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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
Kansas City. Oct. IA.
Morning Grain Gossip.

FURNISHED by B. C. Christopher & Coz
Chicago, Oct. 14.-Tribune: Stocks Of
wheat in the United States on October 1
totaled Sos, 600 GOO bushels, the Department
of Agriculture estimated yesterday. This
compares with -747 100000 bushels on same
date last year. The total on hand the first
of this month represented 4I7,000.000 bush
country mills and elevators and 29,000,000
bushels at other points of accumulation.
Last year on October farmers held DID,
100000 bushels, mills and elevators 142. 000,
600 bushels and other points of accumula-
ton 100000 bushels. The department re-
ported that during first quarter of present
season from July l toN October 1, the
farmers marketed 321, G0o, 900 bushels COM
pared with 450,000.000 bushels last year, a
reduction of nearly 20 per cent. The crop
this year plus the carry-over from 1919 is
estimated at 1884, 900 bushels or about
1T9d less than last year. These figures were
said to indicate that farm marketing dur
smaller than in any similar period last
year. Total supplies in all positions con
sidered there Is less wheat on hand than
last year and two years ago. The big de-
creaseS are in the mill and elevator stocks
and at terminals. View from the total
supplies compared with last year, the
statement is bullish. When Canadian sup
difference.
Considerable change has come in the
mental attitude of the grain trade the past
few days, owing to agitation by farmers
dissatisfied with present low prices. Coun-
try elevators have little grain in which
there is no loss, and bulges bring out sales
by them. The public in general is not
of grains despite the holding attitude OF
the farmers,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
MUST WRITE FOR BALLOT.
Absent Topekans Who Want to Vote
Must Tell County Clerk.

Topekans working in government
service in Washington or elsewhere
must write home for ballot If they
wish to vote at the general election,
according to Kenneth Ranb, county
clerk.
The law provides that government
employees may obtain a ballot by writ
ing to one of their friends to go to the
county clerks office and make appli-
cation for them. The county clerk
then sends the ballot direct to the gov
eminent employe. The ballot is ap-
proved by an election judge in the city
where the voter is working and then
returned to his home county by the
voter himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
INDIAN TEAM QUITS
World Series Champs Are Leav-
ing for Their Homes.
Only Four of the Team Are
Residents of Cleveland.

Cleveland. Oct. 14.-Members of the
champion Cleveland baseball team be-
gun to disband today and by tonight
most of them will be en- route to their
homes in various parts of the country.
At least seven expect to winter here.
"Bnr' Wambsganss and George UhIe
are residents of Cleveland. Elmer
Smith and Jack Graney usually spend
most of the off season here. DOC"
Johnston has taken over a billiard
room here for the winter and Steve
O'Neill and Ray Caldwell expect to
enter the automobile business. Mana
ger Iris Speaker, after Il week fishing
in Canada with Catcher Les Nuna-
maker and other friends, will return
to Texas to look after his business In
terests. NunamakGr will rejoin him
in Hubbard, Texas, >and the two will
hunt and fish for several weeks on the
Gulf of Mexico
Stanley Coveleskie, after n brief
visit to his home in Shamokin, Pa,
VIII joint Outfielder Joe Wood on a
hunting trip. Wood will spend the
winter telling trees, bunting and fish
dim Bagby returns to his business
IN Augusta, Ga.
Larry Gardner is going back to
Enosburg, VT, where he has 2 big
garage and. repair shop. Charlie
Jameson will sell groceries in Pater-
son, y. J.. after visiting his family in
Mississippi, and DR.. Joe Evans will
resume his work in a st. Louis hos
pital. Infielder Harry Lunte also re-
turns to st. Louis.
Chester Thomas will go to Los An
geles. where he expects to be con-
nected with a movie picture company.
George Burns returns to his home IN
Philadelphia and Joe Sewell to Tusca-
loosa. Ala. where he will complete his
college education.
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ASKS U. S. C0NT0L
.fCoutinusd on PAGE Two,

