Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-28 | Page 2 | Land Entrymen Cost $2 Apiece

LAND COST 2 APIECE fo On Or Jan Jon 28 8 Senator was s s again gaSn dragged into the tho con- con e of ot John Jonn H. H Hall ll and Edwin Ed- Ed win Mays yesterday I 1 IV Special Prosecutor Honor B By Br tho the to testimony Umon of W. W E. E Burke Barke and William G. G former agents for Cor A. A B. B Hammond timber Umber land peculator and at ono one time president of f the ho Astoria S Columbia River Railroad It was shown hown that late lat it in 1899 1699 an iJ during 1900 Fulton appeared as attorney at at- tornay torney for tor Burke Burko and Goslin and two oth oth- rs who had been indicted on a charge charse of conspiracy to defraud tho the Government nt by perjury perjury- Burke and testified that In September 1893 1693 they induced transient nal residents of ot the north end to on Jon 03 u man many mans timber Umber claims for tor a l of 2 each h for their services with SUh the express understanding that the th claims so 80 Sled led on should be held for tor a time and relinquished when Burke and representatives of ot I mend procured lieu land scrip to cover the land In the tho