Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-16
rHE posT.INTElllcEMcER PUB. co
TIMBER FRAUDS.
esther lab ai the Northern raeiae.
shseh, with its AIiiss. will have
IN Paw for stolen Timber

shseh, with It's AIIles. Will have
20 Pay for stolen Timber.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The Northern
p,sf,s caught It again today General
sss,ts issued an srder defining how
,sasyaAs may cut Gosesnni@nt tim Der
sIoae toeir lines. IL ID only in time Of
soaarustion by properly aocretited
ssents, from and immedistely near the
rcd and for the parposes q oonssTue-
rioa. and not for fuel, building stations
AZ fences, nor for sale to other oompa-
ules. that Government timber lie to be
cus The case out of which this order
sfoss, Was that of the Montana IIa
psoyement Company. This concern il
erqanizsd under the laws of Montana
siih t2,000.C00 capital, . majority of
which is owned by the Northern Pacific
Railrosd Company; Eddy. Hsmnosd d
Ca, Of Missoula, own sketgreetor part
Of The remassder. One Of the partners,
FL. Bonner, is President Of the com
pany. The company has contract to
iarnish the Northern Pacific Railroad
9Th ell the timber, oordvood and gen
sal lumber from Miles City to Wsllula
Junction, q distance of 925 miles. The
eonpany has control of all the railroad
timber land between these points, and
sIaims control of the Government tim
bef land over that distanee also. The
snu of Eddy, Hammond Il Co. slain
.hst Hecrosafy Teller gave permission 10
NJ. Bonner 10 the presence OF Major
MAginnis and Laxd Agent Sanborn. of
the Nsrthern Pacific. TO cut all the
timber they wanted of Government
A..
Eddy, Hammond Il Co. built sawmills
on the Fiathead reservation, and claim
ed TO have permission from Secretary
Teller TO cot timber there uAtil the
AorlheSn Pac,fovascompleted 10 PDrs-
lasA The mills we're run night and
a., snd between ZOO and 5000 men
vsre kept employed. Much OF the
timber was sawed into shingles and
manufactured lumber.
TIE Northern Pacific, according to
evidence flied in the General Land
Office, has hauled the Montana Improve
nsnt Company's lumber for less than
that OF other lum Der concerns. Eddy,
Hammond 4 Co. are shown to have sent
heir lumber from spokane Falls 10 En-
dioott for $23 car load. when other
nrties were charged "a bad, and
Aus competition vas shut of, and
Mdy, Hammond q Co. had the trade
foue. The favored firm also assumed
he right to drive i.truders OF govern
usnt land. Settlers were told that
Eddy, Hammond Il Co. would prosecute
them N they cut timber from govern
mens land for their houses or fences.
Mt, Lamar has rendered a decision
which declares that there IL ne record
of permission granted Eddy, Hsmmond
a Co. to cut lumber from government
and, nor IL there were would 10 be
legal, a. the Secretary of the Interior
has no right to violate the law. Az an
executive officer is is his duty to see that
the law 10 executed. He holds that
Eddy, Haumond d Co. are amenable
tor the timber they have cut and Mr..
Lamar has demanded that attorney
General Garland shall have suits
broueht 70 compel the former % mako
restitution. The Secretary holds that
the right TO protect The government
timber. when ansurveyed, must rest
With she United States. The railroad
company, he helds, has no right to pro-
tscs IL. for its right even to the alternate
sections cannot attach until a survey is
made 10 show which sections are odd
and which even. Until soryeyed, Mr..
Lamar holds, all the lands are under
control Of the United st,tcs. Tbs So
sial agents Of the Land OfRice have b>ss,
ordered cut ts take evidence, procure
names Of witnesses, TO ascertain the
smount Of timber cut by the trespassers
nom government land, and report
promptly. Ths suits are likely to be
criminal as we'll as civil.