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New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
sTATE- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INQUIRY

STATE ZEN OEN 1N1lD
Superintendent Hendricks continued his ex-
animation Of witnesses yesterday The first in
terrogated was President Alexander. After him
came William H Mcintyre, fourth vice-presi-
dent: Valentine P. Snyder, of the National Bank
of Commerce: H. c. Deming. president OF the
Mercantile Trust Company: Alvin ". Krech
president of the Equitable Trust Company, and
Henry Rogers Winthrop. manager OF the Equi-
table's finance department. Later President Al
exander and MIR. Krech were recalled:
The investigation will go on to-day. when
George T Wilson. third ylce-president. and j.
F Wilson superintendent of the Equitable
Building will be called. Senator Depew, It was
reported would he called also.
Mr. Hyde yesterday gave out the following
statement:
have been greatly panied by the assertion in
one of the morning papers that | had said Of the
gentlemen who have fit to resign from the
F.ouita BILE board it freeing ourselves Of
dri wood the light of existing complica tons
these urtruthful interviews with me are calculated
Ia do me serious harm. As to the gentlemen re
ferred to. no question their right to with
draw from the Equitable board and while greatly
regret that their point OF view did not coincide with
mine 7 do think the best good Of the large In
terests at stake is to he served by recriminatiCn
Il is understood that Mr.. Hyde intends TO re
sign as director of the Union Pacific and oregon
Railway and Navigation companies, Hartman
properties.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
RHODE ISLAND BUSINESS GOOD.

Providence. r. l. June s tSpeciaD.-According to
reports from Equitable agents in this state the
business has been affected by the developments
Of the last few weeks. At the office of the Rhode
Island agency it is reported that the amount OF
new business written and actually paid for thus
far in 1865 $0O than for the corresponding
period of 1904. while for the month of May an in
crease of $4,000 in paid business is shown over the
same month Of last year
circular letter TO the field force setting forth the
above has Just been issued from the agency oH1ce,
where the most optimistic view of the situation is
entertained Since the beginning of the present con-
troversy 1t is stated that policyholders nave
lapsed their policies result of the unsettled
conditions. The belief appears TO be general among
the agents that the present sitting of the inside
workings of the company vii! prove to ne a good
thing for if there have been Irregularities of man
agement they well the policyholders rea!lze
that they will be cut out in, the future, ana tht
under Il reform mana cement their policies Will be
worth than in the past
The agency reports that none Of the former
agents have left the company, as has been the case
in some the Western States, out. on the con-
trary all are standing by the company. The agents
argue that if the Equitable has been able to pay
larger dividends during past Years than other com
panies and at the time pile up surplus OF
se0 600 600. il will do better when some of
the present eXtravaganCes are wiped out. Inc
question has also arisen to whether some of the
other companies whose dividends have been smaller
in comparison and whose surplus has not grown
so large not been guilty Of some of the waste
full methods charged against the Equitable
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
DIES WHILE DRESSING.
L. ". KimboH Found Dead IN His
Room at the st. George Hotel.

L. w Kimban a diamond dealer at No. u John
ST. Menhattan. who formerly lived az 30 ana beie-
v,e ayes Newark y. J.. found dead In
room, Mt the Hotel St George Brooklyn. LAST night
DR.. c. c. Harvey said that death was due 70 heart
failure.
Mr. Kinball registered at the hotel Monday
night lie was alone at the time ana went AT once
70 his room he was not yesterday. Last
night a hall maid reported to the clerk that she
had not been able to get into the room during the
dIy When the door Was forced DR. NlgsbaH was
Leen stricken while q essinG.
The Coroner ordered the body removed 20 an
rndert,l-irg shop et Alyrtle-ave. and Jay-st The
Dolice said that from what they could learn. Mr..
Eimhan had been living recently at the Satnmete
Hotel Sound Beach Conn.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
lFRom THE TRIBUNE BrREAU.l


