' MySPFOftr) MATL TRTBTTNTTC. MTCT)FOT?T. OTiEflOy. WEDNESDAY, REPTEMT5ER 12. 1017.
PATGE THREW r
NFAMUUSMONK
RASPUTIN SHOT
FORIMMORAUTY
Russell Tells Inside Story About
Death of Actual Ruler of Russia
Under Old Regime Boasted of Re
lations With Czarina, Killed by
Admirer of Grand Duchess Olga.
(This is another of the series of
articles by Charles Edward Russell
who has just returned from Russia
where he spent three months as a
member of the official United States
commission to the new Russian gov
eminent.)
(By Charles Edward Russell.)
Copyright 1917 by the Newspaper En
terprise Association.)
I don't know anything that better
Illustrates the utter lunacy of the old
system In Russia, the system the rev
olution scrapped forever, than the
amazing story of Rasputin.
Here was a moral idiot, a creature
of tho most depraved Instincts, ignor
ant, bestial, an arrant knave and trai
tor, and yet under the old system he
came to he the actual ruler of all
Russia.
lie put men up and pulled them
down, determined policies, held in his
'hand the nation's destinies.
Power Without Limit.
Ills power was without limit ox
ccpt his own fear of the assassin.
He proved the truth of the old de
serlptlon of the Russian government
under czurlsm. It was "a despotism
tempered only by assassination."
All the government was controlled
by the czar, the czar was controlled
by tho czarina, the czarina was con
trolled by Rasputin.
Rasputin. this world will be much
older than it Is now before It forgets
that sinister and historic figure. He
has put In the shade all the king's
favorites that ever were written
about. He played a game that made
thoirs look like matching pennies.
Men in all the ages to come will
wonder as much about his figure as
about his almost incredible career,
Personal Appearance.
Ho was very tall, lank and some
what swarthy, with long black hair
that he kept offensively oiled and
wore smoothed down on the top of
his head. He had very long features,
little black eyes of the kind always
described as beady, a large mouth and
a prominent nose. With his sllckery
hair and glittering eyes lie must have
strongly suggested the stage edition
of Svengall. According to all accounts
he had no charm of conversation nor
of manner, and his Ignorance was as
plain as his arrogance the Instant he
began to talk.
Altogether here was about tho last
man In the world that you would
think a self-respecting woman would
have an amour with. Yet It Is related
that over many Intelligent and rathor
wise women he exercised an extraor
dinary power and over hundreds of
others what seemed like an uncanny
fascination. All this is usually ac
counted for in Russia on the theory
that he possessed some secret of hyp
notism.
A Heavy Hoozw.
With the other unpleasant traits he
was a famous boozc-flghter. Even
after the prohibition of vodka h
seemed to be always well supplied
with liquor, and It was the common
belief among those that observed him
that he could stand more rum than
any other man In IPetrograd. When
ho was on a drinking bout he chose
the most disreputable companions and
went on a bat that lasted for several
days and wound up In the lowest dives
of tho city.
The police knew htm well and
feared him, for they had accurate
knowledge both of his power and to
morseless use of it. When he came
In his borrowed robes of a priesthood
he had no right to claim, roaring an
rolstoilng, they stood aside and let
lilm go. Any person that was with
him was Immune; If he wore a crlmi
nnl tint the Dollce had long wanted
no oic dared lay hands upon him. H
was 1 friend of Rasputin, and Ras
putin was the all-powerful of Russia
H( had a power to pull himself to
gether as great as his other unusual
gifU The next day after a frightful
deUuch we would 'appear In fresh
canonicals and go about talking piety
an! rolling up his eyes to heaven, and
hise that saw him even at close
rage rould hardly detect any sign
o'tho souse upon him.
j Trailed Willi (iermany.
H was not possible that these things
did last. All the time the nobles
tat happened by some chance to be
' itll loyal to Hn
Jb.'log of his ti
iunsla were bearing th
trading with Germany,
:ntie tne people at large were gam-
. . .
ting hatred for his cruelty.
There was only one class In th
bmmunlty that tond anything to ap
provo In him. That was the revolu
tionary agitators. They used him all
about Russia as a first-class example
of the folly of monarchy, and couldn't
have had a better. , They saw to it
that his name and deeds became
known throughout the land, and to
thlB day the comic Illustrated papers
are using him as a text.
Trusted by Czarina.
In a Russia where nobody, you
might say, had a vote or a voice In
the government there was no civilized
way to get at such a creature. There
was no law that could be Invoked
against htm. The only real law was
the will of the czar, and that was all
for the czarina, and the czarina was
all for Rasputin.
