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THE MORNING OREGON! A FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1917. 5 RASPUTIN INNOCENT DECLARE ADMIRERS Young Czarevitch Pawn Moved in Great Political Game Played in Russia. MEETINGS HELD IN SECRET Open Air Recommended for Sickly Youth and Doctors Disproved, !So Czarina Has Idoltarous Ir'ccling Toward Adviser. BY miETA CHILD E DORR. Ninth of a dally series of articles tellins the inside story of Russia's revolt. Copy rlRht. 1017. by the New York Evening Mall. Published by arrangement.) "Lct any American mother imagine that her only son, who came into the world a weakling, and whose life had always hunsr on a thread, had been miraculously restored to health. Sup pose also that the person who did this "wonderful thing was not a doctor, but monk of that mother's church. AVouldn't it be natural for that mother to regard the man with almost super stitious gratitude for the rest of her life? Wouldn't it also be natural that she would want to keep the monk near Jier, at least until the child grew jp, in order to have the benefit of his ad vice and help in case of a return of the illness?" I had heard the story of the Raspu tin murder as told by one of the prin cipals in the gory tragedy, Prince Kelix "Vussupoff, and now I was to hear it again, this time from one of the re puted "dark forces," of which Rasputin had been the head and front Anna Vj-roubova, the intimate friend and confidante of the Empress of Russia, and believed by many to be the chief accomplice of Rasputin. Child's Health Weapon. I had heard all sorts of horrible sto ries about this woman. It was said that she was Rasputin's procuress. It was said that she conspired with him to make the Empress believe that the Czarewltch would die if the monk were sent away from court, or if he voluntarily withdrew. On the several occasions when he did go, Madame Vyroubova was said to have fed the child with minute doses of poison, so that he sickened, and when that hap pened of course the frantic mother de manded the return of Rasputin. As the monk's appetite for power grew and he demanded the removal of this or that metropolitan or bishop, the re moval or appointment of ministers, the suppression of newspapers that de nounced him, the Czarina, urged on by her friend Madame Vyroubova, would Insist that Rasputin should have his way. Otherwise he might leave, and the Czarewitch would surely die. Madame Vyroubova Held. Madame Vyroubova was also said to have conspired with a court physician to poison the Czar, or rather to put constant doses of some toxic in his food in order to cloud his mind, and thus make him an easier dupe for the pro German conspirators. They told the most amazing stories about this woman, making her out a sort of a combination of Lucretia Borgia and Jezebel. 'Whether the provisional gov ernment believed these stories or not, the Duma members who forced the revolution evidently believed Anna Vy roubova to be one of the most danger ous of the inner court circle, or cam erilla, which was planning a. German peace. For when the Czar was forced to abdicate and all the accused men of the camerilla were arrested and thrown into the fortress of Peter and Paul. Madame Vyroubova was also arrested and sent to the fortress. She was taken out of a sickbed there had been an epidemic of measles in the royal family thrown Into an underground cell and kept there for.three months. At the end of that time she was in Buch a state of collapse that the prison physician recommended her removal to a hospital. To this the provisional gov ernment consented, but when the order lor her release was presented to the governor of the fortress and. he or dered her cell door unlocked., the sol diers on duty refused to obey the or der. It was days before they were per suaded to let her go. i So Evidence Found. Madame Vyroubova was sent to a hospital for a month, and then they set her free. That is. they permitted her to go to the home of her brother-in-law, who is a step-son of the Grand Duke Paul, and to live there under strict surveillance. They had searched 'her house in Tsarskoe-Selo and her rooms In the palace. They had put her through every kind of cross-examination, not once but many times, and they were forced to admit that they could not discover a single incrimi nating circumstance or any evidence of poisoning or conspiracy. They had to release her, but she is not allowed '. to leave the country, or even her ' brother's house, without permission. which, of course, would not be granted. She is watched all the time, and may be rearrested and given the third de gree at any time if the