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Show FREEDS WIN OUT ; 1 IN BITTER FIGHT ' 1 l'll Mil I, IONS t) it),,ltH IN 'Mgg OM. I. Wilt '1 1 1 1 S KH. tl Ihtl'loii I'niiu Nt iilur) or Hie I'll- 'IsIIIIB liilor I'niukllii K. Ijiiii- l.lti-x Hall Il Irfikf Cll) Pninll) lllh to Viict Ihaly ligH of uliiiihli (iniI UiiiiU l'i Hun. IH lliigtoii Cmi)oii In I'iiii r) Coin.ty. t'JH I'ntnklln K line eerretnr) or the i Intel lor tat Wt ilneMln) nt Wimlilng- 1 wgalH Ion, slgnetl a tiiHlnlnii giving Claud W 5 IH Plied. Ii-lir I) Irted mid UlIlM C jlillH I'recil or Halt like Cll) lindlMputed galgal title to fori) line hundred und sixty j lial atrt-M or coal In ml In Utah valued nt ' j appnixlmutt I) flu- iiiIIIIuiim of dollar. H Title In IIiIm land width Ih said to I i'goH niiinllliltii the ilihtHit IdtiimlnoUH conl IsliiiH fit Id In I'lah Iiiim bun In controversy i t'jH ror nearl) tin veurn mid the I'reed tM brol lit tm have flnull) obtnlned title f'l uftir ont of tho most sluhhorni) con- ' f' teMeil legal fights In the hlstnr) of the TuHHH tlepnrtinint of the Inltrlor While iliallllll hlghl) grullfltil at their big flnanelal ligaH v It tor) In the final decision of the 'lUfl t use b) the seen tar) of the Interior, IJafll all of the I'rted brnlhi rs mi) their flrll iMpeclul cause ror rejohlng Im the nb- SliiiaiaH solule vlndluitliiii or the im me of their 'VLIaiH rutin r the lute C M Pried The 'HgaillH lute C M Preed had been Indicted sBI with othrrs by the giivcrninent soon nll after the land wuh intern!, nnd, nl tftiiLaiafl though the Imllitmi nt was afterward Kliaiifl tllsmlHsed the hi Im of I'reed ulwu)s QtfLlaiafl felt that the coiitinllon or the govern- (PfilailiH mint In the civil suit that follow id HEaiaiaiH the iIImiiImuiI of the Indlttment was u LUH reflet lion on his Integrll) The final Hl illspokal of the tiiMe by the hlglliMt tribunal t learn nwit) all pommIIiIu hiii-m- iHI Hon of the honoMt) and good fnllli H with whli li the original entrlm were KaHHIIIlH made. PHI jti)tr hiTilor luilli tcil. j (Ol The tust from Its Initptloii was HbiIIIIbH fnuglit out b) K W rienlor of Halt iangnlH Uike Cltf nn ihhf rolinnil for the IftHiia Pried Intt renin. Ht nlor wan attorney Hil ror the lute (' M Preed when the land IMLailllllH wun uiiUlrid und wuh hlmneir Indicted HijH by a ful era I grand J no IIIh Indlit IncHialH inent was illsmlnMcd und he continued iMItaiiH us uttorne) ror the Preed Intt rents HiLI through ull the litigation that fol- gslijijl low id Asnoclattd with Henlur as jt- BBH torue)H ror the I'ruiU were lllmunrik Bssta Hii)der or Hull like Cll) nnd Judge LHLjLjH John M Ituukln und William T H, olialliaH CurtlM or WiiMhlnglon I) C The tie- lifll Iiiim or the necrelur) or the Interior BH In rinul The mm wan originally liaiaiaifl brought In the fnlirnl trlmlnal court KtiaiaiaH on Indictment of Pritd und his usno IILH i lute charging coimplnity to defraud Mioiaiaiafl When the Indlitintuls wire dlMmhweil IH a civil at lion was brought h) the gov iaH trnmtnt before the register und n RiaiaiaiaB t elver or the United Htutos land off lie JisijiaiH In Halt Uike Cll) The lotul offlilalM liijH decided in fuvor or the Pretals lln HH government appealed to the oominln- ILbbI Hiuner giucral or the laud off he, who IH decided In favor ot tho government MiaiaiaiaiaB The Preed brother then appealed to &HI the secretary of the Interior and hi laiH decision In fuvor of the Priedn wun (Hstfl signed W'cdnendu) ial The Idiuiln ie Pun IiiimiI. LLflLlH The original entries on the prop. ' iiLI erty were made In Juuuur), 1900 The HhLH late C M Preed togethir with vai lLll ous members or his fumlly und sevtral HH or his employea, ten In all, riled In thu IVLaH United Htate land office uppllcutionH hKI to pun hate each from the govern- M ment ono hundred und slit) acres or fBM eoal land In tho Curliun-Hmcry Held WM The government purchase price or LH the sixteen hundred acres wan sixteen HbLiH thousand dollars. In Die same month DH sixteen other appllcutloun to iurhasu HijHafl coal land In this section were riled Lfl The amount or land embraced In bIEbH these uipllcutlons wus twent) five LHH hundred and sixty acres, contiguous to alH (Continued on pn four) pjH , FREEDS WIN OUT IN BIHER FIGHT B (Continued from poro ono.) H! that o( thu lrecd entries, the whole K mrttinif ii compuet Imdy uf fort) -one H hundred nnd sixty acres tf valuable H rout land. Thu money with which to H jay the government