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THE MUKMAtx UKEtiUMAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1907. IGOOfJ ARRESTS REBEL LEADERS Revolution in Cuba Hatched by j Americans in New York. BOUND TO PROVE FAILURE Karnes of Conspirators Known to the Government They Hired Revolu tionists to Kevolt Ma goon Has Ample Force to Crush' Them. HAVANA, Sept. 26. Th secret po lice today arrested General Masso Parro, General Juan Ducassl and Gen . eral Lara Mlllret. charged with con spiring against public order. General Parra Is the alleged leader of the conspiracy to start a revolu tion against the Americans In Cuba, with the use of funds supplied through some firm in New York. Simultaneously with the arrival of Parra at Havana three Santo Domlngans, well-known on account of their previous revolu tionary' records, also arrived. It is known that the conspiracy was hatched in New York by Americans whose names, it is said, are in the pos session of the United States Govern ment, and it is stated that the leaders here were professional revolutionists, hired for the Job, which it is believed will result in a fiasco. Governor Magoon, however, is amply prepared with 5000 American soldiers and 5000 rural guards to crush any movement. AIMED TO DYNAMITE BCII.DIXG Conspirators Had Failed to Stir Vp Insurrection. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Official word of the arreat of conspirators In Havana reached the War Department today in the following cablegram ad dressed by Governor Magoon to Act ing Secretary Oliver: m "Information more specific and cer tain than heretofore received was se cured late tonight , that Mazo Parra, angered by failure to bring about an uprising, threatened to dynamite some buildings in Havana and then escape. The local police arrested him and two of his gang, named Lara Miret and Dacaz, and they are now in jail." GENERAL RAILROAD STRIKE Has Begun in Havana and May Spread Through Island. HAVANA, Sept. 26. A general strike of the employes of the United Rail roads and the Havana Central Electric Railroad was declared today. Trains are running with the help of the en gineers only, without flremen or . con ductors. A tie-up of all .the roads in the island is feared. SCENE IN MAYOR'S OFFICE (Continued from First Page. .she said she had been employed by the Hazel wood Cream Company as a waiter but had left there. Later, ehe :ald, she had taken charge of a rooming-house near Eleventh or Twelfth and Montgomery streets. "A third time she came to the City Hall and said she wished to see me where she could have a longer talk, as she had again decided to try to get possession of the child. I told her that she might come to my private office Just after noon or between 5:30 and 6 o'clock, as I spent those hours there. She came several . times and asked me for a letter of recommenda- . tlon. Promised Her Letter. "I promised to write her a letter and had my stenographer do so. She called several times and on each occa- slon others were In my' 'office and I had no reason to suspect her. "Last night about 6 o'clock et called again and I received her In my office. My stenographer left about the time the woman arrived, and we re mained there alone. The woman asked for the letter, but I had decided to have some change made in it and had not brought it with me. She had told me she was waiting for money from her mother In Jopln, Mo., to take her East and I decided to keep the letter until this money arrived. "I told her I Intended to -have the letter rewritten, as I did, for I had been out late attending meetings for three nights. I then asked her to go and come for the letter another time. Woman Would Not Go. "1 got up and started towards the door, but she came up close to me and said f was trying to get rid of her. I told her I did not wish to appear rude, but that she would have to excuse me. I said she had better, not come forthe lefter before Monday, as I had Council and Executive Board meetings tomorrow aha did not go to my office on Saturday. "Like a "flash she grabbed hold of me and began tearing open my clothing. Almost at the same instant she screamed, and In response the glass door leading into the hall was broken by the woman's two confederates. With them were Jani tor Best and several others, whose names I do not know. "When the woman grabbed me, I tried to free myself but she clung to me like a tiger. She is a powerful woman and I had only succeeded In loosening one of her hands when the door was broken in. With the other she still grasped me. " 'Damn you, let loose of me. Damn you. let loose of me.' I was repeating, as I tried to free myself. "The Brute," She Screamed. "When the woman saw. that her ac complices were not alone, she immed iately dashed out of the room and disap peared. ' 'The brute, the brute! He tried to force me,' she shouted as