Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-28 | Page 4 | Get Rich Quick Fever

H GET-RIGH-QUIOK FEVER. : T1C old saying that "there is a sucker born overy minute" seems to bo as near tnie now as it was on the day it was originated. H Tho " Get-Rich-Quick " game is the ono which develops the great MM number of "easy marks" for tho "sure-thing" man. Years ago the B farmers going to the large city would "fall" for the gold brick Mm I Bchomo or tho shell game of the "green-goods" man. The latter H would make about $10 from his viotim. But nowadays, when all MM financial deals are colossal in nature, the farmer also enlarges the H amounts he puts in futures. The big game now is horse races. The H following dispatch from Kansas City outlines this latest game: H A man who said his name was Morlan, and that he was MM one of two Iowa farmers who mortgaged their homes for HL $16,000 and sent the money to J. B. llaggins in Chicago, wlio H ' was to bet it on a horse race and clean up a small fortune MM came horo today to get $8,000, the amount he put up, and his MM share of the winnings. He has failed to find Mr "llaggins." H , According to the story told to J. A. Bunyan of the Kan- H J sas City Commercial club by Morlan, a "J. B. Haggins of MM Chicago" several months ago visited his section of Iowa and H . made friends Avith Mori an and his neighbor. Later tho two 1 often sent him small amounts of money, which "JIaggins" H J would bet on horse races. The farmers won many times the H amount of money they bet. A short time ago, on promise of H winning a fortune, they mortgaged their homes for $8,000 H each and forwarded the money to "llaggins. " Hf , -A. few days later he wrote them that he had won and L t asked them to meet him in Kansas City and get the money. H "e above is interesting in view of the fact that it recalls a MM similar incident that was "pulled off" in Ogden about two years ago, H when a half-dozen "wise ones" made a "Jackpot" bet on a "skate"' H which the "tout" said would "just burn up the stretch." It was H , the same old story the man with the cash and the ticket disap- MM j peared and the horse "showed" before the next race started.