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October 1G. 1020 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters.to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Katherine M. Stanton, said to be head 
of the K. M. Stanton Co.. Inc., and the 
Stanton Oil Company, was indicted by 
the Federal grand jury on a charge of 
using the mails to defraud investors in 
oil stock of $750,000. The. Stanton Oil 
Company is said to have produced some 
oil. but not in the quantities represented 
in circulars sent to prospective investors. 
The oil company, it is said, was organized 
with a capital stock of 3,000,000 shares 
at $1 a share, and it is alleged a dividend 
of 80 per cent was declared the first, two 
weeks, and months before the company 
sold any oil. Frank Dwyer and Albert 
Froelich are alleged to have been pro¬ 
moters of the stock of the two companies, 
and are also named in the indictment. 
About a year ago my 11-year-old boy 
saw an advertisement in one of the small 
animal magazines of a certain 11. A. Boies 
<>f Millbrook, N. Y., and sent for his price 
list. He shortly received a small copy¬ 
righted catalogue giving prices and de¬ 
scriptions of all sorts of pets, large and 
small, and made a selection of cavies 
amounting to $7.80. lie having secured his 
money by various odd jobs. I sent a 
certified check, as requested for the 
amount, and in two or three days a 
printed form was sent in reply, to the 
effect that the order was received and 
would shortly be shipped, and asking him, 
iu case of writing again, for any reason, 
to refer to order No. 5799. A few days 
later came two copies of The Fanciers' 
Fens, “official organ of the American 
Fanciers’ Association,” and this is the 
last we have heard from him. Four sep¬ 
arate letters from the boy and myself, 
two of them registered, have elicited no 
response. The indorsed check came back 
to the bank long ago. and was evidently 
cashed within a few days of my sending 
it. If you can render any assistance in 
the matter, we should great!'- appreciate 
it. I might add that Boies claims to have 
been in this business for over 20 years, 
and that he is located on a “40-acre farm 
half way between Millbrook and Dover 
Plains.” n. E. J. 
Massachusetts. 
We have had many complaints against 
IT. A. Boies of Millbrook, N. Y., and we 
have previously advise d subscribers 
against having dealings with him or 
trusting him with orders and remittances. 
The only way we know to put a stop to 
this class of dealers cheating the public 
is to make complaint to the Chief Post 
Office Inspector. Washington, D. C., al¬ 
leging fraudulent use of the mails. 
I enclose letter from the Evangeline 
Oil Company. Broeton. N. Y. Can you 
tell me whether there is such a company 
as this, and if it is a reliable one? 
New York. e. t. p. 
The circulars appealing for investments 
have all the earmarks of a “wildcat” oil 
scheme. The company do not claim to 
have produced any oil. The circular only 
claims they are “drilling” for oil. It’s 
not even a good gamble. 
The supply of fresh “sucker bait” is 
never-failing. I am enclosing what seems 
to wear the earmarks, three varieties, on 
which you may care to comment in Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk and warn your readers. 
Connecticut. E. p. r. 
No. 1 is “Financial Common Sense.” 
published by Mark Harris. Buffalo, a 
notorious vendor of worthless stocks. 
No. 2 is an invitation to share in the 
enormous profits in the mail order busi¬ 
ness by the Peoples Profit Sharing Co., 
Boston. This appears to be a new con¬ 
cern, capitalized for $10,000,000. The 
advertisement refers to the well-known 
successful mail order houses as evidence 
that an investment in this company will 
prove desirable, which is the standard 
“sucker bait” used by stock promoters. 
The advertisement asks the following per¬ 
tinent question: “Did you ever know a 
mail order house that did not make money 
from the beginning?” Yes, we can refer 
the Peoples Profit Sharing Co. to a dozen 
mail order concerns which failed and went 
out of business, for every successful one 
this company can name. Enough said. 
No. 8. A New York stock brokerage 
house wants the public to share in its 
earnings, and as an inducement Liberty 
bonds will be accepted at face value in 
payment of the stock. Any concern try¬ 
ing to get Liberty bonds away from the 
‘Ibc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
holders in exchange for stock condemns 
their own proposition and justifies the 
suspicion that they are selling “gold 
bricks.” 
