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futures last week, to cover. Some Of the
speculators who took in provisions on de-
livery in October unloaded yesterday.
Final report of the department of agri-
culture is due in Chicago at i o'clock
previous estimates were 6G0 million
wheat 3191 million bushels corn and ,jS1
million oats, 56 million bushels rye and y
million barley The report on winter wheat
and rye acreage and condition for the
harvest in 1918 viii be issued at IL 80,
Chicago time, December 10.
Chicago Dec 11-Logan and Bryan says:
Corn futures become easily oyersold due to
light trade. but with slackening cash de-
mand and prospects of increased stocks at
terminals we feel that prices viii seek
a lower level
Oats-First deliveries Of oats on Deem
her contracts were made yesterday after
noon. We believe they Will be heavier by
the end of the month Would sell them on
oil little upturns
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DEAD IN EXPLOSION
omaha Man Killed in Accident on
4 American Submarine.

Washington, Dec. News of an
explosion on board the submarine Az,
resulting irf-e the death of Joseph
Schaeffer, chief electrician of the boat,
was received today by the navy de-
partment.
No details were given by the depart
ment's announcement. Schaeffer died
from injuries after the accident. He
was % years old and enlisted in the
navy March 6, 1912, at Omaha, Neb.,
as an apprentice seaman. After being
honorably discharged March 4, 1916,
from the u. 8. S. Iris, he re-enlisted
May 10, 1916, as an electrician.
His sister. Mrs. Clara Ameng lives
at Hastings. Neb.
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NOT A HAM THERE
Prominent american jew Tells of
Their New Jerusalem"

Chicago, Dec. 11.-Max Shulman
head of the Zionist movement in Chi
eago, said today that capture of Jeru-
salem meant that within ten years the
Jews will again occupy Palestine as
g. nation.
Palestine" said he. will support
q population of four million persons
1t wiii probably be governed much the
same as Switzerland, with the protec-
tiDn, of the great allied nations. A
liberty loan of 100 million dollars will
be required and our optimists predict
that it will be oversubscribed in three
days whenever the call comes"
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paekers and bntchers, s171O@17 4o; light,

packers and butchers, s171O@17,40; light,
81: o0@173o: pigs, S15.00@16O0,
CATTLE-Receipts $1,000. Market slow,
steady to shade lighter. Prime fed steers,
$14.5061600; dressed beef steers, $11.00@
l4oo western steers $soo@12 90; southern sou herr
ers, $650d12. 80; stockers and feeders, 500
@11.o0; bulls, $6.5o@S.25; calves, $4,000
SHEEP Receipts 6,OOO. Market steady to
strong. Lambs, S15.T5@16 So; yearlings,
So 60@14 10; wethers, 81 60@131O; ewes,
S1060G1210; stoekers and feeders, $1,000
100.
Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec. 1o.-Cattle
received today 1900 head, market slow
but fully steady. short fed steers $3.50
Hogs today 500 market ta 10 cot to 1Se high4enT
lower, lambs to killers S1640.
BEEF CATTLE
Beef steers and cows advanced 10 to %
cents last week, and while buyers were
prices for steers, and strong for cows.
Some good yearlings brought S13 and t%o
lots of heavy Christmas steers were late
O'Clock. Prices for these prime cattle will
doubtless go far above $3.50, otherwise top
Colorado and western cattle are smaller
each week sales of beef steers last week
up to $1o-15, cows $50, Native cows sell
/ animals now showing up. Veals are higher.
best S13.
STOCKERS AND FEEDERS.
Soft corn continues to stimulate buying
of stockers and feeders, and prices have
held steady during the past week. Feeding
steers sell at $3.50 to $11, stockers 81 to
$40, any White Face stockers of decent
breeding bringing above 50, and good red
cattle around 50. Stock cows and heifers
bring S6.25 to IS.
| HOGS.
From a five higher opening today, the
market quickly went TO 10 to Is cents high
! er, best heavy hogs $17.55, medium weights
same price, best lights $1745, bulk of sales
S17.30 to $3.50 Packers furnished the
competition, tho order buyers were in to
some extent However, order buyers have
| been active for week, and were the main
force that caused the advance of % to 30
cents in prices last week. Pigs sold
stronger last week, and also today, sales at
$3.50 to S1625. Arrangements have about
| been completed here for shipping stock
4 hogs to the country district from the pub
lie stock yards, on The day purchased, I'M
der certain dipping and vaccinating rules.
| SHEEP AND LAMBS.
Lamb prices were 10 to % cents lower to-
day, best here $16.40 some heavy fed ma
tive lambs. around 100 lbs. at $3.50, a big
string of New Mexico feeding lambs at SIG.
IS lbs average. These feeding lambs are
like others that sold at $16,15 two weeks
ago. Best fed yearlings sell up to s14,
wethers $3.50, ewes $11-75. The market
is expected to acquire stronger support af-
ter the first of January.
| J. A. RICKART.
Market Correspondent
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Kansas city Produce Market.

