Show WIDOWS WERE VICTIMIZED Land Sharks in South Dakota Worked Scheme to Get Claims and Got Into Trouble New VIm Ulm Minn March nas were served yesterday on nine wid widows widows of veterans of the civil war corn com commanding manding them to appear in Sioux Falls FaUs S D April I 1 to io testify in a land fraud trial It is alleged that In 1904 Joseph Wal Wallace Wallace lace and Attorney of Pierre S D prevailed upon the women to goto Stanley S D and take up homesteads under the federal law granting privileges l leges es to widows of veterans with the understanding that when they had proved up on their claims each be paid OO 00 for the claims The government charges that the de defendants defendants then hired men to live Uve In shacks erected on the tracts simply to create croote the impression that the require requirements meats ments o of the law were being complied with |