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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY HERALD: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 190.4. yv. i3 vat vk. 4 WILL PATROL BORDER OCCUPATION IS GONE FOUND f.AiY VICTIMS Get-Rich-Qiic: Concern Secured Millions. 1 United States to Keep Out The service and appoint ments of the Versatile Old Bank Robber Out of a Job.

Undesirable Immigrants. It Is Claimed That They Gain Entrance Thrcugh Mexico Conspiracy Is Charged. Bankrupt Company Debarred by Pest-master General Wynne's Order From Using the Mails. The Tilcdern Construction of Baiik uilding3 Has Pat Him Completely Out of Business. Oxford Hotel Cafe ii i5 City of Mexico, Oct.

22. To prevent the influx of hordes of the worst class of European immigrants, who, it is claimed, are gaining entrance to the United States, through 3Iexico, Commissioner General of Immigration posed attempt to rob the bank that very night. The robbers, however, were unknown, and it was desirable to catch them red-handed; to this end the chief suggested that a detail of his men be secretly admitted to the bank, just after sundown, and concealed there until the robbers entered and began operations. This "seemed so goott a suggestion that the bank official agreed to it promptly. The policemen were quietly admitted, one after another, by the regular watchmen; then, having overcome and gagged their hosts, they quietly burst open the vault and made off with its treasure.

The fact that banks were always more or less in danger, from their own tenants still survives as one of the reasons why modern banking buildings, such, for example, as the beautiful new Riggs National bank, at Washington, or the fine modern home of the famous old Bowery bank, in New York, are one-story structures with no other tenants than the banks themselves. "The bank buildings erected in the past few years," to quote a recent remark of an architect, "are practically impregnable; that is, their construction is such that nothing short of a wrecking outfit with unlimited time and all the tools and explosives in existence could break into the strong boxes. That any cracksman should successfully attempt such a feat Is nowadays an utter impossibility. To begin with, he would have to escape the outside and inside watchmen, the patrol and the electrical appliances. And if thi3 could be done there would still remain the vaults which open only by time locks, and would be a nut that no living man or band of men could crack in a month, much less a few hours.

"Architects do not design the safes and vaults, of course. And the chief safety idea in these new buildings, aside from ther distinctively architectural character, is the one-story structure occupied by the bank 01 trust company alone, thus absolutely doing away with the time-honored scheme of cracksmen who rent rooms for legitimate business in a bank building- and then put in shifts at night burrowing into the vaults. It is one more safeguard added to a number of others." are not excelled by any other hostelry in the city. Our noon luncheons are very attractive to business men. Bring your whole family to our Big Sunday Dinner.

Frank S. Sargent, of the Bureau of of Commerce and Labor of the government at Washington, has definitely decided, it is asserted, to station 200 mounted inspectors along the international border between El Paso and Brownsville, Tex. These men will turn back all persons who are not citizens of the United States or who do not come up to the requirements of the United States immigration laws. In addition, it is intimated, secret service agents will be stationed at various points in Mexico who will keep the immigration inspectors at the border informed on the movements of immigrants who may arrive in the republic from Europe, and who are suspected of intending to attempt to make their ways into the United States by escaping the vigilance of the authorities at the border. It is asserted by the United States immigration authorities that a conspiracy exists between shipping agents in Europe and various steamship com i ii I 1 1 i 7i 1 1 if i t.

-d -J I 1 fr.W fe t-. If if i i tie new ONLY ONLY panies to introduce into the United 4 ii Hot xior Washington, Oct. 20. The Governmental drag-net now being drawn over the entire country for the purpose of making it hard for fools and their money to part company by means of alluring circulars sent through the mails brought in Franklin Everhart of New York, who, it is alleged, opperated a blind pool in Postmaster General Wynne issued a fraud order aginst the firm and now inspectors are trying to find out how many millions the firm secured before they were able to procure the evidence upon which they induced Postmaster General Wynne to deny it the privileges of the mails. The inspectors believe that the firm got at least one million and probably more.

