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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-11
The World of Finance and Trade
Washington New York; London.
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS,

Business was not very brisk at the
meeting of the stock exchange today.
Railway stocks in fractional lots were
in small demand. The supply, however,
was not exhausted. Two lots of Wash
ington Railway preferred sold at 87at.
but the balance went at SO, the usual
figure of recent days.
Gas stock showed a slight decline in
the figures at the close. The trading
and then the stock was offered at that
level. with the bid at 867s.
Capital Traction stock sold in small
lots at 127 and 1864, and Mergenthaler
at 221.
The banking and brokerage firm of
Lewis Johnson & Co. took possession of
new office today, just across Pennsyl-
vania avenue from the Treasury building.
The members of the firm enjoyed the
houSewarming to the full extent.
The patrons of the United States Trust
Company visited the new home of that
institution today in the Southern building.
at the northeast corner of 10Th and H
streets. Some of the well-wishers of the
company expressed their sentiments In
the form of flowers.
The board of directors of the Citizens
Savings Bank has declared dividend of
$ per cent payable the 3Oth instant. and
$4,000 was placed to the surplus account.
This will be the first dividend payment
made by this institution.
A. H. Tyssowski, William Claybaugh
and John Tyssowski were chosen to fill
vacancies in the board of directors.
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COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. December 1.-THE cotton
market opened steady at decline or
points to an advance of l point. when
was lower than due on the relatively
steady cables. Trading was very active
and the market seemed nervous, with
smaller operators evening up for over the
governments crop estimate, which IS 10
be published this afternoon. Some or the
more radical bears were heavy sellers.
probably in anticipation of very large
crop figures. but houses. with foreign con-
nections had big buying orders and the
market showed comparatively niue
change during the first hour, with active
months ruling about I to :; points under
the closing figures of Saturday
Prices gradually eased off to net loss
of about 4a6 points during the middle OF
the morning, with December, January
and March contracts making low records
for the season, but the decline was
checked around this level by covering
and the trading later was less active with
the market at midday point or two up
from the lowest.
Spot quiet; middling uplands nominal
Estimated receipts at all ports today.
1900 bales, against oI.313 last week and
77.OS6 last year. For the week. 4oOWU
bales. against 49,. 657 last week and az
$40 last year Today's receipts at New
Orleans. 11.4O3. against 141SS. last year.
At Galveston. 2a.1O4, against 1850 last
year. and at Houston, 70, 154, against
26S41 last year.
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CAUTI0NARY ADvICEs ISSUED.
Severe Storm May Soon Strike the
South Atlantic States.

Indications of severe storm. which
may strike the south Atlantic states.
were reported to the weather bureau
today from Turks Island. one of the
Leeward Islands. about 700 miles from
Miami. Fla. They were of such
character that the officials of the bu-
reau deemed it advisable to issue eau
tionary advices to points on the south
Atlantic.
The observer at Turks Island gave
the barometer reading at 29.6S inches
and practically no wind. which, wealth
er experts declare. is evidence that the
storm was close at hand. The belief
is that one of the storms of the West
Indian hurricane season is on Its WAY.
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YSBOOzE BOOSTED
BY L0R|MER WITNESS
Tribute of Witness Provokes
Merriment in Senatorial
Committee Session.

The Lorimer senatorial investigating
committee met today without announc-
ing whether it will admit the testimony
OF Maxwell Edgar the Chicago LAWYER
who on Saturday swore that he had been
offered $4,000 to abandon his tax fight
in 1907 against the International Har-
vester Company.
He testified then that he was given to
understand that the offer came from
Clarence s. barrow and Edgar o. Ban
croft. attorneys for the company.
The committee held long executive
session before beginning today's hearing.
1t became known that the decision will
be announced later In the day.
William NJ ROssell. a Chicago labor
leader. who was in the witness chair last
week. was recalled today.
Rossell testified that Charles A. White
the former Illinois legislator who made
an alleged confession of having been
bribed to vote for Lorimer, had once
proposed to him that they make photo
graphs showing members of the Illinois
general assembly in compromising po-
sitions, and go about the state exhibiting
them.
White proposed to do it, Rossell said,
by altering legitimate photographs. 1t
was not scheme to extort money. Ros
sell declared. White said, he swore, that
they could draw large audiences with
such pictures and charge an admission.
Rossell caused the committee some
merriment when he admitted under cross
examination that he had drunk heavily
since he had been in Washington.
They have good booze in this town."
he said.
1T has very bad effect in this eli
mate" said Senator Gamble.
William 5. Cantrell Of Benton, ILL.,, and
Walter E. Pope, manager Of a hotel at
Springfield. in which White swore some
bribery took place, also were witnesses.
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Real Estate Transfers

