Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-08
CAUTIOUS IOWA
BANKER |NvEs,Ts
IN WILD p,;ss.,,tS"
F. E. Dufur o-orimer Avails
Self Of Opportunity to Buy
Thirty-Fiv of the
Elusive Cayuses.
SPECIFIED WHAT KIND
Testimony in Federal Court
Brings Out Operations of
Stock Company,
CASE PROGRESSES SLOWLY
CASE PROGRESSES SLOWLY


One has to be cauliots these days
when everybody is 1oo,,;,g for ,
.,' I W.
sueNei, NJ oi'e MIC" '''is oe''e' ''la''
+. (. Dutur banker OF Lorimer. Ia,
for twenty-seven years. SO when he
had chonce f., hu,. th;rtv-Gv. Wild
- -. 49, I,-'.'.:',
range io' ses iio'' Noeo'''i'o county,
Arizona. for price that was rather
low, he thought he would cautiously
look into the matter,
T., This was a part of the testimony
brought out in the United States dis
trict court in The celebrated wild
horse" case, in which the government
is prosecuti@g the U,:ted Sts:es Live
Stock com " and the { ..Iah" Land
ahl investment s company l'r using me
''ia'iS 10 ueiiauo.
M:5t Be Caught.
Mr.. Dufur decided lie would give
$l,750 for thirty-hve of the animals,
provided they were caught for him
and pw in cars at ,Flag.~f, Ariz. Ac-
cordingly, he drew up his-own bill of
sale and specified exactly the kind
of animals he preferred. He didn't
care so much tor the breed; but he
Vas VA a ,atnei pa' t,euiai fs as w. % .ne .o,u, ,,.
bavs and a small number Of roans
lust a nice assortment that would
bring a top price on the market, The
animals shouldn't be over ) years Old
and should at least tip the geams
at l,OO0 pounds or over, and after they
were caught and placed in the cars
at Flagstaff, Arlz.,, 1t wouldn't be
bad idea to have the government m
spector at that point look the
cayuses over to see that there was no
disease among them.
To Trade Colorado Land.
With ali these specifications Ell.
c,osed !, =. b;ll of s,le which he made
o,,t ~ lie harl 80 or;mer 7, he
oa,,a ou, 80 I ,b;s c;tv ~ loi3 and tool, IN
% tha ogo- ~ I &c M ths IIr;teJ States i've
S.o.t en- In., oa,,,n,n,, ~ , io- tb;rt,, s"e of tbe
o.sn s;..,s,s so,pams "a; 40 - s5sn .,sI, and
a pYs ,,t,, a1m" ~ ~ Coiarado m ~
Sr;na tbe an,punt IN, To si,750 -. -.
A half interest III an old mare that
died soon after II was caught and a
~ - -, h.a,:.,,. 90 .f,.. :;
"''e i,o'se "n''n Dro"sn' %-V ".'e' ="
was shipped from Flagstaff, Ariz.' to
a point in South Dakota, was what
Willis 6 Mcdonald a former barber
of Dranrr s n and now Of Harding
Mont received for b;s six.roo,n
ousr and five acres Of land at Draner
{ u vaIued at $4,000. which he had
traded for sixtv head of the wild
Coconiuo county. Arizona range
horses
Eyer ,t that he did NOT count the
two months, fru;tIess effort nj rornd-
inc IN the elusive steed and the
,no,cy snent in hiring rangers ia aid
hin, IN ne hrnt Tb;s he teId IN rom
naot;or ~ y;tl, the "w;Id horseo c,se in
uh;cb tho Government ;s irving to
show that an ORGANIZATION known az
tLe Irn;ted S+ocI comnanv and the
Hr-,b, and Investment comnanv
used thc mails 70 defraud
" nv un c.a. WILL.
u r,n A.: :,
"to rornd IN NV sixtv head of horses
which 7 had been assured bv / s.
Smith of the Union Stock connanv
would he an easv th;ng r. do Smith
c,me ave amt 70 hei, me- and show ne
arnnrd r hut we never ran across ,nv
af the brands that Smith had sold
NJ me-
''li Altar oo;,s, into the wild rccesses
of Cocon;nn % COUNTY he s,;d thst the
iew LorsnsChe saw grew wilder in.
sts,d e" no ~ t,ner ne Sm;th had told
H. E.;,;nn 70 frd horses v;t,, bic
hr,nd ~ hn ss;d th,t Smith cave IN the
saaroi, 90 an aud Ieft him N nnrsme h;s p onn w
s.,i,,ais 'N