Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 7

wer of Radical Block Has Weakening Effect On Early Strength YORK, Deo, 8, ty ever ade a erders which un- tock market after lative a elec: opening period of strength. There the downward trend among the sh priced tobaccos, minor olls and| of trade session. cialties. Sales approximated 1,- pea to 1 cent net higher. layed a stroi jess made MAT CLOSES (WHEAT SCORES | NEASY TODAY) BIG ADVANCES): Decrease in Visible Sup- |; ply in U.S, Cause of Price Jumps — CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—Helpead by 2 big decrease of the United States visible supply total and by a re- duction of winter crop acreage jn Kansas, wheat scored a material ad- vance jn price today near the hoard The close was firm Decem- 4% to 1.05 and 1.10% to 1.10% bsequently, mors friendly toward the buying side was lence. On the ensuing advance by B. H. Gary,| May went above 1.10 for the first ap of the United States Steel) time in several weeks. tion, Studebaker and Ameri- Can touched new highs on the| wheat. ajfame as Saturday's finish to %c nt, the former gaining Later, tho market rallied fwith The close was firm, at the int, Gains of a point or more also| higher, May 74% to 74%. registered by General Asphalt on and preferred, ad and American Linseed. Buying of the foreign oils partieu-| Ward tendency at the opening to- ina tae: Snes Aap It terug matured the early dealings, Pant adyaficed 144 and Pan Ameri- Although reports that Germany Nationa!| had completed negotiations for o new loan gave wheat values an up- day, the market soon reclined, Up- turns in price met with aggressive welling and there was a lack of quate support fram buyers. A suf den break in the corn market added After cid fore Famous Players and Kelly|to the weakness of wheat. ringfield each moyed up a point) openin 50. Union Pagific and Producers Refiners were amon: vy spots. Foreign ned higher. i prices bi of offerings ‘market to become reactionary be: nogn =, Baldwin, the few| 1. exchanges | moderat: unchanged to %c higher, 1.04 to 1.04% and May to 1.10, wheat underwert a general fall. Selling on the part of houses with roug! forth ajeastern connections put the corn which caused the| @fket on the down grade, despite wet weathér and smallness of re- Daiveon|geipts. The opening, which varled Chemical and U, S, Cast Iron Pipe] from unchanged figures to %c high- American Can, Schulte, Royal Dutch, Producers and Refiners and Pan American yielded 1 to 1%. Pre- absence each dropped about 2% points while| er, May .7414 to ¥ & sharp drop all around, relatively firm in the of any decided pressure, viously the food, motor, motor ae-| St#rting unchanged to %c high cessory and foreign of! isgues, to- gether with a wide assortment ef |!" speciajties, had advanced one to 3 points. New high records were es- tablished ft 1g the first hour by at CHICAGO, Dec, 3--Butter higher; creamery extras 63%; standard: vt extra firsts 5014@52%; firsts 46@48; seconds 32% @43%. Eggs unchanged; receipts 2,859 cages; firsts 44@47c; ordinary firsts 35@40. Cheese weak; receipts 214,669 pounds. State whole milk fats fresh fancy 24@26; ditto prerage run 2@28; state whole milk flats fancy to fancy specials 26@27%4; ditto average run 25@ 25%. Fore! : Exchang: NEW YORK, Dec. 3 S74; cables 5.35, Italy demand 4.2214; cables 4.33: Bel- jum demand 4.63%; y cablés .000000000028. Holland demand 87.86; cables 37.91. Norway (@mand 14.96; Sweden demand 26,25. Den- mark demand 17.96, Swtizerland de- mand 17.45. Spain demand 18.02. Greece demand 1.90. Poland demand 000085. CrechoSlovakia © demand 92%. Jugo Slavia demand 1.14. Austria demanc! .0014; Rumania di mand .51%4- Argentine demang 31.50. Brazil demand 8.95. Montreal 97 Av WYOMING OILS NEW YORK, Dec, 3.