The Cordova daily times., 1917-08-03
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The following story has a peculiar interest for Alaskans. John Peter Grant, the principal is the mining pro. moter who made a payment to Mir. Murphy for his copper property on La touche island, then fell down on me remainder of the payments, taken f om the Examiner at San Francisco:
 Romance heightened interest :n ,he daring Colonel John Peter Grant yesterday when the inevitable beauti- fai woman was brought into the story .of how the adventurous globe trot&er almost got away with a monumental Huff and s5,0OO of Hind. Rolph & Co. s gold.
 When the colonel came here recent ly and set about laying his nearly successful plans to sell Hind, Rolph & Co. two Teutonic steamships interned .i1 Chinese waters, he was accompan- fed by a charming woman, g years of age. He introduced her as h,s daughter, Pauline. He affectionately c1lled her Polly"
 The colonel admitted yesterday just fefore he hurriedly gave up his rooms at the Stewart hotel and departed from the city that Polly" is not his daugh. ter. Where the colonel went no one seems to know He left word al his hotel that he was going to Hyron springs for a few days rest The whereabouts of Polly" is also mat
 TT of mere supposition.
 The management of at least two fashionable hotels in San Francisco have been long under the impress sion that the beautiful Pauline really was the eolonel's daughter. About a year and half ago the two registered at the St. Francis, and on other occasions when Colonel Grants "business" brought him here, his daughter" ac- companied him.
 | 1otOhci biduls dIlHOuBu lOdlH 10 uD it, confessed that Polly" is angry with him because he has "interfered with her matrimonial opportunities, ? fs the colonel put it. He said she had deserted him, which no dutiful daugh
 CT should do, complaining that his
 show of affeatiop in public had been A
 he cause of the breaking off of two engagements In Shanghai and .hree engagements in Yokohama. The col onel seemed rather downeast about it
 The confession Of his romance is not the only one Colonel Grant has
 made. It is known he made com plete written confession of his nego tiation with Hsad, Rolph & Go, from the time he approached s. V. Hodges of the steamship company with an Cf fer to sell through Chinese Liplo nat" two German ships interned by China, up to the time when he reldct
 lntly returned to Hind, Rolph & Co Ill but $1S0 of $5,000 which he was given by Hodges as a first payment
 )n the vessels. Ehe damaging docu nent is in the hands of Attorney Bert
 Schlesinger, who first discovered that | ablegrams which Colonel Grant ex. libited as having come from the Chi. lese diplomat" were reproductions.
 It develops that Colonel Grant is, as
 le represented, the brother of Sir James Alexander Grant, M. D., K. C. M. G., consulting physical to the gov ernor of Canada.
 Also Hind, Rolph X Co. have learn ed that the two ships Colonel Grant negotiated to sell to them really exist
 They are now loading hemp at Ma nila for San Francisco and Seattle. But the Chinese government is oper- | lting them; doesn't. as far as can be ascertained. want to sell them, and the Chinese diplomat" the colonel said, could swing the deal Is purely mythical character.
 Hind, Rolph . Co.,, according to Hodges, are not disposed to seek the arrest of Grant They consider the iase closed. The company. it is said. obtained from the bank on it the S5,. poo check it gave to the colonel and destroyed it. In the company's check book at the place from which the ! Grant check was torn is written the I word void" The $1S0 which the colonel had spent was made up. it is | whispered by Hodges personally and Inc books of the corporation shows TO 'ecord of the negotiations whereby Hind, Rolph & Co. were to have pur- chased from Colonel John Peter Grant two steamships for the sum of $2.. 10000
 Colonel Grant oaut4 a maesapa to