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Show NSNG VOL. OGDEN 188 IV-- NQ. CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY EXAMINER JULY MORNING, 7, Pages 9 to 16 PRICE FIVE 1907. Polish Town Turned Into a Shambles by Wholesale CITY OF LODZ, FORMERLY KNOWN AS T1IE "l'OLlSlI MANC11ESTEK," HAS KEEN KETIIRISTENED "THE FLOOD STAINED DEADLY FEUD RETWEEN -- SOCIALISTIC" AND TRATED THERE WITHIN THE LAST TWELVEMONTH TI-SOC1AL1STICT CENTS Assassinations OWING TO THE COUNTLESS MURDERS AND OUTRAGES PERPEWORKMEN HAS RESULTED IN SUCH HORRORS AS HAVE NOT KEEN WITNESSED SINCE THE DAYS OF THE TERROR IN FRANCE. termined to organize a general strike on the same lines uf that of the preceding antumn. The workmen, remembering the horrors of the last strike, were as determined that no repetition should take place and refused io leave their work. So the strike failed. There were smalt ones here and there, but many facnot is shambles. It a to center tories, even In Lodz, were kept at exaggeration to say that no man Is full work. The Socialists swore they be be Russian, Jew, safe here, never would forgive their opponents workman or government official. and passed sentences of death against The streets are more dangerous than them; they have bees passing them wen those of Paris during the Reign ever since, with the addition that the In fact, of Terror. Bo regardless. tired of being murhive the inhabitants become of the dered wholesale, pass sentences, too. value of human life that moat of the Happily, this awful feud is chiefly gieat mill owners, cotton t pinners confined to Lods, where the Socialistic have leaving manufacturers fled, and element always has been strong, and their splendid residences a prey to where the population is almost entirein who take savage delight the mob, otherwise the state of industrial; ly lifetime. a work of destroying the of Poland would be unthe kingdom a not is This time, moreover, it uuuas-sintheir bearable for aay bnt hardens cam of employers men and suffering' the consequences, anil Socialist When a sor of brutal Cossacks persecuting man who baa waged war against a The it c liens. responsibility peaceful goes out, he is escorted for Lodi lies with the Polish work- the assassins by a bodyguard of friends, who hold men themeelves, who keep up a conHa tinual bloody feud, murdering all who their revolvers in their hands. dare not' enter a car alone, for the do nut think with them, torturing women and children because they refuse chances are ten to one that the passengers he finds In It are In the pay to tell their husbands' and fathers secrets and lynching those who dare of his enemies and ready to murder A man to speak against the present terrible him at the first opportunity. state of things. Every day and many who dares to put en end to a strike times a day funerals are to he seen by arranging conditio ns of work or wending their way toward the ceme-terie- e puy with the foreman and managers funerals of victims who have is sure to be shot nt, and the wonder been shot for nothing worse than in that men are to be found who will risk their lives at such dangerous their political opinions. Even the mourners run the risk work. The Socialists method is very simof being fired upon by the dead man'a They possess a committee, enemies; so his friends surround his ple. revolvers In hand, known as the Black Band, whose loaded coffin, whole duty Is to pass and execute ready to shoot at any one who attempt to rush it If they do not death sentences upon their pulltlcal take these precautions, so terrtblf enemies. They have their spies in all the factories and workshops; they hsi the hatred between the Socialists and the (patriots) - be- also receive letters of denunciation, come, that tbe dead mans political which they left at a certain low potThe Black Band meets at enemies would seise the coffin, break house. two or vsrious other low it open and drag away the corpse tbe errs of tbe bereaved relat- three times a wreck. The place of ives. Shots are fired on the procesmeeting always Is being changed, sions in the churchyard while the i nd bo well is the secret kept that priests are saying the prayers, for the police, in spite of several raids, the dead; the ambulance is as well liavt not been able to catch the One of the accomknown at Lods funerals as the hearse. ers . Tbe things which happen here read panying Illustrations shows one of aum like hidopua tales of the. fierce tqeir old haunts, which waa fired at middle age than the annals of a Eu- and finally entered by a patrol. But ropean city in the twentieth century. the birds had flown into the darkness So rhrnnlc have scenes of butchery of the night and avenged themselves the.