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A DVCriTU DCS offi, ODLD’S CTCCTIVCS ueorJeDd - i The Clue of*the Bamboo Canes or* An E pisode in the Life of General TrepofT Chiefof Police of StPetersburg. COPTB»GMT 1911 BY W CjCHAPMAM v ^ MM HE * inter palace at £t Pet atta erxburg ta one of the larg W&eet buildings in the world There was a time, it ia averred, when the wonder fni itmctme booted sever al thousand persons Xo tdemen attendant*, servant* and em ployee at ail kinds tint and went In •warms The disci piine nan lax Howe* at soldiers detectives, police men and ssciet service officials were sTngkay ed to guard the person of t be canr, hot their very ntimber* helped to make them a menace rather than a prate, lion In October. 1ST*, n carpenter, car rying fits bon of tools an bis shoulder. nppturnd nt one at the basement doors nf the pnlnce and said that he had mm sent in assist In making some re pair* to the drying rowan of the czar's winter residence. He was admitted nit boot question and within an hour was at work »Kb other mechanics in the lower port of the great building The foreman of that section came lowhgmg along He noticed n new face among the men He stopped and "tThzi Is yonr name *" ~Srrgay iiatyschkoff " tt bo sent yon hereT* "My employer—" giving the name of a well-known cabinet maker. The lonrmsn shrugged bis shoulders impatiently Thai la irregular 1 am tired of having sen pot on me ta this way " TV new carpenter held out his hands pleadingly. *Tm sorry." ne mid. “hut l tseecj tae work badly jilisif overlook the Ir regularity this time " "Very welt" was 'he gruff res|iosse. "hot this will he tb* last." Hu hi* name was entered nith the c«ther mechanics, and that act had far rcoching < ensequrocaa. On the Sth at February. 1IH. the rxnr had arranged a *| lesdid dinner In honor at the Prince of Bulgaria It was a state affair and all of the de tafia were planned on a scale of grandeur rammers urate with the grwatmam of the Russian empire. Five r.tna'< * before the royal guests had ass mblsd ta the stair dining room rhrre w-aa a dynamite explosion in the ia-prrtal palace The mine bad been aet In the basement and the explosion pierced the two St *norm and made a gap fen feet long and six feet wide m the dining hall in which the table had already been laid for the dinner. The explosion killed fixe men of the police g_ard and hi fared thirty-five ifc* greatest cotrternaTitm pre idhd TV car. at coarse, realized •hat the Nihilists had bon at work, bat he was terrified to think that they had gained entrance Into the palace and that the ezplnuinn. which had Just taken place was intended to encom pass his death as veil as that of the members of the royal family The conspiracy in this case seemed to be widespread and far reaching Al most on the eve at the explosion In the winter palace a woman visited General Trepoff. the chief of the ft. Petersburg pot..-*. fthe said her r.am• was Vers Zusuttr. and that she had filed far the purpose of demanding aaftafariiw of General Trepoff for bis tyranny la ordering a political pris oner, armed 5'.ogoMabuss. to tie {logged for n slight farearh at prison dls ctpltne it seems that for years she had hem nursing a grievance against the chief ef police. She believed that ah* was to he the instrument by which Tr*-poft was to be removed from his posit wo. Her life, it is asserted, was an apprenticeship for one thing—the kiting of the czar's chief of police At the age at seventeen »be had been arrested and kept is prison for two rears because she had received letters from a revol- iurtist After that she passed an examination as a school teacher and was working at book bind tag At the end of 1*75 she returned to St. Petersburg Her experience had prepared her for the deed On the morning in question she presented him wnh a paper, and while he was read ing It fired her revolver and then es caped K was sow after this that the czar ea^od upon Trepoff, promoted him to thr position of counsellor of state and then charged him with the commie **ow at capturing and punishing the man or men who were guilty of the outrage in the winter palace Trepoff was a man of remarkable capacity. He was burly in iorm but ataguiariy nimble in thought He had tha cunning of the fox alth the pa ttanee and persistence of a weil iratted hunting dog- A number of •a* were arrested on suspicion. That was necessary, it teems to be the penctloe of the police in all countries ta arrest somebody at some time In aameexioa with every crime that is manlTM. Afterwards, if the person dan prove his Innocence, all is well, hat to the meantime there is a feeling that the police have been alert and have done everything la their power to capture the criminal But In this tastaaee those who were acquainted wwk the redoubtable Trepoff knew he was am satisfied A dozen or sure men. who were placed ia con finement im-edlately after the explo Hw. might or might am he galltr. but Trepoff hew la bis onra twtws that ha had not captured any of the princi pal*. The months lengthened into a year, and still he had not run across the per >'->u who was guilty of this great out rage But the case was never out of t*‘s mind day or night, and scarcely a week passed by that he did not Invent some new scheme for bringing the guil ty man to Justice. FYotn time to time persons were arrested for minor po litical offences, and In these instances he closely scrutinized the evidence in order