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PORTLAND. OREGON, V SUNDAY, I MORNING, MAY ' . 8, .1901-THREE SECTIONS 34 PAGES.
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Searchlight
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of Investigation Reveals
Devious Paths Trod by Former Land
:: Commissioner Expelled in Disgrace. j
By His.Personal Direction Patents Were Issued to
Lana viraDDers vYiimn ;inree uays yvniic
f Honest Settlers Waited ; Threes Ycari
-YWashlnrton Bureau 6f The TournaU-- -
; . Washington, May 7. There are rumors in-Washington at the
' present time that the interior department has as the' result of in
'. vestigations extending- over-a couple of years, brought to light evi
' dence which so seriously involves certain western men as to make
;. their indictment almost a certainty. '
But as these men are klmost without exception Republicans,
:jit la . hinted ithat. onaccount..of thft approacbingjtlectioiiiJiQ .steps
will be taken, for their prosecution until after next November, and
: then, with' the time it will, take for the. preliminaries' incident
to indictment, etc, the statute of limitations will run in some of the
Uncases and they will never be brought to trial. 1 . . , - . -tj
With the - postofnce scanda Is fresh in the public mind and th
," exploitation ;of . scandals affecting public land matters in the in
terior department it is 'considered unwise by , the administration
to take any active steps looking to prosecution; ; ..V-f -'-4 A-f
The president's advisers believe that it would 'place , In 'the
hands of. the. -Democrats another weapon, and as a result of this
probablr'one of the most comprehensive systems of fraud ever peri'
petrated on the government, whereby it was defrauded pyt of t thou
sands of acres of lands ' and the . proceeds of 'other thousands' o!
acres, will be hushed forever. . . , .
' ' Bint er; Hermann' aimlnUtratlon of cannot" ' b ' known.lbut It" nr; pror
a th Vnltd CUtM Und departnient -wlU fortunaU for Hsttnana that Aha, con-
. . . Uka lt place to .history aa tha parlod creaaonaJ alectlon la o, near , ar . band.
" of Ua. moat foloaaaj laad and ' tlmb and that ,tha maoblnorjr. of , ta. .'Uw
-frauda that AttUa--ouatnr-,,uu avet moras o ,jaiowlj(.-s -ri .r. '-l-
known. Tha organlaed , rtn of land- xii fraudulent 4 eifvya Uf: publto
rrahlxTfl, who war prayln wpon the lands, bm"J upon forge J a.'H lavlta, for
pubiio duwaln, bad active aaalatanca in wUich . ex-Surveyor-GeBeral i.ei(lruid la
. th land department Itself, which, waa now under Indictment, wera made with
the verr Jtotbod t dlahooeaty and epr- the. expreas aanctlon and approval of
'.. ruptlon. ".'. '.4--v ;:::,: Binder Hermann. It was thea fraud
i Tbo fraooUl.ttai l or 'perpetrated which were expoaed in th report f In-
etr f ba tnoat larln character, speotor A. Rj Oroenjn JHcember.' l0t.
"- vast traota or lana wer eeeurea dj ineiBnl becaua Hermann wa 'retarded, aa
r. thieves opon forged . applleattons and reeponalble for them he waa dlamlaaed
' 'perjored teeumony.' lniormation aa to i from; tha land-office. M 3 k. .S
rmiu(w w ' I ' Warmaaa'a Paltrr Bafamaa. i
..14 k n..imU Unulllt. tiHU-Aln. I ninii raiuj.infuii
Vh.MBwrnrT h Binder. Hermann la now, trylna to
f! Vr"?.-? f convince the rotero .f the Flrat !
.h- i- IJrZZL f flhaVrB; trtct Wat he bad n part lit the whole
trlea for the ol purpose of exchanging I j.. th. v..nt mMt
,,INOERREAt; !SC0TTI .THAT 1 STORM ; IS COMMENCIr6 EARtjY,
Japan Has Nearly a Qaar-
ter of a Million RIen r
In the Field.
FORTIFY-A tPENINSULA
Port Artiar Blocked by Und and Sea
Must Fall to Hlkado'i Hen ;
Rnsslans" Put to- Flljht ta-1-"
Second Battle. '.-
th landa Xor scrip.
The fraudulent entrlea1 were rushed I
to patent with extraordinary haste, fre-
hls office.
them think that the consoiracr which
Involved some of his moat oonfldentlal
MioenUj - by thxprsa h order-of -Her-f M8tBtmntB wa wholly unknown to him.
