Show i lANDS SECURED DBY BY GROSS FRAUDS Dummy File on Acres With Coal in Alaska TROUBLE ABOUT TO BEGIN HEARING TO BE HELD IN SE SEATTLE SEATTLE SEATTLE ATTLE WITHIN A MONTH P nv Aug 12 a month a aJ J will begin m in to Seattle Wash that r officials of dais claim will disclose proof prof of gigantic tlc fraud frauda In connection Rith ith lith coal lands land to In Alaska Thus This ion inn will be followed by b similar hear hearts hearin mg ts in to be heW held In III a score of cities clUes T hP 11 lp f best coal engineer n and lawyers with the u general aen 1 land Ian office i e f been assigned to duty in connection n wI i the th and special agents who f r v been working quietly for months fr evidence e ee will take the stand as u uT ashe vt ne es esi T i he facts fact pertaining Inc to the alleged f i 11 i de IF are known to Secretary of the in inti Inter ti ter r i Bellinger Ballinger and Fred Fre Dennett com n of the general land office and andi i IL have given n the word to their d tos S to proceed against persons re reliable rewn res wn s noble liable for the alleged thuds frauds Com n ni Dennett Dentt stopped sto off In Denver i fial days day ago aso on bl his way way wa to the tM coast rd 01 1 held a lengthy conference with the of the t new naw division of the tile general ral laud office with headquarters here when Instructions tractions wert given as a to the OM method a of procedure Frauds in Alaska That Trat more than then acres acrea of rich coal coals Id MS i s in Alaska some one of them having M F ins ns S feet in thickness have uve ife be pe filed upon by dummy entry men pro through agents n of six large car cor e r the land n office has baa ample evl evi evidence dence to prove according to Information public tonight Powerful interests have ha sought soucht to tone form the department of the interior through financial political end and even social pressure to patent these lands a great t deal of which was WaIl filed flied upon pon years ago aso This pressure was wa re n nt t ltd however and when congress reas passed pa ed tile the law of f May Xay 1101 l providing for asso associations associations of four tour or more individuals to de develop develop elop Alaskan coal eoal lands landa to the extent of ot 5 acres for tor each combination the in interest Interest Interest terest back Nek of these theN dummy tried triM to get Iet these the lands Janek through to patent under this law Commissioner view of ot the matter is that all entries found to be bo e fraudulent which be he believes will prove to 10 be at least 75 per cent ot or the tM acres referred to should be cancelled at once Inexhaustible Fields The governments interest lies in the wish to have the great Alaskan coal fields opened to supply oal oat for the ships ship of the navy stationed In the tile Pacific It i is IA said Hid that the opening of ot the Alaskan deposits will give ve the United State States control of the commerce of the Pacific ocean by reason mason of cf its i ability to supply fuel tuel from a field almost Inexhaustible I One of ot the coal companies involved in inthe inthe 1 the alleged fraud is located in Seattle an another another another other in New York and still others in San Francisco FranciacO Omaha and Chicago The so I called dummy were recruited principally from the docks of or Seattle the mines min of Butte But Mont Kont and from the tM la laboring laboring boring classes of Chicago In many in instances Instances stances according to fo the evidence In hi the hard bards of government inspectors these men never saw or heard beard of each other al although although though they were wen described in the filing papers pape u members member of a corporation or organization for developing sections of the Alaska fields The evidence also shows in many instances that the name of the person ostensibly filing fUI upon the land was fictitious and In many cases the per persons persons sons toM signing the papers were weN paid a small sum suns for doing so and knew kne nothing whatever of the import of ot the document to which they were attaching their signa signature signature signature ture The government officials claim that they h have hae e traced the authors authon of the fraud in several cases directly to paid representative tive of corporations involved It la Is hinted that further action than t an cancellation can cancellation cancellation of patents pata will win be taken in the shape of criminal prosecutions |