JAPANESE SECRECY-NavaI experts have
awaited with more than common interest the ad
dtional details of the Japanese attack on the Rus-
sian feet In the Corean Strait. Nothing has come
through the newspaper dispatches TO enhghten
them. and It is believed that the officers VIII nave
to content themselves with whatever may ieak OUT
and come by way CT the mail There is the nope,
vii he ble to pick p information especially those
who come in contact with the Russians at Mania:
There is much curiosity as 10 how the RGssian ai
enlps were sunk 1t is no-ning short OF a reVeia- r
tion the world if the japanese succeedeo & ~ th
this by gun fire although IL now appears ma fildt " ~
japanese have been for some time in tne hapn i 0I
purposes, but really fire their suns t Lite
or nothing has been known h 0r1n,s+ng 01 nm notes
1 as 70 naintsining oa an uGbroken Silence respecting
their own achievements with the heavy guns IIls
must have been the Of the japanese sue
cess say some of the experts though It Is also
held by others that nothing short OF r tle
attack could haye sung 9 tb yessGs Rsan batflesips
Thsre lttle faith in the suggestion that @ me 80
damage was wrought by the submerged mine ara
the torpedo. re effect II gdnhre ciae, can Ue fTa
Tansncse are known This Information will not o.
forthcoming for some some time e' The IN japanese are
understood nave policy which reIuStS USE, +t b[
81 10 10 the disadvantage of the japanese
ORDERS IssUED.-Tne following army and
navy orders have beer issued:
ARMY.
Commission -
Frs, lieutenant JOHN S JOHNSTON. artillery CORPS
10 construction work at Fort GreDle
Captain SAM F BOTTOMS. cOmmssary' from Philip
pines Francisco
NAVY.
Commander V L, COTTMAN. detached navy yard Ma@s
island, yard. Puget Sound
Lieutenant w c. ASSERSoN. TO Chattanooga
Lieutenant H B. sOULE. commissioned.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.--The sol-
lowing movements of vessels have been reported
to the Navy Department
ARRIVED,
1un. A-The Lawrence, az Norfolk.
Inne 5-Tbe Topeka a Guantanamo the Castine and
Cristi: the Baltimore, the
Maine the Missouri Kearsarge and the Kentucky
A. southern drill grounds the Princeton at san
Francisco; the Sylph at Washington.
1rre a-The Ranger at Csvite the Rainbow Hong
Kong. s,rrD
r,,a 4-1he Topeka Monte Crist for Guantanamo.
yvna 6-The Baltimore Taku for Shanghai: the
Jun" Maine the Missouri, the Kesrsarge. and the Ken
trcky from Hampton Roads for Southern drill
yro,,nds: the Ajax Hampton Roads for Guam
TsaDsn,o. The Denver Sanchez for Santo DO
rnnro CITY; the Princeton from Mare Island for
San Francisco: the Newark the Texas. the Atlanta
tba Hartford the Florida the Arkansas the Whippie
tae Worden the Stewart. the AacDonough and the
Chesapenke from Annapolis to cruise the Mareetus
from Annapolis for Solomon's Island Md; the Sylph
from Norfolk for Washington
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
MIR. BONAPARTE TO START FIGHT.
VIII Open Campaign to Save Negro Voters
in Maryland To-day.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TEIBUNE,l

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE IhIbLNhI
Baltimore June 6-Charles ]. Bona parte, who
Is 70 he Secretary of the Navy will tomorrow
attend the meeting of the Republican State
Committee for the first time. He will deliver
an address in which he will impress upon the
Republicans the Importance of dropping all fac
tional differences and uniting in a determined
fight against the German scheme to carry the
negro disfranchising constitutional amendment
at the polls.
Mr. Bonaparte will in sense attend the meet
ing as the representative of President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Bonaparte's decision 10 attend the meeting
IS thought by some Republicans to mean that
the President has persuaded him to assume the
position of leader and counsellor to the party IN
MARYLAND and that in the campaign against the
German dlsfranchisement scheme the state or
ganizafion viii have the support Of the national
committee.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
BLACK HAND BEHEADED VICTIM.
Head Of Murdered Man Found Later II
Abandoned Mine.
Tay TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE,

wilkesbarre Penn. June 6-The headless
BODY of a victim of the Black Hand society,"
which has been active around Plttston' was
found this morning at Cork Lane, near pub
lie highway. The head had been cut off as
cIea,7lv as if by guillotne, and was later found
IN the opening of an old mine The contents
Of the mans pockets-money, two gold rings
loaded revolver. small trinkets and cigars were
intact. and there We're no wounds on the body
It is the kind OF death threatened by Black
Hand letters which have been sent to people
who did not respond TO the soctety's efforts 70
extort money \ few weeks ago Joseph Castll-
lini was murdered, and no clew has ever been
obtained TO the criminals.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
POLITICIAN COMMITS SUICIDE.
ExPostmaster of Kingston, N Y, III and
and Despondent, Hangs Himself.

