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- THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. MAY 4, 190G. 7 HL1 5 E Radical Action Proposed by Russian Democrats. GIVE LAND TQ PEASANTS Caucus Today Will Propose to Abol ish Landlords "Marseillaise" i Their Tarty Song Short Life for New Cabinet. ST. PETERSBURG, May 1. Several more districts held elections for members of the National Parliament today. In the Baltic provinces the results were fa vorable to the Constitutional Democrats, while Poland elected candidates of all parties, which, however, are for subordi nating all other Issues to the one of au tonomy for Poland. Kvidence of the spirit reigning among members-elect is furnished in a dispatch from Viatka, where a fete was given in their honor. Friends of the representa tives went by a steamer to a prison, in front of which they stopped, hoisted a red flag and sang the "Marseillaise." The prisoners smashed the windows of the jail, waved red shirts and Joined in the song. The Constitutional Democrats intend to halt at no half way settlement of the agrarian question, judging by the pre liminary draft of the programme elab orated by the executive commute for submission to the caucus of the Consti tutional Democratic members-elect, which will convene In St. Petersburg tomorrow. The essence of the programme is the ap pointment of committees representing each province to determine the size of farms through government expropriation of lands exceeding the maximum, these to be expropriated even if the owners are cultivating them properly, and, Inaddl tion, to expropriate without exception all lands not cultivated by their owners, whether rented to tenant farmers or farmed on shares by peasants. There is also a recommendation for the expro priation of lands devoted to extensive lee finds that it can be cultivated to advantage. UirtXOVOS SCHEME EXPOSED Loquacious Agent Betrays Plan to Control Peasant Delegates. ST. PETERSBURG. May 3.-The scheme hatched and put into operation by Durnovo to control peasant members of Parliament as soon as they arrive In St. Petersburg has come to grief. It trans pires that Koreneff and other secret agents had for weeks been traveling In Russia, trying to organize a governmental peasant party and to secure the adher ence of the, members-elect to Parliament, for whom lodgings In government build ings at low prices had been arranged by Durnovo, and secret Instructions were sent to the Provincial Governors to in duce the -peasant members to occupy these lodgings. The plot was exposed in several provinces and aroused excite ment among the peasants and protests from 38 governors. Nevertheless, it was partially successful. About 40 members elect were already occupying government UxlKlng-houses yesterday. Hwwever, hy became suspietous at the cheap accommodations, the exclusion of radicals and the activity of Yerodin, a member from Grodno province, in trying lo form a distinct peasant Parliament. Yerodin was previously a government of ficial, and, when a comrade displayed Mans of resentment at his dictation. Yero din gave out the t'hole plot by saying he had been elected to watch the peasants, and. If they were Insubordinate, they would be expelled from St. Petersburg. Thereon the peasants broke out Into open rebellion and vacated the government lodgings. The Constitutional Democrats then or ganised posts of students at the railroad stations to meet the Incoming members of Parliament, conduct them to lodgings and keep them away from the "baneful" influence of the government. The situation is not unlike the tactics of rival political parties at American con ventions in their efforts to capture coun try delegates. TUNNEL TO BIG ARSENAL ACCIDENT FOILS PLOT OF AR MENIA REVOLUTIONISTS. Elaborate Work to Steal Million Cartridges at Baku Conspir ators Ail Escape.' BAKU. Caucasia. April IS. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) A daring plot of Armenian revolutionists to rob the magatsine In the arsenal here, guarded by the Snlivansk regiment and containing over 1.000.WO rifle cartridges, the entire reserve xupply for all the regi ments composing the garrison, has been accidentally discovered when the conspir ators were already on the very verge of success. They bored a tunnel 700 feet long in the direction of the arsenal. It was one of the most pretentious exam ples of subterranean work In revolution ary annals since the days of the- terror ists of the 'SOs. From the basement of an Armenian hut, the revolutionists worked their way under several intervening residences to a depth of 20 foet. They constructed a completely sided tunnel, roofed it with planks and provided it with electric light and electric bolls, connected with the stations of the several revolutionists on watch. Owing to a slight miscalculation, the tunnel. In burrowing upward, entered not the magaiine. but an adjoining store room In .the ars.jnal containing uniforms. Before they had time to rectify their mistake, the revolutionists were acciden