Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1916, Page 12

\ 12 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBE -_—— LIVE STOCK MARKET Best Cattle Strong and Other Grades About Steady— Sheep Ten or More Up. — HOGS STRONG TO HIGHER 1916 Sheep. 10,202 17,641 13, ) Omaha, December 14, Receipts were! Cattle. Hogr. Officlal Monday 11,567 11,336 otfi Tuesday 9,113 16,667 Officlal Wednesday 7,408 18,365 Bstimate Thursday 5,000 14,600 Four days this week days last week days 2 wks. ago days 3 whs. ago days 4 wks. ago 45,667 same days last year 54,818 Recoipts and disposition of live stock at the Unjon stock yards, Omaha, for twenty four hours ending at 3 p. m. yesterday RECEIPTS—CARLOADS, Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. HI's's. 10 9 3 62,071 37,812 46,667 26,6383 L M. & St Wabash .. Missouri Pacific Unfon Pacific > & N. W, cast. & N. W, west St. P.M. & 0. B. & Q. ecast B. & Q. west R, I & P. cast ", R, I & P. west llinoly Central . ‘N Gt. Western r Total recelpts..1 184 40 DISPOSITION—HEAD, Cattle, Hogs 837 2,146 336 & Co Q035 5 1 Cudahy Packing Co..1, Armour & Co it Schwartz & Co T. W. Murphy 3 Lincoly Packing Co 8. 0. Packing Co Cudahy. K. C Huninger & Oliver W. B. Vansant Co Renton, Vansant & L. ¥. B. Lewis 5 1. B. Root & Co.. J. H. Bulla . 1. F. Husz Rosenstock Br F. G. Kellogg Wertheimor & 1. F. Hamilton Sullivan_ Bros Mo, & Kan Christle Higglns Huffman Roth Meyers ..... Glassberg .. Baker ... Banner Bros. John Harvey Dennis & Francis XUMO ovoencinvuiors Jensen & Lungren. O'Day .. Other buyers Morris Swift & D alf Co. 1 Totals L1489 14466 11,476 Cattle—Receipts were liberal for a Thur day, bringing the total for the four days up to 33,874 head, the largest since three weeks ago and larger than alyear ago by over 6,000 head. Good killing cattle were strong and fairly active. The fair to medium grades weore about steady. Good feeders were fully steady with light and inferior grades slow and ibly weak. uotations on cattle: Good to cholce year- beeves, $10,00911.50; good to cholce welghty cornted beeves, $10 00@11.00; falr 221 fed lar 164 fed lambe 167 fed lamb: 246 clipped Jambs 261 fod lamb: 142 Utah cwes CHICAGO LIVE Hogs Weak but Sheep Strong " Cattle Weak, Higher, Cattle—Rereipts, 10,000 tive beef cattle, $8.90 8 10 25: stocker: 00, co heifer 061 0,000 head market weak | erduy’s average; bulk of | NKht, $9.10/a 9.5, mixed $9.56@10.16; rough Chicago, Dec head: market @12.50, western ste and fo $47 $3.756 10.10, cal Ha Tecelpt anles, 39506 10 00 $9.400 10710, heay $9.56@9.70; pigy, $7.15@9.00 Sheep and Lambs—Receipt murke! strong; wethers, $5.% $0.700r9.50; lambe, $11.00@ 13 15,000 210.00 head St. Louis Live Stock Market, 1 Receipts beet nd Cattle 000 teady; carling ) helfers nd | outhern beef and helfer. teers und heif $6.00@ 1200 native TS ferders, $b steers, $5.00G9.00: beef $4.25607.50, prime yearling ers, $7.60@9.00; native 1ogy—Receipte, 16 higher; lights. $9 45 9.9 mixed and butchers heavy, $10.05G10.15 10,00 Sheep market, $6.00 0@ K.50 06 7.7 prim head; market plks, $K.50%9.50 $9.50@10.10. good bulk of sales, §9.60@ head ewes| and Lambs steady; lambs yearlings, Recalpty 0 50041525, 1. @1.2 Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, D) 14 —Cattle— Rece 3,600 head; mark higher prime steers, $10.50@1 dressed beef st $7.60@10.60; southern steers, $5.50G 10, cows, $6.20@8.50; heifers, $5.00@10.50 stockers and feeders, $6.00458 00, bulls, $5.60 @7.25; calves, $8.50( 11 2 Hogs—Recelpts, bulk of & @10.10; pack 1010 light, $9.454 9.9 Sheep d Lamby market. higher; lambs lngs, $10.60G@11.50; we ewes, $7.750@8.75 ipts. o cad: market 0510 % vy, butchers, $9.907 Dike, $5.0060K.75 Recetpts, 8,000 head $12.00613.10; yoar therw, $%.25G9.25; St. Joweph Live Stock Market. ph, Dec. 14 market active, $7.004012.00; cows calve Recelpy steady to 10c higher wales, $9.46@ 10,00, Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 2 market steady to 10c higher; lambs @13.00; ewes, $5.00@ 885 st 2,300 hy stoers, @10.00 Hogs Jox Recelpts, to strong; nd helfers, $4.60 ad $10.05 market top bulk of 100 head $12.00 Live Stock in Sight. Recelpts of live stock at the five principal western markets yesterday Cattle 6,000 000 500 000 300 Hogs. 16,600 Sheep. St Omaha . Kansas City. g . Joseph Louin Totals Coffes Market. Dec. id—A view of peace prospects activity In the market here today and a sharp advance in prices, ‘The opening was unchanged to 2 points lower under scattered realizing, which was probably brought on by reports that Santos futvkes had not fully maintained yesterday's opening advance. Houses with continental connectlons were good buyers, however, and demand seemed to broaden during the day, with March selling up to 8.60c and July to 8.80c, or about 16 to 23 points net highor. The close was at practically the best polnt, showing a net galn of 18 to 22 points New York. more optimistic caused increased for coffee futures 10 good cornfed beeves, $5. mon (o falr cornfed beeves, §00d to cholce grass beeves, 37.7609.0 grase beeves, $6.76 'l._'ll eommon cholce helfers, $5.6097.5 common to falr cows, $4.50 svod to chofee 7.76@8.26; falr to good feeders, $6.800 common to falr feeders, $5.760 i good to cholce stock- 5@ ock helfers, $6.26@7.50: ock calves, $6.00 0@16.00: beef bulls, @9.00; veal calves, bologna bulls, $5.00. stags, otc, $65.50@6.7 Representutive sales. BEEF STEERS. r.' Pr, No, 25 00 15 35 5 00 2% 75 10 25 45 20 20 40 50 70 E CALVES, 0o 7 60 00 25 00 50 L PP IDAHO. % 49 cows. .. WYOMING. 19 cows...1064 7 00 2 cows... SOUTH DAKOTA. . 719 6 40 - 20 heiters, NEBRASKA. Alptre-hfs. 343 7 00 7strs-hfs 467 Hogs—While buyers tried hard to weaken the extreme close yesterday, the final sales were just as good as any time. This morn- ing the trade opened even slower than it did yesterduy; for, while packers again had Dbearish ideas, sellers had an Idea that they ought to get, If anything, stronger prices. Buyers were in great hurps to flll orders, for, as was the case Wednesday, a great many of the trainy were late, and the con- sequence was that up to 10:30 not enough had been done to even show the tendency of the market It was 11 o'clock and after before much of ahything moved, but when the move- ment did finally start it was at prices that were as a general thing almost as good as the high time yesterday Once u start was made the market became fairly activ Comparing the market with yesterday w & many-sided proposition, for while prices were as nol pretty nearly as good as Wednesday's best time, they showed an im- provement of a big nickel over yesterday's nverage and were a dime or more above tho low time yesterday merning. As little outside the early sales got in the paper yesterday, today's sales show a big advance over the ones reported yesterday. landed at $9.46@9.80, with a top of $9.90. Representative sales No. 90,166 61..198 48, 5. [ 20 50 00 00 44 steers. .1201 10 25 13 cows 3 85 Av. Sh. Pr. coo 8940 . 