Kingston. y Y June George N. Brink,
for many years a prominent Republican politi-
clan and Grand Army veteran. committed sui
eide to-day by hanging himself in his barn, He
was ffty-eight years old.
When fourteen years old he enlisted in the
Goth New-York Regiment, He was Assembly
man from the 1st Ulster County District in 1870
and 1891 and was postmaster Of Kingston in
President McKinIey's first term. besides hold
ing minor city Offices At one time he owned
q prosperous tobacco manufacturing business
which he neglected for politics. He became de-
suondent over failing health and diminishing
fortune
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
WOMAN BUILDS TOWN FOR SPITE.
Hopes It Will Ruin Village Against Which
She Has Grudge.
Lev TELEGRAPH TO THE rR1puNE.l ]

SE:I
Kentland Ind, June 6.-Mrs. Jennie E. Conrad a
wealthy woman Of Indiana. to-day celebrated her
birthday by dedicating the town of Conrad. which
she hopes will outclass its neighbor Lake village
end put II of the map. A feud has existed between
Mrs Conrad and the people of the village for sew
oral wears AS the building of the Indiana
Harbor Railroad assured Mrs. Conrad opened
regulations with the company for station on her
land and declared she would wipe Lake Vii
laEe
She has had plans drawn for dwelling houses and
siore buildings hotel and other structures and
Conrad is now enjoying its first boon She plans to
build q model town.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
RENTS FINE AFTER READING PAPERS

John Eberling stenmitter. OF No. la7 Harmon
ST Brooklyn. who. 1t is alleged was orutaiy Dea1eh
nv PatrolInan Miller of the Chureh-st station az
No &C Park Place Monday evening Was ~
raigned before Magistrate Breen IN the loHlps
,.otIrt yeste day charged with disordeTty coaIGct
Miller saiG that ssary Tor MN 10 esh Els
eiIb as Fberiing who q large man. gave MN "a
Sard feht Eberling said he had no complaint 10
axe against Miller and fined 81 Mhg,stsate
Preen after reading the accounts OF the case la the
morning newspapers. remitted the fine
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
J. M. sEARs'S WILL MISSING.
No Trace Of Document Disposing of About
s25OOO,00O

Boston. June 6.-The last will of ]. Mont
gonaery Sears. Boston's largest taxpayer, which
6i.poses of an estate of about S25,0o0,OO0. has
disappeared. Mr.. Sears's attorneys turned the
document over to him, it is said. several months
ago. after it had been executed and attested, but
though previous will executed many years
ago has been found the family has been unable
TO discover the slightest trace of the second
Il
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
me coNoeR NOT TO RESIGN.

Mexico City. June 6.-Ambassador Conger to-
day denied the rumor that he would retire to be-
come a candidate for Governor OF Iowa lie SAYS;
ct like the diplomatic service and prefer TO serve
my country in IL. My appointment mere is per-
rnanent so far know. II IS subject TO no otner
conditions than attached 10 any other diplo-
maj tic appointment.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
HYDE RESIGNS FROM FRIcK BANKS.

Pittsburg June 6-James Hazen Hyde is no
LONGER a director Of the Frlcll banks of this city
His designations were received yesterday, and were
accepted. The designations came alike 20 the
Mellon National Bank and the Union Trust Com
pany the Frirk-Melion banking institution, on
whose boards he had served for some time
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07

ignorance as TO what the various items in this
statement actually signify has led TO the idea that
surplus This is. Of course. wrong, as every cent
of the excess of assets over Liabilities is surplus
and Is held for future distribution among policy
holders as the periods Of participation mature
That the surplus is being distributed is shown
by the fact that for many years the society has
paid in dividends more than any other COMPANY
In the last ten years the sum of $36,2362o OF has
hne naii.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
Gyls&@oNGER
Eddy Refrigerators
The "Premier
Our Standard for a Quarter of a c
Glass-Lined Refrigerator, perfection OF
cleanliness and economy.
Orders by mail receive prompt and careful attention
1sO and West 42d Street, and
Is5 West Street, New York.

with the rec concentrations of the Frick investlgat-
ing committee but no details of the meeting were
given out. Meetings of the protective committee
will be held almost daily
New-York tribune., 1905-06-07
OFFER FOR HYDE STOCK.
Continued from first page.

