THE OMAHA DAILY PRE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1904. SLEW THE B1C JABBERWOCK Tnio Story of the Han Who Got the Best of the Standard Oil Company. SMOOTH, CLEVLR WQBK OF JIM BROWN Took the Rockefeller Oetopne or the Cilia and Made It Sweat Blood Alao , Borne Good llODf. A popular magaxlne recently publlehed tho portrait of an aggressive looking young man with the caption that this wan the only man who had over "successfully fought" tho Standard OH company. Aa I looked upon his highly intelligent feature and tho long minus of that young man Jaw, I recalled the face of another man with a long Jaw who, although he nevr had the honor of having his portrait printed aa a "nuccensful fighter" of tlio Standard Oil conpaay, would have no trouble, did he need It (which he doesn't), In HFCurlng a letter from the big company recommending him aa one of tho brightest buHlnena men In American industrial his tory. The general public notion of what the Standard Oil company really la l cloudy. By reading the magnxlncs one would aomo tlmea fancy that It was a kind of Jabber wock or Jub-Jub dragon, the legitimate ma terial for tho Industrial sword of the young American knight. But James Brown, whose story will be told here, had no notions of that kind. Brown waa one of the many mm tho hundreda of men who "auccese fully fought" the Standard and who thereby gained the good will and even frle idvhlp of at least one of the largest stockholders of the company. It waa not so long ago that Brown did It; and the way he did it will be a revela tion to Mlsa Tarbell and others who have written about the Standard without know ing much of the technique of business af fairs. The story of Brown Is a story for young men who have ambitions not to let the grass grow tinder their feet, and en tirely apart from Its curiously Interesting facts it has the merit of being unassallably true. Started aa Errand Boy. Mr. Brown wna bred In New York City, where ho started in life as an errand boy. lie saved his pennies, secured a situation In the office of an oil company In Pennsyl vania, und late" became an officer of the concern. Brown had In him the principal element of business success, which, by the way, Is not tho mere love of money, but the love of doing business for the sake of the business itself. He had found It a rather dlfHcult matter to compete with the Standard In the east and he packed up his clothes and came west. I cannot reveal tho name of the city he selected for the pent of war, but It will suffice to say that It waa one of the largest cities In America and not a thousand miles away from Chi cago. The Standard wna represented there by the largest of tho formerly Independent oil concerns tho other concerns had been obliterated by the competition. Brown se lected his city with great wisdom, as the after event proved, and wisely began hi operations In a small way. Ills Intention waa to use the entire product of hie re. finery to "fight" the Standard at this one point. Brown opened a amall depot and during the first six months of his work he busied himself In securing teams and a few sales men to sell his oil on commission. Then he had printed a number of circulars, which he sent to all the retail grocers, his first purpose being to advertise himself not his coal oil, by the way, but James Brown. "Talk about Mr. Brown," he aald to hla salesmen. "Tell 'em what a great and good man Mr. Brown Is. Work 'em up about me, ao they'll all be glad to meet me." Brown offered hla oil, at first, at the regular Standard prices, which waa high at that point, owing to competition elae whore; ao that Brown had a good margin to cut into when the time came for price war. Raisins; Price of Barrels. Meanwhile he looked around and found mai me munuara people were paying 40 cents apiece for empty oil barrels. Brown let It get around that ho would pay 45. Up came the Standard people's bid of course. Then Brown offered 65, and then 86 when his bid waa not raised. This competition In old barrels brought out a wonderful fact. The Standard company had been buying few empty barrels, and paid so low a price for Ihem, when they did buy, that, the trade In empty barrela waa practically dead. Tho etandard had a contract with tho biggest cooperage factory In tho town for 250 new oil barrela per day which Just up plled their wants eo that they had really little use for old barrels. And, In fact, 40 cents waa a good price for the used barrela. But Brown'a bidding- up the price started the market going, and of course the stand ard people rained him right along on prin ciple. They didn't want the old barrela, but they couldn't atay out of the market; they couldn't stand by and see their com petitor get barrels on the spot; and cheap barrels, too, which would help him to sell oil all the more cheaply. Now, Brown did not need many barrela, and. he soon had all he wanted, but he kept the ball rolling Just the same, and the result waa that more old oil barrela than anybody believed existed came to the top and rolled by the thousands into the market. "It looks," said Brown one day, with a chuckle, "that the people of this town carry oil barrels la their pocketa." Up soared the price, higher and higher and when It got to 96 Brown quit. "I guees I'va got 'em all out," he aald, "and Vll let the Standard take 'em at a dollar even. They are worth about SO oents to me, and they are a dead, loss to the Standard." And ao they were. But the Standard took them at a dollar and had to rent an acre lot to atore