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Including and ! mt tomorrow. No. 129.?No. 17,150. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 8, 1907* FIVE CENTS. WQRLDRECORD, TOO Won Back From Canada by a Phenomenal Score. 1.712 IN A POSSIBLE 1,800 The American Average Was 214 to a Man. BRYANT BEATS WORLD S RECORD Made 74 Out of a Possible 75 at 1.000 Yards?Col. Thurston's Management Was Fine. OTTAWA. Ont.. September ".?The United States won tlie Palma trophy on Rockcliffe rllle range today l>y the phenomenal score of 1.712 out of a possible 1.800. This beats all previous records. < "a nail a was second with l.t>71. Australia tliird with 1,and t Britain. l.r>xi. Tlie dav was an Ideal one for shooting. The Americans w re the first to finish at ev> ry rang*. When the last shot was fired 1 Inches, president of the Dominion Ri fle Association, announced the winners and called for three cheers. Tills was heartily given. Cheers were also given fcr the other teams. Superior Ammunition. Altnounh tlie United States riflemen did their part 'veil, no ?mail credit is due to the wav in which Col. Thurston looked after the team and also to the superior ammuni tion. Canadians attribute the superior ehooting of the Americans lo the use of the "peep sight " The shooting of the United ^ Slat's team averaged 211 to a man. thus beating the world's record either with a service or match rifle. Brvant's score of "4 out of 7.1 at the 1.000 yard range also heats the world's record. Tlie scores wire as follows at the three ranges: Team Scores. son r<!?. ttOo yds. HttW yds. Tot. f'niled States .... .">l?o .">73 a4tt 1,712 t'arada .*'??; .V.4 Nil 1.1171 Aimtritlln .170 ,V>3 5:t0 1,653 lireat Kritain 35 1 .">?*> >lU 1.080 The individual scores of the United States and Canada, the next in order, were: American team? Winder. 21W: Te?e?. 215; Ibid ?on, 215: *?rr. 2H5: Senmn, Iteaaftllct, 215; Casey. 21.*: Hrynnl. 2ltl. Toiil, 1.712. Canada?M'-lline*. 211; KtiaseU. 211; Smith. 2o7; Me Hurt;. 2H.'t; 4?r<i liatn. 212: Kelly, 211; Skeddeu, 2w'.; K)< tlardson. 2o7. Total, 1.071. Blamed the Good Weather.. The weather was brilliant and the wind light and steady. The circumstances, ac- ' cording to the Canadians, gave the peep sight every advantage, and it became a question not of marksmanship, but or sights. The irony of this lies In the fact that the bad weather which has character lied the week, and which Great Britain, Canada and Australia hoped would con tinue, broke today and the finest day of weeks dawned. With everything In their favor, therefore, the Americans scored 1,712 out of a possible J.Hot', with the Canadians ?econd. having obtained the really fine ?core of l.tfTl Col. Sam Hughes announced after the match was over that every one of the teams had beaten the previous record of 1,570 for the Palma trophy competitions. This remarkable per ormance, of course, was due tu the exceptional weather. Palma trophy competitions have never before had such good fortune in the matter of weather. Gave Polite Cheers. Col. Hughes before an immense crowd of spectators called for three cheers for the Americans, and Col Thurston after repljing briefly to the complimentary re marks of the colonel called for cheers for the Canadians. the Australians, the British te.im and the II K. A One feature of the match was the remarkably pood showing of the Australians in the first and second stages, when they were running second to til-- America**, but they fell away In the tf rd stai: -. finishing behind the Canadians. The surprise of the match was the bad form of the Britishers. Shooting splendidly all week, they were considered the most fo inidul'le rivals of the Americans, and *? n- expected to make a close finish of It, ht least, b it this they utterly failed to do. S :? !. a \eterun marksman as Arm. S.-rgt. Hi Hart'e missed the target altogether three times. Kad to Blame Something. T. e B itishers blamed their ammunition, ami It was unanimously conceded that the Amer: mi ammunition was superior to all. Karl Grey s lit a message to Pr. sident I: i s. w it. congratulating him on the vlc t' > of ti.e United States. The governor genera! formally presented the trophy to tSen. I'r un and Col. Thurston, captain of !!? teau He expressed the opinion in ?l< tg t' .:t ttie Unit *ii Slates an:l Canada ? >:.i .