Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1916, Page 12

PR | 3 % i | 12 LIVE STOCK MARKET Cattle Receipts\Large, Trade Generally Steady—=Sheep and Lambs Booming. HOGS STEADY TO FIVE UP|swius. 42c: Omaha, December 11, Roceipts were: “attle. Hogs. Estimate Monday 10,600 11,300 me day last weele..10,218 10,272 0.13,142 14,425 11,661 8,877 Same day last year .. 6,739 8,462 10,647 torday: C, M. & St. P Missourl Pacific . 5 35 Unlon Pacific 19 . road & N, W, cast, 1 +. | plekers W., west . 2 g|try 4 . Chicago Gt. West ... 1 .. |Neactes: Total receipts ..... 403 148 47 4 Morris & Co. 070 Armour & Co. . Schwartz & Co. . J. W. Murphy . Lincoln Packing . Cudahy, Kansas City. Hunninger & Oliver . W, B, Vansant Co.. Benton, Vansant & Lush Hill & Son . ¥. B. Lewls L. F. Husz . Rosenstock Bros. . F. G. Kellogg Werthelmer & Degen H. F. Hamilton Sulllvan Bros, ... Rothschild & Krebs . Mo. & Kan. Calf Co. ... Christie Higgina . ODAY eovavainn . 1 Other bUYErs .........s 943 Totals .....eeeee.e 10,193 11,773 10,6656 but r market points as well. Fol tunately there was & good demand and killing cattle moved off quite freely at prices generally steady with it week. Foeders were In good demand and the mar, ket was firm or even stronger (n some bpots. ‘The blg bulk £ tho cattle changed t ot hands in good season/in the morning, al- 82,00 box; 17 though the trade was delayed somewhat by the fact that there was u large amount | Potatoes, of sorting and shaping up to bo dons, ($1.76 hamp. ©11.00; good to cholee | Cucumbers, 1 0 Quotations on cattie. Good to cholce year- ling beeves, $1 welghty cornfed to good cornfed beeves, § Ul rs, $6.76@17.66; good @7.60; fair to good cown, @ comren to fair cows, $4.50@ #00d to cholice feeders, §7.76@8.26; fair to $6.750 6. head over last Monday, and is 3,000 larger than for the corresponding Monday of last yoar, but is smaller than for two weeks ago by 3,000 he While the local market has looked high with Chicago for soveral days past, trade opened generally strongor this morning, A very decent shipper\outiet continues to fea- M:a& ture to 8l he market, outsiders buying treely In this mornin higher, or generally a nickel higher than last week. The packers made an attempt to put up their droves in Saturday's notohes, early bids to, If anything, a little lower, Quite & bit of stuff was bought steady, especlally on tho less desirable kinds, but anyihing on which there was competition @3 usual got the preference, though lights are not belog discriminated agalnst quite as much as they were a Week or s0 ago, oxcopt where they have the added disad- vantage of belng common or rundown to plg welghts. The general market was steady to a nlckel high The run was of the usual " strong, 100 to 20c above Saturday Monday sort, and general quality was not bulk of sales, §5 9. @3 good as on the closing days of last wook, though weights held up tairly well. Bulk of the offerings sold at $0.6099.90, with some of the least desirable stuff scattered Sheep on down. The top of $10.05 was the highest | Merket stron, of the month to date, It being the highest | $:15@9.00; lambs, §10.60913.25. St. Louls Live Stock Market. 11.—~Cattle—Re- celpts, 10,600 head; market steady; native boef steors, ‘and helters, 8.00; e 900 prime 80 10 05 beef cows and helters, figure paid here since November 37 and the best price jever pald on this market in December. 