The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-27
IN AMERICA
Inborsts Secret Service
the Late Car.
20 the WHOLE WORLD


- secyet police have been al
S1 sscazled from America. There
- ypnsons for this-one the fact
S - 100 has little use Tor them,
- dat the new car has made
s 49,. ~,srsd 70 follow the example Get
- vnrk by Cof--eo reAeye the
- :. somk extent OF police oppres-
& Z.!:s ~ czar's JOB was even b1gEer
8 !. "a. sssrfrs. HIS predecessors have
- - body more brutal. more cor
- 7Sore detesfable in every way,
:Ss umany could ever create.
q - amount to IN Russia will be
) ~ ,raser on What they amount
) |.!.S.' 1879 u every whit a. interest
! 3! II = nunewhax absurd that they
8 p Snnpunt to anything IN Amez5ca.
3 ~ - DAT the Russian autocrat
- - etse to extend his autocxacy
- = snail a measure into Uncle
81 re- domain u unpleasant. But
&! = p 1eaSt one branch OF the Russian
= 49, evster1r-the polsttcai-has been
r,fed here with a good Geal OF
I[&& 8xVL DEslk 4EA&8EA ~ 0Aty
20 knows. Curfously enough It Il
I. - = tie things about which Super
s;2.sieuaruf Byruesr-waaoee magnificent
& aenktpu has again marked him 90
s q 6nnntesf police officer In the world
2sf ~ absolutely nothing. That Of
= = aensfcant. The superzntend-
S1 ~ 4 way OF talking freely about
- Ufach are not important.
- etrungth Of the Russian secret
ff1e a America has ebbed and flowed
1k rs political disturbances OF that
1rluordinary country. After every
/ 11novM there has been an Influx
4 v grants, who were not wanted In
1rlr1s. to America, and with this
- Il suspects has come Invariably
I'D ok secret police. The Rus
go Adjective has come to America Ia
- Hnds Of ways. Sometimes, when
- poble has been naked up with
- 1sninst the czar. he has travelled
i H 4 prince in the first cabin Of the
~ ateausr. In this connection q sto-
n - been told for several years about
70 ellcss Of one Of the great steamship
mpAnies. This may be mere ira
Gin Or It may be true 1t Il q good
Z n.y. anyway.
cne day, when the big. steamer sailed
cm uvsrpool. she had on board none
kw than . prince Of the biuest Rus
- blood. He travelled alone with a
~ but he Travelled nmgniflcently.
~ ~ - any one knew he was In the
~ highest standing at ST Peters
NJ end 1t was even whispered among
~ passengers that his object In WIS.,
America was to, by means Of fine
4 ~ Eumises AID other palaverIng,
1use caFtain Of the Russian nobility
M so3ourning III the United States,
= nt1En to the land Of the white bear,
hrs " meet such fates as the czar
nlEht have planned for them.
"a played high in the card room, ard
n drank freely OF champagne. Early
n the voyage he became acquainted
va handsome man OF distinguished
asance. The two seemed to con-
B Eve : great and sudden liking for
snaf other. The stranger was particu-
nv frank and cutspoken; apparently
- ms anything but mysterious, al
WoEsa no one seemed to know any
0lzF about him Ills nationality was
! ldeaaite. although he helped along
eraatien concerning 1t by declaring
nas he bad visited every country m
aFupe except Russia, and could speak
essfy language Of Europe except Rus
he was heard to remark in the
~ room that he could appreciate the
20 ercesilng and education OF the
AesssAn nobility: that he had great re-
eN Tor the magnificent natural re-
saafces OF that great country: that he
saired her army and regarded her
~ With wonder; but that he could
1her symTslthixe with nor admire
y Russian political plan or police sys-
wa TIE friendship between the two
nea npensd rapidly even for a ship
osfd AFFAIR. BY the time the voyage
; ssa appsoachei within a day OF Its end
.asy were inseparslh,e. That last day
ny we're continually In each others
; N'nfAny In the card room. and the
Nlaee drank heavily.
"os1 the passengers landed. several
ss'aarkcd the absence from she deck of
Russian prince ana his friend.