Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-05-26

WHICH 10 nrlVe any leSal WeuBe Gnu
even then, unless some pressure could
be brought to bear upon the grafters
to make them disgorge. there was no
chance of Massingale's recovering
more than his allotted two-thirds of /
the stock; in other words. he would 4
still stand committed to the agreement |
by which he had bound himself to |
make the grafters a present. in fee |
simple. of one-third of his mine.
Brouillard had written one more let |
ter to the lawyer. In it he had asked |
how David Massingale could be unas-
sailably reinstated in his rights as the !
sole owner of the Little Susan" The |
answer had come promptly and it was
explicit. only by the repayment of
such sums as had been actually ex-
pended in the reorganization and on
the betterments-for the undermining
machinery and mprovements-and the
voluntary surrender, by the other par
ties to the agreement. of the stock in
dispute" the lawyer had written; and
Brouillard had smiled at the thought
of Cortwright voluntarily surrendering
the grasp of his pudgy hands.
Failing to start the legal wedge,
Brouillard had dipped-also without
consulting Massingale--into the mat
ter OF land titles The Little Susan
was legally patented under the land
laws. and Massingales title, if the
mine were located upon government
land. was without flaw. But on
former reclamation project Brouillard
had been brought in contact with some
of the curious title litigation growing
out of the old Spanish grants; and in
at least one instance he had seen
government patent invalidated there
by
AS a man in reasonably close touch
with his superiors in Washington. the
chief of construction knew that there
was a Spanish grant Involvement
which had at one time threatened to
at least delay the Niduoia project. How
it had been settled finally he did not
know; but after the legal failure he
had written to a mana college class
mate of his own-in the bureau of land
statistics, asking for data which would
enable him to locate exactly the Nj
quoia-touching boundaries of the great
Coronida grant To this letter no re-
ply had as yet been received. Brouil-
lard had cause to know with what
slowness a simple matter of informa-
tion can ooze out of department bu-
reau. The letter-which, after all,
might contain nothing helpful-lin.
gered on the way, and the crisis, the
turning point beyond which there
could be no redemption in a revival of
the speculative craze, had arrived.
Brouillard took up the draft of the
Washington telegram and read it over
He was cooler now, and he saw that il
was only as it came from the hand of
a traitor, who could and would DELHI
erately wreck the train of events II
might set in motion, that it became a
betrayal. Writing as the commanding
officer in the field, he had restated the
facts-facts doubtless well known in
the department-the probability that
congress would intervene and the hold
the opposition was gaining by the sus.
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the work could be pushed energetically
and at once. there was a possibility
! that the opposition would become dis
! couraged and voluntarily withdraw
} Would the department place the men
! and the means instantly at his dis
posal7
! IF l we're the honest man | an
J supposed to be, that is precisely the
message ! ought to send" he museC
| refiectively 1T is only as the crooked
D devil in possession of me will drive me
to nullify the effort and make it of nj
r effect that it becomes a crime; tha
! and the fact that | can never be SURE
t that the Cartwright gang hasn't tn,
; inside track and will not win out il
spite of all efforts. That is the touch
stone of the whole degrading bust
q ness. | am afraid Cortwright has tn,
inside track. If could only get lit
4 tie clear-sighted daylight on the damn
| ah1a tanPIei"