Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 7

| urgen | Sales approximated 1,250,000 shares, ‘OLS IN POWER ASSTOCKS 60 UP _ Higher Ground Reached as Reflection of Higher Prices for Mid-Continent Crude. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Heavy bear buyers gravity of the foreign situation te- sulting from the invasion of more German -territory by French troops undermined today’s stock market despite concerted efforts of bullish In- terests to raky the general lst by bidding up stecl and ralroad shares. Operations on the long side were finaliy abandoned when the general lguidation became more t. NEW YXOBK, Jan. 15.—Prices were firm at the opening of today’s stoci: market. Special shares again were in the most demand, Postum Cereal being pushed up 2 points to a new to\ Good buying power also was noted in the olla, Housten, California Petroleum and Sinclair rose to higher ground in reflection of higher prices for Mid-Continent crude oil. American Can its year’s higher and ‘Texas Guif Sulphur and Hartmann corporation were pushed up to @ mew peak price. Postum Cereal extended its gain to 3 points, Houston Oil to 1% and Amer- iean Can to 1%. Gains of a point or more were made by Crucible Stecl, Steel and Tube preferred, Southern Railway preferred, Marland Dry of 2 points; General Blectric off and Pan-American A off &. Gorman marks dropped to another low record 7$-100ths. of one cent:a hundred, or more than 15,000 to the dollar. The ‘entire market sagged soon after the opening under the pressure of heavy selling orders in oils, equip- ments, shipments and rubbers. Trad- ing became more active as prices went down with several of the low priced railroads and specialties reflecting forced liquidation. Occupation more territory by the French troops and lower foreign xchange rates combined with the belief that technical condition of the market warranted a reaction, undoubtedly. influenced speculators for the decline to offer stocks frecly. FamoUs play- ers was depressed 3% points, and As. sociated Oll 3 while losses of 1% to 2% points were. registered by Duld- win, Standard Oll of California, Cal- ifornia Petroleum, Associated Dry Goods, May Department Stores, Unit- ed Retail Stores and New Haven. Efforts were made to rally the list by up three points for special reasons. Call money opened at four per cent. Eager bidding for railroad stocks characterized the early afternoon including a advances of 3, points in Southern Railway preferred and 2 to 2% in At. lantic Coast Line, St Louis South- western, end Western Maryland sec- Studebaker and Chandler Motors con- tinued to work lower. Hartmann company and Gibel Brothers im- proved 8% each, S. Barnett Leather 3% and Reynolds Tobacco B two points. closing was heavy. The abeence of buying: The Toarked effective power in the leading industrials and ties more aggTess special encouraged ive short selling and profit-taking in the final hour during which raflroad shares also became reactionary, —_——— Finance - HEAVY SELLING: CAUSES DECLINE Stocks Offered Freely and Loss-of Several Points on Leaders Follows. CHICAGO, Jan. 1§.—Large world shipments of wheat and @ big supply on ocean passage had a bearish efcect on the. wheat market today. during the early dealings. Declines in Liv- erpool quotations and weakness of foreign exchango counted as further depressing factors. Selling, bowever, lacked volume; being apparently re- strained by warlike developments in Europe and by continued absence of needed moisture in important parts of the domestic winter crop belt. The opening, which varied from %c de cline to l%c advance, with May $1.18% to $1.18%, and July $1.12% to $1.12%, was followed by a slight rally and then by @ moderate downturn all around. Later the corn market wes some What inftvenced by the fact that rural offerings continued small, with other markets persistently oubidding Chi- cago. Corn closed