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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