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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

In fit of rage and without slight.
est provocation, Arthur Watson of
Hattiesburg drew q revolver from his
pocket, fired three shots into the brain
fhis 16-year-old wife, killing her in
stantly, then turned the weapon upon
his mother-in.law, Mrs. M. B. MoCul.
Tough, shooting her through the neshy
part of the left shoulder.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16
| Mississippi News
loo 900 Ho

Boil weevils operating and feeding
on several stalks of home raised cot
ton" in Vicksburg at the residence of
NJ. W. Coles, is the latest thing in the
weevil world, and the fact of this pest
operating in the literal heart center of
the principal cotton market city in
the Mississippi delta, has caused I'M
usual stir and general interest among
the cotton men and other students of
the pest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

Several hundred farmers of Lincoln
county assembled at Brookhaven un-
der the auspices of the Lincoln Coun-
ty Wheat and Dat Growers Associa-
ton, to promote crop diversification
and insure larger acreage next year
in cereal crops. A number OF farmers
present gave notice of their intention
to increase their acreage in wheat and
oats this fall. Seven hundred bushels
Of seed wheat have been ordered.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

The Commercial Club of Hatties.
burg arranged for three days celebra-
ton to be held October II, Is and IA.
Mayors and boards of aldermen of all
South Mississippi towns will be the
burg during the three days, and 800
will be given for the fastest automo-
bile speeding and $50 for the prettisst
decorated machine in a decoration
contest. All the brass bands in South
Mississippi will be invited to contest
for a prize of SIS.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

After the grand jury of Lincoln
county was organized and charged by
Judge Miller a recess was taken, in
order to allow Senator Leroy Percy
an opportunity to speak to the large
crowd assembled. Senator Percy was
listened to with respectful and cour-
teous attention throughout his address
of an hour and a half. 1t was Sen.
ator Percy's first appearance before
a Lincoln. county audience.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

The petition of D. w. Reed, chair
man of the Shiloh Memorial Park
commissioner and citizens of Alcorn
county, asking that the board of SUI
pervisors cede to the United States
government such road or roads as the
government may desire to improve as
an extension of Or in the national
park, was granted by the board
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-16

copyright. 1910. by American Press AS
ciation.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

graduate students made moro than
$500 apiece. Two Teachers college
girls were dressmakers and milliners
at Il profit to themselves of S419.50
The Columbia college students went
in mostly for bank work and at this
averaged a trifie more than 500. One
man worked in a fruit and vegetable
store and earned S160. Stenographers
and typewriters were also in demand
sor7e Counted Population.
In the regular academic year one col
iege student made as much as $3.50 as
an investigator Fifteen were census
enumeratOrs and made $50 each while
two were leaders of boys clubs and
made S234.5O. Five worked as walters
for $500 and two as athletic directors
for $40. One had a leaning toward
telegraphy and earned S625, while an
other made 5000. 4 student floorwalk-
er earned S24 in weeks time. and an
editor made $500. There were also lee
turers, reference workers and sales
men.
One student in the medical school
was friendly with wine merchant
and. being n good judge of wines pick
ed up $40 as a tester. Two other med
zeal students got sos as lecturers.
Law students in the main went in for
clerical work, although one cleared $50
as caretaker of farm and another ST5
as a playground director. One was
employed as regular inspector in the
customs service and made $500. while
one made $40 as a musician.
Nineteen. women earned more than
5000 apiece in the academic year. and
six made $50 doing miscellaneous
work. One earned as much as $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
EDUCATION ADDED
Rubberneck Wagons Made to
Pay Expense of Students
of Columbia.
SELF HELPERS NUMEROUS
One Studen Earns $3.50 With Mega
phone-S166,O 900 Earned in
Year by Men and Women.

