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Show TIMBER LAND TIP ISWORKED AGAIN One Hundred Trusting " Persons Caught While Trying to Get Rich. Salt Lake. Jan. 29 News: Agents of the United States secret service are trying to get In touch vsith another grafter who has recently j worked a "tlmber-land-tlp" deal in Salt J-ake. on similar but more modest lines to the much exploited deal of a year ago. This agent is a United States pensioner pen-sioner of advanced age, and he repre-I repre-I sented that he was an agent of the I Barber Lumber company of Boise, in i working his griift. To a number ot ! saloon men and men he met while frequenting the lower class of such re- sorts, he told how his company wanted some choice timber country In Idaho, how It could not contract with prospective pros-pective settlers for it, but would be willing to pay $1,200 per claim Jor such land as a title could be lurnlshid to. To pay the filing fees would lake $12, and this sum each of the prospec-i prospec-i tlve fortune makers was asked to advance ad-vance to the old veteran, who In turn would invest it with the land office at Boise. ' About one hundred people were i found here gullible enough to take 1 the bait. They were to go on an excursion ex-cursion to their nt-v lands late in November No-vember last, but i he excursion was postponed. Then the agent disarmed all suspicion by reappearing, an-nouncing an-nouncing a new date, and in consequence conse-quence of this show of good faith, secured se-cured a number of new subscribers. Between the date first set and tae second dale set, the agent disappeared, and that is the last his followers have heard of him. It is now believed that he is working the same scheme in Colorado, and Special Agent Hare nas the secret service agents In that part ( of the country to pick him up If possible. pos-sible. He was last seen here In December. De-cember. A description of the man, together to-gether with a statement of his representations, repre-sentations, has been sent to the Uar-I Uar-I ber Lumber company, whose otno'ra I have denied that the agent In any way represented them. This Is the I third time that a similar " tip" deal has been worked here Tho rtrst deal was worked on Carbon county lands, on a subscription plan, the second on Oregon lands, and this one is for Idaho j lands. |