Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1920 — FARMER IS MINUS $30,000 [ARTICLE]

FARMER IS MINUS $30,000

Falls for Scheme of Mysterious Stranger. Would Cut Ice at North Pole* Dump It In Kansas and Sell It " • .4 ■ ' There. -- ->■ • Minneapolis, Kan.—Visions of affluence gone and with them $30,000 hard-earned cash, Homer Hograth, a fanner near this town, applied for a warrant for GallileoGrubino, alias Gallileo Grubb, alleged participant in the discovery of the north pole and promoter for toe “Aurora Borealis Ice company.” One blazing hot day last Galllleo appeared on the Hograth fardh. He was equipped with an apparatus similar to those used bi surveyors. He seemed busy and preoccupied, contlnuually looking toward the skies and gesticulating, as if absorbed in calculating some obstruse problem in mathematics. o, Finally; Hograth says, the stranger suddenly exclaimed excitedly, “This is the spot/the very spot,” Then Gallileo offered to buy the farm, but Hograth, scenting a mysterious fortune, refused to sell.

partnership for SBO,OOO. He explained that he had‘accompanied Peary to toe north pole, and pole was really a steel projection. 9® had ,n ‘ vented, he told Hograth, a mighty scoop, to be attached to ‘ the pole and to be run by electricity. In the process of the earth’s revolution, Ga’Hleo explained, the scoop would dip Into toe ice of the Arctic, and as the entt revolved the scoop would gradually tip and its contents fall to toe . earth in the exact longitude and latitude of Hograth’s farm. Hograth, after paying the $30,000, > agreed to remain on the farm and taka care of the Ice, whfle Gallileo wcnld return to the pole and harness his scoop to it. I , ; . Gallileo is still at the pole.