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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1906. 3 PUTER EXPOSES L (Continued From Face 1.) rowed from La. Crosse people to put up all those lands and hypothecat ed the certificates to them as security, and furthermore had agreed to give them an interest In the profits provid ing the reserve was created and that he could not assign the certificates If he wanted to, aifd I thought he had better take the 50 cents an acre. asked Mr. Ways then if he had a plat or a map, and he withdrew from one of the drawers in his office a tracing or a diagram showing the re serve range, the mountains and the river and the townships that were sup posed to be included and the school sections were all marked with colored pencil. I asked him if he could show nie point out McKinley's land to me. He pointed out his own land and two or three sections of McKinley's. I then said to him: 'How do you propose to cut the McKInley sections out with out cutting yours out?" Well, he said he could cut any one section out that he wanted. "Then we talked about the 50 cents an acre again. I tried to compromise the business with him, to get him to accept the 60 cents. I asked him when It was going to be made a reserve: well, he said it would be made a re serve any day, he expected it; and I told him that as it had not been made a reserve then, that I -had my doubts. "I says: "Mays, don't you know there Js a large portion of those Blue Moun tains within the mineral, beltr and says I, "besides the stockmen In that country are liable to make a kick and raise a remonstrance.' Mays Stands Pat. He said that "ne was not afraid of that: everybody in the country over there was satisfied, those within the reserve and outside; and he would have no trouble about that; and he requested me to see McKinley and have him come up there right away, and turn over those certificates. I asked him: 'Is that the best' you will do? Is that your final answer?' And he said it was; he would take nothing less than half the assignment to half of those certificates. Expected to Visit Hermann. "Prior to this conversation with Mays, I accompanied himself and wife on a trip to Washington. D. C It was about the middle of April, 1902. At least, I started there with them, and my Intention was to go through to Washington, but I stopped at St. Paul while en route to see C. A. Bmith, of Minneapolis, and as I had bus iness with Mays, I asked him where a telegram would reach him, and he replied that I could wire him in care of Blnser Hermann, as he expected to stop at his house In Washington. "As soon as I found out that C. A. Smith was In Minneapolis, I told Mr. Mays that as soon as he got to Wash ington to have Hermann defer the issu ance of patents to those 33 claims that I sold Mr. Smith until such time as the lat ter came to some satisfactory settlement with me upon a deal I had in California, -which he agreed to do; and that is why I asked him where he was going to stop. He was my attorney In getting the pat ents to those claims. Fred Kribs had agreed to pay Mays $50 apiece for getting the patents through. The 33 claims were located in Lane County, Or. "McKInley and I had located 57 people on these claims in the Roseburg land of fice under an agreement whereby they were to turn them over to us upon our furnishing the money with which to pay the Government for the land, besides-paying them J100 apiece for their right. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company at tempted to scrip the tracts and contest the entries. A few days before this con test, when I was supposed to be in the East, McKinley was arrested, and I hap pened to come into Albany that after noon. He was in charge of the Mar shal, and I went his ball. McKinley's Prosecution a Bluff. "The arrest occurred about two or three weeks before the time set for hearing this contest. I cannot fix the exact date, but the parties proved up on their claims at the same time. Ed. Mays, a brother to the defendant here, appeared to prosecute McKInley. Pierce Mays was not there, although I talked with him afterward about It In his office, and he Informed me that his object in having McKinley ar rested was because he thought by so do ing It would have the effect of scaring the 57 locators off. He didn't intend to prosecute him at all; it was more of a bluff than anything else. "When the contest came up at Rose burg, the Northern Pacific was repre sented by an