Gilpin observer., 1907-08-01
RUSSIAN COLONY
THOUSANDS OF RUSSIANS COM.
ING TO COLORADO AND
IDAHO. =
BARON G.F.voN wElMER HERE
Declares Russians Want to Get Away
From Life Of Oppression In
Native Country.

NdttVo county,
Denver.-Baron Gustav F. Won VIE
mer, assistant travelling manager and
diplomatic agent OF the Peoples
Guard, the Russian republican military
association, which organization is buy
ing up square miles of American acres
for the colonization of Russians, is at
the Albany hotel. He arrived from
Mountain Home, forty miles from
Boise, Idaho, where he completed the
purchase Of $500 acres of land from
the Great Western Beet Sugar Com
pany. He expects to close within the
next thirty days a contract by which
the association will acquire 5000 acres
in this state.
]. e. Jerome, secretary and eastern
manager of the Great Western Beet
Sugar Company, whose headquarters is
in Minneapolis, is with Baron Won VIE
mer. Mr.. Jerome conducted the Idaho
sale for his company.
Baron Won Wiener left Tor New York
City, where he will meet 500 Russian
families which are to be taken immedi-
ately to Idaho. The total number in
this party Is more than LOO.
The Russian republican military as
sociation Is the most formidable foe to
the despotic policy of Russia. The or
ganization is an amalgamation Of all
Of the Finnish, Polish, Lettish, Estho-
MON, Lithuanian, Armenian, Circassian
and other societies in America that
have been working for Russian re-
public patterned after the United
States. 1t has 272,OO0 registered vot-
ers scattered through the states, and
the number is rapidly growing. Some
OF the most prominent public men,
United States and state senators, con-
gressmen governors, are members.
American members are registered
on the organizations records by num-
ber, and the secrecy surrounding the
society's inner workings Is as dense as
the mystery surrounding the Cars Sc
cret service, II not more SO; because
the society has members high up in
the Cars confidence, it IS said, while
the innermost circle of the society is
composed of a few men who have been
tried by fire and found true in the
never-ending battle against the Rus
sian despotism.
Gen. Ivan i. Narody, who captured
Cronstadt, is general political and dip
lomatic director; Prof. Max Reusner,
dean Of the faculty of the University
of Berlin, is civil director. and Col.
Orian Clyde Cullen, an American who
is known the world ever, is travelling
manager and diplomatic agent.
I'VE do not believe in the torch and
bomb as ways and means for attain
ing our object" said Baron Won VIE
mer; "and we are not allied with an
archistic societies. We are depending
upon the more sure and subtle roads
such as diplomacy and the enlistment
of prominent men the world over.
mo one who has not seen the situ-
alton at first hand can realize the hell
in which the Russian people constantly
exist. We are every day rescuing men
and women from the horrors of 81
IBERIA. We are populating our tracts OF
land in this and other countries with
men Of intelligence. The Russians are
the best farmers in tfe world: America
has thousands of square miles Of land
that need just such men to work them.
We are trying to furnish some OF the
people"
The baron is a soldier of fortune,
such as is pictured in story books
tall, straight. athletic OF build. He
speaks and writes seven languages.
and the foreign acceut to his English is
almost imperceptible He has explored
in Africa. shot bears in Colorado,
mined In South America, and "revo-
luted" in Central America.