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Show Nefr Era for Siberia. . A new era has just begun in the history his-tory bf Siberia. Since the beginning of this month the whole- of that vast Asiatic empire of the czar has-become endowed with a modern and uniform system of public justice. Law courts have been opened in the various provincial pro-vincial capitals, and tbe principal tribunal trib-unal of appeal of Siberia has been established es-tablished at Irkutsk. Until now there has been no system of legal procedure whatever in! Siberia, the entire country being subject exclusively to the arbitrary arbi-trary administration of autocratic offl- cials. True, there is yet room for im-t provement, sinceor the present there is to be no trial by jury, . while this justices of the peace are to be appointed appoint-ed by the. crown, instead of being . elected by the people of the district. At the same time the new system is certain cer-tain ,to constitute a salutary check upon up-on the hitherto unbridled tyranny of Russian officialdom in Siberia. -Chica-go Tribune. " |