The border vidette., 1900-01-06

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 even had her arrested years after on some naltry trumped up charge, but
 there was such an ontcry against ...
 ...... that he was glad to drop the
 affair.
 Another case was that of an old man
 who came to California to go into busi-
 ness, bringing fifteen hundred dollars
 with him Gall the money he hadl couid not tell just how this was managed,
 but ...... got the S1 300 pretend ing to soil a saloon to the old man. Grover Johnson was consulted and he tried to get the money back from .-...
 ... but could not, and the man who was stranger was only too glad to leave state where he had been robbed so shamefuIly.
 ... name was often m the papers in just such affairs as this. However, as have said, it would fiil good sized book to relate in detail all the dishonest dealings of this man, both toward myself and others. ...... -. once said to me That if he could only get in the Masons, he would be all right as they would stand by him and help himsout when he would get into difficulty," saying that he could do as he liked if he was only a Mason, and that no matter what k nd of a scrape a man got into, he could escape punish ment fl he belonged to that order.
 ........ tried to join the Masons at Rocklin, Placer county, California, but Was denied admission in that Lodge, as Masons of that place knew his character too well, and also knew how he had defrauded me. Dana Per kins, nos. dead, a prominent Mason of that place, and state librarian. came and asked me for the truth about our affairs. I had known Mir. Perkins for years. He knew my parents also. I told him everything and the result was that name was rejected. Mr. Perkins told me afterwards that he never heard man curse and swear as ..-...-. did about it,. vowing vengean- ce upon every ono in that particular Lodge, and all Masons in general. I hardly think that tried to join the Masons in Sacramento, he was so well known there hat it would have been useEess, stlll h:Scfniy have done so and kueaw nothis # it.
 .-........ has peculiar disposition; he thinks he has right 10 do as he pleases. and no matter how much he would mako any one suffer, they would have no right to complain. Let them take thelr medicine and not kick" was frequent expression of his. He is hard man to resist. To use the eX- of some O.ae in referring to Speaker Reed, he possesses the ''insen- sate magnetism of avoirdupois.
 To sum up, .......... character as I | have learn ed to know 1t, and that my | opportunity has been good you will not leny, he is man utterly without prin- { ,ipal; does not believe in God; using and vulgar expressions in l referring to the Dicty; believes in | upo1, any one who bars the ! .ho way to the accomplish of his | nefariuus schemes; believes in using ! every one for his own benefit; thinks !
 
 man selfish wants 10 be cast aside at | will. To him no VOWS are sacred; no | homo is sacred, and whatever reforma- ion he may pretend, it is only pretense. i t is simply as I have heard him say, | Stock in Trade'' 10 further some l scheme of his own. Cod gave him a inc physique, but failed to endow him i with soul.
 Will send some of the vouchers re- 1 .urne,i to me from the California State i Bank, wherc l had money deposited It will serve to show you with what 1 confidence 1 handed out money to . ....., alth ough it does not cover all 1 ! ct him have.
 ISigned MRS. CARRIE NJ. BRIsoN. !