1911. 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
A Review of Old Matters. 
The following brazen misrepresenta¬ 
tion is taken from the Woman’s Na¬ 
tional Daily, published by E. G. Lewis. 
It refers to the forced liquidation of the 
People’s United States Bank after 
fraud orders had been issued against it 
and Lewis: 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
in the world to return them dollar for 
dollar of the original investment. The 
bank after three months business could 
pay only 87 per cent. He would pay in 
full—in promises. Unbelievable as it 
may seem, lie actually got the assign¬ 
ments to the amount of $1,500,000. Who 
is going to prosecute any rogue if the 
victim of the robbery comes to the res- 
366 
Ruef will he put at work in the jute mill 
of the prison. Attorneys for the prisoner 
will continue their fight for his liberation 
by making application to the Supreme Court 
for a rehearing. 
Investigation, of alleged Alaskan mining 
frauds, following the investigation iust 
completeed at Detroit, March 6. will bo be¬ 
gun by a federal grand jury at Chicago. The 
alleged frauds are said to involve a total 
of $1)0,000,000. The grand jury at Detroit 
,i , - . , . . ' —; „ March 0 returned indictments against seven 
cue of the man who picks his pockets? persons, including John M Bushnell of 
,. the credit of Mr. Lewis be it said 
that every depositor of fhe bank received 
every cent that he had in it, and the 
stockholders received 87 per cent, of what 
they had put in the bank—for the bal¬ 
ance, 13 per cent., Mr. Lewis has assumed 
personal responsibility. The vast amount 
of money that he returned he could have 
Lewis printed up $2,300,000 of preferred Chica f°- The name of Albert G. Frost, 
stock of his printing company, guaran- ^“itaiiwfy^now^i^tht hands" o? a'rt 
ceiver has been brought into the investiga- 
tion through a recunt court order directing 
the grand jury to investigate books of the 
hrost companies. They are said to contain 
records of the promotion of the Alaska 
teeing seven per cent.; and promised to 
have it listed on the stock exchange so 
that it could be readily sold, and prom¬ 
ised that it would bring a premium. For , ^_ ..... 
the six years since, these neoole who L e ?E' al , Kaihvay running from Seward to 
t - r --.. « ... “ stood by Mm in the dark hour” have re c“lr VS 
" e P.t bimaalf * sinc e there is no law on the had many promises and many assurances R laiat of J - p - Morgan & Co., the Sovereign 
United States statute book that could and many opportunities to chancre rme 5 ank of E anada and the Central Trust 
this money, but his piece of £pe? for ^another andSenD ^ mpan ,U« f J R -ois. It was charged that 
ally to put in some more cash, but the 
promise to return dollar for dollar has 
never been kept. On the contrary, the 
victims are impudently told that Lewis 
has suffered all. the loss. When Lewis 
reached his limit last Summer, he tried 
to turn the same trick of borrowing 
from his old victims through debenture 
bank accepted 87 per cent from the re- n ,°. tes i but the People have learned some- in Seating 0 the 
to Lewis 
indifference to them 
to make impressions on new victims". 
partment. expressed the intention to re¬ 
turn forthwith to Seattle, and after a rest 
resume the practice of law. He said that 
IF- defence had cost him not less than 
$2o,000, and he is now a poor man. Mr 
lusher s. appointment gives two places in 
the Cabinet to Chicago men, Secretary Mac- 
Veagh, of the Treasury Department, being 
also a resident of that city. Mr. Fisher 
has been notably active in the movement 
for the conservation of natural resources, 
and is a vice-president of the National Con¬ 
servation Association. Officers of that as¬ 
sociation, whose headquarters are in Wash¬ 
ington, expressed themselves as more than 
pleased with the appointment of Mr. Fisher. 
LIFE IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. 
The high cost of living comes very forci¬ 
bly to us who live in the comparatively 
unproductive part of Nebraska, commonly 
known as the Sand Hills. Although there 
are thousands and thousands of cattle all 
around us, we pay our local butcher 
la to 20 cents per pound for round steak. 
At this time of year I think he gets his 
supply from the Omaha packing houses. 
