The Benson signal. [volume], October 11, 1919, Image 6

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RUSS NOBLEWOMAN DESCRIBES
ATROCITIES OF THE BOLSHEVIKI
Hundreds of Persons Tortured in the Most Inhuman Fashion Before
Being Put to Death and Their Estates Pillaged and
Mansions Razed —Thousands Die From
Hunger All Over Country.
New York.—“We do not hope any
longer; we die!”
The despair to which bolshevik mis
rule has reduced Russia is thus epito
mized by a Russian noblewoman wide
ly known throughout her country, in a
remarkable picture of events in her
country contained in a letter received
recently in New York. Her castles
and estates plundered or razed, her
fortune vanished and her friends and
family murdered, this titled woman is
moved to remark that “three years
ago, my second daughter and her hus
band died, he having caught cold in
the trenches. Then I was in despair;
now I envy them.”
“I beg of you never to mention my
name; I wrote frankly to you counting
on your discretion,” is the plea which
fear of bolshevik tyranny moves the
unfortunate woman to place at the
close of her letter to her friend, a New
York woman of prominent and influen
tial family. “Excuse the incoherences;
I write with my heart bleeding, know
ing that I shall never be able to give
you the faintest idea of the sufferings
that thousands are enduring.”
A graphic tale of the misery that
spreads itself over Russia is unfolded
In the letter. Wholesale pillaging and
murder by bolsheviki, Germans, Finns
and others swept the land clear of its
wealth.
Both the noblewoman who wrote the
letter and the woman who received it
are well known. The danger involved
fer the former makes it advisable that
not only the names of the persons but
the names of the localities mentioned
be withheld from publication. The let
ter in full reads as follows:
“My very, very dear Mrs. B :
“At last I am able to write to you
and to hope to hear from you.
“I will endeavor to tell you briefly
the personal events of these terrible
last years. But how to begin? How
to give you the faintest idea of the
unimaginable atrocities committed by
the bolsheviki? Speaking of our
selves, I will tell you that we have
lost everything. The bolsheviki have
stolen all our fortune, boxes of silver
ware, precious objects, personal re
membrances which undoubtedly are
now destroyed.
Freed to Flee From Home.
“Three years ago my second daugh
ter and her husband died, he having
caught cold in the trenches. Then I
was in despair, now I envy them. The
year 1917 in autumn, we had to flee
from M , and come to the city,
where we lived under the reds’ regime
until the arrival of the Germans.
“You have probably read in the pa-
Potatoes Without Vines
Are Grown by Girl
Kutztown, Pa. —Lizzie, daugh
ter of Jefferson Hoch, discovered
in their potato patch that a num
ber of seed potatoes failed to pro
duce any vines on top of the soil.
She was surprised to find the
seed potatoes in every hill had
clustered around good-sized new
potatoes, that the entire vitality
of the seed potato was transfer
red to the new ones, and that
there was no vine growth above
the surface of the potato hills.
The mother potato was still in
the hill, but had given up its sub
stance to the young potatoes,
which were already so well ma
tured that they could be used for
a meal.
SPORT ON SHIPPING BOARD VESSELS
The sailors on the merchant vessels operated by the shipping hoard
have plenty of amusement in their times of leisure. The photograph shows a
boxing boul, ut a shore station.
pers that the reds had sent to Siberia
300 Russian barons, and also some
bourgeoisie; some died and the others
returned two months after.
“Although under our roof lived a
military guard of bolsheviki or reds,
good luck kept us from sharing their
lot. I cannot describe the last days.
After the arrival of the Germans a
list was found of about a thousand
persons, in which we were, who were
to be shot the very next day.
“The reign of the Germans lasted
exactly seven months; they annihi
lated all our hopes, they accumulated
taxes upon taxes; carrying away all
the food to Germany, leaving the peo
ple of our cities to starve.
“No discipline, corruption every
where, no administration. Only those
who deliberately closed their eyes to
evidence failed to see that a country
thus plundered and so badly treated
was not to remain long under their
rule. But, alas! How many were
blind!