-
rather than to Occupy the place of
principal speaker. But after q few
short talks his audience settled down
to direct questions and answers.
In a short statement Robert Snyder
of Oskaloosa, president of the state
farm bureau, discussed the board of
trade from the farmers viewpoint.
Don't Want to Upset System.
at don't find any sentiment with
our farm organizations to upset the
present farm market system" he said.
Snyder said progress had been made
in cooperative marketing. His SEN
timents were endorsed by Maurice Nc
Farmers union.
Spoke Before Rotary Club.
Living costs are coming down grad
ually,- but labor prices will continue to
hold their present standard-provided
the laborer maintains maximum
production. That was the forecast of
Herbert Hoover before the Rotary
club at a dinner in his honor Wednes-
day night in Pelletier's tea room. The
former food administrator blamed
speculative markets for price disturb
ances and said buying agencies had
formed monopolies as strong as selling
organizations.
Necessity of speedy production dur
ing the war forced labor prices to
record level, Hoover told Rotarians
The country may not be able to lower
this neutrality-suspicious. If labor re-
spends with increa sed production. This
situation, tho, will not stand in the
way of reduced living costs The diff
ference will be absorbed thru other
channels.
Small Labor Surplus.
Labor readjustment is following
other readjustment," Hoover said,
and a small labor surplus now exists.
This surplus will increase steadily.
THAT means efficiency. If the man
his high wages, he must produce
enough more to pay the difference
between declining prices and high
wages"
Discussing the prospects of de-
cline from altitude living records,
Hoover indicated labor would doubt
less be ready and willing to accept
tho. could come only when it was
shown that relative reduction had
been made in living costs.
Buy When They Need 1t.
Hoover asserted that the European
buying agencies stepped into the game
in the United States only when it
seemed profitable. They buy when
they want to and step out of the mar
kets whenever they get ready" he
said. Then he added: 1.-THE country
has been fighting selling monopolies
species of buying monopolies which
experience shows are just as powerful
in controlling prices
Leaves Tonight.
Hoover leaves this afternoon for
Emporia where he will speak tonight.
In Emporia he will be the guest of
William Allen White.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14

Wall St, New York, Oct 14.-sToCKs-
Steels, equipments, oils, coppers and to-
baccos were the prominent features at the
dull and irregular opening of today's stock
market, rails representing the weaker
natroieur Americsn sneItinc cnedri].,,
and Tobacco Products made gains extend
ing from substantial fractions to III points.
Nickel plate, one of yesterdays strongest
features. lost 1 point and St Paul reacted
a large fraction. Exchange on London and
continental Europe eased slightly.
The Indifference manifested by traders
towards the firmer trend of the money
market indicated a transfer Of speculative
interest to the long account. I Call loans
opened at Q per cent. the highest initial
quotation in many weeks but favorite
stocks continued to advance. Motors, oils.
and sugars registered gains Of
1 to points. while Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western was conspicuous among the
rails at point advance. The few
backward issues included Norfolk and
Western. Atlantic Coast Line, EaDadium
Steel Consolidated Gas and Laclede Cas-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
QUICK WITS SAVE JEWELS
Women Drop $4,000 I'm Gems on
Taxi Floor When Bandits Attack.


Taxi Floor When Bandits Attack.
Chicago, Oct. 14.-Six women, wives
of manufacturers and business men,
were held up and robbed early today
of Jewels valued at $4,000 and several
hundred dollars in cash. The bandits,
they said, were two young men, who
hoped on the running board of their
taxicab as they were leaving a social
function at the home of friend.
The bandits ordered the driver of
the cab to drive to a lonely spot and
upon reaching there ordered the
women to hand over their jewels.
They then fled Five of the victims
managed to hide part of their valu-
ables while the other was being rob-
bed They said they saved approx
mately $4,000 worth Of jewels in this
way.
The women robbed are Mrs. David
Botansky Mrs. Louis Holtzman, Mrs.
Samuel Melkin, Mrs. Annie Lesch,
Mrs. Bernard Joseph and Mrs. F'riedaA
Larmen.
Search of the floor of the cab re-
vealed more than $4,000 worth of
diamonds and other Jewels which had
been put there while the bandits were
robbing the first victim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
PAY TRIBUTE TO HOWAT
Keeps Coal Prices IS Cents a Ton
Higher in Kansas.

