Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1903, Page 8

8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 OMAHA'LIVE STOCK MARKET Beef Bteor: Bold About Steady, Oows Weak to Ton Lower and Feeders Btrong, _— ’ HOGS AVERAGED A SHADE LOWER Both Fat Sheep Lambs Feeders Sold Readily at Steady Prices Where Quality Was De- " Stow. Well sirable, Common St SOUTH OMAHA, S:pt. 1. Recelpts were tle. Hoxs Sheep Official Monday . 658 7 Bame day last 6117 o week bofore 2818 3,620 three weeks a Bame four weeks ago 8,546 Bame day last year.. 1,708 RECEIPTS FOR TO DATE The following table shows the :ecelpts of cattle, hogs and sheep at South Omaha for the'year to dats and comparisor with last” vear: 03, 100 Dec. 630,110 b41,817 1,085,356 1,684,695 . 890,285 89,319 100,967 price paid for togs at o last several days with com- Ine 118,293 2. (1901, 1900, [1899. |1698. [1897. g - o -3 cueana 822339 2 St ] L emons 5325 m;gn- 25288 sExues i PP —— [S— 2538382 |==223 a7 sEssss sas “geas emien gz FRE e 288 azoa s SENIRS sragr 3 238 822538 | o= | 283 "azs L.g: o Iz The officlal number of cars of stock brought In today by each road was: Roads. Cattle. Hogs. Sh'p.H'ses, C, M. & Bt. P, 3 12 . 23 Wabash .. insonri Pacifle Jnion Paclfic C. & N. W. Ry F.E & C., Bt B &M K. C. & Bt. C.RL&P, Cy R I & P., west Tilinois Central . | POPOR S 2 Total receipts ... The disposition of the day's receipts was s follows, each buyer purchasing the num. ber of head indicated: Buyers. Cattle. Omaha Packing Co. . 619 Bwift and Company...... 819 Armour & Co... .62 Qudahy Packing, Co. 111! 60 Armour, Bloux CIty....... ... Vansant & Co... ] Carey & Benton . . % Lobman & Co. L m Lewls & Underwood. “ LM . 308 Hogs. Sheep. 40 5,000 L. F. Husz . B. F. Hobbick. Lee Rothschild . D168 Wertheimer 98 4186 9,392 CATTLE-Thers was only a moderate run of cattle here this morning and in fact re- they will show the exact figures. Trading was fairly active on all desirable grades and Ik was disposed of in good season. only a few cars of cornfed steors in sight and the quality of those was rather inferior in the majority of cases and nothing cholce was offered. “As a general thing the market was not far from steady, though in some cases saleamen were unable to get quite as much for thelr cattlo as they expected, The market could best be de- scribed by calling it steady to a shade er. here were a s\lofl many cows included in the offerings and buyers took advan: of the P&pflr(unl\)’ to pound the market a lit- tle. me of the best grades did not suf- fer to any Huston & Co. Livingstone & Shaller. 139 Layton & Co. . Wolf & Murnan . . 60 Other buyers ... Do Totals ...5,611 ceipts were onl. Weroc a year ago today. the There w ‘eat extent, but the general market was 10c_Jower than at the close of last week. Trading was fairly active, fo that the most of the cattle were disposed of in fairly good season. Bulls, Veal calves and stags did not ow much change from last Fg?dly. Zhe demand for stockers and feeders wna 1 this morning and anything desirable commanded stronger prices. W!l!orn cattle in fact sold at the highest prices of the feason, as much as . being paid for a bunch ‘averaging 1,144 pounds. A good many cattle were good enough to sell from $3 % 10 $4.10. The commoner kinds went at about steady prices, as compared with the of last week. Western grass beef steers held about steady where the quality was at all good. ‘There were more beef steers included In the receipts than usual. but there were none too many of the desirable grades to meet pack- ers' requirements. Common stuff was t- urally slow and weak. Range cows soll about 6@10c lower, while stockers and feed- ers, as mentjoned above, commanded stea to strong prices. Representative sales: BEEF STEERS. ag s3fE 38 o L 3 o o< §3z2zE TN o =S=2888$S83=$8<, = Mt A3 e 5 SIIEIJSKNTSEES 3 pEREEE B38 sscosmsesstorstors g 5y e 2 feejors. 7 feoders. 6 fecders. §EEE & AIBSUER B8 ROBTS 28RS TSES, 8328 o0 e T - s s 2. g 3 5 g 8 127 cows. 25 feeders. 16 steer % feed 1 steer. Ex, £8 PO R sgs 2 3 g = I g 2 L] 2 . Haney—Neb. 24 fecder: 1 feeder. g3 E58 Jse8 g8 8 8 235 17 feeders 7 feeders. . R. Haney—Neb 2 feeders vy thorne—Neb. 2Insfessg 5, 858 “E!§§§EEF $3828 8878 e e aes S N % BEBSLES sR28353 882 woagarese sossrose sorw e E&E Erges swe L. 1016 300 2 feeders.. 70 " Judkins—e: steers... 100 3 i ua 10 1eeanrs. . 58 Cable—Nev, feeders.. 1 1esaer 6 1eeqers. el 260 W, C. 10003 %0 1w 3 9 o 3w A0w 3 2o Robert Taylor—Neb. § 8 1 Leede.s. 1000 3 0 4 feeders. WS COWS..... Coffee—New. Il cow..... Karnam-—Neb. & %5 14 feeders. Gouthart—Neb. L0 16 cowr.. 2% Hussing—8, D. Bw i cuwal W leow..ll % 1cow P . i feeders Leecers seer feeders 1020 1 feeder L2 &5 R. dorgenson—Neb. 540 176 13 feeders.. 1066 2 26 A, C. Gllcrest—Neb. 1042 376 g g5 00Thecs—Neb. owlett—8. D. feeders. . 