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Show O. M. FREED VINDICATED. The officials of tho U. S. Land Office in Salt Lake havo just decided a ase of a good deal of prominenco that has been ponding for some time. We rcfor to tho caso of Mr. Charles M, Freed, who made certain coal land onirics hero on tho advico of his attorney, Mr. Booth, who was afterwards appointed ap-pointed V. S. Attorney and directed to prosecute cases of other entries as frauds upon the government. Of course, nothing enmo of these prosecutions, prosecu-tions, and in some of tho cases, particularly particu-larly that of Mr. Freed, nothing ought to havo come of them; for thero wa3 nothing wrong about them at all; the entries wore perfectly legal, M,r. Freed was entitled to make tho entries, and thoro was no reason whatever to assail him on account of them. But, whon thoso entries wero attacked, at-tacked, it was in the height of tho new zeal for "conservation," nnd every ono who made any entry' n.t all of government gov-ernment lands was under suspicion of fraud. It was an unjust, cruel suspicion, suspi-cion, totally unwarranted, and now in Mr. Freed' s case it is officially determined de-termined that ho did nothing wrong, that the suspicion against him waB unjust, un-just, and the contest against; him is dismissed. But in the meantimo a howl of virtue has gone up on behalf of govormnont officials, and paying places havo been made for many aspirants. Along with the Freed case a number of other cases specified arc dismissed ns not having any taint of fraud, but entirely legal and proper. It is true that appeal to Washington will lie against this local finding; but if mado doubtless it. will be without avail, for tho whole caso has been gone into thoroughly. It is a gratifying outcome to all of Mr. Freed 's friends, who will rejoice to see that his name is thus cleared of every taint of accusation. Every one who know Mr. Freed knew all the timo that he would do nothing consciously con-sciously wrong, for he was a man of uprightness, candor, and honor, a good citizen, a law-abiding man, above re-pronch re-pronch in every respect. Still, it is n. satisfaction to havo tho official clearance, clear-ance, and to know that every shadow of accusation against him has been wholly romoved. |