to form some connecting link w’th the affair of the explosion at the winter palace. One morning one of the secret agents informed him that a number of men had been seen in the vicinity of the winter palace carrying bamboo canes. That, in itself, did not seem like a very extraordinary proceeding, but the fact that a number of persons carried th» same sort of walking stick made It sufficiently interesting to be worthy of report to the chief of po lice. The response of Trepoff to this bit of news was characteristic: Arrest every man of them and bring them before me." HI* instructions were carried out to the letter. Some fourteen men were rounded up and brought to the central police headquarters for exam ination. They were examined, but nothing of any importance was found on their persons. Then the canes were taken and carefully scrutinized. This search brought rich results. Every one of the sticks proved to be hollow and <-ach one contained a sheet of \ tissue patter on which was printed a i call for a meeting of revolutionists. It ■ was the biggest haul that Trepoff had made in many months. The evidence proved 'hat the men were enemies of the government. It did more than that - it prv*d the way to another dis "Do not delay any longer. Now is the time to act." Some bits of paper corresponding with the material on which this was inscribed, were found in Chalturin's room. The case against him appeared to be complete. It was In March, 1SS2,—over two years after the explo sion occurred—that the chief culprit was taken into custody. He was given a speedy trial and on the 22d of March of that year was executed, and it was then, and then only, that he was rec ognized as the man who had intro duced himself as a carpenter in the winter palace. The testimony which was brought out at the trial of Chalturin gave the authorities some idea of the marvel ous ingenuity and wonderful perse verance of the Nihilists. Just prior to the explosion in the winter palace they had organized their forces under the title of "The Will of the People” and at once began to issue proclama tions and pamphlets in order to swell their numbers aud strengthen their cause. In January. 1880. their secret printing presses were discovered and seized by the police, and numerous ar rests were made. In spite of this, they managed to issue, on the 26th of Jan uary, a program in which they de clared that unless the government granted constitutional rights the czar must die. The result of this was fresh arrests, banishments to Siberia for some aud death on the scaffold for others. it was at this stage of the game that th*> Nihilists planned their most dar ing program. It was to blow up the emperor in his own palace. Its execu tion, as has already been stated, was undertaken by Chalturin. who was young and fervent and filled with an exaggerated sense of his own wrongs and the wrongs of the people. He was a clever cabinet maker and this enabled him, under the assumed name of Batyschkoff, to obtain a situation as a carpenter in the imperial palace. He ascertained that the emperor's din ing room was above the cellar In which the carpenters were at work, although between it ar.d the cellar there was a guard room used by the sentinels of the palace. Chalturin lived in the palace for nearly four months, and every night he used a package of dyna mite for his pillow. A gendarme had been installed In the carpenter's cellar shortly aiter he began to work there, and thi-i made the introduction of the ! dynamite exceedingly difficult, and in- j \ mCMPEftTEmiDX Ol/T H/S > ' PimiHCiY. “But what sort of men were they?” “Just every-day, ordinary kind of men. The sort that would not be no ticed in a crowd. For instance, the fact that a baker handed a couple of rolls to Chalturin would excite no comment, and yet th*se innocent bits of bread might have contained one tenth of all the dynamite smuggled in to the palace. Some of it was hidden . in carpenter's tools, some in the lin ing of workingmen's caps. But why j go further? The men who plan great j things must possess great ingenuity j as well as great courrge ” But to get back to the narrative. Chalturin said that while he was in the basement of the palace he suffered frightfully from headaches, which were caused by the poisonous exhala- 1 tions of the nitroglycerine on which he rested every night. When the first j of February arrived, fifty kilogrammes of dynamite had been introduced, and i the counterfeit carpenter was now in ! ^ SMPf/PED PfP PmiVfPMD TPEft ESC/lPfO. covery which bore directly on the mys terious explosion of February 5, 1880. One of the prisoners, being put to tor ture, revealed the names of several of his associates. One of these was a certain Victor Chalturin. He was the son of a peas ant. a very energetic agitator and an experienced organizer of associations of malcontents. The police visited his rooms and made a thorough search of the premises. A number of books and pamphlets found on the shelves and in closets indicated that he was a man with Nihilistic tendencies. That, in itself, while interesting, was not very Important. The searchers con tinued at work and finally came to a cabinet with locked doors. It was broken open and in a secret drawer they found a blue print of the plans of the winter palace. It was worn and frayed at the edges as tbongh It had been carried in someone’s pocket for a long while. Moat significant of all, the lines indicating