The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-06
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
GAIN RECOGNITION
Russian Law Is Acknowledging
Claims of Those of the
Gentler Sex.
BY GEORGE FRASER.

Snecial Gable TO The Tribune
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 5.--Little by
little Russian law is acknowledging the
claims OF women. Though the peasants
are as obstinately against them as ever
the professional classes are getting things
done, The duma has under its consdera
tlon a private bill for the regulate OF
women's inheritance laws. Up TIL nov
women who have brothers living can in
herit only one fourteenth part of their
parents real estate. and one eighth OF
tnelr personal property. Half sisters and
girl cousins have no rights at all so long
as their brothers are living
Two years ago tWenty-three member rs
introduced bill To give to women the
same rights Of inheritance as their broth
ers Though they cannot do so In the
VIII now be allowed to leave their daugh-
ters more than one~fourteenth or one
eighth part on condition that their
Shares do not exceed the brothers OF
ent: When the bill becomes law 1t will
make things far better for Russian
women but It's opponents fear IT Will
cause family estates to he broken up In
"a couple. of generations. The law of
entail will also be altered. so that heirs
can sell estates which hitherto have been
uusaleable.
In Russia no father can entirely dlsin-
merit his children: The law invariably
overrules will where this has been at
tempted A parent must leave his Off
is a relic Of the old slavonic communal
system. when every acre OF land was
looked upon as lent to a man for his
iifetime. rather than given to him. So
can be deprived OF inheritance is by i'm
perial ukase Of confiscatlon, when the
estate goes to the, czar. The imperial
family has obtained positively thousands
OF miles OF forest nd IL, L.,
this way, to say nothing of mines. Court
favorites and successful generals some
times get, gifts from this inexhaustible
store, and grand dukes who have IN
Cured the imperial displeasure by marry
ing commoners not infrequently lose their
estates by conflscatlon.
In a word. the czar Is not only lord iof
Russians personal property, liberty
and conscience. but also OF every inch OF
one-seventh part of the land surface OF
the world
Methods adopted by Russian police on
the German frontier have provoked angry
comment owing TO an Incident that has
lust occurred.
An excursion steamer from Thorn,
bound for a small Russian village situated
on the other side OF the Vistula stranded
on sand bank a mile from Its destina /
ton The passengers desired 70 land and
TO proceed on foot, but the Russian gen
darmes refused permission. and when
some ladies tried to wade towards the
shore oi the The gendarmes opened fire on them
In the 2nd regiment of the Russian
guards experiments were made in feeding
the men regularly on fish.
The results were SO satisfactory that Il
has been decided 70 feed the whole Rus
Sian army on fish twice a week This
should send up the price OF fish In Russia
since her army numbers over four and n
half million men.
The first authenticated case OF cholera
has occurred on the Folga near Kazan.
Numerous suspected cases are reported
In 81. Petersburg and Ekaterinoslav
The Russian minister OF war has de-
cided to purchase twenty aeroplanes for
the army