Show mm ILliONS OF ACRES AGRES ARE TAKEN BY fRAUD I Foresters Say s Timber Land Is I Taken Under Homestead Homestead Home Home- stead Act Leadville Colo Cole Fob 5 The The railroads railroads rail rall- severely criticised for tor carelessness carelessness care care- roads wore In tiring firing locomotives while passing through forest lands tho the s system s- s tem of ot filing f on mining claims wa was recommended for tor approval on account made of or the tho largo Jarge number of entries for the thc purpose of ot securing timber only an and the thc national homestead law was severely scored because of the tho many fraudulent entries made mado under un or Its provisions provisions pro pro- visions at the second days day's ses session sebulon lon of ot convention In Inthe Inthe the tho government foresters foresters' the tho federal building g- g T hero A today I y made M d j Daniel Fitton of or L Las A ma mathe e the sensational statement t slL ment that about 75 cent of Ute tile entries on his forest per under the homestead act have havo reserve fraudulent and ami were made mado for the tho I Isole sole been purpose of securing valuable timber tim Um- timber ber lands I Ho He stated that at th the time tho the forest forest forest for for- created about 1200 was reserve est of young timber limber was bein being cut We- We statements day Fitton's golly gally every by tho the speech of A. A supplemented were cro G G. Pollock of of of Washington who said the amount of or fraud had been that underestimated lIe He asserted that not un thousands but millions of acres had been fraudulently falcon up during the tho past pact few tew years |