Show 0 OF F YAp LEFT tEFT IF FT i r A fl i iI I G Expects E to tOt get Gt et l Bulk of the I t Rr STaRr Of Of O K E E FE FEo FEo i o I I o S OP OF ARE ARR POlL BOH PORt BOHt t 4 SIt Savanna Ga GaThe The story of th tM the wealth o of David the stalwart Irishman Who o wont went to the island of Tap Y in the theO Cayenne c O puP group and there established a over which be he ruled for fr many j I Ito i I yeas seams to be true That he was wealthy is now w n a certainty I the natives of the island looked upon him It as a monarch is equally true Toese Tasse facts are vouched for tor by Ity Walter Waiter WalterC Watt r rI I C Hartridge a Savannah attorney who has s returned to his hilt home in Savannah Savann attar a visit to the tile island of Yap Tap to in n nv v the tha tb position held there by his h l and ana t 19 4 to examine Ir I Ithe the wealth weal Aft by the man moan who cut oft off of f fIron Iron Croat civilisation founded himself a home a ant and a busIness and amid built himself up a fortune Mr Hartridge who went in ue I 1 halt taif of tile the and daughter Mrs OKeefe and Mrs Krs J F But Butler ButI ler Jer I of Savannah brines home a glowing t of OKeefe life fife e and his success a as a financier and on the island ef of r Terang Twang which is one of ot the thee swatter e islands in the Yap Tap group 5 TEstate tate of King Xing Amounts to Million The estate estat is said aid to be ba worth fully f Uy There is hi a trading business MH val valued ye tied at lN and aDd holdings of at other kinds make up the other MM It is I Ithe ithe the most moat of this property pr ty to which he the Savannah widow and daughter will lay claim Mr Hartridge says say that at least I COO of this will wiil come cometo to Savannah sad and Bd maybe a good deal more There can b be no final settlement until May of or next n I year when th the king will 11 have baye been le Ic legally legally gally gaIly dead for foe three years the time un under unI I der the German law which must elapse before there can caD be a final settlement of or oran I an estate when a person disappears One Oneill is ill considered legally dead by that Urns Urn time As OKeefe went wet out to sea e ea in one o e of his hi ships more than two years ago afro with two of his big sons oWl and as u neither ship lp a nor pas pan passengers passengers have ever been heard from since he Is probably dead all aU right Mr Hr Hartridge e found everything at Te Terang Terang Terang rang almost as 8 it had bad been reported to him there by letter Jetter It was wu hard to reach I th the little island J A United States war I shop took him from but when he got to Yap he be fouad found tile tie subjects S I II mourning for tor a dead monarch OKeefe I ruled with a firm hand and had a stand standing sta d I I ing lug army array of twelve risked faked savages com corn commanded commanded mended by a man fully folly clothed with a uniform and authority to see ee that his hi I I bidding was done He Be never had bad any all trouble There was never a revolt among a n his people They Idolized Idolised their ki g gand and h he treated those who lived upon his hist I island t la with much kindness He Did Not See the Yap Queen Mr Hartridge failed taI to see Me the queen queeR of Yap OKeefe 0 Keefe after fter he had bad been on oil the island for a time took unto hImSelf a wife He lie did not forget his hl wife in Sa 55 Savannah Savannah vannah but he was wu so far away from nw ht old home that he appeared not to think it was wa any aJay great wrong to take unto him himself himself self Belt another spouse by whom he had four tour daughters and three sons Two Ot Of these sons ions It is supposed suppo ed went down do with their tether taUter sit Ml n the trip from Hong kong In n May two years year ago The remain remaining remainIng ing log soil SOH la Is on the island of St at DavId Davids a abut but is 18 not n t retarded regarded re aa as of much account The Queen te is known as 8 She was not at home when Mr Hart Hartridge Hartridge ridge was WU on Oft the island for she had Jaad had some trouble with the German govern government government ment which exercises a protectorate I I over th the group in il which her own little island Iland wa situated and she had bad been compelled to withdraw temporarily from public view Affairs had not advanced well in OKeefe island family after he disappeared dl ap peered peed One of his ble daughters took to the woods wooda with a lover whom she chose from frem among tile the common people and went we t back beck to the primitive Ye method a ot of her an There to is snowier ao e daughter who secured an education in ht a convent at atHO HO She is 18 said t I te be civilized ad to be a young you woman of good ad adress address dress ress She appeared to know more mere about Her Iter fathers than han any an of 0 the other children n and to care eare more for tor his Ate mem meni memory memory menior ory or There are besides two girls pia not yet et grown who are an en the island or Of Terang TerangI I King Xing Had Red a Good Library The ria king Idi did not forget his hie civilized civilised ways way living as he did cUd in la 1 the faraway I 1 island I JeDd where he lie had bad isolated himself elf from civilisation He had bed a li ll library I henry which is still in his h fine horn home rY t The looks Books are there as ne he left them 1 There nere are ats alT all the standard volumes and much of the current literature of the I kings g day de He liked the novels o 0 American writers and there were ere several everl Ito books printed five or six ix years ago CO found f und on OIl bib ate shelves He had bad a room built bull t specially especially for his Ata own us use It was ther therie I h he ie got closer doe to American civilization than anywhere else e When he be wanted to think of home bome and it seems scents he always j called America home he would seclude I himself in his hie den and rend read t or write He HeI was not very facile with th the pen but he be used to write to his American wife twice t I a year His remittances for her bel support were prompt and generous generou Mr 1 Hartridge was not able fully tully to verify verity the story about having been thrown up on the island with some sonic somei i wreckage wree from fro a vessel v l in which he ha had wp It is 1 more probable that he went I to the t e little group of islands with the express purpose e of winning his hi way He knew the nature of the natives and felt that he could secure ure a foothold on n some of the tM smaller Maller islands Islan and make his for fortune ro tune tUDe It te is certain that after he got ot on the tile island of et f Terang he was made much of and aed soon hailed as a monarch attorneys are looking after the UW there of Mrs Mra Butler and andI tier her mother I |