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Show BETTER JOB FOR EG AN. itlaine Sihl to Have Offered Him the Appointment Ap-pointment as lii.ister Kitberto Paris or Pekin. New Yokk, April 9. The Hcrald''s correspondent corre-spondent iu Valparaiso cabled his paper thus : Uuited .States Consul McCreery told me that Minister Patrick Egan had been offered by Sec retary Maine the appointment as minister either to Paris or PeUin. Mr. Egau, so Mr. McCreery says, after thinking over the matter, mat-ter, declined both offers. He did not want I ' to go to Paris on the ground that it is too ex-1 ex-1 peuoive. His objectiou to Pekin was the I distance. |