Abilene Weekly Reflector

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President J. D. Milliken Writes to Correct Them.

Editor Reflector:

I observe in a recent issue of your paper in advertisement of sale of stock of Northwestern Land and Iron Company and the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railway Company.
There are various advertisements of like tenor; one offering $100,000 face value, of the stock, and giving the seller's name as "John Williams, Box 813, Denver."
This box is filled with letters, and registered and special delivery letters were uncalled for.
There is still another offer of a like amount and asking that inquiries be addressed to Box 266, Kansas City.
This box is also crammed with mail, apparently none of it having been called for. Still others offer the holdings of C. S. Johnson, giving his address as Box St. Louis. These advertisements are in papers having circulation in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.
The offering of stock of Mr. Johnson is a bad forgery as he cannot sell any of his stock in one company until 1914 and in the other until 1918, as it is, in common with the stock of all officers of both companies, held in escrow by Trust Companies. No outside party has holdings of the quantity offered.
A most diabolical conspiracy against these companies was recently exposed in a suit in Denver, and various parties were enjoined by the court from their further falsehoods and misrepresentations.
On this trial it was shown that the advertisement for the box in Denver was paid for by Tillotson, one of the conspirators, who also went by the alias "Frank Hunter."
We have conclusive evidence that the other advertisements are of a like fraudulent character. The postal authorities are now investigating the matter with a view of taking proper action.
We are not censuring you for innocently making these false and fraudulent advertisements, but we believe you owe it to the above companies, who have more than a thousand stockholders in Kansas and Oklahoma to give as wide circulation to this statement as you did to the advertisements which were a par of the conspiracy, and which did such great wrong to the stockholders and officers, as well as to your paper.
Believing that your sense of fairness will warrant you in publishing this communication, I am respectfully,
J. D. Milliken, president Northwestern Land and Iron Company,
Denver, Colo.