The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-05-25

0O4NA 4SAIAA 100 AoOIs
citizens of your county will be as
sassinated.
Uader these circumstances / have
deemed it my duty to appeal to you
and through you to the law officers
of your county, to use your utmost
efforts rigidly to enforce the law,
in order that those who have been
engaged in the ruthless destruction
of property may be speedily identi-
fed, apprehended and brought to
Justice.
Without any request from the To-
cal authorities for my interference,
but acting upon the suggestion Of
citizens of your county who are de-
tered by threats from offering re-
wards for the apprehension of men
who have been engaged i'll the
Wholesale slaughter Of sheep and
J the destruction of property, and in
hope of assisting in the arrest and
conviction of the criminals, have
concluded to offer rewards, pledg-
! ing the faith of the state to the pay
ment as coon as the legislature con-
| venes.
inclose you notices of these re-
wards, and I trust you will have
them posted in conspicuous places
throughout your county. / sincere
ly trust every effort will be made
by You not only to apprehend those
who have been guilty of the wanton
destruction of property. but TO pre-
went a recurrnce of such acts in the
future. y
February 2-Band of 5000 sheep
slaughtered by masked men near
Silver Lake; clubs and guns were
used.
/ March Al. C. Conn, wealthy
Silver Lake merchant, went out af-
ter breakfast, from his home at Sill
yer Lake, to visit a horse that
had been poisoned, one of valua-
BILE team. Seven weeks later his
body was found 10, the pasture,
within short distance from town,
perforated by two bullets. The yer.
dict of suicide, brought in by cor.
oner's jury, was unsatisfactory to
Conn's friends. They allege he was
murdered to cover up the crime ol
the sheepslayers, about whom Conn
was supposed to know too much.
He had been subjected to numbe,
os petty prosecutions, particularly
after trip to Lakeview, where he
consulted with his brother Lafe
who is prosecuting attorney.
April 28-A party of nine men
rode up to band of sheep belong
) ing to Parker, Price, Mulkey and
O'Farrell. They wore barley sacks
} for masks. Out of 27O0, 2300 sheer
were killed outright; the balancs
scattered to make food for coyotes
The offer of reward is as follows
I Whereas, 1t has been charged
! that there is reasonable ground te
believe that ]. G. Conn, late of Sill
yer Lake, in Lake county, Oregon
was assassinated on March 4, 1904
> and,
/ Whereas, 1t has been charged
that on April %, 1904, band o
: about $500 sheep were shot and
, killed by masked men in said coun
lty, the herders thereof blindfoldet
and compelled to stand by while tn
, property of their employers wer'
> destroyed. -
Now, therefore, I, George E
Chamberlain, as governor of th'
state of Oregon, hereby offer re
! wards as follows:
! $500 for the arrest and convic
zion, or for information which will
lead to the arrest and conviction c
the murderer or murderers of sal,
= J. C. Conn;
$500 for thu arrest and convic
tion, or for information that viii
lead to the arrest and convictios
: of each and every one of the me-
1 . who destroyed or participated il
u destroying said sheep on or abou
, April %, 1904.
y The payment Of these rewards j
: : conditioned upon an appropriate
Ito be made by the legislature, whic
J, [ promise to do all in my power
!. bring about In case said reward
u are, or any part thereof, earned.
!, Given under my hand and th
Il great seal of the state of Oregon, {
: the Capitol, in Salem, this 18th da
: of May. A. D 1904.
d GEO. E. CHAMBERLAIN. Go,
!, f. I. DUNBAR, Sec. of Stat
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