Show BINGER HERMANNS TRIAL IS OPENED Charged With Conspiracy to De Defraud Defraud fraud the Government of Part Of the Public Domain FRANCIS HENEY Deren DefUSO o by y Col 0 S Vho Tho Denied MI 11 th In the Indictment Portland Or Jan 12 all pre nrc brushed aside the 0 Binger Hermann former congressman charged In the tho federal court here with conspiracy to defraud the government I of oC part ot the public domain began In earnest today The Hear ye hear ye yet ot of the ball It had s scarcely died away when Fran FranCiS ds CiS J I Heney aro arose and began the tho de delivery livery ot of his opening address The famous prosecutor clo doze to the tho line throughout his brief briet state statement ment ent of oC the tho governments case He spoke calmly only now and then wa wat Jog eloquent or indulging In his tamed famed Invective rho defenses position was outlined by Col A S ot of Th D C who denIed as a whole md and seri seriatim the char charges es In the tho Indictment He went over the long IonS public career ot of Hermann spoke ot of the tho esteem In which he was as held by those tho ho had had uld business dealings with him or of hl hh Integrity In busIness affairs cud scouted the Idea that ho had cold old md and deliberately plotted to defraud the government and the In whose Interest he had pent n a life liCe ot labor HENYS STATEMENT L Francis J Honey Heney In opening the pros of Binger Hermann spoke In part as follows Gentlemen of oC the jury jur We Ve expect to prove that In It was known In Oregon that timber speculators were taking advantage ot of the creation ot of for forest est cst reserves by securing advance jn formation ns as to what land would be b in included In the re reserves erves and by br there thereupon upon procurIng a Io e number of per eons to make ni for tor the school 1 lying wi the reserve resene and con b VeY the aforesaid chool lands to the I for small sums As as Jul July 1001 the time at I which Mr Ill Binger be became T ol 01 the general teral Iad 0 of lIce at Oregon newspapers published s articles explain log Ing these frauds In of 1901 1001 the of the general lan land office called to these frauds In his report on the general land office I In So moor 1201 Binger was In Portland r and there entered into a con conspiracy with Franklin Maya Ia s sW W N Jonc nd others them r In the tho or of no a forest reserve In Ia InI I Oregon fuys and fer ferl 9 l mann met in the office of Mel MelI fel I drum United States Slates surveyor general j and discussed tM tha pro Llon In the ot of Meldrum Thereafter Hermana returned to Lo and Mays Maya and Jones in with the made madeI I by Hormann procured petItion for the i f creation of 01 the reserve reserveS In March 1902 1002 Hermann officiallY S t directed Ormsby superintendent ot of W forest reserves In Oregon to gate and make report upon the matter matterand j and send him the aforesaId petitIons 1 In the meantime Mays and Jones had hadj hadI j f continued to school lauds lands within I I 4 the area of o the proposed reserve lIa Mays s sj j I Ormsby with a map outlining the boundaries of at the desired reserve Ormsby recommended the creation or of a reserve to Include acres ot of school lands which had been secured by Mays Maya and Jones These lands were a all I IS S secured cured b by men at from f to 60 cents to 1 a piece to sIgn applications for state school lands In blank Each applicant for state school lands was authorized to purchase p and he was only required to pay to the 25 cents per nero acre as the first pay ment las Maya and Jones were ere only onh required to pay he ha stac state about to secure control ot of 1200 t acres ot of the best timber timberlands timberlands lands In the United States State It If the own owner er era of at the tho school lands wanted to Eel soIl them for s hf worth at that time about 6 per ac acre 0 In the open market Maya and Jones stood to make a not net profit o or at I least t tU had calculated calculate on U 4 per acre They per ac all ot of the tho school lands within al reserve amounting t the proposed about proPose acres and of at thus making abut a net profit ot of about I Hermann aided nn and abetted In eve every possible He was at that time a way ay candidate for or the standing position ot of United States senator from Oregon and Maya a a tate state senator senator Lars wa and Jones a a member ot of the been beon Mays and Jones hae convicted Hermann would have hae been tried at the time wIh with md and Jones but for cor the fact that ho he had Imd PI PIously from Mr promise a 3 In tried that he would not no be Honey Heney Jn in Wash S ash ashIngton Oregon Oleon until he was t tried ed Ington D C under another In Ap April 1 1906 the Sou San FranciscO N NI I earthquake called Mr lene Heni 1 h ome |