Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-14 | Page 8 | Cunningham Claims Lost to Syndicate

CUNNINGHAM CLAIMS LOST TO SYNDICATE "WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. All thirty-three thirty-three so called Cunningham Alaska coal land claims. Involving alleged fraudulent blanket patents, which contributed to tho Balllngcr-Pinchot controversy, havo boon disposed of finally by the Interior department. depart-ment. The appeals havo been adversely decided decid-ed and Secretary Fisher has directed tho immediate execution of the decision of Commissioner Dennett of the general land office, who held that tho claims wero Improperly allowed and that the entries should be canceled. Sccrotary Fisher took this final action on his second review re-view of the cases. No more of tho real Cunningham claims are pending, though the Interior department depart-ment is regularly passing upon other Alaskan claims somewhat similar to those of the Cunningham group. Of a thousand or more such. 300 already havo been disallowed. disal-lowed. In tho final decision, which became be-came public today, the name Cunningham Cunning-ham figures but twice in the list of thirty-three thirty-three patents, Judge Cunningham and Clarence Cunningham appear and tho other thirty-one are under a variety of names.