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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
9
Kansas City market notes show fat cattle and hog prices steady or down slightly amid larger quarantine cattle supplies. Wheat prices eased while New York stocks advanced. banking reserves rose, with mixed commodity receipts in Chicago and Kansas City and widespread market activity across western grain and livestock markets.
Grain prices fluctuated within narrow ranges across the day with July Chicago wheat down and September and May contracts mixed. Kansas City and Minneapolis futures showed small moves as weather boosted crop outlooks while reports of Hessian fly damage and dry spells persisted. Cotton futures edged higher with modest gains as traders weighed export prospects and world weather.
Dealers report no change in markets for butter eggs and poultry with second and dirty eggs quoted higher. Strawberry receipts around 4000 crates the Southern Missouri berries best at 2 50 to 3 00. Arkansas stock small and wet but demand steady. Homegrown gooseberries offered at 2 75 per crate. Warm weather lifts demand for oranges and lemons as green vegetables abound and prices show gains. California and Arkansas strawberries and tomatoes feature in fluctuating quotes with various packing and crate prices noted.
Floyd McDougal, a Morse school pupil aged 11 or 12, left a hospital after a dog bite to attend the ward school meet in Convention hall. He rejoined the crowd and impressed officials with his nerve while the event collected receipts near $1,000 to fund playground equipment.
Lucania arrived in New York from Liverpool and Kaiserin Auguste Victoria reached New York from Hamburg.
Observations for the twenty four hours ending 8 a m Washington time show Kansas City minimum 64 and maximum 84 degrees. Other stations report varied readings including Abilene 64/88 and New Orleans 74/84 with no precipitation in most areas and light traces in Galveston and Columbus.
J J Vineyard of Rozzelle Vineyard Thacher recalls an office boy who watched a man in a brown hat who sold tin whistles. The boy signaled a suspicious crowd activity as the man, later in a black derby, bought multiple whistles and vanished through the throng. The tale hints at a possible street scam amid spectators.
A burning lamp ignited a blaze that destroyed the Bank of Tuttle and gutted the south side of Main street. Losses are estimated at 50,000 dollars with key merchants affected including the Bank of Tuttle and Alford Bailey Co. The town lacks a fire department and neighbor towns could not reach aid.
Montgomery bulletin notes Alabama Democrats will hold a general primary next Monday for all state and county offices. Ticket lists William Jennings Bryan and John A. Johnson as choices. Only A A Wiley faces opposition in the Second district from Thomas J Hall. statewide offices include two Supreme Court justices, game and fish commissioners, and railroad commission president.
State free employment bureau notes influx of letters on harvest field labor conditions. Superintendent Carl F. Schweizer expects June 1 to clarify work, wage, and transportation details as harvest should begin around June 10.
E F Swinney president of the First National Bank and his family moved to their country home in Excelsior Springs. A year earlier he bought 200 acres of the Kirk B Armour farm nearby and has spent about 10000 dollars constructing the summer residence.
About 500 striking brewery workers return to their jobs this morning after an agreement reached at the Miata hotel. The pact provides a wage rise averaging fifty cents per week for each man.
Police reports list twelve robberies last night with entries describing break ins from houses barns and stores and thefts from rope to money. Mrs Estella Dean a widow 54 died yesterday at her daughter Mrs Larkin Blevins home in Rosedale She leaves two children and funeral services are set for 2 o clock tomorrow at her home with burial in Forest Hill cemetery.
John Lorimer a commission merchant at the stock yards filed a declaration in the county clerk’s office stating he would be a candidate for county marshal in the Democratic primaries on August 4. Edmund Enright a railroad clerk living at 516 Belmont avenue declared for the Democratic nomination of constable in the Eighth district.
The Juvenile Improvement association plans a June to August summer camp on Indian Creek fifteen miles south for one hundred boys. Subscriptions fund the camp with two week stays all summer. Last year fifty four children were sent to Clay Center Kansas by the Institutional church. The New Century club schedules outings for twenty five children from Franklin Institute and the Institutional church at Vernon Place, date to be set.
Paris May 16 Claude Monet, the renowned French impressionist, destroyed paintings worth about 100000 dollars that covered three years of work. Despite praise from friends and critics, he judged the works unworthy and, with a knife and paintbrush, ruined the pieces intended for next week’s Durand-Ruel exhibition.
In the second division of the criminal court Judge Porterfield granted Nealy Harris a new trial after overruling a defense motion to compel the state to elect a charge. Harris, of the Springs, had been convicted of forgery and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The judge acted believing that the supreme court would reverse on appeal.
Gamewell service employee Thomas Malone fell with a broken pole at Twelfth street and Prospect avenue this morning. He sustained bruises and was transported home by police ambulance. Bar Association to Meet Tonight in Commercial clubrooms with Jacob L. Lorie delivering Hamilton paper. Circuit judges and Court of Appeals candidates expected. Annexation talk on west additions of Kansas City Kansas slated Monday at Red Men’s Hall Chelsea Place amid outside opposition.
T H Bailey Whipple of New York stays at the Coates house. D W Hanna ex lieutenant governor of Kansas is at the Hotel Baltimore. W H Thompson of Pratt Kas is at the Hotel Baltimore. Mr Thompson is an attorney in the Department of Justice in Washington. Suits for divorce were brought in Independence this morning by Nina P Gardner against James Gardner and Daisy L Reid against William Oscar Reid. The Chautauqua alumni of Kansas City will hold its annual business duties at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Astern Methodist Book Concern, 1121 McGee street. Funeral services for Mrs George Goddard, died Thursday night at 26 North Seventh street Argentine, will be held at the Argentine Congregational church at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, burial in Maple Hill cemetery. Thomas Nee, 55, a laborer, died last night at his home 2056 Holmes street. The wife and seven children are left. Funeral services will be held at 90 Monday morning at St Joseph's church. Burial in Mount St Mary's cemetery.
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