Show The Wheat Market Being Manipulated CHICAGO Feb 18 The Tribune says there are strong indications the wheat market is being manipulated and intimates J D Rockefeller of the Standard Oil company James T North nitrate king and John W Markay the bonanza millionaire million-aire at the back of s are it The paper asserts as-serts sales of wheat on the Chicago board of trade alone aggregate seventy to eighty million bushels whereas there are less than forty million bushelu of actual wheat in the west leaving about forty million bushels which are really wind sales and must be covered at whatever price the market touches The paper says similar short sales have been made by the combine in all the principal wheat dealing cities in this country and at Liverpool that last fall trusted agents were sent to Europe to ascertain the actual shortage of wheat there and that buying commenced last December De-cember and has been carried on ever since by dealers accustomed to handle small lots and that they thus without attraoting attracting at-tracting attention have secured absolute control of the market George Webster of Armour Co said this afternoon he knew nothing whatever about the alleged deal and that the firm of Armour Co certainly had nothing to do with it Other prominent brokers characterized charac-terized the story as wildeyed |