The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-10
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A score Of settlers ON the wheat lands
OF Wahpeto, Dakota, might have been
seen a few days ago running hot-footed
after one J.. Q. Burbank. The object
Of the general Indignation had been
selling 80 homestsads TO persons who
afterward found that the man from
whom they bought the land had never
owned a foot OF Dakota earth.
Two tea merchants have just been on
trial at Syracuse, N. Y, for ~swindlIng
by means Of .'prizs-paekageA" The
evidence given by some Of the victims
was quite amusing. All expected TO
find n s2i gold piece. but one got a
brass ring. another n nickle knife, a
third n 15-eent shinplaster, u fourth
cheap earrings, and 50 on. Moreover,
the tea In the packages was worthless.
The merchants were held 70 answer.
.sir Green Brydges" was received
lately at the palatial mansions Of San
francisco as an English lord, but as
some one recognized in him a clever
Canadian hotel clerk, he shot himself
out at the back door Of the city between
murk midnight and dapple dawn. Two
weeks z a number OF the families
that had been victimized refused 10 re-
ceive Earl Grosyenor, a bona ide Eng
Fiish nobieman and the son Of the Duke
Of Westminster.
Miss. Martha Robertson. OF Memp-
his, filed a bill in that city the other
day asking that she be divorced from
one Lee Brooks, who had forced her
to marry him by the exercise OF
spells" -. II appears that Brooks nc
costed Miss Robertson on the street
and ut once exercised such power over
her that she gave her consen. to the
marriage. Miss Robertson believed
that Brooks used '.witchcraft, sorcery,
incarnation and jugglery'-arts IN
known 10 the legitimate Cupid.
A man in faultless attire and Of
pleasing address walked into the bust
moss Office OF the Stein Manufacturing
Company, at Rochester, N. Y, recent
ly, and stepped boldly mp 10 George
STEMS desk. Mr.. stein was signing
checks. The stranger bent over. and
with his eyes fixed on the signatures
that had just been made, asked a trif-
ing question. Laterin the day the swind-
Ter passed six bogus checks, the forger-
les Of Mr.. STEMS name being almost
perfect, even TO peculiarities in dot
ting ''i's' and crossing Its"
aye godsl anotherl" exclaims an
aroused Western contemporary, which
continues: "The weary r-portorial
Faber is called upon TO once more
chronicle n bond racket and freight
bill dodge played upon n stranger with
in the gates. The last victim is r. T.
Harper, n grocery keeper Of Kokomo,
Col, near Leadville. Harper was ac-
costed at his hotel last night by a per-
person who claimed TO know him, and
by the same old trick Of n third party
was warmed up into cashing a $1,000
bond, bogus, Of course"
One day last week n st. Louis rail-
road conductor wa asked by two men
known TO him as gamblers to cash two
81 1000 United States bonds. The con-
ductor took the bonds across the way
to n broker, and, finding that they were
all right agreed to cash them. One Of
the gamblers took the bonds In his
hand for a moment, gazed fondly ut
them, put them in his coat pocket and
said he guessed he had better keep them,
after all. Taking the bonds out again
in a momept, the gambler laughed,
saying: "All right; they're yours"
The conductor counted out q, 900 in
greenbacks. At home that evening he
again looked at his bonds. Then he
saw that they were secured by the
United Republic Of Mexico" being
faithful limitations in every other par
ticular of the $1,000 United States
bonnds. Thegambler had changed the
United States bonds for the worthless
Mexican ones when he put the former
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