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tremendous. The tunnel was only three
feet ten inches in height, and to add to
the difficulties of this cramped space
for working in, they tapped a spring,
which Immediately flooded the shaft
Night after night they had to work,
lying on their stomachs in icy water
Sophia Perovskaya doing her share as
il she were a man.
At last, when their task was COM
pleted, it was found that they had not
sufficient dynamite. Goldenberg was
sent to purchase more; but while he
was absent on this duty the police
seized him, md he was promptly sent
to prison.
Unable to obtain a new supply OF
explosives, Hartmann determined TO
make the attempt with what little he
had. a large copper cylinder. seven
feet long and one and one-half feet in
diameter, was filed with 120 pounds Of
dynamite and placed in position. Wires
were fastened to it, which communi-
Gated with the spiral "Rumkorf" in a
trunk full of linen in SophiaS bedroom.
Thence the wires were connected with
a commutator placed with a Galvanic
battery in a barn overlooking the line.
In Nov. 10 the car Travelled north
ward. AS a rule, the royal train was
pTeCcueu Dy d tram carrying the car )
luggage, but owing to a slight mis-
take on the part of the railway officials
the baggage train followed instead of
preceding the royal train. This mis-
take saved the cars life. 4 Thinking
that the second train contained the
man whose life they so hungrily de-
sired, Hartmann and Sophia allowed
the first train to go by. AS soon as
the second train appeared Sophia gave
the signal from the barn. the dynamite
bomb was fired, and the whole train
was lifted in the air and hurled down
the emba1kment.
Hartmann and Sophia never learnt
of the failure of their nurderous enter
prise until they reached st. Petersburg
There they saw the .czar, whom they
imagined they had killed, arrive at his
capital amidst the plaudits of the
crowd.
Though they had failed, the executive
committee were still as determined as
ever to destroy the man who repre-
scented in their eyes all that was cruel
and abominable in the world.
In the following February the car
was entertaining at the Winter palace
in St Petersburg several Of his royal
relatives, among them the Duchess OF
Edinburgh The imperial servants came
TO annouE~S to the royal guests that
dinner was served, and the party be
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real estate ads. why not own a
homer" most of 'em asks 4 know
the answer to that" says J. And say,
o Luna Park Zulu that had strayed
into young ROckefeller's Bible class
would have felt about as much at
home as l did there on my own porch.
The old major was over on his porch,
wallIin' up and down like he was dOin'
guard duty, and once in awhile / could
see some of the women folks takin' a
careful squint at me from behind a
window blind. If I'm ever quaran-
tined, it won't be any new sensation.
1t wasn't exactly Weddin' break
fast kind of a time l was havin'; but
didn't dodge it. / was just lettin' ii
soak in, for the good of me soul" as
Father Connolly used to say; when
sees a pair of Overfed blacks, hitched
to q closed carriage, switch in from
the pike and make for the majors
Company for dinner" says 1. That's
nice"
l didn't get anything but a back
view as he climbed out on the off side
and was led in by the major; but you
couldn't fool me on them short-legged
baggy-kneed pants, or that black brid-
dle-cake bonnet. 1t was my little old
bishop, that 1 keeps the fat off from
with the medicine-ball work.
Lucky de didn't see me-" says I,
''or he'd hoIlored out and queered him
self with the whole of Primrose Park.
l was figurin' on fadin' away to the
other side of the house before he
showed up again, but 1 didn't hurry
about it. and when | looked up again
there was the bishop, with them fat
little fingers of his stuck out, and a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
BY LADBROKE BLACK.

