Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 2

PAGE TWO . THE BEMi]}Jl DAILY PIONEER 2,000 MURDERED - BY BOLSHEVIK! U. S. Red Cross Agents Tell of Reds’ Atrocities in Siberia. DIG OWN PITS; BURIED ALIVE Murders Were Without Provocation and the Victims Were Largely of Thrifty or Intelligent Classes oc Servants of Church, Omsk.—Indisputable evidence of the massacre by the bolsheviki of more than 2,000 clvillans-in and near. the town of Osa has been obtained by Messrs, Simmonds and Emerson and Dr. Rudoiph Teusler of the” American Red Cross, who have just returned from Perm, Osa and other re-occupled Russian territory. Approximately 500 Ppersons were killed at Osa and 1,600 in the surrounding districts, Osa, which had a population of 10, 000, was so denuded of males by the bolsheviki that General Casagrande, wupon the occupation of the town, was obliged to telegraph to Ekaterinburg for men to administer clvic affairs, Dogs Dig Up Bodies. In addition to securing verbal and documentary evidence the American Red Cross officials witnessed the ex- huming of scores of victims from trenches, where they were burled ometimes several deep In graves re- Vealed by the digging of dogs. The murders were without provoca- tion, and the victims were largely of the thrifty and Intelligent classes or servants of the church, which latter it was the announced intention of the bolsheviki to exterminate. The evidence discloses almost un- thinkable atrocities. A blacksmith, by economies, had attained a shop: He was required to pay 5,000 rubles; be- eause he could not, he was shot. A wman was shot beiause he lived In a brick house. All attorneys and jurists were killed, and doctors, whose serv- ices were not required for the moment, were disposed of in a similar manner. __A woman whose husband and two i sons had been selzed applied fo the | force and that romance Bloomed, lil] commissar for {nformation as to their| France In spite of war's alarms is fate, She was told they had been shown by the fact that more than 6.000 taken to Perm. After repeating her | French women have been wooed and visit several times she yas informed that if she bothered tlhie commissar again she would be shot, as they had been. The body of a woman was exhumed and identified In the presence of the Americans as the wife of a general through jewels gewed in the lining of her clothing, of which relatives were aware. Another woman was compelled to fetch a lamp and gaze upon ber murdered sons for the amusement of the slayers. A wife required to pay 1,000 rubles for the release of her husband bor- rowed 800 and pald it over; later she returned .with the remainder, and then was Informed that her husband had been shot. There were scores of simi- lar cases. All were killed without any form of trial g Victims Dig Own Graves. The soviet called a meeting and pre- pared lists of those to die. The houses proscribed were visited by squads, the doors were smashed in, and the vie- tims dragged to the edge of the town and forced to dig their own graves. Those who resisted were ehot in the streets, | A survivor testified that he had seen men thrown into a pit and burled alive. This testimony has been con- firmed by bodles exhumed, the clenched hands of which were clinging to the mud at the bottom of the pit. The only spark of humanity discov- able was that In confiscating the be- longings of the residents. In some in- stances where there was & family of small children, the family was permit- ted to retain one cow out of several. _Occasionally a peasant was allowed to keep his worst horse. The bolshevik attitude toward the church was uncompromising. * Priests were hunted unmercifully. The evi- dence showed that men were slain whose only offense was that they worked as sextons or caretakers of churches, CUPID BUSY DURING WAR 8ix Thousand French Women Were Wooed and Won by Vanf: In - One ‘Year. Paris, France—That Cupid was nearly as busy as Mars with the mem- bhers of the American exneditionary NI 5 SR R X AT | much as it has long heen a popular won by American soldiers within one yveor. The majority of the French girls who have become Americans through marrying ‘American ' officers and men are stenographers, salesgirls, teachers. and a sprinkling of peasant girls and those of the middle class or bourgeoisie. The romances are in most cases very similar, Recently Brought From Peru by Mem- ' bers of the Yale Geographic Expedition. A new and important breakfast food plant has been fetched from Peru by the Yale geographic expedition. It ylelds a product declared to be quite equal to oatmeal. - The plant in ques- tion i3 a cultivated pig-weed, and an- clently was one of ‘the two prinecipal grain producing crops of the Incas. Today “in Peru it is chiefly used for the mapufacture of “chicha,” a native beer. From a valley high up in the Peruvian Andes the expedition obtained a new and remarkable wild relative of_the tomato.. It has an apple-like flavor, and is the fruit of a desert plant, found in company' with cacti and other such water-starved vege- table specles. The plant is a vine, | which, say the experts, may be trained | over arbors. It may be crossed with our own tomatoes for the production of varleties with special edible vir- tues. Another remarkable acquisition | was a kind of tomato that grows on a tree. It is only a little tree, four or five feet high, with branches that | spread horizontally, giving it a flat- topped effect. The tomatoes are egg shaped, and borne in pendant clusters from near the ends of the branches. Yet another prize, deemed valuable for Introduction into the United States, was the “lucuma,” which can hardly be called a discovery inas- fruit In Peru. It has rich, mealy flesh, somewhat resembling in texture and flavor a'cooked sweet potato, and is hardy enough to be grown in Flor ida or Inlxnuthem Californla. Treating all seed ;)_tx;toes for scab before planting is a cheap insurance. They of course, must be planted on new land or land free from secab. right tor cigaretie ¢ i There are “i aced mildorss make it just Smoke over your problems. little drawin’ on a fren’ly pipe often saves a heap of drawin’ . on a bank account. Vet Velvet is a friendly tobacco in the ruest sense, because, like friendship, ‘it has been allowed to ripen natur- aliy—nothing forced or unnatural. Velvet apart. You you. about Velvet— oty up” ways with tobacco but only patient egeing (two years in wooden hogs- heads) can bring out the mellowness that sets know what mellow- ness is—now think of a good friend who is never harsh to There you have the big thing mellow friendliness. You and Velvet—begin your friendship today. 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Bring the children in and have them fitted to foot-form shoes built on the orthopedic last. We quote a few of our special: : Children’s white canvas Mary Jane slippers..................... :..89c to $1.75 Child’s black patent Mary Jane slippée_rs psbre $1.00 to $2.00 ~izes 2 to * TROPPMAN’S :‘-::Bgtter Shoes and SerE:_i B | ‘ Defective