The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-22
OUT OF TOPOLOBAMPO.
Bank Commissioners Breidenthal
Not Connected With It.
4. Z. OWEN FROzE HIN OUT.

HGd Better Success EJecting Him
Than the Governor OF Ransas-COn-
dItion OF the Colony.
Before State Bank Commissioner Breid-
onthal came into prominence as poll
tician In Kansas through the chairman
ship of the POpuiist state central COM
mittee in 1892, he WAS well known as the
patron and one of the managers of CO.
operative colony at Topolobampo bay in
the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
Intimately associated with Mr.. Breid-
enthal in the management of the TOpolo-
bampo colony was Chris. Holman OF
Enterprise, Kas.
The original Topolobampo promoter
was A. Z. Owen of Pennsylvania, who
secured the right from the Mexican gov
eminent for the establishment of CO.
operative colony at Topolobampo.
Mr.. Breidenthal was secretary OF the
cooperative colony which was known as
the Credit-Foncier company of Sinaloa,
and he was also secretary of the Kansas
6inaloa Investment company which was
organized to assist the colonists in the pur
chase of lands and in the transaction Of
other business.
Mr.. Breidenthal is no longer officially
connected with either company and most
of his people who went to Topolobampo
through his advice have left and are
now scattered over the United States
The Breidenthal- Hoffman people
charge that Owen has been running
things with a high hand and has robbed
the Topolobampo colonists of all they
had.
Owen being the founder of the colony
was delegated to look after the interests
of the colony with the Mexican govern
- -. obo hof ho in.
stead of getting the land grants in the
name of the colony, had them made to
himself personally, and then proceeded
TO run the colony to suit himself.
His first step was to GUST all the man.
ayers of the colony. and ne wrote letters
to Breidenthal and the other officers of
the colony who live in the United States,
asking for their designations. He then
published a notice in the colony paper in
which he said that if he did not
receive the designations within stated
time, he would take it for granted that
the designations had been sent and lost in
the mails. and elections would be held
10 fill the vacancies.
In this way Mr. Breidenthal was re-
leved from duty as secretary of the
Credit Foncier company, and Chris Hof-
man, who had invested several thousand
dollars in the colony, was frozen out OF
the management.
The original colony was established at
Topolobampo >in 1885, and in 1891 there
were six hundred people living there.
On account of the trouble between the
Breidenthal- Hoffman and Owen factions
most of the colonists have left, and there
are now but 100 people at Topolo bampo
and some of them would get away if they
could
MI Breidenthal says the present col
onists are divided into two factions
known as the Saints and the "Kickers.
The Saints or Owen faction num-
bers about 100 and the "Kickers" o.
Breldenthal- Hoffman faction about 80.
The CHECKERS" object to the Over
management and have filed complain
with the secretary of state, that they
have been robbed by Owen through col
fusion with the Mexican government anC
are trying to make an International con
trovorsy out of their troubles.
The saints" on the other hand say
that Breidenthal and Hoffman ought t
be hung for creating dissension among
tbs people and making them dissatisfie &c
with the Owen management They
charge that Breidenthal and Hoffman
have never entered into the real spirit O
the cooperative colony idea as estab
lished by Mr.. Owen.
The complaint against Owen and thu
Mexican government was filed with thu
secretary of state just before the death o
Mr.. Gresham, and Mr.. Breidenthal anC
Mr.. Hoffman are daily expecting to hea
from the state department regarding
their interests.