Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-07-17

departure only after he was gone.
kind OF chaos prev Is here, and !,
would be hard to account for If tho
late Russian Machiaveli had not given
a key to it.
Colonel George Porphirievitch Sude
Kin, late chief of the political police,
attempted to organize the anarchy thai
IS fast corrOding the autccratic regime.
It's iuea was as follows;
sit is plain he said once to a con.
hdential comrade, ''that we can not
I hunt down, arrest. and annihilate each
and every Terrorist but we can and
must abolish that obstinate party, and
the best way to do it is to tear asuntler
the ties that combine Its members to.
| gether for life and death Let us inocu.
! late them with mutual mistrust. sus-
picion, and fear. and our task will be
accomplished
Having thus thought out his plan, he
| boldly attempted to realize it, minding
no law, whether human or divine His
power was unlimited, and the amount
, of money at his command was enor-
nous, and he used both freely. Buy
everybody he said to his comrades.
''Buy Counts, court ladies, Terrcrists
and patriots, men and women. youths
and old men. Buy all of them" His
army of spies was monst.ous. eff a
spy draws his salary and does not de-
anything it is all right" thought
Sudeikin, ''for such a man breaks up
the line separating honest men from
dishonest men: and. again, such man
furnishes a cover for the real spies, for
these. too, may say that they only draw
Their salary and do NOT spy"
Sudeikin did not believe in honesty.
The question of honesty he used to
say, sis the question of the price one
demands for his services" Particularly
he valued the services. whether real or
imaginary. of the Nihilist informers. In
such cases he did not spare the Govern
ment Golfers. 1t is said that he sue
cceded in enlisting in his service some
Nihilis agents, and also in introducing
some of his faithful SPIES into the Nj
hilist cam }. He ilattered himself that
he had fully succeeded. A number of
Nihilists were murdered by their own
comrades for treason. ''Soon they will
succumb under general mistrust." iubi-
lantly eXcla med Sudeikin. ''Soon
they will be unable to unite for the
caase, and we will buy all of them"
When he converted, as he thought, a
noted Terrorist, Captain Degaietf, his
JOY knew no limits. He believed that he
had put his hand on the Executive
Committee itself.
While manipulating his complicated
machinery of spydom, Sudeikin did not
lose sight of his unsolicited competitors.
He watched the Sacred Militia. The
Voluntary Guards were carefully fol-
lowed by his men. He knew everything
about the Land Union. He could not
suffer that any State officer should pre-
cede him in unearthng Nih;list plot.
S te's-Attorney Dovrjinsky once sue
ceeded in arrest!ng woman in whose
possession were 1oInd the addresses of
several important cons TRAITORS. In Or
der 20 belittle the discovery of the At
torney, Sudeikin quietly warned the
consprators of the danger and the At
torney, of course, could not arrest them.
Sudeikin was very ambitious, but the
Ministers kept him down. He was
chief spy only. He faced all dangers,
and yet the Ministers did not promote
him even on the occasion OF the Cars
which was virtually insured
by Sudeikin. He thought of revenge.
Daily he conferred with Degaietf His
was OF an extraordinary
sort. His plan was this; For some
reason he would resign. lmme-
diately after that Degalelf would kill
Count Tolstoi. the Minister of the In
terror, Grand Duke Vladimir, the Chief
of the St. Peter burg Military District,
and spread terror throughout Russia.
Under such circumstances the Gar
would recall Sudeikin and give him the
extra ordinary powers of dictator
Degaieil. having accomplished such
deeds, would be puc at the head of the
Executive Committee. Thus the pair
would rule 10th underground and over
ground Russia. But amid such dreams
Col. Sudeikin was murdered by the man
whom he considered his most valuable
tool. The Government has issued the
following advertisement
Retired Lieut.-Capt. Serge Petrovitch De-
IO. Sudcikin on December 2S, 1883. Five
thousand rOubles will be given to the person |
who will reveal the whereabouts of Degaief,
and ten thousand roubles to the person who |
viii assist in arresting Degaief.
Although Russia is full of venal spies,
get Dagaieff' s friends are unpurchasa-
Die. He has safely made his escape
81. Petersburg Cor. N. Y. Sun.