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Show III DAYS DID NOT KEEP WORD United States Senator Tells of Agreement Made With Kansas City Promoters. Kansas City, Mo., Jan 11 Don A Moun Day and his wife, on trial in the federal court in Kansas City, Kan., charged with misuse of the mails in selling New Mexico land, did : not Hve up to all the provisions of a i selling agreement entered into with T B. Catron, United States senator i from New Mexico, who owned the land, according to testimony by Senator Sen-ator Catron today. The government I c barges that the Moun Days misrepresented misrep-resented the land they undertook to sell and that they had no title to it. "In 1908,' testified Senator Catron, J entered into an agreement with the Moun Days with which they were to take over 1 500 acres of land in the upper Pecos Valley and sell It They were to pay me 4 an acre They were to build a reservoir and an irrigation plant and make other improvements on tho hind. Three pears and six months was allowed them in which to sell the land and make all the payments and they were to give me a mortgage on the land to Insure me In the agreement." Senator Catron said the defendants had done little toward carrying out this agreement. |