The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19
W|TTE MAY RETURN
TO RUSSIAN POWER.
Stolypin's Successor Will Call
on Former Premier for
Needed Help.
Special Gable to The Tribune.
BY GEORGE FRASER.

Special Cable to The Tribune,
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1S.-Thcre is
a strong possibility that M, Witte will
return TO power before long. NJ Ko-
kootzoff, the successor to Stolypin, was
long one Of Wittcs most trusted lieu
tenants and is pronounced Liberal. He
Is q. msn OF great ability. has Travelled
widely and is greatly inclined towards a
liberal policy for the Jews. His very
good qualities gre likely TO make his
tenure OF office short, for already pow
erful enemies have been developed. II
Kollootzon finds his position untcnatle
it Is altogether probable that he will be
able 10 return Witte to power for whom
he not only has a. high admiration. but
a warm personal friendship.
Kokootzoff belongs to the petty nobil-
ity OF the province of Novgorod. He was
reared at the Emperor Alexander lvceum
at ST Petersburg. is happily married to
n Mile. Anne oehm, and is popular
figure in court circles and in ST. Peters
burg society In fact, be is a much more
genial and socable man than Stolypin.
who was too intperloUs. too terribly In
earnest too self -oplnionatcd ever To be =
come fayorite in the great world Of
the Russian capital. He resembled in
many particulars Gcrmany's iron cham
cellor. and has often been described as
News from Kietf states that the ar
rested accomplices Of NJ. Stolypin's muir
derer Bogron, confirm the report that
lie was condemned TO be killed II he did
not rehahilitate himself IN the eyes o.
the revolutionary party bv taking the
life Of the prime minister while the lat
followed all the time 10 compel him To
commit The act. The reyolutiouarics
nnally lost confidence In him on account
OF his behavior in the following transac~
| ~ IN. Sol, IL.
| sive material for loo rouhlcs, Some o:
| this money he appropriated and after de-
| llyer!ng the explosive. as Instructed, 2
woman having charge Of II WAS arrested
| through Bogfoii Information TO the po'
! lice
Bogroff then tried 10 save himself b,
| bctrayinc TO the poNce the first me cmbcI
! of tn, party. Nuraylcff. who commune
| Gated 10 him ihe decision OF the revolU
| tionists The death of this man Mura
! vicff soon after arrest is explained by
| tho supposed conditions which Bogrofl
| imposcd on the polio" In return for nc
complishing the arrest. but BoGron could
not escape
| der arrest were at the thcGtcr watch
| ing Bogroff ON the night OF the mur'
dor and there is reason TO suspect tina
they also were in the service OF the Sc
IN Is officially notified that there ls nc
truth whatever in the reports circulated
In Paris and Berlin OF an attempt or
the life of the emperor and empress o.
| Russia These reports are characterized
as apparently bomrsc moneuvers.
! The Beriiner Tageblatt stated that q
received a telegram that morning tror
| Paris. signed "A. g. CZarakow. statlri
tbat Tho Gar had been shot al and tina
his majesty and his chauffeur had bo@I
mortaIly wounded. while tie Cznrina ha'
| tainted The message added that reNo
n,tIon had broken out In 81. Peters
burg and that there had been collision
betwcen the reople and the Cossacks
The emperor and cmnrcsS OF RUSS;
iprsnd 10 pass the winter in the Crimea
This bclnG the first visit OF the court Z
the south of Russia for several years