Show story of woeful wrongs the christian world looks on curds and turks marauding Ma in a land because of religious fanaticism constantinople feb 6 I 1 from a respondent nt of the associated press t will be remembered that the sublime porte soon after the massacres in this country bent out commissioners to investigate vesti gate recent disturbances and take measures for quieting the country one croup 0 commissioners went to erze roum and the other entered the country at gassoun and came to this commission from the interior did its work very rapidly spending only a few days in each of the principal cities on their route the day after their arrival when summoned there appeared before them a number of leading men moslems and christians these were admitted to the presence of the commissioners separately first the moslems theu alie christians the report says the commissioners ners said to the moslems we did not expect eo much of you but you never mind henceforth you must keep the when the christians were admitted the commissioners received them standing and at once began to read an address reciting the benefits the christians had received during the reign of hie beneficent sultan abdul hamid khan and the perfidious conduct of the armenians Armen ians who had startled newspapers and bent men to washington and chicago to agitate and stir up the nations against their government in conclusion the address said hereafter if either turks or ar menials stir up trouble there will be no more imprisonments but the death penalty will be upon all such offenders after the reading of the address ah dul pasha began to address the christians in a much more violent strain lie said if the armenians Armen ians should again begin to agitate not even the name of armenia would be allowed to remain they would all be blotted out drawing up to his full height and stretching out his arm like a sword he said what we gained WE GAINED aria S end when e give P th morsel we will give it up with b blood blood so lar as I 1 can learn n alie K araut village the spent all their time in medren find did not even visit the city ol 01 which aris plundered and burned although it is only two miles from medren j ipe stiens were asked of the christians summon fore them when the had finished their speeches they dismissed them another fact of interest Is the bending out of officials 0 o enroll ia the govern ment lists the names of christiana who have become moslems multitudes have been forcibly converted to islam I 1 do not mean simply that they have been to choose between becom ing moslems and perishing by the abord but that they have been bound or bield while the rite of was performed without their consent I 1 know of one case ia which an aged was tied to his own door and circumcised while in other villages christiana begged to be killed and their turkish neighbors said to them no we want yott to till the fields we will mate you moslems the government has said that thee conversions were worth nothing and that no one bouli be forced to change his religion but now the government officials write the names of these new converts while the turks to say they are moslems in the village of heik haj the officials said to the chris irions 1 I write your mimes on a separate list to satisfy the there is no force about it but one acquainted with turkish ways may expect to find these christians soon enrolled aa moslem citizens the carrying off of christian girls and women too still continues in the city of turks carry off girls keep them for a few days and return them dishonored tie same is dona in many other places in one of the villages eight girls of the place alte imprisoned IN kuitems KA ItEMS their friends hear their chiea but can do nothing to help them the destitution of the armenians Armen ians beggars description men who were wealthy in october wee begging for bread in november villages were pillaged of overy scrap of food and clothing when the plunderers could find nothing more to carry off the villagers returned and sifted the dust to gather a few kernels of wheat or barlev diora and windows were carried off jars were broken everything of value wasch could not be carried away was broken windows cupboards and boxes were smashed the utmost were taken to leave behind nothing of value and all this was done at a time when winter wai so close at hand aa to make it reasonably euro that cold and hunger would destroy those whom the sword had spared wherever you go you meet want pinched faces and people clad in scanty garments and you inov that multitudes spend the long cold nights huddled together with nothing to lie down upon and nothing to cover them of course disease sets in and carries them off it is estimated there are between SO and people in extreme destitution europe and america are touched with compassion and funds are being gathered for the relief of the sufferers in every town and city it is far different with the turk he views his work with complacency and does not uka to see it interfered with the government has given a little aid occasionally in many cases the allowance is one sixth as much as is given to a turkish gendarme or soldier I 1 have seen the bread given in several places it resembles the linseed used in europe and america for feeding cattle even this allowance is seldom continued for any length of time A large share of the governments appropriations for the relief of the destitute goes into the pockets of the officials moreover tha turks are hostile to relief work and oppose it in various ways in the city of the turks said to the christians if our beneficent sultan wishes you to have money he is abundantly able to give it but he has not seen fit to do so and now you are receiving money from the english and forming an alliance with them we will cut you off no christian in dares to receive or distribute funds I 1 happen to know that the armenian missionaries tried to send money into anait was returned to them because BO one in dared to receive and distribute it the same is true of the town of choon BRUTAL TAX GATHERERS in some of the villages the tax gath ebers took from the villagers the scanty pittance they had received to kep thein alive they beat them to extort from them the money gnei poor vi llacer said the rod ja hard and the flesh ia soft sl s l we gave it up I 1 see by the papers that the bed cross is about to take up this work of relief but I 1 greatly fear the turkish government will exhaust all it tactics to keep them from entering the country while negotiations are pending the armenians Armen ians will be daine then if they succeed ia entering turkey they will have to encounter a population hostile to their work who have been emboldened bold ened by successes in recent raids to predict tho result it should ha galal there are some ex to the hostility of the turks to relief work baduf governor of has ably seconded the efforts of the relief committee there in the town of peri the local sent a gendarme with the committee in their rounds distributing relief these EC en deserve the greatest praise they act against the strong tide moslem sentiment county teachers the county teachers institute convened in regular monthly session saturday afternoon with a full attendance teachers several visitors were including some of the educators of city A petition t he ow a variety of sublett sublets was adopted the first part of the afternoons progress consisted of a thorough and exhaustive discussion of psychology and pedagogy cupi hall their importance in stating that I 1 the scientific basis for all good inching mr miller spoke on the subject of reading in the higher grades he advocated the study of literati lre instead of readers the speaker was eloquent in his appeal to the teachers to inspire a love of good literature in the minds of the and girls in their charge owing to lacals of time a part of the program was omitted batt will be given at the next institute police court wm II ammond and ed tva bags brew run in saturday night by captain silvey and they had a bearing this morning they told a plausible story but on the representation of officer ponder the judge imposed a sentence 0 thirty days suspending same while they kept out of town the officers are certain that at least one of the two is a bard case and that white was here last year and arrested under another alias at the central hotel with a kit of burglar tools in hia white tried to prove an alibi by stating for the past two years he has spent big sum mere in north dakota at Carringto nand new reckford working for threshing companies A young inan was arrested saturday evening ponder and brown on twenty fifth street for assaulting bis brother the judge gave him twenty days in jail or 20 the officers say the man is very troublesome and that his boaber would like to see him run out of town the young fellow said lie might rid ogden of bia presence alter he had been able to settle up some business but ho hardly cared to be chased out of town he took the matter of leaving town therefore under advisement and in the meantime is sojourning sojo in the second story of the hotel ogden without charge except to the city miss ruth E is the recipient of many compliments for her very successful of the W S academy entertainment the principal part of which was given by herself and pupils tha temple drill and the pantomime scenes were all by pupils of her classes A 0 0 eveland the cattle king from nevada is in the city mr cleveland is the gentleman who ran for governor on the republican ticket last fall in nevada but tho nevada people had to turn him down because ne was paramount to silver |