Show LAND AGENTS ARE I SUBJECT TO PROBE i I United Hite States Commissioners in Idaho Are Found Gu Guilty t ym for tor certain lan lands 8 vacant an and 1 open to settlement the tho commissioner would claim sonic some fictitious previous settler and would agree to havo have tho tIme fictitious person relinquish li his claim for a certain certain tain sum Aum again homestead entries would bo bs falsified These arc Hrc complaints complaints complaints com com- plaints which are now being being- gated I One of ot tho the mo most t commonplace charges is that the commissioners have o been in the habit of charging 3 for tor depositions and affidavits prepared b by I claimant Instead of tho the 2 25 o cents that I Iwas i was allowed by hy the HIll 1011 laws law This Tills practice It is s alleged has been common common common com com- comI I mon yet ct the law provides it Il Is 18 a misdemeanor mis milS demeanor punishable by n a fine not exceeding exceeding ex ex- ex flOO HOO The false talMo of lauds lands is punishable by imprisonment of or not more than two years and n a fine of ot not nol more than 2000 Th Tho smaller practice of ot overcharging for tor depositions an and affidavits is s a matter mattor that has been hard to ferret out according to tho the field service on account of tho time Ignorance of tho the average average aver aver- age as to charges and his general feeling that the tho sum a United States commissioner names must be correct Utah has Rix Alx United States commissioners commissioners commis commis- while southern I Idaho aho has man many more than this number When Interviewed interviewed Inter Inter- viewed yesterday George E. E Hair chief of the local field service was reticent as aa to the time Investigations but said ho wanted it understood that the Investigations Invest investigations so far tar have havo proven that thal some somo of the tho United Status States commissioners aro are honorable and exemplary men men and that the charges do not apply to lo all of them b iby an any me means n The operations that are nrc re realleged alleged against t the others have It t is s believed been going on in some somo instances for or nearly four tour years while the tho investigation has hns been quietly quiet quiet- I ly conducted for several months and ana is isnow isnow isnow now In full swIng full swing The result of ot tho the probe cannot bo ho forecasted lcd at present even though two convictions have come to light but It is believed 1 that In the next few tew weeks other indictments will come to tho time sur sur- face Somo cases mo may not even C bo be heard of ot on oft account of or tho the quietness of the machinery that moves within the government o service but it is la rumored that thal Ver very shortly somo some of ot the thc commissioners commis commis- Ioner will be briefly named as having hay hav ing lug resigned |