Show WRONG GUESS ON MARKET Failure of the Christie Grain Com Corn Company Company pany at Kansas City After Series of Reverses Kansas I ansas City March 6 After a series of af If reverses covering a period of or three weeks and Involving heavy losses estimated at to the Christie Grain com corn company compan pany pan closed its headquarters in the board of trade building in Kansas City Kan this afternoon The company was the heaviest operator in pin grain rain stock and pro provision provision provision vision deals in the Kansas City board of trade It has agents in the prinI principal pal cities of Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Colorado Two hours after the tickers and telegraph telegraph tele telegraph graph instruments were silenced and the fifty employee discharged and paid off of offa ofa a petition alleging insolvency was pre presented presented presented to Judge R H L Fischer of the dis district district district court of Wyandotte county on be of C C Christie owner of of the he shares of the The petition set forth that the assets were less than the indebtedness of the com corn company compan pan pany Acting upon the petition Judge Fischer appointed W V M 31 or Whitelaw an attorney receiver Twenty minutes later Mr law aw took charge of the compans head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters The Christie Grain company was organ organized organIzed organIzed about two years ago apo under a Kan Ran Kansas Kansas sas charter with a capital stock of 25 23 eGo 00 The company has been operating in Kansas City Kan Ko since the organization tion of the Kansas board of trade two years ago a o when the Missouri law grain and stock transaction became op operative operative operative |