> 1 ways Im found firing at the same targi t Ml'LDOON'S STAR BOARDER QUITS Secretary Root Preparing for His Mexican Trip. M:W ^iilCK. Septemter 7.?Secretary of State K in Boot, sun-tinned and appear ing in < \ ? llent health. ?! ! leave MuUloon's Mnitariuna, at White Plains, N. Y.. tomor row aft'it.oon. after a stay of several Week" T'? Secretary will go first to his old lioiri at Clinton. N. Y . where lie will n ma n i h.u: a w eek. He plans lo be in as1: : ^:>?ti l?y the llith instant. ills j-'.iv in tlie National capital will be 1?rj brief, however, as Mr Boo: will leave lor i tiip 'trough M n. o the 25th. He will cro-s : n .Mexli'.in line a?t I.aredo, where lie w..l -i.i t by President Iiiaz and be liis gut.- Si .*:atv Boot will deliver speeches a: s. , I., points In Mexico, but. follow.ng th |. an of his South American trip, he will no: prepare any s? t speeches. MACD0NALD DEFEATS ADAMS. Close of the International Golf Tour nament. M V. \P. \-oX-T1 IE1.AKE, Ontario, 8- p ten.i r 7. in a downpour of rain the thir teen' i ln:? i ".at onal golf tournament was brought to a close today. C. B. Mac Dona..1 former UallHI States champion, of tin- Garden city Clotn. I.ong I-land, won the cba'i oi.inshlp. defeating A. A. Adams, the I'ana-'.'an ? rack from Hamilton. The garni was ? a'l d at tin- sixteenth hole anil Ua< !tonal'! de< land the champion, with 3 up and 2 to play. In the mixed foursome U. S. Ball of Chicago aiut Miss Garre.i of put ? In the best scote. GREATEST OCEAN RACE Lusitania After Atlantic Record on Her Maiden Trip. TURBINES ARE ON TRIAL Their Showing Will Determine Fu ture Marine Designs. HUGE CROWD SAW LINER OFF The Lucania Once Swiftest Ocean Greyhound, Is Making the Pace for Her Rival. LIVERPOOL, September 7.?Amid the cheering of tens of thousands of enthusias tic well-wishers and the shrieking of sirens, the Cunard I,lne steamer Lusitania sailed this evening on a 3,000-mile race against time across the Atlantic, und there is no one in England tonight but Is convinced that by next Friday the greatest turbine steamer ever constructed will have won back for the Cunard Line the laurels wrested from them ten years ago by the North-German Lloyd. Probably never before has so much in terest been displayed in the maiden voy age of a vessel. This can be attributed partly to the intense rivalry between Eng land and Germany in the transatlantic passenger traffic, partly to national pride In ownership?the Lusitania is believed to be the greatest triumph of the shipbuilders' art?and to no small extent to the sporting element given the event by the prospects of a race between the youngest Atlantic flyer and the Lucania, at one time the holder of the record. The Lusitania was over one hour late in starting, and it was this evening when the huge vessel swung out clear of the landing stage and started to chase her smaller sister, Lucania, that with four hours start, already was far down the Irish channel. Crowd of 100.000. The scene was a memorable one. Fully spectators lined the landing stage and the river banks in the immediate vi cinity and yelled themselves hoarse as the liner gathered headway down the river, and every steamer and riverside factory for miles along the Mersey joined in the chorus of good-byes. The din yitis deafening. Lit up from stem to stem with lights glinting from the rows of port holes that marked her numerous tiers of decks, the mammoth proportions of the Lufitania were magnified and the vessel presented a mug nrticent spectacle as she began to move away. The demonstration reached its cli | max when the vast multitude broke out with "Rule Britannia." Tills song was taken up by the crowds on the Chcfehire side of the river and sung until the ship with her three thousand passengers nad passed slow ly beyond the sight of the four-mile long riverside promenade. Will Hake Her Walk. The Lusitania will be allowed to go easily as