The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-05-30
A BId6kndiI6r.
THE MACKAY TELEGRAPH
SHOWN UP.

hO OSuNSE uNluluB heCOIu VI
April Goth gives the HALLS
Messenger" a write-up that is
warm enough to last it about "a
years. 1t seems from the two
column roast which the Record
gives it, that the MESSENGER
made some changes in its APP
pearance to disguise itself, and
came out in special edition in
tended for advertising certain
mining schemes. Copies were
sent to those whom they were
intended for, out they were not
intended for anybody not famil-
lar with local conditions. The
Reliable" Mackay Job Press.
The following article is taken
from THE SILVER MESSENGER of
the date of November 29th, 1904.
We reprint it at this time, word
for word, to show that the Mes
SENGER was the first paper, not
the Denver Mining Record, to
expose as fraud the fake pub
lication called the Weekly Mes
senger," published at Halls, +"
Idaho. And again, we print the
article to show the public what
a low, blackmailing cur the Mac
kay Telegraph is to charge that
the fake publication the Week
ly Messenger-was printed at
The SILVER MESSENGER office.
The Telegraph is neither "re-
liable" nor respectable, for it
was too cowardly to reprint the
article from the Denver Record
that we printed last week. Does
it look reasonable to any sane
person that the fake paper in
question was published at this
Office, and at the same time we
were the very first to expose it
as a fraud, in order to be subject
to arrest and imprisonment? The
Telegraph knew these facts, saw
our exposure of Nov. 29th, 1904,
yet for blackmailing purposes
published the above item.
Our exposure of November %,
1904, reads as follows
A GIGANTIC FRAUD.
A newspaper published per-
haps in the East, going by the
title: "The Weekly Messenger, :"
published at HALLS" (" Idaho, on
Oct. 8, 1904, is a fraud upon the
public, and was published for
the purpose of selling mining
fraud stock in the Victoria"
and Liberty Bell" mines, said
to be located at Thunder Noun
tain.
1t is a clever scheme and num-
erous innocent people have been
Iswindled. Only one issue of this
fake newspaper was ever made,
that is, that was ever received at
this Office. Undoubtedly the is
sue consisted of many thousand
copies, and was circulated gratis
to Eastern people to sell mining
stock in the two above named
imaginary group of mines said to
be located at Thunder Mountain,
and letters addressed to the
Weekly Messenger" Halls, .
Idaho, having been sent over the
country at last come to us at
Challis. They are from innocent
stock investors who have pur-
chased stock in these imaginary
mines. These letters have caus-
ed us much annoyance. Some
lcontained stamps requesting
copies of the Weekly Messen.
ger" and in each instance we
returned the stamps and inform
ed those who were swindled that
there was no such a town in Ida
no as Halls, and no such
newspaper as the Weekly Mes
senger."
The fake newspaper is a six
column folio sheet, and they en-
deavored-as near as they hac
the type and cuts-to duplicate
THE SILVER MESSENGER, wore
for word in reading matter anC
advertisements. But in every
instance when speaking of Chal
lis they have left off the &c" anC
made it read HALLS" But two
leading articles in the fraud pub
lication with er-headlines are
relative to the riches of the Vic
toria" and Liberty Bell' mines
These articles never appeared il
THE SILVER MESSENGER.
The parties engaged in this
gigantic swindle give their ad
dress as the Inter Trust Security
Co., Z, 9, II Water ST., Boston
Mass. The same outfit are sell
ing stock in the "PocatellC
o. l.