Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-04-23
Pearson's Weekly says:


 In more warlike times than our own, murders of British sub- jects in foreign lands seldom went long unpunished.
 When, for instance, Chinese officials boarded the British vessel Arrow, haul ed down the national flag and killed her captain for daring to protest, Sir J. Bowring, governor of Hongkong, de clared war there and then, practically on his own initiative, and within few weeks the Chinese fleet had been de- stroyed and Canton bombarded and burned. This happened in 1856.
 In 1862, again, similar swift retri- button overlook the murderers of MT. Richardson, an English merchant liv- ing in Japan. Because he had refused to prostrate himself in a street in Yo- kohama when the prince of Satsuma happened to be passing with his suite, he was brutally beaten to death by the princes armed retainer. Whereupon, our warships bombarded Satsuma's town of Kagosima, burned his palace and sank his steamers.
 It is only fair to add that in after years the Japanese voluntarily express ed regret for MT. Richardson's mur- der, and in 1884 a Japanese gentleman, MT. Kurokawa, erected monument on the site where he was killed.
 If we care to go back a little further many similar instances might be cited. Britons were quick to draw the sword when the British empire was a-build- ing. In some cases, even, outrages falling short of the actual taking of human life, have been followed by hostiilties.
 There was, for instance, the conflict which was known in semi-derision az the War of Jenkins Ear"
 Jenkins was merchant captain whose vessel was boarded by a Span ish guardship, and in the course of a scrimmage that ensued Jenkins ear was cut off. You'll hear more of this!" yelled the angry master mari her, and he caused the several ear to be smoke-dried and cured, much as If it had been Ripper or a haddock.
 In this state it was exhibited to the members of the House of Commons, who passed it from hand to hand with a great show of gravity, and many ex- pressions of sympathy. Afterward an apology and money indemnity were demanded, and, neither being forth coming, war ensued.
 Not infrequently, however, money talks" in these international disputes, as in private ones. When, during one of Guatemala's periodical revolutions, John Magee, our consul at San Jose, was seized and brutally frogged by or der of the commandant, Colonel Con- zales, we sent a warship there and threatened to lay the town in ashes unless, within twenty-four hours, an indemnity of 96O,OO0 was paid, being at the rate of G1,000 for each lash inflicted.
 The Guatemalan government was un- able at such short notice to raise the but offered, instead, to grant Magee certain concessions, including the right to establish a bank and build 1 wharves at San Jose This offer was accepted, and Magee, by virtue of his became in time enormously l wealthy. He died in 1900, leaving be- hind him fortune of e10,000,00O.
 Then, again, there was the case of 1 Major Lothaire and MT. Stokes, which ! created such tremendous excitement in he spring of 1896. Stokes was an engaged in trading in ivo- ! ry in the Congo Free States, and he : vas arrested by Major Lothaire, Bel sian officer, on a charge of gun-run- ling and melting the natives to rebel, md, after summary trial by drum lead courtmartial, was hanged.
 The British government insisted on 4othaire being brought to trial, and