One can usually buy from a ranchman in 
the early Winter for about five and seven 
cents per pound by the quarter. Of course 
this is not grain fed. I bought half of 
a dressed hog from the butcher a few days 
ago for 10 cents per pound. This I con- 
uorneii 5, ld H’ a . fa E„ bargain. Flour runs about 
,. , na( i„ $l.o0 to $1.60 per 50-pound sack for first 
ernrio Buying in 500-pound lots one can 
save 10 cents per sack. Corn 
new buildings it has been fc gS -"-P^whe^^corn^s 
car shipped 
tt- •_ , . "“i ‘wiin me souuiern side. At the west- w •“*' i paid $1.25 per 
tie is now trying ern end will be placed the new auditorium pounds; oats, $1.35 per 100 pounds— 
On the northern side of the new quadrangle a11 P ese tb5n S s could be raised here if 
\fpn p-irn i i w „ lR 1)0 space for three or four buildings people were so inclined. Some men raised 
en earn for themselves such appel- of which the Home Economics Building busb els of corn per acre last year, and 
. . --- - iations as coward, bandit, robber, pirate, w ! } be tbo westerly one. This quadrangle H was certainly a dry year. Potatoes 
claims against him for collection, we pickpocket, thief, but the most dangerous oill b ® competed by buildings which the y it lded last year from 100 to 200 bushels 
have not been able to find that he has as well as the most despicable of aH &V22rtSS{S& ” •— <**• 8? 4S? g* A* 'ofZ 
, • , , , 1LIOU V J , 11 U L IlilJ 
native honesty would not permit him to 
let one single person suffer through his 
business failure. 
Isn’t it astonishing that any man would 
put such barefaced lies in cold type, to 
be read by thousands of people who 
know that there is not a word of truth 
in it as to the stockholders? About one- 
third of the stockholders in the defunct 
the company was overcapitalized. John 
Ballaine was appointed receiver and trus¬ 
tee. Mr. Frost was president of the com¬ 
pany. l'he railroad serves the Manantusha 
district, in which are valuable coal claims. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—By the erection 
of three new buildings for the New York 
State College of Agriculture a new quad¬ 
rangle will be formed on the Cornell 
campus. The Legislature last year 
provision for three buildings” by aDpropri- £ I ' ad< ,‘; 
ating $250,000. More are to be built latex-. 
The other stockholders yielded , in £ °* financial tricks m six years, and decided to establish a new quadrangle of perhaps 150 miles, wh 
ms’s entreaties to assign their stock ,‘ arn - »«!« W. brazen SKorSLh?souttem'Sfie “m the “we”? to’°taaVZV'V'pa* 
i. It amounted tn ahnnf non indifference to them. TTe is now trvmcr mm ... ^ ^ ion nmimio • nok- or ,, 
to him. It amounted to about $1,500,000. 
That was six years ago. With the excep¬ 
tion of a few payments that we forced 
him to make when we first received 
paid a single one of these obligations. 
We have now about 75 of these claims, 
aggregating nearly $30,000 and interest 
for six years. Two-thirds of the stock¬ 
holders never received a cent; and the 
other third, who wisely took what they 
could get from the receiver, never got 
liar. _ The others may be truthful, but the 
liar is all the others in one. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The Department of Justice 
.. „„ - . - - o-- March 3 began action under the Sherman 
the 13 per cent promised by Lewis, and an .ti-trust law to dissolve the so-called elec- 
Members of the State Fair Commission, 
headed by Lieutenant Governor Conway 
and State Commissioner of Agriculture 
Pearson, conferred with Governor Dix 
March 2 and explained to the Governor 
the plans for the development of the fair 
and the improvements of the grounds at 
Syracuse. The Commissioners told the 
Governor the next move in the wav of im¬ 
proved buildings should be to provide 
seed quoted now at $1. All kinds of 
garden stuff does exceedingly well, especial- 
ly cabbage, onions and potatoes. Onions 
I as Ei'" a11 were s °ld by the producer at $1 
to $1.50 per bushel; cabbages weighing 
from 20 to 40 pounds each at two cents 
per pound. This is that part of Nebraska 
where you get 640 acres by giving Uncle 
Sam $lo and agree to live on the land five 
years. I spent five years on one of these 
never will. Note the cvniral h„mnr- , tr « st A Petition was filed in tbe cattle building and a fruit buifding. It claims. I made a specialty of the Kolb’s 
