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Show CIGAR STORES LIKELY TO BE LISTEDON EXCHANGE Feeling- Is Favorable, but the Officials May Prefer to Keep Their Huge Earnings Secret a While Longer. By Thomas C. Shotwell. tsy international News Service. NKW YORK. Oct. 7. Stocks were not materially changed In price today, although . considerable Irregularity Ir-regularity developed as a result of the disappointing bank .statements .state-ments of Saturday und continued fever-ishness fever-ishness In liuropo. Iondon was steady, but Berlin. Parla and Vienna were still uneasy over tho I3ulkan situation. California Cali-fornia Petroleum, which entered the stock exchange like a rowdy on Haturdav with a wild leap from Oil to 7-'J. got an Imitation Imita-tion to take off his pistol and sit down, which he did at 6Si. The stock exchange governors are In no humor to tolerate funny business In Wall street just now. When a great hull market is beginning to develop, and the California Petroleum ncldcnt was most unfortunate, regardless regard-less of whether the stock Is worth tho moiiy or not. Good authorities say the stock has not sold above Its value, but some ,of ItH best friends regret the bad manners dlspluyed on Its introduction to the exchange. Would Expose Earnings. i T.ll0l-'f a strong feeling in favor of listing Lulled Cigar Stores stock and tho stock of Daniel G. R eld's new tobacco company. Objection Is made thai this would rorcc official publication of carn-ngs, carn-ngs, which are said to be so large that the Insiders would rather lake tho chances of ilndlng a market on tjie curb for a while rather than make announce-mcnt announce-mcnt of earnings. 11 he Illll shares displayed strength throughout the session. There Is general gen-eral expectation of some extra dividend for .Northern Pacific to be paid out of the surplus of the Burlington, which Is peconilng uncomfortably large. The fact that St. Paul tracks parallel the Northern North-ern Pacific for COO miles takes away soino Investment value of Northern Pacific, Pa-cific, but the remarkable prosperity of ttie Burlington counteracts this. Strength of Great Northern Is, of course, due to tnc tremendous crops of the northwest. Canadian Pacific Surprise. Canadian Pacific Is planning another pleasant surprise for Its shareholders. It J,V'n Jufit n"ounccd the Issue of $60,000.-000 $60,000.-000 of now stock at 175 and has alreadv rfflJ)nrnep,irntl0,li' for lsuinrr another 500.000000 par, perhaps at the same lig-u,rc- Of the proceeds of tho $60,000,000 . .l m been officially authorized and that will brinc 5105.000,000 of cash to the treasury, ?60,000.000 cash will bo used to retire bonds. Then 515.000,000 will bo taken from the treasury and added to innn ''. 3'0 ,0.'0,00' making another $60.-000,000 $60.-000,000 that will be expended In Improving Improv-ing terminals, Of this. S25.000.000 will be used In Vancouver, J20.000.000 In Winnipeg Winni-peg and $lo.000.000 in Toronto. The new ri? tfA Sn?f SGOv000-000 will produce at f.mlK?100,0V amJ Practically all of that will bp used for double tracking the system sys-tem from the Atlantic to (he Pacific. .1 .1 tuil n,rc?Iy double track In use. so at this work will bo finished In time to Pamt,naVganafe f the PCninp of the |