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Show HASKELL TIL HAS i been mm Judge Marshall of Salt Lake Admits Doubt as to Existing Ex-isting Conditions. TULSA. Okla.. May .1. Tho trial of Charles N. Haskell, governor of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, and five other men In the Muskogee Musko-gee town lot cases was continued this j afternoon until the next term of the fed- j eral court. Governor Uaskell asked for a postpone- J nient on the alleged ground that he had been denied access to the documents in the possession of the department of the Interior nt Washington. These documents. h asserted, related to the distribution in 1'Jdl of -100 town lots at Muskogee. Okla.. which were disposed dis-posed o fby the government In bohalt of the Crock Indians. He declared tho use of the documents was necessary to prove his defense. Tn granting a continuance, Judge John 1 1 A. Marshall of Salt Lake City, sitting In I hi' case, said 1 "While the court is far from satisfied I that It has been shown the defendanLs I have been denied access to material evidence, evi-dence, still, as long as there is a doubt that they have been so deprived. It would not be fair that this trial should continue con-tinue without giving ample time to pre- pare their case " ; it was said the case may come up for ' hearing at McAlester, Okla. |