Show SENATOR WHO IS ACCUSED I Francis Emroy Warren United States senator millionaire and first governor of ot Wyoming has come into the limelight along with Richard Ballinger Ballinger Bal Bal- linger secretary of the Interior because a me mere mere e trifle of acres of public lands In Colorado I d have been fenced In In violation it is alleged of or the federal laws Jaws Senator Warren Is Js president of ot the Warren Live Stock company and arid this concern according to charges made by A. A S S. S Connolly 0 of Cheyenne L 1 put a fence around the acres of ot Uncle Sams Sam's domain as a place to feed teed cattle These acres it is said had been been awarded to the state of ot Colorado under the act of at 1875 for school purposes In addition Mr Connolly says Senator Warren put a fence around 12 miles of ot land In fn Wyoming in violation of at the law Connolly alleges in a bill of ot particulars flied filed with the congressional committee committee committee com com- now investigating the Interior department and the forestry service that Senator Warren fenced the Colorado lands before 1903 and that in 1906 complaints were made to Secretary Hitchcock An investigation was made and t President Roosevelt a according to the evidence asked Assistant Attorney General Milton l D D. D Purdy to make a decision on the strength of the report which would exonerate Senator V Warren Secretary Garfield later started a movement to prosecute Then Mr 11 Connolly charges Senator Warren went to the tile then thel chairman of the Republican Republican can can aI state committee of Colorado and upon the promise that Senator Warren would procure for Denver a United States mint and other buildings got him to work a request through the Colorado legislature to the federal government for lor the lands held by the Warren Live Stock company for school purposes and then to turn them over over- overto to the Warren Live Stock company |