The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09
Troubles of Our Consuls During These;
Days of Siege and Massacre.

while returning to his office th1
the consulate grounds, was set upc
two natives, whom he gave n thr8s
Mr.. Ravudal thercupon had the In
authorities establish police stat1X
the reiglIhorhood of the cousuIat(
few months later young Mage
while in A carriage near tho c0na
was fired at with n pistol. Th1
tack followed indignities to othe5
eign officials. the italian consul
robbed in his bedrooui,
Two Of our cruisers were sent
scene and Mr.. Ravndnl reported 1.
state department that tho local 90
nfent appeared 10 be implicatc4I
etc.. - and that Christians as we
Moslems were forced TO desperate
to obtain money and satisfy TIL
mands from above" Mr.. LeIsf
our minister (now our embassado
Constantinople. vaiDiv haggled
months with Tewfik Pasha over
! Magelssen incident. and finally
Tewfik 5 assertion. thst Magelsscr
Eunder the impression of an illus.
our minister replied with heat, Cd
Tcwfik g attitude ''discourteous.}
express ng surprise az tho characte.
tone Of his note. The turbulent
ncnt continued TO murder and p,
at random in this district. aud a
following All American lady and
sen, while on the balcony of their
house, were fired upon by four y
| Moslems,
Down at Jerusalem.
Down at Jerusalem our consul. y
rs Il. Wallace Of Philadelphia, has.
! having a comparatively peaceful
! although sanitary conditions in
! ancient capital of Palestine have'
been menace 10 the health Of
eigncrs. ''The filth is unbeara
here. according 10 report 60 tho \
department. Mr.. Wallace, man
! years, was a schoolmaster for ten y
then lawyer for sixteen and cI
court clerk for eight years. b
President Mckinley put him in thc
sular service. He has been at Je
! lem two years.
Up ut Trcblzoud. on the Black S,
our uorthernmost consulate in A'
| Turkey. In this district lies pa
northern Armenia. inciuding th
Gently troubled city of Erzerum
menia 3 principal center of populs
| Milo A. JoWett. or consul at Z
zond, was born of American psren
| Sjvas. Armenia. | - miles 10 the s
wcs; He Was brought back TO al
ca and went through the public sc
Of Milwaukee; also being grad
! from Harvard aud studying med
He IS fifty wears old and was asst
superintendent Of the Massachu
state Insane asylum for ten YEAR
fore entering the service rs cons'
Sivas. his birthplace. under ITarI
! seventeen wears ago. He had bee
Sivas nearly fourteen Years when
NOTED 10 Trcbizond, which berth
$500 more Il year. The SivasS po
now vacant. IT being III Armeuia
I man detailed there may SEQ a littl
IciteIncnt
All of these posts Of Asiatic II
arc under our consulate generI
smyrna. the chief city of Turke
Asia. Ernest l.. Harris, tho consul
eral here, is a young iowau, still /,
thil tics, who went through Hcide]
university. including two docto1
Eeforc entering tho consular so1
clcycu years ago, he was lecture
Roman law at th Iowa university.
is an authority on international
aud was sent from Chemnitz to
cvcr-troublcd near cast three years
\ Yankee consul in even, this, cit
Smyrna is not without anxieties ia
follow citizens. IL was here. a
summers back. that DR.. Ii. G. Shi
an American, was knocked
wounded aud robbed, in broad day
by Turkish police, while wal
through the. ruins of the ancient q
at the back Of Smyrna, bnt within
city limits. ~
JOHN ELFRETH WATK1H