The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-09
MADE SEVEN MILLIONS.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-With Septem-
Der cotton at an advance of $50 points
for the day, equivalent to $3.50 per bale,
and over 200 points in two days. and
likely to go higher, and with the news
of private settlements 100 points higher.
the New York cotton exchange today
saw the elimination of the most sue
cessfully carried-out corner in cotton in
the history of this market The cor
ner has made for w. P Brown of New
Orleans, it's leader, at the lowest calcu-
lation, between 100000 and $4,000, 900
on the September option alone.
Today, in one hour. cotton rose over
Sc a bale, because the men who had
acted on the theory that the corner
would not hold had sold cotton by thou
sands of bales, and were not able to
find it to buy to make the deliveries
they had contracted to make tomorrow
and, in consequence, had to buy it from
the men to whom they had previously
sold it. For the first time in the history
of cotton selling on a worldwide basis,
the market is absolutely cornered.
AFTER BURIED COIN.
TACOMA, Sept. 29.-The recent settle
| ment and distribution of the estate left
| by Joseph Conatser, a miser, has again
set the people of Whitman county
guessing as to what became of a chart
showing the location of various places
where Conatser had buried his money.
| Just before his death, Conatser gave
| Thomas Keyes, his closest friend, plat
which contained a number of marks,
dots and figures, and pointing from the
| window of his cabin, showed the SPOT
| where some money was buried. He
asked Keyes to dig it up, and in an old
| tin can the latter found $3.50 in gold
coin. Conatser gave Keyes to under
stand that each spot on the chart mark
| ed place where money was buried.
When it was found necessary to move
the old man to a hospital this chart
and his other papers were sewed inside
of Conatser's vest. After his death all
| the papers We're turned over to the
| Court with the exception of the chart.
| The mystery which surrounds the lost
chart may never be explained and the
accumulatfons of Joseph Conatser, the
Sunset miser, may remain secret for
ever.
UNIQUE DIVORCE SUIT.
PORTLAND (Or), Sept. 30.-Unique
among suits for divorce in this country
is the ground upon which Mrs. Julia NJ.
Parsons seeks legal separation from her
husband. Mrs. Parsons wants divorce
from c. E. Parsons, an attendant at the
State asylum for the insane, on the
ground that during his employment at
the asylum, the past three years, he has
stolen articles from the State of Ore
gon and concealed them in their dwell
ling. The plaintiff further alleges that
her husband threatened to kill her if
she made the facts known. The exposure
was so quietly conducted that the hus-
band was taken completely by surprise.
The officials at the asylum were ap
prised Of the facts of the case and in
order to make an investigation of the
charges without exciting the suspicion
of the accused, sent him to the country
with one of the teams of the institution
While another team was sent to his
home and procured the articles. They
We're identified as property belonging to
the State. although the marks of identi-
fication had been pretty much obliter-
ated: the goods were taken possession
of by the asylum authorities 1t is
probable that criminal proceedings will
be brought against Parsons.
DE BLOWITZ's MEMOIRS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30-Some unpub-
lished history of value and many inter-
esting sidelights upon modern history
and historic figures appear in the
memoirs of De BlowitZ, journalist and
diplomat. AS CORES pendent at Paris
for the London Times De Blowitz for
many years filled a position of UNIQUE
Importance. He knew thoroughly the
statecraft. royalty and nobility of his
time and for over forty years followed
the rapidly changing center of action
and interest in Europe.
In his memoirs, which are to be pub
lished tomorrow by Doubleday, Page &
Co. De Blowitz makes an exclamation
of the failure of France to go to Egypt
with England that is particularly inter-
esting at this time on account of the
situation in Southeastern Europe. He
claims that France did not participate
in the events of 1881 because of the
quarrel between Gambetta and De
Freycinet. He speaks with authority,
for he was one of the mediators who