68 feeders. §2 steers 3 bull X ntee 42 nteers 1 bull.... porcrs 9 feeders. 4 cows. .. 13 feeders. 3 cows. 2 cow asee ¥z & Eam , Oelrichs—8. D. 235 19 cow A. Drats—8. D. 1260 2 steers @30 3 5 1 steer. Gus Peterson—S. D, 0 210 8 aed.isn. 1010 2 30 1 feeder... 948 276 1 feeder. 965 3 50 1026 2 75 5 G. W, Crowley—8. D. L1144 375 (9 steers.... J. Ripher—8. D. . 915 2% we 2 38883 g8 3zs A 6 feeders. Morrow—Wyo. 10 feeders.. 660 § 40 1 feeder... 580 15 feeders.. 829 2 45 B. W. Whitcomb—Wyo. 23 feeders..1141 '3 90 b cows..... 980 1 cow, 1200 3 3 cows..... M0 1 feeder. 1040 & feeders..1121 11 feeders. 1174 3 feeders. 1143 3 steers....1121 5 steers... B csmmme 0 et & Bon—Wyo. 4 cow! 2 feeders 1 feeder... 16 feeders 3 feeders. 2 helfers... wesns mesesmme®o &3W8 8T8 2ASSRS3=2S ayne—Wyo. 1 buil 1 bull 1 cow 10 foeder: 1 cow. 2 bulls 823532 22523 3a%S3328s . orge & Co.—~Wyo. =3 Willlam Herman—Wyo. 60 360 1 cow sorsrs 233 L. 15 feeders..1005 3 65 J. Riordon—Colo. _There was only a fair run of hoj reported this morning and many of the trains were late in arriving. Reports from other points were rather unfavorable to the selling interests and as a_result the market opened rather slow. and about a nickel lower than Saturday's average. Heavy hogs sold largely from $5.35 to $.40, medium welghts went from $5.40 to $5.45 and lights sold from $6.60 to $5.70. Coarse heavy ho rd 10 sell and some of them went as $6.30. Later in the morning the fa there were not as manv reported early in the morning and as a- result the close was active and stronger, some late sales being about steady with Saturday's general market. Repre- sentative sale; B 2 sinnss: 3 fETaRsantat @ & @ snane SER222E2TTTANSEESES & s82g355255:8 & ronnennntne 6% M. re was the smalles sheep here this morning that hi on Monday in some little time. As com= rnrad Wwith a year ugo today there wers ess than half as y. Owing to that fact the market held steady in spite of ths fact that Chicago was quoted lower. Packers all took hold of the desirable {rmh*s of killers quite freely and the mar- et held hmiy cteady. Some sales, in fact, lookea a littie stron great number on sal came 1o a close. There were also a good many feeder buy- ers on hand, that, although the big end of the offerings consisted of feeders, all desirable grades sold without trouble at steady prices. Common stuff was naturall; more or less neglected, but stiil the prices pald did not look much different from those in force last week. Quotations for grass stock: Good to cholce lambe, $4.66G435; falr to good lambs, $.25G4.8; K004 to’ ehole $3.3503.50; falr to good yearling: g00d to ohoice weihers, $.5GIW; falr to &0od wethers, 18.15G3.25; good tg _chole ::,:l,rfliuohfln:&l;r m‘ 000 oW der lambs, '$3.7504.35; fpeder BIHGI0; fecder wethers b, ewos, $1.50@2. No. ¢ ldaho ewes bucks 482 1daho Y 128 Idaho lambs 158 Idaho ewes 21 daho ewes As there were no , the market soon ] 855222 AERBSHSSRESERE LSS BESSEE: yearlings . yearlings . yearlings . feeder yearlings yearlings . " 1aahe Toeder famibe aho feeder 90 Idaho lambs Idaho lambs Tdaho lambs . Idaho lambs 1daho lambs Wyoming ewes . Wyoming ewes 5 Wyoming wethers . 60 Wyoming wethers . 71 Wyoming yearlings 23 Wyoming feeder lambs 49 Wyoming feeder lambs 1t Wyoming lambs 33 Wyoming lambs 411 Wyoming lambs CHICAGO LIVE Market for Cattle for Sheep Steady to Lower. CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—CATTLE—Reoceipts, 31000 head (ncluding 1800 Texna wnd: Foo) wosterns. The market for best was sterdy, for bulk. 10c to 15c lower. Good to prime steers, $5.4006.05: poor to medium. .00 5.25: stackers and feeders, $2.50@420; cows, SLEG@A.50; $2.00@5.00; canners, $1.5072.6); bulls, “$2:00@4 50 caives, $3.5066.75; % "teers, B.5GLT0; western steers, 13550 HOGS—Recelpts, 81,000 head; estimated tomorrow, 18,00 head. The market for average was steady. 85 3°616.10; good to chalce heavy, 8. .90} rough heavy, $5.1065.55; light,’ 5. 10; bulk of sales, $5. ) SHEEP ~ AND .| LAMRS — Recelpts, %.000 head; the ' market for shesp aterdy to Iwer. nd lambs was Good to cholce ~ wethers. _ 132503 we L@ 0010000 59101 i 5950 89 €989 63 6909 LS 1313 o 03900, Hogw Strong: ir to cholos mixed. $2.2508.00 sheep, $2.75@3.50: native lambs, western lambs, $3.75@5.25. St. Faserh Live Stoek Market. 8T. JOSEPH, Mo., Bept. 7.