Show H S UTAH SOM SOMI I BIG L LAND O r FRAUDS Looks as ns Thol h ht of Investigation Will VIII be bC h Turned This Way Vay a SOME QUEER DEALS DE LS IN III COAL Girl and Young Clerks riled Filed Property PrOp on ou WhIch Cot Cost Co t oooO The raude of at Oregon and Idaho Involving many prominent p Individuals In both mutts tet Jill bill fair to JY tin Ui th lined Krom Irom Mont this thie rn ni I lug Inn In comee word that thet III lIY linn hae an III In ten botn eln nc d while In Utah theta there to b bit be II a bomb tJ at St n fl orly enly d date dal t thai wUI make n II ami Involve not only prominent local men inch did and but reach back to tt N w York and catch one or two mm loen of ot reputation In III ltd ite mention COAL COI IANI iI According to made to the New today while there hIVe hayo ben been u tn no flu minus on timber thither lands lende l In Ut Ulan Utan n Mr t r ear pat pant there lm lice hu been heen ine Very er ery shady work d in by to secure coal coni tende It In Ia u ce that there thoro nr are bundled hundreds of if cIeri In the employ of ot the tho bl bI antI and w yul ul of ot this thin who on coat coal mode lands thun f rr l their to fo corporations who hail alt all c coMe of and In III addition gave jaVe e n It cn h bonu for tOI the th Ih trouble Clerks Clarke In III bankit Indy In blocks block and other oth r toni coal ert h have 11 e el l tin n nd 1 to ni on Oil laUds lands In Iii Utah they ever aw It w wHO wee wae HO ICO YI ft of ot scratches of or i f th the tue n Veil n on un n ft furnished by hy agent ond the land lanti van med filed upon Two Iwo more inUre of the pen pM n a transfer of cay Kny 50 and the tin tho property of tIle the corporation while the th JOO 00 stenographer f twit hit lt that h lie hll was Wll W WI was WM a n regular get gel gelI I scheme chenie for both meHIn I In Justice to a Q majority of tho thoe who made MUnKS In tide this manner It cnn onn be he confidently slated that they tile the were IB IS of any Illegal 11 lind would 1 not have clone done MJ ito 0 for tor anything hud they known they were breaking the law 10 However there am uro others othere who Knew better batter some Home of ot the parties involved It ItIs Is lii are very cry prominent of Utah NO Ae As one oh this title morning The Tho In a It measure men Ure Is te funny the Tho prevailing those Involved seems scenic to b he be why Vh did lI l not lIot President give gle us 1111 warn Ing lug and let lei us uc know that this thing was Willi liable to lend butt to tt trouble The fhe practise linn itch hn been In iii vogue so co long Ion that It was vae looked upon as n a a ft p if legit legitimate transaction I Considerable Cnn testimony linn been beel drawn out from time to t time 1 1 In the tho contest content room or toe till land anti I omeo 0 tIco in I U the building ho I About ft A your year ago there wore vere a 1 number I of or contest con teet cases threshed d out alit and which Involved the transfer of ot coat coal lands During Durin the hearing the Ih testimony showed that Ihal the parties who lied on ott the tue lands landl for tor the greater part nev never n ner er teen en them that they later Inter trims erred frred them to 10 corporations for Cor t 1 a eon con consideration elde tiLt ton In the Investigation now pending lbs Iho Ih matter for tOl the th Judges to tn decide Is II whether the were ly Iy entered or the transfer that followed wee a n the tho owner of ot the land had concluded oot not to work and develop tho the property hut but upon tipoti he be beIng log Ing offered a it price had sold out Ibeo to the filing I TWO I rho Tho Investigations that ore are now un till under der d r way by the tue federal government govern men I Promise to bring some conic startling results In to the tho state land department Two special agents of tho the general land Imul office have been looking Into titto matter mattere for Cor or some time past Ind the tho deeper they have dug IhlA the tho more peculiar have be bet it 1 til th Incidents they have For n a big tract of ot land 1101 WIll wan secured In Ill the tue vicinity of ot one of r tile the biggest producing COR cotil cOlli rumps of VisIt Utah about two ago IIRI liy Iy the simple pro Mil ease of entering them at U agricultural lands lands which W we vere M MIn In III reality coal cod lands have been our pur purchased chased thRell from Crom th II state by cReole It 1 Is ts affirmed of n it WIll known knowlI New Nw ew VorK ork l and anil A mo Itlo lm On One of acres acre was WU from the th state Mate ns iii lands No sooner cooner had lieu the md tOll been een s set let t apart tel for t tile the tate th n Individuals In lj i claimed I It wee WR COH cOIl coal land A r re pre of nt th the government went over th h tract which adjoined a big c coit nl p He lie encountered a vein of 11 hi of ot good flood toll coil which apparently tan bick on to toli li the land ind IWan Angle below th tho However ha ho hot find tracts tr tR of hf II owl coel on cich h 40 O doral dares th the department at St V him down end and ruled that It was w for r Il P WItS WIlli wherein wo clerks rl and mules removed I I from rom the th land had d coil paid paul nearly which by hy the w WilY y hi hits s been paid In I ono Oil lump fum um by b rh hol holThe The Thc foot Is I thU thIt the above practices practises have ja VII bItCH In itt Vogue to so tong long that tha t tHc I hI I promoter of ot the Ih chem ma a reI so eo 0 bold bohl that they Ihy verged on carelessness |