Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-11-10
THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY.
An Important Meeting of the stock
holders Held Recently.

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An adjourned meeting of the
stockholders of the Press Claims
Company was held last week at
the Office of the company at Alex
andria, Va. The following resolu-
tions were adopted:
WHEREAS, William R.. Hearst,
the proprietor and publisher of the
San Francisco Examiner, in the
latter part of the month of April,
1894, brought a suit in equity in
the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia against John Wedder
burn, general manager of the Ex-
aminer Bureau of Claims and also
managing attorney of the Press
Claims Company, and made
charges in the bill filed in said
suit against the integrity, honesty,
and business qualifications of the
said Wedderburn, which were
proved to be wholly untrue and
false to the satisfaction of the
Equity Court and decree to this
effect having been rendered on the
18th day of May, 1894, and sup
Elemental decree confirming the
same on the Sd day of July, 1894;
and
WHEREAS, the said bill contain
ed untrue and misleading state
ments concerning the Press Claims
Company made by the said Hearst
to iniure the said Wedderburn and
to escape liability under contract
then existing between the Exami-
ner Bureau of Claims and the Press
Claims Company, entered into with
the full appreciation and approval
of the said Hearst, his attorney at
law and attorney in fact, which
statements were proved to be false
and foundationless, and which
nave greatly injured and damaged
the business of said company; and
WHEREAS, the said William R.
Hearst did cause to be prominent
ly published in the San Francisco
Examiner, on the first page of said
paper, the said damaging charges
contained in the said bill, the issue
of the said newspaper being widely
disseminated in this country to the
great injury of the Press Claims
Company; and
WHEREAS, the said William R.
Hearst has further published or
caused to be published in his said
newspaper, and has widely circula-
ted the damaging statement that
one Frank l.. Browne, of the City
of Washington, person wholly un-
connected with the Press Claims
Company, is in charge of the busi-
ness Of the said company, which
statement is untrue and harmful
and injurious to the company's in
terests and calculated to shake the
deserved confidence of the public in
the said company; therefore it is
Resolred, That the President of
the Press Claims Company be >and
hereby is directed to forthwith in
stitute the proper proceedings in
the courts against the said William
K. Hearst to recover damages for
his untrue, misleading, and libel
GUS publications concerning the
Press Claims Company; and fur
ther, that we, the stockholders of
the said company, indorse the ac.
tion of the court and the truth of
its decree in finding John Wedder-
burn, managing attorney of said
company, free from the charges
maliciously preferred against him.
Other business transacted was
the adoption of a resolution in
creasing the Board of directors
from seven to nine. The newly
elected directors were Philip w.
Averitt, proprietor of the Cumber-
land Times and Hagerstown Ne,os;
Edward NJ. Hopes, Wellington
News; and Franciss E. Leupp, pub
Usher of Good Government Owing
to the resignation of Robert f.
Davis, of the Philadelphia Cal, on
account of i'll health, Mr. r. f.
Freeman, of the Danville Register,
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