OCR Text |
Show A JAP SKIPPED OUT; B LEFT MANY DEBTS Special to Tho (Tribune. EPHRAiai, July 30. A number of Japa jH have been farming in the vicinity of Ax- tell during the pot two years, and dur- 11 ing the early part of the week they had MMm lert the country. Upon Investigation It mm was found that they left many debts. fmwm One of the Japs, who has been the man- nger of the company, whose name was VmWm E. T. Takahashi, was thought to ba re- tmwm liable and many had trusted him. It was UjH learned later that he had gone as far mWM us Bluckrock by team and then took the train for California. This Jap had a VmmM great deal of land and was raising beets Mmm by the wholesale. On the strength of mwM this and the prospects of a. good crop he obtained unlimited credit and got into IH such financial straits that he could not VmmM extricate himself. Among the creditors mmm arc T, A, Peterson of Redmond, to whom mWM he mortgaged his crop for $1100; several tmWM Redmond stores, some Sallna stores and IH the saloon, the First National bank ' of !mmM Sallna. some Richfield stores and several UH individuals. A conservative cstimato by a Redmond man places his debts at JmM jgooo. mM |