The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-11-28
RASCALS AND THEIR
PRECIOUS STONES.


4 nm L~nt q Saint o. q S0lier9
Honest Clarence King and sturdy Dave
Cotton make out q very strong case OF
observation-disclosures in their showing
of the probabilities that L 1t. Roberts,
Harpending and their innocens and I'M
suspecting associates were hornswog,led
by a very ad-oitly and txpensively de
vissl AMI executed sailing process.
whereby the very epidermis and bowels
q, of the earth were made to bear false
witness in favor of deliberate and oddly
planned masterpiece Of rosuery. Ac-
cordin, to Kings report and conclusions.
and Colton's showing. (which merely
reiterates what Hing has to say on the
subject) the parties who got MP this
Arizona diamond furo-e, must have first
had very considerable amount Of ready
money to enable them to purchase enough
real gems-cer..inly couple Of Pecks.
or inore-to enable them to '' salt II
~hole streak vi ..l!-side AMI all the ad-
jacent pismire nests must also have had
an intimate knoxledG. of the country
which they fixed upon TO do their sailing
in and INST have known whom to tacke
for their ,.-.iins Wien they opened UP
their game In San Francisco. Janin
owns up that they fooled him completely:
indeed he seems to have gone to the as
serted diamond mines presiisposed to be
deceived. H; says as much. III fact.
Now, who PIT up this job ? That is til,
question. Vim. NJ. Lent, 50 they say, Is
"out'' an even 100000 by the trans
action. What on We wonder. He is
the regular, Old original North American
SIN ,rt Alec; and yet h.. comes out. at the
very head of the s:.ners who put their
responsible names to the card which de-
nounces this whole diamond game for
barefaca1 swindle. The names OF the
men Who seem nearest to the originators
of this fraudulent scheme are Arnold and
Slack and il IS Row tine belief amongst
tine inevitable seers and soothsayers of
San Francisco, that those two persons are
the same who were reported, about the
time of the wide spreading of this
diamond furoTe, by the London press, as
having recently purchased an extraor-
diaa-y number OF African aid Indian |
gems in that city. 1t really does look Is
if Bill Lent, Roberts and company had
actually been played for, baited. nipped.
rolled and completely . sucked in
Who'd a thought i. ? The .Aita OF Last
TGesiay contains Kings, Col.on's. Bost,
AMI Fry's and Janin 5 reports in full; and
here Is want the very respectable Board
of Directors have to say for themselves
The undersigned. memb rs OF the Board Of
Trustees of she San Francisco and New York
Mining and Comment. al Company. having
become convinced. by the foregoing IMPORTS,
of the wor.hlessness Of the pretended diamond
6e.,.s .referred to. have deemed it due to the
pubic to publish the above reports and de-
nounce the frrud ierpet-a;ed upon this COM
pany and the Stockholders by the pretended
liscav,ries.
No furthtI stock of tLis con. any shall be is
yuet cireuls.ed or transferred and at the earliest
pral ti:sble moment the certificates shall b
cancelled AID the Corporation dissolved
VA Ii. LENT.
Taos. Ii SELBY. |
Il. S. LAIAAs.
loUIs >y.oss
M,fICE DORE
Me-. +. RAEC |
r. c. RALsrOS, Treasurer. A. UA.Ssi..
Em. MILLS. Secretary. I +,
San Francisco, November . 1872.