Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-02-01

found by close scrutiny, marked by
the sap edge of a Eastwood stick, al
most hidden by the weeds and this
ties, crowded in among the graves
of the Scandinavian Elevator Co,
South Dakota State Alliance, twenty
or thirty County Alliances, than'
two hundred Township Alliances, the
Alliance Hail Association, the Fidel-
ity Insurance Co, the Alliance
Building in Huron, and several others
whose only names now found on their
head sticks are simply Reforms"
One open grave in an obscure cor
ner of the lot yawns hungrily,
and the sexton winks knowingly
Jerks his thum over his shoulder to-
ward "Alliance Castle" and pulling
a Ruralist out of bis pocket, the hole
is found to just about fit it and the
quizzer is left to draw his own con-
illusions. But that graveyard is al
most full. There is just about room
enough left in which to chuck a
Senatorial Boom if it isn't dropsi-
cal or otherwise distorted and bloated
up, and the grewsome Waterman of
these "Reform relics seems to await
impatiently the orders for him to
commence business on this last mau-
soleum, orders which he knows will
be forthcoming as soon as the ballots
for the Legislative tickets are counted
next fall.
Now come Luthy & Co, of Peoria,
ILL.,, with $4,000 or $4,000 of those
$500 notes prepared to force their
collection.
In quite a recent interview, Sena-
tor Loux rs reported as saying that
he knows nothing of how those notes
got into the hands of Luthy & Co.
This statement may be true or not,
according to the outlook from his
peekhole when making this statement
But WHOSE BUSINESS WAS 1T AND
is 1T TO KNow,IF NOT HIS? True
it is that all the funny work was
accomplished when the leash" part
of the business was being attended to
but those NOTES each represent a ton
of good coal during these wintry
days, and although the Loux shins
are kept very carefully warmed by
assessments from deluded farmers.
the victims feel hat in view of never
having had any .~'value received" for
either the cash or notes-and having
entrusted the custody of so much of
all they had to the care of the Loux
hierarchy, it is highly incumbent on
the president of all that was good"
and ''holy" and ..godlike" and "Re-
form" to know something about the
w~henceness of some of the mighty
leaks that have sprung up behind
him, in everything he has had any
thing to do with-either in person or
by proxy.
"Don't knows are not explanations
Advising the farmers to mot pay
them" don't cover the trail nor sup
ply the 900 0 tom of coal which the
money would pay for now demanded
by Luthy, and other holders of those
notes. The following defines the
present status of affairs. A dispatch
from Peoria, under date Jan. l2, is
as follows, from an interview with
Luthy 4 Co.
The Dakota Farmers Alliance Company, OF
Aberdeen, =. d., became indebted to us. IL
owned a large amount of debenture bonds of |
the National Union Company which through
me Iatters failure became worthless. The COM |
pany became unable to pay our claim and sent
us a lot OF its stock notes as collateral. Under
the laws OF Dakota the stockholders are held
liable for what remains unpaid on their stock.
As shown by these notes, our claim is past due.
aud as the company has no other means. we are
Obliged to call ON the stockholders, and have
accordingly sent the notes forward for colIec.
ton. The matter is purely a business transac
ton.
Under date Of Jan. II, the follow.
ing dispatch from Madison, S, t.. is