The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1919, Page 13

By MILTON BRONNER y nobody in th in the great With more sum: than last year sugar actually widespread from retailers and from som fers to the effect that they get sugar, Washington and Colorado, With which to can fruit Wthe Department of A i, thermore the tee enfareeti ite right to get mumption of Pounds per capita per year. } More Than Last Year to do #0. competied them ments, But even all these » Lowman &| iil? fi Several smaller concerns Operations several open shop basis. ? printers, t i i f De-licious! WE NEVER CLOSE 109 Ist Ave. &., at Vester 322 Pike, at Fourth BRICK- LAYERS men needed at once. Steady work. Master Builders’ Assn. 4082 Arcade Bidg. WANTED Large number of good $9 Per Day Where Has the Supply Gone? Certainly It Is a Mystery ASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Appar government can mystery produced com e here from consumers, plaints com pe annot Housewives in Virginia Maryland, West Virginia, Michigan else Shere complain they can't get sugar griculture the figures on sugar production * furnish any reasons for short The Department of Justice says found ‘no evidences of hoard The United States Sugar Equal Board, which controls all the sugar in this country and Cuba, comes nearest giving a reason. ‘says. early in the year people were to buy sugar but did not. result was much was ship At the height of the can ‘season raw sugar could not be from Cuba for three weeks | because of the shipping strike. Fur angtiah Royal commit one. of the Cuban crop, Also the of this country. since boo out have increased the sugar from $$ to It ped con | The board says on July 1 it asked | the sugar refiners to suspend ship ‘of sugar to foreign countries, where contracts absolutely The board. which goes out of existence Dec. 31, 1919, has no legal power to | Place an embargo on sugar ship tements not tell us why sugar should be than before, and also scarcer. the 11 months ended June 30, the actual production of cane Ivy anys a0 on {h® | who. analysed the feeders, presemen | rs were receiving $6 an eight-hour day wh fand beet sugar in this country was! lover HIT BY STRIKE 2,000,000,000 pounds, We ported from Cuba, Hawall, I Rico, Philippines and Java 524,000 pounds. Thin made im rto 888 rand Financial Loss total of 8,997,450,000 pounds in this BY RALPH F. COUCH | Tomatoes are practically off the lo country, of which we only exported | (United Press Staff Cos ondent) | cal produce market as the result of for 11 months ended May 0, 1919, | WASHINGTON, Sept, 30— ¢the cold weather of the past three $31,697,000 pounds, There waa thus American business men tod: days, The commodity had reached « left for home consumption 8,155.75%,.| are facing losses that may total | stage where it was selling at 75 000 pounds, as compared with 8,0 944,000 pounds last year. And ye conditions aa to sugar are worse this jYear than last, | | The suggestion has been thrown | out that some of the big packers and $10,000,000 daily from the strike | of British railway men and the threat of transport workers to tle up all operations in the ports of the United Kingdor This is the value of m chandine canners, with large stocks of jaat|"©W being manufacture and year's pack on thelr shelves have | Shipped daily from United States | managed to corner part of the Amer-|POrts Part of the shipments al: | fean sugar supply with the purpose | "ey have been cut off by order of of preventing housewives from doing | (#¢ United States shipping board, their own canning and thereby bring. | C@Mceting all sailings to ports in Ing ing about an increased demand for |'44, Ireland and Scotland canners’ goods. I have seen some) May Lower Living figures which show that some of the! ‘The cost of living in the United big wholesale grocers are going to! states, on the other hand, may be ask about 50 per cont more for Jams | considerably lowered, than they did last year. Prospects Look Better The prospect at the beginning of this year was that the new crop of cane and beet sugar raised in this country would exceed the last one by 100,000,000 