The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-15
PONCA CITY
MERCHANTS
sW|NDLED
SMOOTH TONGUED ROGUE
MAKES MONKEYS OUT OF
EASY MARKS

Ponca City. Aug. 15-The fame of
I Ponca Citys prosperity has spread
rapidly to the haunts of the CRATER
in all parts of the United States. From
now on we will have shoelace ped
dlers, blind organists. corn doctors
land matrimonial agencies established
here to Join in the peaceful refrain
such fakes as these | often try, to
gain a living all men must, honesty
is all my eye, any scheme to earn a
crust" We had to use the word
crust to rhyme with must but
these people eat custards.
The other day the most laughable
occurrence happened in this city that
has ever been heard tell of in the
history of the world and there is,
and has Teen another graft working
tor the past two months that We will
explain fully in a future issue.
Ponca City people are certainly
easy marks if they are properly ap
preached. Sobriety and religious pre-
teuse is the tinsel that catches tn6ir
confidence.
An unsophlsticated and well edu-
Cated young man made his obeisance
10 our bankers. business and profes
) s'onal men the other day, and in
accents sweet and low narrated
the virtues Of a special brand of acid
loof ink that he had for sale, but
only 'one bottle to one person as
these were merely samples that
WOULD follow up with regular orders
etc.
Henry Gott, the hardware mer.
chant, and Joe Souligny wanted tc
buy extra bottles, but the agent
would not comply with their eloquent
appeal, though Mr.. Gott managed by
writing to headquarters, to have a
bottle of this inky elixir sent to him
by express with collect charges
which, under the head OF profit and
loss, is entered on his books as 'ex
lress charges Is cents, collect charg
IS IL cents. Joe Souligny was not sc
fortunate in obtaining more bottles
nut he is SO fascinated with the bot
tie he purchased that he will no;
use the same, but keeps it to look al
when he feels respondent.
| This guleless youth purchased
some Sounce bottles at Morrison S
drug store and some bluing from
Barnes grocery. to VIII 'ch he added
"qua-pura, and filed the bottles with
he mysterious colored fluid On each
bottle was posted a label reading
az id proof bankers insurance ink
guaranteed to be acid and water
roof, dries instantly The bottle
he'd every appearance of an ordinary
cent bottle of bluing, and yet the
con talk caught every one of oui
lankers except Wetzel and nearly ev
cry business man in town, and above
all, some of those who are always
howling "patronize home industries
hey freely gave this fellow rs cents
TO- mis- decoction, which was just halt
Es$x&aIE1E NXx.SK1s1
Ihat they could nave purchased In
any of our drug stores for the same
amount.
Toe deception was very clever, hut
lcn lerGthy to explain here Nj Gutt
AN tell YOU the name of one of oul
merchants who was so carried away
With the agents enthusiastic descrip
ion, that he wanted to start build
,ng factory right away to make
Ibis ink that never fades'] The
mag 'Aiiho li'uA itloFd was 4tnb d6tuN
and the buyers coin. hH1t
II is said, we don't know how truth
gully, that Gott wanted to get cor
uer on the sale of this ink, and r +
Baughman and Charley Handley were
o be his financial hackers Any how
they both bought bottle and Baugh
man has tied blue ribbon" around
;he neck of his prize and calls it
Pabst.' Harry Cragin swallowed a
ehlp of 1t and turned blue in tn,
face, but after few jumps ~ ano
down. the sediment settled and his
eatures again assumed their usual
dlabaster nobility.
Souligny placed his bottle on his
c1ice escrotalre, and after the lapse
Of couple of hours. he went to ex
emine his valued premium Although
.Xultant over his foresight and cal
shrewdness. he hestated to
break the enchanting spell. with
laughing eyes and palpitating heart
he took the auroraborealis OF his fond
2nticipations TO Banker Wetzel for a
test That German philosopher dip
ped his pen into the fluid and mme
t'ately pronounced it water, the |
bluing had settled to the bottom of
the bottle.