Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-28

10 Los Angeles, HIS successor was ana
Is a man who IL known To the u. T..
aggregation. My appeals slumbered.
wrote 10 the honorable secretary OF the
Interior and he promptly requested a
report from the honorable commissions
err IN that repos- the honorable COM
missioner stated that he had suspend
Cd tho alleged fraudulent entries and
would Investigate the matter / was
also Informed that I would be given an
opportunity TO appear at said investl-
cation. / have repeatedly requested
that / be heard In the matter and have
been as repeatedly spurned. | have
been reliably Informed that this in
vestlgation was had IN the following
manner:
"A special agent OF the department
came to the town Of Evanston, and In
the Office ot an attorney OF the Union
Pacific Railruad-Coal company, q star
chamber proceeding was held. \ few
employees of the said company were
brought from Rock Springs, Wyoming,
and their testimony taken and they
were as secretly returned and this
special agent returned to his field Of
labor and made his report and upon
that report these suspended entries
went to patent This was done In tho
face Of my repeated protests which
were then on ilo tn the general land
Office and In the face OF a protest OF
one Abraham Mckinley. which was
thon on appeal to the honorable sec
retary aud is stu on appeal. / here
by and now most respectfully request
that | be furnished with a copy OF
that report and the proceedings had
thereon 50 that | may be able to make
my charges more specific or forever
hold~my peace.
ON the 30th day of December 1905,
my solemn protest as fled In the gen.
cral land office and on that very day
the patents which | was obtectng To so
strenuously were issued and trans
mitted to Evanston, Wyo. These pa
tents were IN the hands OF the general
land Office or under its control until
Jan. H., 1905, after this I almost gave
up hope and in my despair / once ap-
pealod TO the honorable secretary Of
the interior. The records OF the general
land Office and the local office at wy
omiug will be all the proof necessary IN
support of this charge. When ] OBJ
tain report OF the celebrated in
vcstigation VIII then make this charge
In detail,
INVESTIGATION DEMANDED.
FOURTH now submit for your hon-
ors consideration a newspaper clip
ping taken from the Salt Lake Herald
OF oct. ~, 1906. and, whether true
or untrue ! demand an official IN
vestlpation The matters therein stat
ed and accredited to the general land
Office are false and untrue Its po-
litical significance at the present time
IN the west may be apparent bus It
comes with III grace from another
branch of the government than the
Interstate commerce commission,
whom IL SO seriously criticises and
stultihes.
This very investigation Is alluringly
referred TO and its conclusions up
held. The statement Is there accredit-
ed to the general land office that all
these fraudulent entries were patented
over six years ago and are consequent
ly immune, The fact Is that no one
Of the patents mentioned In my pro-
test Is over three years old and most
OF them not a year old.
must respectfully refer this inter-
view Ia you ana his excellency, presi-
dent Roosevelt, so that II II Is official
/ may charge the author with a mis-
statement of the facts and an unjust
criticism Of another branch OF the SER
vice If IL is unofficial / respectfully
ask that the department OF justice take
such action rs Is meet and proper in
the premises
am not willing 10 hold Mr.. Pollock
responsible for this dispatch unless Il
| Is proven he gave II out as stated.
In conclusion l have TO say that the
! sworn testimony given at the interstate
| commerce commission Investigation
| confirms the charges l have mad,
| through my three years efforts 10 OBJ
tain official recognitb As stated II
| my petition to your honorable Office,
| could not possibly assert an interest 1t
these lands until the fraudulent entries
were set aside for the reason that be