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V OL LX VII ... N* 22.121.
SEW JAPANESE MOVE.
TO OVERTHROW MIXISTRY
Workirg for Recall of A6\d and to
Stir Up Anti-American Feeling.
BTashlngti '.-.—That the Japanese of
th" Padfi< ■ .1 the Progressives, a po-
Jitical party of Ja; ;:i:. have entered into an alli
■m c which has I ks «.f an international
Iracy for the overthrow of the present
try in Japan and the annulment of the
• in. the Immigration bill excluding Jap
• oolie labor from the continental I'nited
as the ultimate objects, was learned au
t:vely hers to-day. The preliminary steps
|B this scheme, it is said, will be to induce the
T'k!o government to recall Viscount Aoki, the
• Be Ambassador to the United States, and
.and an apology and perhaps an Indem
nity from this government for the alleged acts
against Japanese subjects living in
I ran^isco.
; this end in view, representatives of the
fa tion hostile- to the Baionji Ministry have bean
sbington to consult with the Japanese
tador and the State Department officials
the objectionable clause in the Imml
j. . bill, the California school question and
the reoent riots in San Francisco. The report
\ they have sent to Tokio, it is alleged, will
torn the basis of a systematic campaign to
JjririK about anti- American demonstrations in
and to Eocoe Poreign Minister Eiayashl,
to demand indemnity and an apology
or. .. iunt of the Japanese disturbances In San
' The^e facts became known to-day for the first
time, when it was learned that T. Takahashi.
representative of the Seattle Japanese Society;
0. N<-da, representative of the San Francisco
Jfipar.ese Society, and K. Kawakimi. staff rep
resentative of the "Yorozu." of Tokio. came to
Washington on April 27 and remained until
May 17. while they were negotiating with the
Japanese Ambassador looking to the annulment
of the Japanese immigration limitation law,
This delegation failed in its purpose, and, it is
ftated. after charging Ambassador Aoki with
treachery to the Japanese of the Pacific Coast
and with misrepresenting conditions to his home
government, they telegraphed to Ototaka Ya
!noaka. the personal representative of Count
Okuma, who was awaiting their report in Seat
tle, with the request that he communicate with
the [ministration leaders in Tokio.
Messrs. Takahashi. Noda and Kawakami had
tn interview with Assistant Secretary Bacon on
May 8. They then telegraphed Yamaoka that
they were dissatisfied with the attitude of tho
State Department and the Japanese Embassy.
and urged the necessity of carrying the fight to
Japan. Acting upon this suggestion Yamaok-i
tailed for Japan on May 14 on the steamship
Ati, and it was pointed out to-day the renewal
ol the anti- American agitation in the, Japanese
press has segun since his arrival In Tokio. on
■ay 2& It is also believed here that he prompted
the deputation of Progressives to call on For
eign Minister Hayashl for an explanation of tho
Eoveir.rnent'E "apparent Inaction and want of
efficiency in the presence of the grave diplo
mat:- questions with the United States."
The report which Yamaoka carried to the Elder
Katcsmen, It is further believed here, is re
iponsible for the attitude of the opposition news
papers in urging the concentration of Japanese
rn.or.al efforts toward the settlement of the
Ean Francisco question by forcing an apology
from this government for the alleged Insults
growing out of the school question and the re
cent attacks on the Japanese restaurants.
Yamaoka. who brought about the alliance
tnth the Japanese of the Pacific Coast, Is
now one of the recognized leaders of the Pro
gressives. a faction which was led by Toru
HoFhi. formerly Minister to the United States,
who was assassinated after he returned to Tokio,
In IW. end accepted a place in the Cabinet
Tamaoka is described as on*- of the shrewdest
politicians in the empire, and it is said that by
Deans of public meetings and otherwise he will,
I leader of the -administration forces, con
tinue his fight against the Saionji Ministry, with
the view of pitting control of the reins of gov
ernment for the Progressives. It is stated hero
that he will make the ■ barge that Foreign Min
teter Hayashl has allowed Ambassador Aoki to
pursue a too conciliatory course and to make
too many concessions ... dealing with the Amer
ican government regarding the Ban Francisco
Questions.
While in Washington Messrs. Takahashi, Koda
and Kawakami were In frequent conference
*:th Ambassador Aoki. until finally there was
•* optn .. ire which caused the delegation to
Rake the threat to the ambassador that the)
*ould retort his "treachery'" to the home gov
ernment and demand his recall. While no lnti-
Kstion has come from Tokio that Tamaoka has
requested the ambassador's recall/ the news >f
Eu^h demand would not come as a surprise to
VUcount Aoki. Dr. Masuji Mlyakawa. the Jap
anese lawyer who filed the injunction suit
*S-inßt the San Francisco School Board in the
school case, was consulted by the Pacific Coast
delegation in course of their stay In this city
•* to the method Of procedure, if any. to bring
about the annulment of the objectionable clause
to the immigration bill. Dr. Mlyakawa, who
has been here for several weeks on professional
easiness, to-day admitted that he was in con
ference with Messrs. Takahashi, Noda and
Kawakami almost daily during their stay in
Washington, but he declined to discuss the nat
ure of these conferences. He did admit, how
«ver. that the Pacific Coast envoys were In al
most hourly communication with Yamaoka. who
was in Seattle, and said that at his suggestion
th* delegation called on Secretary Straus.
