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Show Joar men who have just become millionaire; JAPAN TO COPY AFTliK AMERICA Count Matsiikiitu has appointed p-- by the mikado load of a special embassy which will start at the beginning of March for the United States, Great Britain and llie eonlinent to investigate financial ti.iestious. Tbe counts mission is in no way connected with In fact, its investigations will be of an uuulliclal character, though undertaken by special appointloan-raisin- g. ment of tbe emperor. Frlnce Komatsu will represent the During the last few days there haa been a meeting of unusual interest in Duluth. It was composed of only four men, and when they appeared on the street together many people regarded them with special Interest, and somebody would be heard to say: "There go the four newly made millionaires Frank W. Eaton, Leonidas Merritt, R. H. Fagan, and George J. Ijonstorf." They are the four fee owners of the 820 acres of iron ore lead in "section 30, near Ely, Minn., which was Involved in the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, in Midway Co. vs. Frank W. Eaton et al., which went in favor of the defendants. The immediate effect of the decision was to create four new millionaires out of men of moderate means, men who had fought hard and denied themselves as few do in the struggle for wealth. Frank W. Eaton Is easily the character of the quartet of newly made millionaires. He was sitting in an office chatting with an acquaintance the day that the news was wired from Washington that he and his associates had won the great suit for the iron ore land. A mutual friend entered the office and gave Eaton his first news of the result Eaton was smoking a cigar and had one foot on a small table in the room. He listened to what the caller had to say with an interest that was manifest only in his eyes. He continued to smoke, and after a moment said: So tbe horses have got back to the stable at last. It was a long, hard A moment later a messenger, race. who had been hunting for Eaton, ar rived with a telegram confirming the report. The news spread like magic, IkAKK W. -- and congratulations poured in to Eaton and Fagau. the only fee owners of the property at that time in Duluth, and to their attorneys, L. C. Harris and J. L. Washburn, "lxm Merritt was in Nebraska, and the news reached him there the same day. What will the newly madp millionaires do with their wealth? They do not know themselves. This is the second time that Lon Merritt has been a millionaire, but he has passed through some years that would have crushed out the spirit from a man of less resolution and ambition. He lost his wealth, practically all of it, during the bad years from 1893 to 1897, but he hung on to his prospective wealth in section 30. as did his three associates. His name is familiar in the mining districts of Mexico and Arizona, but he slid into smooh water only when the news came from Washington that the defendants had, won the section 80 case. R. H. Fagan was an explorer for years before he struck it right. He and Lon Merritt are among the men who used to carry heavy packs from Duluth into the wil derness now' traversed by the great iron ore roads of northern .ilnnesota. They sought for pine land and minerals, and while they p:i.s,d through many hardships and privations and the outlook for years was di kouraging nml ready money was scarce and hard to get, they have been rii lily rewarded in the end. Mr. Fagan is still in the pine land business, associated with Edn ward Lynch, another former and explorer, and during recent years they have made some money. Mr. Fagan says that he has struggled hard for the last ten years to get such a start that in the event the section 30 case was decided against the fee owners he would not be too discouraged to try and acquire an independence. George J. Lonstorf is a son of the late Nicholas Lonstorf of Milwaukee. George was born in Marquette, and the family was in comfortable circumstances at the time of the section 80 see his client for six months at i or WaBh stretch. J. 1 Was-libur- burn Hailey was the active attorney for Merritt and Fagan. Washburn and QUEEN TO VISIT Harris are leading attorneys of the UNITED STATES Northwest, and it is understood that each will receive a fee of about A dispatch from Rome says King The litigation is estimated to Humbert's widow; is preparing to make have cost 31.0U0.U00. a tour of t He United States, her desire to visit tli is country having been revived by the glowing descriptions of Cotton Ciruw n In Flee Month. Mine. Ristori, the Italian tragedienne. HunAn Interesting illustration of The dowager queen will travel strictly the in garian enterprise! is furnished under the name of Countess government experiments now' being Incognito, and will take passage on a Stuplnlg, made in that country with the object liner from England. She will be ac- of introducing the cultivation of the cotton plant. Although the climate leaves only five months (from the middle of April to the middle of September) for all the necessary operations from sowing to picking, it is calculated that by special measures the usual seven months can be shortened by two. These consist of a special preparation of the seeds and the addition of cerdecision. L. C. Harris, who was attorney for tain ingredients to the soil. Eaton and Lonstorf, says that the Lucky persons are those who see former seldom cameto tne office. There not and did the when grasp opportunities. w'ere times attorney & 3100,-Ou- (OGOOOOl toot Romance Brought to Light, 0oeoeooocoeoeoooo9coeocoooooooooooeoGooeeacG9C889ce9O8 st generation of the Heatons to another for nearly 400 years would at her death pass into the hands of strangers. Her researeh was constant and faithful. At regular Btated intervals she sent her letters out to America to the last known address of the missing cousin. As regularly did they return. Then, in dcpsalr, she wrote to the