| Show PRESIDENT T AND U UL L LAND O f A They Tile Thc Constitute a n Topic of Serious Consideration at ut tile the White WhiteHouse louse House I WILL GUARD THEM General l Land Lond Seeks to lave Have Special Agents A ent Investigate Every I ery Case Passing to 10 Entry Jan ian hind frauds constituted n it of o serious consideration nt at the tho White house to today today day The fhe situation III In Oregon tutu the developments In tn the tho day or two concernIng the tho alleged frauds In III both wore ere discussed dl el See was as an early curly culler nailer remaining r with the tho however only a II short time limo While It Il Is Ie known knowlI that some Home of ot tho land hand eases were vere discussed tho the soc see secretary rotary dill did not cure care to Bay say anything at nt thus this time lime for or publication Fulton of ot Oregon Ore gun also nl o had a n brief clint with tho the president about tho time Oregon lie ite Is III n sincerely resentful of if the action Inkell u hili col Mitchell Senator Mitchell Ild he Is Is III ns nil In Innocent of ot any lines base or conner connection lion tion with tho the I ami frauds III in our an nil any all titan man In lii Oregon rejon Mitch Mitchell ell oil hUH been Identified with the tue Ih great of or our nut state for or a n hoar nimr tel tor or of or u IL century He lie line worked ably nb Insistently LimIt honorably to 10 the thc a o Interests Today h hue hI Is III a II poor ioor poorman man living In a couple of ot little Oil on it II elda street I nm tint quite jullo that his Ms Innocence of the against him will be sat to 10 nil all thu tho worlds world Senator Heyburn of Mulio talked to till president P about the t he bill hll Ii iii he lie has linx pro ire providing for or 01 the federal t blent of ot und nod concerns doing nn mm busIness lie mild stud nl o I that ho lie proposed to try tr to obtain In III the tho senate for tor forthe tho the pure lure foot food bill hilt and ond If possible would have havo It tho the busIness bullIe Y of ot lie tha senate As AR Senator left lett the thc White While WhiteHouse House ho lie was sas asked what ho hind had to toI toshy shy nay I tho the land hunch fraud exposure In hIs hla own state I always select my toy own battlefield ho lie h replied Those Vho challenge me tao meto to combat would better be pretty care careful ful full they the do tIo tb rite Tho to connect mo me with time the frauds fraud have havo no basis whatever A year tar ago ngo In the course of or a fL speech concerning the Northern Pacific grants I called tho the senates to tho the land frauds committed In Idaho I t stood neatly r then th n mid I stand r ready to 10 assist tho the officers of ot the government In ferreting out the tIme crimInals and se so securing curing their punishment ii mont No continued the senator In re ro response spouse to further inquiry I never act acted acted ed ns nil attorney for tor any all of ot the people who tire Me alleged to be connected with the Idaho frauds fraud I am nm no friend of ot theirs and they tile are no friends of ot mine is Wo will get Ret to 10 the tho bottom bottoni of these frauds It If I t can cnn bring about such nuch n mu are re result suit stilt TO ro GUARD AGAINST t WashIngton toll Jan To provide nn an additional safeguard against public nubile land bout frauds froud the general land brind Is III seeking ns IlS far as tut possible to havo have Ita Its special agents Investigate every eer In 1111 entry C HC before It pauses passes to patent This policy which already alland Is lit In III full tull practise has borne horne Rood good results and been heen withheld r time the slightest ground for tor suspicion has been beon found Tho Tue public nubile hand service was tint not long IanI divided Into Isito nine In districts with an nn agent UK In charge of ot ench coch In Iii connection with tho time recent hand fraud frail II developments some seine Interest at lit taeMA to tho thin Investigation of o alleged fraudulent entries In Mon Mun taint tana on which special s Iten ml agent a hun ye linen been engaged Senator Senate oll of ot that lint state ninny months ago ngo II O sent Pent two let letten tome ten to tie tho t of ot time the of nC cItIzens citizen that there were frauds In this class of ot entries Tho The mutter was vas taken up and desert deceit d pIt entrIes then Mien have been heen rigid Iv lv The rime complaints were welo that the entered were pot not taken In good faith were ivere not and not net entered for cultivation pur purposes poses ns nR by h taw la It 11 was walt said Mid nt at tim tho general land today limit the complaints wore were more general IhAn specific hut hilt that cases of lit this ort sott hAO been under tinder In Montana and elsewhere for tor some pome months There were Ire no new developments here today In 10 thin the of at time the Oregon Oreon land frauds |
