The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-08-10
To be Sold.

| A wire from San Francisco under date OF
| the Sth inst. states: ''U. s. District Judge
| Morrew issued an order today commanding
the United States Marshal to sell the steam
er willamette Valley, to satisfy a claim of
r. D. Chandler for coal furnished her own
ers, the Oregon Development Company.
The order is made under libel filed against
the steamer December l9 last. The steamer
is lying in the stream here uncared for. and
Judge Morrow decided that it would he
| injurious tS the property to longer keep the
vessel in the hands of the receiver, Charles
Clark"
To an interview with Receiver Clark
ragar,lingths foregoing dispatch, he said:
"At the time I was appointed receiver in
January last, the steamer Willamette VAL
ley was in the custody Of the officers of the
law in San Francisco, the result of proceed
ings instituted III both the state and federal
courts. This steamer was seized during
Mr.. Hadley's administration, and by direc
tion of the circuit court of this district I
was authorized to contest these various
claims in the conrts of California. I learned
from my attorneys. Page, Ellis & Wheeler,
that the court had ordered the sale of the
Willamette Valley prior to seeing the DIS
patch referred to. feel bound to contest
this matter in thea appellate courts. I have
never had control of the steamer only in
contemplation of law as part of the property
supposed to belong to the receiver. Some
half dozen different causes, are pending in
the California courts against the vessel and
the rival claimants are doubtless as much
interested in the recent action of the court
there, in ordering the sale, as the receiver
This steamer, as you know, had been used
during the Hogg and most Of the Hadley,
administration, in the carrying trade be-
tween San Francisco and Yaquina. Flnan-
cially it has been advantageous to this
receiver that the steamer was seized before
great expense on the part of the receivership
in operating her. What the ultimatum will
he is of course involved in doubt. My
advisers have led me to believe that it was
part and parcel of the property that should
have come into my hands as receiver, and
that the tact of her being seized, while in
the carrying trade, in another jurisdiction
would not prevail against the rights of the
receiver to her custody. She was in the
actual control and possession Of fReceiver
Hadley at the time of her seizure and it
would seem reasonable that the doctrine of
comfy between courts would restore her at
once to the receivers possession. ANY
other view than this woulG make it sui
eide for receiver to allow property in,his
possession, although used asa public carrier,
to be carried into the jurisdiction of another
court. The steamer was released from the
custody Of the sheriff about month ago,
and was Immediately seized by the U. s.
marshal, since which time she has been in
his possession. All the carrying. trade dur.
ing my administration has.been done by the
steamers Homer and Scotia, which are
operated with comparatively small expense
as compared to that in. operating the Will
lamette Valley"
In conclusion he remarked that 'tthe
editorial criticism in the Oregonian during
the recent strike regarding the governor
and militia. of California could with equal
be made about the courts of that |
state"