Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — FOREIGNERS COMPLAIN THEY WERE DECEIVED [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS COMPLAIN THEY WERE DECEIVED

German-Hungarians On Springer Ranch Are Suffering and Without Funds or Provisions. The Republican is reliably informed that there are a number of GermanHungarians who were brought to the Springer ranch by the colonization agent, who are destitute and are in almost a starving condition. It is said by a man who speaks their language that they were induced to put up all the money they had when they made their purchase and were promised wages while putting out their crops, but that they have worked for several weeks and have received no pay. N. Piklor, who was the agent who brought them there, has withdrawn, it is said, from the company and a man named McKay is now in charge. The foreigners say they have been put off from week to week apd that they are desperate and there is some times talk of mutiny. According to an informant there are twentythree families there without any funds at all and they are living mightily scantily. Michael Jungles, a prosperous farmer living near there, has trusted a number of them son potatoes and supplied them with skimmed milk. The men seem honest add most of them came from the same small town in Hungary. They speak the German language, having mostly gone to Hungary from Germany. There are a number of children among them and the little fellows, boys and girls, get right out and work hard in the truck patches and need plenty of wholesome food, but it is said they are without bread or flour and are subsisting on almost nothing. Pickles were to have been raised and several prepared land for them, but the seed has not been supplied as promised, it is told, and there is complaint about this also. If the agent does not come down and make a payment to these people there will be much more suffering and it might be a good thing fpr the board of charities of this city to make an investigation.