she ran down the stairs. With her went the two con federates and all three in the confusion were allowed to escape. "I know nothing of these men except that they had been seen of late loitering around' the floor where my office is. Janitor Best and the elevator boy tell me that they have repeatedly seen them there. It is evident that they waited around in order to be witnesses to a fic titious assault. Her several calls were apparently necessary so that she might find me ame and all conditions favor able for their coup. ( . "Mrs. Waymeier is about 25 or 26 years old, I should Judge. She dresses in ordi nary style and Is large and strong. I have turned all the facts in the case over, to the police, who will thoroughly Inves tigate the matter. Was Not for Blackmail. "The purpose of the plot against me was evidently to blacken my character. I can think of no other motive, as it was not worked out in such a way as to suggest blackmail." The police who were detailed on the case failed to locate any of the plotters last night. The search will be resumed today, and it Is hoped to apprehend Mrs. Waymeier and the two men who accom panied her. Whether the apparent at tack on the Mayor's reputation was the outcome of a private emity, or prompted by some interest that he has offended of ficially there is no way of telling. Harry Joyce, of the Hazel wood store on Washington street, says that a woman giving her name as Mrs. Bell Weymeler worked at his place for a few weeks last Summer. She was dismissed from her position there, as she was not up to the requirements of the place. Mr. Joyce says that he had no reason to question her good character. On the books of the Hazelwood Company her name is spelled Waymlre. The other spelling was given to Dr. Lane's stenographer, who wrote out the letter that she had asked from the Mayor. Corroborated by Dentist. Dr. R. V. Anderson, a dentist who occupies offices on the same floor of the Hamilton building as Dr. Lane, had treated the two strange men for the past week. One was a middle-aged one, well dressed, and the other a young follow. They' came to Dr. Anderson's office about a week ago to have work done on their teeth. They gave their names as Mann and said that they conducted a store at the corner of Third and Ankeny streets. There was nothing wrong with the younger man's teeth, and all the work Dr. Anderson did or him was to clean the teeth. The older man had a cavity In one of his molars and Anderson was prepar ing to fill the tooth. The pair called yesterday afternoon, and Dr. Anderson did some work on the teeth of the elder man. They left the office, presumably to go out on the street, but the dentist, looking out of his door a few minutes later, saw them standing In the hall. He became suspicious and notified the elevator boy to watch the two and mentioned that he feared they intended to break Into the office and perhaps steal some of the gold he was using for fillings. Dr. Anderson went out a short time be fore 6 o'clock, and when he left the men were still in the corridor. He returned after the Lane episode, and therefore knew nothing of the particulars of the case. Neither the city nor telephone direc tory shows any person named Mann con ducting a store or business in the vicinity of Third and Ankeny streets. PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR James Hamilton Lewis Says He . Found Russia Preparing. NEW YORK. Sept. 26. (Special.) Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, of Chi cago, who has arrived in New York on the White Star Line steamship Majestic, declares Russia is preparing for another war with Japan. Mr. Lewis would not admit that he had been abroad in a Federal capacity, yet did not deny that he will make reports to Washington of a more or less startling nature. Mr. Lewis, according to his own statements, has been investigating the withdrawal of concessions by Russia to Americans, and. in this connection he found, he said, that Russia was prepar ing for another conflict with Japan. "If the project of building a railroad across the Bering Sea should prove feas ible," said Mr. Lewis. "Japan would ob ject to Its being built, on exactly the same grounds that France would object to the tunneling of the English Channel. A railroad across the Bering Straits would give Russia a great advantage in case of war with Japan, making rapid communi cation possible right into the heart of Siberia. "England's advantage, in case she had a tunnel under the channel, is on exactly the same basis as Russia's or America s advantage would be with a railroad from Alaska to Siberia." Mr. Lewis talked with many Russian officials and he declared that there were unmistakable evidences that Russia is preparing for another conflict with her only enemy. Japan. Russia is training her army as she never trained" It before. These preparations are making. 