The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1916, Page 4

ainsi sap Mer Bete ’ FOUE: BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, DEC. 11, 1916. THE TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, | D., as Second Class Matter. N. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY | PAYABLE IN | SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVANCE Daily, by carrier, per month Daily, by mail, per year.. Weekly, by mail, per year. N Member Audit Bureau of Circulation © THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | (Established 1873) ES LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12 noon, December 11, 1916: ‘Temperature at 7 a. mM. .. Temperature at noon ‘Lowest this forenoon Highest yesterday . Precipitation , Highest wind vi . 10 at locity . Forecast: For North Dakota tonight and Tuesda Partly continued cold. | Temperature | Boise -10 Galveston . Helena Kansas City Moorhead Prince Albe! Salt Lake City San Franci Williston Havre Miles Cit. { 16 | - 48 i 6 | 4s | ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. | ee ee oo Want of care does us more % damage than want of knowl ¢ edge.—Franklin. ta aR a Od) SHOP EARLY. is the last call to Christmas | shoppers. Help the clerks and shop early | this week. | Avoid the discomfort of eleventh) hour purcha sing both to; the clerks and the patrons, Don't forget to carry the Christmas! spirit into your buying. Shop early! OUR LITTLE GROUCHES. | We all Jove heroes. There is enough of the poet and the actor in the av- erage. man, there is enough imagina- tion, to. enable him to put up a fair imitation of a hero whenever the op-} portunity offers. | We can all manage to meet failure, grief and death with some ‘show of ‘bravery. But we are very often cowards when we face the petty irritations of every day. ‘And as these ills are of hourly occurrence we are much less! heroes in fact than we fancy our- selves.- So it is a good plan, once in awhile, to make a little record of our ordinary grouches, There's the getting-up grouch, Its causes are many, the cure is the same} for all. It can be had before we leave our rooms—just a little deep breathing befgre the open window, or a cold plunge; will do the work. There's the grouch because the morning coffee is too weak or too! strong. Well, most of us drink too much coffee, anyway. There's the grouch over our clothes —-which are never quite good enough We can never cure this by buying more. If a Woman can afford a chin- chilla coat at. $4,500 she covets a sable cape at $20,000. But if we will put our minds on the needs of the Red Cross in Europe we very soon be-; come ashamed of our mad craze for finery, There's the office —grouch—which consists im trying to go opposite to the course of business events. Just- average human perversity kills har- mony and co-operation in many an organization. There’s always some- one above us or next to us to be jealous of. The cure for this is to remember that “he who would com- mand must first learn to obey And} if this kind of philosophy does not help, then the honest thing is to find another job. Every morning we seize afresh up- on all of our little pet grouches as i they were novelties belonging to each one exclusively, and not ancient. in- cumbrances which we should have dis- | ; carded yesteryear. And perhaps we! cannot cure ourselves altogether of the habit of getting grouchy about | something. But can we not prove our- Selves extraordinary, almost heroic, by getting rid of all these common- place grouches and inventing a few brand new ones? GOOD SAMARITAN. When the history of the great war | is written, nized as the good Samaritan among | near | tubercular s eee 22-W' nations | guard of S cloudy | {and work | committees | where clothing is washed and mend-} ; ed are also woman's particular char | ity. jconflict, that can on |exhaustion of the: | these countries compelled their rulers Switzerland will be recog: | the nations, ‘When the traveler, was cut off. ages to provide for her own people) and hundreds of thousands of sick | and dependent foreign soldie! well as to contribute financial id to | as| | Joadea with the wounded, who, under | the care of the Swiss medical men, are being returned to their nati countries, er countries also exchanged. The war prisoners’ postoflice is con- ‘ducted without postage. If the mail had been stamped in the usual way it would have netted the government $2,000,000 in 1915, Food sup- | plies for war prisoners are transport- \ed by express without charge. Volun- |teer workers have a bureau for locat-| ng prisoners, and reuniting are | mothers and-child refugees. students provide text-books vand conduct correspondence courses ; c " | with students in German, French and Russ In n prison camps. 