the great dining hall were marked with a cross. These facts were promptly communicated to Trepoff, and he sent out a description of Chalturin to every police official in the Russian empire. While awaiting reports from his sub ordinates the energetic chief of police made another discovery. It was a slip of paper which was found in the basement of the imperial palace. On it was written these words: r v cidentally had delayed the execution of the plot for many months. It became generally known during the Investigation In this case that the winter palace for years had been the refuge for vagabond workmen, friends of the servants, and others. Many of these were without a passport and could not have lived anywhere else with Impunity. It seems that there Is an old law which gives the right of sanctuary, so far as the police are concerned, to criminals taking refuge In the Imperial palace. Naturally, the gieatest disorder prevailed there. Dis cipline was at a low ebb, and the in troduction was, after all, not such a difficult matter. In spite of this laxity the authori ties were puzsled to know how the dynamite came to be smuggled into the basement of the palace under the very nose of the police. One of the numerous prisoners who were arrest ed for the crime laughed airily when questioned about this phase of the conspiracy. “It was easy,” he said, “as easy as breathing.” “Did Chalturin carry It with him?" "Not at all. That might have been fatal to our plana. At least a dozen men assisted in the delivery of the dynamite, and had any one of them been arrested the other eleven would have remained to have carried out the program.” a position to go ahead with his deadly work. He hesitated at the last moment, but it was too late to retreat. He felt that in any event his own life was im periled. If he accomplished the das tardly plot, he would be executed by the government; if he refused to do so, he was likely to be assassinated by his associates. While he was still in a state of uncertainty, he received a letter from the executive commit tee telling him to delay no longer, but to fire the dynamite. In the excitement that ensued, Chal turin escaped and left St. Petersburg, but in the end, as already related, he was caught in the vast net spread by Trepoff and suffered death as the pen alty of his great crime. Why Not? "Munyon says that death before the age of 100 years is reached is sui cide." “That’s good news. I guess 1 11 live to be a hundred.” “You guess you will?" “Sure. My relatives won’t care; 1 ain’t got any money.”—Houston Post Adding Insult to Injury. First Hen—Stopped laying? Second Hen—Yes, they expect us to lift the mortgage for the auto that runs over us.—Harper’s Baser. CONTRASTS IN THE HOME Reading of the Homes of Antiquity Should Make Us Complaisant Over Our Own Homes. (Copyrighted by J. S. Kirtlev.l “Hello, Central, give me heaven!” That is what the young man said when he installed the new telephone in the study and wanted to test it. At once they connected him with his home and he found the instrument working to his intense satisfaction. And he had been married several years, at that. The general level of the American home is pretty high, if we may judge by the external signs of comfort—the average quality of the houses, foods that come from all over the world, good clothes, schools for children, with text hooks furnished free, in many places, large and attractive parks for recreation, or. better still, open coun try. and luxuries like the telephone in almost all homes, whether in city or country. And. if we judge by the sen timents of orators and writers, espe cially the apostrophes of the poets, we may be led to imagine that Eden Is blooming and even booming here in our country, the lost Paradise regained. We certainly have a right to be some what complaisant over our homes when we read about the homes of antiquity. When Mrs. Wiggs was asked if she did cot feel her privations, she gave a good long list of her blessings and asked in reply, "Ain't you proud you ain’t got a hare lip?” We may be proud we are not a part of an old Roman home, for instance. To use a Hibernicism, it would not be a home at all. The Latins had a word for family and one for house, but none for that something which a family in a house constitutes, which we call home. The family, with or without children, plus the house form something called home, a thing more easily spoken of than described. Well, the Romans had no word for that, because they had no need for such a word. And whenever we catch any one trying to reestablish such a do mestic anachronism and monstrosity In our land and time, it is taken in hand either by the white caps or the blue coats, or the petticoats, them selves. It takes at least two persons to make a home, and in the Roman house there was only one, the man. The woman was not a person. In her own right, un der the law. She could not intervene in the government of the family. If one of the children wanted to get mar ried, her consent was not necessary. If her husband wanted to put her to death or leave her for a handsomer woman, he had a right to do so, with out legal process or prejudice. It could not be a real home when the children had no rights which the father and mother were bound to re spect. A defective or girl baby was usually exposed or abandoned or killed. Sometimes, when the father was away, the mother, too tender-hearted to kill the child, would