The Bureau Scheme Swindle in Mining Circles
Correspondence describes the Great Republic Mutual Bayer Mining Industry bureau scam run from a chic city office. A fake committee and chemist test ore, attract investors with lavish displays, then loot ore shipments, vanish with funds. The piece warns readers of the elaborate foreclosure cycle before collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Republic Mutual Bayer Mining Industry
Great West
Maine
Sheeireaiardurther
bureau
ihe
Weat
amelting
burel
History of mining bureaus and the peril to laboring miners
The piece argues that most mining bureaus are corrupt except a few honest offices in Salt Lake Utah and Colorado. It warns that laboring miners face persistent swindles from various con artists and praise, yet their own generosity and trust leave them vulnerable and financially ruined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Utah
Cali Boo
Colorado
bureau
The Opium Fiend in New York Jail
Charles Tyler alias Henry L. Sanford, known to police as the Opium Fiend, tells reporters of his rise from Chicago pharmacy graduate to morphine addict and thief. He describes brutal injections, scars, and a life of crime to obtain drugs, including selling instruments and stealing in New York. Also notes Utah divorce boom fueled by easy access and a sharp rise in questionable attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Bulletin
Charles Tyler
New York
Henry L. Sanford
District of Columbia
Cyler
Virginia
College of Pharmacy
Chicago
Massachusetts
Sanford
Utah
Salt Lake
Fragmented 19th century humor snippets and notes
A collage of stray jokes, social quips, editorials, and brief vignettes from several papers. Snippets include humorous Germanic and Yankee musings on manners, fashion, politics, and daily life, plus clipped anecdotes about weddings, salons, and domestic scenes with scattered proper names and places.
Damper Blast Draws Waves of Smoke and Noise
Fragmentary report describes a blast or rapid discharge near a damper or gas line, heard miles away, with daring maneuvers to dodge debris. The text references a bulletin, school ports, geography, and wartime context, but details are unclear and garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
bible force
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MILLS & BROWN
EYE
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F.E. GLEASON
BUTTE
MONTANA
Omics
Stevens
Main St
W.W. BEAL
Offica
JOHN F. FORBIS
BUTTE CITY
Collectiona
Thornton
BUPLE
W. EK. MENDENHALL
MAY BUILDING
WASHINGTON
D.L. McFARLAND
TEER
LODGE
DANIS & BENNETT
Uta
Wiktanes
imautely
Overers
Rainbow Ming
Welly, Farge & Co
M. Ty
N.L
TURNER
BUTTE TY, MONTANA
MAINE prompty
Cte
Unico
Broadway
Mueren & Porter
MLE, MAYER
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Urahy
MONT
G. A. HINES
H. Wasnett
Main street
BUITE
Goole
clernoet
General quriely
ILLIAM Woodward
InxsArnald
WOODWARD
ANDERSON & SCHMIDT, Prorr’s
BUTTE, MONTANA
dandrait
ani
Temilfeal
Anderson & Achniklt
hjotels and restaurante
AWD
ROSENTHAL
AMumayer
Pfaff & Sherman
Muin street
BUTTE CITY, M.T
SCOTT
Deer Lodge
SAM. SCOTT, Troprietor
McBURNEY HOUSE
Deer Lodge City
Montane
AYLESWORTIE & McFARLAND, PRoprig Tous
CIRTON
ROBERT GIRTON
PRomieron
ROBT GIRTON
Hotel De Mineral
BUTYE CILY
PROPRIETORS
HAUSWIRTIL BROS
COSMOPOLITAN
HOTHL
Helena, Montana
SCHWAB & ZIMMERMAN
TRAPPER CITY HOTEL
TRAPPER CITY, MONT
JOSEPHINE GILG
Prormeron
Frere
G. W. BEAL, Pro’r
Granite
DAVID COHEN
HELENA, Mont
RINDA & SELOWER
Monttoa
U.P
Tailou
euoni
D. Hows
dficat
City Meat Markets, POTTING & KONZELMAN
JAMES O'BRIEN
Broadwaty
patroyaga
TAMES O'BRUSN
cdl
citizens and mining companies
Butts and vicinity
mlendidl
UFcut
Paul
Batte
Mining Bureaux
Engineering and Mining Journal
gen Uemen
élegiab leisure
wnderslow
Systema
Chicuzo
St. Louis
syle city
Boston
Kate
Chase Bparague
Burlington Hawkeye
Racheater Democrat
Nowriston
Norristown
Tilden
London
Mr. Beecher
Turner's Falls
van
George
Connecticut
électoal—commission
Rochester
Mabel
mamoa
Maviel
bleasiurti
Hawkeye
Bullentin
T. Field
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Bulletin
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