- - poHoemaq .who .become that the Palish newspapers by shooting have set aside s separate column for headed the raid- reports from this unhappy, town, perSuppose that A., a mill hand, la Copyright la the rnlted States and Great Britain by Curtta Brown, All Rights Strictly Reserved. Lodz. Poland; June 25. This city of Lodz, so often called the Man Chester of Poland, has changed within the last twelve months from a prosperous manufacturing center to a n Ooa-iac- k, s. well-know- n be-fo- ra kit ply with the request either because A. is a good workman or because the foreman objects to interference. Then A.'s" days are numbered. His name comes once more before tbe committee and he Is sentenced to drath for daring to rebel against the Black Band. Tbe Black Band ia worked In with a kantor, or office, where those who know the ropes can hire ruffians to murder their enemies, at prices ranging from 2 to 10, according to the social status of the victims and the time is taken to entrap them to a suitable plot for murder. This kantor supplies tbe men to kill poor A." Being a workman, be ia easy to get at. He must walk to and from bis work every day and the lucks of his wretched lodging are none too secure. It is open secret that the murder of such a man does not cost more than a couple of dollars, while a doctor or a lawyer can be removed for f 10. If A. haa armed friends to guard him on his way to and from work the ruffians will go lo his lodging. Ho ia at his dinner or supper, surrounded by his wife and family; a loud knock ia heard at the door. He asks who Is there. A voice cries in Russian: Its the police! He obeys. Open! Two or three hirelings of the Black Hand fall upon him, shoot at him till they are satisfied that he la dead, and after firing the rest of their bullets into the walls make off again. Nobody in the building dares go to see why such screams are coming from A.a" room, for the fear of terrorists exceeds any feelings of The ruffians walk down the common staircase in broad daylight and coolly disperse in the street, to meet again liter In' the day and get in u their blood-mone- . y the from Black A.'s" case Is that of hundreda of honest working men who have perished In Lodx durlhg the' last year so and still are perishing dally. ir Even when he is dead the Black Band haa not .vented all Ha hatred ardent upon him. If be hia been aneven let they will not the body rest In pence. It ia torn out of the grave and thrown on the the Lods ground hard by. Bodies in desecrated cemeteries bars been thus three times. HU a military guard baa been set by tbe grave to prevent a scenes. repetition of such hldsoua Sometimes the bodies disappear Bond .esilr th, fellow what has become of rflthm. Often it happens that a man whom Hand. antl-Soctali- alto-flfrthE- t4 at by order of the Black Band, be- death awaited him in any care and to China itself. The press is clamor- harm to the town, for that lies at tha cause they voted against a si rile at choosing the less horrible, jumped ing tbai the government shall turn tbe head nf a creek three miles inland. a workmen's meeting. Th.y were both from the roof. But he foil onto the Chinese out, but it will be an awk- Midi 1 the headquarters of the tug, wounded. Blacha seriously, ern slave trade. and crowd below, who, without exactly ward business. This Is not the first time that AusMlchta lightly, and token by a patrol knowing why, began to tear him limb Another city of similar nature, but to the hospital. Blacha had to be form limb. When his pursuers called tralian have been startled by a dis- even more inaccessible indeed, not from roof were of the to kind. stone Six or him, seven similar half a dozen Europeans have ever they covery chloroiormed, and after the operation waa carritd Into ward Nu. 9. Mlchta obeyed, and by the time the military years ago a party of gold miners exseen II ia Asiat, the caplial of hud ambulance and tbe all arrived had