attorney from St. Paul, an other from Tacoma, and F. P. Mays. I employed Shnte and Crawford, ex-Register and ex-Receiver of the Roseburg Land Office. Crawford is the present Attorney General of Oregon. When Mr. Mays walked into the land office I was rather surprised, and asked him what he was do ing there. He replied. "Don't you know that I am the attorney for the Northern Pacific?' I answered, 'No, you are my at torney, and you are not going to appear for them, are you?" He says, 'I will have to do it you are well represented.' "A few days after I was on the stand, Mr. Mays came up to my room in the hotel at 11 o'clock at night and told me the best thing I could do was to com promise with the Northern Pacific He said: 'We have got everyone who made those claims, and McKinley is liable to be prosecuted and sent over the road. If you will give up half of those claims, we will compromise it.' I would not agree to do that, but I agreed to accept 33 claims of the ones I chose, out of the 57, and gave up 24. We settled on that basis, the contest was withdrawn and proofs put in for the 33 claims. "C. A. Smith and Fred Kribs were In terested with me in the 33 claims at the time. Kribs was there and paid the money with which to prove up. These were the tame claims that Kribs after ward paid Mays J00 apiece lor to pull out the patents. Suggests Another Deal. "When this township 2 south, range 1 east, was surveyed and came Into the market, McKinley told me about it, say ing it was Inside the Cascade forest re serve. The law was that in order for a person to prove up In a township within a reserve, under the homestead laws, he would have to be a bona fide settler, lo cated on the land prior to the creation of the reserve. I went to Mays and ex plained the situation to him, and asked him what would be the chances of his pulling out the patents, providing I would locate a lot of homesteaders in this town ship. He wanted to know what it was going to cost, and I told him about $150 a claim. He replied, 'All right, I will go in with you. share and share alike, and both put up the expenses of getting the' claims.' He also asked me how many of them I could get. "I replied, 'The whole township, but it would not do to risk more than 15 or 20.' So the first batch was 17 claims, six of which made final proof. Marie Ware Was "All Right." "I explained to Mays all about it, tell ing him that I would have the entrymen file before Marie Ware, whom McKinley had told me was all light; she was a United States Commissioner, and every thing would go through all right. The question Is, I told him, 'Can. you pull the patents out, -and how soon can you FRAUD RNG do it? He said he could get the patents to never mind that; and then, whatever it would cost to get those patenus; he would charge up, and when we got the titles we would settle up. So there were six entries put through. There were eight more entries that I sent down that she refused to accept. It seems that Mc Kinley was not getting anything out of It, and he advised her not to receive any more. "Mays told me that he afterward had a talk with Marie about it at the Im perii! Hotel here in Portland. She came down, and he asked her to put tnose claims through: that there were only two or three days left, as the time was aoout up for filing. The law only allows 90 days. I think, after a township comes in. At any rate, she didn't file them. When I told him that the eight had not gone through, he told me to go down and see Irer. and nee that she put them tnrougn, at the same time using a certain word about her that I do not care to express. "Mays told me that I ought to have at least 24 claims in the township, but I told him that I thought it would be unwise to attemDt to get so many; It would look suspicious in that neighbor hood; 14 or 15 would be all right, but so manv a that was too many for one township. The land was located on the Middle Fork of the Willamette jmver, close to the headwaters east of Drain. The elevation was about 4000 or 500 feet, and there was nobody living in that sec tion of. the country at the time. Patents were Issued on all the six claims that were put through, and Maya got three of them. T am now serving a sentence of two years in the Multnomah. County Jail for conviction of a conspiracy to defraud the United States. That Is the maximum im prisonment. Sorenson Cautioned Mays "About a year and a half or two years ago, after the withdrawal of the Blue Mountain forest