Arizona republican., 1907-09-15
EMASCULATED
 NEWSPAPERS
Repression of Sentiment In
 Russian Provinces
Sidelights On the Minor Disturbances of the Em- pire.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 14.-Owing to the severity of the censure a great number of provincial newspapers are being published without any editorial articles. Some papers are simply printing official telegrams. without comment.
 Other papers explain that lowing to which need no descrip tion, we print no articles today" The St. Petersburg "Retch" prints the fol- lowing example of provincial forced humor:
 "Our readers are beginning to crit icise the absence of leading articles.
 We cannot publish leading articles on politics, because politics are for bidden.
 "The editors desk contains some brilliant articles on Sunrise and Sun set Love and The Cultivation of Asparagus But in the present con dition of Russia. even these subjects are dangerous; therefore We cannot print them
 The declaration of Governor Muller Zakomelsky that every schoolboy in the Baltic provinces is ready to mur- der on behalf of the revolution is borne out by the case of Emile Stall mann. aged seventeen. and her four teen year old brother. Emile was engaged to a Lett named Lerch. an avowed revolutionist. Her father was a rcactionary. and this so annoyed the bridegroom that he declared he would break off the match if old Stalmann were not removed.
 At first the girl was mortified. But Lerch son persuaded her that her father was an enemy to society. She agreed to kill him on condition that her young brother approved. Lerch approached the schoolbov. and used inc arguments that he had raised with lis sister. The three plotted to mur- der Stalmann and bury him in a po- tato field. The girl struck her father with a hatchet and knocked him senseless. Lerck-and the schoolboy completed the murder. The body was buried and discovered only after a week. The court martial condemned all three to death. Lerch is to be hanged. The sentence on the brother and sister has been commuted to 20 years penal servitude.
 court martial in Sevastopol is trying. for spreading revolutionary literature. a doctor named Asenieff who boasts that he has been sent into exile nineteen times during tho course of forty years. The process shows that Arsenicff has lived as an exile in every Siberian province and in ev- cry government of northern Russia Hitherto Arsen'effs only offense was that the authorities regarded him as politically undesirable. As a suspect he was sent out of twelve big cities by different governors and prefects Most of Arsenieffs wandering was done on foot. He has tramped across Siberia and back.
 The authorities of Orel province have shown their zeal for law and or der by arresting a corpse. An order was received from the provincial cap ital to arrest dead or alive" Bal tic province revolutionist named Kas who was carrying on an active propa- ganda among the peasants. Detectives discovered the village in which Kas was concealed. Six rural policemen armed with rifles were sent to make the arrest. They broke into the hut where Kas was supposed to be in hid in1, and fo' nd him in T coffin. dad
 Tho villagers were ordered to bring a cart for the removal of the body The priest protested against the sac rilese. but the police replied that they were sent to arrest Kas. and not to certify to his death. The coffin was drawn on cart over thirty miles, On arriving at the railroad the police received orders to go elsewhere; and. afraid that the corpse might escape. duly incarcerated it in a jail placed a guard in the cell, and drew up proc tocol declaring that they had rigidly executed their orders.