THE MORXTXG OREGOXIAX, TTITJRSIAT. JAXTJART 13, 1910.
PARDON GIVEN TO
ACCUSE
'Taft Clears Meldrum of Prison
Stigma That ex-Official
May Testify.
HENEY SPRINGS TELEGRAM
-Mun Who Nerved Penitentiary Ken
te nee for LhikI Fraud Testifies
Jlci-niami Advlned film He
fore Iteserv Formed,
(Continued From Firat Pair.)
ver when Mr: Hermann entered. Mr.
Hermann shook hands with thoNe In the
room, with the pmuriblc exception of
Mays. Hermann carried on a Rpncral con
versation with thou in th office, while
lays continued his Investigations with
out paying any attention to Hermann,
-while the latter appeared not to notice
the presence of Mays.
"Tr. the onurro of 15 minutes the four
men I first named drifted out of the
office, and there remained only Hermann,
Mays and I. Then Mays mentioned that
his object in securing plats to Jands in
the Blue ltuntain was to facilitate the
creation of a forest reserve. In the con
versation Hermann said it would be
necessary to exclude from the territory,
proposed to be included 1 in. the reserve
all settlers, prairie land, etc., otherwise
the department could not act on the pe
tition. A general discussion on the sub
' ject of forming: the reserve followed for
perhaps 30 minutes. Hermann explained
at considerable length the details that
should be followed in having the reserve
established. He said there was a great
deal of opposition in the West to the
creation of forest reserves, and for that
reason it would be necessarywto be very
careful and see that all of the papers
were properly drawn up.
Later Meeting Arranged.
"Hermann said he could - relieve the
situation somewhat by arranging to have
fractional townships within the proposed
reserve surveyed, explaining that the ob
jection to the creation of reserves gen
erally came from people who feared thai,
if a reserve was created their unsur
veyed lands might be included in the
reservation. Hermann said that it might
be possible for him to secure an in
creased appropriation for this state so
that the partial surveys of certain town
ships could be completed. This, Her
mann explained, was a matter he could
talk over with me later.
"A day or two later I met Hermann
In. the lobby f the Imperial Hotel,
when he told me that the appropria
tion for making surveys would be made
In a lump sum, and that he thought he
, could secure enough funds to have the
fractional townships surveyed. There
-was nothing further said at this time
concerning the proposed Blue Mountain
forest reserve."
Replying to a question from Heney,
the witness said he met Hermann again
the following day, also in the Imperial
Hotel lobby.
"Did Hermann at that time say any
thing about school lands?" asked the
Government prosecutor.
"I object to the introduction of any
testimony on the subject of school
lands." interposed Attorney AVor thing
ton, "unless it -can be shown that they
are directly connected with the alleged
Xjlue Mountain forest reserve."
'I expect to show that at that time
Hermann made certain suggestions to
the witness," replied Heney. '
Objection Is IvoM.
"F still insist on my objection for the
reason given." answered counsel for
defendant. "Meldrum is not under in
dictment In this case, and any conver
sation between him and Hermann, jione
of the other def enda nts being present,
is not competent. The alleged conver
sation is said to refer to school lands
in a general way, but does not under
take to locate them definitely. Before
such testimony can be at all relevant
the lands under discussion must be con
nected directly with the proposed re
serve." Judge "Wolverton overruled the. ob
jection and permitted the testimony to
proceed, asserting, however, that the
evidence would nut be considered rele
vant unless the lands referred to in the
conversation were connected with the
alleged conspiracy. Following this rul
ing. Meldrum related the conversation
in which he said Hermann suggested to
Mm the advisability of purchasing
school lands in the Blue Mountains.
Continuing, the witness told of hav
ing received letters from Hermann late
in 1901, in which the writer urged Mel
drum to appoint Miss Moda Silverstein
to a clerkship in the Surveyor-General's
office. Meldrum said lie advised
Hermann that there was no vacancy at
the time and he could not give Miss
Silverstein employment. In a subse
quent letter, testified Meldrum. Her
mann requested Meldrum to do what he
could to assist Miss Silverstein in the
selection and purchase of 32rt acres of
school land In the Blue Mountains.
