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THE RURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
June 12, IOx.j. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Having proved in two columns of 
print that, instead of the usual weeks 
of haggling, he recently returned the 
money promptly, on our demand, for two 
fake building certificates, Herbert My- 
rick ought now to be able to prove that 
“Publisher’s Desk” deprived his credu¬ 
lous victims of the pleasure of the men¬ 
tal illusion that they had a secure invest¬ 
ment and a partnership in Mr. Myrick’s 
business. Scheming promoters always 
have a lamentable lack of the sense of 
humor. They seem not to realize that 
intelligent people know that there is nev¬ 
er any need of restitution to people who 
have suffered no wrong. 
I enclose some mining stock in the 
Imnaehuk Gold Minting Company, lo¬ 
cated in the Fairhaven Mining district, 
Alaska. They put out a beautiful cata¬ 
logue with description of several mines. 
Can you find out anything about them? 
They sent me a letter saying they were 
enlarging the stock and wanted to know 
if I would put more money in it, but that 
is the last I heard from them. a. k. 
Kansas. 
Our information is that because of 
two abnormally dry seasons, and conse¬ 
quent lack of water for effective hydrau- 
lic work, the claims of this company were 
abandoned some three seasons ago. There 
is no present market for the stock, and 
not much prospect of a market in the 
future. Investment in mining stocks is 
always more or less of a gamble, and 
small investors usually stand to lose. 
I am returning the $1.74 remittance 
from the Maryland Electric Railroad Co. 
which I have endorsed, and wish to be 
placed in the treasury of the Anti-Fake 
Club, for which please send me 100 of 
the Anti-Fake Club stamps. I certainly 
shall be pleased to turn any future trou¬ 
bles of the kind over to you. You have 
saved many dollars for me in other ways, 
and I could never have made the Mary¬ 
land Electric Railway Co. give up even 
$1.74 alone. Every little will help. 
Maryland. It. n. 
A barrel containing clothing and fruit 
was shipped to Long Island parties. The 
express company failed to deliver, and 
we could only get an adjustment for the 
fruit. They claim notation should be 
made on the bill of lading, but an express 
company would refuse to accept a ship¬ 
ment if they knew the contents were 
mixed in this way, and their receipt pro¬ 
tects them. We have just been obliged to 
accept declination of a claim for damage 
where a watermelon was shipped in a 
trunk with clothing. The shipment was 
miscarried and delayed 10 days in de¬ 
livery. but the express company was 
within their rights in declining it. 
A lottery which was operated from 
Penn Yan, N. Y., recently, has beeu 
broken up by the Postoffice Department 
in Washington through the issuance of a 
fraud order which prevents the delivery of 
mail to the Rex Company which was op¬ 
erated through advertisements for people 
to write letters at their own homes for 
good pay, and was conducted upon an 
(aidless chain plan. People answering the 
“ad” were advised that very attractive 
positions paying from $8 to $15 a week 
as correspondent to write letters for firms 
Were open, but that the writer must do 
the corresponding with a certain kind of 
pen and a certain brand of ink and that 
the letters when written would be used 
to advertise these particular articles. 
A deposit of one dollar was required 
to accompany the application for a posi¬ 
tion and upon receipt of the application 
the pen and ink would be forwarded to 
the applicant. The balance of $1.50 
which was due for the materials could 
be paid for from the first week’s wages. 
When the dollar was sent another form 
of letter was forwarded to the victim to 
be recopied and sent by them to other peo-. 
pie whom they thought could be induced 
to take positions with the company and 
the writers were to receive a commission 
of fifty per cent, upon all new people 
which they secured. It was a scheme to 
dispose of pens and ink at a price great¬ 
ly in excess of their real value and the 
department has broken it up by the is¬ 
suance of the fraud order.—Local Paper. 
We had a number of inquiries about 
the above named concern during the past 
Winter and we felt confident that like all 
these work-at-home schemes, it was noth¬ 
ing short of a swindle, and advised our 
subscribers to leave it alone. Every 
proposition offering work at home that 
we have ever investigated has turned out 
to be a scheme to sell something or other 
in excess of the real value of the article, 
and which otherwise would not be pur¬ 
chased except for the delusion that the 
purchaser was going to have an oppor¬ 
tunity to earn some money. The victims 
of such schemes are usually people who 
because of ill health or deformity are un¬ 
able to earn a livelihood in ordinary oc¬ 
cupations and therefore are least able to 
lose the money expended on these fraudu¬ 
lent schemes. 
