Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-09-14
Los ANGELES WEEKLY HERALD
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Passengers GoinE south.
MOJAvE, Sept. 1l.-Los Angeles
j r Brown, J s. Slauson, HI G
Newhall, Mrs J 7 Whedou and
children, w s Newhall, H Nor.
gan, Mrs Jenkins, J NJ Daggett, J
b Evens.
Arixona-W r Mould, G H Hop.
kins, G w Beach, Geo Hooker, J J
Howe. d P Jennings, III Mitchell,
H M Trim, 8 belong.
MoJAvE, Sept. 13.-Los Angeles
VIM Fisher and family, Gen.
Hancock, ] Lowe, M III Jones,
Summerfisld, e Green, G Woo
layeh, D Brooks. J Schlesinger and
wife.
Arizona Charles Seeley, Miss
Hill, Miss g Curtis, d Brooks.
COItOn-Mrs Wilson.
AnOtd Fraud.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE Tribune
will publish the following article
tomorrow, headed IA. G. Tiche.
nor, an old fraud turns up again:r
The telegraph WAS called into re-
QUESTION again yesterday for the
purpose OF recording another
scheme of Colonel Arson G. Tiche.
nor, who was reported to have
struck 1t rich in the vicinity of
Calistoga, California. The story,
as told over the wires, was that the
Colonel had recently bought the
Hot Springs hotel property there,
and had been at work for the past
two weeks extracting gold from
the water by y process which, of
course was known only to himself.
The cleanup the day before sho wed
that he had succeeded In extract
fsg $1,000 from ten barrels of wa
ter, The gold was described as of
the highest grade of fineness, and,
from the number of springs in the
vicinity, the reader was given to
understand that it would be irnpos-
sible to estimate theirjvalue,if they
continued to yield as rich as they
had up to date. The Colonel is no
new acquaintance. In the latter
part OF October, 1878, the Tribune
furnished Its readers with an &C.
count of his Arkansas gold acts
and the clever way In which he
had
sALTED HIS ORE
With gold filings and chloride of
gold, taking in o number of un-
wary Chicago investors, and then
decamping when found out. His
first appearance here dated from
July, 1877, when he hailed from
Little Rock, Ark. He put up at |
the Palmer House, and proceeded |
to lay for gudgeons. His property
at that time was an old silver mine,
known as the Kellogg, situated |
about eight miles north OF Little
Rock. The mine has been worked |
for silver aud, during the war, for |
lead. the latter going to make up |
Confederate bullets. The Kellogg |
mine, according to the Colonel. was
enormously rich, and could be let
to favored few at strictly bottom
prices. In The fullness of time even
SO sagaciOus man as Matthew
LaptOn concluded to take half In
terest on basis of $50, 1000, subject
tOa $4,000 incumbrance due the |
Tennessee owners. He put up
$4,000 In cash. and was to pay the |
balance, $4,000, out of the mine. |
He then visited and examined the |
mine and seemed to be satisfied,
though he refused to put up ma.
chinery, the incumbrance being too |
heavy. With the laudable design |
0fsrealixing on his investment a.
early as possible, he had taken a
10 - - 80 uanHo n lnpm L., NH inh 70
bag the stuff. TO his great sur
prise he found that Tichenor had
no authority to ship a pound Of ore
until the sum Of $4,000 was paid
down. Mr.. Lapton
DEMANDED HIS MONEY BACK,
Saying that the mine might
be valuable, but that It
would cost too much to-
develop. Tichenor put him of,
and In the Spring Of 1878 made q
break for Cleveland, where the crop
OF suckers appears to have been
even better. But the Kellogg mine.
wasn't flsa-bite 10 the scheme
which the Colonel afterwards open
ed up to the view Of Chicago capt.
talists. Having sold lead and sill
YER mine Ia Silver county, Arkan-
sss, to "Diamond Jos" for $500,
he bought tract OF land near Lit.
tie Rock, sunk couple of shafts
and began taking out what he call
cd dscom posed gold quartz. Then
he turned up again III Chicago and
announced In tho strictest conf.
dsnce that he had got 1.-THE most
stupendous find OF the age. In
short, several people took hold Of 1t
and put their money into 1t. but In
u short time, despste the favorable
assays, ugly rumors began to clrcu-
late. One A. w. Kellogg went to
Little Rock with Tichenor, Andrew
Warren, 4. q. Eldridge and other
"LUCKY INVESTORS"
At least they 90 considered them.
selves, aud sat about seeing the
thing Us 1t was. Kellogg got some
specim aud sent them here, and
nu assay failed to reveal trace OF
gold. Tho long and short OF 1t was
that the ore turned out to be noth-
lug but an argillacsous formation,
in which gold was never known to
exist. and that this clayey soil had
simply been saIted with gold NJ