The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1921, Page 12

* PAGE 12 COAL PRICE CLIMBS; ALL ELSE DROPS : Both Soft and Hard Coal Costs More in Past 11 Months AVERAGE RETAIL COAL PRICES wv 21 PRINCIPAL CITIES Prices have been dropping on Majority of commodities, retail prices ef coal—anthracite and bituminous have advanced. ‘The increase in retail coal prices in @1 principal cities of the United States between January and Decem ber, 3920, averaged 20 to 35 per cent Only a few cities near coal fields re) decreases, and these were Ported alight. ‘The average retail price of Penn sytvania anthracite stove coal in the Zi cities on January 15, 1929, $12.28 a ton. On September 15 the , average had risen to $16.48, and on December 15 to $16.88. The increane for the 11 months was 31 per cent on this grade of coal. Chestnut anthracite coal showed @ similar rise, from $12.69 a ton aver on January 15 to $16.55 on De cember 15, or 20.4 per cent. Biturninous coal—the prices of the Various grades offered for domestic use being averaged-—shows an in- crease from $9.24 a ton in January to $12.53 per ton in December, or 25 per cent. Cost of producing and transporting oat has increased during the year. On April 1 the bituminous opera tors and miners signed an agreement giving the miners increased pay av @raging 27 per cent. On April 12 the new and increased railroad rates went into effect. On September 3 a new two-year wage agreement between anthracite miners and operators was signed. Mine workers’ representatives con tend mine owners anticipated in creased wage awards by increased coal prices, and were therefore not Justified in making additional in “creases after awards went into ef fect. was lereteansi ©. K. WATERWAY MEASURE Proposed consolidation of the Du wamish waterway district with the Port district will be supported by the Industrial Association of the South End, which appointed a committee for that purpose at annual meeting at Blanc’s cafe Friday. The purpose of the con templated merger is to elimin: duplication of administrative pense. o—_____________» | Public Markets | ——-q QUEEN crry plenic hams, 200 %.; Minnesota bace brick cheese, 23¢ Th ern bacon T, Stall ‘6,’ lamb ders, 12%¢ T™; lamb lege, 256 th mour's or Swift's bacon, 260 M mugar, 4 The. 240: bent butter, CORNER Stall 116, pig head steak, 30¢ %.; elub Jamb’ steak, 260 th %. Stall 96, veal roast ton chops, 00d bacon, 250 Tm 114, 2 fs. 260; skinned olen, erabe, 2 for 2 ex: Stall 25, Foust. 12'%e T. Btall 44 ™: pot n Fast AP. bbe ® freah Stalls 16-17, 49-T. sack Sno 3 the. Stalls 8-9, ateor wi corned beef, 15¢ fh.; lamb Stall 119, Yakima apy je prices. Stall 105, Se; 4 Ta. white bea Jap rice, 5c. Stall 19 Beniliing’s baking p Td, herring. 15 1 ter, S20 Th.; beat treah eves, ream cheese, 20¢ T. tall @f Wheat, 276 pkg: Citrus wa Ger, 280 phe; 2 pkes macaroni fresh mitk, | % al White bottle soap macaroni, ‘West coffer, 450 M.; corn flakes, 250 PIKE PLACE beat Amer fine beet Carnation milk,” 41 fresh milk, 100 qt. Stal 4 Mx. rolled c Stall 4 hn. Stall Stall 7 Tox, Jap rice, 4 Tos. small white beans onions, $1.00 per wack; Apples, $ box; sweet potatoes, 4 Ibe 1627, country mausage, 2 1 chops, lhe M.; hamburger, ECONOMY Stalls 27-38, Campbell's soups, 106 can 2 20¢ cans € he; Gi ardeilt'n « bbe Th. 17, 360; 66, sugar, # The 00 per lam tha. 16. oa ean tall 40, 400 cot fee, 2 We. toe. tall 4, trean di, 7 js, fresu wi Royal baki }felt » Ship News Tides in Seattle } swNDAY JAN, 16 | ret tow Tide bea " oi tow Tide Viret t A at High t secon Low Th i . f etilan b & Nu Tide second