as every man in Wall Street ought to know.
perfectly legal
Behind the possibility of action by Superin-
tendent Hendricks the possibility of action
by the superintendents of other States, accord
ing to one story afioat in insurance circles. The
Equitable situation becoming tense. it
said that when the Hendricks report was
made known to the departments of other States
many investigations would be started immedi-
ately, and possibly some States might suspend
the Equitable until their Investigations had
convinced the officials of it's absolute sovency.
AT this story Equitable officials laughed.
TALK OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION
No legislative investigation of the Equitable
would be made, men close to the situation said,
although they felt that z. H Hartman would
use his utmost influence with Ex-Governor Odell.
Governor Higgins and Superintendent Hen
bricks, to obtain such investigation. Gov
ernor Higgins. it is known, is leaving the affair
entirely in the hands of Superintendent Hen
bricks, on whom pressure will be brought both
to have drastic report and an Investigation
and to have conservative report and no legis-
lative interference.
Superintendent Kiburn of the State Bank
Ing Department in the financial district
yesterday. 1t was said he was investigating
phases of the Equitable trouble connected with
transactions of the Equitable and Mercantile
Trust companies and the National Bank Of
commerce superintendent hllDur1l denied pos
itively that his business had anything TO do with
the Equitable affair
District Attorney Jerome announced that he
making investigation of the Equitable
and would take no such action until criminal
complaint made against some one of the
officers.
sensational report that some s70.000.000 of
the society's assets had disappeared brought
forth official denial and the following COM
pilation of figures by a statistican Of the
Equitable:
Amount as COMPUTED for payn.ent to policy
hoIders in 1908 -. So $50 coo
For subsequent distribution deferred dividend
rc,,m,,,To,ior ~ narinds ~ ..... 63 $50 coo
On otba~ tinar:rg poices ..........
Seward gateway., 1905-08-26
PORTLAND NEXT
 STEAMER DUE
Sails From Seattle and will Come by Outside PrSSage to Make
 Quick Time.

Steamer Portland should be the next boat in from Seattle after the Santa Ana. She sailed last night and is coming by the outside passage in ord- CT to reach heae sooner. J. J. McAIan- us, local agent of the Alaska Conner cial Company yesterday received a cable message stating that she would come on the outside. Movements of other boats are reported in the follow ing cable received by the Gateway this morning, filed yesterday in Seattle but delayed in transmission:
 John F.. Ballainc, w. B. Poland, Contractor Welch are among the pas scngers on the Portland tonight. The Santa Clara has gone into dry dock for a new tail shaft and will be delayed about ten days
 The Portland should come through in a week or eight days as she ha, been on the drydock, and with a clean bottom her speed should be greatly in- creased.
 Contractor Welch, mentioned in the message. is one of the firm of Welch Brothers of Spokane, who have the contract for the rodk work on the north side of Turnagain Arm for the Alaska Central.
 The Melville Dollar has been charte- ed by the Alaska Commercial Company to carry surplus freight to Seward. This information came to Agent McManus in a cable this morning. It is supposed that the failure of the Santa Clara to sail has left large quantity of freight on the hands of both the A. C. and the Northwestern Steamship Companies. The Melville Dollar is heavy freighter which has been under charter to rhe Northern Commercial Company to carry freight to St. Michael.
 Seattle, Aug. 26 Steamer Portland sailed last night for Seward. She car. ries a general cargo, besides laborers and railroad material for the Alaska Central.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-26
BRING ACCOUNT
 OF BEG STRIKE
Miners come Down from upper Vent nd PIaCGrS with Report which
 Starts Stampede.