them. Those old barrels were for several years thereafter a landmark In the town. They were piled In a pyramid thousands and thousands of them, many of them actually shipped from other cities -that rivaled the pyramid at Olsah in (Blse. And there they stayed a monument to Brown's, victory until one night a lot of mischievous boys set fire to them, to the great relief of everybody. Including the owners of them. Thus Brown euchred hla bif rival at the first cams. Winning the Teamsters. Having cleaned up the barrela, Baown began to work In another direction. He had hired tea teamatera (the Standard peo ple haff"a hundred or more), and he treated hla teamsters aa if they belonged to the forelga nobility. He paid them 117 a week, to tht Standard s 81. and ha .gave each of them an extra holiday with pay every two weeks. Brown could do this without lose; and' he icl?ental!y made each of hla teamatera a 'Jvlng advertisement and active gent The teamatera talked of him aa If he were a god and the retail grocers began to think that a New York prince had coma to live in the town. "Mr. Brown" became a watch word. But that waa not all. Brown'a teamsters talked with the Statndard team sters, and told them how Brown waa treat ing them. Iljseontent apread among the Standard's drivers and they, ral4 on the lo.;al president and laid a "grievance" be fore him. The Standard did not rare to go to air with Its teamatera although it could Kiv not thousands of men to Ml the Jobs fcut the old teamatera were' useful, and Twn was beginning to hire the Stand- ard'a men, so that the Standard met Brown'a wogea and raised him a dollar, to offset the extra holiday. Things were beginning to hum, and aoon there occurred the event that Brown had ben waiting for. The Standard cut the price of oil! Brown met the cut. Then the Standard cut again, nnd again Brown met It. But before they could cut It the third time Brown made the masterstroke which he had been reserving all along, and to which nil his other tactics were mere pre liminaries. Organising the Grocers. There was In the town a Retail Grocera' and Butcliera' association, the chief purpose of which was apparently to give an annual picnic. Now Brown had no use for the butchers. Butchers did not buy coal oil. But Ills heart went to the grocers, and he whs now Efficiently known to them by re- rute to meet them personally and to strike the "death blow" to the Standard Jabber wock. He drove In hla handaome 8000 bi'ggy and high-bred fast horse to about a hundred of the leading retail gncers and mad friends of them. Next he drove to smaller groceries, shook hands with the proprletora and helped himself to cheese and crackers. Brown was one of the most magnetic fellows In the world, and he looked like a millionaire. All of which made the grocera hia friends. Next he or ganised the Retail Grocers' association, leaving the butchers out, and the fight waa on in the last round. Frr (WD vnr ltrin p:ivert the grocers to tc limit. Me wot tho soul .if the nn nual picnic. H took a grocer now and hen i"t .1 drive in the petk H t'",l the grocers' children on the head, kissed their grownup daughter smack, nnd. In short, waa the prince that ho had been ad vertised to be. Result: When the Standard cut below tho profit line Brown staid firm at the old price, and laughed In the face of his com pjtitors. The grocera bought his oil at a higher price In preference to the Stand ard's at a lower price, and the Standnrd wagons went home full every day. This sort of thing went on for a year, and then the Standard, people sent for Brown. Would he callT No, Brown wouldn't call.' He wns a busy man. And ao the time went on until the Standard felt that It iwas not atrong enough to compete with a man who had made himself an exception to the lawa of trade, and who could do business on a basis of personal popularity. Brown had the trade of the town and the' Standard of the country. But the Standard was losing right and left,' and eventually offered to make Brown its foreign agent, with offices in London. I do not know how the thing eventually adjusted Itself, but the fact was that Brown gradually retired from the oil busi ness with enough money to build himself a magnificent palace on the edge of town and to become one of the leading citizens of the. place. Georgo P. Tyrone in -Chicago Trib une. A Thlnar Worth Knowing. No need of cutting off a woman'a breast or a man's cheek or nose In a vain attempt to cure cancer. No use of applying burning plasters to the flesh and torturing those al ready weak from suffering. Soothing, balmy, aromatic oil give safe, speedy and certain cure. The most horrible forma of cancer of the face, breast, womb, mouth, stomach, large tumors, ugly ulcers, fistula, catarrh, terrible skin diseases, etc., are all successfully treated by the application of various forms of simple oils. Send for a book, mailed free. Finest sanltorlum In the country. Address Dr. B. P. BYE, Indianapolis, Ind. (Cut this out and aend It to some suffering one.) Attention, Vnion Veterans' Union I All comrades of the Union Veterans' union and -friends who desire to take ad vantage of the rate to the national en campment, are requested .to register at the Wabash ticket office not later than Satur day, as it will be necessary to do so In order to secure the special car. The train will leave the Union depot about 7 o'clock Mon day evening, the 10th Inst., and It la neces sary for you to be there on time. Don't fail to register by Saturday noon. Low Colonial Rates Via Chicago