tally discovered by an officer, the alarm was given and a cordon of troops was Immediately thrown around the adjoining houses. But ong to the length of the tunnel, the Armenian hou.se from which the conspirators started was not suspect ed and they had ample time to escape. The tunnel entrance was eventually discovered by volunteers, who entered U from the store-room and traced the pass age to its source, MINISTRY OF BUREAUCRATS New Russian Cabinet More Hated by Liberals Tban Witte's. ST. PETERSBURG, May 4 (S:30 A. M.) The Novo Vremya, which, under the new regime resumes its old rela tions with the government, prints to day what it says Is an authoritative statement of the GoremyVin Ministry, coupled with an Intimation that, as nss been predicted by the Associated press, the official announcement may not be given out before the convoca tion of the. National Parliament. The Ministry, however, which contains sev eral unexpected names, Is as apt to find far less favor with the Liberal majority in the popular branch of the Parliament than the Witte cabinet. The object of postponing the announce ment of the new Ministry Is hard to fathom. A remarkable feature of the slate is the selection of Count Ignatieft as Procurator, instead of. as anticipated, M. Shirinsky Shakoatiff. and M. Stin hinsky, an arch-reactionary and no torious aide to the late Minister of the Interior Plehve, as Minister of Agri culture. These two names alone are enough to put the Ministry under eternal ban with the Liberals. The additional names are Goremy kin, who, like Count Witte, is to be Premier without a portfolio; Stolypln Gallitzin, Minister of Instruction; Ko kovsoff. Minister of Finance; Izvolsky, Foreign Minister; Ruckloff, a former aide to the Grand Duke Alexander Mlchaelovitch, Trades and Industry. Schwanebach, ex-Minister of Agricul ture, Controller; Nemechaieff, who dur ing his tenure of office has kept his fingers out of politics, and Blrileff, Rediger and Fredericks, who are not responsible to the Premier, retain their portfolios, according to the Novoe Vremya. Even the Novoe Vremya gives the cabinet not over a month of life. CZAR STILL HESITATING. Outcry Against Goremykin May Cause Recall of Witte. ST. PETERSBURG, May 3. Much mys- CAN'T AVOID STRIKE Anthracite Mineworkers De liberate All Day. DECIDE QUESTION TODAY Mitchell Tells of Negotiations and Talks of Strike for First Tltie. All Efforts at Arbitra tion Are Abortive. . SCRAN.TON, Pa., May 3. Today's sessions of the miners tri-district con vention were unprofitable, except in sofar as they revealed that the senti ment of practically all of the 600 del egates in attendance is for a strike. At the conclusion of the afternoon session President Mitchell made a statement, in tho course of which he used the GUESS WHO THIS IS? QUEEN PRESUMPTIVE NO. 3 Iflpiili L-I'- - ..J !IlllIIIIfli W Mmmm ma V This la one of the flrat of the out- of-town aspirants for the attention and const deration ' of tho cabinet of queen electors who are to say who snail enact the roles of Miss Columbia and the queen of the industrial float on the 22 d. Each day aa the number of photographs of the claimants increases It would appear to the uninitiated that the task before the committee become more dif ficult. However, the "Made-in-Oregon Exposition invites more candidates to send in their photos. If the contestant desires her photograph should not be published, unless she Is successful, the wish will be respected. None of the young ladles whose photographs are published Is known to any member of the committee and the only method that could be employed by the committee to notify their choice to report to headquarters for their regal robes is by means of advertisement. tlfication has been aroused by the fact that Emperor Nicholas hag not yet in definite words accepted CountTVLtte's res ignation as Premier. It seems that Witte received a letter from the Emperor thanking him for his zealous and able services in the past, and Witte accepted this, In connection-with his proffered res ignation and the report of M. Goremy kln's appointment to the Premiership as equivalent to his dismissal. The delay in the appearance of a mes sage accepting M. Witte's resignation is further cause for comment and the theory Is advanced that the Emperor is still hes itating:, in view of the general expres sion of opinion in regard to M. Goremy kin, to discard the old Premier. At the same time it is known positively that In terior Minister Durnovo's resignation' has been tendered. Denies Rebels Murdered Gapon. BT. PETERSBURG. May 3. M. Margo lin, the attorney for Father Gapon, who recently received the mysterious package from Berlin containing several of the per sonal belongings of the missing man, to day published a statement that he pos sessed proof that Gapon was not mur dered by revolutionists. Great Decline in Stocks. ST. PETERSBURG. May 3. The news of Count Witte's retirement from the Premiership produced heavy liquidation on the Bourse today. New 5s touched 88, but closed at SS4. SHOT DEAD BY FOOTPADS Leading Citizen of Memphis Meets Sudden Fate. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. May 3. Major W. T. Bowdre. a prominent cotton factor and director of the Commercial Appeal, of this city, was shot and instantly killed by an unknown person tonight while walking toward his home. He was within 50 yards of his home, in one of the most prominent residen tial sections of the city, and was re turning: from a visit to relatives. So far as known, there were no witnesses to the killing:. The only plausible the ory Is that he probably was intercept ed by footpads and, on his refusing their demands, the shooting resulted. The bullet pierced his heart, and death was instantaneous. ' Amendments to Land Lam. OREGONIAN NEW S BUREAU. Wash ington, May 3. The Senate passed the bill which recently passed the House providing for the entry under the homestead act of agricultural land within forest reserves. It provides that the land to be homesteaded shall be taken up in areas of not over 160 acres, the tracts not to exceed one mile in length. Homesteads taken up under the act shall not be commuted. The House committee on Irrigation today reported favorably the Mondell bill permitting the Secretary of the In terior to fix lesser area than 40 acres as the minimum entry under Govern ment irrigation enterprises and to es tablish farm .units of not less than ten or more than 160 acres. word "strike"' for the first time since the present negotiations began. At the opening of the afternoon ses sion Mr. Mitchell briefly reviewed the negotiations so for as they have pro gressed and said the committee had perhaps gone even farther than it should have gone In "endeavoring: to bring about a peaceful settlement of existing difficulties. He told of the propositions made by both sides and then said: "We have offered to arbitrate all the demands we made upon them; or, in other words, we have offered to ar bitrate the differences between us, either through the board of concilia tion with Judge Gray as chairman, or through the Anthracite Strike Com mission. We have made the reserva tion, however, that It must be the full commission, not a part of it." A motion to strike was not second ed, and then a motion to go into ex ecutive session was made and adopted. The convention remained in executive session until 5 o'clock, when an ad journment was taken until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. As far as could be learned, the discussion was purely general. Strike talk prevailed all through it. CAXXOT MOVE THEIK SHIPS Lake Vesselmen Almost Put Out of Business by Strike. BUFFALO. May 8. The vessel tie-up here is almost complete tonight. The fire men struck on four of the six vessels which arrived from upper lake ports. Offi cials of the various package freight lines are making no efforts to get their boats awav with nonunion crews, and they an nounced today that the boats were to be laid up as fast as they make port. ISO grain is being unloaded. CLEVELAND. O., May 3. The third day of the big lake tie-up passed without any thing developing that would cause either side to make preparations for quitting the fight. Local vessel men today reported that they had not lost a single mate dur ing the day, and have filled the places of a few men that left their boats. The boat-owners say that the strike aboard the vessels would cut little figure. CHICAGO. May 3. The big excursion boats that run during the Summer months, being an Important factor in the amuse ment of Chicago people, may be tied up indefinitely as a (result of the general strike of marine men. Union men declare that no passenger boats which employed nonunion mates could have union employes. Two excur sion boats will be affected at once by this decision. There are more than a score of these boats scheduled to begin the season with in the next few days. Licensed tugmen last night decided to walk out as soon as orders were received from their National headquarters, prob ably today. Electricians of Three States Out. ST. PAUL, May 3. The electricians of all the telegraph companies In Minneso ta, Norrh and South Dakota struck at noon today. About S00 men are out. Or eon Editor Guilty of Forgery. KANSAS CITT. Mo.. May 3. M. A. McGinnis, ex-colicge professor and au thor of a standard work on mathematics, was convicted of forgery In the criminal rfliirt her. v.etArHnv and npntenced to ten year in the Penitentiary. McGinnis ana a conreaerate rorgea a. oeea w a cnjr lot and sold the property for $300. McGinnis for three years was principal of the High School at Oconto, Wis. In 1894 he established a newspaper at Med ford. Or. Later he published & paper at Julesburg, Colo., and held Important po litical positions in Logan County, Colo. He is a direct descendant of John Napier, inventor of logarithms. While publishing a newspaper in Newton County, Mo., he was sent to the Penitentiary for misuse of the malls. In the Penitentiary he wrote the book which made him famous with mathematicians throughout tha world. He called it "Algebra, the Uni versal Solution for Numerical and Literal Equations." After his release from pris on the book was published simultaneously in America ana Jingiana. AT THE THEATERS What tha Press Agents Say. POLLARDS AT THE HEILIG Famous Lilliputian Opera Company AV1H, Present Three More Operas. The Pollard IJlllputlan Opera Company will present the musical-comedy success. "The Belle of New Tork." at the Heilll Theater tonight at 8:15 o'clock. Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon a special matinee will be alven. when "H. M. S. Pinafore" will be presented. Tomorrow night the closing opera will be "An American Mllllorolr.." ThM BASEBALL TEAMS AT THE ILK LUG. The Portland and Oakland base ball teams will attend the HelHg Theater tonight to witness the Pol lards in "The Belle of New Tork." The managers of the two teams ac cepted the invitation extended by Mr. Calvin Hellig. lessee of the Hellig;. and Mr. Joseph Muller, man ager of the Pollards: The players will occupy Boxes. clever children have certainly won the hearts of Portland theatergoers who have been attending their performances for the past four years, and eem to appreciate more each year the wonderful versatility of these bright youngsters. Whatever you do. take the little ones to. see Gilbert and Sullivan's greatest success, "H. M. S. Pinafore," to morrow (Saturday) afternoon; it will be a great treat for them. Seats are now selling; for the entire engagement at the Hellig theater. - i The S. F. Vaudeville at Baker. The San Francisco vaudeville acta at tha Baker thia week have received well-deserved patronage at every performance. Not only is it one of the strongest and most enter taining vaudeville bills ever got together on so short a notice and under such conditions, but all these professional people are refugees from the stricken city, and this is an op portunity to help them to help themselves. This temporary lift haa tided them over, until no,w they have perhaps all secured en gagements for the future. The last three performances will be given tonight, tomor row matinee and tomorrow night. "The Silver Dagger." There are but three more performances left of the startling melodrama, "The Silver Dagger," which has been pleasing large au diences at the Empire Theater all week. The play is unusually thrilling and melo dramatic at timea, the scenery vivid and realistic and the action rapid and absorbing. It la the kind of play that appeals to all lovers of melodrama. "The Silver Dagger" la by the author of "Brown' In Town," "Whose Baby Are You?" and is following along the lines of success that has marked these well-known plays. COMING ATTRACTIONS. Great Play Well Acted. Portland has a surprise and a treat in store. "The Chriatian" company, opening for three nights, commencing Sunday even ing. May 6, at the Heillg Theater, la a beau tiful production. The story of the play la too well known to require retelling, and the production has been a tremendous success wherever it. lias been presented. "The Chriatian" has made the phenomenal record of having played to over double the average receipts of the rep .reaentative theaters of the continent. The reason of the success ia easily understood. "The Christian" appeals not only to all classes of theatergoers, but to those who sel dom or never attend a dramatic perform ance. Though powerful, the story la strictly moral, and advisea a liberal religion, which, acceptable to all, does not offend any sect or creed. One of the strongest proofs of thjls waa offered up In a special matinee given at the Knickerbocker Theater, in New York, it being attended by 330 divines of all dif ferent denominations, many of whom had never before been inside a theater. John Salnpolla will play John "Storm and Lillian Laurence will play Glory Quale. Seats now selling. The Last Burlesque Company. The closing burlesque company of the sea. son at the Baker will be "The California Girls.' who open a week run next Sunday matinee. This company, numbering many o.f the best artists in the profession and carrying a carload, of elaborate scenic equipments, stands alone aa the most novel and unique attraction that will be seen here thla season. Wholly different from the usual burlesque attractions, this company combines farce comedy, musical comedy, extravaganza and vaudeville, blended into a two-act play, with a plot that holds the audience from start to finish. An aggregation of bewitching chorus girls in New York's latest musical novelties, via., "The Swinging Song" and "The Ballet of the Hour," are only a few of the number less feature.. "The Inside Track" Next. Starting Sunday matinee, next week'a at traction at the Empire will be Byron'e thril ling melodrama, "The Inside Track." Thla plav ia not new to theatergoers, and it atands high In their estimation. It has al ways been popular .and haa not visited Fort land enough to make it shopworn. It tails a atory of the pretty daughter of an old miller and breathes the atmosphere of