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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: tMAY 2, 1920. '
Alleged Embezzler
Of $50,000 Securities
Sioux City, la., Mr l.-George P.
Johnson, alleged embezzler of $50,.
000 worth of assets belonging to Al
falfa and Cereal Milling company of
Sioux City in the county jail to
' day as a result of his failure to find
anyone who would file a $15,000 bond
to insure his appearance in case he
is indicted by the May grand jury,
which begins work Tuesday morn
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Members Consolidated Stock Exchange, N.Y.
74 BROADWAY, NEW YORK -
AIMER DAVIS REAPING
FORTUNES FOR FRIENDS
IN PECOS OIL FIELDS
GROUND FLOOR MEMBERS
GIVEN 6-ACRE LEASE
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OIL IN FIFTEEN DAYS.
The big SS Star rig is on our location
. to the northeast and In the same section
with the Belt discovery well, and the con-
tractors promise to have our first well
: down to the sand within fifteen days. With
" this well finished other wells will be
pushed as rapidly aa possible ao aa to fully
drill up our lease. '
TWO LOCATIONS MADE.
Two locations have been mad on the
Bell anticline and to theouthwest of the
. "Discovery "'well. Other wells are drilling
nearby and almost deep enough to reach
'the Bell sand.
DEEP TEST NEXT. ,
1 Our plane are rapidly anaturina; for a,
deep test well to be drilled, which la to
. prove up one of the large blocks of acre
age in which we are owners,, and thereby
also enhancing the value of the acreage
- owned by -our members.
; REFINERY.
1 The first ear of material and parts for
our new refinery haa been received at
' Pecos and unloaded, and the other parts
'and material, including tanka, etc., are ex
pected any day. r
COVERING THE FIELD
COMPLETELY.
By working -day and night for two weeka,
- aasisted by several of my very beat scouts
and confidential men, I waa able to aeeure
: information of almost inestimable value,
I waa also able to form certain close-work-
in?, co-operative alliances which gives ua
" the widest poaaible range of holdinga ao a
to profit by every well that la drilling, or
will bo drilled In tin field for years to,
coma. '
. YOUR SURE OPPORTUNITY,
BONUS LEASES.
, I will be able for a ahort time, at leaet,
to. continue the distribution of 8-aeVe oil
and gas leas to each Consolidated Syndi
cate member, whether you pay 110 cash
or more on your membership. .
v PLENTY OF CASH.
I was able to so use our cash that w
have the biggest Hat of holdings so located
and so protected that we are not only
comfortable as to the future, but have a
t splendid cash working capital on hand to
carry forward our entire plana. Thie waa
made poaaible by the prompt response of
t my thousands of backers.
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Easy Way to Secur Larftj Interest.
Writ for illustrated folder, "How to
Win."
- The reaaon for thia la you are furnish
ing the money on the ground floor to build
a great oil buslneaa. You are entitled to
the biggeat Interest ' possible for your
money with the very least risk. Mem
berships purchased now have the chance
r to become very valuable and pay enormous
dividends. If you waited until the profits
begin, then you would have to pay the full
value at that time, but by joining now, you
get your present small investment to work
and have the full privileges of sharing in
the larger way later on.
$10 CASH RESERVES $1,000
w . MEMBERSHIP. -
' SIS cash now does th full work of
S1.00. in that it holes for you th Thou
sand Dollar Membership.
v When you have paid S109 you then
abaA In the profits pro rata from that
amount. If you later pay in more eash
or allow your profits to be applied on fur
' s ther investment, you then share accord
ingly from the accumulation or compound
ing feature of this investment. You get
in at th start and have every benefit
herefrom, both from earnings, enhancing
values of properties developed and the right
to larger participation after you know
for. sure you have a real winner.
Vi RESERVATION COUPON.
ABNER DAVIS. Trueteo,
Fert Worth, Texas,
Reserve for me ... .Full Thousand
Dollar Membership. Enclosed find !
to apply on same. I will pay $.....,
- monthly, or as often as I can conveniently
do ao. until I pay 1100, I am to share
with all other-members on a full Pro rata
proiit-snaring oasis lor tne amount I pay
. cash or on easy, installments. I am also
to receive a five (5) acre oil and gas leas
, free, as a bonus, made in my nam, for
- eaea si so I pay,, whether paid cash or on
"installments, provided this application
reaches you before all of th bonus sere-
age ia distributed. .
