Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — Fire Wipes Out Property of Owen’s Ubero Plantation. [ARTICLE]

Fire Wipes Out Property of Owen’s Ubero Plantation.

The Übero plantation which was promoted by William B. Owen and Fred Borges, of Logansport, and was the means of fleecing thousands of people out of millions, making Owen a fugitive from justice and Borges an inmate of a Massachusetts prison, has gone up in smoke. Logansport stockholders in the United States Plantation Company, which was organized after Owen fled and Borges was sent to prison, have received a letter from the Boston headquarters, saying a fire had wiped away everything that the company owned in Mexico; that nething was saved but thebaTeground. The letter wishes to know whether the stockholders will advance more money and make another start or sell or lease the land. The stockholders say they are done.