06,336 22,.130 e 880 85,146 Sheep—A very light Monday run of sheep and lumbs was on hand today, arrivals smallest run for the opening day of the Iarge as either last week d smaller than a year ago by 1,600 head. All cond'tions favored the selling side this morning. Prices at Iast week's close two weeks ago, d, were considered by many to be a little out| ceipts, 4,600 head; of Une with Chicpgo, and with very light steady to 100 lowe 11.00; condition by asking sharply higher prices, | helters, some of ther pricing thelr holdings as high | stockers and 4s $13.00,\s half dollar above Friday. Of|$6.0008.50; bulls, stags, course, they had to modify their ideas a | feeding cows and helfers, $4.60@7.40, Hogs—Recolpts, of what they were asking fof, movement | highei h starting in good season, with some lambs | 9.76; heavy, $9. selling fully 30c higher than the close of | bulk of sales, §9.45G9.90. Sheep aad I:mbs—Recelpls, 3,600 head; inidforencon several loads had reached | market steady: fed muttons, $7.60@10.00; $12.80 for a new record, with quite a bit| wothers, of stuft scattered from $12.60 to $12.76, lambs, receipts sellors started out to remedy this fittle, but in the end they got a good share last weok, with others 15@260c up. By Ewes were ,.erally called about a quar- fer ! cher. One blg string of rangers brought $3. ew record for the season, and they were not choice, either, best kinds velng nominally quoted a little higher than | C°!Pt3: g strong; s that. Others of w desirable kind reached ers, $4.50@10,00; calves, $6.50@12.50, i Hogs—Recolpts, Slmost Beatirsly of smajl packages, and so |00 Bishers tob, $10.05; bulk of sales, 3.0 Shoep and Lambs—Recelpts, 3,600 head; market 16@26c higher; 12.60; ewes, $7.70@8.50. 410, The feeder supply was scant, conslsting there was really no opportunity to test nut the stremgih of the market. Single decks #old as high as §11.90¢12.00 and buyers were mot backward abuut expressing the oplnlon that & redl goud bunch of feeders would have wet - uew record by wselilng ubove §12.00. Quotatiors on sheep and la: ®ood to caclee, $12.50@12.80; I §ood, $12.00@12.60; lambs, clipped, $10.00@ 1L.00; lambs, feeders, $10.50@12.10 lings, good to choice, $9.75@10.5 lings, fair to good, $5.50@6. feeders, $7.00Q. wethers, fal $8,25@9.26 60, vwes, fair to good, $7.00@s.2i plain to culls, $5,0 60; ewes, fecding, :6‘.:0.1.35: ewes, breeders, all ages, $6.00Q No. 150 fed lambs 186 South Dakota 30 native teeder lambs 132 native feeder lambs 1148 Idaho ewes .. 433 Idaho ewes . 16 cull ewes .. Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, Dec. 11.—attle—Recelpts, 16,000 head; market steady; cows, stockers l.l:me:wl. ".:l?l.lfl; heifers, $6.00 ers and feeders, Dulls, $5.26@7.00; calves, § @11.00, of sales, 39.50Q 100 $9.40@9.865; pigs, $5.00@9.00; heavy, $9.956@ packers and but Lambs—Recelpts, rs, $9.70@10.00 $10.00911.00; ewes, UMAHA GENERAL MARKET. in cartons or quotations by Urlau & Co.: Cheese—lmported Swiss, block Swiss, CORN SELLS SOME BETTER 32¢; twin cheese Blue Label brick, 27c; New York white, 29c Amer berger, fort a little improvement today and with a pret- ty active demand for all grades of this cereal the