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KS BOON ‘ the Publication of Statement. “ATCHISON IS THE Bears Point Cut that @ewslon, when it steadied «lightly Weekly bank statement f iv bad no fect. Atchison was the market leader, ward at the opening. Over Were traded in during the first Where wae no deiinite 1 © tha boom, Buying ovder dois ranging the 1 y to ue 000 s for m1 ho AT THE OPENING pice Market Furiously Active at the Start, but Steadies Before the Bank LEADER. the Gains Po-Hay's stock market was furiously “active for the firsi half of the short f Phe usual Wil vefore publication of the aot but after the rat few minutes eAhe only big feature of the wading, mMOndous buying orders put it for- 100,00) shares ws tu authorize were nate PROVE TRUST 1S IN COAL HOLD-UP Investigators Find It Is Hand- ling the Independents’ $10 Anthracite and Not Its Own $5 Article. DEALERS CAN’T GET LATTER. Small Scranton Operator Freely Ad- to the Banks Are Offset by mits that Those Outside the Trust| , Big Increases in the Loan Intend to Get Any Price They Can! for Coal, An tospectton of the ti lewnter ter- mils of the coal the rajlroade which President Baer says are phitanthrople rrying roa or encugl to sel coal at $4 ‘At the pent sks were wetive ONS, shows (hat the great majority of but Irregular. London prices cavied ve-| the business done at e terminals ts Be tore the opening were alinost unllurmiy | for the tndependent eval apératora, who 5 fewer than last night's closing Maures] ype ng $10 and op for their coal. What jas me the coul coms Uine'a chi val a: $5 a ton Is not 1) known, un a the Congressional Committe? says, the combine turned Its coal supply over to the Inlependenta to be sold at $19 4 ton or “as much as it will bring vbove that.” At the Lehigh Valley terminal, Perth Amboy, all the coal was labelled for in} the independents, and the handlers in| the yards sald IC wan Just the aaine an! the surly advance of tee sock troml they had been handling for the com- Ate opening, Ss 1-d, (0 8) 5-5 was the) bine, only It came in another name. Matural sequence. A local dealer, who sells aa much coal Efle comma. vas next to polnt off to the small consumers of Manhattan ne eacdy, MH owas fl-}aw any other dealer, sald to-day: 1 Pac rs “L would like to buy some of that Beldnd and st. v while Southern Wa-/anthrache coal which President Baer \ ite wos the ure of the Lonlun}and hie combine say they will sell for %, | have telephoned, telegraphed, t » competing “oun that thi c 4 mumily of ever Atchison us the © enlarged Hook island system. George TEN s Gould syatem cade he issues. ‘The ¢ In Erle are said to hay med reventiy, and it as iat ‘he cuncue may be a ¢ hand the bullish u BMS toward. this. city a a of both Wauash and Min- 4 ‘wel offset Naty Prgetisuiy equals the increase. Byndicate demands for tt O nd the various under way, ‘Marine, m very heavy jones how Anteraational ait and Valley goon. . Wall street spprec cclates the signifte rious big railroad rae’? Bor the will call Mabe teh the miuney stringency wus ae and the fact that he is tow em out is regarded & Hetlve element as most conclusl mee that there are no threatening ne Morgan plans Include new re- Vv Reading, omnets in Lehigh ley, & iHudson, Hooking Valley, ; et Central, Erte, and ponaliy pale che, salty the Tee eee aenee wit Lackawania & hey art PF trequire inany millions to carry ng by inded could show little support. tipusually large and cor Wé nor so hea have been my for the corresponding weex ear. Foreign exchang ached the ficure parent euse In money abroad. inns were interest iatolt ang that tie Muote-l.ceda. +Mirst National Hank peopie would an f fwetur vty dn geeking wat « wih INLeP- been great: nt af fell by the enormous galus of tie from the Sub-Treasury and the 100,000. for out that tae at millions nce deals which an is now rapldiy com- these were temporarily tl Ot mand are to be completed within * Posnslie Mee of gold exports soon were meana ti the big short interest belated beare to check activity, wat upon which the reports were} Eng! Ex-! othe wt trade in wheat for (he week haalot exports, lant) h es iy at where gold cou be sent out without heey loss and thers written and sent agents to (hese roads With orders for coal. The reply hax always been: “None Just Now. “Ve heven't any Just now, but will be able to fll the order in a day or two.’ ‘ha ts the last heard o Tean't buy coal at that price, and 1 don't believe that Mr Baer and his companions wish to well it for abything Ike $5. oval trade has simpected singe the an- nouncement of the abrogation of the agreement between the trust and the In- dependents that the trust—Mr. Baer and the others of the combine—were turning thelr coal output over to the Indapend- ents to bé marketed for as high a price as \t will bring “One thing ls very ceflatn and (hat is that never before did the Independence have ax much coal aa they are now aell- ing &nd the combine never before had fo little. It looks suspicious.” That the independents intend to squeeze the public as much as poswible x= Bimpaon, Pros! Company, of Scranton, one of the most extensive of the Independents. Can Ask Any Price. Alter, saving ie aie Interview In New| ne _ commodity | ve The Triat can wants to, but we to give away our coal. on’ am sorry the supply of coal can paroly, equal {000 nth, while the von- oo" tone. “Bo that prices unttl will slacken.” New York and Now any Where office buildings ha been forced to abandon, thelt elevators {and steam-heating piants, And Chicago tings soft goal cos | for anthracite ra it Thoth any alere. ate freely predicting | @ the order before the liter jong 0, coal will Is over. an i. Kio G4 + 10d ® 85 Tein Va & Ge BOND TRANSACTIONS, 9000, Ca Dat M de M ane Be 1K Li wh Peun conv 100000, Ne Danville oon 6000 Rich @ 1000 severe ‘place with, the possible Rasen } "Tm Wor D: SATURDA THE LATEST NEWS OF THE BUSINESS WORLD, | adequate. establishing the resented, suming countries. sonable profit, Kansas City, ver Col., cifle coast. Hixchange, and bears. Qtr. member ever slice the active, ous work of the ordinary Interest | bulls and bears on consuming countr ducing countries and hustling, 0 fen. trust Jongress met in this city. including the United States and Porto Rico. Perey B. O'Sullivan, President of the New York Coffee’ Exchange, who represents the United mation of the proposed treaty, A surplus of 3,000,000 sacks will be held in reserve in case the supply agreed upon is not when n the world's output of coffee, is rapidly organizing. This treaty was decided upon as the best means of International said to-day: Coffee by think tr jthe pré lkely PLAN TO CONTROL THE COFFEE CROP OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. et Promoters Await Only the Action of Congress on Treaties to Curtail Imports So as to Keep Prices High. Awaiting only the approbation of Congress, the Tnter-) ply, and In case of an overproduction the profits dimin- national Coffee ‘Trust, which is seeking to control the !8h almost to the vanishing point. ; “Lam heartily in favor of giving the producers an opportunity to make a decent profit, and this can only A treaty signed by the United States and the Centrallig accomplished by the adoption of a treaty providing and South American countries will be formulated, where- for the importation of only sufficient coffee to meet the by the output of the coffee-producing countries may be just demand of the consumers. curtalled so as to satisfy only the actual needs of the tat the advisability of such a treaty will appeal to all; who are In any way interested in the coffee trade, and I) thet Congress will also approve unless| ‘nt opposition to all trust formations becomes |so decided as to prevent tt. “Congress may, duties on the Importation of coffee, The crops are frequently so large ot coffee, Since he relluquished Manhattan Rallway Geor Mnked his name with many undertakings, cleanly indlcating that he plans to become a greater power than before In the railway group. come a member of the directorate of the Mexico and Ortent. has bought $6,000,000 bonds of the Den- Northwestern and Pacific, and is In- terested in the newly formed company which ta to build a [Ine from Creede, to Ban Pedro Harbor on the Pa- William Alexander Smith, living member of the New York St will soon have rounded out a term of sixty years among the bulls Smith jointed the Bx. shange in 184 and has been an active For some time ne has been gradually withdrawing from every-day atrenu- | broker