The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-07-26

the general land office in Washington
shows it to be fact that 2,247 acres
are government land, as alleged.
If it should be found that the fence
| is literally on privately owned land,
but that accessibility to public lands
| is shut off by it, the Golconda company
may, under court Interpretation, still
be held amenable to the law. This
principle was upheld in the case of G..
| 8. Llllis, who was convicted not long
ago on a charge of inclosing public
lands in Fresno county.
William Kent Makes Denial.
SANTA ROSA, July 22.-When in.
terviewed here this evening regarding
the statement that the Golconda com,
Ipany had fenced in government land.
William Kent, the insurgento. candi-
date for the Republican congressional
nomination in this district, declared
that he had been absolutely conscien-
tious in all the fencing that had been
done on the Golconda company's prop
erty, and that the story was asimply a
piece of dirty politics for which he did
not propose to stand and of which he
would not be made the victim.u Kent
says that the company, of which he is
the president, owns between 10000 and
$4,000 acres of land in Nevada; that
much of this land has never been fenc.
ed, and that the company owns abso.
lutely all the land that has been in
closed.
Kent says that he had known of this
story being bruited about for several
days. and that he had telegraphed
President Taft that she did not pro.
pose to stand for such dirty politics. -
and that he demanded an investigation
before any action was taken. Kent
has not received reply to his mes
sage.
Tells About His Fences.
The aspirant for congress says that
he inherited vast acres from the estate
of his father, and portions of the es-
tate have never been surveyed, but he
declares that he has been more than
ordinarily careful about erecting
fences. Since he has been in the ae-
tive management of the company he
has built more than 100 miles of fenc-
ing In the past few years, but he
claims that the land inclosed belonged
to him absolutely. Kent further said
that there was only one piece of fence
inclosing his land about which there
could possibly be any question and said
emphatically that he had report from
a government inspector that the fence
in question was all right and did not
take in any government land.
In regard to fences that were stand
ing when Kent took the active manage
ment of the company, he said that he
had Strengthened out all matters where
there were any doubts, and was posi-
tive that all the fencing he had any
thing to do with or any knowledge of
was around lands belonging to him.
He said that he had examined the lines
of the old fences to see that they did
not encroach on government land, and
government inspectors had found that
the fences were all right.
He claimed to be the only man in
Nevada who had ever taken great
pains in constructing fences to prevent
the inclosure of government lands.
Kent said this matter was simply talk
until the United States attorney for
Nevada took it up, and that until then
it was not worthy of consideration.
Any talk reflecting on him in this
connection, he claimed, was libelous.
In relation to the reference to rail
road lands in Special Agent Jewell g
report, it was stated yesterday at the
Office of the Central Pacific land de-
partment in the Flood building, this
city, that the Central Pacific had for
many years leased thousands OF acres
in Nevada to the Golconda Cattle CON-
pany, part of the land so held by the
Golconda company under lease being
south of Golconda, and being in all
probability the railroad acres mention,
cd in the Washington dispatch. The
Central Pacific, it was stated, has had
contract with the Golconda company
during narly all of the period of the
latter company's existence, and this
lease agreement is still in effect. The
Central Pacific, it was added, had no
objection to the fencing by the Golcon-
da company of the leased land.