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Lawsonia. He Incorporates the Philip
pines under the title of .Amalgamated
Philippics,' and offers it's common
shares to would-be citizens at 80. its
preferred shares at Ca bonus of ten
shares of common to go with every
purchase of $4,000 worth of the pre-
ferred stock. The reply is instantane-
Gus. Inside Of six months a million
new citizens have arrived and sworn
fealty to Lawson and his new nation.
Personal taxes are abolished, but every
citizen pays dues, just as he would In
a yacht club. These are $100 a year,
emitting the payer to, all the privileges
of citizenship, including years sub
scription to the output of the govern
ment press, by which all the writings
of the president are printed. The end
of the fiscal year shows the government
treasury in possession of $368,000,000
from the sale Of the shares of the
Amalgamated Philippics and an esti-
mated income from dues Of more than
$2,000,000,000 a year. Other sources of
income from franchises, taxes and the
sale of privileges bring the revenue of
the islands up to 100000 900. OF this
huge sum $1,000,000,000 per annum is
paid to Lawson for his services as gen.
eral manager; $500, 100000 goes to the
general maintenance of the govern
ment, $500,000,000 is set aside for
sinking fund and the remainder is used
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to declare dividends: on the common
and preferred shares
What an ideal form of government" !"
1 put in. II wonder nobody has ever
thought of 1t before"
so do l." said Prof. Forecaster. "a
form of government that actually pays
its citizens back some of the cash it
takes from them can't but be self-per
petuating."
And how does it work?" I queried.
Turn the spectrophone on 1911 and
give us a hint of how it all turns out"
THAT is not so pleasant" replied the
professor, with a glance through the
lens. Having got Lawson off in a
corner of the world all by himself, the
next development the spectrophone re-
veals is declaration of war against
him by the United States of Midway,
a mere shadow Of a nation physically,
but financially powerful, growing out of
the purchase of the island of that name
in the Pacific by the Standard Oil peo-
pie. Having formed Midway into re-
public, the proprietors Immediately
build a formidable navy, and in 1911
their fleets are dispatched against the
Lawsonese."
"And the result" I cried.
$50 far as l have looked" said Prof.
Forecaster, Lawson wins out. AS a
master of explosives in words he is
without his equal. In the first naval
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and the equipment necessary to get
their riches into marketable shape.
He was the owner of every one Of
the $4,000 shares of the company ex-
cept the few that he gave away to
qualify other men to act as directors.
He was prodigal in his efforts to raise
the necessary cash. This prodigality
later on caused him a vast amount of
trouble and innumerable lawsuits,
which took away hundreds of thou
sands. One of the men he approached
was Thomas w. Lawson. The man
who introduced him to Lawson subse-
quently. sued him for $1,000,000, and
effected a compromise, it was said,
based on the payment of $125,000.
That was a mere bagatelle to the
colonel. A young woman who did his
typewriting when he first came here
and proved to be of valuable service
to him, he rewarded, according to COM
mon report, with 10000 shares Of
stock. Had the young woman held on
to them she could have sold them
for $450,000, the stock going to As in
1902 but she sold when it reached 25,
realizing $250,000.
When the colonel got the company
under way finally he settled in this
city, making his home in the Waldorf
Astoria, where he hired a $4,000 suite.
He became the chum of John w.
Gates, James A. Drake and other
plungers who frequent the Waldorf,
and some of the poker games that fol-
lowed all but lifted the roof from that
hostelry.
In his younger days the colonel had
married and had one daughter. His
wife died long before he ever dreamed
of being millionaire. When his
riches first came to him he went to
Bisbee, Arizona, and married Miss
Mary Proctor, who is related to the
Proctor family of Vermont.
He brought his bride to the Astoria.
There a baby was born, the first to
come into the world in the hotel. Then
the colonel moved his family to the
Ansonia, where he leased the finest
suite in that hotel. He still makes his
home there,
When the fame Of the Greene AConso1-
idated spread and the price of its
shares made the former cowboy a yeri-
table Monte Cristo, lawsuits were
brought against the colonel with free
hand. They were the price of his for
mer prodigality Most of them were
based upon alleged promises of enor-
NOUS rewards he had made when he
needed cash to start up his mines.
George A. Treadwell sued for ST.