NEW YORK AVENUE NORTHWE S 4
between North Capitol and LIST streets
Observation-Disclosures Murray to Will
bur +. Nash, lot 81, square 61S; SO
EAST ANWOOD-Clementina Crusor
ct vir. NJ. Bashon, to Lillian {. Drury.
lot 20, block ID; $40.
TEEN-AND-A-HALF STREET
northeast between c and ID streets
Walter A. Dowd to Angus Burns. lots
12O to 100, square 1864: $40.
DOBBINS' ADDITION-Harry A. Kite Ell
TX. to William A. Boss. lot AZ, block
II; $40. William A. Boss ct ux. to
HOLMEAD MANOR-Charles E. Foster
ct ux to w. Frank Turton and Ralph
NJ. Rogers. lot 30. block A: SO.
L STREET NORTHWEST between 4th
10 Leroy Gaddis, jr.. lot ia. square
O STREET NORTHWEST between 18th
and 10Th streets-Jefferson w. Davis
to Virginia 1. Davis, lot 4. square 312:
NO 457 STREET NORTHWEST-wal-
ter G. Linn to Martha A. Mcfarland.
all interest in lot 40, square 51S. and
in estate of Mary F. Keller: $40.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE HIGHLANDS
Connecticut Avenue Highlands Com
pany to John F. Tubbs. lot 33. square
2O6S; $40.
NOS. 631 TO 635 MASSACHUSETTS AVE-
NUE. NORTHWEST - Edward B.
Il.
ton, part original lot 4, square west of
4S4; SO William II. Hamilton con-
veys same property to John w. Blake
lock: SO.
F. STREET NORTHEAST between 9th
and 9th streets-Martin l.. Gottwals
ct ux. to Alfred III. Keim. lot I5,
square SO: $50.
MOUNT PLEASANT AND PLEASANT
PLAINS-John T. Arms to Benjamin
Fl. and Mabel l.. Johnson, lot 314,
block 4 $40.
< STREET NORTHEAST between North
Capitol and LIST streets-Harry A.
Kite ct al. to John j. Slattery, lot
2S5. square 675; $40.
NOS. 705 AND 707 / STREET NORTH
WEST AND 904 AND sos SEVENTH
STREET NORTHWEST-Susa f.
McKnew to Leopold Richold, lots 2,
6, Is and 16. square 427; 500. Leo
pold Richold conveys same property
to Moses Goldenberg; 500.
6 STREET AND GEORGIA AVENUE
SOUTH EAST-Benjamn F. Saunders
to Porter l.. Paylor. lot 80, square
1864: $40.
VI MASSACHUSETTS, AVENUE HEIGHTS
American Security and Trust Com
.pany ct al. trustees. to Emma H.
Gilliss lot 8. square 1895; $40.
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CHAMPION CORN BOYS
VISITING THE CAPITAL
Winners of Prizes Offered to
Corn Clubs in the South
ern States.

