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Show I BOOm BOOSTED AT TOE WW TIME i Boost Likewise Comes From Federal Officials Not Con versant With Facts. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION HANDS BOUQUET -Vires Must Have Got Crossed, or Commission Lacks Much Information. I "Kinky Booth is again being boosted by the newspaper which he con- trols," s:nd the Prominent Politician to . Tho Stroller on Sunday. ''What surprises sur-prises me is that the boost is so mild.-"' continued the Prominent Politician, "When the paper could have said so much more than it did and not prevaricate prevari-cate Rnv more than in what it did say. Under "a Washington date line in Kinky :s organ this morning 1 observed rbe following: f Governor William r - 5pr3 H. E. Booth and 15. H. Callister, r .vho havo been here tor several days, left this afternoon for Salt. Lake. "When i he called at. the interstate commerce commission. District Attorney "Booth s was paid a very high compliment by the commissioners, who told him that he was one or" the few district attorneys who never hesitated to prosecute a case and who was successful in his prosecution?.' prosecu-tion?.' , "Xow, doesn't that jar 3-011! When did this United States, attorney get in s-uch close relationship with the interstate inter-state commerce commission, that the commissioners should know so much ibout liis record' . . . "When did this commission" learn Ihat Kinky Booth -never hesitated to prosecute a case'." When did it learn Miat he 'was successful in his prosecutions:'" prosecu-tions:'" - . Does Not Kuow Facts. 1 "The commission certainly could not Jiave referred to the recent coal lands frauds, wherein the -'successful prosecution' prose-cution' cost the government or the United States $3,059,000, iii return tor which gift a great coal corporation paid, the government :;214.-i0. Lne commission certainly could not have meant thi9 case. . "Then, too, in this case this, Utah official of the department pf justice was assisted by special "United btatcs attorneys. , , Hl "Certainly the interstate coiumcicu rommission "could not have- referred to -a-e 2o. 901 in the 'United States court for the district of Utah, tor action m that case was instituted over two years , :il'0. To bo exact, the original papers were filed March 5. 1007. Besides, all ' tho papers iu this case are signed bv iho attorney general of the united States; by William M. McCren, assistant United State's district -attornev .for the district of Utah, and by M. C. Burch and Fred A. Maynard of counsel. "Then. too. it happens that in case )01 wherein tho Carbon County Laud companv in on of the defendants, that . al the 'time when the lands involved 1 in the case came into possession ot the H companv. Hiram E. Booth, palled Kinkv W3f. prosideut of the Carbon County Land company. Therefore, the commission could not liavc rclerred to Hj this case. Not Carbon County Land Company. "In view, again, that this case has 1 been before the Uuited States court for 1 ,noro than two vears. continuance alter continuance being granted m order to (akc testimony; that tho. Carbon C ounty Laud company-, of which Hiram Jv. Booth was at tho lime president, is charged with attempting to fraudulent, lv obtain the lands involved, tho com-mission com-mission could not have meant this case. "The commendation of Hiram VL Booth, known as Kinky, could not have had the Utah National bank trouble in view, for no conviction "was made j in that instance . J "It is not probable that the commis- 1 1 sion got. Hiram E. Booth, called Kinky ! at times, inixpd up with ono Booth who was a United States commissioner at., on time in Utah, because that was long ago. and there arc a great many people here now who have forgotten Hj lh3t incident. Department of Justice Silent. "One thing is particularly noticeable in the dispatch cited, and that is that it was not the department of justice, not the attorney general s office, and with whom Kinky lias close relations in that this department is his boss, who commended him for his success in his prosecutions. ., , . , , "'You will recall the fact that in the coal land fraud case, wherein the Utah lriml company was presouted with over 3.000,00 bv the government. Kiiikv Booth filed willi the clerk of the 1 "United States court in Salt Lako City this letter: 1 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 1 Washington. March ;. 1J03. II. U. Booth. Keck, United States Attor- nev, Salt Iake City, Utah. sif In equity cas "o. 52, wn?rem the United States of America Is coin-plaiaant coin-plaiaant and tho Vtah Fuel company and Pleasant Valley CoaJ company arc de-fendaiits, de-fendaiits, and in equity cases Nos. m, S68. S0 and S70. wherein the abovc-named abovc-named companies and the Morton Trust fomnaiiv of New York are defendants, -nndlnfr In the I'nited Stales circuit court for the district of Utah, you are authorized and directed to dismiss such suits in the event that there shall he deposited bv said defendants, or any of them, with the clerk of said court, to the credit of the United States, in cash or its equivalent, such a sum as shall. wllT; ihc amount of the fine imposed by the court in the. case. No. 1070. aggregate tvo hundred thousand (5200,000'j dollars; each party to pay its own costs. P.cspect- ' Ul,y' GEORGE W. WlCKERSIIAlf. Attorney General, lc Successful prosecutions do not end in dismissals or cases, but perhaps the interstate commerce commission did not' "know tho Tesult in the Utah Fuel com-panj com-panj case. Sometimes one boosts him-self him-self too much. This looks like the 1 time." |