“Then came the great catastrophe;
the German troops fraternizing with
the bolsheviki at W ; surrendering
to them cannon, war ammunition, and
refusing to fight. The Germans even
damaged the cannon they left to the
Esthes troops, which had been formed
hastily and were incapable of defend
ing themselves, having nothing, abso
lutely nothing!
Reds’ Rule Was Worse.
“Then, for another year the country
was at the mercy of the reds, and it
was worse than the first time.
“The Bolsheviki had with them Chi
nese and Red Lettes, who were ter
ribly cruel, and those formed the
guard of the unfortunate emperor and
his family.
“On the 28th of November we
learned that W had fallen; that
the Germans were leaving us in haste;
and, as the German general command
ing at R , had, at the request of
the Lettes, refused the formation of
troops with the men of the country,
we were left without any defense.
“The lights of the electric projectors
of the enemy’s ships already illuminat
ed our shores; from the castle’s tower
we could see everything; there was
not a minute to be lost. The trains were
running only for the German troops;
it was then necessary to risk traveling
by the inland ways, through dreadful
roads and in a country in revolution,
for when the Germans took posses
sion of the provinces they took care
not to punish their friends, the bol
sheviki ; so that we were compelled to
see and to live with the people who
had stolen and pillaged our properties.
The Germans did nothing to find out
the revolutionists and to protect us,
nothing!
“After having packed in haste the
strictly necessary things, our small
caravan started at five o’clock in the
morning; it was dark and the roads
were frightful.
“We arrived at R on the second
of December. We were able to stay
four weeks at our home, then in great
haste we had to embark on the boat
sent to Finland for the fugitives and
we arrived at Helsingfors. Lassitude,
troubles, and emotions of all these
weeks overwhelmed at last my poor
husband.
“Fortunately we found two rooms in
a hospital; there we lived for two
months, being often hungry, and when
we could get some food it was execra
ble.
“The high prices of living in Fin
land are unbelievable. A pound of tea.
which ordinarily cost from five to fif
teen kronen, cost from one hundred to
Files Suit on Herself,
Then Argues Own Case
Mrs. Alice Viola Parsons, a
Denver beauty specialist, ap
peared before a jury in Judge G.
W. Dunn’s division of the county
court in more roles than it is
given most persons to play in
court.
She is plaintiff, defendant,
plaintiff’s attorney and star wit
ness in a suit brought by herself
against the Instant Anti-Wrinkle
company, of which she holds 40
per cent of the stock.
The suit is being contested by
other stockholders in the con
cern. Mrs. Parsons claims that
the company obtaned valuable
wrinkle eradicating formulas
from her and has withheld her
salary. She asserted that she
had no money left from the ven
ture, and so was obliged to act
as her own attorney.
a hundred and fifty marks; a kilo
gramme of sugar one hundred marks,
etc. Also Finland tried to get rid of
so many people she had to feed, and,
as the bolsheviki who come up to 28
kilometers from R had been re
pulsed by the Finn troops, which had
at the last moment come in aid to the
Letts and to the volontaire corps of
Balthes-Germans, the Finns then or
dered all fugitives to leave the country
within six days. However, we re
ceived, on account of my husband’s bad
condition, permission to stay until he
would get better.
“Going back was an impossibility,
the situation being still very grave; a
second expedition was no longer pos
sible for the strength of my poor hus
band; moreover, we had nothing left.
Our large city house was taken and
turned into a hospital by a Russian
volontaire corps. M devastated
and plundered! First by the bolshe
viki, then by the Esths, whom the
Germans left unpunished; then by the
white troops and the Finns, who were
fighting the reds, German properties
being left unmolested.
Family Lost Everything.
“Last year our estate had suffered,
but our magnificent castle with all its
dependencies had been respected. Now
all have pillaged it. The Finns being
more civilized stole the most beautiful
things—paintings, bronzes, antiques,
etc. Finally the 36 masters’ rooms and
the 11 servants’ rooms were plundered.
