Morning Oregonian., December 21, 1912, Page 2, Image 2

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FORMER UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY, PARDONED
BY TAFT BECAUSE INNOCENT AND JURY PACKED.
Powers Agree on Albanian Au
tonomy and Commercial
Seaport for Servia. ,
Government Charges Southern
Pacific Acquired Great Oil
Fields by Fraud.
nuat t
o HK lIOKXINCi OKEtiUMlX. SATURDAY,
TITLE TO 3E CONTESTED
- Mineral Hearing Areas Declared Ki-
empt lom Patent to ItaUroad.
Kern Company Only Dummy,
Complaint Says.
' IjOS AXGEl.ES. De 20- The com
. plaint in the long-expected suit of the
' Federal Government against the South-
em Pacific Railroad, involving title
to $230,000,000 worth of supposedly
; mineral-bearing lands in Fresno Coun
ty, was filed here today In the United
States District -Court for the Southern
District of California. Other suits are
to follow, in which the Government will
. contest the ownership of a total of
; $750,000,000 worth of lands, according
' to B. D. Townsend. special assistant to
theAttorney-General, who arrived here
tonight. I
The suit is brought under the pro
visions of the act of Congress passed
July S7. 1S6S. requiring the Depart
ment of the Interior to exempt min
eral-bearing lands in issuing patents to
railroads.' The Government will con
tend that of 140.900 acres of land on
the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railroad in California, 45.726 acres are
mineral bearing and must revert to
the public domain.
I.ealBK - I Deleaaaat.
n. lonri ia for the most part. In
the Coalinga oil field, and is under
lease to the Kern Trading & Oil om
panv, a subsidiary corporation of the
Southern Pacific and a joint defendant
in the suit, with many other on com
panies and Individuals. In addition to
the mineral land specified, the com
plaint recites. 12.000 acres of mineral
bearing land already had been sold by
the railroad. The following is the
list of defendants: "
The Southern Pacific Company, the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
the Kern Trading Oil Company, the
Associated Oil Company, the Southern
Pacific I-and Company, the Central
Trust Company of New York. Homer
S King, the St. Paul Consolidated Oil
Company, the Zier Oil Company, the
Coalinga Oil & Gas Company, the Com
mercial Petroleum Company, the Ax
tec Oil Company, the Buthrie Oil Com
panv. the Confidence Oil Company, the
Associated ripe L.ii:e Company, the
Section Seven Oil Company. C. F. Ire
iell. I. L Brlncr. Julius Fried. J. J.
Vincent G. E. Shore, Oren G- Myers.
"W S. Porter, O. Scrlbner, C. A. Mur
doch. George YV. C. Baker. W. IV.
Macbem. M. U "Yoy and M. Madsen.
Craleated Pateat Issued la 1MH.
All the codcfciidants are alleged by
the Government to be lessors of the
Southern Pacific lands and participa
tors in the profits from their mineral
yield. The contested patent, by which the
railroad received title to the lands was
issued July 10. 1891. The patent was
accepted, says the complaint, with full
acquiescence In the statutory excep
tion of mineral-bearing lands, "not In
cluding coal and-iron lands."
-Fraudulent practices on the rart of
the railroad company In securing the
patent are charged as follows:
"In addition to the secret and fraud
ulent puriRjpe and intent of said South
ern Paoiflc Railroad Company and its
officers and agents In inducing the is
suance of said patent and the Includ
ing therein of said mineral lands. It
was slso the secret and fraudulent
purpose and intent of said Southern
Pacific Railroad Company and its of
ficers and agents to conceal from this
plaintiff the true facts in the premises
until more than six years bad elapsed
from tiie date of the Issuance of said
patent, to the end that the plaintiff
should be delayed In the institution of
Jiuji. ial proceedings to enforce the
rights of the plaintiff In the premises
and in the liope that when said plain
tiff snould ultimately discover said
fraud tlie delay In the institution of
said judicial proceedings might be
pleaded In defense, thereof.
