Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1907 — Page 4

II MS Accurate price* paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o'clock. BUFFALO STOCK MARKET. EAST BUFFALO, N. Y„ Aug. 30.— Receipts, hogs, 30 cars; market steady. Prime steers @56.75 Medium steers @55.50 Stockers to best feeders.. @54.25 Receipts, hogs, 20 cars; market steady. Mediums and heavies .... @so.t>o Yorkers @s<.oo Pigs @56.90 Receipts, sheep. 5 cars; market steady. Best spring lambs @sß.oo Wether sheep @55.75 Culls, clipped @54.45 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago markets closed today at 1:15 p. m., according to the Decatur Stock & Grain Exchange. September wheat 92 % December wheat 9 ~% September corn 62% December corn ;’ 9 September oats 54% December oats 60% < * PITTSBURG MARKPTS. Aug. 30. —Hog supply. 15 cars; market steady. _ Heavies @st>.by Mediums @sy.<s Yorkers @sy.lo Light @sy.la Pigs @57.10 TOLEDO MARKETS. Changed every day at 3 o’clock by J. D. Hale. Decatur special wire service. September wheat 92 September com 63 December corn 59% September oats 52% December oats .. .I.— 51 Vi Rye 78 Market furnished ever® day by Niblick and Company. Wheat, new S -| 2 Yellow corn ® 2 Mixed corn • - 89 White oats Rye, No. 3 60 Barley Timothy seed J. 70 Prime clover 9 Alsyke 6.00. Butter }’ Eggs STOCK. By Fred Schelman. Lambs, per cwt @56.00 Cattle, per cwt [email protected] Calves, per cwt [email protected] Cows, per cwt [email protected] Sheep, per cw T t @54.50 Hogs, per cwt @55.75 COAL—PER TON. Hocking lump Virginia Splint 3.80 Domestic nut 4.00 Washed nut Pittsburg lump 3.60 Pocahontas 4.50 Kentucky Cannell 6.00 Anthrancite — • Charges for carrying coal—2sc per ton or fraction thereof; upstairs, 50 cents per ton. OTHER PRODUCTS. By Various Grocers and Merchants. Eggs 16c Butter, per pound 18c Potatoes 99c Lard 19c GRAIN. By G. T. Burk, successor to Carroll Elevator company. Big 4 White Seed oats for sale or exchange to farmers. Wheat, No 2, red $ -83 Wheat. No. 3, red 80 Oats, No. 3, white 44 Barley 48 Rye, No. 2 60 Clover seed 9 00 Alsyke 6.00 Timothy seed 1-75 Corn 83 ■ —o JACKSON HILL COAL. By George Tricker. (Wholesale.) A- or 2 Jackson Hill lump, f. o. b. mine, $2.50, f. o. b. ecatur, $3.70; cook stove nut, f. o. b. Decatur, $3.70; Hock lag lump, $1.75, f. o. b. mine; Hocking lump, $3.05, f. o. b. Decatur; Splint lump, $1.55 f. o. b. mine; Splint lump, |3.10 f. o. b. Decatur. 1 { MARKET NOTES. Corn—% cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: Jogs 12,000 Wheat 109 cars Corn 135 cars Oats 237 cars Cattle 20,000 Hogs 11,000 Estimate for tomorrow: Hogs 18,000 Oats 183 cars Wheat 166 cars Corn 219 cars

WHEAT, FLOUR, ETC. The Oak Roller Mills quotation. Oak Patent flour $4.40@54 80 Bran, per ton $20.00 ( Middlings, per ton 20.00 Rough meal, per cwt 1.25--Kiln dried meal, per cwt 1.&0 Screenings, No. 1, per bn 60 Screenings, No. 2, per bu 40 Cop feed, per ton 25.00 Wheat 82 Cora, per cwt 82 i WOOL AND HIDES. By B. Kalver & Son. ’Phone 442. Wool 23c@27c HAY By S. W. Peterson 1 No 1 timothy, loose ..$ 8.00 No. 1 mixed, loose 7.00 No. 1 clover hay 8.00 Good threshed timothy 4.50