950 9 60 9 70 9 80 PIGS. RUT RS B 1 Sheep—All fat lamb records were smashed again this morning, when the trade opened falrly early at a fresh advance. The earllor sules were anyway a dime to and in several instances 15c” higher, n good many of the desirable offerings selling up around $13.00, with a sprinkling of the decent to pretty £00d kinds down.ard towards $12.60, A new top of $13.10 was made by mid-fore- noon. Idahos, which were a up, brought $12.75. Clipped lambs showed the full strength of the advance, u load of light ones setting a new high mark of $11.85, with several loads of a weightiar sort at $11.50. Some of theso lutter were inates of yesterday's $11.35s fwes were strong to, if gnything, a little higher. * Several bunches sold as high as $8.76, equaling the previous high mark, with a string of falr stuff at $5.00. The high- ost prico pald so far this seanon, $5.85, was glven for a small package of good fed ewes, Feeder buyers had little to pick from, nothing real good showing up, while offer. ings of any sort were scarce. Best of the supply rached $12.26, and while so far noth- ing has gone above that price, a nominal top of $12.50 i3 quotable on a real good kind. Almost no feeding ewes have been hero for « week or two. Quotations on sheep and lamb: go00d o choice, $12.90@13.10; 10 good, $12.25@12.90; lambef clip) $10.60 @11.65; lambe, feeders, $11.00@12.50; year. lings, good to choice, $9.75@10.50; yearlings, little late getting Lambes, lambs, fair ewes, fair to g0od, $7.50@5.50; ewes. $5.000 X breeders, all agés, $6.009Q Representative sales: No. 213 fed lambe .. vasine 192 Nel ka feeding ewes 127 fed lambs . 25 eull lambs 550 fed lambs . clipped lambs fed lambs . 239 fed by . 401 fed lambs . 115 fed lambs 251 f£.d lamibs . Bales, 180,000 bags. December, § Janu- 8.42¢; February, 8.60c; March, §.59 , 8.66c; May, 8.73c; June, 8.80¢; Jul. 8.86c; August, §.92c; September, ; Oc- i November, 9.08c, firm; ; Santos 4s, 10%c, Cost and freight offers wero reporied generally on a basis of 10c for well described Suntos 4, London credits. Tho official cables roported an advance of 1-32d in the rate of Rio ex- change on London and of 125 to 150 rels in Santos futures. Port recelpts, 66,000 bags; Jundinhy, 46,000 bags 33e Omaln Omaha, Dec 11— land, $11.5 No, | $900@10.00: No. 3, $5.00@900; choles mid- land, $11,00¢ No, $10.00@10.60; No, $8.60@9.60; No. 3, $7.50@8.60; choice low- land, $0.00@9.60; No. 1, $8.50@9.00; No. 2, $7.0098.00; No. 3, $5.00@7.00. Straw—Cholce wheat, $6.00@6.50; oats or rye, $6.60@7.00. Alfalfa—Cholce, $17.5¢ 16.60;standard, $14.50@1 13.60; No. 3, $11.00@1 Metal Market. Now York, Dec. 14.—Motals—Load. $7.62% @7.87%. Spelter, weak: spot, East St. Louls dolivery, offered at $11.75. Copper, firm; eleatrolytic, first quarter, nominal; second and third quarter, $32.60@34.00. 1Iron, steady and unchanged. Tin, quiet, spot, $42.76@43.25. At London—Copper: Spot, tures, 136 10s; olectrolytic, Spot, £194 Ga; futures, £186, spelter, £56 108, Market. «itle Hay—Cholce up- §10.60@11.00; No. cholce £142 fu- £164, Tl Lead, £30 10s; 108; Minneapolis Grain Market. Minneapolis, Dec. 14.—W heat— July, $1.70%, Ca: 1 hard, §1 No $1.72 2 northern, $1.67@ No. & yellow, 851 @86} 3 white, 47@47%c¢ Flaxsoed—$2.821 @ 2.87% Flour—Unchanged, Barley—1Tc@$1.10 Rye—$1.300 1 Bran—$26.00 @ Oil and Rosin, Savannah, Ga., Dec. Firm: 63@534c; sales 160 bbls.; shipments, § bbls. Roaln—Firm: sale bblx.; shipments, b, bbls. Quote: A, B, $6.30016.35; K, $6.90; WG, §7 1. —Turpentine— 101 bbls.: receipts, bbls.; stock, L3 6§68 bbls.; receipts, 493 stock, 91,748 $6.20; G, M, 1, $6.0 Liverpool Grain Market. Liverpool, Dec. 14.—Wheat hard winter, 165 11d; No. 1 178 & Corn—8pot, 100, Spot, No. 2 Manitoba, old, American, mixed, new, 13s Dry Now York, Dec. ods Market. 14.