Scheme Called Self-Cocell:.
"The aforesaid fraudulent Induce
ment of the issuance of said' patent
was designed, executed and consum
mated in a clandestine and surrepti
tious manner. The said fraudulent
scheme was of such a nature and was
so executed and consummated as to be
naturally self-concealing."
The complaint charges that the
Southern' Pacific, "for the purpose of
concealing the facts" and "to enjoy
the fruits of aforesaid frauds." caused
the Kern Trading oil Company to
be organised. It is charged that the
Southern Pacific jwns all the stock of
the Kern Company, vhich Is main
tained as a dummy. The complaint
adds:
"The business of removing minerals
lias been conducted in the name of the
Kern Trading & OH Company under
some pretended lease or other con
tract, but for the purpose of concealing
the true facts In the premises said pre
tended lease or other contract has been
withheld from the official county rec
ords and has otherwise been concealed
from this plaintiff."
The complaint includes a volumi
nous recital of Interior Department
history bearing on the lands and Is
Intrenched with an array of exhibits
by which the Government will seek to
establish the fact that all of the lands
in question are mineral bearing.
MULATTO WEDS NEGRESS
Japanese Also Gets License to Be
Married to White Girl.
VANCOUVER. Wash. Dec. 20. (Spe
cial.) 11. I. Brown, white in appear
ance, but who told Rev. C. R. G. Poole,
Baptist minister here that he was a
mulatto, today married Miss Dela Y.
Thome, a negress. The couple live in
Portland. The ceremony was performed
at the parsonage of the First Baptist
Church by Mr. Poole. The marriage li
cence was made out to a white mat) and
a negresa.
R. Akahoshl. a Japanese, and Miss
Gertrude Angcll. a white girl, of Se
attle, today obtained a marriage license.
They were accompanied by X. J. Tochio.
NORTH YAKIMA GOES WET
It) Vole or 2103 to 23 l.iqnor In
terests Win at Kleetloii.
NRT!l YAKIMA. Wash., Dec. 20.
(Special.) North Yakima went wet
2403 to today. Seventy-five per
cent of registration voted.
More than 10P0 challenges were made
and two were arrested for alleged il
legal voting. A recount will be asked.
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JOHX M. HALL.,
TAFT PARDONS HALL
Former Oregon Federal Attor
ney Held Innocent.
WILLIAMS PRESSES CASE
II. II. Hendricks Will Probably Be
Set Free-. Too. but Fact lie Con
fessed I'erjury Dints Knthusl
asm In That Regard.
H'-.ntlnrtrd From Ftrt PhkiO
since admitted this frankly, asserting
that he testified under duress.
Hall's pardon, however. Is due in a
large degree to tle showing that he
was convicted by a jury that had been
"fixed" by Burns, that showing alone
placing hi m on the same, plane with
Jones. Both President Taft and Attorney-General
Wlckersham stoutly con
demn the Burns method of filling the
Oregon jury box during the land fraud
trials, and there is reason to. believe
that every application for pardon based
on a showing such as was made by
Jones and Hall will he favorably re
ceived by the Government.
Roran Refuses to Reply.
Burns, when in a controversy in a
New Jersey, court recently, was charged
with having "fixed" Jurors in Oregon
and became indignant and denied the
accusation. The fact is, however, that
after a charge against Burns was form
ulated by attorneys for W. N. Jones and
proof was submitted to substantiate
their charges, the Department of Jus
tice sent twice to Burns offering to
give him access to all charges and rel
ative papers if he would make reply,
and botli times Bums "refused to make
any denial or explanation. In view of
his course, the Department of Justice
accepts the showing as correct and offi
cially it is acknowledged as truo that
Burns did pack the Oregon Jury boxes,
as has been alleged and proved.
