The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-12-11
FINANCIAL EMBARRASSkENTS
HIS Cr~ultors Have Filed Proceed rus
Against Him and Today Ne Ap.
pears IN Court-Arrested When
About to Leave state

and former congressman from Ncya.
da is cited to appear 200 court to-
/ day u supplementary proceedings
brought by the creditors rodays ac-
/ iiou is the elimination of long sc.
rics of financicl troubles n which
| the silvcr-tonguod promoter G. the
! sagc-brush belt has been involved.
/ Van Duzer is represented by the
, law firm of Dclmas. ToNuc and Spell
| man. Of which Dolphin VI Dclmas.
the famous chief council of the Thlv
trial, is a member. he was recently
arrested ON the allcpliou that hc
was about to leave The state
Van Duzcr represented Nevada iu
the house Of representatives from
1903 to 1907. but even while holding
that august job he devoted him.
self principally to mining promotion
schemes conducting the Van Duzcr
Mining and Development company at
- Broad street. Manhattan I'm Au-
gust, 1904 Edwin G. Brucu, Of 100
Nassau street got a Judgment against
him on printing bill for
$543.27 and Il was returned msa'.
isfied an order was made I'm March.
1905, for Van Duzer's examination
in supplementary proceedings on May
l3. Van Duzer did not appear ana
was admdgod In contempt On No
vcmber % OF the same year another
Judge issued another order for his
examination. and he again failed to
appear. This time Brucn rc.enforced
his case with an affidavit that there
was danger that Van Duzcr would
leave the state, and that Van Duzer
was a very wealthy man who had
been living az the Waldorf Astoria.
the Murray Hill and the Grand Union
hotels and had a lot Of property not
exempt from the proceedings which
he had refused 10 apply on the bill.
Van Duzcr has been dcvoting him
self 10 promoting Nevada mining
properties and has nad trouble with
creditors ever since ne was elected
to the last congress as the only
democrat west Of the Missouri river
When after two years Of absentco'sm
he appeared I'm Washington on March
3, 1907, the day before the FIFTY.
ninth congress expired. he answered
the roll call and then went down
to the Office of the disbursing clerk
=" collect $500 mileage. when hc
got the warrant three men who
detectives demanded It to apply on a
debt Van Duzer pleaded his consti-
tutional immunity as a representative
In congress while going to and from
the capitol and kept the money for
the time being Later at the Office Of
his attorney Van Duzer agreed 10
settle out of his mileage warrant.
n was understood AT the time that
Van nuzcr, who had already sold out
. 10 = H'lHlF' udN ElN'h an bIutI loI
his mileage 10 one OF his creditors.
who was unable to collect the war.
rant. On the some day capitol 20.
| liceman threatened 10 arrest Van Du.
ger and three others who had r1w
in one Of the corridors OF the house
over a protested note bearing Van
/ Duzor's name.
All the time Van Duzer was in con,
/ grcss he was selling mining stock
from an office IN the Colorado build
Ing at Washington and from Offices
| in this city. The fact that he was
a member of congress was featured
in his mining literature I'm the
latter part of 1908, when he was run,
ming the Van DuzerTonopah Mining
| and Investment company here, II. f.
Burr, one Of his salesmen, got ludg
ment for 800 salary Van Duzer n
| nally gave n note for the amount and
Burrs lawyer sent II 10 Van Duzer's
lawyer In Washington for collection
The lawyer said recently that hc
hadn't heard from the note since.
on December O. 1905. John f. Rob
erts, n real estate broker of 134T
Arch street, Philadelphia wrote to a
collection agency In this city that
Levi Lawton Of 1922 Brown street
Philadelphia, and Mrs. Roberts had
bought 400 and 300 shares respect
lively OF the C. d. Van Duzer MINING
and Development company under Van
Duzer's statement that the stock
would pay two per cent monthly dlvl
dends, which were supposed to be
guaranteed by the Pittsburg Trust
company, Roberts wrote that the com