Meldrum said he sent a note to the
young woman, requesting her to call at
his office, which she did. He then un
dertook to show her where the desired
land might be bought, but, testified the
witness, his caller became suspicious
and abandoned all negotiations. The
witness was unable to produce these
letters from Hermann, explaining that
they had disappeared from his desk
shortly before he left the Surveyor
General's office.
Cross-Kxamtnathoit Deferred.
This concluded the direct examination of
iMHdruin. Attorney Worthington an
noimoed that the defense would defer
erosfti-exanrining the witness until this
morning's session.
Opening statements of the caw? by op
posing counsel consumed the greater purt
of the morning s-?sion yesterday. For the
Government . 'Mr. Heney made the an
nouncement, that the prosecution did not
expect to prove that Hermann received
any of the lands proposed to be incor
porated in the reserve or that he would
have profited financially from the trans
action. He attached a political Bignifi
cance to the alleged conspiracy and the
part it is charged Hermann played in it
The Government prosecutor aseerted that
the alleged participation by Hermann in
the alleged conspiracy was actuated bv
his aspirations "to become Vnited States
Senator, an ambition that could be ad
vanced by cultivating the friendship and
pnpport f Mays, who was a prominent
politician, and Jones and Smith, who
were, at the time, members of the State
legislature. Mr. Heney also explained at
considerable length the statutes "under
which foivst reserves were created and
school lands acquired and showed how the
provisions of the lieu land law had been
employed to rob the Government of thou
tHniif of acres of its most valuable tlm-
bcrland?.
The statement of Attorney Worthington
for the defense- was largely a general
denial of the charges of the Indictment
and what the Government expected to
prove against his client. He denied that
-Mr. Hermann had anything whatever 'to
do with the alleged conspiracy and de
clared that the official records of the Gen
eral Land Office at Washington would
prove that act.
In the five years that have elapsed since
the indictment was returned against Mr.
Hermann, death claimed at least two of
the witnesses who would have been used
by the Government In the trial of the
case. O. "fcl Pollock, of Malheur County,
who circulated the petitions among the
residents of Harney and Malheur coun
ties asking for the creation of the Blue
Mountain Forest Reserve, died- since
testifying at the trial of Mays,' Jones and
SorensoTi in 190ti. The other man was J.
W. Hamacker. who was in the office of
Meldrum, while Meldrum was Surveyor
General, when Mays and Hermann called
in September. 1901.
Rapid progress is being made in the
trial of the case, which may be concluded
within the two weeks predicted by Mr.
Heney. if unexpected delays are not en
countered. The Government yesterday
concluded its examination of seven wit
nesses and had called the eighth before
court adjourned for the day.
Hermann Only Ambitious.'
Tn his opening address to the jury
Attorney Heney said that the interest
the defendant seemed to have in the
formation of the Blue Mountain Forest
Reserve was largely political. He said:
We have mi direct evidence connecting Mr.
H erma nn with the conpiincy, but we will
show that he waa .at that time a receptive
candidate for the Ufiited States Senate and we
shall insim that the evidence will show that
the defendant used hta official -poaiilwv In the
furtherance of plans whereby John H. Mitchell,
John H. Williamson, V. V. Mays. W. N. Jones
and Georjre Sore n son expects to make la.rj?e
sums of money . by having ehool lands of the
State of Oregon included -within the bounda
ries uf the Blue Mountain foreign reserve.
"We do not expect t0 fhow that Hermann
grot any school lands, but Mays wa. a member
of the State Senate of Oregon, while Smith
and Jones were members of the House of
Representatives.
Law Provided Loopholes.
The Government prosecutor went at
length into the laws authorizing the
creation of forest reserves and the lieu
land law, the operation of which, he
said, gave an opening for fraudulent
transactions in many states of the
Union. His address to the jury was
In part as follows:
We expect to prove to you. by docu
mentary evidence and the testimony of
witnesses, that as early as the y?ar 1901
It became a matter of general knowledge in
the State of Orecon that timber tmeculatora
were taking advantage of the creation ov lor-J
advance of ho general public as to what land
would be included in the respective reserves.
and by thereupon procuring a large number
of persons to make applications for the school
lands lying1 within the region or country that
was to be Included in the reserve and to im
mediately assign and convey the aforesaid
school lands- to the speculators. In each in
stance a small sum was paid to the applicant
for the school lands. In, some eaes the
amount was only 50 cents and from that up
to $5 or $10.