newspapers. Somehow or other William Bailey had disappeared and the search dragged itself to the weary In length of nearly eighteen years. all that time William Bailey bad never written home. Finally Anna Heaton gave it up in despair, settled herself in the belief that her favorite cousin was dead and ceased writing. Last August Mr. Bailey made up his He would mind to take a journey. visit England, seek out the old scenes and find out whether he was albne in the world or whether time and Providence had spared to him some of his pwn kith and kin. He had no idea that he would meet any of his own blood this side of eternity. He went to Ijondon for the first time in nearly thirty years and from London to Keighley, his old home in Yorkshire. whom There he found bis he had not seen iiuce tbe day he turned his back on England and his (ace toward America. His appearance at Keighley was like the rising of some one from the dead, for a quarter of a century works many changes in the chart of time. When half-brothe- r, O. well-know- eoeooooeooeceoeoooooooeoooooot William Knowles Bailey, heir of Ponden hall, one of tbe most famous estates in England, is now and has been for years a resident of the United States. The solicitors of tbe estate have but recently discovered him and he will shortly return to the land of h(a nativity to take possession of his property. He left Keighley, in Yorkshire, when but a young man on account of a love affair and landed In Philadelphia during the progress of the centennial exposition. Since then he has been practically lost to his English relatives. Mr. Bailey even after coming to the United States forswore his allegiance to Queen Victoria and became an American citizen. He was living in blissful unconsciousness that he was the object of an earnest and untiring search, tbe purpose of which was to establish bis right to Inherit the estate of Ponden hall and the equally famous Stanbury moor. The searcher was none other than his own cousin, Anna Knowles Heaton, the heiress and owner of Ponden hall and Its surrounding moor, who was cousin, anxlouB to And her long-loand In her last will and testament declared him the successor to her rights and titles. William Bailey was her only surviving relative, tbe playmate of her childhood and the cousin In whom she delighted as a young woman. She was fearful lest her famous property that had descended from one Count Matukata. (Appointed by the Mikado Head of a Special Embassy to the United States.) emperor at the coronation of King Edward VII. EADOEf. to 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 o the welcomes had been extended his told him of the Btate of affairs at Iouden hall how Anna Heaton had become mistress of the old Its chief claim to historic fame lies upon the fact that It was the only church left standing in Cromwell's time after the reformer had swept Heaton estate and how she hod searchtwo decades for her cousin. It was about eight miles in the country on the moors from Keighley to Ponden hall, but William Bailey covered the ground before sunset, and that nlgbt found him In Anna Heatons dwelling famous Ponden hall. It was a joyful reunion that of the cousins. Miss Heaton has announced her intention of coming to America with Mr. Bailey, but the two intend to return to Ponden hall and its famous moorlands In the spring. Perhaps the skill of a Philadelphia lawyer may be called into service to make the will that shall cause the renowned spot to pass into an Americans hands at Miss Heaton's demise. For she Is anxious that, having found her cousin, the necessary documents shall also pass into his possession before he may lose himself again. Ponden hall as it now stands was built in 1834 but the first house in which the Heatons lived stood on the spot over 400 years ago. Haworth church, where old Patrick Bronte was the rector, and adjoining whfth was the Bronte home, stands near. It is a stanch relic of the past and has Btood since the year 600 A. D. through England. half-broth- er ed for nearly What Kipling: Once Thought. Rudyard Kipling, who is 36, 1b perhaps the moBt famous man of his age living, but there was a time when it seemed that his light would be hid You ought under a bushel in India. to know better," he wrote from Bombay to a friend who urged him to come to Ixrndon. Would you be astonished if I told you that I look forward to nothing except an Indian journalist's career? Why should I? My home's out here; all the people I know are out here, and all the Interests I have arc out here. Why should I go away? Any fool can put up the and market is full of boys rhymes who could undersell me as soon as I Mr. Kipling has had put put In It. since mind his then. changed companied by an escort of naval and army officers. william c. WHITNEY RETIRES William C. Whitney, who has an nounced his coining retirement from d business, is now In his of a In the and busy and evening year eventful career. It Is juBt seventeen years since he reached the acme of hid career in the cabinet office of Secret tary of the Navy. Mr. Whitney Is one of the richest men in New York, but in his long life he has never grudged any amount of his time to devotion ts sixty-secon- Wlnilan Churchill' Comparison. In an speech aithe London Savage club recently on tbe purity of the English tongue Winston I hare written Churchill remarked: five books, the same number as Moses but I will not press the comparison." after-dinn- er None of lifes prizes are for the young man who is on a hunt for a soft snap. "SV j . j his duties as a citizen In local, state and national politics. Cruel Treat men I, It inay not be generally known that there is cruelty In the keeping of gold fish. Half of such captives die from sheer want of rest. As fish have eyes so formed that they cannot endure the light, in a glass vessel they are in an entirely wrong place, as is evident from the way In which they dash about and go round and round until fairly worn out P |