Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-28
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
NO FREE PUBLIC MEETINGS AL
LOWED IN FINLAND.
A GREAT INDUSTRIAL WAR.
Gear Orders Foreign Contracts Can
celed, and Gives Them to Rus
sian Factories.

Correspondence of Associated Press.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 12.-The ministry
of war has completed the draft OF
law to regulate the military service in
Finland in conformity with the system
adopted in the empire at large. 1t is
expected that it will be put in force
early in the year. Governor General
Eobrikof has lately issued instructions
TO the governors of provinces in Fin
land, urging a stricter enforcement OF
the ordinance of last July regarding
public assemblies. The complaint is
made that this ordinance is eva ted UNI
der preteXt of alnusements and enter
tainments. Among the amusements
which require permits. may be reckoned
gatherings in which social, scientific and
economic questions are discussed or
where addresses are made. Assemblies
which are permitted must be watched
over by the police. whose duty it will
be to suppress demonstrations. In or
der to meet the boycott of unpopular
officials by house owners and hotel
keepers Governor General Bobrikoff
mas purchased for $3.50 600 a dwelling
house in Helsinsfors. For the purpose
of cultivating closer relations With Bul-
Haria, the government has entered into
an agreement with Prince Ferdinands
government reducing telegraph tolls
from 40 to % centilnes a word and in
Producing an international money order
system similar to that in vogue in Rus
STA.
Many sisters of the Red Cross will
return from the far east this month.
"A number of hospitals have been closed.
The minister of railways. Prince
khilkoff. has ordered that women shall
IL
towns. 1t is proposed to Introduce
medical instruction into the curricula Of
seminaries for the education of the
priesthood. Russia is said to nave an
average of one physician to 0,0o0 popu-
lation. In Siberia one has to ride as
much as 800 versts for doctor The
priests are not expected. however, to
do anything more than render first as
Sistance rule.
That Siberia is awake is attaSted by
the request of the municipality of Irk-
utsk for permission to issue bonds to
the amount of 2.500o 900 roubles for
drainage and sewerage purposes
The spirits monopoly will be enforced
before the close of the year in sixty
one provinces and three territories.
The st. Petersburg Society for the
Distribution of Useful Books is contem-
plating the issue of daily newspaper
tor the masses.
The St. Petersburg city government
Intends. when it assumes control of the
telephone service. to give an automatic
signal at o'clock every morning for
the purpose of enabling subscribers to
regulate their timepieces. This func-
ton is fulfilled at present by the firing
of cannon at noon at the citadel.
ApMnD ANN rr0nFc
few days ago the agent of earn
egie's steel company. Mr.. Hunsaker,
felt absolutely confident of a contract
for 2o,0oo tons of alTnor plate but the
letting Of this contract has Just been
indefinitely postponed. 1t is related
that at the first audience the emperor
granted the minister of the marine aft
CT he had recovered from his illness,
his majesty remarked that he observed
good many contracts FOE ma
terlal for the navy We're being
given to foreign companies, while
RUSSIAN works We're idle The
minister is said to have answered
that there We're many things which for
eigners could produce better and more
cheapy than the Russians. for instance,
armor plate. When the emperor learned
that contract was about to be awarded
TO the Carnegie works he is stated to
have ordered that it be given to the Kol-
pima Iron Works near this city. This
company is understood to have made a
. contract several years ago binding it tC
pay krupp a million roubles, Or more
than half a million dollars year for the
use of his process, but it has not produc.
ed any armOr plate up to date
The competition between the STANDARD
Oil Co.. and the Russian naphtha inter.
ests, always a live topic here, is the
subject of a serious article in the Journa