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the two men met and fought like fiends
In plain view Of tho hundreds of men who
lined the trail on both sides of the summit
as far as the eye could reach.
Suddenly tile form OF one was lifted in
the air by his adversary The latter, With
a grim, exultaut smile, moved toward the
edge, cautiously balancing the dangling
form of his foe above his head. Nearer
and nearer he approached the brink of the
yawniDg chasml, and as if to make one
final effort be- leaned far back, and, as he
did so, a cluinp Of earth broke away from
the outer rim of the trail, some gravel
stones Jew into the air, an awful oath
broke the dead silence, and the two men
fell headiong into the abyss below. Among
tho evidences of Identification found in
tho pack of one was a letter from tho
American minister at Russia, which said
that the bearer, Prince Ivan OraHof. was
the eldest son of Baron Oranoff, at one
time governor of tho territory of Alaska,
before the transfer to the American gov
ernment. The other was a half breed
packer by the name Of Jonathan Prim.
His father was Captain Prina, who perish
sd in the great Karakk landslide in 1867.
I'm 1860 Don-a-wauk was chief of the
Alaska indians and Baron Oranoff the
Russian goyernoro of the province. During
that year tho baron. says the San Francis
co Call, journeyed to st. Petersburg for
the purpose of laying before the car the
necessity of committing a larger number
of exiles and ~conyicts to Alaska that they
might be employed in the construction of
wharfs, forts and other improvements and
Notifications Of the territory.
1t was about this time that Islander
H.
society of anarchists known as Deem
brists, lourished and exercised a great in
fluence among his followers. Among them
was Louise Soloyieff, sister of ivan Solo
vieff, who attempted the life of the car in
1879 by thrice firing at him from behind
tho gates which led to the palace.
While there appeared nc outward mani
festations of this society until 1866. when
Internationally was arrested and Hertzen
fed to London, they were nevertheless
subjected to the. strictest surveillance, and
one evening in tho month of October,
1860, their place Of meoting was raided by
the officers Of the czar and among the
persons taken was Louise Solovieff.
The baron stood well at the court of
Alexander II, and when a few days after
ward BIB suggested to the emperor that
Louise Soloyief would be much safer in
Alaska than Siberia the car pretended to
see tho force OF tho suggestion, and when
tho ship that carried the baron back to his
castle at Sitka loft tho port of Odessa. on
the 3rd day of November, 1860, Louise
Solovief was among the list of exiles and
convicts transported to Alaska.
For a time Louise resented the profered
and professed affection Of the baron, but
after awhile she softened toward him, be-
came reconcled to her fate, and, yielding
to the forccscf an unnlterablo destiny, she
consented to the liaison.
Ayear went by and she bore him q Sod,
a. bright 1ittlo fellow. just turning 8 at
thsa9 olnrinencesron Of this narrative. She
called him Ivan after her brother, and
while the baron did not relish the idea OF
a son Of bis carrying the name of a noted
anarchist her brothcr's attack Upon the
czars had then net yet occurred, SO be mado
no serious objection to the mothers choice
OF a name.
She also became. deeply Interested in the
education and moral training Of the In
dams. SEo had contributed much to the
missionary districts CT kadiak, Unalaska,
Aka. ko.oi, Mushergak and Knikphak.
Attic opening OF this story she had been
on d three months visit to these various
missionary o~utposts. She had taken her
departure in July. and her little son Ivan
attended her.
1t was during her absence on this occa-
sion that an event followed which forever
destroyed the poor wolpan's happiness. 1t
ca1pe about as follows: Whom Commodore
Rodgers in 1854 divided his forces and
carried on bis explorations among the
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