The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-08-04
ExroRTrD ExPAzssAT ron rHE HoRNrxs LEADER.
~ 4 G H It H Il p o Il IT.
Sargent, Of California, in
Hot Water.
The Strike in Massachusetts.
All the Mills Closed.
Important From the Black
Hills.
High Water in West Vir-
ginia and Ohio.
Election Returns.
Foreign Intelligence.
Election Returns.
Foreign Intelligence.

Chicago, Ang. "a Washington
Material fight in California promises
n revival of some of the secrets Of Off
cial life in the old time days. Each
of the candidates have agents in
Washington to gather all the informa-
ton against one another which can be
obtained from the records of the Inte-
rior department, and the developments
will show the most glarlng frauds in
California mining lands. \ short time
ago Senator Sargent charged Bilwell,
the Independent candidate, with hav-
ing gone 10 Washington in 1858, on an
appeal in certain land case which
nc wished 10 have dismissed, and that
lie corruptly used ten thousand dol
lars 10 accomplish his object. The
truth of The question is that Bidwell
was at Washington in 1853, on the
mission hereinbefore stated. Judge
Black, of Pennsylvania, was ut the
time Attorney General, and L. NJ
Stanton, subsequently Secretary of
him. The law in cases of appeal gave
a discretionary power to the Attorney
General by virtue of his Office, to dis
miss all appeals he saw fit, rather than
defend them before the United States
Supreme Court. Bidwell employed
his Attorney, Montgomery Bluir, and
lie worked on the case faithfully. but
Ldge Black refused to dismiss the APP
peal. After a discOurHgiug law siege,
friends advised Bidwell TO employ L.
NJ. Stanton. When Blair was in
formed of this recommendation he
was convinced that in no legitimate
way could he effect the dismissal of
the appeal, and he withdrew from the
case. Bidwell saw Stanton, and upon
his recommendation, Harry McGraw,
Pennsylvania lawyer. was retained.
A brief, which was actually drawn by
another party, though signed by Nc
Graw. was submitted to Stanton, and
by him in turn to Black. Soon there
after, the appeal was dismissed, and
BidweIl went home ten thousand dol
lars shorter in his bank account. SaT-
gent is now sorry that he ever made
this charge. 1t appears that while he
was in the House of Representatives
he introduced, and was mainly instru-
mental, in having passed what is
known as the placer mining bill"
While defending it on the floor in a
debate before the conference commit
tee, of which he was a member, he
was charged with having a direct in
terest in its passage. The law of 1865,
limited the location of lands to two
hundred teet in individual cases, and
to three Thousand feet to corporations.
Sargent's bill passed May 10, 1872,
which amended the act of 1866, and
gave squatters the right to purchase
land. 1t appears that Sargent had
collected a valuable tract of land to
which the old mining law did not give
him a good title. One of the first du-
ties he performed was to go to the In
terror department with his law part
ner, Jacobs, who lives in Nevada, and
enter in the latter's name, as placer
land, over a thousand acres. The cost
to Sargent was little over two hun
dred dollars, and after the patents
were obtained, the firm held it at
three hundred thousand dollars. One
of Sargent's own appointees in the
Surveyor Generals Office, in CaIifor-
mia, states that Jacobs had been offered
in London, for a majority interest,
one hundred and eighty thousand dol
lars. The record of the whole trans
action has been forwarded to Califor-
MIA.
W Chicago, Aug. a.-The Inter-ocsan
correspondent with the Black Hills