reserve, I had a talk with George Sorenson in rela tion to it. This conversation occurred in Milwaukee, Wis., and McKinley, Sorenson and myself were together. One evening we all got onto a little excursion boat to go from Milwaukee to Fish Bay, and the conversation came up about Oregon school lands. Forenson told how McKinley got the 15,000 or 16,000 acres, and said if he hadn't got onto the fact he would have got a good deal more. He also stated how he had cautioned Mays several times about this: that unless he got in and secured those lands that the first thing he knew It would be tipped off about the reserve, and he would lose them." This finished puter's direct examina tion, and he was then taken in hand by William D. Fenton, counsel for De fendant Mays. Under cross-examination, Puter testified as follows: "I was convicted in case No. 4735, filed in this court March 17, 1904, in which Emma L. Watson, Marie L. Ware, Horace G. McKinley, Maud Witt, Frank H. Walgamot, Henry C. Barr, D. W. Tarpley and myself were defend ants, in what was commonly known as the '11-7' case. I was found guilty December 6, 1904. In addition to a sentence of two years in Jail, I was fined $7500. Between the time of my conviction and the date of my sen tence by Judge Wolverton July 7, of this year, I was in different parts of the United States; sometimes Oregon, sometimes in Washington, sometimes California, sometimes Wisconsin, also Boston, engaged In speculation in school land certificates. I have sold no state lands within the past three years knowing the certificates to be forged. I am not aware that I am under indictment in Marion County on that charge. "I was last arrested in Alameda, Cal. W. J. Burns, the Government secret service agent, arrested me in Boston March 2S of this year. He met me in the postoffice and told me to consider myself under arrest." Here the witness entered into a de tailed account of his arrest in Boston by Mr. Burns, and subsequent sensa tional escape from the latter, all of which has been heretofore published. Continuing, he said: "After I left Boston I came West by the Santa Fe route. Mrs. Watson did not accompany me. I met her in Oakland. I landed at Point Richmond, Alameda County, May 15, 1906. I was not dis guised, and traveled in ordinary fashion. I stopped at the principal hotel In Ala meda for a few days. My object in com ing West wa to endeavor to see Mr. Heney and try to settle up my affairs. Before I was arrested in Alameda I had telephoned to Mrs. Watson's residence for her to come over and see me. She was living in Oakland then with her mother. Paid Mitchell $2000. "I sent for Mrs. Watson to come to Washington, D. C, at the time we got the 11-7 claims patented. Assistant Land Commissioner Richards had fixed up an affidavit for Mays and myself to get the claims expedited, and on the road to patents. I visited Hermann in his of fice during the three days they were going through the different divisions, and when they finally reached the last division he took up a document and said to me: " Mr. Puter, you are down and out; the only thing you can do now is to go back and round that bunch up and get them to DUt in additional nrnof t yourself.' "I said, Mr. Hermann, will you defer matters until I see Mr. Mitchell?' " "He said he would. I went and saw Mr. Mitchell and told him the circumstances, and the Senator asked me if I could not go back there and get this additional testimony. I told him no. Says L 'The parties have gone to Manila, some of them, and Alaska, and the ones that are there would refuse to do anything; and my only recourse was to get these pat ents immediately.' I was out $7000, and all they were worth was $9600, and I thought if I should get out even on them I was satisfied. That is when I paid him that $2000. "I said, "Now you go over there. Sena tor, as soon as you can,' and he did, and I got the patents in four days. "These claims generally when they are sent up have to lay there for a certain time and come up in their regular course, and in order to get them expedited you have to show some very good excuse, and that is why I sent for Mrs. Watson and we fixed up that scheme for her Senator Mitchell and I. Mitchell Calls on Hermann, "I went right up to the United States Senate and waited until the Senator came out and I got him In a carriage and went to his room. He went to see the Commissioner that night. Next af ternoon I met Mr. Hermann . on the street. I was on my way to the Land