The Prescott daily news., 1912-09-16
CAREFULLY PLANNED SUICIDE OF NoGl AND WIFE LAST
 TRIBUTE TO MIkADO.
GUARD AGAINST OTHER CASES
Body of Mutsuhto Reaches kioto for Burial on Momoyama Hill, Where Lie Other En-
 perors.

Tokio, Sept. 16.-As a sequel to the suicide of General Baron Ti-Teu Nogi and his wife at the sound of the can non shot which told the Japanese of the start of the late mikado's funeral procession from the imperial palace here, an epidemic of hara-kiri cases was feared. The great majority, even of the country's most prominent men, like Gen. Nogi, are at heart of the old school. Inspired by the Port Arthur hero's example, the prediction was made that many of them will end their lives as he ended his, within the next few days.
 The new mikado, it is said, has talked personally with several, deli cately pointing out that they will serve their country best by remaining to guide his policies as they guided those of his father for so many years
 The police, it is no secret, received orders immediately after Mutsuhito's death, to be on the alert to prevent suicides and to point out where it seemed necessary that self-destruction Is not in accord with the spirit of new Japan.
 How deep is the feeling to the con trary was evidenced, however, by the cheers of commendation of the act of Gen. Nogi and his wife. For husband and wife to end their lives together is unprecedented, even in Japan, and the popular view unquestionably is that it added to the grandeur of the sacrifice.
 Both Were Dressed ElaborateIy.
 The aged descendants of the Sam urai and his companion of so many years had dressed themselves as for some elaborate state function. The general was in full uniform, with al. his orders and decorations blazing on his breast His wife wore full even- ing dress, after the Japanese style.
 Besides his letter to the mikado, the contents of which have not been made public, Gen. Nogi left directions ad dressed to the chief of the general staff of the army and to the surgeon general for the disposition of his own and his wifes bodies.
 The general killed himself by draw ing the blade of jewel-hilted sword, presented to him by the late mikado, across his throat His wife perishec by the two orthodox cuts, prescribed for the ceremony of hara-kiri criss- cross across the abdomen.
 From the position in which the bod ies were found it was evident that the couple must have killed themselves while standing before the pictures of the late mikado, heavily draped in the colors of Japanese mourning and of their two sons, killed while fighting under their father at the siege of Port Arthur.
 Near kwammu's Tomb.
 It was almost ' o'clock when the cortege reached Momoyama Hill, on the crest of which and only half a mile from the 1,00O-year-old tomb of the Emperor Kwammu, Mutsuhito rests.
 Arrived at the tomb. no time was lost. While Prince and Princess Ka- min, representatives of Emperor Yo- shihito. and Princes Higashifushimi, who represented the empress dofager. took their stands near by, the Shinto priests began the ceremony of burial in perfect silence.
 On the conclusion of the Shinto cer- emony the representative of the royal family offered prayer the tomb was clocad and the great gathering dis.