far as Queenstown, but from there it Is expected that she will be driven at her full speed of 2o'/s knots an hour. Of course the officials of the Cunard line say that no race 16 contemplated, but the engine-room crews of the two vessels have been busy for a week past getting every thing In readiness, with the expectation that the engines will be called upon to do their best on this occasion. Twenty hours is about the lowest estimate by which the Lusitania is expected to beat the Lucania into New York. DISTRICT TEAMS WIN PRIZES SECOND AND THIRD IN RAPID FIRE MATCH. High Scores Made by Lieut. Heyden reich of This City?Men Leave Sea Girt for Home. Special IMapaKh to The Star. SEA GIRT, N. J.. September 7.-The rifle teams representing the 1st and 2d regi ments. District of Columbia, took second and third prizes today In the New Jersey Ri fle Association's Gould rapid-flre match, a skirmish run and ten shots rapid lire at 200 yards. The first scored 525 and the second 5?>0 in a race in which the Marine Corps easily took first honors with a score of 645. The marines' second team was fourth with ??????, and Company C, 4th New Jersey, fifth with 4-10. The 1st Distriict outshot the marines by nine points at rapid fire. The marine eight led the 2d Regiment by 126 and the 1st by 129 on the skirmish run. High score In the match, however, was made by a District marksman. Lieut. Fritz lleydenreich. He ran up a grand total of 133. ten better than the befit marines. Pri vates Tund and Markey. could make, and in the skirmish run he led with 830. The District scores follow: F1UST PISTKKT OF COLUMBIA. MmJ- Y'litp 86 St-nst. Schriever 1W) 1'apt. Foraythe 75 Lieut- John* ttt Serst. ltr.mii 1*3 Sergt. r??cM 90 SECOND D1STIUCT OF COLUMBIA. Lieut. I.a< kiand 84 ! I.'.fUt. < 'laus-t 1)7 i<'nrp. iHvaire 49 Private Norrls S7 ! Srrgt. Blcb?rdaot> 80 i l.lrut. lleldenrclch 1S3 The Sea Girt championship match was won by MaJ. Arthur ltowiand of New Jer | s y, with 180. The District team left for I Washington this evening. BAD MINE FIRE. Twenty-Seven Killed at Esperanzas, Mexico. SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. September 7.?A special to the Express from Monterey, Mex ico, says: News reached this city from Musqulz, Coahuila, today that another terrible mine fire occurred at the Esperanzas mines, in which twenty-seven miners were killed. The fire originated in No. 1 shaft, and is supposed to have been caused by fire damp. A large force of medical men are at work doing all in their power to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded, while every ef fort is making to get the bodies of the dead miners out of the mine. Consternation reisns among the miners employed at Es peranzas. on account of the number of mine fires that have occurred there oi late. l.\ THE BURTON UNANIMOUSLY REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOB MAYOB OF CLEVELAND. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 7.-Rep reseniat've Theodore E. Burton was nomi nated by acclamation by the republican city convention today for mayor. The con vention, -practically speaking, was harmon ious, though several interesting contests, requiring a number of ballots, enlivened the proceedings in making other nominations. Others nominated with Mr. Burton were: Vice mayor, Frank W. Tread way; city auditor, Thomas E. Honks; city treasurer, George E. Meyers; city solicitor. Judge W. B. Neff. The platform adopted attacks Mayor Tom Li. Johnson's administration for allowing the public work? department to drag, and for increasing the bonded Indebtedness. Immediate settlement of the street car question, at no less than seven tickets for a quarter* Is offered. The limit of fran chises la to be twenty years, with readjust ment of fares every ten years. The road is to be subject to the right of the city to purchase, at the end of twenty years, any company to have the tight to buy at the price lixed by arbitration. The democratic convention, at which Mayor Johnson and the tlckf-t with him are to be nominated, will be held 011 September lt?. "COMBUSTIBLE GOVERNOB." i Judge Blackstone Condemned Send ing Troops to Onancock. