Show RUSSIAN PRINCE E disappears I 1 salt lake robt leaving a number of worthless checks and a trall trail of unpaid bills prince alexander L F Kozlov ekoy has left salt take lake for parts unknown 11 in his hia wake there are recollections of his incursions into salt lakes best society 1 his loc lectures tures on the russian artey university hersity and the public school principals but there are sadder remembrances of his I 1 incursions into the realms of business and those who were impressed by him who believed his claim to royal blood and who his plausible explanation of an basy easy way to make a fortune fortun e are now and poorer as aa a result of their experience and their confidence prince Kozlov ho admitted he was a k russian prince cut a wide swath when ho be came to salt like lake ile ho said eald his home was in watertown S D and inquiry develops that he did live there he claimed furi further her that he ans a high officer in the russian army but that he became involved in personal and conflict with grand duke boris and general kuropatkin he went into exile the Is a soldierly looking man knows ill about the russian army knows the inside history of the war with japan and knows how to get something Eom bom ething for nothing he was as smooth and oily as the late lamented beresford Bo hope although his hia dreams of wealth did nit encompass all the grandeur u and ence found in the air castles constructed by tile the englishman prince Kozlov bad a when ho he came to salt lake ile he claimed to know bom something ething of the h handling of books and ho he at once obtained the salt lake agency for tho the tomlinson dook book company of chicago he conceived the idea that it if he could form a company lie he could procure the general agency for several publishing firms the prince imparted the idea to J 11 editorial writer on the deberdt news with the result that the great southwestern publishing company was formed the company was I 1 capitalized at in 50 shares anti and tho the articles arti cleg of chow that tho the following stock was subscribed bed I 1 name shares amount alexander L F koz J M go 60 john P meakin 40 2000 michael sievers go 60 mrs airs J M BL 40 2000 total Kozlov became president ident mr air jo dahl vice president and sievers wits was secretary mr meakin was permitted to pay ID 10 per cent of his stock subscription |