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Show UNCLE SAM SENDS THREE TO PRISON FOR LAND FRAUDS OMAHA,' April 10. Thomas M. Huntington. Hunt-ington. Ami B. Todd and Fred Hoyt were convicted in the United States court here today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government out of about half a million mil-lion acres of public landa in Sheridan and Cherry counties. Nebraska. . These men wer. Indicted Jointly with Richards and ComstocK. of the Nebraska Ind and Cattle company, who were convicted con-victed last fall. Huntington, who is a banker at Gordon, Gor-don, Neb., furnished the money to pay the expenses of the entrymen when go-J go-J Ing to file upon the land. Hoyt is a part-i part-i ner of Huntington and Is charged with 1 having paid the expenses of five entry-0 entry-0 men and of having given them the de- scriptions of the land upon which they afterward filed, Todd is from Denver, and procured the old soldiers of Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois to place the fraudulent filings upon the homesteads. |