nervous, at. the same as Saturday's finish to %*@\c lower, May 72%c. Corn and oatt, were casier with wheat. After opening at %@o off to %sc gain, May 72%c to 73%e, the corn market hardened a trifle and then underwent a general sag. Oats started %c to Yc lower, May 4i%mc to 45a and later continued to point down grade. Despite: lower’ quotations on hogs. ‘he provision market held steady in the absence of any aggressive selling. , announcement that the United States visible supply total showed @ decrease instead of an ex- pected increase, was responsible for an upturn in prices, but the effect fafled to last. The was unsct- tled-at the same as Saturday's finish to %e Jower, with May 1.19 to 1.19% and July 112% to 1.12%. CHICAGO, Jan. 15—Wheat—No. 2 hard $1.19@1,21%, Corn—No. 2 mixed 72@72%c; No. 2 yellow 72@73c. Oats—No. 2 white 44% @45c; No 2 white 43% @44%c. Rye—No. 2, 8734 @87%c. Barley—60@ 65¢. Timothy seed—$6,00@6.50. Clover soed—$16.50@20.50, Pork-—Nominal. “Lard—$11.15. Ribs—$10.50@11.59. CHICAGO, Jan 15.— Wheat— Open High Lew Close May 1.18% 1.19% 118% 1.19 July 1.12% 1.13% 112% 1.124% Sept. 1.09% 107% 1.09% 1.0914 Corn— May —<— .72% = 78% 72% -.T July ——- .72% .72 72% 72% Sept — .72% .12% 72% Th Oats— May —. 44% 45 A AMG July —— 42% 42% 420, 42% Sept. — 40% 40% 40% 40% Jan —— —- —— —' lls May — 1140 1145 1140 11.45 Jan — —- -— —— 10.90 May —— 10.75 1082 10.75 10.82 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jan. 15.— ‘Wheat cash No, 1 northern 1.18%@ 1.27%; May 1.19%; July 1.17%. Corn No, 3 yellow 65@65%. Oats No. 3. white 39% @40%. 50@60. CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—Potatoes firm; receipts 60 cars; total United. States shipments 798; Wisconsin sacked round whites 80@90 cwt; mostly 85 cwt; sacked 90@1.00 cwt; bars 1.00@1L06 cwt; fow best 1.10 CHICAGO, Jan. *5.--Butter lower; ereamery extras fic; standards 49c; extra firsts 48@50c; firsts 46@47c; seconds 45@45%c. 32¢; miscellaneous 23@34c. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Butter steady; creamery higher than extras 5944 @654c; creamery extras 53; firsts 49@52%c; packing stock; current make No. 2 3éc. Eegs unsettiec, fresh gathered, ex- tra firsts 41@42¢; firsts 89@40c; Pa- cific comst whites extras 50; ditto firsts to extra firsts 46@49c; refrig- erator firsts 31@3%2c. Cheese firm, state whole milk flats run 27%@28c; state, whole twins held, specials 280231; average run 27%. milk ditto | NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Call money easy: high 4; low 3%; rultng rates 4; closing bid 3%; offered at 4; last loan 34%; call loans against acceptances 344; timo loans steady; mixed collat. eral 60-90 days 44@4%; 45 months 4% @4%; prime commercial paper 4% @4%4. — Cotton. YORK, Jan. Ww 1i.—Spot cots re nts a Columbia. 114-2t - Bonds - held specials 28%@29; ditto average! New York Stocks Associated Pros Leased Wire. Allied Chemical & Dye ex div__ Allis Chalmers ~—. American Beet Sugar -... American Can American American American American American American Sugar ~---.--.-__ 11% American Sumatra eel gee American T. and T. 122 American Tobacco --———__.. 151% American Woolen 95% Anaconda Copper -..__-> 49% Atchison ----- PS. TED SEE 7°75 Atl, Gulf and West Indies _ 28% Baldwin Locomotive ----—_ 133% Baltimore and Obie .--.-- 41% Bethlehem Steel B ... 62% Canadian Pacific ---—_-. 148% Central Leather -. 3 Chandler Motors 6T% Chesapeake and Ohio 2 Chicago, Mil and St.Paul -. 21% Chicago, R. I. and Pacific —-. 31% Chino Copper ---.------——- 26% Colorado Fuel and Iron —- 26% Corn Products ~-~—----————- 125% General Asphalt General Electric General Motors ---~~--------- 14% Goodrich Co. -. - 87% Great Northern pfd. ——- 3% Iino'd Central -. —meneee 111% Inspiration Copper oeciene i SE International Harvester ..-—. 89 Int. Mer. Marine pfd. International Paper Invincible Ofl ~.--~------—---- 14% Kelly Springfield Tire ----.--- 49% Kennecott Coppe# -~---.----. 