High Tide} , 5 tt pm, * t SATURDAY FAN, 13 ata Opium Is Seized on |!" Liner Korea Maru} \ SAN FRANCISCO hg hundred ninety.seven five-tac! tins of jontum aled in the walls of a stateroom were seized today wher customs officials searched the Toyo |Kisen Kaisha lircr Korea Maru, ar |riving from the Orient oe CAN'T FIND LOST JUNEAU, Jan, t coast guard cutter Snohom to report nigns of Puliteor adds to the anxiety safety of Heavy storms are rag: Gulf of Alaska, Weather Batten Report TATOORH ISLAND, Jan. 18-8 A wal conc Sam | Am 120 pu os the missing | any Joseph mber 18 for Ds re aboard her ing in the Ty up tne those nd A two-manted ro™M 7. Pa freight steamer at » Arrivals and Departures Lit Janvary 16 « the alun u als M. t Diego vis Francs att am Alaskan os { January 14 San enn ait Vessels in Other Ports th—Arrived January 12 m Seattle via Be mr ing Crangeme rave Coeur ham, San Pedro and Criatobs San Pedvo—Ralled January 14° C8 & Rrookline for Puget Sound naval station. Manila—Artived January 1: Str Ta ma Maru from Seattle via Kobe, Shang hai and Hongkong. fan Pranciseodalled January 14: Mtr Meel Voyager for Seattle via Portland and Vancouver; str Santa Ines for Reat via Tacoma str Governor miral Evans from Seattle at 9:28 » ore Reported by W reless Canadian Govern January lee AaewOn D na tee aothbouha couthibouad, w.s January Northwester oD. Str ont Pedro, wr . Beattie for san from fan Pedro at # p. Beattie for Ban Franc of Cape Ps Keene, Bea for Honolulu, 1,162 sulles rugar,| from Monoluia at § p. m. Vessels in Port at Seattle | Smith Cove terminal—Ste Weat Martiand, etr Eastern Leader Maquan. Pier 14—Htr Talthy biue. Pier 10—8tr Fulton. Great Northern terminal—@tr Fushtm) Maru Mtr Port Angsics. 19.6 Ste City of Heattle. Sir Santa Ana, str Ketenikan, termina 80 GC Rei Gstyr Talbot, cs “aatyr bunkers—0 SL MT A—8tr Admiral Goodrich. D—Atr Admiral Watson, ce—Gtr Shag. neoring works—Str ward Ho, ste Nile, | pal—tr Tose Mtr Col. BE. L. Drake. West Himre minal~ Str lao Hehe Toyohashi! x docks tumbia, str Mo ue ¥ Abnoba, Aby Abmik, An Bingamon, Fort Union 490 Ames yards $ Heffernan 4 UR QM #& str Buquaminh, AD MAN BOOSTS | BLUE SKY LAW | Protection the public persons marketing leas stocks or bonds and agents or |brokers using 1 im methods in selling good sritles would provided if the “bite-sky” me drafted by a committee of repre | tative Seattle men Ix passed by th | legislatur wording to R. BE. Mor | Pn H F , of or firms be worth be | sure 60, subi wor gan, president of the Seattle Adver tising club and a member of the | drafting committee. “If the measure propored fa en-| acted,” he the public will be| able to obtain full and reliable infor J | mation stock bond of ¢ measure woul sale of securiti to insure presentation of each issue The pop demand for such law is exce gly strong in all part of the Like ey ment, there is mat | \oity said, or nat in for 1d seek an honest | poy | | opp but | ted that suited | law will hit some} jority of whom we} | want it to hit, and hit so hard they | will unable to ply their tlegiti- | mate calling in the state of Washing ton.” some sition, | no law « everybody. This the m er was ena | persons, he | | LUMBER IMPROVE SLIGHTLY Production of lumber from the | sawmills of Oregon and Washing. | ton for the week ending January | \s 66 per cent below norma to 76 per cent below | the preceding week. | 114 mills show produced, as compared normal for Reports from 615,069 feet * | Clearings Balances . BANK CLEARINGS * Seattle Spokane Balance 4.00 Portland } 740,990.00 ate Stocks | 51% tora t Americ Closing wil toda Grain— Wheat ent packing | Start | francs: 2 centimes Denver Live Stock Market Portland Market Status |; i PORTLAND. against) ch mmprovement projects for 1921 Engine streets and ‘ap THE SEATTLE STAR NEw ning 15, un re featured th 116,000 ab tions were n neral Mote YORK, Jan, 15.