The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-01
Tuesday Evening,
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and Cook has been patented to the
state.
More About Mabel Evans Lease.
"I still pursue the record,' said Mr..
Lind, taking up the claims for Mr..
Dunn in the order they are made.
famous flatiron' tract on the Me
saba range near Virginia, leased to Miss
ing this for the state, said Mr.. Lind,
Mr.. Dunn did his full duty. He
wished he could forbear the further
facts in connection with this tract.
Mr.. Lind then read the following If
fdavit: .s.
Prior Claimant Turned Down.
State Of Minnesota, County Of Henne-
pin.-ss.
Before me, the undersigned, G.. N.
Dickey, clerk Of the district court of said
county, personally appeared this 31st day
Of October. A. D. 1904. Pearl H. Smith,
who on his oath doth depose and say that
he resides in the city of Superior. state Of
Wisconsin: That the 18th day Of
December, 1902, he called at the office Of
| the auditor and land commissioner of Min
nesota, at the state capitol building in the
city of st. Paul, for the purpose Of obtain
ing mineral lease on lot one a., section
six 6), township fifty eight and half
| (5Sk) north, of range seventeen CD
west ST. Louis county, Minnesota. That
at that time George A. Finn was chief
land clerk of Robert c. Dunn, auditor and
land commissioner, aforesaid. That prior
to that time affiant had no personal ac-
quaintance with said Finn, and then and
| there presented to him letter of intro
| duction from a mutual friend. whereupon
said Finn expressed the pleasure that It
would give him to extend any courtesy
within his power to this affiant. That af-
faint then and there and In the presence
of one Peter E. Bradshaw. also q resi-
dent Of said city of Superior, requested
that mineral lease be granted to affianr
on the land above described, and then
and there rendered to said Finn in full
payment therefor the sum of twenty-1v
dollars ($25) in gold coin. That said
Finn then and there informed atfiant that
it would be necessary for him, the said
Finn, to talk the matter over with Mr..
Dunn, and that he would see affiant on
the following day. That on the DAY fol-
lowing. to-wit Dec. 10, 1902. said Finn
called upon affiant at the Ryan hotel, in
said city of st. Paul. and in the presence
of said Bradshaw stated that he was un-
able to give affiant any definite infornla-
ton regarding the matter, but would do
50 within a few days and would write to
him at atlantis home address, IL the
, city Of Superior. aforesaid
That thereupon affiant returned home
r and waited the promised letter from
oAAACSb
ter from said Film nor any word from the
l office Of said auditor and land commits.
sioner, affiant again went to st. Paul, anC
= on or about the 10Th day Of December
, 1902. In company with said Bradshaw
called at said auditors office to secure
3 mineral lease on said property, when h
. was informed by said Finn that said au
: ditor, r. G. Dunn, had upon investi
9 CATION decided that as the title TO sait
2 land was still In litigation and had no
h yet become vested in the state of Mime
8 sofa, that he, said Dunn, could not leas
said land.
9 Affiant further states that afterward
j. and on the 4th day Of February, 1904, h
o again called at the office of said stat
Q auditor and made application for min
t eral lease said land, when he was in
formed by Mr.. Iverson, then state audi
f tor, that 1T was too late, as a lease there
It Of had been made to Mabel Evans G
f Princeton, Mimi, on the 3Oth day of De
cember, 1902.
Affiant further states that he was tn
original homesteader of said land, bavln
y made a claim thereto In 1898. erecting
w clearinghouse and maintained res
\. dence thereon for several years, and the
the efforts made by him to procure
10 mineral lease Of said land, as hereinbe
- fore stated, were made solely in his ow
W behalf and for his own benefit and I
T. the end that his just and equitable right
III dllu 10 Sdlu property IllSHL Do lul
= = safeguarded and that he might the bette
~ protect and save himself from loss by rec
". son Of time, trouble, outlay and expens
=. incurred and expended by him in connet
! ton with his rightful claim In and
= said property Pearl H. Smith.
~ Subscribed and sworn to before me tt
y &C. N. Dickey.
- Clerk of the District Court. Hennep
~ County, Minnesota.
Clerks Get Leases
W Commenting on this affidavit, M
in Lind said that it disclosed a remarl
to able state of facts. 1t showed thu
at one claimant was put off on the groun
at that the state had no title, but INN
G. diately the state issued the lease r
ne quested to Mabel Evans of Princeto
a sister Of Land Clerk Patterson ar
partner Of Finn and Patterson in v
an rious other deals. He then read a Ii
or of leases issued to Mabel Evans, Geors
ID, Finn and T. G. Patterson, and two OF
al ers issued to one Brisbane and ne:
ng day transferred by him to Mabel E
ans, Finn and Patterson.
at MI. Lind then quoted the law bea