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EDITORIAL SECTION
PAGES 11 TO 20
VOL. XLVI. NO. 251.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1917.
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RUSSIAN EXILES
ARE RUSHING HOME
'Fifty Thousand Sledgers Hur
rying Toward the Railroad
from North Siberia.
ALL TRAILS CONGESTED
Tyumen, Siberia, April 6, (Via
Petrograd and London, April 3.)
Fifty thousand sledges, carrying vic
tims of the old regime back to free
dom in the new Russia from the
mines and convict settlements of Si
beria, are speeding in an endless
chain across the snow of North Asia
toward the nearest points on the
Trans-Siberian railway. TJieir pas
sengers range from members of the
old Terrorist societies to exiles who
were banished by administrative de
cree without trial or even known of
fence. It is a race against time, as the
spring thaw is imminent and the
roads even in the coldest settlements
of the lower Lena will soon be im
passable. Exiles who do not reach
the railroad within a fortnight must
wait six weeks or two months until
the ice melts and river navigation
begins.
In order to witness this unprece
dented migration a correspondent of
the Associated Press came here in
company with a member of the
Duma. M. Rosenoff, and two mem
bers of the former council of empire.
The three officials were sent by the
provisional government to explain to
the natives in these remote Russian
outposts the nature of the great
change which has come to the coun
try. Their mission carries them to
some scores of thousands of heathen
Asiatic tribesmen and they are es
pecially directed to instruct voters in
regard to the coming constituent as
sembly, which will decide the form
of Russia's new government.
The liberation of Siberia's prison
ers has hardly begun. West of the
Urals the Associated Press corre
spondent only encountered a hand
ful of exiles, who, when the revolu
tion began, were at or near the rail
road. The first large party was en
countered when the Siberian Express
reached Ekaterinburg, in the Urals.
It consisted of 150 political convicts
and administrative exiles, including
twenty members of the Jewish revo
lutionary band, mostly from the Verk
holenski district, west of Lake Bai
kal. The exiles were traveling in
special cars and had been en the
road continuously from March 24,
five days after they fir&f heard of tile
revolution. .
The cars were met by a vast crowd
at thCjailroad station, which cheered
them fnmultuously. The returning ex
iles returned the cheers, but they were
in a deplorable physical condition,
shaggy, uncouth, unwashed and ex
tremely emaciated. Many were crip
pled with rheumatism, two had lost
hands and feet from frost bites and
one, who attempted flight a week-be-fjre
the revolution, had been shot in
the leg when he was recaptured. He
was lying in a prison hospital when
he learned that he was a free man.
The exiles had started west so hur-
KING DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN SPAIN Political
and economic unrest in Spain has reached such a state that
King Alfonso ha declared martial law. The picture shows
King Alfonso, the queen, the Princess Beatrice, Don Jaime,
the crown prince and the prince of the Asturias.
riedly that they arrived in an extra
ordinary variety of incongruous garb.
Some wore costumes which had been
supplied by sympathizers along their
route and some had handsome fur
overcoats ''covering their hideous jail
uniform. Among those who wore this
latter costume was a young million
aire aristocrat from Odessa, who had
been sentencedto life ten years ago
for fomenting a revolutionary mu
tiny in the Black Sea fleet. Others
of the party wore shaggy sheep and
woolen skins as a protection against
the bitter Siberian blasts. One man
from the irktsk city jail wore the
gold-braided uniform tunic of the dis
missed governor of Irkutsk under a
ragged and greasy overcoat.
All Ekaterinburg gathered, to do
honor to the exiles and a recption
and dinner was hastily improvised, at
which a speech was delivered by So
phia Vasneff, who spent seven years
in different Siberian penal villages for
possessing revolutionary literature.
The president of the exile reception
committee in Ekaterinburg gave the
correspondent a general picture of
the present conditions and prospects
of the exiles. He said that there were
probably altogether 100.000 persons in
Siberia who had been released under
the amnesty measure of the provis
ional government. This number com
prises political offenders, including
terrorists convicted after trial; per-
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lengths, flared and straight
line effects, with - distended
pockets and string and wide belts,
in all the new shades. Values to
$20.00, on sale at.
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Lot No. 3 Now Spring Coats in all
that latest models,
in wool valours,
poplins, f a b a r
dines, poiret twill
uid novelty cloth.
There are many
smart Coats hi
this lot that
ought to sell up
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Lot No. 4 New Spring Coats. In this lot is
included some very smart V
models in high-class coats. ,
Coats that ought to sell up
to $37.50. They are made
up in men's serge, poplin, ve
lour, poiret twill, etc., in all the
new leading shade. On tale
Saturday at
sons suspected of furthering revolu
tionary propaganda and exiled with
out trial by order of the secret po
lice, gendarmerie or the minister ot
k. ;..,.-;,. Ansiu. .....
thousands of peasants exiled without
trial by decrees of the village com
munal councils. Many of the latter
will remain in Siberia voluntarily,
where conditions of life and work are
excellent under the reform government.
