Show LEITERS WHEAT DEAL soon after harvest joseph letter a young millionaire stock and grain speculator of chicago began to buy bur december wheat heavily his purchases bulled the market until he claims that the farmers of the mississippi valley received fifteen cents bushel more for their wheat than they would have done had he not entered 1 it his contracts were so heavy that it was confidently predicted that all the wheat he had bought for Decem december bet delivery could not be delivered but the sellers proved equal to their obligations and on the last day of the year mr letter leiter found himself the owner of about nine million bushels actually in storage in the elevators irk in chicago and on that day he published an announcement to the effect that he had plenty of wheat to sell to the maller or exporter and that it was of tho the highest quality he says the demand for consumption befaro the next crop year will fix the selling price I 1 am waiting tor for this to meet my expectations if I 1 am wrong it I may have to pocket my loss 1086 later it statistics are half right my expectations will be realized the war clouds that are now over shadowing so large a martof the habitable globe give promise of a great advance in the price of wheat before very long |