St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-20
The Property in Litigation
Valued at Three-Quarters
Of q Million.
Four Gentlemen Of Saltwater
Bring the Suit Against a
Logging Company.

aS the MISSISSIPPI River Logging COM
pany, in which Frederick Weyerhauser,
the lumber king, is the principal stock
holder. The complaint also involves
charges of conspiracy against ex-senator
Sabin, L. b. Walker, A. Ii. Wilder and
others. Some months ago Frederick
Weyerhaeuser, f. G. A. Denckmann,
the Rock Island Lumber company.
George w. Cable, C.. Lamb & Sons
and Laird, Norton company instituted
proceedings in the district court OF
Mile Lacs county to quiet title to a
large body of lumber lands in thai
county which was entered in 1879, as.
soldiers additional homestead. the
plaintiffs claiming title thereto through
deeds by L. b. Walker, of Minneapolis,
under powers of attorney made to him
by soldiers prior to the entry of the
lands. Mr.. Coles and his associates,
claiming that the powers of attorney to
Walker were void as repugnant to the
homestead laws. because made before
the entry of the land and before it was
Subject to Entry,
recently obtained quit claim deeds di-
rect from the soldiers and hereunder
assert title to the lands. The action
brought by the Weyerhaeuser syndi-
cate involved but portion of the lands
in the reservation claimed by Coles and
his associates, and the present action
against the logging company. embraces
the remainder of the lands in the reseI-
vation claimed by Coles and Others
This suit involves the title to 25,oo0
acres of land valued at $780, 900. and is
one of the largest suits ever brought in
this state.
The complaint is voluminous docu-
o,,I g.;
tional charge:
by nature of conveyances from one I. B.
Walker under powers of attorney made to
him. OF this land $4,000 acres was reserved
from entry, and in anticipation of said lands
being opened by the government to entry
under the homestead and pre-empton laws
OF the United States. the defendant and D. NJ
Sabin, I. B. Walker, A III. Wilder and others
wrongfully, unlawfully and secretly con-
spired, combined and confederated together
to cheat and defraud the government of said
lands, and to defeat the aims and policy of
the homestead and pre-emption laws of the
United states, and to prevent said lands from
being occupied and entered by intending
actual settlers, who in large numbers
were waiting and intending to settle
on and enter the said lands under such laws
as soon as said lands should become subject
to such settlement and entry, OF which fore
going facts the defendant, said Sabin, Walk
er, Wilder anG others SO confederating. then
had knowledge, and to acquire said lands for
their own use and benefit i'll one mass in
stantly upon said lands becoming subject to
entry. through the use of the names of the
persons by whom such entries were made
as hereinafter mentioned, as a medium or
means OF such acquisition, and for the sole
purpose of removing from said lands and
selling
For Their Own Benefit
the pine timber standing and growing there
on, which was and is of the value of exceed
ing $50 per acre. said lands being chiefly
valuable for such timber. and in furtherance
of their said conspiracy and design, said de-
fendant and ID. NJ. Sabin, T. b. Walker, A. III.
Wilder and others made eXertions to procure
the opening of the aforesaid lands TO entry
under the pre-emption and homestead laws,
and induced more than 80 individuals en-
titled to enter lands under section 1906
United States Revised Statutes amongst
whom were the individuals who entered said
lands specifically hereinbefore described as
aforesaid, previous TO the time when said
lands became subject to entry to sign re-
spectfully i'll blank as aforesaid whatever
of the aforesaid pretended powers of at
torney. and others OF a like nature may
have been by them respectively signed, and
which defendant and the other persons so
conspiring claim TO have been, and which
purport TO have been signed by all of the
persons who made such entries respectively
and induced all of said persons. exceeding
40 In number, to respectively make affidavits
and written applications aforesaid, aud 9TH
ers similar thereto which said applications
were in blank, and did not at that time con-
tain the description of any land what
ever but were. signed by the per-
SONS who made such entries- and
thereupon said defendant Sabin, Walker.
Wilder and others conspiring and acting
with them, in furtherance of the conspiracy
and design aforesaid, and prior to the entry
of said lands inserted in said applications.
the description of said lands to au amount /
in the aggregate equal to 5000 acres and
more, iiIciuding the lands hereinbefore
specifically described. and thereupoa said
lands became opened to entry deposited in
the United States land office in Taylor's
rails. Mimi, said affidayits and applications
with instructions to the officers of said land
Office to receive and file the same, and allow
such applications and entries to be made of
the lands therein described Immediately ON
the said lands bel ng opened to entry or set
tlement the
Insertion Of Description
of same lands in such application and the
filing of the same and of said affidayits in
the said United states land Office for the prr-
pose of entering lands subject to entry, have
lug been authorized by the persons in whose
names said lands were respectively entered,
SO that they themselves might acquire title
the secretary of the interior and the
commission of the general laud
Office having permitted such inser. e
tons to be made, on behalf of and for
tue SOIc uSS duC DellGIC OF SUCQ DefSOlSs Orlt
said persons had no knowledge of the uiilaw,
full or fraudulent purposes Or designs afore-
said OF the defendant said Sabin Walker
Wilder ct al, and thereupon said land Off
GERS did, upon such instructions Immediate
ly receive and continue to hold said affi-
davits and applications until said lands
became subject to entry. and thereafter said
lands were opened 10 entry under the pre-
emption and homestead laws only, and,
thereupon, as soon as. said = lands
became subject to entry. they did allow
the applications for such lands and
the entries thereof under section 23O6 of the
United States Revised Statutes, and in pur-
suance of such entries said lands were
eventually patented as aforesaid There
upon the defendant and the said Sabln
Walker. Wilder aud others. in furtherauce
of their fraudulent and corrupt design as
aforesaid to cheat and defraud the governs
ment ana to defeat the aims and designs of
the aforesaid homestead and pre-emptien
laws, and to acquire title to said lands for the
purposes aforesaid, aud after such entries
had been made, and in most instances prior
TO the issuance of patents therefor and with
out the knowledge or consent of the persons
III whose names the said lands were entered
caused to be executed divers
Pretended Conveyanees
of said lands, Including the aforesaid lands
herein specifically above set forth in the