| Show WORKING T ir fi BOGUS p if y MASONRY smooth grafter separating folks from their money under pretenses that should land him in the pen at helper last night some twenty five or thirty u were mere taken through the so called cd scottish rite of free Alivio masonry nry by one matthew mab thompson a scotchman who ho claims diamondville Dia wo aa as the beat seat of the grand lodge under whose jurisdiction he is working As a matter of fact the grand lodge of wyoming as regularly constituted is at cheyenne with F S king as grand master while its grand were secretary tary I 1 is W L kuy kenti kandall all who resides at saratoga letters utters fran james H brown grand master of the masonic order in utah and christopher diehl grand secretary state that thompson Thomp soa and his associates in the voik arc are the rankest ranke it of frauds while their method methods are denounced as well by damay damase lodge at mt aft pleasant under whose jurisdiction this section tion is thompson has been exposed in massachusetts idaho and elsewhere having no more authority for the masonic work he is pretending to confer than a chinese u section hand band some good italian citizens and others at helper are being parted from their money with nothing in return for it the first three degrees are given in one evening and it appears that about the only thing necessary is to have the price thompson hi his given it out that lodges are to be organized at kenilworth sunnyside Sunny side jide castle gate scofield cid and elsewhere in the county thompson is declared to be a fakir and fraud by those who ought to know whereof they speak without consulting with the grand officers of ue aie order in utah |