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va.. September 7.?"The sending of troops to Onancock was the act of a spectacular governor." said Judge J. W. G. Blackstone of Accomae, who is try ing the cases of the negroes implicated In the recent race riots there. The governor was declared by the judge to be given to "spontaneous combustion." The remarks were made from the bench when counsel for the defense of the negroes made a motion for a change of venue, which the court overruled. Judge Blackstone also arraigned the gov ernor for sending "boys in uniform, many of whom are not large enough to carry a gun," and said this gave tlie county a black eye. Gov. Swanson, when his attention was called to the utterances of Judge Black stone, dismissed the matter by saying: "At this time I have nothing to say re garding the alleged statement made by Judge Blackstone." It Is believed that the governor will sub mit all the papers in the case to the general assembly and urge that the matter be in vestigated. In contradiction of the reported statement by Judge Blackstone that no one had called for troops the governor has on tile letters and telegrams from prominent people asking that troops be sent to Onan cock at the time of the outbreak. FAIBBANKS' FOBEBUNNEB. Campaign Manager Declares Indiana Solid for the Hoosier. OMAHA. Neb., September 7 ?J. P. Good rich of Indianapolis, republican national committeeman from Indiana, is making a tour of western states in the interest of Fairbanks as a presidential candidate, and Is holding conferences with prominent re publicans. Yesterday Goodrich spent the day in con ference with Committeeman Hart of Iowa in Council Bluffs. Today lie is in Nebraska Interviewing prominent republicans. "There is not even talk that Indiana will not be for Fairbanks next year," sa'-d Goodrich. "It's solid for him. Taft will never get Indiana." THE WATSON FAILUBE. Developments Indicate That Firm May Soon Besume Business. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 7.? Developments In the case of Watson & Co., the M'.nneapolis-New York grain, commis sion and stock exchange lious? that was declared in financial difficulties Thursday, were today so increasingly favorable as to make it seem almost certain that there soon will be a resumption of the business. MAYORALTY RIXG AT CLE No statement of the exact standing of the firm Is yet possible, but the showing of as sets of nearly $1,000,000 available In the New York office made the situation better, and, as conditions are brought out more in detail, it appears that the firm Is much stronger than was supposed when the an nouncement of the receivership was made. The statement is repeated that all claims will be paid In full. H. P. Watson said today: "The report? about the connection of Mr. Hill with (TOT firm are wholly unwarranted. Neither Mr. James j. Hill nor Mr. Louis W. Hill ever had any connection with Watson & Co. Neither of them ever did any business with us. We never had a transaction for either of them, at any time since we have been in business." THE STAB TODAY. The Star today consists of six parts, as follows: Ptgt*. Part I?News 16 I'art II ? Editorial 8 Part III ?Magazine 20 Part IV?Women's and Fashions ? Part V?Sporta * Pan. VI?Comic SectloD * Part One. Ptge Talma Trophy Ours..... 1 Greatest Ocean Race 1 Chicago Street Cars 1 Revl>al In Russia 1 Mr. Haldane Ex plains 2 Finns May Rejoice.. 2 San Francisco Fire 2 Wages and Food Cost.... 2 District Team Wins 2 Lea re for Saratoga 3 Monte Carlo Casino 3 Demands Rook In Railway Hearing 0 Alexandria Affairs.... 0 Virginia Republicans 8 Crafty Empress of China....* ?> 8 Maryland Candidates Busy 8 Army and Navy News f Musical Mention $ Rig Day at Kenning 10 Financial Page ^ Summer Resorts I.... Classified Ads ** Classilied Ada Local News Part Two. Page Flees In New York 1 Society ^ Alexandria Society...; ? Hicbniond Society 3 Editorials J In the Realm of Higher Things 5 The Theater '???? " The Foreign Stage * As the Cartoonists See the Sews 8 The Castle of Doubt Mountain Adventures of Sir Martin Conway... 