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Show LAP CLAIMANTS ARE INDICTED WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 After months of secret effort and patient waltiug, officials of the general land office were able to announce t-iday the indictment of a number of claim-unts claim-unts to valuable lands In Alaska. The entries Involved number lol and cover almost, tKH) acres of land, all ot which lies in the Bering Strait I distrLct, In which the Cunningham I claims are located. They are wh.it I are known as the English or Siraccy j and th Christopher Slmmonds groups, the former containing 80 and the latter lat-ter 71 claims of 160 acres each. The deposits covered by these claims are 'believed to bo as rich as those of the Cunningham claims, which cut a couspincuou.s llgurc In the Dalllngei-1 Dalllngei-1 ipchot controversy. Indictments in U. S. Court. The indictments were handed down In the United States district court sitting sit-ting at Tacoriia, Wash., and the information in-formation that they had been returned return-ed was conveyed In two telegrams received re-ceived today by Commissioner Dennett Den-nett from Special Agent Cbristenson, In charge of Alaskan matters , to whose etforts the findings are especially espec-ially due. The first telegram contained contain-ed the announcement of the action against the Cngllsh group and otute.l that indictments had been returned against C. F. Munday, A. II. Strucey, Archie W. Shields and K. K. Siegley. Many Canadians Interested, A few minutes later came the sec ond telegram, telling of the indictment indict-ment of Cornelius Christopher. George Simmonds and Mortimer C. Sweeney of the second group. Mr. Dennett added add-ed l hat warrants Mould be issued as soon a.s the indict.d could lie apprehended. appre-hended. V The first group of defendants takes Its name from the fact a number of people in western Canada are supposed sup-posed to be interested in the claims taken up by this party. Stracey Is a resident of Vancouver and is charged with being instrumental instrumen-tal in making some ol the location.. .Munday is a pionilueut attorney of Seattle. Made Names of "Dummies."' Tho charge against tho indicted uieu I that the entries were made In the names of "dummies. Mott of the entrymen were residents of Washington Washing-ton and their claims are said to have been located with an agreement that (he claims should be asnigntd or deeded to third parlies as soon as persons willing to become interested could be lound by the locafor. There is said to have be?n a further uuder-etnndlng uuder-etnndlng that the locptor should receive re-ceive a Inige percentage of tho sale pi ices Differ From Cunningham Charges. Tlie charges difier from the charges char-ges in (lie Cunningham claims, in which there' was no allegation that (be entrymen took the claims lor perrons per-rons other than themselves, but rath- er that they had a previous agreement agree-ment to work or dispose ot their claims as a unit. It is said that few claimants In the new eases ever saw the laud on which the claims were used for locations. loca-tions. Poth groups of claims figured to a considerable extent in connection w Ith I the Hallinger-Pinchot inquiry. Charges Char-ges of fraud in connection with the entries were made two years ago, rnd it was assc-ned that investigation investiga-tion had benn stayed bv tlie land office, of-fice, supposedly for sinister purposes Federal Grand Jury at Spokane. Meeting trie allocation with the f taiement that the service of the "and office force was needed elsew here, and j that there was no statute of limitations limita-tions to run against thes. T.ises, u was conceded that they were not pressed foi a period Since last May, however, Mr. Christenson has been giving the major portion of his time to them, with a result over which the land olllce and the entire Interior department de-partment professes iUeR much gratified. grati-fied. I it is known that another federal grand jury sitting at Spokane, is considering con-sidering other charges of fraudulent cc-al entries in Alaska, and that results re-sults are expected from the investigation investiga-tion similar to those obtained at Tacoma. |