5 hotels and sanatoriums, Idiers of all the warring | treatment, under | ss troops, the cost of| keeping them being pe ly paid by their respective government: Club houses with reading, writing rooms are of women. re Laundrie: Hundreds of refugee Belgian and Serbian children have been adopted by Swiss families. Recently the Swiss partment has arranged to provide able-bodied men with tive working man. In this connection it is necessary to! add that the idea of the Red Cross/ originated with a citizen of Geneva, | and tWat the first international organ- ization to deal with the subject met | | in that city. i Whoever has the Christmas spirit in his heart will keep his holiday the better for giving a thought to the mi: in the great wa [TO b READERS’ COLUMN | | ‘Rochester, N. Y., Dec. Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bi N. D. Dear Sir: | After the war—what? Most likely} a defensive alliance for all the Euro- pean states willbe the outcome of this last great war among them. A certain section of these warring na-| tions, who trusted in the power of| might to conquer and rule all the! world, as Well as the remaining ones | who believed only less in. the power | |of arms and armaments, will thus be led to see that the /brotherhdod of man is the basic principle of all per- manent peace, Awful as the present experience of Europe is, it has probabty hastened by hundreds of -years the universal acknowledgment and adoption of the! principle that right, not might, is the best law for the welfare of nations. Then why prolong (two and one-third been decisive of ry and useless result in the me Powers and the century-long misery of the great masses of all these peoples? If a new Hague conference were to sit continuousty until ‘the peoples of 7, 1916, to submit their differences to its de- cisions, peace might come sooner than anyone would imagine. What greater role could Ame! have than to be| the first to take t de and work for it incessantly until its fulfillment came? Yours very truly, F.L. FISHBAUGH. SMALLER HERDS ce ONE REASON FOR ____ HIGH cost (Continued from Page One) they merely falling by the wayside be- cause they are struggling with some adverse conditions beyond their own control? In attempting to answer these in- quiries and thus to get to the root of the matter, we find an immediate ad- vantage in this fact namely that these producers of meat animals have been vocal, have voiced their sentiments specifically as a producing group. And they have just recently gone even to such length as to ask the United States government to probe the entire intricate process of meat supplying, that at last the public may know something definite about the whole shrouded game! This on the surface at least, would | seem to infer that this group is not| in very strongly on the “velvet” that | somebody probably is getting from | that much-mooted “high” in the high-| cost-of-living. This fact, of course, may prove one or more of several things: either that the producers are not thoroughly efficient in their busi- ness; or don’t know how to be; or that they ’t be through certain pressures exerted upon them: or fin-| ally that they are efficient in their! |Own special department, but that it! does ‘them no good because of other controlling factors they must come into contact with. At the start off all we know posi- tively is that the number of meat ant-! mals in this country (except swine) ar broke, Switzerland's |is decreasing at an alarming — rate, chief source of income, the foreign | while the price of meat is going up! How she man-| ‘at the same kind of a rat |the producers of cattle, especially the | and that feeders, their lot. \ There are certainly, at first sight, certain things that strike one as hav- afe very dissatisfied with] Serbia, Poland, and the Lithuanian | pine eee Re oF au thee (1)| rice of al and Armenian sufferers. is a mys abe : earns: fOr" instances "thet | to those who know what econom her people practice in peace times. It is difficult to tell w greatest of her mercies to the stricken. The. most spectacular, perhaps, the exchange, through the ‘Red Cross, of mutilated military service. o War- | Trains .cross her | .y, ~feanttnre.