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Show BELIEVES HE II! BEFRAUII BEAL James Wishaw Writes The Tribune Trib-une Regarding Capitol Building Build-ing Land Grant, HIS NAME APPEARS JN LIST NUMBER EIGHT What the Records of the State Land Board Disclose in the Case. On June 20 The Tribune printed a story detailing how tho land grant given the stato for a capitol building had been given away for a song. The names of persons who had made application appli-cation for the lands and tho acreage were printed. Among thoso whose names appeared as having secured 1(50 acres of ths land grant was James Wishaw of Mt. Pleasant. Sanpete county. On Friday Fri-day The Tribune received the following tetter: What the Letter Contains. Mount Pleasant, Utah. July 8, 1003. Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company, Salt Lako City. Utah. Gentlemen Under date of June 20, 1D09, I find a publication In your valuahlo paper pa-per on page 11, beaded "How land grant was given away; where the gift from tho United States for Utah's capitol went." In that list I find my name, James Ishaw. as having taken a niarter section sec-tion of land for John H. Secly of this same place. Now then, gentlemen. T wish to say that I have never made more than ono land entry In my life. This entry was made on a piece of land Ivlng just past of Mount Pleasant, about three miles, and I relinquished this piece of land to the government of the United States, and htive never proved up on a piece of land In my life, knowingly, and if this land that you mention was proved up on In rny name It was done by fraud and unbeknown un-beknown to me, and I desire to find out, and If it was proved up in my namo It must still be mine, because I have never disposed of any land to John II. Seolv or anybody else. Can you find out If "this was done, and will you please look the matter up, as I drslro to find out If such fraud has been perpetrated upon me. An early reply will greatly oblige, yours very respectfully. JAMES WISHAW. What Eecords Disclose. Inquiry at tho office of tho state hoard of land commissioners discloses theso facts. In list No. S, filed with the stato board October S, 1S0S, 1G0 acres of land wero selected for .Tames Wishaw. Tho price to bo paid per aero was $1.25. The land selected was in threo tracts, ono an eighty-acre tract, the other two forty-acre tracts. Theso tracts are described as follows: Xortli half of southwest quarter of section 17, township lfi south, range o east, containing eightj acres; northeast north-east quarter of the southeast quarter of section IS, township .15 south, range 5 east, containing forty acres; southeast south-east quarter of the northoast quarter of section IS, township 18 south, range east. This selection was approved by the general land office at Washington, August M, IS90. The relinquishment register, on page 23, shows that James Wishaw did re- tiiHjuiiiii una uum ai in u(j n;iu nwiuu nim plication to tho United States for tho land, and then, when tho state made application for the land in list No. S, Mr. Wishaw filed his relinquishment, otherwise the list would not have been approved at the general land office, nil the papers in the case having been forwarded to Washington, November 12, 1S9S. Assignment Is Shown. In the record of tho book of certificates certifi-cates of sale, it is shown that the state sold to James Wishaw of Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Sanpete county, the tracts described de-scribed above-, for $200, this salo being made September 1, 1SHD. and on November No-vember Io of the saino year an assignment assign-ment of the certificate was made to John If. Spc1 |