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LIVE STOCK MARKETS
- (Special Market Letter from Nye
Schneider Fowler Co., Live Stock
Commission, South Omaha, Neb.)
December 19, 1906.
Last week's heavy receipts are fol
lowed by another liberal supply this
week and a continued-declining mar
ket. Choice Christmas beef and can
liers Qnd ready sale but the "in be
tween kind" have stiffened a decline
of 25 to 50 cents from the high time.
SLockers and feeders have lost some
hut not over 10 to 20 'cents and the
trade in them is brisk and active. We
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Fancy beef ' $G.25$7.00
' (lood to choice.." .$4.75 6,20
Common to fair 03.754.70
Choice cows and heifers. . .$3.504.50
Good butcher grades $2.503.40
Canners and cutters . . .$1.752.40
Bulls, stags, etc.... -.$2.003.75
Veal calves ..$4.006.00
Choice stackers, feeder. . .$4.10 $4.60
"Fair to good.... $3.404.00
Common . . $2.753.30
Hog . receipts are moderate and
prices have strengthened up 5 to 10
cents over a week ago. Range of
prices $6.106.30.
There have been large receipts of
half fat to fairly good sheep and
Iambs and prices on this kind are 50
to COc lower. '
$4.506.75; cows and heifers $2.00
4.50; stackers and feeders $3.004.25.
Hogs Receipts 8,470; market stea
dy to weak; top $6.206.30; bulk of
tales $6.25 6.30.
&neep receipts s.yoO; lambs are
strong to 10c higher; sheep steady;
top lambs $7.50.
Some Tersely
Told Tah
A Clerical Joke
Kansas City
Kansas . City, Doc. 19. Cattle Re
ceipts 14,000; market slow to strong;
choice export and dressed beef steers,
$5.356.50; fair to good $4.005.25;
western steers $3.505.50; stackers
and feeders $3.004.50; native' cows,
$2.004.30; native heifers $3.00
6.50; bulls $2.404.25; calves $3.00
.75.
. ' Hogs Receipts 1,200; market 5c
higher; top $6.37; bulk of sales $6.25
6.32; heavy $6.306.37; packers
$6.206.35; pigs and lights $5.50
6.25. : ,t ,
Sheep Receipts 5,000;-;. market Is
strong; lambs $6.007.60; t;ewes and
yearlings, $4.756.20. :"
OMAHA GRAIN MARKET
- Omaha, Dec. 19. Cash prices:
Wheat Nofl 2 hard 63 68 l-2c; No.
3 hard 61 l-267 1-2; No. 4 hard 60
66; No. 3 spring 6367 1-2; No. 4
spring 60 63c. ;.
Corn o. 3 41 l-243 1-2; No". 4
4042; No. 3 yellow 41 1-2043 3-4c;
No. 3 white 42 1-2 44 l-2c. -
Oats No. 3 mixed 26 3-4 31; No.
3 white 2732; No. 4 white 27
31 1-2.
Rye No. 2 51 l-256; No. 3 50
54 1-2.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Dec. 19. Wheat De
cember 77 l-4c; May 80 3-8c; July
71 3-8c; No. 1 hard 81 1-8; No. 1 north
ern 80 1-8; No, 2 northern 77 5-8; No.
3 soring 7576.
. Chicago, Dec. -19. Wheat No. !
spring 7883c; No. 3 7282c; No. .5
red 73 3-4 74c.
Corn No. 2 4444 l-2c; No. 2 yel
low 46 46 l-2c. .. .
Oats No 2 34 3-4 34 1-2; No. 2
white 3636 1-2; No. 3 white 34 1-4
36c. .
Barley Fair to choice malting 49
85c.
Flax Seed No. 1 northwestern
$1-22.. ;
Timothy Prime seed $4.50.
Clover Contract grade $13.75.
Chicago
Chicago, Dec. 19. Cattle Receipts
6,000; market steady; common to
prime steers $4.007.40; cows $2.75
4.75; heifers $2.6O5.0O; bulls $2.40
4.50; calves $2.758.50; stackers
.and feeders $2.404.50.J
' Hogs Receipts 22,000; .market - is
strong to 5c higher; choice hogs $6.35
6.40; prime butchers $6.356.40;
. packing $6.256.35; light $6.326.37;
pigs $6.00 6.30. - '
Sheep Receipts 18,000;' market for
best steady; others dull; sheep $3.75
-6.00; yearlings $4.606.25; lambs
$5.757.75.
St Joseph
South St. Joseph, Dec. 19. Cattle
Receipts 4,500; market steady; natives
Kansas City
Kansas City, Dec. 19. Wheat De
cember 67 3-4c; July 72 3-8c; May
71 l-4c; cash No. 2 hard 69 73c; No.
3 6772c; No. 2 red 74 75c; No. 3
68 l-273c. V
Corn December 35 5-8e; May 99c;
July 39" 3-4c; September 40 3-8c; cash
No. 2 mixed 37 l-2c; No. 3 36c; No. 2
white 37 3-438c. -
Oats No. 2 white 34 34 l-2c; No
2 mlxe'd 3333 l-2c.
See that your birds are in the very
best condition when marketed.
It should not be forgotten that while
store eggs may be worth from 25 to
40 cents per dozen, eggs from pure
bred hens are worth for hatching from
$1.50 to $5 per thirteen eggs.
The normal annual output of cei-
ery from the Kalamazoo district is
2 million bunches and not a little of
the output comes to Minnesota, which
has localities canaWo nt r,.i (.,..
as fine celery as grows out of doors
yet they are not devoted '
duction,' and many of them are not
producing anything. Right here is a
condition that should ha .Q,u n
changed, and speedily at that.
Rev. Francis M. Kielty, rector of
the church of the Holy Angels, St.
Louis, who died a few weeks-ago at
the age of 82, was an Irish scholar,
wit and practical joker. Archbishop
Kendrick, twice nominated Father
Kielty for a bishopric, once of Mem.
phis and once of Peoria, 111., but In
each case Rome gave the honor to
someone else.
Father Kielty began his sermon one
Sunday morning by announcing In a
r.lnn. ...Uk il : i. ... .
mn-c wiiu pamos ma: ne had a con
fession to make.
"I might as well make a clean breast
of It. I've been sued for nil
you 11 have to pay it," he said.
As the congregation gasped he
waved in the air a document, signed
and sealed to resemble an order of
court.
"Yes, I mean it," he continued, as
If to kill any lingering doubts, and
then, pointing through one of the
stained windows, continued. "That
alley out there has been paved and
the ci!j
nioni'v."-
Iias muni
me fur ibe ,;
;t. Louis KepuWlc
Take
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" '"'' "t inquest In a ...,
of Jurors, an'
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umml swearing
much dignity
vice, alleging umt ht
iu.iiniK.-i m an Important connr. ,
was wasting valuable time by sh,
aH U lllrot' nt !tn (n,t
The coroner, tlirn , ,, ,
said: "Mr. Morgan, kindly hand
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Thou, after ciinsiiliinR ,
coroner olmcrverl to tlio utiwl
juror:
"Upon reference to 'Jeivls' I jJ
sir, tliat no ucrttons are exempt fr
service as jurors except Idiots, ta
ciles and lunatics. Now, under tlr
heading do you claim exemption?
Success.
A Pathetic Case
A prominent lawyer of Bradford,
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