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Show lint In I'c.rlf. Whllo Johann Mueller was slowly dying In the nlmshouso at Dulutb, Minn., detectives wcro seeking him nil tho way from the Klondike to Cuba. Ho died supposing blmtclt to he a miserable pauper, when he was worth several hundred thousand dollars, Mueller was a homesteader who took up several hundred seres of government govern-ment land a few miles north ot Dulutb years ago, lie became Involved In financial difficulties and mortgaged his land. Then he disappeared lleforo the mortgages could be foreclosed large deposlta of ore wero found on hla Unit, and a world-wide atarch waa Initltuted for the man. A money loansr, who held one ot the mortgages, finally foreclosed fore-closed and (old ore rights to th Carnegie Car-negie Steel company for a splsndld sum. The matter will bs contested In tbo courts. The property Is now valued at $500,000. |