Keeps Coal Prices rs Cents a Ton
Higher in Kansas.
Alexander Howat president of the
United Mine Workers, and his organic
cation are responsible for uncertain
court of industrial relations was told
in. the hearing of the coal cases. Be
cause of this source of disturbance in
the mining camps, earnings and profits
or operators were declared to be un-
certain.
There is no Alexander Hoyat in
northern Missouri" said E. l. Kicker
booker, sales manager for the Central
Coal & Coke company, when asked to
justify range of profits of producers
in the Kansas and Missouri fields. The
witness said the companies could oper-
ate at a lower profit in other fields
because of assurance of a steady pro-
duction and minimum disturbance in
labor circles.
Rickerbocker asserted that in his
opinion the people of Kansas paid a
tribute of IS cents a ton for Howat
interferences with coal production. He
said mine operators could not produce
coal as cheaply in the district managed
by Howat as in other fields. In con-
sequence a margin between prices
charged for Kansas coal and Missouri
coal existed in all markets. The KAN
sas coal simply costs more to produce,
the witness said.
Continuous production determined
the selling price of coal and the profits
of the producing company, the witness
testified. War conditions, he said,
forced prices upward and the range
in lump coal was from $3.50 before
the war to $3.50 at this time.
reduction in price, he testified,
would come with sterilization of pro-
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GLASS STARTS new ATTACK
Former Secretary of Treasury Ridi-
cules Lower Taxes Speech.

Former Secretary of Treasury Ridi-
cuies Lower Taxes Speech.
Washington, Oct. 14.-An attack on
the taxation policy of the Republicans
and on Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania was made by Senator Glass, Vir-
ginia, today in a statement given out
at the White House. Glass was for
merly secretary of the treasury.
Referring to recent statement by
Penrose that taxes would be reduced
by Republican administration, Glass
said: THE people should clearly and
constantly understand that not even
Senator Penrose, much less the impo-
tent Republican congress, can tighten
the burden of taxation at this con-
gress or the next. or for many succeed
ing congresses, if the various schemes
for monster expenditures such as
indiscriminate bonuses and other prof.
ects proposed by Republican leaders
and actually passed by the. Republican
house are put into effect by any ad-
ministration."
Glass declared the Republican party
had absolutely failed to keep its
promise made two years ago to reduce
taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
TOO BUSY FOR JURY DUTY.
One Case Is Tried With Eleven Men
Another Has Only Six.

The shortage of jurors is being
keenly felt in the Shawnee county dis
trict court. In the first division today
ease was being tried with eleven
men. In the second division only six
men were used. This seems TO be a
very busy season of the year in all
lines of business. and while the law
provides that a juror can be compelled
to serve, the judges do not like to
exert this power except in the gravest
emergency.
With wages at the present level, few
men like to leave their jobs to-serve on
a jury at $3.50 a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-14
BURGLARS WORKED INSIDE"
Exclusive Gotham Country Club Scene
OF 100000 Jewel Robbery.

New York, Oct. 14.-Detectives in
vestigating the 100000 jewel rob
berry at the exclusive Sleepy Hollow
Country club, were inclined to believe
today the theft was an inside Job."
The burlars entered the bedrooms of
Mrs. Clarence c. Chapman and Mrs.
c. E. Danforth. From the formers
room they took g. $4,000 pearl neck
lace, watch and other jewelry. Mrs.
Danforth lost a diamond bracelet,
money and other jewels.
The Sleepy Hollow club adjoins the
william Rockefeller estate and num-
bers among its members many mil
Honaires.
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TeDAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Oct. 14-WHEAT-General buy
ing. partly on seaboard account. turned
the wheat market upward today after some
depression at the opening. Initial declines
were ascribed to bearish views taken OF the
government report on farm reserves ON
the other hand signs indicated that fair
amount of export business was in progress
Opening quotations. which varied from un-
changed figures to SIC lower. with De
cember S2.0S1s to $209ia and March $2Ofl2
TO s2O5 were followed by a moderate set
back all around. and then by an ascent to
well above Yesterdays finish.
Later the market weakened decidedly as
a result of heavy selling attributed to a
prominent eastern trader who was said to
have been long. The close was nervous
lie to 21Ac net lower with December
s2O7A to So 0S and March 50 O31a to S2o8A
CORN-In corn there was persistent buy
ing on the part Of the strong commission
houses After opening unchanged to &c
lower with December S6i.c to S6Hc the
market scored slight gains
Aggressive selling supposed to be for
big New York trader led subsequently, to
a decline The close was unsettled. &C net
lower to 2iIc advance with December at
S6at G fn S6Ec.
OATS-OatS hardened with other grain.
starting a shade to u a &c off. December &c
to .5G1<c and then making advance
PROyISIONS-Provisf were strength
end by forecasts that the warehouse state
ment November 1 would show n big de-
crease in stock Of lard and meats-
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DIFFERENT IN UNIFORM.
Mrs. Alta Wright Asks for Divorce
From Army Captain.


