Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — SULTAN OF SULU TO VISIT CAPITAL [ARTICLE]

SULTAN OF SULU TO VISIT CAPITAL

Uncle Sam’s Only Crowned Sub* ject Comes to Pay Visit. U. S. PAYS HIM $1,500 YEARLY Ruler of Tiny Village It Is Said Will Bring Treasure of Pearls to Sell in Order to Establish Schools in His Archipelago. Washington. Sept. 23. Sultan of Sulu will arrive in New York soon on the steamer St. Louis. The war department received a wireless from the sultan saying that he was on his way to this country on the St. Louis and expected to visit Washington. The message was addressed to Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs of the war department, who is now in Peking with Secretary of War Dickinson’s patty, which is touring the world. The sultan will be advised that his friend, Gen. Edwards, is not in Washington, but arrangements will be made to receive him. Jamatul Kiram 11, Sultan of Sulu. and Uncle Sam’s only crowned subject. is 40 years old. and considerably married. Additional interest was added to his forthcoming visit 6y an announcement that he was to bring a treasure of pearls which he desires to sell in order to establish schools in his archipelago. Kiram has one of the most productive pearl farms in the world, several islands on the off side of the Philippines producing great quantities of pearl oysters. Our only sultan has been much advertised by Americans returning from the far east. Pages have been written about him. George Ade named a musical, comedy after him. He is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and wears a mustache, which curls downward dolefully. He is said to believe that typewriting machines are operated by spirits and was much more impressed by an X-ray machine by means of which he saw the bones of his own right hand, than by the American guns which commanded his city. The United States pays him a salary of $1,500 a year and he has only civil authority over a tiny village. Col. Hugh L. Scott, lately superintendent of the military academy at West Point, is his best American friend. He has been loyal to the United States.