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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

obinoraie 7.ooo-foot elevation over
ciorieia nnd Baton mountains IN New
Afcxico ard entirely change The route
oi The Santa Fe main line Through Kan-
sas causing thiough trains 10 go BY
way % wichita Wellington and Tex
ico instead of 10y way Of Hutchison and
Colorado as az present The work VIII
entain an expenditure OF over Sc ooo,-
600
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

Railway companies operating IN wash
ingion are calling in an annual passes
and other free transportation. owing TO
a new state law prohibiting the Issuance
OF such fnNors.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

Special prices on buggy harness for 50
days J. b. Calvert. l1S West Okla
homa avenue.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09
RAILROAD LETTER.

igtN YORK, June SILVER since the
Northern Securities fight began five
years ago me bone Of contention, or
rather one Of the big bones Of contention
between The Union Pacific and the North
ern Pacific was the division OF the
Clearwater county which lies in the
northwest corner Of ldaho along the
Oregon and Washington State lines one
Of the surest signs Of harmony be-
tween the Hni- Hartman forces Is the
announcement that the Northern Ia-
cihc and oregon Short Line intend
building Jointly a road several hundred
miles into ,he Nez Perces country which
is the territory known as the Clear
water sight" During the litigation
neither road took steps TO enter the
country, although both were ready 60
invade e and now that a dehnite plan
has peen decided upon large amount
OF traffic win be develol,ea fr5m its tim
her and mineral resources,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

TO prevent coup by the Rock Is
land and the Lake Shore IN the matter
Of carrying through mails TO Colorado
common points. the Pennsylvania sys-
train between New York and st. Louis.
cutting the time between the two c.-.es
about FOUR hours. The Pennsylvania s
new train leaves New York at S a. m,
and arrives In 81. Louis 1858 a. m. In
time TO permit the mails to g. out on
either the Wabash or the Missouri Pa
cifc az or $3.50
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

The Illinois Central has begun to
install an electrical interlocking device
on 600 miles Of she main track and plans
20 extend it over the entire system The
device consists OF an electrical arrange
ment in each tower which prevents t-e
operator from changing his own signal
untl the man IN the next sestion re-
leases che lock-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

TIE Pere Marquette railroad viii re-
tallate on the Canadian government on
account Of the deportation Of 10 Of It's
officials az ST. Thomas and London,
Ont, under the alien labor law, by re-
moving its division onices from those
points 10 Detroi, and Bunalo. The Of
hciais were depored because they were
Americans The Pere Marquette will
a.so probably dispense with the services
o. Canadians employed within the Uni-
tea States and other American roads
may follow suit
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

The Laufry-shaTpe Constructing CONE
pany ~ Kansas City. has been award-
80 The CONTRACT for the Belen cuton,
which win save the Santa Pc i2 hours
between Chicago and the Pacific coast
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-09

The Denver. Northwestern q Pacific
has put through scheme which may
cnectuany checkmate the plans of the
federal government for building a res-
ervoir in Gore canyon This was acc
oompnshed by buylag right OF way into
me eastern end Of the canyon. The
plot consists of less than ls acres. 10
Is 800 feet wide and 1917 feet long
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Grandeur of Natures Forces.

You are awed. but hardly Mortified.
In the presence of such evidence OF ma
lures forces you are so impressed with
the grandeur and majesty of her efforts
that you do not think of the biotting
out of such an insignificant thing as
city of men and their works.
TO the southwark, where the suburbs
of the city stretched over u level plain.
the earth washed down from the noun
tain sides by the rains has formed a
soil in which grass and trees are begin
ming to grow in patches. In few years.
no doubt. the tomb of the city Will be
covered with the vegetation of the trop-
les and the now giant and SCARED sides
OF Pelee covered with forests of green.
All the rest of the island has emerged
from its covering of ashes in new beauty
and greater luxuriance. Montreal Star.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
The Key to Central Asia.