Expose Made in 1901. .
As early as July, 1001, the time at whioih
Finger Herimmn became Commissioner of the
General land Office at "Washington. D. C.
The Oregonian and. other newspapers in the
State of Oregon published sensational articles
explaining these frauds and the methods by
which they were accomplished. In September
of that same year. 1W1, the Commissioner of
the General Land Office called attention to the
character of theee fraud- in hi. report of the
conduct of the General land Office for the fis
cal year ending June 30, ItfUl.
In September, lyin, Binger Hermann was
In Portland. Or., and there entered into a
conspiracy with Franklin Pierce Mas, W.
X. Jones and others, to assist them in the
creation of a forest reserve in Southeastern
Oregon, in the Strawberry Mountains and vi
cinity. Maya and Hermann met in the of
fice of Henry Meldrum, United States Surveyor-
General, in September, laoi, and there dis
cussed, in the presence of Meldrum, the propo
sition of creating the reserve.
Thereafter s Hermann returned to Washing
ton and Mays and Jones, in accordance with
the suggestions made by Hermann, procured
petitions to be signed at Baker City and' other
places in the vicinity of the proposed reserve.
asking for its creation. The petitions were
carried around by their employes, who in
duced people to s-lgn them by arguments
which were suggested by Mays and Jones.
Ormsby Begins Scrutiny.
In March lfin2. Hermann officially directed
Ormsby, superintendent of forest reserves in
Oregon, to investigate and make report upon
the matter and send him the aforesaid peti
tions. In the meantime Mays and Jnes had
continued to secure school lands within the
rea of the oroposed reserve. As soon as
Ormsby received his instructions he got into
communication with Mays, who furnished
him with a guide and a team of hors-es to go
over the count ry- Ormsby a lew furnished a
map by Mays, which outlines the exact boun
daries which Mays and Jones desired for the
reserve. Upon Orm shy's return from his in
spection of the country he was given two sec
tions of school lands wit run ine reserve Dy
Mays and Jones. The certificates for thete
lands were placed in escrow, however, with a
mutual friend, to be delivered after Ormsby
had made his report and recommendation. The
certificates were subsequently delivered to
Ormsbv, who sold the land for a considerable
eum of money.
Ormsby recommended tne creation or a re
serve so as practically to includ-e, in accord
ance with the lines on the map given to him
by Mays. 49,680 acres of school lands
w h lfh had beMi secured by Mays and
Jones. These lands were all secured by
employing men at from o cents to o apiece
to sign applications for state school lands in
blank, and assignments of the same in blank
at the same time. A few notaries public of
the stamp of Charles F. Lord were induced
for trifling compensation to corruptly take the
acknowledgments of these fraudulent appli
cants to the aforesaid blank papers. In some
instances the applications were filled out at
the time of securing the signatures, but in all
instances the assignments were exacted at
the asame 1 1 me t h t the a p p 1 i cat ions we i-e
made.
Price an ,vr Tiny,
Each of the applications Is required by law
to be In the form of an affidavit, and the ap
plicant is required to ewar that the school
lands applied for are for his own benefit and
not for the purpose of speculation, and that
he lias made no contract or agreement, ex
press or implied, for the sale or disposition of
the land applied for, in case he is permitted
to pur. "hose the same. Each applicant was
aphorized to purchase 32o acres and he was
;nly required to pay to the state 2o cents an
acre as the firet payment.