8 Part Three. Poje THE STATUE. BY EDEN I'lIILLPOTTS AND ARNOLD BENNETT 13 When the Band Played. By Charles A. Sel den ^ The Visit of Ann Maria Haxeu. By Mary E. Wilkin* Freeman jj Ancestral "Lucks." By F. Cuuliffe-Otven..... . Aladdin and Mercury ill Japan. By William Elliot GrilHs, D. 8 Problem, of the Broken Bracelet. By Jacques Futrelle """" ? White Terror of the Sea. By William G. FlU-Gerald 11 Dr. Montezuma and Chief MIckyfee. By George Lorando Lawson 1" Part Four. Ptfe Curtis Letter 1 Wet Weather Abroad 1 For the Home Dressmaker - Practical Aid for Artistic Needlewomen 3 Black Bass Fishing * Making Peacemaker* * Government Herd at Soldiers' Home rt The Powers and Maxlne 7 Toughs Terrorize Bobbies 8 English and American Hallways 8 Part I ive. p Nationals Divide Series 1 Irish-Americans Winners 1 Keene Winner in Two intakes .' 1 Thousands Drawn to Sheepshead 2 Trinity Makes Great Rally 2 Getting Ready for Coming Season 2 Panic Breaks Up Ball Game 3 Good Prospects for Middies 3 Batting and Fielding Averages of Nationals.. 3 Little Tales of the Base Ball Dlamoud 3 Rains Interfere With Racing 3 Regulars on the Race Track 4 Foot Ball Teams in the High Schools 4 America's Greatest Race, the Futurity 4 Part Six. Page. Wags?The Dog That Adopted a Man 1 Nleodemus Napoleon James Crow, Esq 2 Prof. Fakcm, the Naturalist 2 Uq'.i?He's Always to Blame 3 Mary and lier Little Lamb 3 Brownie Clown of Brownie tow a | VELAND. ROOSEVELT MAY HUNT IS INVITED TO BEAT THE CANE BRAKES AGAIN. " ~ - <? i <& OTSTER BAT, N. T., Saptember ".?Pres ident Roosevelt is considering an invitation to go on a hunting trip into the Louisiana cane brakes immediately after his forth coming journey down the Mississippi river. The gentlemen who have extended the In vitation assure him that he will get some shots at bear and other worthy game, and If he can arrange his affairs at Washington so as to go without detriment to public busi ness he is quite likely to accept. In case he makes the trip farther south he probably will not return to Washington until about October 20. The names of those who have invited the President to the Louisiana hunt are not announced, but It is understood that they are practically Identical with those who en tertained him on the bear hunt at Smedes, Miss., four or live years ago. On that oc casion his hosts Included Stuyvesant Fish, until recently president of the Illinois Cen tral railway, and Judge Dickinson, chief counsel of tihe same system: John Mcllhen ney, at present a member of the civil serv ice commission, and John W. Parker, a cotton planter. These gentlemen were greatly disappoint ed because the President was unable to bag a bear at Smedes, and urged him to give them another chance at some future time. He said he would be glad to try It again when opportunity presented Itself, and as soon as the plans for his trip down the Mis sissippi were mada public they reminded him of his promise. They assured him that he will have better luck In Louisiana tdian he had In Mississippi and the President has stated that he Is "sorely tempted." QUAKES HILL CONFERENCE. Ninth Annual Session Opens Tomor row?Rev. Woodrow to Preach. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y? September 7.? The ninth annual session of the Quaker Hill conference will begin at Quaker Hill, Dutchess county, tomorrow. Rev. Samuel H. Woodrow, First Congregational Church, Washington, D. C., will preach the confer ence sermon in the morning and In the evening W. A. Duncan, Ph. D., of Syracuse, will make an addrrss on "Home Missionary Work in America." There will be no session Monday, but Tuesday the study of the social teachings of Jesus will be continued with an address on "Jesus' Social Experiment, ' by Rev. Warren H. Wilson, Arlington Avenue Bap tist Church, Brooklyn, N. V. In the even ing Dr. David Blaustein of the educational alliance will make an address on "The Americanization of the Jewish Immigrant," and Rabbi Alexander Lyons, State Street Temple, Brooklyn, will speak on "The Re ligious Life of the Jews of America." Other addresses during the conference will be "Natural Methods