Kars, long a Turkish fortress, was
finally ceded 20 Russia by the treaty Of
Berlin, 1873. AleXandropol contains the
largest and most powerful fortress and
the principal arsenal in Transcaucasia,
By which name Asiatic Caucasia is Of
ficially known. EliZabethpol Is an old
Tartar city, brought into prominence In
recent years by the introduction of rail-
ways AZ Baku, on the Caspian sea,
the eastern terminus OF the TrapScau-
casian railway. one finds a more or less
dismal town OF recent establishment
Baku has its ancient quarter and its
modern quarter, but for ali that IL is
In It's present guise a new city, and one
Of Importance. as IL Is the gateway TO
Central Asia; steamers connect with the
Transcaspian railway, which. If Russia
ever makes its oft-expected attempt on
British India, will be forced 20 stand
strain such as Is being put upon the
transsiberian line.
Russia was many years engaged IN
conquering Caucasia. the hero, ShamyI.
finally surreDdering TO her arms in 1857
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
The Frosty, Severe Caucasus.

Caucasia is one of the most pic
turesque parts of the Russian empire
Scme travellers have gone so far as to
insist that only in the Caucasus will
any picturesque scenery be found in the
empire, for European Russia is for the
most part low, level land, which is not
so adaptable TO the picturesque as the
rocky and broken slopes in the Cau-
casus
One Muscoyite poet has called this
land of perpetual strife. Frosty, serene.
1nefably peaceful Caucasus" which line
puts a strain upon even poetic license.
1t is said that 300 languages and dialects
are spoken there by rs many tribes
The peoples inhabiting the country lying
or either side Of the Caucasus are part
ly of the Turko-Tartar race, but for the
most part are very different in origin.
The languages Of the Caucasus are re-
earded DIS a 81 oi1n distinct both from the
hryan and Semitic families They are
divided into two branches, the northern
division including the Lesghian, Kistian,
and Circassian, each with it's dialects.
and the southern division comprising
Georgian, Suanian, Mlngrelian, and
LaZian
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Troops Rescued Them.

Late in the month ;of February the
gang of bandits was found by the Mex
lean troops. While the mon engaged in
a fight the women hid themselves in the
woods and, seeing that the Indians had
been defeated and that soldiers were
coming to look for them, they attempted
10 strangle Mrs. Machado. AT that mo-
ment however, the soldiers appeared
and rescued the white woman Her
daughter was found later carefully hid
den in the hollow trunk of a tree. The
party OF women and Mrs Maehado were
taken to Guaymas, where Mrs. Macnado
lived for a few days with a respectable
family OF the town. From Guayrnas
she vert back 10 Rayon, but found that
all her property had either been Destroy
ed or stolen by the bandits, so she
found herself in very straitened cir
cumstances.
The above story reached the ears of
the high officers OF the government of
Sonora, and it was decided to give her
q pension for life.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

- HERE is no better instance Of the
forgetfulness resultant upon a
constant reading Of the daily
newspapers than the almost COM
pIete lack OF interest today in the ap-
palling disaster that overwhelmed the
city OF St Pierre only a short time
ago. A disaster almost unprecedented in
the history of the human race-a city
of more than 10000 inhabitants buried
beneath the fiery flood OF Mont Peiee-
the impression made upon the minds of
the people has in its turn been buried
beneath the daily flood of what passes
for news-the details Of assaults,
divorces. scandals, fires, and floods, so
that today the mention of the disaster Of
two years ago causes a moments per-
plexity as the listener tries to remeE-
Der when he had heard of it before.
Those upon whom the impression made
by the awful eruption has not yet been
efTaced may be interes ed in the follow
ing brief description of the present
aspect of the city. given by Colin Nc
Kay, of Montreal. Canada. who has late
ly returned from a visit to the scene
of the volcanic horror at Martinique.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Tihis the Capital.

Tifis Is the chief seat of government
1t is in this picturesque old town. of
about 100000 souls, a town unpleasantly
situated between ranges of perfectly
barren hills, that the governor general
has his palace, and the governor gen
cral is usually an officer who has lost
favor in st. Petersburg and is sent to
Caucasia as a kind of refined punish
ment. But for the River Kur, on the
banks of which Tihis is built. the capital
would be uninhabitable. Tihis has its
municipal butcher shop and its ''mu-
nicipal thoater;' there are also a pub
lie library, museum, public gardens. etc.
but life is unsafe half a mile out Of this
oasis OF civilization in desert of brig
andage. At one end of the city, on an
eminence, stands q ruined old fortress.
overlooking the Asiatic quarter and
bazaars. From this point Tilis 10 very
Oriental, but in the European part of
the city the wealthy live in well-built
houses of elegant construction.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Two Thousand Murders Yearly.