'Mr. Lewis said, because Russia feels that she Is being held up to the contempt of the world for her failure in the last war with Japan. Her own people charge corruption and Incompetency on the part of Russian officials in the management of the last war. Almost of equal importance to Russia, Mr. Lewis says, Is her great danger from Internal strife. Never before since the Crimean War have so many workmen of the cities and farmers from the rural districts joined the army. Mr. Lewis said that every sign points to the renominatlon of iir. Roosevelt and that this is generally accepted as the logical programme in Europe. He said that this country will not be fooled by either Mr. Taft, Mr. Fairbanks or Mr. Cannon. Mr. Roosevelt, he said, was the strongest man here, and that his observ ance of . Democratic doctrines had en deared him to Democrats as well as Re publicans. From Mr. Lewis' statements It Is in ferred that he has been quietly ordered to investigate Europe generally and Rus sia especially, and It is generally under stood he will make a report to Washing ton at once. STEAMER LILY. ON WHICH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL TRAVEL DOWN st.- tons. LIKE A GOLD MINE Indiana Pipeline Makes Enor mous Profits. INDEPENDENTS FROZEN OUT One Year's Profits Nearly Double Capital and Often 20 Times Ex penses Devipe to Dodge Rate Law Exposed. NEW YORK. Sept. 26. The Indiana Pipe Line, subsidiary .of ' the Standard Oil. made a profit of $4,091,023 in 1903 on a total investment- of J2.228.758, according to the company's figures produced by George Chesbrough, controller of the Na tional Pipe Line Company, who appeared as a witness today in the Federal suit ?...........,..................... PROFITS ON STANDARD OIL Standard Oil capital. 109 P7H '' ehrMI Owned by John D. Rockefeller 2..6.S..4 shares Mr. Rockefeller's holdings, 20.8 per cent of total. Srandard Oil capital. 1901, par value $07,448.02.1 2B..1 per cent of total 7? Ss2 i. Market value at hlRh price of 842 ..' . 2 15.70. T SS A Standard Oil capital. 1008. par value I 20.3 per cent of total, par value I Market value at low price of 417 I Shrinkage. 1901-1907 T -Canyl-wl Htl Hl.'lane Ifift.lU fW V Standard Oil dividends, 1SXH-190G (present John D. Rockefeller's share (on basis of John D. Rockefeller's share, 1S99-1906 Total Average yearly return. 1SR2-1HO Average yearly return. 1899-1906 Average per month. 1R99-1906 . Average per day. 1899-1906 Average per minute, 1899-1906 against the oil combine. Mr. Chesbrough testified that the Indiana ripe j.lne Com pany was a common carrier and engaged only in the transportation of oil. From balance sheets of the company Frank B. Kellogg., conducting the Gov ernment's case, sought to show that the Indiana company was making extensive profits, and that it maintained a high schedule of tariffs to prevent shipments of oil by Independent producers. Mr. Chesbrough testified that the Indiana company transported practically all the oil of the Standard Oil Company. The counsel - for the Government allege that MONEY GIVEN AWAY BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. General Education Board. .$43,000,000 University of Chicago 21.400.000 Rush Medical 'College 6.000.000 Churches (known) 3.100.000 Missions (known) 2.300.000 Baptist foreign mission fund 2.000,000 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ...!... 2.000.000 Barnard College 1.37B.OM) Southern education fund.. 1,125.000 t nlon Theological Seminary 1.100,000 Harvard University 1,000,000 Baptist Educational Society 1.0iO.000 Yale University 1.000.000 Juvenile reformatories 1.000,000 Cleveland city parkB l.ooo.mo Nine T. M.. C. A.'s 845.000 Teachers' College 500.000 Johns Hopkins 500,000 Vaesar College 400,000 Brown University 325.000 Seven small colleges , 320,000 McMastera' College 275.000 "Rochenter Theological Semi- nary 250.000 Cornell University '. 250.0K) Bryn Mawr College 200,000 Case School of Science, Cleveland 200.000 Oberlin College 200.000 Sielman Seminary. Atlanta 180.000 Newton Theological Semi nary 150.00O Adelphi College 125.000 University of Wooster, O. 125.OO0 Children's Seaside Homo.. 125.000 Presbyterian work In Egypt and the Soudan 100.000 Cleveland Social Settlement lOO.ouO Syracuse University 100.000 Smith College 100.000 Wellesley College J0O.0OO Columbia University 1O0.0O0 Dennlson College 100.000 Curry Memorial 100,000 Furman University 100.000 Lincoln Memorial Fund loo.OOO University of Virginia 1O0.00O Cleveland Y. W. C. A 100.000 University of Nebraska ... 100.000 Arcadia University 100.000 Indiana University 50.000 Mount Holyoke College 50.000 Shurtleff College ' 33,000 School of Applied Design for Women 25.000 Bucknell University 23.000 William Jewell Institute.. 