So far as they have been able to trace the concern, it was in operation for only about six months. The failure came on Waterloo day, June 1. Since that time, the creditors have been negotiating with the firm for a settlement. The concern proposed an extension for one year in which to make payments due its clients or the acceptance of stock in the Index- Mining company in lieu of wrhat was due them. Some of the clients accepted the stock, while others asked the Post-office department about the reliability of the firm.

The firm sent its circulars to per-sonsof small means, servant girls and clerk's in retail shops being preferred. The firm asked its clients to place their money with it for the purpose of speculating in grain, promising two or three per cent every week. June 11 'Everhart declared a dividend of two per cent for each of the two weeks preceding that day. One week later the weekly Bulletin announced the suspension of payments and attributed the failure to excitement among their clients produced by failure of other firms dealing on the grain exchanges. Then the propositioji wa? made 'about the Index Mining ompainy, which the firm said would not -be affected by the suspension.

It alio put out the prospectus of the United States Cereal company as a thing in -hich its customers ought to get interested. The postoffie'e inspectors failed in their efforts to have the companies produce books to show what deals had caused the failure. The ordinary records shoy that there were no violent fluctuations in the grain market the week the firm suspended. Postmaster Generaf Wyne was therefore forced to c'onclusion that the dividends were, paid out of the principal oh the same plan pursued by Miller, the original get-rich-quick man. Everhart pretended to work entirely on commission, asking only 10 per cent for making for their customers.

The inspectors got hold of facts about the mining company showing that its operations were absolutely insignificant and did not warrant the payment of any dividends. In fact, the operating expenses were five times as great as the income from the sales of zinc. FRANK LONG, Mgr. jit. .4." csv Jk- Vflr.

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'-v The Greatest System of Transportation in America is composed of FOR AIV1B1TEOUS MEri TO SECURE PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT. Under its present system cf Agency contracts the "Although by no means sufficient to be described as an epidemic," said an old bank official the other day, "the number of safes that have lately been broken open in stores and offices are enough to make the old fellows in the banking business recall a type of criminal who used to accasion us a good many uncomfortable forebodings for our own strong boxes. Nowadays, however, the bank burglar is practically ancient history so far as the cities and larger towns are concerned," said the Washington Post. The bank burglar, during the period when he flourished most abundantly and successfully, was undoubtedly one of the cleverest of all criminals a very artistocrat of crime, in fact who had little personal association with less important and capable lawbreakers. In working to gain dishonestly a large sum of money at one fell swoop he often proved his ability to have made an honest living if he had been contented with slower progress, for many of the famous bank robberies In the last half of the nineteenth century proved that the perpetrators could build up a very pretty business in some legitimate, walk of life simply as a means of concealing their real purpose.

If a bank had rooms to let, either above or below "the vault, it was dangerous business to let them, however seemingly honest and industrious might be the prospective tenant. Some of the stories of bank robberies that may still be remembered by newspaper readers of hardly more than two decades ago read like fiction of the most sensational character. They are, however, actual criminal history and afford many picturesque examples of the fact that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. A stranger in town once appeared before the cashier of an Eastern bank and announced his intention of opening a barber shop. He had noticed that the institution had a couple of rooms to let in the second story and wished to hire them, using one as a shop and living in the other, an arrangement that the Bank saw no reason to object to.

In due time the barber shop was not only opened, but prospered. The barber felt he could afford to invite his two brothers to come and make him a visit, and the brothers took lodging near the bank and spent their evenings regularly in the industrious barber's company. About the same time another stranger, also a friend of the successful barber, came to the city and took lodgings in a hotel opposite the bank. He soon formed a habit of crossing the street of a summer evening and sitting on the bank steps with the regular watchmen. And he was a surprisingly agreeable companion, the new comer; evening after evening he told the watchmen stories and sang them songs that kept the whole party in a gale of merriment.

