The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-09-14

shouting art running around. and Their
two or three Orientals go TO the hos
pital, badly bunged up. The causel
Merely a local blooming out OF a quar-
rel that has its roots at the bottom
OF the social structure Of Syria; the
breach between the two branches oil
the Syrian church has been reopened
In due form here in New York. Nine
times out OF ten one or another of the
hostile bishops or both of them man
age TO get tangled up in the police
court end OF the ARRAY.
Traced Many Murders.
A few days ago the sensational.
Union Square murder served TO direct
attention to the fight between the
Turks and the Armenlans and be.
tween the Armenians themselves. The
richest Armenian in America, a mil
llonalre rug merchant. was shot to
death from behind as he came out OF
the Everett House, where he had g
for his lunch. Investigating the assas'
sination the district attorneys Office
stumbled upon q door which, being
opened, showed a veritable Blue
Boards closet of horrors. Mr.. Jerome's
young men were able TO trace the muir
der OF the rug merchant. the butchery
OF the Armenian priest. old Father
Kaspar. three months before, and half
a dozen other unexplained murders
here and in other parts of the globe
to a common cause.
They learned, to their very great
surprise, that for months and years
most OF the wealthy Armenians in
America had been living in fear OF
their lives because of the threats and
the acts of a mysterious Armenian so
ciety formed ostensibly for the pur
pose of aiding the moribund reyolu
tlon against Turkey, but In reality
doing a large mail-order business in
murder, blackmail and intimidation
a society which has its headquarters
In Cypress and which, through its
chosen agents, strikes deadly blows at
will in New York or London or Con-
stautlnople or New England. The
slayer of the rug dealer came, so the
police believe, all the way across the
ocean from Greece to shoot one of his
c%ountrymen whom he had never seen
He got his orders and he anne.
Trouble Brought from Sparta.
One night last week a desperate
fight broke out among the Greek ped
dlers who sell fruit and peanuts
around the Manhattan entrance OF
Brooklyn bridge. Up anu down Parl
Row the fight ragged. Fifteen or TWEEN
ty Greeks, arrayed in equal strength
on either side, deserted their push
/ carts to use knives and fists and clubs
/ on one another. They overpowered thu
first of the policemen who came
against them and kept right on. l
took the reserves from two station
houses to NOW the gladiators dowl
and drag them away to the station
house.
In the police court the magistrat
said he supposed they were two riva
groups of peddlers who had fallen on
over the distribution OF the fruitful
territory about the bridge entrance.
"Oh, no." explained the Interpreter
quite as a matter OF fact. "All thes
men come from Sparta, and there Ia
been a bitter quarrel between thei
families in Sparta for many year!
They happened to meet in force her
in New York"
He added that from what he coul
gather there would probably be wor
for an undertaken when the leaders {
the two clans came out Of the worl
house. And there you are. That's To
way 1t goes in New York, the worl
metropolis.
Police Commissioner Bingham r,
allies hat the police force as 1t
constituted at present is mot comp,
tent to cope with the foreigners VII
bring their old feuds and conspiracie
over here with them. He has aske
for a special appropriation of $500
with which to hire a secret-servic
. staff of Cinnamon. Italians and A