rnv cynical humor. United States Circuit Court at Cleveland, ^as estimated that these buildings could gem watermelon, also tlie Peerless for late; 
any tmei may assume personal responsi- Ohio, by William L. Day, United States b ? constructed according to tentative plans Ejnerald Gem and Hackensack muskmelons 
bihty for your money when he nicks P 1 . 8tri c t Attorney, against the General Elec- altead y prepared for $200,000 each. The ’" r ’— - - -- 
your pocket and if this assnnno rplip^ec g ric Company, the Westinghouse Electric Commissioners also ui-ged the moving of 
yuui pucKti, ana ii tins assurance relieves Company, the National Electric Lamp Com- tbe racetrack and improvement to tbe 
your anxiety tor your money you will P ai ?y and thirty-two other defendants, al- grandstand at a cost of $40,000. The com- 
not suffer through the theft. Now read th . ey • had .entered into a ’con- 
this: »p ira< ;y 
in. restraint of trade and praying 
i°r the dissolution of this alleged combi- 
“PeoDle^s^nfto^Stnt tb< T, f ' a R i E al . stock of partment tlds^acfion 0 i^one^of^the'most 
goo e d OP ^i S th Ln S SS^oS?; ! ^ad“2S2 ^ POrtant br0USht by the 
fidence in Lewis and have waited with com- 
mendahlp nntionpo frn* him 
mendable patience for him to make good his 
many promises. I have written him repeat¬ 
edly in protest at his extravagant use of 
our money in his schemes, but get no an¬ 
swer, except once when I informed him un¬ 
less I heard why the promised dividend had 
not been paid I should employ a lawyer to 
secure an answer. I received an answer 
.. - .. ught by the government since 
the suits against the American Tobacco 
Company and the Standard Oil Company 
were instituted two years ago. The elec¬ 
trical _ trust, so-called, is declared to have 
a capital stock close to $1,000,000,000 and 
is said to control practically all of the 
business in electrical supplies in the 
mission for the present year is seeking an 
increased appropriation from the State for 
premiums. Governor Dix told the com¬ 
mission that in his opinion it might plan 
for a like appropriation for premiums to 
that given last year, which was $42,000. 
If it is possible to give an increase the 
matter will receive consideration during the 
legislative session. 
A number of vegetable growers, repre¬ 
sentative of widely separated sections of 
the State, gathered at the New York State 
College of Agriculture at Cornell Univer¬ 
sity, Ithaca, during farmers’ week, for the 
purpose of forming an association. A cora- 
TJnited States and the world. The suit be- 
gl J a i n . Cleveland is against only one pool, 
expected to 
<Tw.inoi '■unuuio, i(. is auee«i. tne _ 
tuck. The executive committee consists of 
the president and secretary and the follow¬ 
ing additional members: Ezra A. Tuttle 
Eastport, L. I., chairman; G. M. Keller, 
Brighton (Rochester) ; W. L. Bonney, Ba¬ 
tavia. Those who are ini ' ' 
E r L n< i\ pal i f! aj,LI K l - uos « wno naa saie or more than 97 per cent of the in- 
,nanUf - tU ^ the 
The Kolb’s Gem averaged about 30 pounds 
many weighing 40 pounds, planted on sod 
using no fertilizer, melons bringing 50 to 
cents each. A little over a year ago 
I entered the employ of the railroad com¬ 
pany ; since that time have had to buv 
everything but milk and eggs. Butter Is 
hard to get during the Winter months- I 
mean country butter; creamery butter ’re- 
tailed at 35 cents per pound, country butter 
at 30 cents. Creamery now 30 cents 
country, 20. In the long run I believe the 
creamery is the cheaper of the two as 
some of the country butter was ranker 
than the proverbial Limburger cheese Fees 
brought 40 cents per dozen at the 'stores 
and none to be had at that. The mer- 
chants handle the cold storage product dur¬ 
ing the Winter. In Denver, the hen fruit 
brought 60 cents at the stores or commis- 
fJ an w b0 “ ses - m . Tbese Prices were during 
the Winter. The greatest problem here is 
the fruit question. Being raised in an 
apple tree and under a grape vine in Cen¬ 
tral Iowa, where strawberries grew wild 
and raspberries and blackberries in abun- 
ise, but like all his others it failed to ma¬ 
terialize. Now, I would like to know if I 
ouTofTL'P 11 h ° pe 0f g,)tting tbat $1,000 
Massachusetts. 
