Daily globe., 1883-08-08

@. Gordon's case. Whereupon Register J
N. Carey said that he should not allow II. |
L. Gordon to further examine witness, be- |
cause he (Gordon) had instructed the wit |
nesses what they should swear to. Il. L. |
Gordon emphatically pronounced the
statement false, whereupon Receiver Spal-
ding repeated the statement, and 81. l.. ,
Gordon stated that any man who stated
that he had instructed these witnesses
what they should swear to, or what
answers they should make was liar.
Thereupon the register and receiver in
very excited manner announced that the
cases were closed and they would not go
on with them any further with FL. L. Cor
don acting as attorney. At the same in
slant Deputy Marshal Bracket, at the
suggestion Of Detective Marshall, on a
warrant already prepared and signed by
this same Carey, register of the land Office
and also United States court commits
sioner, abruptly arrested the undersigned
claimants, Frank G. Gordon, Walter Cor
don, Nader and Blades, and forced US to
Immediately leave the room and building,
and confined US at the Windsor hotel,
thereby preventing US from making any
further appearance or proof in our cases.
We denOunce these proceedings as a
high handed outrage under the color of the
law. We are not members of pine land
rings. or great iron companies, or else we
would be protected by this man Marshall.
As it is, we the claimants, are each hon
estly trying to get quarter section of gov
ernment land for ourselves. It happens
to be valuable for pine, and therefore we
are bounded by the tools of wealthy rings
and corporations, to browbeat and 1ntimi-
date US by threats, arrests and false accusa-
tions. We shall maintain our rights, but
we call upon every man in Minnesota who
is not member of the great Minneapolis
pine land ring, or its tools, to protest
against this iniquity and see that poor
men who attempt to acquire pine lands
for themselves are not bounded down and
imprisoned by the tools and m1nions of this
gigantic ring, which has acquired hun
dreds of thousands of acres of pine lands
in Minnesota by fraudulent half breed
scrip, forged Chippewa applications and
soldiers homestead claims, by paid pre-
emptions by the scores, and by manipulate
ing public surveys and forming fraudulent
''pools'' at the public land sales.
Does detective Marshall attack any of
the well known members of this gigantic
ring? Not one! It is his business to
hound down the poor men who thread on
their toes''-that is his SACRED mission"
as he calls it-that is what he is doing at
the bid of his masters and the department
at Washington, manipulated by the poll
ticians who belong to this pine land syndi-
cate, who furnish Detective Marshall with
money to do his dirty work with, and to
beat down all opposition to the schemes
of this pine land syndicate, to ''gobble"
all the remaining pine lands in Minnesota.
Everybody knows there is public pine
land sale ordered at st. Cloud for August
Goth. Every Minnesota lumberman knows
it is fraud. 1t was ordered in May for
August Goth. Nobody but the ring was ex-
pectipg it. They went and had the lands
all examined last fall and winter. The
outsiders were left out in the cold, because
the character of the country is such that
it is almost impossible to explore that re-
gion during the summer months, on ac-
count of the dense underbrush in full leaf,
the innumerable lakes, marshes and Ia
goons, and the sand-fies and mosquitoes.
Does Detective Marshall raise his voice
against this bare faced fraud on the gov
ernment and people? No. He advised
the SALE
Why does not our member of congress
from Minneapolis, W. D. Washburn, pro-
test against this open and palpable fraud?
He is loud in his denunciation of poor
men who attempt to pre-empt pine lands
for their own benefit; why don't he protest
against this gigantic fraud? Is he the poor
mans friend, or the friend of rings and
corporations?
We want the public to know the facts.
We do not propose to cover like ours un-
der the false charges of conspiracies and
perjuries made against Us, and the public
may rest assured that we will not be bull
dozed, and that we will remain in the field
till the fight is over. We request all fair
minded editors of newspapers in the north
west to publish this statement.
FRANK G. GORDON,
WALTER GORDON,
THEoPHILUs BLADES,
AMOS NADER.