Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 4, 1906, Page 4

% | Late News of the World By Wire Domestic--Foreign--Financial--Social--Political and Commercial % TO MY |cusTomers and the people of Bemidji and vicinity I wish to express my sincere thanks for the patronage extended and courtesy shown me in the past. I also wish to announce that I have removed my stock to 212 Third street, where 1 now occupy a large lighted room with a most complete . line of clothing, shoes, hats and caps, and men’s furnish- ing goods and haberdashery. It will always be a pleas- ure to me to show goods; whether you buy or not you will always be welcome to see what I have. I will, by handling good honest goods and selling them at the right price, try to merit your further valuable patronage and assure you my aim will be to please you. HONEST 600DS, RIGHT PRIGES, COURTEOUS TREAT- MENT WILL BE MY MOTTO. CLOTHING You are perhaps aware of the fact that this year all clothing is higher on account of the high price of wool, nevertheless it is within everybody’s reach to get from us a well-made stylish woolen suit and overcoat. The care which we used in selecting our patterns and styles together with the price we make on them will con- vince you that you can do no better than ‘get your cloth- ing here. A nobby single or double breasted worsted or cashmere suit (wool) second to none, at $20. These suts o come in check, plaids or stripes, custom made and guaran- teed to give satisfaction in every.respect. These are especially suitable for business and professional men. Our line of suits at $15 is our special pride and they will suit you as well as they did us. We also carry a snappy line of Boys' and Children’s suite and overcoats from $2.50 to $5.00. We venture to say that in Men'’s Furnishing goods for fall and winter nothing like ours has ever been shown before in this city; it is a most complete line of everything. We wish especially to call your attention to our line of sweaters and shirts and underwear, from the medium grade to the very best money can buy. Itis a pleasure to wear the nice soft hand- finished all-woolen underwear we sell at per suit, $4 00; and also our light-weight negligee shirts, fancy patterns at $2.50. HABERDASHERY of all kinds. Our line of neckwear can’t be beat. Beauti- ful patterns and correct styles. - In the MAYER SHOE we have found an article that for style, A quality and fit cannot be surpassed. The very best material with the most skilled labor has here produed a shoe that has gained an enviable reputation in the shoe world. It will suit the most exact as far as comfort, style and wear goes. In these shoes 1t is QUALITY FIRST, then the lowest consistent prices. Prices $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00. In working shoes we handle the well known CHIPPEWA | FALLS HANDMADE SHOE, which does notineed any introduction in this locality. They range according to quality from $2.25 to $5.00. L.GOLDBERG 212 THIRD STREET, BEMIDJI The Innkeeper of England. England’s unpopularity with the The Great Cocker. Englishman—and the American—is | Glancing through a plle of ancient largely due to the country Innkeeper, | COPY books and letter writers, one dim- “If any class of public servant ought | 1y realizes what an awful thing it used to be made to pass an examination It | to be to compose and put upon paper is certainly the licensed victualer,” |8 thoroughly correct epistle. It was writes V. V. V. in the London Bphere, | DOt an affair to be lightly taken in for at present any man may ohtain a | hand any more than matrimony. No, license without any knowledge of | Dot even if one had learned penman- cooking, housekeeping, sanitation—any ) ship from the immortal Cocker himself knowledge of anything but of the due | In bis house In “Paul's Churchyard, be- pulling of a beer handle. Moreover, his | twixt the Signes of the Sugar-Loaf and wife may be the most Incompetent of | the Naked Boy and Shears.” Cocker’s o housewives, even for her own family. | fame rests on his arithmetic, now ob- On the continent Innkeeping is an art | solefe, but the worthy man, besides be- to be studied. In England it is too [Ing a ready reckoner, was also a often the refuge of the man who wants | mighty penman. Doubtless many a an easy chalr to sit In. seventeenth century youth toiled along with inky fingers under his direction. Hearken to what the master says to him: “Let not your breast lie on the desk you write on or your nose on the paper, but sit in as majestical a posture as you can. With practice you ’ may do brave things.”