in Education," by Dr. Winthrop T. Talbott of Holderness, N. H., Wednesday; "The Country Church," by Rev. Ernest H. Abbott, Cornwall-on Hudson; "The Social Disease of the Coun try." by Bolton Hall of New York, and "The Hebrew Prophet and the Christian Minister," by I'rof. A. W. Vernon, Ph. D.. of Yale University, Thursday; and the "Leaven of Quakerism In America," by James Wood of Mount Kisco. N. Y., and I "The Indian Inhabitants of the Quaker Hill Country." by Miss Ruth Rogers of Sher man, Conn., Friday, the last day of the conference. The Quaker Hill conference is held for the promotion of Blb'e study, for the dis cussion of vital problems of the day and i for the quickening of spiritual li'fe. ARRANGED BY REID. Modus Vivendi to Cover Northeastern Fisheries Concluded. Acting Secretary of State Adee announced last night that Ambassador R?-l(\ had In formed the State Department by cable that he concluded yesterday with the British foreign office a modus vlvendl which is to cover this season's fishing in Newfoundland. The details of the arrangement. Secretary Adee explained, are not available for pub lication now, and they may not be made public for two or three days. Ambassador Reld, In concluding the ar rangement, operated under very broad and general instructions, the working out of the details being left largely to his discretion and Judgment. While the agreement reached was not un expected. it was received here with satisfaction. Scretary Adee communicated at once with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, transmitting to him such information as was conveyed in Ambassador Reld's Old Legal Fight Resumes Its Former Status. JUDGE GROSSCUP REVERSED New Railway Company Is Left With out a Line. RECEIVERS REMAIN IN CONTROL ; The Action of the Court of Appeals Hinged Entirely on the Ques tion of Jurisdiction. CHICAGO, September ".?The order re cently entered by Judge Grosscup In tl;* United States circuit court directing the re ceivers of the Union Traction Company, which operates the street-ear systems on the north and west sides of the city, to turn these properties over to a new corporation called the Chicago Railways Company for j twenty years was today reversed by the United States court of appeals. The decis'on of the higher court remands the case to the United States cir.-uit court and leaves the traction situation where it was before the formation of the Chicago Railways Company. It was the opinion of the court of appeals that Judge Grossct'.p had no power to giVe possession to the Chicago Railways Company without the consent of the bondholdeis and stockhold ers of the underlying companies, and de clares that the only manner In which the railways company can secure possession of the traction properties Is through negotia tions with the stockholders and the bond holders. Not a Question of Expediency. The city council some time ago passed an ordinance granting to the Chicago Rail ways Company the right to operate the street-car systems on the north and west sicTes of the city. This ordinance, in the opinion of Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, who read the de cision, was fair and should have been put In operation. The court held, however, that the wisdom of such a decision, or even puhli'c necessity- from a business point of 'View, could not be taken Ir.to consideration, as the Interests of the private property holders were the paramount points at Issue. The action taken by the court of appeals hinged entirely on the Question of Jurisdic tion. The power of Judge Grosscup to issue the order in favor of the Chicago Railways Company was the only thing assailed. The opi'nlon of Judge Brewer praised the wis dom of the order Issued by Judge Grosscup but declared that legally it was wrong. The ordinance passed by the city council In favor of the Chicago Railways Company has never been formally accepted by that corporation, and as the time for its accept ance expires by limitation September 14 It will be impossible for the company to ob tain possession of the propertfes by nego tiation with the stockholders and bondhold ers by