NEWBEBG. YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1914 A PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR REMAINS OF W. N. SUTTON BURIED AT DUNDEE ESTHER HOLLINGSWORTH. on "SdMwl Sanitation” aft 3 o’clock Saturday, March 14. Taacbora at fighting me, the undersigned, A WORD FROM PURDY are and I might add, too, that I have no attorney fend that I am It Fighting Some Twenty Law- fighting my own case, so the public must not expect to o much yen Single Handed - o f me. But there is one thing sure that I can safely say, that E ditor Graphic: You will kindly allow me to when 1 started in to litigate, or communicate to the public, rather to defend myself against through your valuable paper, the litigation started against the status o f my cate, a t my ac­ me, that I had as good a war­ quaintance! have recently ex- ranty deed as any man or woman pretted themselves at being very in the state o f Oregon, and I con­ t o n y th at m y tuit w at th row » sider myasif well, qualified t o out o f court, they having read know what a good, legitimate the article in the Portland Jour­ deed is, as I have been a notary nal relative to my m otion for a public for eight or ten years and separate trial for my case being have acknowledged many deeds. Now, I wish to suggest to the denied. I with to state that my reader that he take a deed that trial on the escheat cate it set to come off April 6, before Honora­ was other than genuine and offer ble Judge M orrow,, o f Depart­ it for record,^and alter doing so ment 2 o f the Circuit Court o f some adverse party should ask for an injunction to prevent you Multnomah county. The other cate, wherein 1 have ] from recording it, and then you sued C. M. Idleman. Agnes Butts have p hearing and the judge or­ and the estate o f H. D. Winters, ders your deed recorded, alter is not at this time at issue, but which the controversy is carried will be soon. Mr. Idlemau filed into the courts, and you are de­ a motion asking that I* should feated in the lower court, the make my complaint more defi­ case goes to the supreme court nite and plain, and I am now and you are defeated there. Then ready to file an amended com­ you go back into court tw o dif­ plaint which >« *o definite and ferent times and place the estate plain'that there will be no ques­ and the parties adverse to you tion as to that phase o f the case, in a position that they w ill have but 1 wish to call the attention to spend hundreds of dollars be­ o f the public to the fact that they fore they can again hold on to cannot rely altogether on the the property that is described in public press of Portland, I am said deed. sorry to say, and especially so of Now, ot course, I do not think the Portland Journal, tor it you could get this for in a con­ seems anxious to give the other troversy of this kind unless you side the best ot the deal. I sup­ had a g o o d ‘ deed, because I am pose the reason for that is that confident that you would get run Thomas O’Day, John Manning in somewhere and a criminal ac­ and Oss West are linked to ­ tion would sure be pending gether to deteat me out ot my against you, if you had not al­ rights to this property, and I am ready gone to ja il for offering a expecting, as long as I tell this deed o f that kind for record, and to the public, that the Portland while you are considering this Journal will hammer aw ay at matter remember the writer o f this article has been just as free mg. The Oregonian and Telegram as the sun that shines, and not a have recently been very fair in blot nor Mur is upon any record their reporting o f my case, but I with reference to any criminal would advise that whatever you4 action lor the introducing o f this read with reference to this trial deed or causing this estate and that you read between the lines, its adverse claimants to spend tor mole hills will be made into these thousands o f dollars mountains, and especially will through this controversy. There is only one thing more this be so with the Journal. Why, this paper even had Idleman as that I can think o f at this time, my attorney in an article when and that is that “ this is a re­ they reported my having sued markable case.” Yours very truly, for one hundred thousand dol­ Will E. Purdy. lars damages for their swindling, robbing and defaming me. DUNDEE POSTOFFICE ROBBED I might add that there are — — — 0 about nineteen attorneys con­ The depot and postoffice at nected in one w ay or another in Dundee were broken into on this Winters controversy, and Tuesday night and some few all o f these, with one exception, articles takes. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hollings-* On last Sunday the remains ot worth gave their daughter. M iss. * • Sutton, w ho was in bu*i- Esther, a pleasant surprise by in- n