Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1905, Page 1

h THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Desiness Office 11th Street and Pennsylvacis Avenue. The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 8. H KAUFFMANN, President. New York Office: Tribune Building. Chicago Office: Tribune Building. ‘The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edi. tion, te delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month; without the Sunday morsing edb tion at 44 cents per month. Ry mail. fe prepald: ‘ucluded, one month. 60 cents, excepted, one month, 60 cente, . $1.00, Che Zvening Star. No. 16,406. WASHINGTON, D. C, THE PEACE SITUATION President’s Intercession Will Prolong the Parley. THEATTITUDEOF JAPAN MUST UNDERGO CHANGE TO EF- FECT A SETTLEMENT. Disposition of Sakhalin Island the Basis Upon Which Final Agree- ment Can Be Made. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., August 26.—Pres!- Gent Roosevelt's intercession at Peterhof and Tokyo has not been successful as yet. but enough progress has been made to In- sure the prolongation of the negotiations beyond today. A certain result has been achieved at St. Petersburg, but if there is eventually to be peace Japan also must change her attitude. The repurchase of the northern half of Sakhalin Island still points the clear road to the only possible compro- mise, but it must be a purely commercial transaction, not a claim for indemnity in disguise. There had not been the slightest indica- tion up to 11 o'clock this morning that Emperor Nicholas would recede from nls announced determination not to pay tribute under any form. And in the quarters most competent to Judge there is not the slight- est prospect of a change. But if Japan would bend, if she would re- nounce formally her demand for “‘reim- Dursement for the cost of the war’ by the withdrawal of the price she sets upon the northern half of Sakhalin and frankly made the proposition to sell the island on a com- mercial basis it is difficult to see how Em- peror Nicholas, having already acceded to the other conditions proposed, could refuse, Japan and Magnanimity. Japan, it !s argued, could afford to be magnanimous to avoid wounding the sensi- bilities of her adversary, and Russta could with dignity come to an accord upon such a basis. Japan could not obtain what she desires, perhaps, but the amount she could secure from the sale added to what she could obtain from the Chinese-Eastern rail- roed and the maintenance of the Russian prisoners would certainly cover a consider- able portion of the cost of the war. The frank renunciation of the disguised claim for indemnity would — greatly strengthen also M. Witte’s position by enabling him within the letter of his in- structions to press for the acceptance of such a solution. ‘There is reason to believe that M. Witte himself has some such proposition in mind. m ve stated to a friend that in reserve a final proposition which nese refused to accept, he beltev- he held if the Jap ed would make it clear to the world that Japan, not Russia, was responsible for rup- ture. Witte’s Proposition. M. Witte’s proposition is safa@ not to be Mr. Roosevelt's. It can also be stated that unless an !mmediate solution 1s forthcom- ing, M. Witte does not favor dragging on the negotiations, Better for the cause of peace, in hfs opinion, to bring the confer- ence to an end. A ‘Then he believes Japan would come to a full realization of the fact that an indefinite war involving an immense expenditure stares her in the face because she refused to renounce her desire to humiliate Russia by forcing the payment of tribute. As a skilled and trained financier M. Witte dently counts much upon the exchequ argument. t 12 o'clock one of the Russian attaches was quoted as saying that telegrams had been received from St. Pet burg, but they contained no word which would permit M. Witte to offer a counter proposition to the Japan pre , and that unless the Japanese a new proposal the confer- ence was doomed and would mark the final ru THE NORWAY-SWEDEN CRISIS. Committee Named at Stockholm to Negotiate Dissolution. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 26.—The commissioners appointed to negotiate with ard to the solution of the union of y were today announced an Lundeberg, the mier; A Wachtmetster, min- of foreign affairs; M. Staaf, member he cabinet without portfolio, and M. Hammarskjold, minister of education and ecclesiastical affatrs, For Norway--Premier Michelson, foreign minister; Loevland C, C. Berner, president of the storthing, and M. Vogt, former min- ister of r. The c ers will hold their first meeting at ad August 31 SS FATAL COLORADO FLOODS. Thirteen Lives Known to Have Been Lost. TRINIDAD, Col. August 26.