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Owners of Tracts of Less Than
10OO Acres Will Not Be Af
fected by Suit Against Rall
road T Company,- Belief.- -hu
In tha opinion of TJnited Btatas offic
ials and of those who bavo followed the
n..- -ff- r.lifnrnl land arrant ault
carefully th opinion of CI roult Judg
. Galloway in Aioany laai "
the case of 'William George Against the
tabllshes r the f act , that) title . to about
400,000 acre of land In western Oregon
originally purchased from the O. C. In
quantities leas than 1000 acres Is perfect
and will not be affected by the govern
ment's ault against the railroad and the
large purchasers of railroad land. . . .
In other words, the small purchasers
of 0."A C. land nd the preaent holders
of this land, need have no fear of being
themselves aiied as have the railroad
company and 1 tha large purchasers.
About 8 JO persona "purchased land from
the-, railroad In ; nuantitla .under .1000
acres. ,Slno then the land has frequent
ly changed hands and now is owned by
thousands of people. Much of It has
been divided into small tracts and sold
to farmers and orchardlsts. ., , ,
rar of ,'Vfell-laid Boheme. - ,.
. There are many Indications, It la said,
that the Curt tea . Lumber company suit
was In reality part of a well lal4 scheme
on the part of some of the large pur
chasers of O. sVC lands to attempt to
make the government land suits against
' the railroad company and against the
large lumber companies a source of In
Jury 'to-, the general' public, with the
hope of 'discrediting' the government's
litigation. Tha" natural result of this
discrediting, had It been i succesaf ul,
would have been to create a puWio sen
timent In favor of the abandonment of
the land e;raft litigation, Including the
main suit agalnat the railroad. Among
those prominently connectedjrith the
Curtlss Lumber company case were at
torneys for the Hammond lumber In
terests and for the - Southern Pacific
railroad. -.
It .transpired during the trial of the
George-CurtUs suit that "dummy" let
tera of Inquiry had been written to B.
DuTPKDsend. special assistant to the at
torney general, in charge of the land
grant litigation for the government with
the evident hope : of securing some
- statement from Dim tnax wouia pre
judice the rights of the government in
the su'ta now pending.' Tbe-geheral
scheme by which this was to. be brought
about la said to have been aomethlng
Ilk this; ' ' - 1
- " Oeaeral Bobeme.
The Curtlas Lumber company Is one
of the Incorporations of A. B. Hammond.
A. B. Hammond has purchased, through
bis various companies, about 60.000
acres of Southern Pacific lands, being
probably the heaviest owner of landa
affected by the government's litigation,
ovUlde the railroad. The landa pur
chased by Mm are now involved In suits
Instituted by the government .to cancel
title. : '.. AJ '.. :-
.- 'William George, the plaintiff In the
Georgs-Curtlsa suit, was jhe owner of
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rhone Marshall 2400.
a one-quarter section adjoining some of
the holdlnga of the Curtlss Lumber com
pany near Albany. The Curtlss Lum
ber company entered into an agreement
to purchase George's land.
W. 8. Burnett, a son-in-law of A B.
Hammond and the Dan Pranclsoo attor
ney for the Curtlss Lumber company,- is
said to have written a letter to Mr.
Townaend, , making no mention of his
connection with the Curtlss .Lumber
company. In which he said he represent
ed a client who waa about to purchase
160 acres of land that bad been sold by
the rallroai at a price exceeding 12.60
an acre, and Inquiring what assurance
the government would give that the title
was good. t k
eooad lette Appears,
t At about the same time Mr. George la
said to have addreased a letter, to Mr.
Townaend, saying he had purchased 160
acres of railroad land which he .was
about to sell, and that his title was ob
jected to because the land had been sold
by the railroad originally at a price In
excess of $J.60 an ere. , Mr1. George's let
ter naked what assurance Mr. Townaend
,could give him as to the. validity of the
title, to enable him to ..proceed with the
ale.. The land was not aescrioea in ine
letters, and they were so written aa to
conceal the connection between the two
correspondents. - .,-.; v,x- ; vV.'-K,-The
circumstance of . the two letters
la believed to Indicate that it was the
manlf eat purpose of the parties to put
the government In the position of either
questioning the titles to these small
holdings,, so a to prove so much Injury
to Oregon land titles as to discredit the
government's suit, or to force the at
torney for the United States Into state,
roents that might be : construed as a
waiver of breaches of -conditions 6f the
grant, and thus defeat the suits now
pending In the United States court.
TJ' '.,'; epUes Well Guarded. '
' The letters written by Mr. Townsend
In reply are said to have been so guard
ed in their statements that the alleged
scheme failed in both Its objects. There
upon the plan Is said to have been de
vised to have suit instituted by George
agalnat the Curtlas Lumber company in
which Mr. Townaend should be called as
a witness andthe parties should revive
their i effort which failed through the
medium of correapondence.