There was no way to counteract
his Influence. He was the only per
son the czarina trusted or would real
ly listen to.
Under these conditions there was
nothing for his opponents to do but
to kill him.
One night on his way home In the
winter he was shot at, the bullet
piercing the back of the sleigh and
m:ss!ng him by a few Inches. Not
long after an assassin made his way
Into Rasputin's house and tried to
stab him. .Several times, according
to the story, thugs lay in wait for him
to beat him up.
He escaped all these and began to
have the reputation of a charmed life.
He must have taken little stock in
that himself. He now went about
Petrograd with a bodyguard of
picked men.
Killed by Nohluninn.
His fears put no check upon his
drunken tongue. When he was pick
led he used to talk about the czarina
as he talked about a drab.
After a time he began to talk loose
ly about the then Grand Duchess Ol
ga, the czar's oldest child, and that
In the end did for him.
The ex-grand duchess seems by all
accounts to be a rather superior
young woman, considering the ml;
fortunes of her birth and bringing up.
There was a young nobleman In Pe
trograd that had a profound respect
and admiration for her. When he
learned that Rasputin had boasted In
a dive that before long he would have
her also in his power, this young no
bleman made up his mind that the
time had come to silence that ribald
tongue and the task belonged to him.
He performed it conscientiously.
and that was the end of Rasputin.
It seemed as if with that shot the
people woke up to the enormity of
the whole degrading burden that
cursed them and bowed them to the
ground.
ALBANY MAN SAYS
MEDFORD IS THE PLACE
W. H. Hogan has returned from a
two weeks' business trip to Medford
and other southern Oregon points.
While away he became Imbued with
the southern Oregon spirit, which he
claims to be very contagious.
His words fail to express his ad
miration ot Medford, which he says
is the coming city ot southern Oregon
He found no knockers In Medford,
everyone pulling together, and work
ing for the upbuilding of the city.
He visited some of the packing
plants, of which there are eight. The
largest employs over 100 helpers and
handles over 6000 boxes ot pears a
day. Good prices are received for the
crop.
He did not say what they fed him
at the old Nash hotel, or what they
put Into the water, but he Is sure
stuck on Medford.
He also claims to have met three of
the greatest liars In Oregon. One, he
says,, lives in Jacksonville, and the
other two Is a curbstone broker in
Medford. Albany Dally Democrat,
THE RIALTO INVITES
Old soldiers, veterans of the civil
war, will enjoy scenes in the pic
ture being shown nt the Hinlto the
ater today nnd tomorrow under the
official war title "Our Hoys ut the
Bonier." This isenc of the three
15-minute specialties being shown
with the unusually charming 'om-
edy-drnmn, "Sunny Jane," starring
Jackie Saunders.
The Grand Army of the Ilepubli
members in this valley ore holding
their nnnunl reunion nt Ashland this
week. The Hinlto management in
vites these beloved old veterans, who
once were "Our Hoys nt tho Border,"
to come nnd enjoy the comforts of
Medfurd's beautiful new theater nnd
the nnny feature of its program to
day and Thursday, free, as u coin
plimcnt from The Hinlto.
Every feature of the "Runny Jane"
program is engrossingly interesting.
The veterans will enjoy it nil.
George Puracker left this morning
for North Yakima, Wash , for a visit
with his son Herman. .
AGREED TO REDUCE
E
"The dispatches in the morning
newspniwrs relating to the govern
ment control of the price of susrnr
ore wrong," said Alexander Nibley,
general inuniifter of the local dis
trict of tlio Utuli-Idiilio sugar beet
company,, Wednesday. ,
The dispatch from Suit Lake to
tiie effect that the independent Kiignr
producers thruoitt the intcr-iuoiiii-eountry
nre not satisfied with the
price of $7.25 n hundred tentatively
fixed by Herbert C. Hoover, food ad
ministrator, is especially misleading.
"Why 80 percent of the beet sugar
producers voluntarily offered to make
the reduction from $9.25 to $7.2; a
hundred, nnd my father was one of
tho men who took this offer to Mr.
Hoover mid fixed up the price with
the latter. Mr. Hoover complimented
father and the other sugar beet pro
ducers for their patriotic and goner
osity in voluntarily making tjiis re
duction which means a saving of $25,
000,000 to tho sugar consumers of the
country. He also wrole n complimen
tary letter to tiie sumo effeitt nnd I
have a copy of it.
"But wlint the sugar beet produc
ers do object to and will try to hnve
rectified is the 20 percent differ
ential in lnvor ot the cane sugar
producers. This differential is nil
wrong, for sugar is sugar, and hard
ly any chemists even can tell the dif
ference between beet and cane sugar
It is beyond my understanding why
this differential should be allowed
"If the cane sugar interests will
make n similar reduction per hun
dred ns have the sugar beet inter
esls the sugar consumers of the
country will be saved another $25,
000,000."