—CATTLE—Re- eeiné= 4 @2 heat. The mrrkst was steady to 10c low‘ow.nn.szn. $3.50@5.25; cows and Wtnrsog, WALTS Btockers and feedars, HOGS-Recelpts 485 head: steady to ke A <ht, $6.75@6.00; medium and heavy, £.5006.80. & AND LAMBS—Recelpts, i 3 head; steady. v FUS Live Steet Masbar, KANSAS CITY, Sept. 7—CATTLE_Ra- colts, 17500 TanA’af natives ARt 3,60 Taes ans. Calves, 1060 head of na‘tves and 5 Texans. The market for corn fel eittie was s to weak; for grass westerns, young_ ducks, 8iye, { BUTTER-Packin Teas | slow and lower, for quarantine, 10c lower; for cows, steady to luc lower; for stockers and feeders, steady; for calves, quiet d dressed Le: steers, good, H.OGM. V; stockers feeders, $2.20@4.30; western led steers, Texas and Indian steers, 370G 0 cows, $1L.00gLE, nallve cows, $Lo0@3.40; futive heliers, ¥2.10G4.00; can. ners, $LU0@2.d; bulis, R2.WGLwW; calves, 260540 HUGS—Recelpts, 1600 head. The market was active ana steady. Top, $).9i%: buik of sales, $.6005.%6; heivy, 166.4@..5; mixed packers, $.iZ4@v.9); 5.%; yorkers, 15.8.G5W; pi SHEBP AND LAMBs—recelp.s, head. The market was steady. ~Natlve lambs, $2.90G5.20; western lambs, $2.7.@,.00; 1ed ewes, 32.0098.90; Texas clipped ycariogs, 324004.00; Texas clipped sneep, s2.3%d3.00; stockers and feeders, $2.00G3.40. New York Live Stock Market. NEW _YORK, Sept. 7.—BEEV celpts 9,766 head; good steers opened strong and closed steady; medium and common slow to a shade lower; bulls stcady to 10¢ higher; fat cows strong, othera st<ad tive steers, $4.005.70; Blockers an ends, $3.00@3.70; bulis, $2.50@5.10. Cables quoted live cattle slow; top rices at don, 11%c; at Liverpool, Il%c. Dressed Weights sheep steady; exports loday none. CALVES—Recelpts, 2,23 head; veals higher; other calves i $5.00G8.50; tops, $8.506G8. grossers, $2.70@1.50; wes ssed veals firm at Sipulzle per country dressed at 6yl2lc; dressed gra ers, 4@5%e. HOGS—Recelpts, 8130 head; market un- even, some eaies being higher and others e _lower; state and Pennsylvinia hogs, $6.15@6.50; cholce Might, $5.6075.0. SHE AND LAMBS—Receints, 14522 hea: cep active to strong; common slow to a'triflc easier; sheep, $2.00G3.9); «xtras, $4.00; lambs, $.1:%@: two cars chol $6.6076.75; Canadians, ' $5.87%@6.50; $4.00G4.50. St. Louls ST, LOUIS, Sept. 7,000 head, including 6,00 Texans. ') market was dull and steady to lower. Na tive shipping and export stecrs, $4.76@5.75; the top for strictly fancy; dreseéd beef an butcher steers, $4.00@>.35; steers under 1.0 punds, $3.4005.25; stockers and _fexders, 2.60G3.90; cows and heifers, §2.2:@5.0; ¢ n. ners, $2.002.25; bulls, $2.50@4 0v; calves, $3.00@5.50; Texas and Indian stecrs, Eross, $£2.30G3.75; fed, $4.4004.90; cows and heifers, 32,253,090, HOG was steady to firm, 4 Ing_regained. Pigs and lights. %6 @315 packers. $%.50@6.50; butchers and best heavy, .0068,10. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Receipts, The market was steady to 1w r $3.0003.65; lambs, $4.500 $2.00G4.00; stockers, Ave Stock Market. ~CATTLE-Rec:ipte, rhe Recelpts, 3,500 head. The market 3,000 head. Native muttons, 5.50; culls and bucks, $2.00@3.00. Sloux City Live Stock Market. SIOUX CITY, Ia., Sept. 7.—(Special Tele- gram.)—~CATTLE—Receipt: 1,800; market steady; beeves. $.00g6.25; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.30g4.00; stockers and feeders, $2.00 @3.75; ‘calves and yearlings, §2.60@3.00. HOGS—Market b@lle lower than Satur- day's close, $.25@5.45; bulk, 3$5.30. Stoek In Sight. Foliowing are the recelpts f live slock at the six principal western cities yester- day: Citles. Omaha Chicago Ransas City St Louts . Joseph . e Chy Totals OMAMA WHOLE Condition of Trade Quotations on Staple and Fancy Produce, EGGS—Fresh stock, loss off, 17c. LIVE POULTRY — Hens, %e; spring chickens, per Ib., llc; roosters, according 10 age, A@ic: turKeys, 11@12c; old ducks, ée; stock, 12%@13c; cholce ubs, 16@18c; separator, Cattle. Hogs. Rheep, L5608 3,95 301 § 000 43,860 LE MARKET, to fancy dairy, in 20 e, FRESH_TISH—Fresh caught trout, 1lc; fckerel, 7@Sc; pike, 10c; perch, 6c: buffalo, fig@te; bluefish, 15c; whitefigh, '10c {waimon, 11¢; haddock, 10c: codfish, 12c} reddnapper, lobsters, bolied, per Ib., 20c: lobsters, cen, per lb., 2ic: ‘bullheads. 1ic; catfish, Plack bass, 20@22c; halibut, Sc; erap- ples, 12; herring, 6c; white, bass, 100; blue- ns. fc. OYSTERS—New York counts, per ean, 46c; per gal, $2.15; extra selects, per can, per gal. $1.90; standard, per can, %0c; per g2l Sg.w BRAN_Per ton, $14. HAY—Prices quoted by Omaha Whole- sale Denlors’ association: Choice No. 1 up- $: No. $8.50; mediumn, $8; coarse, 5. Rye straw, $650. These prices are ar hay of good color and quality. De- mand fair and receipts light. CORN—fic. OATS—3c. RYE—No. 2, 50¢. VEGETABLE®., POTATOES—Per bu,, 10@80c. BWEET POTATOES—Home grown, B basket, 7c; Virginias, per 8-bu. bbl, 5. ;CL’CL‘MBERE—HOMO grown, per basket, . BEANS—Home grown, wax, per market basket, 70g80c; string, per market basket, 80¢. "'&lgamx:—x«m bome grown, 1%@1%c r D‘QRE N CORN-—Per dos., 10c. TOMATOES—Home grown, per N BARB—Per 1., 1c er 1b., lc. NAVY BEA Fer bu., $2.60. CELERY—Michigan, per doz., large western, 46c. ONIONS—New home grown, dry, g‘r 1b., hington stock, per.1b., 2c. $1.90G1.25. basket, 30@35¢; PLUMS—Utah and Colorado, §1.25. PRUNES—Itallan, per box, $..i5; $1.66; Bilver, $1.3. > ACHEN-—Callfornta, California_clings, $1.00 CRABAPPLES—Per bbl., 8. PEARS—Colorado and Utah Flemish, $2; Colorado and Utah Bartlett's, $2.0002.