Meantime the barber and his two brothers, under cover of this outside were slowly cutting their way through the wall and into the back of the vault that stood next to it The job was long and tedious nowadays it would have been impossible for so important a vault would not back up against any partition wall whatever; but when it was finished the rogues were many thousands of dollars richer, to say nothing of what they had made honestly by shaving their patrons, among them some of the officials of the very bank against which their secret labors had been success-full directed. In another famous robbery, conducted along much the same lines, the thieves lived, for several of the months that are spelled with an as peaceful oyster dealers, working up a paying trade in the harmless bivalves in the basement of the banking building and directly under the vault. In another case it was a dentist instead of a barber who hired rooms over the bank and even filled teeth for some of its unsuspecting officials, thus, one might say, restoring in advance some of the gold which he and his companions later successfully extracted from its supposed strong boxes. And in yet another instance the room adjoining the vault was turned into a shoemaker's quarters, where the dis-guished crackmen cheerfully cobbled all day and then spent a portion of each night slowly worming their way into the bank. One of the most picturesque of American bank robbberies occurred in a good sized eastern city, where, even if officials were still as gullible, the modern safe guards of bank vaults, to nothing of the practical and moral value of such institutions as the patrol or Bankers' Protective association, would nowadays unquestionably prevent a similar occurrence.

In this case the cashier was approached late in the afternoon by a stalwart policeman who demanded an audience in the name of the local chief of police. Naturally the audience was granted and the stalwart officer explained that the authorities had discovered a pro- States, by way of Mexico, Immigrants who could not obtain admission at any of the immigration stations on the Atlantic coast. The worst feature, it is alleged, is that quite a large percentage of those, who enter the United States through Mexico, are persona from Syria and other countries who are afflicted with the contagious eye disease, "tracoma." Such persons are absolutely barred from entrance to the United States by the immigration laws. Then, too, it is desired to keep a stricter watch over Chinese, who, like the European immigrants, it is claimed, have been finding their way into the United States over the Mexican border. The European shipping agents, it is alleged, have a very comprehensive and effective system.

Immigrants, and who it is evident could not gain entrance at an immigration station, are told that they can be landed in the United States by way of Mexico. It is asserted they are sent to Vera Cruz and then to this city. From here they are sent north in squads of six or ten. They do not go to any of the gateways, but get off the train one or two stations this side, and then are driven in conveyances across the border. Both at Vera Cruz and Mexico City, it is claimed, the various shipping agents have representatives stationed, who take the immigrants in hand as "soon as they arrive and see that they are landed in the United States, according to contract.

That preliminary steps have been taken by the United States immigration authorities to put a stop to the traffic is evidenced by the fact, it is said, that a number of Syrians and Chinamen recently have been stopped at the border, as the result of information furnished from Mexico City. REMARKABLE FUNERAL Body of Missouri Man Buried Four Years After Death. Butler, Oct. 22. A remarkable funeral took place at Austin, fifteen miles northeast of here, when Charles Ritter was laid to rest near his old home four years after he died.

Early in 1900 he was in camp at Montana with a party of friends. They had left their camp about a half-mile one day when he found need of something and started back for it through the gulch. After he had left the party a terrible snowslide occurred, which was barely escaped by his companions. Over his body was piled 150 feet of snow. The spot beneath which it lay was There he rested under the snow shroud until the melting of the snow has given him up.

The body is in an almost perfect state of preservation, having been frozen solid. The funeral was under the charge ot the Odd Fellows lodge, of which order he was a member. RUSSIA UNFAIR American Manufacturers Need Caution in Dealing With the Bear. Our commercial relations with Russia have been unsatisfactory in other ways a3 well, writes Wolf von Schier-brand in Review of Reviews. The Russian government has not always dealt kindly with American investors.

The subject is an extensive one, and to cite just two cases in illustration will be enough for the purpose. The Westinghouse Airbrake company was inveigled, by means of glowing promises, to erect large works in St. Petersburg. They were solemnly assured of a monopoly of their air brakes on all the Russian railroads. The works were built, and 2,000 American mechanics, engineers and other were installed.