—Thirteen Yves are known to have been lost in the the oudburst near To- . in the canyon north of this city, and the list of dead may be in- creased, Reports are sttll current that more than thirty persons are missing. “They are main- ly foreigners who were employed in ‘the coal mines. Twent houses Were wash- ed away at Tobasco, twenty-one of which were occupied by Italians and eight by Americans. a ee THE MOROCCAN ISSUE. German Reply Delivered to Premier Rouvier Today. PARIS, August 2.—Prince Von Radolin, the German ambassador, called at the for- elgn office today and delivered to Premier Rouvier the reply of Germany to the French note concerning the program to be discussed at the Moroccan conference. The amb dor remained for an extend- ed discussion of the question, which ts con- sidered to have somewhat ‘coved as AT THE CZAR'S COURT Ambassador Meyer's Audi- ence With Minister Lamsdorff ON PEACE PROPOSALS REPORTED NO DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING THE SITUATION. Both Governments Apparently Insist- ing Upon the Justice of Their Claims—Newspaper Comment. ST. PETERSBURG, Meyer, the American ambassador, today received a number of cablegrams from Washington, as the result of which he call- ed on Foreign Minister Lamsdorff this aft- ernoon. The foreign office announced at 2 p.m. that the situation was still unchanged and that there had been no developments over night affecting Russia's position. The Russ says: “It is self-evident that Japan is greatly in need of money and that she will not be able to continue the war without it, but Russia has no reason to pay an indemnity directiy or indirectly and will not do so. It may be that President Roosevelt will be able to find an outlet from the impasse. Americans can work miracles In matters of finance.” The Novoe Vremya says: “Cannot the for- tunes of war come our way? We have learned something in the last eighteen months and have strengthened our army and improved its equipment. If we pay an indemnity Japan will use our money in pre- paring to deliver a new blow. If the war Is a burden to Japan, let her stop it. It would pay her to do so and would insure a August 26.—Mm long peace for Japan and all her benevo- lent creditors.” OPPOSE CONCESSIONS. Tokyo Newspapers Urge Government to Continue the War. Bpectal Cablegram to The Star. TOKYO, August 26—The Tokyo news- papers in general strongly insist that in view of its tremendous sacrifices in blood and treasure the nation would not ac- quiesce in concessions at the expense of territorial demands. They urge the gov- ernment rather to break off the peace ne- gotiations and continue the war to the bit- ter end. The Nichi Nichi alone suggests the dis- mantling of Vladivostok and the granting of free navigation and commerce on the Amur by Russfa to Japan as alternatives for the concession of the Island of Sakhalin. Hitherto the high sentimentality which powerfully influences Japanese decisions seemed to render a second abandonment of Japan’s primitive rights ii Sakhalin im- possible. Late yesterday afternoon Premier Kat- sura, Lieut. Gen. Terauchl, the minister of war; Admiral Yammaoto, minister of ma- rine, and Stemi Chinda, general secretary of the ministry of foreign affairs, who is in charge of the department in the absence of Baron Komura, were closeted for sev- al hours with Marquis Ito at his official residence. During the conference Grand Chamberlain Tokudaji called, probably bearing instructions from the emperor. a PHILIPPINE Caen Acting Secretary of War Has Accepted Bid of Fisk & Robinson. The acting secretary of war has accepted the bld of Fisk & Robinson of New York for the purchase of $1,300,000 Philippine certificates of indebtedness at 101.64, a rate sigh ner than was received for the us issues of Philippine certifi- D lowing 1s a complete ist of the bids for these certificates: Fisk & Robinson, New York city, $1,500,- 000, 111.64; tional Bank, Washing- ton, Tr, C., $1,500,000, 101.5378; M. L. Turner, Oklanoma City, Okla., $1,500,000, 101.1225 Guar Trust Company of New York, New York ci $1,500,000, 100.93; Kountze Bros., New $1,500,000, 100.511; Harvey sk , New York city, $1,- 500,000, 100. George Nicbols, Rome, Pa., $5,000, University