Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-06
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Some six weeks al Two months ago, young
man, . scandinavian by BIRTH, rri7ed hers,
and went to work oanvassing for advertise
ments for . paper which he proposed issuing
II II this city, to be printed in the Norwegian
language He had ready tongue, and pleas
ant address, and soon worked his way into
tpe confidence Of number of cur people.
he gave his name as Marcus Shack; a.. M.
Swain and Timende, just as it suited him.
He secured advertisem ents from qnite a pun
Der Of our business men, among them from a
rev WHO we're never known to advertise in
their legitimate home papers. He talked
ghoiy about renting an office and buying
material said he was only ono of compa ny
which designed. issuing scandinavian paper
here, for general circulation in Mort bern. Min
pesota, and that tho company was strong
one: He interviewed his fellow countryman,
Bro. Ole Mitchellson, editor of the Journal
Press, and SO sweetly did he give him .'tafy"
~ pig pig native tongue that his words fell upon
ole's ears sslike the fall OF the snow drop or
the ripping Of the rill,", and Nicholson con-
ssented to aid the enterprise (swindle) by get
ting out the first number of the est. Cloud
Tideude." When this was printed, Ole
thought he had Shack, alias Swain, alias
Fimende, Gin chanoery," so to speak, and he
refused to let his scandinavian brother have
the edition until he paid the bill for printing.
This Shack, &c., could not do as he was
"little hard pressed, after buying. ~ SO much
material" However, he slung some more
Morse into Ole's ear, and prevailed upon
Mitchellson to let him have a few copies 20 ex-
hibit to advertisers and subscribers, upon
which TO- collect payment, and pay the print
ing bill. This was done, and then Shack, &C.,
reaped his harvest. He went around and COL.
lected an installment from each advertiser, and
six months subscription from subscribers, not
one of whom had ever received copy of the
paper. He also wrote to the railroad compa-
mics, and got three or four 1000 mile tickets,
i'm consideration of advertising in the Tidende.
These tickets he has probably sold. He also
ordered cases, stands, TO-, which are now in
the express Office G, o, D. Shack, alias Swan,
aeias Tmende, or what-y you may call him, also
patronized the saloons literally. He was
crack pool player, and cropped in" the boys
Gin way that was quite painful to see'-he
likewise cropped in" the saloon keepers, in
amounts ranging from one dollar to $l5. He
also got into the affections of one or two
clothing and boot and shoe dealers and, as
result, he went away we'll dressed in new
clothes, from his hat to his overshoes, and
brand new valise in his hands. He also left q
"reminiscence" in the shape of an unpaid
board bill, with his landlord. He left St..
Cloud on the 9th inst, telling his "friends" he
would be back in few days, but, alas, they
have waited in vain. He appears to have de-
parted for "the undiscovered country, from
whose bourn no (swindling) traveller returns, "
and the "mourners go about the streets"-in-
Guiding Ole, who has 600 copies of the Tidende
on hand, to be kept as q souvenir Of his
friend Shack. care sorry that so many Of
our people were taken in ; and yet they might
have known that no legitimate enterprise of
This character Wou0 ever De lnaugurated IN
st. Cloud, from the very fact that the Scandi>
navian element hereabouts is too small to
make this a suitable location. Our sorrow
over the swindle Of our citizens is nothing
compared to- the grief which fills US at the
heartless manner in which Shack, &C., de-
ceived his fellow countryman, Ole Nicholson.
1t is sad to contemplate this heartless ingrati-
tude of one Norwegian to another, Ole was
more than q match for any Yankee sbarker in
the land "in dicker,' and, although his ex-
perience has been large and varied in driving
keen bargains, no one ever got the advantage
of him until this rascany Norseman, one of his
own nationality. crossed his path. It is the
| old story of Greek meet Greek