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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1917)
8 C JMATTA SUNDAY BEE; APRIL 22. 191T. LIVE STOCK MARKET Cattle of All Kinds tower for Week Lambs Highest on Eecord. HOGS LOWER FOR WEEK Omaha, April 31., HIT. Receipts were: Official Monday official Tuesday ... .Official Wednesday.. Official Thursday... Official Friday tUt (mat Saturday.. Cattla. Ho. Shp I.S lft,:jf 11.42 I 311 (,8S! 7.0M 14 17,(1 1 BriSl i.oco ftix dayi (till week.lMM M.l 40.10 Kama dava !al wk . . il.344 S,lT 3MM Same daa : Wki aRo.Sl.eftc t3.:07 27,Sfl3 8mn daya afka aico.12.4fi7 M.4I1 67,401 Snme daya 4 Wka aio. 20.304 0.40l 4,6&6 Sam days laat year... 22.007 61,174 4.2J I'altla Thpra wre no fwsh rattle of any Important- in alitht thla morning, but r ripia for lha week bava been very liberal, ahowlm a larva gain over a yaar ago aa well aa over mmt recent wpeks. Aa a, re ault of the over-aupply. not only hera. but at all othT market polnta, prlcea hera have broken badly. Chofra heavy Ions-fad and well-finished beevea are vary llttla lower, but aiida from that medium to weighty cattla ara J&kfffiOc lower. Light yearllnga have suffered moat of all, lha market having been flooded with that kind and they are 60(4)11. 2& lower than ft week ago. A few choice heavy rows and heifere. the kind that are selling at llO.M or batter, hava Kltotvn llttla or no change, but as Id from that the general market on butcher atok la ItfrSOc lower. Veal calves hava been Arm, the beat sHlIng at 12.00O12.0. Ktorkers and feedera hava declined In about the aama proportion aa klliera, the trade for the week having been alow and dull, the talk regarding the placing of a limit 1ji the government on beef prlcea hav ing etldcntly cut down country buying. Quotations i Cattle Good to choice hev, 1M0MMI; fair to good haevea, f 10 .754111.60; common to fair beevea, 19.60 10.76; good to c'.iolc htfere, I9.60&10.16; good to choke cowa, 11.76010.60; fair to rood rows, fl.00OI.76; common to fair cow. $S. 60ff. 00; prima feeding altera, ft.tOty ."&, good to chotc feedera, 91,764)9.60; fair to good feedera, 16.0008.76; common to fair, feedera, l. 7601.90, good to choice atockara. 18.6001.76; tock heifere, 17.000 1.76; atock cows, $8,0009,26; stock calves. tT.liOfrlO.00: veal ralve. 99,00012.60; baef bulls, stage, etc, 8.00OI.6 Hoea Offerings were hardly large enough to make a market, and the trade waa a fa tureieee affair.' Shipping demand waa very light, order buyer not taking over ten or a rinxen loada. Packer buyers were out In good season, and hoge started moving fairly early. t Kor the moat part prlrea paid looked Steady to atrong, though Individual salea could be pointed that were 6o higher. In comparison to the alia of the run there were mors good hogs here today, and that helped out the average some. To put matters plainly, tbt market has ben so unsettled and Irregular all week that making comparlaone from day to day '. has been a next to Impossible job. The bulk of today's offerings sold at tU.3O01.O, tnd several cars reached 916.70. The close was the usual alow affair, several loads, not 11 of which were common hogs either, fall ing to sett until late In the day, If they old st all. Compared w!tM h weak ago, the market ts on the average 16 0 40c off. The first half f the week buyers completely controlled the trade, but by Thursday, with smaller receipts, the market began to stiffen up. and Friday and Saturday a amall part' of the lump- waa regained. The increase- In the proportion of light and mixed hogs has brought these kinds Into greater disfavor with buyers, and several days plain hogs were tha tiit thine to unsalable. They show the big end of the week's decline, being easily 60a oft In many cases, while some of ths good hogs art, en ttoe olljer 1 band,, not over 10e lower, ' Representative sales: Jfe. Av. Sh. Pr No. A v. ih. Pr. ' 80 l'4 90 119 II 1 ... II 16 169 16-86 184 16 46 100 II II ... II TO 101. 18T 340 14 71 14. .176 110 It 0 14. 80 16 10 76. .161 .191 .119 .331 .160 Tt 81. .101 I9..S84 -76. .111 69.. 171 110 II 80 -110 16 40 71 16 10 II II 71. .143 44..101 PI08. 11.. 107 ... II 00 71. ,117 10 14 09 Sheep Ufl until Friday tht lamb market - was not much changed from tht prices that were In fores a week, but a tharp upturn tht rioting day of tht wash put values to a point 16026e above n week ago, Friday's tale be ing tht highest ever mad on thin market. Good Uaht tnd handy weight Mexican Umba gold up to $16.76016.80, tht latttr prlct a new (record, and dry, light Mtxlognt of good duality would probably have brought 1 6010c irfbr. Weeternt aold mainly at 116.36016. 60. Clipped lamb art no more thsn ateady for the week. Quotations on sheep tnd lambs: Lambs, light and handy, IU.16tJU.IO; Iambi, heavy, 111. 00O16.60; lambs, fresh shorn, Ill.OOO 12.78: Iambs, shearing, 814,00014,60; year lings, good to oholcs, $18.00011.76; year lings, fslr to good. fll.00O13.00; wethers, fair to choice. I11.I0O13.00; owes, good to choice, f 12.OO018.6O; ewes, fair to good, 111 noOll.OOt owes, plain to culls, $7,600 10.76. - CHICAGO LIVS STOCK MARKET, Cattle Blow Hlgs Strong --Sheep and Lambs Steady. Chicago, April 11. Cattle Receipts, too head; market, alow; native beef cattle, 19.00 011.36; stork era tnd feeders, $7.1609.90; cows and heifers, $6.10011.00; calves, $8.60 011.76. Hogs Receipts, 1,000 head: market, strong, at yesterday's rangs; bulk, $16,460 16.86; light, $14.86011,76; mixed, 116.100 . 