Show OGDEN 5 DEPARTMENT I PERMANENT OFFICE orricE a 8 WASHINGTON BOTH BOOT PHONES 8 P. P M. M I OFFICE HOURS 8 A A. M. M TO 1030 A. A M. M 6 P P. P M. M TO I CHARGES r All IN liMBER CASS CASES OGDEN Feb 26 David 26 David Eccles Eceles whose name naino is coupled with the land deals In Oregon which are to be investigated by bya a fedei-ai fedei grand Jury summoned to meet United States Slates Attorney McCourt l in Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land on March 1 1 1 in an interview interview bet heie today insinuated that there has been a sustained long-sustained effort at blackmail blackm ll which is the underlying animus in the tue accusations accusations accusations directed against the tho Sumpter Vat Val Valley ley railroad Oregon Lumber company and the tile officials of those companies In Including including in- in eluding himself I am not surprised at I. I these charges said Mr because during the last two years eals I have received not less than thana I a dozen letters attempting to secure money from me mc by blackmail concerning J timber The Tho The Sumpter Valley nail Railroad road company i iland owned a single acre ro of timber timberland has never land In the state of Ore Oregon on but as I am Interested In several lumber companies In that state I own land ad add d nJ I lr presume edg j iOn these e are tIle ones involved h. h and no doubt some sonIc of the tue land held by them has been purchased from individuals by local man- man agers know that I have never personally I 1 such purchases and I negotiated any e. In most emphatic want to say In whIch I am interested in- in that mat ii It If any aily tu company t j has done anything contrary to knowledge knowl know without my is not only law Ian It direction and to my edge but contrary well understood attitude satisfied that none of the I quite I am have wrongs charged in the dispatches been committed b by any person because In employ eni- eni I do not believe that I have my knowingly do doal wIle who would ploy any mail mal law anything contrary to al I naturally shrink from publicity pub pub- pul- pul Why serious ous with such ser In connection d die die- a- a in the press char charges es a as mentioned the district district dis- dis patches claiming to como come from attorneys attorney's office in Portland yet so far conduct Is concerned In connection connection con con- as my with wih these matters maters I court the utmost Investigation |