—London Malil, An Hour Before Dawna. A curlous mystery is the temporary — uneasiness of animals about an hour before dawn, no matter at what hour this occurs. Children turn and moan, elderly people awaken and turn over for another sleep, cocks crow, dogs be- come uneasy and horses and cattle move about for a short period, when stillness returns for a time. What is the cause? Are the animals affected by some magnetic wave which pre- cedes sunlight an hour or so, or Is the habit one of heredity passed down through numberless generations from an original wild state, when an alert- ness just before daylight was neces- sary for protection from enemfies? The Great Lake Citlen. Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit and Milwaukee, with Duluth and Su- perior thrown in at the head of the greatest lake and many thriving ports on Lake Erie added, are a unique sec- tlon of the urban life of America. Thelr rate of growth ls the highest maintained in any group of citles. Thelr death rate is phenomenally low. it sonl Thelr proportion of home owners is An Explanation, extraordinary. Thelr totals and gains Joe—But, wmy dear fellow, Is your in- {In savings bank deposits are almost come enough to justify your marrying? unparalleled, They are handsome cities Fred—I'm afrald not. Joe—Then what aga group, full of enterprise and actiy- reason have you for taking so serious | ity, fairly eloquent with the spirit of 8 step? Fred—I have no reason. I'm |prosperity and progress. — Cleveland Leader. n love. .MM HILL SAID TO CONTROL GEORGE M, CUMMINGS BECOMES CHAIRMAN OF WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILWAY, SEVERAL DIRECTORS ALSO RETIRE NEW DEAL INVOLVING A NUM: BER OF SMALLER NORTH. WESTERN LINES, Milwaukee, Oct. 4.—The Journal says that Chairman Bull of the Wis- consin Central railway has resigned and is to be succeeded by George M. Cummings. In connection with ru- mors concerning the control of the Wisconsin Central it is stated that Mr. Cummings was recommended for the chairmanship by the Milwaukee Southern railway, one of the proposed connecting links in the rumored com- bination of the Walsh railway, Wis- consin Central and Hill roads.’ New York, Oct. 4.—George M. Cum mings, who, it was announced here during the day, will succeed Chair- man Bull of the Wisconsin Central railroad directorate, is president of the United States Mortgage and Trust company of this city. John Crosby Brown, James C. Colgate and Gerald Hoyt resigned as directors, but no successors to them were chosen. YOUNG ROOSEVELT SUMMONED, Grand Jury to Probe Assault on Bos- ton Policeman. Boston, Oct. 4—Shaun Kelley of Fitchburg, the roommate of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at Harvard, appeared in the municipal court during the day and pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault upon a police officer. At the request of his counsel the case was continued until Oct. 10. The charge against Kelley is based upon an incident which occurred on Boston common last Thursday night, when Patrolman Freyer was knocked down by young men said to be Har vard students. Roosevelt and another student, Meredith Blagden, have been summoned to_appear as witnesses in connection with the same case, which will be investigated by the Suffolk county grand jury. Attorneys representing Kelley and Roosevelt called upon District Attor- ney Moran to request him to discon tinue the grand jury investigation ot the case, but Mr. Moran stated that the witnesses must go before the grand jury. The district attorney said that it was the duty of young Mr. Roosevelt and the others to give the court information as to the identity of the person who had assaulted the offi- cer. As they had failed to do this Mr. Moran sald he considered .it his duty to bring the case before the grand Jury. ACCUSED OF FORGERY. Young Woman Secures $1,000 on Two Bogus Checks. Galesburg, I, Oct. 4—A young woman who gave her name at Knox college as -Emma Burns of Minneap- olis and at her boardinghouse as Flor- ence Scott is in jail charged with pro- curing $1,000 on two forged checks at the First National bank here. She is an attractive appearing girl of. twenfy and secured the money from the bank by representing that she was going to college and by showing a note from the college officials. Last week she tried to obtain $5,000 from a Mon- mouth bank by similar deception. Offi- cers are busy trying to solve the mys- tery of her identity and whether she had an accomplice. She spent money prodigally here. In her counfession she claimed that a man accomplice compelled her un- der threat of death to procure the money, but she refuses to divulge his identity. . JAILER LOCKED IN A CELL. Eight Prisoners Escape From Lockup at Newark, O. Newark, 0., Oct. 4 —Eight prisoners broke out ot the Licking county jail after making a vicicus assault upon the turnkey, Christopher Galvin, and locking him in a cell. The jailer had unlocked the front door leading to the corridor for the purpose of locking two men in their cells after the pris- oners