The Daily Missoulian. [volume], December 24, 1914, Morning, Page 8, Image 8

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W~~OSHN1
WH[AI, A 1Y
SItf`H 1 OVR i6MANT 18 ALSO
C TAIl4 MARKET - THE
½ RISH IS UPWARD
Chicago, Dec. 22.-The wheat m:zr
ket closed nervous at 1, n 14c to *ec
decline. Corn finished %c to %tv-.'
Above last night. Oats up %c to m5
%c and provisions unchanged to 271c
clown.
Italian buying of 1,250,000 bushels
of cash wheat here gave the market
early an impressive show of strength.
Speculators rushed to the bull side of
the market and there was a swift up
turn in prices, new high levels being
reached for the cash and December
deliveries, with May jumping to with
in 21Ac of the topmost figures since
European hostilities began.
Argentine Surplus.
Predictions were numerous that the
Argentine surplus crop would prove a
good deal larger than recent estimates
had led the trade to expect.
Corn developed surprising stubborn
ness in the face of.the bearish action
of wheat. The main influence uphold
ing oats was the purchase of 1,000,000
bushels here to go to Italy. The Brit
ish government was also reported to
be buying oats on a big scale at Win
nipeg.
Declines in the value of hogs car
ried down provisions. Much of the
selling was by packers.
Day's Range.
December wheat, opened, $1.26';
high, $1.26%; low, $1.25%; close,
$1.25%.
December corn, opened, 65c; high,
62tzc; low, 65c; close, 65%.
December oats, opened, 45%c: high,
494,e; low, 4tc; close, 485c.
Minneapolis Wheat.
December, $1.21; May, $1.241; No.
I hard, $1.26%; No. 1 northern, $1.22x'
x1.2,%: No. 2 northern, $1.191/2 T
1.23%.
A citizen of Burnips Corners,
which is a dry neighborhood, tele
phoned to the express agent the
other day and asked: "Is there any
express for me?" After a lapse of
several minutes the voice of the ex
press agent rumbled hack: 'No,
Mr. Smith, not a drop."
THE STDA!
The Missoulian Publishing Company intends making this the greatest Christmas season that Western
Montana has ever seen. W hile times have been hard and money scarce, we believe all indications point
to a genuine revival of business conditions with the coming of spring. We, ourselves, want to start the
New Year with the greatest subscription lists in the history of these newspapers.
To do this we are going to give our readers the greatest opportunity for co-operation between publishers and subscribers that the reading public in Montana
has ever seen. The visit of the daily paper to your home, for the information and entertainment of yourself and family, is a necessify, not a luxury. You
simply have to read a daily newspaper in order to keep pace with the everyday world. We want seven thousand, five hundred paid-in-advance
subscriptions byJanuary 1, 1915. To do this we are prepared to offer the greatest premiumvalues ever given by Montana newspapers.
BEFORE THEY ARE GONE
Missoulian Subscribers Paying Their Subscription for Only Six Months in Advance
A beautiful Parlor Electric Lamp, retailing at $6.00, with 6 months' subscription for only.. ............................. $5.75
A half dozen hand-painted Japanese Cups and Saucers, retailing at $4.00, with 6 months' subscription, for only $5.25
A 9-piece Casserole Set, Guernsey Earthenware, retailing at $3.50, with 6 months' subscription for only ...$...5.00
A 7-piece, genuine, hand-painted, Japanese Berry Set, retailing at $3.75, with 6 months' subscription for only $5.25
Semiel Subscribers, Paying Their Subscription for Only Six Months in Advante
The Parlor Lamp, retailing at $6.00, with 6 months' subscription, for only .... ................ ...$4.75
The six hand-painted Japanese Cups and Saucers, retailing at $4.00, itl[I 6 mtiths' subscription, for only.........$4.25
The 9-piece Casserole Set, retailing at $3.50, with 6 months' subscription, for only ..........................................................$4.00
The 7-piece hand-painted Japanese Berry Set, retailing at $3.75, witi 6 months' subscription, for only................$4.25
This offer positively ends on Thursday night, December 24, and is subject to the supply of these premiums how in our
warehouse. Out-of-town subscribers must pay express charges, which will average about 25 cents.
Might as Well G.t Your CHRISTMAS . ,R
!LfWATION NOTlD
IN D[ALINGS IN
MOST RfOŽ1JZ2 rXC.INES $1NCE
RENEWA. ,i = EN TRADE.
STEEL BREAKS AGAIN
:-ew York, Dec. 23.-For the first
lime s"nee the recent renewal of open
iradirc in all stocks, there was un
mt1r n"a'e signs today of general li
quidation. A number of speculative
issues, including United States steel
and Southern Pacific, fell to their
minimum and many others in the same
class, including Canadian Pacific, Un
ion Pacific, Great Northern Pfd.,
Northern Pacific, Pennsylvania. Balti
more & Ohio and United States Steel
pfd., came near their established low
prices.
Steel Breaks.
As usual, the receding movement
began with steel, which began steady
until midday, when it broke new low
ground. The whole list yielded later,
when announcement of the reduced
Pennsylvania company dividend was
made.
