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. ]
Santa Fe. n. NJ, July 20.-T A.
Schomburg and r. G. Graden. of Colo
RADIO, have been here for some days.
Mr.. Graden left this morning oyer the
! Denver and Rio Grande for his home
/ in Durango, Col, whore he is engaged
I 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 made
some three years ago and on account
/ of which a suit was brought this week
/ by the attorney general Of the territory
with the advice and un&rr ~ Qirrr-
/ tion of the acting governor the early
Part of this week.
While here MI. Schomburg made
clean breast Of the whole affair and IL
is understood that the disclosures r.
veal a condition Of affairs in the terr'-
tory almost past belief What was
intimated i'm these dispatches some
days ago, that the Plunderbund was
delivered a gold brick when the Beach
resolution was adopted last winter,
has proved to he true. Just at this
time il. is not possible to get copies OF
the documents in the Schomburg case
but, Ike the investigation which was
made into the land frauds In this ter
ritoTyN some twenty years ago, all of
the details will likely be embodied in
an official report which will be printed
at an early date at the government
Trnting office. This report will be
interesting reading for the people of
this territory who have been told 50
often about the great and good men
who have been administering territoF
ial affairs for the past eight or ten
years.
In the case which was brought by |
the territory this week to annul and /
set aside the deeds to the 5.STi acres /
of land sold to Schomburg and his as /
sociatcs, the territory alleges that be- |
fore and at the time said deeds We're I
executed and delivered by the com I
eral applicants named and relying 1
upon the misrepresentation of the /
II. a. SChomburg, acting for
himself ana as agent for said appli-
cants the said board of public lands 4
believed that said applicants We're
bona nde applicants and were acting In
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 ana not for the
use and benefit of others. That since
said sale and delivery of deeds plain
tim has been advised and charges the
fact to be. that said applicants were
not bona tdc purchasers of said lands
but We're acting for and IN combina-
tion and COllusion with the defendants.
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
lne quarter section by any one per-
ff4f
sons That the defendants Shomburs
and Graden entered into a combination
and conspiracy between themselves
and the other applicants and grantees
herein named. Co mislead and deceive :
,aid board OF public lands and To cheat
and defraud plaintiff and to acquire
said lands for the timber thereon, To
be- transferred to the defendant. tn"
Rio Grande Lumber company. In ,
which the said defendants Schomburg .
md Graden are stockholders. directors
ind officers as plaintin b. advised, and !
whose affairs they control That said ,
defendants have the possession Of an ]
" said lands aud the use thereof. and o
issert their ownership therein. and Z
nave been for "a long time past and .
ire now cutting. saving and removing I
md selling said timber and lumber, I
md are otherwise destroying the valua /
II said lands.
a tenderfoot might gather from \
eading the allegations, some Of which !
re recited above. that the board OF !
lublic lands Of this territory was not !
ware of the fact that the land sold to y
'chomburg and his associates was i
hiefly valuable for the timber I
hereon: that the board might have b
'een deceived into believing that each q
Individual Of the more than thirty who J
pplied for these lands intended to Il
rect his own sawmill and carry on {,
lumber business hy himself II may II
e doubted whether many Of the Old 4.
esidents Of New Mexico could b. (.
ound who would be- taken in by such !.
representations az it b. alleged were !,
1ade 10 the land board and the COM .
missioner Of public lands.
II is understood. however. that the
ositive evidence D. here to show that I.
he land board was fully aware Of the 81
Intentions Of the applicants for these
inds. and that it o. now where u will =
eceive attention and consideration y
is evldeDt that there are lively times y
head any that tall timber viii be in X
Cfive demand by some Of the promi- a
M residents of the territory before el
ing \
n T. believed that the same condi-
uns surrounded the deal by which = -
tx lumber company secured posses =
ION of about % 600 acres of the best I,
mber land in the Sacramento mount =
ins and that members Of the land y
GARD were fully aware. az the time y
b. Schom burg deal was made. that u
le timber lands in the Sacramento 81
were in the possession of q
bis company al
It Is also believed that. At the time n