market sold from unchanged to Zc higher. No. 2 hard wheai evld around Saturday’s avera hard sold on a much better basis than it did on the previous day, the bulk of today's offerings golng at $1.70@1.71, while No. 2 hard wheat brought $1.72@1.73. pis and disposition of live stock at [fresh steamer, 18%c¢ Ib.; trout, on Stock yards, Omaha, for twenty- | suit, L ‘clock, p. m., yes- |large, ettt ¥ 2 sizen, 22¢ 1b.; black bass, odd size,, 17c 1b.; carp, RECEIPTS—CARS. e Cattle, Hogs. Sheep. I'rs's. [ ern, 10¢ Ib,; cropples, 9@ 12¢ 1b.; “ N H 1 oo |12¢ Wab : T .. .. |Frozen: Selkirk white, pan, frozen, 1 e Warroad yellow pike, dressed, 14c ib.; War- llow pike, round, the range was from unchanged to ¢ lower, the bulk of the surplus went at practically unchanged prices. White corn s0ld at a slight premium, but there were only a few samples of this variety on the floor, the bulk of the samples being yel low and mixed corn. The top price on yellow corn was 87%c, but the bulk of the sules of No, 3 yellow were mado at 87¢ Mixed corn was in good demand and brought around 86@s7c for the commerclal grades and 86@86c for the No. 4 grade. 7 1| Warroad . 12 ..|pan frozen, 6%c Ib.; fall salmon, 11%c Ib. whiting, odd sizes, skinned, smoked whitefish, basket, 166 Ib.; kippered saimo 18c Ib.; peeled shrimp, $2.00; headlexs shrimp, per gal., §1.50. 60¢; roo shad, halibut, 16¢ Ih.; t%e decline and the demand at these prices was not very active, The general run of samples graded No. 3 white and sold at 52%c and the No. 4 whites brough: 6% .| each, 80c; lobsters, green, boiled, 56c 1b,; jumbo frog legs, $3.25 doz.; grass frog legs, 35¢ doz.; DISPOSITION—HEAD, $2.76 Cattle. Hogs, Sheep. [100; 1,408 | shrimp, gal Oysters—Chesapeake standards, $1.43 per Chesapeake wsolects, 3 rds, $1.65 per gal.; Northern selents $1.90 per gal.; Northern counts, $2.15 per gal.: Blue Points, $1.25 per 100; Cotuits, $1.76 per 100; Scallops, $2.60 per ga Poultry—Live hons, crab meat, lump, $2.00 per 100; headless shrimp, but there was a good demand for barley and the market held firm. No. 4 barley sold from 95c to $1.08 and the No, 1 feed brought to 1,308,000 bushels; corn, none; oats, 945, 000 bushels. up; corn, strong to 2c up, bushels, and shipments 863,000 bushels old cox, 1l¢; ducks, F. F. fat, | ugainst receipts of 3,985,000 bushels, and z shipments of 2,638,000 bushels last year. 12c; guineas, bush agalnst recelpts of 1,350,000 bushels, and shipments of 285,000 bushels last year. els, and shipments 1,366,000 bushels against recelpts of 1,107,000 bushels, und shipments of 711,000 bushels last year. 100; other poultry at market price, Poultry—Dressed 3 No 1, hens and young toms. 26¢; 0ld toms. ; turkeys, No, 2, 21%¢ Vi ducks, No, } cox, 13%e. Other poultry Frult and veg mgn-ky Fruit Co z Chicago .. .49 238 104 Minneapolis 3 e Duluth Omaha 5 Kansas City St. Louly Winnipeg Thene sale; # furnished by 324s, $4.60 box: 1608, 86.60 box. Vals, 2008, 216s. 260 Florida 126s, $1.70 box; Florida, 150s, $4.00 box: Florl B 4168, 2608, $4.26 box. Navel $4.76 box; Navels, 1603 = | other sizes, 260 Vi Vi 8, 176, 288w, 86.76 box winter: 1 car (dark), $1.74; 1 car, $1.71%; $6.26 box. Lemons, fancy, 300s, |3 cars, §1.7 box; choice, 300s, 360s, 36.00 box 968, $3.00 'bo 3 Grapefrult, 36 Cattlo—Recelpts wero large not only here A $1.68. Sample hard winter: 1 durum: 1 car, $1.68. No. 4 spring: cars, §1.60. 