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Show PRINCIPALS IN MYSTERY WHICH j HAS MANY PUZZLING FEATURES J Kent J. Loomls and William H. Ellis El-lis nro two men whoso affairs havo bo-como bo-como of International Importance. Mr. Loomls Is tho brother of Assistant Secretary of Stato I.ootnls, and was on his way to Abyssinia to deliver a commercial com-mercial treaty to Emperor Menelllc when ho disappeared on tho night of Juno 19 from tho steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II at Uromcn. When passengers pas-sengers landed at Plymouth next day Loomls was not seen, and nothing has been heard of him since. Mr. Ellis sailed from Marseilles Sunday, bear-lng bear-lng tho treaty that Mr. Loomls should havo carried. EHIb was In Abyssinia last year with tho Consul Skinner expedition, ex-pedition, had provlously visited tho country and Is said to exert a mysterious mysteri-ous power over Mcncllk. Ho also Is alleged to possess a deslro to become king of that country. Ellis has been a railway president and company promoter, pro-moter, and from his ofllco In New York controls tho affairs of tho Amcr-ica-MoxIco-Wcst Indies and Porto mean me-an Company. Ho told friends recently recent-ly that ho expected within two years to havo command of $150,000,001) and I 1 IP tho resources of tho richest country In Europe, A rumor from Hamburg to tho effect that Mr. Loomls' body had boon washed ashoro at Cherbourg, Franco, has been received, but It cannot can-not bo confirmed. Assistant Secretary Loomls denies tho reports that his brother had trouble with Ellis. Tho latter, it Is said, offered to remain In Franco to assist In tho search. |