Ogden Sun | 1905-09-19 | Page 5 | Strike in Caucasus is Ended

STRIKE IN CAUCASUS IS ENDED tiflis sept 15 the strike la at an end and normal life has been resumed the viceroy today issued a long proclamation la to the inhabitants 0 the caucasus on the events in which he describes as the subversive nork of tha secret societies and groups who are endeavoring to change the existing state of things by illegal strife the proclamation to the organization of a state douma which it says will remove the existing causes for the secret societies and calls on the populace to assist in tae of the country firing still goes on st 5 A private dispatch says there was firing last night at various points in the baku district and there were many skirmishes resulting in considerable loss ot life the situation the dispatch says is alarming and there is great uneasiness among the tartars Tar tars alvo battalions ot infantry a battery ot artillery of cossacks have been cossacks have also eisent be to shulah ery where encounters between the tartars and armenians Armen ians are eared A prominent journalist of baku has been killed by tartars Tar tars who are conducting a crusade against newspaper men the oil men here have received information that the insurgents threaten to kill the operatives when they resume work aud to burn the works now in course of reconstruction