Show BINGER HERMANNS CASE Interesting Evidence of Daniel W Tarpley Regarding Blue Noun tain tam Forest orest Reserve Portland Ore Jan W IV Tarpley related for the second time how lie and Horace G McKinley discovered discovered ered that a forest reserve was to be cre created created In the Blue mountains and or of their dicker with ith Franklin Pierce Mays who with Willard lIlard U Jones and George Soren son have llave been previously convicted on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of public land upon which former Congressman finger Binger Hermann Is 15 Isnow now undergoing trial Tarpley told of the quarrel between Mays Hays and McKinley and of the alleged statement by Mays Maya to McKinley that the 50 cents an acre offered by Tarpley and McKinley towards the fund to create the was not sufficient to pay the fellows at Washington It was left to Colonel Worthington of counsel for the defense to probe further Into the tho Identity of these alleged tel Cel lows at Washington but his bis probing was fruitless and their Identity apparently will never neer be known neither elther Tarpley nor McKinley who followed him could answer J L Wells ells a Grand Army man was the only other witness The substance of Yells Wells testimony was that he obtained from other war veterans for a consideration tion or of from to 3 each the soldiers rights to filings on school lands and that these he turned over to Jones |