Consequently Mays and Jones wore only
required to pay the"state about $12,000 to
secure control of practically 50.000 acres of
school lands, which Ormsby included in the
proposed reserve -for them. The moment
that the reserve should be created, the
school lands within it could be used as base
upon which to select lands outside of the
reserve in exchange. In this way the best
ttmberlands of the United States could be
secured. But if the owners of the school
lands wanted to soil them for exchange
purposes tlev were worth at that time about
an acre in the open market. Mays and
Jones stood to make a net profit of at least
4 an acre upon t he aforesaid 50.000 acres,
or a total of about $200,000. They had cal
culated on securing all of the school lands
within th3 proposed reserve, amounting to
about 150.000 acres, and of thus making a
net profit nf about $600,000. About the
time Ormsby- was ready to make his re
port, however, his son, who was working in
his office, gave the information to Dan
Tarplcv. who took Horace McKinley in with
him on a scheme to socure a good part of
the school lands. Tarpley and .McKinley
actually secured about IS. 000 acres of school
lands within the proposed reserve. Mays
and .Jones tried to compel them to give up
one-half of these lands, and threatened to
have them checker-boarded out of the re
serve if thoy did not do so.
Hermann Aid Alleged.
Hermann aided and abetted in every way
possible to expedite the creation of ths re
serve so as to help his friends. Ma.vs and
J ones, to make th Is money. H ermann was
at that time a standing recepttve candidate
for the position of United States Senator
from Oregon, and Mays was a State Senator,
and Jones a member of the House of Rep
resentatives. H. A. Smith, another of the
conspirators, who was to participate in the
profits, was also a member of the Assembly.
We will show that the map of lands
upon which the withdrawal of lands was
recommended by Mr. Hermann, was not the
one approved by tre geological survey, but
the one furnished by Mays, and which was
prepared in the office of Surveyor-General
Meldrum. The latter map included more
school lands than -that of tle geological
survey.
V e uo inn r.iiv i .- r 1 u t uiai. nuiKfr
Hermann was to be given a part of the
land or that he w as tn otherwise profit
financially by the creation of the reserve,
but that bis interest was mainly political,
and be wanted the influence of these three
powerful men in the Legislature of the state.
Hi Recommendation Approved.
We further expect to prove that tn, June
?l. 190::. Mays wrote to Hermann urging him
to expedite the withdrawal of tho reserve
from entry; that a month later. July '2'X 1902,
Hermann, as Commissioner of the General
Land Office, recommended to the Secretary
of the Interior that the lands be withdrawn,
that on July 15. 190 2, his recommendation
was approved and that on July 28. 1902, the
lands were withdrawn from entry.
We expect to show that on July 26. 1902,
Hermann telegraphed to Mays the fact that
his recommendation had been approved and
that between then and July 2R. 1902. that
Sorenson made further substantial filings on
stat school lands included within the re
serve. Criminality Is Ienied.
As Heney took his seat. Attorney
"Worthington, counsel ror Hermann,
stepped in front of the jury stand, and
made his opening argument, which oc
cupied 33 minutes. Mr. Worthington
said:
Almost without exception, the things I
tell you now will be substantiated by public
records. At the time of the occurrences
upon which this information was based, the
defendant was residing in the City of Wash
ington, and was at the head of a great of
fice with multifarious duties and a num
ber of divisions. It was Impossible for him
to keep in touch with every transaction,
and the practice was to refer all petitions
to the head of the division in which it
properly belonged, where the letters for the
signature of Commissioner Hermann would
be formed. I do not intend that you should
understand by that remark that we are here
to shirk responsibility for any action, but as
explanatory of a system.
The iieu land law was on the statute
books at that time and it permitted the ex
change of any sort of land, whether of
value or not. for title to the verv best lands
outside of the reserves which were open to
entry. 1 1 mattered not to the Government
of the i"nited States who exchanged the
lands. The law was there for the benefit
of anybody. The school lands of the state
were for sale under certain restrictions. If
they were so bought It was no crime for
the purchaser to Bell "them to one indi
vidual who might thus acquire an immense
tract of such holdings.
We-will show that Hermann, while Com-missionep-of
the General Land Office, had to
do with the withdrawal from entry, for the
purpose of forest reserves, many millions
of acnes of the public domain. Mr. Her
mann ann nts counsel know nothing of an
alleged conspiracy 'in this state. We will
show from documentary evidence that the
actions of the Commissioner were for the
good of all the people. It has ben shown
to you by Mr. Heney that the Strawberrv
Mountains were a proper place for a forest
reserve, because the geological survey people
had prior to that time recommended the
withdrawal of practically the same area for
the protection of its watershed in tho in- !
terest ofc irrigationists. Many such streams
are diverted from those mountains In all
directions.