—Meavy f the atock market today, ¢ hanged from y Ther Despite the lomures before the house commerce ec ks falled te and Uni 20%, up ng rail epecialiate in Wall at. tends toward regard rary and apparently is not perturbed b a us financial con trading tn brokerage torday’s ele Other tran dat 15M was some Weakness in the other motors, Btudebake . amittes by rail cutives, rail ate any depressing effect rted at 87%, up % iment ame n Pacific at 1 cultion as temp at many ra(lre ra im have furds due fort ollect tn While United States Steel wan off ne, Crucible was up i at 04%, Republic nH" up te at 59% The ol! re irregular erican at 75, off % pened irregular today 4, UP %: Utah Copper 62, unchanged; 8 © Steel 69 American Le tive ff i: Re up Mt Pan-Amert« Maper 68% tement t n. The ads are m the fr government and are. mak i at 82%, the independents Steel up 4 at 69 and Bethie unchanged, and Pan » Sinclair opening at 23% Crucible 04%, up + lair 23% unchanged ding AT% Int Btudebal Mo: € General unchang ut chem at Telephone prices Included: t tates Stee » unchanged up te rnat 4: United 8 » Int na Leth up te rational 45% can rm Pe »% ibt 4) Studebaker ithe %; Int eading 89 rnational Paper 1 69% Mex “GRAIN PRICES. 8 tle Buying Power on Chi-| cago Market | i shar ding on ‘ “ rade to @ mp demand for export ie wae Fr and there was fe buying p Provial lower arch wheat $\— and drog he clone at $69 Grain wer na were EPPCEPEE CECE Chicago Board of Trade (Friday's Quetations) 7 L. T Manning & Ce, 9 Second Avenue pen High Low Close +4 SLL BLE HF Lowy a “LIBERTY BONDS Reriee " Coe rer we Chicago Car Lots (Friday's Quotations) Furnished by 1. 1. Manning @ Co. ~ ; G19 Second Avenue Meets, Cont. Rata LA Yr Chicago Live Stock AGO, Jan Recetpte, mark Hulk of 69.60 here oense oes $9.4009.75; pigs sense 900 head. mi 6; butcher stock utters, Oe O25; cows | ¢ ply Louis H Washington tects, Seattle could spend $59,000,000 on c tion and then be ing overbuilt Every office bul today has a walting colar “First of al oral first class buildings of type. Seattle ts far behind In hotel commodations, both for commercia and for tourist travel She needs hotel, a commercial © a family hotel.” that Mendel! SEATTLE NEEDS = oo head ro s fent te naervatively — entimated, — th rihwent needs $125,000,000 to sup building needs, according t Mend: treasurer of th | State Society Mende natruc alone, mys ° in Seat Mend she need thi: ding at then Foreign Exchange nw YOR we open a oft sev ~ ine seaside tourint a rie , * | hotel and a Other building: cludes in ently need temple of music, civic auditorium an additional shoots ENVER head Jan ws and heifers A fend s6or $5@6.50: alves, ¥ arket ne \Livestock Men Will cop—Teceipts. 6 head; marifet fn seay. *, 19.26 10.75; ewes, $2.60 shoe | t of EL PASO, American Jan. 16.