The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-13
NEW KINGDOM IS
GIVEN BIRTH
Montenegro is Now Indepen-
dent, Being Given Free
dom by Gear.

negro, says: The simple folk of the
Black Mountain are rejoicing great
ly today after their own peculiar
fashion, and the welkin is resonant
with the sharp and stunning reports
Of rifles, muskets and revolvers. Old
and young, men and boys, gather in
street, and village, and on the noun
tains, and by the crack and pink of
firearms give expression to their joy
as long as ammunition lasts. In the
afternoon and evening, when the
cartridges are spent, they will gath
er in front of the royal palace, a
term which gives an inadequate idea
of the sedate farmhouse occupied by
the Montenegro ruler, and there
they will shout their "zivios" and
even plunge into the measured ex-
element of the national dance, the
"kOlO." In this monotonous dance
the men join hands and form a cir
Gle, some thirty strong, and gently
swaying to and fro, sing in strophe
and antistrophe, the praise of old
Servian heroes, the most popular of
these songs having been written by
the present ruler.
If-and the hypothesis is wildly
possible-there were some native
witnesses of these rejoicings who did
not know the cause of them, he
would surely ask, us it because the
Crown Princes youngest-born has
killed his first wild boar" or, HAS
a new mail coach come down from
Mount Lovcen?" But the cause, as
all the world knows, is that Monte
negro has emerged from principal
ity into kingdom and now ranks
on an equality with Servia, Bulgaria
and other of her proud neighbors.
Yes, Montenegro has at last real
lied her ambition of years and be-
come kingdom. And Prince NichO-
las, the beloved ruler, is no longer
Prince Nicholas, but is entitled to be
called king Or car. All of which
momentous changes have been
brought about by the simple act of
Nicholas in proclaiming the change
in the style of government to mark
the golden jubilee of his reign. He
came to the throne fifty years ago
today.
OF course, the little principally
could not have been elevated to
kingdom without the consent of the
European powers. But the latter
could hardly withhold their ap-
prevail in the case of Montenegro af-
ter they had permitted all the 9TH
er Balkan princes to assume the dig
nifty Of kingship. And SO, when
Prince Nicholas notified the kings
of Great Britain and Italy, and the
emperors of Russia, Austria and Ger
many that he proposed to make the
change they acquiesced, though,
doubtless, they would have preferred
to have things in the little country,
go on as they were.
The new king was born Oct. Z,
1S41, and on Nov. 8, 1860, was mar
ried to Milena Petrovna Vicoticova
daughter of Peter Vukotic, senator
and vice president of the council of
state. The offspring of the union
are three sons and six daughters.
The sons are: Prince Danilo, heir to
the throne; Prince Mirko and Prince
Peter One Montenegrin princess is
the present queen of Italy, and an
other now would be queen of Servia
but for her premature death, while
three other daughters of the new
king are the Grand Duchess Militia
of Russia, the Duchess Anastasia of
Leuchtenberg, and Princess Anna of
Bottenberg, respectively.
The new kingdom has only $3.50
square miles Gust half the size OF
Wales) to support the title. Though
practically free and self-governlng
for the last five centuries, it was on
ly in 1873 that the powers recog-
nized the independence of Montene-
gro. Up to thirty years earlier i.
had been an ecclesiastical state I'M
der the government of the vladika
or prince bishop, whose combination
of secular and sacred rule illustrated
the divine rights of kings. Since
1896, however, the reins of power
had been vested in the Petroivtch
Nyegush family, which celebrated its
bicentenary in 1896.
Montenegro is the thirteenth king
dom to come into existence within
the last hundred years. Six of these
kingdoms-the Netherlands, Bavar-
ia, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Westpha-
liza and Hanover-were given birth
as the result of the Napoleonic wars.
Belgium was the result Of the break
ing off in 1881 of her union with
Holland. Greece, Roumanla, Bull
garia, Servia, and now Montenegro.
are directly or indirectly the result
of the breaking up of the Ottoman
Empire in Europe. The revival of
the kingdom of Norway five years
ago was the climax of the national