The St. Johns herald., 1890-05-29
An Emphatic Denial.

zette of yesterday contained long
 statement concerning alleged irreg ularities in which United State! Judge Wright, of Arizona. and Hon Daniel P. Baldwin, of the Wabash
 Cattle Company, were implicated The Journals Logansport cores pondent was instructed to call or Judge Baldwin and learn what he had to say in relation to the charges made in the letter. After reading the letter Judge Baldwin said:
 eff it was not so absurd, I would feel enraged. It is signed w. H s. who is well known in this com munity as Ananias Smith. The ar ticle has not Q word of truth in 1t from beginning to end. The Wa bash Cattle Company never made, directly or indirectly, fraudulent entry or proof of land. They do not own a foot of land they have not bought and paid for. No charge has ever been made against them of obtaining land or anything else dis honestly, and every sentence con tained in this article is false. So far as Judge Wright is concerned, he lives 200 miles from our ranch, and 1 have nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with the law firm of Baldwin & Johnston. That Bald win is a lawyer from Mississippi, practicing at Prescott, Arizona Ter
 ritory. 1 never heard before of the Kansas City Mining Company, and there is not, to my certain knowl- edge, a silver mine in Apache coun- ty, where our ranch is situated. l never heard of Blackburn or Hawk. know Henry Tuning, but l never heard a word against him. As to his being a jury briber or control
 ing the Mormons, that is pure fic
 ton. The Wabash Cattle Company never had a lawsuit, nor was threat ened with a lawsuit before Judge Wright, or any one else. We have never had any lltigatcd business of any kind. 1 am lawyer enough to keep our company out of law. My acquaintance with Wright was pure ly professional. I was employed by Apache county to enforce the collection of something like $75, 5,000 delinquent taxes against the Allan tic and Pacific Railroad Company. 1 brought suit in the United States Court, presided over by Judge Wright, and won the case. The rail road company appealed to the Su- preme Court Of the Territory, and l again won. From that court the railroad company appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington; and was at Wash ington on that business. l was not telegraphed to go to Washington and fix things. 1 do not own the United States Senate, nor Attorney General Miller, nor President Har- rison, and I don't believe I have any personal influence with them. The lawyers at Prescott, Arizona Terri
 tory, thought that Judge Wright was persecuted by false charges, and supposed that, being personally ac- Quainted with Attorney General Miller and President Harrison, I could obtain a hearing more readily than they, and they asked me when at Washington tolook into the mat ter. Iobtained a copy of the charges gave Attorney-General Miller my opinion of them, and asked him to fix day for investigation, which he did. Judge Wright was sent for, and came out of the investigation with flying colors. President liar
 rison refused to dismiss him on the charges, and the Attorney-General decided the charges not only false but malicious. l was not present at the investigation. Iwasin Wash ington in September last, and not .;1oo Tho o,,l,, CoDotor 4oll-.J