What they could not take away they
smashed or burned. We lost every
thing. Not a sheet, not a plate or a
glass exist, and when our Intendant
complained to the minister of state (a
Thesthe), he answered him that nat
urally in war time everybody wanted
to have some souvenirs. The whites
pillaged, as I hear, 80 estates, and they
were supposed to be our defenders!
“Friends here obtained for us the
permission to come to K , where we
found two rooms in a family. We
hope soon to find some occupation, and
sell some furs that I could take with
me, for unfortunately my beautiful
laces are also in Petrograd.
“I do not know whether you have an
idea of what the bolsheviki have done
everywhere whenever they had to re
tire. At W they killed 82 people;
we have lost friends, acquaintances
and our excellent and noble doctor. Al
most all were tortured before being put
to death. Before shooting Doctor L
they broke his two legs. To the old
Baroness H., seventy-two years old,
after having opened her stomach,
snatched out her intestines while alive.
They killed priests, doctors, nobles,
merchants, women, children and peas
ants. They made several persons dig
their own graves, forcing them to un
dress; a carriage was waiting to take
away their clothes. Then they tor
tured every one, breaking arms and
legs, crushing the limbs, snatching the
intestines, gouging out the eyes, scar
ring the cheeks, and they even burned
two persons alive.
“There were three large pits; they
tossed pell mell in one of them the
living and the dead, and then these
monsters jumped into the pit and
trampled under foot the unfortunates
until they were lifeless.
“Twelve persons were so crushed
and disfigured that they could not be
recognized. And all that is true!
“After the corpses had been ex
humed the doctors and the officers of
the state took photographs of each, af
ter having examined everyone of them.
Russia Awaiting the Allies
“At D , at W , etc., whenever
the Reds were repulsed—note, I pray
you, that I say ‘everywhere’—the same
tortures were inflicted to the unfortu
nate ones. I shall not try to describe
the horrors of other places, for it has
been the same everywhere.
“At D , hundreds have been
thrown under the ice of the river, yet
a clement death compared with the
others.
“Thousands die from hunger in all
Russia; bolshevism reigns everywhere.
We had hoped to be delivered by the
Germans, and they having failed we
hoped for the allies; now, as an offi
cer who has escaped from Petrograd
was telling, we do not hope any longer,
we die!
“Russia is anxiously awaiting the
help of the allies, for she alone cannot
conquer the terrorizing bolsheviki.”
THE BENSON SIGNAL.
Southwest News
From All Over
New Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Arizona State Fair—Nov. 3 to 8. 1919.
The assessed valuation of all min
ing property being operated in Ari
zona this year is $417,704,615, accord
ing to a statement issued by the State
Tax Commission. This total, it was
announced, is more than a million dol
lars higher than last year’s valuation,
which was placed at $416,080,000.
Sandoval county, New Mexico, will
open its first high school this fall in
Bernalillo, thus making it possible for
the eighth grade graduates to obtain
a high school education in their own
county. Sandoval county is fortunate
in having a young and very progres
sive superintendent at the head ol
their schools.
Lieutenant Howell Ervien, just re
turned from two years overseas, where
he was in almost continuous active
service, has been elected superinten
dent of the New Mexico Reform
School, located at Springer, New Mexi
co. The appointment was made by
the board of trustees at a meeting at
Springer.
The Santa F 6 Forest, under tho
management of Supervisor Joseph C.
Kircher, passed a prosperous year
ending June 30, 1919, for the receipts
show an increase of over 43 per cent
over the fiscal year ending June 30,
1919. The total receipts for 1919 were
$88,266.20, a gain of $26,541.47 over
1918, when they totaled $61,124.73.
A disastrous fire swept a portion of
the business district of Fort Sumner,
New Mexico, in which the store be
longing to Dr. Lovelace, the picture
show owned by Ridley Brothers, and
buildings belonging to J. R. Law, Tom
Murphy, Ben Ridle and Tom Ridle
were destroyed. Several other build
ings were damaged.
Plans for a county demonstration
farm to be connected wffth the state
college or the federal Department of
Agriculture is the project that the
Luna County Farm Bureau is now
considering. The bureau expects to
work out a uniform system of irriga
tion equipment, farm methods and
crop standards and to put these into
practice on a large demonstration
farm.
