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subject as you had given me to understand offer showing me
the petition or what ever it was that the Legislature of
California had presented to you for Hansons removal and
recommending Steel as his sucessor at the same time inquiring
of me if I new wither [whether] Mr. Conness had arivid in
the city or not I supposed from those circumstances that
Mr. Conness had no hand in his appointment I called in
to the office of the Bee and gave him the foregoing statement
believing as I did then that it was rong [wrong] for Mr Conness
to be censured for an act which I then thought him
clear of but when I met Steel I asked him if he had
seen the charges the Bee made against him he said he
had and remarked that he wished the man that put that
piece in had done as mutch [much] for the party as he had I
asked him if he new who had put it there he remarked
that it was Mr. Oulton the former State Senator of Siskiyou
County and now Controler Elect of the State some time
after I had comes to the this county I was in conversation
with Mr. Burnell State Senator from this Amador Co
an old friend of mine on the subject and told him
what Steel said on the subject Burnell remarked that it was
good authority and that he was on intimate terms
with Mr Oulton and that when the legislature met
he would see Oulton and learn the facts in the case
Mr. Burnell was up during the holidays and informed
me that Mr. Oulton and Mr Foulke the present Senator
of Siskiyou County boath [both] stated that Steel had done every
thing in his power before the Sept election for the
Copperhead ticket and against the union ticket