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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-06

Mitchell and Tanner, and that a clause
in the original partnership agreement
read: THAT all moneys received from
practicing before the department at
Washington was to be the exclusive
profits of John H. MITCHELL" while in
the agreement presented before the
grand jury the name Of Tanner APP
peared in the place of Mitchell's.
Misspelled words in the agreement fur
nished a clew, and Tanners son in a
test before the grand jury misspelled
those same words, and finally admitted
that he had written the agreement in
December, 1904. Judge Tanner was
now called before the grand jury again,
and persisted in his former statement
that the agreement was genuine, and
the grand jury promptly indicted him
for perjury. Later, it is said, he made
a confession to Burns, duplicating
Mitchell in the fraud.
The Burn Without-Faip' Letter.
In the meantime Harry c. Robertson,
the private secretary of Senator
Mitchell, at Washington, had been
~subpoenaed as a witness by the gov
eminent, and on his arrival at Port
land was Immediately taken by Mr..
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JOKE TO COST THEM $4,000
Tenderfoot Sues Men Who Held Him
Up Gust for Fun" for
Big Sum.

Tacoma, Wash.-A practical joke
played upon a tenderfoot has resulted
in a suit for $4,000 damages against
seven men at Lewiston, Idaho.
Ray Names, recently from Kokomo,
Ind, was the victim of a fake hold-up
at Waha, Idaho, several weeks ago.
He raj employed by John Hames, who
conduct the post office, store and no.
tel at Waha.
The defendants, it is alleged, fright
ened him by telling him how fast ten
derfeet were killed off in that part Of
the country. One mar rode up lead
ing a riderless horse and told Names
how his partner had been killed and
he was hurrying out Of the country.
The climax came when Names and
others were held up in the store.
Two of the defendants, with coffee
sacks as masks, entered the store, armed
with revolvers, and ordered the men in
side to hold up their hands.
The complaint adds that Names was
recovering from appendicitis, and that
the fright has made him permanently
Ill. He is now at Lewiston under q
physicians care.
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Less, as he had only furnished informa-
ton which was legitimate and the in
quirer had merely given an expression
of gratitude for services rendered. But
that was but the first step. In a few days
the conspirator would call again and
want still other information which did
not have to do with the land cases. The
clerk, eager to oblige, supplied the in
formation, and $50 offered by the CRATE
full inquirer was more readily accepted
than the $40 had been. Now the clerk
was fixed, and when the conspirator
came out boldly and sought information
in regard to land cases, and the clerk
would protest that he could not give it.,
he was coolly informed that he must do
as he was bid, for he had accepted two
or three brides from him already, and if
it became known he would lose his place
and perhaps go to the penitentiary. The
clerk, realizing his position, would
yield, and in a short time would be deep
in the meshes of the great conspiracy.
After Big Game.
But the big game had not been winged
as yet, and it vas really the big fellows
which the department was anxious to
get. But step by step the trail was lead
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They Are Far More Gigantic Than Peo.
pie Generally Imagine.
SOME CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK DONE
BY W.. j. BURNS.
He Has Entrapped Culprits Both High and Low by His
Carefully Laid Plans-How the Schemes of the
Land Grabbers Worked--Some
Startling Evidence.