and hene forth he gays that he will take only a nt the as the prices vary control in All these new burdene mean that Mr. Gould intends to keep busy for some | time to come, th doing! Gould has He has be- ++ of the mportant He he oll Ox of tho Exchange. cash John D. Rockefelier’s income for the just closed is estimated by Wall Street statisticians at $28,000,000, actual and $50,000,000 dnoreame in the value of the various plants and properties of the Standand Ol] Trust. His cash in- come was derived chiefly wources, $18,000,000 year last year, for a whil ested.” “Many features will be added to the treaty if it meets States in the for- with the approval of Congress which will prove of great benefit both to the producer and the consumer. “The establishment of such a control of the world’s are that only the best coffee shall be raised, while the coffee supply would be very beneficial to the coffee-pro- shipments of poor or adulterated supplies will be pre- uid not be injurious to the con- vented, together with all substitutes sold under the name It will also be recommended that coffee be that the owners of the plantations cannot make a rea- |made a part of the army ration of every country inter- eomiine) to the lolz I am Inclined to believe moreover, be influenced in its action the probable objection of other consuming nations, Thirteen countries wera rep-|sich as France and Germany, which haye high tariff These HILLS LINES 10 RAISE DIVIDENDS, Northern Securities President and Morgan Favor Advance from 4 to 6 Per Cent. James J. Hill, President of the 8400,- 900,000 Northern Securities Company, which controts the Great Northern, Northeyn Paoifle and Burlington rall- roads, will arrive in New York Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Securities directorate. At this conference the question of in- creasing the dividend rate on Northern Seourities stock from 4 to 6 per cent. will be brought up. President Hill advocates the increase, and in this he is said to have the co- operation of Mr. Morgan, Last year the three great systems owned by the holding company earned an aggregate of $150,000,000, and when the pending litigation is out of the way the earning capacity will be largely in- creased, It Is part of the Hill-Morgan plan to acquire additional lines for the Eastern end of the Transportation Trust, and Erle is sald to be held for that purpose, Northern but nothing will be done until the sults agalnst Its validity are decided. LITTLE STORIES ABOUT THE BIG MEN IN TOWN. rofts, as parted’ with none ‘ot nie This holdings. “ihe” Wentern stock speculator, whose meteoris plunges kept Wall street unduly excited for months 1s going to take things easy For the next two monti@ he will shoot ducks in Texai ulta tn tion tropical face ind! ville deal, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific syst which left him astride of the Rock fat! and party, added to his enormous losses won @ victory over the faction headed tn the stock mar make him view Wall Ing place of strong-armed “knockers,” Florida. & Iron eet \George J. Gould Laying Big Plans That Will Keep H Busy for Years to Come—William Alexander Smith Will Soon Round Out Sixty Years in Wall Street— John W, Gates Pockets His Enormous Losses and] Retires from the Market. from two in cash dvikiends from Standard Ot} stook, $8,000,000 from ratiroad etocks and the rece naer from The and Tf the eui count for anything, b be a Wall street factor again! His eliinination from ‘Compan of the Loulaville & Nai And the reorganiaution of the |) Rook. & ar rue pt High, Ly a4 Low 19% ig omy ~j FES, Feers 200) 1194 18 Gren Bay kW 10000) hy Kan City Mo te 5000 Wi Va @ Brown Broo & Go ctw s TY Wanagh 141 be Wee Lulow tundg & Ten! emt Ase 104 2000 ey 1 Noms Flor @ #h In | Bank & T ine West, hore ree ‘ i abe gh Third Ave te Wis ou Aint Ay ‘Oeu! Hing Ave i Ooutral 4s 4 Poe Lola) wales of bonds were $1. iW, Government Bonds, Laer wet 1 & Wem Inter Inter, Power i Mii Keokuk @ De —— CURB MARKET !S QUIET. Quotations for the active otgeke 1 8 Me is 700 N jouthern lat pt Kouthern 24 pf & Hook, Vo! mk aK Pacine 1) Deirole Sourhern Detroit bouthern pe i. pt 24 of neville & T Northern pt ok " Moines “hati vf ee | 173% rtd aay A tid vt 100 Sloss” Soettield ni 12,200 Southern 14,409 doutnern Pesrastss KR. of Mexigo... Norfolk & Western New York Gentral Es eg ea a THE CLOSING QUOTATIONS, BUSMesseesse ys, fer sete vise ¥ See Soir an. erer | Fi c BANK SHOWING IS BEST FOR WEEKS. 