Kansas City, Dec, n.-GoR E, &C, d !:
No No :, sf5i@i.56; No White. $170@17 /;
No 3. $1.65d1 les; No. yellow, $1.65@
TO; No 3. nominal.
! OATS-Market 5bc to lie higher. No. 2
white 76c No. 2 mixed, 74@ I5c.
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE 2Oa3.s5.
gHAYLMarket unchanged.
SHORTS-$2.25d2.3 So.
sBIIAtN-$195, .-s4s-
= 9WHEAT-Receipts 10 cars z- Is q. o..
Butt ER-creamery, 42c; firsts, 40c
seconds. 3Sc : packing, 3215c.
EGGS-Firsts 45c; seconds, 81 a BE
POULTRY-Hens, 19c; ROSTERS, 15c;
broilers, 24d25c.
| CORN-C1ose: December, $1.2I; Janu-
airy, 81. 223s d1.225A MAY, $1.203s.
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II KILLED IN HOUSTON RIOT.
Nine We're White Persons-15O Negro
Soldiers Participated.

San Antonio, Dec. 1.-THE riot
which resulted in the conviction and
imposition of sentence on negroes
named in the above dispatch occurred
at Houston, Texas, on the night of Au-
gust %, 1917. The riot resulted in
the death of seventeen persons and the
wounding of twenty-five. Among
these dead were four policemen, three
negro soldiers, one Mexican and nine
white citizens, the latter including
white soldiers
This came from an outbreak of
about $50 negro soldiers of the
Twenty-fourth United States infantry
at o'clock at night. During the day
the negroes became inflamed against
the white police at Houston because
of the reported shooting of a negro
sergeant by police officer.
Steal Company Ammunition.
Stealing company ammunition, the
negroes seized their rifles and left
their camp, starting toward the CITY
and shooting indiscriminately
Warning was given Immediately and
mounted police officers sought to halt
the mob, surrendering their lives in
vain efforts to drive the soldiers back.
Illinois guardsmen encamped at Camp
Logan soon arrived on thea scene, but
/ only in time to throw a Gordon be-
tween the negroes and great crowds
| of Houston citizens who armed them
| selves and quickly gathered to op-
! pose the rioters. The negroes then
took to the open country in flight,
some returning to camp, where they
were placed under guard, and others
| hiding in fields and bitches along
nearby roads. Armed citizens assisted
the military authorities in the search.
and finally all the stragglers were
). rounded up.
Excitement Ran High.
| Excitement ran high not only in
! Houston, but thruout all Texas Mar
| tial law was declared in Houston and
rigorous measures taken by both civil
and military authorities. The war de-
partment promptly conducted an in
vestigation and during it's progress the
negro troops were transferred to the
west finally being sent to Columbus.
! N. NJ. Later there was an official in
quiry at Ell Paso and then something
over sixty negroes were taken to Fort
Sam Houston where a court martial
was held.
The court martial lasted all thru,
November 30 but was not known pub
I licly until thirteen of the negro par
Elephants were hung today.
Why They Weren't Shot.
Many citizens and even some sol
fdiers here were surprised that the
thirteen blacks were hung instead OF
being shot. The reason the men were
not shot to death, as explained by a
military man, was that military regu-
lations provide that the president OF
the court martial may prescribe the
manner in which the death sentence
may be applied. In this case the
that the men "be hung at the end OF
a rome until dead"
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Chicago, Dec 11--HOGS-Receipts 81, 900
Market slow Bulk of sales 81. % "a L. 80 !;
light $16.s0sa1T 80; mixed, $1T.00d II 60 !;
heavy, $16.95M17.65; rough, $16.956I17. 10 /;
pigs S13 00d15.S5.
CATTL&Receipts % 600. Market weak.
Native steers. $7.30d15.00; western steers,
So 3O613-50; stockers and feeders. $610d
1870; cows and heifers, $5.10G11.35; calves,
IS OOG15.0e-
SHEEP-Receipts Ii, 600. Market steady.
wethers, $3.50 a 12.90: lambs, S12.5O6t1G.S5-
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DEMANDS FREE TRADE
Germany Insists on Free Entry OF
Goods From Russia for IS Years.

