Strike Appears More Likely Than at
Any Time Since Appear
ance of Dispute.
JIOTH Sll)i:s MA V I IK BLUFFING
Cotton (iocs Sky rocket itiR t?? Highest
Prices Seen in Five Years?Street
in Humor to Make Worst of Kvery
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n > into \ i? \ \ w \ I.I..
V"KW Y'>KK, Auuust -Just be
fnrf ihr stock tnntket closed in-day
... looked ns though the railroad presi
dents ai)l I'ifj; employees Intended I<?
join In making: war on the people of
th" X" n 11 ? < J State.-. lii\asion by a
foreign nr:ny would n.- les- dmiKerous
than a railroad strike. and f ???? the
'??>t time sisi.th> dispute has arisen.
-? looked as though there niiffht p??s
f. l?l\ I - .1 st U< v:o.il-ht?:ul? d tin.in
ieers persist! d in the belief that it
was hlullmc on both sides, but ad
mitted that it was a v<r\ .superior
quality of bltillltm
S.i the k market went tumbling;.
The slocks that led it m> led it down.
Reading. Union l'aclflo and steel were
\ve.ii> i t' e\ had be? i, stronu t\>t
tO!* went sk> ro ketltiK t<> the^ lliRh.-st
? seen Mi five years. Net gain
f. : ; -, <r. ?t<in was above J!'..*? n
p. : i-.ile t:i .t':l opti ons Wheat . limbed
to the hlclnst pine on record since
the ui ' .tt oilier a few y ears ;m".