1 Ribbon Jonath $1.37; % car, $1.35, smaller, 31.86 box. " 1 car, 96e. No, 1 feed: 1 car, 98c; 1 car, 97c. Rejected: Corn—No. % white, 2 cars, 87%c. No. 3 white, 1 car, 87} Onlons, Spanish, $2.00 crafe $2.00 doz. Cabbage, 3%c¢ ‘Tyrnips. carrots, ?%c 40¢; dos. California, Rutabagoes, 2%e up b, Celery, Michiga [] mon o fair jcornfed vesvas.. §4. gl and Cherry, $9 00 uj Howes, at $10.60 bbl. $7.60 sack; dogen, $1.00 dozen. California Mammoth, 0. CHRISTMAS TREES—Baby Xmas trees, ood feeders, $6.80@7.76; common to fair | fOF tablo use, sizes 24 to 42 inches, averag- all birch bases, $4.60 3x5 feet, $1.50. Ing two doz, Per doz. in bundle: bx7 feet, $2.00; 7x9 feet, $3.00; 9x11 foet, $4.00; 10x12 feet, $7.60, foot, $2.00 to $3. $3.00 to $4,00; 22 feot, $6.00 to §6,00; 1 crate, Single troos: $1.60 to $2.60; i 17 feet, $2.60 to $3.60; 24 feet, $6.00 2.00, feot, 16 $6.00; $7.00; 30 toet, $10.00 WREATHS—~Natural evergreen colls, best yards, $1.00; dyed wreaths, evergreen wreaths with im- to on marke 20 ya mortal 411 7 40| TR B aom $1.385 Bolt ths, GI wreaths, Del,, dos, $1.26; holly wreaths, Hogs—The hog run waa lberal, estimates | |ingky's special, doz., $160; Japa placing the supply at 160 loads, or 11,300 [ or green, 60 col bead. This is a gain of more than 1,000 [friz wreaths, i per coll, §1.00; J ch wreaths, per Japaness fris magnolia wreaths, holly branches, holly branches, ; mistietoe, shipped by express, per Ib, shipped by express, per box, $1.25; needle pines, owing , per doz, $1.60 to $2.50; Christmas Their purchases were | troe holders, small, per doz., $2,0 called wll the way from strong to a dime | mas tree holders, large, per dos., $2.50. Miscollaneous—Peanuts, No. 'umbo, raw, Ib, 8 i No. 1 English w Local range of options: _ CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET. #0ld strong to & much as 6o higher, Welght Cattle, Weak; Hogs, Strong* to Higher; Sheep and Lambs Btrong. Chicago, Dec, 11.—~Cattle—Recelipts, 20,000 native beet, 7.00910.60; stockers i cows and helfers, by Logan & Bryan, stock and grain brokers, 316 South Sixteenth street, Omaha: ol nd Lambs—Receipts, 22,000 head; wethers, $8.70@9.60; ewes, and foodors, $8.30@7.76; CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS, Wheat Declines at Opening Because of Il $9.45@10.10; bulk of sales, mixed and buteners amounting to something like thirty-nine ::fl.dmi;;-‘;)y. $10.10610.60; chrs, OF 0.0 bad. This da In fact the|WASOL L L et market. higher; o e Joing loas than half as| £ 04.10; yearlings, $5.0010.00. export buying of wheat and the fact that marine insurance rates on the Atlantic had been completely withdrawn proved a heavy burden today for holders of wheat, espe- clally as the submarine fssue with Ger- many I8 more acute. The market closed weak, %o to 2l4c net lower, with May $1.76 to §L76% and July $1.47% to $1.48, Corn lost BGlo to 1%%1%e, oats e to 1%c, and provislons be to 47%e, Sloux City Live Stock Market. 11.