16.96; heavy, $16.30016.16; rough, $16,200 16.40; pigs. $10.00013.86. hsep tnd Lambs Receipts, 1.000 head: msrket. steady ; wethers, ft 0.60 0 12.80; ewes, $8.160 12.60; lambt, $18.00011,00. Jtaiuas City Lin Stock Market. Kansas City, April 11, Cattle Receipts, lot head; market steady; prime ted steers. 112.00013.86; dressed beef steers. $9,260 ' It. 00; western steers, f9.60O13.C6: cows. $4.60010.76; heifers, 19.00,011.60: stockers tnd readers, ll.ooou.09t bulls, $7.60011.76; cslveg f8.00O13.26. Hogs Receipts, 600 headr market ateady: bulk of sales. 111.10016.1(1. heavy, .. 816.7001, 80; parkera and butchers, 116.60 0li.lOi ugnt, 91ft.OQ0ie.it; piga, $12,600 lt.se. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, none; mar ket ateady; lam be, 112. 25016.80: year Unas. fl3.O0i4.26; wsthers, $12.09011.16; owes, 9U.VQ0 la.eo. St, Louis Lite Stock Market. St. Louis, April 11. Cattle Receipts. 260 head: market eteady; native beef steers, I7.moi3.0v; yearling ateers and heifer. ftt.5Q4 12.08; cowa, $6,000 ll. 00; s took era and feeders, $6.00010.16; prime tout horn oeet steers, sk.qvdii.ss; beer cows and heif ers, 14.1608 00; prime yearling steers and . heirers, f7. 60010.09; native calves, 14.60 13.00. Iiogs Receipts, 3,700 head; market low- err lights, 116. 40016.76; pigs. 810.76014. 60 mixed and butchers, $16.48016.66; good ' heavy, 116.66016.80; bulk of sales, $16.60 016 86. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, none; market iieaay. Sioux City Llvo Stock Market. Sioux City, April 21. Cattle Receipts, 1A0 bead: market steady: beef steers. 812. on 018.20; butchers, 89.60011.00; fit cows and Belters, gT.6QO10.l0; tanners, 86.690 7.60 nwkers and feeders. $7.66010.26; calves, 67 60l.7ft; bulls, stsgs. etc.. f 7.600 10. Oft. Hogs Race ipf a. 6,000 head : msrket iteedy to an lower; light. 814.9A0is.2Q nixed, I16.2S016.6O: heavy, fl6.6O0t6.86 nix. $13.OO013.:B; bulk of sales, $16,160 Hheep and Limbs Receipts. 260 head itarket etesdy; yesrlings. $11.00018 80 s-ethers, 811.60012.60; owes, $11.00012.60 umm, ti.ivoi., 84, Joseph Live Stack Market. St Joseph, .April 31, Cattle Receipts, ion head; market unchanged; steers, $9.00 012.60; cows snd hellers. $6.60011.60 caives, s9.Bocju.tv. . Hogs Receipts, 4.000 head; market steady; top, fi6,90; bulk of sales, 116.400 1S.1V. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, none: mar ket unchanged; lambs, $16.00016.89; owes. S1Z.00V1Z.1S. Hay Market. Receipts on both prslrlo hay tnd alfalfa ; continue light. Market firmer and higher, demand tontlnues goon. Hey Choice upland prairie, $18. 90019.00 ! No. 2, 817.00 0 18. 09; No. 1, ft6.Ofl01.OO N. 3 $10.90 0 12.00. Midland, No. 1. 17.00 O18.09: Ko. I. 8H.OO0HO9. Lowland. No, 1. IK. 60ft 14.60; Ho. t, $19.00011.00; No. 1, 17.6908.60, Alfalfa Chole. $!1. 90011 09: No. ft:r. At oii.tj; ftindard. I!7.OO019.9O; No. I, 116 9O014.OO: No- 3. 112.90014 90. , .Straw Onto, 11.0007. 60; wheat $800 e t-fto. i GRAIN AND PRODUCE Cash Wheat Reflect! Dull Con dition of Futures Market Salei Increase. PREMIUM TOR WHITE CORN n I, Omaha, April 21, 1917. The caah wheat market reflected the dull conditio of the future market, and, as a result the sales of this cereal wart very light, although receipts showed a fair in ere see. The demand for w: eat was rather Indif ferent, but there waa, however, very little disposition on the part of tht sellers to let go of thlr offerings at euch a wide decline, the wheat market being quoted rrora sc to lilc lower, Corn and oats receipts were pretty good aud there waa a pretty active Inquiry fof ines cereals at somewhat lower prices. Tha aalea of corn were made up generally of the commercial grades and salea of whits corn were listed at 81.61 to 11.64, while yel low corn ranged from 11.44 to H.4, ana the Ized variety brought from 91. 41 to a 1. 4 b A wide premium waa paid In moat In- atancea for white corn, aa tht demand for this article was rather brlik and ths offer Inge very light. Oats sold quits 'Silil. at ' ins prevailing prices snd the msrket was quoted from 2c to Sc lower, with Wo. 1 while telling at flic to,894e and No. 4 whlto bringing from SI to Mtc. Rye followed the decline In the other mar kets and barley was quoted nominally lower. Clearances were: Wheat and flour equal to 1,13,000 buehals; osta, 126,000 bushels. Primary wheat receipts were fins, two buehelN, and shipments 707,000 buahels. against racelpta of 1,783.000 buahels and shipments of 1,468,000 bushels last year. Primary corn receipts were eiH.ooo bushels, snd shipments 443,000 bushels against receipts of 1.162,000 bushels, and shipments of 1,087,000 bun he Is last year. Primary oats receipt ware. 73. coo busneia and shipments 1.09,000 I bushels, against receipts of 1,147,000 bushels and shipment iff 1(627,000 bushels laat year. CAR LOT RKCRTPT8. Wheat. Corn. Oats. rhlcsgo 4 49 130 228 Hlnnespolla 17 ... Duluth 10 Omaha 32 6t 34 Kansas City , 02 33 8 LOUIS 74 . ft 00 Winnipeg 614 These salea were reported today: Whest No. 1 hard winter: 1 tar $2.2. No. 8 hard winter: 1 car, $2.62; 1 2-6 cars. $2.49; 1 car, 12.6; 1 car, $2.67. No. 2 hard wlntsr: 1 csr, f2.6fl. No. 4 hard wlntsr: car, $1.60; 1 car, 83.67; 1 car, i: 41. Ham a hard winter: 36 car. $2.40. No, 3 durum mixed; 1 car, $2.27. Sample mixed: car, $2.38. nye: No. 1: 1 car, 11. 