36% Louisville & Nashville ex div. 13545 Mexican Fetroleum ~—-—~ ~~~ 290 Miami! Copper --~~-. Middle States Oil ------——-- Midvale Steel --.-----.—- Missouri Pacific ----------—- New York Central ~—...-_— N. ¥., N. H.. and Hartford .-- Nrofol kand Western --------- Northern Pactfic Oklahoma Prod. and Ref. -.-- “Pacific Oil ---.------.-—------ Pan American Petroleum —~. Pennsylvania People’s Gas Pure Oil Ray Consolidated Copper -.-.- 14% Reading --------. — womee- 18% Rep. Iron and Steel ~------.-.. 50 Royal Dutch, N. Y. -——--- 52% Sears Roebuck ~-—-----—--_ 85 Sinelair Con. Of] —----_-____ 33% Southern Pacific —~ ——-- 88% Southern Railway Standard Oil of N. J. 19 Studebaker Corporation .—. 113% Tennesse Copper «------------ 11% Texas Co. Texas and Pacific Tobacco Products Transcontinental Union Pacific United Retail Stores .---.-- 69% U. 8. Ind. Alcohol --———---- 65% United States Rubber .——--- .59% United States Steel —-—.. 105% Utah Copper ~-+e0cnneren-—-- 63% Westinghouse Electric -—----- 60 ‘Willys Overland .. ™% Consolidated Gas .------——~--- 123% American Linseed Of [METALS NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Copper steady; electrolytic spot and futures 14% Tin easier; spot and nearby 3*.00; futures 39.25. Iron steady; No. 1 northern 29.00 @31.00; No. 2 northern 28.00@30.00; No. 2 southern 24.00@26.00. Lead steady; spot 7.50@7.75. Zine steady; East St. Louis spot and nearby delivery 6.95@7.00. Antimony spot: 6.75, pie 2 ens RAST LINER ON FIRE ONE OF BlG SCENES IN PICTURE ATRIALTO LAST OF WEEK A Uner on fire at sea and a beppy | though unexpected wedding, mark | the beginning and end of the Pare- ‘mount picturizstion of “On the High | Seas,” which will be the attraction jat the Rialto theater next Friday and \(Saturday. But between these two \ stirring and epochal incidents there ig crammed « wealth of thrill and seneation as will stamp the picture one of the most forceful and drama: tle ever screenec, Written as his first original screen story by Edward Sheldon, and Directed by Irvin V. | wines, {t has for its featured ers Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt, while Mitchell Lewis is @ prominent mem: ber of the cast. GPEN FORUM AT MEETING AMBER OF COMMERCE The meeting of the Casper chamber of commerce which is scheduled for Tuesday noon at the Henning hotel | will be an open forum. It is thought that several legislative matters will | be ready for presentation. Members are reminded that it will be impos- aible to call them by phone and are [requested to take note of meeting from this announcement. wowerne AD SY ers $6.5007.50. Che Casver Daily Cribune PAGE SEV, Oil Securities Fornulsbed by Tayler and Clay. | | | Consolidated Royalty. 1.38 1.30 Capitol Pee 0% 004 ow Guica 02 03 Domino 08 08 Elxhorn | — a. - 03 0S E. T. Wiliams -—-— .15 coe Kinney Coastal --.-- 41 43 Com Se SRC AR eee Fran - 5.26 5.50 Gews -—____._ 10 az Jupiter —ae-= 50) 92 Lance Creek Moyalty. .03 3 | Bilice pecans 03 Mountain & Gulf —-. 1.27 1.29 Outwest -. OO Red 18 a1 Picardy - 03 4 00% OL Royalty & Producers - .13% 14'5 Tom Bel] Hoyalty -- .01's 08's ‘Western Exploration. 2.35 245 ‘Wyo-Kans, ---.-- Wyo. Tex. - 01 Western Spee) BT 23 | Yon _.-.-.. —- JO 32 NEW YORK CURE CLOSING Mountain Producers -$ 17.00 § 17.25] Merritt -----. -—-- 9.00 9.25 Glenrock Cit —--—-- 1.75 1.87 Salt Crk Prds. ex div 21.00 9 21.25 Salt Creek Cons. -- 11,00 11.50 Prod. and Refra ---- 9.00 12.00 Marine new 5.00 6.00 Mutual --—---——-- 13.87 13.00 O. 8. Indiana —-——-- 62.87 _ 62.6: Cities Ser Com ex div 176.00 178.00 Mammoth Of1 62.25 New York Oil 18.00 Fensiand = ----. 16.87 LIBERTY DoxD=. ai eS 9101.18 98.98 98.24 98.80 98.20 98.99 SOG SOS ewer ia or os 64 Fourth 44s Victory 4%s Hamilton Cat Creek ----———----——------- Mule Creek Big Muddy -——-----—---—---- Salt Creek = Rock Creek 9 1.0 1.05 1.50 | 1.50 1,60 1.50 a= 1.60} : Prices. CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—(United States 225 to 200-pound butchers $7.80@:| ,) Ger and interest which ase con-| ‘American Zinc, Lead and Sm. -15% B Butte and Superior —-——-_- 30% | Department of Agriculture.