Show 1 buncy on a eg tract of binl gnp posed to be in california chronicle service I 1 NEW YORK oct 17 J arthur waid ia the name under which one of the smoothest and most insinuating ot ia fleeming fleecing flee cing the kew york he professes to deal ia california fruit and vineyard lands am according to his ofin most glibly told ory hia already caught some very largi fai h ward pretends to have connection with the real estate bouse of euton eldredge Eld redee co and ha procured tome 0 their cards which tie displays dif plays as evidence of hia connection with that establishment lie has a most colim ate of california ilg geiple land values aca pruda clion evidently he IB not very loni from the golden 8 aten bere he claims to have resided fori Kwal yearn indeed hia incidental claim is that tie once but at a desk io lie anglo california biank and of ex I ow os if he a brother senator fe and charles crocker were bla anti inti maneg and P P II ammond jr of aba land office be declares to have been in with in several big land deals ward is a man about 00 yearn of aze n ith a alack moustache touched with grey bead a little scald and that with le ho ia 0 medium height or perhaps a lettla urner and walka ia correct and hia vt ry alra log it be was not a re il batau adf nt in san francisco or loa ancelea at one time he must have traveled through the state looking at lands for tin knowledge ia accurate to fruit diehn acta bells new distances and all truee things on which live real estate men or laiad would be well informed ho speaks in rather a low tone and icema to no great lo terest whether his naeme works or not after interrupting his business talk 0 o tell some funny yarn which is without relevance but usually well told it is likely that he has various inea ot a similar kind but the oue he has in here is a large arndi late scheme into inch said lie sinh men as dr jolin hall the divine and others liaa already cre s his sory tho land a tra t of 1 atres near ilynn aien couney WAS under bonds to bailon A co ard desire was to liae it settled by wih means their plan wai to organize a syndicate to this tr rt pay ini one fourth pos ihly lew downam d let the ona on the land the litter aa to be divided and sold as a or eacle man bould tike a share lo 10 the amount invested there biere to be twenty lne men in the syndicate and though the lid was to cost one hundred dillars even umily to lii id an option on it for six months it would take but from each one who entered to get alna amount is his scheme lie was after one of these men in he room of lie fifth apenae hecl hen his concersa kioa nas overheard by geore I 1 iceney formerly of sn francico Frao cico alo is here marketing california ruit lads mr koency atas sitting in the reading room ahen tie herl the man next to him taking of california land with a map hemore him liling of the mines of lie alleys not but overhear the which alter for a full half hour ended by ai agreement to meet eg lin then mr keeney alie roan to be a enuine agent a sort of rhal in M introduced himself aa from tte west and knowing iuan 0 alie men of whom ward p to lie really ti meet me eaid mr keeney to a t and acted very I 1 told him that I 1 had oaf alie binl a part if v bat he h d baid a i pg biad others and I 1 woude rei abat there could be a thousand ecres of euli land as he spoke of for bile any n here near glen 1 1 n but lie i allied off a list cf names that tie alleged were the preheat owner and I 1 did not like to push my n the mater dropped and in a morne it vard excused himself saying he biad business after hearing vt this peculiar agent the correspondent went with clr ki ecey tf Cil enborn hotel at ward raid he was stopping but on found no such name aja police faill ba hotl ald to gjok cut him |