pounda, by reason ot |, SMerican commodities are now be 5 cles acreage. However, drouth |" 80! and shipped to the United in Louisiana, California, Utah, Idaho, | Linsdom ports at « rate of nearly Montane and northern Cologado with | 200,000,000 a Month, or more than prevent the crop being ant bigger | Xt" before, according to commetce than the last one. | department reports, The Cuban crop, however, prom. American manufacturers, farm- ines to be very large and there are ers, cotton-raisers, shippers and ex- | huge stocks of sugar in Java which |POrters will be hard hit by the balt- Were accumulated during the war by |!" of the stream of gold and dol- reason of lack of ships. }lars that bas been pouring into What has happened to sugar since | American pockets since January 1 the world went to war is best illus-| When war export regulations came trated by two figures. In January,|to an end, officials say 1913, the wholesale price of sugar in| Closing of the British markets may Complete page of all but a emai portion of Americ ox te ie expected to come before the end of thin week, if British transport work ers strike in sympathy with the rail way workers. New York was 3.48 cents per pound. |have a tendency, officials believe In August of this year it was 7.28/to reduce costs here of foodstuffs es ow Farm producta form the great bulk of the American exports to the United Kingdom. American farmers are now selling for export OFFICER GUILTY; to the United Kingdom in thene quantities: Wheat, — $13,000,000; HE lwheat flour, $20,000,000, $500,000; and cess, $700 } monthly ere Farmers, it ta potnted out, also Constable From Coalfield Is | produce iwvestock which packers are | turning into dressed meats and Convicted on Charge — Senos prosuctn to ship. im thewe _ | quantities: Joe Payne, constable at Coal-| Hog products, $37,000,000 month- field, was convicted of unlawfully |ly; canned beef, nearly $600,000; having liquor in his possession, be-|hams and sholuders, $25,000,000; fore Justice Otis W. Brinker Tues-|condensed milk, nearly $9,000,000, day morning. Constables J. Lambert and Tom Mulligan arrest- $14,000,000, ed Bese. 4 June 21, following in- Ke vestigat! conducted by, Frank T.|ments of raw cotton at the rate | Gorden, special investigator for the | o¢ $54,000,000 a month, or $1,800, - | Prosecuting attorney's office. Sixty-\aop daily, while other Southern nine pints of beer were found In|armery will lowe a market for jhis home, they reported. | When before the court, he admit- jted making the beer, but said jad. that he end ‘ble wite rani 1 (srike effects, since they are ship: with thelr meals. He also declared |PIN€ at the rate of nearly $9,000,000 [it was non-intoxicating. Chemists |WOrt? of Products monthly. — Oil stuff denied it, |*pments to the United Kingdom are being made at the rate per month of $1,500,000 worth of lu- bricating, $700,000 in gas and fuel olla, $3,500,000 in illuminating oils \Officer! Hasten i land $600,000 worth of gasoline. Cot- “ a Hither, Thief Has _ {224 $0.00 worth of eapotine. cot Stolen a Nickel meats «! t+ rate of $1,100,000 month. ; “Come quick, someone has robbed | annerx will lose a market for ola came the word over the |e 500,000 worth of sole leather one. | thty 5,500,000 worth of Motorcycle Officer Fred Mills | Pont and — —- jJumped sboard his trusty machine |*"C0... other principal shipments early Tuesday morning and sped to| 200,000 worth of preserved featth tee hig, hare, Mrs. H. B-| traits monthly: $1,000,000 worth of |the various movements of the burg. {eet billets and ingots, $1.000,000 nia of the DUre- lin knit mooda and $703,000 worth lar from the time he crawied over of canned salmon month refineries should feel the the transom until he rifled the cash register. “Very clever work.” commented the interested officer, “but, tell me, | how much did he get | “I've checked over everything! ——__ — VESSEL MOVEMENTS | pair DEEP SEA VESSELS very carefully,” résponded Mre./ bam ap ed | Smith, “and [ find that the thief Sighted at the Cape took 5 cents.” (Special from U. & Weather Bureag) And she wondered why Officer |, TATOO#H ISLAND, Sept. 20-—§ A. M Rapidly falling barometer; wind sotuh ning; thick t, 16 miles | Mills grunted as hé left the place. | weather outside: / —_——--———__ an hour. September 29—7 P. M. tn: A steamer im the fog. 6 Bl. with dense smoke, wind southweat |Blaze troys Tiles ‘an hour i:se A. Me-Clea with light smoke; light southwest wind. Arrrved at Senttle Reptember 10—Str Admiral Schley from fan Diego and Sen Pedro via Ban Fran- isco at 7 a. m G Southwestern via Southeastern Alaskan 4m m.; #tr Senator from South | Home; Loss $1,000 | Fire destroyed the one and a half story home of N. Whitner, |1538 30th ave. 8, early Tuesday morning, dfving the family tnto| Potten Almaka at 2 a.m at. Pulton the street. The flames caused altrom Tacoma at noon ing Star from British Columbia porte at 6:40 a, m. | Beptember 29—#er ton from trial cruise at 5 p. m.; str MCariden from Ban m |$1,000 damage, which was covered by Insurance, | The house was valued at $1,500/ por g Francisco at #:45 a and was partly destroyed. Fire de- From Seattle partment officials were at a loss Str Mayfair for Port An- to explain the origin. It was dis- at 3:30 am ? Nites vuttmab: * tr Banta or | jovered §=by Whitner, who was Southeastern Alaskan ports m: | awakened by the smoke streaming | scnr for Bellfigham In of into his bedroom. tug Ric lyoke at i str Fulton for T Bike | ton for trial cruise at 10 atr Yosemite for Port m 4 and ports Police Asked to Look for Missing Boys |atr Lake Hanford for | at 6:20 p.m. | | i | 29: Bite Seattle polies have been asked thbound at 4 p.m. BRSBURG. lailed Beptember 29 to keep their eyes open for Laurin Str City of Beattie northbound at 9 p. Jones, 16, and his brother, Hever,| ste Admiral Evans southbound |14, who ran away from their home in Kent, supposedly to join the navy in Seattle ‘ L. F. Jones, the father, notified | port Ludiow at 2 p. m. the police. He sald the boys had both been going to school in Kent, ‘but had tired. They told friends they were going to quit school and ko into the navy. Monday, they kept thelr word and disappeared. The naval recruiting authorities have been notified. 20 p.m. ASTORIA—Arrived September 29: Mo- tor echr Belen Querado from Vancouver, Mtr J. A. Moffett for Beattie at 1 tember 20: a Hol- Beatt PORT ANGELEBR—Arrived September 30: Str Mayfair from Benttle. TACOMA—Hallod September 20 Fulton for Seattle. Arrived Septen 29: Ste Fulton from Britien Columbia ports vin Seattle; str Anyox from Jrit ish Columbia ports at 10 p, m. Wireless Reports Canadian Government September 29—Str Admiral Nicholson In Queen Charlotte Sound northbound at 7p. m.; str Admiral Rodman off Sear- STUDENTS EDIT PAPER Students of the journalism art. ment of Franklin high school will ts sue the first edition of Tolo, the | school paper, by Tuesday afternoon, Eh let Point northbound at 7 p.m Heptember 24-—Atr Renator off Chatham BANK CLEARINGS Point southbound at 7 p Admiral Nicholson thru Heymour rrow® north- Seattle hound at 7:40 p, m.; atr Admiral Rod- pbell River northbound at | Clearings ...........$9/408,791.15 4:30 p. m.; atr Ketchikan abeam Alert Balances ..... ..... 3,190,772.89 | | Bay southbound at 6:16 p, m.; ater Cath ‘acoma, erine D, off Pine Isiand northbound at | Clearings 892,954.00 | | 8 Pp. m. | Balances 149.4 U, &, Navel Communication man off © | | September 2—ftr Jefferson, Port | Warde for Ketehikan, 0 miles’ from || Clearings Point Warde at § p. str Catherine D. Talances 20 miles wouth of Prince Rupert north- bound ot § m my ate Admiral Bchiey, EAMG 7% EXPORTERS ARE W.