The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
WANT
PRISON REFORM
Efforts of Authorities to Put
End TO Agitation Are
Futile.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
TO DISCUSS RESISTANCE
Gar Attires Himself in New
Uniform Adopted by Rus
sian Infantry.
By GEORGE FRASER.
,ial Cable to The Tribune.

Special Gable to The Tribune.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14-The
students are persistent in their detars
mination to agitete for prison reform.
until conditions which were outlined
in my letter of last week have 5ccome
impossible In Russian penal institu>
tons. Practically every institution o.
higher learning in the empire is taking
part in the movement and all tho ef.
forts of the authorities to put an end
10 the agitation have been futile Ut,
rests, fines, imprisonment have all been
tried against the leaders Of the stu
dents. but all have been without avail
Lectures and examinations are sus.
pended. and meetings of students and
police incursions are of daily occur
renee. Committees have been appoiut<
ed to discuss active resistance. and, TO
Judge from the past, this form of retali-
alton will shrink from no measurcs,
however desperate. II
Confess Alexandra Tolstoi is at odds
with her brothers as TO the influence
of M. Tchertkoff on their father, LED
Tolstoi recently issued statement
blaming In some measure NJ. Tchertkoff
for the dead count s leaving home
Confess Alexandra has this TO say:
Without discussing whether Mr.. Vlad>
imir Tchertkoff exercised an influencf
over my father or not, as alleged by M
brother, Leo Leovich, the statement u
In itself an insult to the memory Of
Leo Nicolayevich and depreciation o.
the great Importance of his last act (his
departure from Yasnaya Polyana,
evoked by complex spiritual causes and
Inlr - &c
fluous to eularge). | look upon the al
cusations of my brother, Leo Leovichr
against my father best friend, WIG
was devoted heart and soul to him aud
his cause, as unjust and undeserved.
Romantic Tragedy.
A romantic tragedy is reported from
Yalta- A young lieutenant of the u
cal garrison became engaged some two
months ago to a very pretty and sc!
complished girl, the adopted daughteI
of a CriDlcan family in affluent cir
cumstances. Just before the marriage
was to have taken place it was discove
cred that the bride was the half fssteJ
on her mothers side Of the bridegroom
The latter shot himself when he learned
the news, and the unfortunate girl, whc-
knew nothing of her real parentago
has lost her reason. The names hav@
been suppressed out of sympathy for th&
families concerned.
The czar of Russia, since his hohday'
In Darmstadt, has become an enthust
asst over the cInemntograph. His favor
ite diversion has been to have the filmN
put on backwards, md he recently iuV
structed the operators that a film taker
Of himself riding in Moscow should bt
reversed.
Photographs are published in st
Petersburg showing the czar attlred y
the new Uniform adopted for the Ru9c
sian infantry, which has been crltlcisef
by the men as ugly and unserviceable.
For some time past there has been
great increase in the number OF De
sertions from the army. for which. af6
cording to the newspapers, the unifor#:
in question has been largely responsibi9r
many soldiers having alleged thoy
their women folk cbaffed them abonV
their appearance, and that the cloth !
were so uncomfortable that they ofoer
found it difficult to march when wear
ing them. ii,
the knowledge of the czar, whereupo
he promptly donned the much. discuss
kit, appearing publicly In the un1foI
and it is seid he even slept In 1t. Lat8
his majesty was photogra phed wearu
1T and holding his son and heir on nEs
arm. ~