Corn Club boys to the number Of
eighteen descended on the Department
of Agriculture this afternoon. They
were the winning boys from the va
rious southern states, who during the
past season have been raising corn
under the direction of the department.
The visiting party consists of the win
ming boy and in some cases the sec
ond boy from each of the competing
states. There is one northern state
represented, too. 1t is Illinois, where
the department is not regularly doing
any Corn Club work. but where
seventy-six boys were enlisted by
Judge A o. Marshal of Wills county.
The winning boy of the lot, Edward
Doyle, was sent to Washington, but out
Of the total Of volunteers there were
eleven boys who raised over 100 bushels
of corn on measured acre.
Last year. when the competition was
over for the season, the high score was
rs bushels, made by Jerry Moore, a poor
minister's son of South Carolina. That
was a good year for corn. The past sea-
son was a bad year and the yields in all
the states fell off, but the top score was
227 1-16 bushels, made by Benny Beeson
of Monticello, Miss.
Smallest of the Bunch.
And Benny is the smallest of all the
visiting boys. He is a little red-haired
scrap of humanity, eleven years old. but
smaller than many city boys of nine years.
And his winning of the national champion
ship was no tiuke either. for he knows
corn from the seed to the shock This
is his third year in the club. Nearly
all of the winning boys have been more
than year in the club and many OF
them three years.
Next to Benny, the high score boy is
Eber A. Marlborough Of Alexander City.
Ala with 22.iA4 bushels. The boys aver
age younger and smaller than those who
visited the department last year.
The whole party was taken In tow by
O. H. Beason of the division of farm
demonstration. They were given lunch at
an F. street restaurant and then We're
shown the National Museum and the ii III
commission.
Secretary Wilson will receive the boys
at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, when
they will be given diplomas by the de-
partment. Arrangements are now being
made for call by the party on President
Taft at the White House.
Boys Already Here.
The boys who so far have arrived are
Eber A. Kimbrough. Alexander City.
Ala; Junius Hill. Alfalfa, Ala: Burley
Seagrave, Biggers. Ark; Walter Hale.
Warren. Ark; Ben Leath, Ken
SingtOn, Ga; Arthur Hill, Jakih'
Ga; Carl Duncan, Dockfield, KY;
Howard Burge. Bowling Green, Ky;
John II. Henry, jr., Melrose. La; Bonnie
Beeson, Monticello. Miss; Barnie ThOm
as, Lake COrmorant. Miss; Charlie
Parker. jr.. Woodland. n. c.: Miller Hud-
son. Timmonsville. S. c.: Claude Nc
Donald. Hamer. S. c.: John V. Mckib-
bon. CulIeoka. Tenn: Norman Smith,
Covington, Tenn: John A. Johnston. jr.,
Jarratt. Va, and Edward Doyle, ElwOod,
Ill.
In addition there are Willie Brown of
Arkansas. Monroe Hill of Georgia, Philip
OF OF Oklahoma. Johnnie Bryant and
Lewis Windham of Texas. who Rave not
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WANTS RANK RESTORED.
Lieut. Col. Perkins of Marine Corps
Denies Mental Unfitness.

Lieut.. Col. Perkins. formerly of the
United States Marine Corps. who was
discharged from the service in 1907 on
the ground OF mental unfitness. ap-
peared before subcommittee of the
House naval affairs committee with
the charge that he was the victim of
conspiracy and the request that he be
restored to his rank, as provided for in
a bill introduced by Representative
Howard of Georgia.
Col. Perkins is now practicing law in
this city.
Gen. J. j. Mcconnell, retired. and other
officers appeared before the committee
in Perkins behalf to testify that they
knew him at the time of his trial by the
navy retiring board. and that they be-
lieved him at that time to be of sound
mind Col. Perkins told the committee
he believed at the time Of his retirement
that he had been victimized by enemies
in the service.
The records in Col. Perkins case have
been requested from the Navy Depart
ment and the subcommittee Will meet
again tomorrow to look them over. Coun-
sci for Col. Perkins told the committee
today that at the time of his trial one
of the members of the board made
statement at the Army and Navy Club
that Perkins would be put out Of the
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-11
Court of Claims of the United States.

Opinion. Nos. sSS. 1876. 1856. $40. 1853.
brig Philanthropist. Richardson. master:
findings of fact and conclusions of law.
claimants not entitled to indemnity from
the United States Opinion by Booth. J.
General jurisdiction. Extra pays. Judg-
ment on auditors report in following:
No; 2os17. Johanna II. Hayes, mother.
S11661: No. 27263. Edward NJ. Lots,
$1I.6O: No. 27362. Charles r. Shaffer.
S1a.6O: No. 1855. Newton J. Dougherty.
$31 20: No 1851. John q. Cooper, $31 20.
and No. 2SSS9-16. Fred Geiwitz $31.2O.
Orders and motions General jurisdic-
ton. No. 29SO5 Henry Woog. admin
istrator: order remanding to trial calen-
dar for oral argument See memoran-
dunn.
No. 3O534 E. o. Locke: claimants mo-
ton new trial overruled.
Indian depreciation. Nos. 2121, 6112
Horace G.. Dale, administrator; order al
lowing claimants motion for new trial.
vacating and setting aside former finding
Of fact and conclusion of law Diminishing
petition and filing new findings of fact
and conclusion of law entering judgment
for claimant in the sum of S525; attor-
ney's fee. SIS.
Chief Justice Peellee, Judges Howry
Booth. Barney and Atkinson. Tuesday
calendar: 2. g. 12O. 121. 126, 1877. 12s
40. 143. 1919. 144, 145. 146 49, 154, 155.
1876. 157, 15S. 16O, 16l.
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WITH MASONIC HONORS.
Joseph Cochran, Post Office Employe,
Buried in Congressional Cemetery.