%5. CANTALOUPE—Idaho, crate $3.00; per Y-crate, $20; h per _doz. and other varietes APPLI if $1.76; Ham- burg and Muscats, § grown, §-Ib. basket, 30c. WATERMELONS — Missourl, %c each; crated, net, 76c per 100 ibs. CRANBERRIES—Per bbi.. $7.00. TROPICAL FRUITS. FIGS_Turkish, 18-Ib. box, per Ib., 18e. ORANGES—Valenc 1l sizes, $4.0004.25, %\NANAs-Pu bunch, $2.00¢2.60; jumbos, $3.00. LEMONS-—California fancy, 300 to 360 sizes, $4.50G5.00; cholce, $4; 240 to 270 sizes, umfio.zs LI —Florida, per 6-baskét crate, $6.00. MISCELLANEOUS. CHEESE—Wisconsin Twins, full cream, 12%c: Wisconsin, young America’s, 123ci Black Swiss, 15¢; ‘Wisconsin bricks, 1%igc; Wisconsin limberger, 14%c. HONEY—Neb, per % frames, $2.50; Utah Colorado, per 25 f $3.50. ; shelled, 3@3i4c. N 2 green, lted, §%c ; No. 2 veai salted hi Gross, salaway, $1.00; ibs., & Lo e 0.1 veal calf. 3 to calt 12 to 15 ibi Jc; sheep peits, 50, NUTS—Walnuts, No. 1 soft shell, No. 1 salted ;%. er 1b., 17c; hard shell, per Ib., 14c; No. ? soft sheli, ger Ib.. 1sc; No. 2 hard shell, per Ib., 12} rasils, per 1b. 1%: fllberts, per Ib. 1%c! almonds, soft shell, per ib., lic; hard shell, per 1b. lbc; pecans, large, per Ib., 12ie small, ‘per ib., llc; peanuts, per Ib. Sigc: roasted peanuts, per Ib., 7c. Forelgn Fiuancial. LONDON, Scpt. 7.—The money miarket was easy toda. Discoun were steady. On the stock exchauge busiuess wa But the tone was good. ‘The telebr Labor day at New York had tho effeol of checking bulsness. Consois weie in better demand. Americans were alniost mia but were quletly cheertul. There were a few advances In these stocks on New York purchusing orders. Thn New York bank statement Saturday was not regarded I yorably, but did not induce much seliing. Tho market for Americans closed firm, ttxin Can ket for | Kaffirs had & firm’ \nderto y| The amount of bullicn taksn into the Bankc of England on balance today was BERLIN, Sept. 7.—Pri:ss on the boerse today were firm, hut the transactions were light. Exchangé oa Londo: im pfgs for checks. “The rate of discount for short bills and three monchs bills § per cent. PARIS, Sept. 1.—l'rices gensvally on the bourse today opened firm. Internationals became irregular and rentes heavy. close prices were firm and bu ulet. | The private rutc of discoun s - er cent, e per cent rentes, 240 for the account. " Cotton Market, LIVERPOOL, BSept. 7.—COTTON- moderate. bunifess, prices saster . Arig. can midaling, §d; good middiing’ 6 a; middling, 6.32d; low mi ddlcr‘l)! 6.10d; good or- dinary, 6.8 ordinary, 5.4 Tho salse of the MI WOrl 'Ifll:lbl es :‘ which 50) biles re for speculation rt d "I‘Ad“id :.m ll'l‘" of A::“erl:}‘n:é nl';’:‘ l{:- one. ures open and. ceed pnsettied; R erioan tladline, X Ber” Cioge tember, 5.91d; September-Oct 60d; October-Novemter. §ild; November-December, 5.15d; December-Jua- the early decline be- | | | | | 1 1 | were out on the sidewalks pulling in any uary, 5.12@5.134; Japuary-February, 6.1 Februnry-Sarch, Ea0petia; March-Apri. 5.10d; April-May, 5.08q. LAmerican markets were closed because of Labor day. Liverpool Grain and Provisions. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 7-WHEAT-No. 2 rea western winter (new), steady, s 3d; ho. -1 northern soring. strong, '8 Futures: Quiet; September, 6s 6% woer, 6 §hd; Lecember 63 B}a. CORN—Spot: American mixed, steidy, 48 4 Futures: Firm; Beytember, ds 7d; October, 4s GOSSIP ON COMMISSION ROW Blackberries Steal In from Washin tom, but Are Unheeded by the Passersby. Blackberries. And there Is scarce sale for the wonders, because the grocery men do not know they are in town and pass by without recognizing their old friends. Puy- allup, In the state of Washington, is the proud town which sends out blackberries at this late day when all the appendicitis has healed again by first intention, and from now on for some days you may have them for the buying. The pioneers came In five freezers of fifty-four quarts each and the average sale yesterday was 121 cents a quart. Labor day had its effect along the row and although the commission houses were wide open and the vegetables and frults customers who came in sight, there was yet a noticeable quietude. The market gardeners were fewer In number than a Monday would scem to warrant. There was no movement to the Capitol avenue market house, which was tightly closed, and no pressure was brought to bear on the stubborn market men. Today, becauss of the Sunday closing and 1ight business Monday, there may be something doing and a big turnout. Cantaloupes were waiting around, but didn't seem to find a