Ifem ......
The Heavens in May
; WILLIAM F. RIGGE
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The chief event of the month is a
total eclipse of the moon on the 2d.
The above figure will' give particu
lars.' . " ' .
The largest circle with the cardi
nal . p6ints N S . E Wv represents
a section of the pnumbra and the
next in size the., earth's umbra or
shadow, where , the moon will cross
them. T B L.R mean top, botton,
left, right, and indicate that the dia
gram" must be held with the point
T on top. 'The seven small circles
show the mooii at important mo
menta. When its- center is at A at
4:49 p. m., the moon enters penum
bra. At a at 6: fix the moon enters
shadow. ' At C at 743 the tota
eclipse begins. At D at .7:51- we
have the middle of the eclipse. At
F at 8:27 the total eclipse ends, after
having lasted one hour, and 12 min
utes. At C at 9:41 the moofi leaves
shadow and at H at 10:53 the moon
leaves penumbra.
Moon Not Visible.
The eclipse will take place most
ly during the evening twilight, so
that it will be deprived of most, if
not all, of its impresstveness. As
the sun sets at 7:18 and"" the moon
rises also at 7:18, three minutes j
after having become totally eclipsed, :
we will probably not see the moon j
at all for some considerable time
after it has risen, possibly not until
an hour later, at 8:27, when it be
gins to, leave the earth's shadow
and enter again into the sunlight,
and vjhen the twilight is much
fainter. We shall then be able to
watch it apparently growing in size
for over an hour that is, until 9:41,
when it will be full again, although
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ABNER DAVIS
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N - 812 TTirockmorton St.,
Ft. Worth, Tlx.
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MADE JN ; OIL LEASES IN TEXAS
How Would You Like to Read a Notice
Like This About Yourself ?
"Sucker" iniOil Game for
$133 Now Worth $700,000
(From the St Louis Post-Dispatch) '
3. C. Phillips, tot 10 years a traveling
salesma for the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co.,
carrle to St. Louis from his home in Fort
Worth, Texas, yesterday to resign, explain
ing to officials of the company that this was
necessary that he might devote his atten
tion to his oil interests which,-he says, are
now worth more than $700,000.
Phillips, in discussing his good fortune,
said he was calling on a customer at
R4tiger Texas, in September, 1917, when
the man told him of a third interest in a
lea(! prf 160 acres of undeveloped oil land
which was for sale. He bought the lease
for $133.33.
"It was just a case of buying a lease
toward which other companies came with
their drills," he said. "They struck oil and
made my lease more valuable. My orig
inal Investment was luck, too. The man
selling, the lease thought I was a 'sucker
ana thought so, too, for I'd already sunk
more than $1,000 in oil stocks which never
brought in wells."
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considerably darker on the side next
the earth's shadow. It will be com
pletely illuminated by the sun only
after 10:53, when it emerges from
the penumbra.
- Evening Stars. .
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are eve
ning stars and in good position to
observe. They come to the meridian
respectively at 5:45, 7:21 and 10:16
p. m., on the 15th. The moon is in
conjunction with Mars on the 1st
and 28th, with Venus on the 16th,
with Jupiter on the 22d, and with
Saturn on the 24th. On the 21st the
sun enters Gemini, the Twins.
' Retrograde Motion of Mars.
'-Mars is in excellent position now
in the early evening. As soon as
daylight has - faded sufficiently, it
may readily be identified as the
bright ruddy star in the southeast.
A short distance to the right of it is
Spica, a star of the first magnitude
and a true star, that in a self-luminous
sun like our own, an untold
number of thousands of millions of
miles away. Mars, however, is com
paratively a very small body and is
very near, and appears much
brighter than Spica simplym ac
count of its nearness. As the .earth
and Mars are nearest together for
the time being and are both moving
eastward, the earth, however, mov
ing faster than Mars, we have the
familiar optical illusion that makes
Mars apparently more backward or
westward among the stars, just as a
train on a track parallel to ours will
appear to go backward when our
speed is greater than its own. It
will be of great interest these weeks
to observe this retrograde or west
ward motion of Mars towards
Spica. ,
On May 22 Mars will be in con
junction with Spica and pass about
two and a half degrees or five lunar
diameters north of it. It will keep
on moving westward past the star
with constantly diminishing speed
until June 7 when it will be station
ary about three quarters of a degree
west. This stationary position of
Mars is due to the fact that the
curvature of thev earth's orbit car
ries us more away than parallel to
Mars motion, so that the parallel
components of our speeds are the
same.
