Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-11-22

and caused his defeat, according to re
ports from daparanda today.
The Let's are an I~ndo-European peo-
pie and rumber in the neighborhood
of 1000. COS
London, Nov. 19.-Nowhere through
out a journey from the Caucasus to
P~etrosrad did a correspondent of the
Daily telegraph hear a word Of sympa-
thy for Premier kerensky. The educa-
ted passengers he met, he says in a dis
patch sent from Petrograd on Monday,
We're infatuated at Kerensky's laxity in
permitting the Dulsneyfki agitation and
soldiers We're indignant that the pre-
micr was unable to maintain authority
and order. Railway men the cores
pondent adds. said kerensky. and
Lenine and Trotzky. the bolsheviki
leaders, all ought to be thrown INTO the
Neva.
For the provisional government no.
where was there a spark of enthusiasm,
he, adds, as it was felt to have de-
served it's fate. Everywhere. however,
the correspondent found q longing for
real order and real authority and for
somebody who would save Russia from
trouble.
Finds Cossacks Organized.
Throughout the 10 Kuban territories
order was undisturbed and on arriving
III IIpSlOh- oll- lllt-1tOii, oI 4NoNS lliDCl d
the correspondent fround the garrison
and workers in a ferment. They had
passed a resolution in favor of the boil
sheviki, but in the neighboring town of
Novo Tcherkask, the capital of the Don
territory. the Cossack government un-
der General Kaledines had declared
for the provisional government, as
sumed full power in it's own territories
and had established contact with Cos
sack governments in the neighboring
territories.
A few days before the Don Cossacks
rose, backed by the Cossacks, in the
provinces of Kuban and Astrakhan the
NalmuizS of the SteppeS, and the noun
tain tribes oe Daghestan and the Black
sea coast had formed a league of auto
nomous units with a common federal
government over the whole territory
north of the Caucasus between the Cas-
plan and Black seas. The existence of
this league, the correspondence says,
guarantees complete order IN that ter
ritory which includes the richest gran
airy in Russia.
Cossacks Arrest Bolsheviki.
General Kaledine's government on
November s, declared martial law in
the disturbed mining area in the Donetz
basin. and it was declared that the min
ers had resumed work.
The Cossack congress. when nap
pnned TO be sitting at kiev, took COM
mand of the situation there and I'M
n,ediatelv arrested the Ukrainian coun-
Gil and suppressed the bolsheVlkl.
petrograd, Friday, Nov. tide
serted by most OF his ofllcers ana llI'
tlallv ordered to surrender to the pol
sheyiki. Premier Kerensky evaded the
Guards sent for him and has dlsap-
DeareQ. General Dukhonin has resumed
temporarily the post of communicating
chief of the Kerensky forces, recenllA
defeated at Tsarsko Selo.
General K%rasnoff, former commander
under karensky, and who was arrested
with other members of he premier:
staff. has been released on the groune
that he was only obeying the orders O
his superior. General Krasnoffs re
port concerning the disappearing y
kerensky confirms that he flee In DIS
guise. ,.
Premier Kerensky, when told thai M
officers were against him and that III
men were on the point OF deserving
agreed to come to Petrograd. put VIM
a guard was being arranged ne oroppe'
out of sight.
"At 3 o'clock on the afternoon Q
November / Gold style). November l
new style), I called at the quarters Q
the commander in chief" said Genera
Krasnoff. He appeared nervous ar
excited" -
+raved me. Your Cossacks say the
will arrest me and give me up to tn
yes" 1 answered. "such a discus
sion is now going on. There appears I
he little sympathy for YOU
".Do the officers feel the same way
he asked.
Yes" 4.
What shall I do? Will have
commit suicide?
IF YOU are an honest man you wi
ado n Il fIa
and appear before the revolutionar
committee, where you will negotiate a
head Of the government
..Kerensky first agreed to this, bt
later disappeared, CARRIED as a sailor
tr,,ons are besieged in the Kremlin q
Moscow by $4,000 b~olsheviki, who ar
hattering the ancient walls and bulld
ings with heavy artillery, according t
a we'll authenticated report receive
this afternoon. i.
have a fairly plentiful supply of foo
and ammunition and to be capable {
holding out for some days.
5000 Killed in Moscow.
According to the informant of TT
Associated Press. a Seml-offIc1al Amel
lean returning from Moscow, the serle
Of wholesale looting n burning thel
have been exaggerated. There has bee
indiscr1minate firing throughout II
city. hut. aside from the havoc at tt
Kremlin, there has been little damat
The loss Of life since the beginning
the instruction is estimated at from z
General Kaledines, upon whoEe he
the defenders of the Kremlin are coun
ing. is reported to have cut the railWa
southward to prevent provisions arri'
ing which he is moving toward MO-
COW. .a,
from Petrograd, dated Tuesday. M
vember 12. says:
Repo.'s Bitter Fighting.
.Tsarskoe sselo has twice chang
hands in the last three days. -Adhe
ents of Premier Kerensky first oecupN
it after a short conflict and continu.
to advance and were reported as "