'To-day's bank statement loans, ‘This was not the case. decreased yery largely. was excep- tlonally good. A fine showing was ex- pected owing to the known increase in the bank's supply of money, but it was i antictpated that the speculation of the | ¢ week would lead to an Increase in the | § Loans The figures fol-! Min Spite of 'Infavorable Advance Reports | Loans Indicate a Big Decrease and Reserve Good Increases. lo} Reserves on all epoeite, Increawe.... i Gepoxita other thai «$4,616,450 a plus. ‘Mis js an ineres $16 460, 480 and two years ago $22 SAYS GOULD LOSES bh Other Faction for the Control. | Colonel Atbert A. Pope, have combined to athe abide by Fawin Gould. | imatones h lea to ex) ment, which increased the here, After @ brief interval of weakness instances mentor appar ‘hat & certain Wall street In- forest of beansh pretensions was became eteadier, without, tivity, Thi ing prices. were: January, 0 6.67; February, ied 2, $0; Marc! a6 oa: : Aor 865 of May me Jur 5 oneea July, ‘Aogust. BAT to B49 SH'to srs Jily, RTD. to 864; Rept, 817 to BE. The Wheat Market, The loca! wheat market to-day, being infhuenced by he tthe covering of ‘orn opened "oa IN BICYCLE FIGHT, Col. Albert Pope Insists that His Combination Has Routed the one of ‘the receivers for the American Bicycle Com- |Pany, 16 authority for the statement that the Reed-Olcott-Pope combination had of the company's bonds ctations of u larger move- early selling it became, ing freely and the market Hiomotiately October, 8.00 fe | TIMES LONDON MARKET FIRM. Prices Up in Americans with Trad- ing Act After an early weakness in the London | market to-day, the general tone Civolghout became strong and prices in all departments stiffened cons{derably South African mining securitles were much improved and all other depart ments, following the lead of thes stocks, took on good strength, Jn tie department for American rall- securities trading was eens: one the general tone rms Prices throveht out the whole lst were somewhat ir- regular in the early trading, but later there was a tendency to rise, ‘Trading 1n the department was ted by Southern Pacific, whieh showed a fractional de- cilne. ———— Rockefeller Site Not Yet Chosen, John, D, Rockefeller, Jr. was roporte yesterday to have bought Now. 4 to qo West Forty-seventh street clud-house whic he will his Sunday-sohool class. The report was nol true. Mr. Rockefeller is still considering three sites, one of a8 been deposited in favor of the re-| Which he will buy In a few days, description of the new club- organtaation committee's plans,” sald publish PTyenterday in the World. wes Gal, Pope, “and they will be carried ro through, “Die committee will meet for final SHIPPING NEWS. action Monday, but meantime we shail Clos : gf | eeD the Dooks open go that bondboldere | ayy sign THR ee Ata aot ee en of th nh nets. 3.66 ae ars \ Tm TiDEa, ate jer the reorganization plans the | 77 $9,000,000 bonds ot par and second pref. | 21 jerence. The pi ‘red stock {s assessed | Sandy Hook 4 and gets ‘ fst preferred and | Governor's 4) common, while the common stock ts | Hell Ga 3} jaswoused $9' a share, and gets $% first 7g | preferred and $% common. bi4 | ‘Phe Gould opposition committee may SiN take legal measures to prevent anal %° ‘uction, Fs a Gu SHIP TRUST'S FNAL CALL. : Fy OUTGOIN y fide final call for % per cent. of the $90,000,- Ymbria, Liverpoot, Athos, Port au Prince, ay | 0” underwriting fund of the Interna- Antwi Para. # | Guna Mercantile Mustne’ company. 