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Show 'THINK FRENCH I is s mm I BF EXPERIENCE I Disnatches From East Indicate Indi-cate He May Have Been Connected With Several Companies in Ohio. TOOELE WOMAN TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCE Specialized in Promoting Railroad Rail-road Companies Near Cleveland; Cleve-land; Several Go Into Hands of Receiver. Dispalches receive.) last night bv The Tribune from Cleveland and Mens-field, Mens-field, Ohio, and Chicago, 111., indicate that s CW. Prencb, who ka raid to be the Bame man whose extradition from Arizona is being Bought by I ounty Attorney At-torney I. B, Willey, has had a yreat deal of experience in" Ohio as a promo tor of projects similar to the Pacific Steel company, the concern he i hand ling at the present time. The majority of the corporations with which French mis eonueeted in the east were- devoted to the railroad operation and construction business, but previous to his railroad ventures he was at the bead of the Lucas Stone & Construction company, a concern that had a piarr site :nd a siding off the Pennsylvania lines near Munsfield, Ohio. Another dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says that in 1900 and 1901 French was the agent for the Star Union line in that city. French, it is suid. first started biq promoting plans at Lucas and Jdansfieltl Ohio allout !s;n;. Goes to Cleveland. In 1902 French went to Cleveland, where he operated Ihe Northern Ohio Construction company, which main-taiued main-taiued a large suite of offices ami em-ployed em-ployed many sgenta, The company was Incorporated to do all kinds ot contracting. Later the company be-came be-came insolvent and a report was filed by S referee in bankruptcy in which it was stated that the concern actually, was engaged in securing rights of way for steam railroads umi making eon-tracts eon-tracts for the construction of railroad-. French wa the president of the company com-pany and owned all but four shares of the stock, which were held by as main Stockholders, one of whom was Mi. French. At the time that, the concern went into bankruptcy, .May 8, 1904, three employees signed the petition, alleging that there was owing to them 11620 in wages. It is said that other employees em-ployees also were not paid, one of H whom, Mrs. L'ugene Smith, of Tooele, saya that she ha never been paid by the company. Called on French. Mrs. Smith told a Tribune reporter that at the time French was in this city she called to see him at the Hotel Utah in reference to tho money due her French, she says, recognized her aud said that he would endeavor to have the company pay her within a ehort time. She has not yot received a check. Another of the French corporal ion -wns called tho Northwestern Ohio Development De-velopment company. A dispatch lrom Chicago saya that Front b in IflO'J started the construction construc-tion of a railroad from Akron, Ohio, to Newcastle, Pa. Only nine mile were built when financial troubles arose aud construction was suspended. Later a road was built from Ashland to Woo-- H ter, Ohio, known a the AshlaDd and Wooster and later as tho Ashland and Western railroad. This road also went into the hauds of a receiver. French is said to have notified hi nttornev in Phoenix that ho would be 00 hand Monday tor the hearing before Governor Hunt. County Attorney L BL Willey said yesterday that no further advices had boen received from Mr. Morgan, who, it is said, will appear before be-fore the An.ona executive- to preeont the Utah case. The dispatch received last night from Cleveland, Ohio, is 8s follows: Special to The Tribune. 1. l,KVL.AND. Ohio. Feb. !6 C V. French operated In CJevelajid about 1902 under the name of the Northern Ohio Construction company. The companv maintained n larjre suit of ofllces nnd employed many agent". The company ivas incorporated to do all kinds of contracting, but a report filed by a referee in bankrupts bank-rupts after (lie rnmpauy IihiI bSOOIQO Insolvent staled it wus uctually en-Ka'd en-Ka'd when doiiitf buslneM In securing secur-ing rlghtH of way for steam railroads nnd making contracts for construction nf r&llroada Prencn was president cd owned n the stock except four sharcR. These four sharss were held by as many stockholders, one of whom wan trench's wife. j Owed $1620 in Wages. Three employe' s or n company, on Hay it, I3". aaked that the company ho declared bankrupt Thene. employees, em-ployees, an accountant, mechanical (Continued on Page Nine,) UK FU HAS HAD EXPERIENCE (Continued from Page One.) engineer and draftsman, were owed flf20 In wage. Tho filing of thin request re-quest began a scries of litigation:, which aro still pending. Tuat previous to the employees seeking their money through tho medium me-dium of tho courts, S. J3. Stewart. Canton, Ohio, attorney and counsel for tho company, issued a personal check for 3000 to llio compnny. In return for which be was given a check on tho company for iho same amount. Developments later proved tho check of tho company was worthless. The company sought to o.mso tho Indebtedness Indebt-edness by giving Stewart a lien on a locomotive, "Tho Chicago Short Lino No. 1." Tho engine, valued at 517,000 at the time of Its purchase, was In tho repair shops of a firm In Akron, Ohio. Tho repairing company rofused lo allow Stewart to have tho onglno because a bill for repairs on It had not boen paid. Stewart then filed suit for the n mount of tho check plus attorney's fees, which brought tho sum nought up to 512.000, Whon the Northern Ohio Construction Construc-tion company tiled Its schedules bf assela and liabilities the amounts were given as follows: Duo In wages, 51020; secured claims, 5250,000; unso-curcd unso-curcd claims, 53G.SG3.G1; personal assets, as-sets, $1S5I.D0. Suit Pending. After several changes in tho personnel per-sonnel of trustees and referees in bankruptev thn suit Is still pending final settlement In federal court here. "French is said to have begun his promoting plans in Lucas. Ohio, and Mansfield. Ohio, about 1SUG. Several companies woro organized to build railroads out of Manslleld. 1'romlncnt citizens thoro arc said to liavo put money Into French's schemes. Roadbeds were laid for a line between be-tween Mansfield and Shelby. Ohio. .It was to have been tho Mansfield-Shelby Mansfield-Shelby line. The company went broke beforn tho road wus near completion. Under tho name of the Northwestern North-western Ohio .Development company, French began tho building of the 'Manslleld. Coldwatcr &. Michigan road. This was afterward bought up by the Pennsylvania. French, previous lo his railroad ventures, was head of tho Lucas Stone t Construction company, holding a quarry and a sld-Jng sld-Jng off tho Pennsylvania lines near Mansfield A dispatch from Akron tonight says French was thoro In 1000 and 1001 as agent for the Star Union line. A dispatch from Phpcnlx last night follows: fol-lows: PHORNIX, Ariz., Feb. 26. Changing Chang-ing his plans to remain In Prescott until Sunday, C. W. French, Pacific Development company promoter, today to-day notified bis attorney, Robert S. Flshor tliat lie would urrlve In Phoo-nlx Phoo-nlx tomorrow. At the same time the management of tlio Hotel Adams received re-ceived an order for reservation for two or three days for D. C. Jackllng and party coming hero from Salt Lake in the prlvato cur Cyprus. There Is now u pretty well defined rumor thaL tho unexpected return of French to Phoenix and tho simultaneous simul-taneous nrrival of tho Utah man may have tiome bearing upon tlio case wherein Utah asks tho extradition of , "French from Arizona. It i3 known that there has been somo communication with local parties and Jackllng bearing upon the French case, nnd that t.ho Utah mining min-ing man should arrange lo come hero and lio In Phoenix upon the same day as that set for ths hearing In tho requisition matter Is taken to mean that Jackllng may wish to bo present pres-ent at the hearing for somo reaBon or other. |