Withdrawal Made litter.
It should be remembered that Mr. Her
mann did not, by any action of his, create
the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve. That
was done after Mr. Hermann had resigned
from the land office. Hermann recom
mended that the lands contained in that
reserve be withdrawn from entrv. pending
an investigation of their fitness for reserve
purposes.
When the petition was sent tn tho Qai.ru.
tary of the Interior with his letter of recom
mendation he also sent the approval of the
project which had previously been made
by the geological survey officials. and
when he sent the petition to Ormsby he
also enclosed the protests which had been
forwarded to his office and which were
signed by the present Mayor of Portland
and ex-Senator McBride. Those documents
all reached the office of Hermann by ref
erence from other departments or, officials
The defense will show to the jury that
on the day Mr. Hermann is charged with
divulging secret information of the land of
fice and furnishing It to the correspondent of
The Oregonian at Washington, the Secre
tary of the Interior also announced the cre
ation of the reserve through the press
We will prove to the jurv that Mr. Her
mann was aware of the frauds which were
being perpetrated under the lieu land law
and that he constantly opposed it by let
ter, speech and influence. His reports and
the records of Congress will show that he
asked a modification of the law so that
any person who exchanged a tract of land
should receive a tract of exactly equal value
And with that showing we will ask the
acquittal of Mr. Hermann.
Reserve Maps Made.
The first witness for the Government
was John. W. Rowland, draughtsman in
the Surveyor-General's office, who was
called by Mr. Heney shortly before the
noon recess.- The witness testified that
he was employed in that office as assist
ant draughtsman in 1901-2 during the in
cumbency of Henry Meldrum and knew
both Hermann and Mays. They called at
the office of the Surveyor-General in
September. 1901, said the witness, and
were in the 'office of Mr. Meldrum. He
testified that he had made a map of the
townships proposed to be included in the
reserve for H. A. Smith and later made
another map of the same district for
Willard N. Jones. The witness testified
to having seen S. B. Ormsby in the Surveyor-General's
office in the Spring of
1902. Ormsby explained at the time, said
Rowland, that he was on his way to
Eastern Oregon to make an investigation
of the proposed reserve and he was seek
ing information as to the character of
the land.
Counsel for the defense excused Mr.
Rowland without cross-examination, re
serving the right to recall the witness
later.
Evidently having a poor memory, A.
G. King, ex-County Clerk of Malheur
County, was not positive in his testi
mony and did not prove a strong wit
ness for the prosecution. Mr. King is
now a resident o Kent. Wash. King
superintended the circulation of the peti
tions asking that the reserve be created.
The witness said he first met Smith at
Whitney, Baker County, in the Summer
of 1901, when an appointment was made
for another meeting at Portland in Sep
tember of that year. That meeting was
held but King's defective memory could
not recall the details of the interview
further than that it pertained to the
Blue Mountain Forest .Reserve. The
witness finally agreed with -Smith to cir
culate the petitions and for this service
was to receive a half section of school
land, Smith to pay all necessary expenses
for performing the work. King said the
petitions were prepared by Mays and
that he. King, employed0. B. Pollock, a
bartender, to circulate the petitions in
Harney and Malheur counties for sig
natures. The petitions were then re
turned to Mays.
"Keep Quiet," Advised.
King identified letters written to him
by Ormsby in March and April, 1902, in
connection with Ormsby' s plans for in
vestigating the "proposed reserve. In one
of these letters Ormsby advised King to
keep this quiet or many filings will be
made on school lands within the pro
posed reserve and the cause will be lost."
In these letters, Ormsby wrote further
that he also was in correspondence with
Mays. The witness testified that he did
not receive the school land promised him
by Smith. Before the transaction was
finally closed. King said. Smith died and
when he took the case up with Mays,
he was told by Mays that he did not
know anything about the arrangement
between Smith and King and Mays re-
nisea to convey tne promised land.
Under cross-examination by Attorney
Worthington. King admitted that the pe
titions asking for the creation of the
reserve were signed largely by substan
tial residents of the two Eastern Ore
gon counties, most of whom were prop
erty owners. He said that at the time
tliese people signed the petitions they be
lieved honestly there was need for creat
ing the proposed reserve. He admitted
that at no time had anybody suggested
to him that there was anything corrupt
in the creation of the reserve as pro
posed, and that Tie did not believe there
was anything irregular m the procedure.