Fifteen Thousand at Yakuba.
One of the largest convict settle
ments was in Yakuba, in northeast
Siberia, where about 15,000 exiles and
convicts lived in semi-liberty. In
the mining district of Nertchinsk 100
exiles including seven women, con
victed of conspiring against the em
peror, have been released. The first
to be freed was the famous Mane
Spiridonova, who killed a colonel of
gendarmes for torturing prisoners.
She was herself tortured and abused
for seven days and then sentenced to
death by a field court-martial. After
her release she felt ill and is now in
a hospital in Tchiia.
At Tyumen the correspondent met
a second trainload of exiles from the
Irkutsk prison and penal settlements
of Tobolsk and Tomsk.
Famom Terrorist Talks.
The crowds at the station cheered
the famous terrorist, Nicolai Anuik
hin, who shot and killed the chief of
the Pcrograd Warsaw railway in
1906. His victim, General Fuchloff,
was about to kidnap 400 railroad
strikers1 and send them to Siberia.
Anuikhin, who introduced himself to
the correspondent as a "released jail
bird," is a gigantic, broad-shouldered,
elderly man, with a gray imperial
and an excited manner of speech. He
said:
"After one year in European con
vict prisons I spent ten years in the
Alexandrovsk prison, fifty miles from
Irkutsk. This is the biggest convict
jail in Russia and contained 12,000
ordinary criminals and about 500
political prisoners, mostly sentenced
to life 'katroga,' the severest form of
Russian punishment short of death.
I spent the first five years in the so
called probation class, with hands and
feet manacled and chained to awheel
barrrow, which I had to take every
where. In addition, I was repeatedly
flogged by order of the governor.
The assistant governor, during the
absence of his chief, ordered daily
flojgings for his own satisfaction.
Prisons Overcrowded.
"The badly overcrowded prison was
divided into dormitories, each of
which was intended for thirty pris
oners, but usually contained from
sixty to eighty, half of whom had
consumption or rheumatism. We
convicts had a secret organization
which we called 'the collective.' The
occupants of the different dormitories
communicated by means of tapping
and other systems of signaling. Al
though we also had means of com
munication with the outside world
we knew nothing of the revolution
until the morning of our release. At
that time two terrorists and half a
dozen criminal convicts were being
flogged without apparent cause. The
provincial state attorney suddenly ap
peared and announced to our amaze
ment: 'Russia is a republic and you
are free.'
"After our release we learned that
the assistant governor, on getting the
news of the revolution, declared that
he would give a farewell flogging 'in
order to prepare my jailbirds for
sweet liberty." "
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TOT and 709 Brandeia Bide.
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Enormous Selections to Meet
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IN one vast showing we've assembled the
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Where hundreds of garments have been shown in
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the latest styles, all the beautiful new fabrics, all the lively new
models from foremost fashion designers. A most C OA T9C (POA
wonderful display of spring suits at . LOl
Young Men's Ideal Spring Suits
Sport Suits are strong favorites you'll see them here in
endless variety. All the new variations from cleverly styled
belt back to vigorous military models with belt all around and
four patch pockets. Single or double breasted; pleated, gath.
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treme dressers or conservative men looking for a touch of
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Blue Suits for Easter
Blue is always good for Easter. Blue serge,
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v Maa'a, Youatg Msa's ana
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The echo of militarism In
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$10 $15 $20$25
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Your Easter Hat
"Satisfaction" is the big word in hat selection,
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modern hat section.
The Newest of New Styles from
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Crofut and Knapp, $3.50 to $5.00
Neb. Special'Hats.
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Leaders at O
values at.
Sprint Caps Snappy stylas, 81. 81.50. 22.
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Traveling Goods
Largest Selection
The importance of buying traveling
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and offer most complete selections at
prices unequaled in the city.
Suit Cases and Travelint Bags, $1.25 to $35.00
Standard Drass Trunks, $7.50 to $25.00
Steamer Trunks. at $5.00 to $20.00
Finest Wardrobe Trunks at $16.50 to $60.00
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Superb New Silk Shirts at $3.50 to $7.00
Easter Neckwear
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Gloves for Men
Silk Gloves make their entree now for
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Kid and Mocha Gloves Tan, gray and
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Auto Gloves and Gauntlets, $1.50 to'$5.00
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The largest showing we've ever made of Spring
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Shirts and Drawers, 50 to $1.50
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