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Show GOVERNMENT IS ON WATCH FOR FRAUDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-To provide an additional safeguard ugalnpt public land frauds, the General 1-and Office Is seeking seek-ing as far as possible to have Its special agents investigate every land entry case before It passes to putent. This policy, which already Is In full practice, has borne good results., and patents have been withheld wherever the slightest ground for ausplcion has been found. 1 he pubUc land service was not long ago divided into nine Inspection districts, with an agent In charge of each. In connection with the recent land fraud developments some interest attaches at-taches to the Investigation of alleged fraudulent desert land entries in Montana, Mon-tana, on which special agents have been engaged. Senator Gibson of that State, many months ago sent two letters to the Commissioner of the General- Land Offlce forwarding complaints of citizens that there were frauds in this class of entries. The matter was taken :ip, and desert land (entries since then have been rigidly investigated. The complaints were that the lands entered were not taken In good faith, were not Irrigated, and were not entered for cultivation purposes, as required re-quired by law. It wsa said at the Genet Gen-et al Land Offlce today that the complaints com-plaints were more general than specific, but that cases of this sort have been under un-der investigation In Montana and elsewhere else-where for some months. |