The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-16
The Peril of 6
 Russian Workman
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governed country, and after the czar's troops slaughtered the workmcn who marched to the palace to present their petition l made up my mind to quit the country.
 Just as the train on which l left pulled out of the station man came running from the outside jumped on the footboard and was helped by the guard Into one of the compartments. Opposite me sat man, evidently In a humble walk of life, who watched eagerly the one who boarded the train, leaned out of the window when he was helped Into the compartment then fell back on the cushion white as q sheet.
 Dangerous attempt l remarked. "The fellow might have been killed.'
 My vls-a-vIs made no reply for some time. Then he said eagerly:
 This train makes no stop for over an hour, believe"
 You are right"
 Then 1t will be dark"
 Right again.
 Another silence followed, during which the man sat revolving some question In his mind. Finally, looking me straight in the eyes, he said:
 You do not recognize me, superin- tendent?"
 ''I do not
 "I am one of the workmen in the factory"
 "SO?"
 Yes, I am Ivan Sviazhskl."
 "One of the men who got up the re- cent petition to the czar:"
 Yes. They are after me. That man who boarded the train is one of the police. As soon as the train stops he will arrest me. Then there remain for me the horrors of Siberia"
 He had known that I sympathIzcd with the Russian wOrkmen-iudced, that sympathy was one of the reasons for my leaving Russia-and had con fded In me for this reason. l wished I could help him. but saw no way. l would have given him my passport, but he told mc he was known to the police and could not pass as another man. His plan was to risk death by Jumping from the train as soon as it was dark. I did not think there was one chance in hundred for him in this course and told him so, but failed to move him.
 As soon as it was dark he climbed out of the window and, standing on the footboard, badc me goOdby and walked away from the window. l looked after him till he disappeared in the darkness. then. drawing in my head, sat and thought about him till the train made the first stop.
 There 1t was surrounded by the po- lice, who had doubtless been telegraph ed, and every passenger was examined critically. The man they looked for was not to be found. The police, con cluding that he had jumped from the train, gave up the search, permitted us to proceed, and l suppose went back over the road to discover the result.
 I knew that there was no time that the train had not spceded so fast that the man must have been killed, and on the way kept thinking of his mangled body lying by the track. l could not sleep and was glad when morning came and we reached the border.
 At the station there l was going into dining room to get breakfast when I was stopped by a railroad hand whom took for a locomotive fireman.
 Are you ,he American superintend- ent2" he asked.
 q suppose so, 1 replied, puzzled.
 Come with me"
 In a twinkling 1t occurred to me that he might have news of the man l was interested in, and l followed him, he keeping some distance ahead of me. He took me a few hundred yards up the road, where stood a locomotive. The en- gineer was cleaning his engine, and one or two idlers were gaping at the ma chine. The man had followed glanced at them meaningly, and l knew we must wait for them to go away. When the last one had gone the hreman-fOr such he was-got up into the tender and whispered something to some one, could not tell whom, for there was nothing there so far as I could see but coal. Then he beckoned me to climb up and, removing a lump of coal, eX- posed a mans face, the face of Ivan Sviazhski.
 It was plain to me that SviazhskI had walked along the fOotbOard to the tender, climbed over 1t and, finding sympathetic laborers In the engineer and fireman, they had concealed him under the coal He had sent for me hoping that I would furnish him with means to go to America and find en- ployment for him when he arrived there. I placed some money In the hands of the engineer for him and ap- pointed a place of meeting provided he could get safely out of Russian territory. I left him still in an uncom- fortable position under the coal-for the time had not come when he could be released without too great a risk.
 I waited at the rendezvous, and as he did not appear feared that after all he had bppn caDtured. I made LID