—The dry goods mar- Kets were quiot during the day. Cottons re mained Inactive, with a shading of pric in gray goodw. Men's wear and dress go buyers were active Gordon Storage Company To Build Big Warehouse The Gordon Van and Storage com- pany is to build a new $50,000 ware- 16 00 (16 02 GRAIN AND PRODUCE < ... e Better Price_s#f;); All Cereals Prevail On Market—Re- ceipts Very Light. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS, Bearish Feeling Takes New Grip on Wheat and Corn Values. Dec. 14.—Wheat market weakne reports indicating a Hritain and it 0 heav ses today re that was as willing Jiles o call ~d term: @ltye net W@ 1.65% and July hed ot to higher, and 250 deglin BRISK DEMAND FOR CORN [ i pro ~r 14 today Omaha, D 1914 pro oa Grain receipt light but much pri there was a better market for al coreals and nerally were consid the street Just sslon e quarter the had A1y gong ad ended before tn Wall market th wheat hi the day s brea In fuct, the from the effect pr In th wheat trading th whea gr pit Ight from the the advanta At the opening out the da aders wppearcs of the white and | oniaq by reports that the American ax commerclal grades |, qor 4t London had been instructed o as- mixed of the same | .orain the attitude of the British govern | ment toward w possible appeal by President Wilson to enter into negotiations with Germany, Other wch discu cereal, but the demand was o0d &nd | yorg that submarines we nling inorc arkel sold from Yc to '4¢ hIBMCr. | tpan ton British or neutral ships a day of the wamples graded No. 3 While|ang that the food problem In Great Britain were quoted “at b0c, with the No. 4| p4d grown correspond rious selling 'ye under this price and | Apsence of any urgent cxport d ndard tic above the No. 3 white. | wheat operated as a further handicap on There was only one car of rye and two|ihe bulls. In connec el cars of barley recelved, and theso markets|ghortage of ocean vex st thevesuling were, of course, very quiet, rye being | rujjway embargoes, dispatches from Minne- quoted nominally unchanged and barley | apolis sald two flour mills had closed from le to ower down and that others might be forced to These s e reported today do_likewiso 2W No rd winter: 1 car, Cotriltovai Frelativaly No v e 1 car ntiness of country oferings, There also $1.64% cars, $1.64. No. was talk that on punt of poor husking 3 eurs, 31 cars, 3162 relurns the government crop report tomor winter: 1 car, 3151 1 car, row might show a reduction of the cstimated $1.08; | car cars, total yield. Oats seemed to be governed hard winter; 1 chiefly by the action of corn. Nothing was $1.46 heard of any export wale durum . $1.56; No. 4 durum mixed: | Provisions averaged slightly higher 1 car . No. 3 mixed: 1 car, $1.66; 1 hoge. Trade was mostly of a scattere car. $1 I car, $1.69. No. 4 mixed: 1 car, | Chicago Cash Prices—Wheat: No. 2 $1.60 car, $1.59 nominal; No. 3 red, $1.62 2 hard Rye . 203 nal; No. 3§ hard, $1.67. Corn: No. 2 arle 91@91%c; No. 4 vellow, 877,690 1 car, 88¢ | white, 88% @90c. Oats: No white Corr—No. 3 white 521ici standard, . No. 86c. No. % yellow 2 cars, | Barley: $5c@$.1 mothy &h%c. No. 3 yellow: b curs, 86c; 4 cars, |5 lover, $12.0 Provision 5 No. 4 yellow: 1 car, 85'g¢; 1 car, [$28.50; lard, $16.55; ribs, $13.35@13.55 85c. No. b yellow: 1 car, $6¢. No. 2 mixed Butter—Unchanged 1 car, 86c. No. § mixed car, $6c; 3| Eggs—Recelpts, 1,409 cases: unchanged cars, 85%¢ Potatoes—Receipts, 25 cars; unchanged Oats—Standard Poultry—Alive, lower; fowls, 17¢; springs, white: 6 cars, 50c 49%0c; 1 car, 49¢ "y Clearances were: 1o 435,000 bu.; oats, Liverpool close 15d lower. Primary wheat receipts were 1,000,000 bu. and shipments 650,000 bu., against recefpts | of 2,000 bu. and shipments of 1,363,000 | g2 bu. last year ern, Duluth, $1.94%; No. 1 northern, Primary co