The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-09
THE LIST
OF VICTIMS
Boxer Leaders Who Will Lose
Their Heads.
SOME OF THEIR CRIMES
Everything Included, From Killing Won
Ketteler to Torturing Defenseless
Missionaries.

Pekin, Feb. 6.-As had been ar
ranged at the meeting of the ministers
and Chinese plenipotentiaries yester-
day, the entire proceedings were oral,
no writings being presented to the
the twelve culprits whose punishment
was demanded, however, was read,
though kang vi and Lii Ping Heng
are dead. The names of the twelve
are: Prince Chuang, commander-in-
chief Of the Boxers, who nad a large
share in the responsibility for the
promises Of rewards of fifty teals for
the capture of foreigners and their
death. For protecting Prince Tuan,
the principal instigator Of the trouble,
he was appointed president of the
Tsung Lii Yamen, after giving advice
to the Chinese government. He was
responsible for the edicts against for
eigners between Jan. 20 and Aug. 16,
and was mainly responsible for the
massacres in the provinces, especial
ly in Shan ST, ordered the troops to
attack the legations in opposition to
the advice of high mandarins who
were looking to a cessation Of hostil-
tiles; secured the execution Of mem
bers of the Tsung Ii Yamen, favorable
to foreigners, and was the recogniz-
ed author of the ultimatum of June 10,
ordering the diplomatic corps to leave
Pekin in "a hours and ordered, before
the expiration of this delay, firing
upon all foreigners in the streets Of
the capital, and was practically the
author of the assassination of Baron
Won Ketteler the German minister.
Duke Ian, vice-president of Tsung Ii
Yamen, who was accessory to the Civ
ing of orders for the capture of for
eigners and was the first to open the
gates of the city to the Boxers. Yins
Nein, who was criminal accomplice
of Prince Chuang and Duke Ian IN
their Vaccinations. Kang vi, one of
the instigators and councillors of the
Boxers, who always protected them
and was most hostile to any under
standing looking to the re-establish-
ment of the peaceful relations with
the foreigners, who was sent at the
commencement of June to meet the
Boxers and endeavor to deter them
from entering the city, but who, on
the contrary, encouraged them to fol
low the work of destruction, and who
signed with Prince Tuan and Ying
Men their principal notices and pre-
pared the plan for the expulsion and
annihilatiOn of foreigners in the prov
inces of the empire. Choas Su Kiam, a
member of the grand council and also
minister of justice, who was one CT
the leaders against the foreigners and
mainly responsible for the execution
Of the officials killed during the seige
for not having tried to stop the at
tack at the legations and who tender.
ed the Boxers every encouragement.
Yu Hsien, who recognized the Boxers
and was the author of the massacres
in Shan ST province, and who assas-
sinated with his own hand foreigners
and missionaries, and who was noted
for cruelty, which stained with blood
the whole country over which he was
governor. Gen. Tung Fuh Slang,
who, with Prince Tuan, carried out
in Pekin the plans against foreigners
and who commanded the attack on
the legations and the soldiers who as
sassinated the Japanese chancellor.
Ii Ping Heng, who used his influence
to have the Boxers recognized as loyal
and patriotic men, and who led the
government to use them with the OBJ
ject of determination of foreigners.
Hsu Tung, who has always been one
of the officials most hostile to foreign
ers, who praised the Boxers, of whom
he was an accomplice, who used all
his influence with high persons in the
empire, being tutor to the heir appar-
ent. Hu Ching Yu, who has the same
responsibility. Kin Su, one of the
officials most hostile to foreigners and
the minister at the rites of the Box
ers. The ministers then announced
that these personages all deserved
death. When this question is set
tied the foreign ENJOYS will have to
indicate who, to their knowledge, CON-
mitted crimes in the provinces, pun |