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TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER . 10, 1905.
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II. 31. Letts, Famous Kansas
Criminal, Apprehended.
John E. Bilby, Millionaire, In
dieted by Grand Jury.
Vermont Probably Will Abolish
Capital Punishment.
Industry Is Paralyzed and Bus
iness Is Ruined.
End of a Chase Covering Over
Two Tears.
His Sous Must Also Answer In
federal Court.
Wave of Indignation Sweeps
Over the State.
The Postal and Telegraph
Services Are Tied Up.
FOUXD IN PANAMA.
CHARGE IS SERIOUS.
MRS. ROGERS' HANGING
RAILWAYS STOPPED.
CScers Now on Way to Bring
Him Back.
Has Ilecord for Breaking Jail
and Eluding 0 "leers.
HE BURNED A DEPOT.
Convicted of Burglary and Given
Two Year Sentence.
II. II. Germain Gets Word of the
Capture.
After loading the secret service men
cf the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company, numerous sheriffs
and ether officers of the law a merry
M. M. Letts, Who Has Just Been Cap
tured in Panama.
and, at times, desperately exciting chase
all over this country and Canada for
more than two years M. M. Letts, who
is charged with arson, burglary and
forgery by the railroad company,' and
who has been convicted already on the
burglary charge, has been arrested once
again, and this time in Panama, South
America. A cablegram to this effect
was received Saturday by H. H. Ger
main, chief secret service agent of the
Santa Fe. It came from E. J. Price,
a Santa Fe detective, who with Matt
Kenny, a detective on the Kansas City,
Mo., police force, went to Panama after
him. They have the necessary requisi
tion papers for his return, and if all
goes well this rather famous criminal
will be behind the bars in Kansas City
within a couple of weeks.
But catching Letts and keeping him
In custody is a different proposition.
Whenever he is spoken of by Santa Fe
men he is called "Slippery" Letts and
he deserves the name. Four times be
fore he has been arrested and each
time he has escaped. His escapes have
been as varied and full of exciting epi
sodes as have been those of any crimi
nal of the present day. In fact he is
looked upon with a. little awe by the
law officers, who have had dealings
with him. He seems to be sort of a
reincarnation of Hugo's wonderful cre
ation, Jean Valjean. His life is cer
tainly a sort of a charmed one for on
more than one occasion pursuing offi
cers have showered bullets by the doz
en after him and onne has ever hit him.
He has broken out of a jail that was
thought to be rather impregnable. Mr.
Germain, however, is sanguine that he
will not get away again. He is sure
that Price and Kenny will land him
safely in jail in Kansas City, that he
will be convicted of one of the crimes
with which he is charged and that
eventually he will be landed in prison
to serve a good long term.
It has cost the Santa Fe company
about $3,000 to hunt Letts during
these two years, but it is the policy
of the company to spend any needed
Rmount and chase a cuiprtt a couple
of times around, the earth before
catching him, as a warning to all that
the company will take any and all
means to punish dishonesty.
Letts is accused of first robbing the
station at Princeton. Kas., of $75,000
worth of tickets on the niht r,f Vn-
vember 21. 1903. a number of Wells
Fa rgo Express company monev orders
and other things, and then setting the
station on fire and burning it to th
ground.
How Ho Was Found.
For a short time after the fire it was
supposed that the station had acci
dentally caught fire and been de
stroyed in that way. Along in De
cember Mr. Germain found two tick
ets in a brokers office in Kansas City
which looked suspicious. They had
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tw VI y numbers it was found
b," ."cKets which had
been m the Princeton office. Then
the conclusion was reached that the
Princeton station had been burglar
zed and afterwards burneS in order
Aft -i finding these tickets Mr Ger
nia.n continued his search for more
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taken to tho . " "?
then ... V. '. "-"'on and
"wi lie nad
a perfora-
nmcnine. a cutter
!"or makinsr
impiex tickets, and
about $40,000
v iicKet.s. which ho , ,
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lh-.t-.n', . v u vetiia
rending a"d tll:s 1 Vu
pending. However, he pleaded guilty
wa,f"urOURtS f n-3emeanorf and
"as given one year in jail.
A Santa Fe Operator.
Mr. Germain then got on the trail of
the man who stole the tickets and
ViTh' SEnUn- We!ls toll hfm
vT'.- f dld,not know who the fellow
yaa from whom he purchased the tick-
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cnar of receiving: stolen eood wn
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May land These Men in the
Penitentiary.
Perpetration of Land Frauds in
Kansas the Offense.
