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DIVIDENDS DECLARED

A;lus Powder Company, quarterly 4 per
cent on common. payable September 10 to
stock OF record August 81.
United staten Gypsum Company, quarterly
preferred. both payable September 80 TO
stock OF record September l5
North Philadelphia TTust Company, quar-
terly 1 per cent, payable August Is to stock
Of record August |.
American Telegraph apd Gable Company.
quarterly Ia per cent, payable September /
to stock OF record August 2l.
American Locomotive Company, quarterly
ia per cent on common, and - per cent on
prcfeI red. both paya Bile September 80 to stock
Of record September l3
Union Pachc Railroad Company. quarterly
2L2 per cent on, common and sem annual .
TO stock Of record September 10.
Southern Pacific, quarterly Ia per cent,
payable October TO stock OF record
AUGUST 80
Newmarket Manufacturing Company. quar-.
teTly 2h per cent, payable August Is TO
stock Of record August o.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
New York. Aug. 1l.-Thc foreign
exchange market opened Irregular.

New York. Aug. 1l.-Thc foreign
exchange market opened Irregular.
Sterling cables were 36524 demand,
3.65A. Franc cables. 7.S4; checks,
1888. Belgian cables, 7.6O; checks,
7.59. Swiss cables, 1890; checks,
1857. Lire cables, 4,39; checks,
4.3S1a. Pcseta cables, 1896; checks,
1894. Guilder cables, 81 90; checks,
80. 90. Stockholm cables, 2O.95 checks,
20. 90. Christianta cables, 1885 /;
checks, 1880. Copenhagen cables,
1918; checks. 1913. Marks, l,234.
The rate of premium in Montreal to-
day on New York funds was 10 49, IL
per cent. The rate Of discount in New
York on Canadian funds was 97s per
cent.
Central European exchanges were
strong. Greek. 5.05; Rumanian,
1.3Oh; Bulgarian, 50; Austrian,
.144 Polish, .O512 Czccho- Slovakia,
2G2 Jugo -Slaviu, .G2l4,
YESTERDAYS FINAL QUOTATIONS.
Sterling Francs Lire, Guuders
Demand ...,. 80tA 7sl 435h 90 90
Cables ,..,. 3.05 7.slR 4,36 81, O5
TODAY'S OPENING QUOTATIONS.
Sterling Francs Lire, Guilders
Demand ..... 3.dhl4 7.S3 1874 3O.S5
Gables III, 361h 7.s4 4.8O 90
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11
June Railroad Earnlnns

June business of 2O2 Class I railroads
shows net operating income Of .6i, 77s, 900
saved out OF gross revenues of t48l, 1877. 900,
deficit and s48+, 3s3 900 gross receipts for
June, 1920, according 70 compilation by
the Bureau Of Railway Economics. The cal
cuiatiOn covers all Class | carriers except
the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line, oper-
crease OF 2O.7 per cent from the S47S I'll
900 reported In June, 1920. The cut in ex-
penses was achieved mainly through curtail-
ment OF the outgo for conducting tTanspor-
tation. maintenance of equipment way and
structures.
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NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET

New York, Aug. 1.-THE stronger
Brazil markets and advance in Rio ex
change on London led to a better feel
ing around the local ring this morning
and on the call prices worked . to I
points above the previous closing
figures. There were indications that
Europe was again buying here through
one or two Wall Street firms.
After the early bulge had carried
values 7 to 8 points higher, realizing
set In on a slackening OF demand and
prices worked off 4 to 5 points on VERY
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|. c. c. Approves "Pennsy" Lease

washington. Aug. II. - The Interstate
Commerce Commission approved today Rc-
rany % control By lease. Of the Perth Amboy
and Woodbridge Railroad. the New York bay
tilsburE Railroad. and the Aew York. Phiia-
delphia and Norfolk Raiirokd.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS
Prices Heavy on Paris Bourse

Paris. Aug. ll;=Prices were heavy on tho
Bourse today. Three per cent rentss 50
francs a centimesi exchange on London I'd
francs 9s centinNes: 8 per cent loan, 81 franz
20 eentir1es The dollar was quoted at IL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11

