The sun., 1912-07-19
SAYS JUDGE WANTED
TO SELL HIS PATENT
Witness TpStifips IIanfOrl Ne.
gOtiatcd With Litigant
Indirectly.
TRIES TO HALT INQUIRY?
Produce Man Asserts Friend Of
Jmrist sought to Influence
Business Men.
TRIES TO HALT INQUIRY?

SEATTLE, Wash, July ~. Continued
testimony Of Judge Hanfords alleged
relations to the Hanford Irrigation Com
pany. the alleged attempt to sell the
Judges patent can topping. machine to
I.etson 4 Burpee manufacturers Of sal
mon cannery machinery. during the
progress Of the trial in which Burpee
was litigant. and a story Of an attempt
to prevent the Seattle business mems CO.
operation with the Congressional COM
mittee occupied the day in the Hanford
inv eeti cation
George n Plmmer. western land agent
of the Northern Pacific. occupied the
witness stand yesterday afternoon
and evening before the Congressional
Judiciary Committee to testify a. to his
relation with Judge Hanford when the
Hanford Irrigation and Power Company
purchased from that railroad many
thousand acres Of land on the Columbia
river which il il planned to irrigate.
Plumner read letter after letter Of the
correspondence which had taken place
between Judge Hanford and himself and
with the land commissioners Of the North
ern Pacific.
The letters showed step by step the
efforts made by Judge Hanford to acquire
this land The first request was refused
by the company as the railroad was under
agreement with the Government reclama-
ton service not TO sell any Of its land
After this agreement had expired negotia-
tions were again opened.
During the afternoon Frank Burpee
of Bellingham was recalled and asked
whether he wanted to correct any Of his
testimony given Tuesday. when he told
of how Judge Hanford had attemp pt ed
To sell him patent on can topper. He
changed his testimony In some respects
and told the committee that after leaving
the Federal Building he discovered that
il was not the building in which. he had
testified. he had called upon the Judge
On Tuesday Burpee said that he knew that
it was the present post office building
in which the conversation had occurred.
and fixed the date az March. 1905. The
present post Office building. however.
was not completed until l8OA.
He admitted to Attorney Dorr that the
Judge had never personally offered the
patent To him for sale. but that he had
been given to understand by his attorney,
f.. =. McCord. that the Judge wanted to
see him. He finally called upon Judge
Hanford with Attorney McCord he says.
WhVh VIC a'totuSy WIN VIC ouu4c tudt uio
client did not want to buy the invention.
A letter was introduced in evidence
in which Attorney McCord wrote his
client and urged him to see the invention
which the Judge had perfected
H. l.. klock. a wholesale produce man.
test flied that j. y. Goldsmith made
statement to the merchants committee
that If the assoc iation dropped the
proceedings and would not take act ion
he felt confident he could go TO Judge
Hanford himself and see that the griev-
ances Of the merchants were righted:
that he thought he could induce Judge
Hanford to appoint such receivers as
would be more satisfactory than those in
the past
Goldsmith denied that .Klock repeated
his words as he had used them.
His explanation was that he merely
said Judge Hanford compared favor
ably with other Federal Judges; that some
people claimed that Judge Hanford had
out lived his usef ulness and that he was
confident. il the association appointed
committee to take up the receivership
grievances with Judge Hanford, the
latter would gladly cooperate with them.
George H. Stone Of the Stone Fisher
Company then was called. Stone, ac-
cording to the testimony, made q S66, ,OOO
BID for the Mccarthy bankrupt stock.
which was turned down by Judge Han
ford. and which later, under the ~
ownership Of Baxter. brought only 81 600
appro Xinately to the creditors