After June 1 Mars will begin .to
move eastward among the stars,
and pass Spica again on June 12
about one and , three-quarters de
grees to the north.
Tho Signals from Mars. J
The opposition of Mars of 1920 is
now a thing of the past, and let us
liope that the talk of its being in
habited by intelligent beings has
gone with it, at least until the next
opposition in wo years from now,
when it will be sure to bob up again.
It is a perennial question, which will
not down in the popular mind nor in
the press, in spite of all the argu
ments that have been presented
against it. Some of these were given
in my communication of last month.
This time I will advert to only one
other.
It is always claimed by the advo
cates of he Martians that because
Mars is smaller than the earth and
farther from the sun, it must be
much elder than the earth and there
fore immeasurably further ad
vanced in civilization and science.
I could never see the reason, nor
could I ever.vunderstand why our
race should be thus insulted, I might
say, and taunted with' inferiority
by some of our own kind, especially
in this age in which we pride our
selves so strongly on our . inven
tions. 1
Why Should Mars Signal?
For'the sake of argument, how
ever, let it pass. Let us grant it
all. Let us suppose the Martians
are ages ahead of us in wireless and
in everything else. How often, then,
time and time again for centuries
did they signal to earth, and never
once, get an answer! Did they not
long and long ago, perhaps several
thousand years ago, give it up as a
useless job, and say the earth was
a dead planet? And should we
imagine that all at once on April 21
in the year 1920, of our reckoning,
perhaps the 12,345,678th of theirs,
just at the moment when we took
a fancy to listen, they should make
another attempt I
Could Not See the Earth.-
Secondly, the astronomical side of
the question is generally not under
stood at all by those that favor the
existence of the Martians. This is
that Mars and earth bear the same,
relation to each other that earth
and Venus do. When, as happened
a week ago, the earth and Mars were
nearest together for the time being
and in line with the sunr the earth
could see Mars at its best because
Mars was opposite the sun and
presented its fully illuminated side
to us, just as -the moon does when
full; But the Martians could then
not see the earth at all, because the
earth was very near the sun and in
its glare, like our moon when new
or like Venus in inferior conjunction,
and the earth then turned its dark
cr night side to Mars. With the dif
ficulty that all wireless operators
knew thoroughly of sending and re
ceiving signals in the day. time, how
could or would the , Martians signal
directly towards the sun?
. Our whole solar systems, all the
6pace between the planets in all di
rections, is full of sunlight, and it is
dark only on the sides of the planets
that are turned away from the sun.
The ether of space is surely matter
of some kind, even if highly atten
uated. If ihe little sunlight in our
atmosphere puts such a big damp
ening effect on wireless waves, what
shall we. say of the millions of cubic
miles of sunlit space between us
and Mars? . ,
Dr. Millener's experiments seem
now to have given experimental
evidence of the nonexistence of the
Martians, or at least of their not
actually sending signals to the
earth. The evidence, it is true, is
only negative, but as such it is val
uable. It seems to me that he might
perhaps hear sounds of extramun
dane origin if he repeated his ex
periments in, the day time when
the sun is shining brightly in
a clear sky. He might then possibly
hear storms on the sun by wireless,
and corroborate the evidence fur
nished concerning them by the tele
scope, spectroscope and selenium
photometer. But even then wireless
would be under a great handicap in
comparison, because the long waves
it makes use of cannot compare in
sensitiveness to the subricro
scopic ones of light. But the one
great reason why Dr. Millener could
not hear any signals from Mars is,
of course, that there is no one there
to send them.
Live- Stock arid Grain
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4 E6ll2.22j7.48 3 Thu.
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4 25
4 69
5 36
6 15
6 58
7 45
8 38
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Official Monday
official Tuesday ....