JURY WILL KEEP ON.
Thirteen New Indictments He
turned Last Evening.
Hints That There Are More to
Follow.
Grand Jury Results.
Enclosure
Total. Unlawful.
J. A. Kelley 33.2S0 17,70
R. M. Crawford 13,440 2,080
Cott & Cott 5.760 2,7a)
Lynch & Merton 9,600 3,040
Boice Cattle Co 161.600 60.160
T. B. Porter 24,960 11,360
W. E. Moore 20.4S0 7,040
J. M. McLean 21.120 11,6m)
M. C. Combs 17,260 8,000
M. J. Allen 11,500 2,030
Dean & Dean 9,600 1.6S0
Bilby & Co 74,800 7,460
Total 403,400 135.060
The ranches of the first Ave named
parties are in Stevens county: of next six
Morton county, and of the last named,
Bilby & Co., Wallace and Logan coun
ties. The net being dragged through the
Kansas land frauds by the special fed
eral gTand jury is bringing in its fish.
Anticipated indictments for suborna
tion of perjury and conspiracy to de
fraud the government by illegally ob
taining possession of government land
came last night in the partial report of
the jury to. the court.
Thirteen indictments were returned.
Three are for conspiracy. One is for
subornation of perjury, and all are
for unlawful enclosure. Conspiracy and
subornation are penitentiary offenses.
One of the men caught is a million
aire. Two of those indicted are his sons.
Two others are managers of his affairs.
Seven of the indictments returned for
illegal fencing are against Morton coun
ty. Two of these are against the coun
ty attorney and the probate judge, but
in neither instance is there any hint at
official misconduct.
The jury reported to Judge Pollock
and then temporarily adjourned to meet
in this city again on next Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock. It is then that
they will probe into the actions of three
officials, two of them especially high in
the plane of position.
The following is the partial report
made by the jury last night to Judge
Pollock, the names, the places of resi
dence and the offenses:
John E. Bilby, Quitman, Mo., un
lawful enclosure, conspiracy to de
fraud the government by illegally ob
taining possession of government land,
subornation of perjury-
J. S. Bilby, Quitman, Mo., unlawful
enclosure.
Ii. I. Bilby, Quitman, Mo., unlawful
enclosure.
James H. Drain, Wallace county,
Kansas, unlawful enclosure, con
spiracy to defraud the government by
illegally obtaining possession of gov
ernment land.
L. C. Jenkins, Quitman, Mo., unlaw
ful enclosure, conspiracy to defraud
the government by illegally obtaining
possession of government land.
T. B. Porter, Morton county, un
lawful enclosure.
W. E. Moore, Morton county, un
lawful enclosure.
J. W. MacLean, Morton county, un
lawful enclosure.
M. C. Combs, Morton county, un
lawful enclosure.
M. J. Allen, county attorney of
Morton county, unlawful enclosure.
E. M. Dean, probate judge of Mor
ton county, unlawful enclosure.
A. M. Dean, Morton county, un
lawful enclosure.
Iiilby Case Very Bad.
The indictment against John E. Bil
by, James H. Brain and L. C. Jenkins,
mav nlace all three in the penitentiary.
Xot that they took possession of such
a great amount of government land
unlawfully, but the modus operandi by
which they obtained it, was the objec
tion which the jury found against
them. J. S. Bilby is a millionaire liv
ing near Quitman, Mo. He is a great
land owner and cattle raiser. He has
two sons, John E. Bilby and R. I.
Bilby. Both are in his employ. John
E. Bilby, the older son, is the one
who must answer to the charge of
conspiracy, subornation of purjury and
unlawful enclosure. He was in charge
of his father's holdings which are in
Wallace and Logan counties in Kan
sas. Their possessions are not extra
ordinarily large. Young Bilby had two
men to help him in his operations to
increase their land holdings in Kan
sas. Thev were James H. Drain and
L. C. Jenkins, both of whom were in
dicted for unlawful enclosures and
conspiracy" to defraud. Drain was fore
man of the Bilby ranch Jenkins was
the head of a steering committee to
bring people to Kansas to make entries
on land, a service for which they then
were paid by the Bilbys. Jenkins is
supposed to have brought fifteen peo
ple to Wallace and Logan counties at
one time. These "hoboes," as the land
department calls them, simply filed on
the land and then returned to Mis
souri. For this service they were to
receive all their expenses in traveling,
all the expenses of making the entries
and $50 besides when the claim was
finally proved up.
