The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-09
THE CROWN LANDS
SCHEME FOR APPROPRIATION
 AGREED ON.
Matter of the Disposal of Private Es- fates Is Yet in Controversy and an Agreement Is Not In
 Sight


 St. Petersburg. July s.--The scheme crown lands ana church and mouas- tery lands has been accepted by the commission of the lower house with practical unanimity. The commis. sioners have now locked horns over the mode of appropriation and ths mode of disposal of private estates and the end Is not yet In sight
 The determination to appropriate church lands which in distinction to the great estates owned by the nonas- teries lie scattered throughout the country and support the local clergy. will cause conniicaff r S..Sk keticn would deprive the parish priests of the principal part of their scanty emoi- uments and necessitate an equivalent from some other source.
 A correspondent of the Associated Press has just completed a tour of tne provinces of Samara and Saratov. He reports that the drought Is finally broken, but the rains have come too late to save the crops and help the peasants. who are in a pitiable condi- ton. Their cattle have either been sold or are starving in the fields. The gov ernment relief granaries were com pletely emptied during last years fam inc. The present agrarian disorders, which can be expected to grow worse, are due largely to the necessity of tht peasants seizing food and forage to pre- serve their lives.
 Many peasants have been killed or wounded in desperate attacks on tie military patrols and the rural guard. According to telegra mreceived from Tambov peasants on the estate of Prin- cess BaritinSkey attacked the commis- sary and a band of rural guards. The comniissary and four policemen were seriously wounded
 There has been a fatal encounter at Krassnopolk in the province of Bo- dialia between rich peasants and poor peasants. The poor men were i'm censed because the rich men had sent a telegram to the lower house protest ing against the proposed distribution of land. In the fighting one of the wealthy peasants killed four and se- riousIy wounded several of the poor men.
 In St. Petersburg a thousand work men have met and passed a resolution opposing the agrarian program of the group of toll in the lower house. They declare that fearful consequences would ensue If this program became effec- tive and urge the members of the group to recognize their error and CO., operate with the social democrats and the laborites.
 There have been grave disorders on the estate of Minister of Agriculture Stichinsky in Tula province. The rep resentative of the Associated Press at Restov reports that the crop condi- tions in the Kuban and Don districts are above the average. Agrarian dis orders among the Cossack agricultural population are not expected, although there has been some derr1ent among the military levies having to do police duty.
 M Mouromsteff. president of the low CT house, received today L couple of telegraphic oddities. One Is dispatch to the conservative peasantry in the province of Yaroslav asking him to use hts influence to have the emperor de- clare a military dictatorship and the other Is from a group of Moscovites complaining that the number of wordf of foreign origin used In the debates in the lower house render them unin- telligible to the common people.