He pretends that th braaen steallne-
whicn was .going on under his nose, and
which bad already become ' a - national
mann himself, while . honest settlers
were compelled to wait for 10 months
to three years before action was taken
. upon their appUcatlona. Th atmos aoandal, . aroused In him no suspicion
pher f fraud pervaded th land offlo of wrongdoing, i t
;-nd upon no on did slisplclon of honest r was a merocWent; n says; that
man faaten so, strongly-as upon th land patent were Issued to the land thieves
.commissioner, ftwser nermann. . : In three faya after applications, whUe
( Much of the rottenness that prevailed honest settlers bad to wait thre yeara.
In his oflle has been brought to light by , h was th unsuspecting victim 5 of
th investigation before tha grand jury wicked men when he approved . the
... in waauington, a-ti-- Bom, of wer-1 fraudulent surveys -of - public tands,
, tnann's Immediate ; subordinates and j which yielded those responsible for them
meat connaenuai assistants nave con-1 many thousands of dollars.. .
Xessea their share in th frauds, ana I yjHk n th power ot the government
ivo icunowinuM ui uwy w m at nis oacjc to detect and to prevent
th parr of " th land thieves, ' indict- fraud,: with "numbers of secret agents
. mnt are now pending against others at his command to ferret out Ulegal en-
v who served la the department under tries and surveys, Hermann would, hav
SPITED SALT LAKE RESERVES BUSINESS"
Hermann.
...,.,.-, 0OTrnmtll 0atatrJaj" aytdenoe.
: ' ment have been gathering evidence as
to th enormous swindles of the Benson
Hyde ringand it haa been freely lntl
' mated that . Hermann . waa . deeply In
volved In these transactions.' Until th
the publlo believe that he remained
trustful. Innocent, unsuspecting; dupe.
Knave, ne makes, himself .out a fooL .
Kslf easaao egaa Thirty Tears Ago.
" Hermann has been In' publlo, life for
more than 30 years. He began his career-
In the government eervlce as rt-
Amusement Resolutions
AreiFavorites ln: :
Conference-
government completes Its case, th full clYp , ?r tn Bosehurgtand ;mc.rto
foundation, for thla nartlcular v charara WMcn ne was appointed , in 1871. - He
waa nragmtia ma term naa out nail
USURERS REMARKABLE
: METHODS UNCOVERED
(Special Diipetch by teased Wire to The Jonrnal)
expired, becausea, in
(Special ,Correp4eBC' of Tho, JonroaL)
(By the Bev. a B Ollm.) .
Los Angeles, May 7. Today's session
Of .K the Methodist i conference ; was a
of the federal atAtiitAa An1 th wlittn 1 OrdrOf th day.
and nrtntad InatriifSHnna nt h. nrlnr r Among the memorials and resolutions
decartment.- he made cash entries .'unon OT " Rrst importance- presented and dls
government land In Coos and JOsenhln cussed on th floor f the general con
counties, in nis own name,' and -bought irwrce were louuuea resoivruons o re
and sold Agricultural . college r scrip, fer . the ,preUmlnary. . disposition of
These facts are proved by the- records paragraph S4S of the amusement clause
of the Roseburg office and by. the am- to the - committee on state ' of i the
davit of J. H. Booth, the present' re-1 church; to appoint a- committee looking
celver there.' The lands which Hermann I to th conversion of a million souls an
New York, May.?. In all bis ... thus Illegally acquired are stilt owned Inually to Methodlsiri; to place superan-
Investigations Into the methoda -
of usurers. Assistant , District
Attorney Kresel has . uncovered e
no. more remarkable case than'
.that, which Is v, revealed today
by th arrest. of- Oliv M. Gar- (
rett, - former ; cashier of th
Aetna
with
tin,
by him and form a part of th Immense nuated preachers on an allowance on a
fortune which he has accumulated dur- pro-rata basis with preachers'' salarlea,
lng bis long career - of .offlee-holdlng. and to amend th rules- of 'conducting
When- thes facts were mad publlo commission service so that : th -people
during .Hermann's campaign Us t year, snail have a greater part In an object
he made the puerile defense that he did I to secure less proxy worship. . ... ;
not know that h waa doing wronsv or Earlv In th Hiiuilnn. bv a rialnar vote.
that he waa Violating fthe law : and th I . , reaolutlont waa naased . this mornlna-
annolntlnar . a committee : to nrenare a
,h memorial to the late" President Mo-
. Security company, charged SSavS-SSi.
