The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-25
faE MORRILL, CASE.
pstition for Removal Of Halter
City Commissioner.
sascHeas CHARGE ExToaTlon.
s~rysii Says One Man DID It ALA.
fsjsssd Miners Damage safs--Cen-
yiets on to waiis wsIia.

ne charges made against George Nor
al United States com missioner At Halter
fstv. and filed In the Federal court several
Ssrs ago With . petition for his removal
h Judge Hanford, were yesterday made
sablie They are In the form Of affidayiss
ehsyging Morrill, With malfeasance In
ezex, petty larceny and being rattle
/ trasaed. The alleged petition OF rs names
Of rsnehers who wish the removal Ia no.
eusng the tles. Mr.. Morrill, vas busy ex-
smining the sftidaviss yesterday and will
lie counter afiidavits soon.
There are nine Of the afFidayits. ALI but
ene in the handwriting Of Louis n. Jones.
Il Arlington. an insurance agent and a.
tcrasy, and they are sworn 20 before him
So notary. They are unique, and the
clerk Of the court says that nothing of the
kiud has been filed for many day. The
men making the affidavits are nearly ell
hrmers. They accuse the commissioner.
Who takes final proofs for settlers, of Offer
!. lag 70 loan them money TO make final
yaoof. delaying making the loan until the
list moment and then refusing TO make 1t
stsIi, with 9 view to forcing the settler 10
pay an exornitant rate Of interest or sci,
tbs commissioner relsnqnishmsnt for
whatever the latter may choose TO give.
They also accuse him of compelling set
sIers to pay several times for the publica-
uon of notices Of final proof In the Halter
City Times OF which he was until recently
the publisher. by threatening refusal TO
make ssidavit Of publication. They
farther accuse the commissioner Of obtain
ing signatures 20 the petition for his ap-
pointment by cutting signatures from
road petitions and attaching them TO a
petition totally different. The language
used In the affidavits IL ungrammatiesl.
bat forcible, though sometimes fiippant.
The following affidavit 10 probably the
most interesting Of the nine, but 10 very
lair sample of them all:
erATx or WAsHrSeToE.l
CousTY OF SxoHoMIsH.i
John q. Jones, beng FIRST duly sworn,
deposes and says he II q merchant in Ar
hngton and has been for more than three
years. and knows George Morrill,, and that
he signed his petition for his appointment
- United States commissioner because he
thought him honest at that time. but sence
be Got said Office and commenced to do mp
che old rarchsrs at the rate he Il forced TO
change his mind and now believes him
strictly dishonest. Morrill, does business
mp stairs in an adjoining building 10 ham
and nanny nanny times he has known
the parties who was doing business with
Morrill, as said commissioners come down
from his Office and describe how Morrill,
was using them how he promised them
cheap money and how he had charged ex-
ordinate prices for same and how be had
made mistakes and caused them to have
70 advertise two or three times and charged
them each time although IL was his mis-
take Morrill, was and always has done
general Loan business in his own court.
And he always would as long as would
allow him TO walk In TO my store and de-
liberately wax behind my counters and
help himself to whatever he wanted and
candy and ginger snaps was his usual
favorite and / have no doubt but he has
took out of my store several dollars worth
Of thea and was compelled on account
Of his trechery TO fire him out of my house
And now when he comes into my house
watch him very closiy. know many
of the settlers on the new T. T. will 70 to
Seattle or snohomish before they will risk
Morrill,. / know OF his trouble with s. II.
snook and know that such things were Of
daley occurrence when he was taking
proofs ever day. JOHN II. JoSEs.
Subscribed and sworn TO before mo this
18th day OF Feb. 1894
LOUIS N. JONES,
Notary Public.
Dir. Morrill, says he has no desire TO try
the case In the newspapers, but should
any hearing be had in the matter he ex-
poets TO be able to exonerate himself
completely from the charges. He states
they are the result Of certain Law suits he
Is prosecuting in the courts OF Snohomish
county and are inspired by the wish Of the
parties interested TO get even.
Mr.. Morrill, is q shire wd-looking young
man, we'll dressed and educated. lie Is
one of the youngest United States CON-
missioners in the country, having been
appointed when but % years Of age.