Bilby built shacks on the different
tracts of land, but none of the people
who were supposed to have built them
themselves and lived in them, ever saw
the places. It was never intended,
charges the indictment, by themselves
or anyone else that they should make
any of their claims their homes as the
law requires. When the time limit ex
pired, during which they should have j
Continued on I-'xt ,
The Senate and House of Kenrescnta fives We hnrw von won't flnri
the last few trips.
WE PAY,
Dewey Says That Tells the Story
of Naval Excellence.
Our Sailors Could Take Com
mand and Fight to Victory.
CHEERED 10 MINUTES
Hy Guests at a Hanquet Given
in His Honor.
Longs for the Sea and Will Go
to Caribbean.
Chicago, Dec. 9. Admiral George
Dewey arrived in this city today and
with General Horace Porter, recent
United States ambassador to France,
was a guest of the Merchants' club to
night.
In a general talk this afternoon Ad
miral Dewey commented on the sug
gestions that have beeiv made that the
internal and lake cities be fortified.
"It hardly seems necessary so long
as the treaty with England exists and
I. do not think it ever will be broken
nor the ties of friendship , that now
exist. The two nations are drawing
closer every day and today are closer
than ever before, just as the south
and north are closer than since the
beginning of the government.
"As to the American navy and its
relative strength, I will say that, aside
from England we can successfully
combat any navy of the world. I
will modify that and say we can give
a good account of ourselves I don't
want to brag."
Admiral Dewey is experiencing a
longing for the sea and says he will
go to the Caribbean sea for the winter
maneuvers.
"I won't direct them," he said, with
a smile, "I'm going to watch them;
that's easier."
At the banquet tonight after Gen
eral Porter, in closing a splendid ad
dress on "The Old Navy and the New,"
referred to Admiral Dewey as "the le
gitimate successor of Paul Jones," the
admiral was forced by the tremendous
cheering to break his avowed inten
tion not to speak and with every mem
ber at the banquet standing frantical
ly cheering. Admiral Dewey arose and
made a brief acknowledgment. Among
other things he said:
"You can imagine my embarrassment
listening to the paper read by your pres
ident in which he compares me to Paul
Jones. Also in hearing the praise of
my friend of 40 years, General Porter.
On my side I wish I had the eloquence
to continue theirs and to answer them
in kind.
."Perhaps I know more of the new navy
than General Porter. We have as good
a navy as is in the world. We have as
good ships; we have as good officers,
and we have the best enlisted men in
the world.
"Why are our enlisted men the best
in the world? Because we are Ameri
cans; we pay. Out in the Philippines
he most intelligent man I met was
a Spanish archbishop. When our
fleet sailed to capture his city he is
sued a proclamation to his people say
ing the scum of the gutters of the
American cities were coming to pil
lage, to murder and to rape. After we
got acquainted he changed his views.
"He came on my flagship and saw
our men at drill. He said:
. " 'Admiral you should be proud to
command these men.' I said, 'I am.'
He said: 'Admiral, for thirty years I
have seen the men on the warships of
every nation of the world that put in
here but none of their men were like
these.' I said: 'Of course not, arch
bishop, you should not expect it.'
"And I turned to 'a non-commissioned
officer. 'How much do you get a
month?' I asked; 'seventy dollars, sir,'
he replied.
"That tells the story. We pay. The
, (Continued on Next Page.)
EL1BARRASSK1G.
United States Senate Is Forced
to Itecognize Guilt
Of the Deceased Member From
the State of Oregon.
WITHOUT PRECEDENT.
Has Never Heen Confronted by a
Similar Situation.
Only Recognition of Death the
Lowering of the Flag.
Washington, Dec. 9. What amounts
to a rebuke by absolute silence, of being
almost as completely ignored as if he
had never risen to membership in that
great body, will be administered to the
memory of John Hippie Mitchell of Ore
gon by the senate of the United States.
Yesterday it was understood that the
usual honors would be accorded n the
dead senator but today friends and
relatives requested that these fjrmaii
ties be eliminated.
The senate will not adjourn out of re
spect to the memory of the ueoeased
member. No committee will be ap
pointed from that body to att id the
funeral. There will be no formal cere
monies of obsequy in the senate. No
speeches on the memory, services :;nd
virtues of the deceased will be deliver
ed from the floor of the body of which
he was one of the oldest members, and
no black bound funeral volume of these
addresses will be published.
The custom of paying a year's salary
to the estate of a deceased member will
not be carried out in this case. Neither
will the government pay those expenses
in connection with the funeral that it
has been customary to liquidate from
the public treasury. Never before in
the history of the senate h ive these
ceremonies been omitted at the death of
a senator. The only outward recogni
tion thus far taken of the death has
been the placing of a flag on the senate
building at half mast.