because the conspirators were bold and
the prize to be won almost limitless in
extent and value, they devised a sys-
tenn by which to operate. But more
of this later.
Startling Summary.
To summarize our story before at
tempting to develops it in Its startling
details, let us consider that it's rami-
fications lead us through three states,
with still others to hear from. I'M
mense tracts of timber land, aggregat-
ing 1000, 900 or more acres in extent,
are involved. In Oregon, one firm alone
acquired 100000 acres of the finest. OF
the public domain by the use Of the
fraudulent system. And in California
applications were made for 100000
acres of school lands, indicating that
the only limit to the fraudulent entries
was to be the outermost boundaries of
the land itself. 1t is estimated that the
land grabbed is easily worth $40, 900 900
to $25, 000, 900.
Sixteen of the principals involved in
these land frauds have been indicted,
and ten or IL implicated in a greater
or less degree. Ten men in the employ
of the land office have been discharged
for completely in the frauds and sew
eral convictions have already been Sc
cured.
Among the indicted are one United
States senator one congressman, two
state senators, an eX-district attorney,
an ex-assistant district attorney, the
former head of the general land office,
special agents of the land office and a
former judge.
In Oregon convictions have already
been secured in the cases of Clyde
Lloyd, S. A. d. Puter, Horace G.. Nc
Kinley, Emma L. Watson and D. w.
Tarpley. Franklin Pierce Mays, state
senator from Portland, is now on trial,
and the trial of Senator Mitchell is to
begin shortly.
Judge A. H. Tanner. the law partner
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of Senator Mitchell, was indicted for
perjury and later pleaded guilty and it
is stated made a confession implicit
ing Senator Mitchell.
Former Land Commissioner Her
mann, now congressman from Oregon,
is under Indictment on the charge of
destroying records of the land office
at Washington, and in addition to this
he is under indictment with John n.
Hall, ex-district attorney; Edwin Mays.
ex-assistant district attorney; F. P.
Mays, state senator; Hamilton H. Hen
bricks, secretary and treasurer of the
Butte Creek Land, Live Stock & Lum-
Der company, and Special Agents
G. e. LOOMS and q. d. Stratford of
the land office, on the charge of fenc-
ing in a large part Of the county of
Wheeler and taking up a number of
entries in the outskirts Of the county.
In California R. A. Hyde, John A.
Henson and Henry, P. Dimond, extern
sive land spectators, have been indict-
ed on the charges Of conspiracy and
the effort to take them to Washington
for trial.
The First Clew.
This, in brief, Is the outline Of the
plot, the results of the Investigations
and the progress of the legal battle.
It was in the latter part of 1902 that
the first intimation of extensive land
frauds reached the ear Of Secretary
Hitchcock, and the circumstances con
nected Herewith are of rather a singu-
lar character. 1t has been said that
1t takes a thief to catch a thief, and
strange enough the first information
Of frauds in the land entries was given
by a man who had been in the employ
Of land-grabbers, and who was threat
ening to. expose the frauds in order to
enforce the payment Of lush money.
He sent letter after letter to the gen
eral land Office at Washington, but 1t
Ia said that Binger Hermann, at that
time commissioner. ignored the letters.
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Washington.-The story of the big
land frauds of the west when all told
is one of the most startling and inter
esting of modern annals.
1t is a gigantic conspiracy, a detec-
tive story and a tremendous legal bat
tie all in one.
The conspiracy reaches back through
the years, involves hundreds of thous-
ands of acres of the finest public lands
in Arizona, California, Oregon and 9TH
er states, and includes among it's long
chain of conspirators, men prominent
in state and nation, government Off
Gals and employees, and wealthy cor
porations, including at least n rail
road.
The detective story equals any of the
Sherlock Holmes variety in the keen
ness and nicely with which the faint
est clews have been followed up, mys-
teries unraveled and the guilty, high
and low, at last cornered, in spite Of
unlimited power and influence and
loads of money used to block investi-
cation and checkmate the detectives.
The tremendous legal battle begun
some time ago when sufficient evidence
was secured to start court proceedings
and which is still raging, is a conflict
of giants. The government has en-
ployed the finest legal talent to be had
to prosecute the cases and the men
on trial, and to be tried, r sparing
no efforts or money in trying to escape
conviction. 1t is a fight every inch of
the way, with several points scored by
the government thus far.
And all this is included in the COM
plete story of the land ,frauds-a story
of fascinating interest because of it's
startling revelations.
1t is a story one wants to read.
From the time some three years ago
when Secretary Hitchcock, of the in
terror department, first received the
hint that gigantic land steals were 60
ing on and started the machinery of
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Investigation, news items in the papers
of the country have told of the devel.
opments in the case. Occasionally the
public has Deen startled by the name
of some prominent man being connect
ed with the frauds, as was especially
the case when SenatorM Mitchell was in
dicted on the charge of accepting a
bride in connection with some of the
land cases, and his now famous, burn
this letter." was made public.
But at best the public has been able
to obtain only a very incomplete and
confused idea of the case as a whole,
and has little idea of it's magnitude, the
startling boldness of the plot and the
extent of the operations of unscrupu-
lous men.
One Gigantic, Systematic Plot.
First Of all we want to remember
that the land frauds are not an aggre-
cation Of isolated cases, Independent Of
each other in methods and purpose,
but are really n gigantic, deep-laid
and systematic plot which was being
persistently and successfully carried
on in Arizona, California. Oregon and
other western states by men OF wealth
and influence who had a lust for the
public domain.
Lawson, in his revelations Of Wall
street methods, speaks Of "the system, ;.
but the New York money kings in
their alleged raids on the stock mar
kets and the pocketbooks Of the small
investors never worked a more thor
oughly organized system than have the
land-grabbers Of the west. First, we
have the conspirators, bold, %rapacious,
unprincipled, Unsuitable. Next were
the vast tracts Of valuable government
land as a stake for which these con-
spirators were ready to play, and judy
ing from the hundreds Of thousands Of
acres Of land f~raudulently obtained up
to the time the Investigations were be-
gun the stake was an elastic one, which
ultimately was to include millions. And
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-06
Argentine States.