Department, and I asked him If he had seen the Senator, and he said yes; he said: 'Mr. Puter, I am going to make a personal matter of this; I have talked to the Senator and we are going to look Into this; it is too bad to beat that wom an out of that money; we will look into this and see what we can do.' And the n fTf ( flnv I RT1 W Kanntn, XT1AK11 t ' - nuu UD told me everything was all light. "Mays Should Have Been Indicted." "That was the case in which Mrs. Watson and I were indicted and con victed, and Mr. Mays ought to have been indicted and convicted with us, as he was in with me in that case." Puter refused to answer Mr. Fen ton's Inquiry if it were not. true that the reason why he lost communication with the Government and kept out of the. state and under cover was because he was afraid of being indicted by the state authorities for his transactions in forged certificates. 'My last partnership with Jones was during the term that George W. Davis was clerk of the Land Board, and while Pennoyer was Governor." On redirect examination. In the af- ternooa. Puter told about a conversa tion he had with Mays while going East with him in April, 1902, in which he said: "I asked Mr. Mays what big tning ne expected to null off while in Washington that he had spoken to me about several weeks before, and he replied that he had several proposi tions in view, the principal one being tne creation of a timber reserve. . asked him where he expected to ere ate a reserve, and he said in the Blue Mountains, and I then answered: "Don't you think you will have a good deal oi opposition from that?" Hermann Stands In. "He replied: 'Not at all I don't ex pect any. Tou know I have a great deal of Influence in Washington now; Sen ator Mitchell is there to help me out, and you know how Binger Hermann stands in, and I don't anticipate any trouble about creating the reserve. Then I spoke to him about annexing a few townships on the west side of the reserve. He thought it was a pretty good plan if we could get any scrip land. "After my conviction In the 11-7 case, I had a talk with W. N. Jones at the Hotel Portland. He came to me and saia: 'Steve, what is the matter. heard that you were going to cut loose and give the whole bunch of us away 13 that so?" I said: "Well, you are a pretty lot of fellows, you and Pierce Mays being my partners in these schemes for the last eight years, and when-1 am convicted now, you pass me up like this.' Well, he begged me not to do it. and said he would see Mays and Kribs and the rest of them, that my fine was paid, and for me not to at tempt any such thing. If I started the ball rolling, he said, there was no tell insr where it would stop. "I told him I was bound to go ahead and show the whole thing up." Puter was here taken in hand by 8, Bl Huston, one of the attorneys for W. N. Jones, In the course of which the following dialogue took place between him and Puter: Q. Mr. Puter, you said yon had quite a feeling against Mr. Mays? A. Yes. sir. Q. Tou said you sent your brother to him? A. Tes, sir. Q. What for? A. To see if he would not get some one to go on my bond. Q. Mr. Mays refused to do it? A. Tes, sir. Q. And consequently that made you angry at him? A. Not exactly. I went to see Mays myself afterwards, and the conversation I had with him made me angry, the talk we had, the way he treated me. Q. You went to see him to see If he would not get bonds for you? Passed Up by Mays. A. Yes, sir; when I was in charge of the Marshal. The Marshal stood outside the door and I went in and had a con versation with Mays of half an hour, and that is when, he passed me up like a white chip, didn't know me. had noth ing to do with me. I says, "Mr. Mays, all you have to do you don't have to be mixed up in it you know hundreds of people in town. Just give me the names and telephone them. I have got three parties now, all I want Is another extra $1000, and I want some consideration from you, Mr. Mays: you are in this deal with me, you are In all of my deals, and I don't want to be treated like this; all I want is justice, to show your good faith with me." 