Show A KICK IV reservation homesteader think the settlers are not getting a square deal from special agent vernal utah june jwuc 1909 editor express sir it will ie be an assistance to many bona fide homesteaders if you A will gi gie ghe e publicity to ito a state of affairs which of late has haa been ham ha in vering de delaying laTing and if possible mall mak ing conditions harder for genuine set solely through the in negligence or indifference of certain officials I 1 refet refer to the liely con bureau of the special agents which of late 5 ears looms so large on our horizon that it over mer hads hado wB land office commissioners office secret arys office and wen even the executive exe office of the government itself the great whitehouse hit ehouse is of emall email im port to the average homesteader corn com pared with the swelling smelling grandeur ran deurand and almost irreversible poc era cf the implacable special agent nhem here do our homestead laws give any auth authority arity for the discretionary or acts of ahls modern day ci eaton today to day there ere a hundred and more settlers sett leis on the rese re Beraton ration kho ho hac battled their patents by a full compliance with the homestead laft laas s and their casos cases are ro held up ul pigeonholed and picked oer for technical flaws flame while the chief cf ahe 4 he special agent serece sen ice at salt lake writes arites them meaning less letters to the effect that their A 14 s cases will ill be jakell up Is ae prompt ly as possible Im sible etc many of them thein hano hae kaisted over oner fl a it twelvemonth non no ft and there hero liae have been inspectors and inspectors bome of them chem scared out ut by the inclemency of the weather NN eather and 0 never liever inspecting anything some borne of them starting red ivd hot ini estigo eions of a perhaps real fraud and then suddenly getting a whisper to quit and some of them inspecting and in peeling 4 ur cr thing under und r heaven c call tn to the preato aitto arader iti of re potable citizens offering to prove prone up 1 1 and yet all this amounts to nothing the homesteader ader cannot get a hear bear 1 ing and cannot get a decision lie he cannot learn what it if ally thing is alleged against hini him lathis la this inquisition at al court of the special agent for the unfortunate I 1 victims of his I 1 blood bloode circuit are tried convicted conNIc ted and con SN leaned Ilein ned within the secret portals of jils is mysterious til bunal without a hearing front from and without out any regard to hove hov they like it or any consideration of 03 adv thins the might have haie to say in their defense this mr editor has bas 4 pone gone ts tax r enough aie there not on oil ough here that their oice may be loud enough to moth oar great father at washington let us write and aind resist this aggression and to let us imar hear atho lie will be the next to speak thero there are many who are thinking and they all think alike ane and express themselves dally daily as aa to these outrages tor for I 1 can call them by no other name lot those who are think ing and saying these things out in public end and manifest jilani fest them ai I 1 have lone dona to tho the effect that we mill all have no more of this un policy respy LOUIS N SHANKS |