Funeral services for Joseph Cochran.
veteran of the civil war and for forty
four years an employe Of the Post Of
fee Department. who died OF heart dis
ease Friday evening at his home. 1875
Florida avenue northeast. were held
at his late residence this afternoon
at 1870 o'clock, with Rev. John E. A.
Doermann. pastor of Grace Lutheran
Church, officiating The services at the
grave in Congressional cemetery were
conducted with Masonic ceremonies.
Mr.. Cochran was sixty-eight years
old. and is survived by his wife. Mrs.
Katherine f. Parker Cochran: one
daughter. Mrs. Charles r.. Churchman
Of Wilmington Del. and three sons.
Richard X. Cochran. stephen e. Coch-
ran and George S. Cochran. all Of
Washington
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, December 1.-Flour-
quiet and lower to sell.
Wheat-Whle quiet, wheat shove |
weakness early under continued free
northwest movement. poor Liverpool
cables, reports of clearing weather in
the Argentine. prospects for a further
increase in todays visible and with the
weakness at Minneapolis. May. 1.O1 Liza
] OF 3-16.
POrk-Steady.
Beef-Steady.
Lard-Steady; middle west, 9.1Oa3. 90
Sugar-Raw quiet; muscovado, 50 tes:,
4.37a4.44; centrifugal. So test. 4.S7a494 !;
molasses, SO test. 4.12a4. 10; refined quiet
Petroleum-Steady.
Enthusiastically.
Hay-Firm.
Enthusiastically.
Leather-Firm.
Poultry-DreSSed quiet; western chick
ems. Sale; fowls, 5a16. Turkeys, 10a1S;
live not quoted.
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CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGO, December 11.-Cattle re-
ceipts estimated at 29.O0D head; market
steady, 1Oc lower; beeves. 41Oa9.1J Texas
steers, T. 1OaJ.1J: western steers, i.40a1 %
stockers and feeders 3.OOaJ.SO: cows and
heifers, 29OaJaO; calves. 5.JOaS.2J.
HogstReceipts estimated at *, 900 head
market slow, generally DC lower: light.
5.Jlaf;2 %: mixed. 5.IJa6.32211s: heavy, J-S5a
6.37H; rough. 5.s5a6.O5: good to choice
heavy. 6.O5a6 BIZ; pigs, 4.OOa5.JO; bulk of
sales 6.OOa6.:O
Sheep-Receipts estimated at 1900
head; market weak. 10c lower; native,
265a415; western, 2.15a4.1O; yearlings,
425a5. GO: lambs, native. 3.7Ja6 10; west
en- 425a6. 10.
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Theodore Friebus: bond. $1,000: attorney.

Theodore Friebus: bond. $1,000: attorney.
H. J. Sweeney.
Estate of Alice D. Magaw: order to
make advance: attorneys. J. S Easily
Smith and r. B. Fleharty.
Estate of Josephine Fauth: letters Of
administration granted to Julius
Fauth: bond. 500; attorney, Z. IL.
Jackson.
In re Ruth P. Joy ct al: order ap-
pointing Rosa P. Foley guardian; bond.
5000: attorney. c. d. Garrett.
Estate of Oliphant b. Brown: will ad-
mitted to probate and letters tesla
mentary granted to Carrie E. Brown:
bond. 500; attorney. f. c. Brown.
Estate of Fannie Downes: letters of
administration granted to William
Downes; bond. $500: attorney Fred S
Tyler.
Estate of William V Price: will adj
mitted to probate and letters tesla
mentary granted to Charles Linkins
bond. $4,000; attorney. Charles Linkins.
Estate of Emma c. Baugher: will
dated June Z. 1911. filed.
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ARMY NAVY
Army Orders.

The following named officers are or
dered to examination to determine
their fitness for promotion: Capts
Harry G. Bishop and Willard D. New
bill, Sd Field Artillery.
First Lieut. George r. Guild. Signal
Corps is relieved from treatment at
the General Hospital, Fort 'Bayard, n.
NJ. and will proceed to Fort Wood.
n. Y, for duty.
Guth. now in this city. having eX-
pressed a desire to relinquish the UNI
expired portion of his furlough. will
report to the commanding officer
Washington barracks. to take a course
of instruction at the School for Bakers
and Cooks, that post.
Leave of absence for three months
is granted 1st Lieut.. Ralph Dickin-
son. Sd Infantry.
Capt Graham L. Johnson. 9Th In
fantry. is relieved from duty in this
city and will proceed to join his regi-
ment in the Philippines.
Naval Orders.
Lieut. Commander H. G. Sparrow.
kota.
Lieut. j. E Pond, from the Buffalo
to command the Lawrence.
Lieut. F. D. Burns. orders of Decem-
Der ,, 1911. revoked.
Ensign H. G. Donald, from the Far
ragut to reserve torpedo divisions,
Charleston, S. c.
Ensign ]. H. Ingram. from the Hart
ford to the Tacoma.
Midshipman c. s. Gillette. from the
Lawrence to the Farragut
Medical Inspector E. p. Stone. to Ma
val Hospital Las Animas, Colo for
treatment.
Pay Director G. w. Simpson. placed
upon the retired list of the navy.
PaymaSter Il. de +. Harris, from naval
training station. North Chicago, Ill, to
the New Jersey.
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CHIEF KIMBALL RECOVERING.
Head of Life-Saving Service Injured
in Auto Accident.

