The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19

Bavaria will be seriously felt by the
Door Of that kingdom. Duke Karl never
figured prominently IN military or po
litical affairs. but studied medicine and
became n famous eye specialist. He
maintained several private hospitals
where the poor were treated free. He
was the head of the minor or ducal line
of the Bavarian house of Wittlesbach,
One of his sisters. the Empress of Aus
tria, was murdered in Geneva. He
never accepted cent in payment for
his services, but he also refused to
have anything to do with persons who
could not prove that they were genuine
~ poor and in need of gratuitous medi-
cal assistance, In the twenty. eight
years of his practice as a medical man
he treated over forty-fve thousand
poor patients for eve complaint, be-
sides large number for general sick
ness. He performed over ten thousand
successful operations for star and
several hundred other operations for
still more serious diseases Of the eye.
Abdul Hamid Must Pay.
Several actions brought by Germans
Sultan of Turkey, for arrears of salaries
and pensions, were decided before n
Berlin Judge, who gave Judgment
against the ex-sultan and ordered money
TO be taken from Abdul Hamd s depos-
its at the Deutsche bank for the pay.
mont of the claims. The principal
awards were ms follows: s7500 TO DR..
Bier, who for several years acted as
private physician to the ex.sultan with
out receiving any salary; $500 TO Herr
Milmer. an artist, and his five assist.
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number of paintings and decorations
in the sultan's palace at CONSTANT
nople, and $4,000 10 Herr Bunge in
respect of unpaid pension money. The
German ambassador at Constantinople
has been requested to inform the ex-
sultan of the judgment.
Protecting Plumagc Birds.
There seems 10 be urgent need for
the protection of plumage birds in Ger
man East Africa. Herr Hermann
Grote, who has spent some time in the
protectoratc, has published an account
Of the slaughter of vast numbers OF
birds by French planter at Lindi, who
sends the wings and tails to a millinery
firm at Paris. The specimens enum-
Grated are touracoes, or plantain- eaters,
bronzy green toogons. kinglishers, glossy
startling, golden. backed weaver birds,
and whydah birds Herr Grote points
out that the government might put
stop to the traffic by forbidding the
export Of the feathers. but he also
pleads for measure of protection in
the breeding season, which is the plume
hunters harvest time. He would also
grant licenses to collectors for museums
and other scientific institutions. as is
done under the protection acts in
America,
Kaiser Stays Foxes.
The Neue Hessiche Volksblatter,
published at Darmstadt, informs the
world that some DAYS ago the Kaiser,
accompanied by Prince Won Fursten,
berg, whose interests are divided be.
tween Germany and Austria, motored
to the Schellenberg where he "applied
himself to the chase in the district of
Frauenholz. After breakfast which was
served in the hunting tent, the Kaiser
betook himself TO the chase and
bagged twenty -four foxes, two hares
and one badger. At n quarter to five
in the afternoon tho imperial hunting
party arrived at Donaueschingen, On
the continent the fox is not a privileged
person. He lives and dies under the
law of the gun and not of the chase
The twentyfour foxes fell TO the i'm
perial gun.
To Fly Across Sea.
DR.. Cams Fabrjce, the German aero.
uaut, has undertaken the construction
of the dlrigible for use by Mr.. Joseph
Brucker in a flight across the Allan
tie. Mr. Brucker VIII cndeavoT to
choose a course in which he will he like
" TO meet with favorable winds, and
he will thus be able TO save fuel by
letting the vessel drift as balloon.
The ear of the airship is being designed
so that in the event of descent on
the sen il will float for a considerable
time. The attempt 10 travel by air
from Europe to America is expected to
be made in the spring,
Stole Big Sum.
The police inquiry into the theft of
$50 900 from the safe at the royal col
licry Offices at Gladbcck (Westphalia)
has led TO the arrest of a miner, at
whose house u number of notes were
discovered The miner denied having
taken any part in the alleged burglary.
but he admitted that he had embeZzled
the money that was found by falsih-
cation Of the wages books. 4 pre]im
mary investigation of the books re.
ccaled the fact that considerable sums
had been embezzled, though the amount
has not yet been asccrtained. The ar
rest of several colliery officials Is I'M
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