Show GOVERNMENT P PAYS YS I 19 OWED DINED 21 1 YEA YEARS SI Special to The Tho Telegram ASTORIA ATORIA Or March arch 9 O. Uncle Sam Sani may mar be bc a slow paymaster r but he's hes most always S 'S sure suro to cash cub in sometime some time limo remarked Senator ex-Senator Charles V W W. Fulton as ho added a cheek check for to ie his income tax sUp slip The The monc J come como in handily even if it took twenty twenty- lono one hue for it it years to got get here But on the rhe other hand band I suppose it will havo have to be bo cut three ways was because C Cy C y C Dolph and Tom Strong am are really en CD titled to 65 63 cents apiece If we wc cant can't fiX fir it up any n- n nother other way wa maybe mabe we well we'll J have o to match dimes shake dice dico or draw straws to ceo seo who gets the whole U pile pie The stor story of tho the check goes back to tho early carly railroading ani and days dars' along tho the Columbia river It was r received c ivec by oy Fulton from F. F D. D Clork oi ot the to United States circuit ourt court of appeals of San Fran Francisco an rind and was indorsed as follows II Balance of cl de ik- ik posit of fees in case Xo No 77 ii H Oregon's former States sen ator miter had to go o through a stack of must musty old records to find out what hat the case was thi this being being- on one OM i of the first cases to bo bl reviewed by bJ that appellate court after tho the ninth Circuit was created at San Francisco lie Ito found that it was th the case of the old Ilwaco aco Railroad Navigation Na company against the Utah Northern rn railway and nd was decided by hJ the tho courts in January 1893 ju just t twenty twenty- one years ears last ago Fulton C. C V. V Dolph and Thomas X N X Strong for the Ilwaco ap road which n was then owned and operated h bj by L. L A A. Loomis its builder and b by a man named Guild Tho They Thoy operated a little steamer from Astoria storia to Ilwaco to connect with tho the railroad to the tho north beach beaches os The Utah Northern railway which controlled the old O. O B. B N. N company com company pan sued on behalf of the latter concern to compel Loomis and Guild to permit the two O 0 0 R. R N. N steamers from Portland to tic tie up at the tho Ilwaco wharf Loomis and Guild resist resisted d and the three law United mentioned handled the tho case h before forc States Judge C 71 U. Hanford Hallford at Seattle SeattIe it being a federal ease case MC Hanford decided in favor faor of the tho Utah Northern company whereupon the defendant com corn pany ap appealed aled to tho the circuit court of appeals and secured a rc reversal of the tower lower court This check for for 19 1 i is apparently a rebate on the orl original nal fees feos paid into the federal app appellate court at San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco ic at t that time ime aid said Fulton cc Ti T I oon t know what to do wi with it as s tb the old Ilwaco com company pan is out of or existence I and the strangely f enough was absorbed ell by very company which sued sud us s way 3 1 back there in 1893 In those days dan c Charlie C I Fulton was t I a ris rising n Joun young attorney at Astoria I |