0a0, 600, James Shirley sued for $1,00o,-
900, George Mitchell sued for 100000,
and a number of suits for lesser
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on and they tell absurd stories about
his ability as gun fighter, his courage,
nerve, etc. Conservative men who knew
him in the old days in Arizona declare
that while these stories are ridiculous
the colonel was as good an all around
man as the average expert plainsman.
He could shoot with the best of them,
ride with any of them, gamble with
the nervieSt of them, and never show
ed the white feather in times of stress.
He herded cattle in dangerous In
dian country, and twenty years ago
shot at Indians and was shot at by
Indians times innumerable
Unlike Mr.. Lawson, his friends do
not undertake to say how many, if any,
notches he is entitled to wear on his
gun. Lawson says of four men that he
killed two were shot in the back. If
he shot anybody in the back, and his
friends don't admit that he did, they
say the colonel was justified; that he
was up against men who would have
shot him in the back if they could have
got him first.
One of the absurd stories told about
the colonel is this The end of the
ing. A bullettook it off. In one of his
Indian fights twenty odd years ago he
was surrounded by a small band. The
firing brought his cowboy friends up
on the gal1op. They found him lying
dazed in the grass behind his dead
horse. He was wounded in two or
three places, one Of the wounds being
on the finger. count of dead Indians
was made on the line of the circle
which the attacking party made.
Thirteen corpses was the total
Col. Greene is anything but the
plainsman in appearance. High living,
rich food and the luxurious life of
multi millionaire in this city during
the past four years has piled noun
tains of fat on him. He is about five
feet ten inches tall and weighs 230
pounds or more. He is not only fat,
he is 1abby. Any exertion makes him
puff. Rheumatism assails him at
times. He has a rich, horid color; not
the kind due to outdoor life, but to q
liberal patronage of generously
equipped table.
The colonel is good natured, but ex-
plosive. In the company of million
aires he affects the manners of the
plainsman. In the company of ordi-
nary mortals he affects the manner of
the millionaire; the solid, substantial
man Of weighty business affairs; the
financier, whose utterances are OF deep
import to the Wall street world.
Here is the way the colonel came to
be the owner of the property that had
a value Of s3S.o00.000 and more. Just
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{. For the last month little has been
seen of the old man and his dog. Fa-
gan had outlived all of his relatives and
was no longer able to work. The sis
terS at the convent at last feared that
he might freeze to death in the shanty
and reported the case to the police.
When a patrolman from the West One
Hundred and Twenty fifth street sta
ton knocked at the door of the cabin
yesterday morning the faithful dog
barked to awaken mis- master and stood
guard at the door lest the big man
in blue was there to harm the old man.
Now, you wait right here for me,
Spruce" said the old man, and I'll be
back In no time at all. This police
man wants me to go out with him."
And the old man spread a ragged
old coat in front of rickety little
stove for his faithful friend.
81 must send you to the charities or
ganization," said Magistrate Hogan.
"You are too old to take care Of your
self"
"But my dog-what will become Of
my dog?" walled Pagan. Cant you
send him along with me? Spruce is as
old as am now, as ages go, and can
never get along without me-"
The old mans plea was vain. He was
taken to the Municipal Lodging house.
but the dog is not within the law, and
so he is starving in the little cabin up
on the rocky heights.
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battle with the Standard Oil fleet he is
equally strong. The first seventeen
battleships that entered the Lawson
zone were blown to srnithereens by the
mines Of the Philippine Philippe. The
second met with a similar fate, all ex-
cept one that got as far into Manila
harbor as the forts, and this Lawson.
as a bit of sarcasm, bombarded with
magazines containing the latest chap
ters of his story so persistently and
copiously from his sixty-inch guns on
shore that the gunboat sank under
their weight
"Jingo!" 1 cried with a laugh, "he
is a wonder, isn't he?"
YES" said the professor, "and so
ready with his tongue too. When the
reporters asked him what he thought
of the battle Immediately after the ship
sank his only reply was, I'm too busy
to talk, boys, but I've proved one thing
today by sending that ship to the bot
tom.'
"'What is that?' asked the reporters.
THAT oil and water will mix if you
hit 'em right replied Lawson.
And that" SAID the professor, ris-
ing and closing the spectrophone, "is as
far as have time to go today. Come
along, my boy. Later on, perhaps, We'll
see who wins out in this conflict, which
seems to be casting the Russo-Japa-
nese and all other wars into the shade"
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amounts were brought. Several Of
these were settled. Some are still
pending.