Anything:, Good Pay.
Testifying on redirect examination.
King said that although the promised
half-section of land he was to receive
constituted his compensation, he had no
idea of the value of the land, where it
was located or its general character. In
explaining this unusual indifference.
King remarked that he was not required
to do very much work and considered
that he would be well paid for his serv
ices no rrtatter what kind of land he
mleht receive.
Several residents of Malheur County,
principally stockmen. w-re called during
the afternoon by Mr. Kcney to testify
regarding the mm-timbt-rod character of
much of the land included within the
boundaries of the propos ?d reserve. The
testimony of these witness s agreed gen
rally that the timber was not dense and
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that several mining propeities were being
developed in the district. They testified
that the circulator of the petition repre
sented to them that it would be to their
advantage to have the reserve created
for the reason that it would tend to keep
sheepmen and their herds ' from en
croaching upon the grazing preserves
claimed by the stockmen.
Five Stockmen Testify.
There were five such witnesses J. A.
'Bartlett, J. A. Weatherly, W. J. Altnow',
Bartholomew Cronin and J. L. Sltz all
residing in vicinity of Drewsy, Malheur
County. According to Mr. Weatherly, who
was at the time a saloonkeeper, many of
the signatures of the Malheur County
petition were obtained in his saloon. He
said he signed the petition himself with
out a iknowledge of the document, but
said it was a business proposition with
hfm. Pollock, who had charge of the
petition, was spending money freely over
the bar to the entertainment of a large
number of the patrons of the place as
well as to the satisfaction of the pro
rietor. Weatherly said that, under the
circumstances, he thought he was justi
fied in signing the petition, under the
represent at torus made to him. by Pollock,
as he wanted to "hold the business."
Before court adjourned for the day,
Salmon B. Ormsby, was called to the
stand, but his examination was not con
cluded. Ormsby. as Forest Superintend
ent, recommended to the Interior De
partment that the Blue Mountain Forest
Reserve be created. The witness aid
he owed his appointment to Senator
Mitchell on the recommendation of Her
mann while Hermann was Commissioner
of the General Land Office Ormsby
identified a letter dated March 11, 1302.
written to him by Hermann, transmitting
a letter from Senator Mitchell, the peti
tions from the residents of Malheur and
Harney Counties asking that the reserve
be created, together with protests from
Senator McBride and ex-Senator Simon,
objecting to the reserve. The letter fur
ther directed Ormsby to make an inves
tigation ' of the propesed reserve and
submit his recommendations to the In
terior department.
Wea 1 1 ier Ba r red Sea n .
Following the receipt of this letter,
Ormsby said he wrote to A. G. King,
then County Clerk of Malheur County,
whose name headed the list of signer,
regarding the investigation of the re
serve that had been ordered. King re
plied advising Ormsby that the inclem
ency of the weather would make it im
possible to conduct the Investigation at
that time and suggested that the task -be
deferred for another month. At the same
time King advised Ormsby to confer with
Mays, who. King wrote, was representing
the interests of the petitioners in the re
serve case.
Couple Faces Murder Charge.
ST.'LOCIS, Jan. 12. A joint indictment
charging Dr. Loren B. Doxey and his
wife with murdering 'William J. Erder
with 'arsenic was returned today.
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fJO RAILROAD DEAL
GOSSAGE DECLARES
Agent Looks Into Details Con
cerning 14 Blocks Held
Under Option.
PRINCIPALS KEPT SECRET
Total Payments Made Said to Be
Only $30, Al though Purchase
Price Is $1,962,500 Deals
to Be Completed Soon.
Jerome B. Goasage, who took options on
the greater part of 14 blocks in the north
western part of the ity at the price of
1 .962,300, returned to Portland yesterday.
Mr. Gossage Baid last night that he was
here primarily .to attend to the vacation
of certain streets in the territory under
option, had found their exact status, and
was nearly ready to return to Seattle.
He will go home tonight.
