The San Francisco call., 1906-11-29
u. s. SENATORS NIX
IN LAND FRAUDS
Warren and Clark, Wyom-
ing SoIons, Accused of
Trying to Stop Inquiry
SENSATION FOR JURY

SALT LAKE, Nov. 2S.-Reports that
the Federal Grand Jury, which has
been sitting in this scity and which has
been investigating alleged coal land
frauds, has voted several indictments
cannot be confirmed. According to re-
ports, the indictments will not be re-
turned until after the close of the in
vestigation being conducted here by
Edward E. Clark. Interstate Commerce
Commissioners. E. M. Allison. attorney
for the Rio Grande system, In argu-
ments before Commissioner Clark, has
charged that much of the testimony
being brought out was for the pur-
pose of influencing public opinion
against persons who may be indicted
by the Grand Jury.
When Commissioners Clark resumed
his investigation today Attorney Alli-
son made the request that II. G. VIII
lia:ns, general manager or the Utah
Fuel Company, Gould corporation,
be summoned before Commissioner
Clark as a witness. Allison stated
that the chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in washington
had communicated with Williams SUI
perior officer In Washington and asked
that Williams testify before Commits
sioner Clark. T. j. Marchand, who Is
conducting the Governments case be-
fore Clark fatty refused to examine
Williams, stating that he did not
propose to render Williams immune
to future action.
Sensational testimony was given to-
day by Michael A. Myendorff. special
agent of the Government, who began
an investigation Of the coal land frauds
in Utah and who, before he had COM
pleted his Investigations, was trans
ferred to Los Angeles and then to
Portland, Or. Myendorff presented an
affidavit in which he told OF efforts
made by several men to induce him to
cease his investigation of the coal land
frauds. He named United States Sen
ators Warren and Clark Of Wyoming,
Commissioner Richards of the General
Land Office and George F. Pollock,
chief of department B, Interior Depart
ment, Washington.
Myendorff affirmed that in Denver
Senator Warren told him he ought not
to go after the Union Pacific and incur
the enmity of that company. He
charged that the Land Department at
Washington had suppressed evidence
secured by him. In two charges which
he filed against Robert Forester,
geologist of the Utah fuel department,
he alleged, no action was taken. The
witness further alleged that George f.
Pollock, chief of department B, Interior
Department, instructed him to destroy
against the Union Pacific Coal Com
pany
Myendorff affidavit declares that on
one occasion seventy-seven men were
taken into offices in the Union depot
at Denver before w. l. Clifford, agent
of the Union Pacific. and signed their
names to powers of attorney, relin-
quishments and affidavits, which were
used to acquire title to coal lands in
Wyoming. Some of these men, 1T was
asserted, signed fictitious names.
The Myendorff affidavit includes
affidavits made by a Denver saloon
keeper named Bartelle and Victor Le-
bat an expressman Of Denver, stating
how a wagonload OF these men had
been picked up on the street In Denver
and driven to the offices in the Union
depot.
Colonel P. s. Sewers, a special agent
of the Land Department, was again
called as a witness and told of his
inability to induce the Utah land de-
partment to act in matters relating to
coal lands.
DENVER, Nov 2s.-After a hard
fought legal battle Judge r. z. Lewis
in the Federal Court today sustained
the demurrer OF the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company to the bill of complaint
filed by the Carnegie Steel Company
charging infringement of the William
r. Jones patented process Of mixing
molten pig iron and seeking an In
junction to restrain the Colorado cor
poration from further use of the pro-
cess. The demurrer set out that at the
time of the fling of the suit no decree
was obtainable. as the life of the
patent had expired The case involved
several million dollars.