The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-20
His Fortune of a Million to be
Confiscated.
TACOMA'S MAYOR GETS OUsTED.
Revolts in the Philippines Khalid Spirited
Away and British Angry Venezuela
Boundary Line-Some Valuable informa-
tion = New Triple Alliance Mooted.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The Suns Lon
don cable says:
| A short time ago Apik Oundjian Eff
fendi, the millionaire Armenian con-
tractor in Constantinople, was arrest
ed on a charge of bribing state func-
tionaries and embezzling Government
funds. Within week he managed to
secure his release, and it has since
been learned that the operation of un-
| locking the prison doors cost him
100000. Had he been wise, Apik would
have realized as much on his property
as he could without attracting atten-
| tion and taken the first steamer for
Marseilles. He chose to daily, with the
result that he is once more in prison
with less chance of getting out, for he
| is charged with high treason, and if
this is proven, as there is little diff
Guilty in doing, for witnesses are unusu-
| ally cheap in Stamboul, the traitors
property can be confiscated. The mo-
thy subjects of the Sultan, particularly
Armenians.
Grumpkow Pasha, German who has
done well in the Sultan's service, has
been touring in Europe on a desperate
mission of raising a loan for his i'm
perial master, no matter what inter-
est might be demanded, for the Sui
tain's body guard has been in a state Of
incipient mutiny owing to arrears of
pay, and if their fidelity failed, his
much worried majesty knew that he
would be lost. Grumpkow was treated
almost with contumely in every Euro
pean capital, but in Berlin. it is un-
derstood, he managed to obtain $780,
900 at 2 per cent, or more, according to
one version of the story. With this
money the troops around the YildiZ
Kiosk were paid something on account
and the rest of the cash was expended
in new rifles and full supplies of am
munition for them, and then the Sui
tan felt that he needed pocket money.
1t was at that critical juncture that
a police report reached the palace that
on one of the Armenian cOnSpiratOrS
recently arrested had been found a doc
ument giving a list of subscriptions to
the revolutionary treasury, and that
the list contained the name OF Apik
Oundjian Effendi, with very big sum
placed opposite it. Within an hour
Apik was once more under lock and
key. He protested that he gave money
to the reVolutiOnistS under threats of
assassination, and the statement is no
doubt true enough, for the accused was
never known to give anything pre-
viously, and there is pretty ample proof
that the cOnSpiratOrS who seized the
Ottoman Bank eXtorted large sums
from rich Armenians, practically at the
revolver's mouth, Banker Karagivesian
among them. But this is not likely to
save Apik.
A moderate estimate of his fortune
puts it at S10,0OO,0OO, and the Sultan
would be flying in the face of Provi-
dence to let such a chance go without
replenishing his Golfers. Whatever may
be Abdul Hamid's weakness in the
matter of bloodletting, his piety is
undoubted, and he would not be likely
to offend Allah by neglecting to thor
oughly bleed this particular Christian.
Millionaire Apik's factories, shops
and villas and his fine palace over
looking the Bosphorus are now in the
hands of the Sultan's confidential trea-
son smellers. They have planted and
subsequently discovered compromising
documents galore so that virtually all
that remains to be done is to find Apik
Oundjian guilty in what passes in
Turkey for due process of law, and
then confiscate his property.
If he manages to keep his head on
his shoulders he will be an exception
ally fortunate Armenian.