Coalville Times | 1908-01-17 | Page 7 | No Rascals in Colorado

mmmmmmmmmm NO nASCALS IN COLORADO. Hfl Congreiamsn Cook Defends Men Ac- H cuted of Land Frauds. H Washington In a personal letter SI which he has addressed to the prest- jB dent amf vice ptesldenL Speaker Can' H non and all members of congress, tho mM Justices of the supreme court, metn- jH tiers of the president's eablnet and, aBH the Washington newspaper corre- HI sondents, (leorge W Cook. Kepubll- BBS can congressman at large from Cole- WB& rndo, severely arraigns the admlnta. HB trntlon for Its course In prosecuting mmC nlleged Infractions of the public tana WSBJ laws In Colorado WBt Congressman Cook Insists that MR great Injustice has been dona to a m number ot Colorado's most honorable. H upright and law abiding business men HH In that they have been unnecessarily fl branded as criminals through otit- Mj tealousnesa of the government In or- 4evfl derlng Indictments without furnishing AH evidence He cites the recent do- HB clslons of federal Judge Hobert K, H9 I,ewl at Danver. In which he quashnd Hi Indictments against some thirty cltl- MB sens to show that government proso- IDE colors were over actlvo In their of- IE forts to punish land frauds jHJ