}--Hogs— Cala Petroleum -. 17% | Receipts 62,000; active, unevenly, 5 to Montana Power 685B|15c lower; bulk 160 to 200-pound Shattuck Arizona 9% | averages $8.10@8.30; top $8.40; bulk) Great Northern Ore 80% Chicago Northwestern’ 78% | nacking sows $7@7.65; desirable pigs Maxwell Motors B ---. 16% | $7.75@8; heavy hogs, $7.75@8; medi-| um $7.80@8.25; Ught $88.40; Usht) ight $88.35; packing sows, smooth, | $7,257.65; packing sows, rough $6.90| @7.25; killme pigs $7.50@8,25. Cattle—Recetpts 26,000; fairly ac-| t've, uneven; killing quality rather | Plain; better grades beef steers about) steady; others weak to 15 lower; early top mature] steers $11.50; bulk beet steers of quality and condition to! sell at $8,50@9; she stock barely! steady; spots lower on beef heifers; | stockers and feeders acarce; steady to) strong; other classes abdut steady;) bulk desirable veal calves to packers $10.25 10,50; good to choice upward to $11; outsiders paying $11.25 and above; choice desirable heavy bologna hults $5@5.25; bulk stockers and feed- ‘Receipts 30.000; opening vory slow; fat lambs tending lower; heat early bid $14.25 to city butchers; few loads good lambs to packers $14.30; liberal 80-pound fed clipped lambs $12.25; choles 87-pound year- Jing weathers fully stendy at sheep weak; three decks ewes $7.75. 120-pound Prices. ‘| OMAHA, Neb., Jan 15.—(0. & De. of Ure.)-—Hlors re- colpts 14,000; 10@26c lower; closing active; packing grades 7.00@ 7.40; bulk butchers 7.90@%.10; prac- teal top 8.15. one lond at 8.20. Cattle recetpts 10,000; beef steers steady to ihc lower: quality plain; bulk fed steers 7.5009.00; top 9.50: all other classes steady; bulk cows and heifers 4.25@6.00; bologgna bulls 4.00@4.50; veh] top 10.00; stockors and feeders 6.50@7.50; top 7.90. Sheep receipts 14,000; al) classes Mostly 25¢ lower; bulk lambs 13.60@ 13.90; top 14.35; fed. clipped lambs 12.00; ewe top 7.25; 14.00 bid on ford {og lambs. | DENVER, Colo., Jan. 15.— Cattle receipts 5,100; market 15¢ to 25c higher; beet steers $4.50 @ 8.75; cows and helfers $3.50@7.76; calves $4.50 @0.50: stockers and feeders $4@58. Hogs receipts 2,800; market 25c to 30c lower; top $8.10; bulk $7.75 @3. Sheep receipts 10,800; market 25¢ to 50c lower; lambs $12.50@13; cwes $4@6.15; feeder Inmbs $12.50@13. NEW YORK, Jan. 15,--Sugar tue tures closed. steady; approximate gales $500 tons; demand for refined |compared with ! December 31 j until the British | Blectric $13;) ‘MARKET GOSSIP AND FIELD NEWS OHIO TO ORL TEST IN MONTANA The Ohio Oil company is moving in drilling equipment for a test of the Chalk Creek dome at a point six miles east of structure. |Coalville, Montana, where it has leased 7,400 acres in the|. Kot G. The test will be drilled on section 7-2-6E and \- X. of GB. & 1. Sis, 1937 drilling will be started immediately, The lease on this acreage was secured from a group of | 4 Montana and Salt Lake City men.| A | part of which is government permit Northern Pacific. Wheat WASHINGTON, Increase. Jan. 15.—Heary in the weekly report issued today by the department of commerce. exports were 3,533,000 bushels as com: as Pared with 1,578,000 the previous wear and corn exports 1,421,000 bushels 2s 299,000. Louisiana and Northwest Bonds. In reference to act'on of the stock exchange listing committee in asking for a wider distributon of the Lou'si- completions was appears that in 2800. 