Show I ELKINS IS QUITE DISTRACTED New W York Oct OcL Katherine Elkins arrived toda today on the White Star Stan liner Adriatic after a stay of In Europe during which It has haG been beon asserted and denIed that she had met the Duke or o Abruzzi to whom at atone one time she was reported to be on en engaged It was reported at tho same samu time LIme that royal objections to the match had been withdrawn and that Miss Was as tIle the solo dictator With Miss Elkins her hor mother Mrs Stephen B 13 Elkins and her two Stephen and Davis DaviR Time Tho mt Int ten ter was as Is your our sister engaged to be mar rl ned ed to t the he Duke So far as I know she is not lie he ro plied Would you ou know I if an existed I Not necessarily lie be replied Mr Ir added that If his sister anti and lund hod met meL he did not know of It and said he did not believe the they had Senator Elkins was on the tho pier to meet his family Miss Elkins denied herself to nIl all interviewers Somo endeavored to toI I got t a picture of Miss Elkins but her I brothers anti and some Bome friends crowded around h her r to prevent It Senator El Elkins kins remarked that his daughter had been bean driven almost to distraction In by bythe the tho reports that had been printed about her She has the appearance of having been through much mental straIn i |