Further than to admit that Messrs. Takahashi.
*<Aa and Kawakami were here to discuss tho
•Emigration law with the ambassador, the sec
r*Uiry of the embassy refused to answer ques
tions regarding their visit.
A WARLIKE UTTERANCE.
discount Tani Quoted as Hinting at
an Appeal to Anns.
Tokio, Jur.e V. — ; Viscount Tanl. leader of the
in the House of p f < rs and head of the
: Kumamoto In the Sntsuma rebellion,
. to have said regarding the Am
on:
. i: of the Japanese in San Kr-i -
is a mort wicked ace Should dipli
bring about a satisfactory solution the
open to us Is an appeal to arms'
Oui :.-.iinJ is Qrmly made up. It is certain that
'•a will yield, for its people :*rt- radically
il In their
dUncuH •
presents public sentl-
ASKS A DIVORCE AT NINETY. '
Jtalamazoo, Mich.. June !.•>: Woods, ninety
Vtar* old. for ft/ty years a pillar in th. Pr«sby-
Church, has . ;ii..l for a divorce from his
*«c. whom he married twenty-seven rears ago
111279 TOUR TO PACIFIC COAST
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SST? y >r ' VV ' ntiOn -»t Seattle. Special train leaves
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To-dny. fair.
To-morrow, nlionen; east wind*.
AUTO HITS VICTORIA.
ONE CRUSHED TO "DEATH.
i ,
Many Hurt When Car Turns Over
After Smashing Carriage.
One man was killed, another so seriously in
jured that ho may die any moment and several
men and two women badly bruised and torn early
yesterday morning, when a 40-horsepower auto
mobile, running: along Ocean Boulevard, Brook
lyn, at forty miles an hour, dashed into a light
victoria at Avenue L. The victoria was thrown
across the boulevard and the machine was
brought to a stop bo suddenly that it turned a
somersault, burying the driver and all of the
occupants, except one, under it.
Thomas Heffner, a well known betting com
missioner, said to have been an intimate friend
of "Big: Tim" Sullivan, was crushed to death.
William Boyle, jr.. jumped from the machine
and escaped with slight injuries. Herbert Payne
Drinkwater. a mining: engineer staying at the
Hotel Breslin, and a party of men and women
were in the victoria. All were severely Injured.
Both the machine and the victoria were city
bound. The casualties follow:
I DEAD.
HHi-FNf-K. Thomas, forty-five year* old. staying at
Sheepshe-ad Bay. but Bald to have a home at Sara^
tot?a; crushed to death under automobile.
INJURED.
ANDERSON. William. twenty-eißht year* r>M a Mrs
painter, of East 2.1 street. Sti**r<<h<"«<l Bay'; brulppd
about head and face; In Kings County Hospital.
BEATTY, William, twenty-four years, of No. 480 Van
derbilt avenue. Brooklyn; bruised about fare, head
and aims, and may be injured internally; In Kings
County Hospital.
BOYLE. 'William. Jr. twenty-one yearn old, hotel owner
fit Pheppshea.l Ray; >>l!ahtly Injured about the, amis
and let;*; cent home.
DRJNTCWATER, Henry T'ayne, mining engineer Hotel
Brcalln: severely Injured about legs and arms; sent
home.
MAT. William Lee, twenty-two years old chauffeur for
F*. " t-rawford. of No. 479 Clinton avenue. Pro.-klyn :
severely injured about head and face; prisoner In
Kinss <"f.ur.tv Hospital on charge, of homicide.
Morris Dr . Jackson. PheerKhea..; nay: sllshtly injured
about hands and face; pent horns.
SWEENEY. James, twenty-elsht years, old, Ph«epshead
Bay: fractured skull; expected to die in Kings County
Hospital.
PHORT. Frank. tw»nty-seve n years old. Fheep^hrnd Buy;
■liCbtly Injured by Jumping from machine; in Kings
County Hospital. «
Several women who were in the carriage with
Mr. Drinkwater w»re severely injured. Their
names were refused, and they were brought to
the city.
The accident occurred about daybreak and,
as far as could be learned, was due to the reck
lessness of the driver <>f the automobile-. It was
said that May was in nn condition to drive the
machine, though it was admitted that at the
crucial moment he was keenly enousrh awake to
the danger to apply his Fafety brakes to the.
limit. But it was then too late. The machine
riHd been running alone the boulevard at a dan
gerous speed, neither the driver nor the occu
pants seemintr to have in mind the danger of
reckless driving nor the necessity of keeping a
clear eye ahead.
