| Show ABOUT THE SIBERIAN JEWS notwithstanding the doubts at first entertained of the authenticity of tho the statement that wealthy jews jew were being expelled from siberia it now appears that the first rumors about the matter were but tot too well founded A new york dispatch now states that about will sion s on at the command of 0 the car leave siberia for america it seems to to vie latest accounts that siberia by a russian law jaw is exempted from jews they are not permitted to enter it for purposes of trade except by special letters from the czar the law has haa frequently been transgressed it to is said by wealthy jews jewe and the expulsion ukase reaches these they must either leave the country or py a redemption ot of for the privilege of returning to and settling in russia the number is not thought to be as large as at first flab esti estimated mated A san baa francisco Chron chronicle tok reporter recently tuter interviewed viewed one mr berel cagnone cahn Cah none one if athe the latest arrivals arrival from efrom siberia in that city his story is that two years ago a ukase was proclaimed ordering every jew in di siberia beris to leave it if they would not be co rue members of abe greek church in consequence thousands became nominal christians the others other one by one received written orders order to leave ty by a certain date mr cahn recent got notice to leave lea vein in four months his hia adventures utter after that time are touching hint in the extreme the che story is given lix in the following the father and mother of cahn are over 80 years old eld and he sent a petition to the czar worming informing the emperor that he be was the only support of his aged parents and that without him they would be utterly helpless he asked to be allowed to remain in order to maintain them or until he could got get sufficient ent ft funds I 1 ads to t take ak 8 them with him hew he waa informed afterward that the petition ha had been handed banded over to the minister of justice and by him denied in the short time which he had to de part in he could not dispose of his property advantageously and even hid had fie h been given a longer allowance he be dould hardly have realized more he said an aa the tee jews who remain dozot do not want to buy anybody else out now since it will be th their turn next t to decamp the other residents got get the property for very little when they are willing to purchase at all from a jew cann made a rude craft of a few logs loga and one night with his wife and two young children he started down the chita river a tributary of the amoor he took iong along some food and in this manner they M traveled meled SW on their way to a port oil OH the pacific when the family reached yokohama the shoemakers kerPs means were not enough to bring all of them here and so his wife and the youngest child stayed at that japanese port at present the family is badly disunited the old father and mother perhaps destitute and starving in russia the eldest son subject to maltreatment there the wit wife and her babe in a strange place and thousands of miles from her husband and their other child dependent on charity for their subsistence si it appears that hat but bul little preparation has been made for the reception of lucli exiles as any kiy fin I 1 their wiy to tine country because they have generally been aupp sel sed not to need any pecuniary assistance |
