Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-02
DRAPER GETTING CUT RATES.
Mysterious Typster Would Run
Midnight Excursion to Govern
ment Timber Lands.
Those lie is Inviting 10 Join Him Arc
Young Men Who Have Not Ex-
hausted Their Entry Rights.


being a scheme to defraud someone
on very large scale. is being laid here
in Salt Lake.
Who the defrauded person is TO be.
ii Is yet too early to report, but 1t
will be either a large number of resi-
dents of Salt Lake and nearby towns
or It will be the United States govern
inert
Can a person who is now here taxi
ing into his confidence residents who
will take the bait for $500 each. de-
liver TO them 10000 acres OF govern
ment timber land. designated by him
in the mysterious manner of a wave Of
hand towards the northwest?
Can these people In RETURN lset $1,000
each for their holdings from lumber
trust ready to deliver the cash as soon
as tho persons can turn over their
rights as entrymen?
Can the mysterious statesmen of the
offer, turn over to prospective ontry-
men at Draper for 5000 each the same
proposition he is promising to salt
LaIsers for $500 cachg
Men in Salt Lake are being persuaded
to give up $500 in cash, and In Draper
the bait is being held out for 5000
Young men of the latter town have
been known TO put up their money in
considerable quantity, an astonishing
number OF mortgages on homes anu
chattels for sums ranging from 5000 q
$500 being the mute testimony FUR
nishing the names of those who haNa
been drawn into the venture.
Here is the experience of one who
refused to take up the proposition. Ha
does not wish his name used just -.
| but he gives out the story, bclicYipg
that the proposition ought 70 ctani
| the light OF publicity IL II is genuine
and is not to be carried out as gil
gantic fraud either on it's dupes or the
government.
WOULD GIVE NO NAMES.
II first learned OF the proposition
he said. "at my home In Draper. A
man came to me who would not give
me the name of the people he repre-
sentcd nor the name of himself.
HE told me that for 5000 he could
lead me to spot where could locate
on tmDef lanu. inc only people ne
wanted were those who had not ex-
hausted their timber land rights. He
said we were to pay our own expenses,
to put up $500 with him to pay expenses
of surveying and plating the land, and
then we were to go to n
place he designated, file our claims, and
we would then receive $4,000 for
each claim we could turn over TO a
purchaser who would then appear
SKATING ON THIN ICE.
He was careful to explain that abso-
lutely no United States law was to
be Violated. We We're to go on our
own responsibility, pay our own ex-
penses, and when we had a good title,
he assured us OF market.
IL thought the proposition a good
| one at first, but / finally put it TO this
test: / offered to put 5000 In escrow
for him, TO be delivered when | was
located on my land and had my title.
This would not do. he said at all. He
must have the money and have IL
right away, At this the proposition
began to look like a ''phony' one,
with the men that go in on the re-
cclving end of little easy way TO
lose their money.
Il tried to lind out where the land
was, but could not. ] was assured II
was off across several states To the
northwest, that $50 would paw my
railroad expenses there and back, and
that the total expense Of making the
trip would be less than 500, outside
Of the 5000 / was TO put up TO him.
MIDNIGHT EXCURSION.
From others who went into tho
proposition. learned that they were
ordered to leave Draper on Feb.
shortly before that time that
the opening OF tho land had
been postponed until March, and they
now plan TO leave here on the midnight
train FOR tho north, March z believe
that the land 10 supposed 10 BE- in
Oregon or Washington. This official
transaction is one In which tho tlpster
acts az no mans agent, the entryman
pays only for q Tip" and has vague
and irresponsible information that a
buyer will come along whenever the IL
tie OF the entrymun Is legalized.
Surprising this 10 be true. figure
that the $500 forfeit is to give the entry
man real value IN his prospective
claim so that when he gets IL no VIII
want 10 get nd OF n 10 get his money
back, and will not try TO hold up the
prospective buyer 10 an unreasonable
sum. or more than tho $4,000 that is
held out.
UNCLE SAM TAKES NOTICE,
An inquiry at tho U. 9. land once
here developed the fact that q great
rl,al a. .A-ormation concerning the
plan forming here had come 20 them
from an parts OF the state. ana that
they had wired 10 Washington the in
formation so far AS gathered, together
with requests for instruction as % how
10 proceed The l"llef there Is that
unless the matter Is a cold biooded
bunko game" on the Subscribers, II Is
an effort OF some large lumber company
TO obtain ny an indirect manner what
II cannot obtain In a direct manner, on
account OF the laws made 10 protect the
governments interests IL Is admitted
that the thing has been figured out 10
a roint where no law ia actually brok-
on. aud all methods ot procedure are
made sufficiently Indirect 10 glnrantee
an imposHibility 20 convict as WoulA
De ne case M on ordinary use OF clsl-
arrH ua dummy entfymen,
The reports IN The hands OF the gov
ormeut detectives include lists OF SUBJ
soribers In salt Lake Ogden. Draper.