Will you advise me as to the standing 
of the Munger Securities Company, Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo.? Do you consider their 
offers safe investments? Also, what 
community would you suggest as most de¬ 
sirable for taking up a tract of this land? 
Maryland. a. s. h. 
The property offered is located in 
Southern Missouri. From the circulars 
one would expect to realize a small for¬ 
tune in a short time from an investment 
in the land, orchards and towns offered 
by this company. Their testimonial let¬ 
ters run into the hundreds, but the only 
safe way to buy property in Missouri, or 
anywhere else, is to go there and make 
your own selection. There are residents 
of Carter County who will sell you better 
land at lower prices than anything you 
can get from these land companies. Make 
a personal visit and you will save money 
in the end. 
Two young men, C. C. Fitts and- 
Harris, have been soliciting subscriptions 
through here for different magazines un¬ 
der the Publishers’ Circulating Service 
Company, Inc., Lytton Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 
Capital stock, $100,000. These boys seem 
to be making a practice of beating board 
bills, etc., slipping out of town other than 
on the railroad. Please publish this fact 
as early as possible for the protection of 
others. P- c. s. 
Alabama. 
This is good Anti-Fake Club work. We 
appreciate the interest in sending us the 
information so promptly and trust our 
readers will not fail to make a note of it. 
H. V. Wilson went through the country 
last year representing the Publishers’ Cir¬ 
culation Agency, 340 Nassau Street, New 
York City. lie solicited and received 
subscriptions from some of our subscrib¬ 
ers, and the next information was to the 
effect that the Agency had moved and left 
no address. We publish these two cases 
to emphasize the need of caution when 
dealing with traveling subscription 
agents. 
I came to Cleveland, N. Y., and bought 
a farm from Williard L. French, 87 
acres in one piece and G8 acres in an¬ 
other, which was to have $2,000 worth 
of timber on it. I was to have that for 
$500 and the 87 acres for $2,800. and the 
stock and tools for $550.00 which made 
it altogether $3,350. I was to have $500 
worth of pine across the road and all the 
lumber I needed to repair the buildings 
with for $5 a thousand, which he had 
stored in an old glass factory; there are 
about 20 scrub trees. He did not have 
a foot of lumber and there is no timber at 
all on the 68 acres. I bought a good kind 
team, nine years old, that weighed about 
I, 300 apiece, and one is a vicious kicker 
and the other about 15 years old and 
balky. There is one cow and she is all 
right. The tools are old wornout things. 
I paid $400 down and when we took 
possession I paid $200 more and was to 
pay $400 the first of November, but 
found what I was dealing with. I sued 
him for $3,000, alleging fraudulent rep¬ 
resentation. In September last, the suit 
was tried. The jury, all but one man, 
were in favor of $1,500 damages. The 
verdict was for only $650, which cov¬ 
ered only a small part of my loss, but 
established the nature of the transaction. 
The farm is not worth $10 an acre, won't 
raise anything unless you raise it in 
manure; it is all sand. I told French 
when 1 bought it I would have to rely on 
his honesty as to the land and timber, as 
I was no judge of either. He said every¬ 
thing would be just as lie told me. Every¬ 
body who comes up here and buys a farm 
invests what money he has, stay from 
three to six months, then they creep back 
to the city. Mr. French is running an 
office in Syracuse under the name of Cen¬ 
tral New York Realty Company. 
New York. mbs. J. c. b. 
We have allowed this woman to tell 
her story, giving her experience in the 
purchase of the farm because the case 
is a typical one. The number of city 
people inexperienced in farm values, who 
have fallen into the hands of some sharp 
real estate dealer is legion. Since the 
allegations were proved in court and a 
verdict rendered in the subscriber’s fa¬ 
vor, further comment is unnecessary. 
There can be no question of the future 
success of Tiie It. N.-Y. The small sub¬ 
scription fee is a very little item of ex¬ 
pense, compared with the good that you 
are doing for your subscribers. This is 
not the first time that I have called upon 
your people for valuable information, and 
if I don’t show enough appreciation in 
words, can assure you that the fault 
lies in the wording and not the writer. 
Alabama. l. p. k. 
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