Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-08-05

| dealers In girls to be exported for I'm
moral purposes. but In spite OF the ef-
forts OF the police many escape with
their victims.
Most OF the girls exported are found
to be daughters OF Russian and Polish
Jews both from Russian and German
Poland.
Some time ago there arrived In this
city a married couple with three grown
daughters Of great beauty. who applied
for assistance at the office OF the Ber-
lin Jewish Mutual Aid society.
The father stated that they had come
from Kishineff and were on their way
70 Buenos Ayres, where he had a
brother.
The Jewish society in Genna had pro-
vfded them with tickets from that city
TO Buenos Ayres.
The Berlin society investigated AT
Genna and Buenos Ayres n found
the facts to be as represented, where
upon they provided the family with
money and tickets from Berlin TO Gem
ma.
After their departure. however. sus-
pfcions We're aroused and a cablegram
sent to Buenos Ayres. where ii was
found that the man and woma were
old offenders, who had bought the girls,
none of whom was over sixteen, from
their Polish parents and We're to re-
ceive $500 a piece for them In Argen-
tina,
The Russian Navy.
News from st. Petersburg states that
the technical department OF the min
istry of the navy is working night and
day on the details OF the plans for the
new Russian navy.
When the cars naval program be-
comes known, it is declared, II Will as
tonish the world, as it far surpasses
any that has been projected since the
days OF Peter the Great.
IL has been practically settled 10 act
upon the suggestions OF the late Adj
miral Makarom and altogether abandon
heavy battleships OF the Petropavloysk
type, of which three vessels in all were
built In the government yards, with an
average speed Of sixteen knots.
or these three the -Petropavlovsk is
already at the bottom or the sea,
while the Poltava and the Sevastopol
are reported to be crippled I'm the har-
Dor OF Port Arthur.
The new battleships Will be some
what smaller, but Will have a minimum
speed OF Is knots and very heavy arma-
ment, including four 12-inch guns and
IL S-inch quick firing guns.
Uniformity of type, which has proved
to be OF such great value to the Japan
csc feet. will be maintained as far as
possible.
Horrors Of a Polish Prison.
Fearful atrocities have been commit
ted apo a number OF political prison
ers in the prison of Kalitz, near War
saw, according 60 a dispatch which has
been s~Inuggled past the Russian censor,
and Is published in the papers here.
The warden of the prison, known
throughout the district for his butality,
daily had prisoners knouted for mag
mary offences.
AT last the prisoners in despair de-
cided to refuse all nourishment and
thus starved themselves TO death.
News OF this reached the authorities
and the czar Immediately ordered the
discharge and punishment of the war;
den.
Furious at this the warden. knowing
that heavy. punishme.t awaited him,
planned a fearful evenge.
The last day on which he was In
charge he sent for n squadron OF 800
Cossacks and having filled them with
vodka. turned them loose in the Jail.
Maddened by liquor, which acts upon
Cossacks as It Toes upon Indians. they
ran amuck among the inmates Of the
Jail and committed the most atrocious
deeds.
Nearly twenty prisoners had their
arms and legs broken. others had their
eyes gouged out with lances and bay
cnets. and many had their skulls
crushed with the butts of guns.
The orgie lasted all night. How
many were killed IL not known, but
seventy wounded were placed In the
hospital next day in the most pltiable
condition.
Also they were m~altreated by the
warden's h%irelings, who sdreade the
coming investigation, and many OF
them tore Off their bandages. declaring
that they would rather bleed to death
than live under these conditions.