Russia conQuered-at least ii Is so al
leged-Caucasia, in 1859. She never con-
quered the Caucasians, however, and the
Caucasus is no1 the happy hunting
ground Of assassins, brigands, and kid
napers. The usual annual average of
murders in this picturesque province,
some of them murders accompanied by
torture Of the most ferocious kind, and
some inflicted in armed resistance to
the authorities, is 1850. which anyone
will admit is doing pretty well for a
people that numbers less than 5000, ,000-
this figure includes the Russian and
foreign inhabitants as wen as the na-
tiyes.
The italian brigands never, in their
palmiest day, equaled that enormous
yearly total, and they believed they
lad reduced the trade Of the road to
rank among the fine arts. One natural
Iy thinks that a good force of police or
d detachment of troops might change
the moral atmosphere OF the land of
Ararat, but fifty years trial has proven
both these agencies unequal TO the
task 'Incyease Of the police wrote
Prince Galitzin, despairingIy, is no use,
unless one policeman could be appoint
cd to watch every native
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Taking Pot Shots.

Brigands penetrate to the suburbs CT
the largest towns. shoot in the Cossack
stanitsas and steal Cossack horses; men
are slain. women torn from their homes
to be held for ransom or else sold over
the border as slaves in Persia, and
cattle are driven off. In December two
policemen We're captured and one Of
them roasted to death in a hill strong
hold near Grosni. while his companion
was sent into the town with note
threa atening all policemen with a similar
fate if they dared interfere with the
trade of the brigands.
AS night. occasionally, armed bandits
ride boldly into big towns, like Vladi-
karkaz. commit outrages and escane
with their plunder. A Georgian trader
named Urnan was relieved of 1000 rubes
by the brigand Black Mura badze, who,
not satisfied with the amount, send n
note to the unfortunate mans relatives
demanding 10000 rubles' ransom The
relatives hesitated. and the brigands
calmly hanged the captive and left his
body dangling over precipice
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Kidnaped by Bandits.

Mrs. Macnado and iler little daughte-
escapcd from the massacre, but were
kidnapped by the bandits. That very
night they were taken to a cave in the
mountains, and presented to the chief
CT the gang as wife and daughter of
a man killed in the fight started by
white devils' to prevent Yaquls from
obtaining food. The chief decided to
keep the woman and child as prisoners.
Mrs. Machado was sent 10 a place where
The Yaqui women We're hidden, and her
daughter was given to a woman who
expressed a wish to keep Ter.
Many days passed, and Mrs Machado
never saw her daughter nor heard any
news from the civilized world She was
very roughly treated by the bandits,
~ ~-rced her to do the same work
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Tanned Only by Death.

In spite of the afct that Caucasia is
the land of the untamed, 1t Is the chief
health resort in the Russian empire. The
royal family have their palaces. or pa
vilions, there.
The present unrest in the district has
given the hill tribes a new opportunity
for lawlessness which they are not slow
TO seize, the police having already suf-
fered heavily. Il is also asserted that
large qualities OF arms have been SNUG
gled across the Turkish frontier TO the
revolutionists. Were the latter to drive
out Russian authority, it would not
mean rest or security in the Caucasus,
for the tribes can only be tanned by
death
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

The rise of race of brigands is due to
an innate desire for warfare among the
tribes. War and conquest-fornerIy
upon and OF another tribe-is now wag-
ed upon the individual. The Caucasian
tribes were a military people and when
they were deprived Of their organization
the wilder Inhabitants took 10y thousands
TO life Of brigardage ard murder.
Gcorgiars, Osetians, Ifneriti..ns, Mingre-
iians. many of them nomirally Chris
tans-GeorSia has cathedral which
dates from the fifth century and in
closes relic of St. Nina. its patron
saint. who first converted the nation TO
r,stianity-Mos osiem Circassians. Les
ghians. Tartars, and Tschetchentsi, all
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Prince EUcha md IpW0 ofCossuckg-,

brigade, which is perhaps none too
high. On one occasion when an officer
had been killed, d Caucasian scout rode
in with the news, but could not commu-
nicate it TO his colonel. 1t was not be-
cause he waited for an Introduction, but
because he could not speak his language.
Not until an interpreter arrived could
he give the information
When they first reached the seat Of
war, the Caucasians thought the war
was to be another such as had been
waged against China. The officers were
as bad as the men in this respect When
they found out that the japanese were
not naked savages, armed with bows
and arrows, they became discontented
and sulked when refused permission to
go home.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
+: THE LOST PARIS OF THE ANTILLES :.

