Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-10
OREGON LAND FRAUDS
Full List of Indctnsnts and
Convictions.
STORYOF DEVELOPMENT
HOW 1NKLING OF THE AFFAIR
FIRST CAME ABOUT.
A Clerk of Hyde 6 Benson Wanted
More Money-Departnen Informed
-Secretary's Investigation.

The following list contains the names of
every person who has been indicted re-
suit of the land fraud Investigations that
have been going on in Oregon and Cali
fornia for the past two years. This is the
first complete list of these persons that has
been prepared or given out for publication.
1t was arranged under the direction of the
officials that have been making the investi-
| CATION and is issued independent of state
ment regarding the land frauds, which, 1t
is understood, will shortly be Forthcoming
from the Secretary of the Interior. The
list includes the names of seventy-four per-
sons, all of whom have been indicted at one
time or another for completely in fraud
against the government in direct connec-
ton with lands in California and Oregon.
Of this number six persons have been tried
and convicted and the others await trial.
The names of those convicted is first given
and those indicted follow, with the cause
for their indictment indicated:
Convictions for Conspiracy.
S. A. D. Puter, land dealer; Horace G.
Mckinley, land dealer; Emma L. Watson;
Dan w. Trapley, land dealer; Frank H.
" algamot, homestead entryman, all of
Portland, Ore; Albert H. Tanner, Senator
Mitchelrs partner, has been convicted of
perjury.
Indictments for Conspiracy.
Frederick A. Hyde and John A. Benson,
land attorneys, and Henry P. Dimond, at
torney at law, San Francisco, CAL; Jeost
H. Schneider, ex-employe Hyde & Benson,
Tucson, Ariz.; John H. Mitchell, United
States senator, and Binger Hermann and
John N. Williamson, representatives, Port
land, Greg. Clark E. LOOMS, ex-special
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forest superintendent; Franklin P. Mays,
attorney at law Estate SENATOR; w. N.
Jones and George Sorensen. timber dealers;
s. A d. Puter and Horace G. Mckinley,
land dealers; Emma L. Watson; Dan w.
Tarpley, land dealers; Ebert K. Brown
and Mrs. Nellie Brown, homestead entry
men; Henry A. Young; Frank H. Wal
gamot, homestead entrymans all of Port
land Greg DR.. Van Gesner, cattle dealer;
Marion r. Biggs, ex-United States COM
missioner; Winlock w. Steiwer, ex-state
senator, of Prineville, Greg. Hamilton H.
Hendricks ex-Cnited States commissioner;
Clarence B. Zachary, foreman Butte c. L.
L. L. Co.. AdeIbert c. Zachary, Charles A.
Watson and Clyde e. Glass, homestead APP
plicants of Fossil. Greg. John H. Hall, ex-
United States attorney; Edwin Mays, ex-
assistant United States attorney, of Port
land Greg. Edward D. Strathford, ex-
special agent, G. l.. o.. Ehorado, Kan.
Henry Medium, ex-United States surveyor
general; George E. Waggoner, ex-chief
clerk S. G. office; David w. fKinnaird, ex-
examiner of surveys; Benjamin F. Minton,
Gustave Klaetsch and Rufus S. Moore, dep
uty surveyors; Frank J. VAN Wrinkle, ex-
examiner of surveys: Levy Stfpp. Frank H.
Duncan and John W. Hamaker; ex-notary
publies; Harry l.. Rec. et-Haior, United
States army; John Cofdanu, deputy sher-
if: J. H. Kitchings and Charles Lord, at
torneys at law; John Northrup, hotel pro-
prietor; A. P. CayIer. grain dealer, and
Henry Ford, all of Portland, Greg. Charles
Nickel, United States commissioner; Mar
- ~ low
Miller and Frank E. Kincart, limb T
locators, Medford, Greg. -
Indictments for Perjury.
William H. Davis, mayor of Albany,
Ore, Albany Ore; Albert H. Tanner, Sena-
tor Mitchelrs partner and George Sorenson,
timber dealer, Portland, Ore.
Indictments for Subornation Of Per-
jury.
George c. Brownell. state senator. Port
land, Ore; Hamilton H, Hendricks, ex
United States commissioner. Fossil, Ore.
Receiving Money for Services Before
Department.
John H. Mitchell, United States senator,
Portland, Ore.
Offering Brides to District Attorney
Hall.
George Sorenson, timber dealer, Portland,
Ore.
Obstructing Administration of Justice.
Earl Benson, William T. Nicholas, o. H.
Lawrence. Hans Wadtli, Fred Wadtli o.
j. Mealey. William Mealey, John Thomp-
son and Richard Watkins of Sweet Home
Ore.
The last group are persons who, it is al
legged. attempted to secure an indictment in
the state courts against Special Attorney
Heney, who worked up the cases against
the others, and thus to discredit him before
the people in order that his conduct of the
cases against the other persons indicted
Burns investigated these cases and the
result was the indictment of the persons
named for attempting to obstruct the ad-
ministration of justice
Story of the Land Frauds,
The story of the land frauds for which the
persons named above were indicted, if the
charges are true, is history of one of the
most gigantic and systematic attempts to
defraud the government and more directly
the people of the United States, that has
been unearthed for years. For years the
men who have been indicted were permitted
10 carry on their work without moIestation
through the bribery of government officials
II Is charged. Complaints of their conduct
We're received at the land Office and pigeon
holed, 1t is said, and they were permitted
10 carry ON their work with the utmost
freedom. Instead of hunting; out and de-
stroying the criminals 1t Is alleged the
government officials aided and abetted
them, and it is for this reason that the
names of twenty-five officials or agents of
ord sn;x laI