Official Wednesday.,
Official Thursday . .
Official Friday
Kstlmat. Saturday
4.932 3,854 4,300
4,009 10,843 1,580
5.604 19.812 4,673
6.180 16.249 (.735
,271 9,649 1,860
450 7,500 200
Six days this week.. 23.436 72,647 24.349
8.ima daya laat week 37.178 78.166 42,286
Same daya 2 w's ago 22,021 42.603 19,963
Same days 2 w's a'o 38,994 78,206 46,302
Same days year ago 26.874 67,249 23.493
Chicago Receipts Hogs, 14,000; cattle,
4,000; sheep, 6,000.
Receipts end disposition of live stock
at the Union Stock yards, Omaha, Neb.,
for 24 hours ending at 3 o'clock p. tn.,
May 1, 1920: :
v RECEIPTS CAR LOTS.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Missouri Paclflo , 2 , .
Union Pacific 17 1
C. & N. W., bant... 13 2 ..
C. & N. V., west 6 ..
C. Bt. P., M. & 0 1 12 ..
C, 11. & Q., west, 1 26 ..
C, R. I. & P., cart 3 3 ..
C, R. I. & P., west 2 ..
Illinois Central 1 ..
Chicago Great Western ..1 1
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6 OOill 26
6 46
7 81
8 18
9 06
9 68
3 53110 52
4 35111 60
6 26
6 23
7 28
8 36
9 47
10 67
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3.14
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12.52
1.56
2.67
3.67
4.54
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1.28
2.31
3.38
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6.69
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8.22
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10.23
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' MOON'S PHASES.
Full moon on the 2d, 7:47 p. m.
Last quarter on the 10th, 11:51 p. m.
New moon on the 18th, 12:26 a. m.
First quarter on the 24th, 3:07 p. m.
, Omaha Hay Market Yesterday.
Recelpta of both prairie hay and alfalfa
light, ana witn tr.e demand Deing gooa
on prairie hay, the market has advanced
on all irradea Alfalfa -continues ateady
with no change In prices. Oat and wheat
atraw steady.
No. 1 upland prairie hay. 223.00ii2E 10
No. 2, $20.00023.00; No. 8. 115. 00018. 00.
No. 1 midland prairie hay, I22.0024.00;
No. 2, 2O.OOfl)22.00. No. 1 lowland prairie
hay, 81B.OOrl7.00: No. 2 10.0013.00;
No. 8. ss.ooeDJO.no.
rholre alfalfa. 833.0OW34.00; No. 1
231.0033.00; standard, 826.00 30.00; No.
2, $19.0022.00: No. 3, 214.0016.0.
Oat atraw, $10.0013.00; wheat straw,
19.50011.50. ' -
New York Produce.
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creamery htuher than extras, 64V, Coc;
extra, 64c; nrst, susy piouns wvi,
current make No. 2, 4243c. N
Eggs Irresjular; unchanged.
Cheese Flrm;'unchanBed.
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"You SHARE IP THE PROFITS While Haying PROTECTION"
OLD LINE STOCK COMPANY
Paid in Cash Capital. $20O,000.tA
Surplus in Paid in Cash .$200,000.00
Figures Taken From Nebraska Insurance. Department's
-; Annual Report for the Year 1919
Show
PREMIUMS COLLECTED
' By Old Lino Stock Fir Insurance Companies
in the
STATE OF NEBRASKA IN 1919
Amounting 4o. .$8,755,689.00
Paid for Losses and. Expenses. . , .$6,614,557.00
Increase in Reserve ' $ . 628,645.00
' Leaving a Profit to the Companies on Nebraska
Premiums of . . ... $1,712,487.00
t, These figures show that there was a net profit of 20 on Nebraska premiums paid by policy holders in 1919, t(T-
nothing of the interest earned on the Reserve and Surplus of the Company, paid in by policy holders. .