had scrubbed the jail. As soon as he entered the door he was as- saulted and locked in a cell after his keys and revolver had been taken away. President Is Delighted, New York, Oct. 4—Stories brought ashore- by United States sailors at Provincetown, Mass., are to the effect that President Roosevelt was enthusi- astic over the fine showing made by the gunners of the battleship Missouri in target practice. The showing made ‘with the big guns was especially pleas- ing to him. Americans Will Be Executed. El Paso, Tex., Oct. 4—A special to the Heraid from Chihuahua says the Mexican supreme court has handed down a' decision afirming the death sentence in case of Richardson, Harle and Mason, the New York Life Insur- ance company ‘swindlers. They will 8TATE TROOPS ON DUTY. Result of Attempted Lynching at Mo- bile, Ala, Mobile, Ala, Oct. 4.—Excitement eontinues high over the attack upon the jail by a mob and the death of Roy Hoyle, a speclal policeman. Three companies of militia ordered here from Fort Deposit, Evergreen and Brewer arrived early in the day and are now astationed about the city. The negro, Dick Robinson, sought by the mub has been placed béyond the clutches of the people of Mobile. ‘While there is a general feeling of condemnation for the mob, which, without excuse or reason, opened fire on the jail, there is a strong feeling that something must be done and done soon to stamp out such crimes as Rob- inson’s. They have been frequent here of late and the indignation and wrath of the white people Is so intense that any trivial episode may at any minute cause a serious outbreak. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 4—Two dep- uty sheriffs from Mobile reached Bir- mingham during the day having in charge Dick Robinson, the negro youth who is alleged to have assaulted Ruth Sossaman, a twelve-year-old white girl, near that city and because of which crime a mob attempted to storm the Mobile jail. Robinson was placed in the Jefferson county jail for safe- keeping. He denies his guilt. S8HOT BY SISTER'S LOVER. New Yorker Objected to Visitor and Is Fatally Wounded. New York, Oct. 4—Herbert Part- ridge was shot three times in the apartments of his sister, with whom he mude his home, and probably will die. The shooting was done by Charles Johns, a stenographer, whose attentions to Mrs. Jennie Smith, Part- ridge’s widowed sister, were objected to by Partridge. Coming home early in’ the day Partridge found Johns in the apartments and in a rage seized a carving knife, with.which he attacked Johns. In the struggle the knife blade was broken, but Partridge continued the attack. Then, according to Mrs. Smith’s story, Johns drew a revolver and fired three times, each bullet striking Partridge in the body. Johns disappeared after the shooting and Partridge was taken to a hospital, where his case was said to be critical. -~ When Mrs. Smith was questioned in police court she told the magistrate that- Partridge was not her brother, although she had introduced him as such.in the house in which they lived. “He is a friend of the family who used to live with,us when my hus- band was with me,” she told the court, NUMBER OF MEN WOUNDED. Canadian Pacific Freight Handlers At- tack Strikebreakers. Fort William, Ont., Oct. 4—A num- ber of armed striking freight handlers, Greeks and Italians, surrounded the Canadian Pacific Railway company’s boardinghouse in which were fifty strikebreakers, brought here from Winnipeg. The boardinghouse was defended by twenty of the company’s police. A large number of shots were fired and one constable was wounded and several of the strikers were shot in the legs. After the trouble a deputation of strikers interviewed the mayor. Later the strike was called off uncondition- ally so far as the Greeks and Italians were concerned. BY RUSH OF FLAMING GAS. Four Men Killed and Eight Seriously Injured. Baltimore, Oct. 4—Four men were killed and eight others injured, two perhaps fatally, in an accident at the ‘works of the Maryland Steel company at Sparrows Point. Three of the dead are negroes.” '° The victims were overwhelmed by a rush of flaming gas agnd coke.from a hole in one of the blast furnaces caused by the forcing out of its socket of a casting which holds the com- pressed air pipe. The men had just put in a new air pipe and the blast had been turned on about ten minutes when the accident occurred. There was no.explosion and the furnace was not damaged. NUMBER OF MEN KILLED. Explosion of Gas in Steel Works at Pueblo, Colo, Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 4—Two men are known to have been killed and two fa- tally injured as the result of an ex- plosion of gas at blast furnace “E” of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company’s steel works here. It is believed that several others are buried beneath the debris. The furnace has been in op- eration only a year and cost about $1,000,000. It is'not known how badly it is damaged. ACTRESS ROBBED ON TRAIN. ! Lillian Russell Loses $5,000 in Cash “and Diamonds. Springfield, 0., Oct. 4—Lillian Rus- sell, the actress, was robbed of a satchel containing $5,000 in money and diamonds on a Big Four train. Miss Russell was sitting in a Pullman car when an unknown man picked up the satchel while the actress was look- ing out of the window. Unions In_ Bitter Contest. ‘Chicago, Oct. 4.