Show The Election of Mrtaafa as Kinzof Samoa SAN FRANCISCO Oct 20The Associated Asso-ciated Press correspondent at Apia under date ofOctober 9 confirms the election of Mataafa as King of Samoa by the chiefs of the various districts It was expressly provided that Mataafa should rule asKing only until the agreement entered en-tered into by the three foreign powers should go into effect Then if necessary a new election will be held Tamaseses followers did not signify their assent to the election The correspondent states that a number of Tamaseses followers on the island Savay have made an attack on some of Mataafus followers When the news of the attack was received Mataafa sent word to his people at the place where the trouble occurred to demand de-mand that the guilty parties be delivered to them The correspondent adds The excitement excite-ment has been increased here by the fact that ono hundred of Mataafas followers are now leaving Apia for Savay where they will be joined j by others Their intention inten-tion is to burn the houses of Tamaseses men if the parties who attacked their friends arc not given up peaceably It is not improbable that the expedition may result re-sult in an open conflict betuo n the forces of Mutiafa and Tama eie at Savay Commander Woodward of the United States steamer Adams was a passenger on the steamer Mariposa Ho discredits the cable dispatch from Sydney about a battle between the native forces of Samoa lie does not know of any of Mataafas followers follow-ers having gone to Savay and says there were no indications of trouble when ho left Apia |