dolins upon the French ships lying in
the roadstead. But now the SCARED
mass of lava covers completely the gay
Paris of the Antilles with all its life
and color, and music, as though it were
buried under a massive mausoleum OF
granite. There are no ruins-nothing
at all to indicate that citv of Q. 900
people had once fiourished there.
Before you rises the gaunt and CO.
lossal cone of Mont Pelee, with its aw-
tui head Teiled in lazy and pestiferous
vapors, its scarlet lava-streaked slopes
rent with gigantic hssures and wild
gorges, and at its base, piled up in
primeval confusion. masses of the blown
out crest and sides. The impression
which the sight of Mont Peiee, brooding
i'll its uncleanly clouds of smoke above
its hideous and awful works, makes
upon you is difficult to define.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
A Thick Bed of Sand.

Where the city of st. Pierre once
fourished." he said. there is a thick
bed of sand, which is already assuming
the appearance of a vast gray granite
rock About nine years ago I passed
close by st. Pierre in the evening and
saw its white roofs. its towers, and
cupolas cleaning between the fronded
crests ard 1.-THE gray trunks of the royal
palms, and heard the crash of bands
in its squares, and the tinkling Of man
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

not noticeable. however, that this has in
terfered in any way with the duties of
the Japs. The Caucasians all ride good
horses from their own mountains.
These horses are slender and handsome
like Caucasiaps themselves, but very
enduring.
1t is said that some of these Caucas-
ians washed and prayed with all the
fervor of deyout Mohammedans-mos OF
them are of that faith-but the greater
part OF them have neg1ected these du-
ties. None OF the Caucasians speak any
Russian, and practically none of them
can converse with all the men of the
brigade. merely because of the number
of different languages. This lack of a
common tongue lessons the value OF the
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

~ Ak-lNG into considera ton her
great sufferings and the many
cruelties to which she was sub
jected during her enforced resi-
Cence among Yaqui bandits, and also
The fact that her husband was murder
ed by the bandits in an attack on the
town where her family lived. the govern
ment ot the state of Sonora has grant
ed u pension for life TO Mrs. Anparo
Machado.
Mrs. Machado lived with hcr husband
little daughter. and an old invalid
aunt in Rayon, III the state Of Sonora
One night, January %, the Yaqri bandits
attacked the town, which IS a very
small one. Some of the residents among
them Mr.. Machado. came out of their
homes to rnpulse the attack. The ban
dts were numerous. well armed, and in
few minutes they killed those who at
tempted TO stop them.
The bandits. according to their own
statement, mad had nothing to eat for
two days. because they had hidden IN
The mountains, fearing 10 encounter a
detachment of federal troops which
was in the vicinity. They were hun
CRY and thirsty not only for water but
for blood, so when they encountered
R&yon they were anxious 10 kill the en-
tire population.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

fanatical followers OF the prophet, have
taken to the road" Literally
translated, taken to the road
iE this case means cutting throat--a u
Acknowledgement or Russians. it is
inmaterial which. and making off with
his wife, or his purse. especially the
latter, To . remote mountain stronghold
outside the reach of the Russian police
From IGrSvan and Tifis. in the south,
to Stavropol, In the north, this work of
outrage and murder continues Mary
Of the police are recruited from rthe
fierce natives. and naturally are in sym
pathy with the racial instincts of plum
dering. Hundreds of the police are said
to be in actual league with the bandits
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
BANDITS CAPTIVE RECEIVES PENSION

