cent of the crime, The Governor is con
sidering the question of granting Johnson
a pardon. The affidavit of the girl which
has been tiled with the governor is as
Short Pdraqrdphs Reqardinq Dolnqs follows:
Throughout the Lenqth and ‘•I, Grace Barfield, being first duly
sworn, depose ami s«v that I am the wife
Breadth of Jackson County as of
Fiank Barfield, and I am a resident of
We Succeed In Capturing Ihem. Siskiyou county, state of California;
that I am well acquainted with Albert
Johnson,
who was convicted of the crime
SOME ARE NEWSY: SOME ARE NOI
of rape and sent to the penitentiary cf
the state of Oregon, from Jackson
Will Camp Out.
county, Oregon, on the 13th day of Dec
ember, 1899. That my name at that
Forest Ranger Henry Ireland returned time was Grace Allen, and I am the
this week from Lane county where he i ¡>erson who was prosecuting witness and
has been most of the winter upon the made the charge of rape upon which
Cascade Forest Reserve east of Eugene. said Albert A. Johnson wa* convicted.
In company with S. S. Sweeney and S. That said charge of ra|>e that 1 so tnadc
I.. McKee of Medford and W. J. Nichols against said Albert A. Johnson and
of Central Point, he will leave this week u|K>n which he was convicted was and is
to be gone some time in the vicinity of untrue. That the said Albert A. John
Lake Creek on tile Forest Reserve, 1 son never committed nor attempted to
where they have considerable work to commit the crime of rape upon me. At
do. It will be most unpleasant for Mr. the time of making said charge of raja-
Ireland and his party for some time as against the said Albert A. Johnson 1
it will be necessary for them to camp was young and did not know what was
out in the mountains and at a high al meant by the charge of rape which I so
titude where the temperature will not made against the said Alliert A. John
be the most agreeable and even though son and I now declare the said Albert
there tnav lie no more severe storms, the A. Johnson to be innocent of the said
nights will be very chilly for sleeping charge. That this affidavit is made by
out of doors. Mr. Ireland is a former me of mv own free will anil without fear
Jacksonville man and has been six years of any person.
in the government service.
(“Signed)
—Mrs. F. Barfield.”
THE COUNIT NEWS
Signals From Mountain Top.
G eorge W alter
C olvig & D urham )
It will be remembered by the people
living here at that time that in Decetn-
l.er, 1899, Albert Johnson, a man then
alrout 60 years of age and of Spanish-
Negro
extraction
pleaded
guilty
in the circuit court here to the charge of
rape made against him by Grace Allen,
a 15 year old girl of Indian blood and
was sentenced to serve a term of 15 years
in the penitentiary. The parties lived
in some shanties on Jackson creek, near
Jacksonville at the time, and it was
claimed that Johnson had forced the
girl to sign a statement exhonerating
him from the charge, although subse
quently pleading guilty to it himself.
Johnson has done time for more than six
years, but now a pardon is being sought
for him, the petition being supported by
a sworn statement from the girl, own
married and living in Siskiyou county,
Cal., who avers that Johnson was inno-
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Notice is hereby given that the under
of the Mazamas. This organization of
signed, as administrator of the estate of
Oregon mountain-climbing enthusiasts Johanna Blecher deceased, has filed his
has been in communication with the War final Account in the County Court of the
Department for some time urging that State of Oregon for Jackson County; and
signal camps Ire established, and the that Monday, the 1st day of May 1905,at
10. o’clock a. m. of said day, and the
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undoubtedly is due to the Mazamas.
appointed by said Court as the time and
place for the bearing of objections there
to, ami the settlement thereof.
N oh Says He Is Innocent.
FINEEASTER.HATS
Administrator
Attorneys for Estate f
Dated, and first published Marell 31,
1905.
A CHICAGO ALDERMAN OWES HIS
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IN THE COUNTY COURT OP THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK
SON COUNTY.
In the matter of the estate of Reliecca
II. Crump, deceased. Notice to present
claims.
Notice is hereby given that the under
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Administrator of the estate of Rela-cca
H. Crump, deceased. All jiersoiis hav
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Oregon, within six months from this
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