The Omaha Liberty Fire Insurance Company's Gross Premiums in
1919 was $171,728.45. It paid 7 Dividends to Stockholders at the
Annual Meeting, January 20, 1920, on the amount invested in Capital
Stock, Reserve and Surplus by Stockholders in 1919, and is crediting
10 on Mercantile and 20 on Dwelling House Policies upon renewal
of policies expiring in 1920. '
This Company is now licensed in several states and has a monthly
premium income of at least $40,000.00. Two Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars additional Capital is being put into the Company this year
and we invite the Insuring Public to subscribe for this stock and share
in the profits from a Stockholder's standpoint as well as a Policyholder's.
v In addition to our profit-sharing feature of writing Fire Insurance, we pride our-.
selves on Service; first, in the matter of carefuLunderwriting to give our policy hold
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us how) ; second, in prompt adjustment and payment of losses drafts being issued
without discount the day Proofs of Loss are received at our off kw. ' ,
Insurance against lost by Fire, Lightning, Tornado, Automobile and Hail Insurance
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P. F. ZIMMER, President
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OMAHA, U.S. A.
Home Office, 1817 Douglas St. . - Phone Tyler 2621
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Ho.
..1.284
..i.on
..i.n
,.t.69
.. S
..1.129
. 178
Total receipts 20 170
DISPOSITION H E AU.
Morris ft Co.
Swift ft Co
Cudahy Packing Co
Armour & Co. ..'
Schwarta & Co
J. w. Murphy
Hunsacker ,
Total . M
Cattle Receipts of cattle comprised th.
usual weelc-end offerings with on estimate
of only 450 head. Total for the week Is
23,400 head of 14.000 smaller than a week
ago and over 2,000 less than the corre
sponding week last year. All claases of
steers opened the week actively and at
higher prices due to light receipts; how
ever, arrivals Increased toward Jhe end of
the week and prlcea dropped bacK again
n that the close is steady with laat Sat
urday. Packers continue to discriminate
against heavy steers. Butcher stock has
roimmilv followed the advance and ao
dine of steers, although a gain of 2640c
above last week's close IS suit, recoruea.
Llsrht veala are aelllng very Irregularly
with a top of tlJ.60 . e0cll.00 lower
than last week. There has ., been little
change in stockera and feeders and prices
ar. ateady with the prevloua week'a close
on the ateer values and atock cows and
heifers are 25 60c lower.
Quotations en cattle: Oood to choice
heeves, 911.7S12.00; fair to good beevea,
SlO.OO011.7Si common to fair beevea.
a nniffiio.ooi mod to unolco vearllnga,
fl2.0013.00j fair to good yearllnga, flO.OO
12.00: common to fair yearllnga; fO.OO
tjlO.00; choice to prim, hfelfers, flO.OO
011.50; good to choloe heifers, 98.00
10.00; choice to prime cows, I9.1G11.00;
good to choice, 7.008.00; common to
fair cows. 14.6007.00: choice to prime
feeders. I1O.OO11.0O: good to choice
feeders. 19 00(810.00: medium to goad
feeders, $9.0009.00; common to fair
feeders, f7.008.00; good to choice stock-
ers.. f9.00 10.50 fair to good Blockers,
$7.759.00; common to fair grades, 96.00
07.75; stock heifers, 97.0008.60; stock
cows, f6.50gps.oo; stocK calves, d.uvib
10.50; veal calves, $9.6O4.00; bulls,
lacs. etc.. 86.00011.00.
Hogs Saturday's receipts of 7,600 head
makes the total for the week 72.S00 head,
some 6,000 less than last week, but around
5,000 more than a year ago. Trade has
been very uneven all week, characterized
by a lack of substantial support and
fluctuatlona at time have Deen wioe.
Wednesday proved the low day of the
week. While th shipper demand has been
quite broad, any strengtn anown Dy pacK
ers has been largely of a temporary na
tnrA followed hv weakness. On the whole,
however, trade has shown a littl. strength
and closes the week at prices tnat iook
steady to possibly 25o higher than last
Saturday. While the week closed with a
top of 815.00. the same as previous Satur
day, the bulk Is $14.00014.60 against a
bulk of fl3.6014.JiO a week ago.
Sheep and Lambs Only a load or two of
sheep arrived mis morning, noi enuusu
to make a market and prices remained
unchanged. Supplies during the week
have been moderate and very unevenly dis
tributed, but packers complain of a slug
gish mutton trade in the east and insisted
upon a lower level of prices. Compared
fat wooled lambs show
declines of about $1.00 and shorn lambs
.aii'm. nrnuiM 60c lower. Trend to
sheep has also been a little easier despite
tne scarcity 01 agea ciasiirs. c wu.c..