2 Fad aidersee, Hombure Zions, ‘Argontl 18 calls liad already been made, : 94 | two for % per cent, each, and one for | ne mens: Gilad per cen B ‘4 UES | The Inst (nataiment 9f $10,000,000 te due | Pretore, bergntin, Semen. Snireetcn ra nit, | Membery, of theunderwriting | Carecan, La Guayra. Comanche, Charleston ndicn have ady pi the Neal, that $40,000,000 in cast, i) pe Ds INCOMING STBAMBERS. The Cotton Murket. eae DUM TO-DAY, in, Bremen, Ban Marcos, Gal The local cotton market opened steady | wa Gal tory RAL pricea ane anced te Bnclice | Merehant Prison | Kansas cit Mi Ly lower, ‘The easier opening waa due to | Bretrie, St. Lucia, Hubert, Bart os Stenoge) pting cable which by ex. —== pected Yo come er on ¥% 7 i strong nd statistical shows Banking and Financial. Favorable weather In the ootton belt IMPROVING PRICES, AS OUTLINED IN OUR ADVERTISEMENTS, SPECIAL ADVIORS TO 0 CLIENTS AND IN OUR NOW Ti ADVANGE SU DER W, STOOKS FROM ie MAnKEr LEADERS. “To Bor ht ens Peo fu WILL BY TO MAKE THE MoBT SEND FOR OUR "WIDE MARKET and TTER' InyesTons.” BOTH ARE IS6U8D GRATIS AND MAILED SOLUTBLY ONE WikL KEEP YOU MOVEMENTS ALT INCREABING “YOUR FROPIR INVEST CHANGES MAKING Mose. FAVOKADLE TIME WE sOLicry x9 ARKET. BANG AVE INV WO TSA or SP ROULATI Acco! APYORDING MOBT ADVA’ "% ienvicn 08 MAROINAL TTR eNO, mettOCk jh MULAIPLES OF bie IN MULTIPLES OF 100 DALRS. Mow’ ey TO THE 0) re AE cao ale i a. See AnD i OFFioas TBVACTORY meres ay a, 1O8T Hac & FREESE Cc Co, TRCTED: EXUAUBTION, OF ea CLANING MARK! VANOING MARK: POSTED. A vot Ay © over last week of | ca A ear ago the surplus was | exactl 0540, i | When Others Fail Write Me a Postal---I’ll Send You a Way to Get Well. Sehd no money—Just a postal card, statinr which book you need. Then | *7ill mail you an order on your druggist for six bottles Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. You may take it @ monja to prove what it cen do, If it succeeds, the cost is $5.50. If it fails, I will pay the druggist myself. And your mere word shall decide it. No matter how difficult your trouble, nor how many treatments have failed. My way does not fall, save when some cause like cancer makes a cure impossible. [am will- ing to take the risk, and trust you to be fair. Why not stop common treatments for a little while and learn what my way can do? If I have enough faith to make such an offer, is it not pretty certain that I know how to cure? If my way often failed the losses would ruin me. In the past twelve years I have furnished my Restor- ative on trial to more than half a milion patients. My records show that 39 out of each 40 have-paid for the treat- ment gladly, because they got well. I worked a lifetime on my Restorative before I-ever made this offer. I perfected {t until ic will always strengthen the inside nerves. It brings back this nerve power which alone operates every vital organ. When an organ fails in Its duty, the fault seldom lies in the organ. It is like a weak engine; it needs more steam. My Restorative brings back the power that it needs, and makes it as strong as it ever was, In these chronic diseases there is rarely any other way to a cure. And this way doesn’t fail in any case that is cur able. Try It for a month at my risk, and you'll know. Book No. 1 on Dyspepes. Book No. 2 on the Heart. Simply state which book is is Sacte Fe\aneyls wanted, and address Dr. Shoop, Box 740, Racine, Wis. Book No. 6 on Rheumatism. Mild cases, not chronic, are aften cured by one or two bottles. Dr. Shoop's Restorative 1s sold by ai! druggists. E hundred dollars in spot STR hun dred, doa tmelkoewn ere 1s igo sonvinced that we ma 6 scary prokies gee eng Weed ¥ 6 for! eunaie ong: tay. be ng end interesting. Boowld tl money eRe gd jwat the same, proportionately, Ravi git ahtyny cuciin iy lao whi tende the Coprest atin one fare going to do fo" naw itknown, - There 1a one aight condition ich rrect is w letter. hs ere be a He oF Evers body wi he It ded dol will take @ small who anewer dis ad fine. whieh, we will write recelve your, a wi To thon Earl mn deratan di rt ‘comply with certain conditions, we will n imal an inte Paper co) Any (lems af interest Deaton numerous sorter, borent yan with in sil vou are cilited to. yaw Tren your cash prize te ‘corning ant tae ae ‘Our ‘e who are not willing tod on. to Day an ai hd rot Your money. but we lo fatty atin attention will be paid to your. ure and enclose th S355 Pre ter, KO mount Sa IN CASH FREE! vi thee wn 4 seni ¢ dt ‘a imowey me,who knows? Anyway, its man mors than ure and unolove tie ¢wo-e6B) ree ye aa NG ‘OO. 40m OHAPLIN ST... WATERVILLE, MAINE, » Chill ® in This List Every Day! ‘THE WORLD: SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903, Yes, but Plenty of Comfort- able Homes Are to Be Found on-| THE 3-TIME RATE IS A “PULLER.”