Show SENATOR CLARK CLARKS IS S TRIUMPHANT Land Cases by G 09 of Appeals AGENT PERJURED HIMSELf CONSPIRACY ON THE PART OF THE PROSECUTION t Special to h The TIte Meat May y t to B advises received Ina city tile the circuit court of appeals at San today handed down doD a ft do debit Ja is the CR ease or of the Stat States senator W 1 A Clark appealed trots the federal court for tile the district of Montana lo tana involving title of la large of timber limber lands in western Mon Men Montana tans tana the decision of the Montana court finding that Senator genat r ClArks Clacks title to the lands In question i ii valid asid am that t his bbl patents wand It was wan alleged JI that mud fraud had Jaad been mUted by the but this the government over nt failed to prove no DO fraud no ir irregularities Whatever er bring being shown in the transactions whereby Senator C l C caine W kite into possession ion of the lands The decision is 8 very efY important Bickfords Brilant Fight ib action against United States Senator Clark was begun b by mont agents in 11 and aAd Involves large larg tracts of timber Ian lands In Powell and counties ludge Walter r Mo 14 conducted ted the defense in a most brilliant and telling manner rout routing in ing the tle prosecution at every turn tem pier lug ing b beyond yond the shadow of f a doubt the various contentious contentions of the defense in inthe th the noted DOted case cal The existence or of a on the part of the prosecution was waw clearly shown gOOn a gov agent t and one of the star wit witnesses of the prosecution being made to confess to having per perjured perjured himself Voluminous Testimony The taking of tt testimony was begun iiI Helene before HenrY N Blake master in eha ery and OI 1 comprised S pages of typewritten matter so voluminous were the varying ar Iba of the proceeding I The e case was argued to Federal Judge Hiram Knowles early in 1103 who ho In a I Jen thy decision found far fer the defend defendant I ant W A Clark proving that Clark was an Innocent purchaser r in good faith and for a valuable consIderation I with Uh no intention of fraud and that his bis title as evidenced by the patents given by the United States government t was as valid The agent of the t sought to set aside The patents issued to Senator Clark on the ground of fraud on the part of th the The decision of T Knowles in effect was as that till the government had failed to prove any fraud and that the patents should stand District Court Upheld The United stat States s from the thed d decision kIn of Judge Kne Knowles to the cir cult elit cost cont of appeals in San Francl 1 the ease being argued and submitted 1 to that at tribunal Oct t 0 Owing J to td toI the voluminous record and vast I of testimony the circuit of ap appeals appeals peals has on only I no now reached a sin sion and amid in doin doing WJ so the decision ion of Judge Knowles holding that the en entries II tries were valid and tb the patents should not be cancelled is upheld I The case well Illustrates S the futile efforts of the employee of the d depart rt mont ment dC the interior to unearth fraud I none exists and to charge the people of the west ft with the commis I sion of frauds ahen hf n theme have ben been bent t I none During the tbt past pam few months month the I press bureau bunau ft of the interior depart department I ment has busied it itself lf with unfounded I charges of fraud insinuations of crook and sweeping allegations that I th the government has been r robbed of i laud land when if the truth were known there is nothing t to substantiate the I charges e mAde by y th the agents of the department sent west for forI forthe the purpose of unearthing alleged In I fractious of the kind Excess of Zeal These men are hardly to be blamed for lor their tot lor their employment as well as the employment t of their depends upon unearthing aJ ai ed frauds There may he be some ome per perSons 1 sons guilty of land frauds in Oregon r Montana but this s is no n reason why universal charges of fraud and corruption tion should be heralded all over the United States StattS evidently for the pur purpose pose of showing the seal 1 of the public rs in Ute Use performance of their duli duties The o ida who allows his bis zeal to carry him so far that he be will ill I prosecute te tean an in innocent enl man i is more at fault than the er who fails ail to p prosecute te a well i founded case It is a matter of con that the m stand nd I between the and unJUSt laws and unjust |