The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-29
Special to The Journal.

patch says 1000 Dukhobors have marched
on Yorkton, and the town has capituated
without firing shot. The spectacle pre-
sented was lamentable one. The Duk-
hobors 7camped the night before without
shelter, the thermometer indicating IA de-
grees below the freezing point. The mob
consisted of men, women and children,
including infants in arms, and one born
last night. the mother marching in the
procession. Some of the sick were borne
on filters. A few were barefoot; many
wore rubber boots and others coarse san
dals made of binder twine
|, Simeon Tcherninkov, who talks little
English, and whose bare. brown feet bore
witness to his insane zeal, explained that
they were looking for a new nght-"look-
fing for: Jesus" When asked where were
his boots, he held up his naked foot and
cried, Jesus boots," while the Pickering
light of lost reason cleaned ftfully from
his eyes,.
Dead Infants by the Roadside.
" Agent 6peers succeeded in getting the
sick women and children housed in immi-
grafton sheds and other, buildings. much
against their will. The mothers deserted
their babes and allowed them to be taken
into the shelter, refusing to follow them
until forced along. They have now gone
to pray, and say that If God tells them
to go back to their farms, they will do
50; but if not, then they will continue
as they are: The bodies of. infants who
died on the march were found lying by
the. roadside. -,
t. Another contingent of 400 has just ar
rived, and Immigrant Agent Speers is
hunting for shelter for them. Corporal
J.. Nunget,. M, p; stopped them on the
street until arrangements for shelter could
be made. The smiles of the bystanders
were answered by the recitation in Rus
SsGTSt-~
that see, laugh me to scorn; they shoot
out the lips etc.
A long, lean ascetic, with unkempt
beard, dtsheveled hair and bloodshot eyes,
stood at the head of the halted process
sion and prayed. He was protected from
the wind by a long frieze cape reaching
from his shoulders to the ground, while
fciothtng ospreveilt their perishing in a
,snoWgtorm, and lowering sky augnrs5 III
FOR to morrow. '7'S%77'' %
r.. Children Denied Food. ....,,,.>
A! sympa thHtfc citizen offered a: glass:
Of milk to a blue and pallid baby, whose
mother. split the milk to prevent the child
drinking it,. Soda biscuits offered to chill
dren were forbidden to be used.
It is significant that among the few
villages unaffected by the craze are those
at Devils Lake, where the trustees of
school district sold their cattle for taxes
last year and had their leaders fined for
assault before local justice of the peace.
Early yesterday the party tramped to
their last nights camping ground in the
bush about three miles from town. With
no shelter except the bush and warmed by
little camp fires men. women and chill
dren, young and old, aged and infirm had
bivouacked. All night Dukhobors had
strayed through the scrub picking the
fruit Of the rosebush to satisfy the crav-
inSs Of their hunger. NO labor OF ami
mails had helped to produce this fruit, and
they could eat it without sin.
Their prophet had informed them
that :: upon their arrival at York.
ton their babies would be taken
ingly, for: was not the voice of their
prophet the voice Of God? Il
:: Hitherto the Dukhobors have not been
propagandists; they have not sought to
extend their faith among their Canadian
neighbors. Now they are missionaries
and have invited outsiders to join them,
thus offering the outsiders a chance to
homestead the fertile lands reserved for
their exclusive settlement: -'
:. z..:..;a.E~. May, Be. a Collision, -.
., A later dispatch from: Yorkton says the
situation now looks worse. The Dukho-
Dor men declare God is telling them to re-
lease l1lc "OIueu, C1lllUT0H anu infants,
who are imprisoned in the immigration
hall and other buildings by the dominion
immigration agents. and special consta-
bles are being sworn in and the riot act
will be read If necessary. ,-...
:Yorktons telephone system extends for
miles in every direction throughout the
country over which aid can be called in
an emergency. One hundred and fifty
Italian, Iaborers. are employed on railway
construction jim the vicinity, but unless the
.Dukhobors, mania becomes more violent
the aid sof these win not be necessary
:; Il, 49, - Another Contingent Of Fanatics.
1T ~ reported that 700 more fanatics are
:camped In the neighborhood of Pollock's
bridge. seven miles out. These are more
'rampageous than the rest, being exalted