The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-30
BlRsy KING HAS
]: 1000! SUB SUBJECTS
~ Are Scattered Over Every One
n 81 United States and Pay
' Ruler Tribute.

KANSAS CITY. April 29-Tgo
niles outside the western limits OF
Kansas City. Kan, on the Reiay road.
- large gypsy camp In that camp
abtdes Peter lonanowic. known 20 the
tloesmen as Peter H.. who prCo lains
himself king OF all the gypsy tribes
4 Of Semitic extractiob in the United
btates- The Official dladem, worn oniy
In Judgment OF the refractories and
: deiihquents OF his tribe. Is real ehough
4 but consists merely OF silver aud
copper band hung with shells
MY rule is un1uestioned where
ruling Is necessary" said King Peter
My father before me was king, and
his father before hiffi. his Ala
1ohanowic dynasty However. there
Is not much 70 do or say in the ruling
HE where everybody is accommodate
Ing and law-abiding am afraid that
king will some time become a title
with little force In It,"
While saying this King Peter was
directing the laying out OF camp
for several new arrivals. His remarks
were interspersed with curt commands
|. not delivered In a kingly way. hut
\ more after the manner OF modern
civil engineer arranging a grating out
at.
King Gives Orders.
Two wagons and two tents over
here The same over there. Keep the
horses and mules outside the tent line
and the dogs beyond the mules. toward
: the city," were few OF his orders.
: He was watching camp sanitation and
the safety OF tho chattels frous petty
thievery. at the same time.
"A n l.. "a rn
. considerably understood, the king Is
nearly six feet tall and bull, in proper
I ton. He wears coal-black mustache.
trained parallel with his upper Zip, and
wears the sombrero and bandana az
his race. Tfe- IS good hooking and has
the most Pheasant smfie imaginable,
showing a double line of strong white
teeth. He is about % or 80 years old.
H. How large a. following have YOU?
the king was asked.
~. Il do not really know" was ne re-
ply perhaps 5000 would be TIE ng-
ure that would best cover IL. They
are scattered over every state IN the
Union. Some of them never near
from. Others are with me all the
time. Whenever | meet them they are
subject to me and pay me tribute ac-
cording to what they can afford. Sore
times months pass end the condition
or the tribe I am with is such that IL
/, a Impossible for me &c get any money
outside OF what can make personally.
my expenses are little higher
row. as am maintaining home n
a 1>eavenworth for the benefit OF my wife
: Ind little son. now a year old"
-tF~Ts the little boy the crown
rrince7"
"Certainly he Is. He's a member OF
8 the dynasty and in direct line of sue
cesslon. isn't he7 The tribe expressed
Is allegiance and annointed him
prince few days after his birth"
4: How old is the Egyptian branch OF
the gypsy family. and in what manner
does II differ from the European gyp-
cses7" was next asked.
Nobody knows Just what the origin
N OF the gypsy was. II Is subject
+ clouded with superstition and faint his
! Tory have OFTEN bpEn asked # did
not believe that the gypsies are the
lost tribe OF Israel. II has been point
Y ed out 10 me that we are crafty sales
men and good husbandmeD like the
7 Jews Also that our facial characte--
1stics are somewhat similar 10 the
Jewish cast OF countenance. ] think
x it's all rot. There was only one jew
s who had the gypsy instinct and that
one was mythical--the wandering Jew.
Iat usurper 10 Overthrow.
Z From ait accounts the reign Of Peter
jYohanowic. has been no more placid
4 than that OF his contemporary. Peter
OF Servia. Three years age usurper