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Show TP LA The Salt Lake View Addition Fakirs Fa-kirs Brought Up by Arrest. PIERCE AND THOMPSON TAKEN IN. Postoffice Inspector Li recce Calls a Halt ou Ee.il Estate by Process Pro-cess of Law, There is gloom in room A of tho Commercial Com-mercial bank building. Tho low, soft footsteps of the postman, groaning under three bushels of letters, ha no music tor J. 1'.. Fierce, the genius w ho I couceived tho magnificent project of I giving away city lots on tho top of tho j mountains away off to the southwest, i There are heaps of postage stamps and bales of letters in the room, but J. K. Fierce ami (i. 11. Thompson, his manager, man-ager, ale not then'. They are out in tho highways and byways looking for bail, and if they do not find it before, sunset, they will slumber iu the confines of tho penitentiary. And that's what's the mutter with Hannah. It has been nearly two months since, Tiik Timks exposed tho give-away lot swindle- which Fierce has been carrying ou, and people, had rather got used to thinking that the Salt I.ako View addition addi-tion company had gathered its robes around it and had stolen away. JK 't hadn't. To bo sure, w hen Tut; Timks called attention to the fact that a scheme was under way to dump a lot of the Garfield mountains on fool people peo-ple in tho east, as city lots, the return iu tho way of postage stamps did not come in uearly us heavy as before. The chamber of commerce people also took up the matter when Tim TlMr: brought it to their attention aud mailed In. tern to the new spapers w hich were publishing publish-ing advertisements In which the Salt Lake View addition company offered to give away lots to nno hundred people with tho result that tho advertisements w ere for the future refused publication. But still inquiries came in from obscure points, and in the meantime Post- ,.iv...A 1..uo.i,.i,.t T 1 .iiu'i-nneft Ulllltt llr.j.o ... - - has becu working ou the case with a view to ascertaining if a charge of misuse of the mails could bo made to stick. After some trouble he succeeded in getting possession of one of the company's circulars, ropies of which wero sent to dupes throughout through-out the country, and tho general tenor of which was that alt the giveaway lots wero gone, but that the company bad plenty for ale at small prices. Tho further Information was added that tho properly is four miles from the city limits. Believing that the latter clause nlono ii'inild Kt'eiiren conviction, and learning, on investigation, t hut the land is really nine miles by air linu from tho city limits, or fifteen miles by road, Mr. Law rence caused a warrant to tin Issued Is-sued by Commissioner (ireenman charging the "View" people with fraudulent use of the mails. 'I ho parties par-ties named in the complaint are .1. K. Pierce and G. H. Thompson. The .warrants were placed in the bauds of Deputy Marshal Doyle for service. ser-vice. When the officer fell upon tho nest tho claim was made that Thompson Thomp-son is only general malinger for Pierce, and that ho is not directly interested in the scheme. However, as the abstract shows that Thompson transferred the property to tho Salt Lake View company com-pany he is held equally liable. One of the links in tho chain is an envelope which Mr. Lawrnice secured possession of. It has pasted over one corner the return card of the w compauy, printed on this paper. On tearing off this card the fact is.lisolosod that the original printing on tho envelope envel-ope is the card of the "Phiiiilield addition addi-tion company of Castle Hock, Colo." Tho Plainlieid company was such a rank swindle that th" earth trembled when it was born. For some time extra ex-tra help was employed In the Castle Hock poslolliee to get out tho Plainlieid Company's letters from Miekei ". Pierce has acknowledged to being the power behind the Plainlieid throne. Kffoiis toward shielding Thompson are trong. but lie is in the swim with picri-n, Mr. Lawrence says. At any rate racv developments concerning the swindle an: to be expected when the case comes up. |