The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-29
It Affords Superior Facilities for
a" Get Away"
GUARDS ARE DOUBLED.
NewsbOys with Sacks Are For
hidden the Grounds.
Customary Gaiety of Court Life
Has Vanished.

St. Petersburg, June 29.-An official
denial is given of the report that the
emperor and court are leaving Peter
hof and returning to Tsarkoe-Selo
owing to the discovery Of a revolution
ary plot among the palace servants.
The report is officially accounted for
by rumors following the retirement OF
General Plesko, the ccmmandant at
Peterhof. and the appointment Of
Colonel Lernentoff, commander of the
imperial regiment Of Uhlans as his
successor. The formers retirement is
stated to be due purely to private con
sideratfons, but several ofacers of his
staff are indignant at the promotion of
Colonel Lermentoff over their heads
and have asked to be relieved. This
gave rise to the report of the discovery
Of a revolutionary plot.
While the official explanations are
regarded with suspicion, as It is be-
yond question that the terrorists and
revolutfonists are constantly attempt-
ing to gain a foothold in the palace,
there is no cause to doubt the truth
of the official statement that the court
has no intention OF returning to
Tsarkoe-Selo this summer. Peterhof
in reality is much safer for the i'm
perial family than Tsarkoe-Se1o, being
located on a gulf enabling che i'm
perial yacht to be moored at wharf
200 yards from the palace, always
available to convey the emperor and
his family to Finland, or some other
place Of security. There is an elabor-
ate system of wireless telegraphy con-
Meeting the palace at Peterhof with the
fortresses Of Cronstadt. Viborg and
Jc1es to. ~
the gulf, thus insuring the emperor
against being cut off from the ouside
world as he was during the telegraph
operators strike OF last fall.
Since the revelations that disloyalty
had invaded even his majesty's own
regiment, the Preolbraj ajensky regiment.
of the guards, it Is asserted here that
nothing would be suppressed. General
Who is personally charged with pro-
tecting the safey of the enaperor's
person, has redoubled his precautions
The garrison at Peterho of has been
strengthened by a guard of Circas-
slams and the detachment of cOSSacks
about the palace has been doubled.
The servants at the palace, as hereto
fore are the enperoF's faithful Name
lukes and Tartars, some of whom
don't speak the Russian language. The
Russian servants are confined for the
time being to tried iackeys and Wallets,
but among these the terrorists have
frequently boasted that they had
spies.
Newsboys carrying sacks are for
hidden to enter the grounds of the
old palace. to which the public ts ad-
mitted, and no one is allowed within
the walls surrounding the grounds OF
the small palace, where the imperial
family resides, without a permit. Sc
cret police by the hundreds In civilian
clothes throng the parks and streets.
The emperor never drives out beyond
the grounds of the small palace and
the members of the court are prac-
tically prisoners within its walls. The
principal amusement is tennis, but all
the customary gaiety OF court life has
vanished.
Taking the Land.
Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, June %.
The peasants of this province are
not only annexfng the land of the gen.
try, but are taking portions of the
lands of the well to do peasants.
Property Destroyed.
samar. Russia, June 29.-Property
in this vicinity valued at about $780,
600, has been destroyed by the peas
ants during the last month.