—Prices of Wyoming oils at 2 p. m. today were listeq on the New York Stock Ex, change as follows: Standard Ol] (Indiana) 59%; Bos- ton Wyoming .81; Mountain Produc ers 15; Mutual 11; New York 9% Omar .65; Salt Crek 18%. A ah os Metals YORK, Dee, 3—Copper electrolytic spot and futures Tin steady; spot and fu: tures, 47.00 to 47.62, Ifon steady; number 1 northern, 22@23,60; number 2 northern 21@ number 2 southern 20@22. 5. Zine, Bast St. Louis spot and near- Antimony spot * 8.75@ May 45% to 4540 and but little, 'yovisions, although dull, were firm in line with the hog market. ter ylel 105 21 8 = Open High Low Cloge ‘Faoulatlng ana] WHEAT ~ 2104 it. none LON 1.10% 1.09% 1.1055 * een fuetuated uncertainiy m| July ~ 08 1.08% 1.07% 1.08% the early afternoon. In a general] CORN ai ET SG = F a ; way, leading speculative issues such i anes cténee cea Se oecres 15% 7456 75 the mail order and morchandise| OATSi— shares, also several of the oils and Dee. ... 43% Ale 43% dividend paying . raf 46 45% miaer, %; a3 cs 43% Strength or Phd Meee ta.| Tan. move 1180 11,85 11.80 11.82 yea a Ol) issyos, tea- aap aiaemearai ones 11,85 tu is Jate dealings, the popular uate Jan. ----- 10.00 10.00 9.95 10.00 ee ee tn IN 3 May -~--~- 10.05 10.12 10.05 10.12 -——— CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Wheat num- ber 1 hard $1.07%@1.09; number 2 hard $1,07@1.07%. Corn number 2 mixed 78%ej number 2 yellow 7c; oats number 2 white 44% @46%c; number 2 white 43% @44%c. Rye number &, 69%c; berley 60@78c. Timothy seed §6.50@8; clover seed $15@23.75. Lard $12.25. Ribs $9.27 @10.87, Grain Supply Changes NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The yisible supply of American grain shows the following changes: ‘Wheat decressed 3,192,000 bushels. Corn increased 1,036,000 bus! Oats decreased 231,000 bushels, Bye decreased 1,118,000 bushels. Barley decreased 412,000 bushels. —_— Cotton NEW YORK, Dec, 8.—The cotton market broke 74 points shortly after the opening today. March contracts were down to 36 cents or $5.50 a bale from the recent high. Increas- ed crop estimates by private author- itles caused a general unloading movement following weakness in the Liverpool market. Potatoes CHICAGO, Dec, 3.—Potatoes du!l; receipts 73 cars; total U. 8S, ship- ments, 477; Wisconsin sackea round whites U. 8, number 1, few sales 1,00 to 1,10; Minnesota and North Dakota sacked Red river Ohios, U. S, number 1, few cars fancy 1.10; Idaho sacked Russets U. S, number 1, 1.76@1.05. eacesheetinthiee-ciee-<* Money NEW YORK, Dec. 3—Call money easier; high 5; low 4%; ruling rate 5; closing bid 414; offered at 4%; last loan 4%; cal] loans against aceept- ances 44%. Time loans firm; mixed collateral 60-90 days 5; 4-6 months 5 @ 6%; prime commercial paper 5@b%. Silver NEW YORK, Dec, 3.—Bar silver, 64%; Mexican dollars 49%. LONDON, Dec. 3.—Silver 33% pence per ounce. Money 1% per cent. tee Re LIBERTY BONDS NEW YORK, Dec, 3—Liberty bonds cloted: Sis 99.28; first 4%48 98.10; second 44s 98.7; third 44s 99. fourth 44s 9) - S. governmen: 4%s 99.17. 74%, was followed d Bonds = Locomotive ~~. Smelting & Refs. Susar .-----0e--e- BD. ORE T.. cnaegrve TODECCO —----eenne Woolen -—srer--~ Copper --n-ee---== unt 13% Atchigon -------—--—--see~s"= Ath, Gulf and Weat Indies -- 16 125% Bethichem Steel --+--------- California Petroleum -——--- Canadian Pacific -.