Great Western Railway to points In Montana, Idaho, Washing, ton and western Canada, Tickets on sale dally from September 16 to October1 15. For further Information apply to S. D. Parkhurst, General Agnt, 1612 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. To Cor a Cold In On Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if It fails to cure. E. W. Oroya's signature is on eaoh box. 25o. A Guaranteed care for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money If PA20 OINTMENT falls to,, cure you in I to 14 days. 60c. n Judge Hanna Lectures. Judge Septimus f. Hanna, C. S. D., of Colorado Springs, who is to lecture on Christian Science at Boyd's theater next Monday evening. Is well known In Omaha and in Council Bluffs, where he w6 at one time engaged in the practice of the law. Foreign Financial. LONDON, Oct. 8. There waa no demand for much of the money In the market to day, but the hardening tendency at the principal continental centers barged any lowering of rates. Dlscounta were not quotably altered, but were distinctly firmer. There waa a atrong demand for gold for French and German account, but the mar. ket was bare and will not be able to retain any of the gold arriving in the near future. Prices on the Stock exchange were firmer, but trading waa inactive, except for a fair Investment business, following the good Board of Trade returns. Consols dropped, being affected by the Impending new Issues. Home rails were firm, owing to the encour agement furnished by the report of the Board of Trade, Americana opened ateady and grew firmer to above parity. The variations were mixed and inanlmated. Prices closed fairly steady. Foreigners gen erally were firm. Japanese 'were heavy. Imperial Japanese government 6a of 1904 were quoted at (6. PARIS, Oct. t. The tone on the bourse today waa firm and business was restricted. Russian Imperial 4a were quoted at 3.36 and Russian bonds of 1904 at 505. BERLIN, Oct. 8. The transactions on the bourse today were light and a quiet tone prevailed. CaaTee Market. NEW- YORK. Oct. 8 COFFEE Market for futurea opened ateady at unchanged prices In sympathy with steady cables, but meeting continued scattered: liquida tion gradually eased off in the absence of demand and closed ateady at a net loss of five points on all positions except March and April, which were two points lower, gules, 45.250 bags, Including October at 8.60c; December, 6.70cti75; March, 7cfi7.06: May, l.fca1.'lb July, 7. SOcQI 86; September, 7.50c. Spot Rio, steady; No. 1 invoice, 8c mild, ateady; Cordova. IOQIJc Bank Statement Interesting;. NEW YORK, Oct. . Bank officials were much Interested today In the tabulated statement of the clearing house banks. In Willi h it waa shown that the National Hank of Commerce has a balance to Its credit for the day of I17.42ti.000. This Is a record breaking figure. No explanation waa vouch safed by officers of the Bank of Commerce, but In other quarters the huge balance was belloved to foreshadow some Important financial tranaactlon. New York Imnorts amd Exports. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Total Imports of dry goods and general merchandise at the port of New York for the week ending to day were valued at 812.5M.6tt6. Ek ports of specie from New York for the week were tl8.4U go'd and 84t,fl Mlver. Imports of specie at New York during the week were f2S.Sb6; silver, $.9tl gold. ' Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8-Today's state ment of the balance in the general treas ury, exclusive of the llf.OuO.OuO gold reserve In the division of redemption, ahowa: Avatl cash balances, $1198148; gold. 877.0- Out. GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET Holiday in Leading Grain Markets, Minor Markets Very Strong. SHORTS GET NERVOUS AND COVER FREELY Liverpool, Minneapolis and Milwaukee ttnote Nearly Two Cents Rise on Wheat Corn Firmer Goaslp on Stocks. OMAHA, Oct 8, 1904. Local grain markets were closed. In ac cord with the Chicago closing, for the observance of "Chicago day" at the St. Louis exposition. From the few markets that were doing buslnessa. Milwaukee and Minneapolis. It was plainly seen that the great liquidation of Friday had cleared me speculative atmosphere In wheat ana had also heiped corn. There were millions of long wheat liquidated yesterdsy and the establishment of a short Interest was for the betterment of the market generally. The first note of healthier conditions came this morning from Liverpool, where there was a sharp advance on the efforts of the ahorts there to transfer their profits from paper to cash. This brought l'14c ad vance there. Milwaukee started the advance In Ameri can markets with a Jump from an opening at 81.08 to 1. 0 for the December fu ture, and then a slight reaction, these fig ures comparing with 81.08S at the close yesterday. May opened at I1.C94, a gain of He, and kept the strength throughout, touching 81-loH and closing slightly below the outside figures. December corn was fractionally higher there and the May fu ture was also firmer. Minneapolis responded with an advance to $1.12 for December wheat, as compared with Friday's close at 81.101,; May aovanc lng to 81.134, or 2c a bushel. The shorts made considerable effort to cover In Duluth and New York and the tone at the close was diametrically op posite that of last night. Commercial Oosntp. Minneapolis says: "Understaiid about lOO.OtiO barrels of flour sold yetf'erdny, ten of It for export." J. Ogden Armour said yeterd.-iy: "I look for lower prices for both wheat nnd corn. As to the situation In provl.