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Show and to act without making any Inquiries of them. Again, some roan ot prominence and great faith may have Published Every Thursday At be. n, at the start, a believer In the Tremonton, Utah. enterprise and willing to say, Within certain limitations, that he believed Wm. H. Capwell, Edit r nml Manager. the venture could be made a success if conducted according to certain plans Entered as MOOd class i.iatter April. and under given restrictions. This 1904. at the Pott office at Tremonton, does not signify that he will continue of under the act if COfigHM Utah, to retain that confidence or that he Personal Responsibility, 50,000 is willing to bs understood as giving Paid up Capital $10,000. March 3rd, 1879. the venture his unqualified endorseAccounts ami Correspondence Solicited. ment or to say to the public which Subscription rates. respects his namr and position: "Come All business with us will receive prompt and Ono year in advance and share this enterprise with me; put your money Into it, for it's a Six months in advance careful attention. But you may be sure good thing." Ono year not in advance that his name will always be used to Interest paid on time deposits. create this impression if there has ever existed a shadow of warrant for E. M. WYATT, 8. N. COLE, L. TUCKER, using it, under whatever restrictions. Cashier. President Therefore, take nothing for granted Contractor and Builder, with regard to references or other names which appear hi the advertis TREMONTON, UTAH. ing matter of a concern which applies to you for the privilege of soendine Plans Furnished and lEatlmatei Made your savings. on all kinds of Wurk. Four patronage Hut let me place sneclal emnhasls solicited. upon the crafty use which these com panies make of the names and the serB. C. CALL, Lawyer, vices of reputable "trust" comnanlea. of our choice line of County Attorney. I use the word "services" because a Practices in all the Courts. trust company may execute a "trust" In connection Office : COCBT House, with bond?, stocks, property or securities, without really Brigbam, Utah. Both Phones. P. O. Box 972 assuming any general financial or moral responsibility for those securi ties or without becoming a sponsor for them. In a word, the trust comJ That we are receiving fresh from the best markets NEBEKER, HART & NEBEKER pany may engage to act as an escrow agent to see that a certain technical Lawyers transaction is completed and nothing Suito 5 and fi Commercial Block more. That means this: The trust Logan Utah. 99 company consents to hold the stakes sell at between two parties but without thm Phono 70. prices. P. 0. Box 54 slightest responsibility as to the value Also a large stock of of those stakes or what may be done S. F. CHRISTIANSEN with them after the stipulations as to Crafty Investment Swindlers Who Prey Upon the Credulity the conditions precedent to delivery Scientific Optician of the Laborer to Defraud Him of His have been fulfilled. Because a trust company acts as the trustee of a cerRYES T18TED FREE Hard Earned Savings. tain bond issue there is no warrant for With L.C. Clirislensi ri and Sons a prospective investor to feel that the Briham City, Utah. resources of the trust company are BY ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG, in any sense behind those bonds as a Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. General Real Estate Business. guarantee of value. There are almost as many different kinds of "trusts" as The cleverness and boldness with had given his receipt for the "sealed there are different Choice Improved Farms in the At J. C. Gates's old stand, transactions; which the investment swin- package said to contain valuable pa- trust company undertakes the Bear River Valluy a specialty. dler responplies his craft are almost incred- pers," a telegram had been sent by sibility of doing a certain definite MAIN STREET, TREMONTON. and ible. Wherever you find a fraudulent the "fiscal agent" to "mail out trustee Easy tonus. Call on particular thing and nothing more: investment scheme you will find both circulars." The man in this scheme It may be to foreclose if a J. Y. FERRY, mortgage of these elements present in some of course believed that, as the circu- fs not paid, or it , be to issue so Curium-- Utiih. but the comparative proportion lars were being mailed out into a ter- many shares of a may cwtain stock to a or one to uie other is generally deter- ritory about a thousand miles from certain person when a stipulated nummined the element of time of opera- the city in which the banking and ber of shares of another by Job for Every iiisue are tion. trust company was located the trust surrendered. body. For example, if the projectors of a officer who had been imposed upon But there are very few nien even scheme are old hands at the game anil would never hear of the misuse of his fairly familiar with bjsinesn routine Why not have some letter heads and have established records of the wron? receipt for a "dummy" package which who do not form an Impression that, nvelopes primed with your name, busisort, then the idea of quick results ia actually contained certificates of the somehow, the ness and address on them for tho use of not big trust company Is only attractive but often impeni mining company's stock. behind the stocks for which It acts as yourself and family? We can furnish tive. There are many "old offenders" Why did the men who worked this transfer agent or perform any other them at very little more than the blank in the profession of investment swin- scheme to steal the moral support