| Show N BRA LAND Bartlett Richards W C Com Comstock Comstock stock C C Jameson and Aquil AquilIa Ia fa Triplett WERE COUNTS or oI to on Oa Lund Land nt t ot of De Dc a talta On Dec OTho trIal In the tho ted fed federal eral distrIct court of Bartlett ar arda s Will C ComstoCK vico Ico pre C c Jame Jameson on secretary trl and general of tho Nebraska Lana Ladd J e co compty III the tho acro Spade ranch and Tr their agent ended thIs evening In the tho conviction of cf the tho four defendants on SO 36 counts ot of otan an n indIctment whIch charged cent to Iol La the of t and ok bur or e rho uri Jill too took k bUt two to the Ibe Tho accusation against the of the tho Nebraska Land F ce th g corn com pany any wao that hat they ut attempted to 0 secure title to tracts ot of land withIn th the Spada ranch enclosure In hl Cherry and Box Butte Dutto counties Nob Nobby Nobby by means mean of fraudulent en under the law which permitted the homesteader to take talo up upa a section ot of land In the tho semiarId dis districts Scores of Introduced who swore that they filed on the lands at the solicitation or of agents of the principal defendants with the under understanding standing that they thoy would bo be paid all the way from to 1000 for their claim when wora secured and that all necessary should to made molde by tho tha company compan A year ago and Comstock who were counted In hr the tho class clan were wera convIcted In III the tho federal court of Illegally fencing government land and fined each and sentenced to six Ix hours each The I latter part of at the sentence was served at the Omaha club In the nomInal cus cun lOlly ted ot of theIr thole attorney who lied been deputized for tor that duty by United States Marshal T 1 L Matthews As a aI I to this episode President Roo Roose Roosevelt e evelt velt removed both the marshal and States dIstrict attorney IrvIng L 1 Baxter A tow months later Re Rev George Georgo G Waro an Episcopal clergyman ot of Lead and Deadwood 8 D president of a abig big cattle company and two or of his agents were convIcted on charges similar to the thEl one ana on which Richards Comstock at ul al have havo just leen Jeen tried Wares clUe case Is now before the tho United States court ot of appeals Fred Hoyt T M I Huntington and James Baird of the tho Loan Lean Trust company ot of Gordon deb Seb and AmI D B Todd of Denver nn an agent were Included In the Indictment found against Comstock and others othen but elected to b be trIed separate lY 11 TheIr trIal will viii began early In January U F o Walcott lin n attorney who 11 also indicted was discharged 1 number of at other wealthy cattle Jl one n and their agents agent arO under Indict Indictment indictment ment tor similar The Tho maxi maximum mum mam penalty for tor the offense Is two years Imprisonment and fine fino on each lach count |