87, No. 3: 1 car. $184. Corn No. 1 white: 1 car, ll 64; 1 car, ll.HH; 4 cars, 11.61. No. white; 1 car. 1.63. No. 4 white: l car, si. si, no. s yellow: 1 car, $1.48; I cars, 11.46; 3 cars 11,44 No, 8 yellow: a cars, i.4ft; s cars, 11 44 W : $ cars, 11.44. No. 4 yellow: cars. 61.44. No. 6 yellow:' a cars, imi No. 1 mixed: 1 car, 11.46V,. No. 2 mixed: 0 cars, 11.46. Not 3 mixed; 1 car tehlp- pars' wslghts), 81.46; I cars, $1.46; 6 cart, $1.44S; 1 car, $1.44. No. 4 mixed: car, fi-44tt. no. s mixed: 1 car, 91.12. Oats Standard: 1 car. f6Hc; 1 car, 89Uc; 1 car, Olc, No. I white: 1 car (shippers' weights), oiuct 11 cars, c. No. 4 whits:' 1 cars fto; 1 cars, 680. Ssmipls whits: t csr, 8o: 1 car, 61c. Omaha. Cash Prices Wheat: No. 3 hard, fl.6603.62; No. I hard, $3,6402.66; No. 4 ard, i.4O0S.fto. corn: no; s wnite, 11.03 01.64; No. 3 white. $1.6301.61; No. 4 white. i,6OH0i.ii: no. white, ir.mtJi.fti; no. WhllS. II. 494601. ft0 NO. J yeilOW, 91,14 01,44; No. I yellow, $1.4401-46; No, 4 yel- lo.w 11,4801.44: No. I yellow, $1.420 1.44; No. yellow, $1.4201.48; No. 3 mixed, 81.4401.46; NO. $ mixed, $1.4401.46; No. mixed, $1. 4401.44V: N. mixed, 91.480 44; No. I mixed, $1.4301.43. Oats: No. whlto ftlftOTOc; standard, M09c; No. white,' 88V069c; No. 4 white, 8ttO8kc. Barley: Malting. 113801. IS; No. 1 feed, $1.2801-28. Rye; No, 3, 1. 1601, 17; No. $1.1401.11. Omaha Future. Local range of options: Art. Open. High. I Low. Cioss I Tea." W ht. ' Msy t 11 I 11 U t 4B 1281 July 1 91 t OOttjISTH 1 19 1199 Sept, 1 T8H ' i flttil71 1 78tt lfftli Corn. Mty 1 46 1 41 141 U 1 43HI146H July 1 40 1 40 187'i 1 $8iA 141)4 Sept. U7-:H I tt 117 U 1 21 110 Oste. May 68 07 tt 17 tt Mtt July 81 81 91 ltt Sept. II 61 tt Bl Mtt 61 Chicago closing prices, furnished 'The Bee by Logan 0 Bryan, stock and train brok srt, ill South Sixteenth street. Omaha: Art. I Open. I High. Low. Close, fret Wot. I I ""I I May I 81 t lltt 231 S 31 23tt July I 01 3 0314 ltt 1 ftti3"0 Sep. 1 71 I 9 171 St 1 79 11$ Corn. " f May 1 41 1 43tt 188 1 4AU1U July 1 40 1 ifl 116 1 aOttlHOtt Sop. 1 II $ II 111 1 39 U2tt Oats. . May U 6tt 84 V 4tt 66U .July 88 t3 91 6tt 63 Sep. 16 66 64 $4 66 Perk. May 38 10 18 63 38 26 31 12 88 80 July. If 10 31 61 81 26 ! 66 SO 16 Lard. May 20 IB 30 76 29 81 30 76 20 77 July 20 17 20 96 30 12 30 II 21 16 Ribs. May 19 II ' 19 II 19 46 19 IS 19 80 July I 19 77 13 80 19 -76 19 60 19 81 CHICAGO CHAIN AND PROVimnva Wheat hresjks Sharply Because of Reports i meting in uermnny and Hungary. Chtcsgo, April U. Wheat prices under- went sharp setbacks today. Influenced to a considerable extent by news of aerlous dis turbances In Germany and by unconfirmed rumors of revolutionary outbreaka In Hun gary and Bulgaria. After fluctuations, whicli covered a range of 10o, the market ciosea unsettled. ipbo net lower, with May tt 12,31 and July at ll.tiu At tiw. Corn lost S'i04fce and oatt 01o. Pro visions finished unchanged to 7o down. jnairtuona oi great unrest in Germany govs evident tmphaala to bearish sentiment at the outset In the wheat trad and In. cltned dealers to attach more credence than otnerwise would be tho cast to rumors re garding Hungary and Bulgaria. Decreased ouying interest inn a disposition to new holders to tell out wat ascribed also to rod. ersl diligence toward gaining control of tho moa iiiuauon. Besides erfortt of board of trade officials to curb undue speculation tended further to prevent new upturns In valuee. It waa said, however, that tctlon of ths directors of tht board In setting official marginal prices of $1.86 for July and 11,61 for September waa not to bo construed as determining tntrlnslo valuea. Vteaknest waa most acuta In lh t v livery and In this .connection a leading aitl thorlty ssld hysteria as to laying In house hold supplies of flour was materially abat ing. Week end adJutmentVot iMdea rallied wnsai mantei somewnat at the laat,, and ao too did prospects of a fairly large decrease In the foiled States vialble supply total on Monday. Com waa governed chiefly 'py the bearish action of whest. Thero were some signs of a loosening of tho csr scarcity tnd rural of ferings of corn for tn to fifteen days' ship- er sua io os isrger. uats showed relstlvs stesdlness as a result of the pur chsse of 1,000.000 bushels said to be for the rmsn commission. Provisions weakened with Mm - tt ald, too, that cash demand had dropped Chicago Caah Prices trhuf v, No. 3 red and No. 1 snrt Nn a h. 'ni1-,, Corn: No. 5 yellow, f1.480Jl.61: No. 1 yellow, fl.4891.60: No. 4 yellow, 11.47 tp i.J.,,,B: Ko 1 wh,, n01"1"1: standard. !!AVC' R': Nn- 1,R Barley: 81.3081,8!. Seeds: Timothy. $8.00l6,0fl: clover, 3l2.fltHyiT.00. Provisions: Pork n $fl-I620.80; ribs. (18.26 Butter iw.,.. cresmery. 39J44r. Kggs Receipts, 36,667 casea; unchanged. rotatoea-RMieipn. 16 cara: unchanged. Poultry Alive lower; fowls. 31e23c. Kanaaa ritv nmiMi Kansas CIIV. Mn. Anrll 91 lVh..i I hard, 82.6802.18: No. 3 red, $3.60O3.78 May, 11.44; July, 1.98, Corn No. i mUed, $1. 4Tt)1. 