Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-28
MARKHAM AND TINE cHlmAman.
Toe Messrs Turner and Bristol
Confirm DIT. Cougars Statement
Tho Charge Brought Home TO
the Republican Nominee.

EDIToR DAILY HKHALB. Courtesy
and common usage, believe, permits
the defence 10 charge in a public
Journal to be made through the same
medium, but | also desire your indulg-
ence to reply to the erroneous state
ments Of Mr.. A. J. Spencer and Mr..
John Goldsworthy in the Times Of the
2jth.
Mr.. Spencer, | grant, was recorder
Of the district at the time he mentions,
but that fact. and his residing on the
Mojave river bottom. does not furnish
the required qualifications to render
him competent to take cognzance Of the
deliberations and plans Of Halleck,
Markham aud Cougar. hundred miles
away In Los Angeles contemporaneously
concerning the interests Of the Oro
Grande Mining Company. Mr.. Spencer
has doubtless, unintentionally permitted
himself to be led into an error IN sub.
scribing to statements about matter OF
fact, which it was not possible for him
10 have any knowledge of whatever.
And, Mr.. John Goldswor by, am
sorry to say has also. from some recent
acquired motive, allowed himself to fall
into even u worse dilemma than Mr..
Spencer, from the acknowledged fact OF
his intimate relations to the Ore
Grande Company
From that circumstance, If from no
other, he ought from prudential reasons
to have assumed position, which the
facts would have fully sustained, about
matters which also his Times article
shows he was absolutely ignorant of.
In that article he says: THAT at the
time the attempt was made to introduce
Cinnamon to replace the white miners at
tho mines, Colonel Markham was absent
at the East, and that DIR. Cougar is mis-
taken about his being present at that
time"
Now, what induced this statemeik
that Mr.. Markham was 'at the East,
when the subjoined incontrovertsble
evidence Of Mr.. Il. Turner and A. o.
Bristol, shows absolutely beyond further
question, that not only Mr. Markham
was here, but also that he personally
arranged on the road. half way to Los
Angeles, with them to take the first
load of Cinnamon to the Orc Grande
mines. leave for him to satisfactorily
explain to the public.
Now, In view OF Messrs. Turner and
BristoPs testimony, to whom also was
awarded the construction of the water
mill ditch, gentlemen above reproach in
every particular, 1t is a query, us to
what inducement has been held out to
Williams, Lukins, Spencer, and especial
ly Mr.. Goldsworthy, to thus publicly
testify, in most positive terms, to things
about which they knew nothing.
wish, therefore, to again reafiirm
my Published statement in your issue of
the 10th inst. containing as it does, the
facts now set at rest by the testimony OF
the truthful neighbors, Messrs. Turner
aud Bristol, who were also among the
first few settlers of Pasadena with my.
self, and trust their evidence will effec.
tualIy put at rest all further random and
false statements concerning this whole
matter. Respectfully,
o. H. CoNGAR.
THE TURNER AND BRISTOL TESTIMONY.
We hereby wish to state that, we
were going into Los Angeles after lum-
Der aud met Col. III. II. Markham on
the adobe road. who wished one of US to
return to Pasadena and take the load of
Cinnamon which had started the even
ing before for the Orc Grande mines,
and l (Turner) returned and started
with them for the mines the next
morning. ....
Il. TURNER,
A. o. BRISTOL.
Pasadena. Sept. 25, 1884