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Show ' CACHE TALLErS CHDECH FARM. Title to the Land Fraudulently Obtained, Ob-tained, and Some Crooked Business Busi-ness Being- Looked Into. ! The Logan Journal published in its last Saturday's issue one of those double-,' double-,' faced insinuating articles under the head j "Be Wise." The intent and purpose for j which the article was so constructed is j evident upon its face. The writer at-i at-i tempts to say a deserving word for the Federal land officers of the Territory, and j without doing it, drops the matter to warn the brethren against the bribing officials and traducing- apostates bent on false statements and trouble to the citizens of Cache Valley in their land matters. The Democbat scribe being aware of a recent visit having been made to Logan by the Government land officials of Utah, sought to ascertain the facts in the unsettled un-settled difficulty, and learned the follow ing : The Be Wise" article is pronounced false in every particular of importance. The investigation of the titles to the Church farm was held publicly, and all parties invited to give testimony who were acquainted with the facts of the fraudulent manner in which titles were acquired to the lands in Cache Valley known as the Church farm. Mr. Jessop appeared before the investigators and said that he had made a cash entry within the farm and had deeded the same to the Church. He further stated that he was ready to .kj :j. a ii. r j 'U. j uiane auiuavu us iaj iue iru.uu cum milieu in making the said entry if the parties would give him a written guarantee granting grant-ing him the right to re-enter the same tract of land. This was positively refused by the officers, and Jessup was informed then and there that neither the special agent nor any of the parties with him had any authority to give such a guarantee or a promise of any nature. After the appearance ap-pearance of the warning article, Mr. Jessup appeared before the investigators with another party, who made a full and complete affidavit as to the f tauds committed com-mitted in entering the lands referred to. The affidavits sworn to are not ready for publication, but the fraudulent method of procuring titles to lands in the Church farm, of some 30,000 acres, was by locating loca-ting on the land by order of the Mormon church, and after putting up a little two-by-twice dog kennel and stopping in it a night or so, and then appearing before the proper Register and swearing to six months' actual residence and cultivation of the soil. The affidavits show that the Church paid the money for the costs incurred. First the agents and then the general government learned of these fraudulent transactions, and a thorough investigation investiga-tion has been commenced which will rightly adjust the illegal titles of these valuable lauds wrongfully gobbled up. Reformer LeBaron Havington. Conspicuous among the eccentric characters char-acters with which Salt Lake abounds, is an aged but spirited old patriarch widely known by the aristocratic name of LeBaron Havington, of Prospect Hill, this city. He is sometimes called Gideon, and says that he has long since been irre-6istably irre-6istably driven and forced to the honest and inevitable conclusion that, could Utah have had even a single newspaper published in this city, edited and controlled by some one who could lay genuine claim, right and title to something some-thing just above his neck and shoulders, besides that of a consummate blockhead, it might have been the means of saving souls and many millions of wealth, now worse than thrown away through the depreciation of property and real estate, besides the vast amount of sorrow, pain and intense suffering that has now come to a great people here in Utah. "Gideon" has many good things to say of what might have been, and like many others he has the kev to manv deliveries from our present benighted" condition ; but who is to bring all this about differently differ-ently than is being done, and when will j the light of better times dawn upon Zion ? |