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FRIDAY 13th

' Bob had listened, but made no comment until she was through; then he said: “It looks to me as though the market is shaping up so that we may be able to do something soon." It was evident to both of us that he bad some plan in mind. Later we learned that that night Beulah wrote her father a long letter, telling him what she had done; that she had made almost two millions profit from her operations; that they had been lost, and that the outlook was not reassuring. She begged him to prepare himself for the final calamity; promising that if there were no change for the better by December 1, she would come home to be with him when the blow fell. She begged him to prepare to meet it like a Sands, and assure him that if worse came to worst she would earn enough to keep poverty away. Judge Sands would receive this letter the second day following, Friday, the 13th day of November. My God! how well I know the date. It is seared into my brain as though with a white-hot iron. After our talk with Beulah Sands I begged Bob to dine with me and go over matters at length to see If we could not find away out to relief. “No, Jim, I have work to do tonight, work that won’t wait That tariff bill was buttoned up to-day, and ft has just been announced that the Sugar directors have declared a big extra dividend. Things have come out just about as I told you they would, and the stock is climbing to-day. They say it will touch 200 to-morrow, and the street’ is predicting 250 for it In ten days. Barry Conant has been a steady buyer all day and the news bureaus announced that Camemeyer and the 'Standard Oil’ are twenty millions winners. They say the Washington gamblers' the congressmen, senators and cabinet members with their heelers and lobbyists have made a killing. About every one seems to have fattened up, Jim. but you and me and Beulah Sands and the public. The public gets the ax both ways, as usual. They have been shaken out of their stock, and they will be compelled to pay millions more each year for their sugar than they would If this law had not been made fbr their benefit. Jim, there is no disguising the fact that the American people are as helpless in the hands of these thugs of the ‘system’ as though they lived in the realm of the suitan, where a few cutthroat brigands are licensed to rob and oppress to their heart's content Jim Randolph, you know this game of finance. You know how it is worked, and the men who work ft. Tell me if there is any consideration due Wall street and Its heart-and-soul butchers at the hands of honest men.” “I do not know what you mean. Bob. What are you driving at?" “Never mind what I am driving at. I ask you whether, if an honest man knew how to beat Wall street at its own game, he should hesitate to beat it —hesitate because of anything connected with conscience or morals? You saw vjhat Barry Conant was able to do to tus that day simply by standing on the floor of the stock exchange and outstaying me in opening and closing his mouth. You saw he was able to sell Sugar to a point so low that I was obliged to let go of our 150,000 shares at $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 less than we could have got for them if we could have held them until to-day. Because of this trick his clients, the ’system,’ Instead of us, make five to seven millions." "I don’t follow you, Bob. I know that Barry Conant was able to do this because he bad more money behind him than you." “You think so, do you, Jim? That is the way It looks to you, but I tell you meney had nothing to do with IL Nothing had to do with It but the fiendish system of fraud and trickery upon which the whole stock-gambling structure is reared. Nothing entered into the whole business but the trickery of stock-gambling as conducted today. It was only a question, Jim, of a man's opening and closing his mouth and spitting out words. From the minute Barry Conant came into that crowd until he left and we were ruined, he showed no money, no anything that I did not show. From the very nature of the business be could not. He simply said: ‘Bold’ oftener and longer than I said ‘Buy.’ He may have had money back of him, or he may only have had nerve. God Almighty is the only one who can tell, for when Conant vas through he was able to buy back at 90 the 50,000 shares he sold me at 175, the 50,000 that broke my back. Jim, if I had known as much that day as I do now I would have stood in that crowd and bought all the stock he sold at 180, and I would have stood there buying until hell froze over or he quit; then I would have made him rebuy it at 280 or 2,080, and I would have broken him and all his Camemeyer and ‘Standard Oil’ backers; broken them to their last crime-covered dollar.” “Bob, what are you talking about? It is all Chinese to me. I cannot get 1

