Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-02
ASMUS b0YSEN
DEFEATS ENEMIES
Chicago Mining Man Finally Gets
Upper Hand in Noted Wy.
oming Land Case.
FOUGHT OUT IN CONGRESS.
Now In Possession OF Valuable Min.
cral Tract ON Wind River In.
dian Reservation.


Special Correspondence.
Cheyenne. Wyo. June s)-A tele.
phone message from Lander states that
Amus Boysen, the Chicago and Iowa
mining man has at last outwittod his
enemies and IN spite OF the watchful-
ness of a company of United states
soldiers and the reservation officials
at the Wind river agency Boysen has
aled on $40 acres Of mineral lands IN
the reservation and as soon as the
lands are opened to settlement he will
develop and patent same.
The story Of Boysens trials, dogged
determination 10 secure what he be-
lleyed 10 be- rightfully his, and the
many difficulties that beset his path.
reads like the widest fiction that ever
flowed from the pen OF Jules Verne.
Years ago Mr. Boysen leased a large
tract Of land in the Wind River, or
Shoshone reservation, from the Sho-
shore and Arapahoe Indians. The lands
are alleged 10 have contained rich de-
poslts Of gold and silver, copper as
phalt, cobalt, asbestos and other min
erals. For reasons best known To him
sell Mr. Boysen never developed his
properties.
When treaty was had with the In
dams providing for the opening OF a
certain portion OF the reservation 20
settlement, Boysens lease had 10 be
rcckoned with. ana Mr. Boysen agreed
10 give up the lease providing Congress
would give him preferential rights
when II came 10 the opening. After a
hard-fought battle I'm Congress. Boysen
hclng opposed by the Wyoming delega-
ton but backed by the strong Iowa
and Illinois delegations. the mining
man was granted The right TO enter the
reserve prior 10 the opening aud select
$50 acres Of land In lieu OF his lease
with the Indians
In due time Mr.. Boysen came to
Wyoming with large force Of men.
diamond drills and an expensive drill.
ing outfit. He had organized a COM
pany capitalized al 5000. 900. and Il was
proposed 20 prospect the mineral lands
NJ III reservation carefully and select
the $40 acres. Sir. Boysen did not reck-
on with the mining men and others adj
jacent To the reservation. for DE had no
sooner set foot on the reserve than a
party Of masked men raidel hts camp.
destroyed his expensive drilling OUTFIT
with dynamite and drove mis- men away.
Warnings. headed by skull and cross
bones, were sent to Mr.. Boyseu and he
was threatened with death II he ever
set foot on the reservation again.
Mr. Boysen appealed 90 the secretary
Of the Interior. but Mr. Hitchcock. after
a careful investigation. refused 20 aid
him Later 4 decision was rendered
by the interior department which held
that Boysen had no right on the re-
serve prior 20 the opening n0tWlth-
standing the preferential rights granted
by Congress. Mr. Boysen then ap.
pealed to the United States court and
after time Judge John A. Rmer of
Cheyenne rantcd B0ysen temporary
Injunction. which was last April made
permanent. enjoluing persons from in
torfering with B0yseu. This Injunction
included the officers OF the interior de-
pariment And for a time Il appeared
Roysen had finally won, but he was
shortly confronted by a new difficulty.
About this time orders were issued 10
Indian Agent WadsWorth to clear the
reservation and B0yseu and his men
were driven out along with others.
Then came the United States soldiers
a. patrol the reserve and Boysen found
% his chagrin that the orders ~ Judge
Bintr cut no Ice with Uncle Sans
BOYS and he appeared 10 he completely
defeated.
A few days ago Mr. Roysen visited
Lander and registered as a. RAFT OF
Omaha. At the land Office he filed on
some choice mineral lands In his own
name thus defeating his enemies "a the
final inning.