been put into ward No. 7, and feelploring la the deem far beyond the savage Moslem fanatics, the SeniiwL ing fairly well one eveulug, put on a that roidalned of the victim was a Leopard range happened on a tribe of The oasis, In the center of which nis aud went to mangled, bleeding mass which could Marks of a very different type, from city Mrs, to reported to be ae large aa hospital dressing-goe- s nee how his friend Blacha was get- not be reougnisrd ae Koperek even by the ordinary Australian aborigines. Essex, surprisingly fertile and well ting on. They were chatting together his own family, and It waa not until They were taller and better built, they watered, and Bear it lies another oasis when a band of men rushed Into the the passport had been taken from hia were clean In their habits. They offer- relied Nejlto. Those two support near ed the travelers fruit and goat' ntiik, Itr half a million people who, protected ' ward, went straight to Blacha's bed pocket that thex knew who It wau. Often the wrong man lu ths victim. and had a distinct civilisation of their from all incursion by hundreda and killed him with six or seven reof miles of biasing waterless desert, are volver shots. Mlchta, who stood by An old msn named Pllatowski waa own. shot there Mast of his instead son, though wonderful, for the Australian arming and drilling to head a huge Jepetrified with fear, heard them aay, waa about thlrtv years' difference in hlarkfellow never has settled habita- had or holy wer against the infidel Now let's go to ward No. 7 and polish off that rogue Mlchta. Happily thev their ages, and the father had a white tion; this tribe bad a tews built of powers of the north. did not recognise him in his baudagre beard, while the son wears a black wood and May, clustering Japan, thickly populated ss her Isand dressing-gown- , tud ran off to his mustache. Tbs next day a young fel- round a sort of temple. They kept Sat- lands are, has a tows which to almost ward, while be hid under his dead low named Jan Kracteewskl was killed urday as a holiday and, is the opin- unknown to people living only a few friends bed till the hospital waa rid Instead of his brother, who had passed ion of their dieouverera, ahowad traces milee away.. This to a little place of of hia wculd-bmurd.rers. They ex- the scene of the murder half an hour of having at one time been instructed 2.000 Inhabitants, acme thirty miles than usual. Both Socialists in the Jewish religion. Naturally, tt north from the city of Konasiiio. The pressed great surprise at not finding sooner mak these mis- waa suggested that they were tbe town lie in a huge pit, which to loth-in- g Mirhta in ward No. 7. and looked un- and else but the crater of an extiaoh der all the beds in the room. Then takes They often publish the names remnants uf ths Lost Ten Tribes. Hidden for a Thousand Veers. volcano. All around lower cliffs of MO they lift, promising to come another of their victims in the local papers, There are other cKies, too, whose to ljflOO feet high, and there the viltime. And they did not tall to nack giving details of the murder and tbe waa hiddea from civilisation lages rest. a few Jukes with the ether patients, reasons for passing the death sen- existence as if they had come on a natural and tences. Keen bombs are resorted to until recently. THE WATCHFUL WIFE. Only the other day a fit Petersburg by the though their praiseworthy errand. have announced that, deep la the forTheir conduct waa the more daring enemies a thisnot yet followed their paper est of Ural, had bees discovered a The agent stepped briskly ap to respect because the hospital stands between example the Cossacks' barracks and a prison, which is guarded by a strong patrol. Mlchta was Immediately removed to the prison hospital, and begs to be allowed to rtoy there, aa he goes out. His friends ere trying to get him over the frontier, and thence to America; but his wife and family will have to be left behind for want of funds. Very often the TrrortMs try a man offhand and shoot Mm then and there, the following incident being characteristic:. Edward Grajnert, a board school teacher, had done all he could to put down Socialism among bla pupils. The Socialists warmed him once or twice, but he dared them to do their worst. One night, as be waa going home from his