I.mh. h.ve rirontied to $19.50. With bulk
of the good shorn lambs bringing $17.25
17.50. rat ewes are quomuio up i
$14.75. A fair inquiry existed lor gooa
shearing lambs at $18.'60I8.85.
Quotations on Sheep and LambsLambs,
good to choloe. $19.00019.60; lambs fair
to good, $18.85019.00; shorn lambs. $16.i5
17.60; shearing, $18.00019.00; cull lamtm,
$14,6007.50: yearlings, $16.50017.50;
wethers. $15.00 16.00;' ewes, good to
choice, $14.25 014.76; ewes, -fair to good,
$13.S014J5; eweulla and common, $6.09
12.oo.
Chicago Live Stock.
.1.1 - i rQ m "R n.lntn. 4.000
head; beef steers, ateady to, strong; sales,
$10.5013.75; bulls and calves, weak, all
'other classes steady; compared with week
ago, beef steers, 2590c higher; she stock,
76c higher; bulls and feeders, 25050c
higher vealers, fl1.50 lower; heavy
caWes, 50c lower. ... , .
Hogs Receipts. 14,000 head; market
steady to strong with yesterday's average;
top, $16.60; bulk light. $15.2515.60;
bulk, 250 pounds and over, $13.25014.66;
pig market steady to 60c lower; bulk of
desirables, 100 to 120 pound pigs, $13.25
14 25
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 6.000 head;
bulk today's receipts direct to packers,
few sales around 2ie higher compared
with week ago. Lambs, mostly 11.00
lower; aheep. ateady.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas City, Mo.. May 1. Cattle Re
ceipts, 1.800 head. For week; Heavy
beef steers, strong to 15c higher; top,
$13.30; bulk, $11.76012.26; yearlings, 26g
60c higher; top. $14.50; bulk, $11.60
13.00; killing cows and bulls, steady;
veals ar.d calves. $23 lower; bulls,
good 40 choice vealers. f 11.60012.50.
Hogs Receipts, 1,000 nead; light and
medium, steady to strong; top, $14.76;
heavies, slow; bulk, light and medium,
$14 25014.76; bulk heavies. $13.60014.15.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts. 5.000 head;
bulk receipts direct to packers: no trad
ing today. All classes, 75c0$l lower,
compared with week ago. Fat shorn Texas
wethers late yesterday. $11.00.
Slou City Llv. Stock.
Slonx City, Ia,, May 1. Cat
tie Receipts, v 800 head : market
steady: beef steers, choice fed, $11,000
13.25; short fed,' $9.5fl10.66; fed year
lings $9.00013.60; beef cows, $.5O07.6O;
fat heifers, $8.0012.00; canners, $3,000
C 00- veal calves. $7.00012.50; common
calves $6.009.60; feeders, $8.50010.00;
feeding cows, $s.007.00; stockera, $6.60
10 00; stork heifers. $5.6008.50.
Hogs Receipts, 7,000 head; market
steady to 25c higher; light. $14.25014.90;
mixed, $14.00014.60; heavy, $13.60 14.25;
bulk. $14.00014.65.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 900 head;
market weak. ,
St. Joseph Live Stock.
St. Joseph. Mo., May 1. Cattle Re
ceipts. 400 head: market nominal; steers.
$10.00014.00; cows and heifers, $4.60
14.00; calves, $6.flO$11.60.
Hogs Receipts. 4.00ft head; market ltc
hither; top, $15.05: bulk. $14.00 1S.00.
Slioep and Lambs Receipts. 600 head;
market nominal: lambs, $lt.6019.50;
cwts, $13.60 14.50.
Drastic Liquidation of J
Securities Mark Trading
New York, May 1. Drastic liquidation
of securities and commodities during the
week again was primarily traceable to
worldwide scarcity of capital, as attested
by further credit contraction at homo and
abroad.
The petition of the government for a
reopening of the United States Steel case,
tho Mexican situation and the proposed
heavy tax on war profits were foremost
among developments which expreesed the
market's frequent moods of pessimism
. Foreign state banks toK their cue from
the British and French Institutions tn ad
vancing discounts and tn the domestic
field the strain extended to private banks
In various sections of the country.
