Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-23
Tract Purchased by
SpecuIator for $3.50 and
Sold to Mrs Wilson'S SIS
ter for ST. 600,
PROPERTY PASSES TO
MRS. WILSON FOR $4,000
First Lady of Land Thereafter
Deeds Farm to Chief Ex-
ecutiye, Who Must Defend
Right to Same,


Los Angeles. Jan ~ SiNtN acres
cf land I'm The Coacholla valley i'm
southern California, decided TO Presl-
dent Wilson hy his wife. was brought
into contest today i'm complicated
proceeding before the registrar ani
receiver of che United states lama ol
fice here Two persons claim the
land the president OF the United
States and Homer l.. Goddard. a date
planter and three different sorts of
entries were filed upon it.
The contest was brought by John
r. King. d rancher. who sold the land
10 Mrs Margaret AXson Elliott, sister
OF Mrs. Woodrow Wilson ana wife of
Edward Elliott formerly dean of
Princeton university and now residing
at Berkeloy. Calf Mrs Elliott sold
the property 20 Mrs Wilson. and tho
presidents wife IN turn decided Il "a
the president
King brought the contest which
hinges upon the faulty publication of
notice of filing because as seller OF
the land he guaranteed title.
In his pleading, King alleges thnt q
conspiracy 10 commit fraud was carr
ried out by Mrs Maud Compton Hen
sic. of Los Angeles and her brother.
John T.. Compton. editor of "A Hue
newspaper in the conchcla Valey.
one Of his chief exhibits is deed
naming President Wilson as the pres-
emit owner of Tie land II King com
test is successfuL the president will
remain owner, hut am adverse decision
Will turn the land over 20 Homer
L. Goddard athletic director of the
Los Angeles high school who H
September last paid Mrs Honsle $500
cash and gave her note for $3.50 for
her REIMBURSEMENT Of claim.
The land au eighty-acre tract
lics in the icgiou of the Saton sea.
nnd is $50 feet below ocean level
originally King filed upon II Will.
state lien land scrip. paving the state
Of california $l02.1G for it
That was in 1903 Some time later.
according To- his statement of fact
Mrs Axson Elliott, the presidents Sis
ter-in-laW, visited the valley To in-
vestigate its daie-growing possibilities
and he soll her sixty acres This she
subsequently turned over TO Mrs WI
.son. who decided ID to her husband.
The remaining twenty acres were
sold 90 another party ana in each in-
stance King guaranteed title.
Ia the meantime King published
notice of location and filing of eialms
according 10 law in the Coacheln
valley News The government land
office found typographical error in
the legal notice and ordered re-pub-
ncation I'm his pleading. King all
leges that Comptrn as owner of Tho
News failed 10 Nuke Republication
and in the interim advised his sister
to file homestead entry upon the
land Compton, testified today, how
over That he was not editor of the
News, which is at lndio, but Of the
coarhclla submarine, published at
Thermal
Before Mrs Hensie filed her home
stead claim. the government hal for-
fcited Kings claim. King declares
he did not know this until Mrs. Honsio
took possession. While he was pre-
pairing contest, he alleges. Mrs
Ienslc ON september %. 1913. ralin-
aulshed her homestead claim to H1-
mer L. Goddard. who supplanted 10
with desert land entry
The points 20 be- decided by thc
land officials are.
Who is responsible for failure to
publish notice of the filing made hy
him and had the government land Of
hcials the right to visit his claimse
Does he forfeit his olaim2
Mrs. Ilcnsic and her brother tesli
fled today there WAS no conspiracy
between them. Several more witt
nesses are to be heard and the con-
test will not Dee decided for q day or
two.
Tho record of the land transaction
shows interesting features. Goddard
ral Mrs Hcnsle SA50 for her relln-
quishmcnt For The outright and sun
posedlg fual title to the land Mrs
MarHaret Axsan Elliott paid King
$1,000. She Immediately sold the
sixty acres no Mrs Woodrow Wilson
for $4,000.
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