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Show NO INVESTIGATION. Commissioner Richards Denies Rumors Ru-mors About Land Office. OMAHA, March 20. W. A. Richards, the c6mmlssIoncr of the general land office, passed through Omaha todayen route to "Wyoming to visit his daughters. daugh-ters. Respecting the report from "Washington "Wash-ington that his office was to be investigated in-vestigated with regard to promotions of clerks, he said he had no knowledge of anything of the kind, but would have no objection to It. During his administration of the land office promotions had been made solely on merit, In accordance with the requirements re-quirements of tho civil service. -Some clerks had been reduced because of their Inability to earn the salaries which they were receiving and some of these were probably responsible for the false report of an investigation. |