Western manufacturers of automobiles
i and accessories entered a vigorous protest
against the refusal or banxs to advance
funds for the promotion of their business.
Trade conditions continued funda
mentally sound, but tne railroad strike
again materially reduced production In
many leading lines. '
Bankers continued to elaborate on the
Increasing need of conservative financing
and numeroua project and enterprises
encountered unexpected opposition or de
lay. Local and New England banks re
ported smaller offertnga of merchants'
paper.
Wheat ranged
rim.ha. Mar :
M
unchanged to lfl'ZO
lower, generally about lo off In th. beat
gradta. Corn ranged l6o higher. No. S
mixed brought the .itr.m. advance. The
maiket, as a wholo. waa about lo up.
Oata were unchanged to Ho higher. No.
3 whit, aold at fl.OtV,. the higheat In thj
history of th. mark.k. Ry. was unchanged
and barley lower.
Cash aalea today wers: ....
Wheat No. 2 hard. I car. flSS; J
cars. f2.84; 1 ears. f3.2 (smutty); l-S
car, $2.83; No. t hard. 1 cars, I2.S0; I
car, $8.80 (smutty); I car., $2.79; 10 cats.
13.78; 1 car. $3.7$ (smutty); $ cars, 18 77:
1 car. $2.t; No. 4 hard, 1 cars, 11.76; 1
car, 13.76; 1 tar, f2.7S (smutty); J. cars,
$2.74; No. 4 hard, 1 cars. IJ.74: 1 c.r,
$3.74; 1 car. $3.76 (smutty); 1 ears. 11.14:
1 car. f3.73; No. 6 hard, I cars, fl.70; I
car, fl.70 (smutty); 1 oar, $1.69 (smutty);
1 car, 2.6 (smuityj; i r.
$2.87 (poor); sampl. hard, S-S car, $8.77;
No. 4 northern spring, 1 car, $2.7 J: samplo
.nrin. l or. 12 6fi: 13 car. $2.66: No. 4
. 12 6fi:
mixed, 1 car, $2.76 sampl. mixea, i car.
Corn No. white. 1 c.r, fl.71; 1 car.
fl.70; No. 4 white, S 2-6 cars, 41.70; No.
yellow, 2 cars, $1.71 (dry); 7 cara, $1.70;
No. 4 yellow, 1 car. $1.6;.No. i mixed I
car, $1.71 (near white); 1 car, fl.71 ; No.
3 mixed, 2-6 car, fl.70; 1 car, tl.68; No.
4 mixed. 1 car, tl.68 (near white); Icar,
fl.68 (dry); 1 cars, fl.67; No. C mld.
1 car, $1.64 : sampl. mixed, 1 car, $1.6S
(wheat mixed). ,
Oats No. 3 white. 1 car. $1.04 Vi; 1-3
can) fl.04; 8-6 car. $1.04; No. 4 white, 1
car, tl.04; sample white, 1 car, fl.08.
RyeNo. 2. 1 oar. f2 00; No. 3. 1 car,
f2.00; 1 car, tl.98; No. 4. 1 3-6 .cars, $1.98.
Barley Rejected, 1 car, fl.60.
OMAHA RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.
Receipts Today We.k Tear
......
,. 70.
,. 36
,. 20
.. 11
S
38
60
40
14
$
4
13
25
S
3
Wheat
Corn
Oats
Rye
Barley .......
(Shipments
Corn ...61 39 ti
Corn 61 65 6S
Oats 3) 4T il
Ry. S 7
Barley I 4 1
Carload Lots Wheat, 1 car.;, corn, S
cara; oats, 12 cars; ry., 4 cars; barley
16 cara. J
OMAHA, QR1H INSPECTION.
The number of cars of grain of tlt
several grades Inspected "In" her. during;
th. past 24 hours follows: '
Wheat No. 1 hard, 1; No. t hard. Hi
No. I hard, 11; No. 4 hard, 19; No. S
hard, 16; sampl. hard, 6; No. I mixed.
2; No. 4 mixed, 2; sampl. mixed, I; totals
86. ...