—Cattle—R - beef steers $9.00G $7.00@9.00; fat cows and ers, $6.5097.75; tended to lift the wheat market, a ma- terlal sag took place when hopes of a better European demand began to dwindle, Scarcity of supplles in Great Britain and elsewhero to the bulls, and there was but little at- tention pald to reduced estimates of yiola in Australia. Dry weather complaints from Kansas were Ilikewise quickly dis- missed. Meanwhile an advance In marine Insurance charges acted as a_discourage. ment to buyers and the bearish effect wa: soon emphasized through notices that of- fers of war-risk rates of the Atlantic ocean had been cancelled altogother. It was at about this juncture that word came from Washington " telling of views there that German submarine commanders had clearly violated the German agreement with the United States, 16,000 head; X A mixed, $9.600 0910.00; plgs, $7.50 $11.00@12.40, St. Joseph Live Stock Liarket. 11.—~Cattle—Re- ible supply t late In the session, but as In the case of the upturn in prices at the opening the change was not of a lasting sort. It was discovered that the Buffalo stocks afloat were not included in the total, and this circumstance, together with the general uncertamty . of the ocean shipping situa- tion, caused a new rush to sell as the day reached an end, Evaporated Apples and Dried Fruits. New York, Dec. 11.—Evaporated Apples— .04 Lambs, | Dull and nominal; fancy, Sc; cholce, LR jambs, fair to | §3c; Dried Frults—Prunes, firmer; Californi would halt shipments of corn to Balti- more put the corn market on the down grade. Proviously the market was firm, in sympathy with a sharp advance in quo- tations | tion wi scarcity and dearness of other grains. Oats trade was small. Absence of inquiry from the seaboard had a bearish influence. e ull; cholce, 7% 1o cholce, | extra choice, §00d to cholce, $8..6@ | quiet; cho! o fancy, seeded, ewes, | seedless, 10@13%c; London Live Stock in Sight. Recelpts of live stock at the six principal s yesterday: _ Pr. | wostern marki deliveries of lard on December contracts. Besides, exports last week were much short of what had been looked for, St yellow, 81c; No. 4 white, 903 @ 93 No. 3 white, 63%@b4lc: standard, 546 54%c. Rye: No. 2, $1.43i/ Barley, 930c@ $1.23. Seeds: Timothy, $326@6. $12.006017.00. Provisions: Jork, $25.50; lard, nd lu?n. trong to 15¢ higher; prime fed | Firm, $16.17% ;oribs, $13.30@ 1380, 5@12.00; dressed beef ateers, | snipments. i | celpts, 2,500; shipments, 3 50 3 i A B C D E Huq—-:l:‘e:lyu, 17,000 head; market a:.me X, . § Eht | $6.50@6.85; WG, 37.00; WW, $7.20, 37Tc; ordinary firsts, 35@#6 included, 32 consin, $1.50@1.6 LTI e e B o THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916, GRAIN AND PRODUCE Higher Prices Prevail on Cash Wheat Market, Following Boom in Demand. Omaha, December 11, 1916, The cash wheat situation showed quite price, but the No. Corn was in excellent demand and while The oats market was rather slow at % @ Rye was a trifio dull at unchanged pri bout 997 @98c. Clearances were, wheat and flour equal Liverpool close: Wheat unchanged to lc Primary wheat receipts were 2,012,000 Primary corn recelpts were 1,474,000 , and shipments 963,000 bushels, 49,000 bush- Primary oats receipts were 1,2 CARLOT RECEIPTS, Wheat, Corn. Oats. ‘Wheat—No, 2 hard winter: 4 cars, $1.73; cars, $1.92%; 6 cars, $1.72. No. 3 hard 1 car, $1.70%; 6 cars, $1.70; $1.69; 1 car, $1.68%. 