s. /. Kimball. chief of the life-saving
service. who was injured in an automo-
bile accident Friday at the corner of 18th
and F streets northwest, is still confined
to his home. but it is expected he will be
fully recovered and able to return to his
desk ater this week. His chief injuries
consisted of several gashcs i'm the face
and bruised eye. but there Is no danger
Of loss of sight Of the eye. and he has
suffered principally from shock.
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WANTED PRESIDENTS HELP.
Russian Subject, Arrested at White
House. Is Under Observation.

Alton Mrkuski. Russian, was arrested
at the White House today by Secret
Service Officer J. E. Sloan and sent to
the Washington Asylum Hospital for OBJ
servation. Mrkuski's child was injured
by an automobile in Amsterdam. n. Y.
some time ago and the resulting court
proceedings have worried the father. lie
called at the White House to ask Pres-
dent Taft to have the case settled for
him with large damages in his favor /
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WEATHER
Rain Late Tonight or on Tuesday ;
Slightly Colder Tuesday.

For the District of Columbia and Mary
land. rain late tonight or Tuesday:
slightly colder Tuesday; light to moderate
southerly winds
The storm of Sunday has disappeared
toward Hudson bay. leaving a moderate
secondary depression over the Ohio val
ley. Rains were general in the lake re-
gion. the central valleys and the gulf
states, with heavy falls in the latter dis
trict: There were also light local SHOWS
in the Rocky mountain region and the
northwest, and more rains in Washing
ton.
Temperatures are still above the sea-
sonal average. except in the central
Rocky Mountain region and the extreme
southwest. although they have fallen de-
cidedly in the Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and western upper lake region.
There are further evidences of a severe
storm in the vicinity of Turks Island,
w. l.. and cautionary advices have been
issued.
Unsettled. rainy weather will prevail
states and the lower lake region, with
somewhat lower temperatures Tuesday
in the interior. There will also be rain
or snow tonight in the lower lake region
gulf states. followed by generally fair
weather Tuesday. In the upper lake re-
gion the weather will be fair. and 1t will
be colder tonight and Tuesday in the lake
states.
The winds along the New England
coast will be moderate to brisk south and
southwest: on the middle Atlantic coast
moderate and mostly southerly: on the
south Atlantic coast moderate northeast
and east: on the east gulf coast moderate
and variable.
Steamers departing today for European
ports will have moderate to brisk south
erly winds; fair Monday. Tuesday unset
tied.
The following heavy precipitation Tin
inches) has been reported during the last
twenty-four hours: Corinth. 1.32: Evans
vile. LIS: Houston, LA: Memphis. 2. 40;
Johnsonville, Tenn. Ito: Mount Vernon,
Ind. 1.O2: Mount Carmel. ILL.,, 1.22; Riv-
erton. Ala. LAG: Shoals, Ind. 100; Shaw
neetown. H.. 10.
During the twenty-four hours ending 8
am. Sunday: Abilene. 2:04: Concordia'
LOG: lola. 1.7S; Kansas City. 1.52; Lin
coin, 1873; La Crosse, 1.02: Omaha, 30;
Oklahoma. 1.22; Palestine, 1.02; Shreve-
port, 1872; Wichita, 1s2
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, pm. 81;
8 pm. "a; IL midnight, 81; today, 4
am. 43; am. "A; IL noon. 60; pm.
66. Maximum, 66, at pm. today; mini
mum, Al, at ) am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, 81: minimum, 8.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pm, 1913
pm. :1O.33; II midnight, 3O.31: today.
4 am 5000: 8 am. 1904; IL noon,
3035; 2 pm, 1904.
Up-River Waters.
Temperature and condition of water at
am =: Great FalIs-Temperature IS:
condition, g. Dalecarlia reservoir-Tem-
perature. AZ; condition at north connec-
ton 9; condition. at south connection, 10
Georgetown distributing reservoir-Tem-
perature, Al: condition at influent gate
house. 8; condition at effluent gatehouse.
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