48; No. t white, lt.66tl.69: No. 3 yellow, $1.4901.60; May. 11.44; July, fl.38. Oats No. whits, 714j74c; No. 3 mixed "lf 71a, H. Inls Orala atauM St. I.iui. April ll. Wheat N. I re4. Jj JJNo. 2 hard, $2.83 May, $2.61; July, Corn No, 3. $1.47 1.48; No. 2 white. $1,664)1.69; May. tl.43; July. $188. Oatt No. t. 41c J No. $ white, nominal. HEW YORK STOCKS Heaviness During first Half, With Irregular Rallies . Later. QUARTER MILLION TURNED Now Tork. Aorll 31. Hcavlnasa bordering upon scute weakness msrked the first half tit today s brief trading aeeslon, with Irregu lar rallies on short coverings at the close. Dealings were virtually nesninglcss, tho turnover smountlng to barely 260,000 shares. Bsll were Irregular to heavy, Lehlgn val ley losing a 00 Int. with fractional reverses In other coalers, trsnseonttnentals and New York Central, the latter falling to respond to Its very excellent annual statement. The dsy s budget of general field develop ments bors mainly upon prevailing msrket uncertainties, especially the likelihood of war taxation, In mercantile llnea a widen ing of operations Influenced by wsr condi tions and Improved crop conditions wat re ported. - The weekly bank statement upset sll cal culations, the actual caah lose of less than $12,000,000 telng far below the expected re turns. Contraction of $7,920,000 In reaervea reduced the total excess to about $121,000. 000, a loss of more than $40,000,000 since the early part of the month. Today's nominal operations In bonds were of tho usual Irregular chsmcter, with total sales, par value, of $1,676,000. Moderate la- Tease of activity In United Statea govern ment bonds during tho week wat almost wholly at concessions, those Issues, together im rsnumaa, losing trom 1 to 34 psr cent on call. , Local locks nnd Bonds, Quotations furnished by Burns, Brlnker aV Co., 449-62 Omaha National bank bulld og, Omaha. STOCKS. Bid, A.ked. 101 128 75 2 104 80 01 RurirM-Naah Cn 7 net. ttM...tflft kudahy Tacking Co.' com.,.,. ,127 Com. (las Else, pfd,,....,,, 72 Douglas Hotel Co, o-mb 76 Deere A Co., pfd .., 99 (loorh M, K. Co. 7 pet. pfd.. 102 inter-mete Hotel ptd. bonus,. 76 Kan. City Jlys, pfd 81 pincoin T. T. com. I pet... 9H 100 Mountain Statea X at T. 8....111i 114 urn. c. h. hi. fty, com.. Orn. A C. B. St. By, pfd.... Om. A C. B. Rv. 4 Bd. pfd. 49 .. 71 74 . . 82 66 C. Peters Mill 6 pet. pfd ..100 100 Swift A Cn. Htock .168 168 Union Stock Yds. I pet. Stock. 102 BONDS. Am. For. Sec. Co. 6 pet. (1919). 96 6 T, 06 10 97 Ang.-Frnnch 6 pet. conv. (1920) 94 Canadian Uov. 6g (1SS7) 96 Cudahy Pack. Co. 6a (1946).,. 99 Chicago Itr. lat 6s r 1 937) 90 French Losn . (1D19) 100 100 Hast, 4 pn, Srh. Plat. (1827) . 100,83 101. ft! Kan. City Ry. 6s (1944) , 97 98 Norfolk Park . (lOZtft 101.81 102.13 Om. Alh. Club 6a (1019-32)... 99 100 am. m u. . Ht, ny ts (ib:'S), b'4 97 city' of Omaha, Nb. Various.. 8.96 4.10 Pender I pet Hewers (1936). ,.101.60 102.50 Pills-Wash. Floury 2nd Ss 84 864 Siou City fit. Y1n. 6s (1930). 96 97 ft. R. H D. Neh. Hldg. 6s (1936)106.46 108.46 Swift A Co. 6s (1944)... 19 100 Thurston 8. B. Jin (1920-63) 4 V. K. O. B A I. 6s S -vt, (1818) 08 91 Wilson ft Co, (1941) 102 101 Statement of Clearing House Banks, New Tork. April 21. Tho statement of the actual, condUInn of clearing house banks and trust companies for tha week shows a that they hold $120,889,200 reserve In ex cess of legnl requirements. This Is a do cresse of 17,920 400 from last week. The statement' follows: . Actual condition Increase. Loans, discounts, ' ' etc.... $3,861,132,000 $ 198,000 Reserve. In own vaultst 463,784,000 ll,381,00O Reserve tn federal serve hsnk 326,121.000 l,l$9,000 Reserve In other 'depnsllorlea 12,836,000 1,336,000 Net demand depos its 2,891,800,000 19,084,000 Net tlmo deposits... 301, 910,000 T.666,000 Circulation 26,1(61,000 60,000 Eirees reserve 120,S9!,2ffo 1, 320,400 tOf which $418,348,000 It specie. "De crease. Summary of state hanks and trust com panies In Greater New Tork not Included In clearing hoffae statement: Increase. Loam Discounts, etc.f 306, 8X8, 800 $6,6ao,ooo Hpecle 69,242,100 310,700 Legal tenders Ii,3ft3,ooo sofjno- Total deposits 1,047,244,900 4,723.300 Bunks' cash In vault, $l8.676.ooo. Trust eompanltt' cash tn vault, $43,930,400. New York Money Market. Now Tork, April 21. Prime Mercantile Paper 404 per cent. Sterling Rxchange Sixty-day bills, $4.72: oommerclal sixty-day hilts on banks, $4.72; commercial sixty-day hills, $4.71; demand, $476.86; cables $1.78 7-18. Sliver Bar. 74c: Mexican dollars, I7fl. Bonds 4iovern men t, ateady; railroad, ir regular. London Stocks and Bonds. London, ' April 21, American securities closed quiet on the stork exchange today. Silver Bar, 37 d per ounce. Money 4 per cnt. ' Discount Rates Short bills, 4 94 per cant; three months' bills. 487 per cent. NEW YORK 41RNKRAL MARKET. Quotations of tht Day on the Various Load ing Commodities. Now Tork, April 21. Flour Unsctttefl. Whenl Spot easy; No. 3 hand, 13.64 f. o. b. New York; No. 1 northern Duluth, 12.44; No. 1 northern Manitoba, 13.69 f, 0. b. New York -opening navigation. Corn Spot weak; No. 3 yellow, $1.69 c. 1. f. New York. Oats Spot easy; standard. 78C78e, Hay Steady. , Hops Steady. Hides Firm ; Bogota, 43 f Uc ; Central American, 48c. ' Leather Firm; hemlock firsts, 6Tc; tec- onds, 66c.. Provisions Pork, strong; mess, $40.00 40.60; family, $43.00 644.00; short clear, l4O.n0A42.OO. , Beef, strong-: mess, $27.00f 2ft.fl: . family. $29.ooj-3i.O0. Lard, easy; middle west, $21,308)31.80. Ts I low Strong; city. 13; country, 13 JHc; special, 14c; all nominal, Butter Unsettled: receipts, 8,164 tubs; creamery, higher than extras, 4046 c; creamery extras (93 acore, 44o; firsts, 43 944c; seconds, 42943c. Eggs Unsettled ; receipts, 81,773 cases ; fresh gathered extras, 36c; fresh gathered storage packed firsts. 