Stockholm, Dec. 11.-Financial cir
eles in both Petrograd and Germany
are ready for a peace without in
IDENTITIES" between Russia and Ger
many. according to the newspaper
Huvudsta dsbladet today. Free entry
OF goods for fifteen years is reported
one of the German demands of Russia
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

schicago. Dec; 11.-CoRN,LCorn, prices
hardened a little today. influenced by re
ports that but little actual relief from ga, car
scarcity had yet been witnessed. The
market was virtually bare of offerings
Buying, however, WAS not of an aggressive
sort traders showing disposition to hold
off pending receipts of the government crop
report. Opening prices which ranged from
the same as yesterdays finish to Ac off,
with January $1.20A and May S11SA to
11S7s, were followed by slight advance
all around
Opinions prevailed that there would not
be any great increase of arrivals until
better weather conditions helped the eff
cheney of the railroads. The close was
firm &c to sc net higher, with January
SI:21A and May $119ss to $1.194a.
OATS-Scantiness of arrivals gave flrn,
ness to oats. Business, however, lacked
volume.
PROVISIONS - Provisions sdeyeloped
strength in sympathy with grain. There
was no pressure to SELL
Subsequently the market underwent
sag because of realizing due to predictions
of some increase in the hog movement
Chicago Grain and Provision Market
T (The range of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board Of Trade as reported by
Thos. 7. Myers. POI n. e. Bldg)
Chicago, Dec. IL.
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RECOVER BANK LOOT
Police Get $500 of $4,000; One of
Arrested Suspects Confesses.

Chicago, Dec. 11.-Seventeen hun
bred dollars of the $4,000 stolen
from the Stockmen's Trust and Saw
ings bank by five motor bandits last
Wednesday. had been recovered early
today.
~ The police have three men under
arrest, one of whom is said to have
confessed.
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Weather Report:
w Unsettled tonight and Wednes-
day. Slowly rising tempera lures.

nc; shaggy young roosters. 13c; broIIera
2 lbs. and under, 23c.
EGGS-f4c.
EGGS are retailing In Topeka, 45G46c
BUTTER-SI49c.
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Chicago. Dec. 11-BUTTER-Mar high
err Creamery, ,37@471ac.
EGGS-Market unchanged.
POTATOES-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Alive, unsettled; fowls, II
61Sc: springs 19c
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"A STANDARD LOAF
Government Regulation of Bakers
Bread Begins Today.

Washington, Dec. 10.-Bakers to-
day began making standardized loaf
of bread under regulations prescribed
bv +t,a food administration. The new
Loaf contains a minimum of fats and
can be sold, according to the food
administration officials. at cents a
pound. No price. however, has been
set. Licenses are required for ~all
bakers using more than ten barrels
of flour a month and for hotels and
clubs using that much flour when they
bake their own bread.
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Kansas City, Dec. II.
Chicago Grain and Pork Market

Chicago Dec. 11.-CORN-Close: Decem-
Der, s1241a; January, $12112; May, $119ss
oATs-December, 73as@7315e; May,
71asc; March, r..
PORk--Jan., $4G.9O
LARD-Jan., $2462; May. $24.65.
SHORT RIBS-Jan., $25.02; May, $25.15.
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Why They Weren't Shot.


LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. the
Werld- Famous Cure for Colds and Grip.
is now 30e per box. On account of the
advance in the price of the six different
Medicinal Concentrated Extracts and Chem
icals contained LAXATIVE PROMO
QUININE. it was necessary to increase the
price to the Druggist. 1t has stood the
test for a Quarter OF a Century. 1t is
used by every Ci-ilisSed Nationally.
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New York, Dec. 11-BUTTER-Marke
strong. Creamery higher than extras, 500
EGGs-Market firm. Fresh gathered
extras. 59MG0c-
CHEESE-Market steady. State fresh
specials 236 2312c.
POULTRY-Dressed strong.
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NOW UNDER BRITISH FLAG.
Future Status of Jerusalem To Be De-
cided When War Ends.

