Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-22

Exile by administrative process means
the banishment of an obnoxious person
FROM one part of the empire TO another
without the observance of any Of the
legal formalities that in most civilized
countries, preceGe and attend deprivation
of rights and the infection Of punishment.
The person SO baDished may not De guilty
of any crime, and may not have rendered
himself amenable in any way to any
law of the slage; but If, IN the opinion OF
the local authorities, bis presence IN a
particular place is prejudicial To social
order, he may be arrested without q
warrant, and, with the concurrence of
the minister OF the interior, may be re
moved forcibly To any other place within
the limits OF the empire, ami there Dt put
under police surveillance for a period OF
five years. He may, or may not, he IN
formed Of the reasons for this summary
proceeding. but III either case he is per
fectly helpless. H. cannot examine the
witnesses upon whose testimony his pres
ence is declared to be 'p%rejudlcial to
social order He canhot summon frlcnds
to prove his loyalty aud good character
without great risk IF bringing upon them
the same calamity which has befallen
him. He has no right to demand a trial,
or even a hearing. He cannot sue out a
writ of habeas corpus. He cannOt appeal
to the public through the press. Ills
communications with the world are so
suddenly severed that sometimes even mis-
own relatives do not know what has hap
pencn to him. He is literally and abso-
lutely without any means OF self pro
lection.
'As an Illustration of the sort Of evi
dencc % which the presence or certain
persons in the cities and provinces of Eu.
ropean Russia is declared to be 'prejudlc-
cial to social order ] will give Two typi-
Cal cases from the grea' number in my
note book. Some Of the readers Of The
Century may still remember a young
naval officer named Constantine Staniuk-
ovitch, who was attached 10 the staff OF
the Grand Duke Alexis at the time Of The
|latter's visit To the United States. From
the fact that | saw in Mr.. Stauiukovitch's
house in Tomsk a humber of visiting
cards of people well known i'm the cities
of New York and san Francisco, | infer
that he went a good deal into society
here, a. q hat he may be still recalled to
mind by persons who met him. tie was
illC ~ vi "a lAhCGlhl III W. " dS al VIII
Ger OF great promise, and had before him
the prospect Of a brilliant career in the
Russian naval service. He was, however.
a man of broad and liberal views, with IA
natural taste for literary pursuits. and
after his return from America he resigned
bis position in he navy and became an
author. lie wrote a number of novels
and plays which were very successful
Et1t nf which tho rnyrgyppIan ga ,,ns an
prove and in 1893! or 1888 he purchased
a we'll known Russian magazine ia st.
Petersburg called the 'Diello, and be,
came it, 'ditor and proprietor. He speat
a considerable part of the Summer of 1884
abroad, ana in the latter part of that year
left Lis wife and children al Baden Baden
and started for st. Petersburg. AT The
Russian frontier station Of Nirzhbo Of he
was suddenly arrested, was taken thence
to st. Petersburg under guard, and was
there thrown into the fortress OF
Pe,ropavlovsk. lis wife, knowing
nothing of this misfortune, contiLued to
write 10 him ~ s.. Petersburg without
getting any - her letters. until
finally sac became alarmed, and tele-
graph d to the editorial apartment of
the 'Dirllo,' asking what had happened
to her husband and why he DID not writc
to her. The managing edif or of the mag
azine replied that Mr S~laniukovltch was
not there, and thar they supposed him TO
still be ia Baden Baden. III on the re-
ceipt of this telegram. Mrs. Stanukovitch.
thoroughly frightened. procee drd az once
wish her children To st. Petersburg.
Nothing whatever could be learned there
with regard to her husbands where
abouts. He had not been seen at the
editorial rooms Of the 'Dicllo,' and none
OF his friends hal heard anything Of or
from him in two weeks. He had sudden
ly and mysloriouslv disappeared. At
last, after days OF torturing anxiety Mrs.
Staniukovitch was advised to make in
Quirics of General Orr aofski, the chief Of
gendarmcs. Sac did SO, and found that
her husband was a prisoner in one Of the
classmates Of The Pctropavlovsk fortress
The police, as il afterNard appeared, had
for some time been intercepting aut read
ing his letters, and had asceraincd that
he was in correspondence with a well
known RussiGn revolutionist who WAS
then living in Switzerland. The cores
pOndencc Was perfectly innocent in it's
character. and related solely to The bust
ness Of the magazine; but the fact that
an editor. and a man OF known liberal
views, was IN communication with n pc
litical refugee was regarded rs sufficient
evidence that bis presence in st. Peters
burg would be 'prejudicial to social or
der, and his arrest followed. In MAY,
1885. he was eNilcd for three years by adj
ministrative process 10 the city of Tomsk,
in western Siberia. The publication of
the magazine was of course suspended in
consequence Of the imprisonment and ul-
innate Punishment Of its owner, and Mr..
Staniukovitch was financially ruined. If
the Russian government deals in this
arbitrary way with men Of rank, wealth
and high social position in the capital of
the empire, it can be imagined what
treatment is accorded to physicians, stu
dents. and small landec proprietors whose |
whose presence is regarded as 'prejudicial
to social order in the provinces. Cen
tury.