The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-10-28
HOW TIMBER SHARKS COB
BLED UP FIFTEEN MIL
LIONS WORTH OF
TIMBER.

get linn mOer-M0tner
Murders Three
Chillren.
Washington Oct. 24.-Per-istent
inquiry develops that the present
land fraud investigation. has been
going on for months and covers the
administration of Binger Hermann.
The method OF the graft sisted
in giving advance information re
garding forest reserves. Those in
the ring are said to have rea lied
bstween$ Il 1000, 900 and $4,000, 900
from tbs schemes. Rumois point
ing to the implication of Western
senators and representatives are
going around. TIE situation looks
suspicious, but the interior depart
ment are not getready TO give any
| names.
An Instance is cited illustrating
| the mttbods employed. When the
Blue monntaihforsst reserve was
set aside temporarily last spring,
repres enta tivts of certain corpora.
tions had located practically all Of
the timber land prior to the an
announcement of the withdrawal. For
two or three weeks before the re.
serve was created cruisers hurried
through the woods and it was APP
parent that they were acting with
definite object and under the inn
petus of specific information.
1t was alleged at that time that
the advance information was given
out by someone high in the service
of the government, and allegations
came to Washington from Oregon
that the Information was sold for
money. It is hinted that witnesses
are In existence who can swear that
know Of the offers Of information
for consideration, and that a large
5, sum of money was realized by some
one or more persons from it's sale.
4 The scandal came at time when
an election was about to be held to
| choos successor to the late Thorn
| as Tongue, congressman for Oregon
and there was disposition to re.
| frain from permitting theinevitable
denouement that must follow an
| expose Of the questionable trans
action.
|. Later Binger Hermann was nom
mated Tor Mr.. Tongues seat, and
pressure was brought to bear to
keep the matter from the public,
| lest it iniure his chances of election
! The inserior department was not
anxious to protect Mr.. Hermann,
and if there was any deferring OF
| the investieation, it was because Of
of the general considerations of the
candidacy. of. a Republican for
Office end the doubtful wisdom from
a party ndpoint of causing adec-
laration that would have deferred
him without doubt.
/ Another phase of the situation
has powerful influence upon the
views of mem bers of congress and
senators relative to proposed alter
alton in land laws. 1t is claimed
i that agents of the interior depart
ment have yielded to temptations
and have lent themselves to the
use Of corporations and were se-
curing large bodies of timber. The
method was to cause the suspen.
sion of the immense number of en-
tries by settlers, the subsequent
cancellation of the entries and the
immediate laying thereon of scrip
held in enormous lots by the corpo-
rations
/ Hundreds of thousands of acres
of The public lands have been se-
cured by the corporations, and the
suspicious that some of the interior
departments agents have been par.
ties to the scheme adds flavor to
the scandal. If pushed to it's 1ogi-
lcaltconclusion, it will bring an ex-
| pose that will startle the world,
and elicit a demand from the
people to have clearing up all
around.
! Monterey, CAL, Oct. 25.- While
temporarily deranged, Mrs Louis
/ Iverson, wife of Salinas machinist
murdered three of her four children
!, at Pacific Grove, at the dictation,
she said, of a supreme power"
/ She first strangled her eldest
daughter, Louisa, aged 12 years.