25.000 Howard College 25,000 Miscellaneous gifts prior to 1892 7.000.000 Grand total $102,035,000 It will be shown that the profits made by these pipe line companies have In some cases been 20 times the actual cost of operation. CAUGHT EVADIXG RATE LAW Bogus Terminal Pipeline Station on State Line. NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The pipe-line station of the National Transit Com pany, a Standard Oil corporation, at Center Bridge, on the state line, which the company contends is a terminal station, was built in 1906, on the ad vice of John G. Milburn, of counsel for the company. It is contended by the Government that the Center Bridge station was built as a nominal delivery point in 1906 to evade the Hepburn act, which 'f ' provided that pipe-line carriers shall submit schedules of tariff to their ter minals. It Is he Government's view that the company's real terminal is Bayonne, N. J. In today's hearing. Frank B. Kel logg, for the Government, asked C. M. Payne, an employe of the Standard Oil Company, who. advised the building of the delivery tanks at Center Bridge. "I did." interposed Mr. Milburn. "I thought, under the law, that there should bo a delivery point there. I thought it excellent advice." "I don't," rejoined Mr. Kellogg. Is Only Pumping Station. ' Mr. Payne has general supervision of the pipe lines of the Standard Oil Company. On cross-examination he testified that the pipe lines of the New York Transit Company or. the Na tional Transit Company, which it is sometimes called, were public carriers and as such, to conform to the Hep burn law. had built a delivery station at Unlonvllle, and quoted tariffs for oil shipments to that point. Mr. Payne said that the pipe-line of the Stand ard from Unlonvllle to tidewater was a private line and not amenable to the Hepburn law. On direct examination, Mr. Payne said that at the terminus of the pipe line of the transit company at Center (Bridge, on the state line between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where the company quoted its tariffs for ship- 1 '222 15.R62.B34 1o(,!4S.484 107.B4S.2S1 Rmttll rPODrtt 243.363..01 evidence) 808,859.403 20.3 per cent). 1S82-1899.. 63.826.510 80.173.444 $143.499.0.14 . S.979.1B4 10,021.689 A 835.140 27,838 19 ment of crude oil, there was a-pumping station. "It is not a delivery station, is it?" asked Mr. Kellogg, after the witness had testified that at Center Bridge the oil from the pipes of the National Company was pumped into the pipes of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. "It is a, pumping station," answered the witness. Only Delivers to Standard. "I show a statement of the National Transit Company, showing that tanks were built ill Center Bridge In 19 J6. What were they for?" "For the purpose of maklnsc deliv ery at a delivery station," replied Mr. Payne. "To whom did you deliver the oil there?" asked Mr. Kellogg, who con tends that the Standard Oil Company has evaded the Hepburn law of 1906, which provided that pipe carriers shall submit schedules of tariff to their ter minal and that 'the real terminal is Bayonne, N. J., at tidewater. "To the Standard OH Company of New Jersey," answered Mr. Payne. "Do you deliver to any other com pany?" - "No." "No one else has asked for a deliv ery of oil there?" "Not that I know of," said Mr. Payne. HEXRY M. FLAGLER VERY ILL Vice-President of Standard Oil Breaks Down I'nder Strain. NEW YORK. Sept. 26. (Special.) Henry M. Flagler, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, is"seriously ill in the Mount Washington Hotel, Brettonwoods, N. H. His condition is such as to cause the gravest alarm to his friends. His per sonal physician and nurses are in con stant attendance. Mr. Flagler's illness is attributed to the effects of an attack of the grip which seized him while he was In St. Augustine, Fla.. last April. At that time he was badly weakened from overwork and worry incident to the strain of raising funds for the completion of the Key West Railroad. Symptoms of a general nervous breakdown appeared and about a month ago he was taken to the White Mountains. "His Illness following closely upon that of H. H. Rogers and other Standard Oil magnates is looked upon as significant by those who have been following the public attacks upon the giant octopus. Tried to Bribe Standard Juror. FINDLAY, O.. Sept. 26. L. B. Will iamson was arrested yesterday on an Indictment charging him with attempt ing to bribe Charles Thompson, a juror in the case of the State of Ohio against the Standard Oil Company, which was tried here last June. He confessed. TERRIBLE FLOOD IN JAPAN River Overwhelms Town and Ove'r 600 Persons Are Drowned. . - VICTORIA B. C, Sept. 26. Advices or a terrible disaster due to great floods prevailing in Japan have been received. The overflow of the River Otonashlgawa, running through the town of Fukuchi yama, near Kyoto, caused the loss of more than 600 lives, the river rising more than 50 feet. T 1 lit? , s ; f(,. : : .