Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-10-10
WADE In TROUBLE.
Clerk of Lincoln County Up
Against 1t.

The following account was
published in the Portland Teie-
gram of Thursday, and points to
breakers ahead for Ira Wade,
clerk OF our sister county:
Testimony given by Addison
Longenecker, witness for the
Government in the Jones, Potter
and Wade trial today, tends to
connect the last named with the
conspiracy charged in the in
dictment. This was the first
evidence adduced against Wade,
the county clerk of Lincoln
county.
The witness testified that he
would not make the required
ans wers to certain questions in
the final proof made before
Wade, and that the latter said,
"Well, we will say that you
have so many fruit trees on your
claim, an acre cleared and in
cultivation, and that your cabin
is of such size," filing in the
data on the proof.
Longnecker said he had no
fruit tees on the claim, and that
he had not lived there, never
even having spent one night on
the land, although the showing
of continuous residence appears
on the final proof. The wit
ness, however, signed the afh-
davit after it had been filled in;
he said he knew he was commit
ting perjury at the time he did
it.
~ don't think l answered two
questions on the whole proof"
he declared on the stand today.
Although he had family, he
never took any member of it on
the land, and never for a minute
entertained the idea of making it
his home. He went to Toledo
to complete proof at the direction
of Jones to whom he decided the
land shortly after for $500.
His wife had some qualms
about signing the deed and was
paid 500 for her service. The
couple separated shortly after;
not, however, explained the wit
ness, until they got the money
from Jones. That the matri-
monial experience of the witness
was not pleasant was indicated
by the answer of the witness to
the question if he had been mar
ried more than once.
''No, just once, "said he, "bu
once is enough"
Jones told the witness latte
that the claims were to be con
tested and that trip to Oregon
City would be necessary. HI
went at that time, but said h
never understood what disposi
ton was made OF the case. Late
he was told that he would hav
to go again to Oregon City for
re-hearing, "but,' said the wit
nes, 81 was not interested.
had gotten my money and didn'
propose to go to Oregon Cit
again.
Mr.. Longenecker is II yea,
old and had trouble in recallin
incidents in connection with tn
claim he filed on, and he sal
he never understood what he file
on the land. He thought ths
filing would necessarily be d.
layed because the survey had NJ
been filed at the land office. an
before he was advised different
he was directed to go and max
final proof.
He declared this morning TIL
ne never filed on the land at al
The theory is that he signed f
ing ahdavits without payir
much attention to them to f
them in his mind. The witne!
said that he learned when /
proved up that the claim
was shown was not his at all, b
that his land was further up
the woods several miles. T
said he understood from 9th
entrymen that it was the syste
of Jones and his associates to ia
different gangs of claimants in
the same locality and show the
the same cabins and tell the
the claims were theirs, using Il
same Improvements over al
over again in this way. {