Show RUSSIA HAS RECORD YEAR FOR EXILES Siberia l 1 k 1 Estimated to Have HalVe Gained Political prisoners During 1908 St Petersburg Jan Tan 9 1 has haG lin just reached here her that the tue military court of hat has pronounced ed el sentence of III death loath upon 11 u men eon ron with the railway strike of 1905 Twelve strikers were condemned cond to Siberia for life lire and 48 IS others penal in the mines for varying periods of time 1 I i Death Roll This brings Decembers executions up mp to by fa a tho the largest death roll 1011 of any all month of 1008 rho Tho total for the year ear car Is 2102 condemned to death and an shot or hanged con condemned condemned to servitude in Siberia Sheria and penal colonies for Co I life lire and shorter sentences The sang j of the czar in place of or abating Is distinctly on the Increase as is shown by the death roll of or the tho year eat In the tIme earlier arlier part of the lie year the government was moving cautiously and in February there were only 37 summary sentences of oC death Thin jumped to in September m to In October in November and for Cor December her Matters have hac como coma to such a pass that even een the tho patient nod and reactionary fourth is becoming aroused and andin andIn andin in the debates on tho tIme budget which are aro now in progress the time are joining hands with tho the radical and aud Socialist elements clement of the tIme duma to de dc determine termine nn investigation of tho tue spread of martial law la throughout the empire Demand Dem Investigation The Socialists are arc further demand lag iru an Investigation of the methods by which the Inquisition of prisoners Is carried on Sworn document after sworn document is being presented to show that torture anti and brutality of tho the most horrible sort are arc being used on defenseless witnesses as well as ns on those charged with ci crumb ime In the effort of the tho dreaded Third Section to secure Information concerning those who had part In n the eal revolution of 1905 1105 It has hils been beun declared on the tIme floor of oC the duma that the tho barbarities of time the czars police outdo an anything thing of the kind In recorded history of the world especially In the examination ed eel of witnesses The various radical newspapers of ot Europe are taking up liP tho the matter and agitation against Rus Run Russia i isla ala sia because of the time conditions pictured in time the duma |