Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-01-12
R. R. PROMOTERS
ARE INDICTED
LOTTERY AND MONEY BY FALSE
PRETENSE CHARGED.
KoLLoCK Is DISCHARGED
II. l.. Chaplin of Portland, President
of Company, Under $1,000
Bonds.

From Sundays Daily.
H. l.. Chaplin of Portland, said to
be or was, the president of the
Portland Realty board, and John X.
Kollock, an attorney of Portland,
will wake u this morning to find
that they have been indicted by the
Josephine county grand jury. The
indictments were filed at about 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
A message was sent to the sheriff
of Multnomah county to arrest both
Chaplin and Kollock. They may give
bond there or they may be brought
to Grants Pass.
There are two indictments against
each man. Ihe first is indictment
for running a lottery" the second
reads indictment for obtaining
money under false pretense. The
indictments grew out of the promo
tion of the Grants Pass and Rogue
River Railway company" and the
Rogue River Townsite company"
e. j. Bowen happened in Grants
Pass during the spring of 1911.
Messrs. Riggs & Lucas met him. A
railroad was proposed up Williams
creek. Bowen brought Chaplin here
from Portland. The Grants Rass
and Rogue River Railroad company
was organized. The Rogue River
Townsite company was organized
The people were asked to put .ur
money to the railroad company, to be
paid in installments as the work pro-
gressed. The people did. The track
got across Rogue River, but never
farther. The people of Grants Pass
Josephine county and elsewhere
were asked to buy lots in South
1
Grants Pass" a beautiful thing or
the maps, but an open stretch Of
/ land in reality. The people re-
sponded, making first payments OF
contracts.
Regarding the lottery charge Dis
trict Attorney Mulkey last evenine
said
"The way the lottery indictme4t
came abou. is because the townsit'
company pulled off the followinl
stunt: A purchaser of a lot was al
lowed the privilege in a drawing. 1
he drew any one Of AZ lots, Sc
lected by the townsite company
among the 400 remaining lots he
had the privilege of buying sucf
drawn lot at half its value. These
lots were designated by the town
site company as prize lots
Regarding the indictments charg
ing obtainino money under false pre-
tense they came sabout from the fac
that the townsite company Is al
legged to have sold lots in the coun
ty road This came about in thi
WISE It is alleged that for the priv
ilege of plating the townsite owe
the county road which neandere'
diagonally through the tract, tn
company was to make the street
usable so the road would be unnec
essary; but this it is alleged, the,
never did. And when the purchas
er of lot embracing a portion o
the road laid the foundation of HI
house in the road, he was stoppe'
by the county authorities. Geo. Z
Waldrom of Medford began the In
vestigati on, and from. his initiativ
came a thorough overhaullng of tn
dolngs OF the land company with tn
result that indictments tolloWeo
Bowen was. more closely connecte
with the railroad company henc
gets off unscatned
Messrs. Riggs and Lucas Of Grant
Pass, prominent in the affairs o
the two companies, state that the
were selling agents only; that thei
commission was forty per cent
y The band played, the silver spik
= Cps driven. the "tumult and tn
: khouting dies" and the railroad
went nowhere. About all the yisibl
assest OF the railroad company is