least bit of evidence seems to warrant it. Anna Vyroubova Is considered a very dangerous woman. She is one of two things, very dangerous or very much maligned. She nave me the impres eion, after two long, intimate talks, of a woman absolutely innocent of any wrong doing. If she is a criminal she ought to be in prison for life, for her powers of deceit are simply mar velous. I like Anna Vyroubova, and I don't think I could possibly like a woman capable of poisoning little boys or handing innocent young girls over Into the claws of a lascivious monk Grief for Czarina Felt, How I met this woman, how she came to talk confidentially with me. where I saw her and when, are not to be written Just now. They could not be published without Injuring a num ber of people, perhaps Including Ma dame Vyroubova herself. I saw and talked with her soon after her release from the prison hospital. She was still a little drawn and haggard from the hardships and the terror of her ex periences in Peter and Paul, and she was in the depths of despondency over the plight of her friend, the Czarina. She is a very pretty woman, this al leged Borgia-jczeDei. tone has an abundance of brown hair, and her eyes are large and deeply blue. Her fea tures are regular and her mouth curves like a child's. Two or three years ago the train on which she was traveling , between Petrograd and Tsarskoe-Selo was wrecked, some say purposely. Madame Vyroubova was desperately in jured, both legs being broken and her snine wrenched. She was lamed for , life and walks with a crutch, but In spite of that all her movements are singularly graceful. One of the stories about her is that ahe was a peasant girl, brought to court by Rasputin and forced on the Empress as a convenient tool of the conspirators. mis is quite untrue Madame Vyroubova Is a patrician by ; birth, and before she was born, and long before Rasputin appeared in Tsarskoe-Selo. her family was attached to the court. The father and grand father of Madame Vyroubova were court officials, confidential secretaries to the Emperors of their times. Both her parents are living, and I have met them both. They are highly educated and unmistakably well bred. They are not rich people, but they live in a very beautiful apartment in an exclusive quarter of Petrograd. Honor Is AsHerted. Something of this Madame Vyroubova told me, and the rest a friend of the husband told me. In her story the hus band appears as a jealous, unreason able, bad-tempered man. almost a luna tic. In her friend's story he appears a martyr. "I have not had a very amusing life," said Anna Vyroubova, in speaking of her marriage. She smiled a little bitter ly. "Perhaps that Is one reason why I. like the Empress, was attracted to religion, why we both liked and trust ed Rasputin. We did trust him. and to the end everything he did Justified our confidence. As for the Empress' feeling for him I give you my solemn word of honor it was solely that of a grateful mother and a devout member of the Orthodox Church." And then she spoke the words with which I have opened this chapter. "Let any American mother imagine that she had an only son who had come into the world a weakling, one whose life had always hung on a thread, and that that child had suddenly and miraculously been restored to health. Let her suppose that the person who did this wonderful thing was not a doctor, but a monk of her own church. Wouldn't It be natural for that mother to regard the man with almost superstitious gratitude for the rest of her life? Wouldn't it also be natural that she should want to keep the monk near her, at lease until the child grew up. in order to have the ben efit of his advice and help in case of return of the Illness? Well, that is the whole truth about the Empress and Rasputin." "But did Rasputin really heal the Czarevitch, and restore him to health?" I asked. Illnena Caanen Despair. "Judge for yourself," she replied. "Perhaps you know how ardently the birth of a son was desired by both the Emperor and the Empress. They had four girls, but a woman may not in herit the Russian throne. A boy was wanted, and when at last he came, a poor little sickly baby, the Empress was nearly in despair. The child had a rare disease, one which the doctors have never been able to cure. The blood vessels are affected, so that the patient bleeds at the slightest touch. Even a small wound would endanger his life. He might bleed to death of a cut finger. "In addition to this the boy de veloped tuberculosis of the hip. It seemed impossible that he could ever live to grow up. He was a dear child, always, beautiful, clever and lovable. Even had less hung on