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Show SCENTS flOlS lOSESjpi Minnesota Farmer Proves No Exception to Rule That "One Is Born, etc." (Chicago Tribune Special Service.l MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Dec. 10. Visions nf affluence gone and with them $30,000 hard-earned cash, Homer Hogarth, Ho-garth, a farmer of Minneapolis, Kan., today to-day applied for a warrant for Gallileo Grubino. alias Uallileo Grubb, alleged participant in the discovery of the Xorth pole and promoter for the "Aurora Bore-alis Bore-alis Ice company," a concern which Hogarth Ho-garth thought was to revolutionize tho ice business of the world. Hogarth described the plan of operation opera-tion for the "Aurora Borealis Ice company," com-pany," as explained by the missing Grubb. It was a plan which rivaled the schemes of Baron Munchausen. One blazing hot day last July Gallileo appeared on the Hogarth farm. He was equipped with an apparatus similar to those used by surveyors. In appearance he was tall, dark, excitable, and wore his beard in a heavy Vandyke style. Grubb seemed busy and preoccupied, making some sort of measurements, continually con-tinually looking toward the skies and gesticulating as if absorbed in calculating calcu-lating some abstruse problem in mathematics. mathe-matics. Finally, Hogarth says, the stranger suddenly exclaimed excitedlv, "This is the spot, the very spot!" Then Gallileo Grubino Introduced himself and offered to buy his farm, continually raising the price, until Hogarth admitted he was offering more than the place was worth. Hogarth, scenting a mysterious fortune, refused to sell. Upon his fourth visit, Hogarth says, Gallileo finally abandoned the attempt to purchase and agreed to take Hogarth into partnership. He explained that he was an Italian scientist, that he had accompanied ac-companied Peary to the North pole, and that the pole was really a steel projection projec-tion from the center of the earth. He had invented, he told Hoo-nrih a mighty scoop, to be attached to the pole and to he run by electricitv. In the process of the earth's revolution. Gallileo explained, the scoop would dip into the ice of the Arctic, and, as the earth revolved, re-volved, the scoop would graduallv tip and its contents fall to the earth in the exact lognitude and latitude of Hogarth's farm. Since Hoqarth had refused to sell the place, Gallileo offered to accept the farmer as a partner upon the pavment of $30,0011. Hogarth to remain upon the farm and 'take care of the ice. while Gallileo Gal-lileo would return to the pole and harness har-ness his scoop upon it. Gallileo hasn't returned from the pole. |