, 1883-03-10
Communicated.
VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.
Few "Reminiscences that q Respectable
Old Farmer Thinks Nay be Interesting
NEAR WALIa WALIA, March |.

! NEAR WALLA WALLA, March /.
EDTreR STATESMAN As one ThonA.
Lee is mi1ing me up with that land Jun ping
business, | would like TO say that | had
nothing wnstever TO do with IT, and further
more. tha, believe the person who filed
the contest against H=rry Lee has nobody
else bus himself 10 thank for the infcrma.
;ion he got about Henry Lees homestead
Furthermore. fellow citizens. fee, con
strained to make the following sjs;eme az,
which assure you do without any maiIce
to any ene. aud TO the best OF my kn uledye
and Capabilities OF Judgment
Aboes nSe years ago came into yonr
midst u make my home with you Tor the
remainder OF the f-w years Providence may
have sl.ottsd TO me, and settled on n pre-
eH,ntieG tes miles from tosn. Shortly.
one }. Zee, soa Of I. Lee, settled on railroad
lsEi adj Iining and put his house only few
yards from my line and took particular care
10 find ont from me now | held the land.
l,o ~-isez had been on the land. aud il
had any family or relatives living 10 this
country. The following winter Thomas
Estes met me IN town and ASKED me ii had
hanled quantity OF ~hea. out Of his barn
on Dry Cre;k Denying the saEIe, he told
me that man i'll Thomas Lees employ had
told him he had
SEEN NE GOING ~
With two hors. wagon ami coming cut
loa,ied with wheat sacks. succeeded In
putting hIm on what supposed 10 be the
right rack and J. Lee vas tried for stealing
the whea., hut as AIN informed, OWING to
one II The witnesses not wanting % testify
to assertions made before the trial, MAS ac-
Quilted for want OF evidsnce. Ii the Lees
had succeeded. by such means. I, senf :ne to
State's prison, J. Lee would have moved hts
house over the hae and taken my pre-.
emp.iou not succeeding IN this he aban-
doned tn. land. About three years aso
went 70 T. Lee to see him on business and
Thomas LIE told me that he wan.ed my
timber culture clam, and that could 50
INTO hi. pastur- and select any two horses
out Of his band for the came. BY me refus-
us 10 make any sush trade, he told me that
i he could not get the land from me by in'r
means That he woali get It anyway. for 1t
vas necessary for him to have it. II he had
succeeded in getting the land from me any
way, wonder whether he would call that
land jumping or no, Afterwara his son
Henry cane around when
WAS FENCING THE TIMBER
| rad planted on the same, aGd SAID that IS
no cattle could Ct in there, the grass voald
grow well So as to make good pasture Tor ms
horses. and believe he would have put his
hor,es in on my timber if he had not some
respect for shooting Irons.
am fully convinced ztha- hat MT tally
complied With the law, the Lees woSid have
not have called that jumping land
Now, fellow citizens, few words at1u.
lynch law. Congress mas enacted laws BY
which individuals may get homes, provided
they reside o. anl cultivate the land, aud II
the ps rsoIl 80 dong snail abandon ms home
stead, 1t gives aho:her person the rsHt 70
Lam the same Gui-r the homestead laws.
Vow, tne question aris-s heiore II. .h'li we
be i,ouu,i u cpnf rm To ard respect those
!ays. or shall We go a. the ia;k Of night and
take out a person nbO has ayniiej himself oil
the la~ snd filsd 1 contest against per,on
who in
HIS CONVICTION HAS Nor COMPLIED
With said homestead law, and hang him up
10 a tree until life ia extinct Never
That would upset ali security for he or prop
efy. Hang person VINO avaiis himself oil
the laws of the land, Never!
In charity to those fifteen men wh"' IN
the dead hour OF night, called that mat out
| viii say. hope by this tins they have
taken better counsel aud abandonod theiI
unlawful intentions, because believe It was
only cone by momentary iinpulse.
FRED. Z Lux.