The victoria In whi< h were Mr. Luinkwater
and Tiis party was Roing eJop.p leisurely, the oc
cupants singing and chatting merrily. .May. It
'.\:is learned, was drivir.tc his party to meet
Frank Fam 11, M. O. Lynch and "Dip Tim" Sul-
Thry had been at Coney [aland, and
from the moment they left the llcht? <<f thif re
sort behind them May Increased the speed of
the machine until it could go no faster, it was
said.
At Avenue L. when the occupants of. th» vic
toria were in their gayest mood, the big ma
chine dashed into it from behind with a ter
rific crash, throwing the victoria from one side
of the boulevard to the other. The occupants
were thrown out on, their heads. About half a
second before the crash May awoke to the dan
ger and applied the brakes so quickly that the
four wheels of the big machine rattled on the
boulevard like the hoof a of a dozen horses.
Less than a second later it had turned somer
sault, burying the driver and all of the occu
pants of the machine, except Frank Short, under
it. Short threw himself out of the machine the
moment it struck the victoria, and so escaped
with slight bruises. The shrieks of the women
and the groans of th*» injured men aroused the
neighbors. Two ambulances from Kings County
Hospital and the police reserves from the Park
ville station hurried to the scene. Drs. Mc-
Bwecney, Sinallman and Kenna attended tho
injured.
With much trouble the machine was lifud
enough to drag out those pinned under it. HefC
n<-r was dead and Sweeney unconscious. The.
others were hurried to the hospital as quickly
as possible. Mr. Drinkwater and the women of
his party, however, refused to go to a hospital,
though it was said they had need of it. Thero
were two women, both young, who refosed to
give their names Ail were taken to the, home
of Hermann Zatf, near by. Later in the day
May, the chauffeur, was arrested in the Kings
County Hospital on a charge of homicide.
It was learned that May was the chauffeur for
F. O. Crawford, of No. 47!» Clinton avenue,
Brooklyn who nan a summer home at Sheeps
hcad Bay He said last night: "May was in my
employ for four years. He took the machine oul
of the barn at midnight without my consent and
with some friends went to Coney Island. I have
been told they were drinking."
The machine was valued at $!>.o<H>. It will
cost about $3,000 to put It in shape again. The
victoria was smashed to pieces.
Mr. Drinkwater was found last night at the
Hotel Breslin nursing severe wound* on the face
and hands. He steadfastly refused to give the
names of the young women who were with him
"They come from a good Brooklyn family." he
said, "and it is my desire, and the desire of their
folks, that their names Hhould not become public.
They are seriously Injured. lam afraid both are
injured internally. Because we did not wish to
embarrass the young women I refused to have
them taken to a hospital. After they were
treated we got a cab and took them home. There
were four of us in the carriage -the two young
women and myself and Roy Reader, of Bloom
field, X. J., who is connected with th<> Rapid
Transit Commission. He la now in th« hotel,
bruised about the face and head.
"I have learned that the machine belonged to
Mr Crawford, an engineer, and that it was taken
out without his consent. . Nevertheless, I purpose
entering suit for damages against Mr. Crawford
to-day. Our carriage was going along leisurely
when we were struck."
CONTRACTOBS AUTO HITS POLICEMAN.
Valentine Bangert Arrested on Charge of
Assault After East New York Accident.
Valentine Bangert, a wealthy builder, formerly
chief of the Jamaica Fire Department, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon on .i technical charge
of assault after his automobile bad struck Bicycle
Policeman George renser. or the Liberty avenue
station, who was trying to halt the car in Jamaica
avenue, near Unwood street, Bast New \ork. The
Meyrle wms wrecked, but JTenser. although knocked
about ten f*<t escaped with slight Injuries.
While Banfirt. with his wife and another wom
an, was on his way to St. Marys Hospital, denser,
falling to observe the mincer on the automobile.
Jumped on his bicycle and chased after it Riding
In front ..{ the big touring car, he called to Ban
fff-rt to stop. Before Bangert could "top the ma
chine ll crashed Into venxer and knocked him
sprawling in the gutter.
THREE AUTO ARRESTS AT JAMAICA.
Throe arrests for speeding were made yesterday
afternoon on the Hoffman Boulevard by cycle
policemen Th ■ prisoners are A!fr<>.3 Fletcher,
driver for J. A. ItOSOnthslS. of Mnrninjr?>idr avenue;
Henry Roadencack. driver for John R. Htne. of
No i¥> \\'<s; nth street, rtn-i Howard ueclaus,
driver fpr II Hazard, of Central r»rk West.
CLOTHES PRESSED ON ST. LOUIS LIMITED
Another feature ndded to the superb service of
the First Trnln to St. Louis via the Pennsylvania
Railroad.— A<J vt . =-5-.*.;
NEW- YORK. MONDAY, JUNE 10. 1907.-TWELVE PAGES- by Th^, r.r
HARRY ORCHARD.
The most remarkable criminal of the age tes tifying In the Haywood trial. Boise. Idaho.
(Photograph by Hurvey. Bols».)