-iona it seems to be quite healthy." Exchange Grain Company BradstioMs report exports of wheat and flour thla week at 1.106,000 bu.; July 1 to date, 8.161, OuO bu.; same time year ago, lH.H28.00t bu. Thero 18 a good scattered domestic de mand for flour at slightly lower priors. The decline has amounted to about 51il'c In the last few days. Stocks are low in all directions. Minneapolis wire anld: "The traveling superintendent of the Royal Elevator company, operating on the Soo road nays the wheat crop from Enderlln to Foriul will average eighteen bushels to the acre." Edwards, Wood 4 Co. say: "Nothing has developed over night to stimulate a, movement In the stock market In either di rection. The Indications favor an Irregular market, with profit taking usual to the evening up at the end of the week and some selling In anticipation of a bad bank statement. Continued heavy bulng of Reading Is looked for and this promises to hold any selling movement in the gen eral market In check. Tne Harriman stocks are receiving support, but the buy ing of them is not aggressive. A further advance in Amalgamated Copper preferred Is promised. Financial Gossip. Dun's review says business outlook grows steadily brighter. The Illinois Central annual report shows 9.33 per cent on capital stock. The Ontario & Western stockholders' pro tective committee will not oppose finan cing plan, ' OMAHA WHOLK'ALE MARKET Condition of Trade and Quotations on Staple and Fancy Produce. EGGS Receipts moderate; candled stock, 19c. LIVE POULTRY Hens, 8(ff8V4c; roosters, 6c; turkeys, 1012c; ducks, &tt9c; geese, 6o;, spring chickens, 99!c BUTTER Packing stock, 12c; choice to fancy dairy, 15(<c; separator, 18c. TTRESH FISH-Trout, 10o; pickerel, 8c; filke, 10c; prh, 7c; blueflsh, lie; whlteflsh, 0c; salmon. Ho; redsnapper, lie; lobster, ?:reen, 20c: fobster, boiled, 80c; bullheads, lc; catfish, 14c; black bass, 20c;- halibut, 10c; croppies, 12c; roe ahad, II; buffalo, io; white bass, 11c; frog legs, per dos., 26o. BRAN Per ton. 816. HAY Prices quoted by Omaha Wholesale Dealers' association: Choice No. 1 upland, 87.00; No. 2, 86.50; medium, f6.00; coarse, 85.60. Rye straw, 86.00. These prices are for hay of good color and quality. OYSTERS New York counts, rer can, 46c; extra selects, per can, 87c: standards, per can, 82c; bulk standards, per gal., 8135; bulk extra selects, per gal.. $1.76; bulk New York counts. p?r gal., 82.00. TROPICAL FRUITS ORANGES Mexican, sixes 156, 176, 200, 216, 250,' 84 00. LEMONS California fancy, 270, 800 and 360. 84 50: choice, 83.754.0O. DATES Per box of SO-lb. . pkgs., 82.00; Hallowl in 70-lb. box. per lb., 6c. FIGS California, per 10-lb. carton, 759 85c; Imported Smyrna, 2-crown, 12c; 5-crown, 14c; 7-crown. 16c; fancy Imported, washed. In 1-lb. packers, 1&&19C. BANANAS Per medium vised bunch, 82.0tifr2.6O: Jumbo, 82.7633.50. FLORIDA PINEAPPLES 24 and 30 sixe, per trtte, $3.7!.. , FRUITS. APPLES Home-grown. Jonathan, per bbl 13.00; Ben Davis, $2.26; New York Round Sweets, $3.00; New York Kings, 83.00; New York Pippins, $2.75; New York Greenings, $2.50 ' . PEACHES Colorado, per box, 8-ic; Utah, per .box, 85c. . , PlXJMS Utah and Colorado plums and prunes. 75iiS5c. PEARS Utah, Colorado and California fall varieties, per box, 81-90(62.00. CANTELOUFE Genuine Colorado Rocky Fords, per crate, 82.00. CELERY Per dox., 25S0o GRAPES Home-grown, rr 8 to x-lb basket, 17c; California Tokay, per case, 81.5tKrtl.6T.; New York and Ohio, per 8-lb. basket, 20c. CRANBERRIES Cape Cods, per bbl.. 86.60: per box, 82.26. . QUINCES California, per box, 8180. VEGETABLES. POTATOES New home-growi. In aacka. per bu.. 40o. NAVY BEANS Per bu., 81.751.90. ONION8 Home-grown In sacks, per bu., 60c; Spanish, per crate, $1.60. TOMATOES Home-grown per market basket, 26ft35i CABBAGE Home-grown, per 100 lbs.. SBo. WAX BEANS Per market basket, 60o. SWEET POTATOES Home-TPwn, ner market basket, 40c; Virginia, per bbl., $2.60. GREEN PEPPERS Per bushel basket, 60c. SQUASH Home-grown, per dox., 60o. EGG PLANT Southern, per dox., $1.60. . . MISCELLANEOUS. HONEY Utah and Colorado, per case of 24 frames, $3 00. CHEESE Wisconsin twins, full cream, 11c: Wisconsin Voung America, lie; olock Swiss, new, 15c; old, Mil7r; Wisconsin brlckl2V4c: Wisconsin limnerger. iy,o. NUTS Walnuts. No. 1 soff shell, per lh . 15c; hard shell, per lb., 14c; No. t sort shell, per Vb., 13c; No. 8 hardslioli. per ib.. i.o; pecans, large, per It.., 12w, in.-!:, per lb., luc; peanuts, per !b, 7c; roasted pexnuta, per lb.. 8o: Chill walnuts, per lo., 12lSVtc; almonds, soft shell, per lb., 16c; hard shell, HIDES No. 1 green, 7c; No. I green. 6c; o. 1 salted, 8V&c; No. salted, 7c; No. 1 . . ' a n . V . , , 1.. . .4 ...... 10t(16c; sheep pelts, 25cg$1.00; horse hides, i.iKtfJ.W. Philadelphia Produce Market. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 8. BUTTER Firm, with fair demand; extra western creamery, 21c; extra nearby printa, 23c. EGGS Steady, fair demand; nearby firsts, 204i lilc, at mark; western firsts, 2UJ 21c, at mark. CHEESE Firm; New York full creama, fancy, 10'fJlOVuc; choice, 96 Wc; (air to good, 9(6 9tc. x ' Chicago PrOTlalon Market. CHICAGO, Oct. 8. BUTTER Steady ; creamery, H'JCOc; dairies. 13617c. EGGS Steady; at mark, casef Included, CHEESE Firm; daisies. WAQlOMc; twins, 10c: young Americas, lOig'lOHc. POULTRY-Allve, steady; turkeys. 12c; chickens, 9Vo; springs, 10c. Minneapolis Grain Market. