Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-16

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conspiracy 30 Dcfrauh the Government.
ST LOUIS, March 15th-Unitsd States
Special Agent Tyreell arrested here to-day
t.oOert H. Lindsay, a well-known lawyer and
investigator of land titles, en- chsrge Of
cons piracy to defraul the Government cut Of
lands by uttering false deeds under fraudll-
lent Titles. These operations appear TO have
extended over long period of years, COM
mencing prior to 1860, and it is estimated
that from 100000 to 1000. eco acres
OF land IN Wayne. Bntier, Shannon, Rip
ley. Oregon, Carter, Reynolds Dent, Iron
aud other counties of southeastern Missouri
are involved. The frauds were originally
perpetrated under the Graduation Act passed
by Congress in 1854 Under this Act large
amounts of land in this State were graduated
in price from 81 down to 12a cents per acre,
and any one could enter their 120 acres for
actual settlement on application to the Reg
ister of the Land Office and paying the price
OF the land on subsequent proof of settlement
Government patents were issued and title
perfected as long ago as between 1856 and
1860. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of appli-
cations were made for the cheapest grade
of land, the applicants being chiefly men who
were hired for the purpose by bands of specu-
lators. On these applications, and sibse-
quent proof Of settlement, the latter being,
as Is now asserted, composed largely of false
athdavits, great number of patents passed
into the hands of these SPECTATORS, or, as
they are now called, swindlers. Some of
these parties are now dead, but others were
subsequently engaged in the operations, even
as late as two years ago, and lived
and are now living III various parts
of the country. From 1861 to 1866
and 1870 a large number of land warrants
disappeared from the Land Office at Iront N,
partially without the knowledge of the Regis.
ter. Under these patents and hundreds
more issued previously, an immense
amount of land has been sold and deeds
issued by parties in nearly all the large
cities of the country. There seems to be
a regular organized band engaged in the
work, of whom Special Agent Tyrren re-
CARDS Lindsay the chief oonspirator Ia fact
other and very important arrests were made
simultaneously with that of Lindsay, and
still others will be made. Those arrested so
far are Orland Van Heze and John Ker-
win. lawyers and real estate agents of Cleve-
land; Geo. Linn, of Linndale, near Cleve-
and Fl. r, Mcclellan, of Pittsburg.
There are still others implicated in
this swindle in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and other cities, and additional
arrests may be looked for at any
time. The deeds issued by these parties
have been manipulated in the manner usual
with land swindlers, and everything looks
fair and honest; but stupendous frauds have
been systematically perpetrated, and hun
dreds, perhaps thousands, of persons have
now settled upon or have acquired land In
southeast Missouri, the title to which is val
ueless. A thorough investigation of the
swindle viii be made by United States Dis
srict Attorney Bliss, and all parties will be
dispossessed of the land they have procured
under these fraudulent deeds and Illegally
issued patents. It is estimated that several
millions of acres of land will revert back to
the Government when the affair is straight
eued out. Robert L. Lindsay has borne
good character here. and his father, James.
Liudssy, was Register of the Land Office at
Ironton for several years. There is no evil
dence, however. that he was at any time con-
cerned in the swindle. It is expected that
one or two other arrests will be made here.
tomorrow.
Education OF Young Indians.
New YORK, March 15th.-At a meeting
tonight for the purpose of raising funds for
the education OF young Indians, ex-Secretary
of the Interior Carl Schurz was introduced
by Rev. DR.. Hitchcock, President of the
Union Theological Seminary, and said that
in his administration as Secretary OF the In
terror he could look back with pleasure to the
interest he had taken in the In
dians. Wise statesmen of the past
thought the Indian question could
be best settled by granting them a reserva-
tion on which they could live ia their own
way unmolested. This theory was exploded,
and he advocated giving them individual
tracts OF land, the SAM IS yE'itss, tkus or
degrees making them good citizens Of Ipdias
descent. They weIe es asle OF edu6s-
tion,, and made gc.d srsdess sad
small farmers. In educating them. il
was not only necessary to teach them how to
write, but also how 10 live and make iv-
ing When taught, though they returned to
their families, they did not, as many sup
posed, return to their former way of living,
but were honored and looked up TO by others.
There were but SO, 000 of these children, and
though it might be a work of time, they could
be educated. The reservations, he thought,
would eventually he taken from them,
as in the march of railroads and set
tiers to the westward qnarrels would arise
and the Government would decide ia favor of
progress. Most of these were honest and in
dpstrious, many being employed by the Gov
ernment as freighters. They should be
taught small industries, as well as being edu-
Gated. This was awoTk Of time, and could not
be perfected hastily. He advocated the sup
port of the schools at Hampton and Carlisle.
General Miles and Bishop Whipple also
spoke in favor of the object Of the meeting
Not Lynehee.
BALTIMORE, March 15th.-Mr. Wright of
Westminster, Nd, has received telegram
from his son, who was recently reported
throughout the Union as having been lynehed
by vigilantes in Colorado, being mistaken for
a horsethief. Wrighctelegrsp from Silver
City, N. NJ, that after painful suferings he
reached that place and read with horror the
on Iyf Of hic f1aath in ha Mao
Herald.
Informal Ballot for Emitted States Senator.
AUGUSTA (Me. j March 18th The informal
Senatori, ballot was Wm. p. Frye 1O5,
R. A. Frye GA.
Municipal Elections.
AUGUSTA {aIe.) March 18th = Mayor
,Vickery was eelected by Al majority, the
largest Republican majority of many years.
At Camden the Greenbaekers elected every
town officer. The Democrats made no nom
nations.
CITY Organized.
DEADwooD I'd. t., March 18th. This city
has been organized under the recent Iegisla-
tive Act. The Mayor is Daniel Mclaughlin,
formerly of Cheyenne.
Murder and Suicide.
New York, March 15th.-E. Memorth
shot Emil Pauly fatally to day, and then
blew his own brains out He was almost
insane, and believed that Pauly and Mrs.
Memorth held improper relations
Constitutional Amendments Adopted.
INDIANAPOLIS. March 15sh.-The constitu-
tional amendments were certainly adopeed
yesterdays
The Mormon Question.
New York, March 16th-A. H.-The Her
aid says GarfeldPs reference in his inaugural
address to the Mormon question, and the ne
cessity Of dealing sternly and resolutely
with the polygamist Saints, has created
small storm in Salt Lake city.
The same old defense is made by the organs
and advocates Of the twin relic that plu-
rality Of wives is part of the Mormon creed.
and that the supreme law of the land pro-
hibits interference with religion 1t would
be idle to enter into a discussion of
subject upon which every argument that
can be advanced had been said thousand
times. The country has made up its mind in
regard to the Mormon iniquities, and the
universal judgment is that its existence is a
blot upon our civilization. Garfield, if he
shall succeed in wiping it out, will render
great service to humanity and make his sd-
ministration one of the most memorable IN
our history.
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