Burns has been reading the Journal and about the school scandal of Detroit and he wishes to inform McMaster of the "gentleman of Colorado". Father Honoratus Bourion was ordained by Bishop Frederick Baraga and sent to Negaunee. With the growth of the iron mining Catholics came in. Yet he kept the parish outside Marquette until 1869, when he was forced out. He had an assistant, now at Red Wing, Minnesota. When the Bishop went to Rome in 1869, Bourion obtained powers as vicar general but did not stay in his parish. In 1871, by reason of family scandals he obtained an exeat and went to Colorado. 1. Bourion took up the penny collection in his biretta and in his stovepipe on feast days. 2. When the bishop of visitation forbade him to do this he served only soup at dinner, saying that was all he could afford, although he had an income of $4,000 to $5,000. 4. He sold a horse and buggy the people bought him and pocketed the money. 5. In 1865 he obtained from the bishop the pew rent in one church which was $3,000, in another $2,000 and another $500. 6. He collected and kept most of the jubilee alms of 1869. 7. Obtaining powers of attorney from the bishop he plunged the church into debt, spending $12,000 on a wooden church. Bourion had little faith, if any, and goes hand in hand with the Freemasons and speaks against infallibility. Burns encloses a letter not given which shows him to be a liar, since his mother died March 29, 1872. P.S. If McMaster exposes him, he is not to expose Burns at the same time. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.