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. ivWHEAT-De-cember. $1.UH; May, $1.12,; No. 1 hard. $1.14S; No. I northern, $1.12S: No. I north ern, $1 0H- FLOUR-First patents. $6.103.20; second patents. $V95(ft OR: first clears, $4,504)4.60; Second clears. $3 00f3.1O, BRAN In bulk. $15.00fjlS.25. Holiday la Chleaaro. CHICAGO, Oct S.-Because of It being Chicago duy at the St. Louis fslr there was a holiday on the Chicago board of trade today. Pnlnth Grnla Market. THTLUTH. Oct. 8. WHEAT To arrivs: No. 1 hard. 81.1144; No. 1 northern, ll.iaM.; No. t northern. $1.04. On track; No. i northern, $l.t; No. 2 northern, $1 W; De cember, $l.mS; May, ll.ll-V j UA'iS-io arrive and on traoK, 30c. kew York gemhal n.ihkei Quotations of the Day on Vnrlous Commodities. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. FLOUR Receipts, 26.UM) bbls. ; export, h,Vtr bbl...; ?ah-, i.tw pag.; market steady, but quiet; .Minne apolis patents, Ki"Wi.w; Minnesota bakers, Ht t; winter p.ont!, .4.ua. io; u,tpi atjaixnts. o.tnjo.i.; winter extras, J. to-y yfv; winter iu graUex, la.i-.'na.iO. liye I. jur, nrm; rales, ju t,ols. ; titir to gool, H.4U'64.6o; choice io tanuy, .6.tj 9 1. Buck wheat flour, quiet, per uu ltwt., tJ.iMui.n,. CUKNMfcAL, - Stmdy; yeliow western, Il il-gUii; city, $1.10.1.14; kiln-Urled, 4J.U1 Ui.A. HIE Nominal. BARLEi Quiet; feeding, 4:c, c. 1. f New 101k. WHEAT Receipts, 2,000 bu.; nales, 2,iOi,- 000 bu. tuturts. Spot rntirkel quiet, but llrm; No. i r-l, 41. w, f. o. b., atkat; No. 1 northern Duiuth. l.i(-, 1. o. b., afloat; No. 1 hard Manitoba, nmlnal, t., o. b , unos t. Options opened mm on i.thr Liverpool cithles and reported unf avoraole weather In Australia anu Argentine, frlcea advanced on coveting an1 fore.gn demand, which later turned to selling, in the ab sence of advices trom Cnlcaan. St. Louis. Toledo and Detroit local, operations were emalljin(i the market dlo-cd nuttt. hut firm, and lc net higher, bales include. I Nu. 2 red, May at 1. 11 S-16'n 1.I1414. cloi-uig at 81,11, December, 81.12V41.13ti, (l'aeU at $1.WH. COKN Receipts, 62,425 bu.; exporls, 44, 129 bu.; sates, o,t0 bu. futures, dpot mar ket firm: No. 2, 6fttyc elevator anu 57: f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 yellow, &9i". No. 2 write, iic. Option market o;ened firm with wheat, Dut became Inactive, closing dull at VtK advance. May closed at uac; De cember, 6o7(iio, rlosrd at 65vo. OATS Receipts, va.-jsiu bu.; exports, 10.200 bu. Spot rriHrket dull; mixed, t to 32 lhs., 35if36c; natural white, So to 32 nw., 35V 37c; clipped white, 36 to 40 Ibp., S7mj'4oc. Options nominal December closed at 36 V- t EED--Irregular; spring bran, $19.S5; middlings. .b5; city. $Jo.u "Tiio.uo. HA Y Dull; shipping, '.6kc; good to choice, Soc. HOPS Firm; state, common to choice, 19iH, 29f(j37c; ifc-S, Ki vi6c ; olds, liylSc Pa cific co.uit. 19.4, 2S4jj33c; 1903, Olds, 14ijjl8c. HIDES Firm; Galveston. 10 to 5 lbs., 17c; California, 21 to 25 lbs., lo; Texaa (dry), 24 to 30 lb., 14c. LEATHER Steady; acid. Cilc. PROVISIONS lit ef. sternly; faml'y, $10.5tWi 11.3i; met'-i, $'t.Myiifl.5 1; beef lams, $24.0&25.6o; p.icket, J9.5u4ln.o0; city, extr.i India mess, fl4.5oftrl5.Oii. Cut meals, dull; pickled belllei, iO.la'u 11.00; pickled t-houl-dersA$i.50; pickled hams. $9.i6fti l.23. Lard, quiet; wentern steamed, f.s.jo; October cloned at IS.20 nominal; reflned, quiet; ton tinent, fs.4(i; Hnutn Ame:lca, .v7.i; com pound, $6.12V4fni.2o. Poik, ateady; :amlly, 416.00: short clear, $H.01kS17.00; mess, 13.25 4(13.75. TALLOW Steady; city, 4c; country, (pkgs. free). 4'-s('((Tic. RICE Firm: uomestlc. fair to extra, 2 5V.c; Japan, nominal. BUTTER Weak; street price,' extra creamery, 20'4fi2lc; official price, creamery, common to extra, 136200. CHEESE Strong; state full cream, small fancy, colored and white, lO'e; large, col ored and white, good to fancy, yglOo; large white, poor to fancy, 7V'9ie. EUGS Weak; western fancy,' selected, 21Ve22c; average best, 20ft721c. POULTRY Alive, steady; western hick ens, 12c; fowls. 12c; turkeys, 12c; dressed, steady; western chickens, lHjflSc; fowls, 14c; turkeys, 1516c. Milwaukee brain Market. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 8. WHEAT lc higher; No. 1 northern. $1.14; No. 2 north ern. $1.08(81.18: May, $1.09Vfjl.09, bid. BARLEY Steady; No. 2, 55c; sample, 330 C3c. CORN Easy; No. 3, 6153c; May, 40Hc bid. Liverpool Grain nnd Provisions. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 8. WHEAT Spot, nominal; futures, firm; December, 7s 6VJ; March, 7s 8d. CORN Spot, easy; American mixed, 4s 5d; futures, dull; December, 4s 6d. Peorln Grain Jtlnrket. PEORIA. Oct. 8. CORN Lower; No. 8, 63c; No. 4, 52c; no grade, 51c. ' Wool Market. BOSTON, Oct. 8. WOOL The Commer cial Bulletin today says; The market is excited and the business of the week has been on a large scale. 'Large and small buyers have been operating. A few big lines of teritory and medium fleeces have been moved. Montana, staple sold at 21V4ff 24o. Three-eighths Ohh and Michigan sold freely at 282s4e' and .eb;o quarter-Mood at 29o. On tho latter the price has been marked up to 30c. ,- Prices :pn all grades are firm and rihlng. . Tho shipments of wool from Boston to date .from December 81, 1903, according to the same authority, are 176,918,034 lbs., against 179,720,318 the same time last year. . The receipts to date are 266,650,823 lbs., agalnet 240,851,150 for the same period alst year. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. WOOL Firm; do. memlc fleece. 32f35c. ST. LOL'IS, Oct. 8. WOOL Steady, with tub washed higher; medium grades, comb ing and clothing. 