The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-19

some 6AInOsS 0tO AOAOOtOAs AOU
saw the Cen. Office is attached. We
have q hard row to hoe, but are
getting round. Now you can get
your money by being little patient,
but when you undertake to put your
threat into execution, / think you
will find your match. I will be more
than pleased to have you step in and
assume the indebtedness of the 2. M.
A., but what you get out of it would
not pay one-fourth Of its liabilities,
and then do you think you would
harm the agency? Listen: every re-
port that has been made by the P. NJ.
A. I haya copy OF, and so far from
any ones reach, and, being my own
property, I will smile to Sc it touched.
Now the day you take possession Of
the agency l will start another.
Don't think 1 am doing this to
scare you, but wait and see the folly
of it."
THE FIGHT GROWS WARMER
every month, and the letter-book is
crowded with explanations, apologies.
defiant notes, and few sarcastic
missives like this to the Postmaster Of
New London, Mo-:
"Yonr postal of 18th 10 hand and
noted. We had understood you were
8 national bank and with an unlimit-
ed capital, but if we made a mistake
we are very sorry, indeed. We assure
you We did not intend to fatter.
However. as you are a pretty good
fellow according to your own state
ment, We viii inGlose the desired
stamp, which was a sad neglect on
the part of our mailing clerk in not
inclosing enc each time before, for I
see you have been written to twice,
and promise not to do so any
more"
Troubles encompass them rapidly,
and an aggressive policy is assumed
in the next important letter to an
agent in Kansas City: 81 have just
been shown a letter from you, in
which you threaten to publish the
P. M. A. Twill. perhaps, be better
for you to thoroughly understand the
step you are to take. You had better
abandon it, but il it is the $50 that
hurts you, and what you sre crying
about. I will send you it. Now, Mr..
W., I like to see a man, if he.can
speak and act like one, and il he has
anything to cay to come out liks q
man and say it to the one whom he
has the complaint sgainst, or whom
he thinks has or is about TO injure
him, and not the Way you propose.
We are known too we'll for working
with reputation and money at stake
TO do what you claim. I don't blame
you, and l think I ehould, were ia
your place. kick myself all over town
had committed any such error as to
keep my contract good with con-
Germ. II any service to you will
here state, that ope OF us will be in
Kansas City to open an Office and
shall make it warm for any one who
dares to put in an execution. We
have yet to decide what disposition is
to be made Of your letter now in our
hands, calling US beats and frauds. by
a certain prominent attorney of Kan
sas City. Sometimes the assertions
are hard to prove, as you will find
this one, and no scheSlboys to deal
with. You have opened the battle,
snd, IL il ia your desire to CONT
nue. it, I, for Martin & Co., say go
ahead"
A CLOSING FARCE
in this commercial comedy IL seen in
the pseudo prosecution OF an absoond-
ing agent, who finds refuge in Nor
folk, Va. The letter reads: "Mr.
Strickland wishes me to say that be
will allow you a few days In order for
you to hear from your home, when
no expects you to appear in st. Louis
Immediately to render account of the
mutilstion of the books of Martin &
Co., and also the shortages in your
accounts. II We are compelled tC
send you che money to get here, you
can rest assured, that We will send an
officer With it in order to be sure,
that you will get here without fail"
Latterly the copies OF letters are
taken in such slovenly style thai
they can not be deciphered, but from
the amount of assumption and auda
city capitalized . Goat the Phoenix
Mercantile Association it is simply
marvellous how it should ever have
expired, and dragged down with it
the two unscrupulous principals, who
are familiar to the principal mer
chants of St. Louis. Their suaVtiy
and pleasant address won them 9
hearing where others would be re-
fused, and cases are known, where
the willy scoundrels secured contract:
for $500 each from different firms
that could not be persuaded to join g
Legitimate agency. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.