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Show OIL KING FEARS BLACKMAILERS New York, Sept. 9. Persistent reports, re-ports, and equally stout denials of them, to the cttccl that blackmailers have demanded thnt John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, the Standard Oil king, pay them large sums of money under threat cither to kill him or blow up his luxurious mansion in the Pocan-tlco Pocan-tlco hills section, are causing the residents of that section bad cases of "nerves," and every strange for- eigner seen In the lclnit if espe-cialh espe-cialh looked upon with suspicion Tliirtv armed men are constantly on guard at the Rockefeller estate but statements are Issued almost 'dally to the effect that thero Is nothing noth-ing In the reports of threats hnIng been made against cither Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller or his beautiful homo. |