|and lard and lard compounds, near- ‘The tie-up also will halt ship- | tobaceo leaf worth $11,500,000 a | 0 |Great Northern pier THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1919. TOMATOES ARE _ SCARCE TODAY | Production to 80 conta per box when Old Man | Winter intruded and raised the cont on the public What few tomatoes were seen on the street were selling at $1 | $1.60 per box Tuesday, There w: | number of boxes of green torffitoes selling at 50 cents each Summer ix turning into winter in more ways than one on the whole |male produce market. Fruits and vegetables so common but a few days ago, are rapidly being cleaned | off the market. Eastern Washington cantaloupes | And grapes are searce, Heavy fronts are maid to have done much damage to these products in the Yakirna ley in the past few days. Reports! lof a heavy windstorm last Saturday! night were received by Beatthe com: | mission men A smal! shipment of Italian prunes arrived Monday and was sold at! $1.60 per box. The crop this year! is wald by dealers to have been a very poor one as only small ship- ments have been arriving here from | day to day, A shipment of quinces from Wen atehes proved to be the novelty of the day, They sold readily at $4.50 per box. ‘The first car of rutabagas to have | arrived this searon from Yakima was | cleaned up by Grossman Bros. Tues |day at $3.50 per sack. | Potato market is #teady with de. mand and movement moderate, Quotations are unchanged. The mar- ket continues short on California] weet potatoes. | Butter and ege quotations remain | Unchanged with the condition of the market the same as on the previous | Geer Poultry quotations promise to re | main steady thruout the week rena rd | Local Markets | 2 . — | Price Paid Wholess! cals Dealers ? for Vegrtabics and Froit t Heane—-Green string . Wax, per ™. Reete—Local. per sack Cabbage—Denish ball, bead Carrote—New, per sack per lug bax | Horseradish Raot--Local, pert. 1% Hubbard Squash—tocal, %@ 63 Lettuce Per crate 5 Ontone— ~ Rtocktun, new | Pickling, box Walla Walla oo... Peanut Bu'ter—Per tb. Petatees fer ton— E. Wagh. Netted Gem, new 42.08 New Ideal, per var : Pumpkime—ioeal, per tb Rhubarb Fer 1 Rutabagns—Takima, per muck Spinach--leeal, per bow oe Sweet Corm—Per bag, #-10 doa — Tacal Sweet Potatoee—Nancy Mall omatere— ‘Green ive | Local a | Prektine . | Turmipe New loon, per sack } rRUITs Applee— | 9.000 3.50 1.50@2.00 2 408 O14 @ 02% 1 Per tb ‘Transcendent, Per box | Cranberries | Dates 16 8 Cal, per box joney—Comb, case 24 Btraim : Dark amber - an Francisco for at § p. m.i Je Harbor for San {len from Eagle Harbor FD. G. Soofield, Richmond 216 miles from Point Wells at & p. str Phyllis, Redondo for Tacoma, 225 miles north of Ban Fran- Sp. m.; ate Lyman Stewart, 292 milon from Heattle at 8p. str Rainier, Seattle for San | Francisco, 624 miles from Seattle at & p. |m.; str Rainier, Seattlefor Ban Pranciaco, 624 miles from Ban rancieco at & p, m.; ate J. A. Chanslor, Port ‘Costa for Linn- |tom, 660 mi ¥ § p. m.; ete Mtanwood, Pedro, 10 miles south of Cape Blanco at § p. ™m.; str Brentwood, Portland for Bal- | bow 99 miles south of oClumbta river | Hg@htahtp at 6 p.m. Veanels in Port at Seattle Today Btr Jeiseo at Oloum for Seattle, m.5 Smith Cove terminal Pier D, inal—U. 8. Swifteure, Bell ri 1 . WM. T. Heather, str Brookdale, Str Delight —Str Morning Star, Pior 2—Str Northweatern, atr Redondo. Pier &—Str Meriden, str Major Samuel Ringgold. Grand Trunk dock—Str Senator. | Pler A—ftr Admiral Farragut. B—tr Queen, ste Admiral Dewey. or D—8tr Admiral Sohiey. Pier Pier nion Pacific pler—Str Yoko Marv. ncitic Coast pler—Str Gray Cloud | torminal—U, 8 8. Burnside. | Hanford at. terminai—Motor @ohr Da- ate Bieriwa, #tr Clio, | Duthie yarde—#tr Dewey, tr Deuel. Todd's drydock——Str Berringa, str Gatt- | overnor. 1 Bridge and Dredging Co.— i binda, Lake Union: ton, |. Bough= Howeama Rourneville, Atlen= Addison, Amik, Fort Union, 1d, 2 Chestert Abilla, Adria, Bleatra, Capraria, Oolwin, Abydon, Academia, Pesta, Black Wolf, Birk- jand, Bastine, Bianford, Agron, An- t Fort Stanwix, Cozian, Bno- schr r Henry Wilson, bee Dashing Wave, bk Ori | ental, ate Ban Juan, sehr Salvator, U. S. Men Facing Heavy|Cold Weather Hinders the|Bureau of Markets Has No! Funds to Continue Work Owing to the | telegraphic the Bure States part will be greatly October 1, The bureau ha ps const fruit and and shippers over wire connecting markets. Heginning Wed conducted from will be Umited to ing the past year. