The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-09
ANOTHER BATCH
OF INDICTMENTS
Federal Grand Jury at Portland Re-
turns True Bills.
FIFTEEN MEN IMPLICATED
AROUOUS WORK OF PROSECUT-
ING ATTORNEY.

Portland, Ore. April S-The federal
grand jury this afternoon indicted If
teen we'll known men of Oregon and
Washington. Among them are the fol-
lowing.
State Senator r. a. Booth, manager
of the BOOth-Kelly Lumber company:
his brother, Henry J. Booth, receiv err
OF the Roseburg land office; Frank d.
Alley of Roseburg, abstractor; A. r.
and Edward r. Downs, Seattle timber
men; Rev. stephen w. TurneI a Rose
burg minister; Edward Singleton, bro
ther IN law to the Booths; Willard y.
Jones, a Portland timber man; Thad-
deus ). Potter, formerly clerk in the
law office of f. p. Hays; II. L. Sissler
or Seattle; Daniel Clark. an ex-sOIdier
or the rebellion; Clarence 3. Zachary.
Colonel D. Barnard and Charles a
watson of Fossil, Wheeler county.
Charged With Conspiracy.
They will be charged with conspir-
acy to defraud the government Of
portion of its public lands. The grand
jury began voting on the indictments
at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
With tireless and almost superhuman
energy since early yesterday morning
United States District Attorney Fran
els j. Heney has been racing against
time in an effort to draft the indict-
mentS that were returned by the fed
cra' grand jury this afternoon and
V hich had already been voted by the
grand jury They could not be re-
turned until properly attested by the
freeman and secretary of the grand
jury, or the district attorney. and as
the limitation of deIiberation expires AT
/: o'clock tonight, the number and eX-
tent Of the indictments resolved itself
into a purely mechanical measurement
the jury assembled at , o'clock this
afternoon and but little time elapsed
after the jury assembled before the
indictments were made public
Heney Worked Hard.
Mr.. Heney has not attended any SEES
sions of the body during the last few
days, but in his apartments the s=r-
vices Of two experienced stenograph-
erS have been almost constantly re-
quired for more tSan forty hours upon
relay basis, in order to meet the
demands of the situation
Three indictments, including fifteen
men i'm all, were voted. With the eX-
ception OF Daniel Clark Coz d. Bar
nard, Charles A. Watson and Clarence
h. Zachary, all were indicted on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government of "A portion Of its public
lands, being a violation of section 5440
of the revised statutes.
Perjury Charges.
Daniel Clark was indicted for alleged
perjury before the grand jury. in con-
nection with his dealings as an old
soldier in an alleged attempt TO get
land i'm the Siletz Indian
COe d. Barnard and Charles y. Wat
son and Clarence b. Zachary were in
dicted on a charge Of swearing falsely
In regard to final proofs. by means OF
which the Butte Greek Land, Lumber
& Livestock company. II is charged.
secured many hundreds of acres Of
land.
The present grand jury Will adjourn
this afternoon or this evening sine die.
Alleged Conspiracy.
The Indictment of Frank b. Alley
and Rev. Stephen w. Turnell of Rose
burg and A. r. and Edward r. Downs.
wealthy timber men of Seattle, relates
to an alleged conspiracy supposed to
have b=en entered into between the
persons named by which. during
19O1-=-3. some 100000 acres of what is
pronounced one of the finest bodies of
timber in oregon was fraudulenuy Sc
cured in the region Of the boundary
line betw Ell Douglas and Coos coun-
ties in southwestern Oregon.
It is the contention of the govern
a ring to gain title 10 this vast tract,
and that the land was located by pro-
cess of dummies" undrr the timber
and stone act Of June 3, 1873. through
the efforts of Jack Gardner and J. H
McCrossen. both of whom have since
been convicted Of the offense. 1t is
known that Gardner and McCrOssen
"sQuealsd d. on their associates when it
became apparent that they were the
only ones likely to suffer
Booths Case.
State Senator r. A Booth. manager
OF the Booth-Kelly Lumber company.
his brother Henry j. Booth, rec liver
of the Roseburg land Office. and Ed
ward Singleton. brother-in-law of the
Booths. were indicted under section
544O for conspiracy 10 defraud the gov
eminent out of a portion OF its public
lands by inducing Thomas Agee of
Ros burg to prove upon an abandoned
homestead
John Doe indictment was returned
H. connection with the one against r.
a Downs ct al. and it is believed this
relates to "A millionaire lumberman of
MINNEAPOLIS Mimi.