MINNEAPOLIS—Milling men of
Minneapolis believe wheat and flour
prices will go much higher before the
new crop in Texas, is harvested next
June, or the winter wheat begins to
come into the elevators from Kansas
and the other southwestern states
next July.
“The millers are helpless to stop
the ascending price of flour,” said F. J.
Atkinson, vice president of a large
flour company. “We are put to it to
obtain, in tahe Northwest, the quality
of wheat that we require, because of
the partial crop failure in this section,
and, for the first time in my memory,
Minneapolis mills have been importing
wheat from the Southwest. Naturally,
the quotations of flour must follow
those on wheat. I will not be sur
prised, before the wjnter and spring
are over to see flour selling at $12 or
$15 a barrel.”
It was a member of Mr. Atkinson’s
firm who gave out the fact, when quo
tations for “first patent” flour were
made of $10 a barrel, that this is the
highest price quoted on flour since j
the days of the civil war. .1
The rise in price during the past
fortnight, has been rapid. From a
price of $8.80 ten days ago quotations
1 were forced upward by the rising
i wheat market at the rate of 20 to 50'
j cents a barrel a day until “first pat
1 ents,” the highest grade flour, reach
i ed the $10 price. This was based on
! December wheat at $1.95 a bushel,
plus the four cent premium for casli
wheat. It should be remembered that
$10 flour at wholesale in Minneapolis
means from $10.50 to $12 a barrel
when it reaches the cqnsumer in other
cities.
Minneapolis millers do not believe
that an embargo on the export of
wheat or flour would reduce the price
to the consumer in this country. “We
have barely enough wheat for home
consumption,” said Mr. Atkinson.
“Though the present high prices are
based partially on the failure of the
Argentine crop and the mounting quo
tations in London, the most compel
ling cause is the home demand. Ex
port trade in wheat has fallen off to
comparatively small amounts. Prices
are relatively higher in this country
than in London and that is one reason
exports are smaller. With Rumania
and Australia to draw from, Euro
pean users will not pay the American
price.”
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THE BOSTONIANS
TO VISIT ALASKA
COMING SUMMER
(Ketchikan Progressive)
News has reached Ketchikan that
Mrs. Emma Lang, director of the
Bostonians, recently announced that
the company opened up the season of
1916-17 on September 9. That all the
old favorites are with the show except
Thom Hellen and Dixie White. Miss
Hellen was ehjoying a vacation in
San Francisco and Miss White in Se
attle. Both would join the company
later. •
Mrs. Lang writes that the company
did a phenomenal business at Pen
dleton, Ore. They played an engage
ment there during the Round-Up on
September 21, 22 and 23, and had to
give three or four shows a night to
accommodate the immense crowds and
of course, Mrs. Lang’s “family” own
ed the town during the engagement.
The newest bill presented by the
company is “The Rose of Honolulu,”
and breaking away from her estab
lished precedent, Mrs. Lang is carry
ing with the company a young and
handsome boy tenor, “a splendid actor
wjth a great voice.”
The director also announces that
she expects to bring the company to
Alaska next summer, all of which will
be good news to the large number of
admirers of the pretty girls compos
ing the company.
You will surely enjoy bonfire skat
ing at Lake Spenard Nov. 30th. 73
BOSTON CHAMPION CLUB IS
SOLD TO THEATRICAL PEOPLE
(Seattle Daily Times)
Formal notice of the sale of the
world’s champion Boston American
League Baseball club was sent to club
owners in the junior organization by
President Ban Johnson today, the
Johnson notice following the an
nouncement made by Joseph Lannin
last night that he had disposed of his
club to Harry H. Frazee of New York
and Hugh Ward of Philadelphia.
“The club is not officially sold until
the deal is ratified by the league as a
whole,” said Johnson in Chicago to
day. “Final action on the matter will
probably not be taken for a couple of
weeks.” There will be no hitch in the
transaction, however, it is understood.
The sum of $675,000 was realized
by Lannin for his holdings in the club.
This fact, not disclosed at the dinner
party where he made the formal an
nouncement of the sale, was given out
privately, but officially, after the din
ers had left the table. Apparently,
it was to have been kept quiet for
awhile, but, a good dinner—and good
things on the side—will sometimes
cause tongues to wag.
The news of the sale was broken
by Lannin at a dinner given in Boston
last night to the new owners and to a
party of newspapermen. The retiring
head of the club said that the papers
had been signed but a half hour be
fore the dinner bell rang.
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MACKINAW COATS—REGULAR FROM $7.5*
**-■' itifv ***(*•'& \ ' v. :
TO $15.00'TO BE SOLB FROM $4.00 TO $0.00
1,000 SWEATERS. TO BE SOl| AT COST.
SHEEPSKIN SOCKS, REGULAR $1.50 111. 90«
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MOCCASINS, REGULAR $4.00..$2,75
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UNDERWEAR.
THE BEST TO BE HAD Edit ALASKAN WEAR TO BE
SOLD FOR 6NE-HALF THE REGULAR VALUE.
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GOODRICH PROS, REGULAR $5,50 ..$*50
PUROUtlKD CAPS, REGULAR $1.50 .90c
J. B. STETSON HATS, REGULAR $5.0# ,..$3.50
THE FAMOUS DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
REGULAR $5.50 .. $3.75
FELT SLIPPERS, REGULAR $1.50 . 90c
.1 /’ -M .•«-.*< .
ARCTIC SHOE, REGULAR $4.00. $2.75
CLOTH TOP RUBBERS, REGULAR $1.50.$1.10
A Thousand Other Thjjigs Too Numerous to Mention. Come and Be Convinced. Fixtures For Sale
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