the rural acenea and aurroundlngs. "The Inside Track" is a good play, an in teresting one and one that contains all the elements of popularity. AT THE VACDEVIIXE THEATERS Novelties at the Grand. Cleverness and novelty stamp the vaude ville programme at the. .Grand this week. It Is easily one of the best vaudeville en tertainments of the season. The headline turn is contributed by the Rizleya, who have the only specialty of Its kind on the stage. The act is unique and well worth seeing. "The. Good Ship Nancy Lee" is a comical sketch given by Gllmore, Haynea and Montgomery- Thla is aa humorous a sketch as haa been produced locally In months. Vane and DeClairville are human fly a with a startling specialty. Jolly Jokers are Mack and Tate, the men who tell funny stories nd ig up-to-the-minute .parodies. Ida Howell Is a vocalist and comedienne. Mas ter Harold Hoff has a new Illustrated ballad, with beautiful slides, and the Grandiscope pictures are on Interesting subjects. The bill la replete with good thinga and is giving big value at the Summer prices. Many Features at Pantagen. 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The list of marked features Includes the Taylor Quar tette, celebrated sing-era; Knetzer, greatest of jugglers; Zeno and Owens, great comedy entertainers; WllUs and Bond, In a great novelty act; Willie Jones, funmaker; Arthur Elwell, baritone, and the latest moving pic tures. Added to thla great bill is the coolest and most attractive vaudeville house on the Pacific Coast. SCHEME IN HIGH FINANCE Franchise Sought and Sale to the City. PORTLAND, May 3. (To the Editor.) In this day of graft, or high financing, the most subtle attempt to get something for nothing is contained in an illusive proposal on the part of the Mount Hood Electric Company to build for the City of Portland an electric power plant of a capacity of 10,000 horsepower for the sum of $1,250,000, to be increased to a capacity of 25,000 horse power at an additional cost of $400,000. The Mount Hood Electric Company has a capital stock of $1,000,000 and a water right appropriation on the Sandy River. These are Its only assets, visible or invisible. For several months past It has attempted to ne gotiate a sale of its bonds with every bonding-house between Maine and California, but to date they have been unable to get any one to purchase these securities based upon wind -and hope. In their prospectus, compiled by the officers and engineers of the Mount Hood Electric Company, which has been mailed to the different bonding houses these gentlemen have attempted to interest, they estimate the cost of the con struction of this plant, having a capacity of 25,000 horsepower. Including water power development, hydraulic and electric ap paratus and transmission lines to Portland, at not to exceed $000,0OO. and state that the construction of this plant in Its entirety can be let to a 'responsible construction com pany for that sum. This brings us to the "meat in tbe cocoa nut." The Mount Hood Electric Company has not a dollar back of it, no digestible, indigestible or any other kind of assets or securities, and for that reason can make no financial arrangements with any responsible bank or construction company that will ena ble it to develop its water power or build a power plant of any capacity. The next clever move of these promoters in their financial dilemma shows them to be resourceful, to say the least. That is, to get the City of Portland to finance the scheme. If they can make a contract with the tax payers, who are responsible, to buy a plant for $1,850,000. paying for it in bonds, the best security in tho state, they can forth with let a contract to a responsible con struction company for its construction, pay ing for it In these bond-f. and realize a clear profit of $1,050,000 in the transaction. Their proposition Is simply -this: Dear people, the Mount Hood Electric Company has a water right (that belongs to the state?). 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Aside from this, if we can work our little scheme of contracting for the surplus power, or the power not used by the citv for llthtlng purposes, we stand to make about $0,000 annually, but you tax- , payers have had the blessed privilege of fur nishing the money or securities with which to build the power plant at a profit to us of $1,050,000, and to ever afterwards pay its operating expenses; but we will get all of the profits under our surplus-energy agreement. Doesn't the scheme- hatched by the second families of our city entitle them to social recognition by the first? All the matter with It is it came too late; the tax payers are on. The writer believes that Portland should own her own power plant and furnish elec tric power to her citizens for every purpose at a reasonable price. Thousands of horsepower are available on the mountain streams near here. Let the Council appoint a Board of Engineers to in vestigate these available water powers. 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