Molokanes Seek Big Colony SiteBy Associated Press. Los Angeles Herald, March 18, 1907, page 1. |
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Negotiating Interpreter Reaches San Francisco, Hoping to Select Place to Which Members of Peculiar Sect May Flock SAN FRANCISCO, March 17.— W. H. Coward of Stockton arrived here today, accompanied by a Russian interpreter, for a conference with some representative Russian settlers who wish to form a large agricultural colony in California. The vanguard of these colonies is already in San Francisco and 3000 more of them are temporarily working in Los Angeles until such time as their spokesman shall decide upon the most desirable place for them to settle in one large colony occupying at least 50,000 acres. The Russians are members of a peculiar religious sect called "Molokanes." See further commentary by the interepreter: Molokans Turn Up As Usual Looking For Land, The Hawaiian Gazette, April 2, 1907, page 6. |
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