gan to move toward the dining room
which was situated Immediately abOv,
the guard room, which, in turn. was
built over cellar. just as the doors
Of the dining room We're about TO be
flung open there was a tremendous eX-
plOsion.
By some extraordinary means. which
have never been explained, the anarch-
lists had been able to get into the al
ace, closely guarded though 1t was,
and to introduce into the cellar 4 huge
torpedo-like bomb filled with 12O pounds
Og dynamite. How they got it there
without being seen remains a mystery
uDfathomable to this day.
The force of the explosion destroyed
the guard room, killing ten soldiers
outright. and seriously woUnding fifty
three others. Such, alas! is only TOO
often the record of these assassina-
lions. The man aimed at escapes. ans
dozens of innocent people who have
70 connection with the quarrel suffer
n his stead. The attempt must have
proved, at any rate, Intellectual, Tor
though the guard room was destroyed
the dining room above was only very
slightly damaged.
The discovery that he was not even
safe in his own palace created some
InlnS IKE q pane amongst the car :
supporters and advisers. The police
force was Immediately increased, anc
every effort was made to stamp oui
ruthlessly the seeds of anarchy. But
il was of no avail.
Fooled again, the executive commit
tee Immediately set to work to devise
another plan. A little more than year
later they were able to put it INTO ex-
ecution-this time with fatal success.
It was known that the car wouiC
drive out on March 81, 1881 IN The
hope that he would pass down Sado-
vaya street mine was laid there, Dul
it was arranged that if the carr:ag,
did not go in that direction a sigma
should be given by the organizer OF
the plot, a man named Dshelaboff, 81
that the attempt might be. made else
where.
A few days before the plot was e
be carried out Dshelaboff was arrested
and thrown into prison. Had this hap
pened in any other country the whole
scheme would have been thwarted, fol
the man was the soul of the conspir-
acy: he had planned the ways anc
means and was himself to see the crime
committed But in Russia, and auonc
the anarchists. things are not done as
in the rest Of Europe.
Sophia Perovskaya Immediately step
ped into the breach and took Dsheia-
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To understand to the full the grim
terror with which anarchism must in
spire the mind of a monarch, it is only
necessary to turn to the tragic story
of the Gar Alexander II.
Five times was his life attempted
with a perseverance and ingenuity
worthy of a nobler cause. The sixth
time he was killed. From the first
moments of his reign a horrible and
agonizing death stared him into the
face Everywhere he went the as
sassin waited for him. Whether walk
ing, driving, travelling by train, or even
sitting down to dinner III the privacy
of his own apartments, his life was as
sailed He was brave man, and new
er in the course of his autocratic career
did he show a sign of nervousness or
fear.
In the matter of courage his secret
opponents, it must be admitted, were
his EQUALS. They went to the gibbet,
or the prison, or to certain death from
the explosion of their Own Internal ma
chimes without hesitation. Even the
application of torture-not of the
thumbscrew and rack order, but of that
kind which tears and rends the mind
and shakes the fOunzatiOns of the
brain-never made them reveal the
names OF their cOlteQefaIeS OF the Sc
crets of their society
The first two attempts on the cars
life were both feeble and futile. The
anarchists had not then realized the
necessity for organization. 1t was only
after the third attempt by the assassin
Soborieff, on April IA, 1879, that meas
ures were taken by the secret societies
TO svstemize their bloodthirsty efforts.
Soborieff, seeing that he had failed
in the task with which he had been en-
trusted, endeavored to kill himself by
swallowing some poison which he had
concealed beneath his finger-nails-
Doctors saved him from this death SO
that he might hang on the gallows as
a warning to others. They had better
have let him die. for the immediate
effect of his execution was the eiectri-
flying OF the energies OF anarchism.
Up to then the anarchists had been
simply organized in separate circles, "
each completely independent of the
other; but Immediately after Sober
ieff's death an executive committee
was formed to direct and control the
work of all followers of the faith.
The first action of the executive COM
mittee was to appoint three of its
members TO act as an administrative
council OF these three Sophia PeroV-
skaya was the most important and the
most active.
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boff's place. She rearranged every
thing, and undertook the entire direc-
ton of the ASA ssinatiOn.
AS Alexander did not drive down the
mined street, Sophia gave her prear-