London, Dec. 11.-No attempt will
be made to define the future position
of Jerusalem until a general peace
comes, the Times says. In the mean
time the city will be treated as in Brit
ish military occupation and will be
under martial law. General Allenby
will appoint military governor. While
the British flag will fly over the city,
the French and Italian flags will be
placed over their national property,
such as converts and schools.
A solemn thanksgiving and tie deum
will be held sin St Paul cathedral to-
day in celebration Of the surrender
Cures Colds in India
LAXATIVE BROA1O QUININE tablets re-
move the cause Z. W. GROVES signature
on box 3Oc-Ady
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TOPEKA MARKET REPORT.

Topeka Hay Market
Topeka, Kan, Dec II.
PRAIRIE dAY-S11.0O
ALFALFA-$2o6a
FURNISHED By w Giehrist. e2s ouiDe,
Street
Topeka, Kan, Dec. II.
PRAIRIE HAY-s20.00
ALFALFA-S25.O0
Poultry and Eggs
ff-,.ruisfied by the Topeka Packing Con
pany, corner Laurent ana Madison-I
Topeka, Kan, Dec IL
FzENS-5J6 fns-s md over. 1sc... under : y
ros-. I5c. springs, over lbs, 1Sc: roosters
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Traffic en- one of the principal streets in
Muneie, Indiana, was held mp while a bird.
entangled in a cord wrapped around a
trolley wire. was rescued
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Kansas City, Dec. 1I-HOGS-Receipts
IL 600 Market 10c to 15c lower. Bulk of
sales. S1z1OG1Z35; heavy, $17-25G17.40;
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New York Dec. 11-SUGAR-Raw, NOM
inal: centrifugal, GO; molasses, $50; re-
fined, steady; fine granulated, s.15qs.S5.
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DAILY WEATHER. TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at a. m. Tuesday.
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Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec. 10-Cattl
received today 1900 head, market sloI
but fully steady. short fed steers $12.5C
Hogs today 1000. market 10c to 15c higher
top SIZES. Sheep today 1900, market 10
lower, lambs to Killers $16.40
A
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Wall St New York. Dec. 11.-STOCKS-
Indications that the government intends to
take over the railroads of the country for
the duration of the war were without ma
terial effect on shares of that group at the
dull opening of today's stock market. Re
actions among rails were mostly fractional
with here and there a loss of a point.
Equipments, specialties and utilities were
under further pressure, Pullman falling }
points and GeueEal Electric IA with
point each for American Tobacco and
Peoples Gas. Foreign bonds continued TO
weaken but liberty issues were steady.
short duration moderate offerings later
causing declines of one to two points in
the active issues, while Louisville and Nash
vile fell points and Lackawanna ten.
Pullman increased its loss to six points,
Tobaccos yielded to 10 and Equipments
Oils and Specialties to 3: Foreign bonds
making new low quotations with Anglo
French SIS. Liberty AS sold at 9I.26 to
97.36, and the 316's at 9S.4S to 1882.
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Kansas City Grain Market.
(The range of ices on grain futures on
Kansas city Board of Trade as reported
by Thos. J. Myers, 301 n. L Bldg)
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(The following sales were made this morn
ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and
rect to the State journal by Clay Robin
son & Co., live stock commission mer-
chants)
Kansas City, Dec 11.-CATTLE-Receip
1900 head Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts 110c0 head. Market
steady. Bulk of sales, s17.2o@17.50; top,
S17.5J.
SHEEP-Receipts 6,000 head. Market 15c
to 25e higher. Lambs, S16;60.
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sToCKERs AND FEEDERS.

Soft corn continues to stimulate buying
of stockers and feeders, and prices have
held steady during the past week. Feeding
steers sell at $3.50 to S11, stockers 81 to
$40, any White Face stockers of decent
breeding bringing above 50, and good red
bring 81 d 70 IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-02

