The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-04

( club. He came to Venezuela to look
after the interests of the New York &
/ Bermudez company, after Mr.. Carter
/ the representative OF the company. had
permitted its affairs to get into a hope
less tangle. 1t is not Mr.. Beans fault
he is here. He Is behaving himself like
i a gentleman. living the life of a gen
tleman. and gradually realizing that all
that glitters is not asphalt. He has
Caracas, has the best cook in Vene-
zuela. has spent a great deal of money
for the New York & Bermudez com
pany and has employed most of the
, lawyers in Caracas whom Mr.. Sullivan
I has not. Now, fix in your mind in
connection with Mr.. Bean one Pastor
| Y Mora, just as you have fixed in con-
nectiOn with Mr.. Sullivan one ZUiOaga.
Senior Pastor is a dark and skiiIfuI
Spaniard, who failed as a coffee plant
eT, and now stands ready to die for
Mr.. Bean when the real fighting be
gins
We now turn to Mr.. Macdonald. Mr..
Macdonald comes from Newark, N J..
but much frequents the Hoffman House
/ when in the United States. He is a
tall, handsome fellow. with Roscoe
COnkling locks and an imperial beard
Of reddish brown. He has done much
contracting in the United States. where
the asphalt men know him as King
George" controls an asphalt mine at
! MaTacaibO. TO which the New York &
and is interested in coal mines and oil
properties at MaTacaibO The Ven
eZuelan women think him the hand
soonest man in the country. He has
played his cards well, stands solid with
the Castro government, and especially
with the minister of FOmentO, who con-
trolls concessions. and is frequently a
guest at the presidents palace of Mira
Flores. Associated " tn Mr. MacDOn-
laid is a certain DR.. Manuel NJ. POnte.
Mo 1wHfs IA 4
that ZulOaga does TO Sullivan and Pas
tor Mora does to Bean.
A "gringo' or visitor coming to Ca
racas has mis- arrival instantly reported
to Mr.. Sullivan, to Mr.. Bean, to Mr..
Macdonald and to the police He may
be after a gold mining concession or q
rife contract, or merely attending to
his own business. Instantly three suS-
picious asphalt natives picture it that
the newcomer is down to interfere in
the asphalt dispute, and if he does not
clear up the mystery of his coming
three excited messengers rush for the
cable office, and the stranger finds him
self Swallowed during his stay in Vene-
: zuela. wherever he goes, and at all
| hours Of the day and night:
Firstly man representing the
/ jefe civil.
Secondly a darksome individual
Thirdly q light stopper from Mr.
/ Beans house
Fourth-By a watchful individual
/ representing Mr.. Macdonald.
1 While the innocent stranger is being
| bounded from lair to lair other things
may be happening in the asphalt play
IN which Mr., ZulOaga, Mr.. Pastor y
Mora and DR.. P0nte may have to do.
! Mr. Bean may desire to send a man to
MaracdibO to see what can be done
NHraHN p IL -. ~
/ Mystery in Mr.. MacDOnald's room. A
Showing home of cartridges. a pOcketing
! of huge revolver. a rafting of a cab,
/ and DR.. Ponta is off for MaracaibO, too.
/ hot on the trail of Pastor y Nora, also
! heavily armed. And it may just happen
that the same train that carries Ponte
and Pastor to La Guayra to take the
steamer for Maracaibo may also carry
I Rfr. SulliVan's DR.. ZulOaga, dsnsely
muf8ed n the baggage van and pre-
sumably a walking arsenal ZulOaga
/ may be of to see what he can do for
I Mr. Sullivan, or he may be off to see
the fun when the shooting begins
This is no fancy picture. An affair
exactly like it occurred one week ago,
only 1t was in connection with the Ber-
/ mudez lake concessions. POnte went 70
BermudeZ lake to perfect title to the
last slice of the lake that still remains
the property OF the New York & Ber-
nluGez company under Venezuelan law
| Pastor followed him, and, so far as
know. is trailing him for a quick shot
even now.
As this trailing of MacDonald's man
] by Beans man, each sworn TO kill the
: other should occasion require, is really
the newest phase of the asphalt war, it
may be permitted to go into a some
what extended explanation of how the
incident came about together with the
/ giving OF few side lights on the
I asphalt controversy not generally
known as the United States.
Mr.. MacDonald's interests and Mr.
/ Sulhvan's interests have not generally
been recognized as working together
Mr.. Macdonald and the New York &
/ Bermudez company, that is to say, the
trust, were lighting fO$ possession OF
! tbs Maracaib0 mine. which is in quite
/ a different part Of Venezuela from Ber-
/ mudez lake, over which the trust and
! werner & Quinlan were cOntending.
/ Hlr. Macdonald insists that he has no
/ interest in the Bermudez lake conten-
/ ton, and is very emphatic in his asser-
I ton. The facts are that Mallet Pre-
/ Nest. who was the lsWyer of the Mac
/ Donald interest. not long ago appeared
T IN Washington as the attorney of the
/ Warner & QGinlan company. He also
/ prepared the brief fled in April with
/ the state department. fOT Warner &
+ QuiElan. Hr Prevosf's brief vas
/ subtle argument against the title %
I the New York & Bermadez company to
any portion of the Bermudez lake.
j 1t described how certain Nenezueians.
under the mining laws. had de
+ nouaced the Felicidad portion of the
j Rerlnudez lake; how. under the laws,
they had set their stakes and notice
1 had been given: hoyc the the New York
+ & Bermudez company had permitted
/ the forty days 10 eiapse without pro-
/ testing or protecting their property, and
/ how the title had gone to the Nene-
zuelan. who had, in turn, sold Felici-
dad TO Warner & Quinlas1. Then was
relat ted how another party Of Vene-
zuelans had similarly denounced an
/ Other section Of the lake, called it the
Mine Venezuela" and now, through
/ negleet OF the Owners. III Forty days
that section, TOO. had legally gone out
+ of the hands of the New York & Ber-
! naudez company.
BY way of depression il may be stat
ed that this is the only serious phase
Of the situation fof tie New York &
Bermudez company. Under the laws
of Venezuela anyone may go out and
+ discover a mine, although it may
: have been operated fsr q hundred
years. The new "discoverers complies
with formaliIies and If in forty days
the real owner COS not protect his