Show J B FAIRBANKS ILL IN COLOMBIA COLO IBIA Artist of Young Academy Scientific Expedition Thin and Weak At a Hotel With an Aggregation of Uncertain Politicians Word Wor conIes comes from Mr Ir John n D Fall Fair Fairbanks banks artist for the Academy South expedition that he ho Is In III C U S of oC Colombia At 1 times It has been Im Impossible ImpossIble possible for him to retain food tood on hi hili In consequence con Quence of this he has become very cr thin and weak He lit HeIs Is 9 gaining strength again According to his Just ast letter he expects to be lie strong enough to do gome work In III a afew afew few days Mr Ir Fait banks had been sent by the expedition in III advance of oC the th company BO 80 that tho t he could spend JI 1111 his time in tn making paintings sketches antI and photo photographs gra graphs hs of ot the river country countr So far lie he has hils not been able to do much In his Great Groot expectations Ix were entertained for the success SU H of ot hi hit work during this summer Bummer but hit hili Ill Illness ness M may a compel him to return home Aside And from his Illness the delay which I III canned catl l cu e ot or the war In Co Colombia lombia Is III his mean Th following letter to hU hll on IOn Leo who Is I teacher of or art In the L I 1 Uni University will be bli of oC Interest to hit friends 8 en July Jul e l vf quite a make up UI here I rt at the hotel You YOh know there I a revolution here In Colombia and there lire are about a hall haiL dozen ir onH trying to get t permits to go Into the Interior In the first placa pineo there U II a II well educated general Hb Ills politic seems a little doubtful He Itt H permitted to live here at U hotel but butI 1 I very er watched and It seems they th g Get t more strict Inch each day A mining expert hag ha been hero haro month German I dont donL re remember member his hiM M an hman and an another man or two each unpaged In different brunches branche of ot bu but they all dabbled In III politico to n 1 or IN and IIII ate 1118 there therefore therefore fore tery ver critically Then thoro Ii I a doctor a n captain of a ae 1 e el tl loaded with steel rails mils and until yesterday he did not know kno where or orto to tu whom horn to deliver them and an all artist of or an exploring ex expedition waiting for tor strength to go 0 tILl far farther ther Taking them all In all 1111 1 I think It II quite quit a f curious collection of human being Ob yes IM I 1 forgot on ont very Important is s the man 11 In Colombia U 18 quite a pic picturesque place it wharf bart where vege vegetables vegetable tables table fruit tc ar r brought In Ii lt wry very interesting The narrow crook crooked ed tel tu with houm on and two torfe matt It little different dl from anything we have yet et s en no Their money mane here bel U I very err cheap M II In III mot everything K lIE tl II American If I worth too of at dollar dolla Tou can ca gt A good melon for Me ec of money or l c ot of our moo y It Jl c MU to end a letter leUer borne bome or about of Ma 08 of our cent |