Show COAL OAL c LAN I 1 J S IN U I 1 sensational ional testimony test y before ef ore commissioner dark e I 1 details As to how holdings of utah fuel company I 1 were acquired secret rates ates and other irregularities 4 at kt the hearing belote contu erco clark at salt luke city lust last wa h ns glen that the utah fuel coin com puny tho the pleasant suot valley coni coid etin e tin n pany outi and tile store yoni colli puny pliny enjoyed it secret tariff on oil nil till material shipped to these bet the uto 1110 grando system tind other road 4 up tit to august let 0 alila eui F bills for the ratel were ere coin ted ua its tush cash ly by the nt find and so acied cited do the books diaries charle former calef clerk ut at Sunn Sunni IsIdo eldo tor for the utah fuel compani coin pana arid aa the wasatch stol ston t lied tied that pre ious to lar ant both companies enjoyed amount ed to it secret tariff on nil till materials shipped ty toi the mines over oer tho denver dener and rio grande the niso also becot received ed concessions coni 0 er other railroad lines he ile said that under these special dittes the coil coal coin company pany shipped tile brick irick from frota nt at lafty five dollars per tar t ar whilo under tinder the tile present full tariff tho tile rate rud vnus per car lie stated that ull all freight bills wro buind ill lit to tho the railroad igent agent at sunu elde us its cash aud and that the bed beitle lemein between the corn com bantes were nt tit some other point exl tit W 0 william the it fuel company ahe pleasant anili y coal compani compan tind nd the Wa bt u re fitl that will coin pu nim neur paid tiny ny dividends all tha tile profits of their business ho said aut to pity off lute lut iest elest oo 00 outstanding bonds iio ulso also told of the freight rates ell joyed by the coil llie railroad ruil roud corn com lf puny he lie acted ue its agent for tho tile et wil 11 at ertsin ert nin points the bills for corti delivered aa ing to questions asked by ettor A ne asfor the government williams 11 that tiny ny beoka or of the several pont to lu new yolk utter after the th i beginning of tile aly present iroe ont inquiry he ED ulo also denied dented lint that uny any hooks books or vouch ora orts had been destroyed billianis Will ianis nutS admitted that hie his namo luid hod been usel usei by tit thy cotil coal company to secure title to t I 1 two und and acres of land h near clear cleek ho llo never received any compensation or or thre ho he said byron borov former secretary of ortho the stute state land boardl of utah wua wits quen us tie to how flow title to of annas cassad from th tho stute of utah to the coal companies ilo ile admitted that largo large tracts of land were so dlo posed of obby by the nta 14 land bo rd lut hut said lie could not rem ember the amounts or other de detail of the transactions S ClEor otora gol D holliday of salt luke dike city told of hia his efforts to bequir ue title to it tract of coal lund land lu in whitmore danyon canyon near Hunny alde hr 0 the holliday coal company and undertook underfoot to mine cot giobert worrester rester gt Bolo glat of 0 the utah aftel company W P Phi pity tu and oilier er t men ruen mile lae to him 1 0 paid told I 1 him unit unless ho ito g AST AT ali land they would juino hie lift litter later his absent erined theol ent in and took possession of 0 hia his property to which robert kirker bet set up tit f claici houldey testified that he at tempted to con coolest est Kirk cre alahn in tho district court ot the seventh utah district but every decision woe was a dust liter until ho lie secured a trans tr of the cuse cruse to suit salt lake olty city told of 0 so eral coli with the tile of the pieplant valley coul coal company md other oni cial of 0 tile coat coal jomp antes lu lit walli sometimes threat 1 wore were miudo against him anti lit tit other glinert efforts were mude to buy him out finally tiring of the tile struggle ruggle Bt ho he eold sold out to the coni coul company for the tile declared that in 1835 lie 1 took ill upload floal lands in whitmore can son on where Sunu alde now la Is two iwo year years after lie had darted to work be declared lecia red he lie lift lia I 1 trouble v till ith tho the kobolt forrester For reeter and IV J chipman called on him film at the min one day clay and asked d hint to take a is few hundred dollars for hie his interests Inte reet this he refu refused eed ond and be ALIS then told that unless ho lie lid he would pack illa hi blankets out of tho tha cannon without anything he no wald lie thell web t to salt lake city and had on an with wil ham 0 sharp then superintendent of the pleasant valley coal compan and anti bancroft and several othera tho ther witness said J told them that I 1 hai hwi come by the tile coal corl I 1 ands honestly and that I 1 would star stara by them god noer inutile a man or st s t of anu that could rule or euln aie I 1 declared I 1 told them that they could not take a pin aft aff ro in cont coat they paid me ne Cout inard on A ANDS INQUIRY t rum o 0 fortt at farat the sending tho man down to the mine to order me off then ohp inserted that there via bome sueh and later sharp setd tuat be lind sent Por reeter to put up notices on my land 1 I told cheru to take them ana us quick us god wo lid let them I 1 eald 1 on think more our than of that coil property anke our roon away rom that lund I 1 ook iny bodt and ant oud out took me bi the arm and suld long na that coal land will not bother a he then gave a pass nd return rood thirty days I 1 went to alasi after that at portland I 1 received word that kirker and others had jumped my land nid driven when I 1 returned I 1 was requested by in company which 3 o 0 lay coal company to go eldo and look ovar land when I 1 went up to ho place kirker md six ormed men gift me and leali le cli cd that I 1 left tilO place at once they would kill me they talk to me kirker was the leader and all wore ormid with and side arms they were W J chip iuan frank tidwell Tt dwell hi rum tidwell J tidwell orange ami a stranger they had torn ion guv algae anti posted up othero