Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-13


today ON the charge. 30 Is alleged hy
the police. OF fraud iu France m cons
.nection with the supply Of rifles Co
the Belgian government Eail was
mot allowed.
Who's Who n America has the
following sketch az John Wesley de
kay. Capitalist author. born near
New Hampton. IT,. july Etc. 1872 SON
Of John and Mary Elizabeth dc Kay,
deceased: descendant OF "a family
lin Picardy France public school edu-
cation; married Anna May Walton
of Hot Springs. South Dakota July
ms. 1897 Edited. managed and owned
Ia chain of newspapers In the Black
Hills of South Dakota. at am early
age organized the United States
Packing company and the Mexican
National Packing company. operating
under concessions granted by the
Mexican government Member of the
National Geographical society Clubs
Algonquin (Boston) National Arts,
Lawyers city, Authors, tNeW york;
Author. The Men of Mexico ana Tho
Land They Love, 1906. Longings.
il9OS Judas tdrama), 1910: Thoughts.
ll9ll: Brown Leaves 1911 Address,
1854 Fifth avenue, New York
John Wesley de Kay has had 81
Spectacular career equaned by few
! men in tho United States when past
/ the age of p, he, together with his
father, mother one brother ana one
SISTER, emigrated from their Iowa
home to the little town of wildwood
i'm the Black inns of South Dakota.
THEY reached the Dakota village with
Lea amshackle wagon, drawn ly an am
Icicnt mule and q spawned horse, in
(which were an Of their worldly goods.
They rented a small house and the
parents opened a boarding house tor
railroad men, while John and his
younger brother, Honry got employ
iment In a little printing plant owned
iby man in Deadwood In "a short
thine John bought the newspaper the
/ "Whitcwood Plandealer' ana Inn
lmediately expanded Ii into a western
,stockmens paper devoted largely to
Iprinting cattle brands Although he
had the most meaEer excuse for an
Ieducation, having gone to school only
Hong enough to read and write and
llearn something of the four funda'
mental rules of the arithmetic. he
made the paper venture pay Soon
latter he got the Whtewood venture
on its feet, he bought another news
paper in another little Black Hills
town and those constituted his 'chain
iof newspapers.
How he made his papers yield an
Income is q story in itself Not only
did he get the brands of practically
Ian Of the cattlemen Of the western
ranges, but on the strength Of having
them he went 60 Chicago, when the
bicycle was all the rage, as automo-
lbies are the rage now, and made the
dealers believe. SO the stories go, that
the bicycle was soon to supplant the
pony on the ranges. In any event, he
got pages Of advertising on long time
land high rate contracts,
About the time his prosperity was
lat it's highest came agitation In South
Dakota for brand law and a state
commission John went to Waukee-
gan. H., after some correspondence
with the owner Of a daily papQr there,
showed him the record made by his
two Black Hills plants and snapped
them for the daily getting $4,000 Ia
boot The brand commission was es-
Itabished by the South Dakota legisla-
ture the next year, and it is needless
TO say chat the Illinois man made me-
money out Of the South Dakota ven
ture, nor did the cowl oys ever substi-
tute the bike for the "bronk' ON the
ranges.
But de Kay flourshed like a green
bay tree. He boosted the Waukeegan
paper for a year and sold it for $20t-
600 with so much cash in hand he
went west Of the Missouri river and
started a cattle ranch Before he had
Igot fairly started in his new venture,
Inc met Senator Richard u. Pettierew
tof South Dakota, who had just re-
turned from a business trip TO Mexico.
iSenatOr PcttiRrew told of the fact That
i Mexico was without packing houses,
rand on almost the next train de kay
was en- route to Mexico city, where
he got an audience with President
IDlaz, and on the strength Of that in
terview he came back To the United
states and organized the United states
Packing company which he later
converted into the Mcxican National
] Packing company
From first to last ut least until nc
lunl0aded the stock on Huerta, dc Kay
held control of his packing ventures
luntil the last company went TO the
wall owing $35,OO0,OO0 in bonds he
had sold to English capitalists.
But the men with de Kay did not
fare so we'll as ne. Hill, OF the Mount
i Vernon National bank Of Boston, and
Imboden Of . Denver savings bank,
went TO the penitcntIary as ala Bank
/ er Ham Of Mexico City Also a few
bankers Of Providence r. l., includ-
ling de Kay's brother Henry, are now
under sentence of them, in some
form. connected with the Mexican
/ packing ventures
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