his life than succession to the-throne It would have been hard to give him up. Each one of his successive illnesses racked the Empress with such terror and anguish that her mind almost gave way. For a long time she was so'melancholy that she had to live in seclusion under the care of nurses. It was not so much assassins that she feared. It was that the child should die of the maladies that afflicted him. "Well, in addition to all this dally and hourly anxiety and pain she suf fered, the poor Empress was tori this way and that by the Grand ukes and all the members of the court circle. Each one had a remedy or a treatment they wanted applied to the child. There were always new doctors, new treat ments, new operation in the air. The Empress was criticised bitterly be cause she wouldn't try them all. The Empress-Dowager well " Outdoor Life Urged. "Then came Rasputin," continued Madame Vyroubova. "And he said to the Empress: 'Don't worry about the child. He is going to live, and he is going to get well. He doesn't need medicine, he needs as much of a healthy outdoor life as his condition can stand. He needs to play with a dog and a pony. - He needs a sled. Don t let the octors give him any except the mlld- st medicines. Don't on any account allow them to operate. Tlie boy will soon show improvement, and then he will get well. 'Did Rasputin say that he was going to heal him?" I asked. "Rasputin simply said that the boy was going to get well, and he told us almost the day and the hour when the boy would begin to get well. "When the child is 12 years old,' Rasputin told us, 'he will begin to improve. He will im prove steadily after that, and by the lme he is a man he will be in ordinary health like other men." And very short- y after he turned 12 years old he did begin to improve. When the Czarevitch grows to man hood, if he ever does, and reads the his tory of his father's and mother's last years as rulers of Russia, what a sub ject for reflection this whole Rasputin episode will afford him! He was the pawn shoved back and forth across the chess board where the destinies of nearly 200,000,000 Russians, to say nothing of the Romanoff family, were being decided. He was the bait with which the biggest game in modern Eu ropean politics was played. He and a wily monk and two women with a taste for mythical literature. GOAL SHORTAGE IS WIDE AND SERIODS Smelt Firm Expects Big Season. KELSO, Wash., Oct. 11. (Special.) In anticipation of a heavy demand for smelt the coming Winter the Columbia River Smelt Company is building a new dock, more than doubling the capacity of its plant, and making other improve ments. A conveyor system will b built to carry the boxes of fish from the water's edge, where the boats land, to the dock. C. C. Ruckles is manager of the Columbia River Smelt Company ana . a. 3iatie is local manager. We can deliver green or dry slab- wood in any quantity promptly. Albina luel Co.. Broadway 3000, A "144. Adv. Geological Survey Admits Fail ure of Operators to Produce Enough to Supply Needs. OUTPUT IS INCREASED Ohio Consumers Protest Against Lifting; Embargo on Shipments to Canada Fuel Administration Takes Charge of Supply. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Existence of a general coal shortage was admitted tonight by the geological survey, which attributed the situation not to the failure of producers to do their best, but to the unprecedented demand. "The tremendous Increase in manu facturing and transportation activity this year," said a statement issued to day, "has created a demand for soft coal in excess of any In the past, an increase in demand that is difficult to measure in terms of tons, but that is certainly more than the 10 per cent by which production has- increased. To meet this demand the operators have been mining coal at a rate never be fore equaled. Output Has) Increased. "The shortage is not due to the failure of the soft coal mines to pro duce more coal than in the past, for the country on September 1 was about a month ahead of last year in output and is expected to finish the year with an Increase of 10 per cent over 1916, the banner year, and 25 per cent over 1915. "In the second week of July, 1917. the average daily production was more than 1.900,000 tons, the highest point yet attained." A serious coal shortage exists in Ohio, fuel administration officials were told today by a delegation of con sumers who came to Washington to protest against lifting the embargo on coal shipments to Canada. Of 200 towns in the state reporting, more than 100, the delegates said, are entirely with out coal and are unable to obtain sup plies. Pro-Rata Plan Ordered. Mayors