— daily —invesiars inaction |nant thn nnn nemagiiaditemaonn tty # S|cost the feeder about 25 cents in the | 90s now costing him about 80 cents; ich is the | (2) grazing land has risen in Price |to the sh g to the introduction of dry and \irrigaticnal farming in the west which has somewhat sopped up range spac- is jes; | prisoners of war unfit for! (3) labor has risen in price; Jumber and other necessary ment have gone up; () equip- (5) great de- jerease in range capacity has of late sued, owing to the fact that Pi the Interned civilians of oth- conducted by} political de- | employment | | which will not interfere with the na-| little appreciative | ion of Switzerland | | HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO PRO Cost of yearling steer ...... 2 1.2 years’ interest at 6 per cen Rough feed for 12 months ... Cottonseed cake, first winter ... Cottonseed cake, second winter Taxes per head Loss 5 per cent Total . DUCE A 3-YEAR-OLD STEER FOR sree. $3216 4.82 6.00 4.36 5.81 1.00 $54.15 2.71 THE FEED-YARD. it Another Patient! er; another bréther 6f ‘fhe deceased, in offering a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers. Investigation Thorough. The investigation has been in prog- ress since November 17; it has been very thorough, but to date it has re- vealed little in the way of actual evi- dence which did not become known immediately following the tragedy. stocked and their fertility thus. lowered. But, strange as it may appear upon {the surface of the question; we do not find, upon examining ‘the defined and set forth view of these producers, as they have made their case public that the winter of their discontent, and the consequent slump in the business of . raising animals, revolves about these questions to any strategic ex- tent at all! These items. seem. either to have been met and solved by them, or they feel that there is a deeper and more fundamental one which, if rem- edied, will tend to solve these and all the other various minor ones. In their group utterances these breeders and feeders have diagnosed their own: case, and. doubtless a great deal of light, canbe shed-on the whole meat problem: by studying. what they say is wréng.' Tomorrow 1 will set forth for you, their statement of the vital problem, as they see it, of what is making meat so costly in America —in other words why they are failing to keep up an adequate supply of meat animals for a fast-growing na- tion. CARL MAIER CASE PRESENTS MYSTERY present Exhumation of Remains and In- quest Latest Development in Tragedy BROTHER RECEIVES LETTER ASKING BLACKMAIL MONEY Efforts Now Being Made To Ap- prehend ‘Writer of Threat- ening Missive North Dakota “has a real murder mystery in the case of Karl Maier, the popular young rancher who met his death in some yet-to-be-explained manner in the vicinity of Beulah on | November 3. Burns detectives, who have been working on the case under the direction of Attorney General | Linde, confess that they are puzzled. The case is one in which every pos- |sible bit of evidence points to suicide \and in which the location of the spot at which the death-dealing bullets en- tered the body absolutely preclude this theory. ‘The attorney genera? nas ordered jthe remains exhumed and an inquest ;conducted this week. . What the in- quest may reveal remains to be seen. \It is certain the, officers of Oliver county and friends of the young man are not satisfied with the suicide the- ory. Large rewards have heen offer- ed for the apprehension of, unknown |parties who were seen in the vicinity of the crime the day Maier was found jlying in a field with a rifle bullet \through his body, but to date no trace |has been found of them. Strangers Used Shack. | These strangers were reported to | have camped in a shack near the Wet- el] farm November 10. tives contend, however, that the story of the men having been there for pos- sibly a week is untenable, as there | was no possibility of their having se- creted their horses for that length of jtime. A deputy sheriff who was sent ack to make their arrest evi- dently lost his nerve, and came away, jafter interviewing the men and satis- \fying himself that they intended to jremain for the night. The following morning they were’ gone,’ and their disappearace further complicates the case. . Shot, Wj Gun, Shot.’ Nive Aen, Su | The detec-|' was in the room with Maier when the latter made..a statement . regarding: the tragedy, states positively that Maier said; “A mam shot me with my own gun.” Maier would say nothing more except, tl he “iwanted to die.” There is a theory at Beulah that he was seeking’ tozshield some one, or that he felt in-some way that his shooting was justified. Had Been Jilted. “An interesting! feature-of the case is a letter fromp/Maier’s. sweetheart, dated at a neighboring town Novem- ber 1, and which must ‘have been re- ceived the day of .the) tragedy ‘or the one preceding, in which she returned his ring ‘and advised him, “I have found another that I.really love bet- ter and always will,”.and that she had twice attempted to ‘‘gaiwith him” and “would irather kill’ myself; and never start invthe ‘third time:*.