ranged signal to a man called Ryssa-
koff, indicating to him the place where
he was to meet the imperial victim
Ryssakoff threw a bomb, but ii only
killed q Cossack and woIfnded the
horses. The car stepped out unhurt
to help the dying soldier. AS he stood
in the roadway another of the cOnspira-
tors, a man called Elnikoff, threw the
second bomb. When the smoke cleared
away Alexander II was seen lying in q
great pool of blood, his body shattered
and mutilated. A few feet away lay
Elnikoff, himself killed by the very
weapon with which he had committed
the murder.
Swiftly the car was borne to his
palace on the sledge of the chief o.
police. But there was no hope that ne
could live, and before nightfall he hal
passed away. There was found in his
desk a sketch in his own handwritinr
Of that very constitution which the an
archists had demanded and for his
supposed refusal of which the ear haC
been murdered.
me police worked night and Gay 10
discover the authors Of the plot, but
only six of them were they able To ar
rest. One of them, on account OF ths
fact that she was about to berOIne c
mother. was reprieved; the other five
on April 10, were conveyed. bound IT
carts. with their backs to the horses
70 the scene of execution. They were
clad in black clothes and flat caps
and round the necks of each or them 2
black board was hung on which wa
! transcribed in white letters:
Assassin of the Gar"
Among the five condemned wGs So
phia Perovskaya. She met her death
with 4 smiling face and a Hght heart
openly glorying in the crime she IND
| committed
1t is persons of the spirit and tenn
per of Sophia Perovskaya who make q
monarch 5 life one ions dread expactan-
cy Of a violent death.
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in my way, and taIkin' all to once.
"Hello!" says /. 1.-THE neighbors
seem to be holdin a convention. Won
der if they're plannin' to count me
in?"
1 haln't mOre'n got that out, before
one of the bunch cuts loose and heads
for me. He was nice-lookin old
duck, with a pair of white Chaunceys
and frosted chin-splitter. He stepped
out brisk, and swung his cane like he
was on parade. He was got up in
white fiannels and a topped
Panama. and he had the complexion of
a good liver.
Il expect that this is Mr. McCabe. -
says he.
you're a good guesser." says 1.
Come up on the front stoop and sit
by"
My name" says he, SIS Binger,
Curtis Binger."
What, Major Binger, late L. S. A. ?''
says 1. THE man that did the stunt
at the battle of What-d' ye-call-it?"
Mission Ridge, sir says he. throw
in out his chest.
''Surel That was the place." says 1.
well, well, Who'd think it? I'm
proud to know you. Put 'er there"
With that had him goin'. He was
up IN the air and before he'd got over
it I'd landed him in porch rocker and
chased Dennis in to dip a box of Fun
adoras out OF my suit case.
"Ahem," says the major, clearin' his
speech tubes. Il came over, Mr.. Nc
Sabe. on rather a delicate Grand
IF you're out of butter, or want to
touch me for a DRAWN of tea, speak
right up, major" says 1. THE pan
try's yours
Thank you" says he; but it's
nothing ike that, nothing at all, sir. I
came over as the representative of
several citizens of Primrose Park, to
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oh, he's a retired army officer, the
major is; widoweT, with two daugh-
ters," says he.
"Singletons?" says l.
Yep, and likely to stay So says he.
About then he turns in between a
couple of fancy stone gate posts,
twists around cracked bluestone
drive, and lands me at the front steps
of Nightingale cottage. For the kind,
IL want so bad-one of those squatty
bay-windOwed affairs, with a roof like
a toboggan chute, a porch that did al
most a whole lap around outside, and
a cObblestOne chimney that had vines
CROWN clear to the top. And sure
enough, there was Dennis Whaley
with his rake, comm as near a grin
as he knew how.
Well. he has me in tow in about a
minute, and l makes a personally con-
Quoted tour of me estate. Say, all
thought / was gettin' was a couple of
buildin' lots: but I'll be staggered if
there want a slice of ground most as
big as Madison Square park. with
trees, and shrubbery, and posy beds,
and dinky little paths loopin' the loop
all around. Out back was a stable
and goosb'ry bushes and a truck gar
den.
no" ; Iheh IOi cdoOdSeS' says
Dennis.
They look more like boutonniers, -
says I. But he goes on to tell US how
they'd just been set out and wouldn I
be life-size till fall. Then be shows
me rows that he says was goin' to be
praties and beans and so on, and he's
as proud of the whole shootin match
as if he'd done a miracle.
When we got around to the front
again, where Dennis has laid out a
pansy harp, 1 sees a little gatherin'
over in front of the cottage next door.
There was three or four gents and six
or eight women folks. They was look
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philadelphia PressO