Publishing ‘Com: pany, $5,000, par; Colton. Rockefeller & Holsappe, $50,000, par; Second National Bank, Chestertown, Md., $10,000, par; Taze- well Company Bank, Delavan, Il, $15,000, par; Jesse Hendricks, North Wales, Pa., $16,000, 100.10. _— SEIZED BY JAPANESE. Consul General Miller’s Report on the Australia. United States Consul General Miller at Yokohama in a cable report to the State Department upon the subject of the recent seizure by Japanese warships of American merchantmen In the neighborhood of the berfan coast says: ne Australia (owned by Carl Spreckels) was seized b e Japanese off Petropavo- lovsk and is now at Yokohama. The au- have turned the crew over to the n consul general. The boat has been sent before a prize court and the legal proceedings will probably occupy some time. The captain and the crew state that they h no funds.” r also reports that the United States steamship Montana has been seized near Petropavoloysk, but gives no details. “FIREPROOF PLANT FOR COAL. Two Bids Opened at the Navy De- partment Today. Bids were opened this morning in the office of Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of ty result of Ger any’s rey SANTO DOMINGO CLAIMS. President’s Envoy for Investigation Arrived at San Juan. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, August 26,—Pro- fessor Jacob H. Hollander of Johns Hop- kins University, former treasurer of Porto Rico, who is making an investigation of the claims against the government of Santo Domingo fOr President Roosevelt, has ar- rived here on the cruiser Galveston from Santo Domingo City. After coaling the Galveston will proceed to other West Indian ports, probably St. ‘Thomas, the Leeward Islands and other points, which Professor HoHander desires to visit, before returaing to Santo Do- mingo, 2 EET EE the naval bureau of yards and docks, for the construction of a substantial fireproof plant, og steel, concrete or other fireproof materials, for receiving, storing and de- livering.coa} at the naval station, Olongapo, P. L, together with a fresh-water supply system, ete., for which work there is avail- able $500,000, appropriated by Congress. Competitive designs were submitted by J. G. White & Company, tncorporated, of New York city, whose bid was $499,500, and by Snare & Triest Company of New York, whose bid was $00,000 for each of four distinct plans. The specifications require that the entire work shall be completed in every respect and particular within thirty calendar months from the date of the sign- ing of the contract. ————-_—. ‘War Supply of Ammunition. Maj. Beverly W. Dunn of the ordnance department, stationed at the New York arsenal, Governor's Island, New York, has been ordered to Wilmington, Del., Septem- ber 5 to attend the meeting of the board on the subject of ammunition supply in time of war, and on the compilation of that duty he will return to his proper station, PEACE SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1905—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. TWO CENTS. Weather. Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow. PHOTOGRAPHY AT PORTSMOUTH. WATCH THE BIRDIE PEACE TERMS COMMENT| BERLIN DIPLOMATS FORES! A LONG SESSION AT PORTSMOUTH. BERLIN, August 26.—The impression in the foreign office today is that the negotia- tions at Portsmouth will not end immedi- ately. The Associated Press today received the following communication from the foreign office: “The foreign office empowers the Assoc!- ated Press to declare that all reports over the opposition of the emperor to the media- tion of President Roosevelt are absurd. The emperor regards the endeavors of the Pres- {dent with admiration and takes the great- est interest in the success of the labor for peace, in whose beginning the emperor per- sonally assisted.” COMMENT AT PARIS. Financial Status of Russia and Peace Conclusions. PARIS, August 26—Premier Rouvier had @ long talk at the foreign office today with M.. Jusserand, ambassador to the United States. Its nature has not been disclosed, but {t is presumed that it related to Ameri- can affairs and to the general status of the negotiations at Portsmouth. However, the government is not giving any outward signs of activity in connection with the peace conference, owing to the sensitiveness of French relations with Russia. Information from officials at St. Peters- burg shows that Ambassador Meyer's meet- ing with the emperor lasted only ten min- utes and was not productive of notable re- sults. The