Show 1 1 RECOVERY IN STOCKS 1 I I Improved Peace Prospects Stimulated I i Stimu-lated Wall Street Speculators I < A BULLISH SENTIMENT i 1J 1 GRAIN MOVEMENT AND IMPROVED i PROVED RAILWAY EARNINGS f t St Paul Statement Made a Good F Showing Grangers Led I the f DlYS Movement and All the Previous I I Pre-vious Days Losses Were Recovered Recov-ered Light Business I Bond New York Aug 10 Pretty much all of yesterdays loss in values was retrieved in todays stock markgt before the definite news was received from Washington tljat a protocol had been agreed upon between I Secretary Day and M Cambon for the negotiations of a treaty of peace But this news awakened the marKet Into renewed I I re-newed activity after a period of comparative com-parative dullness and some reaction in prices and carried it to the highest point of the lay holding it within a small traction trac-tion of that point until the close The ton untH early strength In the market was in spite of continued te whether or not the whole peace movement was endangered by Spanish quibbling The weakness in Spanish 4s In Paris and London gave some ground for such apprehension But a recovery re-covery in the suc wheat market renewed takings of wheat for foreign account and especially St Pauls statement of earnings earn-ings for the first week in August were faulllclent to turn the tide of sentiment from yesterdays bearish disposition and to induce shorts to cover St Pauls statement showed an increase In earnings earn-ings over the corresponding period of last year of 242S7 or the largest early August earnings In the history of the road with the exception of those of 1S92 which they nearly approached The statement is a significant indication that there has been a sufficient recovery in the grin movement move-ment alter the decline following the abnormal ab-normal movement caused by the JLelter deal to supplement the large current movement of general merchandise and bring the earnings back to last years hlsh level Naturally the grangers led In the days movement Burlington showing an extreme ex-treme rise of IAJ per cent and St Paul of 2 per cent A continued large demand for Peoples Gas also helped the morning j movement In the afternoons spurt prices were sustained by the very heavy demand for Atchison preferred and there was some realizing in the grangers under coyer coy-er of this morilng But the close was strong and pretty near the top at net gains generally of between 1 < and 2 points Lenders of money perhaps were a Tittle more exacting regarding securities today Payments into the subtreasurr on account ac-count of the new bonds are large and the governments deposits with national banks do not fully keep pace The drift of currency to New York Is also falling off New York exchange at some of the important domestic centers having f lento len-to discount Business in bonds was comparatiely light in the early part of the day but the demand increased and prices improved in the later dealings Total sales 37bo000 Gcvermnent bonds were Unchanged Iri the bid price < Total sales today 457700 shares including includ-ing 50 Atchison 27745 Atchison preferred pre-ferred 7335 C 0 38720 C B 8 Q 42K C C C A St L 8000 L N 10305 Manhattan 8525 Missouri Pacific 10100 Northern Pacific 7574 Northern Pacific preferred 25037 Rock Island 49395 St Paul 7000 Southern preferred6125 aexas Pacific 15350 Union Pacific preferred 7540 Tobacco 3 SO C G W 