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Ufa Nebraska. Independent
APRIL 19, 1906
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Weekly Market Report
LIVE STOCK
South Omaha
Cattle Fat cattle of all kinds gen
erally slow to 10 cents lower. Hogs
advance 2 1-2 cents. Sheep and lambs
In light receipts, with demand active
Prices strong to 10 or 15 cents higher
The following will show the prices
paid for the different kinds of cattle
on the South Omaha market:
Good to choice corn fed steers, $1.90
5.50.. -
Fair to choice corn fed steers, $4.65
4.90. ... .
Common to fair corn fed steers,
$4.00 4.60., , ... .
Good to choice ' cows and heifers,
$3.75 ? 4.50. . -
. Fair .to good cows and heifers $3.00
3.75.
Common to fair cows and heifers
$1.503.00:
Good to choice feeders $4.004.65.
' Fair to good stockers and feeders
$3.504.00. . . , .
Common to fair stockers, $2.75
3.50.
Bulls, stags, etc., $2.504.00. ,
Hogs The trade was a little slow
in opening but when once under, way
values were all, of 2 1-2 cents higher
than yesterday. The trade was active
at the advance, everything changing
hands in good season notwithstanding
the fact that the receipts were large.
The bulk of the hogs sold at $6.50
6.52 1-2, as "against. ' $6.42 l-26.50
yesterday. Some of the common and
inferior loads possibly did not get
the full amount of the advance, but
the market as a whole was neverthe
less in very satisfactory condition arid
entirely to the liking of the selling in
terests. Chicago
Cattle Market slow; prices steady;
common to prime steers, $4.006.35;
cows $3.254.60; heifers, $2.755.35;
bulls $2.604.25; calves. $2.756.50;
stockers and feeders $2.75 4.75.
Hogs Receipts 11,000 head; market
strong to 5 cents higher; choice to
prime heavy $6.756.82 1-2; medium
to good heavy $6.756.75; butcher
weights $.756.80; good to choice
heavy mixed, $6.67 1-2 6.75; packing,
$5.906.70. .
Sheep and lambs Receipts 14,000;
market 10 to 15 cents higher; sheep,
$4.25'6.30; . yearlings . $5.00 6.25;
lambs $4.756.75.
Kansas City
Cattle Market steady to 5 cents
lower; choice export and dressed beef
steers, $5.255.90; fair to good $4.25
5.15; western fed steers, $3.75
5.25; stockers and feeders $3.004.75;
southern steers $3.75 5.25; southern
cows $2.504.25; native cows $2.50
4.60; native heifers, $3.50 5.00; bulls,
$3.004.25; . calves, $3.005.75.
Hogs Receipts, 13,300 head. Mar
ket a shade higher; closed weak. Top
$6.60; bulk of sales $G.456.55; heavy
$6.556.60; packers, $6.42 l-26.57;
pigs and lights $5.406.45.
Sheep and lambs Receipts 12,000
head. Market 10 to 15 cents higher.
Top for 'lambs $6.65.
GRAIN MARKET
Chicago, 111. The wheat market to
day was strong and active. Prices
were higher at Liverpool and there
was a good buying demand by shorts
and commission houses. May opened
an eighth to a fourth higher at 79-12
89 5-Sc, sold up to 80 1-8S0 l-4c.
Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago re
ported receipts of 222 cars.
In sympathy with strength in. cash
Mny wheat advanced to 0 3-4 SO 7-8
and closed strong.
The corn market was firm, but offer
ings were light. Cables were firm,
the local receipts were smaller than
had been expected and the shipments
from Chicago were liberal. May corn
opencfd unchanged to an eighth higher
hat 4647c, and for a time held at this
figure.
The market in oats was easy. The
feature of the market was continued
liquidation by a prominent bull. May
oats were a shade to an eighth lower
at 31 5-8&31 3-4 to 31 3-4 and sold
at 31 5-c and then advanced to 31 34
(L31 7-8.
More than 1,500,000 bushels of corn
have been shipped from the elevators
in this city during the last two days
and this fact was the basis of an act
ive demand by shorts and commis
sion houses that resulted in a firm
corn market for the greater part of
the day. Minor influences that streng
thened prices were small local receipts
firm cables and the strength of wheat
Late in the session the market eased
off on profit taking. The close was
steady, with prices very close to the
closing quotations of yesterday.
