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JACKSONVILLE Vol. 2 SENTINEL Jacksonville. Jackson County, Oregon, Friday, December 9, 1904 FIVE FOUND GUILTY Fhings Worn By Men. Furness, the Gents Furnisher, expects . to get into his rooms in the Masonic First of the Series of Lund Fraud [ block in the next few days and will open Gases in 1. S. Court Fermi- ; up at once with a lieautiful line of ties nates and live of the Defend suspenders and other articles that are in ants Are found Guilty by Jury. dispensable to gentlemen. The line will I lie a nice one from which to select suit able Christmas gifts for gentlemen. A MAY APPEAL 10 HIGI1LK COURF little later he will have in stock a com plete line of Gent's Furnishing Goods of the best values and the latest styles. (From Wednesday's orcgoaian.) His stock has been ordered and im braces the very I*st and most up-to-date. Don’t The long trial ha» ended and ha* passed neglect to see him as he will lie able to into history; the tired but |*atieut jury please you. If he hasn't it, he’ll get it ha» gone, each member to his distant ! for you. home, but not until its composite hand traced the mark of guilt against the name The Sentinel gives the mining news. of each defendant hi the famous case. The strife ami contention of the Gov ernment, the sullen resistance of the de RAILROAD LANDS FO GO ON MARKET. fem*; the mass of evidence and the sweep of oratory, all has been weighed, Two Million Acres Railroad land, That sifted and judged and 12 men have de Were Withdrawn, to Goon Market Again. cided that Emma L. Watson, S. A. I). About 2,000,000 acres subsidy lands, of I'uter, Horace G. McKinley, Frank H. Walgatnot and Dan W. Tarpley are the Southern Pacific railway in Oregon guilty of the crime of having defrauded are to lie placed upon the market The the Government out of title to a portion date is not announced by the company, and officials decline to verify the state of its public land. At 2:15 the 12 men filed from the court ment that the land will tie placed on room out into the little room in which sale as early as January. It is said that the fate of so many men have been de there is a possibility that a large part of the land will be recruised and that por cided . The court announced a recess until such tions will be withheld by the company. The Oregon subsidy lands of the -Ore time as the jury should have come to a decision and the hum of conversation gon & California Railroad company, now arose ami filled the bare, comfortless the Southern Pacific, comprise about chamber. Men stood, packed like bales 2.500,000 acres. The grant orginailv of brooms, outside the lobby rail and laid coiisisted of every alternate section in a wagers, over shoulder, with friends upon strip extending 20 miles from the road the length of the intermission. Women on each side of the main line. The total sat around the wall anil the inner circle width of the subsidy grant pro|*er is 40 and exchanged excited whisfiers U|x>n the miles. In addition there is a ten-mile outcome. The lawyers deserted their strip outside of this grant on each side, posts where for 12 «lays they have clus termed indemnity land, from which the tered around the long table in earnest company is entitled to select a quarter contention and ill little groups discussed section in the original grant that had been filed upon by a settler. the outcome. The defendants bunched together and The Lands when placed upon the talked in low tones as they awaited their market year« ago were sold at from #1 fate. Ten minutes passed anil the whis- to $10 an acre. The price was gradually jx-ring groujis had dissolved. Tarpley raised until two years ago when the sale leaned against the clerk's desk alone; was discontinued, and prices range 1 from Enter sat twisting a fragment of paper, $2.50 to $15 an acre for agricultural land. slowly, ceaselessly in his hands; Mc Timber lands are sold as high as $25 an Kinley leaned against a pillar, silent, his acre in cases where the tiuilier cruised face no longer wreathed in smiles; Mrs. extremely high. The company claimed Watson waited, and with each swing of that the taxes an I exjieuses of hand the pendulum the blood mounted to her ling the lands exceeded all revenue face until her eyes, red and bloodshot, from its sale. gazed out from a mask of purple red. The greater part of the lands remain It lacked ten minutes until the hand ing in the control of the railway com had touched three when the tread of the pany lie in the counties south of Rose jury was heard along the hall and the burg. hum of voices sank to silence. The men The probable price is one of the most filed in ami took each the place w hich has vitally interesting to the people who re side on tracts adjoining railroad land. been