Show DONT BE IN A HURRY A LARGE number of the citizens of ogden have been greatly excited and naturally indignant over a scheme manipulated by some attorneys of that city to bleed them to a considerable amount on the pretence predence pre tence that the title to their city property was insecure fad that only by paying the money could the defect be cured these attorneys had obtained from the original holder of the land since subdivided a quit claim deed to the whole property he had long ago sold it to the city anil an d the present owners had bad received their title from the municipality the transfer to the city it is claimed was defective and the attorneys who discovered the alleged defect are trying to make money out of the transaction an in dig nation meeting has beed held and the conduct of these attorneys has T been bean severely denounced etwas it was given out that the original owner of the land was paid a thousand dollars by these lawyers for the quit I 1 claim deed on which they expect to make such a big financial haul we now inform our friends in ogden that the original owner is ready to make oath that all he received from these speculative attorneys was three hundred dollars this should cut some figure in the settlement of the cue case supposing the present owners intend to compromise in assessing the amount which each property holder shall pay to move the supposed cloud to his title if any such assessment is made the victims ol of this scheme ought to know just what it cost the schemers to gain this seeming lever to raise their fears As the cost of this quit claim deed was less than a third of the sum pretended the pro rats rata amount of blood money emkey should be re deuced proportionately if any is to be paid at all we hope the property holders whose titles are said to be clouded will not be in a hurry to pay a cent to the land sharks who are showing their teeth let it be demonstrated beyond doubt whether this scheme has bas any real foundation before any money is paid over we are strongly of the opinion that the he present titles will be found good and sufficient if so the schemers ought to have only their labors for foi their pains |