Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — Banished Siberians. [ARTICLE]

Banished Siberians.

As to the proportion of the banished who are condemned to hard labor it its about one-seventh of the whole number passing over the frontier yearly. I cannot tell you the exact number of exiles transported yearly, as I do not think anybody except those handling the prisoners know, but from the statistics gathered at Tiumen I should judge it to be between 10,000 and 20,000 annually, and sometimes more. Abont one-fourth of these are women. The returns from Sil>eria number yearly abont 2,500 to 3,000 persons, who, having served out their terms, returned to their homes in Russia. A large proportion of the exiles, comparatively speaking, are minors, being about one out of six. Their tsrms of banishment are, as a general rule, but short, since the returning exiles are composed of about one-seventli of the persons under 21 years of age.—San Francusco Chronicle. .