E VELVET
The White Velvet Ice Cream con
corn, ono of Mcdford's best known
business institutions, which has
grown and gradually developed from
a small beginning three vears ago, un
der the ownership and capable man
agement of E. J. White, is about to
expand nnd occupy n larger field
K. W. M-kie, one of the best known
butler men nnd creamery managers
of Oregon, has become associated
with Mr. White in the conduct of the
business mid will have charge o
the creamery nnd ice cream depart
ments. Mr. Mkie is already on tho
ground, having ifrrived in the city lale
Saturday with Ins family.
For 12 years he was with the I la
zelwood company of Portland, then
be was connected with the Union
Meat company and other large con
ccrns for years. For the past six
months Mr. Mkie has been
California studying the methods o
conduction, etc., of the large cream
cry cimipnnics of San Francisco and
other cities of that state, and nlso
the general market nnd business con
dilions ns relating to creameries unil
ice cream production nn sales,
Uoth Mr. White and Mr. Mkie
say it is their intention to thoroly
rejuvenate the White lee Cream com
puny business nnd expand it. Kven
tunlly they will install the most mod
cm creamery mid iee cream making
machinery.
LIQUOR FOR PATIEN
Dr. W. P. Chlsholm and CharlCs
Koll of Gold Hill were taken Into cus
tody near the Kingsbury Springs Sat
urday night by Special Agent It
Porter, and assistants, Wlmor nnd
Carpenter, for transporting Intoxlcnt
ing Honor Into Oregon, and were
promptly taken before L. J. Trefren
Justice of the peace for Ashland dis
trict, and fined f HO each and costs
When caught the doctor made
great effort to destroy the liquor and
did succeed In getting a gunnysack
full out of the car after being slg
naled to stop, but as he drew the sack
out of the car he was confronted by
one ot tho officers and was stopped
from destroying tho booze.
When taken before the Justice
the peace the doctor claimed all blamo
for the, liquor transportation, claim
ing the liquor was for his patients an
that he took the chance of Illegally
importing It rather than tako the hu
mlllatlon of getting a permit from the
district attorney to legally furnish hi
patents with the stimulant. Ashlan
Tidings.
E
(Continued rium page 1.)
declared that a state of war exists In
the town and district of Moscow,
Boris Savtukoff, assistant minister
of war and minister of marine, in an
Interview with the Associated Press
today, said:
Offensive Continues.
"For the reassurance of America
ou may say that General Kornlloff's
revolt Is not in the least affecting our
operations against the foreign ene
my. The troops at the front are sol
idly with the provisional government.
'There Is not the least doubt that
General Kornlloff's coup hns fulled
and that we shall be strengthened for
tho future by getting rid of disloyal
generals by whose conspiratorial ten
dencies wo long have been embar
rassed, ,
"The provisional government will
Issue stronger than ever from the cri
sis and this will enable us offoctlvoly
to deal with the Bolshevik! danger."
Koi nlloff IXot. Overthrown.
WINTER PALACE, PETROGRAD,
Tuesday, Sept. 11. While unable yet
to report the final overthrow of Gen
eral Kornlloff, members ot the Rus
siaa provisional goverament in con
versation with the Associated Press
this evening summed up the situation
optimistically.
The commander-in-chief of the
Russian n miles, Major - -Gonoral
Bonch-Ilruyovitch, who formorly was
attached to tho Btaff of General Hrus
slloff, ono tlino commander-in-chief,
has from the first been dovoted to the
provisional government.
An unconfirmed report received at
the capital Is to the effect that part
of General Kornlloff's army is sur
rendering. , .
Commanders Loyal.
In an Interview Vice-Premier and
Minister of Finance Nekrasoff In
formed the Associated Press that Gen
eral SprJevalskI, commander on the
Caucasus front, and Lieutenant-Con-
ernl Dmitri Stcherbatcheff, command
or on tho Rumanian front, had defi
nitely declared their alleglaneo to tho
government. From General Stneadu-
yeff, the commander on the western
front, no news has been received, but
from his attitude: there is reason to
believe he remains loyal.
The attitude of General Klembov-
sky, commander on the northern
front, is still enigmatical. Ho based
hiB refusal to accept the post of com
mander-ln-ehlef on the fact that the
position on his front required his spe
clal attention. Asked by the govern
ment for an explanation of why he
allowed General Kornlloff's army to
pass through Pskoff he replied that
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these troops wore not subordinate to
him.
