The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-15

or he discovered process for taking
copper from low grade ore which prom
ised to greatly reduce the cost of the fin
ished product. He went East, and after
almost a year of hard and discouraging
work secured the money necessary to
build an Independent smelter in which to
develop his success. His smelter proved
so successful that soon he was able to buy
two good mines thus defeating the plans
OF men who were attempting to drive
him out of business. Since that time Mr.
Heinze has been almost continually In
litigation, first with the Boston & Mon
tana company. and later with the Stand
ard OIL capitalists, who succeeded to the
business of the Boston & Montana, and
many other of the largest copper corpo-
rations.
There are said to be now more than
sixty separate actions of law pending in
the courts of Montana, New York, New
Jersey and other states. Several recent
decisions have been made in Mr.. Heinze's
favor. and the offer of SIS 600, 900 by the
Standard Oil people was made in an eff
tort to compromise matters and put an
end to the apparently endless litigation
now in progress.
In personal appearance Mr.. Heinze Is
youthful and athletic. He enjoys a fight,
and, as he feels sure of his position, he
is is no hurry to accept even the great
sum offered him to sell out and quit the
copper mining business.
INHERITED AUSTRALIAN GOLD.
Miss Elsie Tyson is a young woman of
twenty eight, with a Scotch burr in her
speech. Thirteen months ago she was
employed as maid on a ranch in Hum
boldt county, California It was her
duty then to feed the cattle and assist in
the homework. One day In February
1899, a lawyer named Wilson, member Of
the law firm of Wilson, Lawrence & Will
son, rode up to the ranch and told Miss
Tyson that she was one of the richest
young women in the world. Her uncle,
'Old Jim" Tyson, known all over Aus
tralia as a man whose wealth was only
exceeded by his eccentricity, had died
and left no will.
His lawyers had found letters In an
iron box in his cabin which led one Of
them to go to Scotland in search of an
heir. But there on the estate of the Duke
of Argyll, where the Tysons had lived
for generations, he found nothing but
tombstones to afford a clew. The tomb
stones and the church records sent the
lawyer across the sea again, first to
Orange, N j., then to the classic shades
of Evanston ILL.,. and finally to the ranch
in California, where the search was sue
Mr.. Wilson advanced liberal sum to
Miss Tyson, escorted her to Australia,
proved her claim to the Tyson estate, val
ued at 900, and turned the property
over to her. Now she is back in this
country, on her way to Scotland, where
she will make her home in the future.
Strange to say, Miss Tyson is an I'M
happy young woman, in spite of her Won
derful good fortune. She is almost alone
in the world and has few intimate
friends. Besides, the responsibility of
looking after such a large estate has al
most overpowered her.
STRUCK IT RICH IN NOME.
Five years ago Jake Halsey was a
laborer on Tillson's wharf at Rockland,
Me. A year later he was freight brake
man on the Maine Central railroad. Then
he came West, reaching "a Chicago in
March, 1897. Jake found a few weeks
work in that city and then decided to
move on still further toward the setting
sun He tramped from Chicago to Kan
sas City. and beat his way on freight
trains from the Missouri to the Pacific
coast. In San Francisco he worked as a
porter, washing spittoons and sweeping
ont q saloon.
Two years ago he went to the Klon-
dixie, having saved up $780, the largest
sum he had ever had in his life, before
starting. The first year in Alaska Jake