The Placer herald., 1872-04-06
SOLEMNCHOLlY GONE.

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learn, from comparative poverty become
wealthy in few years service, on very
moderate salary. How he made his money
people having business with his office can
best answer. His acts escaped one investi-
CATION by Commissioner Days refusing, Or
not having the power, to compel witnesses to
testify as to the money exacted from them
for certain business, and other matters.
What could have induced these witnesses to
refuse to testify to the truth is more than we
can imagine, unless they feared the effect it
would have on their interests. We COM
mittcd an act soon after Nc. went into Office
that must have given him offence, Judging
from his acts towards this office ever since.
We published the fees allowed the Register
for filing pre-emption, homestead and mining
claim applications, and per folio for taking
testimony, etc, accompanied by some re-
marks, based on information, as TO charges
made in the Marysve Office which we
deemed illegal and eytortionate, and sup
posing that he would concur in them, and be
pleased to read them, sent him a copy of the
paper. This we did as an act of justice and
warning to the poor men and families in this
county who were struggling to raise the
means and secure titles to their homes We
also wrote to McCallum asking him for some
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our neighbors, and send to the office with
liberal fee, as it would save the applicants
much time, trouble and expense in going to
Sacramento, and this any applicant could do
under the law and instructions if he had the
blanks, and this also had been the custom of
his predecessor, and the various Registers of
the Marysvie office. lie sent us few
blanks, but indicated that he preferred that
we should not do anything of the kind. We
inferred from this that he preferred to force
these poor applicants to go to Sacramento,
at an expense Of some ten dollars each, as
himself or friends out of them This was a
misfortune to land applicants, but we had to
tell them that we could not accommodate
them, or save their time or expense under
such a Register. In the matter of publish
ing mineral citations and applications for
mining patents the Register has persistcntly
attempted to wrong us, the applicants and
the public, and violate the law. The law
requires these notices to be published in the
paper nearest the land applied for. After
repeatedly refusing to publish these notices,
and sending our friends to the Stripes office,
as that was the nearest paper to the claims,
others that the law required to appear in
this paper were also being published in the
Stripes. We then had our attorney write
to the Office and ask that the Register and
Receiver would fix their rule in this matter,
and answer what their decision was, as we
intended to make test case. The answer
came that the two offices were SO close to-
gether that they had agreed to allow the
applicants to select the paper. This was
satisfactory to us if it was to the conscicnces
of the land officers, even if applicants were
asked and urged in that Office to put their
notices in the other paper. Since the con-
firmation of Judge Mcfarland as McCallums
successor, thinking, we suppose, that he was
McCallum has sent these mineral citation
notices all to tn, other office, whether it was
nearest Or fartherest (of the two papers) from
the land, without asking the choice of the
applicant. This action has and is costing
the applicants more money, the notices reach
ing fewer readers, while both the law and
letter Of the land officers are being violated.
The time for prosecution for malfeasancc or
robbery under cover of Office is just begin
ming, and the mere leaving of an Office does
not prevent prosecution of an ex-oficer. 1t
was due applicants to know why and how
they had been imposed upon, and who
wronged them and made them poorer. We
hope the new Register will run the Office for
the benefit of the public. and with due re-
gard for the money, interests and wishes of
the applicants. seeing only that justice is
done the Government and them. We have
retained testimony as to what some twenty
applicants have paid, and what they should
have paid for work done in the office, and
shall do so in the future. We publish this
paper for the interests of the public, and not
as a white-washer of any particular person
Many of our readers know more Of the act
above referred to than we care to detail at
the present.
CHINESE SLAVE TRApE.-John NJ. Cogh-
Ian, member of Congress from the third dis.
trict in this State, has sent lis his printed