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Show BOUNTY FRAUDS TO BE PROBED BY LEGISLATURE t fjssasaaMSSiSBBSBSssassnBSaa - . . Joint Resolution Will Bp Introduced; Sheriff Emery V Exposes Extent of Loot of Treasury. BULLETIN. David B. Da vies, a Deputy County Clerk of this county, was arrested Monday afternoon In connection with the- alleged wild animal bounty frauds. He is held at the county jail as a witness. A Joint resolution will be Introduced in the House Monday afternoon providing provid-ing for a committee to Investigate the deficits in the bounty appropriation. Representative Harry S. Joseph is one of the men Interested in the resolution, but it is not believed that it will be Introduced by him, " The committee, if appointed, will investigate in-vestigate the manner in which the bounty on wolves and coyotes is allowed, al-lowed, and also Investigate the charge that certain persons are running wolf and coyote farms for the purpose of raising animals for the bounty. A motion to suspend the rules and pass the resolution providing fori the Immediate passage will be Introduced with the resolution. The arrest of Charles Jones may de-veloD de-veloD the most gigantic fraud ever at- under the name of John Ward, during the same time he had drawn certificates certifi-cates in Salt Lake county for over $7000. The extent of his operations elsewhere is not known. He is said to be at the head of an organized gang, operating in Utah and surrounding States, whose business it is to defraud the different States of bounty money. The arrest of Jones is said to be but one of many which wlU follow in a few tempted in the State of Utah. The expose ex-pose is due to the work of Sheriff C. Frank Emery and Deputy Sheriff Joseph Jo-seph C. Sharp. Had there have been no hitch in the plans of the instigators the State would have been defrauded out of at least 315,000. ' , Sheriff Emery, before he went into office, was an expert in the buying and seUlng of hides. When he read the report re-port of the State Auditor and -found that there were County Clerka certificates certifi-cates for bounty outstanding for the year 1904 of over 330,000, he at once become be-come auspicious and commenced investigation. inves-tigation. The bounty on wolves and mountain Hons is IS each. During the last three months bounty certificates on several hundred hides of these animals have been issued in Salt Lake and Weber Web-er counties. Both of these animals are very scarce In Utah. ItMs asserted by one in position to know that not more than twenty wolves have been killed in the State during the last four years. "We have but one kind of wolf in this State," said Sheriff Emery, "and that is the gray wolf. What few there is of that kind are in two or three packs which run near the borders of the State. Very few of them are ever killed." "In speaking of the mountain lions Sheriff Emery said: "I am safe in saying that there have not been 100 mountain lions killed in the State during, the last. four years. I doubt if there are 100 of these animals ani-mals in the State." Yet bounty has been collected on the days. Gov. Cutler took cognizance of the alleged wholesale frauds against the State in the matter of animal bounties in a special message to the Legislature Legisla-ture Monday afternoon. The Governor states in his message that it is certain the previous estimate of 330,000 outstanding in warrants against the State for animal bounties is much too low. He declares that many of these certificates were secured by bare-faced frauds and that a scheme of systematic robbery bad been pursued. pur-sued. He calls attention to the fact that the reports show that one man, presumably Jones, alias Ward, now in JalL charged with attempting to defraud the State, had secured certificates for the killing of 462 coyotes, 103 wildcats, fifty wolves, fifty-one lions and fourteen bears in one month, which, the Governor asserts, is a physical impossibility for one man to accomplish. The Governor urges immediate action to check these frauds and protect the State from further raids of a like character. char-acter. In the House the Governor's message was referred to a special committee composed of Kuchler, McCrae and Pan-ter, Pan-ter, to act with a like committee from the Senate. The Senate referred the matter to the appropriations committee, with power to appoint a sub-committee' of three to investigate the bounty matter. bides of hundreds of both these animals. ani-mals. The first move made by Sheriff Emery Em-ery after he had collected evidence of fraud was the arrest of Charles Jones, who Is said to be the leader of the gang engaged in the work. After the arrest of Jones in Ogden the officers looked more closely into the alleged case of fraud. It was discovered discov-ered that under the name of Charles Jones he had secured bounty certificates certifi-cates in Weber county for over $4000 during the last three months and that |