20fi26c; Huht fine. lS'(i20c; heavy fine, 12il(ic; tub washed, 22(6 36c. LONDON. Oct. 8. WOOl, The urrivaH of wool for the sixth series of auction sales amount to 14,431 bales, including 3,5tX) for warded direct to spinners. The Importx this week were: New South Wales, 1,709 bales; Queensland, 1.142: Victoria, 813; Cope of Good Hope and Natal, 38; Brussels, "2,357; China, 59; New York, 47. Metal Mt.rket. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. METALS The leaders were In moderate demand In small lots with prices as a rule unchanged and steady. Lake copper, $13.ii813.12H; electro lytic, $12 87Wai3.00; casting. $12.62 Vo 12 75. Tin. $2.30fti2x 50. Spelter, $a.lui'5.20. Lead, $4.20(54.30. Iron, firm and unchanged from lust quotations. 4 The Story of the Presidency 1 , - fcannnBntBndtinJ Now on Sale at All Newsdealers Ki I!, RUSSELL, PUBLISHER, i 2 NEW YORK (86) OMAHA LIYE STOCK MARKET Liehter Eactipts for the Week Csusad Al . Cattle to Advance. HCGS MOVING STEADILY DOWNWARD Good Fat Sheep and Lumna steady for the Week, Others Trifle Lower, Good Feeders Also Steady, but Light WelaM Lambs Lower, SOUTH OMAHA, October 8, 1904. Receipts were: Ottlclitl Mondnv Olllcinl Tuesday Otllclul Wednesday... OlilcltnThursday Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. 1,1 IO O.hKH) aa.CtV 6.441 7.3M - .7M 6.1"4 4,30 17.'.1 7.1-4 3,2 1.4;!S 263 16.742 27.654 9.696 Official Friday Official Saturday 600 1 1 Total last week 2152 1 Total this week 36.129 Mli 1 89,858 io.nl two w.fks mo ..30.3.(5 Sl'.4io Total three weeks ago. .22.70 Totn! four weeks ago. . . .16. 13S Same week last vear....31.8,7 68.156 4U01 91.664 RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR TO DATE. il.e following table shows the receipts of cultie, hogs mid sheep at South Oniiiha for toe year to date with comparisons: , 194. 1903. Inc. ' Dec. oncep 1,269.899 1.2"0,oui 69,8!i4 V,altl8 6,8.136 802,6! 124,ofi6 1.816.64S l,79-',90O 23,596 1 lie following table shows th average price of hogs at bouth Omaha lor Hie last several days with comparisons: Dste. I 1904. 1D(W . 1SOzT1901 . 10V . 1X898). 18M- 8ept. 19. Pept. 20. Sept. 21. Sept. 22. Sept. 2.1. Sept. 24. Sept. 26. Sept. 26. Sept. 27. Sept. 28. 8ept. 29., Sept. 30. Oct. 1... Oct. 2... Oct. 8... Oct. 4... Oct 6... Oct. 6... Oct. 7... Oct. 8... 6 72HI 1 80 6 81HI 6 70, 7 88 6 19 4 33 4 31 81 8 74 7 $ W 861 6 S! 6 2-J i -1 1 6 81 t 28 ST1 2 73 3 77 $ 77 8 71 IT2 I 3 75H! i 80 6 78 7 49 7 61 7 68 7 65 7 87! 6 21 5 14 36; 4 41 4 41 5 7SH, 6 74 6 84 801 6 76 6 791 6 68 6 68, 5 fill' 6 161 6 16 4 X9 0 ft 5 74 7 84 6 15 4 86I 4 41 1 6 82 5 16 6 17 3 4 6 644 6 69 I 6 74Hj 5 714 6 74H: 6 70H 6 '584! 5 54-V 6 72 5 ill 5 f V S2 7 23 7 15 4 87 2 64 6 Sl 4 ao: a in 6 75' 6 58 6 59 6 13 3 71 8 66 8 64 3 64 3 63 8 58 3 59 6 61 7 201 7 30j 6 18 6 19 6 20 5 16 4 891 u tkl 4 42 4 37 4 31 4 34 4 851 7 32 7 42 7 R 7 28 6 5 6 6' 6 62 6 64 6 11 6 08 6 41 6 IS 49 6 33 lnd!cnt Sunday. CATTLE There were a few cattle In the yards thin morning, but no quotable change in tho market took place. For ri week receipts have been rather IIrM as there is a decrease as compared with last week amounting to about 11,000 head and as compared with the same week of !ast year the falling off amounts to about 6,000 head. In view of the light supply the tendency of prices has been upward. Corn fed steers have been In light supply and with a good demand the market has ruled active anil strong on all desirable, grades. As high as $6.06 has been paid and something strictly prime would un doubtedly bri ig more then that. Common stuff such as comes in competition with westerns has not shown much change. Good' to choice cattle may be quoted from $5.75 to $6.15, fair to good, $5.0ojo $5.75 and the shorter fed cattle sell fronr $5.00 down. There has been a liberal sprinkling of western range beef steers in the receipts all the week, hut the demand has been fully equal to the supply and since Mon day prices have advanced fully a quarter. Thla gain Just about makes up for the loss of last week, so that prices are In murh the same notches they were two weeks ago. Good to choice grades mav be quoted from $3.75 to $4.50; fair to good, $3.26 to $3.75, and common to fair from $2.75 to $3.25. The cow market has advanced even more than steers, as supplies have been mod erate for the time of year nnd the demand quite liberal. Trailing has ruled active all the week and prices show a net gain of 26fi40c. This carries the market back to where It was before the severe break last week. All kinds are in good demand, from canners to the choicest grades, so that a good clearance has been made each day. Good U choice kinds may be quoted from $2.75 tiF$3.15; fair to good, $2.26ft 2.75, and canners and cutters from $1.75 to $2.25. Bulls are a little higher for the week where the nualitv is at all good. Common kinds, though, have not shown much Im-H provement. Veal calves are also a little higher, the best grades selling up to $5.50. The supply of Blockers and feeders has been limited this week and with a fairly good demand the market has ruled active and strong all the week. Light cattle in particular have sold to good advantage, so that the decline of last week has been reg.'fned. Farmers seem to have made up their minds that at the prices ruling on stockers and feeders they are a good In vestment nnd consequently purchases have been more liberal. The top price . of the week was $3.95. paid for 1 very prime, high grade bunch of Polled Angus steers. Good to choice feeders could be quoted from $3.50 to- $4.00; fair to good. $3.00 to $3.50, and commoner kinds from $3.V down. Representative sales: NEBRASKA. 