friend anywhere, and some of them may not last for tomorrow's | business. Fifty crates of the genuine Rocky Ford came in by express and could not sell The trouble is that the hardy Nebraska article is, stealing Into town without the ald of raflroads or the consent of nations, Council Bluffs is headquarters fn the com- ing days. H The peaches and pears are still it. The Bartletts have dropped off “two bits, they say In thelr home country, in a day or 80 and are now selling at $2 in lots. Some fall varieties are at $1.75. Colorado peach delegates are looked for. They will be the first and are after the can of the earlier fruit. Potatoes were §0 to 86 cents. Thero were none shipped in this week and so the price is up. Last week the outsiders caused a slump. BRITISH NATIONAL PHYSIQUE Unfitness of n Large Proportion of Men Seeking Service in the Army. The physical unfitness of & large propor- tion of the men offering themrelves as re- cruits for the army in England is strikingly brought out by the recent report of the dlrector general, Army Medical service, which was published by the War office in the form of a parllamentary paper. During the ten years just past no less than about 35 per cent of those medically examined were rejected on various~ grounds, but many that were too evidently unfit on reporting were not examined at all, so that it is believed that the total of the rejec- tions amounted to 60 per cent, or three out of every five. It is therefoze an undoubted fact that at the present time a very con- siderable ‘proporticn of the young men of the country, especially in the towns, are physically defectiverard unfit for military service. 2 The Army and Navy Gazette in comment- ing on this stata of affairs says: “Fortunately this Is not the case as re- gards the entire population, but only those of the poorer classes. It is from the latter, however, that the bulk of the men desiring to be soldiers come, Owivg to the adyance of sanitary science, and to the encourage- ment of athletic sports, the general phys- ique of the upper and middle classes is im- proving rather than deterforating. * * “It is a deplorable fact that in wealthy England some 6,000,000 of the people, dwell- ers in overcrowded towns, are in a state of actual poverty. The bulk of the men seek- ing enlistment belongs to this category In this connection the director general remarks in his report: “Were all classes of the community able to provide thelr offspring with ample food | and alr space a healthy race would be pro- duced and the proper materfal to flil the ranks of the army would probably soon be obtaired.” The new scheme of army organization for the British army requires 50,000 recruits a year, but the director general's report shows that only 65,000 are examined an- nually, and of these about 23,600 are re. Jected, giving a deficlency of 5,500 per an- num, which England hopes to make up by colonial assistance.—New York Sun, LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT 011 Well Shooter Starts & Few Pelees of Nitroglycerin and vives the Shoek. The statement of ofl well shootcr: have sald that they never had but one dent, and did not live to discuss it, haw been accepted as correct until the present time, but Leroy Hyer, a shooter for the St. Mary’s Torpedo company, has experienced his accident, but lives to tell it. Hyer was shooting an ofl well in Van Buren township, Indiapa, Saturday evening. He had previously lowered several hun- dred quarts of nitroglycerin Into the well, and was sending down a tube containing twenty quarts of the high explosive, while twenty quarts remained in his wagon, standing near the well. The tube which was being lowered is thought to have been leak- Ing, and the friction on the side of the drive plpe s supposed to have caused an explosion. When the tube containing twenty quarts was about fifteen feot below the surface, in- stantly the derrick, engine house, boller roow and everything about the rig was de- molished. The twenty quarts of nitrogly- otrin remaining in the wagon also exploded, blowing the wagon into splinters. Hyer and two other fellows were standing In the en- &ine room. They were hurled into the fleld, but not one of them was injured. The horse that drew the wagon had been detached and tied to a fence a short dls- tance from the ofl well. The animal was | not injured. The place where the derrick tood is & yawning hole.