thoy had posted up notice warning anyone noc to come on all the tools had been taken out of my mine ind it had not been worked since I 1 was there when I 1 came down out u he canyon kirkel and his men caius out of the cabin abut I 1 had built and acore and cursed me I 1 had gone down there unarmed I 1 was to do then kirker came out with his gun and fired oer my head this imitated me aud I 1 tried to fathers winchester oter away from lalni I 1 jumped oft my horse and alicy all ruu III the house rats intha hole I 1 was not permitted to go on the land again until I 1 was compelled to sell the land to the pleasant valley coal company that wo would file before judge johnson to secure the land would bo to and the court would sustain the demurrers attorney lo 10 grand boung succeeded ao 10 getting the case transferred to silt lake city 1 then the company wonted to mako terms As abo other ra embers bf the co nipan wanted it I 1 the property for this land which halll day located in todo Is one of the valuable coul coking pro pities I 1 b alio uuie fuel company t whilo and williams were dundei examination attorney Maich und or alie government en dedjo reu to secure from them that the coal companies had been freight rates on shipment coke ocr the oregon line to alie smelter sit anaconda mont both denied of any buch concessions ando by the line agenda have been unsuccessful in their efforts to subpoena W falton reputed of the gould coil companies auditor williams festl tied that lie did not know the of colton ho said ho hal not epen him tor six weeks arthur A sweet testified that lie had protested tho lorat lor of a tract of coal annd by charlea awen who agricultural land tho protest was upheld and sweet filed on it as mineral land alion he went tc anke possession he eling ond mexican cau buth ormid with rues disregarding tho state anent that was no coal in tho lond 1 he went onto tho property As bo proceeded h heard a nn tired the armed men followed bilm to his claim und told him he had to him if he go at hia torce he n dented to go ov hia after 40 secured two injunctions from the district courts of the I 1 u HK abo fuel company from interfere Int erfer ing witt allm but the functions were disregarded finding that ho could secure no capital no and no care kneet said lie disposed of hia claims to J judson for and they soon anie passed into the hand of company hut this did not end sweets brou trou bles ho raid lie had eee ed cun plo mant or alie 1 gande western rn through the in JL o 0 of the coal le who al pressure new lork bonding company hibo hia boud cancelled he said that w ho ho was working agent nuil oper antor lu the office of the pleasant val ley cl co aenni at colton ho had instructions to copy from alit commercial kirea of he weetia n union telegraph company nil affecting the the coal coin any till practice was tailed to the attention the wet arn aulon and tho viere removed from the office george 0 told tho armed occupation of prop 1 by hobert kirker and other armed men whitmore said ho had coni land of hie own but did network tt the railroad om demanded dollars a ton for hauling it to market they said whit moro testified that they could sell me tho coal cheaper in suit artke tf an attempt to procuro immunity for G william 1 for th utah fuel by placing him on the witness elond before tho interstate commission ond further agal a at bobert forester were among rho moat developments ot tho desalon by the evidence evid enco introduced ind tho Inte renco made by the attorn y for the government it made plain that criminal charges will bo brought against wll llama forrester on account of the gross frauds perpetrated by the coal companies in securing a monopoly on practically all of the coal lands in carbon county dummies who had tiled on later acquired by the two told their there will n ie sameness about chein all most of the examined had not seen the annd upon which they had nied othera did bot een know where tho lands ere located but all told the story of how the had been induced to file by worrester rester an how they had received lafty dollars for their in the tran alon i in an attempt to procure of criminal for william E M the commission that williams waa present and read to testify at the ro flucht of the pherman of the internee te CoBi merco the chairman the had telephoned from washington D 0 to new ork to williams superior fulcer saving he wished wll llan be present fc the alon to testify J marchand at foi ill objected strongly to eiliv ing testify saving the billil aut pi under bui to giant to williams by allowing hian to leahl the commission allason con tinned with ain to commission 01 jclark to tallo Wll llama to testify representing on lila honor us a member of alie bar that it was tte el wish of the chairman of the corn mission that coro dark ruled in faurot in for tho government easing it was not within alq knowledge what th attorneys foi the government ore to show by tho testimony to be presented and lo 10 tho n U communication or instructions i from the chairman bo decided williams should not bo placed on the stand col percy S howera special agent in utah told how llola rt worrester rester alting as attorney la fact soven und tho cov berng proceeded between the ears 1899 anil 1902 said that he understood that parties were pahl from to to the land for the coal company were young girar said that lie heard that david stephens paid 1000 to withdraw from land and W J bare who protest an entry was paid 1000 prof marcus E jones tea tined chrtt in 1900 he entered the employ of tho allo grand western and for twi beitf worked for palmer cheri president of th coarl since tant date ho had been employed by the company coal londs in utah and as far 1 as newt castle colo considerably ConsIder Ablo diroe atts occupied IQ of julip coal edrati to I 1 in carbon counte und dulinn anoon witness abated that n man of ordinary I 1 isnow tant all that aia with coal aho holdings of attie utah fuel eom pany bulley coa coin pany hi carbou count to this docs not include hold luR in other counties the laoda acie through coal cosh entries jonii through state aelem alon |