The former cowboy, by his great
wealth, got on terms Of intimacy with
the real financial kings of the city. H.
H. Rogers sees him whenever he calls
at 26 Broadway. E. III. Hartman Is
the second largest individual stockhold-
er in his company. John w. Gates
was a director of the company for
time. Then they had a disagreement
and Gates got out.
In the first flush of his great wealth
the colonel spent fabulous sums. One
of his closest associates said:
HE bought hundreds of thousands
of acres of timber land with no tim
Der on it. He bought hundreds Of
thousands of acres of grazing land
with no grass on it. He bought little
railroads which began nowhere and
ended nowhere, touching nothing on
the route
In 1902 he headed a syndicate Of four
men which purchased a 7.750,000 acre
ranch in Sonora, Mexico, the greatest
cattle ranch in the world. The tract is
125 miles long and 100 miles wide and
is surrounded with a four strand barb
wire fence. He planned to put $4,000
head of cattle on the ranch.
HIS STOCK market operations nave
been the most costly of all his ven-
lures, particularly his speculations In
his own stock, the Greene Consoli-
dated. Several times he has bought
immense blocks on margin, borrowing
huge sums from banks and trust
companies.
With peculiar fatality, every time
he has loaded UP with the stock on
borrowed money something has hap
pened; the lending institutions de-
mand heavy additional collateral and
bundles of the stock are thrown on the
curb.
In January last he was caught in
this way, and it was reported that he
would lose the presidency Of the COM
pany. The stock he had to part with
-45, 900 shares-was taken by Stand
ard Oil men at 10. On Monday last
the stock sold at "a. The colonel had
loaded up with 100000 shares of 1t on
margin. He had to part with a big
chunk of this in the perpendicular
drop to %.
The colonel appears to be the only
man in Wall street who doesn't know
that the Standard Oil group is after
his company, or that there may be un-
DERIVING reasons for the radical ac-
tions of the big lending Institutions
every time he loads up with the stock
on borrowed money.
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of his own making and is composed Of
odds and ends of lumber. boxes and
sheet tin that he gathered from day
to day in the neighborhood. The rocky
lot on which he squatted belongs to the
adjacent convent, and the sisters char
itably took no steps to dispossess the
old man.
Dog His Only Companion
There Pagan has lived for ten years
IN peace. his sole companion q big
Newfoundland dog, derelict like him
self. He picked him up as puppy In
the days when he was building his
cabin and since that time the friends
have shared home and the scanty food
that the old man could get by doing
odd jobs in the neighborhood. Every
body knew Pagan and his dog. They
were landmarks on the West side of
Harlem. They had scores of friends
among the children. The youngsters
were wont to troop into the little hodge
podge cabin every day and listen to the
wonderful tales the old man could
spin.
Fed by the Nuns
The sisters at the convent have been
the old mans guardian angel. With
them it was voluntary charity. Rarely
day passed that some one of them
did not carry over supply of food to:
the little cabin on its rocky height.
When he was i'll they were his nurses.
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1'G0L." GREENE, A QUEER PRODUCT OF THE WEST

NuEW YORK, Jan. 14.-William Cor
tMl nell Greene, who made q flying
leap to fame by spending $4,000
on newspaper advertisements last week,
simply to publicly denounce Thomas
w. Lawson as a liar, faker and char
latan," is a curious tumble of Bat Mas
terson and j. Pierpont Morgan.
He came to New York four years ago,
the sole owner of property which in
1902 had an actual market value Of
$38,016, 600. Today his real friends hate
to think of how much he has got left.
Wall street has been a terribly costly
venture with him. His money has been
taken away from him in wads that
would stagger half dozen national
banks. He boasted on Tuesday that he
had $15,000,000 left to fight Lawson.
On Thursday he admitted that the two
days of the Lawson slump in Greene
Consolidated Copper had cost him ex-
actly $4,143, 3,32S.17. At that time he de-
clared he had s5,000.000 left to fight
Lawson.
Where all his millions have gone is
no secret to the men who have fol-
lowed his Wall street career closely.
