The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-29
STUART FULLER
ENDS MISSION
In the Rubber Country Where He
Was Sent on an Important
and Peri!ous
Tour.
CHRISTMAS AT HOME
At Madison, Wis, the First Time In
the Sixteen Years He Has Been
In Consular
Service.
CHRISTMAS AT HOME

Stuart Fuller, we'll known to keo-
kuN people, especially the older set,
and who may almost be claimed as a
Keokuk boy, consul at Iquitos, Peru,
returned a few days ago from an Inn
portant and perilous tour of investi-.
cation through the rubber regions to
report on the atrocities charged
against the Peruvian Amazon Conn
pany, operating in the Putumayo dis
trict.
Stuart Fuller is the grandson of the
late Prof. Jameson for many years
leading educator Of the city, and af-
Il ter many terms died still holding the
| position Of superintendent of the pub
llic schools of Keokuk Young Stuart
Fuller spent much of his time with
| his grandfather and grandmother in
Keokuk and romped the streets and
played with the boys of that genera
ton. He now stands away up yonder
in the consular service, else he would
never have been selected on the very
intricate and important tour from
which he has just returned. Many Of
his young playmates in Keokuk will
have the most distinct and pleasant
recollection of him.
He was passenger on the White
Star line liner Megantic which arriv-
ed Saturday, the 21st, from Liver
pool, forty-eight hours late, owing to
i bad weather, with a large complement
I.of passengers. Noting his arrival, tho
/ New York Times says:
!. Among the passengers on the
White Star liner Megantic, which ar.
rived yesterday from Liverpool, for
ty-eight hours late, owing to bad
weather, with a large complement OF
, passengers and mails, was Stuart Full
!, er. the United States Consul at IGul
i Etos, Peru. who was sent by the gov
+ eminent last April to investigate tnt
, alleged harbarous treatment of the
Indians In the Putumayo rubber dis
, itrict of that republic.
'In his visit into the interior OF The
e country Mr.. Fuller visited the varl
a Gus points mentioned by Sir Roger
' Easement in his report, where thu
! atrocities committed on the Indians
! were described as surprising thu
G Congo o,ltrages in their horrors.
J. when asked about the condition
he found existing in the Peruvian
d rubber districts, Mr.. Fuller said;
d "My report has been forwarded t
e Washington. don't know whether
j. has reached there or not, and an
n not at liberty to say what its content
y are
a "Mr. Fuller was accompanied II
c his journey through the rubber dis
S trict by G. B. Mitchell, the. British
S consul, who went to London after
n ward TO make his report in person t
t the parliamentary committee. He me
Y Sir Roger Easement in London be
X fore leaving for New York, but dlt
h not discuss with him the condition
e existing in the Peruvian rubber corn
r, try.
e mfr. Fuller said that he was yer,
h glad to get home for Christmas, an
S was leaving at once for Madison
0 Wis. where he would spend the hol
+ DAYS with his family for the frs
r time in sixteen years he has been Il
l. the United States consular service.
). "Tho officers Of the Meganti
said that the stormy weather tn
+ ship had passed through was tn
II worst they had experienced in fl
{, teen years. On December is the Sc
8 rolled over the bow just before eigh
4 bells q O'Clock in the afternoon,
if and smashed most of the windows j
v the pilot house, which was sixty fee
A. above the water line. and carrie
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