Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1899 — Telegraph Liar Breaks Loose Again. [ARTICLE]

Telegraph Liar Breaks Loose Again.

The notorious telegraph liar at Wabash has just heard of B. J. Gifford’s big tract in this county, and has fixed up a column of slush and sent it to the city dailies. It appeared in the Indianapolis News several days ago, and today in the Chicago Times Herald. The fellow does not take enough trouble learning the real facts, to even get Mr. Gifford’s name right, giving it has B. F. Gifford, whioh however oomes much nearer being the truth than the great bulk of the statements in the article. For instance it states that Mr. Gifford bought his land here from the state, “for a song,” but as most of our readers know, b 6 did not buy an aore of it of the state, but all of private owners,. and quite a considerable part of it was already improved land and brought good prices. That Mr. Gifford, has disposed of 400,000 bushels of onions of last season’s crop, is another Sample statement. It is also represented that he is farming the land after the manner of the big wheat farms in the Dakotas, “every department of farm work being conducted ou the most gigantic soale.” All of whioh is as far as possible different from the farm - ing by tenant system, which Mr. Gifford actually practices. This Wabash fellow, if he ever hears of Noah’s ark and the deluge, will amplify the story and locate the soene somewhere iu Indiana, and at the present time, and fire it in to the city papers, and they will take it all in and think it is “good stuff.”