ADAMS JVEXT WITNESS.
I —
ON HIS WAY TO BOISE.
Defence Would Prove Mine Owners
Were Employers of Orchard.
Boise, Idnhv>, June 9, Steve Adams, another
prisoner witness for the state in the case ..f W.
D. Haywood, la now <ti In.; way t.i Boise from
the jail at Wallace, Idaho, where he is held for
trial on the charge of murder. Adams, accord
ing to Harry Orchard, was his partner in many
of the "bumping off expeditions," successful and
unsuccessful, to which Orchard has confi •
Adams also < ■• wed last year, but repudiate i
tho document when h- faced the gallowa. Th«
confession, however, Is sworn t>> and In writing
It shows careful correction and Interlineation
In Adams's own handwriting. Astounding tl
it may seem, those who have seen Adams'a con
fession saj it surpas« ■ . • mur
der. The lint of Adams's alleged victims is not
po long as that of Orchard, but this Is - ltd to be
because Adams hunted a single quarry, while
Orchard, to use his own words, "did not caro
whether he killed one man or fifty,"
ar thnt time."
There arrived !■; B< I ■ to day Mrs*. Ida I
Orchard, a widow with three ■ whom
Orchard married notwithstanding the cxl
of another wife living In Canada and known
there under < >rcha rd's true na ne, Hon • ■ Mrs
Toney will testify, It is said, that Orchard, while
be lived in Cripple I In the •
of the mine owners It Is expected by the de
fence that she v. ill be able to throw light on the
motives of Orchard, and she will n.> relied upon
i" strengthen the assertion of the defence that
the mine ownerß and not the Western Federation
of Miners were th« c^nspi employed
Orchard to murder.
Some new lulu has been thrown i a tf.
der of Lyte Oregon '. i Denver A ■•• riing to
statements made by t ■
chard and Btmpkins, "r whoever Orchard
complice was, were su \ ted of the murder.
Bloodhounds trn^ ked the murderers x<< the yard
behind Pettlbone's store, where Orchard sb
hid his puns i ither evidence was a
••r<>d. The police were about to urr^
men when, the story goes, orders
some mysterious source that the men wer* not
to be molested, and Orchard '.v:. ail. •■<.<.• d I
out of town. This statement is Bald to have
been made by Chief of Detectives Loomls, "f
Denver. Paul Gregory, a brother of the mur
dered man. h.is i: ■'.■■ a similar si 'It Is
likely that both will be called eases
THE ARRIVAL OF WITNESSES
The arrival of witnesses Is an Inter*
feature of th>- case Men wh names have
been connected with the history of the mining
troubles In Idaho and Colorado nr.- Been ■ n
tlnually In the sti eets • ! Vngua I
land, who was sheriff of Si inty, In the
Our d'Alenes; the marshal i [ Victor, Col., who
went through the stirring times "f troubli I
In 1903 and 1904; Bulkeley We I erly ad
jutant general of Colorado, who dug up th.
bomb planted to kill Governor Peabody and wh >
u;ls In charge of the special train that run from
Denver to Boise Haywood, Mover and Pet
tibone, and a dozen other such n an here and
will testify.
A Pinkerton detective will testify that he has
been a member of the Western Federation of
Miners for several years, and was vice-president
of a local union. While not a memtw rof thi
executive committee board, he was in ii
fldence up to a certain point, and was making
regular reports to the detective agency This
man will be a formidable witness for the
His employment to juin the Western federation
and learn their secrets is In line with the de
tection of the "Molly Maguires" in Pennsyl
vania by Captain James McPartland, who has
had charpe of the present case since the arrest
of Orchard, and who Is now superintendent of
tho pinkerton agency with headquarters at Den
ver.
The cross-examination of Orchard is bringing
out a mass of detail that will again be taken
up in the redirect examination, it would appear
even as thought the prosecution had purp >si ly
merely sketched the story of Orchard's life to
allow the defence to bring out certain features.
This Is instnn.ed in th nnection of Orchard
with Moyer and Pettlbone, th.- two other pris
oners charged with the same crime as Haywood
and under the .snni" Indictment. That this con
nection will be brought -- > 1 1 r clearly and that the
selection of Orchard as the bodyguard "I" Moyer
at a critical time when both of them travelled
with sawed-oft guns and revolvers must be ex-
plained, Is admit ted.
ADAMS TO FOLLOW ORCHARD X' >H STATE
After Orchard, the state will probably put
Adams on the Btand. ''oun.-~.-i for the pi
tlon admit the possibility that Adams will re
fuse to testify, but they polnl out that If ho
refuses on the ground tint it will Incriminate
him. his appearance will have Berved Its pur
pose. His confession cannot be used against
him. iiiit if li-- ;i'lmits makina the confession
and renudiates it. the sworn oGptfesslon will be
placed before the Jury f'>r what it Is worth,
There is some doubt as to what course Adams
will follow.
The jury is allowed much freedom. Jn.!;:.