—A fight between the Brotherhood of Carpenters and the Amalgamated Woodworkers’ Interna- tional union, with Chicago as the prin- cipal battleground, threatens to close | many mills in Chicago and throw more | than 8,000 ‘workmen out of smploy-| " to the British royal family, the brother DISARMAMENT CONTINUES. No Trouble Reported in Any Section of Cuba. Havana, Oct. 4—The disarming of the rebel forces in the immediate vicinity of Havana continues without opposition. Many of the men were allowed to keep arms which they claimed were their personal property. Special trains during the day will con- vey the disbanded troops homeward. No trouble is reported to have oc- curred in any parts of the island. There is some incendiary talk of resistance to the laying down of arms in various parts of the island, but Governor Taft and the commissioners charged with the supervision of.the IN SHADOW OF PALAGE REVOLUTIONISTS ATTACK THE BRANCH CUSTOMHOUSE AT 8T. PETERSBURG. AFFAIR CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT OCCURS ON ONE OF MOST FRE- QUENTED THOROUGHFARES Of THECLTYs the situation as befng well In hand. General Rodriguez, commander of the rural guards, reported that the situa- tion around Havana is quiet. Major Ladd of the disarmament commission and the insurgent commanders are working in the rain, accomplishing the sending home and dispersal of the insurgents. Mrs. Taft Going to Cuba. ‘Washington, Oct. 4—Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon, who are now in New York, have telegraphed to Washington that they will proceed at once to Miami, Fla., to sail next Sunday from that place for Havana in accordance with the request of Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon. 8t. Petersburg, Oct. 4—A bold at- tack made by a number of revolution- ists on the cashier of the branch cus- tomhouse here was frustrated by the quick action of the police, who cap- tured several of the attacking party after a fusillade during which one man is reported to have been killed. The firing occurred at the bourse end of the palace bridge, one of the most frequented thoroughfares in the city, situated hardly 100 yards from the winter palace and the admiralty. The affair caused great excitement among the operators on the bourse and the general public. The cashier was returning in a car- riage from the treasury with over $10,000 for the payment of the salaries of the customs employes when two armed men with revolvers sprang at the horse’s head and seven others surrounded the vehicle and covered the cashier with their revolvers. The police apparently had advance infor- mation of the plot, for they imme- diately surrounded and opened fire on the revolutionists, who answered the fire and attempted to flee, but ran into the arms of a squad of plain clothes policemen. One of the revolutionists was killed and five® were arrested, three of them being students in uni- form. Three men escaped. The man killed was a mere youth. 7 The attempted robbery occurred at the exact spot where the saluting bat- tery, Jan. 19, 1905, fired a charge of grape at. Emperor Nicholas at the time of the ceremony of blessing the waters of the Neva. COURTSMARTIAL NUMEROUS. PREDICTS EARLY HOME RULE, O'Connor, M. P, Addresses United Irish League. Philadelphia, Oct. 4—In anticipa- tion of hearing a speech by T. P. O’Connor, M. P, the Irish leader, the hall in which the national convention of the United Irish league of America is being held was crowded early in the day by delegates and Irish sym- pathizers. Mr. O'Connor spoke for more than an hour. He reviewed the work being done in the British parliament in the cause of Irish home rule and predict- ed that Ireland wiil soon emerge from British rule and have its own home government. Colonel John F. Finerty of Chicago, president of the league, has an- nounced that he will not accept a re- nomination, but it is said, however, that he probably will be re-elected without opposition. PEAVEY COMPANY FAVORED, T. P. Other Grain Buyers Placed at a Dis- advantage. Chicago, Oct. 4—E. O. Moffett of -the Moffett Commission company of Kansas City, Mo., was the first wit- ness at the day’s session of the inter- state commerce commission, which is investigating alleged rebates on grain. Moffett testified that owing