Chicago, Oct. 13.-Charging that he
was far more attractive in the uni
form of a captain in the medical corps
of the United States arnya and a far
better doctor than he is in civies, Mrs.
Alta Wright, wife of DR.. Eugene
Wright, has filed a bill in the circuit
court here, asking separate mainte-
nance. Mrs. Wrights charges Intimacy
with a nurse in her bill. Mrs. Wright,
then Miss Alta Curphy, was a gradu-
ate nurse, living in Topeka, when she
met Doctor Wright, then in the army
and stationed at Camp Funston. They
were married few days after meet
ing, on May Is, 1918.
Miss Alta Curphy was graduate of
the nursing course at Stormont hos
pittaI at Topeka, but was employed
after her graduation on private nurs-
ing duty, and not at the hospital.
There is no record of a marriage liz
cense issued to Miss Curphy and Doc
tor Wright by the probate judge of
Shawnee county. The license is be-
lieved to have been issued at Man
haitian, the nearest county seat to
Camp Funston, where licenses were
issued to hundreds of soldiers stationed
at the camp.
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TOO MANY TANK CARS NOW.
Advance in Freight Rates Shows u
OIL Shipments.

Oil refiners and distributors accu-
INFLATED heavy reserve supplies of oil
Just before the advance in freight
rates, and in doing so brought about
a shortage of tank cars which present
ed serious difficulties. Now that the
reserves have been built up, there is
an oyersupply of tank cars, many of
which are standing idle on the Santa
Fe system The building up of the re-
serve resulted, it is said. in a modiff-
cation of the prices on oil and it's prod
ucts at that time
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GREEK KING is IMPROVED.
R4eh Fever Resulted When He Suf-
fered Bite by Pet Monkey.

Athens, Oct. 13.-Physicians at
tending King Alexander, who is dan
gerously i'll as a result of infection
arising from the bite of a monkey,
reported today that while the pa
TENTS condition was stationary, the
outlook seemed better.
The highest temperature shown by
the king last night was 1O4.72 at
which time his pulse was 40. At 8
o'clock this morning the fever had
dropped to 1886 and the pulse was
108
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WEATHER
fcontinued fron PAGE oae.l

CONTINUED FROM Page One.l
an Kansas, with IA of an inch at
Goodland, PA at Kansas City and 1t
was raining lightly at Concordia this
morning.
\The lowest temperature I'm the last
twenty-four hours was 81 degrees at
6 O'Clock this morning. The lowest
temperature recorded for this date was
.33 in 1890, and the highest was 80 in
1889.
The wind was blowing five miles
;fsorn the southeast at O'Clock this
afternoon.
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NO ONE KNEW HE WAS THERE.
Vice President Thomas r.. Marshall
Spent Night in Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio. Oct. 14.-Few Gin
cinnatians were aware last night of
the presence in the city of Vice Rresi-
dent Thomas r. Marshall and Mrs
Marshall. who arrived from Spring
field, Ohio. and registered at a local
hotel
A break in his speaking sch dule
was responsible for the unheralded
visit, 1t was said The vice-p7csident
left at noon for Huntington, W. Va,
where he will speak tonight
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MRS. OGDEN MILLS DEAD.
Prominent New York Society Woman
Succumbs to Heart Attack in paris.

Paris, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Ogden Mills,
New York, died here yesterday of
heart disease. Her husband was with
her at their Paris residence. Mrs.
Mills was Miss Ruth Livingston. She
was prominent figure in New York
and Newport society.
During the war, the Mills's Paris
residence was used as headquarters by
General Pershing.
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ON HORSE ENDURANCE RACE.
OF Twenty-Seven Starting on 300 Mile
Course Only Sixteen Remain

White River Junction, VT, Oct. IA
The horses competing in the 3O0-mile
endurance test swept into New Hamp-
shire today with 100 miles to cover to
reach their goal at Camp Devens,
Mass, tomorrow evening.
OF the twenty-seven mounts that
started the race only sixteen remained,
seven having been left in the stables
here as a result of 1ameness or swollen
ankles developed in yesterdays hard
driving. The four others dropped out
earlier in the test .
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New York Oct. 1i.-MONEY-Prime mer-
camille paper. s per cent. Exchange easy.
Sterling 60 day bills, 343A commercial.
GO day bills on banks. 3.443l commercial,
60 day bills, 3.44A demand. 3.4s14.; cables.
349. Francs, demand. Goo: cables, 60.
Belgian francs. demand. 600; cables. 692.
Marks, demand, Lis: cables, 1.4G Greece.
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New York Produce Market.

