The daily sentinel., 1906-06-05
THE OTHER SIDE OF TT.

Mrs. o. w. HoslSins, wife of the
defendant in the Hoskins-DeLong
case called at the Sentinel office this
morning saying thar there had been
so many misstatements published in
another paper concerning the deal
ing of her husband with Senator De
Long. that she wanted the Sentinel
to see Mr.. Hoslxins and publish a
story of the whole transaction.
Mr. Hoskins was seen later in the
morning and in an interview gave the
following story of his transactions
with Mr.. DeLong;
'I own a fruit ranch of is acres
north of the city and on account of
troubles which | have had for some
time with my neighbore have wanted
for some time to dispose of my prop
erty so that | could go elsewhere to
live. Mr.. DeLong made me an offer
to trade 120 acres of land in the
Bonita valley near DeBeque for my
fruit ranch and as / was very anxious
to leave l took the proposition under
consideration. / went over to see the
land and was satisfied with it as far
as the quality of land was concerned
and as Mr.. DeLone assured me that
they could give a clear title to the
place and that they would have water
on the land in time for first crops
be gan to talk trade. When it came
to carrying on the transaction for
mally Mr. DeLong insisted on making
out the papers. | asked him to take
them to lawyer but he said he could
do as we'll and seemed determined to
do so. He did so. and in the con-
tract agreed to accept my 1S-acre
ranch with $4,000 incumbrance on
it and in return to give me 12O acres
of the Bonita Valley land with a
clear title, which he said in the con-
tract 1t would take sixty days TO do,
to pay me S75 an acre for all of the
Bonita land which came to me in the
trade which ultimately could not be
put under water. In regard to the
water he made only a verbal agree
ment to have water on the land in
/ time for the first crops. | asked him
/ to put his guarantee of the water
in the agreement but he waived this
aside saying why Mr.. HoslSins my
word Is good, you can trust me, the
water will be there. IL will have to be
there. Why | am going to have so
ocres of my own put out to fruit this
spring. I'll see that the water is
there. You can move right on the
land
! Mr.. DeLOng wanted the immeu-
late possession OF my ranch and l ar
ranged to give II to him allowing his
] tenant to move on the property al
once.
This contract was signed March
21. 1t was filed on April II. | want
ed to wait until May /. when the
sixty days had expired, in which he
was to furnish me with a clear title
and looking up the property found
the records to show a piece of lane
which was to have come to me wa,
not owned by the Bonita Land com
pany or Senator DeLong either, bu
by a Mrs Kitty J. Ong. AT thai
time too the water which was to hav,
been on my property in time for frs
crops was then and is today abou
FIVE miles distant from the property
Then | rescinded the contract ant
moved back on my ranch occupying
only a part of the house for the ten
ant which | had allowed Mr.. DeLonl
to place in charge of the property
when | expected him to fulfill hi
promise was still in the house an'
refused to leave.
There is about $4,000 worth of frui
on my ranch which | want to TAX
care of and which | don't want t.