The Sunflower from Williamsburg, Kansas • 21

5 RSffih." F'felfeMIE fir- WE ARE "at home" in above "magnificent" iron building during business hours and invite you to call? and "shake." We have mineral water, land, money, schemes and Sunflowers by the million for sale. Strangers always welcome. Crippled, brothers who can't travel can address for sample of above, F. G. Welch, or Sunflower, Williamsburg, Kansas.

each one of which would soon "mature" a $50 cash coupon according to the representations of this agent. But somehow there have been no more "maturities" and Mr. Bradley is not to be found. The general agents, Kansas City, claim that this agent exceeded his authority that all the bonds sold do not mature simply the multiples of three and refuse to mature any more Ottawa coupons unless more new business is furnished. At this writing this Pan-American Coupon-Investment company is considerably ahead of Ottawa, for they have paid out, say, $50 and have received, say, $500, the first payments on the one hundred bonds sold.

This bond is certainly a Texas curiosity. It has no long horns displayed on its beautiful face with which to defend itself against its enemies like the Texas steer but in ambiguous language it deludes the uninitiated into paying to its agents their good money, returning practically nothing and repairs to pastures green for fresh victims. The whole scheme boiled down is a lottery worse than its New Orleans neighbor. It pays one man in. order to delude a hundred.

It "matures" coupons at pleasure and plants its 50's where they will produce quick results. It should be squelched and the "officers, general agents and special agents" should be arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses if Kansas has no anti-lottery law. Mr. Bradley exhibited alleged letters from a number of Topeka's best people; all of whom say the bonds are good and assure the public that they are safe in investing therein. We have a bond and some of the literature of this Texas swindle which is now flooding Kansas with its trained agents, all seeking whom they may defraud.

If a man doubts the reliability of this company to perform the promises of its agents the agent proposes to bet $50 that he has a bond in his pocket which if purchased at the regular price of $5 and the $1.25 installments are regularly paid each month until March 1, 1895, making it cost the purchaser at that date, say, $13.75, the purchaser will have the company's $50. On its face this looks like a fair bet, but dissected it means that this Texas fraud could of course afford to pay this $50 coupon, for it would thus secure the victim's $50 bet besides having already secured $13.75 in installments. In other words, the company would be the winner in every such plausible transaction, besides inspiring a momentary confidence by its promptness. If such open faced scoundrels cannot be imprisoned in Kansas it is time we have a new criminal code. F.

a. W. A Texas Scheme N. G. in Kansas.

TS. BRADLEY of El Paso, Texas, registered at Hotel Grant in this city, last week, and thereby hangs a tale. Mr. Bradley was decidedly good looking, well dressed, was a fine talker, and soon "made his mark" with his ready tongue and bewitching manners among the hotel frequenters and some of our "best people." He announced that his business was the sale of bonds. He represented the Pan-American Coupon-Investment company of El Paso, Texas.

He portrayed in glittering English that there was a sure fortune to all our citizens who purchased one or more of his bonds, the cut price of which was only $5 each, because each "bond" represented $450, payable in installments of 50 each. "Pay me in cash a monthly assessmenl of $1.25 from now until March 1, 1895, and you will receive pay for the first coupon of $50. After that pay $1.25 per month and soon another coupon of $50 will mature and your cash is ready, and so on until you will receive the $450 in hard cash this for a mere pittance paid out, viz $1.25 per month. It beats life insurance for it is payable whether you live or die." Such was the story, in short, of Mr. T.

S. Bradley of El Paso, Texas. Some of our people grabbed at this delusive scheme to get something for nothing and now mourn the loss of their fives and refuse to be comforted, for the well authenticated story comes from Ottawa that Bradley worked his delusive game in that city a few days ago and many go about the streets five dollars poorer than before the advent of wiley Mr. B. There is one respectable citizen of Ottawa, however, who is $45 ahead.

He purchased a $450 bond of the agent and in some way a coupon attached thereto "matured" at once and for his $5 invested he received a Kansas City check for $50. Of course he could not keep his good fortune to himself. It was soon whispered about the streets and there was a rush for the Pan-Am3rican bonds. It is said over one Hundred of these "gilt edged," and finely executed "bonds" were sold, ARMS, Town Property and Raw Land for sale. F.

Welch, Williamsburg, Kan. WILLIAMSBURG, Franklin county, where this paper is published, is rich in various kinds of valuable minerals. Two valuable coal veins, one fifteen foot vein; valuable fire brick clay; one vein of Cilicia, worth in Albany, N. $25 per ton; one vein of nipola, sold at all drug stores by the ounce. Best kind of farming land.

In fact the people hereabouts walk daily over land that is commercially worth $300 per acre and it can be bought for from $10 to $25 per acre. Before long the citizens of this city will hire that Cleveland kicking machine to kick every mother's son of them for not investing in time. Don't wait. There is something now in the air. For particulars of above, address, Sunflower, Williamsburg, Kan..