Wood gave orders for th.' Sheriff that If the |vi ■
wished to £o out in the country In streetcars
they should be allowed to go Their Jury house
is it pleasant place, with rose covered porches
and green lawns, and the jurymen receive visits
from their families In the presence of the bailiffs.
They read the newspapers which come to them
mutilated, reports of the Haywood trial having
been t ut out.
AFTER ALL, USHER'S THE SCOTCH
tb*t mada ''"* hiirhimll famous— Adrt. .
TO ASK MURPHY TO QUIT
SACRIFICE TO MAYOR,
i
Ex-Justice O'Brien, Cochran and
Nixon Peace Delegates.
Negotiations looking for a settlement of the
fond between Mayor McClellan and Tammany
Hall have been resumed. A conference of prom
in< I Democrats -n.>t district leaders, but men
uhi.se position In the community brings th^m
Buspiclon of desiring any person.il ad
g< In ;i settlement -has been hurriedly
'■ These men are to meet within a few
It Is said, to consider some way of ending
tr which is sapping the. strength of Tam
il ill.
Amoi • onferrees. It Is said, wilj be ex
• ■ Morgan J. <»-iirie ;i . w. Bourke Cockran,
. a Justl »f tli" Supreme Court.
The umption of the efforts for pt-ace
follows the conviction on the part of many of
unmany leaders that the recount bill Is
fatally defective and that there Is not the
of Mayor McClellan being un
seated So long ks the Mayor was In danger of
' the l< b :• ■ ■ figured, be might be
; to act s>> arbitrarily In dealing with
t!i.- organization Bul now, believing, aa do many
■ tat the bill k!\..s him the opportunity of
lighting it until his term of office expires, the
iy, will have no Incentive to
attitude i.iwuni the organisation.
oi political utarvation and
considering I condition the organ
would be in at the end of Mayor M •-
I*B term, it the public cribs am not again
: to them, the leaders uxe all urying for
some plan that \\;U restore harmony.
Of Urn llrst things done when it was de
cided la) . night to renew the peacrt
ttions u;ls to send for "Big Tim" Sulli-
'!■ i iletly two weeks .ik".
and la Hot Springs, Ark. Me was not
to return until June 18, but bis presence here
was wanted, and be will be back by Thursday,
it is und< i. tood
The leaders have reached the conclusion there
Man r bringing about a settlement of
the differences between the Mayor and Charles
l". Murphy. At the same time they agi-e with
.Murphy that h<- should not be forced to abdicate
the leadership of Tammany Hall under fire, as
it were. They do feel, however, that it would
the best Interests of Tammany Hall—
under the circumstances t'<>r Murphy to retire
from the leadership, If it sjan be arranged for
him {•< do so gracefully.
There are two things, then, ulii.-h ex-Justice
O'Brien and his fellow conferrees hope to acconi
: They are n"ln< to try to persuade Mayor
McClellan to ag gnize Tammany Hall,
••a the understanding that Murphy will retire as
In a reasonable time say, a month or
two after the organization under his leadership
has been so recognized.
Secondly, they want to get Murphy's agree
to such an arrangement. There is some
reason to believe, it Is said, that Mu-phy would
■ : sui h a proj o ously, as lv- can
see little In the futu loss of. prestige
lere Is some question us to how strongly
ill' Mayor can l»> tied down to a recognition of
Lhe organization, it \\a*> believed that an agree
ment had been reached before- .it the time when
the Corporation Counsel made an announcement
to that effect but the Mayor promptly denied it.
fr'ri< i. .is of Jamta .!. Hagan, leader of th.> 15th
District, belie v< he i-> the logical successor of
Murphy as leader "t Tammany Hall. Thej have
figured it out that if the present leader should
ite, leaving a Beld free for all, H.-t^an
would have a "walk over" to the leader's chair.
And there is Just a bare possibility that, if
Murphy Bhould refuse t.i retire gracefully after
he had been recognized by McClellan, tin- leaders
might decide t" make a fight on him. In mi> ii
a case it is figured that to the -'Uht votes In the
executive committee controlled by tlx- Sullivans
and five more or !i^s openly opposed to Murphy
■ ■.■■..111 be added five of leaders personally loyal
to rlagan. This, including Hagan's own vote,
would jn.ik.- l!i out of 35.
A friend of Mr. Hagah Bald last night: "Will
iam Jennings Bryan, who visited the Amster
dam Democratic Club, Mr. Hagan's district or
ganization, last Thursday night, said that the
leader of the l.'.th District was a. natural leader.
Mr. Hagan made no attempt to get the sanc
tion of Murphy for Mr, Bryan's visit. Not only
that, but he came out boldly without consulting
Murphy and had his organization Indorse Bryan
for the Presidential nomirtation. Hagan is now
the most talked of man in Tammany circles, and
many are predicting thai he will be the future
loader of Tammany Hall If Bryan should be
elected Mr. Hagan would have the support of
i i:< feder .1 administration.- „
"At a recent meeting of his organization Mr.