The granting of pardon to Hall at
this time is due to the Influence ex
erted by National Committeeman Will
lams, who has been urging favorable
action for the past year In behalf of the
Hall and Hendricks cases. On Wednes
day Mr. Williams made a special plea
and the President promised to pardon
Hall before Christmas. -
Hendricks' case is held up because of
the prejudicial feature before related,
but it Is confidently expected that he
too. will be pardoned before March 4.
He would have been pardoned with Hall
but for the fact that his perjured testi
mony against Hall makes his case less
meritorious.
HENKY JKAI.OVS. SAYS HAIIi
Man Pardoned Says Special Prose
cutor Made' Ills Boasts.
Jealous activity on the part of
Francis J. Heney in an effort to make
good a boast that he would "Get Dis
trict Attorney Hall," is declared by
John H. Hall to have been the cause of
his having been dismissed from the
United States service and afterward In
dicted on charges of conspiracy.
After news of his pardon by Presi
dent Taft became known yesterday aft
ernoon. Mr. Hall was the recipient of
hundreds of telephone calls of congrat
ulation from his friends In Portland.
"It's almost worth while to go
through the experience I have gone
through." he said, "if only to find out
how man)' and how staunch are the
friends I have in Portland. My vindi
cation has been eight years In coming,
but it brings a whole lot with it when
it comes.
Uceaslom of Parting Described.
"Heney and I fell out In 1904, after I
had secured indictments against the
Puter-McKinley land fraud ring and
Heney had secured the convictions,"
said Mr. Hall. "At my request Mr,
Heney had been sent to assist in the
prosecution and he had followed up his
first successes by an endeavor to
'sweat' Puter and secure enough evi
dence to convict Binger Hermann and
United States Senator John H. Mitchell.
"In the earlier times of the land
fraud cases we had worked together
amicably, but it was when Heney se
cured a so-called confession from
Puter, whereby he hoped to get at
Hermann and Mitchell, that we parted
company.
"He came to my office and declared
that he 'had the dope' on Binger Her
mann and could "smirch old man Mitch
ell." but had not the evidence to con
vict him.
"I replied that I stood ready to do my
duty as an officer of the United States
in any trial to convict a person who
had committed a crime against the
Government, but that I would not let
my office be used to smirch the char
acter of any man, unless there was evi
dence to show that he was guilty.
"Mr. Heney looked at me a moment
and then left the office without a word.
After that we had as little to do with
each other as possible. But from many
sources came in to me reports that
Heney had made his boast that he
would 'get' me."
Heney Demands Removal.
Mr. Heney went ahead with his
grand Jury and secured Indictments
against MltcheM. On December SI he
telegraphed to President Roosevelt that
ft would bo impossible to secure con
victions against Hermann and Mitchell
unless John H. Hall were removed
from the office of District Attorney.
President Roosevelt replied with
peremptory orders to Attorney-General
Moody to remove Hall, which was done,
Heney being appointed In his place. At
that time Mr. Hall had served seven
years.
"In order to justify himself in having
me removed," said Mr. Hall. "Heney im
mediately set about to find somethii.g
for which he could indict me, and for
some time had his agent looking
through the records hunting for Mope'
on which to base such action. They
finally found the case of the- United
States vs. W. W. Steiwer et al. in which
the defendant was accused bf fencing
Government lands in Eastern Oregon.
"He found that in this case I had
instituted civil proceedings instead of
criminal proceedings against Steiwer
and conceived this to be indication that
1 was in conspiracy with the defend
ant. As a matter of fact. I did not
know any of tlie men connected with
the suit. The law allowed me to use
my discretion in this matter and I
chose to press a civil suit because. I
believed It to be the more effective
way. I was supported in this opinion
by C. R. Bellinger, then United States
District Judge.
Cf;e A ever Hna Been Tried.
"Mr. Heney. however, charged that I
was in a conspiracy to permit these
men In Bastern Oregon to fence Gov-,
ernment lands. I was removed from
office before the case on which he
based 'his Idea came to trial and it
has never been tried as yet.
