| Show I If L ND f UD IN UI Reported That Prosecutions Arc Are AreTo To Begin in Salt Lake Very Soon LOCAL LAND BOARD BO RD ATTACKED Former Governor Wells Makes a Ringing flinging Disclaimer Against Charges as Published pleads Sol Not Guill Uil mid tRl If Prowl Proton c Ho 1111 II Will Change It To Tn One of Ot 3 a n In a 1 V paper involving the state Mate In Inas haI an as It II existed Minted lurIng during the admin of 00 Wells In whole l lf f r a and nd frauds Gov Go Wells Well wrote fur Sews News the following statement ji I l j s afternoon uj luno mul Herald tint noted 1 tho Ihl iii Ic gi I linis mul ii nil I iiI i i IU IIII the lie I former lr tUt In titi found boti ri nf or I II II much of Pr the tIu Ih mutter I in tn by h tie lite fine Italian tr If r the lIn italic f II nut hul much Is ii I by tj h the lie I ulio U ho tnt Ye hern 1 iittI lIZ nn III ii II 1111 In 11 I us n II I inn iun unable III to Iii hut to 10 nil aill of Or character in tO tho IIII eTt tt Unit thul the l hll u l jl Iu of nf the tho Ill conducted 1 other than iIii ii In I ii ii II t 1111 I the IIII I I le In 11 In Iho Ihl t I i In of tin the Mali I ti II I for br in II clr nod nil my Iii I lull 1 not lint I mul u n hill 1111 of nt particular If Jr I nm Pili proven entity of 01 collision loli i it Ii rI I to In the t I ic go I I tuny ti in lige e my III II I plen to 10 In Iii unIty I In the struggle l for renewing the Ihl spirit pIrt c r honesty and square Iu re dealing In Amer Amerin in commercial life Jill tie the hard hit trusts ih carelessly carel 81 overreached In grasp 11 tg ig for power and td had their fingers rimmed by b IncI Sam earn have hae up to now been far tar removed from Utah The fhe unwinding proms of ot government prosecution li II I now 1101 about due however to center In the Ih courts of lb district dl and the Valley I Coal eoal company compan with It Ita allied relative the Fuel Juel company will JI bear b r the brunt of ot the federal attack Incident Incidentally ally al about aboul a n hundred good Utah citizens cItizen who signed their names to 10 oaths that thaI they Ihlo were filing on grazing Erasing land when hen henIn In reality they wore were M lt agents agent for an agent of ot the coat coal through them title to many man inan I valuable tracts of coal land will 1111 themselves tt In to something of ot a n corner comer THE STATE LAND IA D The Mate land board bond a it II It Ir the first nud second terms terina of oC Former l Governor Heber 11 11 I Wells oll will vIii also be beIn In ni n It handled handl the I I through which the land Jand wn passed Id s sa land and an received ro l the perjured oaths lAths of ot applying alIn citizens The suit anita in thee case coe have wv seV seVeral eral Ira precedents U UI Il other Itale and they the will Allt be lie prosecuted pro by the tho ROV go 10 In the MIme eme manner The Tte hid r nf f t the Ih government legal will tJI handle hand II them Independent of cf f the t district attorney III In thu Ihl lUte itIC and will work ork through agent n enl u as has ft n the Ihl cue caw In Oregon n and other Kates Ia The Th fact that United Staten Slaten Mf II I I Atty AU U ii K H I Hooth will vItI not hot b brailed tie It Riled railed upon to 10 push flush the hit hA no possible pol local RC lkC Curlit to 10 the of well wIll In Informed formed people tupe who are ore familiar with government methods in oaKs caw of thu Ihl kind mx MIC Secret service men pent nl out under Instructions In from W V H 11 Moody have tl the Cd iee and they are ure now reported to 10 be roady for Or filing 11 II I f Judge Jud e Marshall of ot the federal court who would wouW 1 try tr the therNe rNe n I now absent In and hh hi coun lUrt la is I not for tor un UnI ill I U September A grand Jury jur would ouM regularly rc gu be convened In November mid and f the government decide 10 to a n circuit judge to 10 this district l lt t If tr try tf tIll ca cue cael and an to 10 ni a 11 11 grand Krand jury Jun the tse e will nih go gor tvr r until tIle the Ih fall rail The Th fact tiit that there t was waa material a ll bie on which to ba base e charges ol of 0 obtaining valuable mineral land grabbing acreage by li b means of or fake has hall h long J I en n known l lo 10 tally ally un and It II na thoroughly In Inthe the hi N s I a year nr or more apa 0 Since that time th the government hM hu ha been en at 0 t work th Ih the evidence which forma th lb bal hll of the pre nt suits euit WORK won i Theodore ha hu come rom In re recert reo crt cert month to 10 stand as the type of the tha American citizen I tr tf rn act back buk rights right and privileges privilege which have hr iut been grabbed crabbed by b trust truet and III ae s the uhe truit have hlo become I more morl s nd lid a and have hn more and anti more struck the public with for tor 00 on an what hat they hp act CI rather than Ihan nn em It h rould afford to 10 sell rn for In Inthe i the lh hI cost tOlt of production and a fair pro fit t the Ipe type of or citizen has hu bern tn getting his hili hi bark baek up uli for tor a Iru si 11 and an recently the tight has ha been ben open however hat has ver ety ef Itt Its hen he tie attacked yellow journals journal for tor Improper r conditions condition whit un