Show Gave Mitchell 2000 I It was at nt this conference he hI said that he took out two SI OO bills and laid them on n the table In front of Mitchell saying that this amount represented all that he h Puter Pater could spend on the claims and get out whole if it he got the patents He test tet te t fled that he told Mitchell to take the money monel and get the patents p tents He Ile Saul said Mitchell took one of the bills and tossed it oer over to Puter saying that Puter could not afford aCCord to spend so 10 o much Puter said he towed tossed the bill back and it passed sev sov C Cera eral era I times In this way wa Finally Puter testified Mitchell took both bills hills and Kept them and said he would see soo what could b be done Mitchell called on Hermann Her IIer Hermann I mann that day da Ila and then advised Puter to call on him This Puter says sas he did and andI Hermann told him that he thought things could be arranged so that the patents I would issue He said he had taken the I matter up personally The witness fied that Mitchell saw sa Hermann again the 1 next day da and later that day ta Puter met Hermann Hermann shook hands with him he lie said and stated he had seen 1 Mitchell and amI that his patents would be issued IM A day or fo so later Puter says S s he 1 called at Hermanns office and was taken takeno to o the basement of ol the general land of fice flee where his patents were made out He said he took the train for th the west at once and upon reaching Port land and after stopping for Cor a short time at his ils home In Berkeley Berkele Cal Cai found the patents waiting for Cor him His total expense ex expense pense Puter Prater said had been or At this point in the story stor court ad for Cor the day da Other Witnesses t I Previous to the testimony of Puter J A A W Heidecker of Detroit Ore Ort de 11 I scribed a trip he made as guide to Loomis Loom is when hen the latter made the investigation of i the he claims Before i t Loomis reached rl ched the Puter claims he h foil fell J from his horse and was Injured HP lIe did t not go to the Puter Pater claims and when 11 asked If h his was not going the witness ratified testified that Loomis said I am a ppe Ppl I f to cial dal agent of the land office Mums th the i J word Daniel AV W Tarpley who has been con of oC land frauds in Oregon was wag Wa also T a 1 government witness ss He lIe gave the tho de details details tails ails of acquiring a with Horace Horae McKinley about li ro acres of school lands In what was ws later the Blue Mountain forest fort st re reserve 1 serve erve Attorney tt Mays Ia s of Portland he sold said had demanded part of these lands He le said he offered to relinquish lands to i the he value alue of o but Mays Maya Wanted more mort saying raying that the amount named would not go anything like far tar enough in Washington He Ile testified that Ma Maya laR i threatened to have hae his lands checker boarded If he did not give gh up more monn money or land Witness said ho he had hall been if tiled railed ailed tin tm when he h reached Washington Feb Fb bv by b Attorney Ganley one of oC lice Her Hermann manns mann counsel and asked If he had any an E letters from rom Hermann lIermann He lie had none non |