Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-16
TURKEY HELD
RESPONSIBLE.
Must Make Good Deficit in Stone
Ransom Fund,
UNCLE SAM SO DEGREES.
story Of the kidnapping - BELIEF
Grows THAT Bulgaria IL lm-
piIcated,

London, oct. 16--"The United States
government will insist that Turkey i'm
mediately make good any defcit In the
subscriptions for the ransom of Miss
Stone" says the Constantinople corre-
spondent OF the Daily Telegraph, and
also refund the full amount sub
scribed."
ut is supposed that the brigands who
captured Miss Stone have withdrawn
into the interior of Macedonia in the
direction of Neyrokop," says dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph from Sofia,
Former members of the Macedonian
committee who were arrested on sus-
picion Of completely denied before a
magistrate any knowledge OF the af-
fair"
Pastors Dimikoff and Kirkoff, with
three female mission workers" says a
dispatch from Vienna to the Daily Elk
press. "have been killed by the band
that kidnapped Miss Stone"
The Daily News. in an editorial upon
the case OF Miss Stone, while sympa-
thizing with the efforts in her behalf,
expresses the opinion that the payment
of such large ransom Is very ques-
tionable proceeding. Turkey could
easily stamp out brigandage,' says the
Daily News, but so long as benevolent
foreigners will pay high ransoms why
should the Turks be troubled?" II sug-
gests that Miss Stones letter is Just
such a document as a clever brigand
chief would drop into the American
letter-box at the present moment" and
concludes by remarking, IAN army OF
brigands endowed by American sub
scriptlons will not add to the tranquil
lity OF eastern Europe"
"The belief Is growing here" says
dispatch TO the Standard from Con-
stantinople, that the Bulgarian and
not the Turkish government Is respon-
sible for the retention of Miss Stone,
whose capture was committed with the
conniyance of Macedonian agitators, II
not with that OF the higher authorities.
The attitude Of the latter toward bril-
gand bands Is most suspicious, and
very different from what 1t was during
the time of Stambuoff"
The Times has this from It's Vienna
correspondent: THE Sofia correspond
ent OF the Poster Lloyd says that To-
daroff. the driver who accompanied
Miss Stone when she was kidnapped has
been arrested on suspicion of conni-
vance, He is a Bulgarian Protestant
from a Macedonian village, and his
statements are regarded as authentic.
''Todaroff asserts that Miss Stone, ac-
companied by zirikoff and his wife and
by Dimitroff and three women teachers,
all Bulgarians. was stopped by bril-
gands September 6. toward o'clock in
the evening, In a narrow pass In the
road leading from the village Of Bank
so TO Dinmai in Turkey. The brigands
took Miss Stone and Nine. ZirikofI
away and left the men to guard the
others. This guard. however, leaving
all the luggage and horses behind.
"Todaroffs attempt to represent the
brigands as Turks is considered sus-
picious. The fact that the brlgands left
the luggage untouched Is held TO con-
was TO I'LL the empty pockets of Mace
DOMAIN adventures, Todaroff declares
that the closing of the frontier In those
districts is quite lllusory as he crossed
without a passport and declares that
he did not meet any frontier guards"
The Russian government has re-
peated its expression OF a desire to
assist the United States government
by all practical means in rescuing Miss
Stone.
The other powers are equally solicit
Gus, but Russia Is the best able TO brln.
the necessary pressure to bear.
Messrs Baird and Haskell, the mis-
sionaries, have not yet succeeded In
getting into touch with the brigands or
opening negotiations.