| Show LAND LAO FRAUDS IN INTHE INTHE INTIlE THE TIlE NORTHWEST WEST Confined Almost Wholly to Idaho and ald Montana INVESTIGATION INy TO 10 BE HE MADE ASCII 10 to 0 a I r Carter tI hi br or ur n a New ew York July 5 IA A special 8 I to the trw Tribune from Crt says News continues to reach rach th thu ti Interior department indicating an aim al eye 11 tern tem of land frauds In iii II Urn time northwest Tims Thul tAt fur the revelation re are confined wholly to Montana and Idaho Interior department official tint 11 an In lii Inclined II cHimed 1 to believe belee from the extent of oC the alleged frauds fraud ami the apparent system tem tern under which they have been n perpetrated that thal they time are not to tu that urea area Only a few Cew days df ago ato S So tr oy Hitchcock wait vas Informed of ot the finding of O IndIctments Indictment by the federal grand Jury jur at Helena lehma against alleged land frauds In Montana and he received a it I I telegram saying that the federal grand Jury jur In Idaho use hal returned ninety In Indictments Indictments for Cor the same SIme offense The Tho Montana cases calos grow crow Irow out oUI of ot time the trauma trans transaction action by ly which United States Senator W v A Clark has haM obtained of or about four acres of ot time the I public domain and UI timber lands In that hint state slate It I appears that tha Senator lurk hun pur purchased ur chased this property outright from a group of If men lel In Montana It I Is I nut not known who Is IB the tho central figure In the alleged frauds In Idaho Hut nUl Secy r Hitchcock k has imas determined to lo Institute the most searching and un unsparing sparing Investigation n Into nil all al those these cases ruea as Ila he Is now doing In Montana In him II order to It the inquiry It I Is I probable that he will wil noon order nn an investigation Uon made Into time the tle operations of ot the time public both In Idaho Montana It I Is 19 Intimated that he lie cannot understand how boa such extensive frauds against time tho government could have been ben committed If it the th officials charged with wHim protecting the lit public In tim Interests II hud had hu be hn been n duly dul vigilant In the time discharge of their duties dutes The Time result of his hue Investigations may be a u whole snip salt decapitation of ot federal appointees The Tho ho secretary hAS Instructed agents and experts In III Montana to prosecute n a alight light Inquiry ime he will wil now no send agents from fromn rol WashIngton to Idaho to perform a n similar work It I Is reported that Carter has hall telegraphed to the President n a long Ion im mOi message Re re requesting questing that no further action be hue talc en el In III of the tIme the secre secretary Dere tary of the Interior Is IR supposed to be beafter beafter after |