86936c; fresh gath ered firsts, 339 34ttc Cheese Firm; receipts, 6,370 boxes: state, fesh specials, 36 926c; tttte, average fun, 39 86o. . Poultry Live, firm: fowls, 20c. Dressed, quiet; chickens, 33931c; fowls, 319 37c; turkeys, 18934c. OMAHA GENERAL MARKET. Onion Sett Yellow, bu $4.0$, rod. $4.11; WuKSi es.ev. 61 ammo in celery, per tfoten, Prosen fish Salmon Falls, 14c; Salmon Stiver, lfo; trout, 17c; catfish, 16a: Alaska tablsftth, llo; smelts. 18a; Whiting, 16a; crapplst, lc; pike, yellow,-dressed. 17c; round. 14c: pickerel, dressed, 13c; round. o; herring, round. 7a; herring. Ia; whltefish, dressed, medium, 16c! largo, 30o: iv moo, 26c; round, small, llo; tile fish for steaks, llo. FUh Halibut, 18c; halibut, fro ten. 15c; salmon, 14c;, sstmott. round, lie; salmon, silvers, froien. dressed. 17c; black cod, 11c; rable fish. llc: smells, 9c: catfish, large, iftc; ratfleh, small, 19c: trout, 22c; buffalo, lie; pickerel, round, f rosen, Tc : pickerel, ' reused, frosen, 10c; smoked whiting, lfic; fro sen Croppies, c; f rosen catfish, lie; froxen, whltefish, medium, 18c; sejnftsh, 4c: bararuda, lie; blueflsh. 14c; pike, 14c; black bass. Urge or small, 16c; roe thtd, cech. 16c; fresh roe thad, heavy, 60c. Smoked, Walt and uptceo Kisn araoked whits chubs, 16q; kippered salmon, J8q; fin nan htddle, 17c; codfish. 12c: Puritan cod, 12c; pollock. o: KKKK herring. 10o: h loiters. 60 to box, $1.76; 100 to box, 18.16; kippered cod, 10-lb. baskets, 30c; whltefish, Kn 1 411 IK SK 1R l(k tha SI aft harrlnat splced. 4U1bH.. 33.85: 10 lbs.. 9S& uysters "King cole," urge cant, stan dards, 40c: selects, 46c; counts, 60c Prlcea furnished by Qllinsky Fruit com pany. Fruit Oran.es. 36o. 288s, 324s, box. $3.26; 200s, 216s. 8U.76: 100s, ISOe. 160s, 176s, $4.00. Lemons, fancy, box, $6,'JS; choice. $4.76. tlrapefrult, 3s, box. 14.00; 46s. $4.26; 64s, $4.60; Ms. ROs, 16s, 86.0P Bananas, lb o. Honey Case, $3.00. i Vegetables Potssnes etlng, bu., $3.26. R. R. Ohlrs, Bu., 13.80; No. 1 new, hamper, 84.26. Celery, dos.. 61.90: Florida, cralea. 34. Carrots, lb., 4c. Rutabagoes. lb., 8c. As paragus, in., l&c, Lettuce, crate, 14.16; dos., 11.26. Cauliflower, crate. 3.60 nonr. 12.00. Cucumber, dos., $2.00. Onions, wax, crato. 14.99; Spanish, largo, $6.14, Sweet potatoes. Onion Sets Yellow, bu $5.50; red, $6,00 white, 8i.no, Plants Cabbage, tomatoes, box, 10c. $1,60; Y. N. Ftppina. Ills, 11.11; 1(61, $1.60; Arksnsat Blacks, IS Of, $2.60; Com merce, all sixes, 12.00. Apples Missouri Pippins, Jumbo, box. Coffee Market New York, April 21. There- was renewed liquidation tn the msrket for coffee futures today and a further decline $n prices. Re ports thatno duty was likely to be placed on coffee unless such action should become absolutely necesssry, appeared to be partly responsible for the' selling. The market opened at a decline of 3 to I points, with active months selling about 10 to 10 poinlx net lower, with July touching 8.00c and December 8.30c, comparing with 8.76c and 9.09c, the reient high level. Closing prices were a shade up from the lowest on cover ing, but "hrtwed ft net Ions of 9 to 12 points. Sales, 71,250 bags; April, 7.8 !c; Msy, 7.86c; June, 7.94c; July, 8.04c; August, I. 0c; September, 8, He; October, 8.21c; No vember. 8.29c; December, 8.35c; January, f.48c; March. 8.66c. Spot dull; Rio 7s. 10c; Santos 4s, -10 ',4c. Few cost and freight rate offers w.ere re ported In the market, but those hero were said to be a shade easier with Hnntos 4s quoted at 9,85c, London credits. The offi cial cables reported a decline of 75 re is at Rio. (Santos spots were unchanged and fu tures were 76 to 100 rels lower. . V Minneapolis (irin Market. Minneapolis. April 21. Flour Unchanged. Barley fl. 1791. 42. Bye f 1. 9191-2. Bran $39.6040.0ft. Wheat May, 2.2fl": July. 12.17, Cash: No. 1 hard, $2.64 3,68 ; No. I northern. !2.4492.60i No. 2 northern, $2.409 2.60. Corn No. 3 yellow, $1.41 9 1.43. Oats No. 3 white, 0768c. Flaxseed $2.3392.61. Cotton Market. ' New York, April 21. Cotton Futurea opened steady; May, 19.61c; July, 19. lEc; October, 16.04c; December, 18.18c; January, 11.26c. 1 Cotton futures closed steady; May. 19.77c: July. 19.40c; October. 18.29c; December, 16. 37c; January, 18. 47c. .Snot, steady: mlddlng, 20.16c. The cotton market closed ateady tt a net advance of 2 to 29 points. ' Metal Market. New York, April 21. Metals The copper market has remained very quiet during the week with the tone unsettled and prices easy. Klectrolytic for spot and second quarter delivery was quoted nominal todsy at prices ranging rrom aoout 12s. oo to $31.00, while quotations for third quarter snd later deliveries ranged from 125.00 to 130.00, Iron waa firm and unchanged. Sugar Market, f New York, April 21. Sugar market for futurea was quiet this morning, but the un dertone was firmer and on scattered cover ing prices advanced, t losing I to I points net higher. Sales. 3,100 tons. May, 6.40c; luiy, b.unc; neptemoer. &.sc: December. 6,13c. Raw sugar steady; sales, 15,000 bags. May shipments: molasses, 6.39c; centrifugal. 6.37c, Refined, firm; fins granulated, 7.50c, Dry Goods Market. New York. April 21. Cotton goods and yarns were firm and quiet today. Govern ment demands were more urgent. Linens were very firm and burlaps advanced. An auction sale of 105,000 bnles of carpets and rugs win Begin Monday morning. