Show AFTER GOAL COAL LAND fraudulent ENTRIES A nolle was v as entered day afternoon in the ff federal deral cobit at I 1 bait salt lake city by ju ige if F A may nard the attorney for the gov eminent in the prosecution of coal land cases caes in the ind cament against chas AT freed walter G filer don C fob b ns and edwin W senior the indict ment charged conspiracy against the government a d was returned by the federal jury january 18 1907 in the charge it was held by the gov eminent that the def defendants indents had e i into conspiracy on op or about september I 1 1900 whose purpose it was to secure 4 acres of coal lands in emery county by process contrary to law according to the prosecution tho the dummy entry system was em played robbins it is alleged acted a as agent for filer who put up most of the money in the transactions to secure en try by persons who had no intent on of settling on tl e land taken up by them rhese dummies numbered twenty eight and accord ng to the govern ment were each paid sums ranging from to for their services money was depos ted in the bank to their credit for which they took a cash ler ier s check in each case for 1600 1 or 10 an acre for the acres which they entered upon then they applied to the land office a id were given receive er a receipts for the money they paid I 1 in n A total of 40 was paid into the office of ane receivers and this money the govern me t now has As oon as they got their receipts it was set up the dumm es turned th thorn ni over to freed who was given a first mortgage on the land freed now holds the receipts but the land has never been patented and freed s interest consequently is restricted to a right in equity the reason the governing nt d d not go on with the cases is that it will now be turned over to the land office who will maks make the fullest investigation be fore fete patents are issued the land office will challenge ohp th entries on ac count of fraud and if fraud is 13 found to have been practice i the land will re vert to the government news |