Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-21
Rumored in Santa Fe That.
Gentleman From Trinidad
Objects to Being CIaSSed as
a ConSpirator.
INTERESTING DISPOSITIONS
SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE
Stated That Principals in
Schomburg Deal Say Off,
CiaIs Knew All About Plans Of
Purchasers.
Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal

Purchasers,
! Especial Dispatch to the Morning JOurnal.l
| Santa Fe, N. NJ, July 20.-T A.
Schomburg and II. C. Graden, of Colo
RADIO, have been here for some days.
Mr.. Graden left this morning over the
] Denver and Rio Grande for his home
in Durango, Col. where he IS engaged
! in the mercantile business on a large
scale. The visit of Schomburg and
Graden to this city was in connection
with the land deal which was madc
some three, years ago and on account
for which a suit was brought this week
by the attorney general of the territory
with the advice and under the direc-
ton of the acting governor the early
part of this week.
While here Mr.. Schomburg made a
clean breast of the whole affair and il
is understood that the disclosures re-
veal a condition of affairs in the terri
tory almost past belief. What was
intimated in these dispatches some
days ago. that the Plunderbund was
delivered a gold brick when the Beach
resolution was adopted last winter,
has proved TO be true. Just at this
| time 1t is not possible to get copies of
the documents in the Schomburg case
but, like the investigation which was
/ made into the land frauds In. this ter
ritOry some twenty Years ago, all OF
the details will likely be embodied In
an official report which will be printed
4 n an nnr a
printing office. This report VIII be
interesting reading for the people of
this territory who have been told so
often about the great and good men
who have been administering territ0r-
ial affairs for the past eight or ten
Iyears.
In the case which was brought by
the territory this week to annul and
set aside the deeds to the 5.S74 acres
of land sold to SchOmburg and his as
sociates, the territory alleges that be-
fore and at the time said deeds were
executed and delivered by the COM
missioner of public lands TO the sew
eral applicants named and relying
upon the Misrepresentation of the
defendant, T. A. Schomburg, acting for
himself and as agent for said appll-
cants. the said board of public lands
believed that said applicants were
DOnH liue dppiitdHlS anu were dSllhb III
good faith, and that the lands bid for
and sold to them through their said
agent, were wanted by them for their
sole use and benefit and not for the
use and benefit of others. That since
said sale and delivery Of deeds plain
ltiff has been advised and charges the
fact to be, that said applicants were
not bona fide purchasers of said lands
but were acting for and In combina-
tlon and cOllusion with the defendants
Schomburg and Graden, for the pur-
pose Of enabling the said defendants
to acquire a large tract of land belong
ing to the territory OF New Mexico
and evade the law OF said territory
preventing the purchase of more than
lone quarter section by any one per-
son, corporation or association of per-
sons. That the defendants ShOmbure
and Graden entered into combination
and conspiracy between themselves
and the other applicants and grantees
herein named. to mislead ana deceive
said board OF public lands and to cheat
and defrauG plaintiff and TO acquire
said lands for the timber thereon, te
be transferred to the defendant. the
Rio Grande Lumber company, IN
which the said defendants Schombure
. land Graden are stockholders, directors
and officers as plaintiff Is advised, ane
whose affairs they control That said
defendants have the possession OF al
of said lands and the use thereok and
. assert their ownership therein, and
have been for a long time past and
are now cutting saving and removing
and selling said timber and lumber
and are otherwise destroying the valua
of said lands.
A tendarfoot might gather from
reading the. allegations. some OF whlef
are recIted above, that the board 0
lpuhllc lands Of this territory was mo-
aware OF the fact that the land sold 4
schomburg apd his associates wa
thereon; that the board might havs
, been deceived into believing that eacf
/. individual OF the more. than thirty whs
! iapplled for these lands intended 4
erect his own sawmlll and carry OF
a lumber business by himself. II ma,
be doubted whether many OF the Ole
residents Of New Mexico could b.
. found who would be taken In by sucl
representations az It n alleged weri
made 10 the land board ana the com
! missioner OF public lands.
II n understood. however, that tn
positive evidence II here to show tina
the land board was fully aware OF tn
Intentions OF the applicants for thes
lands, and that n Is now whore II VII
receive attention and consideration
{ II Il evident that there are lively time
ahead and that tall timber viii be Il
active demand by some Of the pr0ml
ent residents OF the territory befor
. long.
. =. Il II believed that the same eondl
/, tlons surrounded the deal by which
|. big lumber company secured posses
? sion Of about $4,000 acres OF the bea
4 timber land in the Sacramento mount
4 aims and that members Of the Ian
board were fully aware. az the tim
, the SchomburE deal was made. tha
= the timber lands IN the Sacrament
4 mountains we're In the possession g
: this company. Ilsa
II u also believed that. al the tim