We shook hands. 1t was evident that
Cynthia had not by any means exag-
gerated when she said that he was
frantic over what had happened to his
hancee.
Accordingly. there was no difficulty
in reverting to the subject Of our visit
Gradually I let Kennedy take the lead
in the conversation so that our posi-
ton might not seem to be false.
1t was not long before Craig man
aged to inject remark about the red
spot over Virginia's nose. 1t seemed
to excite young Hampton.
Naturally I look on it more as doc
tor than a lover" remarked his father.
smiling tndulgently at the young man.
whom it was evident he regarded above
everything else in the world. Il have
not been able to account for it, either.
Really the case is one of the most re-
markable I have ever heard off,
You have heard Of a DR.. Carl
Chapelle?" inquired Craig. tentatively.
"A beauty doctor" interrupted the
young man, turning toward his father:
You've met him. He's the fellow 1
think is really engaged to Cynthia"
Hampton seemed much excited There
was unconcealed animosity in the man
ner of his remark, and 1 wondered why
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Pershing-that they know how to
handle wire with the best of them.
Camoufage men are studying the art
of concealing an operator and his in
struments in advanced observation
posts. Horses and men are being
trained to carry the signal carts over
ell sorts of rough country. paying out
the wire as they run. They string the
wires on poles and establish communi-
cations up to the trench line when IL
must needs be done. no matter the
cost
All these things Gen. Squier had to
plan. The corps had to be developed
out of new material and the man who
had to see that all these things were
down was Gen. Saltzman.
He is Justly proud of his record but
he won't talk about it. except to say
that when he was in command OF the
school at Fort Leavenworth. Kan. be-
fore the Wrights had made their flight
at Kittyhawk. he encouraged the dis
cussion of air tactics. and that the
graduating thesis of one of the young
students officers was. Control of the
Air in War" Incidentally this onicers
name was Foulois.
Gen. Salzman is only forty-six years
old. and to have reached the rank of
colonel in peace times and to be made
a brigadier as soon as the war began
is travelling at rate that shows his
fitness for the electricalIy-driven Sig
nal Corps.
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THE BEAUTY MASK.

ing OF the contrast between her looks
now and the photograph in my pocket
Not only was her respiration slow
but her pulse was almost impercepti-
BILE. less than forty a minute. Her
temperature was far below normal, and
her blood pressure low. Once she had
seemed fully q woman. with all the
strength and promise of precocious ma
turity. But now there was something
strange about her looks. 1t was not
that she was no longer a young wom-
an. but there seemed to be something
almost sexless about her. 1t was as
though her secondary sex characters
tics were no longer feminine, but-for
want of a better word-neuter.
Yet. strange to say. in spite of the
lethargy which necessitated at least
some artificial feeding, she was not
falling away. She seemed, If anything.
plump. To all appearances there was
really a retardation of metabolism
connected with the trancelike sleep.
She was actually gaining in weight!
As he noted one of these things after
another Kennedy looked at her long and
carefully. I followed the direction of
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His Pride.
nov. WHITMAN said at the syria

Nov. WHITMAN said at the syracus.
VI state fair:
When the kaiser boasts arrogantly
to a ruined Germany about the bless
ings his rule has conferred upon the
German people / am irresistibly re-
minded of the German prison superin-
tendent.
This old fellow, after thirty years
in office. was decorated with the order
of the Red Hat, or Blue Sausage, or
something Of the sort. and in his speech
of acknowledgment in the hall of the
prison he said:
AS you see, friends, ] have been
decorated with the imperial order of
the Blue Sausage, but / willingly con-
fess that this honor has been attained.
not by my own merits alone, but by
the cooperation OF all of you. can
also declare with pleasure that since
L have occupied this Office the number
of prisoners has increased from 430 40
9S5--a fact of which both you and
may be Justly proud
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line Of the National Army. Anyway,
1T was not big enough to be the pop
of firecracker in Ypres lombard
ment. The air service alone involves
six times as much money and the whole
Signal Corps more men than the Regu-
lar Army of 1916 in continental
America.
Gen. Sauier. who is the chief of the
Signal Corps. had the responsibility
for this new creation. AS soon as he
was placed in charge he selected Saltz-
man. then r lieutenant colonel, as his
senior aid and executive officer and be-
tween these two. with Gen. Foulois, Col
Gibbs and the commercial electric and
engineering companies, things have
been made to hum.
Gen. Squier's first effort was turned
to this civilian aid. and Saltzman.
through his earnestness and PERSONAL
ity, was one Of the factors that got it.
The story is " ell known now, but one
does not tire of hearing how the loyal
Americans in the telegraph and tele-
phone companies and other concerns
gave their best men to the cause; how
J. J. Carly. the wizard engineer of a
telephone company. and Frank T.. jew
EFT of an electric company turned over
to others their great offices and now
are wearing on their shoulders the oak
leaves Of a major, and on their collars
the CROSSINGS and torch of the United
States Signal Corps.
The companies gave their electricians
and engineers. their mechanicians and
their 1inemen, their operators, their
laboratory men and their business or
ganizers. The number Of the battalions
that have come from their ranks may
not now be told. but, added to the
army Of Washington at Long Island,