to an al- lowance of 1% cents per hundred weight, which he declared is given by the Union Pacific Railroad company to the Peavey Elevator company, which has a number of elevators in Nebras- ka, the elevator company is enabled to bid a higher price on the Kansas City board of trade for grain shipping points on the Union Pacific line than are other traders. In’ this way, says Moffett, other traders are placed at a great disadvantage. WOULD REFUSE SENATORSHIP. Woodrow Wilson Prefers to Remain at Princeton. New York, Oct. 4—A local paper publishes a cablegram from Woodrow ‘Wilson, professor of Princeton uni- versity, saying he could not leave Priuceton to take a seat in the United States senate. The following cable- gram was sent to President Wilson: “Your name is being used as a can- didate for United States senator from New Jersey. Did you authorize this?” President Wilson’s reply, sent from Ambleside, Eng., reads: “Did not authorize use of my name. Very much complimented that I should be thought of for senator, but I could not leave my work at Prince- ton.” TAUGHT ANARCHY TO YOUNG. Head of Spanish School Implicated in Attack on King Alfonso, Madrid, Oct. 4—The attorney gen- eral, in presenting in court the case of Senor Ferrer, director of the Modern School of Barcelona, who is charged with being connected with the attempt upon the life of King Alfonso May 31 last, submitted evidence to prove that the prisoner, under the name of the *Modern School,” conducted an estab- lishment for teaching ' anarchy to youths, was privy to Manuel Morales’ -plot to assassinate King Alfonso, aid- ed Morales with money and assisted n concealing and disguising the would- be assassin after the bomb explosion of May 31. 2 Women Attack Strikebreakers. ‘Wichita, Kan,, Oct. 4—Eleven wo- men, wives of striking union linemen of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone company, attacked nonunion linemen with clubs and stones. The linemen and the officials of the company fled. L, F. Duggan, district manager for the ‘company, was struck several times by the women. One workman was knocked down. Miners Threaten to Strike. Spring Hill, N. 8., Oct. 4—A strike of the 1,500 employes of the Spring Hill coal mines is probable by next Monday. The unions demand an ad- vance in wages and notice has been Biven that unless the demand is grant- Reveal” Fact That Baltic Fleet Was Honeycombed With Sedition. St. Pefersburg, Oct. 4.—Following the sentences imposed on M. Onipko, one of the leaders of the peasant party in the outlawed parliament, and the mutineers tried at Cromstadt, which have been confirmed by General Ad- lerberg, commandant of the fortress, the courtmartial at Cronstadt has be- gun the trial of the three ringleaders of the mutiny on board the torpedo gunboat Kezenet Aug. 2. Next week the court will begin trying 295 mem- bers of the crew of the battleship Alexander II, who refused to obey Captain Petroff’s orders to enter the ship’s boats and assist in suppressing the mutiny at Cronstadt. A courtmartial at Libau has- found twenty-three sailors of the transport Riga guilty of mutiny and has sen- tenced them to various terms of im- prisonment at hard labor. The seri- ousness of the August mutiny was re- vealed at the courtsmartial since held at Cronstadt, Helsingfors, Reval, Riga, Libau and practically every Baltic port, showing that the whole fleet was honeycombed with sedition. An unreported mutiny of the Twen- ty-first East Siberian regiment, which distinguished itself in several battles in Manchuria, has been disclosed by the verdict of a courtmartial held at Blagovieshtchenski, Asiatic Russia, which has sentenced six -of the ring- leaders to death, three others to hard labor and nineteen to serve various terms in disciplinary battalions. Russian Officer Slain in Court. St. Petersburg, Oct. 4—During the trial of the second section of the troops who mutinied at Askaban in June an unknown man entered the courtroom and killed the judge advo- cate, General Rinkevich, and attempt- ed to shoot the president of the court, General Ushakoffsky. The assassin was shot down by an officer. RELATED TO BRITISH ROYALTY. Englishwoman Murdered in Public Park at Essen, Prussia. Essen, Prussia, Oct. 4.—A great sen- sation has been caused here by the murder of Miss Madeline Lake, daugh- ter of an English army officer, whos: mutilated body was found in the city’ pnk‘ds to the present the police have unable to throw any light on the mystery surrounding the young ‘woman's death. The excitement caused by this crime in a public park almost in daylight has been increased by, the fact that the inquirfes of the police have result- ed in seemingly establishing the fact that Miss Lake was related, distantly, _— e & P B R - - of her grandmother, it is stated, hav- ! Ing married a daughter of CaroHne Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick, the divorced wife of George 1V. of Eng- land. Anarchist Meets Italian King. New York, Oct. 4.