The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
VasSal Ruler of Bochara Kid
maps Beautiful Girl While
on Visit to Russia.
Special Cable 10 The Tribune.

Special Cable TO The Tribune.
~T. PETERSBURG. Dee. l6.-His
Highness -Mir-Alim. enlir OF
Bochara vassal Of Russia and
~ owner OF three flat-faccd Mo:lenl
wives. is III disgrace for stealing q
Christian girl Respectable Nicholas his rs
suzcrain, is highly annoyed; for EIn!lr said
stoTo tho maid during a visit To- Nussla,
and it appears that after four and tHrty y
years OF Russian srzeraipty, said Mir
Aim is no better than his SraDolatHer'
barbarian Said -Mozaffer
Rocfara Is an interesting Central Asian
state of quite 100000 square miles. pco,,
pied by bearded Uzbegs, Turkomens and
Tadjilis, who wear striped robes and have
lent considerable picturesquencss to the
late Verestchasin's pictures.
the Russian general. Kauffulann. marched
into Boehara. the ruling emir was Said
Mozafrer, whose daily Joy was to pull out
courtiers' finger nails. He accepted the
civilized his dominions that his son, Said :
bdul -uJ -Achad Khan, merely pulled out
his courticrS hair,
He Is an EASY Mark"
When said-Ahdul died. in 1910, wept
by everyone save BARRIERS, Said Aim
succeeded him. He is Il step farther in
civilization, and instead OF pulling out
hair merely pulls out purses. In fact he
Is famous for his lavish spending OF his
subjects money. and when he visits Rus
sia every Muscovite who owns anything
worthless promptly sells II 70 Said Mir at
an extravasant price. SO Said Is popular
He speaks good Russian, wears the First
| Class OF the White Eagle and Is general
major in the suite Of the ezar At the
Bochara Now the Russians wish that
he would also abolish it In Russia.
On his way 10 St Petersburg recently
| to crawl at your imperial htghness s
! fcot," he spent day at the Volga- side
| CITY TsariLsyr. famous for salty FISH aud
pretty women. Said Mir Mir. Aim LIN ~, had
| the Order of the White Eagle and twelve
diamond studded tooth brushes-used for
polishing his nails.
When on the VoIEa landing stage his
hishness saw Mademoisele Vera Lichai-
iovna Duba ssof1. child of hard-up eN-
else official. he seized her plump hand
ohare- / shall ray your father 700
roubiee. Think OF your fathers inter-
ests-'
The un6llal girl ran. away She told
her father, and forgot tho incident About
d month later She answered q newspaper
| advertisement asking for a goyerness TO
teach an officials children at Merv. Now
Merry Is on the Transcaspiau railway.
but as II is fully hundred miles from
Bochara, Miss Dubassoff never thought OF
the emir En- route d,9. shG vas i;,d tod "a IL 70
faced man showed her her sleeping com
partment. She went 70 sleep. and when
She awolse next morning, she was Whirl.
Ing in the ernjr's special train past the
cotton plantations OF Bochara.
Miss Dubaasof1 bore the discovery
brayely, concealed her horror at her po.
: sItion in Said -Mir-Alims hsrem and
! made frultjess attempts 10 communicate
with the Russian resident The generous
} emIr gave her q suite OF rooms, treated
: her with profound respect, and only once
even mentioned the delicate sub5ect-love
When che asked him how long he mean
10 keep her prisoner he answered II
excellent Russian: Until you love me
If you do not lows me before Ramadan
shall set you free and Kill three slaves
To save the three slaves lives Mizs Du
, basson promised 20 try and love him b'
4 Meantime Excise Official Dubassofr o
l Tsaritsyn WAS doing his best 10 find hi
= daughter. Her letters. II any, were In
= tcrcepted by the love-sick erlr. Blu
while searching for the mysterious Of
q fetal Of Merv, detectives arrived ut tn
3 fact that Miss pubassoh disappeared oI
, the night of the passing Of the emirl
a special train and from chat II was cas-
10 guess that she was fmmured In said
ir-Alim's iiarcm.
Dubassoff flew TO Petersburg md de
manded speedy rescue. The resident u
Bochara politely questioned tho enllr
n His hiyhncss said he did not understand
y tho question. Foltenesg forbade the res
e ident to cnll him liar 50 he asked ngai'
: if by eny accident or chance. Withon
: the emirs knowledge. or aRainst his VIII
d hnrcm. HI. hi$hness answered: 1T d
4 uuite ifIposs sible. 7 have ordered
searching inquiry. Nobody las eVe