The agent refused to make known the
names of those for whom lie has been
acting, but reiterated his statement that
he had not been acting for railroad in
terests. He declared that he was not
interested in the options except than as
ajent and that he had completed hig part
of the work. He said that he had done
his work for a certain stipulated sum and
not for a commission, and that the closing
of the options would be left to the prin
cipals. He said that he made no secret
of the fact that he had paid only a small
sum, something like a total of $30, for the
options and that that mi in, or a dollar an
option; hsJ been paid merely to make the
documents legal.
Principals Will Close Deals.
-"I am buying land, not buying options."
said Mr. Gossage. "If I were a specu
lator I might expect to pay for the
options. Now, indeed, I have finished my
work with the securing of the desired in
formation a to the street vacations.
Completion of the deals will be made by
the principals. Who they are or what
they represent I am not at liberty to say.
but I will say they are not representing a
railroad.
"I notice what has been said about R.
Vincient Georige in the Portland papers
and his supposed connection with the op
tions. I want to say that until I saw
his name in the papers the other day 1
had never heard of him md I cannot
imagine how he secured the information
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Detore January 17, 1910.
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pay any cash. In addition to this certificate
every dollar you pay up to $30.
recelnt for.' Ktn.no
in cash and Ket a receipt for. . . .ft40.00
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In cash and sret a receipt for. .Sttn.OO
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that there was a movement ,to obtain
options on those blocks'.
"A few days ago I had a telephone
message from" Carl Jackson, Trom whom
I obtained the option on a block at Nine
teenth and Vaughn streets for tl0.000.
He desired to know just when the options
would be taken up and when he would be
required to move his plant. He wanted
this information because he is planning
now for the work of next season.
Details Soon Known.
"Now. as my people do not want to
cause any hardship to anyone, I told him
that I would be able to let him know by
about January 15, and I believe I shall.
The first option does not expire until
January 23, when the $135,000 property on
which 1 obtained an option from the Mac
leay estate will have to be taken up.
Then you will be able to tell whether
we are going to go ahead and take up
those options or whether I have been
sent down here for my health to get
options on a lot of property just to see
if I could.
"The legality of the options taken will
never be questioned by any of the owners,
as I -knew exactly what I was doing
when I took them. I hardly vhink any of
the people who gave me the options and
accepted my money, even though the'
amount was only $1, would want to say
they had no right to do so. There are
laws and laws, and I think those options
will stand the test of all of them."
When pressed concerning the identity of
those for whom hs acted as agent. Mr.
Gossage flatly refused to make any state
ment. He said he had no doubt that
when the properties were taken over their
identity would be made known.
BLACKWELL ELECTED HEAD
Spirit Lake Man Chosen President of
Lcwiston Bank.
SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 12. (Special.)
F. A. Blackwell. of Spirit Lake, pres
ident of the Idaho & Washington
Northern Railroad, was today elected
president of the Lewiston National
Bank, of Lewiston, Idaho, at a meet
ing of the directors.
Joseph Alexander, a pioneer business
man and capitalist of Lewiston, was
elected vice-president, and the appoint
ment of William Thomson, ex-Deputy
State Bank Examiner of Washington,
of Wilbur, aa cashier, was affirmed.
Frank W. Kettenbach. ex-president,
and E. C. Smith, ex-cashler, will de
vote their time, it is understod, to the
Idaho Trust Company, of which they
are pj-esident and eashier, respectively.
THIRD DAILY TO APPEAR
Klamath I'alls Business Men to
Launch Newspaper Soon. .
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Jan. 12.
(Special.) Klamath Falls is to have a
new daily paper to be established by a
stock company organized h business
men and property owners of the city
and county.
The movement has been under consid
eration for some time nnti nt n,ao(n
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subscriptions already pledged assured the
successful launching of the publication.
It is probable the first issue will appear
within 30 days. This w ill he the third
daily in Klamath Falls, but the first t-
receive a telegraphic news service, as it
is the purpose to secure the Associated
Press report.
Noted Jockey Dies.
MISSOULA, Mont., Jan. 12. John Lit
tle wood, one of the jockeys who con
tributed, to the racing sueceese? of the
late Marcus Daly, died from pneumonia
today at H-amilton. He had ridden on all
of the important courpps of the continent.
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