that time. The entire traction situa tion therefore reverts to the period when the properties were held by receivers and before the proposed unification of the north and west side lines was contemplated. GUFF HOUSE WIPED OUT HISTORIC OLD RENDEZVOUZ GOES UP IN FLAMES. Many Times Theie Almost as Hot as Last Night and Possibly Just as Costly. Spcelal Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., September 7.? The historic Cliff House, one of the best known resorts near this city, was burned to the ground late this afternoon. John Talt, the well-known restaurant proprietor, secured a ten-year lease on the Cliff House last April and formed a stock company to run the place as a first-class restaurant. The house had been thoroughly recon structed at a cost of $00,000 and was to be opened next Monday. It is supposed the fire was caused from combustion of painters' materials. It had gained such a headway when discovered that it soon spread beyond control. The efforts of the firemen was directed to sav ing the Sutro baths nearby. Several small houses were also burned. The Cliff House was owned by the Sutro "estate and was rebuilt by old Adolph Sutro about twelve years ago. The place was famous for years for its fine crusine, and it was the custom of Ralston and other en tertainers in old days to take vfsitors out to the beach In four-in-hands and give them breakfast at the Cliff House on the veranda overlooking the Seal rocks and Pacific ocean. TROUBLE FOR HAVEMEYER. Suit for $30,000,000 Pending Against the Sugar Trust. SAN FRANCISCO, September 7.?John D. Spreckels, presfllent of the Western Sugar Refining Company, testified today before United States Commissioner Richards in re gard to the relations existing between his company and the Sugar Refining Company of New York. It was established by the testimony that Havemeyer and his associates own u large minority of the stock of the Western Sugar Refining Company, but Spreckl?>s denied that either he or his father, Claus Spreckels, had any interest in the American Sugar Re fining Company. He declared that the price of sugar on the Pacific coast was held low enough to prevent competition from Have meyer, except in a few special grades which the western company' does not manufac ture. Spreckels' testimony is to be used in a suit brought by the receiver of the Penn sylvania Sugar Company agaln.-t tite Amer ican Sugar Refining Company f>>r #:to,?Kx>.ooo damages because the Havemeyer interest got control of the Pennsylvania concern and shut down the plant. Th? suit is both for conspiracy and for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, and is brought in the United States district court of New HAL III RUSSIA Premier Stolypin Is Framing a Strong Policy. HE FACES DIFFICULT TASK Financial Interests Have Big Railway Scheme Afoot. COUNTRY LACKS REAL MONEY Managed to Borrow Ten Million Pounds?Peasant Atrocities on the Lower Volga. Special raWosratn to The Star. ST. PETERSBURG, September 7.-The interval between the signature of tlie An glo-Russian convention and the convocation of the third duma Is being occupied by Premier Stolypin tr. framing a policy His personal position with the czar is stronger thnn ever, and the choice of Alexander Krivoshein as acting minister of the in terior, which leaves M. Stolypin as prima minister without departmental routine, gives him the authority virtually of a chan cellor of the empire. His friends claim for the new policy that it will be conservative without being reactionary. Krivosheln's entry into the cibinet Illus trate* the extreme difficulty which Premier Stolypin will have In attempting to Intro duce a cautious transaction for Us consti tutional government, and also to resist the revolution by keeping the repressive ma chinery going at full strength. Great Railway Plan. Financial Interests which for two years have been seeking incessantly to start an Industrial development of Russia ure using the Anglo-Russian agreement as the .start ing point for a gradiose scheme of railway development. They have persuaded the min istry of ways and communications to ap prove a scheme for the construction of new railway line#, the double tracking of sev eral existing trunk roads and their re equipment with rolling stock. To carry through all these proposals would "?