tPhiIadeiphia Press.)
Owlett-I had an awful time thinking
up an excuse TO give my wife when | got
home from the club last night.
Ascum-Did she demand one?
Owiett-Of course; | got home so early
it piqued her curiosity.
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BY sEWELL FORD.

Copyrighted by the Associated sun
day Magazines, Incorporated.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25

The storx is mighty busy around
Watertown these days.
B & R flour, the best. Order Of
your grocer. s@
]. W.Dietz left Monday morning
for a few days visit in Minneapo-
lis.
An ad in the News is an ad in
the right place. It surely brings
business.
Jos. S.Sargent of Zion City, H.,
is in the city for short visit with
his sister, Mrs. S. F. Spencer.
F. R. Meadows has purchased the
Mason auto, which has been run
by H. A. Babcock this summer.
There are more autos to the
square inch in Watertown than any
other city in the northwest.
Insist on B & R flour. 1t is the
best. Of your grocer. !.
Howard Case left Friday for Yer
million where he will complete his
course at the state university.
Miss Brownie Mather spent a few
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25
Local Happenings.

day last week at Faulkton visiting
relatives and friends.
A fine, bouncing s pound baby
girl arrived to bless the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Murphy Monday
morning.
Roy Watkins left Saturday morn
ing for Vermillion where he will
take up a course in electrical en-
cheering.
Miss Ruth Whistler leaves today
for Boston, where she will enter
the Emerson school of oratory and
art for the winter term.
When is spoonbill duck not q
spoonbill duck? When it's a mud
hen. Ask "Spud" Vaux if this
isn't so.
The Saturday News Office is pre-
pared to print your sale bills on
short notice and at reasonable
prices.
Tuesday evening the Woodmen
held rousing meeting, at which
State Deputy Pearman and DR.. r.
B.Hill Of Sioux Falls were present
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25

~ 1fiN
Mary E.. Brown Of Manchester,
N. H. an old resident Of this coun-
[ty, is in the city looking after real
estate interests here.
F Will Owsley was a visitor the
latter end of last week Will is
manager of the Ward Bros. Candy
Go. of Aberdeen, and says business
is going big these days. }s
Make no common error. IL you
want to sell your farm, or if you
want to negotiate a farm loan, see
Hopkins & Ransom. It's q sure way
Of avoiding mistakes. l4tf II
Mel Tarbell left Saturday for
Chicago where he will take up this
second years work in the phar-
macy department. Of the NorthWes-
tern university.
G. j. Landon has resigned his
position as secretary Of the Water
town Home Building and Savings
association, and VIM. G. Gesley has
been appointed in his stead.
A fine baby girl arrived early
last Thursday morning at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. L. v. Smith of
this city. L. ". is wearing the
smile that is hard to eradicate.
If you want to sell your farm,
come up and list it with Hopkins &
Ransom. We will see for you if
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25

it can be sold Come and talk with
us abons sit. 14tf.
Miss Hattie Deland Of Marshall,
MINI. q niece Of IA, M. Deland of
this city. is spending d couple of
weeks vacation at the Deland home
in this city.
The new telephone directory is
out, to the intense gratitude of the
many subscribers Of the company. !
The book is published by this
office.
100 acres Of choice timber land
adjoining town in Clark Co., Wis. !;
will sell OF trade for prairie. In
quire of Louis Zum Drummer, Mon
ticelio. MINI. l4tf.
G. r. Farmer, who for some
months past has been employed as
night operator at the st. Louis de-
pot here, has given upShis position
and left Sunday evening for Min
nepolis. He expects to receive a
better position than he held here.
Special travelling agent Scherer
of the Foster Armstrong piano Co.
was in the city last Friday calling
on the Ainsworth Piano Co. in the
interests Of his house.
Look out for the ouncement Of
Frank Lyons big ten cent sale.
It will be one Of the biggest and
best things ever put on in the city.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25
which she ~ u IA most iigiat.
|ful time was spent. SsIs


THE NEWS has d 81 rcn fat on u
q 575, With Il reaching power 81
800 iii this Cod ling ton
county Best adj rtising med iiuna
In the county and some say best
paper la the state. Read sby most
people every body likes 1T. osi
would find ii areal live place s tsE
put yonr I'D la, MI erchant tt'sI
the live week. Of the live city.S
Drop ID and let's talk ad. Phone
Main 1858 IN Midway.
atertown poultry fanciersI.
pulled off many pr ICES ait the. D .SsI III
state fair The WI tertown axhibit
consisted of SIS birds, which brot
home 81 premiums includ ling $50
in cash prizes Mr.. q. n ash-
burn had charge Of the birds n
Washbur1l had large number ofSl
his own birds at the fair, and brot
back IL firsts, thirteen seconds and
nine thirds. The poultry fanciers
here are we'll pleased with the re-S
suits.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-09-25
very article viii be tan cents

