Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-14

mands from the needy.
The recent sale of controlling in
teTest in the Mount Morgan gold
mines of Queensland, to an English
and Australian syndicate for some
s6,000,00O, recalls one of the great TO-
mances of mining in Australasia.
The Morgan mines, named after two
brothers who, although not the actual
discoveries, were the first to realize
the value of the property. have made
immense fortunes for those lucky /
enough to get an interest in the be-
ginning of development Walter Hall,
son OF one of the promoters, who OBJ
tanned his interest by financing the |
locators, died two years ago and left /
a fortune of $12,000,o00, and his wild
ow last May gave s5,O00,000 for edu-
cational and charitable work in Aus
tralia.
The original Hall, Thomas, was man
ager Of the Queensland National bank |
when he obtained his interest in the |
Morgan mines. The Morgans them |
selves made large fortunes, but the !
man who took them to the property, !
and Donald Gordon, the original own |
er, received virtually nothing. Cor !
don gra:ed his sheep over his acres, |
never dreaming of the wealth that
lay beneath. His brother, Sandy, who
visited him, was the first to get an
inkling of the value of the big metallic
I looking boulders, and when the at
tempt to raise sheep had failed he
took the Morgan brothers to the spot.
| They took away specimens which as
! sayed so high that the reports seemed
incredible. The Gordon brothers were
kept in the dark as to the value of
| their property, and Donald readily
sold for $4,000. Thomas hall and 9TH
ers we're taken in, the Morgans re-
tanning half interest.
The riches of the mine became a
byword. Some of the quartz produced
as much as 500 ounces of the finest
gold to the ton, and when $4,000 900
was distributed in dividends, the
shares went up to SIS. The gold bear
ing ore was finally exhausted, but in
1906 the mine was reborn as a COP
per producer, AMI today both. copper
and gold are being taken out.
Paris, May 14.-With the death of
Jean Constans, formerly ambassador
of France at Constantinople, a pic
turesque figure disappears from the
political and diplomatic world.
He is perhaps best remembered as
the minister whose uncompromising
attitude had so much to do with fore
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Paris early in 1889 and spend the re.
mainder of his life in exile NJ. Cor
STAINS strong personality stood out in
bold relief against the elegant sill
houettes of his attaches, but under
his rude exterior lurked a refined and
acute mind. He was minister of the
interior throughout the troublous Bou-
LANCER epoch, coming in for a large
share of the obloquy heaped on the
government by the impassioned sup
porters of the general. This, however,
left him quite unperturbed, and he &C
cepted mis- successes with the same
spirit Of calm. On the fateful 18th OF
January. General Boulanger had hard
ly finished buckling his valise when a
jealous detective rushed breathless to
the ministry of the interior. Although
it was l o'clock in the morning, the
official insisted on the minister being
awakened and, when he appeared,
blurted out brcashlessly:
General Boulanger is leaving"
(, "All right said NJ. Constans, coldly.
But your excellency, ne will es.
cape he is perhaps even now
at the Care du Nord."
Well, what of it? You surely don't
expect me to go 10 the station and
: see him OF"
So saying NJ. Constans turned his
back on the detective and went back
to bed.
In spite of this impertur6ability, NJ
= Constans admitted that one man had
succeeded in astonishing him. Emile
Loubet. afterwards president Of the
l republic, did this.
When | left the ministry of the in,
n terror" said NJ. Constans in telling the
story, 81 handed over to my success
sor the key Of the safe containing the
secret service money. 1t was then the
beginning Of March. and l had a nice
Z little sum, more than a million. In
bundles of 10000 francs. NJ. Loubet
!. did a thing which should not have
believed possible . Z"
Here NJ. Constans stopped and
asked:
n DO you know what he did?"
/, Someone ventured a guess.
. Not at ALL" resumed NJ. Constans
= M. Loubet signed me a receipt fol
the sum without even opening the
= safe TO see II 1t was there"
The passing away of Honore Cham
: pion has recalled the days when foi
several weeks this we'll known bool
: seller entertained unawares the EN-
press OF Russia. Day by day he show
; ed her majesty the Libraries and mu
e seums OF Paris, calling her Mademoi
d selle Hesse. She concealed her iden
IS tity from her guide until the last, plan
. ming, however, to surprise him whel
IS the opportune moment came.
= NJ. Champion was one OF the las
representatives Of the old school O
French booksellers. He began hi
v | career at a time when the seiIer n