The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-12-19

imposing for a 1arrar SaTuanapaIus,
an undisputed sovereign. who directs
at his pleasure the life and fortunes OF
his subjects, whose power is unlimited,
and to whom at Bokhara By special
privilege the title Of emir is given.
When Ivan Ogareff appeared, the
great dignitaries remained seated on
their gold embroilered cushions, but
Feofar rose from a rich divan which
occupied the back part of the tent, the
ground being hidden under the thick
velvet pile of Bokharian carpet
. The emir approached Ogareff and
gave him kiss, the meaning of which
he could not mistake. This kiss made
the lieutenant chief of the council and
placed him temporarily about the
khodja.
Then Feofar addressed himself to
Ivan Ogareff.
II have no need to question you"
said he. Speak, Ivan. You will find
here ears very ready to listen to YOU"
''This is what have to make known
to you," answered Ogareff.
Ivan Ogareff spoke in the Tartar lam
guage, giving to his phrases the en-
phatic turn which distinguishes the Ian
guage Of the orientals.
'"This is not the time for unnecessary
words. What I have done at the head
of your troops you know. The lines OF
the Ichim and the Irish are now in
our power, and the Turcoman horse
men can battle their horses in the now
Tartar waters. The Kirghiz ~hordes
rose at the voice of Feofar- Khan, and
to Tomsk belongs to you. You can
therefore push on your troops as well
toward the east, where the sun rises, as
toward the west, where he SETS"
But the armies Of the sultan of st.
Petersburg?' said Feofar- Khan, desig-
mating the emperor of Russia by this
strange title. .....
You have nothing to fear from them,
either from the east or from the west"
replied Ivan Ogareff. "The invasion
has been sudden, and before the Rus
bian army can succor them Irkutsk or
Tobolsk will have fallen into your pow
er. The cars troops have been over
whelmed at Kalyvan, as they will be
everywhere where yours meet them"
"And what advice does your devotion
to the Tartar cause suggest? asked
the emir after a few moments silence.
My advice" answered Ivan Ogaref
quickly, sis to march to meet the sun.
L: IS to give the grass of the eastern
steppcs to the Turcoman horses to con-
sumo. 1t is to take Irkutsk, the. capital
If the eastern provinces, and with it q
hostage the possession of whom is
worth 4 whole country. In the place
CT tie car the grand duke, his brother.
must fail into your hands,"
This was the great result aimed at
by Ivan Ogareff. To listen to him one
would have taken him for one of the
cruel descendants of Stephen Razine,
the celebrated pirate who ravaged
southern Russia in the eighteenth cen
4 fury. To seize the grand duke, murder
him pitilessly, would fully satisfy his
hatred. Besides. with the capture Of
Irkutsk, all eastern Siberia would pass
under the Tartar dominion. 49,.
''It shah be thus. IVAN replied Eco
far.
"What are your orders"
To-day our headquarters shall be re-
moved to Tomsk."
Ogareff bowed, and, followed by the
housch-begui, he retired to execute the
emir's orders. ~.,.-. .- -
As he was about to mount his horse
to return to the outposts a tumult
broke out at some distance, in the part
Of the camp reserved for the prisoners.
Shouts were heard and two or three
shots fred. Perhaps it was an attempt
at revolt or. escape, which must be sum-
marily suppressed.
Ivan Ogaref and the housch-begui
walked forward few steps, and al
most Immediately two men, whom the
soldiers had not been able to keep back,
appeared before them. --. 49,.
The housch-begui, without more in
formation, made sign which was an
order for death, and the heads Of the
two prisoners would have rolled on the
ground had not Ogaref uttered few
words which arrested the sword al
ready raised. ...--,
The Russian had perceived that these
prisoners were strangers, and he or
dered them to be brought up to him.
They were Harry Blount and Alcide
Jolivet. .- s.--a..E
On Ogareff's arrival in the camp they
had demanded to be conducted to his
presence. The soldiers had refused. In
consequence, a struggle, an attempt at
fight, shots fired which happily missed
the two correspondents, but their exc
cution would not have been long de-
layed if it had not been for the inter-
vention of the emir's lieutenant.
The latter observed the prisoners for
some moments, they being absolutely
unknown to him. They had been pres
emit at the scene in the posthouse at
Ichim in which Michael Strogof had
been struck by Ogaref, but the brutal
traveller paid no attention to the per-
sons then collected in the common
room.
Blount and Jolivet, on the contrary,
recognized him at once, and the latter
said in a low voice: "Helloi It seems
that Colonel Ogaref and the rude per-