Show COMMERCIAL Iiloitev Market NEW YORK March 5 Money 1 I I LATEr Money on call easy 2M to 4M closed 3 Prime mercantile paper 56 Sterling exchauge unchanged SAN FRANcisco March 5prafts sight 25 telegraphic Clearing House SAN FBAKCISCO March 5The Clearing Clear-ing House exchanges for the past week I were 5OT41583l 1688B lJon I Nsw Yon March 5Bar silsvrr I 100J 3fdw York General MttkeU NEW YORK March 5Copror steady lake K Lead quiet common 4JA Tin dull Hops dull state 922 California 8 20 Coffee spot fair Rio firm quiet 14i options stronger fairly active sale 63750 bags March 1270 1280 April 1270 12 73 May 1275 012 80 June 1270 12 S5 July 1275 1280 Sugar steady refined steadv extra 0 454 cut loaf and crushed GJ 516 cubes 131G 5Vs w New Yorlc Stock Exchange NEW YORK March 5Stocks today were better than any day cf the past week and there was an undertone of strength Prices were held barely steady The opening was str a Iy to linn a majority of slight changes in the direction of higher prices Trading was dull and generally steady Prices at noon showed almost no change from those at the opening after which a sagging tendency was noticed which however disappeared when Western Onion became strong The close was dull and Steady atiusignificant changes from the opening prices Railroad bonds were dull the only activity teing in TexH3 i Pacific income trust fiXomlne Railroad Stock NEW YORK March 5 Governments Oregon NVL l 3a bidI 100Ytj Transcontl 32 is 12814 Pacific Mail 55 4l s 108 Rock Island 123 Pac6s126 StLS F 33 33W Cen Pacific 36 Bt PaulifeO 4834 Burlington 37 H Preferred 8 DR G 27J Tex Pacific 2734 Northern Pac 27 Union Pacific 58 Preferred 58 Wells Fargo 28 Northwestern W U 75Ytj N Y Central 113 fteruoon block Harhet Governments preferred 59 3a 1oo3 Northwestern j 4s coupon 2834 N Y0 13 H coupexin R 0N a3 s vwtJtx ii i V 3 v GS T4 11 Pac6s 2Gis Transcontl 32 till i Express108 Oreg 1m Co 38 Can P UUjg Pacific Mail 5534 Can Southern 58x Tex Pac 2734 Central Pac 36 Union Pacific 5Sys DR G 24 US Express 6134 Erie 33 Fargo Ex 129 Kansas Tex 33J W U 75 North Pac 28 IW OhtcaKO Produce Market OHiCAeo March 51 pm I WheatBuoyant 2 higher cash I 7634 May 8234 June 83V CornStrong higher cash 46 May 41316 OatsStrong cash 24Yt May 9 Whisky 118 PorkStrong cash 2075 May 21 LardStrong cash 747M May 65 I AFTERNOON RyeS lY 54 BarleyDull 4S50 Whisky 118 short riBs S45 shoulders GOO G23 short clear 8 55 c 870 Chicago Live stuoK CHICAGO March 5 CattleReceipts lOOp steady chipping chip-ping steers 950 to 1500 pounds 850 500 stockers and feeders 250 is 3 SO HogsReceipts 5010 < excited 15 to 20 higher rough and mixed 520 580 packing and shipping 5850 650 light 5CO 5CO i Sheep Receipts 2000 steady natives 3 00 5 15 western 50475 Texans 200 100 Lambs450 575 r J A Tall White Ghost BRAZIL Ind February 221 have read the story of a twelvefoot white ghost that walks at night on a dismal Eastern beach It reminJs me oj least of a bit of experience that belongs to my boyhood days I did not believe in ghosts then and nothing could convince con-vince me flint supernatural api earauces ever stalked abroad in the gaze of j earthly vision My disbelief however was dispelled one lonesome night late in November The moon was not shining shin-ing but interrupted starlight filtered down through cloud masses aiid slightly tinged the dark heavy air so that objects were visible to the steady gaze On some quest I had gone to the barn alone Just before reaching it however how-ever I saw a sight that turned the currents of my blood back on theniselves and made the very hair on my headstand head-stand up as it were Just in fromtof me with arms outspread and supporting support-ing a thin unsubstantial vesture of grayish white loomed a spectre whose nead must haS been at an attitude of three times my own There was no doubt about the matter Riveted the spot I at first gazed awestruck The spectre moved notnor did it vanish My disbelief in ghosts asserted itself hop ever and I found myself emboldened ei ough to question the spectre after a hort spell I did more My foot struck I examina a hard substance which on tion turned out to be a brickbat It occurred to me to test his ghostship I did ao Moving a pace forward I deliberately hurled the bat full at the body of the apparition thinking if it were a tangible fraud practicing deceit I would set even with it The bat true to the aim struck the soectre but to my great consternation it passed through it and hit ate barn beyond with such noise as I thought I had never before heard I thought I heard a sigh and in the uncertain light I thought I distinguished a rustle of the airy robes but this was all There stood the spec trestill but qid not longer tarry leaving leav-ing abruptly and in firm faith in the supernatural Special Corr of the OkieDemocrat |