his for 12 days and more. “We, the jury, find Emma L. Watson In many cases a quarter section in the guilty, as charged in the indictment. We* hills is almost worthless, with the ex find S. A. 1). I’uter, Horace G. McKinley, ception o. a few acres that join the land D. W. Tarpley and Frank H. Walgamot of a Ixma fide settler who desires to ac guilty as charged in the iudict nent. We quire these few acres from the conqwny. The past policy of the company under find the defendant Marie L. Ware not the adminstration of George H. Andrews guilty as charged.” The court decided that a bond of $ |(MMI was lilieral. The view was taken that it for the case convicted would lie ample was really better for the railway cotiqiany and therefore ordered that such security to get settlers on the land at any price be given. This will place the defendants rather than hinder development of the each under $N000 bonds, with the excep territory contiguous to the railway line tion of Tarpley and Walgamot, who are by keeping the lands idle and unproduc concerned in one case only, and whose tive. bonds are $4000 each. It is thought that under the present There is no doubt but that an appeal management there will be a continuance will lie taken. The attorneys for the del of a fairly liberal policy, and if this pre fense are now preparing their motion, vails the coming year is expected to and will in all prolmbility, present it at bring great results in the growth of rural the opening of the next case, on Tuesday population for Oregon in the Southern Pacific territory.—Tidings. December 13. DESTROYED BY FIRE Cottage Home oF Frank Smith oF Fhis Place Entirely Destroyed By fire Last Saturday Morn- Ing.—Loss is About $700.00. OTHER LOCAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS No. 30 Death of H. F. Barron. Monday’s edition of the Ashland Tid ings gives an account of the sudden death Monday, by accident of Major H. F. Barron, one of the well known and wealthy pioneer residents of the county, who has for many years held in conjunc tion with his sons, E. B., G. W. and H. W., large land and stock interest which are centerd at the farm homestead nine miles south of Ashland, on the Oregon and California wagon road. The Major, who was past 77 years of age but remarkably hale, vigorous and active for one of his advanced years left home this forenoon, with his son Homer, for the Barron sheep camp near the head of Samson creek, a tributary of Emigrant. While they were descending the Songer hill and in front of the new home of W. W. Nickerson, near the foot of the hill, the left front wheel of the wagon came off the spindle and the side of the wagon on which Major Barron was riding dropped down and he was pitched head foremost out of his seat and struck on his forehead on the rocks beside the road. The son rushed to him to pick him up, asking if he was badly hurt. The Major merely shook his head, relapsed into unconsciousness, and passed peacefully away at 11:15 o’clock, fifteen minutes after the acci dent happened, in the Nickerson home to which he had been immediately car ried. News was brought into town last Sat urday morning about eight o’clock that the residence of Frank Smith just north of the city limits on the Gold Hill road was burning, ami quite a number of people hastened out there at once but found that they were too late to be of any assistance as nothing but the smoul dering ruins remained when assistance arrived. It seems that the old gentleman who lived with the family and had a room in the rear part of the house, built up a roaring fire which caused the trouble, it catching from the pipe near the ceiling. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were neither at home, but the son and daughter at home succeeded in saving a few small articles Mr. Smith who was in Tolo, was noti fied and started for home on a bicycle at once, but met with a serve accident on the way, the wheel striking a rock while coasting down hill, throwing him with terrific force and crushing bis knee on a rock. The loss falls heavy on the family as there was no insurance on the property. The attention of our readers is called Mr. and Mrs. Smith have the sympa to the weather report that appears each thy of the entire community in their month in the columns of the Sentinel double misfortune. and which is carefully prepared by U. S. weather observer E. Britt. Preserve If you have occasion to visit thecounty these reports from month to month and a seat and dont know where to stop, in quire for the Taylor House where you few years hence you will be the possessor can secure first class beds and meals by of statistics which you will value highly. the day or week. Transient trade solicit Sweet cider for mince meat at Learned’s. ed and all treated right.