Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-22
RUSSIAN COMMUNES RESIST
New Premier Has Trouble Trying to
Dissolve Old Order.
PENSION FOR MRS. sToLYPN
Widow of Head of Cabinet Who
Was Assassinated VIII he Paid
Amount of Hts salary by
Cara order.

ST. PETERSBURG, oct. e1.-Premier
Kokovtsoffs difficulties with the en-
forcement OF stolypin's policies has be-
gun. He has been trying to deal with
deputation representing $1,000 household
ers In Bakhmut district, Yekaterinoslav
province. who refused to break up their
communes and pass on TO individual
ownership OF land. For two years these
determined communists have been re-
sisting the counsels Of the local governor
to divide their land and an area Of 3O2. 400
acres has been lying fallow. NORWOOD
grows on It in place Of crops. The depu-
tation declares that II the government
wanted war II could have It; 1000 able
bodied men could be mustered In support
Of the communes. The peasants had sold
one-thrd OF their live stock and we're
further prepared TO suffer famine and
fight 70 the end. This Bakhmut incident
is the most striking one in the carrying
Gut OF tho agrarian reform, of which
millions OF peasants have taken advan-
tage, though the inert peasant mass re-
sents Il.
Making Artificial Pearls.
A perfected method for obtaining pearls
has been discovered by a Russian sci
enlist, Czeslav Khemellevsky, who is in
charge OF the Ponevyezh biological sta
ton Of the Imperial Piscicultural society.
Fine specimens of unattached pearls
three 10 five mlllimeters in diameter have
been obtained by this method In from
three 10 five years. No detail OF the
discovery has been communicated by
Its author TO anyone. but It is supposed
to be based on the Japanese system OF
artificial irritation OF the pearl mollusk
| by the Introduction of a foreign sub
stance.
The oyster gradually covers the nacre-
GUS or glass beads, which are introduced
through a perforatlon In the shell, with
layers OF pearl matter The japanese
subject 100000 oysters to this process
yearly on the pearl banks in the Gulf Of
Ago. The principal fault with theli
product Is that II is generally found at
tached to the valve of tho shell closely
ingrown or attached to the matrix by 4
thin stem.
Royalties Not Good Hunters.
or late years hunting has countet
few enthusiasts among members OF tn
imperial family. Though the imperla
game preserve covering 10000 acres AM
the supplementary state preserve o
2S7. 900 acres are second TO none in variet,
and abundance OF game, the imperia
familys modest total for last year wa
1857 head OF game killed, including
bears, elks. 3 lynxes, G3 foxes, bS3 rab
bits. 436 pheasants. No aruochs wer
killed or hunted presumably on accoun
Of the severe epidemic which deplete
the only extant herd OF these animals q
the state preserve at Biclovlezh. The to
tai for 1908 was greater than that o
any recent year, with ISIS head killed
Chinese Ignore Obligations.
Hardin advices declare that the Chimes
government is not fulfilling faithfully It
obligations under the Mukden 1nterna
tional Plague conference rules, Thong
marmot hunting i'm Mongolia was prohih
: tied, and its suppression entrusted I
} the Chinese, no steps TO that effect hav
been taken by the authorities. One Rus
sian doctor. who made reconnaissance