Near the close, steel was offered at
49, with no bid, and other speculative
issues showed little disparity between
hid and asked prices. Today's closing
quotations represent declines of 5 to
10 points from the high of December
15, the loss in certain specialties ex
tending to 15 points.
Weakness prevailed in bonds with
marked pressure upon convertible and
low priced issues. Total sales, par
value, $1,t03,000.
1. S. coupon is declined % per cent
on call.
Ore and Paper.
Lead, Quiet, $".75t.83; copper, em
settled, electrolytic, $13.12 113.50; cast
ing, $130t13.25.
Call money steady; hig'h, 3 per cent;
low, 2'% per cent; ruling rate, 3 per
cent; last loan, 3 per cent; closing
bid, 21: oer cent; offered, p per cent.
Time loans, easy; 60, 90 days and 6
months, 2%@4 per cent. Mercantile
paper, 4Q'4½ per cent. Sterling ex
change, steady; 60 day bills, $402.75;
cables, $406.73; demand, $4B7.5.6, iar
silver, 407 e.
The chiatpion pest of this country
is the feller wtot is a snapshot fitnd
and takes pictures of his baity,
YORK £AL
VAsia Gold ... .
Amalgamated .. 49%
~A eaCs .. . . 231
23
A "<"~tete' inug "}........ 54%
td ." 98e
Af can Vetga1t~ining . 103
{..,
A........ ... 4. . .. 116
A'ei' an15%
An 4 p &illt
Brooklyn -Rapid 'ransit . . 83'
Canadian Pacific ... 153%
Central Loather ...... ... 36%
Chesapeake & Ohio .. ... 40%
Chicago, Great Western . ... 10
Chicago, 31il. & St. Paul .. 84%
Chicago & Northwestern ..122
Chipo Copper . ........ . .. 31%
s'Colorado Fuel & Irpn ........ 21%
. Denver & Illo Grande . 5%
Do pfd . ...... ... 8A
Distilers Securities .. 11%
Erie .. ..... .... ............. 21
General Electric . ................137
Great Northern pfd. ............112
Great Northern Ore ctfs . .. 2%
Gukgenheim Exploration . ... 43%
Illinois Central .................1i0
1nterborouigh-Met. pfd. ........... 0
Inspiration Copper ............. 18%
International Harvester ....... 80
Kansas City Southern ............ 21
Lehigh Valley .............. .......130%
Louisville & Nashville ..........120
Mexiean Petroleum .............. 51
Miami Copper .............. . 17
Missourl, Kansas & Texas 93
Missouri Pacific ................ 91%
National Biscuit ........... 11
National Lead ................. 43
Nevada Copper .... .... ....... 11%
New York Central ...... .........81
N, L N. H. & Hartford . 3..
Norklk & Westernf . 98
Northern Pacific . 1'
Pacific Mail ................... 19%
Pennsylvania ...................1024
Pullman Palace Car .150
Ray ('onsolidated Copper. 15
Reading. . ........ ...............140!,
Iepssblic Iron & Steel ............ 18
1d4 Island Co............ .
Do. pfd. .... .... ...... ...... 1 .
St. Louis & San Fran. 2d pfd. 2°
Southern Pacific ..........
Southern Railway.
Tennessee Copper ..................
Text'a Company ...... .....
17nidn Pacific ....................l4
Do. pfd. ................
U'nited States te4el . 4
I~o Ifd...................... ....
D o. p fd. .. .... .. ........ . ... 1u3 ?.
Ptah Copper . ...... 4
Wabash pfd. ........ ...... .
.Western Union ............
Westinghouse Electric .
Total sales, 102,50t.
There may he other wa s of giit in
rich, but noni tenats the old-fasthitnet
1 way, w\Vich wits to atke lot of l0on
ey and hung on tolit.
'!II
Dr. Henry 'AR yo r cna aina
aster to the Netherlan Chu is now
on a mattth's taCatio i-4hthe UTnited
States, secs no hope oo1 eurly peace in
Europe. So at east told Pres
dent Wilson on his reaent 'ieit to the
'Thite House.
South Omaha.
Hogs-Receipts, 11,800. Lower,
Heavy, $6.75(i7.15; light, $ *.,u 10;
pigs, $5.751 6.75; bulk, $6.90875
(kattle-Receipts, 2,200. Steady. Na
I five steers, $6.75t9.75; cows and heif
ers, $5.25617.25; Western _rsers, $6a
8.25: Texas steers, $5.80@7.1o: cows
and heifers, $586:.75; calves, 8 7u.
Sheep-Receipts, 400. Higher. Year
lings, $6.00j'7.25; wethers, $5.785G.30;
lambs, $7.50'd 8.45.
Chicago.
Hogs-Receipts, 50,000. Swunrg at
yesterday's average. Bulk, $7.-r.'7.25;
light, $6.S5877.20; mixed, $5.D0@ 7,25;
heavy, $6.858t7.25; rough, ?0.8 5@7;
jigs, $5.502,7.10.
t'attle-Receipts, $8,800. Strong.
