Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-09
WANT TO BUY.
A SKELETON
Illinois Man Man Says He
Has Jehn Orth's Bones.

~
fried, a practicing physician Of this
city, says be owns, the skeleton Of
Archduks Johann. 1t has been In his
possession for twelve years, he VI
The doctor has entered Into negotfa-
tons with interested parties In Europe
and refuses to give ont any informa-
ton pending the results. DR.. Siegfried
is a native Of this county. His father
is a farmer.
New York, Jan. e.-The following
advertisement is in q New York paper:
FOR 6ALE-Ths skeleton of Archduke
Johann, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph
Of Austria, the genuine and intact. Box
u. DenversIil-
In response to a petition by Arch
duke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, the
nephew and sole heir of Archduke
John Nepomucene Salvador, known as
John Ortiz, the latter was officially
pronounced dead by tho high court
marshaIs Office In Vienna last year.
The high court marshal decided that
Archduke John Salvador had died some
time between Aug. 8 and Aug. 5, 1890,
when the barke Sainte Marguerite, Of
which the archduke under his assumed
name OF John Orth was master, went
down In a hurricane near the little is
land Of Nuevo Ano, OF TERRA del
Fuego.
Ths Cousin Of FRANK Joseph.
Archduke John Salvador, who was
born In 1862, was the second cousin OF
Emperor Franz Joseph OF Austria and
not the brother OF the present ruler.
Alexander Won NJ Ter, consul general
Of Austriat1dGeary III NewY0rk,
heard the news that the genuine and
intact, skeleton OF ArchduKe John was
for sale out in Illinois without show
ing great concern. He laughed az he
declared that the imperial family In
Vienna would not be bidders for the
merchandise that Box 46 has put on
the market. The consul general said
that 1t was true that nobody In Aus
tria was sure just where Archduke
John Salvador had died, but that no.
body would believe that 1t was In the
region Of Denver, II.
Archduke John first brought notice
to himself outside the court when he
fell In love with Ludmila Stubsl, an
actress Of peasant birth. The arch
duke preferred her to all that his rank
offered, and he renowned his titles,
and In 1880 he married her. He as
sumed the name of John Ortiz.
Went into Shipping Trade.
John Orth decided to go into the ship
ping trade. and he bought the Sainte
Marguerite, loaded it with cement and
sailed for Buenos Aires with his
bride on board. Arriving at the South
American port. John Ortiz discharged
his cargo, let his captain go and sailed
for Valparaiso, captain Of his own
ship. 1t was on July 10, 1890, that the
ship sailed.
Several terrible hurricanes ragged on
the coasts OF the southern part OF the
| continent for almost q month. Sixty
days passed, and there was no sign
Of the Sainte Marguerite. An Argen-
tine gunboat learned that a boat an
swering the description OF John Orth's
bark has last been seen Off NueYo Ano
In a three days storm. Not one OF the
crew ever was found.
nJohn orths" Began to Appear.
Hardly had the news of the death
OF John Orth and his wife been pub
tished when the cycle of legend began
to grow. A man of C~harlevills,
France. said John 0rth had not sailed
on the Sainte Marguerite when the
ship left Buenos Aires, but that he
had substituted a man resembling
him In appearance and had gons into
the interior of Argentina and taken up
a great estate.
Later came the wild that
John Orth WAS none other than Mar
quis Yamagata, one of the Japanese
generals In the war between Japan
and China.
Other martial adventures were at
trtbuted to the missing archduke. He
was said to have placed himself at
the head OF the insurgents In one of
Chile's revolutions and to have worst
ed the Balmaceda party IN that en-
deavor.
In Chicago Stock Yards.
Several times John 0rfh was report
ed from Paris. Only last summer,
when a certain Baron de OFT visited
New York, word came from Paris that
the baron was John Orth.
The Chicago stock yards and the
machine shops OF PainesyilIe. o., also
got IN line not Iona g with the.c r
specffss candidates for honor due a
missing archduke.
OF course d man who found the
archduke's body on the coast OF Tier
Ia del Fuego might take 1t to Denver.
w., which. although the population
b only a20. unless some new ones
lave been born lately. IL on the Ct, D.
and q. aad therefore accessible: but,
as above said. Austria IS not likely 10