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Florida Officials Hack From
to Buffalo.
Tallahassee, Qcc. 2.—Governor Jen
nings anaparty, who have been at Buf
falo and other northern points for three
weeks past, reached home yesterday.
The party went north primarily to ct
tend the Florida day exercises at the
Pan-American exposition on S,‘Pt. 12.
They were in Buffalo when President
McKinley died, and expressed personal
ly to those close to the martyred execu
tive the deep grief which the people of
Florida felt.
The return of the governor will be at
tended by tiie resumption of greater ac
tivicy in the administrative departments
at the stacehouse. Not that his absence
has occasioned any let down in the worn
of the several departments, but in Fior
ina most of the important worn of the
executive branen is transacted through
different boards, of each of which the
governor is president, and all or a por
tion of his cabinet are members. Among
these the most important are the boaru
of commissioners of state institutions,
the state board of education and the
board of trustees of the internal im
provement fund.
Condition of Florida Crops.
Tallahassee, Oct. 1.—The forthcom
ing issue of the monthly bulletin, pub
lished by the Florida department of ag
riculture, will give the following facts
relative to the condition of Florida crops,
as compared with same date last year:
Upland cotton, 80; sea island cotton, 80;
corn, 88; sugarcane, 92; field peas, 89;
rice, 94; sweet potatoes, 97; cassava, 109;
peanuts, 98; hay, 99; velvet beans, 106;
bananas, 9i; pineapples, 110; guavas, 96;
orange trees, 106; lemon trees, 96; lime
trees, 103; grapefruit trees, 108.
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CHAPTER I.
| IRE, a fresh dispatch.”
“Whence ?”
“From Tomsk.”
“Is the wire cut be
yond that city?”
“Yes, sire, since yes
terday.”
“Telegraph hourly to Tomsk, gener
al, and let me be kept, informed of all
- r? Tv-fcy
* He appear ed unoccupied, and there
was nothing suspicions in his conduct.”
“Then he was not under the surveil-
Negress Used a Knife.
Athens, Ga, Oct. 1. —It turns out
that Sam Gregory, the negro man who
came near bleeding to death Saturday
night, was not injured by falling against
a curbstone, as be said, but was cut
across the head with a dull kni-fe driven
with sufficient force to sever the arteries
in the right temple and bring him close
to death. He admitted that he was ent
by Emma Smith, a negro woman, but
refused to say why she did the cutting.
The woman was arrested.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor anil Coun
cil of the City of Waynesboio to issue bonds
to the amount of 140.U00 0U and to provide for
the payment of principal and interest of
same by local taxation for the purpose of
taking up and paying off same.
Said bonds to be issued for the purpose of
erecting an Electric Light aud ater Works
Plant or Plants and to purchase lots o-
which to erect the same and for othe pur
poses.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of the City
of Waynesboro authorizing and empoweri g
the Mayor and Council of said City to require
all property holders or owners in said city to
keep sidewalks adjacent to their respective
property pav d and in good condition and
giving said Mayor and Council authority to
repair sidewalks at the expense of property-
owners refusing to do sl
V, I. HEMSTREET 6 BRS,
March Plant. Enlarged.
DeLand, Fla., Sepc. 30.—Last year
the Seminole company harvested and
worked into starch a iitcle over 1,200
tons of cassava. This year they have a
promise of more than twice as much
and will haudle over 2,500 tons. They
have made many extensive improve
ments in their factory, and can handle
twice the quantity with only two or
three additional hands, and have put in
machinery that will extract a much
greater percentage of starch from the
roots.
Big Phosphate Ideal.
Ocala., Fla., Oct. 1. — The biggest
phosphate deal made in many years has
just been consummated here. The land
contains about 12.000 acres, and was
purchased by Ford & Hiiler. A spot
cash price oi' $15,000 was paid, and roy
alties are reserved. The property was
sold by Walter Roy aud D. A. dark,
aud was purchased by tnem for turpen
tine purposes. An examination showed
that the land is very rich in phosphate
deposits.
Arrested For Intimidating.
Tampa, Fla. Oct. 1.—Several Resis-
tencia men have been arrested by the
regular officers, charged with threaten
ing and intimidating those men who
want to go tc work. Some of them were
caught red-handed in their work. Tde
officers have secured the confidence of
the rank and file of the men, and when
they are threatened they walk right up
and make the complaint. There is a
steadv gain in the factories.
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Y.iung 3ian*s Shocking Death.