--—------ Chicago end Nerthwestern .- Chicaga, MH and St. Paul pfd. Chicago, R. I. and Paé, --.- Chile Copper Chino Copper Consolidated G Corn Produats Cosden Ol -~. Crucible Steel Cuba Cane Suger pid. Bi 21% 86% 52m 194 wt 26% 181% 18% 59% General leetric ~~. Gulf States Tilngls Centre) Inspiration Ce International 33% 33 10 81% Mack Truck - 84 Marland O11 % 12% - 6% Missour!, Kan and Tex new. 12% Missouri Paelfic pfd 28 ‘ 108% 14 Northern Pacific bay Pacific O8 ~---rer---reepe-> | 42 Pan American Petrdieum B ..-59 Pennsylvanig, ----—-.: 41 People’s Gas - - 9% Producers and Refjners ---- 26% Pure Ol -----reserer—---- 20 Reading -------rrny--rern--- | 78 Republic Tron and Steel ----. 48 Sears Roebuck 85 Sinclair Con Qll --n---. 23 Southern Pacific -. 88 Southern Railway 26% Standard Ol! of N. J. -er----- 35% Studebaker Corporation ---. 10414 Texan Co, ---~--<9--s-ereere Texas and Pacific -—-----+-- Tobacco Products a Transcontinental O!l -------- Union Pacific United Retail Stores U. S. Ind Alcohol -~---—--~ United Stateq Rubber -—---. United States Steel --------. 94% Utah Copper ----.--+-------- 64% Westinghdyse Electric - 59 Willys Overland American Zine, Lead and Sm. Butte and Superior --.—-. Colorade Fuel and Iron -. Montana Power Yrational Lead Shattuck Arizona - 7% 1B 15% 24 --S14B Continental Cumberland Calena. Illinois -—--—-----—--- Onio Oi Prairie Ol Prairie Pipe Solar’ Ref. Union Tank Vacuum s. P. OU .. 5, O, Ind. ----------. Lance Creek Osage Grass Creek Greybull -...---.. Rock Creek --.- ey Salt Creek -—-. Big Muddy - 4 Mule Creek. 40 Sunburst - 70 Hamilton Dome Kansas Wheat Acreage Down TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. crease in the Kansas winter wheat acreage of 1,826,401 acres, or 15.76 per eent as compared with that sowed a year ago, is shown in a re- port issued today by the state board of agriculture, The estimate is 2,761,000 acre It is the smalie acreage sown since the first yea' of the war, 1917, the report says. 3—A de-| woe Casper Dally Ctipune Stocks Grain [WS AND QUOTATIONS BY LEASED WIRE Burke ---- ta Jiackstone Salt Creck Chappell Consolidated Royalty - 1.20 Cow Gulen _ 4 --s—- Lanoe Creek Royalty unset _ Tom Bei} Royalty -— Western. Kxioration Western States — Wyo-Kans ¥Y on . NEW YORK CURB CLOSING Mountain Producers - 14.50 14.75 Gléenrock Oi _.. 60 63 Salt Creek Prds, 18.37 18.50 Balt Creek Cons 7.00 7.85 Mutual ~-_-_..__. 11,00 11.12 Cities Bervice‘Com. ~- 137.00 138.00 CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Hogs receipts 4,000, mostly Be to 100 higher; bulk | and g00@ cholee 210 to 825 pound sutchers $7.10@7.35; top §7.30; de- irable 160 to 190 pound averages nostly $6.76@7; packing sows large. ~ “ weighty slaughter ‘igs mostly $6@8.25; heavyweight 1065 $7.05@7.30; medium $6.95@7.30 ight $6.70@7.15; light light |@ 6.90. packing sows smooth §$6.60@6.90; “cing sows rough $6.40 @ 6.60: laughter pigs $5.25@6,25. Cattle receipts 80.000; slow, un- ven; fed steers, yearlings and fat he stock weak to 25c lower; eigh- ¥ fed steers and all grades fat she tock reflecting maximum decline; AMygtop yearling $12.26; theso sort. ‘| off shaw herd; several loads of Alghly finished elatit ows and heifers searce; part loa. ‘bout 1,000 pounds. show heifers early $1 steady to strong; ; veslers and can- ters steady to weak; bulk vealers to Tackers $9 downward, few upward % $9.50 to outedders; bull canners 2.50@8,65; western grass run very ight; steckers and fee¢ers imcatly lative descriptions in moderate de- Hand et steady prices. Sheep receipts 26,000; tat lambs