~—Th association wi ention Texas, Livestock next annual con yrado Springs, Ci by delegates te re which ended SG whehangns. hn Kendrick ted pre tion. All ted. 3-Year-Old Girl its attle—Market it the ast night ot Sheri Jenteof the a pre was mee ae—Receipts, 743 4; market ts nae per dor per M, one vice idents were one wr it AN $1,000,000 STREET WORK aching a total of nearly $1,000 preliminary estimates on street were mitted to the board of public ks at ita sexsion Friday by Cit r A. H, Dimock. The est will be considered by t ewers commitiee of the SPOKANE, Jan Edens, 3 years ob wendol @ candy-coate pills with fatal effe She was the daug ter of Jeffery A. Edens, hotel propri etor of Davenport, Wash. and staying with her grandmother here. strychnine ord here Inst night council dar s K dele MEN ation LEAVE the inter. to WASHINGTON, dered a fav able rep attle Friday | dereda favorable report on only stop 0 | ney emergency tarif¢ bill 0. ‘reported Monday or Tue WILKES THOMAS WILKE PRESENTS Louis Mann and Sam Bernard's Jan. 15. the he Th Fore Ford. lonal si tion be held New York te will be expo: left Their Ch rt of THEATRE Fifth and Pine roR THE W s ST. ARTING © WITH A MAT. Big Hit “Friendly Enemies” The Comedy of the English- Speaking World —WIT JANE MORGAN ARTHUR VINTON And the Wilkes Theatre Company A BIG HUMAN DOCUMENT, WITH COMEDY, PATHOS, ROMANCE AND DRAMA PRICK fa $1.00; elrvensalin: n to 500, venings, Saturday, 27 Matinees, id Plus War | Relieved Neading ry howea | NEW BUILDINGS: ot Archi in no danger of be in of structures urg:| are a new city hospital, Meet in Colorado Eats Poisoned Pills| It will be ‘General Motors Are SMALL ORANGES { SMALLEST AUTO IN WORLD | N.Y. Market Feature) RECEIVED HERE > aoe Shortage to Be} r | | A car of emall size oranges was @ | welcome addition to offerings on the We curb Baturday The tomato shortage & y | be relieved by shipments of 3 jobbers state, ‘These the headqu The flrwt fr there dording to the expocte } exioan are riers at Onto Aris whip Ht be within week colved yere on Paid Whoiewate 1 | Vegetables and Fru ArtichokewPer 408 oes sees oe m | next ac adylees re | 00 100@ Las @ 17 o 1m 208 Per Cauliflower—Cal, per erate Toeal, per don Celery Local, per aon Cal, per erate Cucumbers Walla foor, per Gon Pert oe. * teen Peppers Per Horseradiah Ver Locke Local, par buteh Lettuce : eres! He Walia’ hots ™ No, it isn't a toy that “Miz admiring. It ie a miniature detail, made by J. runs! “Tue 0 a8. 90@ 40.00) Mary & A. Scefelder, of Los SATURDAY, JANUA WHY WOMEN AUTOMOBIL Wor wome 1, A ent or shele handicap 6 ‘sk, of Los Angeles, + perfect in every Angeles. Sure it automobile, oo Khobarb abegee | Spinach — Ver ot atore “Yal .. Professor * Heads Bureau on Road Transport WASHING’ den Virginia, per hamper . FRUITS Wash TON Cranberries professor of Yate best & anies at ty, and qne of the cators in the neering edu has been the n eng United tor of the States, named dire work of wt educat « Aquarters here. up his new duties proceed to formulate & comp: sive progra ad highway Honey fire Vemene Oranges Japa Pears Pereimmans Per bow Piscapples Per crate | Pomegranates Per bor NUTS Prices Paid at Wheleenie khway with he mitte He will take at once nd will to wuRKe or coUrKER int | tra nme The ne rowth held in Washington 1 the call of t Its work has t committee as the ox all data relating to the ec | fleld of highway transport and t | distribution thereof to all interested. As & phase of this, conferences’ are being held by the commii at dif. ferent universities, The next will [take place at Michigan February 23 aid Whoteaaie Dealera ryfessor Tilden the author of mon. J. oe a nuinber of technical and historical ' paper ering. He ix a mem ber of the ican society of civi engineering ow of the American for the ad vancement of » w in © on thexe sub: May of on defined committee the out 3 of a conference ‘ 0 “ne se octn ant at comminn wt or of DAIRY rRODt CTs Fries Paid te Bhippers a “ ve RODUCTS al on | nege—-¥'renis | Pullets | Chreess — Or. triplete . 