Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — A DEPOSED PRINCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A DEPOSED PRINCE.

A Wicked Indian Khan Who No LongerJRules. The deposition of the Khan of Khelat by the Indian Government draws attention to this little-known

region of Southern Asia. Khelat is a semi-in-dependent principality in the north of Beloochistan and had , been since 1877 the seat of a British agent. During the Afghan war the capital of the

principality, also called Khelat, was occupied by British troops, who thus chastised the natives for harassing the British soldiery on their march through the Bolan pass to Afghanistan. The deposed Kban ruled his subjects tyrannically, and It was for tho murder of his grand vizier and several of the notables of the country that the Indian Government deposed him. He lived In barbaric splendor in a grand palace In Khelat. The palace Is said to contain $15,000,000 worth of treasure. Belooohlstan, of which Khelat is a principality, is generally mountainous. Toward the south and west there are barren plains. The entire area is 166,000 square miles and the population loss than 3,000,000. In some of the valleys rice, cotton, tobacco, barley and indigo are produced, and it is said that lemons grow so largo that a man cannot lift one of them. Except in freshet seasons there are few streams. The largest river is the Doostee, which flows into tho Arabian Sea. It is only, ordinarily, 20 inches deep and 60 feet wide

at its mouth. The natives are of the mixed Tartar and Persian race. Like the wild Bedouin tribes they live in tents. They encase their heads with woolen cloths and their bodies with linen coats. Polygamy is generally pratlced.

THE DEPOSED KHAN.

PALACE OF HE KAN.