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, III., April 31. Butter 20 tuba tt 43 cents; 26 tubs at 44 cents. Prices on the French Shells Reduced Nearly One-Half (Correspondence of Th. Auocltted Press.) Taris, March 20. It was not until the battle of the' Marne was at its height, when war munitions were run ning low, that the French government realized the imperious need ot an intense production of war material. according to statements made by Al bert Ihomas, minister of munitions, in the Chamber of Dputies. M. Thomas was speaking m reply to criticisms of the conditions under which war ma terial had been supplied to the French army." from his assertions, it appears that the French War department has es timated before the war that it would be necessary for state arsenals to produce not more that 13,000 shells a day. In the belief that, the con flict would be short, no provision whatever was made for the production of explosives during the hostilities. When it was discovered, during the battle of the Marne, that this esti mate was insufficient, Alexandre Mil lerand, then minister , of war.-sum moned to Bordeaux the heads of all manufacturing establishments avail able and organized them into'groups for the rapid production of three-irich shells. ,, Neither the government nor the manufacturers had then any basis for figuring the costs. The exceptional conditions and the great need of im mediately replenishing the supply, M. Thomas said, accounted for the ab normal prices and for the fabulous profits reaped by the manufacturers. Three-inch shells at that time cost the government 15 francs each.' To day they are purchased at prices rang ing from 6 francs and 50 centimes to 7 francs and 50 centimes. Laborers Become Partners in Many Lines of Business (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Taris, March 25. Another step to ward making the laborer a business partner, participating in both the profits and management of enter prises in which he is employed, is be ing taken in France. The senate has adopted the principle of a bill amend, ing corporation laws so as to permit the allotment of shares to workmen collectively in any establishment, to be held for all employes of one year's standing or more, fof the distribution of the dividends among them, In case of dissolution the capital stock will be shared between all the shareholders, those holding labor shares as well as capital shares. Wage earners under this measure also may participate in the management of the corporation. The law provides ex emptions in favor of corporations formed under this law which it is hoped may help solve the problem of conflicts between capital and labor and' reduce the number of strikes, which increased in France from 261 in 1892 to 1,073 in 1913. This law, it is said, will make min ing shares less risky. Capital now hesitates at investment in these stocks because of the frequency of strikes. The bringing of capital and labor into closer co-operation in this way has been one of Premier Briand's favorite projects. The law under discussion. of course cannot make it obligatory upon all corporations to accept the participation of their employes; it only encourages it by offering advan tages that other corporations do not enjoy. Auto Built for Kaiser , Sold to Danish Citizen (Correspondence of The Assoclsted Tress.) London, MSrch 1. An automobile which was built in Germany for the personal use of Emperor William, and which had been sent to London just before the war to be fitted with an English body, has just been sold for $35,000 to a Danish shipowner. The car has been in the hands of the body builders ever since it was finished and was ordered sold bv the courts to sat isfy their charges. It is called by Eng lish experts the most Injurious tomobile ever built, and the price paid for it at auction is relieved to be a record tor a car tor personal use, AMERICAN GOODS ON MARKETJN SPAIN War Proves to Be Commercial Benefit and Big Exchange . in Trade Is Noted. MANY BOATS IN TRAFFIC (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Madrid, Spain, March 20. What ever the submarine scare may have done to the trade of Spain with Eng land, France and other belligerent countries, it has not hurt the trade between Spain and the United States, but has even improved it. there is decided boom in American goods on the Spanish markets, due to the entire cutting off of German goods, which formerly dominated the mar kets here. American automobiles and trucks, American electrical supplies and American machinery are sud denly taking the place of the Ger man makes. A lively competition is going on among dealers who used to handle German autos and trucks to get the agencies of similar types of American vehicles. Alonfir with this boom of American goods, . Spanish goods are being shipped to America in greater quan tities than ever before. While the great port of Valencia is in a panic over having its fruit trade with Eng land cut off, more Valencian grapes are going to America than before the war. I he corltgroves of Andalusia and the south are also sending more cork to America. Here Spain Gets In. One of the most remarkable changes wrought by the war is the substitution of Spanish antiquities, tapestries, paintings, etc.. for articles of this kind which America used to buy, in France and Italy before