toba, $2.00%, f. 0. b, New York and shipments Corn—Spot, steady; No. 2 yellow, of 749,000 bu, i. f. New York, ten-day shipmen last year, Oats—Spot, steady; standard, @57 Primary oats receipts were 304,000 bu.' Hayv Steady; No. 1. $1.05@1.10; No and shipments 542,000 bu., against receipts | g1 00 1.02%; 90@95¢; shipping, of 776,000 bu. and shipments of 702,000 bu. | @goe, |eateens Hops—Steady; state, common to CARLOT RE 1916, 45@50c; 1915, 8@ldc; Pacific 1916, 12@16c; 1915, 8@1lc Hides—Firm; Hogola, Ameriea, 42@43c. Leather—Firm; onds, Gic. Provisions—Pork, steady: 32.00; family, $30.00@33.00 $30.00@32.00. Beef, steady; 50: family, $26.50@27.00. middle west, $17.70@17.50 Tallow—Qulet; city, 1lc, nominal; try, 11%@11%c; speclal, 11%c. Butter—Firm; receipts, 3,437 tubs; cream- ery, 40@40%c; firsts, 37@38%c; seconds, 36@36 e Eggs—Tirm; recelpts, 4 gathered, extra firsts, 45@49¢ 49c; refrigerator specials, mar 33% @34c; refrigerator seconds 31% @33c. Cheese—Easy; recelpts, 1 held speclals, 24% @24%c; fancy, 24@24%c Poultry—Dressed, firm; chickens, 29c; fowls, 16@22¢; turkeys, 184p30c firm; no prices settled, but sale t showed the better quoted from 1 rer grades what better juoted ught around nged in price buik going ot rably the bigge grades of wh nigher, whil good demand No r 16 f of b 51 $16 from $1.5% ing tr w at 2 I hour o howey ind the ing begun the a Ll with th at clea th higher, yellow corn sme of the hade In advance of from tn white and with orn and the was quoted for heat n transac with 11 through be influ demand tcularly e selling eliow. The yellow of the brought while the grade brought 5% @ 86 The vats market was rather quiet on ac of the extremely Iight recelpts of bears th bulk corn count orts thi the Most and te s nand for $1.64%. | 2 cars, winter 4 hard 1 car, Sample $150, 1 car, $1.58. No. 8| steady, owing to 51 car, $1.5 Spring: 1 car, 1 car. 2 with sort red car, $1.33 | cars, 90c. Rejected 3 yellow No. 4 ] » 51 $1 506 Pork 1 var, 88%c; T cars T 1 car, 86%c Ry ] @17.00 1 No. 3 1 car, 3 cars, 1 car, 60%c No. 4 white: Sample white: 16 ENERAL MARK Quotations of the Day on Various Leading Commodities. New York, Dec. 14.—Flour Wheat—Spot, Irregular; No. 1 02%; No. 2 hard, $1.82%: No. 1 NEW YORK Wheat and flour equal 78,000 bu.. Wheat, unchanged; corn, Quiet durum, north Manli- recoipts were 962,000 bu. 496,000 bu., against receipts and shipments of 479,000 bu. $1.05, c. choice, EIPTS, coust, Chicago Lo 44@4ic; Central Duluth Kansas City . St Louls . vesns 21 17 Omaha Cash Prices—Wheat: No. 2 hard, $1.64¢1.65; No. 5 hard, $1.61%@1.63; No. 4 hard, $1.54% @1.61. Corn: No. 2 white, | 861 @N6%c; No. 3 white, 86@86%c; No. 4 white, 851 @86c; No, 5 white, 85¢; No. 6 white, 84@85c; No. 2 yeéllow, B3t @86%c; A 3 yellow, 80 @86c; No. 4 yellow, §5@ 6t5c; No. 6 yellow, 841 @86c; No. 6 yel- low, 84@84%c; No. 2 mixed, 85% @86c; No. 4 mixed, 86% @8 No. 4 mixed, 86@85%c; No. b mixed, 84% @86c; No. 6 mixed, 83% @ 84%¢c, Oats: No. 2 white, 50% @60%c; stan- dard, 60% @50%c; No. 3 white, 49%@50c; No. 4 white, 49% @49%c. Barley: Malting, $1.00@1.10; No. 1 f ., 86@94c. Rye: No. 2, $1.35@1.36; No. 3, $1.34@1.35 Omaha Futures, The wheat situation is very unsottied on account of the poace rumors and traders are a Nttle skeptical about taking the long slde of the market. May wheat opened |as follows: Fowls, 20c; chickens, stoady around yesterday's close but the | keys, no sales local sentiment was rather bearish and | prices dropped about 2lc during the carly hours, but closed at $1.62%, & loss of 1%c | for_the day The wheat market corn, but the present to hold up corn prices and the strong cash situation Is also a bullish factor. May and July corn showed little change In price, the May closing at 87c and July at 86¢ Oats were quiet with only a small amount of trade in the May article, which ad- vanced Y. Local runge of optlons: Art, Wht, Dec May July hemlock firsts, 57c; sec- mess, $31.50@ short clear, mess, $23.00@ Lard, weak; coun- fresh 16@ cases; first it Alive, roported 0c; tur- Kansas City General Market. Kansas City, Dec. 14.