Show J WALL STREET EVENTS j Fractional Improvement In Stand I ardSharesNoted Yesterday I I aJ THE EUROPEAN BOURSES I CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO SUS I CONTRIpTED TAIN THE MARKET Sugar Made a Gain Klondike Boom I Elevated the Stock of Pacific Properties New York and Chicago Chica-go Lending Money to Euope Bond Market i New York Jan 17 Standard shares show I fractional improvement on the day except in the case of some shares on which special influences were operating in their favor and In these the Improvement Improve-ment was more market The dealings I I were widely distributed and the tone generally gen-erally healthy Stocks sold Friday and Saturday on the ground of possible foreign for-eign compllcantlons were repurchased today to-day total dealings amounting to nearly half i million shares London and the continental bourses were sustaining factors although the purchases for foreign account were meagre as the local market early outstripped out-stripped the foreign initiative toward a higher level SUGAR GAINS Sugar In enormous transactions made a net gain of 4 although in the earlier transactions there was considerable weakness weak-ness noted in that security The old subject sub-ject was brought up of what the result of Hawaiian annexation would be with free I importation of Hawaiian sugar and the probability that I by mlh there I would be competition between s gar refineries re-fineries now being erected Stocks of properties located in the Pacific Pa-cific northwest were generally benefited by the Belief that they would secure much traffic owing to the Klondike boom Oregon Railway Navigation company had earnings from July 1 to Nov GO said to be very large Burlington St Paul Northern Pacific and Union Pacific were strong The nonappearance of the Nebraska Ne-braska maximum freight decision was a factor In the days news Brokers seemed to give some credit to the reports of closer relation In the management man-agement of all Vanderbilt railways The fact that New York and Chicago are lending money on the London and I continental markets continues to be favorable factors The foreigners so far having liquidated their debts for Americas Ameri-cas unparalelled exports only to the extent tes ex-tent of returning BONDS some American securi The bond market showed a falling off In transactions but a considerable undertone under-tone of strength was evident which was reflected in substantial appreciations in many of the usually dormant issues Seattle Seat-tle Lake Shore Eastern first trust receipts re-ceipts Jumped 7 points to 72 on reported competition for control of the road but subsequently lost onehalf of the raise The aggregate sales were J3525000 Government bonds showed heaviness the 5s and new 4s losing slightly Money on call easy 2i per cent last loan 2y per cent prime mercantile paper 3g4 per cent sterling exchange dull with actual business In bankers bills at 484i fi 484 = 4 for demand and at 4S2VilS2H for CO days Posted rates 4S3Vt and 4PID 4SG Commercial bills 4S2 Silver certificates 57G5SU bar silver G7 ½ Mexican dollars 46 Government bonds easier State bonds quiet Railroad bonds strong SALES OF STOCKS The total sales of stocks today were 438500 shares Including Atchison preferred pre-ferred 4038 C 0 4150 C B Q 13473 L 1 3810 Manhattan 37650 Metropolitan 231S3 Hawaiian 5375 Missouri Pacific 4S01 New York Central 19720 Northern Pacific 2 Northern Pacific preferred 24SS3 Oregon Railway Navigation 3CSS Rock Island 6220 St Paul 14235 Southern preferred 3SOO Union Pacific 23040 Tobacco 6427 Chicago I Chi-cago Great Western 5230 General Electric 5636 Elec-tric 3400 Sugar 6811 Western Union BOND QUOTATIONS U S new 4s deg128 M K T 4s 87 U S new 4s N Y C Ists 116i I g 15sstm coup 129UN J G 5s112 U S 4s 112j N P lets11714 U S 43 coupll4H N P 3s 6214 U S 210 N P 4s SS U S 5s reg 11354 Nor W 6s123 U S 5s coup1H Nwest consUt I Can S 2nds1OS7 Nwestdebs 5sll7tA D R G lsts03H O Nay isIs113 I D R G 4ij 90H O Nav 43 93 H TC3s1107jO S L 6s t rl25 I i T C con O S L 5s t r Y I 6s 105 0 Imp hIts t r105 I I Iowa C lstsl00 iO Imp as t r 5214 K P con t 1 9H Reading 4s 84 K P 1st Den R G W lets 83i I ver div t rll2 U P Ists1O3 La new cons 4sl02Vi U P D G I L N U 4s S6 lIsts 1 34 > i 1 K T 2nds 6 STOCK QUOTATIONS Atchison 1ii Reading 2 Preferred 3QV Rock Island 9 Bal Ohio 13 St Paul 95H Can Pacific 874 Preferred 144H Ches Ohio 2214 Tex Pac 11V I Chi AltonICfi Union Pac 31 CB Q 100 lU P D G iWg Del Hudson112 Wabash 9 B IL lI t i 1 D L W 151 Preferred 17 D R G 115s Adams Ex158 Preferred I 47 American Ex IISA Fort Wayne169 United Ex18Y Gt Nor pfd132 Wells Fargo112 Illinois Cent10614 Colo F 1 2 I Lake ShoreISO i Preferred 70 I Mich Cenll0 Gen Electric 35 iMo i-Mo Pacific 3H Lead 3Gi M K T 121 Preferred 1061 Preferred 3 Ore Imp Co 2314 21 N J Central 9h Pullman Pall5 N 1 Central 112 Silver Cent 5714 Nor West i lU Standard erk 57Y No Pacific 26 T c 3 Preferred 6414 Sugar 137 13 I O R N 45H Preferred 112 O S L 2lfe R G W 12 2 Pittsburg 168 Preferred 5 NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Chojlar Ontario 9 23 Crown Point 20 Ophlr 501 I I C C Va 1 Plymouth I s Deadwood Quicksilver 1 00 Gould Curry SI Preferred 900 Hale Norcross 1 Sierra Nevada 90 1eada 3 Homestake 370 Standard 13 IrOn Sliver 3 Union Con 30 Mexican 20Yellow Jacket 2 3 FRANCISCO STOCKS San Francisco Jan HThe official closln quotations for mining stocks today I to-day vere as follows j Alta i 12 Julia il I I Alpha Con 7 Justice 32 J 7 16 Andes 10 Kentucky Con 5 Belcher 1 I Mexican 1 45 Best Belcher Con 44Occidental 1 45 Bullion SOphlr 54 Caledonia 19Overman lu Challenge Con 2 Potosi 31 Chollar 2 Savage 15 Confidence 75 Scorpion b C C Va 110Sierra Nevada 5 1 I Con Imperial Silver Hill 4 Con New k il Union oCn 33 I I Crown Point 23 Utah Con S Gould Curry 32 Yellow Jacket 31 Hale Norcross Standard 1 1 5j Silver In London London Jan 17 Consols 112 1516 silver ver 62d |