Despite the strength in com and
wheat, the oats market was barely
steady throughout the day. The de
mand was light and conditions con
tinued favorable for seeding, causing
free selling by prominent bulls.
Provisions were firm early in the
day on a firm general demand, based
on a. 5 cent advance in the price of
live hogs. Later the market eased
off on profit-taking by a prominent
bull. The close was steady.
ALCOHOL BETTER THAN
KEROSENE OR GASOLINE
Gives More Light and Heat Extin-
guishable With Water.
Washington Chairman Payne of the
ways and means committee today sub
mitted the report of the committee
favoring the passage of the free alcohol
bill.
"In Germany," Mr. Payne said, "the
bulk of the denatured alcohol is used
for light, fuel and heat; They use a
lamp with a mantle which produces a
very strong, steady and high-grade
light lasting twice as long as kero
sene. The Germans have also adapted
gasoline engines to the use of alcohol."
Another advantage of alcohol is
that in case of fire, water may be
used to quench it, as it mixes with
the alcohol and purs out the fire,
whereas it cimply spreads a gasoline
fire. "Alcohol, he said, "will produce
10 per cent more power than gaso
line." "For heating," Chairman Payne said,
"alcohol has proved an entire success
in Germany, and there is no doubt that
alcohol heating stoves will be put into
inftnediate use." He estimated the ac
tual cost of alcohol at 'something less
than 12 cents a gallon.
HOW ARMY MEN FEEL ABOUT IT
(Washington Dispatch to . the New
York Evening Post.) .
Army officers who have fought in
the Philippines tell their friends that
they have lost heart in such enter
prises. Killing savages is not a very
pleasant business, nor one, they feel,
reflecting glory and honor upon the
profession of arms. Some of the offi
cers stationed here have received the
news of the fight with heavy hearts.
Fighting in the Moro country they
know is not child's play, but it is no
worse than the Indian campaigns that
the elder officers went through, and
the indiscriminate killing is difficult
to explain. Report of a fight shows
no items of wounded or captured
among the enemy's forces means a
bitter day's work. "Six hundred killed
to make a complimentary telegram"
is one summing up of the affair.
This winter, when the country is
watching as never before all the activ
ities of the national government, and
when a clearer knowledge of our duty
toward the Philipines 13 becoming
general, a wide-spread response is ex
pected to this latest specimen of
"pacification ' and "benevolent assim
ilation."
A WAR FOR CIVILIZATION
1 When civilization proceeds "to stag
ger humanity," it calls in Francisco
Pizarro or "Hell-roaring Jake" Smith
Hernando Cortez or Leonard Wood
all experts at the business. It is
an old trade. Ahab practiced it on
Naboth, the Jezreelite, and the Lord
wreaked vengeance on that same plat
The king ordered a Te Deum for Cor
tez's "victory;' the president congrat
ulated Wood on his "victory." -
We have always believed that the
American people will put an end to
the Philippine question whenever they
shall be given a good lick at it un
incumbered with any other political
question. It is un-American, mire pub
lican, undemocratic this thing of
holding people in subjection on the
other side of the planet. Our country
has tolerated it; never approved it.
"Hell-roaring Jake" Smith shocked
all Christendom when he made procla
mation to kill everybody over ten
years old. If the question could have
been made paramount at the succeed
ing election, we would have been out
of the thing by this time. General
Wood says the latest butchery of men
and women was because they fought
so fiercely; and yet they killed but
sixteen of his men, while he killed
600 of theirs.
The fact is that ' General Wood is
civilizing the Moros on the idea that
there are no good Moros but dead
ones.. That is the wa-y Claus Marius
performed when he was down in Ju-
gurtha's country. Lucullus, Pompey
the Great, Crassus, Vespasian, Titus,
Trajan, and one hundred Caesars act
ed on the same principle. We have
not improved on it a particle. A Ro
man proconsul before the birth of
Christ acted precisely as General
Wood acts nearly two thousand y ears
after Christ expired on the cross for
Moro as well as for American.
There is no authority in the consti
tution to shoot civilization into sav
ages on. the other hemisphere. .If it
must be done, there are empires and
cingdoins qver there that believe in
it and are accustomed to it. Let them
do it If we can not govern the
Moros without murdering women," bet
ter that we withdraw and let them
govern themselves.