abandon >lt. There is space left to speak of two facts about the American home. One Is' that tt Is safeguarded by just and generous laws. The raason for this is that the people themselves hold In their deepest consciousness and con victions the sentiments that are essen tial in the home; and the legislatures and courts have given them what they were taught by the home to give. Another fact is that ,the American home has been the most powerful in stitution in generating tides of patriot ism and education and in conserving the treasures of religion. It has felt the need of schools, and. under urgent home sentiments, the leaders have gone forth to found and fashion educa tional agencies to assist the home in Its nurture of the young. And two very hopeful signs encour age us. One is that the psychologist has invaded the home. He is studying the institution as a whole and in de tail. especially mothers ard boys. The great international home congress, just held In Brussels, helped. The children's exhibit on home condi tions, now being prepared by some men and women In New York, will help some. The other sign is that movements are starting in the homo for self-inspection and self-rectifies-1 tion. It has got as far as the mother and we have mothers' clubs. Next we must have fathers’ dubs for the study of the whole situation. We have boys’ and girls' ch-bs, but no sons' and daughters' rJure xs yet These will come next ABEUME CUBE FOROlfSPEPSIA Munyon’s Stomach Treatment Performing Miracles. MUNYON TELLS YOU HOW TO GET WELL FREE OF CHARGE “A few days ago I received a letter from a young man. who stetes he la 2$ years of age, and has occupied several important positions, but owing to indi gestion and inability to sleep he has been unable to concentrate his mind upon his work and has consequently been dis charged on the ground of neglect of duty. He goes on to say that he is a young man of steady habits, but for vears he has suffered from dyspepsia, which has so affected his nerves that he is unable to sleep, and that it is not neglect upon his part, nor lack of interest in the busi ness, but simply physical weakness. He asks my advice in this matter. "For the benefit of a large number of those similarly situated I propose to answer this letter publicly, hoping that it may be the means of helping many who may be affected in this way. "In the first place, the stomach must be made well before the nerves can be made strong. The nerves must be made strong before one can sleep well. No o.ie is capable of doing his best who is in any way troubled with Insomnia or any form of nervousness. The greatest gen erals have been men of Iron nerve and indomitable will. They have had perfect , digestion, being able to eat well, and di gest all they ate. "It Is said that Napoleon lost the bat- j tie of Waterloo because of a fit of Indl- I gestion. Grant's enormous reserve power 1 war due to a well stomach: Abraham Lincoln said that ‘he did not know that he had a stomach.’ Grover Cleveland. It is said, could work IS hours a day. eat : a hearty meal at 2 or 3 o’clock In the morning, go to bed and sle*p soundly un til 9 o’clock and get up refreshed, ready fbr a new day's work. r-Tvs. iarx is another type or healthy manhood- Who thinks for one moment . that he would be the President of the t'nlted States today had he been a dy speptic or affected with some nervous aliment? I claim that two-thirds of all the failures In professional and business ■If A are due to weak and deranged stom achs. ■'No business house would care to em ploy a dyspeptic representative to sell goods for them on the road. One-half the men who stand behind counters to day. earning from $12 to $15 a week, will , never get beyond these figures, for the . reason that they hre physically weak. They lack the nerve power and com manding strength that come from a good, sound stomach. "No one cares to hear a dyspeptic preacher. No matter how pious he may he. he is bound to reflect his bilious and iaundiced condition. He will unconscious ly Inoculate his hearers with his melan choly feelings. "No one would think of entrusting an important legal case In the hands of a dyspeptic lawyer, any more than he would care to entrust his own life, or that of a dear one. in the hands of a phy sician who is nervous. Irritable or a dy speptic. Men must have good digestion, strong nerves and vital manhood in or der to render a clean, clear-cut decision either in medicine, law or business. "T believe that more than half of tha divorces can be traced to ill health I want every dyspeptic to try my stomach treatment, for it corrects nearly all forms of indigestion and nervousness. It makes old stomachs almost as good as new. Its marvelous power for digesting food and getting the best out of It makes for good rich, red blood. This. In turn, strength ens the nerves, bnllds up the general sys tem. and will surely prolong life and make it a pleasure to live and do the things allotted to us.” Professor Munyon makes no charge for consultation or medical advice; not a pen ny to pav. Address Prof .1. M Munyon. Munyon’s laboratories. Fifty-third and Jefferson streets. Philadelphia. Pa. Keeping Busy. We are told that at New York's com ing municipal budget exhibit bells will be rung and lights flashed to show a birth every four minutes, a death every seven minutes and a marriage every eleven minutes. 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