"I was tried on the charge of con
splracj' and convicted by a Jury se
lected by Detective Burns and his
agents, who had been sent out over the
country to interview prospective Jurors
and find out their attitude in the case.
"I was indicted in February,. 190S,
and in June of the same year I was in
the Fast and made a visit to Washing
ton to speak to President Roosevelt
about my removal. I demanded to
know the reasons for his order by
which I had been removed from the
office in which I had served for seven
years without a question having arisen
as to my efficiency or the squareness
of my conduct." "
President Roosevelt said at first that
he did not remember the case.
" 'Mr. President." I said, "you have
only to press a button and you car.
have the information brought to you iu
a few minutes."
"Well, to tell the. truth.' he replied
after a few minutes of sparring words
with me. I have promised Mr. Heney
that I won't tell the reasons for your
removal. If, however, after Investiga
tion. I find it was unjustified, I will
reinstate you.'
""I do not want to be reinstated.' I
said, 'but I do believe that after hav
ing served In that office without ques
tion for seven years, and after hav
ing had this stigma cast upon me in
my native state, you should make an
effort at least to vindicate me."
No Investigation Made.
"No Investigation was ever made by
President Roosevelt, so. far as I have
been able to learn, and I never heard
from him again about the matter.
"I visited the Attorney-General and
tried to find out why the order for my
removal had been Issued. He told me
that he had never had the slightest
cause for complaint against me. but
that President Roosevelt, subsequent to
receiving the telegram from Heney,
sent him a peremptory order calling for
my removal from office.
"I moved for a new trial after con
viction and while it was being argued
the trial judge said that the evidence
was. In his judgment. Insufficient, but
as the Jury had found guilty he did
not feel that he should allow his opin
ion to Intrude.' The case was then ap
pealed to the United States Supreme
Court. One of the assistant attorneys
general, in a written opinion to the
solicitor-general, said that he could
find nothing that denoted criminal in
tent. The testimony was gone over by
the pardon attorney, who returned the
same opinion. On the basis of these
recommendations President Taft issued
the pardon."
BARBERS' MORTALITY HIGH
One In Four Die From Tuberculosis,
Official Statistics Show.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20. Fewer and
more barbers die of tuberculosis than
any other workers classified by the
State oBard of Hea-lth, In a report made
public today.
Bankers, brokers, business men and
those in general whose work is mental
rather than physical and whose sur
roundings at work and homo are al
most ideally sanitary, show the highest
resistance.
Barbers and hairdressers show the
astonishing death rate from tubercu
losis of a fraction more1 than one in
every four.
DELEGATES AT BANQUET
Report That Tnrks Will liaise Ques
tion of Status of Adrlanople
Received With Reserve In
Diplomatic Circles.
LONDON, Dec. , 20. The slow and
devious process f diplomacy is ad
vancing at a snail's pace toward a
solution of the near Eastern puzzle.
The onlj definite achievement of the
day was an agreement by the Am
bassadors of the Bix great European
powers that their governments would
accept In principle autonomy for Al
bania and a guarantee to Servia of a
commercial port on the Adriatic Sea.
Having passed this milestone in their
deliberations, the Ambassadorial con
ference adjourned over Christmas.
Asqnltb Talka Optimistically.
The Balkan peace delegates enjoyed
the hospitality of the Lord Mayor of
London at a Mansion House luncheon,
a function that traditionally Is given
In honor of members of foreign mis
sions, representatives of friendly na
vies and ex-Presidents of republics who
visit London. The delegates heard an
optimistic speech by Premier Asqulth.
The delegates transacted no formal
business today, but the embassies and
hotels where the delegates are quar
tered are buzzing with Informal con
ferences. The-Sublime Porte has em
powered its envoys to include the
Greek delegates in the negotiations for
peace, and a messenger with the docu
ments containing this decision Is ex
pected to reach London tomorrow.
