Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-02-05 | Page 14 | Officials Unearth More Coal Frauds

OFFICIALS UNEARTH MORE COAL FRAUDS Government Inspectors Make Charges Against Big Corporations Corporations Cor Cor- in New York I Washington Feb Feh Inspector t. t Inspectors In lie tho Interior department claim to have unearthed a wholesale scheme of ur tv p tio New York corporations to hog hog a lotof lot lotof lotof of coal land In iii the southern end of or orthe the 11 Big Horn basin In Wyoming The companies accused ore are ne tho lie Northwestern North North- western Coal company and anti the lie Owl Creek Coal com company pan The department department depart depart- ment uncut suspects that the lie Burlington road Is behind the lie scheme chemo rho The companies are aro accused of or gettIng Betting New York bootblacks bootblacks boot boot- blacks cub cat drivers H und and barl barkeepers mot mostly of or the thu Bowery flowery to coal lands ln and amid 1 then to lo take the lands lunds oft off oc hair choir hands after proven up The money is claimed to have havo been furnished b by the companies The Inspectors Inspectors in inspectors In- In havo have been buon working on the lie case for fur several month Th They went before berolo the lie grand JUI Jury in imi Now New York YUk tolla today and presented their side Most of or tho lie bootblacks bai lenders and auth cabbies cab cab- bies hies made two to sets of or affidavits The rue first set et were wei-o to the lie effect that the they lie were welo paid to help work the swindle tho the second set were WCO lo to the effect that lint they were welo threatened h by inspectors with arrest arest if it they refused to tu make the tie first set The tie reason for which the department suspects tho ho Burlington as us having a hand in lie Iho thing Is be because because be- be c cause use it I is building u n branch line lne through the tho coal dirt where the lie lands were sere lal taken en up