* * so: this will be my last letter to’ you for ever and ever.” fy Where Suicide Theory Fits. “lf it had been possible for Carl to have shot himself,” reports the Burns man, “the suicide would have fitted here very nicely.” The letter brought up the question of Carl’s rival, but the latter has been identified and he does not in any way answer the description of the man who was seen talking to Maier just before the latter was shot. There never had been any serious troubles with neighbors which might have led up to a quarrel. The diamond ring which Maier’s sweetheart stated she some furs which she returned: at the same time remained at the. postofice some time and then went back to the young woman. Discovered by Brother. « Carl Maier was discovered by his brother, John Maier, lying on the ground, near the road, between the Maier place and Beulah, upon John Maier’s return from town November 3. The latter called to his brother several times, and upon not receiving a reply is said to have driven back to town, where he called a doctor. The latter, Dr. Newkamp, found Carl Maier lying on his face with his rifle beside him and one empty cartridge on the ground. There were two bul- let holes in Maier’s chest and the indi- cations were that the rifle had been pressed against his body when it was discharged. The doctor's examina- tion revealed the fact that Maier had been shot once under the left arm and again in the chest, at the spot where the first bullet came out. Gets Blackmail Letter. A recently added feature of the case is a letter received by John Maier, postmarked at Zap on November 28, advising him to put $300 on a certain telephone post two miles east of Beu- lah on December 5, or something would happen. This letter is now in possession of Deputy Sheriff Grant, and John Maier is making every effort to trace the writer. The latter was evidently an illiterate person, and the affair is considered a very bungle- some attempt at blackmail. The letter reads: “Dear Sir. John J will drop you a féw lines. You shot your brother Carl, I seaned it, and if you will give me $300'T will ceap still. You put the money on the tele- phone post two miles north from Beu- Jah. Just first post west. from corner on the school house about December 5. Be quick or I do som ting.” A well known Beulah character is suspected of having writen this let- ter and will be taken into the toils when the proper time comes. Orders for Arrest. John F. Albers, a brother-in-law of the deceased, has sent circulars broadcast ordering the arrest of the was returning to him ‘in her letter]. }coudl not be found, but {JUDGES ELECT MUST WAIT TILL FIRST OF YEAR (Continued from page one) Seeking, a responsibility of the very gravest character. has been, thrust up- on us, It is with the greatest reluc- tance that we have undertéken to dis- charge it Regardless of possible em- barrassment to. ourselfes, we feel it! imperative to prevent, if possible, a recurrence of incidents such as Wiy characterized and made necessary this ‘proceeding, both to maintain the dignity and prestige of this court, and to preserve the welfare and ‘good name of this state. , “In the, foregoing ,all concur, excep: tion Judge James: Mi Hanley, hot sit- ting.’* Robinson Reserves Comment. a dJustice-elect Rebinson, . interviewed |* at noon,on the subject of the court's decision, declared he had not yet rea! the opinion; was then on his way to the capitol to do so, and would have something to say when he had learn: ed what the provisional court held in the Eriucnite ag le MASONS WL BE. GUESTS ‘Official Extends Board of Methodist Church Invitation to Sit in Service ‘Sunday. Ryening. : i Masons of Bismarck and all visiting Masons in the city ‘Will be guests of the Methodist church at the services next Sunday evening. The invitation has been extended by “the official board. Members of the A. F. & A. M, will meet in the Sunday school room at 7:15 o'clock that evening and proceed in a body to the church proper at the opening of the service. According to announcement made by Dr, Hutcheson last evening, the Masons will “be treated as guests of the Methodist church.” . TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY CostT—On Eights street or Broad- way, lady’s black handbag; blue lining with mirror, containing glass- es, money and papers. . rinder, re- turn to Tribune for reward. 