brevity of the meeting 1s looked upon as an unfavorable sign. Nevertheless government circles believe that Russia’s inability to raise more money for war purposes will prove a decisive fac- tor in compelling the conclusion of peace. Bince the French bankers recently refused a new loan on account of the uncertainties of the war their attitude has become more uncompromising against a prolongation of the struggle. This is due to the dangers of depression in the enormous French holdings of Rus- sian securities should the war go on indefi- nitely. Therefore, since the Paris money market is practically cut off for more war funds, it is the view in the highest quar- ters that peace has strong chances of real- ization through the financial inability of Russia to continue the war. The bourse today become sensitive over unfavorable reports from Portsmouth, Rus- sian fours declining 60 centimes and bonds of 1904 losing a franc. The market closed weak, owing to the depression In Russian securities. OREGON LAND FRAUDS. Federal Grand Jury Returned True Bills Against Thayer. PORTLAND, Ore., August 23.—The fed- eral grand jury investigating the Oregon lend frauds has returned true bills against Claude F. Thayer, the Tillamook capitalist, son of former Governor Thayer of this state, and several other operators indicted with him. The significance of this action 1s emphasized by the fact that when the in- dictment was returned there remained but six hours until the law would have become powerless to reach the crime. In September, 1899, approximately one hurdred persons made filings at the Oregon City land offize to enter timber. lands in Tillamook county, the lands being situated in the famous Nehalem valley. It ig alleged that Claude Thayer and his associates had secured a purchaser and the net profits were to be divided. ‘The allegations of fraud in the affidivitts of contest which were subse- quently filed, led to the order for an investi- gation. These cases involve more money value in, tin-ber lands than all the cases which hava been tried so far. ——_ SHONTS’ YACHT BURNED. Cause of Fire Charged to Explosion in Engine Room. MOBILE, Ala., August 26.—News was re- celved here last night that the fine yacht Marguedora, owned by President T. P. Shonts of the Panama canal commission, had burned at Carrabelle, Fla. She will not be rebuilt. The cause of the fire is sald to have been an explosion in the engine room. While at Carrabelle the entire crew deserted. Only a few days ago the private secretary of President Shonts was in this city trying to get new men. ——— ATTEMPT TO SWIM CHANNEL. Fifth Effort of T. W. Burgess This Morning. DOVER, England, August 26.—T. W. Bur- gess started this morning in a fifth attempt te swim the English channel, ONE BURNED TO DEATH DARING RESCUE OF 18 PERSONS FROM FIRE AT ERIE, PA. ERIE, Pa., August 26.—Capt. Patrick Mac- Mahon of the yacht Mystic was burned to death and eighteen persons were almost suffocated in a fire which started on the third floor of the Charles Beck block early today. The flames were seen bursting from the front windows, and when the firemen arrived they found the elghteen occupants of the building asleep and almost dead from suffocation. It was with much difficulty that they were finally gotten out of danger. When the room of Capt. MacMahon was entered he was found on the floor dead and his body partially burned. The fire started in Mac- Mahon’s room, and was probably caused by him leaving a lighted cigar stub on the floor when he retired. Capt. MacMahon was prominent in the marine interests and was recently distin- guished by receiving a medal from Con- gress for rescuing @ man who was drown- ing in the harbor. The monetary loss by the fire was not heavy. TURFMAN CONVICTED HEAVY SENTENCE IMPOSED UPON JOHN E. MADDEN IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, August 26.—John E. Mad- den, the Kentucky turfman, owner of sev- eral fast horses, two of which were entered in the futurity today, was convicted of crim- inal contempt of court, fined $250 and sen- tenced to serve thirty days in the Ray- mond street jail in Brooklyn today for ignoring a subpoena of the supreme court of this state. Madden was summoned to appear before a commissioner in Saratoga during the rac- ing season, there to be questioned in his wife’s suit for divorce, but failed to re- spond. Complaint against Madden, alleging con- tempt of court, was brought before Su- preme Court Justice Burr in Brooklyn to- day by counsel representing Mrs. Madden. The justice imposed the fine and sentence and deputy sheriffs were at once sent to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where Mr. Mad- den was supposed to have stopped last night, and to the Sheepshead Bay race track. ESE PROMOTION FOR HIX. Appointed General Superintendent of the Seabord Air Line. NORFOLK, Va., August 26.