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Fortner, lost his life at the Electric
Phosphate company’s plant here. He
was oiling the washer, when the
“jumper” he was wearing caught in
the cog wheels and he was palled into
the machine, disemboweling him. Med
ical aid was summoned, but he died in
great agony four hours after the acci
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“Sire, it shall be done,” answered
General Kissoff.
These words were exchanged about
two hours after midnight, at the mo
ment when the fete given at the New
palace was at the height of its splen
dor.
An hour later General Kissoff, who
had just re-entered, quickly approached
his majesty.
“Well?” asked the latter abruptly, as
he had done the former time.
“Telegrams reach Tomsk no longer,
sire.”
“A courier this moment!” And, leav
ing the hail, his majesty entered a
large antechamber adjoining.
The czar had not so suddenly left tho
ballroom of the New palace when tho
fete he was giving to the civil and mili
tary authorities and principal people of
Moscow was at the height of its bril
liancy without ample cause, for he had
just received information that serious
events were taking place beyond the
frontiers of the Ural. It had become
evident that a formidable rebellion
threatened to wrest the Siberian prov
inces from the Russian crown.
Asiatic Russia, or Siberia, covers a
superficial area of 1,790,208 square
miles and contains nearly 2,000,000 of
Inhabitants. Extending from the Ural
mountains, which separate it from
Russia in Europe, to the shores of the
Pacific oceao, it is bounded on the
south by Turkestan and the Chinese
empire, on the north by the Arctic
ocean, from the sea of Kara to Be
ring strait. It is divided into several
governments or provinces, those of To
bolsk, Yeniseisk, Irkutsk, Omsk and
Yakutsk; contains two districts, Ok
hotsk aud Kamchatka, and possesses
two countries now under the Musco
vite dominion—that of the Kirghiz aud
that of the Tshowktshes.
Two governor generals represent the
supreme authority of the czar over this
vast country. One resided at Irkutsk,
the capital of western Siberia. The
river Tclionna, a tributary of the Yeni
sei, separates the two Siberias.
No rail yet furrows these wide plains,
some of which are in reality extremely
fertile. No iron ways lead from these
precious mines which make the Sibe
riau soil far richer below than above its
surface. The traveler journeys iu sum
mer in a kibiek or telga; in winter, in a
sledge.
An electric telegraph, with a single
wire more than 8,000 versts in length,
alone affords communication between
the western and eastern frontiers of
Siberia. On issuing from the Ural it
passes through Ekaterenhurg, Kasi
mov, Tionmen, Ishim, Omsk, Elamsk
Kalyvan, Tomsk, Ivrasuoiarsk, Nijni
Udinsk, Irkutsk, Verkne-Nertsc-kink,
Strelink, Albazine, Blagowstenks, Rad-
de, Orlomskaya, Alexandrewskoe and
Nikolaevsk, and 0 rubles aud 19 co
pecks are paid for every word sent
from one end to the other. From Irkutsk
there is a branch to Iviatka, on the
Mongolian frontier, and from thence,
for 30 copeeks a word, the post conveys
the dispatches to Peking in a fort
night.
It was this wire, extending from Eka
terenburg to Nikolaevsk, which bad
been cut, first beyond Tomsk and then
between Tomsk and Kalyvan.
This was the reason why the czar, to
the communication made to him for
the second time by General Kissoff,
had only answered by the words, “A
courier this moment!”
The czar had remained motionless at
the window for a few moments when
the door was again opened. The chief
of police appeared on the threshold.
“Enter, general,” said the czar brief
ly, “and tell me all you know of Ivan
Ogareff.”
“He is an extremely dangerous man,
sire,” replied the chief of police.
“He j-anked as colonel, did he not?”
- “Yes, sire.”
“Was he an intelligent officer?”
“Very intelligent, but a man whose
spirit it was impossible to subdue aud
possessing an ambition which stopped
at nothing. He soon became involved
in secret intrigues, and it was then that
he was degraded from his rank by his
highness the grand duke and exiled to
Siberia.”
“How long ago was that?”
“Two years since. Pardoned after
six months of exile by your majesty’s
favor, he returned to Russia.”
“And since that time has he not re
visited Siberia?”
“Yes, sire, but he voluntarily return
ed there,” replied the chief of police,
adding and slightly lowering his voice,
“There was a time, sire, when none re
turned from Siberia.”
“Well, while I live Siberia is and
shall be a country whence men can re
turn.”