More than 100000 was earned by
the students of Columbia university,
New York city, in the last scholastic
year. according to the report of Z. C.
H Hotter, secretary of the committee
on employment for students, made pub
lie recently The increase over stu
dent earnings of a year ago is more
than 100000. while the number of stu
dents registered with the committee
was practically the same as in the pre-
ceding year.
All sorts of work was done by the
students, from "lecturing on rubber
neck wagons" and tending furnaces to
making special political investigations
and managing offices.
The graduate students reported the
largest earnings, with a total Of $40
2SS06 in the college year and Sill
4T947 in the summer vacation. Stu
dents in the law school came next,
with $15,S30.3S in the academic year
and $10,4S6 IL in the summer
The average earnings in the respec-
tive schools We're in both winter and
summer: College. S355O2; applied sci
ence, $685.. 25: medicine. S6OT.42: law.
srO%O-OEs ldChllicSs DfSt<Os
fine arts. $57S.40; Teachers college.
$6S4.90; Barnard college. S2T6.43.
Few Work Applicants Refused.
The committee received 1903 re-
quests from employers and filed all
but eighty-eight vacancies in the year,
the total earnings being S166, 40.
In the summer vacation one Barnard
girl got 1882 as an investigator. while
one student in the graduate schools
earned 1852 as a preacher. Most of
the students. however. sought out
teaching and tutors positions. more
than $1,000 being earned in that way
The student who had charge of the
'rubberneck wagon made $3.50. while
one In the science schools made S11J
as a trolley car motorman third
was mate on a river sloop and cleared
$40 for his summers work One law
school student had a particularly prof
liable summer. making 1901. Another
managed a fishing club. which gave
him $500
Three medical students put in their
summers as camp assistants and earn
ed $3.50 and living expenses, while an
other managed lunch room for $3.50
and presumably his board also. Twelve
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
Liverpool Wheat.

Liverpool, Dec. 20.-Wheat market
opened quiet, unchanged, with offer
ings lighter, prompted by the persist
ent steadiness in America. Later re-
alizing developed and prices declined.
Pressure was brought about by the in
creasing Australian and Argentine of
fers at lower prices, which met with
poor inquiry Crop and weather re-
ports from Argentine continue favor
able Just before midday some cover
ing Of shorts caused a steadier tone
and prices reacted from the low. This
support was attributed to the decrease
in European visible, which in two
weeks has amounted to 100000 bush
els. together with less favorable con
dition in the United Kingdom and
France AT this time the market was
steadier to unchanged to a lower than
yesterday.
Corn opened quiet and unchanged.
Later the plate grades advanced Is
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat opened z lower Corn open
ed IS lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
BROOM CORN HOME
Kansas Leads in Production
and Town of Liberal Is
Heaviest Shipper.
MAKE HOUSEWIVES GLAD
Crop Largest and Best in History of
Industry in Sunnower State
Worth $3.50. 900.

The housewife who for the past few
years has used her broom with ~
great care and tenderness rs her best
china may put a little more vigor into
Fridays sweeping this year. for the
broom corn crop is the biggest and
best for several years and the proba-
bilities are that good brooms will re
tire from the field rs par!or orna-
ment and return to heir original place
behind the kitchen door.
Liberal. Kan. in Seward county.
claims TO be the biggest broom corn
shipping point. and this season the
broom corn shipment has been greater
than ever before
Busy Market Created.
When the broom corn begins 70 move
out in Liberal the wagons pour into
town in continuous procession for
days. Photographers get out with
cameras and take pictures OF. scenes
as busy as Broadway on sunshinv
afternoon. Recently $50 wagon loads
Of brush" were counted I'm different
sections Of the town.
The prices for the broom corn ranged
from $40 10 S110. depending on quail
~, and averaging about SO. The
money paid out in Liberal since the
marketing began is about S2j0.OO0.
This is for about one-thir1 Of the crop.
r. J. Terwilliger is the biggest
broom corn grower in the locality. He
had LOO acres this season
The country around Liberal has be-
come broom corn producer because
Of a peculiar adaptahility Of the soil.
which is a dark mixed sandy loan.
The sand holds moisture well for
many months. the farmers say The
average rainfall is around fifteen inch
es a year.
Industry Twenty Years Old.
The farmers commenced growing
broom corn III the vicinity Of Tjhernl
twenty years ago. They say it has al
ways been n sure crop.
One day IN October number OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
Saved from ,Aw1ul Death.

How an appalling calamity In his
family was prevented IS told by A. D.
Mcdonald, OF Fayetteville, N. c. r. F.
D, No. s. my sister had consump-
tion," he writes, she was very thin
and pale, had no appetite and seemed
to grow weaker every day, as all rem
edies failed, till DR.. Kings New Dis
covary was tried, and so completely
cured her, that she has not been trou-
bled With a cough since. It's the best
medicine ever saw or heard Of" For
coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, Group,
hemoirhage, all bronchial troubles, it
has 10 equal. soc, s1.00 Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by all druggists.
All the news all the +irne-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Light snow in the lake region, the
Ohio valley and on the north Atlantic
coast has continued to attend the
northeastern storm which is central
over New England. Precipitation in
California, the southern plateau sec
tons and the Canadian northwest has
also resulted from lows which are CEN
trail over Arizona and Alberta The
western area of high pressure has de-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
Chicago, Dec 20.-Following are the
quotations on the market today:
CHICAGO PROVISIONS.