Every article viii be cents
Ionl
Remember that the Saturday,
News has the best equipped job
printing office plant IN the city and
Eis ready at all times to do yonr
printing With neatness and dis
patch.
n ]. irtz has accepted the pos
ition as manager of the Annex Con-
fectionery Store. MI Writ is is II
FIRST class man for the position
and will give the patrons Of the
Annex the very best possible ser
vice.
Letterheads, bill heads, cards.
nemos, circular letters, and all
kinds Of printing at right prices
and satisfaction guaranteed. Out
on time too. Phone Main 363. "A II
Midway.
Jack Wigaard spent last weekend
at his home in the city. He reports
business as being exceptionally
good in his line. He is travelling
salesman with the Ward Bros. Candy
Co. of Aberdeen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Nichols, who
have been visiting for the past
week atathe home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. 3. Kneedy Of this city. left.
for their home at Georgetown,
Wis. last Friday morning after
| a very pleasant visit. 81
The band boys returned home Fri
day evening from their trip to HUI
ron, where they have been proyid-
ing music during the state fair. All
report most enjoyable time. The
band inadequate ahit with the fair,
and proved to be q very enjoyable
attraction.
From the Aberdeen Daily News:
Mrs. Lora Jensen Of WATERFOWL
was in Aberdeen yesterday on her
way to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. d. r. White at Glendale.
Mrs. Jensen with her husband pub
| lish the Shopper News at Water.
town. Mot yet, nor soon, News.
WATERFOWL merchants anticipate
Ia large trade this fall and winter
land they have all put in very large
stocks to meet the anticipated de-
mands. The live stores will tell
you all about what they have to
offer thru the columns Of the local
papers.
Last Thursday evening very
pleasant surprise was sprung OF
Mrs. As. Nelson at her home, on the
occasion Of her 64th birthday.
very pleasant time was spent il
social pastimes, followed by lunch
leon. Mrs. Nelson was the recipien1
] of many valuable presents as me
mentos Of the happy occasion.
Mrs. Thomas Wiley and daugh
i ter, Mrs. i. q. Hood Of Patterson
I N. d, left last week for Minnea
4 polls where they will visit for
4 while. Mrs. Wiley will return I,
4 her home in this city, while he,
4 daughter will return to her Nertl
Dakota home.
Mrs. E. r. Harrington and daugh
tiers, Opal and Gladys, left las
\ Thursday for Minneapolis wher
they will make their future home
Earl is already in that cit
where he is attending the Usof M
DR.. Harrington will remain in thi
city taking care Of his business in
terests here.
Z John O'Hern, a laboring ma
who was charged at the Municips
d court Thursday afternoon last wit
stealing a sum of money from tn
Poulson grocery store on Ga
street, was dismissed by the court
as the evidence against him We
not conclusive enuf to justify
& trial. The amount involved W;
$26
NJ. A. Hays. proprietor Of tt
Watertown Rug Factory, has pul
chased a couple of lots in west w,
tertown, with the intention Of cree
The Alaska prospector., 1908-05-28
HUNDREDS WATCH
 FOURTEEN PERISH
Refugees On an Island Swept to Their Death by Flood
 in Red River.

Oklahoma City, May 28-Frantic- ally imploring aid from those who helpless to act watched, fourteen per sons were today swept from an island on which they sought refuge from the flooded waters of Red river. The tragedy occurred near Colbert.
 For several days the Red river has been rising and the residents of Col bert have felt perturbation in conse- quence. Up the river there are low lands and it was from this locality where they formed a small settlement that those drowned were swept away by the flood, still clinging to the wrecks of their houses or on rude rafts. The current of the river washed them against the island and they abandoned the wreckage on which they had drifted and took to the land.
 It was early this morning that the presence of the refugees was discov- cred and the residents of Colbert were at once summoned to, if possible effect a rescue. The river full of debris was rising rapidly and repeated attempts to get a small boat to the island failed, the boat at last being destroyed.
 The loss of the boat ended all hope of those on the mainland being able to extend any further assistance and helplessly they watched while the river rapidly encroached on the island until it was completely submerged. Then it was only few minutes before the foods victims were swept to their doom. The names of those lost have not been learned but there were three women and four children among them.
The Alaska prospector., 1908-05-28
CASTAWAY JAPANESE
 TAKEN TO SEATTLE

Seattle, May 28- Immigration In- spector Maskeviccus of Skagway arrived here today with four Japanese who allege that they were abandoned on an island near the Alaska town by the captain of sealing schooner on which they had shipped. It is the belief of the immigration authorities that the men are boldly attempting to enter this country in contradiction to the purpose of the coolie immigration agreement.
 One of the men is highly educated and has documents showing him to be college graduate. All four men wore famished when they were taken from the islands. .....