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Show AN ID.YL OF THE PAST. Or.cc upon a time there lived a man who said he was an inventor, lie was a man of many aliases. At one time he called himself Augustus Howard, at another Plunger Hill, yet other times Godfrey, Mtison, Smith and many other names. This man came to ye town of Salt Lake did then he called himself Albert Hays. When he came to Salt Lake he represented repre-sented himself as the inventor of a most remarkable light, which he said was produced fromi a fixed gas made from coal oil, a palpable falsehood false-hood on its face, because it is no more, possible to make a fixed gas from coal oil than it is to make butter but-ter from the atmosphere. But no matter this inventor Howard, Hayes or what not met Judge (?) Colborn, now president of Salt Lake's much revered Real Estate association and the leading hot air dispenser of that most dclcctible aggregation. Mr. Hayes, Howard, Smith, etc., made the acquaintance of Judge (?) Colborn Col-born and without very much effort prcstiadcd the learned judge that his invention was O. K. The judge Mid the inventor went in "cahoots." Engines En-gines were erected with secret and well disguised -power conveying pipe lines. Thcir's was a patented invention, inven-tion, at least it was so alleged, and it was guaranteed to produce light at a cost less than the sunlight and exceeded ex-ceeded the sunlight in power and brill mcy. Mr. Augustus Howard Mr. Albert Hayes and the other gentlemen gen-tlemen who were all concentrated in the one personality had sold the pat-X pat-X cut to credulous people in a great mam cities of the United States. Mr. Hayes or whatever his cognomen at that particular time may have been, was exceedingly anxious to make another an-other sale of his alleged patent to Salt Lake people. He didn't .like to see Salt Lake left out of such a valuable val-uable and altogether delightful acquisition ac-quisition to the wonders of modern civilization. In this laudable desire ' to keep Salt to the front he found a ready sympathizer in Judge (?) Col-born. Col-born. Judge (?) Colborn and Mr. Hayes of the numerous aliases hawked the patent rights for the State of Utah around and around again, but had great difficulty in finding takers. To make a long story short, M.II. Walker, the shrewd and far seeing banker, L. H. Farnsworth, W. A. Neldcn and some others were buncoed bun-coed into putting up a good deal of money running beyond the hundred thousand mark into this fake propo sition. They were not however the only ones who were fooled. A certain Mr. Green of Denver "invested" something like $150,000 In the same patent before it came to Salt Lake. Soon after Mr. Green "invested," Mr. Howard, Hayes, etc., thought it was about time when Mr. Green should be tiansformed into an angel. It is be transformed into an angel. Mr. Hays learning that Mr. Green was about to take a trip to Honolulu, engaged en-gaged two men to sail on the same ship as Mr. Green and pledged them that in consideration of $50,000 to be paid afterwards they would on a dark night throw Mr. Green from the rhip into the sea, where his mortal body would serve as food for the fishes and his soul would fly aloft. The hired murderers either failed of op portunity or courage to do the foul dec 1 and Mr. Green escaped. The hirelings, however, returned to San Francisco and reported to Mr. Howard How-ard that they had performed their part of the contract and that they had thrown Mr. Green into the sca. On this assurance Mr. Howard paid ilicm not $50,000 but $5,000 and that was all they ever got from that transaction, When Mr. Green came home to Denver Den-ver it came to his knowledge how a price had been set on his head and he advertised for and offered a large reward for the capture of his would be assassins but so far they have not been found. This is a digression however and has nothing to do with the local chapter chap-ter of the gas light story. Mr. Walker, Wal-ker, Mr. Neldcn and some of the other oth-er dupes thought they had the world by the tail in the gas lighting proposition. propo-sition. Mr. Neldcn under the hypnotic hyp-notic influence of Mr. Hays, et al parted with all his fortune and .atcr with his life as the direct consequence H of his connection with the gas light- H ing fake. It is not recorded that H Judge (?) Colborn put up any money H towards acquiring the great inven- H tion, but it is well known that the H others did and that the present lead- H er of the Real Estate association was H closely allied with Mr. . Hayes, the man with many aliases. H It is hoped that Judge (?) Colborn H didn t lose any money in the unfortun- H ate pas light deal. H |