Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-28
Former Marslalltown Drug
Clerk Has Idaho Town Stir
red Up By Disappearance
PRINT SHOP TO RECEIVER
Collins Printing Company, Capitalized
at $4,000, With $4,000 Liabilities,
Goes Broke, and Collins Said to Have
"Skipped"-Caims Appear by Scores
Collins to Oregon.

| Josef Collins erStwhile pharmacist
| connections, who at one time was en-
| ploycd by c. j. Lander in this city.
| Idaho, where, as promoter of the Col
Inns Printing Company and chief
stockholdcr, he is said to have left
creditors by the score, who are Won
dcring where they are going to realize
on the affable Collins assets.
Collins. 1t seems has been running
job printing and advertising specials
ty concern, and has more recently en-
parked in the newspaper business ana
started the Boise Times. The news :
paper press. just purchased, has been
attached by the drayman for a $500
freight bill.
The Idaho Daily Statesman. pub
lished at Boise, in it's issues of Thurs
day, January %, has the following to
say OF Collins sudden disappearance
and the placing of the Collins Printing
Company into the hands of receiver.
The Statesman says:
I'm the district court yesterday Judge
Bryan, sitting for Judge Wood, APP
pointed John H. Hatch receiver for
the Collins Printing Company and Mr..
Hatch has taken charge of the print
~, rf Ia
Eleventh streets, having given sat
isfactory bond in the sum Of $4,000.
Action for the appointment OF a re-
ceiver was started by Robert Jeffer-
son, a stakeholder in the company,
and one of the employees at the plant
The capital stock of the Collins Print
ing Company is $4,000, the liabilities
IS, 900 and the resources $4,000
Receiver Hatch stated yesterday
that the affairs of the concern We're
not we'll enough in hand to warrant
statement of the condition of the COM
pany, nor could it be stated definitely
as to continuing the business. How
ever, he said, the Boise Times, the
later venture which Joseph Collins.
whose name the business concern
bears. added to a job printing plant,
would probably be printed next Sun
day as usual and strong effort would
be made to continue the publication.
"And now. while the receiver is try
ing his best to adjust the entangle-
ments left by Joseph Collins. who
quietly departed without any pretense
Of brass band demonstration several
nights ago, checking his trunk TOT
Pendleton, Ore, Editor III. A. Lawson
of the Boise Times, sits in his OFFICE
in the Boise City National Bank build
ing grinding out copy for the next
issue of the paper, or runs over MS
beat for news, while rejecting per
haps, on how much of his back pay
he will ever get, and the eight or more
other employees at the plant hang
around the shop wondering if anything
will turn up to guarantee getting hold
of a meal ticket with the privilege OF
paying for it. For Collins left sal
airy bill of at least $500.
sBut that is not all. The numerous
creditors of the concern-there arc
so many, Receiver Hatch himself says
he would not attempt to count them
are figuring, too, on getting theirs,
with the result that there have been
some tea-cup cyclones experienced
within the walls of the little printing
office and it would not be surprising
if the storm should assume tornado
proportions before a final calm comes.
The largest creditors do not live in
Boise.
"wednesday night. before the APP
pointment of a receiver, several drays
and moving vans were backed up
against the curb for some distance
from the office, while, in the office
were several deputy sheriffs and nu-
merous creditors, the latter intent
upon getting all that is coming to
them. Before the creditors were in