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...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu, gave up the ghost last June. Only independent sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag for some years, he had legally surrendered his sovereignty in recognition of his place as head of the Moslem Church in the Philippines. He had a pension from the Philippine Government, a $5,000 annual tribute in the form of land rent from the British North Borneo Company and he was in fact the leader of 500,000 warlike Moros who have always despised their neighbors, the Filipinos, have never been licked...
...Sultan's grand vizier and the majority of the chiefs or datus of Sululand wanted no truck with a female ruler or the strutting little Filipinos. A month after the Sultan's death, they met and elected his brother Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram to the throne. But that did not settle the matter. The Philippine Government refused to recognize him, thereby saving itself a pension. The North Borneo Company withheld its land rent until the succession should be clarified. A Filipino judge appointed Dayang Dayang administrator of the dead Sultan's estate. Afraid of being poisoned...
Died. Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram, since July Sultan of Sulu; of heart disease; in Maimbung, Jolo Island, the Philippines...
Grave anxiety in the Philippine Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was a matter Don Manuel did not mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute...
Died. Hadji Mohammed Jamalul Kiram II, onetime Sultan of Sulu, inspiration of George Ade's celebrated 1902 musical comedy of the same name, since his abdication in 1915 spiritual head of the Mohammedans of the Sulu Archipelago; on the Island of Jolo...