Show ANOTHER ROTTEN DEPARTMENT AR N NOW T OW THE Tl le is to be bea a turned on Oft the interior department Soon people will be asking c themselves lv if there is la a single government depart department meat ment that dots don not Dot smell end to heaven hearen with official odI ll Il corruption Ah An outside in the official asses John HT Bertson Ae of ofSan OfSan I San has Jaa been arrested on Oh ona ona Oha a charge of bribing employ of the I Interior department It hi Is I impossible for Mr Season Benson Be to b ty I however unless some seine of M the tl meat are re also guilty Benson Beneo could tf kAr be av L I Iun un unI ss there the are art It Its te al el Je ed that tUt Me W M a wide stretch of territory toA an no less lepi 1 thaw than t sixteen state including Utah His Baa scheme was wu simple By B bribing interior department Dt nt clerks it itis ItIs Itis is claimed that he be seemed secured advance in information In information formation as so to land which bIch was wu to be beset beset set aside we a as forest reserves Then he be would fraudulently enter or purchase pure such land after alter which under u r the law 1 when the forest reservations re were made he would exchange it for fot more valuable Y land Jad According to reports II from Washing Washington ton Benson has baB secured acres of rane f land 1 by means m ans of fraud It Is 1 inconceivable that this work was wu done without the connivance of ot responsible officiate J In the department In his hla an aa annual nual flak report Secretary gee tary Hitchcock HI I touched on the matter at some BOrne length Ie i so it is I evident et that tJ he be has haa made malte some I discoveries which hleb have not Rot yet been I made public The Tb dispatches published yesterday said Mid that some clerkS clerk were I slated for tOl attest arrest and others for tor die dis discharge dl charge aa am a result re of oC the inquiry TH TIe TM matter cannot be bf too thoroughly sifted The T public lands HuHta are the her heritage herItage of the whale w people and should be kept sacred for tor them theIn th There Us Is room OIa m In hi the tile west for tor thousands of ot farms and aM homes and Ud tile the people who i build their their homes ta a n the wildernesses are the ones nuns who WM are entitled to the benefit The land laad grabbers grabber and spec speculators speculators must most be kept off oW of the th public P domain domalD no JaG matter how ho of theta them are sent to prison |