of act of trustshin. It is Good Rigs and Careful Drivers furnished at ones would cost and they look muth nic dling who have been convicted and the big trust company go to so grea1: bit, to drive this any time idea out of the minds have "done in time" er. Call in when in town and let us jails and peni- pains to get it; to make the transfer of men who are not at reasonable rates. Will Buy, Sell or Exchange really familiar tentiaries but have not yet learned fo of a sealed package containing ffn with show yuu samples and tell you the cost. Driving or corporation matters t'nfm an into crooked finance. prefer The Times, Work straight bonds? Because fake investment op- side viewpoint. Horses. All stock as guaranteed They will insist upon Your represented. Trenonton, Utah. Men of this character realize that a erators have found it profitable to --!lttn.Ki'tnr ... LU a mi nmuea seriee an un...niug, solicited. W. is take a T. patronage cardinal essen"quick every precaution to give the color limited moral and financial HUDSON, Proprietor. All the News every day for 50o tial of success; responsithey must complete of legality to their acts; they have bility that does not exist. a month The liitentiountain Re- the transaction and get in the harvest found it profitable to hire shrewd legal It before there is time for the public to pilots to tell them just how far they ble is, therefore, of the higkest possiAdpublican. Subscribe importance if you fin yourself wake up and do any investigating. may go in a given direction without dress, 208 South West Temple, Salt Consequently, boldness is the big ele- running upon the reefs of the United tempted to go into an investment, that Lake. ment in operations of men of this htates post office's "fraud order" or you learn from the trust company mentioned in the literature of the venclass. And, although they may be im- upon the rocks of a "conspiracy" ture exactly what "trust" it has unGet Your Printing Done at mensely clever, daring rather than prosecution. These pilots for the dertaken to perform. If it is a really fleets of the investment pirates make will be the dominant charcunning The Times Office, Tremonton. acteristic of a professional study of the art of reliable and established trust comtheir scheme. pany with a genuine financial standThe length to which the bolder spir- steering their craft just outside the ing it will make the limitations of its or une successtul criminal prosecu- troai its in this class will go almost surcie very tt talc lt tion. Take in it the incident which I passes credibility. Here is an example special pains to make you understand, of the tricks to Which they will resort have related: had these men been for example, that its only function In order to create the Impression of prosecuted for falsely using the name in the matter in question and in conof the trust company or for obtaining nection with the company concerned, 30 DAYS' TREATMENT FOR $1.00 having the backing of men or Institumoneys by of misrepresentation tions (the is the purely technical one of strength and character: claim that the trust company was actseeing Satisfaction guaranteed introduction social Through that a certain issue of bonds Is by as on trustee the & ing sellrite t Fair or money refunded. 'friends he local representative of an made "in form" when the technical Investment scheme was able to open a curities), an able lawyer could have preliminaries have been complied of made out the "trust" to transfer a FOR ALL KIDNEY BLADDER checking account with a banking and with and that it does not give an of unknown package a contents, very ounce of its or moral support TROUBLE, RHEUMATISM trust company in a big city a com plausible defense. Again, the mininz to the bonds prestige pany ot so liih a standing that it is themselves AND LUMBAGO or stand lewas able to make valuable vei widelj known outside of financial company gally bound for a penny of responsiuse of the trust company's receipt for bility in connection with .it bod time us:i-all- y circles and among people of small CMrtS" A them. Anthe relieves the most means. Its endorsement was worth the package by having facsimiles of other word of caution: Whenever and receipt printed distributed severe case before morning. "ready money" to any enterprise and you see the name of an educator, a solicitors for among the stock who the fact was keenly appreciated by the pastor or a popular politician or any "fiscal agents" of the llrite & Fair were canvassing persons not at all other leader having a hold on the senfamiliar with documents legal and Honauza company. a who, under the statements and argu- timent of communty, used in connection with an investment, offering, look After the opening of his personal ments of the agent, would see in the checking account, the fiscal agent lost receipt an acknowledgement that this Into it carefully and take no step until the person mentioned has been ques no time in cultivating the acquaintPINEULE MEDICINE CO. great trust and its millions ance of the trust officer of the bank- were behind company CHICAGO. U. 5. A. the securities of the Hrlte tioned directly by you. I know of an Instance ing institution, which did a very large & Fair Honnna company. For Sals By Tremont Mercantile Co where the business in the discharge of trusts. So far as the writer knows, there poor people of a parish were victim COMPANY, One day the depositor came to this of- has never been a fake ized because the unscrupulous agent investment con ficer and explained that he had a very cern JOHN SOMMER, 60 YEARS' exploited which has not tried to had attached to his