12-11-1t FOR RENT—Four large room: Ninth street. Phone 341L. 12-11-3t WANTED—To rent, small modern house or flat. Apply Capital Tailor- img company 422 Broadway. 12-11-3t TURNS THUMBS OWN ON CRAND INAUGURAL BALL Sentence Passed This Morning on Time-Honored Event in State Affairs at Capital City DEATH KN§LL SOUNDED BY FRAZIER NOW IN CHICAGO Hopes Held That He Would Not Abandon This Brilliant 8o- cial Affair Also Pass The inaugural ball is doomed. Its death was officially proclaimed when the governor-elect of the common- wealth of North Dakota turned his thumbs down. Word to this effect has been receiv- ed on previous occasions, but it was believed Governor-elect Lynn J. Fra- zier would change his opinion and that the brilliant event for the smart set would be saved. Sounds the Death Knell. From out of a convention of farm- ers in Chicago, the death knell was sounded, “Your message at hand. I am not in favor of having an inaugural ball.” That was the official word sent to R. iL. Best, one of the city commis- sioners, who had wired the governor, stating: “L have always felt and now feel that I am expressing the feelings of most of the people of. Bismarck, that some kind of reception is due the incoming state officers. “We do not want to delay legisla- tion’ and can arrange to have the re- ception and the ball in the armory building some evening, shortly after the oaths of office have been taken,” added the commissioner. “Wouldn’t this plan be acceptable to you in order for us to show our appreciation of your inauguration as governor of our state?”s This Is the Reply. Best, : “Bismarck, N.’D. “Your message at hand. “R, Tam not in favor of Having an inaugural ball.” | “ “Yours truly, “LYNN J. RRAZIER.” COURT. MUDDLE HOLDS ‘UP QUALIFICATION OF NEW-MADE BARRISTERS Buccessful Candidates Cannot Be Admitted Until Question Is ' Settled y's decision in Tod the stipreme qj court controversy brings joy to the hearts of the barristers-to-be, candi- dates who were successful in passing the state bar examinations held in Fargo last week, but who could not be sworn in until the status of the Morty ie kos. supreme bench, which oes the swearing, was established. tt is ribet even though that que: tion may now be settled to the satis- faction of most people, that the for- mal elevation of these candidates to the bar may be deferred until Janu- ary 1. Had matters pursued their ordinary course, they would have been admitted at a special session of the court which had been set for Fargo last week. The New Lawyers. The lawyers in embryo are: Albert R. Bergesen, Fargo, N. D., Northwestern university, 1916. Leonard L. Butterwick, Milton, N. D., George Washington school, 1916. Ole Ellefson, Minnewaakan, N. D., University of North Dakota law, June 1916. Philip Ps t, D., Har- vard, June, 1916. Melvin D, Hildreth, Fargo, ‘N. D., Columbia, June, 1916. James Morris, Bordulas, N. dD. Cin- cinnati Law school, 1916. William J. Sullivan, Mandan, N. University of South 1916. F. X. Kirsch, Warwick, N. D., regis- tered student. Lloyd R. Peterson, Fessenden, ‘N. D., University of Minnesota, June, 1916. DUE TO BE A REALITY. The Edgeley Mail: The little fable about the hen and the golden egg is about due to be a reality, if the pres- ent price of eggs xeeps up. Fargo, ‘N. D, Dakota, June, It Tells of the Jack London’s Last Little Gem! Thrills in Life! New York, Dec. 11.—Just.a few days before Jack London answered the call to the last great adventure he haps the last he ever benned—in re sponse 10: the question: * Any Thrills Left In Li By JACK LONDON. When | lie on the placid beach of Waikiki, in the Hawaiian Islands, as J did last year, and a stranger intro- duces himself as the person who set- tled the estate of Capt. Keller; and when that stranger lains that Capt. Keller came to his death by having his head opped off and smoke-cured by the cannibal head- hunters of the Solomon Islands in the West South Pacific; and when I re- ber back through the several brief years, to when Capt. Keller, a youth of and master of the schoon- two men who were seen in the vicin- ity of the Maiereplace the day of the tragedy. When last seen they were mounted on a bay and a black horse and were accompanied by a black dog with a, white, ring, about. its, neck. eee ap . sagt er, ‘Eugenie, was sailed deep with me on many a night, and played poker to the dawn, and took hasheesh with me for the entertainment of the wild crew, of Penduffryn; and who, when {owas wrecked romance are not dead as I lie on the wrote the following little gem—per- “Are There Malu, on