The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12
Foes Of Ambitious Empress
Removed One by One
Through Secret Agency.
SCIENCE IS BAFFLED
Even Menelek a Victim of Its
Deadly Potency; Grow
Old in a Day.
,peciaI Cable TO The Tribune.

spec,al Cable 10 The Tribune.
AFRO, Nov, ll.-What Is happen
Ing in Abysslnia today? There In
the Dark Continent Is a mystery
" greater than any that Sherlock
Holmes ever pondered over.
Were Abysslnla in the line Of thToobng
cables all the world would be buzzing
with talk OF the dread death that stalks
in the tents OF the mighty.
Travel essays of the French publiclst.
Arthur Louis. contain amazing tales o,
dsa,h," ds n"S Which suddenly brings on para.
iysis, premature old age and inevitable
dissolution. The elixir leaves no trace
In the body: the ,wsened tissues Of the
those of genuine octogenarians,
Many a stav-at-home scientist has
risen TO scoff at Louis's statements. de-
tales. Yet for three years events In the
territory OF the Lion of Ethiopia have
been such as 10 prove conclusively some
dIa6olical hand has been distributing a
kbyssinian dignitarcs. Such is the sit
uation that no prominent chief or war
rior can feel assured that within three
weeks he Will not become decrepit
paralytic and In three more fall sud
denIy dead. How and why2 There Is
the worlds greatest mystery at this mo-
mcnt, for the doctors cannot penetrate IT,
Great Mon Picked Out.
One by one the great men OF the coun'
try have been picked out by the unseen
assassin and made the victims OF the
deadly elixir. The world heard conflict
ing tales Of the death OF tho Emperor
Menciek Bu. since then Prince Regent
Tassama died from il mysteriously. fol
lowed by hts son. governor OF the prov"
ince @ - OF voltage. Staying witt. that son
at the time was cousin, s.I who paMsss9 Mora
jstelv Prince Abatc. condUeror OF the
Tleran rebels, while pursuing his al
fairs in seeming rigor, fol- suddenly
heraldcd the fate OF tho others.
In every case the victims were in ordi-
nary health when stricken MS by a shntp
away OF creeping sickness. Paralysis 'cn
upon them In a moment. Those VINO
were middle aged turned old in q day; ;
,bc Younger victims became middle aged
between dawn md dark. Rut all passed
10 their graves long before their time
for no man has ever shown the syU'p-
toms OF elixir poisoning and escaped
death. -
UNDOUBTEDLY the great Emperor Meme
iek WAS a victim. too. though his ire
mandous physique and unconqueraele
will enabled him to finger long after IN"
flrs, stroke. II was natural thai the
greatest figure in native African, history
should have enemies, but his genius built
ana tho removal of these stalwarts SUI
nrocrods as steadily and rcmorsclessly
as though the distributor OF the Iatai
nnison were Fat" itself.
n is recalled. now That ltaly II en-
h,rped on n new African enterprise. now
tbc italian troops met disaster after dls-
astcr i'm the hills Of Adowa. The gen.
erals OF Rome were no match as"lnse
Tho Ahyssinian soldier politician Ra2 MA
konncn Yet since then that brliilHn,
warrior has met his end suddenly anu
With the same mystery as his master
Thc elixir sappcd his vitality ana III u
few weeks his soldiers unourned bis nen'
IIis son Ded1as lima succeeded nun IN
RANK and dignity. Nine months later