The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-03
THREATEN Re SUIT
] on PAPER DEAL.
Thirty Interested Parties
Pool Claims Against MN.
and q. M. Hatcher.
INVOLVES PLAN
TO BUY FORUM
Commended That They Have
Failed to Make Good-At-
torney Engaged.

Suit over n attempt about two
years 9 to swing the purchase of tho
Fargo Forum by the Fargo Courier
News is threatened. the following
from the Mandan Pioneer covering
the developments in that connection:
That action will o be started
Tor h return Of money secured by
o. NJ. Hatcher Of Grand Forks and
NJ. N. Hatcher Of Fargo, organizers
OF II Courier-Forum publishing com
pany Of Fargo, will soon be started
n that local men will be prominent
In the suit are developments of the
past few days.
ceived the idea Of purchasing the
Fargo Forum and consolidating It
with the Fargo Courier-News, the
purpose being to start an independent
daily paper, with leanings towards
progressive r-epublicanism.
Thirty Were Interested.
Some thirty or more men through
out the state were interested and
notes were taken from them. At
torney w. H. Stutsman and Walter
s. Parkin of this city were two of
them. However. the local men gave
no notes, but instead their checks,
the former for $3.50 and the latter
for $500.
III QuS course OF Time they fecelv.
ed stock, certificates. beautifully en-
to. II agreement made with the
Hatchers. b Forum was to be TAX.
en- over and the combination Of pa
pers started on April 1, 1912.
Commence Suit Against Forum.
Shortly after the stock had been
solicited Hatchers started suit against
the Forum alleging Misrepresentation
on the. value OF the plant. The Forum
was. not purchased. Then came the
prize subscription contest iasco Of the
Courier-News In which NJ. N. Hatcher
was charged with using the mails to
defraud. This was shortly afterward
followed by the taking over Of the pa
per by mortgage foreclosure by Thorn
as Marshall. ~
THE money secured from the thirty
stock subscribers by the Hatcher
brothers was largely collected and the
whole deal in 30 far as the purchase
OF n Forum was concerned, fell nat.
Pool Interests.
Attorney Stutsman Of this city
when interviewed concerning the ru-
mored suits, said that some time ago
the progressive suckers who bit de-
cided to pool their interests and left
the matter In the hands of Charles
v hIiSstC0Vy " 6Vs Eat tsA.H sls crE - ~
Some of the most prominent pro-
gressives In the state are Interested
Including Alec Mcdonald Of Fargo
and Secretary Of State Tom Hall. The
latter was the only wise one. In, the
bunch, for endorsed across the face of
the notes he gave was payable only
ON the purchase of the Fargo Forum
THE latter part OF last week the
local men received word that Actor
ney Holt of Fargo, who had been re-
tanned by Whittlesey, would be in Bis
marck this week and wanted to see
Parkin and Stutsman.
Want Parkin Us Plaintiff.
It is understood that the stock SUBJ
scribers want Parkin to bring suit, as
It is alleged that he has the most
damaging evidence Of any that might
be given toward proving q charge of
using the mails to defraud. Although
It is possible that the charge may be
preferred against the Hatchers. it is
certain that action will be started by
the various stockholders in the Gour-
ier-Forum Publishing company, to re-
rover the money paid for the engrav-
ed certificates. It is alleged that
about $4,000 is involved in the deal.
walter Parkin left Monday for
Texas to attend to cattle deals in
which he is interested and 1t is pos
sible that no action will be taken ur-
til his return"