Show HARE DISCUSSES MYSTERY Government Government Special Agent Puzzled by Some Features of lf Proposed Deal DealIS DealIS DealIS IS LOOKING FOR KIMBERLY CERTAIN PHASES BRING MAT MATTER MATTER MATTER TER WITHIN CRIMINAL LAW Captain George Hare special l agent of the land department who is loves investigating investigating the matter of the promotion of timber land entries in ah an ai unknown re gion and apparently by unknown per persons persons perSons sons said yesterday that his office had no definite information in connection with the transaction but that there were agents at work on it One of these agents went to Draper yesterday esterday morning but up to last evening Cap Captain Captain tain tam Hare said he had not heard from him It is known that a large num number number number ber of Draper people went into the i scheme to take up timber claims on tips furnished by the mysterious I agent of a still more mysterious com corn company compan pany pan if such uch there be paying for the tips from to When their entry was completed they were to get for the claim I am still as much at sea as ever as to where the land can be said Cap Captain Captain tain tam Hare if the enterprise is legitimate legitimate legitimate mate I lam am positively the commissioner of the general ge eral land of office office fice flee that no reopening of timber tracts to entry is contemplated and I have not the slightest notion ill lb the world where the number wanted want wanted ed by this agent or whatever he is could find quarter sections worth 10 apiece api ce It would take a mighty y big tract to accommodate all aU these entry men If It Is Legitimate If the thing is legitimate continued Captain Hare I do not see that there is any necessity for Cor any surreptitious act The courts have held particularly in a California case that a per person person person son may buy timber land from any anyone one who has it for sale This was illus illustrated illustrated illustrated in the instance of ot a California mart mail who advertised to the world that he was in the market for timber claims In certain townships and offer offered offered offered ed a good price for them He absolutely absolutely absolutely refused to have anything to do with any an contingent deals and bought only from those who had the th goods to deliver He was within the law lawI lawr I r can not understand why wh there should be any necessity for agents to drum up Why anybody would eagerly snap at the chance tit take up timber lands worth without any mystery or without being prodded The statement that there will be bea beIt a It leak in the land department in this particular instance and that the man who has been promoting the affair IH hi hito to have first information of course brings the whole thing within the criminal al law The further statement that the local land office in the dis district district triet where this timber land is alleged to be will so juggle the filings that those who sho are In on the agreement gre shall Have the preference of course also brings it within the tl th pale of the law Who Is Kimberly Captain Cap aln Hare said that his office tad had hadnot not been able yet et to identify the man nan Kimberly said to have been the chief promoter In Salt Lake He lie must be bea a stranger here said Captain Hare or he Is keeping mighty quiet At last accounts ac the special train that was to take the entry men m n to their destination had not been ordered to leave on schedule time which had been announced for today It is held by b some that the fact that the people who entered into the agree agreement agreement e ement ment at least some of them placed their money in escrow and that the agent accepted this condition instead of insisting on cash payment as at first indicates that there is a possibility ity It of the deal being put through It Itis ItIs Itis is said that of Draper money is isheM held heM by trustees |