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Show MISSTATEMENTS ABOUT THE ST. JOE MINE. The evening papers of Feb. 5th and the morning dailies coming out Feb. 6th, all contained a so-called report of an action taken in the District Court before Judge Morse to enjoin the stockholders of the St. Joe Mining Min-ing company from; holding a special stockholders' meeting that had been advertised to be held on the 5th of February, 1907, at 2 o'clock p. in. Also these papers purported to give certain allegations that had been made in a complaint that had been filed by the minority stockholders in asking the court to enjoin the meeting so as to prevent the amending of the articles of incorporation of the mining min-ing company so as to enable it to assess its stock, also to empower the board of directors to issue bonds of the company and to secure the same by mortgage or a trust deed. All of these papers stated that the meeting was not held. Why and how they could make the "dope" which appeared in their respective re-spective sheets, is a little queer and is apt to cause a person to wonder whether or not "boilerplate" and "syndicate" "syn-dicate" matter had been handed arqund. If the newspapers had gone to the documents filed with the court they could havc-''scen for themselves that the court had not issued ah in junction to stop the above meeting. They would also have noticed that several matters which appeared in the reports, so-called, were not exactly the same, if any where near the same, as set forth in the complaint of the minority stockholders. The meeting of the stockholders of the company was held as advertised, and 638,000 shares of the out-standing capital stock of the company was voted for the amending of the articles of incorporation. All this could have been found out if the newspapers had made any effort in the matter as the meeting was open, and was honored by the presence of one representative representa-tive of the press, who, regardless of the fact that he listened to the transactions trans-actions of the same, left imbued with the idea that the meeting was enjoined. en-joined. Some of the papers set forth that one Frank Godbe, a co-called expert accountant, had examined the books of the Company in the interests of George Lawrence, Mr. Robertson and certain St. Joe Mining Company stockholders, who have brought action ac-tion asking for a receiver. Where or how it came into the thoughts of the scribes that Mr. Godbe had examined the books of the Company is beyond comprehension, comprehen-sion, for that is something that Mr. Godbe himself docs not claim he has done, and reference to the complaint referred to will confirm this statement. state-ment. As -to the allegations and alleged misconduct of the officers of the St. Joe Mining Company, that is a matter that will be answered in due time and ought at least to attract as much attention, at-tention, on the part of the newspaper fraternity, as the sensational write-ups write-ups that arc herein mentioned. n |