fully 25c lower, sheep steady; feed: Ng lambs strong to 250 higher; g00d nd choice fat lambs mosily $12.50 @12.75; some held higher, cull na-| Tmoetly $9,50@10; choles light. Welght fat ewes $7; good to choice ‘bed wethers $8.25; several loads of | hoice feeding lambs $12.65. -KANBAS CITY, Mo., Dec. aan }own father but when COMMISSION REFUSES TO 60 OVER RAIL VALUATION WORK Petitions Asking For Reconsideration of Work Dismissed—Present Report At- tacked As WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The Interstate Commerce Commission today refused a demand that it reconsider all of its work in the valuation of the country’s rajlroads. Petitions making such a demand, presented by the na- tional conference on valuation of American railroads, which is headed by Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, were dismissed. The conference, whose program | was drawn up last spring at a meet. ing in Chicago attended by western | polit leagers and others sought | to have the cominjssion establisit | the original cost of property invest | ment and labor in railroads, as well | | are of the opinion that our present PAGE SEVEN. > All Markets Livestock New York Bonds a \ t Crechosiovak Rep. &s, ctfs . Danish Municipal §s A -.-- Dominion of Canada, 5a French Republic 7%s - Japanese 45 - Kingdom of Belgium $s --- Kingdom of Norwa Rep. of Chi 1 State of Queensland 6s U. K. of G. B, and 1. RAL American American American American Anaconda Anaconda Copper 6s, At. T, and San Fe., gen 48 -. Baltimore and Ohio cy. Bethlehem Steel con 6: Canadain Pacific deb., 48 -—— ~~ ---cn-epencenenen=. Chicago Burlington and Quincy Tef., bs -. Chicago, Mjl and St. Paul Chile Copper fs .. Goodyear Tire §2. 1041 —-. 7 Northern A entana Power bs A. i@vthern Pacific ref., 6s B Unsound Smelting 5s Sugar 6s Fn! and Tel cv, expenditures of public funds tn re search,” the decision said, “We course has been insubstantial com: Pliance with the valuation statute. Commissioners Eastman and Me- Namy dissented. Commissioner Potter, eithough concurring in the as other data. ing val: | decision, suggested that the com-|Northweatern Dell Tele To uation work of the ton wes | mission had taken ‘far too serious: | Pann, Tt. R gen. §9 : attacked as unsound ly the burden of finding the orig: | Sinclair Con Oil col’ Ta The commission's decision today | inal eosts. Union Pacific Fi held that it was practi y jmpos- The commigsion directed that no-|U. 8. sible to find the facts as to the ex: | tices of ajl proceedings in arriving ~ Pacific @ 4s .. spenditures actually made by rail-|at valuations ®hould hereafter be a RT ie — tty ait at? roads in the perjod of thetr early | served upon Senator LaFollette for - va 4 % history. } his Information as shoirman of the | Westinghouse Blectrio” ts - -- 107% 107% 10746 here must be some Jimit to our TRAINED CARRIER PIGEONS — USED TO CARRY NARCOTICS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.--Trained carrier pigeons are bringing narco- tics across the border from Mexico in such quantities that the price of a “bindle” of at least one drug in underworld markets has elumped perceptibly, according to federal agents here, Hundreds of these pigeons, each carrying a moisture-proot chage of the drug fastene’ beneath the body or under the wing, are Iiberat- ‘DAUDET CRIME EXCITES PARIS (Continued from Page One- the communication is in Philippe’s handwriting, suggests that if may have been written under distress and demands to know what occurr- ed in the offices of Libertaire while Philippe was there. The’ royalist