Hagan did not hesitate to express his great dis
approval of the conditions existing between the
organization and the administration, and the
organization unanimously passed a resolution
indorsing any stand Mr. Hagan might take. He
in turn said his constituency should not OS
made to suffer for any personal differences be
tween the head "i the organization and the ad
ministration."
At his clubhouse last night Mr. Hagan said;
"l am not ambitious to be the leader of Tam
many Hall. My greatest desire is to secure har
mony in the organization and peace with the
administration. If any such act would help to
bring it about I would willingly become a sacri
fice and lay down .my leadership. Conditions
are now deplorable, and we all have to suffer.
.it course, if it was agreed that I could best
serve my party by taking the leadership of Tam
many Hall I would take it; but 1 am content 'to
stay where I am.
"There is one thing I am going to do. how
ever, and that is to sing the praises of William
Jennings Bryan from the housetops, even if the
entire Democratic party is against me. I be
lieve he is the only logical Democratic candidate
fur toe Presidency." „V;
3IAIEK CUP TO DERVISH.
HVPERIOX WINS IX CLASS.
Boats First Acrou at Start Lead at
Finish Off' Bermuda.
Hamilton, Bermuda, June 0. — Just after day
break this morning, the smart schooner Dervish,
Captain Johnson, flying th-- colors of the Co
rinthian Yacht Club, of Marhlehead. stole across
the line which marked the finish of t!;.
race from South Brooklyn, easily the winner ,f
the contest for the Maier Cup.
At 8:,';o p. m. the Id-foot yawl Hyperion, a netr
and untried boat, sailed across the line of St.
David's Head, but although in first she may u.>c
be the winner of the Three flubs Cup, for she
has to give the 86-foot sloop Zena. the 1:. r
mudian entry, a handicap of nearly ten hours.
The Hyperion is owned and was sailed bj
modora Frank Maier. of the New Rochelle Tacht
Club, and this was her maiden i
When H. A. Monafs schooner rea< hed St.
George's Head tho stake boat was in :-l.
no boat was expected for another day. She
crossed the line at 6:23 a. m.. having made the
run of •!•"><.» miles in three days 18 hours and 33
minutes. The tirst day oul she made 162 miles,
the second, 2S.\. and l.'ll miles on the last day.
She had an easy passage, her light sails
used all through the trio, with the exception uf
Thursday, when she met heavy weather from
the northwest and set her st.ijsai's. She did
not enter the Gulf stream until '2:\'< p. in. on
Thursday. All on board were well.
When the Dervish came in two "ther yachts
were In pUht, and her victory was in doubt for
a while, as she had to give the oth^r boats any
where from one to twenty-four hours' handicap.
One of these, however, turned out to be the
Hyperion, and tho Identity of the other has not
yet been learned.
When the race started the Hyperion was the
first of tho twelve boats over the line, with Rob
ert X. Barter at the helm. Her Qualities were
unknown, for Commodore Bftaier had not had
an opportunity to try <>nt hi* new boat The.
Hyperion held the weather end of the Hoc at Ibe
ptart. Second to her. and to weather "f the I.ila.
was the other winner, the. Dervish, with Commo
dore Morss on board. She was easily distinguish
able, belnq the only boat in tho fleet to carry a
s<juarn yard
When the boats passed out of sight down past
Sandy Hook the Dervish was leading, fully ■
mile to the weather of the Shamrock, which was
second, white the Tammany was third and fully
four miles to leeward of the Dervish.
The yachts, with their owner, club, time allow
ance and starting time on June 5, follow;
FIRST CLASS— FOR THE MATER CUP.
Vtrl.-h.
It M --v
Sch'ioner Prtscllla. Mni>on ami Xii'n. Rochester
T. <•; Sfi r<">t; no time allowance 10:37:47
p.-h^ner Portlsh. H. A. Horn, Corinthian Y. C:
Marblohead. Mass.; *4 feet; 1 hour an.i 3O
minutes 10:38:05
Sch<x>ner Zuhrah. H. Dp»ch«>r. N»w Ro.-h»l> T.
«' : »3 feet: 2 li>ur» and in minutes 10:87:08
Schooner Shamrock. Frederick A. Thompson.
Brooklyn T. C; 89 feet; 2 hour* and IS minutes. 10:40:01
Schooner Tammany. W. C. ToWBB Brooklyn T.
C. . 74 f*et; 9 hours 1O:H«:S>
Bl^op :• It. W. E. Meyer. Bt. OaorSM Y. C; GO
t*»t; 1!> hours an.l 30 minutes 1O:W:88
Yawl FiemtnßO. W. H. Fl»minir. Rrooklrn Y. C;
Ml feet; 24 hours fn.| 43 minutes 10:39:33
Schooner Mliit 11. Blnney. Now York Y. C. ; 52
tret ; 23 hours and 30 minutes 1O:8S:12
SECOND CI.ASS— FOR THE THREE-CLUB CVV.