'He passed me up, wouldn't have anything to do with me. He was my attorney right up to three days before that. So I went out and telegraphed home for the money and put up my bonds and that is when I went out and Mr. Jones -came up to the hotel and spoke to me." Huston From the time he refused to furnish you bonds or to get any body else to do so you resolved to get even? Mays Has Partner and Attorney. Puter The - conversation was enough, after being 12 years partners In all kinds of schemes, and an attor ney during that time, and when he saw that I was down, convicted and out, and slandered, he concluded the only way he could do was to pass me up and have nothing to do with me. He was an attorney. State Senator, well up in politics end he could ride over and clear himself and my word would not go. He showed that in his actions; actions, a good deal, speak louder than words. I think I had good reasons, then, and I have now, and all I regret now is that I was not mixed up in the Blue Mountain deal so that I could tell a great deal more than I have already told. I have told only what I know. If I was in the deal I would tell it all. Q. You are sorry that you could not tell more? A. Yes, sir, I think I have good reason. Q. Tou said you were very angry at Mays and others. Does that include Jones? "Jones Partner in Steal." A. Yes, sir, I thought Mr. Jones. being a partner with me for two years in the biggest kind of a steal over here and in with him and Mays, that he ought to come to my rescue. I was friendly with him, I would come to him and I told him so, after he had agreed in the hotel to put up the money and get Kribs. And he says, "For God's sake, Puter, don't start the ball a rolling. Look where you will land us all." That is the very words he said in the hotel, on the porch out side the entrance." Mr. Fenton then questioned Puter about his surrender -to the Federal au thorities and the order forfeiting hjs bond. Mr. Heney then asked Puter to spe cify what steal he had meant when he said that he had been in with Jones in a big steal, but the question was withdrawn after a long argument. Charges Against Hale and Brownell. On redirect examination Puter told of incidents preceding his ota-n indictment. When he heard that United States At torney John H. Hall was going to have him Indicted he went to Mays about it. Mays replied, "I know it. Nothing could be better for you than to be indicted by Hall. "A Government agent named Colonel Greene has gathered evidence enough to indict you. Ed Mays is a deputy under Hall, and if you are Indicted I can have the case postponed one or two years and then thrown out. If you are not in dicted now Hall may be succeeded by someone who will prosecute you and send you over the road." Puter testified that he objected to the arrangement, but was indicted anyway. Before this happened he expected George C. Brownell to be appointed as Hall's successor. According to Puter's testi mony he had hired Brownell to fix grand jurors for him, that he gave Brownell money for the fixing, but nothing was done. Later Brownell drew out of the fight for United States Attorney. Puter said it was because Brownell feared Hall would indict him. Puter further testified that Mays was his attorney after his indictment, that Mays went into court with him, but soon afterward said: "They are becom ing close to me. I had better withdraw from the case and be your silent attor ney." After that Mays worked nights on the case until Puter was convicted. Evening Session Brief. The evening session was brief and was devoted entirely . to witnesses called to prove Williamson's connec tion with the conspiracy. Dr. Andrew C. Smith, whose testimony has been referred to, was the only Important witness. During one of the many arguments which occurred during the time. Dr. Smith was on the standj Prosecutor mam IS -VI any Heney made the statement that George H. Cattenach, a lawyer, and Orrin L. Patterson, editor of the Blue Mountain Eagle, both of Canyon City, were im plicated with Williamson in his al leged conspiracy to extend the Blue Mountain reserve to include lands he purchased outside the boundaries of the temporary withdrawal. Mr. Heney s .specific charge was that the two Canyon City men purpose ly withheld the protests which had been placed in their hands for trans mission to Washington in order to further Williamson's plans. Both Cat tenach and Patterson have been on the stand for the Government during the trial. 