Arizona republican., 1904-06-04


 willing to put capital into the business of Kidnapping and conduct it much as a westerner would a commercial enter prise. He hires a pig staff of rascals. captures a prince of blood, or of wealth or perchance missionary, and waits for some prosperous nation to raise the price Of a palace for ransom. In deed, kidnapping is too mean a word for the oriental. Call him rather by the title he has himself affected, His Highness. the Detainer''
 The brigands of Morocco, like their cousins in eastern Europe. have waxej wealthy in many exploits closely re- sembling their last achievement Fraissouli the leader of the band who swoOped down on Perdicaris in his'cas- tie home near Tangier. and who hast .ened away with the American prisoner to the neighboring mountain fastness- es, has a long record. It is related that some years ago he became so bold as to attempt to capture the sultan himself and he stationed his men at a certain turn of the chief boulevard Of Fez, where the ruler was wont to take evening tours in his newly imported automobile. All would have gone well had his retainers known more about gasolene engines. At the given sig nal they leaped into the roadway, Ievelled their guns at the chauffeur. who involuntarily brought the ma chine to a stop. But the engine still kept pounding away with an occasional spit and sputter till some catin, over come with terror, shouted out:
 Hes got the devil locked up in there!"
 Headlong the brigands flew from what they actually believed was . devil wagon"
 A dispatch from Washington states that the officials who are studying the capture or MT. Perdicaris have come to the conclusion that the successful ab- duction of Miss Ellen M Stone has an important bearing on the case. News travels slowly and minds come to tar Stone and her friend, Mme Tsilka, were carried off by Bulgarian brigands in the fall of 1901, and for six months the Christian world was kept in sus- pense. After capturing their two vic tims at Bansko the kidnappers hasten ed from Macedonia into Bulgaria. where, as Miss Stone told afterward, the whole population seemed in league with the conspirators. As lcng as they remained in the mountains of GueItepe the captors seemed as much at ease as + in an invulnerable fortress.
 The unwisdom of hurrying a Moslem kidnapper has been illustrated again and again, and often tragicany. As soon as MT. Dickinson, the United States consul at Constantinople, learn ed where Miss Stone was secreted, and the Bulgarian troops were dispatched to rescue her, the brigands decided 10 slay the two women. Finally milder sentiments prevailed and, instead, the prisoners were hurried away through a bitter snOwstorm to a new rendezvous h the piercing ccId Mme. Tsilka, who had just become a mother, nearly per ished.
 Oyerhaste did cause the death of several English tourists in Greece not l many years ago. While visiting the ancient battlefield of Marathon Lord ! MT. Vyner and several Oth- | CT Britishers were held up and taken ! prisoners by brigands. Knowing the l character of the men with whom they | had to deal. the Greek government of | fcials wanted to barley with them, l learn what ransom they demanded and | carry out the stipulations to the letter. ! The British minister at Athens, how { ever, could not abide by such a policy | of procrastination, and insisted that an . army be at once dispatched to the | front. As a consequence the heads of . the Englishmen were promptly cut off. |
 From much the same reason, there | fore, the sultan of Morocco the other . No-' "' '-OOii '-o iC "@S wal 4iSu OO uO ! SO by Fraissouli, withdrew his soldiers ! from the territory where the brigands | concealed MT. Perdicaris, and our are helpless. beyond throw ng a scare into the already distressed ! sultan.
 The American Invasion of Mexico.
 In the Booklovers' Magazine for June