—President James M. Barr of the Seaboard Air Line raliway has issued a circular announcing th resignation of Major Frank Huger, long general superintendent of the Seaboard system, and the appointment in his place of Charles H. Hix, at present division super- intendent of the Seaboard, with headquar- ters at Richmond, Va. Mr. Hix started his railroad career as a telegraph operator on the Norfolk and Western railway at Liberty, Va., in 1884. His headquarters as gereral superintendent will be at Ports- mouth, Va. a YELLOW FEVER PROSPECTS. Likely to Worry Americans When Canal is Completed. SAN FRANCISCO, August 26.—Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the British colo- niais and recognized authority on tropical diseases, In a speech before the board of directors of the Merchants’ Association of this city, outlined his theory that yellow fever may yet become a source of worri- meiit nere in the changed trade conditions which will follow the completion of the ow. passes as quarantine, elther in yellow Panama canal, urging the futility of what fever or the bubonic plague. Owing to the advantages that San Fran- elsco possesses over London for the study of tropical diseases, an advantage due to the fact that it has a colony of 10,000 Chi- nese, ag well as many Japanese, Filipinos and Hawaliang, he suggested that a school should be established here for the study of tropical medicine. *RAILROAD ACROSS MEXICO. ‘Work Resumed in the Connecting Link on Line, SAN FRANCISCO, August 26.—Willlam Rossiter, a planter, who has arrived here from Manzanillo, says that work has been started after a delay of twelve years on the connecting link on the railroad that will = Soe Pe atentie tt the Pacific across fexico. ‘The peomth oxrenee from Colina to aS a ce of only forty-five miles. Will be the first railroad Guada- lajera and the Pacific coast, THE CHINESE BOYCOTT HAS COMPLETELY PARALYZED THE FLOUR TRADE IN CHINA. SEATTLE, Wash., August 26.—Advices received by a large milling company of this city from its agent in Hongkong state that the Chinese boycott of American goods has completely paralyzed the flour trade be- tween Pacific coast ports and China. No sales have been made since July 15, and all orders for September shipments haye been canceled, The company’s agent writes that the breadmakers in the bake shops of Canton and Hongkong refuse to handle American flour, and the small dealers dare not pur- chase it for this reason. The trade with the Straits Settlements and Indo-China is also theatened by reason of the fact that the flour supply for these countries is con- trolled by Chinese merchants. Consul General Rogers’ Report. United States Consul General Rogers at Sharghai has cabled the State Department under today’s date as follows: ‘While the boycott still continues, yet there are no disturbances and the Chinese officials are endeavoring to surpress the movement. On the whole, conditions appear more hopeful.” AMERICAN STEAMER SEIZED. Captured by the Japanese in Bering Sea August 23. YOKOHAMA, August 26.—The American steamer Montara, bound for Petropavlovsk, was captured by the Japanese in Bering sea August 23. SAN FRANCI steamer Montara, Japanese in , August 26.—The reported seized by the Bering sea August 23, sailed from this port July 9 for Petropavlovsk with a general cargo, She was chartered by Roth, Blum & Co. of this city. The vessel is owned by the Pacific Construction Company. Her tonnage is 1,695. ——S ANARCHISTS ARE ACTIVE. Reports of Disturbances in the Baltic Provinces, Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, August 26.