The czar had the right to utter these
.words with some pride, for often by his
clemency be had shown that Russian
justice knew bow to pardon.
Did not Ivan Ogareff,” asked the
czar, “return to Russia a^second time
after that journey througli the Siberian
lanc-e of the secret police ?
“No, sire.”
“When did he leave Perm?”
“About the month cf March.”
“To go”—
“Where is unknown.”
“And since that time it is not known
what has become of him?”
“No, sire, it is net known.”
“Well, then, I myself know,” -answer
ed the czar. “I have received anony
mous communications which did not
pass through the police department,
and in the face of events now taking
place beyond the frontier I have every
reason to believe that they are correct.”
“Do you mean, sire,” cried the chief
of police, “that Ivan Ogareff has a hand
in this Tartar rebellion?”
“Indeed I do, and I will now tell you
something which you are ignorant of.
After leaving Perm Ivan Ogareff cross
ed the Ural mountains, entered Siberia
and penetrated the Kirghiz steppes and
there endeavored, not without success,
to foment rebellion among their no
madic population. He then went so far
south as free Turkestan. There in the
provinces of Bokhara, Khokhand and
Ivoondooz he found chiefs willing to
pour their Tartar hordes into Siberia
and execute a general rising in Asiatic
Russia. The storm has been silently
gathering, but it has at last burst like
a thunderclap, and now all means of
communication between eastern and
western Siberia have been stopped.
Moreover, Ivan Ogareff, thirsting for
vengeance, aims at the life of my
brother!”
The czar had become excited while
speaking aud now paced up and down
with hurried steps. The chief of police
said nothing, but he thought to him
self that during the time when the em
peror of Russia never pardoned an ex
ile schemes such as those of Ivan Oga
reff could never have been realized.
A few moments passed, during which
he was silent, then, approaching the
ezar, who had thrown himseif into an
armchair, he said:
“Your majesty has of course given
orders that this rebellion may be sup
pressed as soon as possible?”
“Yes,” answered the czar. “The iast
telegram which was able to reach Nij
ni Udinsk would set in motion the
troops in the governments of Yenisei,
Irkutsk, Yatutsk, as well as those in
the provinces of the Amur and Lake
Baikal. At the same lime the regi
ments from Perm and Nijni Novgorod,
and the Cossacks from the frontier are
advancing by forced marches toward
the Ural mountains. But unfortunately
some weeks must pass before they cau
attack the Tartars.”
“And your majesty’s brother, his
highness the grand duke, is now isolat
ed in the government of Irkutsk and is
no longer in direct communication with
Moscow?”
“That is so.”
“But by the last dispatches he must
know what measures have been taken
by your majesty and what help he may
expect from the governments nearest
to that of Irkutsk?”
“He knows that,” answered the czar,
“but wliat he doc-s not know Is that
Ivan Ogareff, as well as being a rebel,
js also playing the part of a traitor and
that in him he has a personal and bit
ter enemy. It is to the grand duke that
Ivan Ogareff owes his first disgrace,
and what Is more serious is that this
man is not known to him. Ivan Oga-
reff's plan, therefore, Is to go to Irkutsk
aud under an assumed name offer his
services to the grand duke. Then, aft
er gaining Ids confidence, when the
Tartars have invested Irkutsk, he will
betray the town and with it my broth
er, whose life is directly threatened.
This is what I have learned from my
secret intelligence, this is what the
grand duke does not know and th/s is
what he must know!”
“Well, sire, an intelligent, courageous
courier”—
“1 momentarily expect one.”
“And it is tc be hoped he will be ex
peditious,” added the chief of police,
“for allow me to add. sire, that Siberia
is a favorable land for rebellious.”
All communication was interrupted
Had the wires between Kalyvan and
Tomsk been cut by Tartar scouts, or
bad the emir himself arrived in the
Yeniseisk provinces? Was all the low
er part of western Siberia in a fer
ment? Had the rebellion already
spread to the eastern regions? No one
could say. The only agent which fears
neither cold nor heat, which can nei
ther be stopped by the rigors of winter
nor the heat of summer and which flies
with the rapidity cf iTghtning—the elec
tric current—was prevented from trav
ersing the steppes, and it was no longer
possible to warn the grand duke, shut
up in Irkutsk, of the danger threaten
ing him from the treason of Ivan Oga
reff.