0] Wisewain © 4] Limbereer ©) Mock Hwine ‘ o| Wash triplets ‘ 4 POULTRY 3] Prices Paid by Wholesale Dealers od ae. Chater e Vee. 4 Ibe and op Brotlere—All weigs Am and « amnociation MEXICO CLUB SEEKS A.A. A. AFFILIATION WASHINGTON, Jan, 15.—Inquiry has been received by the American Automobile association from the Automobile Club of Mexico as to affiliation, The communication from Mexico City is the result of a recom- ation by the Automobile Club which haw its headquar @ and has been an rs. © Automobile club has present atedly to the Mexican government the value of a highway to the Mexican capital as a means of . creating @ great volume of interna ‘ oe . °° \tional road travel and also serving iersere ines: POULARY Priece Peid Waslenten Sramet sso versed Hecke Nrotlers ; seats * | to wolidify relations between the two | countries, the A. A. A. has accepted clubs from New Brunswick and Mexico, it ls assumed that the appli ation from Mexico City receive favorable consideration. Among the al hundred clubs in the A. A. A 60 | list is the Hawaii Automobile club *\ of sitio, aftes during the past year. YOUR MONEY is 9 40; earning less than 24% &, Send For This FREE BOOK! aur money ca buy rity elding oaah divi dends now at th ponth per year wtantial tn Heat « Tells wn and heifers wit never eee Y, GRAIN AND FEED Whetesale Price Per om, City Price * | Barley Whole ° 1] Notes ° Oats — Molied lenop <j | Ground Rone w Mixed Feed Fish Meal Amestone th in | Ege, Producer and Bone Kar Dig-yielding investments WELL SPECULATION Rerape Le Mes eal Kal Molasses Dairy hell Meal—Cal ‘Oyater hoya Bean Meal Boye Bean Meal Flour—Per bb Peed May Merge Coast Guard Into Navy Resolutions indorsing the move: | 4 ment to have the coast guard incor porated in the regular navy, instead Address of continuin arate unit of | the governm was adopted Friday ee ae meeting the Puget Sound Pt. Worth, Tex. Blanc's cafe. | Boat Schedules From Colman Doth F presents mall free of comt the boo! obti nt Marit oot Moridn St -SAVE MoNnEY- Travel by steamer TACOMA SAFTY - SPEED - COMFORT 9:00, 11:00 A. M., 00, 7:00 PB. M 70c hn" $1.20 Including War Tax ICTORIA. BC RT ANGELES - STRAIT POINT: Re te ww Only 614 Days New York to Paris rpawsed allowing Steamships, the Largest, Fastest and Most Magnificgpt Afloat Now Vork—Ch oft hampton AQUITANIA Mauretania N. _¥.—Plymouth—Cherh SAXONIA = oMepeiie: New York—Liverpool CARMANIA Niey io3% CARONIA Mag. 18-Ape K. A. Victoria }\"", May 21-June ¢ New York—Plymout! ALBANIA Portland (Me,)—Glasgo SATURNIA CASSANDRA New York COLUMBIA CAMERONI nT SH tion, Apply Agents or Office, Second Ave, Phone Klliote 1682, Apr SAN JUAN ISLAND POINTS 12,00 Midnight, Sunday, Thursday BELLINGHAM - ANACORTES PORT TOWNSEND RAIL CONNECTION: OOD CANAL PoINTs [i cee, A.M Tussday, Friday NEAH BAY & WAY PORTS v Feb, 18M 3 May MENTS. N€ Carg ole, et Company COLMAN DOCK " enttle, | AUTOMOBILE ‘SANDER PREVENTS SKIDDING is fastened under the board ju in front of the wheels nd whe the brakes applied the sand box opens aut and th a the wheels box we #tream of and under American Chinese Two make of the motor trucks used by iministration in the Shantung prov are now New Year Resolution Keep a Record of your Automobile and Truck Operating Costs SUNSET ELECTRIC | C0. Broadway Between Pike and Pine East 160 A Stewart Speedometer will help you. models for cars and trucks. Drive In for Service Stewart Products Service Station 910 East Pike Street Al Cars erade In Trade in Your Buick, Dodge or Ford on a New 1921 Buick. Telephone East 842 and arrange an inter- view at your conven- ience. YAKIMA WALLA WALLA GMC TRUCK SPOKANE THE HOM De THE