Yawl Hyperion. Frank Mater. New Rpch*U» Y.
C. : 4!> feet; without t!m» allowance 10:3* :4S
Yawl IJ'.I. R. r>. Floyd. Brooklyn T. C. ; 40 fe»t:
< hours and 4* mlnut»n . 1O:.1«:1R
81nr.p Zenn. r>. R. W. Burrows. Royal Bermuda
Y. C . M feet; » hours an I 43 minutes l«v>V'j2
The Zlnita, Hyman Cohen's sloop, mv delayed
and did not pet away until nearly six hours after
the Hyperion.
(\ t BUEUA A SSA SSIN. I TED.
He port in Mexico of Murder of
Gv ate m a! a n President.
Mext.o City. June 0. -A private disp.itch re
retred in this < ity pays that Presideni Ca
brera of Guatemala was assassinated to-day.
The new? cann.it be continued.
UTICA AERONAUT KILLED.
Beeowes Entangled in Parachute and
Droxcn.s in Minnesota.
Granite Fall?. Minn., June 0. — Entangled i:i the
ropes of a parachute, John Puepnera, an aero
naut, of Utlca, N. V., !n>-f death yesterday by
drowning In the Minnesota Rlxer. Puepuera
ascended last evening. The wind carried the
balloon up the river half a mile before Puepuera
detached the parachute. His arms and legs
became entangled in the ropes, and when the
parachute struck the water Puepuera wa
able to .save himself.
rwoirxs ix xoktii river.
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Boy's Companions Get Ashore — Boat
Swamped by Swell.
a rowboat, In which three young men were
crossing the North River to New Jersey yester
day afternoon, sprung a leak, ami Michael Daly,
of No. 44*'. West rrj.i street, was drowned. His
companions, George Stephenson, of No. 77..
Tenth avenue, and Patrick Mullaney, of No. .">li>
West Rial street, headed for « r »Oth street, whence
they had Started, and were picked up fifty feet
from shore just as they were about to go down
exhausted.
When the boat was about half way over the
water had come up to within three Inches of
the top. A passing boat caused swell*, and the
boat was filled. Stephenson and Mullaney
Jumped into the water. After remaining for
some minutes about the place where Daly disap
peared, the two boys swam back far the New
York side.
EXPLOSION SHAKES BELLEVUE.
Cylinder Head in United Electric Light and
Power Plant Blows Out.
Patients m BeaVvue Hospital were much ex
cited last night by an explosion which shout
the neighborhood. A hurried Inspection of the
big institution was made, but nothing wrong
was found. Nurses then w«nt through the wsurdta
reassuring Urn patients.
The noise was caused by the blowing out ol a
cylinder head In one of the big ensiatjfl In U*e
plant of the United Electric Light and Pow< r
Company, First avenue and 'JSth street. There
men in the easrlne room had narrow escapes
from i>eint; .-caH.d. None was Injured. The big
tenements nearby srere emptied, the people
fearing that then ha.l been a serious accident,
so great were the clouds of steam.
MUMMIES FOR JOHNS HOPKINS.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune:!
Baltimore, Jun<- s.— Richard Norton, an archce
ologlst, of Boston, brother of Acting Superintend
ent Rupert Norton of the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
has sent to Johns Hopkins three mummies, one
Roman and two Egyptian. They have been turn.yd
over to the pathological department. The mum
mies are about three thousand years old and in' a
remarkable state of preservation.' The Egyptian
mummies are seven feet long. They were found, by
Mr. Norton at Assouan, three hundred miles from
Cairo.
PRICE THEEE CENTS.
PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS.
SITVATIOX REVIEWED.
Only Tuft, Ktio.v, Hughes and
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Roosevelt Visible to Politicians.
[From The Tribune Hureau. ]
Washington. June 9.— With the President
away practically for the summer— he will spenl
only one more day in Washington before going
to Oyster Bay— some of the members of th?
Cabinet gone and others, soon to go, the poli
ticians In Washington are now trying to ca3t
up accounts with a view to arrivins at a cor
rect estimate of the Presidential situation. Two
candidates have formally announced themselves
—Secretary Taft and Senator Ktrnx. Speaker
Cannon is conducting a campaign which, white
It has not found expression in any formal an
nouncement, is so well developed as to be unmij
takable. More or less is he;ml of the campaign
of the Vice-President and occasionally there are
intimations of a double soled gum shoe cam
paign being surreptitiously carried oit by th/»
Secretary of the Treasury. Occasionally a voice
from New York announces that Governor
Hughes will be a candiclate. although nothing
formal or authoritative has come from Albany,
where the Governor appears to be completely
occupied with state matters. There Is* one other
"factor in tlu Presidential situation, and that is
the popularity of the President himself. No one
of his intimate friends believes that he will
accept the nomimtinn. and in private conversa
tion he is as emphatic in his declarations that
he will not be a candidate or accept the nomina
tion as he was on the night of November 8,
19W. Nevertheless, manjr politicians are in
sistent that ho is a quantity which must be
reckoned with, and not a few from the West
declare that he will be run again, whether or no.
