The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

| in the ground. Suckers are going 10
be offered this stock at about 80 cents
on the dollar, but we are prepared 10
do better than that we pought WHAT
and will sell at one. Don't be pasnIul
about ordering.
Bargain number two consists of one
million dollars worth of stock IN the
Idaho-Montana diamond mine 1t was
advertised in all the papers five or SIX
years ago that wagon Iodo oI olea-
monds had already been taken out,
and that dividends of five thousand per
cent would be paid. Neither the
wagon load of sDarklers nor the dlvi.
dends have been heard OF since, put II
there is minister of the Gospel VINO
ment he can have our whole stock Tor
a ten dollar bill. We lent about that
sum on it and shall be glad to get
back our own.
Bargain number three is two million
dollars worth of stock in the Big
Hope silver mine. After it had been
announced that the mine was one
solid mass of silver and could supply
the world for a thousand years to
come and after some ten million dol
lars worth Of stock had been sold, the
mine dropped out of sight. So did It's
PROMOTERS So did Big Hopes This
stock will be offered again this year
for 70 cents on the dollar If any
Struggling widow wants ours for two
cents a pound she can have it and pay
us in patching our trousers.
Bargain number four alludes to the
Great American Water, Wine and
Fruit Supply company. The idea was
to plant one million acres or desert
land to berries and fruit and vineyards,
and to supply one million inhabitants
of the far west with cold spring water
from the top of the Rocky mountains
Unfortunately for the rest of US. the
man who made $250,000 out of the
scheme fell dead While playing poker
and the thing went to pieces. 1t is to
be resurrected again this year as an in
vestment for orphans. Any orphan
CRYING for this stock can get a wood
box full of it from us by proving his
moral character and paying express
charges Don't deal with any one else
until our stock is exhausted.
Bargain number five hit us a solar
plexus blow years ago, when we had
the down of innocence on our cheek.
We inserted a full-page advertisement
for the Western American Oil COM
worth of stock in return. There was
never a we'll bored There was never
a drop of oil. There was never cor
poration that any one could find. After
six or seven years this oil stock is be-
ing oiled up again and the suckers are
asked to bite at par Our shares are
still in the old trunk. The rats may
have nibbled at some of it, but what |
Is left will be sold at cent on the |
dollar 1t is worth that to paper the !
walls of the hired girls bedroom with |
If she is red-headed she will appre- |
ciate the effort to make her happy.
Bargain number six consists of five |
million dollars worth of shares in the |
gold mine. We can't tell |
you where it was located, because the |
president of the company had forgot |
ten the spot himself He said it didn't /
make a cents worth of difference |
whether it was located or not, provid- (
ng the public made five hundred per |
cent dividends. We bought ten shares
1t ten cents a share, and he was so
pleased with our generosity that he
presented us with enough more to
make up the five million. When he had
made a hundred thousand dollars out