—Wheat—Na $1.66@1.70; No. £ red, $LG64@15 $1. July, $1.40 Corn—No. ‘2 mixed, white, 85@88%c; No. 2 yollow, S3@89c; December, 87% @88c; May, 88% @88%c Oats—Steady; No. 2 white, 54@54%c; No. mixed, 5465 Butter—Creamery, 39%c seconds, ¢; packing, Eggs—Firsts, 39c, Poultry—Hens, 16%¢; turkeys, 24c. hard, had some effect on May, car shortage serves 87% @RSc; No. firsts, 37%c; roosters, 12%c¢; "7 Open. | High [ Low.| Close. | Yes SR i ] St. Louis Grain Market. | St. Louis, Dec. 14.—Wheat— 2 red, $1.80; No. & hard, $1.69@1.76%; December, $1.6645; May, $166% Corn—No. 2, 90¢ December, 90c; May, Oats—Higher; tracl white, nominal. 108 | RN 137 168 %164% 14]138 | 8% 84y 56% 87| 87% 8oyl 86 |85 ' | al e so%l 50%| 6ox | Chicago closing prices, furnished The Bee Logan & Bryan. stock and grain brokers. South Sixteenth street, Omaha: High. | Tow| Clgae. | Yes T T | 1 54%1 168 165 IRTENITILY | 89T, 88y 916090 %(91% @ % | 0% 2@ 908, 918, 897/ 1 | i o 131 50y | 1) 158 64 16 38 1 ' 841 No. 2 white, 91@92c; De May We Buy, Sell and Quote United Mines Co. of Arizona A New Copper Bonanza | Open. | T Circular on Request. C. W. POPE & COMPANY 15 Broad St. 508 TS 6% | | 26 00 New York City Lard Jan house adjoining its present plant at Ninth and Davenport streets. Grant Parsons is the general contraator, and the steel contract has been let to Carl B. Krauys company of Omaha. Ex- cavationt. work has been started. SPECIAL CHRISTMA OFFER: We will give free of charge with four full quarts of Primo Rye at $3.10, charges prepaid. § Premiums of a fine hand painted bread butter china plate, a bottle of fine port wine, a cold ptehed whis- key glass, a| ocket corkserew and a 1917 calen- dar, | This whiskey is bottled expressly for our trade and is sold direct to you. We guaran- tee this whiskey to be better than other high grade Id rye that sells at double the price. Orders west of the Rockies must eall for prepaid. Qur referenc NE RV RPOS O Bank Mail your orders to MEYER KLEIN LIQUOR cCoO. 16th end California Sts., Omala, Nay ats. National FLORIDA and CUBA via WASHINGTON Special winter tourist rates are now in effect to Florida and Cuba, via Washington, with ten days stopover in the Capital City. You cannot choose a more pleasant or interesting route to Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Phila- delphia and New York, or to the southern coast fresorts. Four all-steel trains daily from Chicago to the east The Pittsburgh-Washington-New York Express . 8:25 a.m, The Washington Special . . . . . . . . . 1045am. The Washington-New York Limited . . . . . 545 pm. The Washington-New York Night Express . . 10:00 p.m. All traing leave Grand Central Station, Fifth Avenue and Harrison Street, Chicago, Ticket Offices: 236 South Clark Street and all principal Eotels, Grand Central Station, also 63rd Street Station, C.C. ELRICK, Traveling Pass. Agent, 912-14 Woodmen of the World Bld Omaha, N Baltimore & O “Qup Passengers Are Our Guests” R _15, 1916. NEW YORK STOCKS Market Experiences Another | Drastic Downward | Movement. U, 8. Steel pfd 200 121! % 120% Utah Copper Wabash ptd "B Western Union Westinghouse E Total sales for the 6.500 2'400 15,500 da 2 54\ © 00,000 sharcs New York Money Market. [ New York, Dec. 14.