The suit waa Instituted, Mr. Townsend
was subpenaed, and appeared in Albany
December lo. Apparently the oppor
tunity to testify In the ault was exact
ly what Mr. .Townsend wanted because
while on the witness, stand he stated he
could have claimed his privilege as an
attorney in th land grant suit and re
fused to testify. He stated, however,
that It was the desire of the government
to put at rest any uncertainty as to the
land titles not Involved In pending liti
gation, and that the department of jus
tice had long dealred to make public its
attitude on tbla point, but doubted the
propriety of communicating Its views
through the medium of a newspaper
articla
.Mr. Townnd than proceeded to tes
tify and in most emphatic terms dem
onstrated that the titles of those who
had purchased the railroad lands In
quantities le tba. 1000 acres would
never be attacked, and that this policy
was adppted by authority -of congress,
which vested the attorney general with
discretion to determine which suits
should bs Instituted, by the act of April
ao. ios.'
At the same time Mr. Townsend de
clared with equal emphaais that , the
United States would not waive Any vio
lations of the conditions Of the grant ao
far as the railroad company was con
cerned. ' ; '
BTammond scheme JToi Approved.
It Is regarded as of particular alg
ntflcance that at the time of the trial
of the Oeorge-Curtlss Lumber company
suit the Curtlss Lumber company was
represented by W. S. Burnett. Mr. Ham
mond's son-in-law and by J. K. Weath
erford of Albany, local attorney for the
Southern Pacific company. The Port
land attorneys for the Hammond com
panies did not appear In the caaa
According to a prominent lumberman,
who is also heavily Interested in O. C.
lands, the alleged action of the Ham
mond people Is not approved by .the ma
jority of other purchasers, who, while
restating the government's contention,
at the aami time discountenance the re
aort to any trick or subterfuge designed
to embarrass the government in this lit
igation. At any rate It Is thought that the out
come of the Oeorge-Curtlss Lumber
company suit, and the testimony of Mr.
Townsend given during the trial, should
allay all possible apprehension aa to
the validity of tltlea to land secured
from the railroad In quantities' under
1000 acrea
While B. D. Townaend when seen yes
terday, would not discuss the attitude
of the Hammond Interests towards the
government's litigation, be admitted
having received the letters in question
from both George and Burnett.
, Present Indications point to a lively
three .. cornered conteat for the emo
oratlo nomination for governor of Illi
nois at the primaries next April. The
prospective candidates for the nomlnaT
tlon are Samuel Alschuler of Aurora,
former Congressman Ben P. Caldwell
and former Mayor Edward F. Dunne of
Chicago. , - . ...... .
PENDLETON. OR., LODGE
LOSES VETERAN MASON
r Br P. Beck -
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Psndlaton, Or.,. Jan. 10 The . Pendle
ton lodge, A F. and A M., lost Its old
est member In point of connection with
the order Wednesday, when- B. F.. Beck,
a well known pioneer of the city, was
Called by death. , His demise followed
the amputation of one of his legs, which
had become' affected by senile gangrene.
He had been a resident of Pendleton
since 1S7 and - for many years had
been In the ' hardware business. Be
Sldss' being' a member of the Maaonlo
order,, ha belonged" to the local poet of
the O. A R., having served in the Civil
war as a member of Company C, Eighth
Illinois. He leaves a widow and five
children by a former wife, who died 16
years ago. His children aref Mrs. H.
O. Thompson of Portland, Mrs. Oeorgn
Pratt of Tacoma, Mra. Ous Byers of
this city and James and Fred Beck of
this city. - , - v .-
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
ASPIRES TO OFFICE
Henderson of Ockley
Green 'School Would Be
County , I' Superintendents i
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' G. W. Henderson, principal of the
dckley Green school, yesterday filed
his declaration to become a candidate
fnf ih. RannhllnAii nomination for coun
ty school superintendent. His slogan la,
"Closer . organization ana - cioior aupr-
vision of school work." ' He designates
the following words to be placed after
his name on the ballot: ''Economy, ef
ficiency, .:; energy, progress. ; Frequent
visits to ; schools. Constant help to
teaohera" . 1
He outlines his policy and beliefs In
the following statement:
"The wealth and happiness of a com
munity must be determined' by the skill,
dexterity and judgment with which lis
labor Is applied, and by the relative
number of men employed In uaeful labor
and those not so employed. a , . :
"I believe that the sohoola should
educate n those things that pertain tf
'living' and to maklng a living. -"We
should educate away from lux
ury and Idleness to plain living and use
fulness as a means to happiness. :
"The superintendent of achools should
be . a practical school -man and should
have no business,-private school-or lit
erary relations to Interfere . with his
work. :
"I have been Identified with toe pub
lio schools in both high school and
grammar . school work for 10 years.
, "My policy Is: 'Closer: orgsnlaatlon
and cloaer supervision' of school work,'
"If nominated and elected to this of
fice It shall be my study to so conduct
the affairs of the office as to unite the
highest degree of economy to the tax
payer with the greateat efficiency and
energy on the part of teachers and pu
pils. ;
"I ahall devote all my time and en
ergy to educational work.'"
J Postal Bank at Brownsville.