New York, Oct. 14.-BCTTER-Marke
steady. Creamery higher than extras, COG
601ac.
EGGS-Market Irregular. Fresh gather
ed extra firsts, e46I69c.
CHEESE-Market unsettled State whole
milk. flats. held specials. 2S15M29c.
POULTRY-Alive. irregular; chickens. &c
@2Sc; fowls, 20d30c: dressed. irregular I;
western broilers, fresh, 39G5Oc
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New York Oct. 14.-Pricos Of liberty
second As, 5000: first AIS $3.50: second
SIS. a2s: third MS. 1888: fourth AVS.
sa24; Victory 3A's, 9GQs; Victory AZ 5,
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. Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindness and for the beauti-
full floral offerings at the funeral of
our dear husband, son and brother.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Gathers, Mr.. and
Mrs. r B. Gathers and familg-Adv.
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago. Oct. 14-BUTTER-Marke
higher. Creamery, 40G54hc.
EGGS-Market unchanged. Receipts A.
OH cases.
run, &c; springs, 2415c; turkeys, 4Oc
PoTATOES-Market steady. Receipts 9t
cars. Northern white, $1-60N rs; Mime
sofa and Dakota Early Ohios, $1.7061So.
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Kansas city Produce, Market.

Kansas City, Oct. 14.-BUTTER-Pack-
ing. 34c.
EGGS-596G2c.
POULTRY-Hens, 20@24c; springs. &c
lower, pc; broilers, &c lower, 30c; turkeys,
&c lower, 3Sc. a.
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Ckiea go-Twin girls arrived at the home
of Robert Melee telegraph oDe-=tor- They
were named Dot and Dash"
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New York stock Market.

New York. Oct. 14.-SUGAR-Raw, quiet
prices unchanged at IL cents for fine gran
ulated.
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demand, 960. New York exchange on Mon
treal, 10 per cent. Railroad and govern
co days, 90 days and 6 months, TAGS per
cent.
Call money. strong; high. 10; low. o:
ruling rate, O: close, O.: offered at 10. Last
loan, 10. Bank aceeptances, 6H.
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RYE-Dec., S164; May, S1-5s.
PORK-Oet, $23,50; Nov, $3.50.
LARD-Oct., $2o.z5; Nov, $2o15; JAM
RfBs-oct. s1725; jan. s15.45-
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Kansas Citv. Oct. E.-wHEAT-Cash
Nsrket &c to lc lower. M. hnr5i. $a.OSN
215; Me- 2. <20zG 2.15: No. 1 red. se.21
CORS-Market unchanged to re higher
No. MIXED. aae; Ne.s :. eos79.c: No. =
white asE7efc: No ?. s1Tese: No. . yellow,
81 a2e1 .es: No. :, sfoa6; 1St.
OATS-Na-kef - ie--er. No. . white
SC: No. . T1ixed- 55r; No. . red, 5G;.c
RYF-s1-.
KAFIR AID MILO AAIZE-s1.s c5L sI.
SHOETS-s155H17 Ito
RRAN-s14e.
wHEAT-Rereipts 553 ears.
wHEAT-Ciose- Dee, se021z; March
81 q1s.
coRN-Dec, scs.e: May. size
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DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office.
topeka, Kan, for the twenty-fouf hours
ending at I a. m. Thursday.
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Chicago Grain and Provision MAJ

1.-THE range of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board-of Trade as reported by
Empire Commission Co., 301 New England
Rldg1
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Kansas City. Oct 14-CATTLE-Receipt
$500 head. Market steady. --
HOGS-Receipts 5000 head. Market
steady and zoe higher. Bulk of sales, $14.50
@1h15: top. $3.50.
SHEEP Receipts 1900 hend. Market
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Kansas City Grain Market.

Orange of prices on grain futures on
the Kansas City Board of Trade, as reported
by B. c. Christopher & Co., 326 New Eng
land Bldg.)
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Kan.a. city Live.soca Market.

THE following sales were made this morn
ing at fhe Stock Yards, kansas City nnd
reported over long distance telephone Ill
rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin
500 4 Co.. live stock commission mer-
chants.)