—Prime Paper—4@4% per cent Sterling change—Sixty-day bills $4.71% ; commercial sixty-day bills on bank $4.71%%; commercial sixty-day bills, $4 RAILS SUFFER SLIGHTLY demand, 34704 2 Sllver—Rar, 75%c; Mexican dollars, 58%¢. — Bon irregular; railroad steady Time Loans—Firm: . par cent; — ernment, New experien York, Dec. 14.—The 4 annther drasti stock market ixty and ninety days, downward move- months, 4@4'% per ment toda iding falling & to 12 and from 0 to imums of last Ively «m Tradir tlons of mandoy lowest Issues highest, 4 per cent; lowest, 31 per cent: ruling rate, 4 per cent; | last loan, 4 per cent; closing bid, per cent; offered at 4 ver cent W, S reg..100:4 Mo, *do_coupon....100% Mont. Power 5 4s, reg.. 110" N. Y, Cen. d coupon....110% N, ¥, Smelters 63.107% *N. T At T e T H. cv cv. 4%s.......105 Northern Angio-French' 5s 93% do Atchison gen. 4s. 941 Ore Balt. & Ohio 4x. 91% Pac r. G8.100% P Pacific 1st. 90% points under recent lavels Money==Rlrme almost 50 points under max- month. Rails recorded rela- with a few actual gains in attained the huge propor mainly as & of tre- ring of the final hour. wh quotations were made. The sotba was greater and more sweeping mbracing a larger uumber 3y I:Joszsy; Pac. con. 6s.103% 99 8112 10815 & 111% outy e | Am in of 1 t extent short selling figured in the aling= 1s a matter of conjecture, but ure from that source was Ingi ch of the liquidation w; involuntary was added to by the offerings of individuals to weather the storm, but whose hension had been heightened by the uncertainties arising from the Germanle peace proposals. Total sales 2,300,000 shares, of which United States Steel and similar | Colo. & S, r. 41z KAN Union Tucifi industrials as well as the so-called war |l & R. G L 20D group. furnished nearly half ks L Steel bs Among the greatest declines were United | 3B S on s Steel, which fell 7' points to 112%. | up) 2 hem $teel fell 10 points to 580, Lack- 5% and 10%, re- Bald- | 1007 1061 v, o8 Shits R. 1 & P Ry ref. ds 6% Railway N en. 10013 West Wept D. bt Can 8% *U/ . rf I awanna and Crucible Steel, spectively; American Locomotive, 7% omotive, 5% ; Gulf States Steel, 26: for the second preferred; Central 10; Industrial Algohol, 12, and) Granby Mining, 9% ' | Metals receded from & to 7 foints. with | declines of a similar extent in petroleums motors, suga papers and the entlre ship- | ping list. Mercantlle Marines were espe cially weak in the final dealings on intima tions of further delay in the restoration of | cent; oferrcd shares to a dividend basis. particularly international issues gain but vielded under the of the increased offerings toward the Total sales, par value, $4.435,000 States bonds wera unchanged on call lead- (1931) reg. e It 14s Nash un K. & T. London Stock Market. Dec. 14 —American securities f with United States Steel shares ck exchange here today Silver—Bar. wd per oun Money—1% per cent Discount Rates—Short three mont @i 1 London, ished dull easy on the s per cent Bank Clearings. Omaha. Dee. 14.—Bank Omaha today were $5.136.421 corresponding day la clearir for and for the 5,821.99 weight close. United Number of sales and quotations on ing stocks were Cotton Dec January, July, otton—Futures 18 March 15.79¢; Qctobe York steady; May, 18.75¢; New opened 18.51c; 16.80¢ | Spot sales, Sales. High. Low. Clo. 12,000 102~ 96 17.300 6014 800 100 46,600 1800 11000 7,500 00 6000 20,100 3,800 400 14,700 3,700 1.400 59,200 9,400 1,800 900 14,900 Am. Beet Sugar American Can Am. Car & Found Am. Locomotive... Am. Smelt & Ref . Am. Sugar Ref.. Am. Tel i Am. 7, L. & Anaconda Copper Atchison Bald. Locomotive., Baltimore & Ohio. Brook. Rapid Tran B. & 8. Copper. Cal. Petroleum . Canadlan Pacific. . Central Leather apeake & Ohio & | | \ quict; middling uplands, 1%.30c 100 bales Cotton futures 18.06c; January, 18.38c; March, 18 6dc; | May, 18.90c; July, 18.94c; October, 15.9 ! The cotton market today closed irregular net 30 to 40 points highe Liverpool, Dec. 14—Cotton—Spot, good middling, 11.05c; middling, 10 middling, 10.79¢c. Sales, 7,000 bales closed firm: Decemiber, 51 w s low S Sugar Market. New York, Dec. 14 —Sugar—Raw centrifugal, c: molasses, 4.52c. Refined dull; fine granulated, 7.16c. Futures opened easy under selling by Wall street and com mission hquses. At noon prices were I to 6 points lower. ermBienRmaDma st easy; | Chino_Copper ... Colo. Fuel & Iron. Corn Products Ref Cruefble Steel ..... Distiller's Securities o sy General Electr orthern pfd orth, Ore ctfs Tllinois Central Inter, consol. corp Inspiration Copper. Inter. Harvs. N. J. Inter Harvester. . I M. M. pfd. ctfs. Kan. City Southern Louisville & Nash Mexican Petroleum Miami Copper . Mo. K. & Tex pi Missour! Pacific. Montana Pow National Lead Nevada Copper . Y. Central Moo N H. W Norfolk & Western Northern Pacifl Pacific Mail . i Pacific Tel. & Tel Penneylvania 1,700 21,600 56,900 AMUSEME DIAGHILEFF’S BALLET RUSSE The Sensation of the Age Nijinsky, Bolm, Lopokova, Revalles, Gavriloff, Froh- man, Spsicewiska and two score ballerinas and complete symphony orchestra. AUDITORIUM SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC. 16 Prices $1 to $4 Box office open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mercantile |~ TAXI GAAWELL CAKS Webster 202 JITNE AMUSEMENTS. Phone Doug. 494 THE BEST OF VAUDEVILLE Dally. Matinee, 2:15—Night, 8:15—Th Ralph Herz & Company; Farber Girlt Dunn & Beaumont Sisters: devitt, Keliey & Brit Wood: Morin Sisters; DeWitt, Burns & rence; Orpheum Travel Weekly Prices: Matinees, Gailery, 10¢ Sat. & Sun.), Night. 1 Best_ Seats ( Se, 500 B “OMAHA’'S FUN CENTEK. gm Daily Mats. Even'gs. 15 2:30 LAST TIMES TODAY ;37 Al Reeves' Beauty Show pisics Burlesque Tomorrow (Saturday) and Week Sam o7 Sidman’s Own Show Tired Shoppers’ Matinee Every Week Day. 15-25-508s -50-75e. THE LEAP YEAR GIRLS JACK BAXLEY LA VERE and PALMER LA MAR TRIO “The Ocean Waif,” 5-act Photoplay. Admission, 10c and 20c First Showing Paramount Pictures. MUSE ; Lenore Ulrich “THE ROAD T0 LOVE” Hearst News—Paramount Comedy TODAY AND SATURDAY Gladys Coburn “The Battle of Life.” Organ Recitals by Profs. Koehle and Horton. TN ALWAYS AGOODSION 1508 Harney - | ITUDAY Jesse L. Lasky Presents THOMAS MEIGHAN and ANITA KING i “THE HEIR TO THE HOORAH" A Picturization of One of Broadway's Greatest Stage Successes. Ray Con. Copper Reading ....... Rep. Tron & Steel.. Shattuek Arlz. Cop outhern Pacific outhern Rallway. tudebaker Co.. f Company Pacific Pacitic 3 S, Ind. Alcohol. 0 Tnited States Steel808,600 pid. “A Picture Playhouse of Character.” Presenting Proof F_or_' One The Eminent R Cent —that Sequoyah Oil and Refining has earned more than 27% for the past two years — that it is now earning more than 40% — that dividends are 12% — that con- tracts tendered this company show net profit earnings of 125% onoutstanding capitalization—that the best buy, for BIG PROFITS, right now is Sequoyah Oil and Refining Officially listed and traded in on the New York Curb On this basis this stock will sell con- !lderlbl‘/ bove present quotations of 1% to 13{, Buy now before the price advances. ‘Wé have not one share of this stock to sell. We are brokers—buy and sell all listed securities and fill your orders at the market. 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