Os great interest to the sportsmen
of the state is the stocking and re
stocking of the streams and lakes of
Arizona with game fish by the state
game warden, Joe V. Prochaska.
Three million young fish have been
ordered from the federal hatcheries
to be planted in Arizona waters, in
cluding such varieties as black bass,
rainbow trout, salmon trout, moun
tain trout, Eastern brook trout, speck
led trout, and many other varieties.
Miners working on the Globe-Miami
district have received an increase of
75 cents per day. The new scale is
based on 24-cent copper and means
that miners w r ill receive a minimum
of $5.65 per day. Uuderground ma
chine men will receive an additional
50 cents per day increase; under
ground timbermen will receive 25
cents additional, and all journeymen
mechanics will receive 25 cents per
day in addition to the 75 cents raise.
At the regular luncheon of the Ki
wanis Club at Albuquerque, New Mex
ico, it was agreed to go 50-50 with
the Rotary Club in raising SIO,OOO to
wards the building of a new struc
ture for the Department of Hygiene
at the university. Six thousand, five
hundred dollars has already been ap
propriated by the federal government
for the maintenance of the depart
ment. It is expected that work on the
new building will start in a short
time.
A mining drill invented by an Ari
zona man recently won first place in
a drilling contest in Nevada against
a field of all other makes.
A total of 272 suits have been filed
at Tombstone, Arizona, in the Bishee
deportation cases. The total amount
of damages asked for by the plaintiffs
is $5,505,000. Damages are sought on
the ground of alleged assault, bruis
ing, beating and wounding by the
plaintiffs; 166 cases ask for $20,000
each, one-half of which amount is for
actual damages and the remainder for
punitive damages; 75 of the cases ask
for $25,000 each, and 31 ask for $lO,-
000 each.
Dr. O. E. Troy, a veterinary surgeon
and a resident of Raton, New Mexico
all his life, is under $5,000 bond
charged with the murder of his wife,
whose death occurred under myster
ious circumstances on May 21st. The
woman’s death was declared due to
self-inflicted strychnine poisoning at
the time by a physician who examined
the body. Recently the parents of the
dead woman, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Whipple of Kansas City, instituted
proceedings to have the husband ar
rested.
Though none of the equipment has
as yet been received by the Arizona
Highway Department, and two ship
ments of trucks were already under
stood to be en route, the state engi
neer has been notified that a third
shipment of 117 trucks, including Peer
less, Packard and aviation trucks has
been started. The first shipment was
108 trucks, the second 71, and with
this late shipment the state is about
to receive from the government near
ly 300 trucks of all sizes and makes
for use on the state highway construc
tion.
RAGE RIOTS
IN CHICAGO
FOURTEEN KILLED AND SEVEN
TY-FIVE WOUNDED IN NIGHT
BATTLE, IS REPORT.
SEND STATE TROOPS
ORIGINAL TROUBLE STARTS AT
BATHING BEACH ALONG
LAKE FRONT.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago, July 29. —Fourteen have
been killed and seventy-six wounded
in the wildest orgy of race rioting. Os
the dead nine were white. To prevent
transfer of rifle-bearing police, ne
groes cut telephone wires. Flying
squadrons of blacks in fast motor
cars dashed through the streets firing
at whites. Street lights were smashed
and pistol flashes indicated new bat
tles. Police wires were busy all night
with appeals from frightened women
begging for protection. Girls employed
downtown feared to go home, and took
refuge in hotels. After a motorman
had been dragged from his car and
killed by negroes, street cars quit run
ning through the battle area.
Chicago.—Race rioting, which broke
out anew in the negro section of Chi
cago, caused Mayor Thompson and
Chief of Police Garrity to apply to
Governor Lowden for militia. As a
result four regiments, the Eleventh Il
linois infantry, and the First, Second
and Third reserve militia regiments,
including 3,500 men, were ordered
mobilized by Adjt. Gen. Frank S.