betrothed, several youths fell uopn him, dragged him to a lonely spot near a disused mill, where their were awaiting them. They went throuflh a mock trial, in which some witnesses' declared that ha had worked against the cause'' and he waa aeatonced to oeath. Hia cries brought a patrol to the upnt; but not before one of he ' Judges" had morwBy wounded him. Tbe prirof flrto w toiler and killed a man who waa recognised aa one Oroebel, n notorious bandit, with more than one murder to his record. Murderer and victim died before the ambulance reached them and, of course, the other ruffians escaped. Orobel'a body was seised the police and taken to their mortuary, which is attached to the military haapItnL But the UHBM THE Ml'BDRRI VERB PUIIBD. .who have learned to avenge n u Dnu SMtawm tsms rsim tr u reuse bm rt me wumi Hu a Ms rownr Mat ro4 their the their comrades following . Ran . Haro Ratnva1 t'aa Plaaa to Ra .RfrynaS, Slaea Tkat Tlaw, Uawtr, tka Weis CaufM. buildenemies' example, catered the of Mr, Howard's desk aoJ laid a small One man, a butcher by trade, dis- flourl riling cily, the Inhabitant ing In some mysterious way and snatched It the night before the missed a refractory boy. Next morn- which speak a lanauagc of their own, article down clow to hia busy right I foileral was to have taken place. ing, when Ms non was aweiping out and form a sort of ideal oomraon-woalihand. "I have here a new letter opener," It was found terribly mutilated on the ahop, be picked up a queer hulkThey had never paid taxes a rubbish heap not far from the ing piece of piping which toy Just and knew very Hula of what went on he said, "a handsome article, la bo scene of Grajneri'a murder. Thus j inutile the dor. He was shout to In tbe great world about them. put oa tha table la yonr, library, " , one act of savagery la followed by throw Jt away, when ble father called This story may or may not be trna, and "I bava tbe beat latter opener and another, till both sides have become j to him to leave It alone.' Tbe warn- - but It to beyond all doubt that British inhuman In their cruelty, and eaem Ing waa timely, for when the police officer trawling In Arabia some years the quickest, Interrupted Mr. How-to vie with each other In finding came past the butcher showed It to ago "discovered a town which, except ard. wit bout turning hta brad. "How long have you had itr par--. out some new revenge. Grajneri'a i them and learned that It was a bomb, lo the surrounding tribes, waa preYou know there the agent. slated to case Is common enough ; though gen-- 1 very strongly charged with s new which viously unknown. The place, are constant improvements." the murderrrs get off scot free. I plosive, easy enough to get at the called Sberalii, to situated na the sum"There's no need for Improving so afraid are the police of being killed chemical factory where the dismissed mit of a great rock plateau, la tha I brother worked. But since for. heart of the Green mounlalns, and Is mine, responded the writer. I'vo( boys by order of the Black Band. anr i The mere recital nf these daily hop- - j bids giving more than a mere shetrh cut off from the surrounding country bad her about two 1 Youth's month." Compao-next One week of the horrors to which the popul- by enormous, perpendicular cliff Its conies rors would fill volumes. I ate Socialists have their orgies nf (Ion of Lods have grown callous ami people are lighter in color than thoas Ion. this which scenes and of If in of tha Arabs disgrace and daily the post.! below, wounding. plains blood, killing Polish Manchester. INSISTED ON LIGHT, absolutely refune to mix or In terms Me, the same number of victims as VOLKHOVBKT. the scenes SERGIUS with Some these. of their eneiples. And you will have gas, ma'amf which have disgraced Lods are almost Their discoverers found that they the dentist, na a stout, ! bad an Incredible. The of were Inquired survivors of tbe descendants CITIES IN HIOIHC. . ; active leader. Koperek by name, a Persian army whfrb invaded Oman Jerly woman entered hia office. "Wall," she replied, with a doubtwh& had been on the Killing Comnearly a thousand years ago. ' ful glance at the doctor, ."yon donX mittee for some months. A fellow Towns Not Marked en Any Map. Some of these little known cities suppose I'm going to let you tinker workman betrayed him and