The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-02
MORE BRIBERY
CHARGES MADE
Indictment With Six Counts Against
Senator Mitchell.
MONEY AMOUNTED TO $4,000
OREGON STATE SENATOR ALSO
INDICTED.

Portland Ore. Feb. 1-Interest in the
land fraud cases was again raised TO
fever heat by the announcement that
the federal grand jury had late today
,nulcted United States Senator John II.
hlIcheIi on another charge of bribery
anu had also indicted State senator
otSS (. Browneli. one of the foremost
Republican politicians and LAWYERS i'm ms,
jury. ia ''Oh u per
The Indictment against Mr. Mitchell al
,VStS tina while "a senator from this state
10 the federal congress he accented on
seven different occasions Suns of money
aSSreSating A20 from d timber land
qPaier named Frederick r. Kribs for serv-
Ices rendered in, il is alleged inducing
CohSressman Binger Hermann, then COM
missioner or the general land office at
Washington. TO expedite. make special
ana approve certain applications for pub
nc nc lands; and recommend the issuing Of
The indictment against Senator Brown
Ell char=es that Mr.. Brownell caused
falsely that certain field notes in con-
nectlon with the survey of public lands
III eastefn Oregon were true.
MitcheIl's Indictment.
Specifically, the Indictment against SEN
ator Mitchell recites that Kribs was en-
sdgee IN the business of procuring and
aidinS persons in making applications to
purchase tracts of land in the Roseburg
Iand district in this state, and also aiding
them 10 secure lands BIZ means of al
legged IdtSe statements that they were
not applying for them on speculation.
AFTER going on to say that the services
OF congressman Hermann as commits
Sioner of the general land office were
necessary in having the aDplica ton ex-
the Indictment says that Frederick r.
krlbS contracted for the services of John
II. Mitchell and A. II. Tanner. law part
nerS. ana agreed to pay them for services
rendered in part by Mr.. Mitchell APP
pearing before and persuading Binger
Herman. commissioner of the general
fNcr 10 N
approve the applications and claims and
recommend the issuance of patents upon
them as though they were lawful and
bona fide applications and claims.
Payment by Checks.
The Indictment states that the United
States government was directly interested
in these latter and that the services were
to be performed by Mr.. Mitchell while a
senator from this state. The Indictment
then makes the charges that in consider
alton of these services Kribs gave Mitch
ell two checks for 500 each on Roseburg
tOre.) bank on Feb IS, 1902; two checks
on the same bank on June H. 1902. for
SlOOO each; one check on Sept. 20, 1902, for
500; one check on Jan. f. 1904 for $500
and one check on Oct S. 1904
The indictment against Senator Brown
ell involves the same district in which
made upon which eX-Surveyor General
Henry Meldrum was convicted last year.
Conspiracy Charged.
1t charges that Mr. BrowneII entered
into a conspiracy with Malcolm S. Nc
keon and Rufus S. Moore, deputy sur
veyors, and Henry Medium. surveyor
general of the United States for the state
Of oregon, 40 defraud the government of
public land by procuring surveys to be
made of the land in a manner prejudicial
to the administration of the law, caused
Fred SieverS and John Rowland aXmen,
to take oath before him as notary public
that they had appeared before Brownell
in his official capacity as "A notary on
Dec 10, 1901, and swear to a final oath
of assistants in the official field notes
which stated that the survey had been in
all respects well and faithfully surveyed
and the corner monuments established
according to law
Paid For Perjury.
The Indictment alleges that Sievers and
Rowland did not make the oath in good
faith and that they so sworc because
BrOwneI had suborned and instigated
them to do so, and that Brownen well
knew that the oathS were untrue
According to the Indictment. during the
recent Investigations of the grand jury
it became = material fact whether they
had so appeared before Browncll as no.
tary and sworn to the oathS: and when
Sievers and Rowland appeared before the
grand jury they, at the instigation of
BrOwnel again swore that the oaths TAX
en- before him were true. although Brown
ell SieVers and Rowland all knew they
were not made in good faith.