Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-10-26
GOVERNMENTDROPS
TIMBER LAND SUITS
Says Attorney Cen
eral Fall in In
terview
RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON
Makes Statement in Ell Paso
Times Concerning Alleged
Frauds.

According to statement credited
to Judge Albert B. Fall, attorney gen
eral of New Mexico, the United States
government will drop the suits which
were instituted by Ormsby McHarg
and E. Peyton Gordon, specials assist.
ants to Attorney General Bonaparte,
in which it was sought to have deeds
and contracts cancelled to certain
timber lands purchased from the Ter
ritory by several large lumber COM
panies in New Mexico.
This announcement may account for
the unexpected message recalling Spe-
cial Assistant Attorney General Nc
Harg to Washington on Wednesday
night last. Attorney General Fall has
just returned from the national cap.
ital and is now in Ell Paso attending
TO private legal business before COM
ing to Santa Fe. While in Washing
ton according to an interview pub.
ished in the Ell Paso Times he had a
COHlcI IcHSc Will CdDlHet OllCldlS itld-
tive to the alleged timber frauds in
New Mexico. AS a result Of this con-
ference the timber land suits will be
dropped as it was shown that the
charges of fraud were based simply
upon technicalities involving the in
depreciation of the law. The Times
interview is as follows:
What Judge Fall Said.
Judge A. B. Fall, attorney general
for the Territory of New Mexico, and
who is in Ell Paso on his return from
Washington, where he went for con.
ference with the Secretary of the In.
terror and Attorney General Bona.
parte, was asked yesterday If there
were any new developments in the
New Mexico alleged land frauds.
"The matter" said Judge Fall, has
been settled and the public will hear
no more about it. There was no fraud
so far as the lumber company was
concerned, or SO far as DR.. Ricketts, is
concerned in the coal land business.
The secretary of the interior and At
torney General Bonaparte and myself
went over the whole case in the tim
Der land question, and If there was
any mistake made it was made as to
the Territory's jurisdiction or power
to sell the lands, and that is a matter
for Congress to adjust when it meets.
The charges of fraud were all based
on technicalities and you have no
doubt observed from your own papers
telegraphic news that the assistant
federal attorney who has created all
the sensation has been recalled to
Washington.
"As to the indictments over the coal
lands, that is something that took
place while l was in Washington. l
am not acquainted as to the details.
but from what have learned since
returning to FL Paso, I am inclined to
the belief that /. Is another mares
nest"
Colonel Greene Solid.
Before he was attorney general of
New Mexico, Judge Fall was counsel
for Colonel W. c. Greene, the copper
magnate. and when asked yesterday
what he thought of the report that
stockholders had asked for a receiver
for the Greene Gold-Silver company,
Judge Fall said:
II do not think anything about it,
because I know absolutely that it is
false. Mr.. Greene is not indebted to
any Of hi1 companies. But they are
indebted to him, and whenever re-
ceiver is called for he is the only man
apt to make the call and would be
pretty apt to name the receiver. Mr..
Greene's company does not owe over
100000, and know that on one deal
he has raised three times that amount
in the last few days. No matter what
the spectators do to copper stock,
they can not do Mr.. Greene"