he wan to other nf contain the germg danger Pearson's Weekly: Australians are In the dark, do youT" Exshadowed. But he always had" a countries. - There is, for Instance, a sliout ms strong guard, and It was some time most anxious to keep their continent town called Midi on the Arabian shore change. before they could get hia with only exclusively for white nettle rs, and for of the Red saa, which hardly find a DIDN'T FOLLOW IT, one friend. That dav came, however, that mason have passed various law place on any chart. Yet Us sheik, who and hia enemies followed them from prohibiting the landing of Asiatics, es- does not recognise the Turkish govDr,' Snodgrass Well, Blnks, you're the mill to within a short distance pecially Chinese: Bo It has come a a ernment, esn call together 200, U00 Of of bla house. Koperek began to get severe shock to the advocates of a fighting men, most of them armed looking much better already. nervous and ullpped Into a hotie, white Australian, that Mr. Hansford, with modern rifles. Terrible fighters courae, you followed jay prescrtptlrat. I had, doctor, 1 wouldnt i hoping to escape by the roof. Hie a Melbourne gentleman, who has been they are, too, and some of the worst be Inks Ifas well aa 1 da feeling him get exploring la northern Queensland, has scoundrel on earth, pirates, slavers, pursuers saw hia trick, let Dr. Snodgrass Sir! on to the roof, which he did bv means discovered a large town of Chinamen and contraband traders. Blnka No; ft fall out of the third-stor- y of a chimney, and followed him. on tbe shores of the gulf of Carpen. Tha Home of the Slave Trade. window. Chicago Neva A wild chase followed, Koperek taria. The channel leading into the port of . aa if shipwrecked This bo colony crawling over the slanting roofs A LAY OF THE K0AD. . of Midi is three and a half aides long, well aa he could and the others pur- sailors, but a great settlement contain- twisty, narrow, and almost impassable men thousand or four yellow suing. But they were six .to one, ing three for anything larger than dhows. The Tha saddest words of tongue or pear and surrounded him. By this time a who live along the river flats and inner stretches are guarded by canMy sparker fails to spark again. large crowd had collected In the grow opium, which apparently they non. Even If a warship did get In and Chicago Record-Heralstreet below. Koperek, knowing that ship, duty free, to the Philippines and hammer the forts aha could do. little i sun-drie- e a . nkiim are-HM- tm i . J - years-nnivera- ! p--y . . , ' Uk-ta-l SHU, Us Mi TUB "BLACK BARD. ia Ksnisr Is Biep'tsl WarA ho Waaaa Is Us Fletwt Is A KAR WHO BCAPD! SachUits Attaawtfl Kt CMSMewrfu'Jr, UnusNsI Rotas IhliM hr MSlota. ' headed Lods," Bloody Bloodstained Lods. and The Reign of Terror in Lods. according to the of their respective editors. J The world at large on hearing of nil of this naturally will ask how such tote of terrorism and murder came about. It may be said, then, that the first fault lay with the Socialists, ttanently ho began killing their compatriots w year or so ago. Daring the month of January, 1906, they de- - not of the same terroristic opinions as the other men in his shed; that he .la against murders and strike and refuses to Join the Socialists. One of Ms comrades denounces him to the Black Band. His case is not considered bad enough for death, ao a delegation or perhaps a letter ia sent to the foreman demanding Out he be dismissed et once and replaced by a Socialist, whose name b given. Suppose the foreman refuses to com- - Photo it ths roar at Ik kins. they have shot at and wounded In tbs street la taken to the hospital by an Intrepid policeman or a passing patrol and In that care the Black Baad sends its ruffians to" finish their work st bu bedside. It Is not often that such a victim gets off as easily ss one lflchael Mlchta did the other day. for only a lucky chance saved hia life while in hospital. .. He and hie friend. Andrew Blacha were shot both strong ' ts ! - ' THE RAINCOAT u first Nellie hesitated her Hat. She., .had . pokes to Charlie King weeks, and here woe stood well at the top Of ' 1 At Womans guild not path again. for his her pondered If Mrs. Grace had placed him on her sesign- Ut Pebered that eke never and could, not have 77, r nnor to? "J fo therether deaf the break. face King than Mrs.. Grace her reasons for not wanting to go. The t1- he folded pPto and left the guild .J11,' believed :n getting unpleas- threM "r,th quickly, so Ji11! hs -her first call on King. He prang up aa ahe entered hto office her..