Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-11

the two men met and fought like flcnds
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 the form of one was lifted in
the air by his adversary. Tho 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
yaw ming chasm, and is if to make cnt
final effort he leaned far back. and, as he
did SO, u clump Of earth broke away from
the outer rim Of the trail, some gravel
stones flew into the air, an awful oath
broke tho dead silence, and the two men
fell headlong into the abyss below. Among
the evidences Of Identification found in
tho pack Of one was IA letter from the
American minister at Russia, which said
that the bearer, Prince Ivan OranofT. was
the eldest son of Baron Oranoff. at one
time governor Of the territory of Alaska,
before the transfer to the American gov.
ernment. The other was half breed
packer by the name of Jonathan Prim.
His father was Captain Prim, who perish
ed in the great kerakk landslide in 1867.
In 1860 Dona- wauk was chief of the
Alaska Indians and Baron Oranoff tho
Russian governor of the province During
that year the baron, says the San Francis.
co Call, journcycd to st. Petersburg for
the purpose of laying before the car the
necessity of committing IA larger number
of exiles and convicts to Alaska that they
might be employed in the construction OF
wharfs, forts and other improvements and
Notifications of the territory
IT wus nhout fhis Tina that Jcl-opJcr
IIertzen. one of the leading spirits of the
society of anarchists known as Deem
brists, fourshed and exercised great in
iuence among his followers Among them
was Louise SoloviefT, sister of Ivan Solo
vieff, who attempted the life of the car in
1879 by thrice firing at him from behind
the gates which led to tho palace.
While there appeared no outward mani
festations of this society until 1866, when
Internationally was arrested and HertZen
fled to London, they were nevertheless
subjected to the strictest surveillance, and
| one evening i'll the month of October,
1860, their place of meeting was raided by
tho officers of the car and among the
persons taken was Louise Solovieff.
The baron stood we'll at the court of
Alexander II, and when few days after
"oAN liz ouSSSStCo W UDc bUau
Louise Solovietf would be much safer in
Alaska than Siberia tho car pretended to
see the force of tho suggestion, and when
the ship that carried the baron back to his
castle at Sitka left the port of Odessa, on
the Bird day of November, 1860, Louise
Solovieff was among the list of exiles and
convicts transported to Alaska.
For time Louise resented the proffered
and professed affection of the baron, but
after awhile she softened toward him, be-
came reconcled to her fate, and, yielding
to the force of an unalterable destiny, she
consented to the liason
A year went by and she bore him son,
bright little fellow, just turning at
the commencement of this narrative. She
called him Ivan after her brother, and
while the baron did not relish the idea of
son of his carrying the name of a noted
anarchist her brothers attack upon the
car had then not yet occurred, so he made
no serious objection to the mothers choice
OF q name.
She also became deeply interested in the
education and moral training of the In
dams. Sho had contributed much to the
missionary districts of kadak, Unalaska,
Atka, kenoi, Mushergak and Knikphak.
At the opening of this story she had been
on three months visit to these various
missionary outposts She had taken her
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