According to the present plan Sena
tor Fulton, of Oregon, will on Monday
inform the senate of the death of his
colleague. It is the intention not to
present the usual resolutions of respect
and the body will not immediately ad
journ, according to custom. The oeam
of the unfortunate senator so far from
the capital relieved Vt" President Fair
banks of the embarrassment of ap
pointing a special committee to attend
the funeral services as a message from
the relatives even asked that no special
representation in Oregon be appointed
by wire, as would have been the case
had not the deceased been under a
cloud.
No precedent has been fixed in the
history of the government for such a
case as that of Senator Mitchell, who
died while yet a member of the senate,
but under conviction of a crime against
the government. There are cases of
senators being expelled and of senators
being tried and narrowly escaping ex
pulsion, but none to parallel that of
Senator Mitchell.
The situation presented by the death
of Senator Mitchell was a most painful
one, which his colleagues and associ
ates of many years were called upon to
meet.
To the older statesmen, those who axe
familiar with all precedent and fuily
able to create new ones for every em--ergency,
were "assigned the solemn duty
of passing upon the case.
PAUL "lORfoflTGUEST
Washington, Dec. 9. The Gridiron
club entertained tonight a hundred
guests at the first of a series of dinners
to be given during the new congress.
Among the many distinguished guests
present were Paul Morton, president of
the Equitable, and J. P. Morgan. The
fun raged fast and furious from the drop
of the president's gavel up to midnight.
mm tr nrnmwi hm-o a -.
SORROWFUL CASE
Mrs. Charles Gjelberg, of Iola,
Goes Violently Insane.
The Court Orders Relatives to
Send Her to the Asylum.
THREEOTHERS FOLLOW
Visitor Finds Husband, Son and
Daughter Crazed, Also.
Supposed the Shock of Mrs. Gjel
berg's Condition Caused It.
Iola, Kan., Dc. 9. Mrs. Charles
Gjelberg, the wife of a thrifty German
farmer near here, went violently in
sane Friday morning and the same
afternoon she was adjudged of un
sound mind in the probate court and
ordered sent to a state asylum. The
husband, son and daughter were in
court with the mother.
This afternoon a person who called
at the Gjelberg house a few miles
from town found the father a raving
maniac. He sent word to the sheriff,
who went to the house to arrest him.
The sheriff found the son and daugh
ter in the same condition as the father
and was forced to call for help to
place them in restraint. It is sup
posed the shock of the mother's con
dition drove them all insane. The
three will be tried Monday for their
sanity and all four will probably go
to the asylum together.
A WOMAN JUDAS.
She Betrayed Her Husband to the Law
by a Kiss.
' Sioux City, la., Dec. 9. In order to
point out her husband to an officer to
serve papers in a divorce suit, Mrs.
Grace Bergstrom cf Sioux City, went
to the railroad station with the officer
today, found her husband, threw her
arms about his neck and kissed him af
fectionately. Not until a few moments
later, when the officer served the pa
pers, did Bergstrom realize that it was
a Judas kiss. The woman is a bride of
a few weeks and claims her husband is
cruel. She asks $2,500 alimony.
SUNDAY BREAKS DOWN.
Famous Baseball Evangelist Collapses
ou Platform.
Burlington, la., Dec. 9. Bill Sunday,
the famous baseball evangelist, broke
down at the revival here tonight and
his death is feared. Sunday had start
ed to preach to a crowd of 4,000 peo
ple when he toppled over on the plat
form in a dead faint. He has been
preaching steadily day and night for
months and for the past week has not
Blet. It is feared that he may never
recover his remarkable speaking pow
er. io min LEOPARDS'.
The '.President' Has an Invitation to
New Mexico.
Washington. Dec. 9. Major W. H.
Llewellyn, Uniied States attorney for
the territory of New Mexico, took
luncheon at the White House this af
ternoon and urged the president to visit
him next spring for the purpose of
hunting jaguars or leopards, which are
found along the Mexican border. He is
hopeful of persuading: the president to
go. The major snapped his fingers in
derision at the very idea of hunting bob
cats and coyotes.
The major is confident that the joint
statehood bill, merging New Mexico and
Arizona, wUI become a law this ses
sion. .....
Declared to Have Been Done in
a Bungling Manner.
The Affair Promises to Become
a Political Issue.
USED A GREEN ROPE.
