Swindlers Checkmated

Detboit, Mich., Fb. 3.- The State Supreme Court has rendered an elabórate decisión on the valuiity of notes given by thousands of farmers in Michigan to the Bohemlan oat agenta The court holdg that Buch notes are obtained by fraud; that the transactions in which they are procured are in the nature of gambling transactions, and tbat they are nuil and void except when held by an innocent purchaser prior to the date of the decisión.