The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-23
nople tonight is gay and animated.
Cafes are brilliant and crowded and
political talk is heard in open fash

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Cafes are brilliant and crowded and
political talk is heard in open fash
ion.
Among the wild stories told about
the sultan is one that he is but half
conscious and has been moving dur
ing the day. Another told a cir
cumstantial narrative of how an
ambassador demanded that the sui
tan abdicate and met with the re-
spouse that the sultan will not abb
dictate except dying, scimitar in
hand, with Constantinople in ruins
and in flames.
Constantinople. April 2O.-nu lis
understood that Tewfik Pasha,
grand vizier; Edhem Pasha, minis
ter of war, and Min Pasha, COM
mander of the forces at the capital,
sent in their designations to the sui
tan last night. The sultan sum
moned Wilma Pasha, the late grand
vizier, but Wilma hesitated to re-
sumo office. The sultan then sum-
moned Tewfik Pasha to the palace
for conference.
All of the forts surrounding Con-
stantinople, from the Sea of Mamora
to the Black sea, are in the hands
of troops now supporting the Young
Turks There is no definite infor-
nation as to when the troops sup
porting the Young Turks will enter
the capital.
Fully eight thousand persons lost
their lives in the vilayet of Adana
during the massacre of the past
eight days, according to consular
advices. OF this total 1000 were
killed in the city of Adana, 200 of
whom were Moslems. Adana is now
quiet, but renewed attacks upon
christians in Marash and in the
vilayet of Aleppo are reported.
The sultan has ordered that not
a shot be fired by the household
troops or by any Of the troops gar
risoning Constantinople against the
forces of the Young Turks.
Constantinople. April 21.-The
conflict between Mohammedan piety
and the political ideas of the west
have brought the Turkish people to
the verge of civil war. The zeal for
the faith unloosened. the sultan's
relations with the committee of
union and progress probably only
postponed the armed struggle. For
hours the situation was debated by
the cabinet and tonight the prospects
for peace are growing brighter.
The sultan's primary demands
are to remain Constantinople's
sovereign with spiritual powers pf
caliphate and liberal allowances for
his household. To the demands of
the committee, the sultan offers no
resistance. The Salonika commit
tee, the backbone Of the whole pro-
gressive movement. is largely mill
tary as most Of the important
civilian members withdrew from the
army.
Tewfk Pasha, grand vizer, is per-
sonally agreeable to both sides and
has undertaken negotiations of COM
promise. The grand vizer and cabi-
net are ready to resign If the COM
mittee desires. Indeed, they are
anxious to resign and only hold their
offices feeling that they may be able
to avert civil war. The adherents to
the throne are divided among
themselves. the radical faction in
sisting on no compromise. The con-
servatives declare that the deposit
ton of the sultan is possible only
after severe fighting.
Recently proselyttng zealots en-
tered the camps Of the salonika
army and tried to inflame the men
against the officers. Scores were
arrested and today ten were shot
upon order of courtmartial.