publication saya the death of the boy was an act of yengeance for Germaine Berthon, the young woman anarchist who killed Marius Plateau of the staff of L’Action Francaise last. Novem ber. Vidal told the interviewers that he was alarmed at the extravagant language used by Philippe when he visited Libertairé/and that the boy seemed him to be unbalanced. In the light of subsequent events, Vidal said to Le Matin he was con- vinced Philippe planned to kill his his exeite- ment wore off he was so overcome with horror at the idea that he to Cattle receipts 19,000; calves colpts 3,000; ' desirable handyy fed atoors and yearlings steady; short fede and plainer grades dull, weak to Ie lower; best yearlings 10.00; matured steers 9.50; some held high- er; bulk short feds 7.75@9.00; better grades she stock scarce, strong; in- between grades and canners and cut. Steady; bolognas 3.50@4.00; caiv is canners and cutters 200@3.25; bulke steady; Bologns 3.50@4.00; calves steady to '26c higher; practical top veals 8.50; few at 9.00; h res ight a tock. ers and feders strong to shade high: er; others steady; best stocker yearl- ings 7.75; bulk 6.50@7.35; feeders 0 @7.40. Hogs_receipts 12,900; slo mostly 10 to 15c higher; packer and shipper tops 6.90; bulk of sales 6,45@6.85; seed and cholce 120 to 130 pound rages 6.75@6.90; desirable 170 to 200 pound averages 6.55 Mostly 5.00@5.50. Shep recetpts 6,000; lambs around 26c lower; top fed lots 12.00; others 11.85; sheep generally stead Mexico wethers 7.35; fed ewes 6.25. mele! OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 3—Hogs, Re- celpts 6,500; fairly active 10@1 higher; mostly 10 o Higher; bul good and choice 200 to 82 iS packing sows and lights 6.25@6.55; packing sows 6.00 @6 average cost Saturday welght 255, Receipts Cattle. 10.000; 5004 and choice fed steers and yearlings fully steady; others slow, stea 1be lower; bulk fed offerings 1.25@ 9.75; top medium weight steers 11.7 | Yearlinge 11.60; she stock; stockers and feedars steady to strong; bulk | butchers, cows and heifers 3.75@ 6.00; Canners and cutters 2,50@3.00; other classes steady; packer veal top 9.00; bologna bulls 3.00@3.75; stock- | ers and feeders 5.50@7.50; top ight | feeders 7.75, Sheep receipts 6,000; lambs around | lambs 10@1Sc lower; bulk and t 12.00; fed clipped steady; bulk 10, @10.50; sheep and feeders scare generally steady. Japan and Sweden are the world's chief exporters of matches. The United States, while the biggest. pro- ducer, exports but a Mmited quan- i tity. . . could have entertained such a thought that he committed suicide. pedir ees A aS. FIGHT ENSUES IVER SPEIKER received 198 votes to 195 for Rep- resentative Garrett and 17 for Rep- (Continued from Page One- resentative Cooper, Representative Madden, republican, Illinois, was given five yotes. The seventeen who voted for Coop- er were: Beck, Browne, Frear, Lampert, Nelson, Peavey, Schafer, Schnelder and Voigt all of Wisconsin; Clague. nutson, Republi vale, Independ- Wefald, Farmer Minnesota; 1 rdia, re} New York, and Sinclair, ota, labor, publican Republic a The five who voted for Madden were: King, Michielson, and Reid, Milinols, and James and Woodruff, Michigan, ajl republicans. Madden voted tor Gillett. socialist, Wiseonsin, voted as did Gillet, Garrett and Then the house began to second ballot. PRO-RATING AT END IN FIELD. AT SALT GREER (Continued from Page One- place in November, are as fo'lows: In the first zone there wero 181 Berger present Cooper. take a second sand wells, no first sand wells, 12 slule wel's, making a total of 