Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-12
RUSSIAN PRESS
.CENS0R'S METHODS
Would Have All Stories of Crimes,
Etc., Lacking in Vital
Facts.
AMUSING RESULTS SHOWN.
General NowiclSi Has Extraordinary
scheme to Muzzlc Odessa News
papcrs-Across-S Gossip.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
n ONDON. sept. 25.-Mysterious al
WAYS are the ways Of the Euro
pean press censor but it is in
Russia that he obtains the FULLEST
I,cope 20 display his capacity for asin-
Inc interference. The achievements OF
GEN. NowicH I'm that direction, how
ever cast all previous records in tho
shade. He Is the new 'gradonaczel-
Mix Of Odessa. The gradonaczelnik
s tho man VINO runs the town Il Is
aslta I'm accordance with the ideas of
Russian officialdom that the first thins
necessary in order to run a town pro-
rery is 10 muzzlc the newspapers. 1t
Is Ibe way Gen. Nowickj has gone
about TO do 81 that entities him TO be
reearded as the prize nonentity among
urcss censors. He has issued orders
that 300 newspaper reports Of disturb
an.s. or crimes Of any sort no mem
zion IS TO be made Of the persons con-
osrned. or OF the streets or places
which are the scenes OF the happen
has IN every instance the important
detail omitted Is 10 bo replaced by the
initial of his own name-a capital N
When money Is stolen the same letter
20 aI cases must be employed 20 con-
0al the amount from the public.
SOME LAUGHABLE RESULTS
To- consequence an the new papers
IN Odessa have had TO purchase an cN-
q r. "a
upper case" Ms And the newspapers
abound boz such paragraphs as the fol-
loving.
Three individuals whose names ara
given 81 y and n. attacked count
n as De- was walking down street
knocking him down ana robbing MN
~ " nubles lie was conveyed 10
hospital hy the police Ia an uncon-
fcIous condition, hut Dr. n told our
representative last night that his in-
lunes were not of serious character
Here is another sample Of the re-
suits of the generals exercise OF his
authority as "a suDprcssor or intorin1-
n01 calculated 90 inname public
opinion aud ieopardize the stability OF
he government.
burglary was committed llsl
Ygai ai the residence Of MI N No.
N street. Mr.. MS private safe was
broken ouen and jcWlery and other
"|mh.es were stolen n, criminal
tcl-MoNu 90 the police has been arr
lsiel charged with the commission OF
IN crime. He viii be arraigned for
no.. 90 n police court some time next
uek" -
hmf joy ID must bring 10 this tim
despot when be- opens am odessa
pIpcr ana nnds it chock fun Of
n.tlal but for the Odessh re-
IH there ls some consolation, The
orders must considerably tighten
"f Hhors
coNFERS APPROPRIATIONS
IN manager of a theatrical paper
Ntl.i Boo London has accidentally
Nahed remarkable confederation
e'' oi tho most ingenious theories
"r great American master to whom
hniew of detective stories owe
slanrc. M his classic story Of
fuHoiued Letter Edgar Allen
a lrlh OF am eminent ana astlte
Nlhn who conceiHes AN ingenius
place for "a compromising letter
KY WINCH he a in possession The
rs AN exalted parsonage, has en-
hl lhe services OF the head of the
hsAsn detective service 90 regain tho
b,al ana the politician hits upon tho
ahl idea Of hiding d hy not hid
ns al all-Of 30 thrusting 10 under
sr Qf the great detective that be-
'''en not 10 md A. And the