Show AN AMERICAN MONTE CARLO KING our long lost ex governor ell H murray to is once more above ground we were ab about jut to despair of ever seeing awing nia his beautiful face again thelast the last authenticated account of him until now related that during one of hla his spells of irrational self inal inflation stion succeeding a perusal of the latest joint eulogy upon his name by kate field he had strayed from the san ban diego newspaper office where he be was occasionally employed and was seen wandering over them the border toward lower california but it seems he be has gone back to old kentucky whence comes a piece of news touching his visit there which envelops envelope his name in a blaze of glory if reports are true our one time temporary fellow citizen is liable at any moment to become a veritable american monte carlo king As the story goes he to is president of the great syndicate of american citizens who have been the beneficiaries of a grant from president diaz of mexico to acres of land in lower california on this tract they propose to establish the largest and most altogether splendid gambling institution in the modern world it will cost according to general mur rays estimate not less than and it is for the purpose of raising this sum of money that our ex governor has gone back to the scenes of his child hood for says the report icae he is the man chosen by the syndicate to lead them in the scheme to establish an american monte carlo whose monarch will be an air american citizen who can now doubt the greatness of eli bli one can almost see nee in the minds eye his princely figure moving in the grandeur of its new dignity among the tv throngs of the great and noble of the earth who are going to make regular 1 I pilgrimages to the american monte carlo over which our murray to is to be king we can only partly conceive of the splendor that will surround him I 1 in 13 this modern monaco which it assaid is said he is going to set up but we have not the slightest doubt that he would preside with becoming grace over the most moot splendid palace of gilded folly which of american money can create it occurs to us meanwhile that for the glory of our ex gove governor anor to be perfect in his coming honor he should have a queen to sit at his right hand and preside over the games r general murray may have thought of this already in any event we would suggest that the noted advocate of rosy wine in whose heart the ex governor has long reigned supreme to is a worthy p person e for that exalted place 0 |