the island of a Malaita, with 1500 naked bushmen head-hunters on the beach armed with horse-pistols, Snider rifles, tomahawks, spears, war- clubs, and bows and arrows, and with scores of war-canoes, filled with salt- water head-hunters and man-eaters holding their place on the fringe of the breaking surf alongside of us, on- Jy four whit of us, including. my wife, ‘on board—when Capt. Keller burst through the rain-squalls to windward, in a whale-boat, with a crew of negroes, himself rushing to our rescue, bare-footed and bare-leg- ged, clad in’ loin-cloth and sixpenny undershirt, a brace of guns strapped abot ‘hts middie—{ say,“when T-re- member all this, that adventure and |higher, at $$9.50; lambs, | $7.00@$12.60; WHEAT FALLS OFF AFTER SHARP RISE Free Offerings s Cause Decline— Corn Flattens Out on Easy Sales Chicago, Dec, 11.—Wheat fell off to- day after a sharply higher opéning. Buying was good at the start, but free offerings soon caused a decline at noon. Prices today were below Saturday’s close. December was way down, two below today’s opening, at 165; May, down 2%, at 175%; July, 153%, down 1 * Corn Flattens Out. Corn opened higher, but flattened out on liberal «qjling, going about one below Saturday’s closing. December was down 1% froni the opening, at 90%; May was down 114 to 32%; July down 1%, at 92%. Oats were weak, December was unchanged, at 52%; May, down %, at 56%; July, down %, at 53%. Provisions were lower. | GRAIN MARKETS Oa 0 MOINNEAPOLIS No. 1 Hard .. 18356 @18756. No. 1 Northern . ROL No, 1 Nor. Choice . No.‘1 Northern to ar: ‘Hasson No. 1 Nor. Choicé ar 84% No.’2 Northern... Tangy No, 3 Wheat .. 155% 178% No. 2 Mont. Hard ...... 1745¢@1795% No. 2 Mont. Hard to arr 17556 No. 1 Durum .... 182% No. 1 Durum Choice 187% No. 1 Durum to arr... 181% No. 1 Dur. Choice arr.. 186% No. 2 Durum 176% @181%' No. 3, Yellow 864%4@ 8714! No. 3 Yellow, Corn to arr, Ye. Other Grades Corn .\.. 85 No. 4 Yellow Corn to arr 844: No. 2 Mont. W. O. . 52%@ 55% No. 3 White Oats . No. 3 White Oats to arr No. 4 White Oats . Barley ... Barley Choice . Rye .... Flax Flax to arr December . May ...--.00- July . 179% Close 1:40 p. m. DULUTH December . 183% | 'May ..... 184° July) scccs0%. 180° No. 1 Hard on trk « 183 No. 1 Northern on trk .. 182 No, 2 Northern on trk ... 169° '@179 No. 3 Northern on trk. 154’ @174 No. 1 Northern to arr... 182 + No, 2 Mont. Hard on trk 179 No. 2,Mont. Hard to arr. 179 No. 1 Spot Durum 18444" ° No. 2 Spot Durum 176% @181%@ No. 1 Durum to arr . December May Oats on,trk and to, arr... 49%@, 49% Rye on trk and to arr... 139° .@140 Barley on trk . 73 @113 Flax on trk and to arr ..287 ,: 184% Choice Flax on trk..... 287% December . wee 285%! May ~.... wee 290 ‘Close 1:50 p. m. . STOCK MARKET IS IN UPWARD TREND Steel, Coppers and Rails Lead in Advance Movement—War Rumors Hurt New York, Dec, 11.—The stock mar- ket started upward with moderate opening gains today after a week of. nervousness and unsettled trading. United States Steel advanced % to 125%, continuing a gain started by the record of unfilled tonnage report Saturday. Atlantic Gulf & West In- dies, which was under heavy pressure last week, jumped forward three Points to 145. ' The Coppers turned upward, led by Anaconda, which’ gained a full point, at 97%. Gains dering the first half hour in- cluded Marine, preferred, one; Lacka- wanna and Baldwin, %; New York Central, 4; American Spelters, 1%. The uncertainties of the British and French cabinets situation was made a bear argument by the traders, who forced slight recessions in the late forenoon. United States Steel was selling down to 124%; Central Leath- er sold at 113, up three points. i ATTLE MARKETS Chicago, Dec. 11—Hogs closed act- ive and 50 to 100 cents higher today, with the top at $10.20, Estimated for tomorrow, 42,000. Cattle were steady, with the top for beeves at $12.60; calves, $13.25. Sheep closed strong to 10 cents $13.00. UNION STOCK YARDs. HOGS—Receipts 62,000; mixed and __ butchers good heavy $9. ne 95; $9.45@39.6¢ $6.75 @$8.75. CATTLE—Receipts 28,000; market, beeves $3. 85@$10: 205 beeves $3.85@$10.20; cows and heif- ers $4.60@$7.85; stockers and feed- ers $7.85@§$9.30; Texans $9.50@ $13.25. SHEEP—Receipts — 22,000; steady: natives $8.50@$9.00; $8.60@$9.50; lambs, nativesfi $13.00; western $10.50@$13.00. GERMANY REPLIES. Berlin. Dec. 11.—Germany delivered to Joseph Grew, secretary of the Am- erican embassy the reply to the Unit- ed States’ inquiry regarding the sink- ing’ of ‘the stediiér ‘Lano, ‘and he will ‘give Germany’ the United States’ in- quiry on the sinking of Norwegian market, western $10.25@,