Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-24
ABOUT rnE SIBERIAN JEWS.

Notwithstanding the doubts At hrHt
entertained Of the authenticity Of the
sls,cmoni that wealthy Jews were be-
ing expelled from Siberia, Il now AZ
peafs that the first rumon about the
matter were but too well founded. a
Now York dispatch now states that
about $40 will SION, at tue command
Of the ear, leave Siberia for America.
Il seems according T. the latest ac-
counts tha, siberia by a RIsslan law
IL exempted from Jcws. They are
not permitted 10 enter 70 Tor
purposes Of trade except by special
letters from the car The law has
frequently been transytessod, Il IL snid,
by wealthy jews, and the expulsion
ukase reaches these. They must either
leave the county OF pay redemption
o 5000 Tor the privilege Of returning
10 and settling IN Russia. Tho number
10 not thought TO DO as large as NJ lrsi
estimated.
Aslu Francisco Chronicle reporter
recently interviewed one Mt. Berel
Calm, one % the latest ARRIVALS from
Siberia la that city. HIS story II thnt
two yeaa ago ukasc was pro.
claimed ordering every Jew IN
Siberia 10 leave u they would not be-.
come members o, tnr Greek church.
la consequence thousands became
nominal Christians. The other. one
by ono received written ordurs to luay o
by a certain date. Nc. Calm recently
got notice 10 leave in i5ut months. His
adventures after that time lrc touching
In the extreme. rhO l,oy 10 giv,n '1
the following worJa.
Tho father aud mother or Calm arc
over 90 years CID, aul he Hunt putiliun
To the ear, informing tho emperor that
no was HE only support ~ his ngOi par
cn,s, and that without him they would
| ho utterly helpless. lilo asked TO h6
allowed 10 remAin IN order 10 maintain
them. or until he could goi Sufficient
funds To take them with him. nu was
Informed niierward that The petition had
been handed over to tho minister OF jus.
| tico, and By him denied.
Ia tho short timo which lac had 10 de-
| part In hc could not dispose OF his pop
| eriy udyaningUously, aud even had lg
boon given a longer allowance he could
| hardly have realized moro, hu said, IA
the IUw- who ROMAN do not want to buy
anybody else Out now, since Do will bt
| thoir turn next 20 dCcamp. Tho other
residents get the properly Tor very llttlt
when they arc willing To purchase "a, all
/ from u jew.
Cam made a rudo craft q n low
/ logs, and one night with his vito and tive
| young children he started down tho Cuita
| rivers tributary " the Amuor. llu .uub
along some food, AMI iu this manner the,
/ travelled 300 Vorsla ON thgir way to pof
| ON the Pacific. Whom tho family reached
| yokohama tho HhuUmhkur's means werj
not enough To bring an OF them here, aut
so his vito and tho youngest CHILD uyol
| AZ that Japanese port At present tli
| family b. badly d!suuit0d-thHu old fuho
| aud mother perhaps destitute aud starry
ing iu Russia, tho OllUs; son subject @,
mMironHmout there, tho WHO aud he
babe be strange place and thousands o.
mlIos from her husband and their uihr
child, dependent on charity Tor their sub
sistoncc.
II appears that but little preparation
has been made Tor tho reception " sucl
eNlles ~ may nni their wy 10 thi
country, because they have general!
been supposed not to need any pecu
MARY assistance.