The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-11
ROYAL PRINCE
AND A SULTAN
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we're issued from the secretary's office.
signed by the adjutant- general Of the
national guard practically creating
martial law while the prince was
traversing the streets.
You can see the prince this time
all right, - announced Secretary Of the
Territory Mott-Smith yesterday. No
plans have been made to receive him
this time. -
Adjutant General Jones, n. G. H.,
gave voice to SIMILAR sentiments. The
prince can come ashore if he wants to
and the streets will be absolutely clear
for him. It is likely that the prince s
cigarette cases and medals have all
been distributed by this time, so why
make fuss over him.
Comic Opera Sultan Coming.
But this VIII be the Sultan of sulu S
first visit to Honolulu. He is an inter
esting character and has been launched
to fame through the medium of a comic
opera entitled "The Sultan of Sulu. -
The little Sultan met the first Americans
who invaded the Philippines in the
barbaric garments Of his sultandom,
but he is returning home in the latest
cut of clothing turned out of Bond s..
1t is quite likely that the local army
officers viii take an interest in him, as
many have had occasion to greet the
little Sultan in his homeland while
they were on duty there.
He has sold about 100000 worth of
pearls since leaving Sululand and up
to the time he left Cherbourg. He
intends hiring American schoolteachers
with a part of the pearl money to 60
TO Sululand and teach his young sub
iects the American vernacular.
He Indignantly denies that he has
more than one wife. He did have four
at one time. not two hundred, as he has
were quite enough.
With the Sultan is his brother and
heir apparent. The brother is Datto
Rajah Muda Mnlail VAST. His suite
were quite indignant on arriving at
New York because they had to travel
steerage in the overcrowded steamship
st. Louis.
Prophets Descendant.
They were the Hadii Guian, the Had.
il THAR and the Hadii Mahomed. The
fourth of the suite was the Salt
Maydno, who is descended from the,
Prophet, and hence Sulu gentleman
of rank.
The Sultan and his brother were at
tired, on arrival in New York, in dark
brown cutaway suits, gray bow ties and
wore the Hal fez, called the copya. The
Sultan wore black button shoes; his
brother wore tan.
The Sultan is FIVE feet five inches tall
and has a number of gold teeth. Ac-
campaigning him, as interpreter, was
Charles j. Werble, who once hiked with
the Seventeenth United States Infantry
and upon the expiration of his enlist
ment became schoolteacher in the
islands. Later he became useful to the
Sultan as interpreter.
The Sultan explained that while he
once received an income totaling about
100000 as revenues from the pearl
fisheries and other industries, as well
as from the Spanish government and
his own people, his resources were re.
duced to yearly salary of $4,000 from
the United States government, paid in
monthly instruments of 1900 pesos,
Mex, and a salary of $4,000, in
Singapore dollars, from the British
North Borneo Company, totaling about
$1,000 in American money
Seller of Pearls.
He, therefore, took his pearl selling
trip, beginning June H. On June 10
he reached Singapore and began selling
pearls. He disposed of 100000 there
and sold all the way to France, dis
posing of another 100000 worth.
On shipboard approaching the United
States he was advised by Colonel De
Hora, who was of the Boer army, to
inform Washington by wireless of his
arrival so that he might be properly
received. As a result Colonel Hugh l..
Scott, Fourteenth Cavalry, was detailed
to greet him. Colonel Scott knew him
in the instruction days and saw with
pleasure that the Sultan carried an
ivory handled cane, presented him by
the Philippine Commission, then headed
by Mr.. William II. Taft.
While the Sultan was stripped of his
power and his Office by the American
occupation of the Philippines, and con-
sequently he hasn't the standing in
ROYALTY that he once had, he is to be
accorded n semiofiicial reception and
will meet President Taft. He and Mr..
Taft have known each other for ten
years. They met when Mr.. Taft was
governor of the Philippines. In those
days the Sultan used to familiarly call
Mr.. Taft "Governor.
The Sultan is accompanied by party
of fourteen. II is not known how
many of his wives, if any, are with
him.
The Sultan assembled the Sulu throne
in 1894. Since the Americans took pos
session of the place his power has grad
ually diminished, until today he is the