Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-19
ITS STOCK ORGANIZATION.
S Identical With Berestord
Hopes Exploits, and It
Worked AS Well.
Joseph kimbaIl aud Walter j. Pouiton
Tell OF Their Reasons for Be
coming Subscribers.

lie art OF grating is conducted. tho
timber land tip matter now promises
TO be as Illuminating an example as
the episodes of the recently notorious
Beresford Hope or Col, knight of Pat
terson Creek. Idaho
The etack ingredients d a fake
combination to take money seem from
! these cases to be first a mysterious at
mosphere over the whole game secured
i'll this case by instructions TO sub
scrlbcrs not to submit the matter to
writing in amy form OF to telephone
! about IL, or to describe il except by
| word OF mouth. second, a promise TO
return great deal OF value for a.
| very small remuneration. shown In this
case by the fact that when subscrip-
IONS of 500 We're asked the prospeu-
tive value Of the land was to be 81, 400
ana when subscriptions OF $500 were
taken, the prospective land prize was
Jumped To $4,000; third, Il sack hold
err TO consist of partner in the
deal, local man of well known hon
esty over whose eyes the wool is pulled
and whose enthusiasm is worked ola
produce results In subscriptions, also
VINO Is used TO receive the money from
the subscribers SO as to allay the sus-
picion that would come from giving
money to stranger; fourth. a way IL
make quick disappearance at thu
proper psychological moment
While several salt Lake subscribers
sun believe that the local game was
an honest one, and that IL represented
a perfectly legitimate effort to secure
timber land from the government which
Is a birth right of every citizen. still
it tallies with the stock ''makings" OF u
graft in the first three OF the pnrtlcu-
lars. and the government agents be-
lieVe that only the fact that publicity
was gwen To IT In time prevented it
from having all four Of them.
In the person of J. Is. Reese WHO
| lives near Nampo Idaho one active
| agent in the scheme has been located.
! He Is known to have been represented
| TO others as government agent who
| would secure inside information and
! when pressed FOR details rs To how
| this would be accomplished nc had
explained that high connections in the
Masonic secret fraternity. would give
him an access to Information ia WASH
ington. not open to ordinary people
Through this advantage he could get
his clients 60 the land before others
We're aware that il was open to entry.
\ story that would be humorous. If ic
were not for the tragedy OF mortgaged
homes and the destruction OF small be-
ginnings made by young men IN the
hope OF turning these meagre opportu-
mites into better ones. comes from
kansas IN connection with the land tip
story.
From Kansas in direct line as TO
dates and amounts asked for the
scheme seems 70 have some west, a
higher tribute being eXacted i'm oacll
new state with a steady persistency.
coming il is thought. from the boldness
OF the operators through constant sue
cess.
Two young men Of Caneevile, KAN
sas We're singled out last year from "a
largo number who had put up So each
for land tip Just such as that Of
fGred here, and they We're approached
by the tipster with an offer OF going
into full partnership with him. provide
ed they could raise batwcn them 81 800.
They did 50 by the most rigid sacr-
fees, and one OF chem was dispatched
TO Seattle to become western manager
of the concern
lie got there, and established him.
self and then looked around for tho
property he was 10 manage, He COULDN'T
find any trace OF Il, ana then he wrote
the other partner. IN the meantime tho
moment for the tipster to drop out OF
sight had occurred ana that was the
last that Coneeville and its large num-
her OF tloeccd citizens ever heard OF
him
The secret service learned OF this
case Then II learned of the case at
lDWnngb Colo narrated yesterday,
where u disappearance act had followed
the planting OF large number OF sub
sCribers on a government forest reserve.
with fee OF 500 each To mourn the
loss OF. sun later came the Idaho case
with 800 as a fee. the excursion fea-
ture 10 DC pulled OF along with the
Utah excursion, and then the Utah case
Win fees running from $500 20 $500
"a rifr n AIDS NrLpGrg,N
When asked this morning IL any evI-
dcnce had YET come up taking the mat
ter over the verge OF the criminal law,
Capt Hair said
II We had seen such evidence, tho
matter would have been kept within tho
department and the scheme allowed 10
develop further, However ! believe
that those back OF Il had made
a careful study of the law. ana
were doing their work In such an IN
direct way that they could not be suc-
cessfully prosecuted. Publicity there
fore was the best possible weapon ani
the only practicable result TO obtain
would hoo On inform innocent suhsCrib-
era OF the probable nature OF the en-
tcrpri2e. do not believe that this
publicity has 1eopardiged the business
advantage OF amy person having a lee
Ultimate proposition. aud That N any
person goes By himself "a locate for
himself on timber land he WIN be per-
fcctly free 10 do ho aud the govern
mcnt VIII be the last party "a attack
him.
JOSEPH KIMBALLs VIEW
Joseph Klmblu Is among those Who
heard " tho propositions ana who
wanted 60 use up his TIMBER right and
was WILLING 90 pay 500 tp anyone who
would locate hum ou quarter helu"p
Of timber