Show I 1 DEPOSED TRIES TD TO CREATE GREATE SENSATION Former Register Idaho Land Board Accuses Cl Colleagues Colleagues' ag of Bad Faith Fath i i SAYS THE STATE IS ROBBED ROBBeD r rj Declares e Much TIm Timber her I Kami Latini J 11 rt r rt- rt anti and That St State te 1 L Fa Tall I to tOAd j Jr r t 1 Special Service Boise ise June JOlla 30 C. 30 C S S. S r une lecent re recently no- no cent deposed from the tho of or reg eg eg- eg ster ister of ot tho the state stata land and and boari attempt hd ad d to to create create ii tt sensation In ih In political i circles today p b by br giving to the i the n new news news- pap ap rs a signed st statement containing I th h charge that the stat of or Muho has haH jeen robbed dr ot m mr r of or StaVe lands ands during durIng the lust lu t. t five V years rears and alleging that atc liv attempts td o A i I l Pv t t JI ra tI t n b f JY oi 1 ri I 6 d tt 11 mor more li than han n four lh thousand us nr vor la W M goes Into detail the iho man manner m ner flen- In which the tho state la lit alleged tp t havn hoci hoei robb robbed d In tho the Interest of or the tho great timber Umber syndicates At one time during lurinG the closing days of th administration of ot Governor Hunt time the records of ot the land board show Show that L. L I L. L Marvin representing F F. A A. applied to purchase the Hie timber standing on lun lands lunds g owned by bythe the time state in Ill eight Ight townships In lii Woo Woo- 00 tenal tonal and anti Shoshone counties counteS and amid that forty acre tracts were sold soIl at from Crom 3 to 00 for tor each forty acre tract McConnel charges in hl his statement that the timber syndicate managed d t to defraud the s tate stale In Institutions in iii the following manner Bids Bils of oC 1 per thousand feet teet for tor white pine pine and und 75 76 cents per thousand feet for Cor other timber were made matle the tIme amount of timber on each forty acre tract to be determined b by an un estimate to be made b by an nn experienced cruiser employed tJ by imy the state stale After ACter the sule sale was mud lud the lund land was vas appraised at nt but ut a f t small mall fraction of ot the actual amount of ot merchantable mer met lc chanla timber standing on the dl different lit dif ferent tracts it I is asserted and title was waa Convoyed on the basis thus fixed by the state stat agent St s 's lie II 1 Was us LIs Turned Down Dowl McConnel claims that h hn lie compiled this information and amid Ind submitted it I ina In Ina Ina a report to the state stale land board and that hat he urged that action acton be taken by tho the state to recover the tho lands thus fraud fraudulently com con conveyed eyed before the o of limitations had run out and amid the right of recovery l' l was lost through h neglect but that he lie was wa severely Cell cen- for Cor the action taken anti and forbidden for tor- bidden to lo make his hs report TJ public lc McConnel complains that he le was sas elected register of or th tile the land board and andas as such Buch gave guv a bond In Ill the tile sum Hum of ot for or tho the faithful performance of ot his hi duties dutes yet Mr Marvin who tle the tite timber syndicates In all the thad shady timber transactions was as employed to do special v worl ork vork for forthe forthe the board and in that capacity ha hacon has been con able le to prevent lre ent an any Investigation being made malIe of the th deals referred to to and that it I was through trough fear tear of eXposure ex exposure eX- eX that the board dismissed McConnel McConnel Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Connel and retained Marvin In a position po po- sion to lo protect the time owners of or tine the timber r lands land Throughout the thi article artcle McConnel criticise criticises the thu state administration In Inthe Inthe inthe the most moat caustic mann manner r lie Jle does docs not charge that any lands hands landt have been fraudulently disposed of during the tho thelast last three thi-ce years ear but states Mates s that 01 dais ur are guit guilty of or screening tine the lumbermen lum IUm- bermen and neglecting the states state's In Interests In- In b by preventing action to re recover re- re cover the th vast amount of ot valuable tl timber r for or which the state received practically no consideration anti and 1 01 retaining re re- re taming in the tine men who engineered ell ell- engi the deals through for the timber timber tim tim- tm- tm ber syndicates tes |