—Indlanapolls Mortality Statistics. The following births and deaths have been reported to the Board of Health: Births—August Petersen, 3011 South Fif- teenth, boy; Willlam Peterson, County hos- pital, ‘boy: Herman Hansen, 2657 Cuming, Birl; Gust Nelson, 3015 Franklin, girl. Deaths—Baby Harsch, 8 ' Pacific, & Lena Coren Nordquist, Swedish , home Beresford, 8. D., 6; Robert Malcolm Van Burg, 3 months; Baby Ly- man, 318 South Twentiet] months. LOCAL BREVITIES. Judge Vi in the Mets nhaler is hearing arguments in_which “Adeline Metz, widow of the late Fred Metz, a tacks the justice and honesty of the acts of the administrators. A decree approving the course of the administrators up o the present time, but not asking for their dis- charge, s petitioned for by the ld-lnlllrlf-l POPS SEEM TO BE AT SEA No One Able to Tell Whether Oonvention Will Be Held or N FORGAN SAYS PICK FROM OTHER TICKETS John O. Yelser Exhibits a Spirit of In- difference as to Judicial N tions—Two More Rep Whether there will be a populist judiclal convention, or a mass meeting of populists, or any other kind of a meeting at Wash- ington hall this afternoon or tonight is the question now being discussed by mem- bers of the populistic old guard. An adfournment of the combination pop- ulist convention and mass meeting held in Washington hall August 22 was taken to September 8, the reason given being that the popullsts desired to wait until after the democrats had held thelr convention and nominated candidates for the district bench. It was also quietly stated at the same time that as there were only an even dozen men present, and as the law re- quires that fifty electors be present and take part in a district mass meeting no legal action could be taken, This provision of the law providing for nominations by mass meetings is again ris- ing up to trouble the faithful few who still destre to make a showing of populistic activity in Douglas county. It is admitted that no formal call for a populist con- vention of this judiclal district has been issued, and that the meeting tomorrow in Washington hall will not be a regular con- vention. At the same time leading mem- bers of the party admit that it wil be very hard to get fifty electors of Omaha to take part in the meeting unless assistance | is recelved from outsiders among the per- sonal friends of the candidates. Spirit of Indifference. John O. Yelser declares that he has taken little interest in the matter, and that so far as he knows little Interest has been or is being taken in it by other populists. “The only thing for the popullsts to do when they get together Is to endorse can- didates already nominated,” Mr. Yeiser says, “as no good could be accomplished by putting up more candidates.” P. L. Forgan, who is credited with be- Ing a very “straight” populist, says that in the present case the only thing for the populists to do 18 to seleot the best men on the two tickets and endorse them. Do- ing this, Mr. Forgan admits, may not be an easy task, as he has found that fellow populists do not agree with him as to who are the best men on the republican and democratic tickets. “I do not belleve in simply endorsing the bar ticket’ said Mr. Forgan. “Lawyers in my opinion are taking entirely too active a part in all affairs; the people are just a8 able to select judges as are the lawyers, and In some ways are Letter able to do o, as they.are nof influenced or prejudiced as are the lawyers” Chairman Thomas cf the populist com- mittee was not at his office and the dis- pute as to what hour the adjournment was taken to on August 22 remalns unsettled. It was 2 p. m. according to some and 8 p. m. according to others. On the ground that probably a larger attendance can be se- i cured In the evening the meeting probably will be held at the latter hour. Two More File. Charles L. Thomas for county commis- sloner and Paul F, Stein for constable are the latest candidates for republican nominations to file thelr agreements and pay In fees to Secretary Messick. Theoflore Olsen has announced his can- didacy for the county clerkship and says he will make the required flling in a few days. Samuel C. Walkup of the city clerk's | office 1s looking the ground over carefully «nd will lalso probably be in the ring for the same office, so that thers will be at least four and probably five or six candi- dates at'the primaries. Under the new law while county commis- sloners are nominated by the district, they are voted on in the entire county. The dlstrict in which the vacancy occurs this year is made up of the Fourth, Seventh and Bighth wards. From the Eighth it is expected that George F. Munro and Grant L. Hutton will be candidates, and M. J. Kennard will divide the Seventh ward strength with C. L. Thomas. The Fourth ward has not yet presented any positive candidate, but Is expected to do so, and the Seventh and Eighth may also produce several more candidates before the end of | the week. One caller at Secretary Messick's office yesterday wanted to know if there was any office for which he could run without putting up a fee. He was answered ‘'No" and then his drooping spirits were revived and gladdened by the