Dispatches from Constantinople say
the Turks are confident they occupy a
better military position toward the
Greeks than when the negotiations
were begun, and that Turkey now
would not sign an armistice with them,
even if the Greeks requested it.
The Turkish delegates have been In
structed, according to another report,
to raise immediately the question of
the status of Adrianople, and if Bul
garia persists in demanding its sur
render to break off the peace negotia
tions. Diplomats generally are skep
tical of this story.
While the agreement of the Ambassa
dors of the powers on autonomy for Al
bania is an Important step, the work
ing out of details of the scheme will
be one of the most difficult problems
a European conference ever has grap
pled with. .
Big I,oanii In Prospect.
The Economist notifies financiers and
Investors to expect in the coming year
loans totaling J400.000.000 to repair the
losses caused by -the war and the mo
bllizations in Russia.' Austria and Italy.
The newspaper estimates the cost of
the war at J175.000.000, using' as a
basis of reckoning the fact that there
are 1,090,000 men under arms 400,000
Turks, 300.000 Bulgars, 200,000 Servians.
160,000 Greeks and 40,000 Montenegrins
at an average expense of 10 shillings
daily a man.
Turks Mar Resolve to Fight.
The Daily Telegraph says it has un
impeachable information that Turkey is
resolved to retain Adrianople or re
sume hostilities with the Balkan allies
and for this reason takes a grave view
of the prospect for a successful issuo of
the peace conference. Moreover, tne
newspaper points out that the use of
the word "autonomy" In the official
statement issued by the ambassadorial
conference, instead of i independence,
seems to imply an intention on the part
of the powers to leave Albania under
Turkish suzerainty. -
It considers that if this Interprta
tion Is accurate, the decision may have
a weighty effect on the peace negotia
tions. BIG DRYDOCK ASKED FOR
Navy Wants to Begin AVork Karly at
San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (Special.)
A ll.000.00u drydock in San Francisco
Bay will do asked of Congress by Sec
retary of the Navy Meyer in a recom
mendation he will soon send to the
House appropriations committee. The
Secretary today definitely .decided to
ask Congress for the Jl.000.000 dock
at this session. The appropriation will
be included in tlje naval appropriation
bill. If tne sum is granted worn on
the dock will be beisun within the year.
The Bureau of Construction and Re
pair of the Navy Department already
has prepared tentative plans for the
structure, which will be capable of
raising the largest battleships afloat
The Navy Department is now consider
ing the location of the dock in the bay.
B. BROOKS IS PROMOTED
Western Vnlon to Announce Changes
in Titles and Positions.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. (Special.)
Formal announcement will be made
shortly by the Western Union Tele
graph Company of important changes
In titles and authorities to become ef
fective January 1. The changes will
include the advancement of Belvldere
Brooks from the position of general
manager to that of a vice-president,
with headquarters here.
The change will mark the abolition
of the title of general superintendent
of each of the principal geographical
divisions of the company. Among
other changes is that of C. H. Gaunt
from general superintendent to general
manager of the Pacific division, W'ith
headquarters at San Francisco.
TAFT FULL PROFESSOR
Place at Yale Will Carry Additional
Responsibilities.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 20. Pres
ident Tatt will make his permanent
residence i'n this city when he .tak
up the duties of the Kent professor
ship at Tale College next Spring. r He
has requested a friend to find him a
house,
In connection with the professorship
it is understood that at the next meet
ing of tho corporation the tender of
What could be more expressive of
the Yuletide spirit than a daintily
packed package of ftwetland's Quality
Confections 1 We have a special holly
box filled with chocolates, bon bons
and glace fruits. The package .con
tains a Christmas card, calendar and
bon bon spoon and is attractively
packed and tied with ribbons. A most
appropriate remembrance but still in
expensive. Uncle Sam -will deliver
them an3Tvhere.
