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Show MONARCH OF A REPUBLIC. Cota Illco .Said to ba Ituled by M. C. Keith, a llrooklyn Man. PiTTSBfKO, Feb. 2. T. E. Wheeler, who until receutly was train dispatcher on the only railroad, in Cosa Rico, is visiting bis mother who lives in this city. He says the republic is boiling over with crime. The government is patterned after that of the United States, but a man named Minus C. Keith is said to be the real ruler. Keith is a Brooklyn man. He holds no office but he permits no man to hold office without his consent. Keith owns the only railroad in the country and one-half one-half of the banana plantations. The inhabitants are obedient to him and his rule is a wise oue. He has put the government on practical footing. jEvery Costa Rican is chronic olHce-' olHce-' seeker, and if he foils to get the office he wants he threatens to start a rerolu-.a'han rerolu-.a'han . Kei b iu ,-dowa ob hira. x"fmuix .iie' a-'fe"tyA ' :-i lichoolmt.rms spend most of tM&bBoo. a hours smoking cigarettes. Port Limon i- the only seaport town, is very disor .. derly. |