The Argentine states have greater in
dividuality than ours. They may, with
the consent Of congress, make treaties
for the fostering of industry, immigra-
ton, colonization, railways and canals.
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Training Calves to Eat

The young calves should be encour-
aged, as 500 as possible, to eat their
grain dry, as 1t is thus moistened with
the saliva, and is much more perfectly
digested. Do not mix 1t with their milk
or drink.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-04-06

The average woman thinks it's just
horrid If her husband Is jealous Of her.
and just horrid II he isn't, so there you
are.--N. Y. Times.
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The Government Position.

Mr.. Pugh, as attorney for the interior
department, in speaking of the govern
ment's position in the case, SAYS:
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were now under the closest %surveil-
lance of detectives, and Burns told
Harlan and Walk to keep the appoint
ment and to take any money which
was offered them. The trap was sprung
and Burns, it is said, has $500 which
was given to Walk and 5000 given to
Harlan, marked and held for future
reference.
An Important Arrest.
Benson was Immediately arrested
and taken before the United States
commissioner. He gave bonds for
$4,000, but defaulted and skipped to
New York, where he was again ar
rested and where he has been fighting
the removal proceedings ever since.
The a has at last reached the United
States supreme court, from which a
decision is expected soon.
How Clerks Were Bribed.
And now just a word here as to the
skillful way In which the clerks in the
general land Office at Washington and
the special agencies in the western
states were approached and finally COM
pletely brought under the control of the
unprincipled land sharks. One of the
conspirators would call upon them and
ask for ordinary information that had
nothing whatever to do with the land
steals, and which was perfectly proper
for the clerks to give. This information
would require a little research on the
part Of the clerk, and when 1t was fin
ished the inquirer professed himself to
be deeply grateful and on leaving would
press a $40 bill into the hands Of the
clerk, and If he raised any protests,
would say: "Oh, give it to your wife"
Here was a temptation easy to yield
to, for it seemed so innocent and harm
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
THE RUMBLING WITHIN
RuSsia's Internal Troubles Are by no
 Means Over.

While there seems to have been a complete restoration of order in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the conditions at Warsaw are due to go from bad to worse. Estimates of the killed and wounded in consequence of the collis- lions between the mobs and soldiers place the number at 160. The bakers being on a strike, bread is at famine prices in Warsaw and attempts to break into the stores there have caused numerous collisions with the militia.
 The finding of rcvolvers or uniforms on many of the arrested rioters af- lords confirmation of recent reports that revolutionary agitators have been smuggling arms in anticipation of an outbreak. It is asserted that the tale of dead through the recent conflict be- tween strikers and troops at Riga is far short of the actuality, many hay ing perished in an attempt to cross the river on the ice, when the soldiers opened fire, the ice breaking and the water engulfing the fugitives.
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
MARRIAGE ON THE BRAIN
HoCh May Be a Bluebeard as We'll as
 a Bigamist.