Special Powers for Kereusky,
The government, Vice-Premier Ne
krasoff said, had told General Klem
bovsky ho must either define his at
titude or resign. General Kloniboskl,
chief of staff, the vlre-premler added,
was undoubtedly the chief conspira
tor. There was evidence tho conspir
acy had been prepared carefully,
whereas the government was caught
wholly unawares.
The constitutional democrats, M.
Nekrasoff said, had a part In tho plot,
and members of that party wore at
General Kornlloff's headquarters.
M. Nekrasoff concluded as regards
the composition of the provisional
cabinet that M. Yourneff, minister of
public works, and Professor Koko
shlne, the stato controller, were the
only ministers who had definitely re
signed. Tho attitude of M. Oldenburg, min
ister of public instruction, and of M.
Kartasheff, procurator of tho Holy
Synod, was doubtful.
Premier Kerensky, the vlco-promlcr
stated, had been offered special pow
ers and he has the support ot the
whole country.
Support Promised.
All through tho night M. Kerensky
received resolutions from army nnd
navy units promising to support him.
The Council ot Workmen's and Sol
diers' Delegates sent telegrams to the
telegraph operators' union declaring
that the operators by refusing to work
for Kornlloff could help to crush the
revolt.
Premier Kerensky Issued an order
to the Petrograd garrison denouncing
General Kornlloff for opening the
front to the Germans and for sending
a division of Asiatics against the cap
ital whilo professing to defend lib
erty. General Kozmln, now com
manding the Petrograd city garrison
declared beforo the meeting in tho
Winter palace of tho representatives
of the different organizations':
Unyoncta to Docldo.
'No negotiations are posslblo with
traitors. Our only futuro conversa
tion will be carried on through can
non." 'Only bayonets can now decide the
conflict," was the decmartlon of Vice
Premier Nekrasoff.
M. Tchernoff, minister of agricul
ture, has resigned from the cabinet.
Ninety arrests were made In Petro
grad last night. General Mlcheveff
was arrested ot Moscow,
Premier Kcronsky has ordered tho
procuror of tho Petrograd court to
put General Kornlloff on trial, under
tho historic lOlitli statute, "for con
spiring to overthrow the existing or
der." 0CT0BRIST LEADER
PLACED UNDER ARREST
l'KTliOCjliAD, Sept. 12. Alex
ander (luchkoff, the Oclobrist leader,
anil former minister of war and navy
who after leaving I'elrograd last Sat
urday joined the Korniloff movement,
has been nrrcsled. .He is now inkier
if uard at Pskol'f.
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Von Hindenburg, the dog mascot
of C company, foolishly distinguish
ed himself much to the amusement of
a depot crowd Wednesday morning
by trying to overtake passenger train
111 ns it departed from the city in the
vain hopo of trying to (Mitch tho last
coach on which 40 members of C
company were eurouto to the Siski
yous to relievo a similar number of
soldiers who have been on guard
there, for two weeks.
After n gamo run of a half mile
during nil of which lime he was urged
on by the soldiers crowded on the
back platform, Von Hiiidenburg fili
ally gave up the chase and sadly wan
dered back to camp.
When Hie detail marched over to
the depot to take the train Von llin
denburg accompanied it mid when
they boarded the car he sneaked in
without being noticed, hut was later
liscovered nnd put off. Again he
sneaked nhonrd mid once more he
was put off. Then tho train start
ed away nnd the faithful mascot
took up tho clinsc.
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The school board devoted the most
of Its session last night to mattors
preparatory to the opening of the
schools on Octobor 1. It was voted
to have the Janitors ot the school
buildings begin their year's duties
next Monday, and they will bo In
structed to have the buildings thor
oughly renovated uud clcanod by Oc
tobor 1.
The board, after hearing the de
tailed report of W. E. Phlpps, its sub
committee in chargo of procuring fuel
for heating tho buildings, unanimous
ly approved his action in ordering 150
tons of Gales Creek coal from Wash
ington, aftfr ho had investigated the
wood situation and could not obtain
fuel wood at a reasonable price. Sov
eral cars of this coal aro already en
route to Medford and It Is confidently
expected that all of It will bavo ar
rived and boon stored In the school
buildings long boforo October 1.
TURPIN FOUND GUILTY BY
JURY IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
GRANTS PASS, Ore., Sept. 12.
Ralph Turpln was found guilty Tues
day of murdering William McAllister,
a fcllow-worlyiian, at a mill near Sol
ma, Ore., on August 10 last. Tho
trial began in the morning, and the
Jury was only out 15 minutes. Tur
pln was on tho stand briefly, setting
up self-defenso as a motive, but tho
state presented four oyo witnesses.
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