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Show THE JOKERS WORKED HIM. I In Washington With a fcirip Full of Dark Heed Charges. We are under the impression that the Mon. Dick Dement should never have been taken off the Springfield reservation reserva-tion He is entirely too child-like and bland for the Western jokers, who have evidently been having some fun with him. Last , fall Dr. Dement was made Surveyor-General of Utah, and set about the performance of his rinKo cheerful zeal and a rolling tail He must have been met bv some one who had a laudable ambition am-bition to fill Mr. Dement up for the sole purpose of seeing how much he would hold. Dick, in the short space of a, few months, has been able to acquire a fund of . information that the ordinary I individual would be years in acquiring He has reached Washington with his gripsack full of documents showing the wonderful manner in which the Government Govern-ment has been swindled by land speculators. specu-lators. Sparks' accusations were severe but not a marker to the more wonderful revelations contained in Mr. Dement's marvelous carpet-bag, Those documents incriminate not only all the Territorial officers, but members of Congress and former officials of the Inferior ra ! ment. Mr. Dement boldly asserts that nearlyll the public lands in Utlh have been stolen, and that they have not been carted away, it is intimated, is solely owing to the insufficient means of transV portation Mineral lands have been en-tered en-tered as homesteads, and rich fanning lands as desert lands. In fact, if we are Srrr6114' fl one en-I tered land honestly except when his foot i slipped m a crawfish hole. ConTessmen I hoiddfnenafr were ?qua"y holding , the rascals in their nefarious business, and have been paid regukrly Smpnelarb;-appointed lobbvisf Mf! jokers m Utah must have a goal Se t pumping Mr. Dement so full IX "bS ? m? t?, bad for hia fiends in Smin f |