Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

but she has personality. Her hair Is
black. her face dark and her eyes lum-
inous. She Is slim and graceful and
Slides about the room In a way which
has earned her the name of la belle
Serpente." Lldval was a friend or
hers. and. though she was not proSecut-
ed, the evidence at his trial proved
that, she was the motive power in the
plot. She procured him an introduction
TO Gurleo, who. thanks to Witte, was
placed at the head of the famine fund
BOUGHT INFERIOR GRAIN
She. so the evidence proved, showed
Lidval that he could buy the grain
at such Il low rate that the tranSac-
ton would be most profitable Gurko.
so long as he got the handling of the
money did not In the least care how
the grain was bought or what It was
ike After two or three meetings at
Esther's house the men decided to
work" together and share profits
The arrangement was that Lidval
should buy small quantities of In
ferlor grain at very low price and
Gurko, whilst paying the actual price.
should make out bills at 4 high figure
Tor huge quantities of supplies, which
LldVal was to receipt as laid. These
accounts were laid before the famine
SOh'bibeNNs WHO l1OuHnt all WaS going
on well, but before many months
were over complaints came from the
various communes that, where several
hundredS OF wagons had been order
ed Tor the famine-stricken peasants.
only one or two had arrived. Gurko al
ways answered that the railways were
to blame for not supplying enough
wagons. but complaints poured in
and so many people began to talk and
ri ia al
mittee openly accused Gurko of mis-
appropriation, and demanded to sec
the books. Very soon the whole ar
rangement with Lldval became clear.
PRACTICALLY oUTLAWBD
Lidval seems to have made" far
less out of the fraud than he expected.
He never got anything like the amount
promised by Gurko and seems to have
delivered the quantity OF grain ac-
tually ordered. but he bought the
worst stun in the market and paid
the best prices for 1t. Some say that
his acquittal with a reprimand) was
due to Esther's efforts, but no in
fluence could get Gurko off. though
his sentence of Imprisonment was aft
erwards commuted to a big fine, which
he has not paid. and loss of his Of
| fetal dignlties and civil rights He
was practically outlawed for three
| years and during this time he Is not
| to hold any office whatever but no.
| body doubts that he will emerge into
! Russian intrigue as soon as his time is
| over
In any other country a man who
| misapproPriated four millions of dol
lars would be imprisoned: but Russin
| is lenient in these matters. though
many millions of her people have
starved or died OF famine typhus.
owing to Gurlso, Ushakoff, and their
| confreres.
| GRAFT RAMPANT.
Things are no better than they were,
| in this respect. From many provinces
| come tldings of dishonesty, regularly
| practiscd by the officials. General
| Relnbot, prefect of Moscow until a
| few months ago. and now charged
with corruption and malvesation. was
| in league with the bands OF robbers
| who have been lnfesting the town and
! province of Moscow for the past three
| or four years. He used TO take
large part OF the sums which they
| stole in return for which he let them
get off scot free. He made more than
| Sl00, 600 In this wny within two years.
The sums were entered I'm n book as
donations given to charities by varl-
Gus fictitious people and the funds
f, granted for the Improvement Of the
city OF Moscow met with the same
fate
| In the city of Warsaw a quarter OF
| million dollars were wasted by the
| magistrates who pretended to buy
park with 1t. AS great sum was col
lected three years ago for erecting
central meat market. The money has
gone and all talk OF meat market
has been dropped. Cases Ike this are
| perpetually cropping up. The miscre-
ants get called over the Goals for II.
| but they are never severely punish
ANNE MASON TREVOR.