1 cow 1250 2 65 1 cow 12S0 2 60 1 bull. .'...'.1210 195 1 cow 910 2 85 10 cows 1109 2 40 1 cow 940 1 85 9 feeders.. 1003 3 15 HOGS Receipts of hogs were not heavy this niornine. hut the tendency of prices continued downward, ns packers were bear ish at nil points. 1 no mai'Ket nere couiu be quoted weak to a nickel lower. The bulk nf the hoes nolo! from 15.52V, to $5.671A. with n top at 85.60. Trading wns not very active nnd nestaea tnnt trains were very mow in arriving, o that it was late before the market came to a close. After packers had their more urgent orders tilled they seemed to be even more bearish, so thnt the later sales were largely around a nickel lower. Receipts for the week have been fairly liberal for the time ot year, being slightly In excess of last week and as compared with the same week 01 last year there Is an increase ot about 13,"i) head. Prices have moved steadily downward and a net loss tor tne week amounting to about 20c I noted. lackers are now looking more at quality than at weight, so that the rnnge ot prices is not nearly so wlue as was tne case a short time ago. Representative sales: No At. 8k. Pr. Ne. A. Sh. Pr. 1J U ... Hi 14 ... Ml U 2M too I to tt IM M I H 10 ill ... IM II I JO 40 I M U IM ... IH II Ml 6 W II M 40 I U 11 K ... I ." to 40 I bt It til 4 I M 67 IM ... till, M ... I 64 (7 tit ISO lilt. a 140 ... I 14 &.- 7i m 1 Jii, 1: t:t iw I 15 ? 10 ... I tlv, 71 U ... IM 44 1X4 100 I lit, u i. IM 40 I M 0 130 ... t 62 V 14 "1 KO 161 W 144 ... IllV, 71 IU 40 I 65 Hi 191 ... I 4JL, 47 24 40 6I 170 IM I 1.1 10 I 65 44. ...... .240 40 till (7 I7 40 I M 60 M I lit 40 24! IM I U l: l?0 I IIS 40 til ... I 674j 66 lit loo I lis ft 46 I i"S tkl Ill l11 I II T4 IM 120 I 67s 7 V44 MU I 65 44 ? 40 t 67S II 14 ... ill T6 JH 110 I 67S ta 197 W I 61 10 M ... I I7S 41 1"4 0 I 61 11 117 10 I 67S 44 141 140 I U 61 tl ... I 67S (1 150 SO I 65 II 121 10 I M II 174 ISO I 15 71 HI 140 I 10 l 151 10 I II II HI 10 4 40 II U7 4tK) I 55 II , 231 ... I 10 Ill 7 40 I 65 11 131 ... I 40 6 tl 40 I 55 SHEEP There were a few bunches of sheep iu the yards this morning, but no quotable change In the market took place. For the week receipts have been very lib eral, there being1 a gain over 'nst week amounting to abotit 4,000 head and as com pared with the same week of last year there Is also a slight gain. The den-and for good stuff, however, has been fully equal to the siufly. Owing to the fart thnt the quality of the offerings this week has not been very good the proportion of desirable fat sheep to the total receipts has been smnll. Packers have all had liberal orders to fill and as a re sult the market on good to choice fat sheep may be quoted steady and active. The sup ply of fair to medium killers hns been large arid such kinds are perhaps around a dime lower than they were a ween ago, Ijimbs have arrived quite freely and in lie big end ot tne receipts nas ueeu made up of lambs. Desirable- killers, bow- ever, have sold at Just about ateady prices all the week, with the commoner kinds a little weak. . Feeding sheep may be quoted active and ateady, as a large number of buyers have beenm the market every day. Good feed ing lambs hnve also sold In much the same notches they did last week, but lightweight lambs, of which there have been a good litany, have eased off 1525c. Quotations for grass sheep and lambs: Good to choice yearlings. $3.653.&5; fair to good yearlings, $3.4O4j.3.60; good to choice wethers, $3.26a3.50; fair to good wethers, $3 003.25; good to choice ewes, $3.0O3 80; fair to good ewes, $2.754r3.00; good to choice lambs, $4.50&4.90; fair to good lambs, $4,260 4.50; feeder yearlings, $3.603.S5; feeder wethers, $3.25(fl3.50; feeder ewes, $2.0t)2.50: feeder lambs, $3.204.4O; breeding ewes, $3.00 U3.So. Kansas Cltr LI "toek Market. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 8. CATTLE Receipts 200. Including 25 southerns. Mar ket unchanged. Choice export and dressed beef steers, $5.00(i)fl.l0; fair to good $4.00 5.00; western fed steers, $4.00rf6.50; stockers and feeders, 82.26fii2.76: native cows, 81.50 ffi3.76; native heifers. $2.60fq4.50; bulls, $l.i5 &3.25; calves, $2.50U6.60; receipts for the week. 64,90. .... HOGS Receipts, 2,000 head. -Market weak to 6c lower. Top. $5.86; bulk of Bales. $6J0 (?io.80; heavy, $5.75'i6.86; packers, 6.66(36.80; pigs and lights, $5,404(6.80; receipts for the week. 9.800. , A . . SHEEP and LAMBS Receipts, 300 head. Market unchanged: native lambs, $4.00Ctf 5.10; native wethers, $3.25&3.80; native ewes, $3.00fi3.5O; western larnos, n.woo.ii western yearlings, 8.25C(i3.75; western sheep, $3 60113 85; stockers and feeders, $2.50&4.00. Receipts for the week, 41,000 head. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET Cattle, Ho(i, Sheep And I.nmbs Steady Receipts Light. CHICAGO. Oct. 8 CATTLE Receipts, 600 head; market steady; good to prime ters. $3.75(rf6.60; poor to medium, : l ers and feeders, $2,3044.15; cpw$50r4.60; heifers, $2.00i&s5.00; canners $1.6002.40; bulls $2.0004.50; calves, $3.50firi.50; Texas fed steers, $3 00(9)5.50; western steers $3.0004.75. HOGS-Recelpts, 9,000 head ; market steady; good to choice heavy, $5.90(ti.10, mixed and butchers, $5.60r6.15; rough heavy, $5.50ffiS.80; light. $5.70(&.06; bulk of sales, SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts, 4 000 head; market for sheep and lambs steady; good to choice wethers, $3.75(84.50; fair to , . , i i ocr.fl Tn. n. ..turn heen. 13.00 u4.lo; nutive lumus, , i.vwu,'., lambs, li.owiji.so. New York Live Stock Market. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. BEEVES Receipts, none; dressed beef steady at 64494c per lb. for natives. Exports 1,112 cattle and 6,428 quarters of beef. CALVES Receipts, none; feeling steady, city dressed veals selling at 74&134o P"" lb. HOGS Receipts, 1,075 head. SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts, 8.076 head; market active and firm for both sheep and lambs; sheep $3.50(34.35 per 1(0 lbs.; lambs,' $5.5tKg.25; Canadian lambs, $5.75; dressed mutton, steady at 6Sj8o per lb. Dressed lambs, 104c. Exports, 30 sheep. St. Lonla Lire Stock Market. ST. LOUIS. MO., Oct. 8 CATTLE Re ceipts, 600 head, Including 800 -fexans. Market atrong and steady. Native ship ping and export steers, $4. 606.00; dressed beef and butchers steers, $4.26(&5.0; steers under 1,000 pounds, $3.60?6.26; stockers and feeders, $2.00hS.80; cows and heifers. $2.25 4.75; canners. $1. 252.25; bulls. 2.0IVu3.00; calves. $2.25c7.25; Texas and Indian steers, $3.1Off3.50 for grass, with fed higher; cows and heifers, $2.00(82.60. HOGS Receipts, 2,O0O head. Market Alfred Henry Lewis and A New Story by Rudyard Kipling in the October Metropolitan "A 35-cent Magazine for 15 cents steady. Tigs and lights, $4,504)6 80; packers, $5.8otr.00; butcher and beat heavy, 15 frv.rt 10. ' SHEEP and LAMBS Receipts 1,000 hes4. Market stead. Native muttons, $3T'( 4 60; lambs, $3 5Wi.00; culls and hucks, 82OX94.00; stockers. $2.0003.26; Texans, $3.04 44.00. lonx City Live Stoek Market. SKH X CITY. Ia., Oct. 8.-Kpeclal Tele gram.) OATTLta! Receipts. Sw head; mar. ket steady; beevcr, $5.0o.C;; cows, bulla and mixed. $2.(i3.4; stockers nd feeders, $2 5"fi3 6o; calves and yearlings. $2.25413 00. HOGS Receipts, l."t head; market steady, selling at $S.5oiU5.66; bulk, $5.66u.U. St. Joseph Live Seoelx Mark. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oct. 8. CATTLBJ Re ceipts. 366 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts. 8,764 head. Market steady to lower. Light, 8a.60Sj6.,2i,' medium and heavy, 85.74'u6.R0. SHEEP and LAMBS Receipts none. Stork In Slsrht. Receipts of live stock at the six principal western cities yesterday were: ; Cattle Hogs. 8heep. Bmiih Omaha 263 4.:x) 60S Sioux City Kansas City 4. 0 St. Louis St. Joseph 35 Chicago WJO Total 2.128 22,664 Cotton Market. NEW YORK. Oct. 8 -COTTON-Futures closed steady; October, 10c; November, 10.04c; December. 10.11c; January. 10 ltc; Kebruarv. 10.21c; March, 10.21c: April, 10.2oo; Mav 10 27c. Spot, quiet: middling uplanda, 10 4nc; middling gulf, 10.70c; sales, none. ST. LOl'IS. Oct. 8. COTTON Unlet. 4a higher; middling, 104c; sales, 40 bales; re ceipts, 108 bales; shipments, none; stock, 8,367 bales. . NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 8. COTTON Quiet and steady; sales, 2,750 bales; ordl uarv, 74c; good ordinary, 8 13-16c; low mid dling, 9 -i6c; middling, 10c; gooa middling, W8-l6c: middling fair, 10 U-16c; receipts. 14, 6i'2 bales; stock, 100,669 bales. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 8. COTTON Spot, quiet; prices 6 points higher; American mid dling talr. 9.56d; good middling, 6.80d; mid dling, 6.tMi; low middling, 6.40d; good ordi nary, 6.18d; ordinary. 4.94d. The sales of the day were 4,0UO bales, of which 400 wero for speculation and export nnd Included 8,200 American. Receipts, 6,000 bales, in cluding 2,300 American. Futures opened ateady and closed steady; American mid dling g. o. c. : October, 6.62d; October and November, 6.49d; November and December, 5.49d; December and January, 6.4d; Jan uary and February, 6 49d; February and March. 6.60d; March and April, 6.61d; April and May, 6.61d; May and June, 6.62d. Oils nnd Rosin. NEW YORK, Oct. 8, OILS Cottonseed 011 firm; prime firm, nominal; prime yellow, 29V41I30C. Petroleum quiet; refined, New Vol kV$7.96; Philadelphia and Baltimore, $7.o; relined in bulk, 85.00. Turpentine quiet, 6a ROSIN Firm; strained common to gooa. SAVANNAH, Ga.. Oct. 8. TL'RPENTINB ROSlN-Firm; A, B, C. UMl D. $2.65; E. $2.60; F, $2.65412.674; O, $2.70; H. $2,774; I, $2.90 K, $T66; M. $4.15"cj4.l7; N. $4,874; W, O, 84.66CH60; W, W, $4.80. OIL CITY, Pa., Oct. 8. OILS Credit bal ances, $1.66; certificate, no bid. Shipments, 77 483 barrels, average 75,695; runs 73.837, average 72,216; shipments, Lima, 89. i30, aver age 64,118? runs, Lima. 68,668. average, 65,733. unsrar a ni w m NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 8. SUGAR Strong; open kettle. S4tf31ie; open kettle, centrifugal, 4U44c: centrifugal whites, 4 15-16c; yellows. 4-4j4T4c; seconds, 244c. to f .ASSES Nominal: open kettle. 20(3 25c: centrifugal, 10jl5o. SYRUP Nominal. MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA main orricK "ifth and Robert Sti ST. PAUL, MINN. (iCOaroATat4 DEALER IN 4 , . 0 v,, Stocks, Grain, Provisions: Bought and sold lor cash or carried on reasonabkl ' margins, upon which there will be a charge ot H grain, H on stocks , ' Wrta for our market letm. 81 CONmioSIQJ MERCHANT! IN BAR LOTI Ship Your Grain To Us Bbst Factunss. PsoxrT RsTVatis, LiBBsat, Advances. DULUTH w,NNpE0 Branch Office, UO-tlt Board of Trade, Phono 8014. OMAHA, NEB. GEO. A. ADAMS GRAIN CO. OMAHA. CRAIN BUYERS and SHIPPERS Members: Chicago, Omaha, Kansas Cits and St. Louis Exchanges. Transactions for future deUrer gtrtn careful ettentlon. S15 Board Trad Bldgt. Tel. 1004k 1.8rt) 2.(0 $00 2.000 L0O0 3,764 9.000 4,000 6,9(4 liduards Uo 0 d Go,