Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-07
PROMINENT MEN ARE HELD
Julian Hawthorne and josiah
Quincy Adams Plead Not Guilty.
MISUSE OF MAILS ALLEGED
sale Of stock in Mining Corpora
ton Nets Promoters Million
Famous MINES bring
Money.

NEW YORK Jan. con indictments.
the existence az which was made public
this afternoon Tor tho FIRST time pleas OF
nor guilty were entered in The United
States district court this afternoon by
Iulian Hawthorne acknowledgements.
Josiah Quincy former assistant tcc-
refary Of state, ex-mlyor Of Boston and
AZ present a member Of the transit com
mission OF Boston, Albert Freeman
promoter; John McEmnon, treasurer and
secretary q the Hawthorne Mining com
panles and DR.. William J. Morton,
nerve specialist OK this city.
Am are charged with mlsutc OK ihe
mails I'm a scheme 20 dcfraud investors
In the stock Of mining enterprises
-Four Of the indictments contain SIX
teen counts and the fifth eleven counts
reference is made 10 the Hawthorne Sal-
YER and Iron mines limited, Incorporated
rapitalized AZ Sl5OO0Noo sales OF whose
stocI, alone Melted the promoters II IS
charged 81 10000
NV the free use Of Julian Hawthorne's
name there was but little trouble. Il Is
alleged, in the promotion Of the various
stocks Many Of the investors are de-
clared TO have been influenced by influ-
entail persons and personal friends OF
The journalist-promoter In the use OF
literature sent cut Hawthorne Is alleged
10 have asked HIS friends TO get In on
The ground floor saying ut was firm
and could not cave i'm
Secret OF Solomon pamphlets scat
tered broadcast FOR promoting purposes
told investors. the Indictment AYERS. that
the only way to get money Is to dig 1t
out OF the ground"
Another pithy paragraph purported TO
be advice given by IIawthorne's father.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist II ran
as follows:
Nathaniel said 70 Julian. Whatever
else you do. don't try to make a living
by authorship
one letter that Hawthorne wrote. the
Indictment charges, and mailed to friends
said In part
II have reverted TO the profession for
which / was educated and from which
was temporarily seduced by the allure.
Snent OF literature. That allurement hai
held me for forty years. but the Tins
has now arrived when want more money
than the sort OF literature l have pro
duced can provide"
New IRRIGATION District.
The Frenchman Valley irrigation dis
trlct is a new organization which hai
asked the approval OF the state Irrigation
board ind win receive It as soon as tn,
secretary can make out the papers. TIL
district embraces about 10000 acres o
land on The Frenchman river near Pail
Hade, and is now under ditch, getting ser
vice from the old Culberson ditch. one o
the first irrigation projects in the state
/ The ditch went through recelyershi
and Is now the property OF Morgan j
Buckley. who bought It under foreclosure
The water users under Il desire to organ
lie under the present law and buy tn
ditch. Under the present ownership man
repairs and improvements are demande
which the water users are unable to oh
tain, and when they have formed thel
new organization and obtained posacsslo
these Improvements will be made ait
possibly the ditch may be extended
water from Path finder Dam.
The federal reclamation service ha
3 issued official notice that existing com
panies in the North Platte valley ma
use the surplus water from the Path
finder dam at the rate OF g per acr
days from signing contract and the rc
malnder In four equal instnllments
There Is thought to BE- water In excess q
the amount required by the North Plat
project for which the dam wns cor
structed. to supply all the demands q
other existing bitches. and possibly som
for additional projects. IN addition I
this charge Of IS there win be an annus
charge Tor maintenance and operation.
similar arrangement has been made wit
Wyoming project. i
General Evans Replies.
Brigadler General Evans Of the Wa
department has replied 90 the recen
letter OF Adjutant General Phelps I'm RI
spouse TO the criticisms Of inspecting OF
Ulcers on the national guard.
General Evans suggests that II IN
state appropriation Is not sufficient [
keep all the existing companies of III
guard up TO the gtandard that some {
them be mustered out Adjutant Generl
Phelps, however, believes such cours
Is unnecessary and that the lack I
equipment VIM be supplied and the guar
organisation remain intact. ....,.
wild Animal DOuntIca.
Governor Carey Of Wyoming has wrlI
ten Governor Aldrieh whether this stat
appropriates money for tine exterminS
ton Of wild animals ana Il so, no
much. Governor Aldrleh replied that N
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