The Arizona sentinel., 1895-02-09
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oCONh Ol PcOO3OOO, NiNIuOo lnGO 500,000 shares of $1 each, with E.. D. Wilson as president and James M. Fowler, Secretary, has proved itself to be another fraud and Yuma and her adjacent country has received a black eye which it will take months for the discolora- tion to disappear.
 Many of our citizens will re- member that in the spring of 1893, a party of three colored men from the South arrived here for the pur- pose of looking over our vast area of government land and more especially that tract of land lying in Mexico, in the state of Sonora and owned by Gen. Andrade, claim ing to represent several hundred colored families of the southern states who were desirous of seeking new homes in this favored section,
 Before leaving here these color ed gentlemen (?) spoke of the land examined as the finest they had ever seen and that inside of six months they would have 500 fam illes growing cotton on the bottom lands of the Nile of the West.
 We are reliably informed that the trio of schemers waited on Gen. Andrade in San Francisco and laid their plans before him. He being favorably impressed offered to bond land that he asked $200,- GOO, for $2,O0O cash down. These parasites couldn't see their way clear to deposit with the General this paltry and insignificant sum, but they could organize the above company and filch their own class of uneducated people who toiled day in and day out for a me agre pittance.
 One year later two of the above party went to San Diego and or ganized the above company and immediately returned to the South. They or their representatives visit ed all the coIored settlements in the United States and com. menced to sell their worthless stock. They were shrewd enough to place the shares at so low figure that the poor and gullable people could buy one share at least.
 AS result few days ago 26 colored people arrived here and inquired for the offices of the con- pany, having come from the Indian Territory with expectations of meeting the representatives of the Company and shown their land.
 In an interview with Shelton Russell, one of the unfortunate and mislead, he said that his people where he came from had purchas- ed at least $1,000 worth of the spurious stock. He showed us stock certificates and circulars that he had received from the com pany's agent back in the Indian Territory and the same bore the signatures of E. D. Wilson and James NJ. Fowler.
 When told that the company had no offices here or anywhere else for that matter, he appeared to take it very philosophically, remarking at the same time "that he always did believe there was something wrong"
 In conclusion he informed us that 400 families were now ready to come if he only gave the order from the Indian Territory. We advised him not to issue the com mand and he remarked, "he guess ed he would follow our advice"
 It is to be regretted that the law for swindling poor people and de- frauding them out of their hard earned money, is not on our stat ute books a capital crime instead of obtaining money under false pretenses.
 A man or a set of men who will try to defraud and send people to a section Of country in these times of depression and stagnation of business when they know there is no work for our own workingmen, much less for any other kind, in our esti- nation twill pick the pennies of dead mans eyes"