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S OFFICIALS FOUND I GUlL GUILTY TV OF OFFENSES ans Convicted of Exceeding Rights Made F False als Certification of Final Land Proofs Tallman Says Warning Issued by Division Chief sr- sr Hair Issues this warning to taking proof officials of the tha I a There will bo ba no leniency shown In an further casts cases ot of Irregular Irregular- Mi In proof taking laking In Iii tho event that such IrregularIty Is discovered officials will be proceeded against as under the tho criminal statutes We Wel e I l 11 file information direct against them Although they do o not directly cUy Ba say so so Captain Hair and Special Agent I lh Intimate that irregularities In taking proof and the tho acceptance of I Iru ru rite than the legal fund from homesteaders h by officers not registers Is more or less leBA common This conclusion Is drawn from frome e t statement by hair AlI taking proof officials will at once he be notified that thal whilo they authorized to take lake ProofS thc they are aro not required to and unless the they to du do so 80 regularly and for the Ic legal al rate they must notify this t C and no more proofs will be shouldered on on them In many cases it Is difficult for a farmer to como come to a United office to transact his business an and federal commissioners and court are more hand handy however Howe In the tho future IrreGular proofs will be le led and farmers farmen should thus be sure that everything o Is regular that ay y La be caused no additional e or accused ot of perjury 4 ore Turner mayor of Poca- Poca k Henry Van of Ran Ban r of the Bancroft State Stale lYe JI e been found guilty of Ir- Ir practices In their offices of States Stales commissioners In a ot of Clay Tallman z r of the tho general land office I of tine the decision and n a copy of iI were ere received yesterday h I at of oC the th tenth field service division dl United States general general gen gen- eral land office In the decision Commissioner Tallman Tall Tall- man main prohibits both men from ever taking any more final proofs on land landIn landIn In their capacity as federal commissioners commis- commis for their respective districts The decision states that It Is not to tobe he be taken all as an Intimation that the officials bo be Indicted on criminal charges This statement and the fact that the tho decision quotes the section sec eec tion of the tho federal statutes or of 1910 which nukes makes their acts criminal offenses of- of tenses Is taken by the local federal officials to mean that the the- they may be indicted by 11 a grand jury juO Men Widely Known Both BOUl Turner and Van are prominent nt lii In atul are widely known In Salt Lal Lake e and Utah In o. o addItion to being mayor maor of Pocatello Pocatello Poca- Poca tello Turner Is chairman of the Idaho state highway commission deputy United d States court clerk and president preel- preel dent of the Bannock Abstract Deposit and Trust company ot of Pocatello as ai well as United States commissioner Van is hs also a a. United States commissioner and banker The Tho offenses ot of which these men have been found guilty by the corn com ml ot of the general land tand office and upon which it Is declared they ma may he accused from n a criminal standpoint were ere as follows False Falso certification of oC final land proofs Failure to transmit th these e proofs d- d I oct Teet to the land office register Ister and andr r receiver er el but h by a land attorney Say Fees Were Excessive These two charge were sustained against both In addition Turner was found guilty of having I lent nt money to makinG ln ll proof and amI of an officer pr president or of the Bannock Trust that company was len lending mon money monon on un- un patented entries In addition to these John A. A Smith special agent of the United States tates general land office field tlell service ser division dl- dl vision who handled the entire case for the government go charged that tine two commissioners accepted fees from homesteaders In excess ot of those allowed by law This charge was wa not sustained b by the commissioner He held that although It Is shown n that excess fees were collected b by n h land attorn attorney e that hero was no post post- tl tlc the c proof that either or of the commissioners commis- commis received any money except hat Is legally allowed As explained briefly by Special A Agent ent Smith th tine two Idahoans p r- r proofs on final patent of lan land to he mado before other persons and then certified to the correctness ot of these proofs thus giving land attorneys nC 5 and oth others rM a a. chance to tamper I with them and defraud homesteaders aders Accor According ln to the law framed for tor the protection of oC those seeking home home- tend these final proofs must be betaken betaken taken In regular form by either a are re register lster or receiver or of a local United States land office a clerk of oC a state court or a United States commis- commis io ncr Must Be Present Under th the laws and it itIs itis Is necessary that these depositions be personallY taken by the officials an and not as Capt George E. E Hair chief of oC the tenth field division dl e b by ab en treatment They cannot be prepared In a advance ance a la university resent regent stI style but each question must bo answered and sworn tl to In the presence of the United Unit Unit- e ed States Slates officials In Jh Ing hit his decision said In conclusion q 1 therefore find these chars charges the tho ones already listed sustained and that the defendants defendants' violation ot of the Jaws and regulations regarding g the taking of oC said proofs gross and will will- I fIll ml I |