PHILADELPHLN-CalI, por cent time
per cent commercial paper. three to SIX
months, 0 per cent.
Note-TheBe are merely nominal quota .
tinns the legal rate OF interest IN the State
o. Pennsylvania being fixed at @ per cent
Plus premium and commission. time money
i"r thirty to ninety days IL loaned at 10
81 per cent, while commercial paper, from
thirty to ninety days, 10 loaned at to Gh
per cent.
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small volume of business. Some atten-
tion was being paid to switching opera
tons, September being exchanged for
March mt So points and to December at
lu
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LITTLE ACTION IN
THE LOCAL TRADING
Dealings We're Of Small Pro-
portions and Price Changes
Meaningless

\ fairly steady tone was maintained
in the local market, but the dealings
were again of small proportions. The
majority of the local contingent evil
IDENTIFY are still content to remain on the
side lines and look on rather than par
ticipatng in the confusing situation.
The extension granted the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad management by the Rail
road Labor Board to settle the ballot
controversy was without effect. In
fGct, the dealings in that stock were
about the smallest witnessed the cur
rent year Less than fifty shares
changed hands during the first three
hours of the trading, with the price un-
changed at 81.
Moderate selling Of Electric Storage
Battery caused that issue to fall back
to 1O3a4, an overnight decline Of q
and nearly points from the top price
scored a week ago. No change was
made in the utility group, and little
was done in any of these stocks. The
growing bitterness of the local political
battle threatens to side track both the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit and L. Il.
! problems for further consideration
until the fall.
Considerable interest was manifested
In the report Of the operations Of the
General Asphalt Company Tor the hrst
six months of the current year which
were published today. This showed a
loss in trading account Of the General
Asphalt Company itself and its sub
salaries Of $570,174 to which is added
$332 1888 arbitrary depreciation charges,
making deicitc for the period Of
$0ll .577, of which $T3l 1876 aCCumu
lated in the first quarter; the dcfcitc in
April being S153 ,5Gl and in May
so. 1888. There was dehcite Of $23 ,j33
in June.
The combined sheet as of June 80
shows $7,772 ,03S current assets, Of
which $4,358, ,9O7 is inventory and
$3.50 .6S7 cash; with $2,705, ,43O cur
rent liabilities, of which 81 ,925 900 is
notes payable, 1923 ,37S accounts pay
able and $24S, ,051 reserved for income
taxes. The inventory is sound, the re-
reiyables are good, and the company il
in easy position financially.
DAkI[ DIkHc
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MoNEY-LENDING RATES

NEW Y0RK-Money on call, both classes
Of collateral. opened today at per cent for
lending and renewing.
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Financial Briefs

Hire Of equipment has played an important
part In s.. Louis Southwestern's earnings FOR
certain measure, what the extent OF his
ycar's bus ness depression has been. Non.
operating income vas only ;404,2ss for the
SIX months or this year, against 5000, 1S7
!ast "a year, showing decrease of s++I, 300. or
Fsr 5s1e .H income
decrease OF Sl83, G84, or 72 per cent.
Endicott johnson Corporation, for ,hs ne
ROO 1Na IRON January to July 2, reports net
pTohts rbar1 after FeGeEal taxes appreciation and
inE ,HS preferred diydsnds tSa 70 s42s share par
SGrI.18,s,n op nS share on $1,000 common In
The Bank OF England minimum rat. q,
discount remains unchanged at 5Ia per cent.
dSsirial tsTGa stSSks SS DECLINED 2o per cent yes
declined O,6o per cent to 7202
The American Petroleum Institute esti-
mates that the daily average gross crude
week ended August 0 was .9i5.SJ6 berreis'
as compared with l,3l4,2iO barrels Tor the
preceding week, an increase OF 1900 bar
=, There has been admitted to the list on the
New York stock EXchaUTe Republic or Uru-
quay $1,000. 900. National CITY Company,
interim receipts for external loan twenty Ave
year per cent sinking fund gold bonds, due
August !, l846, whom issued Substituted on
the list the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
permanent engraved 500. 900. 900 fifteen.year
~ per cent secured gold honds due Fob,
ruary !. 1886, in lieu OF temporary bonds
Substituted on the list the Pittsburgh, Gin.
clnnhti Chicago and st. Louis Railroad
Company permanent engraved $50, 900, O0C
general m9rtEGgo per cent gold bonds
porary bonds Republic Of Uruguay bond.
viii be printed Joy.
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LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS

Pittsburgh. Aug. ,u.-HoGs-
$500 head Market lower. Heavies, Sll;
heavy ,yogkgsrso light workers.. $ll75Gl2;
nssd sEEaE aornsi ANS ss.a 4G5 sheep SS oS
lambs, Sli.
CALVES-Reccpts l5O head. Market
steady, Top, &l050
East Buffalo, Aug. II. -. CATTLE-Re-
celpts, lI5 head Steady Calves receipts.
Ut0 hcad Steady: S5GIiO,6O
HoGs-Receipts $500 head. Slow, 500
III So hSs2 SSI2sr, $40 SnG ss y1aE.rs
sii.5O9ii:dA. pigs. sii.oOi roughs, So;
sHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts, 500 head,
Steady, unchanged.
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BANK CLEARINGS
BAR SllNE {
Reserve Banks Discount Rates

Bar silver was UP nd In London today
at B7hd.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11

The Bank of England minimum rata OF
discount remains unchanged at 5Ig per cent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11

The average price OF the twenty activ. In.
dNstrial STOCKS declined 20 per cent yes-
terday TO 69.7l. while the twenty railroads
declined 0.50 per cent to ~ o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-11
Philadelphia Stocks
PHILADELPHIA BONDS

tNct change made by comparison with last
sale on New York Stock Exchange.
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MONTANA MAN WAS BORN I'M HOUSE THAT NEVER WAS MOVED BUT
WHICH HAS STOOD IN SIX Different STATES AND TERRITORIES

their agent in newly-established |
post near Fort Smelling. AT Men
dota he made his headquarters,
where already Jean Faribault,
who had in 1906 assisted Zebulon
Pike to make his treaty with the
Sioux, was doing a steady fur
business. Until 1845 Sibley made
this little town famous by his
leadership.
In the house that he built there,
Sibley lived like a baron of the
Middle Ages. The Indians by this
time had become dependent on the
whites for their provisions and a
part of their clothing, and for this
reason they brought in immense
quantities of furs, beaver chiefly,
but also bear skins and buffalo
robes. Behind the house is the ruin
OF the warehouse, the basement of
which, 20 feet deep, was used for
the storage of ice. In this ware
house provisions and furs were
carefully guarded. The possession
of these provisions gave. Sibley his
great power over the Sioux, who
had been driven far south of their
ancient homes by the we'll equipped
Chippewas, to humble whom they
would almost sell their souls for
few grains of powder and an ounce
or two of lead. Because they were
dependent on Sibley for both food
and ammunition, the Sioux were
virtually his serfs, bound to him by
hunger and hatred to range the for
ests for radius of hundred miles
and bring him their ,furs, which he
sent on to swell the Aston fortune.
Because Sibley was powerful,
those who wanted to come into the
Indian country for any reason
whatsoever thought it expedient to
come by way of the Sibley house.
, Missionaries on their way to their
posts, traders under Sibley's direc-
ton, travellers desiring to rough it
in the Minnesota wilds, scientists
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Alfred B. Sibley, a well known
Helena resident, and for several
years past an official of the Helena
street railway company, has the
distinction of having had for his
birthplace one of the most historic
structures in the whole transmits
sissippi region. That is the, Sibley
house, built by his father, General
Henry Hastings Sibley, in 1885, at
Mendoza, Minnesota.
In this house were born the six
children of General Sibley, yet, al
though the house has never been
moved, each child was born in a
different state or territory, the state
boundaries changing at intervals
between the births. Thus one child
was born in Michigan, one in Wis
consin, one in Iowa, one in the Da
kotas, one in Minnesota territory,
and one in Minnesota state. In
1910 the house was bought and res
tored by the Minnesota Daughters
of the Revolution, and the historic
interest attached to it draws thou-
sands of visitors to it every year.
1t is probably the most interesting
structure historically in Minnesota.
General Sibley's life is one of the
romances of the west, and this adds
interest to the house, which he
built for his beautiful and able
wife, the sister of another pioneer,
Franklin Steele, who built the first
mill in St. Anthony, now St. Paul.
The visitor to this most inter-
esting house notices, first of all,
that its frame is made of great
trees hewn in the forest, and then
that the plaster is of mud from the
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Minnesota river packed on willows,
instead of laths, in a very skilful