of some towns, they said. have seized carloads of coal en route to the lakes and have apportioned it among the inhabitants. The fuel administration s first move toward a general apportionment of coal was made today in an order directing that mines along the Penn sylvania road system supply under a pro-rata plan all the coal the road needs. Later other roads will be sup plied in the same fashion and the final intention is to distribute coal among domestic users and industries where it is most essential. E. M. House will head a staff of ex perts. General Tasker H. Bliss. Army Chlef-of-Staff, has received his commission as General and now wears four stars on each shoulder, the insignia of his new rank. General Pershing's commis sion to similar rank has been for warded to him in France. Foreign. Premier Lloyd George was unable to fulfill an engagement to attend a din ner to the delegates to the allied pen sion conference "owing to urgent mat ters of state affecting the allies." Copenhagen reports a large subma-1 rine passing through the Little Belt; nuuLuwit.ru in . uaQiy aamagea condi tion. Both port and starboard quar ters and the stern of the submarine gave evidence of a severe engagement. At BrailofT, in the government of Podolsk, 200 persons have been burned to death in a vodka factory. Soldiers looting the factory set Are to 1000 gal lons of spirits in the cellar, where thry were trapped by the flames. Baron Fairfax, of Cameron, who for merly resided in New York, the Earl of Lindsay and Lord Forbes are elected by the Scottish Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. Lord Fairfax was formerly Albert Kirby Fairfax, mem ber of the firm of William P. Bon bright & Co.. of New York and Lon don. His mother was the daughter of Colonel Edmund Kirby, of the United States. The Chinese government, replying to the representatives of the entente al lies concerning China's entry into war. thanks allies for their postponement of payment of the Boxer indemnity, the revision of the Boxer protocol and the revision of the customs tariff, promises to give facilities for unlimited supplies for the allies and for the recruiting of skilled labor, will observe the strictest control of ' enemy subjects and will prohibit any possible trading with the enemy. President Bernardino Machado. of Portugal, and M. Poincare, the French President, lunched in one of the case ments at Verdun, while detachments from the army rendered honors in front of the citadel. General Korovnitchenko has arrived at Tashkent, the capital of Russian Turkestan, and arrested the rebellious Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, to gether with the Governor they had nominated. The Bordeaux Socialist Congress passed resolutions. 1500 to 52, favoring the Stockholm Conference, Socialist representation In the Cabinet, a more vigorous national defense policy and a revision of the war objects of the allies. INTRIGUES STIR ARGENTINA Government Expected to Stop Pro posed Neutrality Demonstration. BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 10. People of Argentine are much concerned over dis closures of German intrigues to bring about a conflict between Brazil. Ar gentina and Uruguay. Senor Carlos Rodriguez Larretta. the former Argentine Minister of Finance, declares in a published article today that a Von Luxburg dispatch, which has not yet been made public, refers to such intrigues. The government is expected to take measures to prevent a proposed neu trality demonstration next Friday. World Briefs for Busy Folk. Domestic. EIGHTY-THREE American Jews re turned from Palestine by State Department aid declare Jews in Jeru salem are starving because there is no money to buy food. With the enormous total of nearly 240,000.000 cans of peas turned out this year, the food administration announces "there is no excuse for extortionate prices." Early in November approximately 40,000 men at Camp Lewis will receive pay for Army service. The first quota men, who arrived at camp eariy in September, will receive nearly two months' pay. Oklahoma's State Examiner asserts the State Board of Agriculture has spent $78,000 belonging to the state treasury, that there is a deficit of thou sands of dollars in the boards funds and that the board has many over drafts in state and private banks. The Right Rev. Paul Jones, bishop of Salt Lake diocese of the Episcopal Church, has been asked to resign be cause of his alleged unpatriotic atti tude. Rev. Francis R. Bateman, for 12 years pastor of the St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Helena, and chair man of the standing committee of the diocese of Montana, has accepted