The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-16
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Times Democrat.l
The st. Louis Globe Democrat ol
Sunday contains the following special
from its New York correspondent,
which is interesting reading just now,
although it contains many inaccura-
cies. These will be readily recog.
nized:
NEW York, Nov. 9.-Mejor e. A.
Burke's sudden return from Queens.
town to London last mouth, which SO
disappointed his American friends,
has borne golden fruit. Some uf this
fruit, with.tbe narserymen who are7to
raise plenty more of it in Hondur as,
left here yesterday morning for San
Francisco, en- route for Amapalsls, on
the Pacific coast of President Bogran's
republic. They took with them the
marvellous collection of silver and
steel and glass and leather tools they
had had made to order in the Eegiish
metropolie-such an outfit as no trav-
eler ever exhibited in New York be-
fore-;riurnphs of mechanical and sell
entific ingenuity; constructed steam
engines, stamp mills, portable kitchen,
drugstores, wardrobes, and all 80 as to
be- carried safely and easily on mule
rugged mountains and through the
tropical forests OF Honduras. The
brains to contrive all this aud the
money to pay for it were furnished by
the ex-treasurer of Louisiana, whose
name has been banded about on mems
lips for weeks in company with the
words ssdefaulter," ssembezz.er' and
the like,
Has the man transmitted his very
shame to gold, or rather has be
achieved success in spite of evil report?
And will the money he realize from
this syndicate wonderful purchase of
his Central American mines, in spite
of tidings harsh enough to ruin many
a surer scheme and stouter heart, be
used by Major Burke in redeeming and
retiring the ssbaby bonds and other
over-issued bonds in his native State?
This last some OF his friends believ.
THE MEN IN THE PARTY.
The director general of the work in
these vast Honduranean placer and
silver mines, which Major Burke has
Just placed SO advantageouslN in Lon
don, is Douglas l.. Y. Brown, well
known mining expert and practical
operator. With him in the party who
left here yesterday were Mining En-
gineer Phillips, also miner of expe-
rience, and Mr.. William Helding, an
agent of the great banking house of
RothscLild. AT San Francisco the
party will meet MIR. E. E. Tucker, one
OF the most expert placer miners in
California. Mr.. Tucker is still young
man, but his exploits in deviating the
bed of the Sacramento river and re-
claiming thousands of acres of agricul-
tural land in the Sacramento Valley
after the famous decisions were rem
dered in the formers favor, seem TO
have pointed him out 10 the Burke
syndicate as the right man to work
the ninety miles of river bed which
Bogran made over to Burke, add
which Burke has unloaded on these
English shareholders. All this is the
elimination of an International ro-
nance in which the actors are the
President of Honduras, Major E. A.
Burke, Col. McMurdo, of London, the
most famous of American promoters,
now deceased, and the argus-eyed
newspaper press of two continents.
GAMBLED WITH MILLIONS.
"It was possible for Burke, in the
face of criminal indictment itself, to
consummate this great financial deal,
to which the Repoblic of Honduras,
the State of Louisiana and Great Brit
aiu are all parties. If the news had
| not been published just when it was
cabled from New Orleans that Burke's
accounts with the State were found, to
every body's intense amazement, to be
short, this great mining deal would
have gone through long ago. II Col
McAI--.io had not died suddenly las
81 led almost pen in hand and il
I tne very act of closing the documen-
tary part of Burke's siransfer TO th,
ommittee of stock holders, it would
have. gone through still longer ago
There is queer tissue of fate and
queer flavor of the instability OF hu
man fortune pervading the who'll
affair. These men gambled with mil
lions and almost lost.
"Where and what is Burke now p
"Is Major Burke in Belgium now p
These questions were asked OF one {
the mining expedition as he got o
the steamer.
"He's not where people have bee
lied TO believe him, you can depend o
that was the answer. "As soon {
his London stockholders will let hin