—A cable dispatch from Milan, Italy, states that excite- ment has been caused by the discov- ery that the notorious anarchist, Dut- ed work will cease next week. The to, lately gained admission to the pal- mine owners have offered an advance ace at Racconigl and ' shook of 5 per cent, bu ona decling disarmament of the insurgents regard | ‘them to do so. Del Castillo has not WINTHROP 1S CHOSEN SELECTED TO SUCCEED SECRE- TARY TAFT A8 PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR OF CUBA. MAGOON GOES TO THE PHILIPPINES DECISION TO SEND THE LATTER TO CUBA RECONSIDERED BY THE PRESIDENT, ‘Washington, Oct. 4.—After a talk at the White House with Governor Ma goon the president reconsidered the plan he had formed of sending the judge to Cuba as civil governor and decided that in view of the fact that Secretary Taft had already taken up the subject with Beekman Winthrop. the present governor of Porto Rico, he would not interfere with the pro- gramme. Consequently Mr. Winthrop will be provisional governor of Cuba and J#@ze Magoon, after a short vaca- tion in this country, will, as originally planned, go to the Philippines as vice governor and member of the Philip- pine commission. At the president’s request General Franklin J. Bell, chief of staff, will proceed as soon as possible to Havana to consult with Secretary Taft as to the disposition of the American troops. NO EXPENSE TO BE SPARED. Taft Orders Cuba Put in First Class Sanitary Condition. Havana, Oct. 4—Dr. Barnett, chiet executive officer of the Cuban.health department, said during the day: “Governor Taft has told us to use any amount of money needed for put- ting Cuba into a first class sanitary condition and for stampting out yel low fever. Consequently we are in- stalling sanitary brigades at Pinar del Rio, Guanajay, Cardenas, Colon, Un- fon de Reyes, Sagua la Grande, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus, Camaguay, Santiago, Guantanamo. Manzanillo, Remedios and Gibara. All these towns will have ample oiling and disinfecting brigades. We have not submitted to Mr. Taft any esti mate of the expense. He considers that the work must be done and it will be done. In Havana nowthere are three cases of yellow fever, one of which came from Guanabacoa. There are no cases elsewhere in the island and there is no special epidemic threatened, but precautions are urgent- Iy necessary. The disinfecting force in Havana already has been increased from 70 to 195 men and the oiling brigade in Havana is being increased to 200 men. There are 200 men now at work at Camp Columbia engaged in a quick but thorough job of disinfec- tion and mosquito extermination in preparation for its occupancy by American troops.” Mr. Taft’s force is engaged in mov- ing his office effects from the Amer- ican legation to the palace, the govern- ment departments are engaged in their usual work. DENIED BY GOVERNOR TAFT. Did Not Use Expressions Credited to Him in Press Dispatch. Havana, Oct. 4—In an interview Governor Taft said that a recent dis- patch of the Associated Press in which he was represented as criticising the Palma government severely and char- acterizing the situation as disgusting and the elections of 1905 as rotten does great injustice and unless cor- rected will cause embarrassment, since he scrupulously ayoided--giving Interviews respecting his views of per- sons and issues in the Cuban situa- tion, He did not use the expressions attributed to him. The error arose through the faulty transmission ot news over the telephone by which the inferences of a correspondent were mistakenly attributed to.Mr. Taft. ASK QUESADA TO REMAIN. Taft and Root Join in Request to Cu- “ban Minister. ‘Washington, Oct. 4—Secretary Root has sent to the Cuban minister here, Senor Quesada, a copy of a cablegram which he received from Secretary Taft at Havana in which he says that he “hopes that Quesada will not think of resigning, that his services will be of the greatest value to Cuba in the present crisis.” Secretary Root adds for himself: *“With hopeful courage and determination on the part of Cu- ba’s real friends all of this wretchad business will soon be over.” The minister is preparing a letter in reply, undertaking to remain at least temporarily. SITUATION STILL SERIOUS. ‘Insurgents Continue to Concentrate Around Santiago. Santiago, Oct. 4.—It 18 reported that 2,000 rebels in the vicinity of Guan- tanamo have refused to disarm. The situation here is still serious. The revolutionists continue to concen- trate around Santiago. They promise to disarm if General del Castillo orders arrived, but is expected now at any * Officers from the cruiser Des Moines lally \ o ] —