Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-12-15
ELUDINe JUSTICE.
Latest Regarding Quartette OF
Land "Franders."

Land .Franders."
Government officials and state
officials of the land department
are much concerned over the
whereabouts of S. A. D. Puter,
Horace G.. Mckinley. Marie
Ware and Emma L. Watson, ali
of land-fraud fame, both Federal
and State. The bondsmen of
each are also looking with long
ing eyes upon the eff rts being
made by the authorities to dis
cover the fugitives, and are wait-l
ing with anxious Ears to hear of
their location.
Indicted in the Federal Court
on general counts, under sentence
OF conviction in the famous I'll
~ land fraud case, which opened
the Oregon land-fraud drama,
ard under bonds of $4,000 in
each other instance, the now
doubly famous land sharks are
much wanted persons, though
the presumption holds that it
will require the united efforts of
both the Government secret SER
vice and Of the Land Department
agents to locate the elusive
criminals and bring them back
Ito the state for punishment and
Justice.
The Government Secret Ser
vice Department is cooperating
with the state officials in an at
tempt to locate Puter, Mckinley,
Watson and Ware. All of them
seem to have dropped so COM
;1pletely out of sight that even
dan Tarpley, in palmy days
shadow, and in some mat
tiers their confederate, has lost
track of them and cannot tell
where they are.
!. Horace Mckinley has gone to
t Japan, according to the latest
! story, and the superstition is that
Puter is not far away. Nc Kin
; ley has been leading a will-o'-
the-wisp life for thegreater part OF
the time since his honeymoon
has waxed and waned. Some
weeks ago he was seen in The
Dalles, where he was making
inquires concerning many per
: sons, many of them holders OF
! state land certificates, the others
presumably those whom he would
like to have hold the papers.
Since the trip to The Dalles,
Mckinley has not been seen. I
is reported that he went to Seat
tie from the city on the Colum
bia, and from there to the East
olSince then, however, nothing ha:
been heard directly of him.
4 Mckinley was convicted il
"a the Federal Court before Judg'
'e Bellinger in the TIP case o
Having defrauded the Govern
n ment out of public lands. Fo:
q the ofense he was never sentenc
! ed, the Judgment having beer
suspended owing to the fact tina
% all of the defendants with the ex
t ception of Marie Ware turne'
Estates evidence. Bonds wer
: set by the Court at $4,000 an,
these were furnished after som
delay.
4 Marie Ware has also been hav
ing a travelled and troubled ex
perience since her marriage t
:, Mckinley some months age
e After the marriage III Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley came t
Portland and after a short Wis;
a. here, returned to the East again
ior They made a visit to La Crosse
at where some time was spent wit
30. McKinley's relatives. Afts
lat that they returned to Seattle
ng where they resided for a parts
or the time at the Etherton. Bot
he Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley wer
htdseen as late as September las !
Chicago. After he Giiicas
trip, however, the couple rtturs
ed to Seattle, from which plac
they seem to have dropped out {
= sight.
:. Pnter, throughout the summer
made his headquarters at Oh:
cago. From the statements {
George <. Hubbard, one of thos
- implicated in the Oregon stat
Us land deals, Puter was also :
ID Grand Rapids during the fall
z He has not been west Of til