-.V JG V r'tf'- THE MISSISSIPPI FROM KEOKUK TO 1 Dining There 's a class, individual and distinc t, that loiters about the floors of the house of I. Gevurtz & Sons. It calls forth the appreciation of those ladies whose furniture ideas are in accordance with culture and refinement. Our showing of the more elaborate dining-room furnishings is the largest and at the same time most select in the W est. Some of the suits we are showing are nothing short of classic, presenting a masterly production of beauty and skill. These are carved seemingly by the old masters, and built for modern time palaces. Prices for complete suits, $75.00 to $500.00 A small payment down; then a little each week. NOTE. Our entire large stock of dining-room furniture, tables, buffets, sideboards, chairs, china closets, etc., shown on the third floor. "We cordially invite your inspection. The House of Furniture "Glass "Eclipse" The Stove of Choice NO PARDON TO MONSTERS Bl'CHTEL FLINT AGAINST MKN WHO INJURE GIRLS. Colorado Governor Rills Hopes ol Depraved Preacher and Many Other Convicts. DENVER. Colo., Sept. 26. (Special.) "I will pardon no man convicted of a statutory crime.", declared Governor Henry A. Buchtel, sounding the death knell to the hopes of one-third of the in mates of the state penitentiary. "The murderer, the thief, the forger can all look for better things from me than the man who betrays the honor of a girl. No matter what pressure is brought to bear, I will not be a party to liberating the human monsters whose prey have been little girls." The Governor will-make this a strict rule during his administration, cherish ing the good old-fashioned Idea about the virtue of a woman. The Governor made this declaration In connection with the movement to secure pardon for Rev. William Gurney Connell, who has sev eral years to serve. Connell was con victed of having outraged a girl of 15. JOKE PROVES BOOMERANG Girl Who Announces Her Mythical Elopement Busy Explaining. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) Be cause she wished to play a practical Joke on her brother in Albany, Miss Carrie Prlchard, a' prominent young woman of Aberdeen. Wash., wrote that she had eloped and was married. She didn't reckon on the fact that her brother is a newspaperman, however, and now the Joke is on her and she is busy denying the erroneously-reported marriage and re fusing felicitations. ' Miss Prlchard went to Olympia about two weeks ago to spend a few days with a young woman friend. In a spirit of fun the two girls wrote a postalcard to Miss Prlchard brother, George A. Prlchard, In this city, announcing a (sup posed marriage and giving the name of the mythical groom. To make the effect more Btartllng. Miss Prlchard confided that she had eloped from Aberdeen, that the marriage was a secret and that the recipient of the card was the "first one she had told." Prlchard is city editor of the Evening Herald here and as his sister Is a former Albany girl and well known here he published an announcement of the sup posed wedding. He sent a marked copy of the paper to his father. Rev. R R. Prlchard. pastor of the .First Presby terian Church, of Aberdeen, who was for years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. Rev. Prlchard was the most startled man in Washington when he received this paper, but almost concurrently . with Its arrival Miss Natural Flavors tlaYOrilt Vanma m -e Lemon Extracts -ga are natural flavors, obtained by a new process, which gives the most delicate and grateful taste. Dr. Price's Favorings can be conscientiously commended as being just as represented, per fection in every possible respect. One trial proves their excellence. 01m oom I. Gevurtz & ON YAMHILL Prichard arrived home from her Olympia visit and explanations followed. But she Is yet receiving felicitations from her Albany friends and from those in Aber deen who have heard the story. Negro Murderer Stands Siege. CHICAGO, Sept. 26. Richard Walton, the colored man, wanted for the murder of Mrs. Lillian W. Grant, the teacher, who was found in her room strangled to death several days ago. Is said to Je sur rounded by the police in, a deserted build ing at Summit, 111.. 20 miles south of the city. He is reported as being barricaded strongly in the building and to be abun dantly supplied with weapons and ammu nition. Including a force of police who left the city shortly before 9 o'clork. about M Bankers and Lumbermens Bank Corner Second and Stark Streets PORTLAND, OREGON CAPITAL STOCK, $250,000.00 OFFICERS G K. WKNTWORTH! President H. P. STORY Assistant Cashier F. H. ROTHCHILD. 1st Vice-President PLATT A PLATT General Counsel JOHN A. KEATING. .Second Vice-President and Cashier DIRECTORS G. K. WKNT WORTH, President, President Portland Lumber Co. CHARLES S. 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