I wrote you in August concerning the 
Knickerbocker Mail Order Company, but 
after waiting to this date I am sorry to 
say I have not heard anything from them. 
As they do not answer any of my letters 
it is of no use writing them, so I am let¬ 
ting you know that I have not received 
my money back, or I should have written 
and thanked you for it. I thank you all 
the same for your kindness, even though 
not successful. R. J. 
New York. 
We are in receipt of the following let¬ 
ter from the receiver of the Knickerbocker 
Mail Order Company. All having claims 
against the company should verify same 
before a notary and forward to the re¬ 
ceiver. 
The assets of the Knickerbocker Mail 
Order Company have been purchased un¬ 
der an arrangement confirmed by the IT. 
8. District Court for the Southern Dis¬ 
trict of New York. 
Distribution of the proceeds will here¬ 
after be made to all creditors whose 
claims are duly proven with the referee. 
Seaman Miller, 2 Rector Street, of this 
city. The proofs under the bankruptcy 
act should be forwarded to him. 
Creditors should be patient for the 
money, as it takes some time to go 
through the necessary formalities. 
Clifford g. i.udvigh, Receiver. 
We have read with interest the many 
good things published in your paper, and 
have paid particular attention to the fakes 
and schemes you have exposed in the 
Publisher’s Desk. T want to tell you 
about a swindler who came to our part 
of the country and beat the people. lie 
had the best bunch of suckers that ever 
Lit. He gave his name as W. A. Curtis. 
He came to Akron, O.. and then went 
out in the country and bought a farm 
about 10 miles out of Akron. 180 acres, 
named it Portage Manor, ami advertised 
in the Akron daily papers a great poultry 
proposition : one acre of land and a poul¬ 
try yard, netting and coops, and a house 
built, on it, all for one-fourth of the price 
of the acre of ground ; the rest to be paid 
when they sell their broilers, so much a 
month. They were to have electricity, 
water, a school, a church, and hatchery 
and brooder, and to have the chicks at 
six weeks old for 20 cents apiece, and 
keep them till they weigh 1 J /j to 2 pounds, 
and then they would pay them New York 
prices for them. They were going to put 
up a slaughter-house and dress them and 
pack them in cartons to sell. lie bought 
three farms; paid $300 on the first farm 
and gave several worthless checks, $1,500 
on farm No. 2. $1,000 on No. 8. He had 
about 100 families that bought acres and 
paid nice little sums down, all they had. 
all working people. lie was here about 
two months, from the middle of May till 
the middle of July, and took in all their 
payments from these people, bought 
nearly all the lumber on time, put off the 
labor, saying he had lots of money com¬ 
ing. but could not get it on account of the 
money being tied up; and one day he was 
gone, took his wife to the doctor, and that 
was the last seen of Mr. Curtis. He got 
away with about 840.000. left debts to 
the amount of $55,000. He had no deed 
for the first farm, and there are about 40 
houses built on it, and the buyers do not 
know where they are, as they have 
no deeds for these homes and nothing to 
show for it. I wish you would expose 
this man and warn the people to beware. 
When a man comes around to start a 
poultry farm tell them to look up his- 
record before they bite. R. E. 
Ohio. 
The above poultry farm proposition 
seems from the report to be a duplicate 
of the “hog ranch” scheme which has been 
employed to swindle the public for a half 
dozen years back. But this faker who 
went by the name of Curtis will not be 
content with this scoop of easy money. 
He is likely to bob up in some new local¬ 
ity and try to repeat the performance. 
We are in receipt of a circular of a some¬ 
what similar scheme being promoted from 
Baltimore, Md.. by the Vashon Poultry 
Farms Co. There may be no connection 
between the two schemes, but all such 
promotions are to be avoided, as they 
only bring disaster and loss to those who 
put their savings into them in the end. 
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Photoplay Writing?” He claims anybody 
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photoplays with a little help from him. 
New Jersey. H. B, 
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