The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

No. 1t S not all beer and skittles and
sicStas i'm the shade of the shelterlng
palms, this Yankee consul business, In
the balmy old orient .
Here in this fortnight we have had
one of these near-diplomats bottled up
br siege in God -forsakcn Persian
town. and whole bcvy Of others OF
tha same cloth sweating away IN Syria,
Aimcnis and Asia Minor. surrounded
hy massacre aud carnage and the shrili
shfieks Of women and iofapts put 70
the heather scimit3r,
he WHO has been bottled up IN the
awful siege Of rahri5 is our young
prcacEer-consu. the Rev Wlbam f.
Doty. \ liitlc while ago when, as
consul to Tahiti. he was basking IN the
reacc and quiet of The Society islands
and reading his Testament TO the grln-
ming heathcn. he little dreamed that
lie would now he shut in q Sinking
Persian city with. - lot Of revolution
lists who were being starved lnto SUB
mission bv the armies Of the shah.
Dotv was Brooklyn. y. Y, boy,
and he and his elder brother, Lamb,
came TO Washington in the carly
eighties, the latter working as a page
in both house and senate, William
went through Princeton with all sorts
OF honors, aud went back ihero for
theology Then the Prcsbyterians sent
hint as q missionary up among tho
hcathcn Of thc Adirondack mountains.
and after lie had done good work there
the government sent bim as teacher
among the Eskimos W. in ST. Lawrence
Island, Bcrlpg sea, Next has brother,
Lamb. was appointed consul TO TAHITI.
and he went as clerk. succeeding to
inc. copsulShip seven Years ago.
In the Siege of Tabri2.
rabyiz, his present post. lies up in
that norihvestcrnmost neck of Persia
which wedges iD between Turkey and
the southern point Of Russia Doty /
s2w 4 strenuous time in this old Per /
sian town the other day when tho |
cousulates there were threatened by !
rhc starving mobs who bad beard Of |
the shah s order 30 lot through The /
lines the provisions of the consuls. |
And even IN the best of times this ls !
q bad country, up around Tahriz. IT |
WAS IN this consular district. at khol. /
hundred miles to the northeast. al 4
most III the shadow ut Father Noah s !,
landing place. Mount Ararat, That the I
Rev Bcnjauiu W Laborce and his !
servant were murdered few years !
ago hy fanatica] Kurds. who some |
time before had butchered British |
subject
Near Tabriz is the headquarters of |
ihc "American West Persiap Mis- |
SION and this missing Of missionaries |
and blood thirsty kurds. who 60 to-
ootbcr about AZ we'll rs oil and water. |
increases the troubles OF an American |
consul The missionaries had to look |
20 the British consul here for protec.
lion until lately, when we transferred !
our consulate from Teheran TO Tabriz;
Mr.. Doty being one of their cloth. al
course gets along well with these
huS bn l1e had |
some dificulty in maintaining per
trality among mission attaches who
have sy1npathized with the Persian
Enthusiastically Baskerville, the
teacher who was lately killed while
making a. sortie for food through the |
ranks of the shah S army.
Rurdistan, the lair of thc kurds, |
stretc hes southwark across The Turkish |
border 10 the plains of Mesopotamia |
and Just below this territory lies Bag |
dad, where VIC have consulate that |
is now vacant.
Forbade Consul to Investigate.
Westward some 400 miles from Ia
briz, across this treacherous Kurdi"
stan, land of race hatred and re-
ligious fanaticism, the traveller comes |
upon our consulate at Harpui. which |
town is the headquarters OF the |
Protestant and Catholic missions 70 the |
Armenians. Armenia and Kurdistan
meet about here.
Anti-Armenian outrages have oc.
Cured from time to tiJno in this dis
trict, and our relations with the sultan |
became strained TO critical degree a
few summers back because the Turkish |
authorities forcibly prevented Tbeo
II. Norton, then our consul at
Iiarput, from going over to nearby Sas
SCUM and investigating tho mas
sacre there. Mr.. Norton was trans
ferred to Smyrna and later TO Chem |,
nitz, and the present consul back
a former lawyer and country editor Of
Carrolton. Ky. President Cleveland
appointed him consul AT Alden. Arabia,
whence he retired under Mckinley, TO
he sent back again by Roosevelt, who
transferred him TO Batum, Russia. and
thence TO Hsrput last summer. He is
man of rty-eight, and we'll liked.
New Man Sent to Massacre Vortex.
10 wade in the gore foaming at the
red vortex Of the massacres IN south
err Asia Minor Edward l. Nathan
Young PhIadclphian. only thirty, has
just been sent 10 Mersina, where we
had no consul during the April out.
ragcs. Mr.. Nathan is graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, He is
lawyer and also linguist, having
knowledge OF Arabic. modern Greek,
itueSian, IreHcH, JerndH, spanish 1ud
Italian. He was made consul at Petras,
Greece, when twenty eight. and he took
a young bride with him when he sailed
away to that sunny cline.
Since the blood of $4,000 innocents
has just been she'd in his new district
about Mersina, Mr.. Nathan has had to
take of his coat and work day and
night handling relief supplies. 1t was
ia this district that the first of this
year's rlassacres broke out, at Adana,
during the recent spring festival in
honor Of MohamDed, and Just between
this point aud Mersina were the awful
Inassacres and pillagc Of Tarsus. Tarsus
was the most important city in
Asia Minor at the time of Christ, but
IS best known as the birthplace Of
Paul. the apostle. And it was to Tar
sus that Cleopatra took Marc Antony
in her famous gilded galley, with the
purple sails aud silver ores This post