St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-27
The Dazzling Fortune That
Befel C. L. Wat rouS, a
Meier Do Well.
Minnesota Wheat Grades Just
What Winnipeggers
Want.
St. Paul Suburbs Want Me-
ehanical Protection
Against Fire.
The Bar Will Eulogize Judge
Villas and Talk Of a
Successor.

G. L. Watrous, a young man who has
resided in st Paul for the past three
months, during which time he has been
endeayoring to secure permanent en-
ployment, has suddenly changed his
ideas as to the necessity for working.
and left last evening over the Northern
Pacific for the coast. Watrous was in a
hard row of StumpS financially until
something over week ago, when gldnc-
ing over one of the morning papers he
saw his name in the advertised letter
list, and the epistle when secured
proved to be an announcement from
Sydney, n. s. W., of the death of his
father, j. B. Watrous, known as the
Australian Quartz Reef King" and
one of the wealthiest men in Australia.
The deceased was one of the
proprietors of the Golden Fleece
and Kentish claims Oh the Gold
en- Gully reef. From the Bendigo mine,
in which he was one of the principal
shareholders, the immense amount of
thirteen tons of gold has been taken
out, and the present weekly output is
about 5000 ounces. In the Kentish
mine, III which Watrous pere was in
terested, there have recently been made
some startling discoveries, chief of
which is gold lodge at depth
of ,7So feet, which vein is said to be.
five feet through. Besides these i'm
mense mining interests there is
an equally large property in Mel
bourne real estate. Tue Watrous
family emigrated to the White
Hills in 1854, and the head thereof
has been one of the best.knoWn men
in mining circles during the last ten
years of his life. c. L. Watrous, whose
sudden departure last evening has been
chronicled, is the second son of his
father, and became estranged from the
family some seven years ago on account
of an unfortunate and
SOMEWHAT DISGRACEFUL LIAIsoN=
with ballet girl whose dancing was at
the time the rage of the season. This
woman.waS known as Hobart Town Polly
with her, married her and came to San
Francisco, since which time, though he
has correspondent with his mother, not a
line has passed between father and
son. The woman died of typhoid
fever while playing an engage
ment at the Bella Union theater, in
San Francisco, and since that time
WatrouS has been doing odd jobs all
over the country, now hotel clerk and
again a tramp looking for work. Dur
ing his residence in the States Watrous
has carefully refrained from allowing a
suspicion of his poverty to reach his
parents, and has not, until receiving the
draft accompanying the announcement
of his fathers death, had one cent from
the store of Australian millions. The
bulk of the property, Watrous re-
marked, would, he thought, 60 to his
older brother, but as the letter from his
mother called for his immediate return he
hoped and expected to get an income of
$1,000 year out of the prOperty any
way. Until within the past three
months, which was the period of his i'll
ness, the deceased millionaire utterly re-
| fused to hear of the return Of his sec
ond son, swearing that he would kill
him if he came into his sight. The fam
lily are now residing at Sandhurst, in
the White hills of Australia. and the re
turning prodlgal expects to reach home
within the next six weeks.