—The po- lice department has drawn up a report of the disturbances among the Letts In the Baltic provinces, which of late, according to the report, have assumed an anarchical character. Within fotir months in towns and proy- inces of Courland and Livonia there have been four attempts on the lives of officials, four attacks on private persons, six at- temps against the lives of police officers, three attacks on Cossack patrols and two cases in which bombs were thrown. At Riga an attempt was made to set fire to the powder stores in a cartridge factory. The report says that “in the Lutheran churches demonstrations were begun and repeated every Snuday in May and June,” and that the agitators supplied the peasants with arms, of which they obviously pos- sessed an extensive supply. In Mitau the rioters in one day destroyed the archives in nine districts, throwing the documents, the seals and portraits of the emperor into the streets. Attempts to dam- age the railroad lines, the teport says, have been numerous of late. ——_-_——. FOUND DEAD ON TRACKS. New York Architect Killed at Prince- ton Junction. PRINCETON, N. J., August 26—William E. Stone, an architect of New York, was found dead on the tracks of the Pennsylva- nai raflroad at Princton Junction last night. His death 1s a mysterious one, having been killed by either an east or west-bound train. It 1s thought he tried to cross the tracks, and finding the inside gate locked, started to walk back and was caught by the train. ———— Prince Louis at Niagara Fflls. TORONTO, Ont., August 26.—Prince Louls ©: Battenburg went to Niagara Falls today, accompanied by Lady Kirkpatrick and a few invited guests. Prince Louis will leave Toronto next Thursday for Quebec, where he will join his squadron. The latter leaves September 2 for a tour of the maritime provinces, after which it sails for United States waters. 2 Fatal Trolley Car Collision. BUFFALO, N. Y., August 26.—In a col- lsion between a trolley car and an ice wa- gon today Thomas Tod, aged twenty-one, was killed and two others were injured, one seriously. ———_.—___—- To Build Duplicate of Steamship. North German Lloyd Steamship Company today ordered to be bullt a duplicate of Kaiser Wilhelm I, the the appeal of the marine hospi h tles, a large number of householders today are engaged in fumigating their premises. The announcement of yellow fever at Gulfport created no surprise here. There will be no great quarantine by New Orleans FUMIGATING TODAY Householders Respond to Ap- peal of Authorities DOWN AT NEW ORLEANS ‘STATUS OF YELLOW FEVER SIT- UATION IN LOUISIANA. New Cases at Lake Providence Handi- ceps Efforts for Railway Com- munication—Prison Cases. NEW ORLE August Following against either Gulfport or Mississippi City. The discovery of additional cases at Lake Providence threatens to isolate that town completely, and will handicap Gov. Blanch- ard in his efforts to restore railroad com- munication in that portion of the state. Dr. Marcour and his band of nurses are ex- pected to reach stricken Leeville today. President Souchon and party went to Pat- terson today, and will determine whether the state board shall take full charge of the situation there. The city authorities have taken steps to supply mosquito bars to the parish prison, houses of refuge and jails, as a result of a recent report of the grand jury. The neces- sity of this has been emphasized by the ap- pearance of two cases of yellow fever in local prisons. Bishop Galloway to Fight Fever. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 26.—It ts re- ported here that Bishop C. B. Galloway, president of the Vanderbilt University board of trustees, has cancelled all en- gagements and has gone to New Orleans to offer his services in fighting the yellow fever and alding the sufferers there. Bishop Galloway had a severe attack of yellow fever at Vicksburg In 1878, ——_—__.. PRIEST LURED AND ROBBED. Set Upon Where He Had Been Called to See Alleged Sick. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 26,—Upon the statement made to the police by Rev. Benedict Rosinsksi, a Catholic priest of St. Stanislas Church, that he had been hela prisoner for twenty-four hours, without food, and forced to sign two notes for $500 each and two checks for like amounts. which had been since cashed, besides being robbed of §30 and some Jewelry, two men and a woman were arrested today. The woman is sald to have lured the priest to her room in Cedar avenue by pre- tending to be ill and in need of spiritual consolation, and the men are said to have rushed in upon them, and held Rev. Ro- sinsks! prisoner until he had satisfied their demands. Rev. Rosinsksi says that he recetved two telephone messages _on Thursday urging him to call upon Pennie Olenski of 39 Cedar avenue. He had been there but a few moments when Julian Tuszynski rush- ed in, and declaring himself to be the wom- an’s flance, demanded that the priest give” up $4,000 for alienating her affections. With Tuszynski was Leo Czechowski, both of whom, according