Minnesota river packed on willows,
instead of laths, in a very skilful
manner. Over this mud is NOR
tar coat which, however, was not
put on until much later, when the
Sibleys were we'll over their pion-
Ger period. In the basement is the
great ice room with the hooks
from which hung the whole car
cases of bears and deer for the
guests and dependents of the will
derness mansion. Some of the
rooms in this house that seems
small as one approaches it up the
railroad track are 20 feet square.
General Sibley was a baby in his
mothers arms at the siege of Fort
Detroit by the British in 1872, and
none was more indignant than this
mother when she saw General Hull
pull down the American flag and
surrender the fort to the British.
With her baby beside her she had
helped the other women in the fort
in the work of making bandages
and even loading the muskets.
General Sibley's youth was spent
amid frontier surroundings, but he
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the drawing up or writing of the
transfers. Our work brought us to-
gether so we became fairly we'll &C.
quainted.
The only time I ever heard the
doctor refer to his Kansas adventures
was near Yellowstone City in the win
ter, after most of the men had aban-
doned their claims because of cold
weather. I noticed him in warm
discussion with two others. I APP
preached them to learn the subject
of their talk, but before got within
hearing, the party broke up, and the
doctor approached me, saying:
II got them indicted, all right, but
the free state legislature of Kansas
was in session and passed an act par
doning them, and had to leave that
night or the devils would have hung
me-"
About that time news of the dis
covery of gold at Last Chance Gulch
was brought to Yellowstone City, and
the Carrot brothers left, after giving
DR.. Wier bill of sale to their claims
for consideration of $50, believe.
Their intention was to return in the
OPA 4Ao anu WI n SAOA ouS tASA4SCAN GO
but they failed to come back, so the
claims belonged to DR.. Wier. He did
not work them himself, but made a
sale to a company headed by an as
tute old California miner named Nc
Clure, who, along with Harvey Per-
kins, Nathan Vroman and E. p.
Smith. entered into an agreement to
pay DR.. Wier $500 for these claims
within 80 days. The doctor drew up
q mortgage to be enforced at the end
of that period of time, and made 1t
tight enough to take the hair off the
head. Now here was legal ability
against miners rascality, and the
miners won out. Before the 80 days
were up they had all the gold dug out
and they told the doctor to go ahead
and foreclose the mortgage. and, OF
course. he did no such thing, for nc
one would want an old, worked-out
claim.
Now in fancy can yet see DR.,
Wier. not sitting on q table with his
feet on stove, as chroniclers picture
him sitting during the Governor Rob
inson trial, but seated on big bould
or sadly watching the men at worh
shoveling into the sluice boxes. in thu
fond hope Of collecting that $500 Il
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wanting to know the secrets of the
great silence beyond the Missis-
sippi - all these were entertained
with generosity and grace by Sib-
ley and his charming wife.
There is a legend that once Sib-
ley pushed Captain Marryat, the
English novelist, off the balcony
that overlooks the front yard, be-
cause of his refusal to treat the
country with proper respect; but
this seems SO at variance with the
testimonies of Sibley as a hospit-
able gentleman that it is not to be
depended upon.
Sibley's accounts with the fur
company show us that he lived like
gentleman-as doubtless he had
dreamed of living when he was a
clerk studying Latin. The company
filled his orders for fine china, sill
yer and furniture; he kept trained
horses and dogs for hunting; he
filled his library with the best
books, some of which he passed on
to other traders further west. For
instance, his correspondence rec
ords his sending to Gabriel Rem
vile several volumes of a history of
civilization and the life of Napo-
leon.
He was quiet in manner, tenn
perate in habits, forbearing in
speech. He was the man to be-
come a leader in a pioneer conmu-
nifty, for the rough men who large
ly compose such a community res
pect power and ability in any man
and despise conceit wherever it
shows itself.
It was, hence, no wonder that
Henry Sibley became the first
delegate to congress from the will
derness of Minnesota, and no Won
der that, having entertained many
of the influential men in the Uni
ted States, he was able to win the
right of territory for his beloved
district. In 1883 the territory de-
manded statehood, and Sibley, who
had once been justice of the peace
of Clayton county, Iowa, admins
tering the law at Mendoza, zoo
miles from the county seat, when
all of Minnesota west Of the Mis-
sissippi was in the territory OF
Iowa, was made governor of Min
nesota.
In 1862, when the Sioux burst