193 wells. Coming within the second zone were 1i1 second sand wells, five first sand wells, 21 sha’e wells, totalling 137 wells. The third zone show 79 second sand, 5 hale wells here were 87 first sand, and making 131 in all. & i pe Wilson anc Co., cv., 6s - 86 ee, Market Gossip and Briefs On Operations in Oil Fields Middle States in Cubs. MidMe States Ot : Poy extrac ng Way. As for the ofl industry on On, through ‘prtisies or sereepeny lthe coast the past few months havo have acquired control of the For iwitnessed » period of maximum pro- eign States Oll corporation, which |dyection, and a maximum consump- owns large of] and gas leases in|tion to date, of Nght oil and its Cuba, Tho property acquired con-| products, The period of a maximuin sists of 80,000 acres located in Ha-|preduction is past, So far as known vana province, which were geolog-| facts are a measure and {t must be ized by Dr. Ralph Arnold of los|kept in mind that the vnexpectea Angeles, Cal.. and Barnabas Bryan |happens underground even more of New York City. lfrequently than above ground — it Foreign States Oil corporation is|seems likely that all ofl passinc Grilling its first well about 25 mites |through the Panama canal from south of Hayana on the Bejucal|California after the middlo of next |Developmont in the section slong and Turman {many lines continues in a gratify ed from the Mexican headquarters of @ smuggling n certain specified tir tle agents, A few ho’ later they are being “checked up" at their} owners homes on the American side of the line, it ts said. Tho system was reverted, author- itles announced, when one of tte ‘oorderfiying birds was wounded by a@ hunter and picked up hy a Nareo- tic agent who happene:l to be watch- ing the alr for a smugglers plane. second sand, $9 first sand and 13 Rind aN: Behe sare rr tg; |dome, which structure has been pro:| year will mean drawing on Calitor- . ie ne ldicted by many geologists as tho| nia’s storage t othat extent; in other fifth "zone thore were 78 second |, cicat area to provide the constant-|wordls, California's production the sand, 27 first sand and five shale / : ly growing needs of Cuba, whieh |latter half of next year is not likely now exceed 20,000 barrels per day,|to mere than care for the demands ‘all this oil being ghipped from Mex-|west of the Panama canal," to. This arrangement with Foreign States Ol! harmonizes with the Mid dle States plan of working oll on water transportation basis whieh it has recently inaugurated for South Arkansas. Must Use Reserve. Paul Shoup, vice president of the Southern Pacific railroad, does not believe that California ol! produa- tion after the mite of next year Sheldon Dome. will be more than sufficient to care} Sheldon 2, section §- pulling for western noeds for fuel, Mr,/8%dnch casing and getting ready Shoup aid. ‘Business conditions onito run a new string of No. 82, 8%- the Pacific coast gen or @ total of 110. In the sixth and last gone there were 100 second sand, 22 first sand and two shale wells, making-124,- ‘The total.num- bee of wells in the field camo to 839. Records of November 17, for the entipe field 68 shale first sand pumping wells, second sand pumping we'ls, pete k a SEND IT TO. THE PEARL WHITE LAUNDRY PHONE 1703 Ee tc a le Who's going to win the beautiful Packard coupe at Lioyd's? —_—_—_—_—_ MARINE OL, COMPANY Cat Creek Wolverine CR 1 and 2, section 5- 39-78, both wells being cleaned out Wolverine DS2, section. 839,78: 8%sinch onsing set and cemented at depth of 2,428 feet. 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