The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-08-15
Louisiana. The Coahoma plantation. s.

OF Mus, oO by lou 1eet. N lou on Llnuen
street, near the Bayou, 100 by 200 feet.
A lot on Front row, near Madison. 10 by
$50 feet, with improvements. All to tho
Shelby Real Estate and Investment COM
pany A tract of land in Young county,
Texas, 6,957 acres. to the Shelby County
Real Estate and Investment company.
y tract of land in - county, Colorado,
5000 acres To the Diamond Mining COM
pany of Denver, Col.
These transfers are made to protect
the said John r. Wright from sundry
| suits at law, which threaten to. grow
| the death Of Jeremiah Baxter at the
| hands of the said Wright. Regretting as
| he does the necessity of taking human
| life, the said Wright is not willing that
| his estate shall be sacrificed and the
welfare of his family jeoparded; and
| these transfers are made with the dis
| tinct understanding that whenever the
| said Wright desires to revest these vari-
| Gus properties in his own name the said
James Franklin will take steps to at
| once turn over all the papers with which
| he is intrusted, and that he will at once
secure said Wright in the possession of
| his property. The consideration alleged
| in these various deeds was never paid
| over. James Franklin binds himself as a
| man of honor and friend of John T.
Wright to faithfully fulfill the terms of
this agreement whenever the said Wright
so desires. JOHN T. WRIGHT
JAMES FRANKLIN.
"That is certainly one of the most
remarkable documents that it has
ever been my fortune to consider"
said the lawyer, his keen eyes snap.
ping with relish for novelty in lie.
gal literature. "Have You any idea
what the paper is worth?'
81 should say two or three hundred
thousand dollars" said Irving.
SIT is nearer ten or twelve mill
lions" declared the lawyer.
Irving's eyes betrayed a dazed sur
prise as he gaspingly repeated the
words after Mr.. Everett. The latter
smiled and said: II haven't the
slightest doubt that Frederick Meri-
vale would give at least $1,OO0,Ooo for
the rights secured in the Wright es-
tate by this paper"
"But--how can it beg" asked Irving
in whisper.
''Bcfore l explain this part, let mo
tell you this; that the Shelby County
Real Estate & Investment company
and the Diamond Mining company of
Colorado are virtually and practically
James Franklin. These facts were
discovered by Fenton, who at my
!. suggestion has examined the records
in the registers Office, and learned
the exact state of the case. 1t was
easy sailing about the real estate
company, but the facts concerning
the mining company were harder to
get at. 1t became necessary to have
Il thorough investigation, and with
this end in view Fenton went to Colo,
, RADIO and there he soon learned that
, the local incorporators in the Dia
mond Mining company were dunn
} mics, and that James Franklin owned
a large proportion of the stock
: These two companies were evidently
created by Wright and Franklin fol
the purpose of more thoroughly con
cealng the real nature of the trans
fers made. Fenton paid u visit tt
the Colorado tract of land, and i
proved to be in the heart of Il ricl
mining section. Originally Wrigh
: had bought it for Il song and hut
looked upon it as a very Indifferent
speculation; but in 20 years grea
changes have been wrought, mines O.
vast richness have been worked, ant
!. now it turns out that the eyes of al
the gold diggers in Colorado art
turned grcedily toward this tract o
land situated among the hills. Tt
the northeast of the tract a yer!
successful mine has been conducted
for number of years. Recently thu
vein of ore became richer and richie,
until finally it ran dead against tire
mendous wall Of solid sandstone
, which some upheaval of nature hat
thrust into the precious vein. Fo'
days and days the miners sought tt
discover the broken thread. but il
vain. until an old fellow who owned
dog" came along. The "dog" il
: some kind of mystic apparatus which
!, will Indicate the whereabouts of gold
just as the witch-hazel is said to poin
out subtcrranean stream of water
: Well. this old fellow climbed over TIN
. great wall of sandstone into Il rock,
:. reach of land: and as he was goin!
, about with his dog he soon dis
!. covered violent symptoms, as it were
, of gold. The vein was continued witt
apparently double richness on TIL
:, other side of the intervening sand
/ stone. Fenton was fortunate enough
-, to meet an old fellow ont there VIII
: had gone west from this section o
: the country and who had bought tina
tract of land for Wright: and as 500
@ as he learned of it's possibilities h
wrote to Wright telling him that Ii
f probably had Il large fortune in it,
" he had continued to hold it. Wrigh
o wrote back that the land was sti
a his, and that the taxes had been pal
i upon it regularly. This letter ha
+ been secured. OF course the news o
the discovery of this valuable vein o
"a Wright's land created intense excite
o ment, and Frederick Merivale, tn
:. largest stakeholder in the adiacen
r. mine, at once placed himself in col
"a respondence with James Franklin
r. Just what has taken place betwee
r. them is merely matter of surmis
n but this is doubtless the cause c
., Merivale's visit to Nilus."
= "No wonder they were willing an
"a ready to spend money, and to emplo
II all sorts of means to thwart the il
vestigation of the truth. 1t is no
IN only too plain that the murder {
II John Il. Wright was simply a part {
re- great conspiracy to get posscssio
II of the mines.''
~ "Not Il doubt of it: and there is II