forth in an attempt to wipe out the
white settlers, Sibley was placed ir
charge of an expedition to rescue
prisoners and to drive the Indians
from the state. He did both, al.
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gold dust. He put in the entire sum-
mer in watchful waiting for the dust
which he did not get, and was very
much disappointed over it. We came
down from the claims to Yellowstone
City together, and as l had quite a
heavy pack, he offered to help me
out, and cheerfully agreed to the
proposition. never again saw the
first United States district attorney
of Kansas after reaching Yellowstone
City.
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This delay lost the men their
chance to get the claims originally
staked for them in Emigrant Gulch,
which were taken up while they were
fooling with bones on East Gallatln
creek. But later they came over to
Yellowstone City, and Owens became
a partner of Shorthill, who shortly
after organized "Shorthill's District. !"
and appointed me as his deputy rec
order. and in that capacity I became
we'll acquainted with all of the claim
owners in the district. Wier handled
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General sibley, from a photo
graph taken in 1862, when he
was given the rank of Colonel
and put in charge of militia after
the Sioux had massacred several
hundred whites in Minnesota. He
met with signal success, released
ESQ white captives held by the
Indians and captured 1000 reds.
Sibley was commissioned briga-
der general in 1868, and later
brevet major general.
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THE famous Sbey House Mendoza built in 1885, which
has been moved has stood six different
and territories due boundaries changing between
at intervals in the settling Of the It in this house that
Alfred Sbey Of Helena born Each Of his brothers and
sisters born in different territory This house in
its day verable barona hall like those Of the fuda times
of European history Situated the midst Of the wilderness
Sby lived in luxury somewhat after the Of Kenneth
Mckenzie "Kng Of the Upper Missouri who regned Fort
Union the mouth Of the Yellowstone river and a
pora Sey the service Of the American Fur Company
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DR.. Wier got the bucket to the top
Of the shaft. gave its contents
searching look, then called back:
"Dick, they are elk horns. We will
now quit, for we can get all the elk
horns we want in the timber above
Bozeman without digging forty feet
after them. The woods are full of
elk horns.''
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cially history. At 19 he was a
clerk in an Indian trading post on
the upper peninsula of Michigan.
In 1928 the Astor interests,
known as the American Fur COM
pany, were looking for just such a
fellow as Henry Sibley. to act as
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acquired an unusually good educa-
ton from men of learning whom
the lure of the wilderness had
drawn away from civilization, SO
that before he was in his later teens
he knew both Latin and Greek, and
had read the best literature, espe-
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Sibley is fine example of the
genuinely ambitious boy making
his way to the front, not merely to
wealth, but to real leadership. In
the midst of interiors he remained
gentleman and scholar, instead
of lowering his ideals to suit the
conditions and the times.
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though he was not able to capture
the main body, and returned to his
home in St. Paul the most honored
citizen of the state. Later he serv-
ed in the Legislature. He continued
to live at St. Paul until his death
in 1891.
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Montana OIL Output Gains.

Montana continues to increase her
oil production. During August, &C.
cording to United States geological
survey, the state produced $4,000
barrels Of oil as compared with 49,
900 barrels in August, 1920. The
daily production of the state has
reached $3.50 barrels.
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Great Falls-Two cases of infan-
tile paralysis in Cascade county have
been reported in the last week, one
at Power and the other at Monarch.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-04
INVITE JOFFRE
T0R0Ck ISLAND


Failing in their effort to have
the city of Rock Island included
In the itinerary Of Marshal Foch,
the advisory committee Of the
Chamber OF Commerce has decided
TO. request Marshal Joffre, who Nov.
IL, Armistice day, will sail from
MarseiIIes for a visit TO the United
States and Canada, to include Rock
Island in the list OF. cities to be
visited
The secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce will proffer the request
through Jules Jusserand. French
ambassador in Washington.
Marshal Joffre will land at Sc
attic, and will visit many American
and Canadian communities.