The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-04-02

purchase of Alaska were about to be
concluded, Eugene Schuyler brought
Honcharenko to the attention of Se1re-
tary Seward. and. through the assist
ance of Seward and Schuyler, Honcha-
renko was enabled to purchase the
presses for the publication in San
Francisco of the Svoboda and Alaska
Herald, printed partly in Russian and
partly in English. In 1872 SvbOda was
discontinued, through the Vaccinations
of the Russian minister at Washing
ton, it is said. During the publication
of this paper Honcharenko's life was
twice attempted, on both occasions by
hired ~Sclavonians, he says. He finally
disposed of his English type to Henry
George, who thus started his first
newspaper venture, the San Francisco
Post. He retained, however, his fonts
or Russian type for use in secret press
in spreading his propaganda. With the
money he received from his type he
purchased the fifty acres he called
"Ukrainia,' and out of "Ukrania" is
sues the still small voice of S%yoboda--
the whisper that troubles the heart Of
the Russian monarch and threatens his
throne.
Yet Father Honcharenko is not an
anarchist. He does not believe in dy-
Mantle or in violent measures. With
him the great panacea for earthly ills
is education. He thinks it is only a
question of time when Il republic. will
succeed an empire in Russia. He has
founded in California the Decembrists,
a society of Russian sympathizers, who
hope to gain their ends by peaceful
means, such as the circulation of al
vanced literature. H~Oncharenko is Il
great admirer of Count Tolstoi, whom
he calls his spiritual child" having
confessed him while in Alexandria.
Egypt. Tolstoi is one of the few patrf-
OTIS who can not be accused of mixed
motives.
Back of his house Father Honcha-
renko has built a row of cabins, where
he entertains escaped conNictS from
the Siberian mines and others who are
fleeing from the despotism of the car.
Princes and princeSSes have hidden
there, and every poor slave in the dun.
geons and mines of Siberia knows OF
the eX-priest and his home in the Ala
media hills.
The eX-priest and his wife do not
feel the lonlineSs of the place. They
have Il great deal of Russian company
all the time. Besides, they are SuS
tained by the a"dor of a grand cause
The old man said to me: Il work witt
my hands on my farm and | sell my
onions and apples to buy paper and ink
Then | print my paper, liberty, and my
tracts, and send them to be distributed
in Russia and Siberia. | have no sub
scribers. My Russian literature is nj
, given away
From this obscure niche in the noun
tains of Eden township these tracts ar,
!, sent by secret and devious ways e
= Geneva, where the Liberat0rS 20;
!, them in the underground mail FOR trans
mission across the frontier; or they ar
4 sent to a Russian tea plantation il
Northern China, where. securely fold
ed, and secreted in cakes of brick tea
they are transmitted by caravan
sealed with the seven customs seals O
kiatha, across the steppes of Siheri;
consigned to trusted agents for diStr
S button in the very heart of the empire
serving we'll their purpose of keepin
: alive the Pickering flame of liberty.
e Honcharenko has been formally col
e demned to StraHgllntion for his sinai
Z in the conspiracy to cmancipate til
= serfs. 1t was Il novel situation, tn