The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-26

1.-The careers of some men afford
striking examples of what can be ac-
Legislation passed by Congress so that
they could get titles.
'"That is what he told me and that's
what L told them" said Jones.
And 1t was that way that you got
every one of them to -
Tell the TRUTH" broke in the wit
ness.
ITO make the statements they did?''
finish ed Mr.. Vertrees.
| Eyes"
"You gave them the idea that they
were secure?'
yes"
Andrew Kennedy, coal expert of the
land office, who served under CLAWS,
was the next witness.
Kennedy's Testimony
! Kennedy said he left the service
some time ago and was now serving
private clients as an expert. He was
called as a witness principally in con-
nection with the alleged finding of "a
| missing official letters in box of Gla-
Wis effects in the grand jury room
of the federal building at Seattle. Ken
nedy said he had been living with Gla-
Wis at Portland.
| When he prepared to go to Alaska
in the spring of 1903 he packed up
CLAWS effects in a box and shipped it
to the federal building in Seattle. When
| he returned from Alaska September
20, 1909, he went to tell the custodian
of the building that he was ready to
ship the box to storage for Mr.. Gla-
Wis. The box was only partly open.
said Kennedy, and seemed to be filled
lxxvit hnn parst Of "a mir mt
was scattered about the room. The
witness said he put the effects back in
the box and shipped it to storage.
Before he came to Washington Ken
nedy said he went to see the custodian
of the federal building in Seattle, Mr..
ONeall, and had talk with him, say
ing it was strange about the finding
of the letters.
81 told him / had not put the papers
there and that CLAWS had not given
me any papers. 1 asked him if any
body else had been in the room. He
said Sheridan used the room sometimes
and that Special Agent Parks had been
in there looking for the papers a few
days before they were found in Gla-
Wis box.
Letter From CLAWS
On cross examination Kennedy said
that while he was in Alaska last year
making a field examination of the Cum
| bingham group he received a letter
from CLAWS saying that Gabriel Win
| gate of the forest service was coming
up also to make an examination. The
| witness said CLAWS wrote to him to
make an effort to agree with Wingate
| in his report. The witness said he did
not agree with Wingate because Win
| gate reported that as commercial
proposition the whole Katalla field in
GLIDING the Cunningham claims, was
| worthless.
| 1t was recalled in this connection that
| in one of CLAWS letters to the forestry
| get control of this field it could have
| the same supervision of the immense
| coal deposits that it does now of the
| timber tracts.
| The last witness OF the day was w.
| w. Barr, dealer in standing timber,
at Seattle. He said he had known Louis
| CLAWS many years and that he visited
the federal building with CLAWS some
time after his discharge from the service
| last September, as CLAWS wished to show
him a polar bear skin that had been
stored in the box in which it is said the
| "a missing letters were subsequently
found. He was certain. that at no time
| during their visit to the room had CLAWS
put any papers in the box.
| F0lIeQ To rake Hecelpt
The witness said, in talking with CLAWS
the next = Jay, he understood from him
that he had failed to take a receipt for
papers he had turned over to his sue
| cessor as chief of the field division at
Seattle, A. Christensen. He thought that
to protect himself CLAWS should call up
and ask if the papers were all right
| while he, Barr. listened at an extension
| telephone. This was done and Christen-
sen said everything was o. X. During
his ross-examination the witness said
he could not remember the details of the
| conversation. He got into bad tangle
| under the fire of questions from Mr.. YER
| trees and in reply to many questions as
i to his association with CLAWS, said he
could not remember. The witness was
extremely nervous throughout.
Barr said he entered into an agree
ment with CLAWS last November that II
! CLAWS could obtain for him some lands
claimed in Lewis county, but to which
| 1t was not entitled, he would share the
profits of the enterprise Asked how he
proposed to pay for the land, the wit
ness hesitated, inquired If he was COM
| PEELED to answer, and then replied that
he proposed to scrip the lands with
Northern Pacific scrip. The witness de-
Med that CLAWS had ever assisted him
in securing timber lands while In the
service. He and CLAWS were confidants
only to the extent that he told CLAWS
most of his business affairs, but CLAWS
never told him any government affairs.
| With the conclusion OF Bars testi-
mony adjournment was taken until IL
a. m. tomorrow.
Gentry Again Elected