forpry.. and Joseph M;e taf
a lawyer, cnargeu wuu; fcnd hli .latinf n.ittln toi-mirA .ITT'T
of the bo- Uot a knav. ., y .-. ;
arand larceny. The
: . curity company Is one of th bo- t V v. v. . " " v i ... I ' ' , Xadlvldaal Communloa Onps.
aus Rothschild concerns. " L ... " . . " ..' 1 The fact that Blshoo Charles H.tFow
u Walter H. Stearns, an automo- " r - , M6r aoma tlme ag0 met with an eaitern
, 1 bile dealer,, wanted to borrow " When President; Roosevelt entered conference, and refused to administer
WOO. The Aetna company let V4"u? "f. assassinauon or th sacrament of th IiOrd's Supper ba-
hlra have th money. He-was McKinley h decided ,that there must be cause , Individual , cups bad been pre
,to pay Interest at th rate of ? Jwng ln th administration ? of th pared, promises to stir up'xoltlng
JMViiontt--sm:alvl?e J Mt' awnii to:tb'eonfrraca.
'chattel mortgag on enough of p' STu'JiSi ' Twlc' today; th matter cam' befor
1 bis property at No. f 1 Tenth 5r7 X iinw Til 771 ;r- cpnierenc. unc an atwmpi was
GreatLucIn Cut-Off May
Become Part of a
Dyke System.
I y.Y neTon: ? I jTrffi Sffl'Sft' tausingr of" imi
1.00 automobile, a drUl pMss. w lld.lV PA-f-'J
a machlniafs lath and a black- . T'v"" , I th-usuon wasorougnt in
, smith's f orga . I l - s . & ft 1 1 mor radical manner. H. C. Cllppinger
' a.-,?. .vl . ci'. X But inthe meantime; grav 'charges I of. Indiana., went so far as to ask that
B J V.4 OUIO ' " -w 1 A u I . .-
?
:
curity company wrote In' after ; T - A wnn. nspcior i tn orricuu cnuren papers no.insruciea
the words ."blacksmith's forge"? ItrJ? """'VJ"
"Ten autamohll ' h.n.nm. - i ' -. "" !mwuw, i inamauai : communion -swrTicee-,' rvoi
omobll2Z.. SSH motion .was . laid on
mobiM brou-h.m." Vi,V,. i wiw:aireci complicity .in in rrauauient th table. Ther is a great, division on
timMlr?rr surveys of pubno lands In Oregon; and th ustion;;.I)r.,rrnk.M..Brlstol.Uh
00H nrSiwtha
Z ' lT.ti ViT- r.,. r ' ";, T mittea ny HitcncocK to rresiaent roos. individual cup In his church. ' n wouia
T - I ".- " wwuig oepiemoer, ey vlt. with th result that Hermann was net's think' of a ehans..
wnen wie, iawyer, Martin, fore- dismissed in disgrace. from his of fica i Ur. XL W. Smith of Pittsburg -has
T . f i ii Th urveys which formed the basis I Quit as Arm a belief that th general
. 1 - . . ' - v '. in..." M j n i..". 1 . ii
Continued on - Page - Four.
.(Continued a Page Tour-i
(Special Dispatch by Leased WU-o tit The Joaraal)
. Ban .Francisco, May 7. United states
Senator Kearn of Utah. President EL Hi
Harrlman, ; of the Southern Paclflo comT
pany. and committee of alt Xak citl
sens headed by J.-B. Dooly, have suc
ceeded ln aettlnlr the sreolosrlcal survey
people Instructed by Secretary of the. In
terior - HitcncocK to report upon the
feasibility ' of raislnr the level of the
Great Salt Lake and changing the east
ern portion of it Into a fresh water lake.
Tbe famous cut-off embankment-of the
Southern-"Paclno across - the lake will
be one of the recondary dykes for this
purpose. The action Is' to dyke off the
eastern portion, where all the inflow of
fresh water occura - This J Inflow " Is
mainly -from Bear-river." - - v
l v planned to build a dyke from the
promontory to - Fremont Island, thence
to Antelope island and from the south
ern point of Antelope' Island - to the
mainland' southeast The theory is that
the dykes would hold the water at a
reasonable, constant-stag, higher than
the' present level' i-j , i, -rv K
' Aa th. surface rose, the water will
flow over Into the western or main part
of th lake, carrying with 1t every year
a considerable portion of salt and alkali'
now carried in the waters, the shore
line and the bottom of the eastern part
of the lake as It is at present, gradually
freabenmg.th whole, ,.,-:,,,
Indian lands to Be Ready Ten Nominees Won't Tell
for Settlement by t Public Intentions as
Midsummer.
to Charter.
