Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-12-08

To consider NOu my legal advisor OIL
not, a~ III the event of my not com
ing Ia terms with those gentlemen
wish to know how you and vii
he placed; and to be candid Will
.ou, | do not see how | can do nv.
self the pleasure to accept of YOU,
services on the conditlous proposed
am, dear sir, your obedlent num-
bic servant, John McLouGHLIN.
john Ricord, on 17th advised DIR.
McLouShlln that there was nothing
further To detlin INN IN the country.
and Requested tue doctor to advise
him of the flme of the sailing of the
next vessel for Sandwich Islands.
On the ll,h December, Rev. Jason
Lee and RECORD came to Fort Van
couver, to secu,e passage to the Is
lands: While waiting to mbark, X :
cord invited proposition from DIR
McLonShlin. AnNiuu> 40 ,onclliate
opposition and end con rovcr,y, he
submitted in writing both to Lee
and RECORD ,he following:
To allow the VI .thodist Mission
lois for II church, = for school
, lots for n clergyman, lois for i.
schuolmaster. These lois to be taken
out of the unconceded lots, in blocks
between streets No. 8 aud ID, and
they restore lots l, 2, 3, 1, 5, 6, I,
s, in block No. %, and t and 5 in
block No. Is. As to the house oc-
cuvied by MIR. Abernethy, l will APP
point two arbitrator, the Mission
will appoint two, these will nomin.
ate fifth, and will pay what these
arbitraiors state the building is
worth. l will allow the Mission one
lot on which their store is built;
one lot on which is the house MIR.
Waller lives in. II the Mission is
withdrawn, or gives up keeping a
store, the lots to revert to me, and
will pay for the improvements; or if
they will give them up now, 1 will
pay for the improvements, and give
them two lots alongside of their
school and church. 1t must be I'M
derstood in making the estimation
that MIR. Walters house was built
with my timber.
"The milling company to go on as
they have done, and when the boun-
dairy is settled, if Government adj
mits my claim, | will appoint two ar
bltrators, the milling company will
appoint two, these four will nomin-
ate fifth. These five will estimate
the value of the work done by the
milling company on the island, and
the value of the place they occupy,
and it will be optional for me 10
take their buildings, or to give over
to them my claim, and they he bound
to pay the estimated value put upon
it by the arbitrators."
DIR. Mclaughlin verbally stated his
willingness to adjust any personal
claim which the Rev. Mr.. Waller
could establish for alleged services.
Both Lee and Ricord expressed their
APPRECIATION of the liberal conduct
and fairness of DR.. Mclaughlin, yet
Notwithstanding, on the 22nd OF
February, 1874. the following notice,
bearing date December Sth, 1913,
(Which was in the pocket of Ricord
at the time lie was at Fort Vancou-
yer and when he invited comprom-
Use, } was served on DR.. McLous hlin
To JOHN McLouGHLIN ESQ,
c. +. H. b. COMPANY:
Sir: You will please to take no.
tice that my client, Mr.. A. f. Wal
Ter, has taken formal measures at
Washington to substantiate his
claims as a pre-emptor and actual
settler upon the tract of land, some.
times called the Willamette Falls
settlement, and sometimes Oregon
City, comprising six hundred aud
forty acres, an being aware that al
though foreigner, you claim to
exercise acts of ownership over said
land, this notice is given to aprrise
you that all sales you may make of
lots or other subdivisions of said
farm after the receipt hereof will be
regarded by my client, and by the
Government as absolutely fraudul-
ent, and will be made at your peril.
The grounds upon which my client
claims exclusive right under the laws
of the United States of acquiring
patent for said land are:
LIST, As citizen of the United
States, 1910, when he first took DOS
session of the same.
ID, Prior occupancy, building
fencing and clearing of said land,
from which he has never removed
his domicile.
The grounds on which he denies
your pretended claim to the right
under the laws of the United States
of acquiring patent to the said
tract of land are:
list, That you are an alien owing
allegiance to foreign government,
and therefore you are not eligible to
such clam.
I'd, That you are the chief officer
of a foreign corporate monopoly,
and that would be sufficien. of itself
to debar you of any such rights.
Sd, That you have never resided
upon the land alluded to since the
month of December. A. ID. 1910,
when you first openly laid claim TO
the same, but that on the contrary
you have always resided and still re-
side at Vancouver ON the north bank
of the Columbia, within the terri
tory actually in dispute between the
two Governments, at least twenty
miles from this land, and that upon
no other principle than that of omni-
presence could you be supposed to
settle therein.
4th, That while you pretend to
hold said land. for yourself, you in
fact mold the same for foreign cor.
porate body, evinced by the employ
mani nf fharr ouant. n,>.l