on the market today:
CHICAGO PROVISIONS.
Provisions opened with very sparse
offerings, and heavy purchases Of lard
soon gave the market a very strong
tone; the general trade was broader
than for several days past and trades
were executed in July lard and Sep
TENDER ribs for the first time this sea
son. the July lard selling at 1915 anc
the September ribs at 9.S5. Cash trade
IS showing a daily improvement.
Wheat.
May. $50, 96l4, $685.. 961s.
July, 931s, 937s. SO, 93$4.
December, 81, 917S, 81, 91&.
Corn.
May, 471s, 479s, 471s, 477s.
July, As, 1872, AS, 1915.
December, 45as, ass, 4514, 451a.
Oats.
May, 1875. S41s, 1875, "a.
July, 33%. "a, 93s4, 1875.
December, BIS, 312s, 311s, 31A.
Pork.
January, 1880, 1917, 1880, 1862.
May, 1917, 1S.47, 1917, 1897.
Lard.
January, 1912 1865, 1912, 1857.
May, 1910, 1922. 1910, 1917.
Ribs.
January. 1927, 1902, 1927, 1O.47.
May, 9.65, 9.77, 9.GG, 9.75.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
WILLIS l. MOORE. Chief

creased in intensity and extended east
ward, though its crest remains over
southern Montana, and a sharp fall in
temperature has occurred in the upper
Mississippi valley and the upper lake
region. Owing to the eastward move
ment of the high, and the approach of
the western lows, generally fair wealth
er is indicated for this vicinity tonight
and Wednesday, with warmer Wednes-
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

CFrom noon today to noon tomorrow
Sun sets 4:32, rises 7:17; moon rises
9:21 p. M; planet Mercury visible;
1854 a. M, moon at greatest Hbration
west; suns declination, % degrees IS
minutes, south of celestial equator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Dec. Following are the quota
tons on the local market today:
Live Poultry-Old hens 1212c, springs
15c to lie per pound. ducks 10c per
pound; geese &c TO 1Oc; turkeys Ice
per pound.
Fresh eggs, 33c.
Potatoes, per bushel, Csc.
Butter, dairy CSC to zee; creamery
BIC.
Lard. 12c.
Onions, 75c
Feed and Fuel.
Corn, persbushel, 45c adm 4Sc.
Oats, soc.
orage-Timothy hay, SIG to $3.50:
clover hay. SIS; straw, IS.
Wood-S4.50 per load.
COAl-Lump, per ousnel. 15c: slack.
&C.
Sales on Market square IN last 81
hours:
Oats, five loads at SOC and 32c.
Corn, Is loads at 45c and Acc.
Timothy hay, three loads at SIS and
SIG.
Wild hay, one load al $3.50.
Straw, one load at $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

Forecast till D. m. Wednesday,
For Rock Island, Davenport, Moline,
and vicinity: Generally fair tonight
and Wednesday. The lowest tempera-
ture tonight will be about IS degrees.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

IRv wire from E w. Wagner & Co.
members of Chicago Board of Trade.
Grain, provisions. stocks. ana cotton Ton.
island IN Chicago office. 9S-9S-lOO-
Board of Trade. Local telephone NO.
west 33O.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Hogs $4,000. Open steady at yes
terday's close. Left over 500. Light
7.30d7.75, mixed 1907. good heavy
7.55 a 40, rough 300 80.
Cattle 5000; strong
Sheep 10000; strong.
Hogs closed slow at early prices.
Mixed 7.35@7.75 good 7.55 a 7.55,
rough 1850 $50, light 1855 7.75.
Sheep 1Oc 10 15c higher.
Cattle. strong; beeves 4.G00725.
COWS 2.3506.OO. stockers 3.2565. 65.
Texans 4.3565.50, westerns 100000.
calves 6.75d925.
Sheep 10c higher; 2.5O6425. lambs
4.25G66O.
Western Receipts.
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep
Kansas City ....12.OOO 5000 1000
Omaha o.. $500. 1900 4,40O 4.4OO
st. Louis ....... 5000 .... .....
Estimates for Tomorrow.
Hogs .....-.... ............... 30 200
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
PRUSSlAN SCHOOLS AWHEEL
Housekeeping Course Taught to Coun-
try People Now.

