The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-04-16
An AR,tANT SWINDLE.
"Thc First Great salt Lake GIFT
Entcrprise"--A Card From
the City Attorney OF
COrinnc.
70 Tie Eartor Of the courler-Journal.l


COrinnc.
To the EdItor Of the Courler-Journal.l
CORISSE, UTAH TER, April 2, "a.
| deem it q duty due to this commu
nifty and the people Of the Southern
States to say Il word in reference to a
scheme inaugurated here and published
to the world as the First Great Salt
Lake Gift Enterprise and purporting
to be for the benefit Of the Corinne free
school. 1t is being very extensively
advertised throughout the Southern
States. more there than anywhere else,
and is just commencing to reap a rich
harvest, Our local post Office is dong
such a business as the worthy master
thereof never dreamed Of, aud in brief
it is evident that the people OF the
South are being "bilked" to q very
considerable extent, H. sometimes
happens that a lottery is a squareIy
conducted affair, and those who invest
knowing the chance take q fair bust
ness risk. But when an enterprise OF
this nature-bogus in its inception,
carrying fraud on its face, aud con-
Quoted with the full and premeditated
purpose and intent to make a big Steal
is SO thoroughly and energcticaIly
hlazoned to the world from a remote
quarter, where there is neither local
nor State laws to check the managers
in their audacious, unprinclpleG aims I,
when such an enterprise, succeeding bV
the very perfection OF advertising
science and the prestige given by such
an institution as your Louisville lot
terry which is a always conducted on
the square,, succeeds in dipping and
humbugging those who of all the world
can least afford it-those whom the
human nature IN the worst OF men
should compassionate, and those whose
f faith will be shaken in the most rcli,
able enterprises by this gigantic swim
dIc-thcn, sir, it behooyes some one to
let the cat out,
The "Flrst Great Salt Lake Gift
Enterprise" is a concern gotten VI
and managed by an individual never
known or seen ct or in the vicinity o
/. Salt Lake, COrinne or any other place
in Ulah-an entire stranger in this
/, community, and ofno visible or known
means except what heis now procuring
, through this sham.
Their place Of business is a small
shabby, insignificant shanty about L;
, by l6 feet square, upholstered ant
rented at S. per month. The clerks
t all strangers, and all hands keep de
: cidedlV mum hcreabouts. They do Nc
, advertising here whatever, and have NJ
: sign nor any indication Of lottery aIy
/, where around, but they work like bea-
yers all the time, and send oil hug,
1 quantities Of mail matter every day
They have n paper printed III Sal
y Francisco called the ''Cvrinne Free
@ School Advocate" %whichthey circulate
to the rcmotcst village IN the Soutl
[ from COrinne, but no citizen OF COrlnn'
ever gets a copy, only what are re.
, turned occasionally to- parties TO
\ reference.
/, Patrons are referred to. parties rep.
@ resented in their circulars as city com
citmen, school directors, u $. assessors
: citv morShatS, etc, who are no NOR
n the holders Of those offices than 5os
Tweed is this minute. COrinnc Cit
:. is a place Of about 800 inhabitants, o
/, loss has been declining somewhat o
/ late is on the Central Pacific Railroad
n aud, generally speaking, so isolate,
e and remote that it is just the place O
all others for an undertaking of thi
class and the enterprise might run on
5 with the usual preteXts for postpone
. mcLts and a~djournmrntS OF drawings
A from month to month for years, ant
keep the poor dupcs who patronize i
v in a fever of expectancy long draw
out, and only to end in bitter disap
psintment all around in the end.
have taken a few moments TO dasl
this Off, and trust you will publish i
with Necessary comments, and bclicv
the press Of the South will take til
cue, and advertise the fraud AS i
should be. Yours, etc,
! VIM. IlYNDMAN,
City Attorney OF Corinnc City.