Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-31 | Page 2 | King Menelik's Death Once More Reported

ill HENELirS DEATH MCE HE REPORTED Announcement This Time Seems to Be Authentic, Although London Doubts It. ADDIS ABEBA, Abyssinia, March 30. Menclik II., king of Abyssinia, died todny, aged (10 years, in tho twenty-first twenty-first year of his" reign. Princo Liji .fenssu, grandson of tho Into monarch, age Id years, is heir to tho throne. 1 ; The ancient, empire of Abyssinia, or Ethiopia, includes the kingdoms of Tigro, Amhara, Slioa, with other territories terri-tories and dependencies. Its urea is 200,000 square milos and the population is estimated at between 0,000,000 and .11.000,000. Mcnclik wns elected king by the Abyssinian chieftains over lias Mang-asha. Mang-asha. He clnimod to bo a direct descendant de-scendant of Solomon by tho Queen of Sheba and styled himself "Conquering Lion of tho Tribe of Juda, elect of the Savior, King of Kings of Ethiopia." Menelik refused to acknowledge the domination of Italy over his country and compollod tho Italian army to capitulate at Adowa in lSOfj, when a treaty was signed recognizing the absolute abso-lute indenendenco of Abyssinia. Since then peace has crowned Mcnclik Mcnc-lik 's policy toward foreign powers and the country has prospered with the introduction in-troduction of improved methods of government gov-ernment and commerce