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Show FRAUDULENT USE OF U.J. MIS WASHINGTON, Dec. II Uor using the United Stales mails to further Ir-ilcatlon Ir-ilcatlon schemes In Colorado, declared In a statement issued by the Interior deportment tonight to be ''wildly and flagrantly fraudulent." sven residents resi-dents of that slate have been Indicted as a result of Ihe combined efforts of the inteilor and postoftice departments. depart-ments. The men are each under $2 aoo hall Their names, as given out by the interior department are: J. Albert Wright. Prank While, John Gould, Ccuydon A Woody. Homer Ho-mer A Gibson, Robert W. Rose and Sam N. Raker, all of whom are said to be officers In one or more Irrigation Irri-gation companies The charge It is said. Is that they procured about fifty citizens 10 make desert land entries in the Montrose, Colo., land district, upon representations representa-tions that the several corpoi al ions would construct an Irrigation canal to Irrigate their lands. Untrymen were icquired. It is said, to agree to deed to a land and irrigation irri-gation company when patent was secured, se-cured, all the land except 10 or 20 acres of the .2n acres In each en'ry, In leturti for which the company was to furnish the entryman bis water supply. The land Involved Is valued at approximately ap-proximately ?1IiO,Oi10. Adverse reports on the entries were submitted by the general land office-, following which the matter was turned over to the postofflce department depart-ment The Indictments resulted. |