assurance that ke would be made a primary judge at §1.50 for his services. PLANS FOR BATTLESHIPS Upward of u!oo Drawings Must Be Government. When Uncle Sam desires to bulld a war- ship there must be something over 1,200 plans drawn and approved by the gov- ernment before the vessel can be con- structed. ‘These plans alone, in the case of a first class battleship such as Ver- mont, the contract for which has been re- cently awarded to the Fore River Ship and Engine company, near Boston, cost the bullders about $75,00. For the steel plates of the hull, to take a single large item, 500 distinct and separate plans are necessary. The 800 or 900 plans necessary for a hull as a whole range from a small sheet of paper twelve inches square to a big sheet eleven feet long by two feet and a quarter wide; and each plan /must be | duplicated in at least a dozen blue prints | to facllitate the work of the shops and save the original drawings from being worn out by constant handling. At a rough estimate this means that over 1,600 square feet of paper will be covered with drawings before the yard begins hull construction, to say nothing of | over 10,500 square feet of paper that will be used in preparing the schedules of ma- terfals by which the yard will order the various supplies necessary for construe- tion. To make thg hull of a war vessel more paper is used than would serve to wrap it up afterward. Meantime the en- gine department and the electrical de- partment must prepare thelr own plans on a similar scale of detalled munificence, the result being, all told, that about 1,200 separate drawings will be necessary be- fore the battlbship has been accurately made on paper. These hundreds of plans do not consist, as one might at first imagine, in plan after plan of the vessel until Uncle S8am smiles approval and says ‘Go ahead, that sults me exactly.” As a matter of fact Uncle Sam has a very complete notion of what is going to suit him exactly before the contracting shipbullders touch pencil to paper, and the shipbullder's work is based upon yet another series of mysterious looking blue prints that come from the government. The first plans for every class of war vessels, with the single ex- ception of the lively little torpedo boats ‘and their equally Mvely little destroyers, are drawn by the government before any shipbullding establishment is invited to bid for the task of lnll?ln' them. But these first plans, although they represent the labor of three government depart- ments, the Bureau of Construction and Re- pair, the Bureau of Equipment and the Bureau of Ordnance, are simply a state- ment of the kind of vessel wanted and are supplemented by a bound volume of speci- fications that covers between 200 and 3% pages. It Is this Interesting volume that the management of the shipbullding es- tablishments has to reduce to terms of profit and cost before it decides upon the minimum price for which it can bulld the vessel, pay about four years' wages to 1,00 workmen and put a little something in the bank on its own account. In the case of Vermont the final cost per { pound 1s estimated at 15 cents, or three times the cost per pound of a thoroughly modern steel schooner. No object, either on land or sea, could be more carefully specified in its every detall than a modern war vessel. When the government orders a canvas gun cover, for example, the specifications state defi- nitely how many stitches to an inch are to | be taken In sewing the canvas, and these stitches are not to be averaged up, but there must be just so many of them In every inch, no matter at what point the government inspector who supervises the making of the cover may choose to count them. If the number is not parallel with the specification the right number of stitches must be put in—at the expense of the company. This small examplo is an exact fllustration of what “specifications" mean as they apply to a war vessel.— Brooklyn Eagle. . FAT MEN MUST PUT UP Sartorinl Penalties Imposed on Ro- tund People for the Good # of the Lean. The proposal of the union taflors at Chi- caro to enforce discriminating charges against fat men, In proportion to the cloth conrumed by thelr garments, can only be lookrds upon with misgiving and aver- slon. It is Impossible to regard the matter | as a mere sporadic outbreak, for it has all | the earmarks of a concerted movement of organized labor looking to a pitiless crusade | upor. stout persons to the advantage of | the \nin. It s obvious that If fat men can e made to pay more for their clothes than they do now, lean men will, in ac- cordance with the well known laws of com- pensation, averages, etc., soon come to pay less, . 