heavToFTHTfinFTi'af 'you ar& ifiTvmg at” “I know you can’t, Jim. neither could Wall street if it were listening to me. But you will, and Wall street will, too, before many days go by. Now I must be off. I have work to do." He put on his hat and left me trying to puzzle out just what he meant. Next day the Sugar bulls had the center of the stock exchange stage. All day long they tossed Sugar from one to another, as though each thousand shares had been a wisp of hay Instead of $200,000 —for soon after the opening It soared to 200. The ‘ system’s" cohorts were in absolute control, with Barry Conant never a minute away from the Sugar-pole, always on the alert to steer the course of price when they threatened to run away on the up or the down side. It was evident to the expert readers of the tape that the “system” was carrying its steed for an exceptionally brilliant run. Ike Bloomensteln, the Avenger Fiend, who for 40 years had kept close track of every movement on the floor, and who would bet anything, from his Fifth avenue mansion to his overripe boardroom straw hat, that all stocks and movements were as strictly subject to the law of averages as are the tides to the moon and sun, remarked to Joe Barnes, the loan expert: “ ‘Cam’ unt de Keroseners are pudding up egstra dop rails to dot woolpen deh has ben pilding since deh took Pop Prownlee and deh Rantolphs into gamp. Unless my topesheet goes pack on me, for deh first dime in 40 years, dere vill pea record clip pefore a veek from to-tay.” “I am with you there, Ike," answered Joe. “If Barry Conant’s knifeedged teeth ever spelt a killin', they do to-day. I just got orders from somewhere to drop call money from tour to two and a half per cent, and they have given me ten millions to drop it with and the order is to favor Sugar as 'collat.' Some one is anxious to make it easy for the bleaters to get the coin to buy all the Sugar they want. Ike, you and I might make turkey money for Thanksgiving, if we only knew whether Barry and his bunch were going to shoot her up 30 or 40 points before they turned the bag upside down, or whether they will bury them from 200 to 150. What do you think?" "I gant make out, aldo I has vatched dem sharp all day. Dey certainly has deh lambs lined up right now for any vey dey vont to twist id. I nefer see a petter market for a deluge. For Barry’s movements all day I should say dey vould keep hoistin’ her until apout noon to-morrow, unt dat deh might get her up to two-tirty or even to deh two-flfty. Put dere are von or two topes on deh sheet vhat run deh uder vay. First der is dey fact you gant run out, dat dere is alreaty on deh Sugar vagon deh piggest load of chuicy suckers dat efer game In from deh suppurbs. Sharley pates says If any von hat tapped his Vashington vire er any utter capital vire dis veek he vould has tought dere vas a senate, house, unt kabinet roll-gall on. Deh topes say ‘Cam’ vill nefer led dat punch off grafters sllte out mit real mooney if he gan help id unt deh game iss endirely in his hands." “I agree with you, Ike. If I had the steering of this killing, I don't think I would take any chance of tempting them to dump and grab the profits by carrying it much over 200. But you can’t tell what ‘Cam’ and those foureyed dentists at 26 Broadway will do.”

“Yes, put der is* anudder t’lng, Cho, dat makes me sit up unt plink about her goln’ ofer two hundred. Tomorrow's Friday der t’lrteenth.” "Os course, Ike, that is something to be reckoned with, and every man on the floor and in the street as well has his eye on it. Friday, the 13th, would break the best bull market ever under way. You and I know that, Ike, and the dope shows IL too, but you have got to stack this up against it on this trip: No man on the floor knows what Friday, the 13th, means better than Barry Conant He has worked ft to the queen's taste maay a time. Why, Barry would not eat today for fear the food would get stuck in hl* wtndplpe. He’s never left the pole for a minute; but suppose, Ike, Barry had -tipped off ‘Cam' that all the boys will let go their fliers, and most of them will take one on the short side over to-night for a superstitious dyop at the opening; and suppose ’Cam’ has told him to take them all into camp and give her a rafter-scraper at the opening, where would old Friday, 13th, land on tomorrow’s dope-sheets? Bring up the average, wouldn’t It, for five years to some? I tell you, Ike, she's too deep for me this run, and I’m goln’ to let her alone and pay for the turkey out of loan commissions or stick to plain work-day food.” “Zatne here, Cho. Say, Cho, has you noticed Pop Prownlee to-tay? He has frozen to deh fringe off dat Sugar crowd ess t'ough some von hat nipped ’is scarf-pin unt he vos layin’ for him as he game out He hasn’t made a