Native steers, $%.40A1610; westirn, $5.10
08: cows and heifers, $2.1lti8.25;
calves, $6,304; 9.70.
S pe0p--110e.ipts 18,000. Strong.
Sheep, $5.507, .357: yearlings, $6.606,
.13; lbu k, $18.25' 1.60.
Portland.
(uttle-ReIi lto, 57. Rte'ttly.
Hugs--- ceipts, K IncLacngetl.
,heap-c teeitts, 230. 1t< g.
Havre -(Correspondence o# the AS
soclated Press )-A 'r4ueh officer
writes his family in $ormpndy of the
way he and his comrades fare in the
trenches.
"We lack nothing," he says. ''for
three days I have eaten delicious beef
a Ia mode, which they brought me cold
Iti a little pot. This I h ve heated up
iii the :rehches under- couple of can
dies, hanging the pot on a bayonet;
"Yesterday, a, brother officer, who
was examining the German trenches
with rpy field glosses, told me he could
1ee the smoke of a German bivouac in
a little neck of woods behind their
trenches. The inference was they were
cookipeg dinner. " Five. minutes later, a
shell from our 75 , fell on the spot
where we sighted the smoke, and the
German pots, pans and food went
scattering in the air, while two German
cooks were chased into the canal,
where we followed them with our rifle
fire."
WAR INSURANCE RATE
IS HIGH AT LLOYD'S
London, Dec. 23.-Lloyd's, the big
gest insurance concern in the world,
today is charging 30 guineas premium
.to insure against war between Italy
and Germany, Austria and Turkey,.
within one month. Fifty guineas pre
mium is being charged to insure
against war between three countries
in six months. A premium of five
guineas is asked to insurq against war
breaking out between Great Britain
and Norway within 12 months.
"WOLFVILLE" MAN -
DIES IN NEW YORK
New York,f Dec. 23.-Alfred Henry
Lewis, newspaper man and author,
died here today of intestinal trouble.
He was 55 years old and unmarried.
Lewis was a political writer. In 15
years he produced 1t books, many con
cerning cowboys and miners. Of late
years lie has been a political writer
on the Hearst papers.
QUEEN'S BIRTH
NOT CELEBRATED
London.-(Correspondence of Asso
ciated Press.)-Plans of King George
for a great celebration of the 70th
birthday of his mother, Queen Alex
andra, were entirely set aside this
year, on account of the war, and she
spent the day quietly.
C. F. ("BARNEY") BERTSCHE (top)
and STATE'S ATTORNEY HOYNE.
Stories of police graft told in Chi
cago before a grand jury by C. F.
("Barney") Bertsche, king of the clair
voyant trust, and some of his asso
c~iates probabl)'. will result in the in
dictmet) of S0 memhers of Chicago's
police force. -
THE K1UTUtT1U HAS
PIRH IN PALACE
'London, Dec. 23.-An Tjrga, Mongo
ca, dispatch declares the Interior of
the palace of the Kutuktu, or deified
lama of Mongola, with priceless trees
ures has been destroyed by fire. The
loss entailed is said to be enormous.
The Kutuktu's wealth was derived
from contributioas of devotees de
scribed as great. In and aboUgt Urga,
he owns 1o0,000 slaves, an abundance
of horldly goods and a most freten
tiowns pal1ce.
WI e It ist
Sritran, by tue
that as . , th
, has its ameet ioya .1 e
itor it is ,heeges t;-el 5, ta r W
dow, ptwi d n#n
!ybIa r, e , p'Cg boils
Thu. purely v le in
R,,. ,.s < are a net si t
t B r.. Ibe blo as > pF s :"o. P
p notb .qtr or: cW d
iLoad .-a ( tC - tr pe, liq the
twsso Tre - Fo ,thr e
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beqi ,odb re o~ h a a oefi
thre .:i rii it
Th4 o abe throue t i y.-et of
4td ft. oRdo r gmp; e SI e lyCjm - war.
a nd bam er sedl alsl t a-n
tion treer it me uee n the
year otle , 4when y; l han., pize
pared o dip b sed owft pecde ws , ftr
Swart p tadg.resented t a t
adiraltyas a meent.
London -(Cofr teo 9 wal to
eahuci hated Pres ha tFor sgaderran
sthooners, t Ee, Gerwhard,.o Jae ee4md
businar scatured as pinenemy cun-t
o beha lf order of the marshtia of
tueristh srujt. o
Thee are the first prize o got ae
sold in. ,ondon s ire the Crimean wiar.
and the wammer used b the tue
tcioneer is tho the spe used n c ti e
year 18&5, when the last bantch3,p prize
ships were disposed of. It was epr
Iwards presented to the marshal of the
admiralty as a memento.
A condition of the sale was' that
each purchaser had to sign a declara
tion that he was not an alien ,enemy,
that he was in no way Ma gselted with
business carried on in enemy coun
tries, and that he was not purchasing
on behalf of any German, Austrian or
Turkish subject, or company. There
was brisk bidding throughout and
good prices were obtained but the
chronometers of the ships came in for
most attention and were sold , sep,
I rately.