1 car, $1.69; 1 car, ar, $1.60; car, $1.67; 2 cars, $1.55. No. 3 mixed Rye—No. 2: 1 car, $1.40%; 13-6 cars, 1 N $1.40. No. 1: 2 cars, Barley—No. 4: 1 car, $1.08; 1 car, $1.00; 1 car, 92c. 88c; 1 car, c; 1 car, 87c; . No. 2 yellow, 3 cars, 7% 2-5 No. 3 yellow, 1 1% No. § yellow, 1 86%c; 1 car, 86c. No. 2 mixed, 5 cars, 87¢. No. 3 mixed, 1 car (shipper's welght), 87c; 10 cars, 86lc: 1 car, 86%c; 7 cars, 86%c. No. 4 mixed, 1 car, 863c; 1 car, 860; 2 cars, 86%c; 1 car, S6c. Oats—Standard, 2% cars, 52% No. 8 white, 12 cars, 62%c. No. 4 white, 2 cars, 63%c. Sample white, 1 62c. Omaha Cash Prices—Wheat: No. 2 hard, $1.71% @1.73; No. 3 hard, $1.68@1.71%; No. 4 hard, §1.67@1. @1.76; No. 3 sptin durum, $1.69@1.74; No. 4 durum, $1.679 1.72. Corn: No. 2 white, 87% @88¢c; No, 3 white, 86% @87%c; No. 4 while, 86@86%0c; No. G white, 86% @86%¢c; No. 6 white, 85@ 86ic; No. 2 BT @87 %o yellow, 8 v 62%c; 2 cars, No. 2 spring, $1.68 $1.64G1.73; No, 2 yellow, 87@87%c¢ No. 3 yellow, No. 4 yellow, 86% @87c; No. § @86%0; No. 6 yellow, 85@86c; 2 mixed, 86% @87c; No. 3 mixed, 36@ #7c; No. 4 mixed, §6@86%¢c; No. 6 mixed, B6@86%c. Oats: No. 2 white, 62% @63c; standard, 62% @62%¢c; No, 3 white, 6214 @ 62%c; No. 4 white, 62@52%c. Barley: Malting, $1.06@1.14; No. 1 feed, 90c@$1.00. Rye: No. 2, §1.39@ 1.4 i No. 3, §1.38@1.40. Local Futures. Art. Wwht. | |I | I | Dec. 1.68%0 168 168% | 1 68%5[168 May |1 73%%| 1 74% 171%| 172 [173% July | 143%| 144|142 | 1 43% (143 Corn Ded, 8% 871 86% 8615 8714 May SO%| %[ 88| ssi| 893 July 8% 88%| 87% 87%| 88y Oats Dee. 61 62 b1 52 b1 May 54% 44| 64 54 641 (= AR UL e T (1 Chicago closing prices, furnished The Beo Art. [ Open. | High, | Low.| Clos Whit. Dec. | 1 66%/ 167 [1643] 1 64%[165% May (1 TTXN| 1 T8%(I7T4%| 176 (1773 July 160%] 160%[147%| 1 47% 140% Corn, Dec. | 920%| 024 00%| o0%f o1% May [03%@%| 93%]| 92 02%| 935 SJuly 93%| 93| 01%| 91%| 93 ats, = - - g * s & 26 65/ 26 65 (27 00 26 10 26 16 (26 20 116 65 16 70 |16 17 |16 70| 16 70 |16 15 13 87| 13 90 (14 00 14 15) 14 173414 27 Shipping Difficulties. Chicago, Dec. 11.—Virtual stoppage of Although at first bullish forelgn advices ve only temporary advantage A sharp falling off in the domestic vis- al rallled the wheat market Announcement’ that rallway embargoes QGreat Britaln, where consump- sald to be liberal owing to the Provisions gave way on account of big Chlcago Cash Prices—Wheat: No. 3 red, 13 . 2 hard, $1.79; No. 8 hard, orn: No. I yellow, 94c; No. 4 Oats: clover, Butter—Firm; creamery, 31§37c. Eggs—8toady: recelpts, 1,430 cases; firsts, “t mark, cases Ipts, 45 cars; Wis- fchigan, $1.55@1.62; Potatoes—Stead Minnesota and Minnesota and Dakota, Poultry—Allve, wheat is quotable Cholce oats or rye, Alfalfa—Choice, 50; standard, $14.50@1 NEW YORK GENERAL MARKET. Straw—Cholce Apprehension Complications and High Call Rate Causes Decline. EARLY PRICES HIGHEST | Pennsylvania Quotations of the Day on Various Leading | on (Copners Commodities. 11.—Flour—Barely 50; No. 2, $12. 0. | Rep. Iron & Stec Shattuck Ariz Southern Pacific .. Southern Rallway . steady; spring patents, winter stralghts, Coffee Market. 11.—Coffee—The marki coffee futures were easier today unde Wheat—Spot 0. 1 northern, northern, Manitoba, s come largely from cotton trade sources cannection with the n Pa 3 New York, Dec. 11.