The Prussian government is about to
send out housekeeping schools on
wheels for the purpose of instructtHg
the daughters of laborers. craftsmen
and farming people in cooking. pre-
serving food. dairying and general
housekeeping. 1t IS intended that
eventually every county in Prussia is
TO have one of these schools The
course Of instruction lasts eight weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
TOday's Market Quotations

Union Pacific ..... .......4...171
U. s. Steel preferred ........ 16B
u. S. Steel common ............ 1874
Rock Island preferred ........., coz
Rock Island common gamma. 30
Southern Pacific ..,.. ..I......116s
New York Central .....,...r.t..112Ss
Missouri Pacific 49,. ....r.... 471s
Great Northern 49,, ......... 1913 u
Northern Pacific ..... .........116A
Louisville & Nashville ........ 1441a
SHELTERS ....' .''''t ..'r'I'.' f43s
Colorado Fuel & Iron .......... 81
Canadian Pacific $50. mammal 947s
Pennsylvania 80. 80. ....... l29 "a
Erie ...... $50. .....' I..... zSSs
National Lead ..... ........... 81
Chesapeake & Ohio ............. 61ss
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ....... 761a
Baltimore & Ohio .............106A
Atch1Son Iol n
Locomotive 80. go. .......... o612
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. 1888
A. Z. ........ otTa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

Transcaspian Railway Revived.
Plans are again being formulated for
the construction Of n transcaspian rail
load connecting Russian and Indian
limos
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

farmers drove ia with wagon loads %
broom corn. WHOM their wagons wer"
gathered together on fhn. public square
0J0 worth Of broom corn waiting to ne
Unloadod. There are numerous ware
houses whore the broom corn is stored
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
New York Stocks.

New York. Dec. 2O.-Following are
Gas $500. ..... ...........1331
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

All the news all the tlme-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

If you are suffering from DTiiousness.
constipation, indigestion, chronic head
ache. invest one cent in a postal card
send to Chamberlain Medicine Co
Des Moines, Iowa, with your name
and address plainly on the back, and
they will forward YOU free sample OF
Chamoerlain's stomach and liver tab
lets. Sold b. all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
IN GRAIN MARKETS.
Chicaoo ReceiOtS.
Northwest Cars.

BradstreetS worlds visible supply OF
wheat-This week, decrease 100000;
last week decrease 2,157,00O; last year
decrease 4,104 600.
Minneapolis, Dec. 20-Wheat in
crease. 100000 for three days against
increase of 10000 last year.
Peoria, Dec. 2O.-Corn, receipts 81
cars: cash market u higher to u
lower. Oats, receipts 10 cars; market
unchanged to Il higher.
St. Louis, Dec. 2O.-Cash wheat I'M
changed: No. red CSC to 94c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

Miss Helen c. Moltzner Moline
Edwin Palmer ................A Moline
Miss Hilda Lumberg .......... Moline
Joseph Zerba Davenport
Miss Adeline Mayor ....... Davenport
Arthur r. GarwoOd ........ Davenport
Miss Kate r. Eker. North McGregor. Ia
Jerome A. Smith .......... Muscatne
Miss Lucy NJ. Bradford .........Milan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
OBSERVATIONS.

OBSERVATIONS.
Lowest Highest Precip.
Temp. Temp. last "a
LIST Night Vest. hrs. in.
Rock Island Up 81 90
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

Cattle 30, 600
sheen ...3O sc, 900
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

i. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
AConmon Sense Chr

in of
will
men db
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

Wheat opened z lower Corn open
ed IS lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20
New Oyster House
Keep Open Al Night
At I2I Eighteenth street.

Orders carefully attended to from
any part Of city.
Phone West 945, old phone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-20

EslIhiaLes TOT OHIOTTU".
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1--WE arc JUS
tined in concluding that 90 or 60 per
cent OF the retail trade of the country
Is settled by means Of checks and other
credit jns trumcnts. over 40 per cent OF
the wholesale trade is done with credit
instruments"
such are the conclusions OF DR. Davis
Kinley OF the University OF Illinois, ex-
pressed in a monograph which the Ma
tional Monetary commission issues I'M
der the title OF THE Use of Credit In
struments in Payments in the United
States"
In 1909. Or. Kiulcy made an invest-
cation OF this subject through the instru-
mentality of the commission and the
comptroller Of the currency. Interrnca-
tories were sent TO all kinds OF banks
The agsrceate retail deposits on March
s. 1909. tho day on which the banks were
requested To report their detail deposits.
showed some interesting facts. according
TO Dr. Kinlay. The larger amount OF
deposits was in the returns of the ma
tionll banks. where the percentage OF
checks was T4I, the highest shown by.
any class Of banks. Tho loan and trust
companies We're next, with I3.7 per cent.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20

