The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-18


story published IN New York that Am
hnssador Wilson had carried TO wash
ingion o Photographic COPY Of a secret
treaty between Japan and Mexico
AZ the American Embassy an
knowledge Of any such alleged treaty
was denied.
A New Version.
SEATTLE, April li.-Ten million
dollars was the price a japanese syn.
dictate had agreed to pay for a foot.
hold on Magdalena bay. through the
purchase Of the l,5OO,OOO.acre Flores
and Hale's estate
The terms or the sale had been
agreed upon and the money was act
ually placed in the bank when J.
Pierpont Morgan, who holds $780,
600 mortgage on the estate learned o.
the deal and took steps to block It.
Whether the New York banker car
ried his facts to the White House,
and whether the news of the pending
sale of the sea coast bordering on
Magdalena bay had anything to do
with the mobilization of the army on
the Mexican frontier is a mere mat
ter of speculation.
The fact yet remains that L. S.
Barnes of Los Angeles, who is now in
Seattle, and his father, w. l.. Holland.
also of Los Angeles, had negotiated
the sale of the land in question to n
Japanese syndicate, when a leak I'm
the contents of certain cable mes
sages from San Francisco to Japan
resulted within forty-eight hours In
the mobilization of the army.
Has Baffied Solution.
That order has been more than
nine days wonder, is a diplomatic
secret which has baffied satisfactory
solution up to the present time. But
1t prevented a contamination of the
enormous deal, one of the greatest Of
modern times, for the Japanese pur-
Sh"SOAS, IhOu6uB dS IL 10 COhISuuSu,
intending to acquire the land as indi-
viduals-citizens-or subjects of ia
pan-quietly withdrew, declining to
close.
Whether in doing so 1t was from
an imperial order as a result of rep.
resentations of this Government to
Japan is not known.
However, the prospective purchas-
ers in no way represented the Japan
ese government in its accredited de-
sire to acquire naval coaling station
on the coast of Lower California.
They sought the millions of acres as
a place of colonization, and with spe-
cial reference to the development and
production of orchilla, a parasite
growth which is used extensively in
dyeing, especially silks.
Met Leslie M. Shaw.
Though Barnes processes not to
have met him during his stay in Seat
tie, it is regarded as somewhat sig
lnificant that Leslie M. Shaw, former
Secretary of the Treasury, and said
to be trustee for some of the charter
company bonds, is now in the city.
Both are guests of the Hotel Washing
ton, though Barnes says he has had
no dealings with and expects to hold
no conference with Shaw.
The $75O,OOO of bonds, the only in
debtedness against the four millions
and more acres, mature in about four.
teen months.
While this is the only Indebtedness,
yet Blaclman and his associates have
in addition expended about $3,50O,O00
in development of the property.
]. Peirpont Morgan, it is said, covets
the Lower California tract, hich not
the Lower California tract, stretch of
coast line with the unequaled Magda-
lena Bay harbor so long used as tar
get practice grounds for the American
navy, but carries vast areas of highly