Many of them regard him as the most
colossal "anger' that ever got south of
Pine street. The estimates that these
men place upon the remnant of his
wealth do not tally with the most re-
cent of his own figures. They are
lower by a wide margin.
His title of colonel is purely cour-
tesy. 1t was given him when, with his
sudden and stupendous bound to enor-
nous riches, he abandoned the less con-
ventional sobriquet of "Broncho Bill
by which he was known in Southern
Arizona for over quarter Of a CEN
tury.
Col. Greene is forty-eight years old.
He was born in Winchester county, a
few miles above the present New York
city line, his family being very nice
people, but not distinguished in any
way. He got the Western fever before
he reached the age of manhood, and
finally drifted to Southern Arizona, not
far from the Mexican line Bisbee, q
little town forty miles from the line,
was the metropolis which knew him
best until he became a thirty time mil
lionaire.
People who thought the colonel suf-
fered with "coid feet when he failed
to go to Lawsons Boston office On
schedule time, and characterized him
as a -four flushing bad man. made
q mistake.
He has number of absurd hangers
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Grants to pasture lands, such as the
Perkins syndicate had obtained, do not
carry with them title to certain min
erals which may be found on the land,
such as copper, gold, or silver. Any
person can go on private lands and
locate for gold, silver and copper. If
he finds it he can put in a claim for
the land. All that he has to do is to
pay fair price based upon it's value
as pasture. Should the owner re-
fuse to sell he can get possession by
condemnation proceedings after paying
a nominal price.
Greene's little ranch was on the ART
iona side of the line; the pasture land
or the Perkins syndicate was on the
Mexican side. Greene frequently rode
over the property of his neighbors, In
1899 he got an idea from his mining
knowledge that there might be copper
deposits on the Cananea ranch. He pros
pected quietly. and in the end located
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across the Mexican line from Southern
Arizona was a great tract of pasture
land which was purchased in 1885 by
a syndicate of Californians, headed by
United States Senator George C. Per-
kins.
There were a number of ranches on
the property. One of them was called
the Cananea. The land was in the
state of Sonora. Year after year the
land afforded fair grazing for the cattle
kept upon it.
In the latter part of the sos sBron-
cho Bilp Greene had amassed enough
money to give up cattle herding and
to purchase a small ranch of his own
In Southern Arizona close to the Mex
lean line. His ranch prospered and he
gated life he had picked up prac-
tical knowledge of mining and the val.
lie of ore.
There is a peculiar law in Mexico.
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eight mines. He put in his claims for
the property, and the Perkins syndi-
cate, not knowing anything about the
extent of the mineral deposits, sold out
rather than fight condemnation pro-
ceedings and be beaten in the end.
Soon after Col Graene got the prop
erty- by paying nominal sum Senator
Perkins, who had caused an investiga-
ton of the mineral deposits to be made,
said:
.I believe that the greatest copper
mines in the world have been located
there, and that there is enough copper
now in sight to reduce prices the world
over"
Col. Greene has rough kind of bus
mess astuteness. He came East in
1900 and met various men skilled in
the promotion of companies. He made
stock company of his mines and then
came the task of getting the cash to
build smelters, purchase machinery
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The PHILIPPINE PIIILPPIC, OR The T. S OF LAWSONIA

UnHHEN 1 called upon the mounter
WAW of the spectrophone the other
WW night 1 found him roaring
- ,r,;tt, 1o,,ol,far TT was unite
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TREASURER.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-03-02
ENECUTOR,S NnTLcE.

In re Estate Of John Brown, late OF the
Township of Davidson, County Of SuIIi-
van, deceased
Letters testamentary on the above estate
having been granted to the undersigned,
all persons indebted to the said estate are
requested to make immediate payment
and those having claims against said es-
tate to present them without delay TO
+, j. Keeler, EXecu or.
f. w. Meylert, Attorney.
Laporte, Pa, January so, 1905.
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LEE R. GAvlTT. COUNTY TREASURER.
In account wit the o County the
Amt mt Iand Exon's Rebate Collccs ,,
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LEE r. GAVlTT, COUNTY TREASURER.
In account Collectors for the year
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CommonwealLh of lennsylyania

County Of sullivan, -.
