The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-17
SILVER QUESTION.
NEWSBOY MILLIONAIRE.
London to See the Denouement of
Pretty Romance of the West
and South,


Pretty Romance of the West
and South.
The romance of the Cooper King
of Colorado and it's approaching happy
ending at st. Dunstan's, in Fleet street,
is the thing of particular interest to
American society in London at the
present moment.
The Copper King is Mr.. John Nc
Donough, the president TO the John
McDonough Security company, of Den
yer, head of such a splendid property
as the Gholson Copper company, ami
principal member of the company work.
ing the mother vein at Clear Creek.
Col, adjoining the famous Stanley
mine, from which gold, silver and cop
per to the value of $S,000,000 have been
taken. The bride, who is expected
to arrive in England directly, on the
steamer Mobile, of the Atlantic Trans
port line, is Miss Margaret Dare,
young lady who has succeeded in MAX
ing name for herself in literature III
New York, writing over the nom de
plume of Richard Dare. She is New
Orleans girl, and comes from an Old
and distinguished Creole family
That Miss Dare is a beautiful young
woman goes without saying. How Miss
Dare and Mr. McDonough met, fell In
love, were engaged to be married, sep
arated and came together again would
make far more interesting reading than
most novels.
A number of prominent Americans
with some well-known English guests
are to accompany Mr.. McDonough
when he goes down to meet his bride
at Tilbury, which he will do on
specially chartered boat as soon as
the Mobile is signalled today or to-
morrow.
Mr.. McDonough is a Liverpool En-
glishman by birth. He went to Amer
lea as lad, and his first experience
of life on the other side of the Atlantic
was gained in selling papers about the
streets of New York He was bright
and energetic, and rose steadily, finally
going to Albany and Troy, in New
York state, and securing control of
a small library which he soon developed
into a publishing house that gained a
decided reputation in the western part
of the state.
1t was at Troy, when he had dis
tanced a number of rivals in the book
selling business, that Mr. McDonough
met Miss Dare. This was a little over
five years ago. Everything went well
for time. But the course of true love
did not run smoothly The McDonough
! establishment was sold, the local So
ciety was disappointed of a splendid
wedding it had anticipated for nearly a
year, and Mr.. McDonough left Troy
with a heavy heart.
The young Observation-Disclosures
went straight to Colorado, and tried to
forget the lovely Southerner Perhaps
it was with the desperation of disap-
pointed love that he started in to rival
the famous W. S. Stratton, who in
beginning life in Denver in 1892, had
only the grub stake Bret Harte tells
about, but at present counts his fortune
in millions. McDonough got into the
real estate business in Denver, made
money fast organized the First Ma
ticnal bank, of Colorado, of which he
is still the president, became director Of
the Commonwealth Savings bank, and
then started in to buy up proSpectors'
claims in mines that had proved good.
He went in for copper when almost
everybody was seeking only silver and
gold and the event proved the wisdom
of his judgment.
Mr. McDonough, making copper his
speciality, in this way organized syndi-
| cate after syndicate to operate the
mines he secured. One of these mines,
| in Custer county, Col, is now paying
good dividends on over 100000 The
| Gholson mine is an immense deposit of
native copper, such as have heretofore
only been found in the state of Mich
igan.
When the copper mines were In such
a highly remunerative condition Mr..
McDonough, who had all along kept a
close watch on the movement of MISS
Dare, again laid active siege to that
young lady's affections. She had al
lowed no other sutton to take his place
in her heart, and her reply to him was
pa promise to come to London to be
married.