New York, Jan. 3O-Johanan Hoch, charged with bigamy in Chicago and who it is alleged, married twenty wO- men. was arrested at a boarding house in West Forty Seventh street tonight by central office detectives. He ad- mftted his identity, although when first arrested he gave the name of Henry Bartels. At Forty seventh street sta tiOn, where he was taken he said: T am Hoch and much abused man."
 How abused" he was asked.
 He had nothing to say. He gave his name as John Joseph Adolph Hoch, and said he is 45 years old, a machin- ist, living at 643O Union avenue, Chi cagO. HOch stated he had not been married twenty times. He said he had been married only twice and that his first wife is still alive.
 Mrs Catherine Kimmerle, his land lady, said he engaged board on Sat urday and had not been in the house twenty minutes when he asked to be allowed to peel some potatoes for her. Today he proposed marriage and she then told the police. She added that the man talked a good deal to her yes terday and became much interested in her she thought.
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
Vote on Statehood Bill to
 Be Taken Feb. 7
REPUBLICAN DETECTION
Seventeen Senators Will Vote Co Save Arizona - It Is Possible That New Mexico Will Be Allowed to Co in Alone.

Washington, Jan 2H--, ,Sr-efafE-N vote will be taken oa JHe point state hood bill on February e. This azret- ment was reached today without I.1-- culty. Those who are opposed t1 il. bill as it now stands are confident er their ability to defeat it at least a- l1 its most objectionable feltures aaI Senator Beveridge alarmed by tH- growing defectiou of the repurrlrla senators was desirsus or bringing IEe matter to an early issue Seventeen republican senators will oppose ta- joining of New Mexico and ArIz1la- F- was this feature of the buI which e-- cOuntered the greatest opGozlf5Hr. These senators voting with the sHHt democrats will insure either IEe defeat of the bill or an amendment reii-.ia.. Arizona of its provisions
 The amendment submitting trr question separately to tee people Hr those territories which it was tlnurH. might be adopted has been ahlaIa-a.- since it has been made plain that ra. submission would involve only waste of time and money. The bin win urg probably be amended either by strlSl1.- out the clause relating to Arizona luI New Mexico or by eliminating A~.esrl. allowing New Mexico Co Come iu ar l state alone
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
A WHOLESALE SWINDLER
Mcintyre Had Operated in Douglas
 Arizona.

New York, Jan. 3O.-PhiIip McIn- tyre. who was arrested last Saturday upon the arrival of the steamer from Vera Cruz on the charge Of passing a worthless draft for $500 on a bank in the City of Mexico, according to the police, is wanted in more than a score Of cities in various parts of the United States on charges of, swindling. When Mcintyre was arraigned in the police court today, he was turned over to the federal authorities.
 Among the cities where Mcintyre is wanted, according to the detectives, are DeadwoOd. $. D., Butte. Mont. Everett, Wash. KalispeIl. Mont. South Omaha. Neb.. Douglas, Arizona, Roseburg and Baker City, Or McIntye will be ar raigned before a United States com missioner in Mexican eXtradition pro ceedings.
 According to the detectives, McIn- tyres method was to represent himself as an attorney for the Tennessee Coal company and also as former prosecut- ing attorney of Fl Paso, Texas. He carried letters of introduction written on the paper of the supreme court of Tennessee and purporting to be signed by the various supreme court justices of that state. He is a fluent talker and easily became acquainted with lawyers whom he appointed as agents for the coal com mpany. He would then ask the newly appointed agents to introduce him at one of the local banks.
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
PECULIARLY IRRITATED.
The Assault Follows on the Heels of
 a Published Insult.