Thc mansion was filed with mahog-
any imported from England and the
Valuations placed upon IT by the apprais-
OF antiques. The mahogany sldeboard
In the dining room vas marked at s$5.
the knife cases SO apiece. tho mahogany
OF the Bastjlt. with lts representation"
(meanlng, evidently, tine model of the
PRISON.. were valued at s10--with Lear
as ono Of the appraisers. The generals
gold watch. two seals and a hey were
valued at sl75; his diamond eagle at
1857. his shoe and knee buckles. paste
ratiTe OF the evidence that the general
was, always having trouble with his
teeth. is ono case OF dentists instru-
ments." found in his study. -
The total % personal property found on
the Mount Vernon estate was appraised
at S51.296,04 including $50, 46s.70 found
"in the iron chest" and exclusive of the
slaves. But, exclusive OF this and OF his
wtfe's estate, the general. when he died.
was worth $4,000 which means thatciu
his day he ranked financially asa Van
Widow Gusts. when she was married 10
him. had a fortune of Sl00. 900. which WAS
augmented by $4,000 upon the death of
Patsy Gusts. fourteen years later.
Was Ladies' Man.
The father Of his country was ever a
ladies man" Indeed. one OF his .oiog-
rapners goes SO far as 10 say that hs
en- than with rnon Jr vas NOT ashamed
10 be caucht .'romnine' with Inc girls
at school. when at is he became fasci-
mated with Mary Cary at Lord Fair
ray's hut in letters nraisinR her CONF
plains that 'bcIny in company with her
reyives my former nassion for vou- low
land .beautv.' Tho identity OF this low
land beauty" 7" who has warmed the heart
of tho country's father when he was only
a. lad remains still A mystery He cotl-
pied lovelorn verse With mysterious ini-
tials In his journal
Then he was in love with Betsy Faun-
tleroy who rassed "a cruel sentence
upon him when he was 10 And from
the time ne returned from. fhe wars a
youpg hero, I'm his early twcntIes. women
commenced to court him But when he
was "a Mary Ph!iipse had the honor
OF refusing the slender Young man. who
had she bur known it-was 10 be- the first
gentleman OF America Two wears later.
he was .courtng Martha cambridge Gus
It's. the rich widow. whom one bioerapLer
sums up rs "petIfa, cyerfond. hot fem
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20
Too Much Business Done on
Credit Instruments, Says Expert

but their total deposits were only about
onc-ciGhth of those Of tho. national
banks.
Position Of State Banks.
Tho third in order OF percentage was
the state banks. and the percentage OF
credit paper In their deposits was 30 In
checks. amounting TO about 10 per cent
Of The national banks The private
ba anks. with less than a million dollars
deposits. showed 6S.4 per cent OF checks,
while the stock savings banks with de-
posits of less than 100000. showed 6t1
per cent In checks The mutual savings
banks showed 1913 per cent In checks
in deposits Of less than $4,000.
The highest percentage of checks en-
pIoycd In retail deposits was in banks
In Wyoming. There the ratio was 81 4
per cent. New York came next with
sos per. cent. aud Oregon, third. with
so. I per cent. The only two states that
showed percentage of checks less than
So per cent were Maine, where the per-
ceptagc was 5S.S OF deposits reports. and
Rhode Island. where Il was sos.
pr, kinleY SAYS the use of checks is
promoted in n measure by the payment
OF wages in checks. OF weekly payrolls
reported by the banks, 40 per cent were
in checks.
Element of Danger.
The transaction OF so large a volume
of our business by checks is an element
of danger. in times OF .stringency and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20

crises" says Or. Kinley. In such times
the uncanceled balances OF credit trans
actions create larger demand for
money. but the habit Of settling by
check has meant TO take the available
amount OF money at minimum.
Consequently there ought to be some
means OF supplying additional currency
when credit as q means of payment di-
rlnishes. This currency ought TO be as
safe and as uniform as the ordinary cur
rency.
The volume OF credit transactions
very likely tends 70 increase as the pop
ulation and business grow. II does not
Increase, uniformly, however. but by
periodic movcmeuts--that is 10 say, tho
rate OF increase OF credit transactions.
as compared with the whole volume OF
business, grows as II were, By Jerks and
at a decreasing rate.