prospectuses and Manager, Tremonton, Utah. simple little trust which he wished to steal moral support under the name circulars the name of a popular nriest EXPERIENCE have executed. it Finding necessary of some "guaranty," "trust," or "secur- of that region. These poor victims, into leave the city for a few days he ities" company. In most cases, per- stead of going to tho "reference," simwished to provide for the delivery of haps, these ply said: "If the father's in it, sure a sealed package, containing "valuable fakes as thecompanies are as thorough It's all right," and they were relieved which company are they of their savings before papers," to a man whose name and supposed to guarantee, and are the father the MALAD VALLEY BRANCH ' personal description was given. The creatures and creations of the learned of the use of his name which Trade Marks same person to call for the package would men. Hut so many instances of was wholly without his knowledge. ARRIVE this DEPART h ave a certified check, in the amount Cnpvnir.wT Ar. sti.uiow deception have been shown The solicitors for this swindle had AnTotin RiMiiltng nkctch and d'rrlitlnn rty to was of which be placed to up in criminal $1,000. NO 33. 31 No. qnlckly ivrrrinin our M'"ti(oii free whether mi bold a game and banked on that a played No. 32. u it Invention is I'l.'huM? imleiitaMo. No 34. the credit of the "fiscal agent" of the little variation hasprosecutions confidential. HAN0B00K on PMwti been found desira- their knowledge of human nature to UoMrtrictjr & lent fi t. tii.l.-a- KkWirv for Hrlte Honana whose Fir company, patent. ble. Instead of P&ta it tuki'M tliroiiuii Munn A Vo. the effect tnat most a receive fake "guarowning persons will take -business connections were unknown anty" concern, the n f trr. wittmut I'hnrirn, Iti the 5 ii S exploiters of the a "reference" for granted Instead of to the trust officers of the banking fake have recently come to using it for the purpose of seeking in Scientific companies and trust company. 9 regard it as a better practice to claim formation. There are very few of the A IMnilrato.t weeklr. T,r?Mt o. ( Weeks later tho trust officer was as- connection with some tttoi line Journal, Terma, $3 lists men of and business or comfinancial genuine feur; for niontb, $1. HWU bf ail rewmlettlem. tonished to receive from an old per- pany doing a general trust houses named as references in the lit business. MUNN & Co.36'0- -"New York A. M. P. M sonal friend, who was knocking about us mis erature of scaly Investment concerns, brings to A. M the K straight P M Ht MM L. prac3i Wulilumnn, l. MM 9:M in the west, a circular of the Hrlte & tical point In the 6:10 Brighton matter: Never go which do not contain some unauthor0:40 4:65 10:10 6:30 Fall Itonanza company. In which the Into an Investment until Oorinne 9:30 you first find ized names names of some persons 4:30 r, 2H 10:23 was trust as company out big designated for yourself, by direct and first- who. If questioned, would have given Wtakogaa :07 4:18 10:27 fi :l: Evans & "It. T." "trustee" for the stocks. hand Investigation, what the "refer- a warning instead of an endorsement. 0:t'l 4:0.r 10::il 6:3S Hoaita As the friend who forwarded the cir- ences" named in the 6M 3:53 10:37 literature or adfill (Copyright, by Jospph B. Bowles.) Central BOW 3:50 cular knew something of the wildcat vertising matter of the lO:. fi:H TRBXOKTOH company have 8 IB 8:40 nature of the Itrlte & Fair enterprise, to say about it. and also fi v. 11:30 Dirt. Garland how much 8:40 all Mtuilrio, ur ho Inv l.nul.uun 8:25 his comments on the folly of the the references themselves PATENTS uia UivursMo Mrs. You Avenoo to. A amount T he UTcrv.w uifini 8:33 IRKI r , say detests 3:55 a our 11:3) 7:10 bank's accepting such a "trust" had PMdio Promoters of wildcat Investment en- his wife cordially? MM al li fou t mntmuturougu.', 8:21 2:52 11:42 T:M an edge on them. When the matin terprises have used hundreds Pjjrm nth 8.15 on Mrs. De Scnsslt Yes, he hates the 2:45 of names 13:01 rrt? pfsdlm ftniimjr. 7:s Washakie was it wed found as that Investigated references which 7:52 Kur frw Uttkto 3:85 REFtntNCE. had not the very pronnd she sued for divorce on 1:00 p.m. S::i0 Mated . the whole pint hail been carefully con- shadow of right m they 7:15 1:30 se Puck. B03-B0atl,,g Sxvonth Strsat, cocted and worked up to; that the cir- that persons credulous The mixed tmiii DO this liranch is be to O. C. enough daily excrpt Sunday culars had been printed and put in i Interested in ti.e Speaks Many Languages. proposition would i ted envelopes ready for mailing in also be credulous enough to say "these Mme. Patti speaks Italian, Spanish, advanoe of the placing of the references will speak well Everybody to advertise in Tha for Russian, German, French and Porta enough tinand thai when "truat," tnisi ctti the enterprise, else their names wtmld fMM perfectly, and, of Times. Our service reaches all hei course, car of the solid financial Institution not be given out for this purpose" Knglish Is faultless of the . THE TREMONT TIMES. Cole Banking Company, Tremonton, Utah. fl. We Invite Inspection g g Fine Groceries How to Sift "Sure Things tLVERY g Live-and-Let-L- Dand P tj week J ive D Men's and Boys' Furnishings, Wats, bhoes, Gloves, .btc. L. P. o Jensen n e Printing LIVERY FEED and SALE STABLE Main Street, Tremonton. " to-da- y. PINEULES Do You Dse a Phone? If not, you are missing one of the necessities of modern life. BACKACHE LET US SHOW YOU. BEAR RIVER TELEPHONE I'M O. S. L. TIME TABLE. i 9 American. handji-'inpl- mi v 5 "m-jmihotq- n, di-r- - Wanted! parts Valley. Try it |