Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-05-28
king EDWARD dies.
end CAME SUDDENLY AFTER
few DAYS. ILLNESS.
Death Due to Pneumonia and Worry
Over the Political Situation-His
Last Words Were: ''Well, 1t Is All
Over, but Think Have Done My
Duty-Message From Our President.

Duty-Message From Our President.
Edward VII, king of the English,
died at 11:45 O'Clock Friday night in
London.
Coming so suddenly the death of the
nation in whose hearts Edward, first
as prince of Wales, and afterward as
sovereign, held first place.
Edward s short reign has been his
tory of stirring times. 1t opened with
the conclusion of peace after a long
and trying campaign in South Africa,
and concludes at the crisis of one of
the most momentous political struggles
of modern times between the peers and
commons. In a day the political out
look of Great Britain has been revolu-
tionized.
Quick Approach of Death.
Gathered around the bedside of the
dying king were the queen and prin-
cesses. No hope had been held out
through the day for the recovery of
his majesty, whose death, it is be-
lieved, was due to pneumonia, follow
ing bronchitis contracted shortly after
his return from Biarritz. Only a day
or two before the king was conducting
the business of state and giving orders,
but on Wednesday he was compelled
to submit to physicians orders. Since
then until the end his decline was
rapid.
King Edward VII, who returned to
England from a vacation 10 days pre-
vious, apparently in the best of health,
was seriously i'll hardly more than three
days.
New Kings First Act.
The prince of Wales succeeded to
the throne Immediately, according to
the laws of the kingdom, without Off
cial ceremony. His first official act
in pursuant of custom was to dispatch
to the lord mayor the announcement
of his fathers death. His telegram
read:
~ am deeply grieved to inform you
that my beloved father, the king
passed away peacefully at 11:45 to-
night.
GEORGE"
Some of the kings friends are con-
WINGED that worry over the political
situation aggravated, if it did not cause
the fatal illness.
Besides the few relatives in Eng
land, the duke Of Fife and the arch.
bishop of Canterbury were in the
death chamber. The kings brother
the duke Of Connaught, with his fam
lily, is at Suez, Fastening home from
Africa. The kings daughter, Queen
Maud Of Norway, started for England
Immediately.
Sad but Not Unexpected.
The intelligence that the end of
King Edward 5 reign had come was
not a surprise al the last The PEG
pie had been expecting il any hour
since the evening bulletin was posted
al Buckingham palace and flashed
throughout the Kingdom. The capital
received a without excitement, but
sadly, for the king, with bis own PEG.
ple was unquesiionably one of the
most popular rulers IN the world. They
regarded him as one of the strongest
forces making for the stability of the
peace 0f tAe empire.
Chronology Of TIC Two British Rulere
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