—Trading in today's | pnion Pacifle .. governed largely by the couse | UM g dry bag Ped of forelgn affairs and a lute rise in nt the professional ele- developments No. 2 yellow, $1.07, ¢ United States Stee! decline of 1 point to an advance of 3 points with the late months relatively steady on by near month selle , but the whole press the general list. In point of fact rate was more or less artificlal, being renewed at half that rate or lower. llquidation oceurred sult of the political conditions in England | and France and apprehension further declines in the afternoon with March selling at 8.13c and July at 8.dde, $1.00@1.02%; No. 3, 10 per cent money tal sales for t nts net lower. Sales, The close wa 5 mber, 7.87c; January, 7.960; Cotton Market. 11.—Cotton—Futures | F §.45¢c; Septem- ovember, 8.71e. ntos 4s, 10%c. | Firm offers in the cost and freight market | ranging down , and 9%c for Santos 4s, 1al cables reported Hides—Barely steady Central America, 42@43 Leather—Firm; hem opened steady; 1 Anglo-French i October, 17.17c. The cotton market closed today a net decline of 79 to 95 points Provislons—Pork, unsettled; mess, amily, $30.00@83.00; with further unsettlement in marks. Early prices were mostly above last w final quotations, the fuvorable ment and the United States Steel November tonnage report being viewed as bullish fac- London credits $23.00@ 23.60; middle west, $26.50@ 27.00, $16.50@16.60. Tallow—Dull; city, 1lc, nominal; country, 1% @11%c; special, Wool—Firm; a partial decline of 50 reis in tures with a holiday in Rio and no epot American i ; good mid- | Santos cleared 63 New York and 35,000 bags for quotations from Santos. 000 bags for New Orleans, will be closed | the end of the 30 and January 1. | Rice—Steady; bluo rose, 4%c. Molasses—8teady; Ing shares showed net declines of 1 to nts, with a loss of 16 points for Bethle- | hem Steel on a single transatclon. Metal Market. —Lead, $7.90 Butter—Firmer; Copper group, munitions, shipping shares and rails, invest- ment fssues in the latter group yielding polnts on moderate States Steel fell more than a point on the morc exten- sive selling of the later dealing: Among the few noteworthy exceptions to the lower trend were Ajax Rubber, which was over 4 points to tho new high record and Central fortfeiting much of its 2 Ohio Gas was the only utility to dis- marked strength at a gross gain of 36@37%¢; sec- nominal; second and third quarters, northern, $29.50@ 50; No, 1 southern, o » granulated, Eggs—Firmer; & | fresh gathered extra firsts, 46@47c; firsts, : ator speclals, marks fancy, refrigerator, seconds to firsts, 31% @ ugar futures opened | Iron—Steady 1 liquidation, prompt- easler under scatter. ‘moon prices were 1 to 5 points lower, Cheese—Steady; state, held specials, 24% @24c; state, aver- Spot copper, Omahs Hay no quotations until further notice; electr Huy—Choice s; spelter, £55. Dressed, quiet; chickens, 15@29¢c; fowls, 13 @21c; turkeys, 18@28c. New York Money Market. 11.