Show THE LAND LAWS grossly violated Vio latea in tha the rocky mountain territories Terri torie by western abad press pre to the herald Hr ld SALT LAKE oct octa acol col james tullio special land agent of the government who has been investigating the tile land frauds in the territories ries of the rocky mountains who is at salt lake itaas there has been some big sw estina by witnesses in some of the land offices and large tracts of land have been patented by persons who had bad in no wise cc complied ii d with the land laws the desert deser nd land entry act has been violated with a recklessness that was positively astonishing toni tomi shing lhing in many cases epes it was found that absolutely nothing had been done towards reclaiming the lands and yet what are known and regarded as good viti ti lizena zens have haye gone before the land officers and made solemn oath that the lands had been reclaimed and all the conditions of the law complied with where in fact no mark made by human hands could be found upon the entire tract other tracts were taken up under the tile desert act that are no more desert than the valleys of the ohio river other lands were found to have been taken up under the timber culture act upon which was crowing growing atalic time of the original filing more forest trees than the law requires when the final proof is to be made the homestead law lias has not teen been fairly treated and thousands ss of acres have been patented b by persons pe esons who have not complied with one single requirement of the law there has been fraudulent testimony 0 n y produced by fraud and with full 1 in tent lent and purpose to defraud tho the government ern ment tens of thousands of aires acres of public lands are fenced u up by wealthy boock raisers thus leaving actual settlers wit without houta a range for the famil family cow in ili one on instance it was founT found that a man living near a city ity in montana had fenced up acres of the public lana and anti in hia him kindness of heart had permitted the town people eop to pasture block stock in his duclo enclosure for the tile moderate sum of one dollar dollar permon month lh per head |