trade to-tay unt yet he sticks like a stamp-tax. I ben keeping my eyes on him for I t’ought he hat someding up his sleeve dat might raise tust ven he tropt id. I dink Parry has hat deh same itear. He never loses sight of him, yet Pop hasn’t made a trade totay, unt here Id iss 20 minutes of der glose unt dere is Parry in deh center «gain whooping her up ofer two hunCHAPTER V. Thursday, November 12, was a memorable day in Wall street. As the gong peeled Its the-game's-cioeed-tlll-another-day, the myriad of tortured souls that ate supposed to haunt the treacherous bogs and quicksands of

the great exchange,’ b‘ r e *’ with earthly hopes, must have renewed earnestness for Ita tion before the sorrow M the stock exchange folded ’•th -rer its victorious march, sugar with record-breaking total sales to ..a .be «... »•»■»»»' “I" ; Barry Conant taking all offered. Du lnb.be.lit 30 »!««<• « “ “a... .o .b« Xt™.” traders and plungers, together ith many of the semi-professional gamblers. who operated through slon houses, were selling oat tbeir stock and going short over the opening of the Wall street hoodoo-dsy. Friday. the 13th of the month. But ft was also evident, with the heavy selling at the close and stiffness “ the price, which bad never wavered as block after block was thrown on the market, that some pewerful interest as well had taken cognizance of the fact that the morrow was hoodoo-day. At the close, most of the sellers, had they been granted another five minutes, would have. repurchased, even at a loss, what they bad sold, for It looked as though they had sold themeelves Into a trap. Their anxiety was Intensified by the publication, a few minutes later, of this item: ■■Barry Conant in coming from th* Sugar crowd after the close remarked tn a fellow broker: ‘By three o'clock tomorrow. the 13th, will have a new meaaln« to Wall street' This was Interpreted aa pointing to a terrific Jump in Sugar to-morrow.” “The street” knew that the news bureau that sent out this Item was friendly to Barry Conant and the "system," and that it would print nothing displeasing to them. Therefore, this must be a foreword of the coming harvest of the bulls and the slaughter of the bears. Others than Ike Bloomensteln remarked upon the fact that Bob Brownley had hung close to the Sugar-pole all day, but when the close had come and gone without his having anything to do with the Sugar skyrockets, he dropped out of his fellow-brokers' minds. Wall street has no use for any but the “doer.” The poet and the rnooner would be no more secure from Interruption in the center of the Sahara than In Wall street between ten and three o’clock. Some sage has said that the human mind, like the well-bucket, can carry only Its fill. The Wall street mind always has its fill of budding dollars. In consequence, there Is never room for those other interests that enter the normal mind. Friday, the 13th of November, drifted over Manhattan island in a drear drizzle of marrow-chilling haze, which Just missed being rain—one of those New York days that give a hesitating suicide renewed courage to cut the mortal coil. By ten o’clock it had settled down on the stock exchange and its surrounding infernos with a clamminess that damped the spirits of the most rampant bulls. No class In the world Is so susceptible to atmospheric conditions as stock-gamblers. Many a stout-hearted one has been known to postpone the Inauguration of a longplanned coup merely because the air filled his blood with the dank chill of superstition. Because of the expected Sugar pyrotechnics, stock exchange members had gathered early; the brokers offices were overcrowded before ten; the morning papers, not only In New York but In Boston, Philadelphia and other centers, were filled with stories of the big rise that was to take place in Sugar. The knowing ones saw the ear-marks of the 'system’s" press-agent In these stories; and they knew that this industrious Institution had not sat up the night before because of Insomnia. All the signs pointed to a killing, and and a terrific one—pointed so plainly that the bears and Sugar shorts found no hope in the atmosphere or the date.

