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Show 1 Senator Sold Land I to Moun Days H Catron of New Mexico Is a Wittiest II n the C.ise Against Allege.) HI Fraud1 ill - III Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 17 Don Dh . Moun Day and his wlfo on trial fHw )r tin' fciloral court In Kansas City 'jjl JiiuisJiH, charged with misuse of tho jljll ninlls In selling Now Mexico land did 'ijjtl not llvo tip to all tho provisions of ij a selllnK agreement entered Into with l;l Thomas .'1. Catron, United States jjjfj senntor from Now Mexico, who owned S tho Kind, according to testimony by Ijjjl Senator Catron. Tlio governmemt ilM . charges that tho Moun dny& mlsrepro- lij . gented tho I.Mid thev undertook to l sell and Miat Ihoj' had no tltlo to It. J I ' In 1908, testified Senator Catron, I j cnterel Into an agreement with tho ,1j Moun Days by which they wero to ijlj! take over 155,000 acres of land In the J If upper Pecos valley and sell It. Thoy 'jsjfl wero to pay mo M on aero. They wero 'jjljlj to build a reservoir and an Irrigation If plant and mako other Improvements tj on tho land. Throo years and six 11 months was allowed them In which l J Li to soil tho land and mako all tho pay- f ' III mentfl and thoy were to glvo mo a '.'fsyfl mortngago on tho land to Insuro me M In tho agreomont. i Sdnator Catron said tho defendants I! had dono llttlo toward carrying out I this agreement. Letter flies fiom Senator Catron'9 olllces In Santa IV, woro Introduced and tho letters Indicated thoro h;i J been much misunderstanding between tho Moun Days end tho senator over tho carrying out of tho land agreement. agree-ment. In one letter written by tho senator to Mr. Moun Day, Mr. Catron Cat-ron snld tho land dealer, had ' not properly coii8trved tho whtor rights of tho tracts nnd others wero taking them up. In a lcttor replying to this chargo Moun Day wroto thnt It makes no dlllorenco about tho water rights, since a reservoir has been planned to tako caro of tho Irrigation of the tracts. Tho letter charged that Senator Sen-ator Catron hod failed to send Moun Day an abstract to the property ns promised and that becauso of his failure ho was experiencing difficulty In selling tho land. Prospective buyers, buy-ers, ho said, suspected fraud when agents woro unable to show an abstract ab-stract to the property. One of Moun Day's letters charged charg-ed Senator Catron had misrepresented tho lands. Other letters purported to Bhow that Moun Day had sued the Senator in tho courts of New Mexico over some question concerning Iho land deal. |