-w- "'L 0t ,5 . nt me to said, half defiantly, as she forhpasfV "P' U,ta.T,!t7 ntod. pleasantly. "The to oh the charity war- "Ten were the youag eld tM I thought that you might be bet- you call la sweat charitys name, sad It at once. ssean." waa Inlerasled la," hi sail I I sorry !m "But I da at said. me "I home, he thought begins . charity call advise ter able to Institution they "Thats the "Than dafsrent, eh smi'eA "It was Just thin ha laughed. radiantly. the Old Maids Horn Isnt tt? he should scarcely care to go to Mrs. perhaps you might Hites to tbe to not cars the did receive to refused said "You you yau Grace, for instanre. ashed. a nuu who flirted with roar "Some people call It thaL aha Nellie sniffed scornfully, hut mods other night." rao act maid nod that you had eeea me walk"There to no peeeible explanation. I no reply, and King went on. admitted. c HAJtsr Ten wouldn't adwamriss Marie. with declared. ing ha fair are came you la. dont think that quits Then I'm very glad you that recognised that book. mit you only check for reached hto Indeed you King I am very much to me, ha pleaded. he said cordially. enat anr Xing fid ward Kf Qureu Alexandra fair. Taka the "There to every possible explana- somewhat apcetnculur 'rata never seem an old maid. f ni needed va interested ia quite instance." 'Probably we could get her Into other night, fdr "I dont care to discus tbe other the home, ehe suggested. "It costs about 9100 a year for each guest night, thank you, h said, eoldly. 1 VI dont blame yoc. he argued. "Is there an age limit? he asked Tou see this old maid don't like to think about tt myself. Interestedly- But at the earn dree, slice this Is of mine s rather' youngI have had a 'There to no ago limit she ad- the first time mitted, bnt a young woman able to chance to apeak' "I am hen ss a messenger from earn her own living would shut out Mrs. Grace, shs reminded, "not for some more worthy applicant Bnt I don't know that I should myself." "I onieretand, he agreed, "bnt at care to hc.ve her la tha home. Ia that; event, ehe said coldly, tha name time. Blare I am going to KELLIS. "I don't see where I can advise you. give you a check In a moment yon "We are trying to raise money for I I m not eccuetomed to advising might listen. You mean to purchase my tims? the Home for Friendless Women, men regarding young or old maids." she explained. "The home to In very King smiled at tha vicious em- she demanded, hotly-"Not ai all." hs denied, "hut bad shape financially. Kesay to phasis oa the "faun - - " . cm mihtfn 1 tion. said King, quietly, as hs took up hto pen. KolUe watched him write out the check sad gasped as aha saw the figure. King passed tt to her. "That will keep eae old maid for five yean or five of them for one year." Its awful good of you, she said Impulsively, and after I wee so horrid. tea He made a deprecatory gesture. My best regards to tbe old maids, be said, aa hs rase to escort her to the door. "But you havent told me that exyet. eh reminded. planation -Tot said pan did not care about permit me to captain that I had presented tt to my "And it wau Thonouf rira gypad. King sodded. "Ho gives me to understand that they are to be married after fierier. At oae time their matrimonial plana appeared to have life advanUgea. She took a step toward him; then suddenly frone. "In vipw of your think nho said coldly, gsnsrosity we eaa take care of your young old maid." I want to maks that private affair, he esld with a emlla. T don't think you would care to make your heme with them." "If aka asked, pnmlodi 1 their affection Per ttadr hordes la a estteue way. Wbet, a favorite lies is hoefh are cut off aad pcllrhod and the horaak' Race hi tewribed on sash hoof. Tito ore Stored to a row in oae tt the harness rmias at Show SandriBghnaa 6n the well above are photographs vt prints of Jis owner of the hoofs. Thrir majctclea ! their favorite dirt at well aa thsl favorito tarsrA Apumst a wj;. st the bee nt arer residence at To may be wen a tha memory if tor old filter. -- Sajd-rtagha- Ten mtmmrt wort (Mil. yet popular "t fcT ' '? reyl.njr |