untruth truth troth and went lInt after very rr heavily the tho much who threw mud cm on the Iho fair names Mme of ot honest public servants Who happened to be bl In A 11 ai position i here lies lice about them would look laok I k lut n II yellow Illow exist In the situation a newspaper can tan easily be to o It I prop calling I y utilizing th the thO for pol II Ild I of 0 oi other ad RI That sueh urh a chance Is Ia t hem to 10 Its It fullest limit 1111 U Is the th Ini in Ih lb many man minds by b the Ihl ed Insinuations made Aery ery er tent lent nt this morning In an I f r the Ihl of govern went nent Men I nulls cult the Ihl local Ineal source of Inform tl Uon m being protected IP tI lP TO TUB TIC OATH OTH I I When hen the coal co lands land were filed on nn In the Ite th guise rue of grazing crazing jande Jand the elate I protected Itself by ty means mean of an In oath U it I required requieM applicants to make I IRr Ever Rr vry applicant a signed this Ihl and U It I Itna I 1 na the way U the legislature provided tot fot applications application f J to 10 be made The law lawt la t ae v the l I land Jd d board bad no option oNion in re rc I I nd to t selling ceiling land lond when hm an O applicant R appeared red and wished to buy It I I l Groo Oro of ot tin the Ihl land handled most t t of oC the applications application and accepted In god Id faith the cf c f those who appears appeared to 10 err certify tr tt that they waited the Ihl land and alil were re to 10 take ab oath that It was wai grazing land The elate atlle JI anxious to 10 dispose of UK ita 16 land IOle grants to secure money for the funds fund which wr vcr known ns as land grant fund fuld and when an un applicant re to buy bu It appraised the land at II as ns high a as ni a It thought thou ht It II could get and mude Illde the sale eale In accordance with the provi provisions atone of ot the Ih legislature WHAT SAYS Mr Ir Groo was 11 so son soen n this thia rooming at athis athis his lila office orce In the Utah Commercial and alit Saving bank He smiled smie In referring to a it big display picture of or himself lf In Inn ina n a 1 morning paper with n a legend running to 10 the that he was WI secretary of at f the tite Itah Iah rt IKI te land board bourd at tt the tune time the government got charges collision In regard to 10 the matter he said al that h he felt absolutely certain that thaI the affairs affair of ot tho the lund board w sra ro conducted hone hon honestly estly and for tor tho the public welfare telfor In ac ae accordance nl with th the act of the legislature fixing Its Is and dutle dulier If jf t thorn there wa Was i any Cn he wild said It tt I wa Wet wl between agents agent of the coal col romi nl and Ald whom hol it I Induced to swear to In oaths which they the knew to 10 be untrue and an of rUf there would be b perjury I In 1111 event I do 0 not nt know that such euch sucha eucha a thing occurred but If IC the company had agents out representing rel It II and ald they knew there was wa A coal ai 1 strata etrata under the tend land In Carbon county then of course cur they tile could rould put through 1 a Ih m 1 such sue HS es It Is I alleged of oC vas Wf aa put through and get et possession the land If It J you ou were to 10 discover min mineral eral ulal today loda In unclaimed grazing land according to general repute r pul you ou could by perjuring yourself come re In and get et that land from Cron the elate IIII On the other hand you ou could secure ure title Ile to grazing lund land nod with wih wit perfect honesty go Into Inlo the mining business bu afterwards If you OU OUI discover dl mineral on It It I 1 feel frel that thaI excessive publicity In n a case tn e like I this c cnn n lo do tint hut little Ile good Ro now hOd Ind I Ido Ido be beable do 10 not anticipate a I newspaper Wilt will 11 able to 10 nuke a bunch of crooks crooke out of C men inch like Governor Wells el Jimm Jimmy Hammond til the other members membern of the th board and It I makes makee mak me neede A any anything to even n feel that thai one to say ray thing t ln with them on the defensive Diet Atty Booth Ith when shen seen reen en odor oa Oda declared Dist that I he ho hI could not talk of Jr f the matter delaro at 11 this time beyond raying that he would necessarily nl ry be called ui upon n nto to 10 prosecute the caret esses Ut and that Ihal action would likely commence very pr 1 So far nothing had been flied filed e with his hi of flee Oce beyond the th papers In the roar cos CI against lb coal company as al a already published In the News f He lie lt prom promised id I d to lisue luul f a statement in iii the near ner future explaining lila his hi whole holt conner connection ion tion with the Carbon Carb County Count U nd com corn comP lo P ploy ny of which he ht was wu once president WASHINGTON WASI OTO UNINFORMED lN The ThE Associated 1 this received 1 Id a n dispatch from In response to I it query to the tile effect efret that there have haf been beer no new devel there within 60 0 C day 41 and al all al that Ihl is I public now was wa public then the ex ox except o II the stage to 10 which the he government agents agent had brought their Investigations ground In Utah and ond they are ar on 01 th |