Imagine if you can the sentiment of 
March 5 fire in the business section of 
Minneapolis, Minn., caused a loss of 
$1,;>00,000. It swept through the Syndi¬ 
cate Block on Nicollet avenue, destroying 
one-third of the block. 
dance as the children of Israel longed 
^ r ' t ? e ,. flesh i )0ta of Eg YPt. so we long for 
the fruits of the tree and vine. Grapes 
.^tailed last year for 45 cents per 8-pound 
basket. The local merchant rceiv<><! nine 
•i\ r0 xi nter L strd are urged cents per basket as his commission ex- 
to get in touch with the officers and help press about seven cents per bfsket 
co ^ , ‘i 1 « ce ..« pave no idea what_the"jobb^ and & th! 
j-iiiciKinc ii von nn thp . Two Persons lost their lives in a fire alre ad; v appointed and at work. Others are 
this m-j,, y i n the sentiment of which destroyed the Loch Crystal Hotel at to i ta K e up Questions of transportation, 
this man and thousands like him, who Lake View, N. C., March 6 The Loch marketing, cultural problems, and the for- 
cm «sehood e if‘re n 1 ing and outrage ; sss t\*« wt s & te „ i , s5j y ooo ec ^a s, u, s s a«^i!f n n sy^„^ iati<,M 
insurance ol $20,000. ‘ ^ ^ _.%.«« ,^»ge 
though credited to an employee. 
Lewis got this money by promising 
an independence to anyone who invest* , —-- 
ed $500. He was to out uo dollar for thfi Pr °duce Exchange Safe Deposit 
^ put up aonar for Company, when it was discoverer! 
dollar with the people. Experienced 
bankers were to be on the board. The 
funds were to be invested in Govern¬ 
ment bonds, neither Lewis nor any of*- 
ficer was to borrow from the bank. Lewis 
never invested a dollar. The board was 
his employees. The funds were not in¬ 
vested in U. S. bonds. In three months 
after the bank opened Lewis and his 
enterprises had borrowed nearly a mil- 
Bonds amounting to $85,000 were stolen 
from Aaron Bancroft, an aged New York 
broker, March 2. The fact was not learned 
until March 6, when an envelope supposed 
to contain them was taken from the vaults 
of the Produce Exchange Safe Deposit 
Company, when it was discovered that the 
envelope contained only copies of an eve 
mng newspaper. The thieves had appar 
months the time during which food prod¬ 
ucts may be held in cold storage ware¬ 
houses, passed the New York State Assem-' 
bly March 8. An attempt will be made 
to hold it up in the Senate. 
NO PARCELS POST.^—The provision in 
the post office , appropriation bill authoriz¬ 
ing the establishment of an evnerimonf-ni 
that the theft was committed in a corri¬ 
dor leading to the safe deposit vaults. Mr. 
Bancroft says that he remembers meeting 
two men in the corridor, one of whom 
bumped into him, causing him to drop the 
package and his hat. The two men pre¬ 
tended to assist him, he says, and one of 
lion dollars of the funds. The State of- SoSJlV Se?£ KSSay 
ficers^closed the bank; and the Post Of- substituted. y p ge was 
* vanguard of an exodus of farmer 
folk from Holland arrived in New Y’ork 
March 1 by the Holland-Amerlea steamship 
Noordam. There were 400 on it, men, 
women and children. One of the farmers. 
fice Department issued fraud orders. If 
Lewis had been permitted to continue 
to run the bank and to increase its cap¬ 
ital stock by money collected from the „ ^ u . - 
people, and then to use the money for E ““head faStif ha'i' n/ ““ooo 
his own purposes, no one can estimate and all are bound for Iowa, Wisconsin’and 
the suffering and loss that he would Tbe conditions for tenant uuu uivmion or tne Atlantic fleet con -- 
co^h ^ b °^trustetf him ^ ^ 
with their money, and brought the bank ^downers of Holland we’re driving the f<>1 ,nr, " A * a f - 
*--. - - i a F^ ers away. He believes that more than 
ized the postmaster-general to accept for 
delivery on rural routes packages not ex¬ 
ceeding 11 pounds in weight containing no 
first-class matter and to report to Congress at 
its next session the result of the experi¬ 
ment. This provision had the approval of 
the postmaster-general. 