(Washington Bnresa of Tse Jonruat)
Tbe 10 '. legislative . candidates who
Washington, D. C May 7. Tha of fl-. have arrogantly refused to say whether
cers of. the interior aepartmem are they are for or against allowing a re.
worklnar on the plans for opening the I ,., .v. ... .k..... . u.
-m. m. . , . v v v w v,r viwi ivi saa . f uiuij
ZiKiX? JS ?S!TSt ?!S2 "ring to the voters: "It is none of
tJ 7 VU3 saw v S ssvsv, aeaavavww v
lng days of congress.
your business what we propose to da
. .. .. I All th.l V- A Am. ( ....
4 I in. of fh. IBrfiiMf AT 111. THffmiiani ' - w . .v v,g ivi
to b opened is that of tn crow, inaians ,7, . . - '
in nouthern Montana and borderinar on I " b tru that the officeholder is
Wyoming. About one-third of the rVs- e servant of the public, and that h
rlnn . arvnmtln over , 1.000.000 I viuw wiuy vj - rew vi sum
acre., la to be ooened for all. and set- wvereign .. Pfopl, then th attltud of
imnt . i these 10 legislative nominee Is a direct
Th. (lr. tn ta he taken will be for I unl " v nuiiuuowa
"iv. r". :nd--rnTTn. what Th. demand of th voter, that .these
tends they wsnt to reclaim tinder the fwUmn decUr themselves upon sn
trrlmtlnn lawa. The director will siad I"" -wawi-ia-Bwiing,
nm inHMiinn engineer, and thev will forsooth, to b "Impudence- and "gali
they wUl probably Irrigate. . The. Z?. Vs.
LThe publlo be damned" Is th essential
tract will be withdrawn - from settle
ment until the Irrigation system Is per
fected. The work ' will probably con
sume three months', time, at least, and
maybe six.
GEORGE PARKER IS
KILLED BY AN "AUTO
' (Sperfal TMapatck to Tbe JoomaUl
Kalamasoo, Mich., May 7. George W.
Parker,- struck: by an automobile, driven
by Arthur J. Patterson of this city, died
here tonight at :S0. He was a resident
of Baa Francisco., visiting 8. 3. Dunk
ley, ; owner of th Dunkley steamship
lines on the Oreat Lakes. ;'..--
Parker waa a-:: western "capitalist.
president of th - Paclflo 1 Coast Gypsum
company and extensive mine owner with
various i large banking 'interest. r He
was well known as a hotel owner.
questions that have been put to them.
Does any on? imagine that If these
10 candidates bad . been asked by the
managers of the machine to define their
position upon any question that is to
Com befor the- laglelature,-they would
The, next step to b taken will b to V.2I,E:E
take care of . the interests of tha In- -
dians. 'This will probably be done by
ingT
allotting to them the lands on which
they are at. present; located, or. th ap
praisement of the lands with their, ira-
And In the light of recent events and
of their past political record, la It not
safe to assume that all or these 10 can
didates would hav given ample as-
(Copyright t Ksarss . Yew . errto
Iieased Wire o Tb Joaraat)
London, May 7 Despatches from th
far cast today Indicate th moot startling
advance In Japan's 1 sensational ' land
campaign, ' .
Bhe has captured Feng Wang Cheng.
She has again put tb Russian force
to flight '.;' 1 , '
She landed - troops t Takushan, 40
mile west of 'the mdutn of the'Talu. '
Sh baa completely blockaded " Port
Arthur. ,;Admb-ai Togo -reports wonder
ful heroism on the part of hie men that
manned th flreshlps fs -.p.r . - - v
. Japanese troop hsve thrown up for
tification across th Llao Tung penin
sula and have mounted guna,
... Japan now baa aere the Yalu river
and Into Manchuria almost tOO.OOft men.
eb naa more than 100.000 men within
lOv.mUe of MukUen.
- rwroi MTAjra exuro cjurittaxaj
On fteport Says Bota Kost KeavOy
- Aaotket Sky Xassiaa & 1 gmall-
(Speelal Diaaetch by trawd Wire to The Journal) .
SU Petersburg, May' 7.r-Feng Huaqrf
Cheng was captured by the Jpaneee
troops Wednesday. Th josses on Doth
sides are reported-to have been heavy.