5 If this viclous principle is once estab- lished in the tafloring trade, it will be but a short time untll it is taken up by other unions and discrimination is enforced against the fat all along the line. The | street cars will begin to carry passengers by welght, and underwear will be listed at s0 much a size and half size, like carpet tacks or step-ladders. Shoes, even, will be sold by the square feet of leather they contaln, and theater seats will be charged for according to breadth of beam. The next thing In order would be boycotts directed at all merchants who fall to discriminate sharply against embonpoint, and half the ‘ot men In town would be declared unfair. There 1s nothing that we know of in the theory and practice of urganized labor that is inconsistent with this discroditable and melancholy program. The Darwinian law of natural selection shows us but too plainly what the end of such a tendency, once set in operation in the human specles, must be. At once a percentage of ease in survival accrues to the lean Individuals, and a corresponding disadvantage in the struggle for iifs in- heres in all fat individuals. As time goes on, the fat Individuals must find subsist- ence increasingly difficult and the lean in- dividuals will find it increasingly easier. Fewer of the fat will suryive, more of the lean. And the influence of natural selec- tion will be inescapably and tremendously intensified by sexual selection. Fewer «nd tewer females will have the hardihood to brave public opinion In choosing fat miles for thelr mates, and the enterprise and re- squrces of lean males in the pursult of partners will augment in arithmetical if not geometrical ratio. Fat bables will Brow few and eventually cease to be born, while the lean and hugry individuals will live on the fat of the land. It Is needless to remind any correctly reared person how Egyptian, Styglan and also Cimmerian is the darkness which such a4 prospect hangs over the future of the race. The fair and fitting character of fatness and the menace of leanness are stamped on almost every page of holy writ and unmistakably revealed in the in- spired utterances of Shakespeare. The an- clent prophets held outgpromises of fat- ness to the righteous and reprobated the lean with fine discernment and unequivocal severity. When the bard of Avon put the cada- verous Cassius on an tmmortal pedestal, he did so knowing full well how neces- sary for humanity was the antithetical o' nights.”” Thus the consequences of o dastardly scheme In the ranks of Chicago's Journeymen tallors, are seen to reach fur into the future of the race for weal or woe. Nine tallors, if they are good one can make a man, it is sald, but a tallor's union, if you give it rope enough, will un make the entire human family.—Portiand Oregonlan. HONEYMOON IN THE ARCTIC Onlifornia Young People, with Time to Spare, Will Hunt Foxes in the Polar Regjons. The strangest and probably the wildest honeymoon on record was begun in Los Angeles o few days ago. Two young Ger- man people are the participants of this unique and hazardous trip. John Drast, the bridegroom, came to America about five months ago with the avowed purposs of journeying to the frozen north in search of fox skins, tinent he met the girl who s now his bride. He told her of his plans, and rather than wait until his return before marrying she suggested that he take her along and that the trip be made their honeymoon. Drast 1s 21 and his wife 22 years of age. The boat that carries them, Alert, although worn with age, Is looked upon by those familiar with its gear as & good craft for almost any kind of weather. It Is too small, however, to attempt a trip over so vast and rough a body of water. Alert is a sloop-rigged craft measuring ebout thirty-three feet over all, with a twelve-foot beam. It was purchased from a San Pedro fisherman for $300. The couple cafried with them about §250 worth of pro- visions, which are expected to last the voy- agers until they reach their destination. Drast and his wife are going to a point 600 miles east of the McKinzle river, which flows Into the Arctic ocean, in search of black fox, whose skins are very valuable. They expect to spend the winter some- where enroute and proceed further next summer. Drast eaid he would probably re- turn in three years. San Francisco will be the only stop made between Los Angeles and the Behring sea. Drast seemed to understand the nature of his voyage exactly, but his littla girl wife stood by and wondered what to think of it, at the same time manifesting all confiden: in her boyi-h husband.—Los Angeles Tim WEARE GRAIN CO. 110-111 Board of Trad / OMAHA, NEB. W, E, Ward, Manager. Tel, 1816 ideal hinted at in “fat men, who sleep | On his way across the con- | When Traveling ' READ THE BEE Here is where you will find it in the principal cities: TON. 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