The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-04-29
SCALPERS.
The Class OF Men Who Never hd.
vertiSa.
Keep i0nr Eye On Your Purse,
or You Will Find 1t
Missing.

There is certain class OF individuals
doing business in this city, with souls as
diminutive as the germ of mustard seed.
They are not generally known outside of
their places OF business. You never see
their names in print, unless they start East.
Then they manage to find the local editor,
and tell him TO make them personal, and
when they come back they will put in n
big advertisement That's the last you
hear of the 'ad." In order to get custom
they employ sea pers," whose duty it is to
hang around the depot and on the streets,
to catch a stranger when he comes to town.
Ii they succeed in getting him to the store,
he pays higher price for the goods, if he
buys, than he would if he traded with par
ties who do Legitimate business, by invit-
ing custom through the columns of news
paper. But the individual who will be ia
ken in by "scalper" or confidence man
deserves to be swindled. We have few
such merchants in this city, and we warn
our readers to keep a lookout for them.
We have one clothing merchant in our
minds eye, who keeps his "scalpers" on the
railroads leading into this city. 1t is fair
to presume his goods are inferior, and that
he will take every advantage OF his Gus
al ciaCi iudhc ii DIOut anu
pay his ''scalpers." Commercial.
If the Commercial ever uttered our senti-
ments, it did so in the above article. The
''scalper" for certain cheap clothing mer-
chants in this city is of the same genus as
the "capper" for three-card monte man,
and OF the two the "capper" is the most
preferable citizen. Day after day, if our
readers will notice, they will see drunken
soldiers and others being piloted to these
cheap clothing houses by the "scalper."
Such is the course pursued by few
"wolves" who sell cheap clothing in this
city. They never do anything for the
own; they never spend dollar for an ad-
vertisement in respectable newspaper.
The business resorted to by them to make
money is more is more disreputable than
that of the thief. They employ class of
men who are the very scum of the earth,
to lure the credulous and unsOphisticated
into their dens, and then they lie to them
and cheat them out of what little they
have.
3 1t must be plain to every intelligent per-
son that these EVOLVES" and "scalpers" can
only sell their worthless goods to the igno-
rant; hence they never have occasion to in
wife the trade of an intelligent, reading
public. Their main hold" is to catch up
strangers, in the way the Commercial has
indicated, and will sell them worthless
goods at fabulous prices. We can well af-
ford to do without this class of merchants,
and the sooner We get rid of them the bet
ter for the city. We have few honest
clothiers in Leavenworth, among whom we
would mention John Seeker and J. Woll-
man. These gentlemen do straight-for-
ward, legitimate business, and are among
our best citizens. We propose to watch
these scalpers and their employers, in the
future, and show them up in their true
We can endorse these out-spoken senti-
ments Of our cotemporaries, and add good
word also for Messrs Seeker and Wollman.
It's only the dishonest merchant who is
afraid to put him himself before the public
through the medium of the newspaper, and
of such would be warn the public to be-
ware.