The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
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government postoffice inspectors or
forced to turn over his papers.
did the inspectors tell you that you
would have to give up these papers ?"
was asked.
''They did not" replied the witness,
who was a former agent of the COM
pany, and had himself invested saw
ings from little grocery store in the
New Mexico land project.
Then why did you turn your papers
over to the government asked Attor-
ney Hite.
because the property of the COM
pany was supposed to be in the hands
OF a receiver and / wanted to see the
creditors and my friends who owned
contracts get as much back as posi-
BILE
Identifying a letter of July 5. 1910,
District Attorney Robertson read into
the records a mmunicatiOn written
by Mrs. MounDay to Goodall, as the
cCmpanyS agent. In the letter she
remarked that the water question was
the least of their troubles and that the
sugar company knew that they had
the water on the land.
eve Own the Water
1--WE own the water that flows
thu ough our land" was the emphatic
statement made by Mrs. MounDay i'll
Ter letter to the witness.
On another occasion, Mrs MounDay
W1Ote to the witness, urging him to
beware of preachers because they are
a poor class of business men and are
always causing trouble.
You have been repeatedly warned
against preachers. They are a poor
class of business men and are con-
stantly causing trouble" read a por-
ton of a letter of September IL, 1911,
which the witness identified.
Goodan testified that he had re-
ceived another letter offered in evil
dence, which explained the delays for
the opening of the New Mexico land.
1t was written by Mrs. MounDay.
I'VE expected to open the land this
summer and would have done so, eX-
ne cessary extensions of from two to
five months to purchasers" the letter
stated. The communication was sent
in 1911.
the company when you sold land ?"
was asked.
Il certainly did," said the witness.
Did you rely on this guaranty
when you purchased your own land ?"
The Guaranty Bond.
The guaranty proposition was great
ly strengthened in the mind of Good
all, he said, when he received through
the mails a copy of the company's
new gold note or Bond Guaranteed
proposition This bond proposition
was printed on golden colored paper
and was attached to circulars describ-
ing the wonderful opportunities which
the san OrJez granted offered to the
investor. Goodall believed it all, he
said. and thought the proposition the
best he had ever seen. On four or
five occasions, he visited the land
which the MounDays were adver-
Using for. sale.
There were worried expressions on
the faces of both MounDay and his
wife during much of GoodalFs tes-
timony and his Identification of let
tiers sent through the United States
mails. D. r. Hite. on cross examina-
ton, however. brought the admission
from the witness that so far as he
could say neither MounDay nor his
wife had ever told him anything
which at this time he could prove
untrue.
Hiram Root, Trustee.
The calling of Hiram c. Root to
the witness stand by the government
was one OF the surprising and unex-
day of the hearing. Root is trustee
for the alleged half million dollars
worth of securities advertised by
MounDay and his wife as deposited
in Topeka banks and held in trust as
a guarantee of good faith to the land
purchasers. Several witnesses testi-
fled during the proceedings that they
had read these statements and had
believed that the socalled securities
were worth full face value. So the
government, without advance notice,
called Root to the stand to tell about
this property.
What are these securities? Root
was asked
1T is called treasury stock of the
Oklahoma corporation of the Ameri-