Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-11-28


One result Of the dire calamity
brought about by the fendish work
of the anarchist-assassin C~zolgosz,
is to make more uneasy than or
d~inarily the heads that wear a
crown. In all European countries
elaborate precautions are taken to
ms IRE the safety of the ruling
monarchs and some of the systems
in operation have attained such per-
lection that they may almost be term
ed a science. Fanatical anarchists,
yer ready to grasp an opportunity to
wreak harm to those in power, make it
absolutely necessary for large forces
of armed guards to protect the heads
of governments. but, even with these
precautions, no monarch travels with a
feeling of security.
Gar Carefully Guarded.
The precautions taken to shield the
life of the car are greater and devised
with more foresight and at much
greater expense to the country than is
the case with any other ruler. In fact,
precautionary measures for the protec-
ton of the cars life have been devel-
oped, for 80 years past, into a science.
These measures have, however, not
been nearly so stringent under the
present car as they were during the
last four years of the reign of his
father, Alexanders Ill, and 1t has been
largely due to the most recent cases of
regicide that the comparatively mild
system of protection afforded the pres
ent autocrat Of Russia has been rem
dered more severe.
On special occasions every movement
of the car has been predetermined
weeks before, and very minute instruc-
lions are her issued to the higher
police officials, and from these filtered
down 10 the lowest g%orodoYoi and to
the army Of railroad and other Off
Gals. Uniformed police to the number
of thousands are her used in such
cities as st. Petersburg, Moscow, etc,
and troops are employed most extern
sively to line the road.
Quite elaborate preparations are also
in vogue whenever the car issues forth
through the public streets on his regu-
lar routine. How large is the number
Of those who day by day are forestall-
ing the ceaseless Vaccinations and
plots of the nihilists and other dissat-
isfed strata of the population is not
ascertainabIe, but the number is quite
a considerable one.
1t is also true that Nicholas H., al
though a very mild-mannered and ap-
,,wo-RI- ,,4lo, 1fmJowk v,,., 4, o,fAa
fearless, and that the symptoms of ex-
IRENE nervousness which characterized
his father during the last few years Of
his life, owing to a number of hair
breadth escapes from diabolical plots,
are happily absent in his son-as yet.
But it is quite certain that at least
five distinct and well-laid plans to
murder the present car have been
frustrated.
To Protect the Kaiser.
The elaborate system of precautions
under which the present ruler of Ger
many lives is of rather recent date.
His grandfather, though repeatedly the
victim of would-be assassins, al
lowed himself to be talked into any
thing like the amount of precautionary
measures which his grandson, William
H., has gradually evolved. The only
two cases become public of attempts on
the Ire of the Kaiser were those which
happened during the past - months at
Bremen and Breslau, and they were of
no eerious character.
In Breslau 1t was a crazy old woman
who threw a Ratchet in the direction
\. OF his person, but only managed to hit
the hind wheel of his carriage; and at
Bremen it was a confirmed epileptic
who threw a piece of iron at the en-
prror, inhicting a flesh wound, which,
while leaving its mark for life, and not
exactly enhancing the beauty of the
imperial face, was by no means Ian
gerous.
1t is also said by those who know
the emperor well that he is not afraid
Of meeting death. But, nevertheless,
the emperor has sanctioned, and even
helped to devise, the present compre-
hensive and rather elaborate methods
Of guarding his person against VIC
lence.