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Show ling tho thieves, and the Indictments returned today arc the results. Government Gov-ernment Inspectors have spent mouths collecting evldonco. ' TWENTY-SKJEN TWENTY-SKJEN Charged With Stealing Val-hable Val-hable Timber From Segregated Lands. Muskogee, Ok., Feb. 9. Indictments Indict-ments against twenty-six representa,-ties representa,-ties ovf big corporations, charging them with stealing valuable timber from segregated lands In. Oklahoma, were returned by the federal grand Jury here today. An additional indictment in-dictment was returned against one person for Impersonating a United States officer In furtherance of the echeme of alleged timber thieves. Tho alleged thefts occurred chiefly In the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations. na-tions. Judge Campbell Issued strict orders that no namelS of indicted persons be given out until after they have been arrested. Tonight United States Marshal Mar-shal Grant Victor dispatched ten deputies dep-uties on a southbound train to arrest the persons indicted, who reside chiefly In Leftore, McCurtain and Choctaw counties. They will bo brought here Wednesday and required to glvo bond. For yeare the government has been harrassed by timber thieves representing represent-ing big corporations capitalized In tho east which have been stealing rom pegregated Indian lands on the Sugar -Loaf, Backbone, Winding Stair, and other mountains, millions of dollars' worth of pine, walnut, oak and other valuable timber. When the government govern-ment Inspectors reported the thefts, It has been the custom of the timber thieves to admit their guilt and to pay certain amounts into the treasury of the Indian agency In lieu of the value of the timber stolen. Then the thieves would promise not to commit any more depredations upon the forests, for-ests, only to forget their promise, and thcro has been a continual repetition . of the offense for years. Finally tho ' United States district attorney, W. J. Gregg, grew tired of this way of hand |