that Yaqui women do-pound corn on
stones TO make "tortillas" and "atole, -
wash the bandits clothes and make
'petates' for them TO sleep on.
The chief of the gang. one Mampochi.
employed Mrs. Machado as his interpre-
ter, but seemed to be. very, SUSPICIOUS
and ordered his subordnates to i'll treat
her, especially when she wept for the
death Of her husband. On more than one
occasion. according to Mrs. Machado's
own statement, she wished TO have n
weapon to kill herself, and one dav she
was about TO throw herself into a deep
rav!ne, but Che hope of seeing her
daughter again stopped he-
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

n IN AiiScneDkO, the RUSSIAN
NM Blucher of the presen wal
" with Japan. led his Cossack
hosts in a fierce raid on Yin
ke. to destroy 9.ao0,0 COS rubles' worth of
stores which the enemy had left Under
small guard, he took with him the
Caucasian brigade Probably no ether
branch OF the service on the Russian
side, certainly not on the japanese, ap-
proaches this same Caucasian brigade
in picturesqueness. IT is questionable
whether outside of a theater, except. of
course, in their own native mountains,
another aggregation could be found TO
equal 1t.
Brigands at home like most of their
people, when they were pressed into the
service of the Gar and made to serve
as regular soldiers they naturally found
great difficulty with the rules of mill
tary discipline To say even today, after
months of service in the field, that the
brigade is a disciplined force wouId-to
put it mildly-be stretching the truth.
They are a turbulent lot, these Cau-
casians,.. and perhaps the Car thinks
that If he must provide food for gun
powder. by sending them TO the front
he can kill two birds with one stone.
Better to have them killed by the lar
anese than to have to kill them himself
at home
For now comes the news fiom Russia
that reign of terror has arisen in
southeastern Russia. and particularly in
that province which is called Trans
caucasia- Many Of the leading pro-Rus-
sian citizens have been assassinlted,
and manifestoes have been issued to the
effect that a republic must be created
in the Caucasus. Created is used ad-
visedly, for it would take creator of
the first order TO turn that turbulent
province into peaceful and self-gov-
erning nation. The Caucasians would
be as untamable under a republican
form Of government as under an auto
crat; in fact. the autocrat would prob
ably have much the better time OF it.
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Where Bandits Challenge Police.

SO bold and defiant have the bandits
become that they send challenges TO the
police to combat The colonel in COM
Hand of police at EliZabethpol last year
received such a challenge from a bril-
gand kno@n as Black MursbadZe to
nleet him in single combat. OF course.
the eommaadaat ignored the challenge.
and, in consequence, one day Il bullet
was sent through his office window. 1t
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
Thought Japs Savages.

The men of the Caucasian brigade now
at the front have the same love of dis
play that characterizes all their race, or
rather races. Their strong point, Is a
row of cartride pouches sewn across
the front of their coats. which gives
them a bloodthirsty appearance. 1t Is
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

and the latter, like their American
counterparts, the yeggmen, disguise
themselves as simple workmen, and look
over the ground before making a .haul."
1t is claimed that the brigands have
many women acting as spies for theIa.
who send them word of the setting ont
of travellers who carry large sums of
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
SUNDAY PASTIME OUT IN KANSAS

The latest pastime In Kansas is to go
to church on Sunday when there is no
dog fight on and count the number Ct
times ehe people in the congregation
rouSh. Two people play the game, each
going to u different church The one
with the highest sccre at the end of the
sermon has to take the other over 10
the drug store.-Springfield Republican
The Washington times., 1905-04-09

cid not hit him, and that was not its
Particular mission. The shot was sim
Ply another method of showing the low
estimate brigands have of the police
Nest Russians declare that peace will
only come in The Caucasus when TIE
natives have externinated each other.
hut as their victims are not always
natives. by This Method the Russian set
tiers viii have been externinated also
The Washington times., 1905-04-09
FdMor.Mr View from [a5zcrnRak NWZBruz AfIudkA
Brigandage Flourishes in the Mountains,
and the Daring Bandits Do Not Fear
to Attack the Cars Cos
sack Police
sack Police.
The Land of Perpetual Strife Contains a
Population of Less Than Nine Millions,
But Two Thousand Murders
Occur Each Year.
Occur Each Year.

w HEN Mischenko, the Russian
Nv Blucher of the presen war
" with Japan. led his Cossack
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1905-08-24
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