Evidently General Wood is a man
after the order of Strafford, and be-
ieves in "Thorough." Neither Pizarro
nor Cortez could have done It more
signally than he. Indeed, General
Wood gave us in the shambles what
'Hell-roaring Jake" ordered ina proc-
amation. Post, Washington, D. C.
THE SUN SPOKE TOO SOON
The attempt, by means of a distor
tion of chronology, to misrepresent
he president as excitedly telegraph
ing to Manila that the indiscriminate
cilling of men, women and children
was a brilliant teat of arms, Honor
able to the flag, is nothing short of in-
amous. New York Sun.
It was grossly unfair, and only a
ew newspapers in the country per
mitted themselves to do it. All the
greater j ity that with the full official
account of the deplorable slaughter
of women in his hand he could think
only of the "brilliancy" of the troops'
works, which he had openly compli
mented before he knew of the actual
details of the tragedy. It is error of
he gravest sort to suppose that even
hose who believe our presence in the
sland carries with it often stern mili
tary duty, can feel exultation over
such an incident. It is not an honor
o the ag it is at very best a most
disheartening incident of our "civiliz
ing." Herald, Boston, Mass.
Edison's "Fake" Cigars
A friend of the inventor says that
Thomas A. Edison is very fond of
smoking, but that sometimes he be
comes so absorbed in work that he
even forgets that he has a cigar in
his mouth.
Mr. Edison once complained to a
man in the tobacco business that he,
the inventor, could not account for
the rapidity with which the cigars
disappeared from a box that he al
ways kept in his office. The "Wiz
ard" .was not inclined to think that
he smoked them all himself. Fin
ally, he asked the tobacco man what
might be done to remedy the situa
tion. The latter suggested that he make
up some cigars "fake" them, in oth
er words with a well-known label
on the outside.
"I'll fix 'em with horsehair and hard
rubber," said he. "Then you'll find
that there will not be so many miss
ing" . -
"All right," said-Mr. Edison, and
he forgot all about the matter.
Several weeks . later, when the to
bacco man was again calling on the
inventor, the latter suddenly said:
"Look here! I thought you were
gcing to fix me up some fake cigars!'-'
"Why, I did!" exclaimed the other,
in hurt surprise.
"When?"
"Don't you remember that flat box
with a green label cigars In bundle
form, tied with yellow ribbon"
Edison smiled reflectively. "Do
you know," he finally said, in abashed
tones, "I smoked every one of ' those
cigars myself!" -
An Opie Read Story
Opie Read had luncheon with the
president a few days ago and told
him a story about a recent horseback
trip he took through Arkansas. Read
rode up in front of a shanty and found
a native sitting on tne end of a log
in the broiling hot sun.
"Why don't you move over in the
shade?" asked Read. .
"Tain't time yet; fever ain't come
on," answered the Cracker.
"What's the matter?"
Chills."
"How long have you been living
here?"
"About thirty years."
"How long have you' had the chills?"
"About thirty years."
"Why in thunder don't you move
if you hav.e chills that bad?"
"And catch some other disease I
don't know nothing about? Not much,
mister. When you've got chills, you
know what they are. I want to tell
you something, mister. I've had the
chills so long and snook so much I
ain't fit for nothin' 'cept to sift meal
and shake down persimmons.
OLIVE OIL COMPLEXION CURE
English Beauties Find That It Will
Make Skin Fair and Clear
London. "What shall I do for my
complexion?" a reigning beauty in
British aristocratic society asked Sir
Thomas Barlow, physician to King
Edward's household, the current num
ber of a medical paper reports.
"Take olive oil," Sir Thomas an
swered. "Live on it; live in it; live
with it; eat it; drink it; dress your
food with it and don't do without it
lubricate your system." "
As the result of following this ad
vice the woman in question achieved
her desired clear skm. Then she be
gan to give beauty luncheons in which
olive oil was very prominent, and
these luncheons became popular.
"Olive oil, though incapable of sup
porting life if taken alone, neverthe
less lends itself," tne periodical ex
plains, "to a diminished meat diet,
as it prevents waste or tissue. The
warm, rosy complexion of the Italian
and Sicilian women is due to the free
use of olive oil as much as to the air
and climate of their country.
"From one to two tablespoonfuls
spread over the day In different ways
is quite sufficient to achieve the re
sults hoped for by the king's physi
cian." - - '