While any process of elimination is. always
an uiiKra i.ius task, it may be said that there
are really only four men whom the politicians
now regard as possible candidates.- They are
William 11. Taft, Philander C. Knox. Charles
K. Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt. Th? condi
tions which may make for the renomination of
th*» President are probably too well known to
need much enumeration. That his popularity
throughout the country is as great as ever la
the report of political observers frnm all part 3.
except a few of the ureat financial centres.
Nevertheless, the President is determined not
to become a candidate, and he, at least, regards
It as folly to give further consideration to his
nam>-.
AVer- the politicians in Washington to ex
press their views in betting terms they would
unquestionably declare that Secretary Tuft was
a 2 to 1 shot: that Senator Knox was a
safe bet for place, and that Governor Hughes,
although not good at even money, might make
an interesting bet at long odds. No real sport
ing political sharp would risk any money on
any other candidate except, possibly, as a 100
to 1 shot. Whether Washington is a good place
from which to gauge the political sentiment of
tae country is always a mooted question, one
that, probably, will never be settled. But, be
that as it may. all the reports received here,
and these are many because of the large num
ber of politicians who come to see the President,
seem to indicate a strong lead on the rart of
the Secretary of War. The one weakness of Mr.
Taft is. undoubtedly-, that his boom has been
sprung so early. In his own state the senti
ment In his favor is practically unanimous vi
this time hut will it last? That is the ques
tion which several anxious candidates are ask
bag Moreover, occupying an administrative
office, will not Mr. Taft be compelled in the per
formance of his duties to mak" decisions ami
determine disputes which will detract from his
popularltv? There are undoubtedly men who '
hope he will. His strength lies in the fact that
he Is so closely associated with the Roosevelt
administration, and has been in such thorough
sympathy with the President on all Important
poli.ies, that he is regarded by many as the
best exponent of those policies, the one man
who would most faithfully carry out the policies
of his predecessor. Bis weakness rests in cer
tain judicial decisions which were disliked by
labor organizations, In his bold stand for tariff
revision, which has gained him the enmity of
all the "stand patters." and in his uncompromis
ing attitude toward all forms of jobbery, not
only the absolutely dishonest sort, but certain
kinds from which the practical politicians are
not yet weaned. It was this uncompromising
attitude which led the Secretary to make in,
Ohio a speech which overthrew Georse B. Cox
at the polls, and while Ohio has forgiven her fa
vorite son, many of the politicians fear a man
ho would be guilty of thus breaking: over party
lines.
Senator Knox enters the field with an enviable
record to his credit. A3 Attorney General he
found and executed the method which dissolved
the Northern Securities merger. He instituted
the suit which led the Supreme Court to uphold
the employers' liability bill, and he stood with
the administration on all Important policies.
His weaknesses consist of the fact that he comes
from an absolutely safe Republican state, that
it is believed in some quarters that he was senL
to the Senate by Mr. Prick, of the Steel Trust,
and that he stood in the Senate with the opposi
tion against the President on the court review
clause of the railway rate bill.
There is unquestionably a good deal of senti
ment for Speaker Cannon abroad in the land.
an.l were the Speaker ten years younger ha"
would undoubtedly constitute a most formidable
candidate. As it is, he is the Idol of the "stand
patters," of many members of the House and.
doubtless, of many of the people. Needless to
say. the advocates of tariff revision do not favor
him, Moreover, on March 4. 1000. the next in
auguration day. Speaker Cannon will be sev
enty-three years old, or "young," as he prefers to
express it. The Speaker's elements of weakness
may not seem especially serious, but the politi
cians refuse, apparently, to regard him as In the
running.
As for Governor Hughes, he is still a somewhat
unknown quantity, a by no means undesirable
position for a man who would be President. In
his favor it may be said that by no possible
combination of circumstances can a Democratic
President be elected unless he can carry New
York, and that, therefore, Ii the next Republican
convention Is convinced that Governor Hughes
can tarry his- own state he must be the choice
of ■ majority of the delegates. It is too early.
perhaps, intelligently to discuss Mr. Hughes'*
elements of weakness. At any rate, only one U
spoken of in Washington, and that is the chare*
that he is cold, "twin brother to the North Pole."
as one of the popular stories brought over from
N. a York describes him.
As (or Secretary Cortelyou. he is at present
hardly well enough known to command enthusi
asm. " As Secretary of the Treasury, he has
been in a position to afford substantial relief to
Wall Street, and he may find opportunity to af
ford more. Be has some warm admirers among
men whose influence in the Street Is strong, but
it Is a serious question if the widest popularity
in that quarter really constitutes an element of
strrnutli in the Republican National Convention.
Were' there a prolonged deadlock to occur ia
the convention. Mr. Cortelyou might emerge as
an available dark horse.
While Vice-Prtsident Fairbanks, like Secre
tary Cortelyou. is not thought by politician*