It Stretched and Let Ker Feet
Touch the Ground.
Officers Held Her Up While She
Strangled.
Montpelier, Vt, Dec. 9. The bungling
hanging of Mrs. Mary Rogers at the
state prison at Windsor yesterday has
created not only a wave of feeling'
against capital punishment by hanging,
but against the present state adminis
tration. The attempt made to suppress
the facts concerning the hanging is now
a matter of general knowledge and mod
erate opinion inclines to the belief that
the fortune of the political faction now
in the ascendant, in Vermont is now on
the wane It developed today that Gov
ernor Bell, who is an ardent candidate
for senatorial honors and desires to suc
ceed Senator Redfield Proctor on his re
tirement from the United States senate,
had designated two Vermonters to give
out the news of the hanging.
The first account as given out by the
Vermonters contained the truth but not
the whole truth and if there was any
effort to suppress tne facts that Mary
Rogers hung from a rope held by three
deputy sheriffs until she strangled to
death, it came to nothing. Two deputy
sheriffs who held the rope admitted to
day that the rope with which the woman
had been hanged had been untested and
unstretched and when the trap fell the
weight of Mrs. Rogers' body stretched
the hemp strands until her feet touched
the floor. The two deputy sheriffs said
that they pulled the woman off the
ground knowing that unless they had
done so an awful scene would have re
sulted when she returned to conscious
ness after the first shock of the fall. It
was necessary to hold her 14 minutes,
keeping her feet from the floor before
complete strangulation paid the death
penalty to Vermont. Deputy Sheriff
Kenirv who with Deputy. Sheriff Ford
had charge of the execution said this
afternoon that it would be.the last hang
ing that Vermont would ever witness.
Why a green and ur stretched rope had
been used no one knows and no explana
tion was forthcoming from prison offi
cials at Windsor. A deputy sheriff
made the following statement concern
ing the hanging this afternoon:
"The prison officials were told yester
day that they were making a mistake
in using a green rope, but they replied
it was all right as one of the prison)
guards had held himself up from the
floor for several minutes by clinging to
the rope with his hands. They quite
forgot that The fall of a body weighing
160 nounds for a distance of five feet
would stretch a rope where the even
constant weight of a larger body would
have no appreciable effect.
kit. lowFrreIwept.
Everything Destroyed Except the Ob
servatoryLoss $250,000.
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 9. Fire that
started at the foot of the trail of Echo
mountain at daybreak swept Mount
Lowe today, destroying every building
except the observatory, ruining prop
erty to the extent of a quarter of a
million- dollars. The Pacific Electric
company's power house, which served
an inclined railway and all the ma
chinery, was totally destroyed. The
casino and railway company's hotel
soon followed. The few people who
live in the settlement are being forced
to flee for their lives. The flames
swept across the high plateau on
which Echo mountain settlement
stood, toward the observatory, located
a short distance above Echo moun
tain on the side of the hill. But by
almost superhuman efforts the em
ployes of the observatory managed to
divert the flames, causing them to pass
around the building. The destruction
of telegraph and telephone and other
electric lines on Echo mountain pre
vents communcation with Alpine tav
ern, which seemed doomed this after
noon. From' this city and the north
section of Los Angeles the progress
of the flames were eagerly watched by
thousands. The buildings destroyed
were erected at great expense, and the
raising of heavy power house ma
chinery to the top of the incline cost
a small fortune.
The Mount Lowe railway was pro
nounced one of the most wonderful
feats of engineering skill in the con
struction of railroads, and afforded
thrilling scenery. In making this trip,
one ascended from a valley of a trop
ical climate, with its characteristic
fruits and flowers, and entered the
higher zone where all trace of these
was lost, and in their place the stal
wart pines of northern countries.
Starting from Los Angeles through
the San Gabriel valiey to Pasadena,
then to Altadena, where the Mount
Lowe car stood in waiting to climb the
foothills. At Rubio canyon, 2,100 feet
above Los Angeles, starts the "incline"
whose grades are 60, 62, 58 and 48 per
cent., and in a distance of 3,000 feet
ascend an altitude of 1,300 feet. From
Echo mountain to Alpine tavern one
traveled through grand mountain
scenery to Alpine tavern, which is five
thousand feet above sea level; from
this point ponies made the ascent to
the summit of Mount Lowe.
Weather Indication.
Chicago, Dec. 9. Forecast for Kansas:
Fair Sunday; Monday cloudy.
Crimes Unspeakable Are Charg
ed to the Be volution.
Authority of the Government Is
Practically Nullified.
