Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — U. B. Kellogg a Free Man. [ARTICLE]

U. B. Kellogg a Free Man.

Ulysses B. Kellogg, the Brookston land agent who caught a number of Rensselaer people in bis Canada land swindle a little, over two years \go, has been released on parole from tte Michigan City penitentiary, and is now at his former home. Kellogg's proposition was to sell Canada land to his victims, and on a certain day he promised to start udth all the purchasers to Canada to view the land. They were required to pay SSO each in advance and this money was to pay the expense of the trip, railroad fare, sleepers, e f C,, and also apply on the purchase of the land. Kellogg worked the scheme at Bloomington and Lafayette more extensively than he did here, and as he never made good by supplying the -train for the trip Indictments were found against him at both Bloomington and Lafayette. At the former place the victims were largely bankers and the jury acquitted Kellogg but at Lafayette he was convicted and sentenced to from one to fourteen years. He was taken to- the. penitentiary Jan. 19, 1906, and was released on parole last week. He was never prosecuted in this county, the victims of his scheme simply biting their lips. Kellogg has a wife and son at Brookston.