St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-22
INGERsOLL's Log CABINS.

Col. Robert u. lNGERS0LL, the most sue
cessful of living infdels, has been fond of
| posing before the public as the model of
morality. In his assaults upon the Bible,
Mr.. INGERsoLI. has pointed to his own life
as an illustration that the moral precepts of
the Holy Book were not essential to correct
living and exemplary conduct. The point
of his argument, so far as there was any
argument in his beautiful word pictures
was that the world would get along as well
in a moral way without the Bible as with
it. And it has been admitted that the pa
gan chieftain has lived life of sobriety, of
integrity and one full of all the domestic
joys and sweets that go to make human eX-
istence enjoyable. And now it is source
of pain to even the most rigid churchmen
who have cOmbatted the colonePS atheism
and yet conceded the purity of his private
life that his name at this late day
should be associated with a scandal. 1t
will be remembered that Col. NIGER
Quoting the defense of the star
route robbers. After the acquittal of the
gang Col. INGERsOLL became interested in
the great cattle ranch of his client. STEPHEN
w. DORSEY, which is said to cover 3. 500, 900
acres i'll the northeastern part of New Mex
leo. 1t has been announced that he and his
client have been getting rich in the cattle
business. Not far from the dwelling of Mr.
DORSEY group of ornatelog cabins have
been constructed by Col. INGERsoLL upon
which he is said to have expended large
sum of money.
Recently there has appeared volume of
400 pages printed for the information of
congress- which contains many interesting
facts about land frauds in the ring-ridden
territory of New Mexico. In that part of
the book which relates to the fraudulent
acquisition of land titles in New Mexico is
the report of Inspector HOBBS, which throws
good deal of light on land job
berry in New Mexico. The particu-
lar claim on which Col. INGERsoLL's log
cabins have been erected appears in the
land Office records as the homestead entry
of MIGUEL ABEYTIA, homesteaded in 1877.
and finally conveyed to DORSEY for $500.
The land office records indicate that the
claim was settled by ABEYTIA that he had
built a house on it, had become stock
raiser and had lived on the land for six
years. The result of Inspector HOBBS i'll
yestigatiOn was that no buildings of any
kind had ever been erected prior to the con-
structiOn Of INGERsOLL'S cabins, that no pOr-
ton of the land had ever been cultivated, and
that no such person as MIGUEL ABEYTIA
boI IiHra1 ba olo in, no
ity of it. Further inquiry convinces the in
spector that ABEYTIA was a fictitious person
and that many other claims in the vicinity
included in DoRsEY's possessions had been
taken'by men who had no existence except
on paper.
Now, what Is Col. INGERsOIL going to do
about it? viii he go on posing as the ex-
emplar of all that is moral and
good and upright, and still live on
section of land that he knows
was taken from the government by fraud?
VIII he allow himself to deprive some hon
est settler of homestead? In this umfortu-
nate condition in which Col. INGERsoLL finds
himself he perhaps sees the evil effect of
keeping bad company. His association
with Dorsey has tainted his own good
name If the colonel had been more liber-
ally disposed toward the Good Book and
had studied its wise precepts, he might
have guarded himself against the dangers of
standing in the way of the sinful and of
sitting down i'm the seat of the scornful. At
any rate, Col INGERsoIL will have TO let
up on Moses until he has corrected his own
mistakeS