We the undersigned Auditors of sullivan
County do hereby certify thai i'm pursuant to the
various duties imposed upon Us hy the several
Acts OF General Assembly and the supplements
thereto we did meet at the Office of the County
Commissioners in the Court House in the Borough
of Laporte, on Monday he 9TH day OF January
\. D., l9O5,.and did commence to audit adjust
and set tie the said various ana several accounts
subject to our adjOurHmcnts until this date when
we completed this our Annual Report and we
knowledge, ability, information and belief as the
same appears audited, adjus ed settled aud fully
set forth and itemzCd in this foregoing report.
IN testimony whereof we have hereuuto set our
hand and seal this Both day OF January 1905
JAMES SWEENEY,
Gil. CASEMAN. tCo. Auditor
JNO. ". RANDALL
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-03-02

Condition Sullivan the
LIABILITIES.
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LEE r. GAvITT, COUNTY TREASURER.
Townships and Boroughs Funds
Unseated Lands or the 1901.
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COENTN COSTS.
Thos. Gahan, team hire ctc............ 30 90
Dushore Be. o. room ront, kilograms -
CIV Bigger, team hire etc.............. II so
sam Mcbride room rent......... ...... 90
Peter j. Yonkin, team hire etc.. 3 10
3. s. Bcrtly, for taking appeal......... II 90
f. NJ. CrOSsley, conveying ComrS 100
VIM. II. FAIRIES. tranScribing testimony
to set Off from Boro. OF LapoIte new
Boro, TO be called South Laporte IS 65
f. L. Sweeney, board and expense Of
travelling attending appeals..,.......-. l9t
ForksVille Boro half expense OF break
ing ice gorge. .............................. 657
i. =. Mctiee. hall rent during appeal. 90
u. Palmatier team hire .......... .......... 30
Co. Treas. for Commrs dccds............... 76 Is
260 67
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STATE PENITENTIARY AND STATE
ASYLUMS
Thos. \. Re- hnson support of W Thorpe % o2
Eastern Pententiary support Of Peter
WilkQSkey, John simon, Barney Sli-
VoSki and Lewis Wallace ,........... 176 "a
Warren Asy lum, care Harvey Mckay ~ ~
DanVille Asylum, support of Michael
Xebroski. Herman Ganoski, Jas ShcN-
lin Frank Morningstar, DIR, Davis 27S no
Commission in re lunacy. OF Frank
Mornhgstnr.. ....-...... Al 90
Commission In r. lunacy J. SheNlm IL 40
81 56
FUEL AND LIGHTS,
Atlantic Refining GO, oil ...............-... - -
+. VI. CrossleY. pnl,.......... ......... .. bot a.
5ag 30
SHERIFF'S COSTS.
G.. Cott, sheriiis cost..........-.......~ 5Gi -
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Statement showing the Actual Indebted
ness of sullivan County, Jan >, 1908.
Bonds outstanding .......... $1,000 90
LlabltiucS IN excess OF rcsnurCeS....-- l5I7Oo7
The Tupelo journal., 1905-10-06
SAY YANKEES SPOIL THINGS
E~nglishmen Assert We Eliminate All
the Romance from Capture
Of Robbers.

Our cousins on the other side of the
Atlantic, says an English paper, are so
smart in ordinary matters of everyday
occurrence that they are robbing life vi
hall its charm Of romance.
The other day a man had his over
coat stolen at 1928 and. discovering mis-
loss at 1926, he teleploned to the police
and reported the affair to the inspector
eli duty at 1923. At $3.50 a detective
started in search for the coat, and ran
to earth the thief and coat in a pawn
brokers' shop at $40.
No official information is forthcom-
ing as to how many minutes elapsed
between the arrest and conviction Oh
the thief, but efforts are being made
to trace the telephone exchange girl,
who lost two minutes in connecting
the robbed man with the police.
In this country we are more particu-
lar as to preserving the romantic and
sentimental side. Fifteen minutes does
not give a man time enough to realizs
a loss, or a thief to appreciate his gain.
Our record reads something like this:
January 2, overcoat stolen; January
10, reported to police by letter; Janu.
airy 81, letter acknowledged; February,
March and April. police circuiar.zt
pawEshops; December. clew obtainesi;
January 2 anniversary Of loss). an az.
rest; January 20, prisoner discharged
Ease of mistaken identity.
No doubt our method is better. after
all. 1t may not be so safe, but the
sensation lasts longer, and a little loss
is made to go a long way.