WITTE DISCOURAGED.
He' Is Heady to Quit Bat the
Czar W on't Let Him.
Neither Army Nor Nary Can JCa
Depended Upon.
St, Petersburg, via Eydtkuhnen,
Dec. 10. There Is but ona question
which is being asked at present la this
unhappy country and that is, where U
the revolution leading Russia? It. is
the one all important subject befbr
the people and happy would ba tha
man who could foresee Just what la
ahead.
But this is Impossible. The best
informed men can only guess at what
may come to pass. All Is chaos ani
disorder, and what is worse there is no
light ahead. Russia today might well
be likened to a giant staggering down
a blind alley in the blackest midnight.
He knows not "where his .path leads;
he can not tell what pitfalls are be
fore him. What the end of It all will
becan only be guessed and no predic
tion is of any value.
For this revolution Is a terrible
thing. It has paralyzed industry, it
has ruined all business, it has tied up
the postal and telegraph and when it
desired It has effectually stopped all
railway traffic. It has been responsi
ble for crimes unspeakable; It has
caused the blood of Russian patriots
to flow from one end of the empire to
the other. It has arranged class
against class and man against man. It
has bred mutiny in the navy and
created dissension among the soldiers.
It has taught the peasants to rise
against the tyrants who for centuries
have dominated them and ground
them to the earth. It has practically
nullified the authority of the govern
ment and given to the proletariat pow
ers It never dreamed of possessing a
twelvemonth ago, because It has
learned how it may bend all authority,
even that of the czar to its will. The
revolution has rushed blindly In a
thousand directions. It has made
great leaps then it has halted for a
moment in the face of some unex
pected check from the government.
But it has only hesitated for a mo
ment before turning in another direc
tion to rush into new excesses.
Revolution Without a Head.
The most paralyzing feature of it
all is that there is no head to the rev
olution. With some strong man to
take the helm Russia might weather
the storm without the reign of terror
that is felt must come.' But there is
no controlling mind; there is no man
strong enough to command- obedience
from all the millions of people who
are striving to obtain-liberty, of which
they have received but a taste and
know not how to proceed to obtain It.
There is little wonder then that tha
question of "Where is the revolution
leading Russia?" is on the Hps of
everyone. In the struggle between
monarchist, royalist, bureaucrat, con
stitutionalist, conservative, radical,
peasant, socialist, proletariat, an
archist, and a hundred other "ists,"
who will win? To which causa will
enough people rally to give it control?
No one can answer.
In the awful turmoil it is not
strange there should be great fear lest
before conditions are adjus'ed and
the country passes Into a state wher
It is possible for all to live it will ex
perience a reign of terror, the like of
which the world has never seen. !
Will the government be able even
tually to assert Itself and restore or
der, or will the throne fall? If th
army remain loyal the problem will be
worked out and Russia may continue
as a monarchy within constitutional
limitations. But it Is extremely prob
lematical whether the army will re
main loyal. In Manchuria the troops
are on the verge of open revolt. There
have already been outbreaks of minor
importance, but they show the tem
per of the soldiers. Throughout Rus
sia proper there is hardly a garrison
that is not in a state of mutiny. The
frequent mutinies that have occurred
have proved conclusively that at least
a considerable part of the army is not
loyal.
The Last Resort.
The question of the army's loyalty
can hardly be tested until it becomes
necessary to establish a dictatorship.
This will probably be the last resort
of the czar and if it fails Nicholas will
probably be a monarch without a king
dom if, Jndeed, his life is not forfeited.
And the revolution has hardly com
menced. There have been revolution
ary outbreaks in nearly every town and
hamlet in the country but they do not
really represent the revolution. In
many instances they have been in
cited by the bureaucrats with" the in
sane idea of forcing the czar to rein
state the autocracy which is noiv im
possible. The real revolution that is
to be dreaded is not this affair of street
brawls, mutinies of the garrisons, clash
es between revolutionary hotheads ai:4
the troops and shouting of defiance to
the czar and the government. The real
revolution Is something far deeper,
quieter, more powerful, fuil of silent
threatening. It is the force that organ
ized the. great railway strike that wrung
from the czar his grant of a constitution
which has not been put in operation. It
is the power that has tied up the tele
graph lines and put the postal service
out of commission-for ten days. It is
the influence that has aroused all Rus
sia to think, to compare the conditions
of Its miserable : subjects of the czar
with that of the people of every oVier
civilized nation. -.
Revolution Is Resting'.
Just at present this dreaded revolu-
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