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Show Sees Great Future For Siberia. More than 500,000 persons emigrated from European Eu-ropean Hussla to Siberia in 1907. Vice-Consul Chan-ler Chan-ler of Dalny reports, nnd of this record-breaking number fewer than over beforo returned to tholr homes. Evory colonist arriving In Siberia receives 37 acres of laud frco, paying no tnxes the first three years and only half tho regular taxes tho next threo. Siberia imports $10,000,000 worth of gooda by caravan from China annually, almost entirely tea, whllo Siberia exports to China only $760,000 worth of articles annually, and many of tlieso orlglnato in European Russia. |