13 It therefore years a ge | to” production increased 1800, nearly ‘doubling. It would accordingly scem quite reasonable to suppose that those |Gields that were abandoned prior to |increases in export of wheat and corn) say, 1914, because of failing produc- 00% | from the United States for the week! tion from shallow sands, may con. fending January 13 as compared with/tain sands at lower depth of 300 to) Great the first week of the year are shown 500 feet that would produce more/xfo. Kan. & Texas new adj. and better of] thot first skimming Wheaz | Overprocess failed to find, and drillers | Montana Power, |entirely overlooked. It would seem s0 \4f experiences of recent deeper drtll- \ing operations in all sections of country are a criterion.” Article, | “Crude Estimates Must Be Revised.” fore allowng further trading in them, W. M. Cannon, president of the road. says: “The bonds of Loulsiana & Northwest Ra'lroad company taken from the New York stock ex- change lat solely because it was con sidered that there was an. insufficiey distribut'on thereof among investors, The committee has {ndicated that it will restore the bonds upon a satis-| factory showing of distribution. The committee's action {ts no reflection on the Intrinsic value of the bonds themselves." Middle States Gets Well. Middle States Off reports that ita well No. in section 24-23-8, Osage county, Okla.. is making 260 barrels} after being shot. } Increase in Earnings. Western Union for the year ended shows estimated earn- ings of $11.25 a share against $9.65 in 1921. Germany Stops Payments. Payments in money and kind have been stopped by Germany to the allies with the declatation that the invasion of the Ruhr was a violation of the Versailles treaty. President Harding is opposed to intervention by the United States in European affairs debt question is Crade Price Advanced. Prairie Oil & Gas company bas ad- vaneed the price of crude oil 10 cents a barrel in the Mid-Continent field. Big in Orders received by the General company for the three months ended December $1 totalled $66,568,330, an Increase of 50 per cent over the game period in 1921. Stutz Sells Bonds. Stutz Motor Car company selis $1 000,000 in 15 year 7% per cent bon: vertible into stock mt the ratio of 33 shares for cach $1,000 bond. This is the first move made in new financing under the control of Chas. M. Schwab. New Buildig Increase: New building in 1922 had a vajua- tion of $3,345,950,000,, an increase ‘over 1921 of 42 per cent in 27 states. Bil to Require License. The Lockwood bill is to be intro duced in tho New York state senate requiring stock brokers to be licensed by the state banking commission, Preventing them speculating on their own account and from entering secret pool operations. All Stocks Show Gain. ‘The average price of twenty active industrial stocks traded in on the New York stock exchange on Satur- day was 99.06, up 46. The average Price of tweZy active rail stocks was $5.29, up 20. Average Depth . Beginning with 1908, the averege depth to which new wells were drilied was 1500 feet. In 1909 this average had increased to 1700, 2400. ‘There was a recession in 1915 to 2200 and then gradual resource to deeper drilling until 1920, when aver- and 1914 to| age depth at which wells were called | == WELLRECENED New Wallace Reid Picture Has Presentation at Rialto Theater. “The Ghost Breaker," a picture {which must be classed among Uw finest comedy dramas of tho |had its initial presentation at the Rallto theater last evening, and was most enthusiastically received. Wal lace Reid, the star, beautiful Lila| Lee and Walter Heirs, * were exce lent in their respective The story starts off with a thrilling feud tight Im Kentucky and winds) up in @ ghost infested castle in Spaiv | | Mr. Reid is Celightful in his por-; trayal and Lila Lee is charming as| ever as his leading woman, playing the role of a Spanish senorita to der: | jfecuon. Walter Heirs is seen as a Inegro servant and provides much re- |Mshable comedy. The picture is well | worth eceing. ‘ELK STARVING, -DELONEY SAYS: _ ASKS CHANGES | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 15.