purohusc) prlio ; , was loaned to the sixteen entr)inen li l U Walter O. Tiler, who vvn u son-in-law R f of C M. Freed, emli rntrymun giving HP Kller a mortgage on his land us ee- H1 h. curtly. H. vJ At the time of making or the twen- H t ty-sU entries tho government pur- HL i f i chase price of the forty-one hundred Hf ii mill sixty in res mis 140,800. At thi f 2 present time the government's selling Hkl 1 price v ablution placed on the luud, km Hj I jihown by thi riMMinU uf the Halt Ijikf V City I'nlted HlateM luud nfflio. U , $2011.210. Tlu ui-ltml murket uluo i of the land when lcwd fiom the ' A standpoint of prliate iimutIiIi Is H,'i ( ennsenutUely llmiited to be In the H W iielghlMirhood of ni million dollars. i i 'I In Jul), 1000. within sU mouths alter M the entrleM had been made the slxtimn B I " entrmou sold their entrltHi to C M ! i Kreed, who tluu paid !' tli I'ller ' tnnrtgiiges. In January. 1907. thu M " fedeml grand Juri liullitwl (' M. H freed, Waller (1 1 llr. Don l ltcl- H' bins, ugent. nnd K V. Henlor. ntto,-- ill , k imy, iharglng isinxpliHe) to defraud H M tho United States. The statute pro- H j t lde puulshmeut for stii'li offi'ii l sasaV I rt f'"e ""' '" ,,xo''e,, '''" thousiind dot- r .1 lam, or lmrlonmnt not to extern! M ' $ ' two )euis, or IhiIIi. H ; l Crliiiliml hull IIiiiI-miI. B I The criminal ease following the In- B J i I.. illutments wus uoiitinued from time B iJf ' to time by Judge I'ugo Morris, sitting PHjjiJIlJ for Judge John A. Marshall. In the PV In U federal district court In Halt I.ukc M f(u ii City on No ember 10, 190D, on the ppjljl !' v motion of I'ounscl for thu gov eminent PHi'i One reason for dismissal of the ruse PJBV( , I gheii by the government uttorne)s W;i was that n comidete remed) for the PH, recover) of tho lands b) the govern- W) meut lay by the way of a civil suit by PSSJl! the government Civil suit was PPJj' brouRht by the United States In PH,i' March, 1010, to cancel each of the Ppft I twenty-six entries, charging that prlo- PPJT ,' to makliig application to purchase the PHR if- . UndJ a conspiracy md been entgre PPJE y U Into for thu purpose of acquiring po- sBBBBsslut (iflssaW smIoii and title to tho land by the use of what Is tommoiit) known as diimm) eulDiiieu" process, ludmlng Individuals to allow the u of their names us ostensible purihusem. While the action was pending, on .March 23, lttIO, C. M 1'rted died, and the eonl lands became the proper!) of his wms, (Maud V. Tried, lister I). 1'reed and Kills I'. Treed, till or Halt Utke Clt). Testimony of man) witnesses wit-nesses was taken III the case In Iaio Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Suit IJike City and Castle Dale. The transcript of the testimony comprises three printed volumes, containing seventeen hundred uud fort) -three pages. During Dur-ing these proceedings, which lasted several months, the government wus represented by Kpeclal Assistant United Uni-ted States Attorney General Tred A. Mil) nurd, und the Treed Interests by K V. Henlor, usslsted b) Illinium k Hii)der On July 3, lull, the register iiml ret elver of the Hull Uike City land of flic rendered n decision In favor fa-vor of the Kreeds and ngalust the government. 'the (Siivcriimcut Apciil. Trout this decision the government appeuled to Commissioner Oelierul Tied Dennett of the general laud of-(lie. of-(lie. tin Ma) IK, 1'Jir. Commissioner Dennett leveltied the decision of the local laud office uud found In favor of the government, holding nil the eu-trlea eu-trlea for lauiellutloii The Treeds appealed ap-pealed from this iltM Islou to the ile-iwrtment ile-iwrtment of the Interior, and on October Oc-tober 28, 1011, the case was arguetl oiull) Iwfnre five Judge, sitting as a ImwhI of law lev lew. and the wire-(hi wire-(hi of the Interior Arguments were made for the government l) Miumtrd and for the defendants b Henlor Argument Ar-gument wits again made before the ImhiiiI of law review und the ev-tretur) i of the Intel lor b) Keillor on Tebruur) 12th of this )ear The lands that mm come to the Treeds are In Huntington Ciiidoii mulul) It has alwn)s been contended contend-ed b) the Treeds that If titles tame to them the properties would bo developed devel-oped on a lurge scale There Is u railroad rail-road sui'vc) to the coat fields. Among adjacent owners uro the McCnrnlckk lit Halt ltko Clt). T J Quealy of 1 Kemnurer, ')o., Utah Tuel company laud numerous other Individuals and toiporatlons. |