The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-10
BELIEVES HE WAS
DEFRAUDED IN DEAL
James Wishaw Writes The Trib.
une Regarding Capitol Build
ing Land Grant.
HIS NAME APPEARS
IN LIST NUMBER EIGHT
What the Records of the State
Land Board Disclose in
the Case.

story detailing how the land grant given
the state for capitol building had
been given away for n song. The
names Of persons who had made appli-
catlon for the lands and the acreage
were printed, Among those whose names
| appeared as having secured 100 acres of
| thls land grant was James Wishaw of
| MT. Pleasant, Sanpete county, On Fri
day The Tribune received the following
letter:
What the Letter Contains.
Mount Pleasant Utah. July 8, 1903.
salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company,
Salt Lake City. Utah,
Gentlemen-Underd date Of June 90 1903
find publication In your valuable pa
| per on page II, headed How land grant
was given away; where the gift from the
In that list I find my name. James
Wishaw. az having taken a quarter Sec
ton of land for John n. Seely of this
same place. Now then. gentlemen wish
to say that have never made more than
one land entry in my life. This entry was
made on a piece OF land lying just east
OF Mount Pleasant, about three miles. and
relinquished this piece of land to the
government OF the United States. and
nave never proved up on piece OF land
IN my life. knowingly, and II this land
my name II was done by fraud and un-
beknown to me. and ] desire to find out,
and II il was proved up in my name II
must still be mine. because | have never
disposed OF any land TO John II. Seely or
anybody else Can you find out If this
was done, and Will you please look the
matter up, as / desire to find out If such
fraud has been pcrpeJrated upon me. An
early reply Will greatly obliee. yours very
respectfully, JAMES WISEIAW.
What Records Disclose.
Inquiry at the Office of the state
board of land commissioners discloses
these facts. In list No. 3, filed with
the state board October s, 1898, 100
acres of land were selected for James
Wishaw. The price 10 be paid per
acre was S1.25. The land selected was
in three tracts, one an eighty acre
tract, the other two forty acre tracts.
These tracts are described as follows:
North half of southwest quarter of
section II, township Is south, range 5
east, containing eighty acres; north
east quarter of the southeast quarter
of section is, township 10 south, range
. east, containing forty acres; south
east quarter OF the northeast quarter
of section Is, township ls south, range
. east. This selection was approved by
the general land Office at Washington,
August IA, 1899.
The REIMBURSEMENT register. on page
23, shows that james Wishaw did re-
lnquish this land after he had made ap.
plication TO the United States for the
land. and then, when the state made
application for the land in list No. s,
Mr. Wishaw fled his REIMBURSEMENT,
otherwise the list would not have been
approved at the general land office, all
the papers in the case having been
to Washington November
II, 1898.
Assignment Is Shown.
In the record Of the book of certifi |
Gates of sale, it is shown that the state
sold to James Wishaw Of Mt. Pleas
ant, Sanpete county. the tracts de-
scribed above. for 5000 this sale being
made September l. 1899, and on No
vember ID of the same year an assign
nent of the certificate was made to
John n. Seely.