Bob had not been near the office the afternoon before, and as he had not come In by five minutes to ten, I decided to go over to the exchange and see if he were going to mix up in the baiting of the Sugar bears. I had no specific reasons for thinking he was Interested except hl* recent queer action*, particularly his hanging to the Sugar-pole, yet doing nothing, the day before. But tt i* one of the best established traditions of stock-gambledom that when an opWtten * » raW <l stock he .* invariably attracted to it every time afterward that tt shows signs of frothing. More than all 1 had one of those strong nowhere-born-,ntU’tlOn ' world “ the Btock -gambling world, which made me feel the creenv shadow of coming events

As on that day a few weeks before ite .h WM at 9ugar but ts alignment was different. in t Were Barry »nd his trusted lieutenants. but no optin’ broke T ne ° f thow hundreds of brokers showed that desperate resolve to do or die that is born of rity. They were there to by but not to put up a life or on me-depends-the-resuH fight. who were long of stock could eLlte be distinguished by their err- eael,y of joy from the shorts wfaXT the handwriting on the wall and Med with uncertaintyXr .J-”* The demeanor of n»—» r ’ terror - «oin« to do what they X “ eUten “ U ’ is known as a wash’’ safe, a fictitious one arranged In adwaaee between brokers to establish the rad*, that ar. to those minor fraud, of

by Mtlotf fb* ptSBo in deeeivea the trader* and plungers are handicapped with loaded dice. In principle, it is a device older than stock exchanges themselves, and is put to use elsewhere than on th* floor. For instance, four genuine buyers want a particular animal worth S2OO at a horse auction. Its owner's pal starts the bidding at S4OO, and the four, not being up in horse values, are thereby induced to reach for it at between S4OO and SSOO. But human nature, whether at horse sales or at stock-gambling, loves to be ■ hinkey-dinked" as much as the moth to play tag with the candle flame. In five minute* Sugar was selling at 221, and the frantic shorts w«fre grabbing tor it as though there never was to be another share put on sale, while Barry Conant and his lieutenants were most industriously pushing tt Just beyond their reaching flnger-tlp*. either by buying it as fast aa it was offered by genuine *eU*nL or by taking what their own pals threw in the air. I was not surprised to see Bob’* tall form wedged in the crowd about two-thirds of the way from th* center. Every other active floor member was there, too. Even Ike Bioomenstein and Joe Barnes. Who seldom went into the big crowds, were on hand, perhaps to ceCch a flier fortheir Thanksgiving turkey tnoneg, perhaps to get as near th* killing a* possible. Bob was not trading, although on the day before, he never took hl* eye off Barry Conant I said to myself: "He is trying to fathom Barry Conant's movements,” but for what purpose puzzled me. The hands of the big clock on the wall showed that trading had been 30 minute* under way, and still Barry Conant was pushing up the price. His voice had just rang out ”25 for any part of 5,000" when, ilk* an echo, it sounded through the hall: “Sold." It was Bob. He had worked his way to the center of the crowd and stood In front of Barry Conant He was not the Bob who bad taken Barry Conant’s gaff that afternoon a few weeks before. I never saw him cooler, calmer, more seHpo*seeeed. He was th* incarnation of confident power. A eold, cynical smile played around the corner* of his mouth as he.loolted down upon hti oppQfrgjit. _ (To be continued next Saturday.) o LOST—A short black silk jacket and a pair of little knee pants. Finder please return to this office. 211-3 t FOUND —Pocketbook found on road to Pleasant Mills. Owner can have pocketbook by describing property to Henry Grabil, rural route ten. FOR SALE —160 acre farm in Preble township, three miles north and three quarters mile east of Preble. Good soil, barn 40x80, 10 room house, and other good buildingfs. Can be bought right. Seventeen arcres good timber, and farm is located close to church and school. Charles Miller, R. R. No. 4.

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NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 13th day of August, 1907, the common council of the city of Decatur, Ind., adopted a resolution declaring it was necessary to pave Seventh street from the north line of Adams street to the south line of Monroe street with modern paving blocks or brick, according to the plans and specifications now on file in the office of the city clerk, and said council fixes the council chambers of said city, where they will hear all persons whose property will be affected by the proposed improvement at seven o’clock p. m., on the 30th day of August, 1907. CARL O. FRANCE, 19”-2t city Clerk.

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of stockholders of the Citizens’ Telephone company, of Decatur, Indiana, will be held at the office of the secretary of said company in the city of Decatur on Monday, September 2nd, 1907, at 7 o’clock p. Bi., for the election of a board of five directors and the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before said meeting. 200-12 t F. M. Schirmeyer, Secy.