to Rev. Rosinskst’s story, started at once to beat him and tear his clothes from his back when he refused to give them any money, His jewelry was taken from him as well as $30, and he was detained as a prisoner for twenty-four hours without food or drink until he consented to sign the checks and notes. These checks were cashed by ‘Tuszynski and the woman, it is sald. Upon their return to the room with the money the priest says he was released. Rev. Rosinskst notified the police and the trio were arrest- ed. The two notes and $819 were found under a carpet in the woman's room. They are charged with robbery, and were bound over to the grand jury. CUBAN OFFICIAL DEAD. Eduardo Yero, Secretary of Public In- struction— Victim of Cancer, HAVANA, August 26.—Eduardo Yero, secretary of public instruction, died here today. Senor Yero had been a victim for four years of cancerous growths on the face, for which he was treated here and in New York without obtaining permanent relief. He actively served the revolutionary cause in civillan capacities, and on the inaugura- tion of the republic was appointed secre- tary of the interior. Notwithstanding his malady and Its :c- companying disfigurement, Senor Yero was one of the most energetic members of the government. —— PREFECTS’ POWERS LIMITED. To Frustrate Any Effort at Political Coercion. ST. PETERSBURG, August 26—The fears expressed by the liberals that elections to the Douma among the peasantry would be swayed by the governmental administrative officials, who hitherto have exerted a great influence {n communal affairs, has been met with the Issuance of an order by the min- istry of the interior strictly limiting the powers of the prefects to the extent of their punitive authority, which insures the independence of the communes in matters of local self-government. The execution of this order is considered to be a guarantee of the independence of the peasantry in the conduct of the elec- tions. + ——_ KAISER STRONGLY FOR PEACE. Statement of Baron Bussche at Lenox, Mass, Special Dispatch to The Star. LENOX, Mass., August 26.—When Baron Von Dem Bussche, the German charge d'affaires, was shown the report erhanating from Portsmouth to the effect that the Ger- man emperor was using his influence against the acceptance by Russia of Japan's terms, he said: “Such reports are contrary to the truth. The emperor is strongly for peace and ts not interfering with President Roosevelt’s ef- forts. Quite the contrary. He earnestly sympathizes with the President’s endeav- oat ———__-—____ Royalties Returned to Japan. YOKOHAMA, A 28.—Prince and Princess Arisuga’ who represented the it at the marriage of the day on the German Prexussen. ‘They were enthusiastically welcomed home, PORTSMOUTH FANCIES Newcastle Folk Poured Out to See Envoys. POKOTILOFF’S COATS BIG FIELD FOR AUTOGRAPH FIENDS OF ALL AGES, The Wentworth Hotel Beauty and Ter Daily Stunt—Lights Out at 9 O'Clock. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., August 26.—Going toward Newcastle there 1s quite a hill, and over the brow of it late yesterday after- noon rose a pillar of dust, through which loafers upon the hotel piazza could make out the vague outlines of many legs and bodies moving in concerd. The folks on the piazza rose to their feet, and a secret service man started on a trot for the dust cloud. He knew the Russian envoys and some of their suite had gone down the ts- land for a stroll, and he did not know what had happened. He felt easier in his mind in a minute. It was the adult and ablebodied popula- tion of Newcastle feasting its eyes upon two highly embarrassed peace plenipoten- tlaries and a minister to Peking, Witte, Rosen and Pokottloff, with a secretary or two along, were walking down the pretty road, when somebody recognized them. The impression prevails here tiat the fire bell must have been rung by © quick-witted citizen, for in half a minute ali the inhabl- tants of Newcastle except elght who are bedfast or babes in arms were pouring out- doors to see the strangers. It was worse than photographers, this battery of curious eyes. So the pedestrians decided to turn back to the Wentworth. But that did not keep the villagers, who went right along with them, not saying @ word, but never taking their eyes off the moving pictures, When the procession hove in sight of the hotel Witte, in the middle, was limping along, looking more flustered than Komura, has ever seen him look. On one side tripped the dapper Rosen, and on the