Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-11

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son the lowest bidder was never
successful.
Then comes Nj. w. II. Land
voigt, Superintendent of the Reg
istry Division of the Third Assist
ant Postmaster Generals Office.
There were registration books to
be bought. Geo. L. Morton of the
'Galena Signal Oil Company at
oncc appeared upon the scene.
His company had a superior paper
and could furnish a superior book,
but the law required all such
printing to be done by the public
printer. The department offered
to purchase the patented paper,
but Mr.. Morton refused to sell.
He intimated that he could have
the Objectionable statute removed,
which he seems to have succeeded
in having done. After Morton had
secured his contract it dawned
upon him that old man Landvoigt
was worrying too much about his
son who did not seem to be profit
ably employed. He volunteered
to remove this anxiety from the
parental mind. The son was at
once employed by one of Morton's
companies. He was twenty-three
years of age and without business
experience. But from the time of
young Landvoigt's employment to
the day OF his fathers separation
from Office the General Manifold
Company Of Franklin, Pa, which
is largely composed OF the stock
holders of the Galona Signal Oil
Company, did not suffer from lack
of orders. 1t had orders for its
goods in season and out of season.
The parties that next attract our
attention are James n. Tyner,
Assistant Attorney General for the
Post-Ofico Department, and his
wife's nephew, H. J. Barrett. 1t is
sufficient to say that it was through
the connivance of these people that
the E. j. Arnold Company and
other swindling concerns did bust
ness. Some of our readers will
perhaps remember hearing about
the E. j. Arnold Turf Investment
Company of St. Louis, Mo. It
seems that after Mr.. Barrett left
his uncle's Office, in which he had
been the real Attorney General fol-
the POST Office Department, he
formed a partnership with one
Nelms to practice before the de-
partment. The Bond Investment
Companies, the Turf Investment
Companies, and other so-called
financial organizations for the
purpose of defrauding the public,
soon found it profitable to employ
the law firm of Barrett & Nelms.
If they did not they we're denied
the use of the mails; if they did,
Mr.. Barrett wrote an opinion for
his uncle to sign and they went
right on. No wonder the fees OF
this firm were over six thousand
dollars in ~tlfty-fye days. The
]grotesque feature about it is that
Mr.. Nelms left the firn at the end
Of the year. 1891 to enter a theo-
logical seminary to prepare for the
ministry. Whether his conscience
broke down under the strain, or
whether lie concluded that the
Tyners were getting too much Of
the money acquired by the wear
and tear of his conscience is not
stated in the report. Presumably
he used the funds he had accu-
mulated from Matchmaking crimi-
nal "get-rich-quick" organizations
to prepare himself for his holy
calling. Mr.. Tyner was sum-
marily dismissed from Office after
Mrs. Tynerhad succeeded in rifling
the official safe OF documents which
would probably have insured the
residence Of that gentleman inside
of prison walls for a number of
years. The two st. Louis COM
p%anies, viz: E. j. Arnold Co., and
j. j. Ryan Co., were enabled to
swindle the people of the United
States out OF approximately four
million five hundred thousand dol
lars of cash, through the aid given
them by j. N. Tyner and his n
terprising nephew, II. j. Barrett.
James T. Metcalf, the Superin-
tendent of the Money Order Sys-
tenn, seems to have been an ordi-
nary CRATER without any frills or
ornamentation. He simply stood
in with the companies he, as agent
OF the government, did business
with, and bled the government for
all he could get. incidentally, it
appears that Mr.. Metcalf had his