Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-01-30

Whlcl compromise can be effected and |
settle the case finally without loss to the |
government.
SERIOUS CHARGES.
An Account of Alleged Crooked Transac-
tions at Scotland.
The following telegram ap pears as q |
special in the st. Paul Pioneer.Press:
Racine, Wis, Jan. 2e-Albert Brown,
OF Scotland, d. T.. who was reported by
the commercial agency of Il. G. Dun
worth So 600, tried to swindle Freeman
& Sons, Racine boiler makers, ont of |
$l,6OO, by forging paper with the sig
natures OF alleged wealthy farmers, who
are myths. Freeman & Sons shipped
him q car load of tanning mills, and were
agency reporter at Scotland, D. r., seems
in league with them, as we'll as other no.
ted mon, aud reported the paper favora.
and an agent OF Freeman & Sons was
sent out to. investigate. He reports, SO
Mr.. Freeman states in an interview, that
there are influential men, foreman of the |
grand jury, secretary of the governor,
justice of the peace, constables,
commercial agency reporters and
Others, banded together to swindle east
ern manufacturers. Requisition papers
we're issued by Gov. Rusk, and placed in
the hands of ex-Sheriff Fielding, who, in
company with Freeman's agent, left here
Tuesday and will arrive in Yankton to.
night. The jealousy of Sheriff Breemer
of Racine county let the secret out, and
serious threats are made toward him. 1t
is estimated that the total swindles of
these Dakota carpet-baggers amount to
over $250,O0O. Every effort is being
made to keep it quiet. Brown, it is be.
lieved will squeal ON the others. The
most prominent Dakota officials are re-
ported implicated in the great steal.
Brown and his gang learned that requi-
sition papers were issued and officers
after them and skipped. The swindles
include manufacturers of Oshkosh, APP
pleton, Racine and western cities. Tie
officers returned here tonight.
The account appears to be badly mixed
up with other matters. The allegation
that the most prominent Dakota officials
are concerned in the affair will hardly
be sustained. No one here will take any
stock in the charge that the governors
private secretary is member of band
organized for swindling purposes any
more than they will believe that Dakota
carpet baggers have put forth s250,OOO
worth of forged paper. The account Is
highly sensational in its nature, though
it is believed that there is some found
alton for the story. 1t is intimated that
several parties are interested and that
they do not all reside at Scotland. This,
Of course, is purely rumor. There has
been no legal investigation, Mr.. Brown
has not been arrested and the
Racine sheriff has not been in Yankton.
Upon this subject the Scotland Citizen
of the 26th says:
In another column of the Citizen we
reproduce an article from the Sioux CITY
Journal, in which it is charged that the
firm of A. j. Brown & Co., (intended for
Alfred Brown, we presume), Coyall &
Grant, aud others, dealers in agricultural
implements III Scotland, are monumental
scoundrels; that they victimize the poor
farmers by selling them machinery al
less than manufacturers prices; that
they utter forged notes and palm them
off upon the mild-mannered and un.
sophisticated manufacturers of ma.
chinery or their agents, and do many
other things in direct violation of law
and honesty. The Journal clai lis
to get its information from a
Mr.. Foos, an agricultural
implement manufacturer of Springfield
Ohio, who says he has received some oi
the forged paper. Now, We have nc
means of knowing whether there is any
truth in these allegations or not. Those
of the parties charged who live in Scot
land, stoutly assert that the Journal'e
article is without foundation in fact
What we do know, however, is that ali
the parties named IN the Journal article
live in Dakota, (assuming that A. j
Brown & Co. means Alfred BROWN. and
can be found at home any time they ma,
be called upon. If Mr.. Foos, or any
other manufacturer, or his or their agents
have received forged paper, aad have as
strong evidence against the parties whc
are alleged to have made it as they say
they have, then why in the name
of justice and common sense dom
they have the guilty ones arrest
ed and punished? The laws ar,
ample to cover these cases, and the re
cord of our territorial courts in the pun
ishment of criminals will not suffer by
comparison with some recent trausac
tions in Sioux City courts. To ente
complaint against these alleged forger
and general wrong -doers, and make then
suffer for their crimes if found guilty
would be much more sensible and bust
ness-like in Mr.. Foos than to trot off t,
Sioux City and pour into the willing en-
of the Journal doleful story abou
the uncanny treatment which tn
poor, down trodden aeli
cultural implement manufacture
receives from the barbarians of Dakots
: If the parties named have been indulginI
| in the practices charged against then
and the,e exists such evidences of tLei
guilt as the Journal alleges, then there j
q clear, open road to their conviction an
t punishment. Let these wronged innc
{ cents set the strong arm of the law il
a motion against these fellows they clair
have been hoodooing them, and ceas
the baby act of winning and smirching
i. whole community with charges of dis
I, honesty.
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