A courier only could supply the place
of the interrupted electric current. It
would take this man some time to
traverse the 5,200 versts between Mos
cow and Irkutsk. To pass the ranks of
the rebels and invaders he must dis
play almost superhuman courage and
intelligence. But with a clear head and
a firm heart much can be done.
Shall I be able to find this head and
heart?” thought the czar.
piled General Kissoff.
“Have you found a fitting man?”
“I will answer lor him to your majesr
ty.”
“Has he been in the service of the
palace?”
“Yes, sire.”
“You know him?”
“Personally, and at various times he
has fulfilled difficult missions with suc
cess.”
“Abroad?”
“In Siberia itself.”
“Where does he come from?”
“From Omsk. He is a Siberian.”
“Has be coolness, intelligence, cour
age?”
“Yes, sire; be has all the qualities
necessary to succeed even where others
might possibly fail.”
“What is hi3 age?”
“Thirty.”
“Is he strong and vigorous?”
“Sire, he can bear cold, hunger, thirst,
fatigue, to the very last extremities.”
“He must have a frame of iron."
“Sire, lie has.”
“And a heart?”
“A heart of gold.” .. .
“His name?”
“Michael Strogoff.”
“Is he ready to set out?”
“He awaits your majesty’s orders in
the guardroom.”
“Let him come in,” said the czar.
In a few minutes Michael Strogoff,
the courier, entered the imperial li
brary.
The czar fixed a penetrating look
upon him without uttering a word,
while Michael stood perfectly motion
less.
Michael Strogoff was a tall, vigorous,
broad shouldered, deep chested man.
Ilis powerful head possessed the fine
features of the Caucasian race. His
well knit frame seemed built for the
performance of feats of strength. It
would have been a difficult task to
move such a man against his will, for
when his feet were once planted on the
ground it was as if they had taken root.
As he doffed his Muscovite cap locks
of thick curly hair fell over his broad,
massive forehead. When his ordinari
ly pale face became at all flushed, it
arose solely from a more rapid action
of the heart, under the influence of a
quicker circulation. His eyes of a deep
blue looked with a clear, frank, firm
gaze.
The slightly contracted eyebrows in
dicated lofty heroism—“the hero’s cool
courage,” according to the definition of
the physiologist. He possessed a tine-
nose, with large nostrils, and a well
shaped mouth, with the slightly pro
jecting lips which denote a generous
aud noble heart.
Michael Strogoff had the tempera
ment of a man of action, who docs not
bite his nails or scratch his head in
doubt and indecision. Sparing of ges
tures as of words, he always stood mo
tionless like a soldier before his supe
rior, but when he moved his step show
ed a firmness, a freedom of movement,
which proved the confidence and vivac
ity of his mind.
Michael Strogoff wore a handsome
military uniform, something resembling
that of a light cavalry officer in the
field—boots, spurs, half tightly fitting
trousers, brown pelisse, trimmed with
fur and ornamented with yellow braid.
On his breast glittered a cross and
medals.
Michael Strogoff belonged to the spe
cial corps of the czar’s couriers, rank
ing as an officer among those picked
men. His most discernible character
istic—particularly in his walk, his face,
in the whole man, and which the czar
perceived at a glance—was that lie was
a “fulliller of orders.” He therefore
possessed one of the most serviceable
qualities in Russia—one which the cele
brated novelist Turgeneff says “will
lead to the highest positions in the
Muscovite empire.”
In short, if any one could accomplish
this journey from Moscow to Irkutsk
across the rebellious country, surmount
obstacles and brave perils of all sorts,
Michael Strogoff was the man.
A circumstance especially favorable
to the success of his plans was that he
was thoroughly acquainted with the
country which he was about to trav
erse aud understood its different dia
lects, not only from having traveled
there before, but because he was of
Siberian origin.
When he was fourteen, Michael Stro
goff had killed his first bear quite
alone. That was nothing. But after
stripping it he dragged the gigantic
animal’s skin to his father’s house,
many versts distant, thus exhibiting
remarkable strength in a boy so young.
Gifted with marvelous acuteness,
when every object was hidden in mist
or even in higher latitudes, where the
polar night is prolonged for many days,
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“He did.”
“And have the police lost trace
him since?”
“No, sire.”
“Where was Ivan Ogareff last heard
of?”
“In the province of Perm,”
“In what town?”
“At Perm itself.”
“What was he doing?”
CHAPTER II.
HE door of the imperial
cabinet was again open
ed, and General Kissoff
was announced.
“The courier?” inquir
ed the czar eagerly.
“He is here, sire.” re-
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