Soon, however, Russia induced an American competitor, by like promises, to erect similar large-works in Moscow. Thus, competition having been secured, the Westinghouse people and their competitors had to underbid each other. Next, Russia insisted on and enforced the gradual discharge of all the Americans employed in the two works. The Singer Sewing Machine company was treated to a similar dose of Russian duplicity. Today the enormous factory built by them near Nijhni Novgorod, where persons are employed, has passed entirely into Russian hands; there is not a single American left to tell the tale.

It behooves American investors, to be very cautious, indeed, hereafter when dealing with- the the Russian government. Still, with all these 'drawbacks, it Is undeniable that Russia will continue to offer a large field for American enterprise. And that brings me to the point of inquiring, what will be our commercial chances at the close ot this present war in the zone affected? Will they be less favorable than at present or more so? In a general way, it may be said that American trade opportunities there will be vastly better than they now are. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to claim that from the end of this present Russo-Japanese war will date an era of immense American trade expansion in the Far East. New York Central, Boston Albany.

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22. Famous old Mulhatton, once prince of good fellows, champion liar of America, highest salaried commercial traveler on the continent, is in jail here for stealing a cheap overcoat a broken, down, wrecked, blear eyed old soak. Ten years ago Joseph' Mulhatton was the hardest hardware man to beat in the southern part of the United States. Today he is the hardest problem in human nature to bring to a logical conclusion that has ever presented itself to the keen scrutiny of the San Francisco police detectives. Ten years ago Mulhatton was a wealthy, prosperous traveling salesman for one of the largest hardware houses in the country.

His salary was $15,000 a year. He was the au Connections with all Steamship Lines to and from New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Norfolk. LOW TOURIST RATES 23 RED FIRE IN INDIANA T-faTrrifiriT Si thor of stories in the Fort Worth Ga 0 zette concerning "the largest meteor that ever struck the earth." They i mimm created a sensation in all- Europe, as well as on the North American contin Stop overs allowed on all tickets at St. Louis, Falls, Lake Cbautanqua, Washington, D. and other points.

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10:20 a. 9:10 p. 11:00 p. m. ROBBER OF MINT DEAD Henry S.

Cochran, formerly chief weigher in the mint, who stole thirty bars of gold, valued at more than $134,000, between 1S87 and 1S93, when the theft was discovered, died at the Old Folks' Home in Darby, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Cochran was employed in the mint forty-three years. He had charge ot the vault in which between $20,000,000 and in gold was stored. The door of the vault was sealed in 1S87. but he was able to draw gold through the iron bars with a wire.

He took ten of these bars home, rernelted them and had them exchanged for currency at the mint. "A -recount of the bars in the summer of 1S93 revealed the shortage. Suspicion fell upon Cochran and he confessed Twenty of the gold bars were discovered above the arch of the vault, wnere he had hidden them, and part of the plunder which he had taken away was recovered at his Darby home, leaving about $26,000 worth of metal missing. On his trial a month later the man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years and six months imprisonment, and. lined $1.00 He has acquired a considerable estate in Darby, which was sold to make up the loss to the government.

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Indianapolis, Oct. 22. Good old Indiana, now as often before regarded as the pivotal state in a presidential contest, is simply reeling from the shock of political combat. No apathy here, not a bit. It is more like a frenzy of partisanship.

There's a glow in the sky and a smell of coal oil in the air. The air trembles and the earth quakes as red-faced, heaving orators on a thousand stumps thunder advice and warning at the awed voters. While voters in most other states yawn when the campaign is mentioned, here every item political is a living, boiling issue. In shops and offices, on the streets, and, it is said, in the saloons, men work themselves into a fever arguing campaign questions. There one may learn at any hour of the national horror that will attend Parker's- election by the Standard Oil company; of the sad downfall of the republic the day after the steel trust returns Roosevelt to the White house, It is plain from these discussions that Parker is going to starve the workingmen to death and that Roosevelt is going to have them killed in a war with Germany.

Activity displayed by the minor par ties is greater than ever before. This is Debs' home state and the Socialists are confident that he will get a record-breaking vote. The Prohibitionists are hustling in every county, arousing the partisans of Swallow. The Populists are exceedingly busy. And so, noise-racked and storm-tossed Indiana is fighting out the great issues.

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