Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-09-03
POLITIC AL.

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THE AMERICAN CORRESPONDING THE DII
FERENCE BETWEEN TwENTY-oNE poL1AB
FOR HoGsHEAD OF RUM, AND THIRH
THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR TEN THoUsAn
TONS OF TREsPAss TIMBER!! ~
How apt some men are to view thigs
through false medium; to persuade tim
selves that things are, almost as they soaLd
haze them.
We fear this was the case with our vor.
thy Land Agent, when he thought he sdd
Thirty Thousand Dollars worth of TrespAss
Timber; that he viewed the tre.sactjon
through false medium.
We doubt not but it would lave been
good thing for the State bad ne timber been
actually sold; the Treasury then was emp
ty, and no body wedld trust US, Under
such circumstance, it would have been
even a popular thing to make the people
believe, if possible. that the Posse instead
OF running tho State in debt, was indeed a
source of income.
But we fear this will turn out like many
of the tremendous business transactions of
1884 and s, when town paupers by stealing
out in the morning could make from 1900
10 $4,000 piece, before the business men
were stirring;-only, we do not think the
Land Agent has managed this affair so adj
roitly, as was the custom in those days.
How much has been said about the
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, that we never
have received for sales OF trespass timber,
nor ever shall.
We stated above that the Land Agent
thought he sold that amount, we believe he
says something about it in his report, but
he is mistaken. The timber has not been
sold. We believe Mr. Pearley's boy atten-
ded at the adjourned sale and bid the most
of it off, but that Mr.. Pearly has not yet
complied with the terms, and probably
never will. What kind of sale is it,
where nothing is paid, and nothing deliver
ed2 If the timber was sold and the sales
secured by good bonds, why did the State
incur the great expense of afterwards cut
ting it from the ice, and piling it on the
banks of the river; And if it was sold
why was it not run to market last spring,
why lie it yet retained on the banks, prey
to worms and rot2
Now. reader, we will give you further
history of this timber, or wooden humbug.
by those who had been appointed to explore
the Aroostook and its tributaries, that there
were, in the river, on the brows, and var
ded, about ten thousand tons of trespass
timber, which report we doubt not was cor
rect. All Of this timber was secured above
the boom, except about two hundred tons,
say 100 tons in small stream called Fitz-
hurberts Brook, 10 tons on brow at
Dorsey's, and 81 tons at Barney Nc
Lauglin's, which Barney, not having the
fear of the Land Agent before his eyes,
stole, or rather took in clandestine manner
to foreign market and sold, in part pay
ment therefore brought home with him a
hogshead Of rum. Now when Barney re-
turned, he was ordered by the powers that
were, at Fort Fairfield, to give his bond or
note to pay the State at the rate of So per
ton stumpage, one third or gel, on demand,
and the remainder on time: which, after
some hesitation, Barney complied with
Well, now the Land Agent thought he had
caught Barney nicely, (don't laugh at our
Peter Farley style, reader, because we
can't help it, so what does he do, but make
writ on the S2l, and sends Sheriff and
a Police Officer to attach poor Barney
rum. The rum was stored at the Fort
about three weeks before Barney could
make raise, when he paid the 1891 on de-
snand," and trundled the hogshead back
again.
Reader, don't laugh, when we honestly
and candidly inform you, that this is the
only cash payment for 10000 tons of tres
pass timber that we ever knew or heard of,
up to the LIST Of April, 1910. We know not
how much the Land Agent may have col
lected since, but we don't believe he has a
single cent.
We challenge the Land Agent to show
that he has received any other SUMS, to-
wards the THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Now we will tell you what became of
the timber in Fitzherbert's Brook. That
Timber was made by Nathan johnson, for
Charles Melinda Of Woodstock, who fur
nlshed supplies for several trespass teams
on the Aroostook. Nathan Johnson was
owing note 10 one James Mccain, paya-
BILE in lumber, and which fell due about the
Goth of June, 1889, when Mccain called
on johnson for the payment, who surveyed
and delivered to McCan the amount in this
very timber, and the same day at noon,
in sight of Fort Fairfield, it was quietly
run to foreign market. For this, we un-
derstand Mr.. Johnson has not been called
upon, to account.
Again, Dennis Fairbanks trespsssed to