-l"'." T'iKtrt if a hopeless fig ure la the present stAto-SMRusslan finances Thev have been able, however, to secure ?10,0110,000. which has been advanced by a French group headed toy M. Rouvier to the Russian International Commercial Bank, which has offU ial relations with the Imperi al Bank. The lenders' guarantee that the money shall toe applied to railroad work Is that their representatives shall supervise the work on the spot and retain possession of it until the money is repaid. Peasant Atrocities. These surface appearances of a possible renaissance In Russia are swept out of mind by the appalling evidence of demoralization of social life of the masses. The distracted peasants are wreaking vengeance on the revolutionists and officials alike. In the lower Volga district of MakarlefT. vhere grain stacks have been set afire, the peas ants got a firm idea, which the priests and police encouraged, that the incendiarism was the work of revolutionaries. While one Are waa raging they seized three young men wHo were suspected of being "politi cians," bound them and threw them Into the flames. One of the young men managed to cxtrlcate himself four times, but each time he was thrown back, and ho was final ly strangled and his body burned to ashes. A man who was named Ix>ssoff confessed that ho was a terrorist, and that the organ ization paid rubles for every successful Are. the object being to lay waste the en tire district. Many persons have been denounced as politicians out of personal spite and tor tured. ' ARCTIC EXPLORER SAFE. London Paper Reports Mikkelsen Party O. K. 8peclnl Cablegram to Tlie Star. L/ONDON, September 7.?The Evening News learns that the members of the Mik kelsen Arctic expedition undoubtedly are safe. It savs It has seen a cablegram from a member of the party, transmitted from Gibbon, Alaska, and received in Eng land today. It consists of nine words and indicates that the trip over the ice was safely accomplished and that Mikkelsen Is safe. Fear of the fate of Mikkelsen and other members of his parly was aroused yes terday by tht* rcceipt of fi from Athabasca Landing. Ontario, stating that the Duchess of Bed'ord, tlio expedition s schooner, having sunk, the whole party had taken to the Ice. In February Mikkelsen, Earnest l.efflng woll and J. M. Marks had loft the ship, with provisions for sixty days, to make a dash for the land supposed to lie to the northward. Seventy days had elapsed and thev had not been heard from. HioiirIi one of their dog trains had returned. Therefore It was feared they had met with disaster. The Anglo-American arctic expedition lert Victoria. B. C\. in May last year to look for a stretch of laud that is supposed to lie In th? Beufort sea. gctentilic work was also to be done. The party numbered fifteen Two of its members are George Howe and Ernest Stefansson, both of Har vard. OHIO AT JAMESTOWN. Gov. Harris ancL Sta* Start From Co lumbus for State Event. COLUMBUS. Ohio. September 7 -Gov. and Mrs. Harris left today for the James town exposition, occupying a special car attached to the Baltimore and Ohio train for Washington, en roulo ?o Jamestown, to attend the Ohio Cay exercises next Wed nesday. Others in the party are Gen. John C. Speaks, Adjutant General and Mrs A. B. Crltchtield; Capt. Frederick M. Fanning of the engineers, Cleveland; Capt. James H. Williams, 5th Infantry; anl Mrs. Williams. Nowalk; Lkut. Parry Mouiton, -d lntan try, Lima. INSULT TO INJURY. Man Robbed of $675 and Then Was ? Kicked. LINCOLN. Neb., September 7. - W bile burving $<;7u in his c liar last night. Sam Westerfleld, colore 1 r-stauranteur. was slugged by two unknown .ebbers and his money taken from him. His head was badly cut. and lie was kicked into insensi bility. Two negroes who worked for lilin during the last weak have been arrested as ms pec'.s. The receipts of tlie rextaiiraul have been lar^e during the last week because of the state tail, tuid