The Osceola times., 1883-11-24
BuNe VICTIMS.
'Irteen fsners Come to Grief in
Two Weeks.
eAsoI ofihort. hand for Young Farmers
> -ass Who Have Been swindIed
g Out Of $40 Each.

As usual, at this time of the year, eli
culais of all kinds form the main bul
of the farmers mail. The roads wi
soon be impossible, and that part of tn
community that live on defrauding tn
rural citizens will begin to circularize tn
whole country, advertising all sorts @
novelty schemes and catch-trap arrange
ments. No one il secure from thes
catches, as they are invented by shrew,
men and manipulated by sharpers. N
matter how well informed or cautious
they make victims of the most Doastful
Much has been said in the columns O
the TRIBUNE and FARMER concerning th,
bunko men. Within the last two week
there have been thirteen farmer victim
in New York alone. We append tn,
names: Josiah II. Cairnes, Queen Ann,
county Nd; W. II. Fairbanks. Harder
county, Iowa; Leon F. Sydney, Delawar,
county, Pa; Walter Brington, Fayett,
county, Pa; Solomon Handy, Oneida
county, N. Y; Hiram Lundy, Chic; S. t
Bundeii and Frank Bowers, Ind; p. T
Sbipe, Lehigh county, Pa; Morgan
Haines, New Philadelphia, Ohio; W. X
Warren, of Kentucky; Henry Foundey
and Wilson Davis, Illinois; and Jacob
Loudslager, Berks county, Pa.
How rHEYsLooK.
The police are somewhat auitated
about the way bunko steering is at pres
ent going on in large cities. The strons
point about the bunko game is that the
operators are most always sure of es
cape. Men, as a general thing are much
ashamed of being caught in this old
time swindIe, that they prefer to lose
money than have the matter published
We venture word that may be useful
BunSo men are generally divided into
two gangs--at least they are in Ne.
York city-beginning at Chatham street
and the City Hall, and extending up and
along the Bowery as far as Canal street
is the track which forms the trampinp
ground of the down town crowd. This
gang numbers perhaps $50 men. Most
Of these men wear low-crowned Derby
hats, sack coats, tight trowsers and
square-toed boots. Nearly every one
of them has big moustache. They are
always well gloved and have plenty of
cigars.
fAvoRITE HAUNT.
The favorite hunting ground now for
the steerers is the Brooklyn bridge.
Every stranger who comes to New York
makes it point to cross the Brooklyn
bridge, and every day can be seen a
gang Of forty or fifty bunko men on the
bridge. 1t is quite natural that stran.
ger walking on this mighty structure
will have To talk about it, and ii is natu-
raj that the man to whom he talks is the
bunko man. He is then easily made a
victim and led Of to the gaming table,
and, deluded by the success of his new
found friend, makes venture, wins
easy, keeps it up. losing in the long run,
and then goes home sad, but wiser
man.
A NEW WHEAT FRAUD.
A large, handsome man has been trav-
cling in the western part of Pennsylva-
mia, and is now in the eastern part of
Ohio, selling new brand of wheat
known as "Pharoah's Gems" The name
is suggested of the g.eat monarch who
earned wheat and corn and sold out
during famine The "Pharoah's Gems"
are nothing but ordinary wheat seed
that have been used for some time. We
have not seen the gems" and only
speak from what several correspondents
declare is the gospel truth. In all events
the new wheat is of doubtful pedigree,
and il would be well to let some one else
try them before investing.
LOOK OUT FOR THE TURKEYS.
A report is current that Philadelphia
concern has project for capturing nu-
merous turkeys this fall II is expected
in the next issue to give explicit direc-
tions of the working of what is to be
called the American Poultry and Pro
duce Concern Uimited.) Those who
are competent say that there is no money
q back of the concern, and that somebody
is going to be stuck. We make this
announcement in time, so that it will
not be the farmers who read the TRIBUNE
AND FARMER.
FLEECISG THE PARSONS.
As country parsons are represented
among the readers of this journal, we
have heard Of "cpte" plan to swindle
them. A pious, apparently pseudo
parson, calls at the country parsonage
and Offers to bring ten or more of the
sermons written by the rural dominic
and bind them, providing he will pay
$50 for cut of himself and take fifty
volumes of his own sermons On the
delivery of the sermons SO must bt
paid, for which bogus receipt is given
A few rustic parsons have yielded to the
golden mouthed sharper, and handed
over the ten dollars, for which they re-
ceived nothing.
BosroN's MOVE SCHEME.
Boston contributed novel feature t.
the catalogue of sundry frauds. II il
teaching shorthand by mail. A large