— The | state of Wyoming ts all wronz — or neariy so—in its system of feeding wild elk in the Jackson Hole country, accorting to Representative W. C. Deloney of Lincoln county, who de stres the appointment of @ legislative committee to go to the elk country and look into the matter. The ex- pense of the investigation, states Mr. Deloney, would be negligible in com- parison with the saving that un- |doubtedly would result from @ change | of xystom | Mr. Delones’s legislative hobby is |game protection. He lives in the |heart of the big game region and when he discusses elk knows | whereof he mpeaks, He believes that ithe state's feeding, designed to tide) * ‘the elk herds over periods when nat- | ural forage is too ceeply covered with snow to be acctesible, is not begun juntil ft 1s too Imte to save many of |the elk. By the time the stat |geins providing hay to the elk, stated {n an illuminating speech to \the house, many of them are too far |pone from’ starvation to be saved by |the delayec ald; so weak from hunger |that they fall easy prey to coyotes ‘and other predatory enenries, He be- lieves that a study should be made ef the feeding problem, and a system adopted whereunder feeding would borin in ample time and be contin- ved until spring ta sufficiently ad- | vanced for the elk to subsist without | assistance, ‘The present feeding system, Rep- | resentative Deloney stated, not only | results in the loss of great numbers of elk (bal should be gaved, but in joss to the ranchmen of the Jackson | Hole. The elk, driven to desperation |by hunger, raid the ranches and con- {sume large quantities of hay stored |by stockmen for the consumption of domestic stock. If state feeding were begun In proper time, he painted out. these desperate raids would not take place No action was takeu on Represen- | tative Deloney’s suggestion for an in- vestigating committee, but be wil bring the matter up ogain later iin cna She —Chonins Janne asked; DULUTH, Minn., Jan ee: Flax seed february 2 July 2.484 STS Se | Whengouginglandlordaraisethe rent | And to your pleas they won't relent Here is the latest of the rare photographs of the white wife of Gikt, former beavyweight cham: pion of Prance. The Senegalese boxer has been in difficulties ¢ sugar was quiet at unchanged prices 6.00, sn wince his victory over _ Georges Carpentier, Then look up’ , “Homes and Flats to Rent” ~ on CLASSY FIED The Want Ad“Puge” ae a e"snine NERO? PIGTURED BY FOX - Stocks -:- Grains -:- Livestock -:- All Markets: Dom, of | French Republi French Kingdom ‘Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of orway, v. iG. B. & I, 64s, d%%e notes, 1920 OF |American Sugar 60, Amprican Tel. and Te merican Tei. and Te! rmour and Co., 4143 timore and Obtio., Strel ref., land, the balance being owned by the | depth to which well had to be drilled! pethie n Burl. & Quincy Chi ref | Ch & St Paul cv., \Goodyear Tire §n,°1931 —.. Goodyear Tire, 83, 1941 _. Grand Trunk Ry of Can. ‘anci Trunk Ry. of Can., 68 3reat Northern, 7s A Northern 6 1-38 - Missour! Pacific gen., 4s -. bs A | Northern Pacific pr. lien. |Oregon Short Line ref., 48 - Pacific Gas and Electric, 68 — |kPenn. R. R, gen, 6s | Reading Gen. 48 — | Standard Oi lof Cal., deb: [Union Pacitic First, S. Rubber, U. 8S. Rubber, — Utah Power and Tight 63 Western Union 6%« | Westinghouse Electric, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.—J. K.) Cousins, globe trotter, who has just arrived hero from the Orient, has STAGGERS IMAGINATION While cinematograph trusts and | Producers in Rome were complaining {about the American invasion (as they called the nt of American film} companies in Rome), the unemployed ere besaing their arrival, as i | meant that there was plen of work | }to do. company sent by William | Fox to product “ h opens at the America the uesday, | was busy for ma months and in this production, thousands of Italian | cinema actors were employee. Many | ones we: t at the Nova dios, outside the Porta del but the main scenes of the | d the fights were staged at the studio. This