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Show THINK HE IS ALIVE friends of Explorer. Believe Be-lieve He Did Not Pcrisli While In Tibet. . NEW YORK. Jan. J. A caMegrara from Mr. Conger, American Minister to Chins, bis been received by the editor of the. Christian Herald, la answer to an inquiry about Francis H. Nichols, the explorer, whose death in Tibet has been rumored to have occurred while he i was en route to Lhawso. Mr. Conger's i dispatch was as follows: - "Nichols left China by way of Burin Bur-in ah for India. September C No lnfor-. mation since then." It is said the Minister was a personal , friend of Nichols and bad introduced him to stl the high Chinese officials In Peking, and the explorer's friends here ; are Inclined to believe that If he were dead the Minister to China, or at least some of -the Chinese officials, would have heard of lk - |