Show I I MARKET HELD UP WELL Rumors of Cuban War Quickly and Effectually Dissipated MANY DEPRESSING RUMORS SMALL FURRY I WHEAT AT CHICAGO ESTERDAY Heavy Run of Cattle Forces Prices Down Active Buying at a Sharp Decline Hogs Scarce and Prices Higher Sheep i Good Demand at Strong Prices Omaha Shows a Strong Market For Pork on Its FeetBeeves Lower in Price San Francisco Board New s York Bonds and Stocks New York Feb S Money on call easy at 1 per cent last loan at 1 1 and closing at 1v per cent Prime mercantile paper 3 per cent Bar silver 643 I Mexican dollars 50 i51 with actual Sterling exchange dull wih business in bankers bills at 484 484y 484 for 60 days and 4S64486 for demand Posted rates 4S5487 Commercial bills 4SC4484 Government bonds steady state bonds dull railroad bonds firm Silver was quiet Considering all the developments during the days session at the Stock Exchange the markets for securities held up remarkably well The news and rumors were well calculated to mark degression but except in tho case of the industrial group the bears made but little impression upon values I The first thing that gave operators for a decline courage was the receipt of lower quotations and of selling orders or-ders from London Then came the state senate investigations committee inquiries into the failure of the Sugar trust which invited an attack upon that stock under which i broke nearly near-ly 3 per cent to 111 A block of the stock which has been hanging over the market for many days was dislodged dis-lodged by the decline Tobacco fell 1 to 7i4 Leather pfd 14 to 58y American Spirits s to 13Vi and pfd 1 to 324 In the remainder of the list the losses were only H to 1 percent per-cent although great efforts were put Mrth to make capital out of the vague rumors concerning an alleged disruption disrup-tion of the Joint Traffic association The crowning effort of the bears however how-ever was a cunningly devised statement state-ment that a fleet had been ordered to Cuba to release American prisoners The denial of this sensational report came so promptly from Washington that the instigators were unable to I carry into execution their purpose of breaking the market and in the last hour they were running in lively fashion fash-ion to cover their shorts Sugar moved I J over two points rising to 13y Other stocks recovered 4 to 11 percent cent from the lowest the latter in I Leather pfd Manhattan Metropol ian Traction and General Electric were noticeably weak and yielded 74 to 1 per cent on comparatively light offerings I had been supposed that General Electric would be benefited by the official statement that the company had secured the contract to equip the surface lines recently acquired by the Metropolitan Traction company with the underground trolley The days operations are said in an addition to the outstanding short interest Speculation Spec-ulation closed quiet and firmer in tone Transactions aggregated 186780 shares including 78000 Sugar 10600 Leather pdf 10300 St Paul 8200 Burlington and 7000 American Spirits Net changes show losses of 14 per cent Tobacco leading Bonds were irregular but in the main firm Sales footed up 1524000 American Spirits sixes rose 1V > to 79 Brooklyn Warehouse i3 to 9S14 Erie first consolidated 21 i to 143 Lake j I Erie Western firsts P4 to 115 Long i Island general fours 2 to 87 Oregon I Short Line consolidated fives certificates certifi-cates 3i to 76 ½ and Utah Southern I general fives certificates 4 to 76 Chicago Northern Pacific fives certificates cer-tificates fell 1 to 42 Chicago Gas firsts r 1 to 95 Northwestern