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i Brownsville, . Jan, 10, -The ' Browns
ville Postal Savlnga bank opened yes
terday morning, Several deposits were
madei';,': -f' '.VI
. The ballot for the election In Boston
on January will be the- smallest ever
presented for an election in that city.
Only II names will appear on the bal
lot, candidates for the city council
and school committee. ' ' .
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Governor Harmon of Ohio for presl
dent and Governor Burke of North Da
kota' for vice president is the national
ticket conceived by some of the Demo
crats politicians. - ,. ,
H
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TO BE UTILE EVA
And Calvin H6ilig to Play Part
of Eliza in Uncle Tom
Show Thursday Night.. ,;
' When Ellra escapes over the Ice and
washtubs of water at the first annua)
Follies at the Helllg theatre next Thura
day night, the entire membership of the
Theatrical Managers' association Is ex
pected to stand in the wing of , the
stage and sing "Shall We Gather at the
River." . -;.:t i-ri -V"- '5.
Tboae who wlh gather without fall
will be the bloodhounda from the state
penitentiary, and a few sunea who will
be paid for the Indignity of wet feet
The managers "will probably be watch
ing Cal Helllg as EU&) carrying Baby
George Baker: (as Little Eva) over the
river that marks the stage pathway to
freedom. ' . " " '
v The foregoing Is Just ". an Inkling of
the fun that will be on- tap next Thurs
day night when the first annual Follies
Is played In Portland, and Incidentally
the first Folnes on the Pacific, coast.
The Portland theatre managers are
going to. give the first big show of
the century,; every act av feature . and
every performer a atar.
It is a compliment to the patrons of
the show shops,- and at the sama time
Is Intended aa the beginning of a series
of annual entertainments that will prove
the great big event of every year.
There will be professional people with
out number at the Follies, the cleverest
of their different lines, but the thing
that Will attract moat attention will
be a performance of Uncle Tom's oabin,
the parts being played by the managers
themselves. It Is the first chance the
anagers have ever had to demonstrate
w the various parts should be played.
and the cast will bs as follows: - , -
Uncle Tom ........ Frank Cofflnberry
Little Eva .......... George L. Baker
Topgy Tairy Keating
Manna Shelby .,...,..' Milton Seaman
Rllza ................ Calvin 8. Helllg
Marks, the Lawyer. , . . John F. Cordray
St. Clair William S. Pangle
Simon Legree "Jack" Johnson
Auctioneer .......... Charles N. Ryan
Miss Ophelia .. .vi . . ... . . Dan Flood
Aside from the play of "Uncle Tom'a
Cabin" aa it 'will be played by the
managers and as It has been written
by a prominent ' Portland newspaper
man, there will, be numbers of unique
and clever features. Some of them will
be on the stage, and others will be out
in the foyer and In front of the Helllg.
The theatre will be handsomely decor
ated, and then there will be a clever lot
of stunts- that will start people smiling
as" soon as - they - disembark . from the
street cars. As they progress up Seventh
toward the Helllg there will be a general
Increase in hilarity and when they en
ter' the big doors of the Helllg there
will be a reception tha will be worth
while. ,.;
Just what the features are the man
agers refuse' to say. . v..
They would never have admitted the
"Uncle Tom" atunt If they had hot
been caught In the act of rehearsal.
Tlcketa to the Helllg for the big Fol
lies will be at a premium before Thurs
day. They are now on sale at all the
box offlcea at $1 each, and are ex
changeable at the Helllg box office
Thuraday morning for reserved aeats.
There are no paaaee.
LARGE FORECLOSURE A
SUIT IN LANE COUNTY
Cottage Grove, Or., Jan. JO. The case
of the Truat company of America va
the Oregon A Southeastern railroad,
with TJ H. Hall, W. B. Foater. G. T.
Ellis' and H. L, Bown as codefendants,
Is said to be the largeat foreclosure
ault ever brought in Lane county. The
trust company seeks to foreclose a $300.
000 first mortgage on the railroad, which
has a line running from here 10 miles
ud the Row river valley to Dlsston.
The case was also brought to estab
lish the priority of the mortgage over
the claims of Hall, Foster and Ellis,
three of this codefendants, who were In
jured In - a -wreck on the road My T,
1909: ' Mr. : Bown, aa sheriff, attach 1
property of the road in an attempt to,
satisfy the claims of the other wd
fondants;'' and was, therefore, made a
codefendant with them. .
By burying' them In dry : sawdust
lemons can bw kept freah for week.
REFEREE'S SALE
y Of REAL
PROPERTY
The west 88 feet of fractional bloclc
56 in Couch's Addition to the City of
Portland, Oregon, and a tract of land
IS feet wide and 98 feet deep, lying ,
Immediately adjoining taid fractional .
block 66 in Couch's Addition to the V
City of Portland, Oregon, laid, prop
erty being- on the southeast corner of
Tenth and Burnside streets; in this
city, will be sold by the undersigned ,,
the courthouse in this city on Wednes
day,1 January "24th, 1912, at the hour .
of 10 o'clock a. in. of said day.
' This property is sold subject to the
rights of the City of Portland In the
extension and opening of Oak street
through said real property. r
John H. Stevenson
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