Show A card to the public the following card was handed evening mr air luko luke could not bo be seen the same evening for his statement E EDITOR diton TIIE tim STANDARD mr 31 D fain rain and myself arrived in ogden a few days ago for the purpose of establishing a board of the tile merchants retail commercial agency of chicago wo we at once called upon mr bigelow cashier of the 0 ogden den state bank and requested liim him to telegraph telegraph to the first national bank of chicago and arid to the chicago trust and savings bandor ban bank kor for our standing lie ile did lid so and received gilt edged re replies pi acs ics stating among oilier other things that our company stood well in chicago and that they had confidence in the man management ement armed with these telegrams and nt 0 ft score of unquestionable written references from all parts of the united states wo we started out today to do business with the merchants wo we found that a man named luke a former merchant of this city who had to resort resT rt to the insolvency law was canvassing the town in the interest of the american commercial collection agency against which co cern we ave now have a suit pei pending iding in san francisco for damages for stealing our system including valuable pa papers rs from our omaha onice office we want to caution the tile merchants of ogden against this concern concerti and simply request that they ask luke to give them asing a single lebank bank as reference before they pay liim him and wo we will cheerfully stand the tile expense of telegraphing wo INc found lound that 31 11 31 bond 00 co had paid luke 5 and ind that lie had not even given them a receipt which in itself does not look business like we vc took up the few papers that luke gave them and have signed them as members of our agency all M D FAIN S CORNELL oct 31 1892 |