other shuftie@ the lubber-gaited Pokotiloff. They also were feeling a little mite shy. The New- castlers turned back at the edge of the Wentworth grounds. It 1s believed that hereafter events in Newcastle will date from the day the big Russians came through afoot. A Corking Good Joke. Pokotiloff told a corking good joke to @ lot of the correspondents. His great bare rel of a body shook and his jungle beard wagged as he told it this morning. The Peking minister, lke most men who lve in the east or the tropics, !s partial to white clothes. His fancy turns to linen coats with large pearl buttons and patch pockets. Early this week he confided four of these coats. slightly soiled, to the laun- dry. When his bundle came back the coats were not there. He went to the clerk, and the clerk went to the wash lady or the wash gentleman, or whoever it 1s that runs the laundry, and directed that & tracer be sent after Mr. Pokotiloff's liner coats. Nothing doing. ‘The coats cout not be found. ‘The management stoo ready to pay the cost of the garments, but the big Russian did not want money. He wanted his coats. An American, wise in the ways of summey hotels, gaye him a tip. He took it. He sought out a smart deil boy, told him hig troubles and offered him 25 cents bonus for every linen coat he received. “And do you know that, gentlemen,” sal@ Pokotiloff, “thanks to the bell boy, ~ now have seven linen coats—my own four and three others, which fit me beautifully.” The Russian Good Humor, Little things like this kept all the Ruse sians in good humor except Korostovits, He has a Hampshire ache in his Jaw. His face 1s badly swollen on one side, and in the privacy of his bed chamber they do say, he is coining attractive new Muscovite cuss words. He drove to Portsmouth yese terday as fast as an auto could take him, and a dentist dug down into the misbehave ing molar and put some cotton and stuff into it. The pain ceased for a while, and the seos retary came back with a personal knowle edge of what a New England dentist's thumb tastes like, but a calm look in his eye toward night, though the nerve woke up again feeling rather peevish, and tt aia a rushing business until daylight. There may be a tooth-pulling to chronicle in cons nection with his peace conference before dark. a autograph flends, big and Uttle. are beginning to reap their crop. The laborer are many and the harvest is good. It has been about three days since the busines: started. One of the Japanese correspond. ents appeared with a little plush album, @ small edition of the kind we used to have in the grammar schools, and began holdé ing up the natives for signature: Boom in Autograph Albums. A boom in autograph albums followed, All the children and a good many of the grown folks caught the disease, and today almost anybody, above the grade of hired hand, is good enough to write his name ang@ an original sentiment in a book. A little girl waylaid one of the Jap sece retaries in the big road today. She put her album in one of h nds and her founté pen in the other. Then she held his cant for him while he squatted down in fulf view of the hotel porch and wrote for something which resembled the tracks cockroach would make if it fell into att inkwell and escaped alive. Another of the Japs, who takes his work pretty serious! did a serial story for her which cover two pages and continued over on-a third. Sato has probably been called on to writ@ his name oftener than any one, and after him Takahira. Not even Pokotiloff’s big Chinese man servant, is allowed to Serie His name, in Chinese characiers, glorifies the albums of several lucky summer gir! and boys. The Wentworth Beauty. There is one woman here who does no auto, golf or swim. She doesn’t carry @ kodak, buy souvenir postals or collect autographs. Every summer hotel has on@ or more official beauties, and she is the Wentworths. She sits hour after hour om the piazza with her profile turned at just the proper angle to give the rest of cod real treat. Her expression rarely chang: There is something uncanny, deathly the official beauty’s calm of countenan Once in a great While she smiles just th least little bit, and then puts her face the coffin and screws down the lid. 8 is fairly good looking, as official beau! tles go, and dresses as well as any wo: here. * Some self-sacrificing patriot of New Castle stays up every night until 9 o’ at which unseemly hour he sleep-wall down the road toward Portsmouth the two towns, would be a clear waste of