The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-01-04
Wholesale ARRESTS
BY RUSSIAN Police
OVER HUNDRED SOCIAL DEMO-
Gratis CONDUCTING PRoPA-
GANDA CAPTURED.
GET LIST OF MEN
SENTENCED TO DIE
Plot to Kill Members of Conference to
Be Held Soon Frustrated-Treaty
Negotiations with Japan Progress
ing FavorabIy.


st. Petersburg, Jan. Acting on
information furnished by traitor, the
police during the last few days have
captured over 100 leaders and mem
bers of the st. Petersburg military Or
ganization of the social democrats who
were conducting propaganda in the
army and navy. Among those taken
into custody was the editor of Sc
cretly published paper entitled the
Barracks, 25 soldiers and several wom-
en- The police also arrested many
members of an important group of ter
roristic social revolutionists and cap
tured, according to report, list of q
high officials who had been sentenced
to DEATH
Frustrated Plot to Kill.
Finally it is asserted that the po-
lice accidentally obtained informa-
ton which frustrated plot to blow
up a number of persons at confer
ence which was to be held in the
near future.
The recent arrests of members of
the military organization which was
responsible for the Sveaborg and
Kronstadt outbreaks and the mutinies
on board warships of the Baltic squad
ron in August have been reported
from various places in the interior,
notably at Moscow, to which city
the central committee was trans
| ferred after the police had twice
| broken up the headquarters at Wilma.
Six officers, including Col. Klopoff,
who had distinguished themselves in
their respective services, were cap
tured while holding a conference at
Moscow. Lieut.. Emil Janoff, who was
executed at Sveaborg fortress in Aug,
ust for participation in the mutiny,
also was a member of this organiza-
| ton.
One Faction Forswears Violence.
The propaganda in the army and
navy is now the chief work of the so,
called majority faction of the social
democrats, which after the civilian
instructions of last winter had been
crushed by military force, decided that
the government could only be over
thrown by subrerting the army. The
minority faction, which is now nu-
merically stronger than the majority
faction, has forsworn violence and
has adopted resolutions in favor of
purely political activity, as in Ger
many. The two factions are now vir-
tually independent.
Slowly Building a New Treaty.
/ OF hrrr Thn
tiations for the new treaty between
Japan and Russia are progressing
slowly. 1t is stated here that mad
MISSILE conditions, prejudicial to Rus
sian economic and political interests,
such as free navigation on the Sun
gari, the creation of new consulates,
facilities for obtaining passports and
customs advantages for Japanese
products and complete freedom of
fisheries, have been rejected by the
Russian commissioners. The fact
that the negotiations are still pro-
ceeding leads to the hope that sat-
iSfactory settlement will be reached.
The electoral campaign of the gov
eminent, according to information
available here, is making poor prog
ress. The provincial governors report
that they are making no Roadway in
their efforts to placate the people with
the promises of M. Stolypin, minister
of the interior. The leader of the
Moscow conservative party, who is
now in st. Petersburg in connection
with the election arrangements, takes
gloomy view of his partys chances.
He expects that the douma will con-
tain a social revolutionary element
which will make the career of the
house impossible beyond few weeks
| Forty Arrests At kiev.
Kiev, Russia, Jan. 1.-The local COM
mittee of the social democrats, con-
sistiAg of 40 men, were arrested here
| Monday.