ADMINISTRATION.—March 7, the army 
and navy of the United States united in a 
formidable military demonstration for the 
protection of American and other foreign 
properties in Mexico. It includes 20,000 
troops (or two-thirds of the regular army 
now in the United States). In addition to 
these troops 2,000 marines, practically all 
on ^ ae , Atlantic coast, are under orders to 
proceed immediately to Guantanamo, which 
I?, w ‘ tbln * tr)kin g distance of Mexico, and 
the fifth division of the Atlantic fleet, con- 
cio + inn* (Dm ..:_ _, 
.. — jobber and the first 
buyer each received. The producer surely 
doesn t make an over-burdensome profit 
from his vineyard. 1 
We bought nine barrels of apples during 
the early Fall and Winter, which cost us 
(about 300 miles distant) from $2.25 to 
$-..,;) per barrel, loO pounds ; freight $1.35 
per barrel and we thought them fine; they 
ran from 1% inch in diameter to 3 inches 
But m November the better half took a trip 
out into Utah, not far from Salt Lake, and 
the apples she brought back put the others 
to shame. She said that far better apples 
were rotting on the ground in Utah than 
we were buying at $3.60 per barrel, and 
° ““ some flavor to them 
were certainly fine. 
, - have here Is tbe sand 
cherry, which grows abundantly every¬ 
where and is about like the Black Morcllo- 
bushes from one to two feet high fruit 
not sour, usually injured by late freezes 
Nurserymen list these as Rocky Mountain 
cherries at 20 cents each. ^ouutuin 
H: makes me smile when I look through 
the flower catalogues and see Yucca liU- 
memtosa described as such a lovely plant 
do to «0 cents each). Out here we call 
them soapweeds and there are millions of 
frnie’fi tbat ’ s the way we flower and 
fruit fiends get taken in. f. h bkooks 
Grant Co., Nebraska. bkooks. 
Seed Drill : Vetch.— On page 195 there 
is an inquiry in regard to a new seeding 
A double disk drill with a 
attachment, and an attach- 
machine. 
to ruin The million dollars had to be 8?000 of his countrymen” will” hind” here 
accounted for. The bank was closed * bis year. The immigrants left all their 
by the State of Missouri for the benefit implements behind them, converting 
of its depositors and stockholders, hut ttw ea°n gS'fcttS- T/sm7 ife'eX 
they were not told the real state of af~ bere for less money. 
fairs. The State did not publish a paper; 
Lewis did. Like the guilty cur at the 
first swish of the lash, he set up a terrible 
The bank had been assassinated 
through a conspiracy, he told the people. 
He alone could and would save it. He 
must have a free hand. Piteously he ap¬ 
pealed to them to stand by him in the 
dark hour, intimating he had a private 
tortune, and pledging everything he had 
call for troops includes detachments from 
|vo^important military post in the United 
The President March 7 accepted the 
thrice proffered resignation of Richard A. 
Ballinger as Secretary of the Interior, and 
announced that Walter L. Fisher of Chi¬ 
cago, had been appointed Mr. Ballinger’s 
successor. Mr. Ballinger based his resig- 
S 3 SS 3 * 
tty : n ssb, ’a % sMss®?* 
year term for the bribery of supervisors 
during the regime of Mayor Eugene F. 
Schmitz. As a final concession, Ruef was 
removed from the jail to the ferryboat in 
a taxicab, instead of in the regular van. 
Ruef anticipated the usual prison rcgula- 
tions by having his mustache removed and 
his hair cropped before his departure. 
V arden Hoyle, of San Quentin says that 
much interested in your “Hairy vetch' arts 
cles. . We planted 27 acres last fall; came 
so fnr'^hi/w- + as beC r n covere<1 with snow 
so far this Winter. I am in hopes it will 
prove out to our satisfaction. if it does 
will probably plant three or four time! 
that amount the coming Autumn. n f 
Hale, Mich. 
Syphoning Water to Barn.—I wish to 
get running water to my barn. I have 
or 1 S 200 anever - f ai 1 iagspriiig, about 1,000 
oi 1,200 feet away. There is a hill be- 
fmm" fho e J llU L the bar “; the raise 
takes occasion to declare with emnlmsis from Y .k 1 : earn; the ra 
*»p“ e ss & 
ZBhZr ffi.^ UWS SJSS 
tc cause trouble? I should like to heir 
from any of your readers that had any 
experience along this line. s y 
Grantsville, Md. ' 
at the methods of those who assailed him 
declaring that he lias been “the subject of 
one or the most unscrupulous conspiracies 
for defamation of character that history 
can show. The Secretary March 7 in 
a statement given out at the Interior De- 