the war. I he shipments of this class have suddenly increased forty-fold. King Alfonso has shown marked in terest in this awakening of American taste for .Spanish art, and personally has loaned the famous collection of royal tapestries for exhibition at New York. These precious royal posses sions have not before been out of the country, datrhg for centuries back. including the Moorish period, and from the days of the Toison de Oro, or fleece of gold. lhis sudden stimulus of Soanish- American trade has had the effect of greatly increasing the shipping from Spanish ports to America. The natu ral result of the submarine scare has been to stop shipping from Spain to near-by belligerent countries, which was dangerous, and turn it into new lines of shipping to America, which was 'safe. The German war zones have left a narrow lane along: the coast of Spain by which Spanish and American ships can move freely with out risk, so long as they do not go to England or other . belligerent countries. Line of Least Resistance. Naturally, shipoing has taken the line of least resistance, along these safe lanes between Spain and America instead of the old trade routes to England, now dangerous. As a re sult Spanish shipping to America is having f great boom. The large steamship lines from Corunna, Vigo, aantander, Valencia and Cadiz are taxed far beyond their capacity. All their boats, formerly used largely for trade with England, France and Italy, are now being turned into the Ameri can trade. For the first time. Ameri can passenger traffi is coming and going by these lines, instead of going up' to Liverpool and Havre, both of which are in the danger zone. A new Spanish line has been started to the Philippines, and the lines to Cuba, the Antilles and Spanish-Amcr can norts have been largely augmented. it is one ot the notable characteris tics of the war that trade and ship ping are leaving the countries at war and are coming to the countries at peace. mere are some curious features of the increase in trade between Snain and America which has resulted from the submarine war and the cutting of Germany's trade with Spain. While American automobiles are having a great boom in Spain, they have one curious drawback in not being able to bring along the American tires, as these are rubber and contraband of war, subject to all kinds of restric tions and regulations. Auto Trucks Are There. The American auto trucks are caus ing a revolution in Madrid along three distinct lines: rirst, doing away with the huge antique carts which labor along the streets; second, supplanting tne long tandem teams ot oxen and donkeys, covered with jingling bells; and, finally, changing Madrid from one of the worst paved capitals of Europe to one of the best. The Span iards look with awe at the disappear ance of their ancient methods before the march of improvement. A complication has arisen over the shipment of American meat to Spain. The Spanish ships were glad to get this class of freight, but the ships were not provided with the necessary refrigerating plant. As this is essen tial for shipping meat long distances, many Spanish ships are being over hauled to put in the modern cold storage equipment so as to handle this new class of American product. Once equipped this way, fresh Spanish fruit will be going to America, and fresh American meat coming to Spain. Electrical Novelties Used. American flatirons and other elec trical novelties are now being used for the first lima, and the Spaniards say these articles are so much better fin ished than the German goods that used to come here that they will hold the market, permanently even if Ger man trade gets a footing gain after the war. Even American drug stores with American medicines have made their appearance along the streets of Madrid. Besides stepping into the place of France and Italy in supplying Amer ica with antiques, curios, etc., the war is also having the effect of giving Spain a good deal of the American trade in perfumes, toilet articles and soaps, which used to go from France in large quantities. Some of these ar ticles, such as caslile soap, .have their origin here in Castile. ' America Takes Art. It is in the American demand for their art 'treasures that the Spanish are taking their chief interest. Buy ers for the big American department stores are now coming here for .the first time instead of to Florence, Milan, Faris and other art . centers from which it would be risky to ship art treasures now. . America would have received a number of the paintings of the great Spanish master Goya if it had not been for a recent complication at the New York custom house. The pic tures actually went to New Y'ork. were held on the pier for some time because of irregularities in making'out pipes and were finally sent bacjt here unopened. The owner had meantime made two trips to New York, but at last gave up the ship ment as hopeless. One of the pic tures was Goya's study of Madame Haro, another his Virgin, painted on a panel of wood, and a third a peas ant dance, on wood. Another artist is now taking to America a Titian called Saliclad ( soli tude V The value recorded here is 500,000 pesetas. Chinese Subscribe to Model Settlement And Reclaim Land , I ! I (forrospondenc. of Th. Associated Press.) Hong Kong, March 25. Chinese capitalists have subscribed $2,000,000 silver ;or the development of a model