—~Mercantile paper, 4 sixty-day bills, New York, Dec. Sterling exchange, Commerclal sixty-day bills on banks, 4.71% ; Sentimentally ed by the further break in com- modities, especlally cotton, and advices from st, where the agitation resulting from sed cost of necessaries has caused speculative interests to modify their com- cables, 4.7 7-16. Bilver—Bar, 76%. Bonds—Government, Mexican dollars, 58%. The Riviera of America Pass Christian, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Gulfport, M!sslsslppl Cih), Ba\) St. Louis, P nsccgou]a, Pen~ sacola, New Orleans, Mobile. % GoLF, Boating, Fisning, SHooriNg; and all Outdoor Sports MAGNIFICENT SHELL ROADS The mild equable climate and picturesque surroundings are especially attractive to northern people seeking @ complete change and diversion. Good hotels furish accommodations to meet all requirements. Modern steel trains from Chicago and St. Louis via Louisville & Nashville R, R. reach this en- chanting vacation land in a little over 24 houss. Time Loans—Steady; sixty days, 4% @4% ; ninety days and six months, 4@4%. Call Money—Strong; high, 10; low, 3%; rullng rate, 3% last loan, 10; closing bid. 9 ffered at 10, irregular on Total sales, par value, diminished dealings. changed on call. Sales. High. Low. Am. Beet Sugar... 3, American Ca 1 K. & T. 1st 43 7 00% *Mo. Pac. ¢ 6u..103% Aont. Power bs C 6 . Smelt & Ref. .. &332 Am. $mel 6y Anaconda Copper . Baldwin Loco. . Balt. & Ohlo . Brooklyn R, Tr. . B. & 8. Copper . Cal. Petroleum . Canadian Pacific Central Leather . Nor. Pac. 3s . 94%*0re. 8, L. r 4s. 9. . 1% Pac. T. & T. bs.1 .102% Penn, con 4i4s..1 gen 4%s..102% Atchlson gen 4s. Both, Steel r 5s Central Pac 1st. Ches. & 'Ohto c o Chino Copper . Colo. Fuel & Tron Corn Prod. Ref. Crucible Steel Distillers’ Sec. 1 o oly Cent. r 45 9 Great Northern pfe 9 Tllinols Central Interborough C. Inspiration Copper. Attractive Tours to Central America, Cuba or Florida wvia the Gulf Coast. For illusirated folders, schedules oz other Information, address P.W. MORROW, N.W.P. A, L.&N.RR. 332 Marquette Building Chicogo, lllinots GEO, E. HERRING, D.P.A. 504 N. Broadway Minneapolis Grain Market. $1.83%; July, $1.79%. $1.83% @1.87%; No. SLI55% @1.81% Corn—No. 2 yellow, 86% @87%c. Oats—No. 3 white, 49% @49%c. Flaxseed—$2.83@2.88, Flour—Unchanged. Barley—78c@#$1. Rye—$1.40@1.41. Bran—3$26.00@ 27.00. Loulsville & Nash. . Mexican Pet. ..... L7 Mo., Kan, & T. St. Louts, Missourt Montana Power Kansas City General Market. Kansas City, Dec. 11.—Wheat—No. 2 hard, red, $1.74@1.78; Decem- Corn—No.'2 mixed, 90¢; No. 2 white, 91c; 2 yellow, 9lc; Oats—No. 2 white, 66@56%c; No. 2 mixed, Butter—Creamery, % seconds, 35%c; packing, 26%c. Eggs—Firsts, 40c. Poultry—Hens, 16%c; roosters, 12c; tur- St. Louls Grain Market. 11.—~Wheat—No. $1.80@1.82; No. 2 hard, $1.79@1.84%; De- cember, $1.7313; May, $1.76%. Corn=—No. 2, 92 No. 2 white, 93@93%c; December, 93%c; May, 9°%c. road [imit 20-Hour Schedule— Yet No Excessive Speed Liverpool Graln Market. 11.—~Wheat—S8pot, No. hard winter, 16s 10d; No. L\M:nlmbu, old, ay ed Corn—S8pot, American mixed, new, 14s. Flour—Winter patents, Hops—In London (Pacific coast), {4 15s@ London Stock Market, 11.—American were quietly steady and featureless on the stock market here today. Money—4% per cent. Discount Rates—Short bills, 5% @5% per bills, 5% @6% per cent. Bank Clearings. cent; three month: today were $5,225,476.35, the corresponding day 272.96. ¢ For tickets and reserv: call at City Ticket Office, 242 South Clark St. Phones Wabash 3660, Auto 53-812. r address C. L. Kimball, lfhcmywl:i::y.!hcn isno extreme to % saatch bi of the White Plague. 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