2 00j Peoples Gas 4110 Consolidated Gas 8923 General Electric 3375 Pacific Mail 24439 Sugar preferred preferred 11297 T C lf 21715 Leather BONDS U S n 4s reg2SiA Y Cent lsts115 ½ Do coup128Nor W Gs 121V U S 4s mNwdst cons 141fe Do coup 112I j Do deb 5s 113 Do 2ds 97 0 Nay lsts112 U S 5s regl3 O Nav 4s lO po5s coup113 ftO S LI Cs t r126i District 3 C5s llOVa O S L 5s t rl06Hs Atchison 4s 95v 5Pac 6s of 5102 Do adj 4s 72 Reading 4s S 8 Can So 2ds U0fl G W Ists 9 Chi Term 4s pfdSS3 S L Ir M C Ohio 5 115V Con 5s 991 C H D 1s104 St L San F D R G 4s 97 A Gen 6s HS 4 East Tenn lsts105 St P Con 145V4 i Erie Gen is 75 Do 5s 116 I F W D St Paul C Ists t r 74 P Ists 11SI Gen Elec 5s 107JiSo Rv 5s 9714 j G H S A Gs104 Standard Rope I Do 2ds U35 I Twine 6s CSii I H T C 5s110 Tenn n set 3s 924 I Do con 6s 105 Tex Pac L I Jwa C Ists 103 A G Ists 107 M K T 2ds 65V Do Rg 2ds 43 ADo A-Do 4s 91TU P D 2is G No Pac Ists112 Ists 76V4 I N J C 5 112 ½ Wab 1st 5s InDo In-Do 3s Boii Do 2ds 89T Do 4s 10 4 W Shore 4s 109U i K Y C St U P 4s 53 L Is 106 I 95T NEW YORK CLOSING STOCKS Atchison 14V St P Om S9i Preferred 361 1 Preferred 155 Bait te Ohio 16 3t P M M162 Can Pac 83 So Pac 2134 ban South 5h So Railway s7I Cent Pac 17 Preferred 33 > s Ches Ohio 23 Tex Pac 13ii Liu Alton Io9 mull JrMC WTS Chi B te Q11114 1 L P D te G 5 Chi te E Ill Site abash 754 C C C St L 4Va Preferred 203 I Preferred kG Wheel L E 1 Del te Hudson 101 Preferred 123k I i Del L te W10U Adams Ex103 I El ti G 12 > 4 American Ex 124 Preferred 5Hn United States 40 Erie new 13 s Vells Fargo119 1st preferred 3G8 A Cot Oil 27 Ft Wayne 172 Preferred S I Gt Isor iirefd132 Amn Spirits 13 Illinois Cent111 Preferred 37s I Lane Erie W 1Wi lAm Tobacco 129 8 referred 72w Preferred 12 I Lake Shore 194 1 Peoples Gas 102 Louis Nash a6i Cons Gas 200 I Manhattan L 106 Va Com Cable Co iTo I Met St Ry1zS3Col F te Iron 2 Mich Cent1US Preferred 75 Mina te St LS Gen Electric 41 1lnn preferred S9 Illinois Steed G II Wo Pac 3 Laclede Gas i 537s p llo K T 11 Lead 37 4 f Job Ohio 2i 1 Preferred 10Y I i Preferred 35Nat Lin Oil i i I Cm Ind L 9 Pac Mail 32 I Preferred 33 Pullman Pal 19 V J Central i itSilvor cert i 5S I NT y Central1 Standard Rope N Y C StL 13 I te Twine 5 4 1st preferred G Sugar 13S5s I 2nd preferred 3t > Preferred 114 Nor est 1 T C Iron 27 No Pac 31l S Leather j Preferred 73L4i f Preferred i I St L Sy 3UVU S Rubber 4i3 Ore K Mav KJU Preferred 99VS Or Short Line IWest Union 94V Pitteburg 16 C 8 N W 134 Reading 1SU Preferred 176 Rock Island 10 R G W 2SV St L S F 7 Preferred B Preferred 65 4 U P Com 25 4 St Paul 105Y B R T 62f Preferred 15 Reading 1st pfd 423k NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Chollar 1 Ontario 2 5 CrownPoint aOphir 1 Con Cal Va 3 Plymouth 1 Deadwood 2 Quicksilver 1 25 Gould Currie 10 Preferred 350 Hale Norcross I Sierra Nevada 43 Homestake 45 Standard 150 Iron Silver 70 Union Con 12 Mexican S Yellow Jacket > 15 SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS San Francisco Aug 10The ofilcinl closing quotations for mining stocks today to-day wer as follows Ala I TJustice 5 Alpha Con Kentuck Con 5 S Andes Occidental Con 52 Belcher llOphir 17 Best te Belcher lliOverman 4 I Bullion Potosi 15 Caledonia 16 Savage 9 Challenge Con Scorpion 3 Chollar 17 Sierra Nevada 49 Confidence 3 tnion Con 17 Con Cal Va 3 Utah Con G j Ciown Point 10 Yellow Jacket 17 ill Gould A Currie 13 Standard 1 5 Hale Norcross 70 f |