was rented from the municipality of Rome, after overy possible effort had failed to induce the authorities to loan the Fox com- pany the Colosseum. At the stadio they produced the Cariot Race and the killing of the Christians by the lions. ‘NNero” 1s probably the most in- teresting play ever produced on the screen. Jt required an enormous cast as there aro scenes in the Roman for- um, the circus and a representation «© of Rome. In a atory of this kind absolute aceuracy in the wcencr settings, and costumes ‘s The company wan brought | in order that the scencs | correct atmomphere, Ttallan | “and stage setters, when | nejalize in ancient architecture clever. Althouch the ‘ 2 10 ‘ 10 i 1 104% 10+ 110% 9 11 102% 010 59% 5 6145 98% 8516 92% —————--—- _ 93 92 ® 101 85% 105% 91% 108% BS 91% 239 107 a 138 GLOBE TROTTER PLANS ISLAN _ KINGDOM; FINDS PLENTY OF WETS TO GO--BUT NO ISL! been almost dissuaded from his « nounced yan to establish an tnd pendent kingdom somewhere in ti south Pacific ocean. The reason that he has so many applications tc diplomatic posts in this-country frat persons who desire immunity fro: American dry laws that he has mj givings regarding his probable pear of mind as emperor of the projecte domain, Half in jest, Cousins sailed med than a year ago from the coast r China on a cruise of the South Sea with the avowed purpose of findin ew island unpre-empted by othe ns of the earth on which to foun rincipality free from the restrain! of more complex civilizations. Friends took him in earnest, Cou: Ins said here today. As a result, h found on his arrival piles of letter. from Americans who want to serv the new kingdom as diplomatic agent here, Most of them are willing t serve for a dollar a year, or even » song. in view of certain un-Volstead beak perquisites attaching to the sery ice. There is just one drawback: Cons ins hasn't found the island “] FRIEND FROM INDIA AT THE IIS TONIGHT The bill at the Iria tonight includes a clever Uttle comedy by Wall's Pop- ular Players entitled “A Friend From India.” A retired pork packer tries to break his two daughters into so- ciety by the medium of a theosophical imposter, It looks as though it is seing to work, but there are several slips which prevent it. Tho play is a very simple one and is stretched out by many vaudeville for bulld: 5 a section of clas Jare ine. All these buildings were destroyed during the filming of the burning of Rome, and a special permit was re quired from the municipality in order that th's effect could be produced. A special guard of fireman was on duty to prevent any spark reaching the village of Ponte Milvio, During the time “Nero” was being filmed the number of men and women employed a day was between 3,000 and 4,000. On some eepecially busy days this number was greatly ex- corded. all Ri ns and experts in thetr ————-—— SILVER tome was brought over from | ca for economic reasons, the} | penters, architects and painters| Pl specialties that make it adaptable to or Monday bill Danger Smiles” is. the SWAN UNDERREAMI Y JUR SUPPLY STC Re BRipger NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Foreien’ bar silver 67%} Mexican dollars 51%. LONDON, Jan. 15,—Bar silver 32d per ounce. Money 11$ per con —- Widow Zander wants a Columbim.* | 1-14-2t Kevin-Sunburst Oil Field Have 200 acres, section 12 and 13, Township 35, F 300 feet {from new big flow just tr ire or write Dr. W rth sreat UNDERREAMERS AT YOUR SUPPLY. STORE (ue ANNOUNCEMENT Oklahoma-Mexia Oil & Gas For the benati: of their stock. holders announco {ts entrance into . Arkansds ing just a con as our mac installed We Paid 50 Pct. in Divi- dends in 1922 And expect to pay 250 per cent hie year is over, Our wall is now on the pump aad drilling, We expect to bave it 100 walle on the pump by year without im pairing our dividend program Oklahoma-Mexia Oi] & Gas Co. P. ©, Box 958, Dallas, Texas Sample } Stores Nothing Over $6.00