Dickson. General Dickson said he
would remain in Chicago in charge of
the military situation. He pointed out
that the Eleventh infantry and the
First reserve regiments have machine
gun companies with experienced ma
chine gunners, and that the line com
panies of these two regiments and the
Second and Third reserve regiments
are armed with new Springfield rifles
and Krag-Jorgenson carbines.
The rioting today was an outgrowth
of the fighting which started at the
Twenty-ninth street bathing beach and
broke out sporadically at different
places in the black belt.
Eugene Cappel has operated a laun
dry at 3642 South State street for
fifteen years. When he, with his wife
and daughter, closed the laundry and
started for their automobile he had a
revolver in his hip pocket. Four ne
groes saw him, rushed for him, and
took his weapon from him. He was
stabbed in the scuffle, once in the back
and three times in the chest. His wife
and daughter were severely beaten.
All three were taken to the Providence
hospital. Cappel died there fifteen
minutes later.
The killing of Kaspar Kazzouram
was witnessed by a large group. He
sat on his wagon in front of 3618
South State street. A car stopped at
the corner of Thirty-sixth and State,
according to witnesses, and a colored
man stepped off, ran to where Kazzou
ram sat, stabbed him in the back, ran
half a block further north and boarded
a north-bound car. No one attempted
to stop him.
Judge Permits Light Beer.
San Francisco. —Sale of beer contain
ing two and three-quarters per cent al
cohol was permitted in a decision by
Judge William H. Sawtelle of Arizona
in the United States District Court in
San Francisco sustaining a demurrer
of the Rainier Brewing Company,
which asked that a government action
to prohibit the sale of such beer be dis
missed.
Inaugurate Tenth President.
Rio Janeiro. —Dr. Epitacio Pessoa
was inaugurated tenth president of
Brazil in the Senate chamber at Rio
Janeiro. The ceremony was simple, but
impressive. The chamber was filled
with senators and members of the
Chamber of Deputies. The entire dip
lomatic corps, including special ambas
sadors representing the United States
and several South American countries,
were seated in tribunals.
To Investigate Smuggling.
Washington. Chairman Johnston
of the House immigration committee
has introduced a resolution proposing
a visit of the committee to the Pacific
coast and the Mexican and Canadian
borders to study immigration ques
tions, particularly the smuggling of
aliens into the country.
Aviator Is Killed.
Mineola, N. Y. —Second Lieut. Ste
phen B. Johnston of Uvalde, Texas, a
pilot, was killed, and Lieut. Amos C.
Payne, an observer, was slightly in
jured at Hazelhurst field when their
airplane fell 200 feet as they attempted
to make a landing.
Japs Will Withdraw.
Washington. —Katsuji Debuchi, coun
selor and charge d’affaires of the Jap
anese embassy, said that Japan will
withdraw from Shantung every Japan
ese soldier and restore to China her
sovereignty over the leased territory of
Kiao Chau. Mr. Debuchi admitted that
he spoke without any instructions from
his government, hut his declaration is
understood to coincide with assurances
given to the Chinese delegation by the
allied and associated representatives,
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And They Were Happy.
Pat didn’t know just how to pop the
question and appealed to his mother.
Then to the girl of his heart: “Mary,”
said he, “me mother wants to know
if ye’ll come and live with us always?”
“Go home,” said Mary very coyly,
“and tell your mother I will.” —Every-
body’s Magazine.
To Have a Clear Sweet Skin.
Touch pimples, redness, roughness
or itching, if any, with Cuticura Oint- v
ment, then bathe with Cuticura Soap
and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and
dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to
leave a fascinating fragrance on skin.
Everywhere 25c each. —Adv.
Hygienic to a Degree.
“They are very particular at the
new bakeshop. The girls who wait on
customers have to wear white gloves.”
“Yes, and I’m told they don’t even
allow the ladyfingers to touch the
other cookies.” —Boston Transcript.
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Not So Bad.
“I saw the bridegroom across the
way throwing things at his wife.”
“Already? What was he throwing
at her —the furniture?”
“No; kisses.” /
The Result.
“Is your daughter’s execution good
on the piano?”
“Well, she manages to kill time.”
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