The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-03
MORE OF NOTABLE
 LOCAL LAND CASES
Government Files Supplemental Bill Including R. P. Harris, A. H. Scog- gin and Mrs. Scoggin, and Some
 Prominent Business Concerns.
From the Southwest American.

Prom the Southwest American.
 Fort Smith, March 29.-The gov ernment took new and sensational step yesterday in the famous damage suit of the United States government against the old Eagleton Lumber Company and it's stockholders. Yes terday's action came when United States District Attorney Emon o. Ma honey filed in the local federal court a bill of complaint which was supple mental to the original complaint which was filed by the government about five years ago. The supple mental bill states that it is filed at the instance of the attorney general.
 The defendants named in the new supplemental bill include R. P. Harris, 4. H. and Claude P. Scoggin. hus- band and wife of Fayetteville, Crutch- keld Lumber Company of Eagleton, Golf Wholesale Grocery Company of Nena, l. H. Nakdimen and City Ma tional Bank of Fort Smith, Richards Conover Hardware Company of Kan sas City, Friedmann-Shelby Shoe Company of St. Louis, George Davis. Eugene B. Whisenhart and Bird Far ner of Polk and Scott counties, and IS. P. Laramore" alleged by com plaint to have been a name under which part of the alleged transactions complained of were carried out.
 The Eagleton Lumber Company liquidated and was dissolved in 1911. About five years ago the government entered suit for large quantities of timber alleged to have been removed by that company from government lands. The original stockholders and parties beneficiary in the liquidation were parties defendant. After many hearings in notable suits the govern nent found that R. F. Harris was the sole beneficiary of the dissolved lum- Der company and judgment was ob- tained against him for approximately $166,000. In due time executions were sued out by the government and al- ways returned "no property found.'
 Officers of the Washington depart ment then were detailed on the case and last year the court after an ex- tended hearing, held that the Wyss Trading company of Eagleton in pos session of mills, company stores, etc, was a subterfuge to prevent recovery by the government; further, that a Ran purporting to hold mortgages on extensive real estate holdings in Polk and Scott counties, was also a sub terfuge on the part of defendants.
 The new supplemental bill indicates that the government has not yet been able to satisfy it's judgment. It also shows that department agents have for many months secretly probed every feature of dealings covering the extensive timber land holdings in Scott and Polk counties, the lumber mills and store at Eagleton and else where, and especially court records of mortgages, leases and sales of prop erty, and a number of recent circuit court judgments alleged by the gov ernment to have been fraudulently obtained and without adequate con sideration, charging the defendants with having carired on fraudulent transactions for the intent of "hinder- ing, delaying and preventing the United States from securing satis- faction on it's judgment against Har- ris. It is specifically charged that the long list of transactions were "know- ingly and wilfully entered into by sollusion and were felonious and fraudulent"