Corn No. 2 white, 1; No. 1 white, fj
No. 4 white, 1; No. I white, 1) No.
yellow, 6; No. 4 yellow, 2; No. S yellow,
1; .ample yellow, 1; No. t mixed, 5: No
4 mixed. 7; samplo mixed, t; total, 21.
Oats-.No. I white, 18; No. 4 whit. 41
total, 22. f.
Ry No. t, ; No. 4. t; .ample. lr totals
10.
Barleys Rejected, t; sample, 1; total, t,
Washington, V. C.i Consul General Skin
ner at London cables that th. British)
board of trade haa . received from th
commission on wheat supplies a survey of
the world's demand for that cereal for all
countries except Russia. The crop In th
United Statea Is put at 24,999,000 tons and
the export prospect at 9,000,000 tons. i
Wheat and rye requirements of the prln '
clpal wheat-buying countries ar. given in
ton. as follows: United Kingdom, 5,700.
000; France, 2,800,000; Italy, 2,700.000$
Belgium, 1,250,000; Portugal, 150.000$
Greece, 250,000; Czerho-Slovakla, Hungary-Austria,
1.300.000; Poland, (00.000;
Finland, 160,000; Spain. 25,000; Switzer
land, 400,000. Sweden. 800,000; Denmark
360,000; Norway, 300,000; Netherlands.
600.000; .Germany, 1,200,000; South Africa,
100,000; Egypt, 200,000; Japan, 200,000;
other countries, 1.600,000. Total, 20,200,000
tons. . '
Minneapolis Grain. . .
Minneapolis, May 1. Flour Unchanged,
Bran $52.00.
Wheat Cash: No. 1 northern, fl.OSffl
3.15.
Corn $1.681. 69.
Oata f 1.0201. 03H.
Barley $1.401. 72.
Rye No. 2. $3.06H2.07
Flax No. 1, 84.734.78.
St. Louis Grain.
St. Louis, May 1. Corn May, $1.79 I
July, $1.69.
Oats May, 91.07: July, 930.
Kansas City Grain.
Kansas City. May 1. Corn May
$16JH; July, f 1.6314; September, .$1.66.
Violent Upturns Feature
Trading of Last Week In Corn
Chicago, May 1. Violent upturns in
price have resulted this week from th.
extreme difficulty of getting grain to de
liver on May contracts st the leading rail
way terminals. Compared with a week
ago, corn quotations this morning wr.
63t12ttc higher, oats showed 14a5c
advance, and provisions ranged from 20
cents decline to a rise of 60 cents.
Notwithstanding that owing to strained
financial conditions, decided weakness be
came manifest at times In the corn mar
ket, the majority of sellers who attempted
to take advantage of depressing clrcum
stsnces overreached themselves. It was
evident that not enough grain waa in po
aition to satisfy Immediate commercial re
quirements. Wet weather delaya to the
seeding of spring wheat and of oata added
to the anxiety of shorta In corn, and so,
too, did periods of urgent European pur
chasing of breadstuffs, accompanied In
one Instance by an almost v.rtlcal Jump
of 11 cents a bushel in the value of rye
Topmost prices ever known were reached
for oats. It waa said that as a result of
adverse field conditions the 1920 screens
or oats in tn. united states would b.
noticeably curtailed.
Reporta that Germany had , obtained.
945,000.000 credit from an American nsrk.
lng company did conatderabl. to mak
provisions average nigner.
London Money.
London. May 1. Silver Bar. 43 d nf
ounce.
Money 4 H per eent
r!tnunt nt- ska.. km- set as
cent: three months' hills. s'uAau
cent t-
Chlcago Potatoes.
Chicago. May 1. Potatoes Stesdv:
northern white, sacked and bulk, $ 6.900
7.10; new, none.
Bar Sliver.
New York, May 1. Silver Bar, il.lt.
Mexican Dollars 984c.
Kansas City Produce.
Kansas City, May 1. Eggs Current
receipts, 2c a doxen lower; firsts, 38c;
seconds, 33c
Butter Unchanged.
Toultry Broilers, 10c lower, 60o.
New York Poultry.
New York, May 1. T.lve Poultry Not
auoted; dressed, steady and unchanged.
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