The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-01
a CHILD OF FORTuNE.
Story OF a Young Californian's TO
mantle Life.
From, the Chicago Inter ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
At the Leland yesterday was a young
man named Burns y no had crowded a vast
amount Of history into three short years.
In 1855, when he wes % years Of age, the
sky which shone over his San Francisco
home suddenly lost its azure hue for him,
solely because the dAmosel at whose shrine
he worshIped preferred the outward aspect
Of another Paolo.
Filled with that species of despair which
under the cumstances, fills the breast OF a
youth whose voice is still a cross between a
yodllng tenor and a preternRtural bass,
Burns resolved to wander far, far away
and then, when his bones were found
bleaching upon some remote strand, the
beartleSs siren would hear Of his dreamy
demiss and in tho still watches of tine night,
when the miserable husband had gone to
the club and the children had been put to
bed, she would weep over his picture, and
and so on
Young Burns struck for the south. When
he landed at FL Paso. Tex. he had Sl5. He
crossed over the border into Mexico. He
tramped into the mountain country, where
the silver lay, got a job as a common
laborsr, made stake, and tramped some
more. He covered nearly all of Central
America in this way-worked on a coffee
plantation in Guatemala; in gold mine in
1OuuuTdss III "a UAduORduY camp IN MICA
ragua; in a rubber factory in San Salvador.
From San Salvador he made long Jump
to the Argentine Republic. He got there
before the bottom had dropped out of the
country-when the republic was sailing On
an ocean Of gold to the marshes of ruin.
Burns was shifty, and had long yankee
business head. Moreover, the fact that
dawn was following his gloom was indica led
when, some months before, he had been OBJ
served to glance with no small measure of
interest at the olive-skinned sylphs Of Cen
trail America.
Burns caught on the Argentine He got
hold OF some land-a minor matter of some
100, 900 acres or so-and sold 1t to an eager
English syndicate for a larger lump of
money than he had ever seen in the San
Francisco bank for which he had worked
Then, with graceful, sinuous motion, he
got from under before the crash came.
With bewildering wardrobe of Spanish
garments and the saddle bags of half a hun
dred burros filed with his dust, be Jour-
neyed to Chile. Itwas at the time when
Balnaceda was riding upon the crest of the
wave of success. Burns saw Balmaceda.
Balmaceda talked with Burns. Burns was
appointed a financial agent for the Chilean
government, with headquarters in England.
TO England Burns went, and he hoated
Chilean bonds, Chilean mines, Chilean
phosphates. When the revolution broke
out he turned TO Chile 10 make observa-
lions He found Balmaceda cold, re-.
strained, in favor of every man. At the
hight OF the revolution young Senior Burns
was thrown into dugeou as a suspect, and
all OF his Chilean possessions confscAted.
But be had the foresight to salt away
enough for a lifetime in England, where
the government Is somewhat more stable.
The revolution at an end, Senior Burns
was let out Of his dungeon. Now, during
all these peregrinations young Burns has
senslbly retained his American citizenship.
He has placed before the department of
state the matter of his imprisonment in
Chilean dungeon. He does not want dam
ages, for he is wearing enough diamonds
now. But he wants satisfaction Tor being
deprived of the sight Of the pretty streets
of Santiago for considerable space OF
time. He is on his wav to Washington to
see Mr. Blaine and ask for the satisfaction.