Show unscrupulous SCHEME attack on the santa fe by stock jobbers ASKED FOR A receivership tho the scheme was planned to pull sown down santa fo fe securities which the operators were short on and they hoped to moke make a rile pile but their calculations railed kansas allen alien land act void new tune time card from cheyenne to ogden railroad notes motes I 1 kansas city mo nov IO 10 under a topeka kan ican ditc date the star this evening flint tile the following since the appointment of a receiver for the atcha son topeka santa re fe by judge my ily cis at oskaloosa last week is stories have come out which admit ot of little doubt that on tile the part of some or ti the men behind the case it was from its it inception I 1 a scheme to lo bear the stocks and bonds of 0 the company arid and so make it a lot of money for tile men who lie stood in fit 11 mih hh the play 1 A J kansas city man of financial worth and of undoubted standing in ill that city declares that a few days before the action was brought at oskaloosa a well known insurance speculative lawyer ot of topeka called on him at kansas city with a proposition that lie he go in fill certain topeka oskaloosa and holton men and make halt half a million dollars ey dy the terera ot of the lie proposition tile ka kansas n sas city man was to put up the money to be used in selling santa fe stocks and bonds in unfold rig ilia ill plan an the topeka ma man n instated tile the terms of the kansas cansas alien land a n d act and the opportunity it offered for or the appointment of a receiver for a railroad N without notice to the company ile ho pointed out that a receiver could lie be appointed for the santa fe end and persons mho he should lie be short on oil its stocks flocks or bonds would make big vito money y for the sudden and unexpected r receivership I 1 r would mould beat bear them the kansas city man finally backed out three or four lays days before the caso case was instituted at oskaloosa it is 13 reported that two li hankers ankers ot of jefferson county went to chicago and another to st louis where they are said to have sold heiti heavily ally of santa fe stocks avid and bonds bonda McKin mckinless leys election and the consequent Q bent revival of confidence in tile the country followed santo santa fe securities went up and when it was telegraphed broadcast that it a receiver had been appointed in kansas tor for the railroad there was asa a boom all ali along alone the line the r speculators paid no attention to the published reports oils of 0 the receivership and the play out here in kansas halt had no effect whatever instead of making money the bankers and others who ulbio invested in the scheme lost heavily concerned in the scheme are arc said to be a half dozen or more men of financial standlee stand lne in topeka and it if the story in all its details should come out it would cause a big biff sensation ALIEN LAND ACT IS VOID topeka karl kan nov 10 judge albert I 1 II 11 L ll 11 horlon orion especially retained by the at AUh e h laon son topeka re fe railway hallway company in the alien land act receivership case today enla made the important discovery that the act upon which the present case was based was not constitutionally mally passed and therefore ks Is null arid and vold void and of 0 no n effect this thia it Is said paid will 1011 end the ali receivership matter mosi most effectually aff jubei horton finds a fatal defect lit in the house journal 0 or 1891 which does docs not record that ill the house adopted the bill by a yea and nay vote role as the requires it Is said there are thirteen acts defective in the same way may among the session lairs laws of 0 isol 1891 |