Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-03-09 | Page 9 | Government Pays $1.95, Owed 21 Years

GOVERNMENT PAYS I YU YEARS S Special to Th Tho 1111 Telegram ASTORIA Or March 9 Uncle Uncle Uncle Sam ma may be a slow paymaster but hes he's most al always s sure to cash in sometime sometime some time time remarked Senator ex-Senator Charles W. W Fulton ton a as he added a check cheek for to his income iome tax slip The JJ come in handily en e even en if it took twenty twenty- one ono years for it to get here But on the tho other hand I suppose it will have to bo cut three wa ways s because Cy Ty Dolph and C Tom Strong aro are really realy en titled to 65 cents apie apicco o. o If we wo can cant can't t fix it up any amp other way war wa maybe mahe well we'll have to match dimes limeS shako O dice or draw straws trawl to see who gets the whole pile The story ston of the check goes goe hack back to the early railroading and da days along the Columbia river It was received by hy Fulton from P. P D. D Moncton clerk clork of the thc United States circuit court of appeals of San Francisco and was T Indorsed as Balance of rj de do po posit it of fees in case Xo No 77 ii Oregon's former United States sea sen ator had to go through a stack of must musty old records to find out ou out what hat the caso ao was this being ono one of tho first cases to bo be reviewed by that appellate court after th the tho ninth circuit was nas created at San Sail Francisco He lie found that it was tho caso case of the tho old Railroad Navigation company compan against the Utah Northern railway and nd was decided l by r the courts in January 1893 just t twenty twenty- ono one years carh ago last Jast January Fulton ulton 0 O. V. V Dolph and Thomas N. N Strong for tho Ilwaco road which was ap then owned and operated by L L. L A A. Loomis its builder ann and b by ba a man man named Guild They operated a a t little steamer from Astoria to to c connect with tho the railroad t to l the tho north beaches The Utah Northern railway which controlled tho old O. O 1 R. R X N. company company sued on of the latter tatter concern t to compel Loomis and Guild Guid to the two O. O R. R N. N steamers from permit Portland to ti tie tic up at tho Ilwaco wharf Loomis and Guild resisted and the three lawers law Jaw I ers mentioned handled bandied the case ease before United Stat States 8 Judge C. C H. H Hanford at I Seattle it being a federal case caso Hanford decided in favor of the Utah Northern company whereupon the defendant com corn pany appealed to the tho c circuit court of appeals and secured a reversal of the lower court nirL This check for 19 is if apparently a rebate on the original fe oaid into I the federal appellate court at San Frau Cisco at that time said paid I I dont don't know what hat to do with it as the old aco company is out of existence and strangely enough wa was absorbed L by the very err Company compau which sued na us vS ny n back there iu in 1893 In those lays Jars Charlie Fulton I was wis a rising rising- young oung attorney at A Astoria