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Hancock, Vancouver; J. F. Clarskon, Chicago: F. Dana. Seattle; 3. R. Upson, St. Paul; C. D. Lee, A. R. Martin, Junction City; H. W. Jordan and wife, Astoria; Mrs. G. W. Klger, Tillamook: D. C. Grunow, city; F. C. Fteh, Salem; Free Press, Hays, Kan.: F. Mc Carter and wife. Heppner; Mrs F. E. Hilton and son, Mrs. W. B. Riley, San Diego; Mm. B. Joseph, Pocatello; EX G. S perry and wife, lone; T. B. Taylor and wife, Sumpter; B. F. Rhodes and family, McMinnvllle; Mrs. A. M. Adams, Tacoma; A. C. Hoff, Seattle; Mrs. F. Roth and family. Walla Walla; J. Stadt mann. The Dalles; J. F. Dunn, Wallace; S. M. Smith and wife. Spokane; Jennie M. Hoyt, Mrs. F. J. Long. Caldwell; G. L. Keele, Grand Rapids; Mrs. A. M. Elaln, Miss Bertie Hlaln, J. L. Frazler and wife, Milton; T. Armstrong, Salem; V. Barton and wife, Mrs. T. H. Brlerly, Lottie Wilson, lone; W. Let dell, Miss Emma Leldell. Goldendale; R. Gib son. Cove; J. R. Adams and wife, J. M. Spence, Pendleton: A. Wilson, city; H. W. Green, Long Beach; J. C. Hutchinson and wife, Toronto; J. E. Hodges and family. Ore gon City: D. M. Way, Vancouver; M. J. Kelly. Missoula; F. L. Schuyler and son, Ellensburg; M. C Hickok. Dead wood; Cora Coffman, city; W. M. Gleason, The Dalles; A. M. Carter and wife, Mrs. J. A. Dickey, Tennessee; F. S. Walker and wife, Afton; E. B. Porter, city; H. Stewart, Tacoma: J. Wood ing, Auburn; J. Isaacs and wife, San Fran cisco; Mrs. W. P. Ely, Bemlce Ely, Kelso; Mrs. W. B. Shaffer, Watuburg; Mrs. K. A. Russell, Los Angeles: Mrs. T. E. Stanfleld, H. Brown, Astoria; J. Campbell, city. The Imperial C. W. Root, Ashland, Or.; Mrs. P. C. Yettlck. Stevenson. Wah.; H. FRIDAY EXTRA SPECIAL Today We Will Place on Sale 100 Coats Including The -LengthTouristCoat The Semi -Fitted Black Kersey Coat The Popular Co vert Jacket Values Up to $16,50 Today Only ON DISPLAY IN OUR $6.90 Between Alder and Washington Sts. m ass !H6 i w II ifflJ Schapp, Olympla: William Sherman, Van couver; J. L. McNauear. Helena; Walter Lyon, Independence; Edgar S. Sew.ll and) wife, city; S. S. Strain. Mrs. Strain. A. L. Strain, Mrs. Strain, Kelso; F. E. Dell and wife, Salem, Or.; W. A. Ware, Eugene; George E. Sanders. Albany, Or.; R. M. May berry and wire, Pendleton; L. Stiles, Vic toria; L. A. Clark, S. H. Cobb, city; A. H. Perham and wife, Butte, Mont.; E. A. Ross and wife. San Francisco: F. J. Corney and wife, Aftoria, Otto Rlchter, Rudolph Rlch ter, Berlin, Germany; A. L. Lee, Seattle; P. K. Parkhurst, city; J. H. Coffman, Tacoma; D. W. Williams, Ilwaco. Wash.; T. J. Ber rlsford, St. Paul; A. Pcrkham and wife, Butte, Mont.; L. G. Manpion. city; I. M. Seliger, Mrs. M. H. Schehr. George R. Smith, San Francisco; O. D. Doane, The Dalles; J. C. Currie and family. Walla Walla, C. W. Wright, Union, Or.; F. S. McMahon, Walla Walla; J. F. Thrift, Cotiullle, Or.; Clark Braly and family. Fullerton, Cal.; Mrs. Ben B. Scott and' children. Sadonla, Tex.; J. B. Keats and wife, Warrenton, Or.; E. R. Sughe, Corvallls; A. B. Weatherford. Al bany; C. W. Fulton, Astoria: Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Whiting. Mrs. F. J. Taylor, Margaret Taylor, The Dalles; James Hemenway, Cot tage Grove; A. H. Page, Bend; A. J. Splawn, North Yakima, Wash. The St. Charles H. Fldler, Kelso; J. t SheeW, C. McDlrmuth, Cathlamet; J. S. Egg man, C. Davie, Skamokawa: B. B. Phelps, Harrlsburg; J. S. Lamm, Shawnee; C. H. Bradley and wife. Bridal Veil; J. O. Rose. The Dalles; R. H. Sharlnghausen and wire' M. Klaeth, W. J. Huston: H. Cum ml nits, Albany; M. K. Jones, Carson; L. H. Pozey, Warren; L. H. Means, Pendleton; W. M . Warner. Louisville; A. M. Rhlnston, Salem; C. M. Wertz, Dallas; J. D. Miller and daugh ter, Albany; E. Leaf, Sandy; W. F. Duganr G. Marshall, city; W. B. Matheson, city; Mlsa O. Stash, Oetrander; H. Hanson, Phelan; C. M. Wedell and wife, Stevenson; B. Hamilton, Ashwood; C. Whalen. Salem: C. H. Hunt anx wife. The Dalles; D. C. Scott; Mrs. L. B. Bates, Pasadena: H. Hagel, Mrs. N. H4gl;: J. H. Davis, wife and family, Oakland: M Mahn. Yoncalla: D. Bloyd, Kelso; E. Du Colfax. Cleveland; F. Cook, wife and fam-. ily, Astoria; Mrs. N. D. Kelley, Clatskanle; G. Coe, wife and child, Tillamook; W. FV Hamlin, city; A. B. Crosman, J. Bates; EL C. Maleher, Astoria: J. Dlmmltt, Jarvls Dim mitt; Mabel, Or.; C. W. Demarest, Kelso; C Adson, E. Davis, city; J. M. Dernback, Cook Landing; W. M. Morner. Louisville: R, D. Cornell. White Salmon; L. B. Reed, Fossil; L. Wahner, Macksburg; C. Knudson; W. H. Orfield, Hood River; F. Sysnfli, Minneapolis: C. S. Evans, city; W. E. Murry and wife, Butte: J. D. Smith. The Dalles; W. Rich, Newberg; J. C. Axtell. Woodland; G. Camp bell Beaverton; C. W. Clinton, city; EL Black. GobeL Hotel Donnelly, Tacoma. Wash. European plan. Rates, 75 cents to 2:t per day. Frc-w 'bus. NORTH WINDOW 131 FIFTH ST.