Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-06
Legal Tender Advocates.

Legal Tender Advocates.
NEW YORK. Oct. s.
The United States Legal Tender Club
has called a meeting at Cooper's Insti-
tute for the 18th to form a Democratic
Legal Tender State Central Organiza-
ton.
The Federal Ring in Colorado -
Third Termers I'm Trouble.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.
A Washington special says: The
Treasury Agent, FOrney, who was
sent out to investigate the charges
against l.. Schatfenburg, former Mar
shall of Colorado, gives a graphic pic
ture of tie enormous operations OF the
Denver ring. Forney left here with
foui accounts that had been submitted
by Schatfenburg at the close of his
marshal's term. Forney went out for
the purpose of comparing these &C.
counts, as submitted to the Treasury
Department, with the original records
of the Court, in order to discover their
falseneSs or correctness. He found the
four accounts fraudulent and had Sc.
cured the payment of large sums of
money to Schaffenburg that amounted
to practical robbery. One of the prin-
cipal swindlinX features of the mans
style of keeping with the
Government was in charges for keep
ing prisoners. Every man who WAS
arrested was made to figure as a pris-
oner in the accounts, whether he saw
the inside of a jail or not. A RESPONSE
BILE citizen would be arrested for some
trivial infraction of the United States
law and would be, perhaps, released
on his own recognizance; yet snch
cases a. that were made to figure, un-
der Schatfenburg's manipulations, As
prisoners in Jail from 3 to 6 months,
requiring the payment of 81 so each u
day for their Subsistence. H.. &. AL
lerman, District Attorney at the time
Schatfenburg was Marshal, made
himself very unpopular by his persist.
ent arresting of men for trifies and
carrying the cases up for the fees; vet
he never arrested a man but Schaffen-
burg made ajail-bird OF him and made
out a bill for subsistence. Some of the
best men in Colorado. without their
knowledge, have been placed in Schat-
fenburg's accounts tothe Treasury De-
partment on q par with thieves and
Inurderers. During the last six years
there have not been yer WI hundred
prisoners confined by the United
States authorities, and yet Schatfen-
burg, during his reign, sent in ac-
counts charging for the subsistence of
v 9 W thousand prisoners. Another
mean of stealing from the Govern
ment was to O~vercharge for mileage.
This was done to such a preposterous
extent that, were it not for the import
ance of the crime, it could but excite
levity on account of the barefacedness
of the steal. He would send out a
deputy marshal to arrest q
man, and whether the deputy succeed
ed i'm finding his man or not, Schatfen-
burg would take the name in the a
RANT and enter it up as a prisoner or
whom he not only charged for sub
sistence at the rate OF 81 SO a day but
he also added mileage for the transport
tation of the mythical prisoner from
whatever point the wandering deputy
saw fit to select. One Of the most or
iginal ways was where S~chatfenburg
arrests himself and charges the Gov
eminent for subsistence. At one time
he, in company with some ring specu-
lators in Denver, went south Of that
city and through collision with the
then Register of the Land Office, took
up twenty-three sections Of homestead
land and though fictitious names were
used in the entries, all OF those lands
were afterward sold to David Mofiatt
4 Co., of the ring. Then the Govern
ment got wind of this and began suit
against the fictitious men in the deeds
Tor selling their homesteads. Then II
was that Schatfenburg arrested himself
and crowd by causing warrants to be
issued tor all Of the aliases used in the
fraudulent transaction, and ut once
placed the imaginary crowd in Jail and
charged up q lot of officers mileage,
guard expenses, with regular rates per
day for a long time in Jail. The above
are facts embraced in FOrney's reports
to the Attorney General. The most
practical result of the journey was &C
cOmplished in securing the indictment
of Schaffenburg on the four accounts
he took out. The x-Marshal was held
in the sum of $4,000 bail. Forney
also reports that the Government ought
not ts stop there, as he las gathered
evidence against Shaffenburg that will
warrant 30 indictments for perjury. 80
indictments for fraudulent accounts,
ana suits 10 recover upwards OF $780,
900 fraudulently taken from the Treas
ury of the United States. He says
Schaffnnburg, who tried to brass out
the charges at first, Is now thoroughly
scared and would jump the country II
it were not for his bondsmen. He says
that he has received to-day word from
Denver that a ring delegation will call
on the President this evening to beg
Off for Schaffenburg. They will claim
that his prosecution will break down
the party in Colorado. Meanwhile the
present Marshal, Col. Chas. c. Tonp-
kins. u man whom the ring can't scare
or buy, il n nephew of the President.
has also made arrangements to call on
Mr.. Grant with a counter delegation.
Mr.. Forney says II the Government
pushes the cases now In the United
States Court these against Schaffen-
burg, d. M0ffatt & Co., and ex- Regis
ter Cook for the loss and frauds, the
ring will be completely broken up and
the reign of good men in Colorado Sc
| cured.
Coming wess.
OMAHA, Oct. 4.
Sidney Dillon, Jay Gould, Oliver