The Russians officially confirm a re
treat, declaring that the - Japanene
nressed tb retreating troops, though
with few losses to either side. The
Japanese have destroyed' tha railway at
Port Adams, blowing up th bridge.'
Th ominous silence of General Kuro-
patkin sine th battle of the Yalu la
caualng uneasiness and lining th air
with wild rumors, on of which is that
General Kuropatkln's army, la a' rspid
movement on Feng Huang Cheng, met
.... T.r..n... In a Alaaaiwitia a tr . .
ment. Kuropatkln' being wounded. -
This" report is officially denied, nut,
th public Is uneasy and expecting th '
worst. '--v't ' Mi.-.-'- ' - '.'v.'t "'. c
Reports from the palace declare that
th csar la greatly depressed over" th
lecent reverses at tb front Tb em-
neror haa telearaphed to General Kuro
patkln and Viceroy Alexieff demanding
In their reports th abeolute truth of
th conditions at thr front.-uDder pain:
of sever punishment If they continue
to deceive him. ' The result .of this
warnlna la that the. emperor has re
ceived tw distressing report. -
The calac version of General-Kuro-
natkln'A.repnrjL tath- affsjt.th...
officer defending th Talu positions -permitted
themselves to be -aurprtsed,
not saving a single gun. hors or trans
port, wagon: that th flight t to. Feng
(Continued on Pag Two.)
DERESZKE ASKS DUSS ;
TO PAY S2O.CC0
8iieelal Olspatcb byUssed Wire to The Joernal) ,
! New York, V May '7. ' Edourd)
deRessk. . th famous. ; opera
baritone, has Instituted suits In
the-; supreme, court . against .
Robert 8. Johnston, as manager 4
of the Metropolitan, orchestra,
and John 8. Dusa - ?
' . Th 'suit against" Johnston is
tor breach , . of ; contract and
against Dus as i guarantor for ;
1 th: iperformanc. of agreement '
Th amount uivwvea is w
000,
provement. .nd aUow tb Indian, to Mr" foVty-to thV-machrn
"a. - . . JL : k..Jw of their willingness to carry out It.
Wtt wfiMw ,mr. wiu m h But ,bcaus the inaulry comes onll
more w trom oetng trom the voters, by whose suffragee
hT4 .irJ2-J Z.. I thes candidate expect to be elected.
r." . . " ...'"r lit is 'treatea with contemptuous in
lion. , xn ; survey or xn lanus wm oe Mi(.n. . Th mtM ik.
wnauotM-.' nar.(n-auapKe: -g , w t0 a,k.th views of th. men who pro-J
n'W'W iva VlllWV milA WW WW UWIfl I mam A glMasanft thant Is haa laer o !
the Immediate direction mni charge 'Jf I All -that, tha voters ar expected to do
urJrWliw ""111 tow to the. polls and vote the bal
usual way." t ;.: ; - lot prepared for them by the machine:
a tnorougn survey or tn tanas wouiai t n th. i . hvi,i nn
Vruiu.)r provm, wor y auniciam , TO candidates mixht ; afford to iaiior it
consum !most of. the coming summer, l ntihtiaaB.aama.nf thm win
but -it ' Is -understood that most -Of the Ierae 4he lmnreaalon that thor 1.
eeaeu. lerrnory nasaireemy- vara ur- i real occasion I'or them to. declare, or for
veyuo. . moupi u w i thi wtn to ml what thev 111 do in
iviidcu, unniura mm iu lunara iw I tha hnvothetlpal nvfiit ihii
opening up in . lanua wiu soon oe per
fected ' by - the general land office and
that i most of the lands should be ready
for opening by mid-summer, y l our.)
an effurt
lis mada to ampnd the city charter. Hat
such rrefr t v I not deceive cltiins
DBttestk was engaged. March
zS.ttlsOS. for a term to com
mence the following October 1.
at tl.OOO a performance.
. Johnston wrote to deReszk
In Poland last July tt:
"It Is useleas for me to tell
you how great a failur llnano- -
cially speaking, the spring tour
waa - It was - an irredeemable
loss to both Duss and myself. I
can't afford to manage such an
enterprise snd you cannot af
ford . to- be connected , with lit.
To think of having a tour of
this kind with which yonr name
would be connected stranded
ss so much artistic wrtckase
on the byroads of some medio
cre city In the ml-Mle wst, is
too horrible to fontomiiliite.
yet this wou' l be V I
reswlt.-
,n f -
Jo!
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