The San Francisco call., 1908-08-09
Heney Graphic Story Persecution BY Higher Ups

he happened to be in the capital trying
S;fc 4 case during April, 1905. tb Duplns gas vas
never IN El Paso, or any otner poin., ~
on on TINS labor contract business. an
his return from Washington and Whiie
Secretary Metcalf was in Oakland,
Judge Henshaw and my brother, IN
lne formers automobile, TOOK me 70
Odkidnd and introduced me 70 lHe SCI
retary who granted me an interview
and conference, and who after listen
ing TO me and propounding vital cues
Iions, TOOK the action aforesaid; Nei,lies ils
Juuge Henshaw nor my Drolner vas
present at the interview, al 1 recaH.
ASKED FOR ADVICE
1t seems unnecessary now TO add
snat francis j. Heney had notnIns = 10
do with the management of this rall-
road labor contract, generally OF IN
detail. 1 occasionally asked him Tor
legal advice. That was his only con
nection with the. business lie never
placed loot even, in any OF my stoles
or iofhces during the period or my con
Examiners criminally libelous article
almost hides its hideous depraVlty. II Is
an object lesson on how great human
principles Qike free pressl can pc
wisely said that a republic has just as
good government as the people de-
serve, so it might also be said that
daily newspaper in any American city
is just as good as that city deserves.
Public sentiment will cause 1t TO grow
and blossom, or to wither ana decay.
common honesty, common selI-respect
and common decency are our true RENE
dies and hopes. After 80 some OF US,
most of us, lose some of our delusions
and realize the unavoidable troubles.
sorrows and burdens of life. A sus
tanning hope in wrong cannot prevail
else civilization dies. Truth will bear
this is not the first time the~criminal
rich have struck at my brother through
me. We cannotl expect high toned
rascality to die easily or willingly.
land fraud higher ups had a CONNER
-cial establishment in Cochise county
near Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and did
wholesale and retail business besides
financing local contractors for the gov
ernment, such as the hay, grain, wood
and freight contracts. Finally, l think
in 1904, | personally bid on the annual
wood to be cut In the Huachuca noun
tains. My bid being the lowest and
best. in open market, ! secured the
that contract (some 1000 cords) the
fight in Oregon had reached crucial
stage.
HIGHER UPS GET BUSY
Suddenly / was arrested "for the un-
lawful cutting of timber on the public
domain. The representative OF the
Associated Press in Tucson, eX-Gov-
ernor L g Hughes e1,a Gin having ing whom
prominently instrumental-on charges
of corruption) Immediately flooded the
country with the news that Ben He
ney, brother of the Oregon timber and
land fraud prosecutor, was arrested for
stealing government timber"
The Portland newspapers, or some of
them, exploited this daily during the
trials, la the Examiners present at
tacks. What became of me and my
case was little heard of or cared about
poration and in organizing 1 had placed
one share of stock in the name of F. j.
Heney and made him director He
had forgotten it and SO had /. That
was in 1901. But the higher up agents
dug this little fact out and, of course,
F. ]. Heney was full partner In the
timber steal
Well, the public ought to hear the
other chapter to the story, not, how
ever. to recompense me for the humili-
ating notoriety and the cost and trouble
was put to, but simply Tor the good
of the cause
was tried before United States
Commissioner Gilmore at Tombstone.
The chief witness of the government
the individual who swore to the COM
plant against me and on which the
warrant was issued-admitted on the
witness stand that he had been ar
rested several times for theft. The last
time it was for stealing stove, but
he Indignantly denied that the stove
was red hot. The main contention OF
the Onlleu oldleS attoincy ~do esielt
had cut timber on nonmineral land and
hence as he believed. / had violated
the law He depended upon the testi-
mony of the thief above mentioned.
This thief Q forget his name this mo-
ment) swore he had lived in the vicin-
ity where 1 was cutting wood under
my government contract-and / was
cutting right up to his line-for many
years, was familiar with every foot of
ground and that 1T was absolutely nom
mineral, that 1t was farming land and
fruit land.
PROSECUTION FAILS
After I had called as witnesses some
| of the best mining men of Cochise
| county, who had mined In the canyon
wherein / was cutting, I finally called
the thief back to the witness chair and
my attorney, Eugene S. Ives Counsel
| for the Hartman Randolph lines In the
southwest and Mexico), asked him If
he had land nearby where 1 was cut