SWETLAND'S
269-271 Morrison Street, v
Between Third and Fourth.
I .117 V a fA.mflllv maila anil will he
accepted by President Taft. t Besides
filling the duties of Kent professor
ship, the President will lecture on
constitutional and international law In
the law school ana university, rais
ing as a faculty member and full pro-
fAOeAn!hln an,! will he entitled tO a
salary to be fixed hereafter aside from
the income from the int iounaaiion.
BREWERY FIGHT GROWS
ROSEBTJRG COMPANY FACES
NEW SPECIFIC COMPLAINT.
As Judge Dismisses One Action by
Request of District Attorney Lat
ter Takes Vp New Tack. ,
ROSEBURG. Or., Dec. 20. (Special.)
Declaring that In 1911 the Roseburg
Brewing & Ice Company purchased
more than 700 barrels of beer from the
alem Brewing Company, of Salem,
and that the same was shipped to
Koseburg and sold by the local brew
ery, contrary to the provisions of the
local option liquor laws. District At
torney George M. Brown late today
filed a complaint against the brewery
in lieu of the one filed against tho cor
poration at the time the quo warranto
proceedings were instituted and which
was dismissed by Judge Harris today
upon request of the District Attorney.
In addition to purchasing 700 barrels
of beer from the Salem Brewing Com
pany, District Attorney Brown alleges
in the complaint filed today that the
Roseburg Brewing & Ice Company also
W ... L. Inv-n-A ..i.nnti.inu r f h.inr fmm
the Northern Taciflc Brewing Company,
The latt.er consignments of beer, the
District Attorney asserts, were also
shipped to Roseburg and sold by the
trary to the local option laws. Know
ing that the local brewery .'had pur
chased large quantities of beer from
. .. I .) .. uPA,..flrAa 1. 1Q11 -tTA hiiinir Ha-
sirous of introducing this evidence
during the trial of the quo warranto
proceedings. the District Attorney
purposely injtTi.-i.eu nuu .iv. untjuiai
complaint, against the brewery irrele-
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vant allegations to the effect that the
local brewery was manufacturing near
beer. Portions of the original com
plaint were attacked by the attorneys
for the defense and were sustained by
Judge Harris, who suggested that con
siderable time would be saved in the
event the original suit was dismissed
and another suit instituted.
This gave the District Attorney an
opening and he forthwith asked that
the case be dismissed and that per
mission be granted to file a second
comDlaint. This was agreeable to the
court. Through . his ability to rein
stitute proceedings District Attorney
Brown says he has a much stronger
case against the brewery than at the
time the original complaint was filed.
In the complaint dismissed today no
reference was made to the beer pur
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towns and sold in "dry" territory. The
quo warranto proceedings were filed
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son Mrs. Sam IIomn
As a gift nutli
inK could he
more accepta
ble. Special
"Juliet." This
maarnif Icent
novelty, (color
rose and old
gold), in larpe
two year field
grrown plants,
at only ai.so.
For complete
list of Roses,
see Catalogue.
against the brewery at the Instigation
of Governor West, who seeks to annul
its charter to transact business in Ore
gon. MILL MEN'S GIFTS . $2000
Kniployps of Oregon City Industry
Paid Earlier Thnn OuMoniury.
OREGON CITY.Or., Dec. 20. (Sp
clal.) The Willamette Pulp and Paper
Company intends to distribute over
$2000 among its employes as Christmas
gifts.
Ordinarily the payday for the mills
would not be until the 2!id, but. in
view of the holidays. Mill Manager
McBain has changed it to Saturday,
December 21. This will mean the dis
tribution of over $27,000 in pay checks
and extra money.
1
Just another instance
of how the
GORDON
Pure Fur Law
works.
When you - are giving
Christmas presents give
them by their right names.
Give furs.
Gordon Furs are generally
more welcome than just furs
because folks know them
better.
Late now to send for the
book.
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