The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-25
CHAPTER xVII-continued'

.,.,ols up to q certain poinl, Ao
 essen "s put he didn't tell 1t all-his Dlv'Is nover does. not by a long shot.
 Illu I ,hs four of them. 1t seems, heio lns.' s,o.tinp as soon as shipped out
 2 '. sold and put through that stock
 un, laa',s s' scheme That was legitimate.
 T'nu1 .uu'dn,t restrain them from that, pe-
 ,s ,.' homeless minority of one. Tneir ,as ,s,of obiect however, was to let TWO
 T 7, three friends in on the ground moo. / . good thing; also, they wanted sseh good bundle of that stock wniie Y W WAS cheap-fguring that with the
 Drospects had opened up 1t wouid ssll hIeb So they had 1t on the mar ss, and in addition had everything framed up to reorganize with a capi- ,r,atIon of two hundred and hfty thousand dollars. This all cut ana dried before got there. Now. as It originally stood the five of us would each have made a small fortune on thpse Kappan claims. They're good. But with quarter of a million in out saudng stock-well, 1t would be all dcht for the fellow with big block. But you can see where l would get off with fve-thouSand-dollar inter- sst. To be sure, certain proportion of the money derived from the sale of this stock should be mine. But It goes Into the treasury, and they had 1t ar ranged to keep 1t in the treasury, as a fund for operations, with them doing the operating. They had already indi- nted their bent by voting an annual stipend of ten thousand and six thou sand dollars to Lorimer and Brooks E president and secretary respective Y. Ne, they proposed to quiet with 6 managers wage of mere five thou
 sand year-after got on the ground and began to get my back up.
 But they capped the climax with
 what must cold-bloodedly character
 ise as the baldest attempt at a dirty fraud ever encountered. And they
 had the gall to try and make me n
 party to 1t. To make this clear you
 must understand that I, on behalf of
 lhe company and acting as the con- @nys agent, grubStaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake
 nose claims. l was empowered to arrange With these five men that if the
 ualms made a decent showing each should receive five thousand dollars in SOcK Tor assigning their claims to the
 ompany' and should have employment 'Op wages while the claims were operated
 They surely earned 1t. You know shaI the North is in the dead of win u, They bucked their way through nell ct frost and snow and staked a'e e,aims # ever men were entitled "nat was due them, they were. anu ao' one of them stuttered over us oafsaln, even though they were sAlns out weekly as much gold as %ey were to get for their full share
 '"e! u gwen their word. and they ss,. ee white men. They took me for n aa. m'e man also. They took my word aa, hey would get what was coming " u'ein' and gave me in the comnonv's ,sa aa'le clear title to every claim. mt came home i"Aei'oh' anu Io'imer and Brooks deliherote,v f,.nS vpuSeu to withhold that stock to de- sDS au 'uese men, to steal-oh can't sia @ 7, sords strong enough. Brooks etv,s " me' With q grin: The prop- mnssa .u 'he company's name-let the sOt m As oa1 sweat while. They've
 srS n.y. comeback, anyway
 ,,. mat n was when smashed him no ieIova s'le me? I'd taken over tbose Im nao,. e,aims "a in good faith. Could av. SV pack a there and face those men Vu'd "nd clalms noys the company's gor vonr Do 'ls, us. and nd they won't pay for e tbs'o yoo bunch s'a ae 'illnk ai for a minute I'd let a lAIng l,s. Ua aGly-hngered crooks put any. dealina Ae s, ahat over on simple. souare- to s are,. Fellows who were too homes, shan, p0.ect tee their own interests ''IrS, sreS, bodssa bs practice? r A quartette of sor,. g' ste,sS sd @Ongrels who sat ', 0l u,Sol, sOa,' valovoall olliee e, chairs while these oihsrs opnD lhres hsSed through six feet p of sno'u ",nsps fa. beans. w weeks, living on bacon ana t nasss ma ~ grab Dot of gold for them I think s aesnI my fist double up when
 ed by 1a , a,y wouldn't be put off or ploea,. Gold Mlaiat %an't care if I broke tbe I%ps Erae Wise. ,ul9s aHa company and myself self Ike l,se, iascipants dollar a, doesn't terrify nor 'Se Ss, pa"1S ot perhaps 1t wns s meyer no, ,,% will And my 'r ana call good form for %% ma @na, it they hey fists, Iper wer a and go at them with iu 'psv mv Oushly sans @as fighting mad when ni'p ,nar. my ssy sy 1t 'Vnsed hs,s,h their dirty project. , Any. Whe, "clped primo tI,...