The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-02
CET-R|CH-QU|Ck
CENTERS RA|DED
Government Gets Busy and
Makes Many Arrests in
New York.
SUCKER LIST Is
LONGEST ON RECORD
Long String of Companies Pro-
mOted, Which Have Not
Made Good.

The New York papers arc filling con-
siderable space with the arrest and pre-
limInary hearings OF so-oallcd get-rich-
quick operators, among them being A.
l.. Wisner and Charles f, Washburn.
Wisner is said 10 have had Sucker
list" OF 10000 names, and TO have a
daily mail containing thousands OF dol
lars. The World says:
The persons arrested are A. l.. Wis
ner, held In $500 bail. Il. S. Wisner,
held In $4,000 bail. and Grover s. Trum-
bull. held I'm $500 bail. The inspectors
say they believe another arrest In con-
nection with the case Will be made In
San Francisco within twenty -four hours:
ske9 y9u sure re- Waner Hs Gusns as
kinkead, Mayhem. Griggs and Booth
walked into his office. accompanied by
three city detectives:
Dead sure. said Mayhem. and the
members OF the firm made no further
protest.
Wholesale Promotion.
Twenty large bags were filed with
the books and papers OF the concern.
were detained for time as Witnesses
in the offices were found 1000 letters
addressed ready for mailing TO members
of the sucker list" announcing the
company, organizing under the laws OF
Delaware"
This was merely SoUO,0oO organlEa-
ton. The total capital OF the companies
said 10 have been promoted solely by
Wisner e. Co. is estimated at more than
one-haf billion dollars.
1.-The sucker list was the largest we
have ever discovered said Inspector
Dickson. THE inspectors also found n
long list Of proverbs and catch phrases
employed in preparing the literature sent
out by the firm 10 advertise It's supposed
gold mines and oil wells
All of the proverbs and catch phrases
had number and after some. of them
were pencil marks, good for No re-
fcrring. so the inspectors believe. to GER
tain persons on the sucker list and in
dcating that the person may have
weakness for a certain provcrb.
One list was headed Special" another
was headed good and another fair"
One was marked worth trying,
The names included men and women of
Great Britain and Canada The NUM-
bered list of catch phrases and proverbs
ran up TO sixty-three with spaces show
ing that the writer soon hoped 10 have
100 After the number twenty three"
there was no proverb,
Some of the gems Of the collection
Mako money your slave-John D.
Rockefeller
What the people want is large profts
on small investments-Jay Gould"
Never trust to another what you
should do Yourself
THE early bird catches the worm.
Some of the Companies.
The government officers assert that
when The firm moved from Wall street
the name was changed to the Standard
Sureties COMPANY. Among the concerns
promoted by Wisner were Thirty-three
Consolidated Oil, Mutual oil Union.
Gold company. Sycamore Oil company.
Valencia OH company. Black Oak Gold
company. Eureka on & Gas company.
Mount Jefferson Mines. Murchie Cold
company: incorporated; Empire Gold, linn
ited California & New York on COM
many, California & Monarch oil company,
United Tonopah Goldneld Mines. Man
haitian & Nevada Gold Mining company.
Philippine Plantation conlnnny California
Diamond Oil COMPANY Hale Mcleod
pany and the California Mutual OIL com
The AmaIgamated Mining & Oil com
100000 as a holding company 10 take
care Of the stock of five OF these con-
Germs.
Fake Guarantee Fund.
One of the charges made by the gov
broadcast by the firm that ii had a sS.-
o00. 600 guarantee fund, Tho inspectors
assert that this fund, that was supposed
to Insure purchasers of stock against
loss. simply made up of the shares
OF the stock held by the firm in various
companies. OF its. own. promotion upon
which face value OF $50 900 was
placed and which are declared to be
worthless.
One of the companies promoted by the
flrm-thc Hale Mcleod Oil company-had
a capital stock OF s1500. 600 Among the
directors were former Congressman Ma
than w. Hale Of Tennessee: J. p, Pen
land. United States district attorney for
the eastern district OF Tennessee. Gov
ernor B. w. Hooper OF Tennessee. and
NJ C. Monday, former postmaster OF
Knoxville. Tenn.
None of the prisoners obtained bail and
all were locked in the Tombs.
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