gold coupon sevens 1 to 117 St Paul Chicago Pacific sixes 17 to 117 and Standard I Rope and Twine incomes 1 to 27 Standard Rope and Twine sixes advanced ad-vanced 1 to 75 out later broke to 73 with a subsequent rally to 75 73y In government bonds 25000 coupon fours of 1925 sold at 1221k BOND QUOTATIONS I A CIa A 45 106 N C con 6s 122 i A CIa B 5104 I N P Ists114 A CIa C 4 9S N P 3rds Jf Atchison is S2AN P con 5s 60 Adjustments 4ji Xwest cons 1401 Can S 2ndsIO IN west debs 5s111C C 4s of IS9C104 Ore Imp 5s11 C 4s of 189710 Ore Imp 5s S C 4s of ISOS101 Ore Nav Ists ll2ijj I Ists12 C 4s of 1899104 O S L Cs1l4 C H SsUOO S L con 6s i6 Chic 8 N Pac P R 4s si7 trust rects 5s 42 P 8 R 1st pfd D of C 36 5s109 1 incomes 4514 D R G lstslll4 R G W Ists 73 D R G 4s SSSt L I M i Erie G L is 6 gen 5s 1 76 Ft W D C I St L S F Ists 5 gen 6s 112 G H S A St Paul cons131 1st 6s 104 St P C P G H S A Ists 7 U6 2nd 7s 06S Car 4s 105 Gen E debs 5s 95S Ry 3s s10 H 1 C 5s103 S P of C IsIs 107 H T C con roan new set 3s SO 6s 102 Tex Pac Ists SSM Iowa Cent Ists 964 Tex Pac 2nds Sy K P cons 75tJ P Ists of 96104 K P 1st Den U S 4s reg 9I0y ver div 116 = sl 1 2 122 Louis con 4s 93LT S 4s coup of M K T 2nds 5914 IU 1925 122K M K T 4s 8JH U S new 4s reg 1 Mobile Ohio 4s 6B of 1907 111 11 Mutual U 6slllfU S new 4s N J C gen 5s117 coup of 1907112 1 N Y C St fU f S 2 93 L 4s 105rU S 5s reg1l3 N W gen Gs120 U S 5s coup11354 N C cons 4s101 I coupl I STOCK QUOTATIONS Am Tel C Sy J Central 99 Atchison 14 Nor West IB Adams Ec148 Preferred 1714 A T H 56 N American 454 Am Express 110 N Pacific 15 Y m Tobacco 71 Preferred 37 Preferred 100 Northw103 s Bay State Gas 1 I Preferred 153 Bait Ohio 15 N Y Central 15 9 Bruns Land N Y C S 93U BRP 16 L i U Cana Pacific 55 lI 1 First pref 1 Cana So 45 Second pref 2 Canton Land 5 N Y N H1g Cent Pac 1 N Y N Hl6 2hes 8 OhIo 17N Y S W 3 81 C A 164 Preferred 2l3 Preferred 174 Ont Mining 10V4 C B Q 4Ont West 14 C E I 42 Or Nan 1 Preferred 95 O S L U N 1 Chicago Gas 775 Pacific Mail ciev J PIUSi6Gp D 8 ECon 2 E-Con Coal 3 IP IV pro f 15 Con Gas 14S Pull Place 154 C C C St L 26 Quicksilver 151 Preferred 7 o i i Preferred 10 Colo F I 2 Reading 10y Preferred 9 R G W 12 Cot Oil Cert 1 Preferred 1 Com Cble laO Rock Island 31 Del I udson 1Sl4 R w oKd 1164 D L tf W Ia2st L Southw 3S D R G 11 i Preferred 10 Preferred 41St Paul 10 Gen Electric ib 54 Preferred 133 Erie list p c D 13 Preferred o4 Preferred So S Fort Wayne 16o ist P O 4S r Gt N pref121 i Preferred 127 Harlem 292 I St P M M 114 Hocking Coal 33 Silver Cert I4 Hock Valley 9So Pacific 6f Homestake 3 So Railway 0 t Ills Central 92 Preferred 02SS Iowa Central 7 Sugar 2 13 Preferred 25 Preferred 102 K T 13 T r 1 Preferred 3 Preferred W King Pem 3 Texas Pacific 9 L E W 15T O C 20 i Preferred 66 I Preferred 50 Lake Shore 152 Prfere K Nat Lead 223 4 City 5 Preferred S Preferred 181 Long Island 47 Union Paciflc 6 r N 9U P D G 1T L N A 11U S Express 3 Preferred 1fJ S Leather 81 Manhat Con S Preferred 5 rem Char 15 U S Rubber 2 i1ex Central 8 I Preferred 7414 Mich Central 89 1 B Rlverl5 Minn St L W St L P 614 common 19 Preferred 1534 First pref 78 1i iW F Express 9S Second pref 4BslWest Union S231 Mo Pacific 2134WIs Cent 2 Mobile Ohio 2 W L E 2 Nash Chat 67At Preferred 9 i Vat Lin Oil 13 SAN FRANCISCO MINING BOARD San Francisco Feb SThe official dosing dos-ing quotations for mining stocks today were a follows Belcher 29iMexican 40 Best and B 69Ophir S Standard leopotosl 42 Chollar I SoSavage 43 C C Va 2 05 Sierra Nevada 40 Crown Point 31Union Con 3 Gould and C Yellow Jacket 3 Hale and Nor 101 |