St. Petersburg. Jan 30.-New com
 pltcatiOns between Great Britian and
 Russia are feared on account of the attack on the British consul and vice
 consul at Warsaw on Saturday night.
 Coming on the heels of placards posted Ey Assistant Chief of Police Roudneff
 at Moscow, charging Great Britian
 with melting revolution in Russia, the
 Warsaw incident is likely to arouse an
 outburst in Great Eritian which may again strain the relations between the
 TWO countries.
 Beyond the fact of the attack at Warsaw, resulting in the wounding of
 the British vice consul, who is now in the hospital. the British embassy here ] has no details of the affair but Sir Charles Hardings, the British ambass- ador, has already delivered a note to Foreign Minister Lamsdorff asking for
 an immediate investigation and ex- planation, reserving any claims which may be hereafter made and at the same time asking for the protection of the British consuIs throughout the em- pire. By the first train he also des- patched Major Napier the British military attache. to Warsaw to secure a full report of the circumstances.
 Count Lamsdorff replied to Ambass- adOr Hardiuge's second note on the subject of Moscow placards by saying that instructions had been sent out to 1 remove all traces of the placards from the streets. It is now learned however, that smilar notices had been posted at L:bau and Reval which led to a renew al of the representations on this score. Tn this connection the appearance Of the proclamation of the Holy Synod instructing orthodox priests to inform their parishioners that the strike and revolutionary movements were pro- noted by external as well as internal enemies of Russia with the object of | embarrassing military and naval plans, has already created something of a ! furry among the foreigners here, es- peciaIIy the British, who believe that
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
U. $. Supreme Court De- CideS Against Beef Trust
INJUNCTION CONTINUED
The Opinion of the Court Was Unan- imous in the Declaration That the Facts Alleged Against the Combine Were True.

Washington. Jan. 3O.-The supreme court of the United States today de- cfdel the case of the United States vs Swift & Co, known as the beef trust case. charging conspiracy among pack CTS to fix prices of fresh meats, etc The opinion was handed down by Justice Holmes and affirmed the de- cfslou of the court below which was against the packers.
 Tn his opinion, Justice Holmes dis cussed at length the various contentious of the packers and disposed of them in diyiduaIly. He admitted that some of the charges were less specific than de- sfrabIe but he said this was neces- sari!y true on account of the vast ex- tent of the field covered. He added that sufficient evidence had been shown to prove continuous offenses and an of feuse of such nature to justify pro ceeIings The opinion continues the injunction granted against packers un- der the sherman antitrust law in the lower courts. The opinion was con cured in by all members of the court.
 Summarizing the bills Justice Holmes said Tt charges a combination of a COminant proportion of the dealers in fresh meats throughout the United States not to bid against each other in the live stock markets of the differ rut states. to bid up prices for a few days in order to induce cattlemen to send their stock to the stock yards; to fix prices at which they will sell and to that end to restrict shipments of meat when necessary; to establish a
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
A RELATED DISPATCH.

General Oku's headquarters, Jan. 29. -Yesterday Saturday )the Japanese began a fierce bombardment with ar tilIery and musketry along tic whole line. The firing was kept up until mid night and was resumed at dawn today, continuing until noon. The Russian reply was feeble.
 The movement of the Japanese left wing for the purpose of surrounding and cutting off the Russians in the neighborhood of Pokowtai is progress ing slowly. Should the Russian force be cut off it will result in leaving Gen eral Kuropauin's right flank unpro- tected.
Arizona republican., 1905-01-31
MORE CBJEcTIoNABLE FLAG
 ARDS.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 3O.-The posting of the plaeards at Libau signed by the governor of CoUrland of similar pur- port to those posted at Moscow charg- ing Great Britian with great responsi- bility for the disturbances in Russia has called out another vigorous protest from the British Ambassador Sir Charles Hardinge, who has pointed out to Foreign Minister LamsdOrff that such proceedings must make a dePlor- able impression in Great Britian and cannot fail to seriously affect the friendly relations of the two countries.
 The British military attGche here, Major Napier, has been despatched to Warsaw to inquire into the attack on Consul General Murray and the vice consul there.