a call to St. Clement's, Seattle, Wash. The National Council of the Congre gational Church of the United States elects Rev. Horace Day, of Bridgeport. Conn., moderator to succeed H. M. Beardsley, of Kansas City. The Signal Corps faces such a serious problem in supplying lenses for cameras for the great fleet of observa tion airplanes now being built for serv ice with the American Army in France that the chief signal officer issues an appeal to private owners to enlist their lenses In the Army. Systematic collection of economic, historical, political and other informa tion on European conditions to be used eventually in peace negotiations is planned by President Wilson. Colonel TWO PLOTTERS SENTENCED Conspirators Held for Sinking Ship Get Prison Terms. AIKEN, S. C., Oct. 11. Paul Wierse. editorial writer of -the Charleston S. C.) American, and Captain Klattenhoff, of the German steamship Llebenfels, were convicted in Federal Court here today of conspiracy to sink the ship in Charleston harbor and sentenced to two years In the Federal prison at At lanta and to pay a fine of $1000 and costs each. The Llebenfels was sunk Just before diplomatic relations with Germany were broken, presumably on orders of the German government. , Good Clothes $15 and $18 Men, there are no better clothes at the price than these there are many not so good. I buy these clothes at a close price, yet I pay for the extra quality and consequent ex tra service. I sell at a closer margin than the ordinary dealer. You receive the benefit. Come in and see these fully guaranteed clothes. -OMorrison Street at FourttiS- Beginning Saturday, Oct. 13, this store will close at 8 P. M. on Saturday evenings. MOTOR TRUCK JOYS Council of National Defense Delighted "With New Auto. FIRST ORDER IS FOR 10,000 Within Few Months Factories All Over United States Will Be Build ing Parts Enough to Assemble 8000 Machines in 30 Days. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Details of the development of the Government's new war motor-truck, announced to night by the Council of National De fense, reveal an accomplishment that officials declare Is second only to the production of the liberty aviation motor. Two of the trucks have been com pleted and are on their way to Wash ington for inspection. They are of three tons capacity, although engi neers who helped in their development say they can carry five tons. The truck is of standardized con struction and its parts will be made in probably 60 factories throughout the country. The Nation's best auto mobile engineers worked together on its design and it is declared to be the best ever produced in any country. Later the Government plans to pro duce standardized trucks of one and one-half tons and three-quarter ton capacity. The Government's first order calls for 10,000 of the new trucks. Within a few months the country can turn out. it was said today. 8000 a month. After January 1 the truck will be the only one of three tons capacity used by the Army, although smaller ones will be used until they, too, are standardized. Brigadier-General Chauncey B. Baker, of the quartermaster's department, in charge of motor transportation, pointed out that standardization of motor transport in France will save the American Army the necessity of main taining Immense supply stations. The new truck has less than 7500 parts, while the allied forces keep in stock more than 2.000.000 parts for their various kinds of motor vehicles. Los Angeles Bakers Convicted. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 11. Nine baking firms and nine members of the individual firms were convicted by a jury here late today for conspiring to fix bread prices in violation of the terms of the state anti-trust law. A IMPORTANT NOTICE! "You will have to vacate by October 31st" was the notice served on me by the landlord a few days ago. Being unable to secure a suitable location at short notice I am compelled to choose between two things either store my stock or sell it out at what it will bring. I have decided on the latter course, and beginning Saturday morning I will offer my entire stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and Silverware at reductions ranging from 15 to 50. Kindly bear in mind these facts: My stock is not of the sort usually to be found at the ordinary sort of "jewelry sales," but will compare very favorably with any to be found in this city, and that the in spection of the Portland Ad Club is invited. HERMAN J. ALTSTOCK 141 Broadway, Between Alder and Morrison Open Evenings CHILDREN'S SHOES Children's Shoes 15,000 pairs in stock. 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