Dosch-
er, noted this decline. Says he:
Ten wears ago Mrs. Martin came 10
US and rented rooms. The daughter. At
that time thirteen or fourteen wears
old was unusually attractive. We be-
came great attached 70 her
Mrs Martin was frequently cruel 10
the child. who would come running 10
my wife and fling her arms around her
neck and sob Ny wife tried many
times 10 learn what troubled the child.
but she would never tell her and we dia
not discover the nature OF the fear she
had for her parent
After they mad stayed there seven
months without paving as a cent Of
rent Ne were forced 90 BEGIN proceed
ings 10 Cvict them, and. after a time
we succeeded. did nor know that
there were other members II the family
living but after they had gone a
woman who looked something like Mrs
Martin. and said she was her sister
came 90 tie house 30 claim the effects
left there bv the mother and daughter.
Mrs Martin seemed 10 have good
standing with prominent p-opl-. or al
least people who appeared to be Of some
consequence. She had many callers from
among folks Of what you would call the
upper classes The stories ] have read
in the paper about the queer ways of
The family agree perfectly with our eS-
DerIence Of the mother ana child I'm
OR house. They were untidy and their
rooms were always in the utmost dis
order
The Washington times., 1909-12-12

partner, Charles Schwartzn1an, and they
were taken to Mrs. Snead's iedside with
Ia promise that if they would invest a
little money" they would get 500 for
every dollar put in. The night was
rainy. the house was bare as when
RapDaport saw IL, and the two attor-
news were not at all satisfied thet the
proceedings proposed would not require
the inteFvention OF the police
Carabba was much moved by the
weakness Of the woman on the bed. and
urged the women to let him send for
food and medicine. In the course of the
talk, Miss Virginia Wardlaw and Mrs
Martin left the room. Says Mr.. Carabba !.
THE minute the door closed behind
them a remarkable change came over
the woman on the cot. She mustered
up a great effort and turned toward me
As L drew closer to her she whispered.
I'm dying. I'm dying I see a Ma
sonic pin on <. and 1 believe 7 can
trust you o. TOR Gods sake. please
don't leave me.
she reaczc5 ::ader the pillow and
dragged ogt a PAPER.
Here. brre' she went on fsverisb.
Is This is nv. will. Take If and make
yourself eXecuco---do anything YOU ike
but for the goo Gods sane take car
Of my little boy. -"
The Washington times., 1909-12-12
Fletcher Martin
Factor In Ocey's Life.

The one man who had o part in Ocev
Martins life was Fletcher suead, her
FIRST cousin. lie had been married in
Tennessee. had been divorced, had sold
the insurance policies then carried in
his wife's favor 10 her brother. and now
driftcd iH ana out Of New York in
seeming aimlCssncss. The story i'm
Murfreeaboro is tina. Occy's mother and
aunts brought the sirl and her cousin