Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-12
Siberian Horrors.

The time has passed when the affairs
OF one nation are no concern of another.
The outrages of the Russian government
In Siberia send thrill of horror through
the civilized world Il is the business
and that immediate. of Christian ma.
tons to demonstrate with Russia in A
way that she cannot misunderstood on
this subject
First came the story of the massacre
Of political exiles at Yakutsk April 3.
On that day number of exiles were as.
semoled In room to wait the result of a
petition they had presented to the gov.
ernor OF Yakutsk A police overseer APP
peared and ordered them to go to the
police station. They did not move i'm
mediEely. but argued with the overseer
and desired to know what the chief of
police wanted Of them
They supposed they had a right to do
this. as heretofore political prisoners had
been regarded as on different footing
from common criminals. But in March.
1883. secret orders had been issued from
st. Petersburg that certain political exiles
should be treated in all respects like other
criminals That meant. among other
things, logging for slight infractions Of
discipline. Prison officials have freely
applied this order throughout Siberia.
Cossacks sought to force the exiles at
Yakutsk out of the room in which thew
were They resisted. one of them draw
ing revolver. Immediately they were
fired upon and attacked with bayonets.
Then such of the exiles as were armed
began to fire. Six of them were killed,
one being a woman whose stomach was
torn open with bayonet. Twelve were
wounded OF the Cossacks, one sol.
der was killed and two persons were
wounded.
1t is to be noted that the Russian gov.
eminent strenuously denied this mas
sacre, and the facts only reached the
outside world through the underground
route familiar here in the days of Amer.
lean slavery. But there is no doubt Of
the truth Of the story
Next came the horror of the fiogging
to death Of Nine. Sigida. Nov. O. The
whip with which the paternal govern
ment Of Russia disciplines its children is
similar to the cat o. nine tails in use at
sea when there were more brutality and
ferocity in the navies of the world than
there are at present 1t is made of hard.
med raw hide. with a number of lashes
Twenty to 100 blows are al. ,
Owed to be administered with this whip. |
From March. 1888. till November. 1899,
several exiles had already been logged
IN consequence of the order in March. q
But no word except tiendish can charac- |
erie the whipping of Nine. Sigida. The Z
tory is that she had been insulted by '
prison official. She was a beautiful
lelicate woman of the highest culture. O
md she resented the insult. For this she 4
eceived upon her naked back the whip I
ling that killed her o
After the beating she sank down I'M b
onscious, and, happily for herself, never il
ecovered. After her death three other b
women prisoners, appalled, at her fate, a
ook poison and died. One of them was o.
girl of IS. What kind of crazy, hys- 81
erical government is that which sees in Il
girl of Is a dangerous criminal, and Z
entences her to exile and penal servi- a
ude? "a
The lash that cut the life out of Hope in
lydia ought to whistle around the world Il
nd wake the humanity of the nations
lime was when the nations took action pi
n account of the butchery of Christians OF
y the Turk But when did even the UNI M
peakable Turk do anything worse than d.
nis' to