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THR RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 25, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Frank Orff, President of the Columbian- 
Sterling Magazine Company, whose princi¬ 
pal publication was the Hampton-Columbian 
Magazine, John F. B. Atkin, a Philadelphia 
lawyer, who acted as general counsel for 
the Orff concern, Lee Sidwell, Secretary and 
Treasurer of the company, and E. Bryan 
Yates, a director of the company, were all 
arrested last week, and locked up pending 
a later hearing. Two other men, one a 
stock broker, who have fled to Europe, it 
is said, are wanted in the same case. They 
declared a dividend on stock for the pur¬ 
pose of inducing persons to buy the stock, 
when the company was fast losing money 
and instead of a surplus, owed at least 
$240,000. The receiver since reported the 
liabilities to be $640,000 and no assets. The 
books were juggled, and by an estimated 
value of good will made to show a surplus. 
—Local News. 
It is estimated that the scheme netted 
the promoters $2,000,000. The R. N.-Y. 
does not feel responsible for any loss 
of its people in the scheme. The warn¬ 
ing was certainly timely and oft re¬ 
peated. Within a month of these ar¬ 
rests we had protests from people who 
put their money into it, and expressing 
themselves as satisfied with the invest¬ 
ment and sorry they did not have more. 
The stories of fighting Wall Street and 
its methods appealed to these confiding 
people, and somehow they could not see 
that they were putting their money into 
filtered water. There was not even a 
dreg of solid matter in it. Orff came 
recently from St. Louis, where he seems 
to have learned his lesson well. To 
carry it out logically now he will need 
to set himself up as a martyr, and ap¬ 
peal to Congress for an indemnity for a 
lost business. Certainly the sacred right 
to rob people has a value that is being 
cunningly, if not logically or convinc¬ 
ingly defended before a Congressional 
committee at the present time. The 
Lewis pupil seems entirely worthy of 
his master. The four men were held 
later for the Grand Jury. 
Alfred H. Monroe, president of the 
Globe Association, Chicago, Ill., was ac¬ 
quitted on the charge of using the mails 
to defraud in a Federal Court in Chi¬ 
cago last month. The Government ap¬ 
parently based its case on the charge 
that the association received a deposit 
of $7.50 for outfits from agents and 
then declined to refund this amount. 
The defense apparently was that the 
agents did not fulfill the conditions of 
the contracts and consequently were 
not entitled to the refund. We doubt 
some, whether one agent in a hundred 
ever understands the contract fully, 
and if such a ruling should prevail in 
a civil court, the deposit may as well 
be given the Globe Association outright 
as a gift. We doubt whether it is a 
physical possibility for an agent to live 
up to the letter of the agreement. 
Ex-Congressman H. M. Coudrey, of 
St. Louis, was recently arrested in New 
York City on a charge of using the 
mails to defraud in promoting the sales 
of worthless stock of the Twin Conti¬ 
nental Life Insurance and International 
Fire Insurance companies, both of 
which are now defunct. He was taken 
to St. Louis and held in $6,000 bail. 
Since the failure of the insurance com¬ 
panies Mr. Coudrey has promoted three 
other companies, one of which, the 
Lincoln National & Holding Com¬ 
pany, was capitalized for $15,000,- 
000. He was also at one time con¬ 
nected with a patent medicine—Labor- 
dine—which medical men put down as 
one of the brazen frauds of the quack 
profession. The R. N.-Y. was under 
the necessity of refusing his order for 
an advertisement of some paper securi¬ 
ties, when he was in Congress. In fact 
the declined order was written in Con¬ 
gressional offices. It is said that the 
disappearance of $160,000 worth of as¬ 
sets of the insurance companies is back 
of the arrest. St. Louis promoters are 
very much in evidence at this time. 
We thought you would be pleased to 
know that we have received a check from 
the Pere Marquette Railroad Company cov¬ 
ering our claim in full, and we wish to 
thank you for all you have done to bring 
it about. The railroads are collecting an 
enormous amount of money from farmers 
in overcharge, and most farmers think the 
word of the railroad agent is law. They 
ought to wake up. Thanking you again 
Michigan. d. b. 
This claim was for an overcharge on 
a shipment of manure amounting to 
$15.85. We finally induced the railroad 
company to make an investigation 
which showed that the car had been 
billed out at a wrong weight. They ac¬ 
cepted the verified statement of the 
teamster who re-weighed the car after 
much correspondence and delay. Many 
farmers pay such bills, and while they 
believe the charge is excessive, do not 
take precaution to re-weigh nor the 
trouble to recover. Complaints of the 
kind are frequent enough to lead to the 
suspicion that agents who overcharge 
are not severely punished by their su¬ 
periors. 
I enclose a contract of the International 
Land Company of Algona. Iowa. The trick 
in this case is that when the company 
makes an effort to sell the property, the 
commission is due whether the sale is made 
or not. I learn through the papers that 
the company got into trouble in other parts 
of the State. w. l. 
Iowa. 
In essence this is the old Ostrander 
scheme. First pay a fee for listing the 
property, and the agent has his money 
whether a sale is made or not, usually 
he is so busy getting the advanced fees 
that he has no time to sell farms. 
Received the $1.40 from the express com¬ 
pany at Greene, N. Y'., for overcharges on 
the 400 baby chicks from Stockton. N. .1. 
Please accept my thanks for collecting it, 
as the express agent had refused to refund 
the overcharges. I realize that The It. 
N.-Y’. is entitled to more than just thank 
you. but every one in this community seems 
to he a subscriber. I,. J. H. 
New Y'ork. 
An overcharge of $1.40 may seem a 
small matter; but such excesses amount 
to large sums in the aggregate. This 
probably helps swell the enormous divi¬ 
dends paid by these express companies. 
In a community in which everyone is a 
subscriber to The R. N.-Y., there seems 
little to be desired from its standpoint, 
and little more for its friends to do. 
Some time ago I shipped 19 skunk and 
one house cat skin to the Corr.v Hide & 
Fur Co., of Corry, Pa. They cut me so 
out of all reason in the grading that I de¬ 
manded a return of the furs as per agree¬ 
ment. The return shipment arrived yester¬ 
day, and I think the only part of the 
original shipment which came back is one 
cat skin. I sent them three or four black 
skunk, one the largest I ever got, and 
they returned one very small black one; 
of those that I sent them most were half 
stripes, and nearly all of those they re¬ 
turned were full stripe, and consequently 
of much less value. I consider the ship¬ 
ment returned about one-third the value 
of the one I sent. My father and 1 
packed up the shipment I sent and can both 
make affidavits that they substituted in¬ 
ferior goods. I need all I can get for the 
furs to help pay my school expenses. Do 
you think there is any way to get at them? 
I consider $15 a reasonable compensation 
for my loss. s. A. T. 
New Y’ork. 
As the raw fur season approaches a 
word of caution is needed against 
sending furs to unreliable jobbers and 
dealers. Some firms will hold your 
shipment separate until you receive re¬ 
mittance, and if you are not satisfied 
you can order the furs reshipped and 
send back the check. But even this 
plan does not protect you unless the 
dealer is honest and responsible, as the 
above experience of a New York State 
subscriber last season will show. We 
repeat it now for the benefit of ship¬ 
pers. J. J. d. 
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R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
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