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE CUT market a of Markets of the United the service for the benefit of Pacific the on one crop at a on five or six simultaneously, as dur | k of funds, the news service of | nt of Agriculture urtalled, beginning! s been conducting vegetable growers | & specially leaned direct to Eastern | nesday the service | Pacific coast 0 & market report time, instead of FRENCH AFTER GERMAN TRADE Shipping Man in Seattle to! Further Plans “We do not care for profit just w. We want Germany's commer clal maritime trade,” was the state ment Monday night of Comte de Fayolle, managerdirector of the Societe Generale des ‘Transports Maritimes, a steamship line which is running vessels from Pacific Coast ports to the Mediterranean. The French shipping man, the New York and San representatives of his company, \s t the New Washington. He is on @ trip to the Pacific Coast in pur suit of his favorite plan to supplant the former German merchant trade in the West Indies and South America and Pacific Coast ports with vennels of his own country with | wo — —] || Status of the New York | | te Stock Exchange up % Baidwin at hem Steel "R" ath to 246, Heurre Mardy, Loca) Italian, per Quinces Per vor Watermelon Per 1h Manchuria ... Bieckh Walaste—Por te o Baited do No. 2....... Green bulls or stage, 0 aves 4 ; Dry bolle or et . Dry oalt hides =. do medium wool, ME eee do flint ary woot Nod jogo — Primes Rough heavy a Hest cows and he! fancy t ‘ strictl: DAI Botter—Local cubes. Prices Paid by | Ames yarde-—Htr West Ira, #tr Roone atr Cathiamet HMeffernan’s drydock~-Str Conewago, Rash, ore-Brown plerStr West Ison, atr | Geese—Liv Belgian Maree—Liv, During the first hour Crucible advanced P 14h, a new high record. 120%, up 2% The market closed reactionary. bor Husgarian, per bom Christmas Melene--Per > Peanute—Virginia Keystone, Pecane—Per TD. . Per Pound Salted hides, cows ana steers, No, 1.. de No. B...646++ . Green hides, cows And steers, He. i.. bulls of stage, No. 1 jo Ne ee Sheep pelts, long wool, each... wi Timothy Seed—No. 8, per Ib. Seeder ib.... Medium to cholee .. DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid te ¥ PR OTS Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers country cream. country creamery, POULTRY | ree vo cot | NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The stock | market opening today showed continued strength in almost all leading issues. United States Bteel and Ma opened off \, the former at 1064, the latter at 65% ucible Steet featured the list, | jean Petro- Btores at Me uP Mes P 1%, and Bethle- | up % | and tire stocks box . No. i. each petie -16.00016,.00 16.008 16.60 | © +12.50013.00 12.00 11.00 y thea. Wholesale Deal- | tination. | : Denver Market Report | rue, + 1.86 @18.60 | © Steamship Waban Goes to Drydock PORTLAND, Sept. 30--With 40, 000 defective rivets, the 9,500-ton steamship Waban, operated by the Pacific Steamship Co, is on dry dock here while the rivets are be- ing replaced. She will be delayed weveral days and her original sail ing date of October 4 has been set) back. The Orient will be her dew | Portland Market Status | VORTLAND, Sept. 26.—C att! e—Te- T canners vem, ¥ Receipts, Receipts, 67 head; market . Prime lambs, $11.50@12.50; e yeart $7. ings, here, $7.60G8: ewes, $5@7.50. 45@ the per Ib. 1. Cheene—Tripleta, 32@ 240 per tb. DENVER, Sept. 20 —Cattle—Recel: 2.700 head: market stro: New York Coffee and tions NEW YORK, Hept. 20.—-Coffee—ni 15%e0 per No, 4 Santos, 2440 per Ib. Sugar—Centrifugal, 7.200 per Ib. po ee Frisco Market Status BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3¢.—Butter— Extras, 68e per Ib. Extras, 19%¢ per dos; extra S4o per doz; undersized pullets, a%e lifornia flats, fancy, High low Close $1.44 $1.39 G19 125% L2sy 14% 120% 121% 122% 10¢ %B.; ‘bonel: corned 200 TH. Stall 102, best creamery butter, 6Te t.: Co-Operative or Libby's milk, 2 cans 26¢ with purchase of 40 bulk tea or coffee. -23, large =129, best fresh pullet egga, 0c doz. te ™ KTape fruit, hn MJ. Citrus Powder, G B 250; PAGE 13 Our Definition of Service For our customers is working for them. We have a genuine desire to see our depos- itors succeed in worthy business efforts, and not solely because we will profit by larger balances. 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