Chinese settlement at Kowloon, across Kowloon bay from Hon.i Kong. Mats now covered by the sea will be reclaimed and a modem city will be con'structei'. The new subuab is on English leased territory, and consequently will make a safe residence for prosperous Chinese who desire to settle down where they will be free from the chaos whicli sometime!, prevails in Chinqse territory. A wine boulevard will be developed along the sea front, and the streets will be parked in mod- Flemish People Are Now Out With Some Demands (Correspondence of The Associated Press,) Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 25. Aspirations of the Flemish popula tion toward nationality or an admin istration separate from the Walloons, which appear to be fostered by the German government, arc set forth in a manifesto at a recent convention at Brussels of the "activist" Flemish leaders. This movement to separate the two races now composing the Belgian nation is frowned upon by King Albert and is derided in the Belgian circles in Holland. The convention organized an execu tive committee and conferred upon it the title of the "Council of Fland ers." This council is to deal with all questions of a social, political and eco nomic nature relating to tne tuture ot the Finnish people. "Now or never must the Flemings secure their national liberation," de clared the manifesto drawn up in the convention. "We demand that the national rights of the Flemings shall be organized and guaranteed at the coming peace congress. We demand that all measures leading to the full unfolding in our ' own language, of the Flemish nationality, shall be fixed and guaranteed in the international arrangement of the political relations ot European states in. the coming peace treaties. We may no longer suffer that the Belgian state shall set itself to rob the Flemish people of its mother tongue and French ify it." Publishers Hard Hit by The New English Order (Correspondence of Ths Associated Press.) London, March 20. American'pub- lishers of books and magazines are not the only ones who stand to lose money by the new order of the gov ernment restricting the importation of publications. Ther British publish ers have found that they also are hit ptetty hard. It was a growing cus tom for English publishers to have their books printed in the United States and the loose sheets trans ported and bound in England. . in that manner they secured the Ameri can' copyright, which is applicable only to books printed in the States. This is all done away with by the newest restrictions. The American publishers of maga zines and periodicals, for which Eng land has become such a fertile field, will, of course, feel the worst effects of the Older against importations. The only way the reader can now procure his American magazine is by ordering it direct from the publisher in the United States. Germans Push Plans to Capture Trade After the War (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Berlin, April 2. Despite recent events in Russia, German trade asso ciations which were interested in Rus sian trade before the war are pushing their plans tor capturing their share of the after-war trade. All these as sociations have just combined in the formation of a Russo-German eco nomic committee, under the chair manship of H. Fnederichs of Berlin. 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England-for the past liftrcii ,.years, and some experiments have been con- " ducted on a small scale, but with , in conclusive results, dn the Hereford experiment, high tension alternating current is to be used. Spring wheal, barley, oats and clover will be dealt with, and fertilizers of various types will also be used. i. " of thin wires on poles, something like The method adopted is ;to stretch over the 'field to be treated a number low telegraph wires, but high enough for loaded wagons to pass under neath. The wires are supported by high tension insulators on posts in lonif parallel spans thirty feet apart. . "The charge fizzes off from the wires," says one account, "with a sound k which is" sometimes audible, : and with a glow which is visible in the dark. Anyone walking about be low the wires can sometimes feel the ' effect on the hair of tlie. head, as of a cobweb on the face. The electricity does not act as a fertilizer, but as a substitute for sunlight. The current . is only used in the early morning and in cloudy weather." The initial cost -of the apparatus for twenty-four acres is about $1,500 and the annual cost," including depreciation and la bor, is about $300. . The electrification of crops is said to have been first suggested by a Swedish professor named Lemstrpm. While conducting experiments in his greenhouse with the object of pro ducing an electric discharge similar to the Aurora Borealis, he noticed that the plants around seemed to thrive as a result of the electrification of the air. Strong Protest Is Made Against All Sunday Labor (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) ; London, April 2. A strong protest against Sunday labor has been made to the heads of the Anglican church ' by the Lord's Day Observance so ciety, a body with a considerable in- nuence in tms country. Wyoming Oil Boom to Be The Biggest in Country's His tory Mid went Refining went from 163 to 1140 share in a few months. 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