Reports of strike pravouly known to have been made or an upper fork of the Yentna river, I20 miles from Cook Inlet, have started q stampede among 5he miners at Sunrise, and many of them are getting outfits together to join in the run. Eleven men have been working all summer on Kahiltna creek, and taking out an average oi@lo a day in coarse gold. Seven of them came down the other day 10 the trad ing posts on the inlet to get outfits for the winter, and their account, stirred up the miners around Sunrise where probably 200 men are working.
 The strike has heretofore been kept secret although made last November 1t has been known that discovery had been made i'm that locality because the men who madei it came down late last fall and secured outfits. departing without giving out any information. Only the general locality in which they were operating was known.
 The men who made the discovery were Peters, Gejdigan and Hammer smith. Peters made the actual di~ covery a, the three were prospecting together. A litcle work showed them they had struck it rich and they im- mediltely clme down 10 the inlet and secured supplies for tho winter Only few friends were let into the secret ani these went il shortly afJ2rwMo. Among these was F. C. Richardson. m old Alaskan. who has been in tine north ten years and has operated in Dawson and Nome. Richardson a'- rived in Seward last night to see U. <. Commissioner Hildreth on official bu>- ness connected with his duties aS de- putty recorder in the Ienna district. Of the strike on the Kahiltna he said:
 Il don't want to start stampede and am not advising anybody to give up a job to go there. It is good enough tor me. The biggest nugget found ,o far was about $6. The boys have easily made $lO a day and they have spent good deal of time prospecting.
 "Tbe deposits seem to be extensive. We have found gold long way up the creek. The diggingS so far have not been deep. Where we have been work ing it is only about three feet to bcd- rock. There is plenty of water and operations are easy.
 "The creek is pretty high in the mountains and the snow gets quite deep. One of the most serious drawSbacks k the fact that the placerS lie above timber line. An timber has to be cut some distance below and it is trouble some job to sled it up to the point where it is used, but that can be done when the cold weather stops mining.
 "Men wishing to go in can reach a point thirteen miles from the camp by water. Above that are rapids and heavy boulders,and musherS must take lhe trail"
Seward gateway., 1905-08-26
BEGIN TO CUT LOGS
Men In Johnson's Camp Falling
 Trees On Big Railroad Order

Johnson's logging camp across the bay is busy place. The roads through the timber where cutting will ba don, this fall and winter are nearly com- pleted and men are already engaged in cutting timber. Forty men will be employed this fall, as the camp has contract to supply the railroad sawmilI with large quantity of logs.
 The timber is said to be of better quality than the average. It extends four miles back from the bay and the supply is sufficient to keep large force of men busy for several years in cut ting it. The work of saving the logs will be pushed during the fall and they will be sledded to the bay when the snow comes in the winter. Rooms can easily be floated up tSytbe railroad dmill at the head of thSk&qlv m
 The mill is nearly resdy for. operat- ion at its neWsite, The machinery is being installed, It.includes not only that used in thepqla mill up the road but additional machinery purchased by Mir. VanCleve, master mechanic of the railroad on his recent trip to the Sound,' The mill will have a much larger out" put than heretofore.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-26
PFACF NEGOTIATIONS fNGROSS STATESMEN

has had the effect of postponing nogo- tiations between the envoys, which will not be renewed until late today, or pos sib,y not until tomorrow.
 It is announced that the Presidents most important proposition is that Russia purchase all or half of the is- land of Saghulicn, which iS now in pos session of the Japanese, and which was taken from Japan by Russia several decades ago. The Japanese have real Iy never admitted Rus,ia's title to the island. and the President argues that if Russia should buy it now, paying a large price for it, she would be enabled to avoid the appearance of having ccd- ed territory OF paid an indemnity. it f- suggested that if the two govern ments cannot agree upon a price the matter could be left to arbitration.
 Portsmouth, x. F., Aug. -Wheth- er peace shall be made or the war in tbe Orient shall continue depends up- on the ear and th, mikado. One or the other must rccedc from his present attitude on certain important demands made by Japan or peace negotiations will miL President Roosevelt, aided by the governments of France, Great Britain and Germany, k doing his best Co secure an adjustment of the diter- euccs by reference of the disputed articles to the Hague tribunal for m- bitratiou.
 In the meantime the Japanese army in Manchuria has been strengthened, and is said to be ready to strike de- ci,fyc blow in the event of the failure of peace negotiations. The Russians are strongly iuuenched in their pre- sent position and have received large re-iuforcements. It is expected that a desperate battle will be fought soon if the peace conference fails to accom- plish it's object.
 Portsmouth, \. H., Aug. l9- FreS!- dent Roosevelt is trying hard to pre- vent a rupture of the peace conference and it's dissolution without accomplish iug the termination of the war in the far East. Last night he talked for an hour from Oyster Bay over the long distance telephone with Assistant See retary of State Adee, who is here to keep watch on the peace conference. The President then requested Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador to the United States, to meet him. The ann bassador did so this morning and the two had a long conference. Their talk was confidential and nothing has been given out.
 Baron Kaneko, the financial repre- sentative of Japan in this country, also had a confidential conference with the President today. It is not known what action the President contemplates but it is regarded as certain that peace negotiations will fail unless outside in- Huence can prevail upon the belliger- enU nations to make mutual concessions.