The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-01-04
RUSSIAN PRISONS
Are OVERLOOKING
Now That Reyolutionists Are
Cowed, the Military Arm Is
Bolder Than Ever.
STRIKE RIGHT AND LEFT
Detectives Watch All Agitators and
Attend Meetings of Strikers to
Arrest Observation-Disclosures
ton at an End.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 3.-The policy of
depressing revolutionists continues
with a vengeance. Their announcement
that they proposed to carry on a guer-
lila warfare until a general armed re-
volt is prepared has stimulated the.
government to rcdouble it's energy. A
band of terrorists is at work here and
last night there were wholesale
searches for suspects. City prisons.
were so crowded that hundreds Of pris-
DnerS have been remoyed to neighbour
ing fOrtreSSeS. r
Government spies are at work among
Workinen and revolutionary societies,
with instructions TO give warnings of
meetings, which are Immediately sur
rounded, the members searched for
arms and ringleaders arrested. .
Nevertheless, the Workmen's council
and the executive committee of the
social revolutionists are managing to
wade arrest and are meeting each day
at a different place in the outskirts of
the city. Patrols are understood to
nave orders not to spare bullets if they
are attacked by persons using bombs
or revolvers.
Tells How He Did 1t.
An interview with Governor General
Doubassoff is printed today in which
he explains the duration Of the revolt
Is owing to the extent Of the region in
which military forces are operating and
to lack of troops, which compels Dou-,
bassoft to await reinforcements from
Warsaw and st. Petersburg before Civ
ing the revolutionists their death blow.
THE most difficult task" the gov
ernor continued, was to drive them
from their base on KaZan railroad be-
tween Moscow and Perovo, three miles
east of MOSCOW, and surround them in
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their escape. Both these tasks We're
successfully accomplished.
Strikers Of Prokharoff mills, which
held the proprietor as a hostage, We're
ready TO surrender Friday, but Colonel
Mimi, who conducted the negotiations,
declined to accept"
He would not accept their surrender
unless they also delivered up the
"Drujinists'' who had sought refuge
there.
Doubassaff further declared emphat-
ically the artillery bombarded only
houses from which revolutionists fired.
The Revolution Elsewhere.
Reinforccments entered Courland
from four sides, but leaders Of the Let
lish revolution are im~perturable.
PaDers publish terrible pictures of
conditions prevailing along the ST.
berinn railway. There are no railway
officials on duty n on sections as far
MS C~hcliabinsk, government of Oren-
burg, all stations have been pillaged.
Complete anarchy prevails at lrliutsk.
Military trains are running without
orders of proper engineers.
Subduing Baltic Provinces.
Riga Jan. 1.-Three policemen were
killed during night. Railroad men are
again threatening to strike in order to
obtain release OF arrested delegates.
The new governor general of the Bal
tic province, who is marching on this
city with a large force of troops, is eX-
pected here Wednesday. 1t is reported
he will exile the entire population of
communities who decline to obey mar
tial law.
Mitau. Jan. Flour columns of
troops, cavalry n artillery are con-
va:ging toward Mitau and Riga. Insur-
gents in towns are instituting a social
democratic administration as if they
We're in permanent possession.
In the Lettish portion of the Baltic
provinces the situation is quieter. No
serious outbreak occurred recently.
Troops are pursuing evolutionary
bands from Dvalk and OWNS.
The evolutionary movement is
spreading in northern Livonia, where
estates are being attacked.
Witte May Have to Go.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 1.-The report
that Count White is booked for retire
lnent in q few days is again being per-
sistently circulated.
The Nasha Shisn, which declares it
can guarantee the accuracy of its state
ment, says that M. Durnovo, minister
of the interior, who is worshiped as
an ideal by the cour camarilla, which
believes tina his stern policy alone can
put an end to the existing anarchy,
has accomplished the downfall of the
count and will be elevated in the pre-
:%niership.
investigation by the Associated Press,
however. indicaes that the report is
baseless. certainly for the moment.
Nevertheless, it is true that M. Dur
noyo has a. powerful cabal of reaction
aries behind him and temporarily
seems to dominate the situation.
M. Mankkin, whose sudden retire
ment from the ministry of justice Gin
which he is succeeded by M. Akynoff, q
member of the %senate). created a stir,
resigned, according to the Molva CRuss)
rather than submit to M. DurnoFo $
dictation in matters which he regarded
IS being strictly within the sphere OF
Ills ministry.
Liberals Also Assail Him.
On the other hand Count White is
fling attacked more tiercely tfan ever
-, the, side of the liberals, who charge
. nat nc Is SllDN NE S'S
aud saw that he might happen to fall
between the two stools.
M. Brianchianenoff is out with a
strong article in the SloVo, ehtltled
"Witte Must Co in which he asserts
that the victory at Portsmouth has
been followed by defeat at ST. Peters
burg. His line of argument is that an
archv has heen able TO make headWay
because true liberals doubt whether
Russia is to have a constitution, or
whether the manifesto is only a tactical
move 70 Inn them to sleep. 1t was
Whites first duty, according to the
writer. to remove this doubt. but 1t is
charged that he still MAINTAINS "'
equivocal roie.
Twenty Soldiers Killed.
Elizabeth Grad, Russia, Jan. Ia
collision involving two military trans
Occurred today and twenty soldiers
We're killed.
Odessa, Jan. 1.-THE governor genera
has ordered inhabitants of this city tc
keep inside their houses n TO loch
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